What Turns On the Ex-Amish

Or what turns on one ex-Amish mob boss in Banshee S01E01

Credentials for Sale

This is little strange ad is from We Take Your Class.

It Isn't Easy Being a Cop

For me, the worse job in policing is looking through the possessions of a murder victum. A lot of the time when a murders an open-and-shut case, which mostly they are, it's not necessary to do it,  but sometimes there's no choice, and it's a painful process, the reason being that it puts flesh and bones on people, gives you insigts into what made them tick, this only serves to make them more human. When you've trying to rational and objective, this is something you really could do without.

Bent cop DS Dennis Milne

in Simon Kernick's

The Business of Dying

Haroon Siddiqui Unwittingly Condemns Jihad and by Implication Mohammed

In a oped at the Toronto Star, Siddiqui: Old foreign policy problems haunt Obama’s new term, Haroon Siddiqui unwittingly condemns jihad. In a the middle of a long essays smearing any attempt to deal with muslim terrorism as colonism Siddiqui has this gem.

The jihadists invoke Islam but they are brigands and terrorists, living off smuggling and extracting ransom from hostages.

The problem is that jihad and jihadists, from from the day that Mohammed went out with his gang to loot and rape, has primarily been about brigands, the terror they engender and the crimes they commit.

ChiCom Censors As Just Another Form of Executive Meddling

Read an interesting article in Foreign Policy about a journalist and her censor, Me and My Censor. I have read many other stories, historical and fictional, of censorship in the past, Newspeak and Stalinist airbrushing being the most notable. This story show something else, it makes scary ChiCom censorship as something no worse than Executive Meddling, see TV Tropes, which is pretty bad itself.

However we before start having positive feelings for soft and cuddly commies is that there worse things that resistance to executive meddling can cause such as unemployment/underemployment. Communists on the other hand play hard ball in very hard and nasty ways. See an earlier post at this blog, Death of a Communist Hitman 40 Years Ago. Check out this talk by a KGB infiltrator, Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press, 1984 - Complete.We need to remember that Commies are evil, and if they are not they are stupid, check out Odd Definition of Loyalty / Treason Among America's "Civil Rights Community" which explores Paul Robeson's moral blindness.

How Criminals Die of Natural Causes

Coroner: These two men died of natural causes.
Police: What do you mean? They were both shot.
Coroner: Yes, natural to their line of work.

Joke left by RunningMacon in

 Macon police searching for man in double-slaying case.

It's sad that the 90% bad ones make the other 10% look bad.

comment by "John" in 

Long Island Wedding Guest

 Charged For Trying To Steal Gifts.

Workforce Dumping - Update

There is a move by the Canadian government and business interests to admit 700,000 people in one year to clear the immigration backlog. In a move to support this action there have been a number stories sprinkled throughout the media about worthy small business that have trouble recruiting enough people. There was a story last night of a truck manufacturer and its trouble recruiting welders. Today in the Globe and Mail Jeffery Simpson had a snarky column about how Canadian employers have to recruit aboard because locals are unreliable. In this Simpson gave the example of Stanfield, Underwear makers, and how it has trouble recruiting locals (id est Canadians) because they (a) can't work (b) won't work (c) work badly.

My answer to these champions of free enterprise is pay more money. People are willing to do more for union wages (living) than for a few bucks above minimum. For the sake of saving $5 bucks a hour our champions of industry want more people in the country.

In Alberta there is an example of the difference over time between high quality, high wage, low turnover, jobs with low quality, low wage, high turnover, jobs. A couple decades ago when meat packing plants were primarily in cities there was a long strike at Gainers against Peter Pocklington. Pocklington wanted to reduce the wages at Gainers, a union shop, to a couple of dollars above minimum wage. Now the biggest Albertan packing plant is in Brooks. The wages there are $10/hr versus $20/hr twenty years ago at Gainers. After the plant was established it quickly ran out of people who would work at slaughterhouse for $10/hr. So the company turned to mass immigration.

In the NY Times there is a story of illegal immigrants that have been hired by contractors to clean up New Orleans. The locals are very angry with this development. The question is why would government contractors would feel they are free to hire illegals. Because in America immigration policy is aimed at maximizing are creating a large pool of insecure workers. Otherwise their illegal immigration problem would disappear if the crime of immigration violation would apply equally to employers as with the employees.

Mass immigration is crutch for bad employees. Productivity improvements occurs when more value added is created for each additional input. Attempting to get discounts on labour, raw material and energy is just way of getting productivity increases on the cheap. Technological improvements are more long lasting than any slight temporary saving. Also the business may be saving money through negative externalities as its costs are borne by the wider public.

Note

National contractors in New Orleans preferring to hire illegal immigrants over locals, In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will

I can't link to the Jeffery Simpson oped. The Globe and Mail's website has gotten worse. They have put more and more of their content behind a paid registration screen.

