THIS IS FROM FEBRUARY 2011. I THOUGHT IT MIGHT ENTERTAIN OUR NEW LIBERAL VISITORS.
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. The first observation of note was while I was stopped at a red light. One car ahead of me in the right lane was a minivan. The driver side door opened and a huge fat black lady (on par with Friedchickenlakesha) leaned out and hocked a huge green luugi on the street below. I smiled and realized that with a minivan, this parasitic excuse for a human being is probably raising a brood of fatherless animals destined to kill and/or suck at the teat of state for their entire existence on this planet. In the background, the Green Day song “Give me Novacaine” was playing. How fitting.
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
Now for tracking down the robbers. If they are black, that narrows the suspects down to everyone in West Philly. I would be on the lookout for a black man carrying a laptop. They would stand out like a black thumb in West Philly. Most black guys in West Philly are carrying either a crack pipe, a knife, a gun, an EBT card or a bag of drugs. They can be ignored. What you never see in West Philly is a black man carrying a paycheck, his kids, a book, or a laptop. You’ve narrowed your suspects to .000001% when you ask that black guy where he got that laptop.
And if you are able to retrieve a laptop that has a very greasy keyboard, you know who the chief suspect would be:
60 computers stolen from W. Phila. school
Action News
WEST PHILADELPHIA – February 23, 2011 (WPVI) — Police are looking for the thieves who made off with dozens of computers from West Philadelphia High School.
The computers were stolen in an overnight break in at West Philadelphia High School earlier this week. And while school officials are appealing to the public for help, police sources tell me they’re looking at the possibility it may be an inside job.
“Somebody broke the lock and then just took all of them,” said Charles Salters.
When Charles Salters got to class at West Philadelphia High School Monday morning, he planned to use computer time he’d earned for good grades and good behavior. Those plans never came to pass. The laptops hundreds of students depended on were gone.
“I was just devastated when the laptops were stolen because I had a project due, and I couldn’t do it,” said Salters.
According to investigators, three masked men broke into the school just before 2:00pm Monday morning.
The alarm never went off, and their crime went undetected until teachers arrived some 4 hours later.
“Males entered through a window, on the Locust Street side of the school by forcing it open. They entered into the school and went into 9 separate rooms,” explained Lt. John Walker.
Inside those 9 rooms, 58 laptop computers, 2 desktops, and one LED projector; the total take valued between $80,000 and $100,000.
“For us, the value is not only what it would cost us to replace it, but also the value of the technology it brings to the kids here,” said Fernando Gallard.
The break-in is the second at West Philadelphia High School this year, and the latest in a string of thefts from Philadelphia public schools during which nearly 350 computers have been stolen; nearly half a million dollars in equipment.
Police sources say in each case the thieves entered undetected by alarms, and only went into rooms where computers were known to be stored.
Investigators say they are looking into any commonalities between the cases, but add that surveillance video reveals little to nothing about the suspects.
School officials, already looking at ways to cut costs, and say it has to stop.
“Well, we can’t afford it, and it is a really unfortunate thing that is happening,” said Gallard.
Police say the computers, all Macs, have stickers identifying them as property of the school district.
If those are peeled off, there is also a chemical tattoo that should be visible. If you have unknowingly bought one, or know someone else who may have, police want to hear from you.
Smokey says:
I’m seriously considering building a retirement home in the 30 Blocks of Squalor.
I’ll get me a pimpmobile with white sidewall tires, dice hanging from the rearview mirror, and curtains in the back window. Of course an Obama bumper sticker.
I’ll get me a NY Knicks ball cap and cock it sideways when I wear it. I’ll make certain my bluejeans hang beneath my ass when I’m out in public.
And I’ll always, ALWAYS, be holding my dick through my pants when I walk down the street listening to Snoop, Trick Daddy, Ludacris, or FloRida.
We’ll convert my retirement home to a crack house and all the brothers will hang out there before and after their drive-bys.
We’ll all stink like shit, because we haven’t bathed in a month. We’ll talk about important shit like who the best rapper is or who the best NBA player is or where to find fat white women with good credit.
We’ll swear eternal allegiance to Obama because he is black, but we won’t know who the Vice President is, the Secretary of the State is, the Secretary of Defense is, what the three branches of government are, or who our Daddy is.
We will make damn certain to knock up as many underage hos as possible, so that our glorious lifestyle can be perpetuated.
And above all else, we will NOT get a job. Not when we can steal or sell crack and get the big bucks.
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25th May 2012 at 2:15 pm
Dave says:
There used to be a saying I heard growing up, that you don’t hear much anymore. “There but for the grace of God, go I.”
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25th May 2012 at 2:17 pm
MuckAbout says:
Doesn’t it just make you yearn for the bad old days when we used pencils, paper and brains? I remember when I finally saved up enough to purchase my first scientific calculator at some $350 back when $350 was worth maybe $25 or so in 1913 dollars.
It was, of course, obsolete in under two years and the cost had dropped to $150. I found I had not used it more than 5 times, having fallen back on pencil and paper and memorized math formulae because the calculator (built by Texas Instruments) was really hard to use while flying in a helicopter or C130 or driving desert or mountain roads. With the pencil and paper, I just magically enlarged the numbers (just like I can now do with my Mac) until I could use them.
