30 BLOCKS OF STOLEN COMPUTERS (Oldie But Goodie)

Just when I thought I’d run out of material on the 30 Blocks of Squalor, I hit the jackpot. I’ve had to travel through squalorville (otherwise known as West Philly) the last two mornings.

Now to the best part. The article below describes the robbery that occurred at West Philadelphia High School, where sometimes 50% of the kids that enter even graduate. It seems that three dudes (I’m going out on a limb and guessing they were black) broke into the school and stole 60 laptop computers along with a few other things totaling $100,000. The irony is delicious. Take a look at this picture of West Phila High. It gives the appearance of a prison or gulag. There are bars on the windows. I now question whether they are to keep people in or out.

I find it endlessly amusing that this high school has an alarm system and it has video surveillance cameras. These three entreprenuers broke in through a window and spent an hour or two gathering up their prizes. It seems the alarm system didn’t work. One of the keys to having an alarm system is that it actually goes off when someone breaks in. Part two is the fact that the surveillance video reveals little to nothing about the suspects. What is the point of having cameras in the building if they do not reveal anything?

The best part is that the students will not have the advantage of learning on these computers. This noble institution of higher learning will not be able to turn out those highly educated motivated West Philly rocket scientists. The data on what a fine job they do is stunning:

  • The enrollment is 900, with 268 freshman and only 130 seniors. I wonder what happened to the other 130 or so?
  • There were 350 kids eligible to take the SAT. The 77 brainyacks (the best of the best) scored an average 348 on math and 361 on verbal. The state averages were 482 and 473. I think they give you 300 for signing your name.

Something tells me not having the computers won’t change their lives. 78% of the students score below basic for math and 69% below basic for reading. If you think I’m making this shit up, here is the link:

http://www.city-data.com/school/west-philadelphia-high-school-pa.html

 

 

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flash

SSS–did you say you crash landed a plane in ‘Nam ?..just curious.

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20100231.html

G-Man in Jeopardy

Former FBI special agent and U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Richard Taus is no stranger to conspiracy. During the Vietnam war he witnessed CIA drug-trafficking and other criminal activities and as a special agent he uncovered criminal operations and activites involving the Mafia, other crime groups, U.S. politicians, government agencies, and businesses.

His first experience with a cover up came during one of his two tours in Vietnam. Then a CPT., Taus was flying a helicopter mission when he heard the distress call from the pilot of an Air America C-46 as it was about to make a crash landing. Not knowing that Air America was the CIA airline from Indochina, he arrived at the scene and offered to fly the unharmed pilots back to their base. The crew refused to leave the crash site and it became obvious why; the payload was 4,000 pounds of heroin.

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SSS

The ever reliable flash shows up with his ever reliable irrelevent blizzard of copy-and-pastes and links. Consistency, thy name is flash.

flash
flash

SSS- Tell us again how you and your fellow parasites at the DEA won the war on drugs while keeping the South American prostitutes up in style and all it costs the taxpayers was a few trillion dollars.
It’s no wonder the drug problem went away with super dooper shit scoopers like super sleuth on the trail ofdesperado druggies.

Hey ya’ll really made Mexico a must see tourist attraction as well.

Good job , sport.

SSS

The 1st degree murder trial for 2 Mexican illegal aliens who killed a 14 yr old girl (U.S. citizen) in a botched carjacking just began in Tucson. Seems they invaded the wrong house looking for drugs and money, as reported by the U.S. citizen homeowners, who were held at gunpoint.

After searching the home and finding no drugs or money, they ran outside and tried to jack the car driven by Brenda Arenas’ mother. When Mom tried to drive away, they shot Brenda in the head. Brenda was buried in the dress she and her mom had just bought for her 15th birthday party. It was in the back seat of the car, alongside Brenda’s 6 yr old sister. What fun that must have been …… watching your daughter and sister getting her brains blown out.

That kind of shit repeats itself TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES every year in this country. Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it takes MONEY to buy those drugs. That’s what those substances do to millions of people, who will do anything, and I mean anything, to get their hands on money to buy drugs.

I’d like the pro-legalization crowd to answer 2 questions. Just 2. Will legalizing drugs make incidents like Brenda Arenas increase or decrease? Will it cost society more or less if we legalize drugs?

