Sorry Sorry! I've had family in town, work has been busy, the kids have occasionally holidays, I've been flying way too much RC, the dog ate my homework, and and and...
It's a bad sign when I log back in and the blacklist thread has as many new pages as the Jolly thread has new posts! (That's not a Jolly ding; that's a blacklist arses comment.)
Scoopin' oreo ice cream as fast as I can. Jacko I opened up that huge box in the back, figured we needed an industrial size super blender. Just don't anyone get your necktie stuck in there. (Has anyone ever worn a necktie in here??) (Maybe just Jake and Elwood.) (Hey guys, don't drink all the beer.)
If you need a stress relief, I see tKes by the pool table trying to balance an apple on his head. Please use the plastic tipped darts; they will still pick off the apple, and won't take an eye out. Thanks Kes.
Ahhh, ol' Clive. All of this illustrates only a few things to me:
- What da heck are these various government doing with armed police-types on their payroll? If a government agency needs armed help to do something like arrest a guy for tax evasion, call the damned police or FBI, depending on jurisdiction. Why are taxpayers funding armed cop divisions for each bloody obscure paper-pushing agency?
- Thank goodness for youtube and cell phone cameras. I haven't seen much regular press coverage of the police action and protest. Somehow it's only on the internet. That tells me that the regular news outlets are being fed a story to print, "in the name of national security." Gimme a break. And let the news broadcast the news, don't feed them what you want them to report.
- Something is up when a gov agency decides to use this kind of force on an average non-violent citizen. There is a bug in someone's bureaucratic butt that elicits this severely unproportional action.
- And if the government told me that I owed a million bucks in back taxes for land and cattle that's been in my family for generations... I also would tell them to f-off. You don't just pull that kind of number, supposedly owed over a lot of time (much of which wasn't even yours), and put it all on one guy. No one came knocking 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 20 years ago. It's not my problem, so get lost!
Those are my thoughts on that topic.
Manfred