I cannot conceive of poor Charlie Salters (the citizen mentioned above) as having a project too difficult to do that a pencil and paper would not suffice as tools to work with.
That said, pencils and paper is obviously way to cheap a solution for a 50% grad rate so much more expensive and technical tools are needed so they can sneak a peek on-line at Friedchickenlakeshas’ greasy ass or perhaps use that highly useful email function to line up a small crack purchase for use as desert after the State sponsored lunch.
Gee, I wonder where I could send a donation so they can buy more laptops to keep the crime wave supplied and in motion. On second thought, since Admin lives closer to that cesspool, I’ll let him donate.
MA
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25th May 2012 at 2:31 pm
Persnickety says:
I’ve never actually seen or heard of an SAT score below 400 on either the math or verbal. I didn’t know it was possible.
My mediocre school district (the one I complained about in RE’s thread a few days ago) turned out one 1600 SAT (800/800) annually. My sister was one of them. We also had nine National Merit “scholars” in my year (I was one of them), along with two “National Achievement” “recipients” (as far as I could tell, this meant you have dark skin, but are not from India, and hit 70th percentile on the PSAT). (Oh, it was ironic: half our National Merit “scholars” were nonwhite, but none were black, while the two “National Achievement” I’m sure you can guess.) And that school was still mediocre at best for any actual educating.
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25th May 2012 at 2:39 pm
Administrator says:
Persnickety
These scores were achieved by the cream of the crop. Only 22% of the eligible students even took the SAT exam.
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25th May 2012 at 2:52 pm
Persnickety says:
It’s just a different world than anything I’ve been in. I’m puzzled at what they’re doing all day. Sure, I can read the news, but I’m still puzzled.
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25th May 2012 at 3:00 pm
MuckAbout says:
In Philly, the name of the game is “home school” if you can’t afford a good private school like Admin can.
Just so Admin doesn’t feel bad, I must admit that where I live, there is only one public school that I’d even think of putting my kids in. Thank goodness my kids are in their 50′s and went through highschool on a one and a half square mile island 2400 miles Southwest of Hawaii. I was spared a ton of agony having it happen that way!
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25th May 2012 at 3:02 pm
Administrator says:
Muck
I know that cadmium is taking its toll, but I don’t live anywhere near the 30 Blocks of Squalor. I live 30 miles northwest of this shithole, beyond the grasp of these squalorites.
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25th May 2012 at 3:06 pm
Administrator says:
Hey Muck
Didn’t your system say to sell gold?
What’s it saying now?
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25th May 2012 at 3:09 pm
MuckAbout says:
Jim, my trading system (the MRO or Market Reversal Oscillator)has been on a buy for gold since Nov. 2008 and remains so today. The MRO has been on a Buy on silver since Nov. 2008 as well.
These are longer term signals – short term shakeup like yesterday (+) and today (-) just make me more because I hold a long term core position and a short term trade as well. I get bit now and then with the “wash” rules this year because if you sell a position with a loss and buy it back in less than 30 days, the broker is stuck – by new rules – to stuff your loss position back up your ass on the subsequent purchase on the next trade. That means if you sell a position with a loss, you must wait 30 days to buy back in or you can’t hold the sale as a loss. Another rigged deal to screw joe investor that makes the market tilt toward mega-second trades that scalp pennies and absolutely bury the IRS in paper they can’t keep track of.
I’ll email you a couple of charts..
MA
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25th May 2012 at 3:56 pm
Cynical30 says:
You know Smokey, your breadth & depth of knowledge of the black community and African American culture is startlingly accurate. I’m beginning to think that you are either a self-loathing bastard son of a black panther or you majored in African American studies in college (one of the many valuable degrees offered in our fine, engineering/science shunning universities). That’s it, as soon as I finish typing this I’m putting you in for an NAACP Image Award, AND hitting up my ace-boom oreo in the White House to see if I can get you to chair the Bureau of Black History Month, slated to be formed after he wins again in 2012.
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25th May 2012 at 4:09 pm
Smith-n-Jones says:
Smokey,
Or is that Rip van Smokey,
Come on. Whitewalls? Dice? This ain’t Happy Days.
We be talkin Dubs! 28 inch wheels and low-profile tires about as thick as a coat of paint on your 88 Bonneville. The new Pimp Daddy drives a $500 car with $6,000 dollars in wheels and tires to the Grocery Outlet to spend his EBT card. An Da windows be tinted so dark you cain’t even see the curtains.
Blue Jeans? Where u been? Black jeans! And by the way, hustlin’ IS a job.
Get wit da program.
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25th May 2012 at 4:54 pm
The other Dave says:
Jim…this article is racist. It’s a good thing the African-American folk here in South Carolina don’t have computers to see what you write here. Ooops, I mispoke, the computers are expected to arrive here this evening. 350 of them. Coincidence?