Zarathustra

SSS, Nothing good has come from the drug “war.” Nothing good came from prohibition either. Both gave us more crime, both organized and not, the corruption of law enforcement and more concentrated and dangerous forms of drugs. I think you will agree with me that nobody in their right mind would import raw coca leaves into the US.

For over a century all drugs were legal and I don’t recall reading of any particular drug problem except abuse of opiates arising from medical conditions. Ultimately it comes down to having a moral society, something that government can never achieve by force.

SSS

Zara

The “Drug War” is a political myth, created by the Nixon administration. It’s akin to, and just as ridiculous as, a politician making up a war on murder. It doesn’t exist. You’re buying into political bullshit.

Murder, robbery, and rape are harmful. We don’t have “wars” on those crimes, yet they have been around for thousands of years. And WE AIN’T WINNING, SPORT. And we haven’t declared war on these crimes. Oh, I wonder why.

Gasp and surprise, despite all the laws around the planet, murder, robbery, and rape continue to exist. Oh, the horror. Let’s give up and legalize murder, robbery, and rape. Life would be so much better, don’t you agree?

Zarathustra

SSS “You’re buying into political bullshit.”

It’s my fucking body. If I want to drop acid (which I have and I highly recommend it), or smoke dope, that’s my perogative. I gave up weed decades ago and I’d be afraid of undergoing an 18 hour acid trip at my age but if I choose to do either, who are you to deny me that right?

Zarathustra

I am going to take this moment to list the drugs I have taken, long ago, and their effects, from memory. All of them occured at least 30 years ago.

Marijuana. Good for wasting time, unless you’re creating art. Great for producing sleep, if you have insomnia issues (at least for me).
LSD. This isn’t a drug, it’si a wonder. It’s like being dead while still alive. Honestly I never felt better than after coming down from an 18 hour trip. If you want to feel the energy of this planet, there is no better way to do it. I have fond memories of watching an argument between a bleached and beached fishing boat have an argument with breaking ocean waves as to who was to blame for its grounding. Not to mention seeing the auras of energy from every living thing.
Mescaline. A body high. Probably more healthy than alcohol.
PCP. Don’t do it. It’s poison. Worst hangover ever.
Peyote. Nasty shit and makes you puke but for pure hallucinations there is nothing else that comes close. No hangover.
Hashish. Better smoked as oil although it’s hard on the throat.
Cocaine. This never did anything for me, although it was great for clearing the sinuses.
I never understood why the disco crowd was so enamored to it, but then they were fuckheads so who cares.
Crystal Methadrine. I snorted it once in pulling an all nighter for finals. Nasty shit, never did it again.

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Zara

The “it’s my body” argument doesn’t wash. Jump off a bridge for all I care……”it’s your body” works, as long as you don’t land on someone and kill them. Quick question. Did you PAY for the drugs you ingested? Just a wild-ass guess, but I suspect the answer is yes.

And therein lies the problem. Drug addicts aren’t harmless “it’s my body” creatures. They rob, steal, maim or kill other people to feed their drug habit, whether or not they’re ingesting legal or illegal substances. In the case of meth heads, the most violent of drug users because of the effects it has on their personalities, you’ve got unemployable animals roaming the land looking for anything they can get their hands on to trade for cash for their next hit (or they will trade whatever they’ve stolen straight up for the meth). Other hard-drug addicts are in the same boat.

As for Mary Jane, I went to my granddaughter’s high school graduation yesterday. Two of the seniors were “memorialized” at the ceremony. One of them was murdered in a pot deal gone bad. And this happened to a good student at the best high school in southern Arizona. Would legalizing pot have saved that 18 yr old boy? No. He’d still be just as dead. And it was all about money.

Depending on the degree of addiction, alcoholics are usually still employable, as are smokers. But hard core drug addicts will sooner or later fall off the employment cliff and become the dregs of society. Legalizing drugs will only add to the ranks of these dregs.

I repeat the point I made above, “Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it takes MONEY to buy those drugs. “It’s my body,” my lilly-white ass.

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SSS

As a kid I used to drive all over Renosa and throughout Tamaulipas , and never experienced even one instance of any threat of violence by any native Mexican and there was plenty of being pot sold.

