Chucktshoes

He came to chew bubblegum and kick ass and now we are all out of Rowdy Roddy Piper. :(

Folks used to have more kids back then because odds were you were going to lose a couple of the weaker specimens during the raising process. This was not a bug, but a feature.

I think a great place to start is with Lysander Spooner. More specifically his "No Treason: the Constitution of No Authority". After that I would read Herbert Spencer's "The Right to Ignore the State".

Eh, it's alright now. At least it stopped bleeding. I really hate that I missed it as well.

Can I blame the head wound? :D

But that's not what anarchy means.

So me coming was apparently fated not to happen. I was bobtail in the truck on 24 headed into town from the Boro when the rain hit. I clicked on my wipers and my driver side wiper just flew off the damn truck. I pull over into the breakdown lane and start fighting with the passenger side blade and can't get a good reach on it. I open up the hood so I can get a better angle. I get the blade off and as I come around the front of the truck I run straight into the fender mirror and gash my forehead open. At that point I was soaked, bloody and running out of off duty driving hours.

I am at the yard in Shelbyville. Waiting to find out what time my run leaves out tonight but it looks like I should be good to attend. I can bring the truck as I will be bobtail, but a ride from the Murfreesboro area wouldn't be turned down.

I have this shirt. Yes, I actually wear it.

Good to know. I don't know whether I'll be on a run that way or not, and so I'm down as a maybe. I might be able to be there, but I might have to bring the truck with me.

Is there anywhere nearby I can tuck 70' of truck?

It was Arkansas. Her name is Jan Morgan.

Oh, that's interesting information. http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2015/07/21/sources-navy-officer-marine-shot-chattanooga-gunman/30426817/

Competent legal counsel was the key there. Remember, everyone gets all the Justice they can afford.

In reference to the bolded portion, that's exactly what it means legally and hence they are not prosecutable sans clear and overt evidence of planning. Words alone won't even justify going very far with regards to investigations because of the hyperbolic nature of speech in the medium of the Internet and the chilling effects investigations may have on speech. I know you disagree, but the courts, including SCOTUS have been pretty clear. No need to look any farther than Camden, TN and the incident with Yeager's YouTube tirade on how the .gov has to back down when it overreaches.

Your proposition is a total non-starter because that issue has already been dealt with in the courts. Threats must meet a threshold of believability where the person making the threats must not only have the intent but the ability to carry them out. Random spouting off on the Internet or in public isn't an actual threat. Therefore, it is not prosecutable. .

I guess you would call that alpacan' heat.

Yes, it was meant to be bitingly sarcastic humor. While maybe not to your taste, it was done with a point. A point that is related to the first part of your post that you directed at Links. You talk about your interactions with community projects, etc. and the "community leaders" you met there. Those folks may well have been leaders respected by their communities, communities in which they actually had personal involvement. Communities whose numbers were likely measured in the hundreds or a few thousand. When folks (especially white folks) speak questioningly about "where are the leaders in the black community" they are (most likely unintentionally) expressing a reductive and condescending POV that treats black folks as a single minded monolith needing to be directed. It is a subtle and insidious mental exercise that takes a group of individuals who vary greatly across all political and many demographic spectrums and by using one demographic point turns them into a single entity that is "other". It is a trap I have fallen victim to in the past and likely will again in the future. It's the same mental trap when we rant about wanting to know "where are the moderate Muslims to denounce _________ horrible act." It is simply creating a straw man, a construct that is easier to dismiss without having to engage individuals about specific problems or issues and acknowledge that solutions are complicated.

Don't you realize that you all need to be led around by a good leader like the children that ya'll are? We can't have all y'all walking around thinking that you can make decisions as individuals. Ya'll tend to get uppity when you start thinking that.

I am all for arming .mil in garrison, but this is the wrong way to go about it. Arms should be issued in such a manner as is appropriate for rank/duty billets. Officers and SNCOs should be issued sidearms and worn as part of the uniform. Junior enlisted should be issued rifles or carbines and carry them Israeli style (mag out). Folks like recruiters who work off post and in the general public should be issued sidearms regardless of rank. This is supposed to be a professional effing military full of professional effing soldiers. There is no need to pussyfoot around the fact that weapons are a part of their job. As far as when folks are off duty, take the damn uniform off and carry your personal weapon. You aren't supposed to be galavanting around town in your uniform anyway.

Oh, is Bill visiting his old office?

I am seeing reports filtering out that the shooter is dead.

Now to be fair, the shooter did not bring the gun inside.

I will give that rousing jingoistic pablum the same answer I have always given the Nathan Jessups who spout off that nonsense. If you want to claim the role of "good guy" then you damn sure better act like the good guy. When you sacrifice morality in the name of expedience, you fight for nothing more than the joy of the kill. We can set aside the international laws if you want (even though the parts he violated were the parts we actually ratified, just sayin'), he still violated the UCMJ and federal law. In doing so he dishonored his uniform and country in the process. He was rightfully and justly drummed out of the service for his actions. I used to really like the guy until I read up on the circumstances of the end of his Army career. I have no beef with the man in his current role as a commentator and actually agree with him reasonably often. Still, he has no business being allowed to have access to any elected office. I'm not saying he is a bad guy. He found himself in a difficult situation and he made  a choice, a bad choice. It is because of his willingness to make the choice that he did that I cannot trust him to be in a position to make choices that can have far more of a damaging impact in so many unimaginable ways. I will say one thing, I absolutely agree that there is a difference between conducting war and conducting politics. Politics has a far greater capacity for wholesale destruction than any war has ever accomplished.

If "getting shit done" means that violating the Geneva Conventions, The Hague accords, the UCMJ, and federal law, maybe the shit he gets done isn't the shit we should want him to be getting done. Maybe we should also be cautious about putting him in a position to really get a lot of shit done if that's the way he does shit. If you are given a small amount of authority and power and you abuse it, how can we trust you with the immense amounts of power and authority of high elected office?