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25th May 2012 at 5:02 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Smokey: Love your new enterprise. Can I join you? I will (hopefully) still have a medical license in the coming years, even as my practice is destroyed by Obamacare and the economy. We can set up our own “pharmacy” and sell legal drugs and really live the high life. I really love the bling, yo.
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25th May 2012 at 5:03 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Admin: Is that building a school or a prison? No matter, Obama told us that if we spent all kinds of money on education and our teachers, and put laptops and free wi-fi/internet throught the country, that the kids would just flock to school and all be college bound.
Whew!! Glad THAT plan is working out so well! What a frikkin relief!
Just a historical note: The US put a men on the frikkin MOON and brought them back WITHOUT the Dept of (Stupification) Education, laptops, computers and teachers unions. Seem to recall it was done with slide rules, transitor cell tech, big chief tablets and pencils. Just sayin’.
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25th May 2012 at 5:06 pm
matt says:
Oh the outrage! Where are Jesse and Al when you need them to denounce what a horrible crime this was committed against black students! What’s that you say? Oh it was blacks stealing from a public school and the shit they stole was provided by white taxpayers? Well that’s a different story altogether.
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25th May 2012 at 5:09 pm
matt says:
I hope the laptops had the right software loaded on them, MS Excel Ebonics edition, to keep track of your hos and drug deals.
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25th May 2012 at 5:15 pm
Smokey says:
Hope—-I’ll keep a spot open in da hood for you.
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25th May 2012 at 5:44 pm
howard in nyc says:
for smokey–you need spinning rims
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOCu45gI9-k
http://theyspinnin.ytmnd.com/
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25th May 2012 at 5:45 pm
Voir Dire says:
Here’s what’s so NOT funny though the piece was hilarious in spite of being tragic since taxpayers’ are paying for this insanity:
Our federal Leviathan, in addition to the legal immigration of a million-plus-annually, overwhelmingly third-world immigrants (which thus begins the whole chain migration process for THEIR families to come as well) that amounts to little more than importing what is likely to be life-long dependency on subsistence of some form or another and with many prone to criminality, extremely costly to it’s hapless citizenry, also has an assortment of programs bringing in “refugees” from wherever we’ve been warmongering and resettling them in (some suspect they are using census data) in the whitest areas. Just as I presciently predicted, under Obama and the United Nations’ “Presidential Determination” whereby the President gets to use his discretion of the pick-of-the-litter, the numbers being resettled to our once first-world nation will accelerate dramatically. My fears and suspicions were realized as laid out in this typically weepy piece from the yellow Marxist rag, “Seattle Times” decrying the plight of “resettled refugee” Somalians. Some choice excerpts:
Refugees face homelessness all over again in U.S. “Across Washington state and throughout the country, increasing numbers of refugee families — displaced people from war-torn parts of the world — are confronting homelessness all over again in their new homeland. As part of the federal government’s commitment to helping displaced and persecuted people around the world, the U.S. will resettle about 80,000 refugees this year — about half the total number of those that get resettled across the globe.”
And:
“Desperate circumstances” “The Obama administration is conducting the first major review of the nation’s 30-year-old resettlement program. But even before the findings are released, the administration is preparing to announce an increase in the number of refugees it will invite into the country next year.”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012734072_homelessrefugees30m.html
To really get the blood pressure rising, this too was in the news just the other day:
Feds: Somali gangs ran sex ring in 3 states
29 indicted, accused of recruiting young girls into prostitution
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40073234/
Apparently Sweden who is likewise a prime target for these humanitarian “resettlements” also has a problem:
http://bringitup.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/somali-gang-rapist-contributing-with-more-violence-and-rape-in-sweden/http://bringitup.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/somali-gang-rapist-contributing-with-more-violence-and-rape-in-sweden/
Americans’ can only hope and pray we never engage in any aggression in Liberia (and I trust We-the-Dumbass people will start to question what the REAL objective is here considering:
“Global White Population to Plummet to Single Digit—Black Population to Double” source from: http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/04/global_white_po.php
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Note to Administrator: I am happy you prevailed upon your smart assistant to come out from her bunker (probably needed the fresh air anyway) and pull together your archived pieces. I look forward to exploring them when time permits. Thanks for obliging me this request.
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25th May 2012 at 5:48 pm
Punk in Drublic says:
Hope
Flash will tell you that the CIA faked the moon landing to get back at the Russians for stealing Oswald and using him against us to kill Kennedy.
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25th May 2012 at 5:50 pm
Voir Dire says:
If so inclined spend anytime on a blog that chronicles the mayhem and mess that is now Detroit, do see, watch the videos from the daily “news” and weep:
http://detroitiscrap.com/
An invaluable website (though I don’t agree with the language used) devoted to keeping a running compilation of the staggering numbers of horrific, totally censored-by-the-national-media black-on-white crime”
http://www.newnation.org/
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25th May 2012 at 6:09 pm
Tim says:
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25th May 2012 at 6:59 pm
matt says:
Tim,
It is what it is.
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25th May 2012 at 7:05 pm
howard in nyc says:
~”Wow. Overt racism. I wonder how black people got to be so poor and poorly educated. Oh wait I remember: overt racism.”
hey, that is true. well, fifty years ago, at least. more recent decades, um, not so much.