What changed other than American gestapo took it upon themselves to control the free market drug trade thereby artificially controlling the the supply and creating not only a nice limited , highly profitable market for the drug cartels , but creating a very lucrative jobs for thousand of government parasites.
You drug war is nothing but make work bullshit for government thugs..

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What the Dumb Evil Assholes have wrought in their war on freedom.

Reynosa, Mexico: where the cartels rule

By Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times

Of all the drug cartel infested cities in Mexico that I’ve photographed for The Times’ Mexico Under Siege series over the last three years, Reynosa ranks No. 1 on the scale of creepy and last for interesting photographs.

This bulldog of a city squats hard on the other side of the Rio Grande River from southeast Texas. It’s become a gateway for illegal drugs entering the United States and Mexican cartels are fighting tooth and nail to keep it that way, and amongst themselves for control.

http://framework.latimes.com/2010/11/05/reynosa-mexico-where-the-cartels-rule/#/0

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flash

Thanks for making my point with your “violence in Reynosa” example. Legal or illegal, it’s all about money.

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SSS-Legal or illegal, it’s all about money.

Sorry, but that boat don’t float.
There was no BIG money in pot when I was a kid.It was basically free.
It wasn’t till that dottering idiot Reagan declared his war on drugs that the value of a now controlled commodity skyrocketed.
People who want drugs will get them and will pay any price…that is self-evident… just open your eyes.
Make drugs available to those that want them at a low price and the prisons will be emptied and crime rates will drop.look it up.

SSS

Flash said, “People who want drugs will get them and will pay any price…that is self-evident… just open your eyes.”

Please check in the mirror to see whether YOUR eyes are open or packed full of shit. I already said above, “Drug addicts aren’t harmless ……… They rob, steal, maim or kill other people to feed their drug habit, whether or not they’re ingesting legal or illegal substances.”

You keep arguing FOR my points, not against them. Your assistance is most appreciated.

As for your “make drugs available to those that want them at a low price,” how’s that gonna work? Private enterprise? We already have that. They’re called drug cartels. Tell me, flash old chap, how’re you going to make those folks go away? They will not go quietly into the good night. (P.S. Can you paint a peaceful scenario of what will happen to anyone who tries to get “privately competitive” with those gentle souls running the cartels? I’m sure you can.)

And don’t you dare suggest any involvement by any U.S. government at any level? That would make you a statist, just like me. And you wouldn’t want that, would you?

Are you getting the uncomfortable feeling that your ass is grass, and I’m the lawn mower?

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SSS

So the time between my father as kid acknowledging albeit ignoring the drug trade and the time I spent in Renosa doing the same was 3 decades of peace, but in the 3 decades since the Demented Evil Assholes began waging their War on Drugs, the drug trade has turned extremely violent , with multiple beheading becoming the norm.
What happened Einstein?
We all know that drugs have been around since ancient times, but in the last four decades they have become associated with the most violent crime ever recorded.
Now look in the mirror for the answer.

Do you ever feel like your an idiot hiding in the dark and I just put an eight hundred thousand candlelight power spotlight in your face?

flash
flash

The blood is on your hands ,Spooky.
And industrial strength Ajax won’t wash it off.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/rick-ross-crack_n_1198092.html
(The real Rick Ross added, however, that he was not currently advocating using or selling either drug, but merely reflecting on his motivations at the time.)

A confessed inability to find a steady supply of marijuana might sound strange coming from a drug kingpin, but it dovetails with a broader trend at the time. For the book “This Is Your Country On Drugs,” I looked at pricing data from the late ’70s and ’80s and found a remarkable divergence: As the price of pot skyrocketed, the price of cocaine plummeted.

Ross was locked in prison at the time of the book’s writing. (His primary source of cocaine was Oscar Danilo Blandon, who was affiliated with the CIA-backed Contras, a part of this story that is too complicated to get into in this article, but is delved into in the book.)

“What I learned about weed is that weed is a more profitable business than cocaine. More people use it. You get it cheaper per pound. And it carries less amount of time,” Ross said. “We just couldn’t buy it. It wasn’t price, because I had the money to buy whatever I wanted. So it wasn’t the price. It wasn’t available. It was a market I was shut out of.”