Update: November 6, 2005
Here is a recent story, link in cutout limbo, from the wire service AP about the abuse of illegal workers. A number were employed by subcontractors of a subsidiary of Haliburton. The entire crew were stiffed out of their pay. These "white collar" crimes are fraud, theft, and conspiracy. The local authorities should lay these and RICO charges all the way up the chain from subcontractor to Haliburton. The local law enforcement should actually lay charges and enforce laws but the practice of condoning immigration offenses by employers in the US has become traditional. 

Update 08/04/2012: For greater visibility.

The Punisher Punishes

Just How Many People Has the Kool-Aid Guy Killed?

Besides Jonestown?

"Do Not Go to Stupid Places with Stupid People to do Stupid Things at Stupid Times"

Rules For The Gunman

1. Don't carry the gun to make you a man. Carry because you are in fact a man.
2. Always carry your gun regardless of social pressures
3. If you can't physically carry a gun, always have a knife.
4. Whenever you carry a gun, also carry a knife...and some spare ammunition.
5. Carry the gun you can use best regardless of social fashion
6. Make sure you are good with that gun through continual and obsessive practice
7. Don't bluff or threaten with the gun. If you pull it, be certain you are justified and willing to use it.
8. Using it means shooting the other man or men in the chest and/or the face. Yes, it means killing.
9. If you can avoid having to shoot, it is a good thing, but do not second guess yourself once it has begun.
10. To facilitate the former, do not go to stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things at stupid times.
11. If you are involved in such activities, take a team with you....and rifles.
12. The default should be to mind your own business.
13. The only time minding your own business is superseded by getting involved is if what you see shocks the conscience of humanity and needs to be stopped.
14. The amount of violence you can justify and the number of rules you can break is directly proportionate to the level of evil displayed by your adversary.
15. Never apologize for using violence. Not only is it indicative of weakness but also of a lack of moral standing.

posted by lrsd05 at SBPDL 

originally from a bulletin board
 called Warrior Talk.

Hit by Stupid Shrapnel

Many are aware of the Darwin Awards and chuckled at such stupidity. The problem is that sometimes, many time, idiots don't cause their own destruction but kill the innocent and survive. It is like drunk driving, the stupid often harm more than just themselves.

The above shows the danger of drive by stupidity.

Don't Be Sloppy

A good interrogator doesn't allow his subject to die. He'd lose the advantage.

Gul Dukat

ST:DS9 S02E20

This might seem like mustache twirling. It seems like mustache twirling and something more humane. There was an episode of Life on Mars that focused on the  terrible hassle, legal complications and the career limiting problem of a death of a prisoner. Questions will be asked. Forms will be filled out.

Second Careers in Tokyo or Life After Crime

He explained that Tokyo job prospects are poor for an uneducated middle-aged man with nine fingers and tattoos that show beneath a dress shirt.

Former Yakuzi Mochizuki explains

  why he is a chauffeur/bodyguard

  for crime reporter Jake Adelstein.

 In New Yorker article, All Due Respect,

January 8, 2012.

Else where in the article there is mentioned of the book Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan, a book I heartily recommend. It is rollicking story about mid 20th century Japanese crime centered around New York wise guy Nick Zappetti.

Lysol Endorsement From a Crime Scene

 I just finished cleaning up. I had to scrub the wall with Lysol, you know to get the stain off of it. Lysol's the best cleaning product you can buy.

Self Bereaved Widow

 Ava Crowder

 on cleaning up after her husband

 one last time.

Justified S01E01

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Why Some People Don't Like FPS's

"Build Your Skills to Fit Your Preferred Form of Violence"

Ad copy for the game
PAYDAY™ The Heist, on Steam.

This may some people ask, "won't somebody think of the children". This phrase is a "thought-terminating cliché", a term coined by Robert Lifton in his Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. A book I am going to look up after discovering it wiki link.

Why I Hate Facebook

I am not on Facebook. I will never be on Facebook.

Business Opportunity 1920

We're thinking of getting into heroin.

Lucky Luciano

When you run the numbers it starts looking very attractive.

Meyer Lansky

The point of historical fiction is too insinuate a fictional character in to real events. Or in this case fictionalized conservation about getting into the drug business by two people who were involved in narcotics after the end of prohibition.

On the Rarity of Highwaymen

"... This is civilization. They don't rob you on the road in civilization." He glanced down at the satchel again." They wait until you've got into cities. That's why they call it civilization."

Dwarf Horn Player Glob in Soul Music, Terry Pratchett

How to Survive in Bad Parts of Baltimore

You got to be very polite. Social skills is mandatory. Social skills is MANDATORY.

Inhabitant of a bad part of Baltimore.
In the documentary by Charlie Brooker
Tapping The Wire promoting the worth
of the TV show The Wire.

Undercover Cops - The Best Liars Ever?

He continued smoking while we continued questioning him carefully and as diplomatically as possible about the aspects of his testimony the previous evening, trying our best not to rile him, but I think it was too late for that. He answered the questions without pause and didn't appear to be lying, but of course you wouldn't be able to tell with a man like him anyway. His whole job was one lie after another...

DI Gallan questioning Stegs
in The Crime Trade by Simon Kernick