(hey, it’s complicated, and i was really fucking lucking to have parents that taught me well. but one of the things they taught me–even when i did run up against legit racism, i had no right to bitch compared to what they, their parents, and each generation prior had to fight against.)
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25th May 2012 at 7:06 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
The architecture of that school is just like the Public Schools in NYC I went to when I returned from Brazil. They had Bars or Grates on the windows back then in the 1970s, in White neighborhoods as well as Black ones.
Schools are always a magnet for robbery and vandalism. Robbery because the kids who go there know where the valuable stuff is kept. In my day it was A/V equipment like 16mm Film Projectors, chemicals in the laboratory and typewriters. Nowadays its laptops, but same basic idea.
Anyhow, as we have been over a few times already, public schools like these are ot designed to educate, they are warehouses. The laptops being present or not would not make a damn bit of difference as far as how much education gets done there, which would be ZERO either way.
RE
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25th May 2012 at 7:12 pm
Opinionated Bloviator says:
Tim – No it’s genetic, monkeys – Blacks – Arabs – White – Asian.
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25th May 2012 at 7:13 pm
Administrator says:
Timmy boy
Black kids on the 30 Blocks of Squalor got to be so poor and poorly educated because of the fucking lowlife black men who fucked 17 year old black girls and went on their way to fucking 50 other 17 year old girls, destroying their community. Don’t give us your bullshit about it takes a village to raise a child. It takes a mom and a dad raising the child. You fucking douchebag with your liberal bullshit about it being the white man’s fault. West Philly is 97% black. It’s their fucking problem, not mine.
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25th May 2012 at 7:26 pm
howie didder says:
Admin- that last comment is pure bullshit – it is alway someone elses fault (heavy sarcasm).
At the end of the day after a couple of generations have come through the system it is time to stare in the mirror for the answer to ones problems.
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25th May 2012 at 7:34 pm
Administrator says:
The Phila School district spends $16,500 per student per year to educate them. Wow. That is money well spent.
Far less is spent per student in parochial schools in the suburbs with far better results.
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25th May 2012 at 7:36 pm
Ron says:
Man you 30 blocks stuff cracks me up! I grew up in Kensington back in the 70s, before all the Jewish hurricanes when my Mom and Dad worked right down the street and walked to work. Sad state of affairs in Philly now. So sad, such wonderful memories sequestered to the vermin that infest the city now…
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25th May 2012 at 7:38 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
“The Phila School district spends $16,500 per student per year to educate them. Wow. That is money well spent. ” -Admin
They should do away with the whole Public School system, take UE teachers and assign them 2 students each, there would be plenty of jobs. Get rid of the administrative bureaucracy and default on the Bonds, you cut the price in half also.
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25th May 2012 at 7:45 pm
Smokey says:
Tim,
I guess the column frequently run here, called “White Trash Repairs “, is overt racism too.
And the weekly post here called “People of Wal Mart “, which profiles probably 97% whites, is racist also I presume.
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25th May 2012 at 7:48 pm
cv51 says:
I received a credit explanation letter once from one of those high SAT scorers who had a Masters degree. Everyone in the office guessed 8th grade education or lower. She had a government job in management. White liberals like Tim must share the blame for this tragedy. They rolled over and forced affirmative action down our throats. Cock suckers
Hot debate. What do you think?
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25th May 2012 at 8:12 pm
ragman says:
Hope: the first time I saw the Apollo 11 capsule at the Smithsonian I was awestruck. My lovely wife was wif me and I said to her “Sweetheart, this fucking thing went to the moon”. Sorry for the bad language, but that was the only way I could express myself. I looked inside it and was astonished at the primitive nature of the instruments and the flight controls. We indeed did this with slide rules and with men that put their lives on the line for a mission and a dream. Fast forward to 2011 and the 30 blocks of squalor are more the norm than the exception. Do we really have any hope for the future?
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25th May 2012 at 8:49 pm
moekinz says:
Remember people probably from this neighborhood took good care of your father in the nursing home….
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25th May 2012 at 9:01 pm
Smokey says:
moekinz,
Sure they did.
That’s where most of those citizens are gainfully employed, earning an honest wage and caring for others. The ones not employed at the nursing home are probably working at Salvation Army.
Fucking imbecile shit-eater.
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25th May 2012 at 9:20 pm
SSS says:
Admin
After a couple of years on this site, I thought I knew how to flame someone with some straight-up facts. Nope. I’m still an apprentice. To wit, your response to Timmy boy. Sweet. Bears repeating.
“Timmy boy
Black kids on the 30 Blocks of Squalor got to be so poor and poorly educated because of the fucking lowlife black men who fucked 17 year old black girls and went on their way to fucking 50 other 17 year old girls, destroying their community. Don’t give us your bullshit about it takes a village to raise a child. It takes a mom and a dad raising the child. You fucking douchebag with your liberal bullshit about it being the white man’s fault. West Philly is 97% black. It’s their fucking problem, not mine.”
