The car stops in front of robbersdog49's house. A woman gets out and a man gets out, runs around the car and begins to beat the shit out of her. As he hits and kicks her, robbersdog49 peaks cautiously out his window watching, as he calls the police so that in 10/15/20 minutes later the police will arrive and save the woman. Brave of you robbersdog49. The courts will certainly make everything right.

i was talking today with a small business owner. his net work is around $15 million today. he started his business in the late 70's when taxes were much higher. this was his point, when taxes were around 50% he had the option of either giving 50% of his profits to the government OR spending that revenue to hire new employees or buy new equipment. he would always choose to spend extra money to lessen his tax burden and this is what drives the economy. it's unfathomable to a man who has run his own small business for 30 something years to set the tax burden so low that it is cheaper to just pay the taxes than it is to reinvest in the company. i'm sure most of you have already considered this point, but i hadn't thought about it until he brought it up. it seems 15% more absurd to me now ... the logic that corporate taxes kill jobs. giving corporations reasons to spend more money, hire more people, buy more equipment seems to be what helps an economy to thrive.

of course i guess one justification is that if taxes go too high, companies will just relocate to developing countries where everything is cheaper. moving to china was never an option to this man so we never discussed that side of the story.

>> ^Januari:

I am more than a little confused by your argument, or rather it's ambiguity. As BC said, I've never in my life heard anyone who favors the militarization of our police force. This man wasn't run over by a tank... he wasn't exploded from a grenade... Or any of the other over the top examples you listed. Can you tie these concepts together with any degree of reason?
You chastise people for assuming you mean cutting funds from police officers salaries but you haven't exactly clarified... You simply want less police?... lower quality of equipment?... fewer patrol cars?...


But the militarization is happening, like it or not. That aside, the conversation got derailed. I was asked my solution for the police state, which would be to cut funding. That got interpreted as cutting the worker's wages somehow, and it devolved from there.

So, yes, less police. Not lower quality equipment but just not military equipment. Fewer patrol cars? Maybe. I don't know. It's a tangent we're on at this point. And it has very little to do with the video.

But certainly someone favors the militarization of our police because it's happening.

I am more than a little confused by your argument, or rather it's ambiguity. As BC said, I've never in my life heard anyone who favors the militarization of our police force. This man wasn't run over by a tank... he wasn't exploded from a grenade... Or any of the other over the top examples you listed. Can you tie these concepts together with any degree of reason?

You chastise people for assuming you mean cutting funds from police officers salaries but you haven't exactly clarified... You simply want less police?... lower quality of equipment?... fewer patrol cars?...

One Man Show..., eewww, runs screaming....

Man, talk about running the gamut of emotions.

He's never slept since birth? Looks like all he does IS sleep. Laws of human biology dictate his body would have either REM rebounded or suffer massive organ failure then death. He would've died before a week old.

Looks more like to me a fat loafer who thinks the world of himself, Allah be praised.

I bet "the strongest man" couldn't run a full mile before having a heart attack.

This show's got to be fake. Or a televised equivalent of a tabloid paper like the enquirer. Batboy found in cave! Drinking lard gives man strength!

A guy is out with his girl one night, eating in a nice restaurant. She orders the meatballs, and they begin to eat. A few minutes go by and all of a sudden, he makes her laugh so hard while eating, she begins to choke.

Realizing she's choking, he panics. "Oh Jesus, somebody do something!" he yells.

Up from a table springs a man, who swiftly runs over and grabs the girl. Before anybody can stop him, he rips her pants off, bends her over, and jams his tongue straight into her ass.

Surprised, she spits out the lodged meatball and begins to scramble away from the man. The boyfriend grabs the guy, and yells "What the hell was that?!"

"Hey, haven't you ever heard of the HindLick maneuver?"

I was all set to chime in on the side of the Knight until he pulled a weapon on a non-violent, unarmed man. He better run. That's assault with a deadly weapon.

Dude...that's the flying lawn mower you see on A.F.V. all the time. Just with a really skinny Chinese guy on it.

All I can think of when I see this is the part of Iron man where he runs out of fuel and crashes down, un-hurt.

Very nice. Hope it's real!

Bush is just the simpleton front-man, Cheney is running the show for the corporate interests.

>> ^ashes2flames:
Man I am running out of shit to do when I'm analyzing the physics of apple snapping videos but I bet he couldn't do this if he wasn't holding it against his leg.
ie. it isn't just his "bare hands" involved here.


you can. i remember my mother doing it as she walked about the house. i seem to remember she had more of a twist to the motion though.

Man I am running out of shit to do when I'm analyzing the physics of apple snapping videos but I bet he couldn't do this if he wasn't holding it against his leg.

ie. it isn't just his "bare hands" involved here.

You're not going to believe this but check out the following link...

http://io9.com/350804/time-traveling-musical-about-hg-wells-and-jack-the-ripper-in-1979-san-francisco

They're making your favorite movie into a broadway play!

In reply to this comment by my15minutes:
favorite quote from the film:

"The first man to raise a fist, is the man who's run out of ideas."

i'll sift that too, as soon as i can find a clip. it's a great scene.

Malcolm MacDowall was flawless.
David Warner did what he does best. Evil.
and i'm still puppy-eyed for Mary Steenburgen.
rent or own it today.

favorite quote from the film:

"The first man to raise a fist, is the man who's run out of ideas."

i'll sift that too, as soon as i can find a clip. it's a great scene.

Malcolm MacDowall was flawless.
David Warner did what he does best. Evil.
and i'm still puppy-eyed for Mary Steenburgen.
rent or own it today.