It wasn’t an accident.

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s stated drug policy goal is to reduce supply so that price rises, which in theory will depress demand. But what happens in reality is that demand to get high simply goes elsewhere.

The movement in price was a direct result of policy put into place by President Jimmy Carter, then massively expanded by his successor, President Ronald Reagan.

Carter expanded a joint Mexican-American venture called Operation Condor, aimed at eradicating Mexican pot that had been supplied since 1975. American planes sprayed tons of herbicide on Mexican crops to kill pot plants. General José Hernández Toledo, fresh from the 1968 student massacres in Mexico City, led 10,000 soldiers into the hills of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua. “Tons of drugs were destroyed, production was reduced, prices rose, but drugs continued to flow into the American market, although in lesser quantity of Mexican origin,” writes sociologist Luís Astorga in the paper “Drug Trafficking in Mexico: A First General Assessment.”

The action had several consequences. One, a rise in the price of pot in the United States, was intended. Others weren’t. The growth of domestic marijuana farming might have eased pot shortages slightly during the ’70s, but the industry was hardly the high-tech, high-efficiency bud-producing machine it is today. The encouragement of a shift from pot to cocaine importation among drug smugglers was a much more significant development in the short term. Coke, more valuable by weight and with a less detectable odor, was more profitable and much easier to move.

SSS

Ask flash a simple question (“how’s that gonna work?”) to his bold solution (“make drugs available to those that want them at a low price”) and get 3 copy-and-pastes that don’t answer the question. Answer the question, tough guy.

This thread has turned into another Flash Bash. I love the smell of flash flesh in the morning.

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flash

Super Stupid Sponge “how’s that gonna work?”

It’s pretty simple booger eater.Even a dim-witted parasite such as yourself should be able comprehend it.

it’s called leave the LPTFA (Leave People The Fuck Alone) plan.
Ron Paul understands it .
It’s called freedom and what people put into their bodies is none of your or the state business.
But, I’m not surprised that a tax feeding statist such as yourself doesn’t.

Contrast this with Ron Paul, who I seriously doubt has ever taken one puff of weed in his life. (He told me that it was only recently that he started drinking red wine.). Yet, it is Ron Paul who wants to eliminate federal drug laws. If he were president, he would pardon those in jail for federal drug offenses and disband the DEA.

That’s the difference between a man of principle who favors liberty for all and a scheming elitist like President Obama. Dr. Paul. just wouldn’t touch weed, but as a man in favor liberty, he wouldn’t bother with anyone else who chose to use it. President Obama, on the other hand, as an elitist, views himself above the law. For him to be a Hawaii pot head was just fine, but now, in power, he uses the power of federal government to crush those who now do what he did.

Reprinted with permission from Economic Policy Journal.
http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel182.html

SSS

Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z. Another irrelevant copy-and-paste from flash. I swear, baiting you is easier than taking candy from a baby. Recent photo of SSS (cat) and flash (mouse).

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV_2ppLaTuaX4ycVXaL4LVsofwT1TD8zPKj-wuNfe896x-2mhc

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Super sponge , the only thing you’ve proved so far is that you’re a gutless authoritative police state POS that libertarians like Ron Paul and myself wouldn’t piss on if afire.

Stay on the porch , lapdog ‘cuz without your posse of command and control killers you ain’t shit.

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PS.I hope you didn’t procreate .We’ve enough nazi assholes tools already.

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Super Sponge.
Did you get the congressional nomination or did someone outside the taxpayer pay for your West Point tutelage?
Those that I know who attended West Point got the free ride at taxpayers expense.
We the people have to educate, employ and retire you worthless authoritarian bastards with zero ROI.

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flash

Ron White told me personally that you were the inspiration for his best selling, #1 comedy album.

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ecliptix543

Are y’all two still tickling each other’s nuts with a staple gun? What is this now… three days? Four?

SSS

ecliptix543

I don’t recall sending you an invitation to this epic beatdown. I just found a file photo of flash in his new swimming pool entitled “Flash Takes a Splash.”

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ecliptix543

I don’t need no stinking invites!! Besides, that’s awfully ungrateful since I just submitted an article as a Memorial Day present for you. Thank me later, after your nap and change of colostomy bag.

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