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25th May 2012 at 9:45 pm
llpoh says:
Tim – so I suppose that all of the poor redneck white trash folks out there are victims of overt racism too? How else could it have happened to them? They have no responsibility for anything, do they,
Howard – as a successful black man, you should be ashamed of yourself for being the cause of all those white trash folks out there.
Being of Native Amaerican heritage I know a thing or two about discrimination and deprivation. Time to move along folks – looking for someone else to blame is bullshit.
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25th May 2012 at 10:00 pm
howard in nyc says:
i would be ashamed, but i’m too busy. those 17yo chicks ain’t gonna bang themselves.
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25th May 2012 at 10:19 pm
llpoh says:
Howard – you greedy bastard. You get nurses OR 17 year olds – not both.
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25th May 2012 at 10:32 pm
howard in nyc says:
nurses in real life are not like on tv. i was robbed!
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25th May 2012 at 10:39 pm
Administrator says:
Smokey
You just called my sister a fucking imbecile shit-eater.
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25th May 2012 at 11:05 pm
llpoh says:
Howard – you are just full of good news. That has always been one of my favorite fantasies and you trashed it in on second.
Admin – your relatives need some kind of special avatar – like maybe a crown or something – so we know who we are dealing with. I am sure Smokey would have been more welcoming if he had known. Well, maybe not.
Hope you are just screwing with him. If not, hope she has thick skin. I imagine she knew the odds of a flame around here. If she is anything like you, it could get bloody.
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25th May 2012 at 11:29 pm
llpoh says:
Admin – I just read a report that said each dollar pwer barrel increase in oil is approx 3 billion dollars of Gdp drop. They didn’t explain how they came up with that figure.
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25th May 2012 at 11:35 pm
Fred Flintstone says:
Hilarious! A bunch of old white guys mocking the intellect and capacity for higher thought of a subgroup of our population and blaming it on skin pigmentation. Well there Dr. Mengele, thats mighty white of you and all but you display your ignorance and showcase your fear of inadequacy by blaming color. No doubt the area sucks, but how about a solution that does not involve genocide or racism.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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25th May 2012 at 2:19 am
marissa says:
Yep, Fred Flintstone these have been pretty brutal comments. Flaming. Racism. Blaming. It has been painful to read.
But what I like about this website is the no-holds-barred freedom of speech. No PC here. No censorship, no language filters, no barriers, no thought police.
But that’s what freedom of speech really is, and sometimes it ain’t pretty.
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25th May 2012 at 4:15 am
Smokey says:
Administrator,
Apologies to your sister.
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25th May 2012 at 4:21 am
Administrator says:
Fred
Let’s hear your solution big guy. My solution is called personal responsibility by black men who father children and then walk away. Is that racist? I guess my village should raise those kids. Right?
We are breathlessly awaiting your solution for the 30 Blocks of Squalor.
I love when douchebags cry racisim when they can’t deal with the truth.
I didn’t trash their neighborhoods. They did.
I didn’t drop out of school. They did.
I didn’t do drugs. They did.
How much more of my money does the government need to take and wire transfer into their bank accounts before we “fix” the 30 Blocks of Squalor.
Racism my fat ass!!!!!!
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25th May 2012 at 6:17 am
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llpoh
Must be MSM propaganda.
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25th May 2012 at 6:18 am
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llpoh
She’s a Quinn. The skin is very thick. I will demolish her shortly.
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25th May 2012 at 6:19 am
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Smokey
She deserved it. I think you were too easy on her.
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25th May 2012 at 6:20 am
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As you know, every BMW driving Boomer, like our dear brother, is not a douchebag. Many have earned the right to drive a BMW. Every person in the 30 Blocks of Squalor is not a lazy good for nothing drain on society. There are many good hard working people in West Philly. I see many black women walking their kids to school. In most cases it is a grandmother. Very very rarely do I see a black man walking their kids to school along the 30 Blocks of Squalor. I would bet that anyone who makes it out of the 30 Blocks of Squalor owes it to their mother or grandmother who sacrificed to get them out.
Who knew that you had a heart? Mom thought I was the one with the heart.
Do you have plans to enroll your kids in West Philly High to show your support? You will have to supply your own computer.
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25th May 2012 at 8:12 am
eugend66 says:
Marissa, +1.
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25th May 2012 at 8:24 am
TeresaE says:
I’m sure the Detroit Free Press has downloaded a copy of this news report and it is sitting waiting for the Find & Replace command. Just take out “West Philly” and insert Detroit.
After receiving tens of millions of dollars from GiftMaster #1 Obama to buy laptops for the poor, under-served and deserving schoolkids to get brand spanking new laptops, it is only a matter of time.
What is shocking is that anyone is shocked. These inhabitants will kill each other over a $200 FUBU jacket, and we somehow think they WON’T break into unoccupied buildings and steal technology?
My only other comment is the timeframe. The school was broken into at 2 pm on Monday and the teachers started arriving at 6 pm? Mmmm. Maybe attendance would be better if school was held during the day?
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25th May 2012 at 9:04 am
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TeresaE
I think it was a typo in the article. The break in was at 2:00 am
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25th May 2012 at 9:07 am
Cynical30 says:
Timmy
I’m not white & grew up in another rust belt hood, yet I managed to beat the odds. It actually isn’t as hard as you think. Just make an effort in school and don’t get arrested. I also had family in West Philly, who thankfully moved the fuck out because it’s a god forsaken shithole. You obviously have never visited Philly. Racism has nothing to do with it genius. The only thing that will fix the problems that city faces are a tsunami or a week of round the clock bombing missions. Give a groid a fish and he shall fry it in chicken grease. Teach a groid to fish and he’ll file his pole into a shank, steal your fish at knifepoint, then fry it in chicken grease. Fuck West Philly and fuck you even harder, you excuse making progressive ass polyp. Get the fuck off of this site if you can’t deal with reality you puppet fuck.
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25th May 2012 at 9:14 am
Smokey says:
Cynical30,
Of the MANY people posting comments on TBP, there has only been ONE who could ever equal me in torchery and blog warfare.
Cynical30——–My Equal.
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25th May 2012 at 10:14 am
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Smokey
I thought the same thing after reading Cynical’s brilliant take down of Timmy.
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25th May 2012 at 11:01 am
Champion says:
“three masked men broke into the school just before 2:00pm Monday morning.”
Looks like not just the students are failing…2pm Monday morning sure is early
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25th May 2012 at 11:30 am
FRED FLINTSTONE says:
REREAD MY POST CRYBABY QUINN! You talk so tough, but when is the last time you have ever smacked somebody right in the grill? You are a fat middle aged white guy with an internet connection, so RELAX WITH THE TOUGH GUY SHIT. Tell me one positive thing you have done to help the situation and I will admit defeat. Otherwise shut yer piehole.
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25th May 2012 at 11:55 am
Smokey says:
FRED FLINTSTONE,
You are a whiny little pussy cocksucker who thinks he’s some kind of badass.
“Look at me everybody ! I called out James Quinn. I’m a badass. ”
Let me tell you something, earthworm. I’d take your pussy ass out in about four seconds if I ever faced you in a parking lot.
A little maggot cocksucker like you would have no chance against my fire-breathing fists.
Get back to your Barbie dolls and ballet lessons, pussy.
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25th May 2012 at 12:06 pm
MuckAbout says:
Admin: At least you know two people who really read what you write!
Cynical30: Thanks for teaching me a new word. It’s not in any dictionary and I had to use Google to find our what “groid” meant. Cynical30 = + . That put down was magnificent and right up there with Smokey.. Come and comment more often..
MA
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25th May 2012 at 12:26 pm
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Fred
Fuck You. You mouth off and then you got nothin. You don’t have to admit defeat, because you’ve proved yourself to be nothing but a liberal blowhard yourself.
The one fucking positive thing I’ve done to help the situation is to have 3 kids and then raise and support them. Do you get it you fucking douchebag?
Does personal responsibility even register in that pea brain of yours? PERSONAL FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY.
That is all it takes.
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25th May 2012 at 12:53 pm
Ben H. says:
Paraphrasing Cynical 30, who summed up Philly as briefly and accurately as anyone ever has, “Philadelphia is one big zoo with no cages where the animals run freely and attack people at will.” Having had the misfortune of living there myself right after college on 48th and Pine, merely a bum’s stream of AIDS riddled piss away from the illustrious school pictured above, I can assure you that his statement was both wrong and insensitive… to zoo animals. I’ve seen shit heaving spider monkeys more civilized than those fucking West Philly boons.
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25th May 2012 at 3:54 pm
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Fred Flintstone and Tim
Let’s leave West Philly and go east across the Delaware River to Camden NJ, population 80,000, down 35% from its 1950 peak of 124,000. Wonder why?
–Camden is 52% black (vesus Admin’s stated 97% for West Philly), 31% Latino (mostly Puerto Rican), 15% white, 2% other (mostly Asian).
–52% of the residents of Camden live in poverty, the highest rate in the entire country.
–Camden is consistently rated as one of the ten most dangerous cities in the country since 1998 and has taken the TOP SPOT on three seperate occasions.
Now here’s the kicker, which backs up Admin’s focus on personal responsibility.
–26% of the households in Camden are headed by married couples.
–38% of the households are headed by a female with no husband present.
–28% of the households are categorized as “non-families,” which means that the people living there are not related by blood or marriage. The remainder of the households are single people living alone.
I hope you don’t think I’m being racist by providing these butt-ugly stats. And as Admin said about West Philly, I’ll say about Camden, “It’s their fucking problem, not mine.”
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25th May 2012 at 3:58 pm
howard in nyc says:
“give a groid a fish, and he will fry it in chicken grease”
man, i haven’t used ‘groid’ in decades. i’ll be LOLing for a week at this line. spectacular!
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25th May 2012 at 4:05 pm
FRED FLINTSTONE says:
Smokey….Let me guess Im gonna have to listen to some worthless story involving you, a phone booth and a mountain lion. QUIT LYING OLD MAN. It really involved a Mexican Transvestite, Your Shrivelled Carcass and a case of KY Jelly. Only the phone booth part was accurate. Just because you are too old to have sex in “the real world” doesnt mean you have to overcompensate by being such a filthy little man. I am definitely enough of a badass to realize that tough talk that is hateful to other human beings usually comes from PUSSIES. I will just agree to disagree if you will simply admit that you are as gay as the day is long, you slim hipped purse carrying Nancy Boy!
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25th May 2012 at 6:25 pm
llpoh says:
Fred – just when I think there is no hope for you, you show some spunk. Gotta hand it to you for that. You have called out the two crankiest fellows on the site (excluding me, of course). . I will watch with interest.
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25th May 2012 at 6:50 pm
Jackson says:
The thirty blocks environment from someone with a racist mindset -
“There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
So who’s part of the problem? -
“See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people… I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he’s talking down to black people. ”
And what’s the solution -
“We need a regime change in this country.…”
(All Rev. JESSE’s quotes are from ‘wikiquote. – JACKSON)
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25th May 2012 at 11:00 pm
SSS says:
I’m sure legalizing drugs will do wonders for the stolen computer problem, won’t it, TBPers?
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25th May 2012 at 11:30 pm
Bop Berrigan says:
Admin, Thirty Blocks of Squalor would be perfect for a documentary. I watched one on Detroit and it was quite memorable, to say the least.
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25th May 2012 at 5:22 am
Stigmation says:
Can’t we all just get along!!! LMAO
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25th May 2012 at 6:18 am
flash says:
SSS… attaboy…spoken like a true statist pimp
The war on drugs has worked beautifully so far, why stop now?
After the trillions spent on DEA , their ho’s and early extended golf vacations, I’m surprised a po’ bro can even find a nigger nick out in da’ hood.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/22/dea-agents-under-investigation-in-colombian-prostitution-scandal/
DEA Agents Under Investigation in Colombian Prostitution Scandal
New revelations implicate DEA officers in a separate prostitution scandal in Colombia.
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25th May 2012 at 7:12 am
flash says:
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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25th May 2012 at 7:24 am
flash says:
SSS, the statist ass wipes waging the War on Drugs only real achievement was transferring the wealth of productive Americans to a class of bureaucratic police state ticks.
That said the War on Drugs is,was and will always be an unmitigated failure ,but second chances do happen.
There’s still plenty of money and pension galore for thousands of worthless tick’s sucking off the taxpayers ass to be made in the War on Flea Markets.
Get some. I’m sure you’re fully qualified to protect the Gucci brand , but don’t let saving the world from knock offs interfere with you noon naps or T off time.
Two and a half years to bring down a flea market? SHEESH!
Exclusive to STR
Who knew that Janet Napolitano was a fashionista? What other conclusion can we come to after finding out that in addition to the war on Islamic fascism, her department is now waging another in favor of idiotic faddism? That’s right, the Department of Homeland Security has taken to setting up surreptitiously in local flea markets and then springing into SWAT mode once the evidence of knock-offs on the premises has accumulated. The humiliating spectacle of peasants on city streets with handbags nearly identical to those on the shoulders of 1 percenters will no longer have to be endured. And finally the DHS can be taken seriously. National pride will be renewed in a world where, we can rest assured, products labeled Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Nike, North Face, True Religion and Tiffany are the real thing.
Why haute couture is the province of a bureaucracy that was invented to prevent another 9-11 is probably something that, like high style, most people will just never “get.” Until now I’ve not given a moment’s consideration to the pedigree of my Levi’s. An enormous government agency that is armed to the teeth and concerns itself with such things tends to take up a lot more of my attention. A recent raid at Baltimore’s Patapso Flea Market that was reported 4-23-12 in The Baltimore Sun alerted many of us to the DHS role in policing fashion.
That investigation took two and a half years and involved renting a booth in the space. Anyone that is familiar with both flea market prices and what government spends on investigations might have trouble doing the math here. Caveat emptor is a concept willing purchasers may employ, while the federal government arrogated the right to be fools with taxpayer money a century ago. People that refuse to accept this risk ending up like Gordon Kahl.
The rationale for the program was contained in a statement made by William Ross, unit chief of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, a major division of DHS, at the National Press Club on June 23, 2011:
“The protection of intellectual property is a top priority for Homeland Security Investigations, as counterfeit products represent a triple threat by delivering shoddy, often dangerous goods into commerce, by funding organized criminal activities and by denying Americans good paying jobs.”
Exclusive to STR
Who knew that Janet Napolitano was a fashionista? What other conclusion can we come to after finding out that in addition to the war on Islamic fascism, her department is now waging another in favor of idiotic faddism? That’s right, the Department of Homeland Security has taken to setting up surreptitiously in local flea markets and then springing into SWAT mode once the evidence of knock-offs on the premises has accumulated. The humiliating spectacle of peasants on city streets with handbags nearly identical to those on the shoulders of 1 percenters will no longer have to be endured. And finally the DHS can be taken seriously. National pride will be renewed in a world where, we can rest assured, products labeled Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Nike, North Face, True Religion and Tiffany are the real thing.
Why haute couture is the province of a bureaucracy that was invented to prevent another 9-11 is probably something that, like high style, most people will just never “get.” Until now I’ve not given a moment’s consideration to the pedigree of my Levi’s. An enormous government agency that is armed to the teeth and concerns itself with such things tends to take up a lot more of my attention. A recent raid at Baltimore’s Patapso Flea Market that was reported 4-23-12 in The Baltimore Sun alerted many of us to the DHS role in policing fashion.
That investigation took two and a half years and involved renting a booth in the space. Anyone that is familiar with both flea market prices and what government spends on investigations might have trouble doing the math here. Caveat emptor is a concept willing purchasers may employ, while the federal government arrogated the right to be fools with taxpayer money a century ago. People that refuse to accept this risk ending up like Gordon Kahl.
The rationale for the program was contained in a statement made by William Ross, unit chief of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, a major division of DHS, at the National Press Club on June 23, 2011:
“The protection of intellectual property is a top priority for Homeland Security Investigations, as counterfeit products represent a triple threat by delivering shoddy, often dangerous goods into commerce, by funding organized criminal activities and by denying Americans good paying jobs.”
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25th May 2012 at 8:36 am
flash says:
read rest here http://www.strike-the-root.com/clothes-make-g-man
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25th May 2012 at 8:45 am
SSS says:
The ever reliable flash shows up with his ever reliable irrelevent blizzard of copy-and-pastes and links. Consistency, thy name is flash.
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25th May 2012 at 10:54 am
flash says:
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.
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25th May 2012 at 11:35 am
SSS says:
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?
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25th May 2012 at 8:09 pm
Zarathustra says:
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.
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25th May 2012 at 8:33 pm
SSS says:
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?
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25th May 2012 at 12:56 am
Zarathustra says:
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?
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25th May 2012 at 1:06 am
Zarathustra says:
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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25th May 2012 at 1:29 am
SSS says:
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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25th May 2012 at 12:48 pm
flash says:
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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25th May 2012 at 1:15 pm
flash says:
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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25th May 2012 at 1:21 pm
SSS says:
flash
Thanks for making my point with your “violence in Reynosa” example. Legal or illegal, it’s all about money.
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25th May 2012 at 1:47 pm
flash says:
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.
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25th May 2012 at 2:00 pm
SSS says:
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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25th May 2012 at 3:52 pm
flash says:
SSS
You really are dense
Before the Dumb Evil Assholes got involved in drugs there was no value.
You people created drug cartels.
As a kid I spent a lot of time in Renosa ,drank tequila in the bars, chased Mexican Senoritas around and witnessed Mexican kids selling marijuana by the grocery bags on the streets for a few dollars…and no one gave a SHIT…
And there was no crime.
My father said that back in the 40′s it was the same.Drugs were plentiful but only few , “dopeheads” would bother and there was no violent crime involved with the trade.
Before the War on Drugs white male teenage kid could go anywhere in Tamaulipas with absolutely zero danger .Drug cartels did not exist .They do now.
Ask yourself why.
You police state thugs created the drug cartels and play both ends against the middle for your own personal gain.
How much of the drugs that are allowed to enter this country are by permission of the CIA/DEA/State Department ?
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-05-28/top-us-government-officials-admit-our-government-has-repeatedly-protected-dru
Top U.S. Government Officials Admit that Our Government Has Repeatedly Protected Drug Smugglers
http://stopthedrugwar.org/taxonomy/term/93
DEA Facing Fallout from Deadly Honduras Raid
by Phillip Smith, May 22, 2012, 06:18pm, (Issue #735)
In the Honduran village where four residents were killed last week by gunfire from a helicopter on a US-backed anti-drug operation complete with DEA agents on board the chopper, feelings continue to run high. On Monday, they told the Associated Press that DEA agents also accompanied Honduran commandos who stormed into homes and mistreated residents after the raid, but the agency denies that.
DEA Now Ensnared in Colombia Prostitute Scandal
by Phillip Smith, May 22, 2012, 04:26pm, (Issue #735)
First it was Secret Service agents and members of the military who were part of President Obama’s security detail during his trip to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, last month. Now, allegations of dalliances with prostitutes there have spread to the DEA.
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25th May 2012 at 9:29 am
flash says:
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?
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25th May 2012 at 9:39 am
flash says:
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.
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25th May 2012 at 9:42 am
SSS says:
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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25th May 2012 at 12:10 pm
flash says:
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
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25th May 2012 at 1:27 pm
SSS says:
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).
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25th May 2012 at 3:05 pm
flash says:
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.
PS.I hope you didn’t procreate .We’ve enough nazi assholes tools already.
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25th May 2012 at 4:18 pm
flash says:
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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25th May 2012 at 4:29 pm
SSS says:
flash
Ron White told me personally that you were the inspiration for his best selling, #1 comedy album.
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25th May 2012 at 7:19 pm
ecliptix543 says:
Are y’all two still tickling each other’s nuts with a staple gun? What is this now… three days? Four?
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25th May 2012 at 7:23 pm
SSS says:
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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25th May 2012 at 7:32 pm
ecliptix543 says:
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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25th May 2012 at 7:39 pm