Thank goodness they've found a way to protect us from the threat of ambulances that have been painted black. :P

...or drop off your boyfriend's lunch without him or his coworkers knowing, and leave without attracting attention to yourself.

We, the people.

Which MRAP would have prevented a school shooting?

It'd be great if they could get funds for conflict resolution training for their officers or to hire a community affairs officer to really understand the needs of the community they serve.

It's not the police, it's the Supreme Court. But if you want to take up arms against them for suppressing your constitutional rights you're going to need more than a rifle.

Handing out bullshit felonies? Where are people getting felonies? Maybe I'm the most boring person in the world but I've never even been charged with a misdemeanor much less convicted of a felony, bullshit variety or otherwise.

If you ask Nigerians from the region that Boko Haram originated in, you'll probably hear that the group grew out of a local conflict between the government and a local criminal enterprise of sorts. Wahabism does not appear to play a part.

I think the more apt analogy is Gaza = Warsaw Ghetto. They walled off the part of the city and just kept stuffing more people into it and severely restricted all supplies going into it. So a static tightly controlled space of people who are ethnically required to live there with an ever dwindling supply of food and…

To say nothing of the misanthropic co-workers who often seem to be out to destroy you for no reason whatsoever and the clueless management that are threatened by the fact that you have no use for them and then seek to find ways to make your job more difficult that require their involvement to compensate for their…

This is my world. Not Wal-Mart, but working in a job that is well below my training, experience and ability simply because it isn't the emotionally destructive environment that every other corporate job is. So I work where my efforts are appreciated (even when I've expended the absolute minimum of effort it's beyond…

Granted it was stripped to the walls, but didn't the MkI GTi come stock 90hp? They really have porked things up since then.

But things cost more here. So the wage you're paying them is, in fact, not considerably better. But the contractors can reap more profit because they have to pay these people next to nothing since they're captive employees. It's not as if they can negotiate a better wage. If only there were some clear example of the…

See also "gastarbeiter" in Germany.

But... but... invisible hand? Free markets are more efficient? Corporations are people....?

Doesn't most saves actually just indicate that the quality of the rest of the defense was sub-standard?

I tried this the other day when we got our flatscreen TV. The video output to the HDtv made it look very dark. Which was a bit of a shame.

So vote for universal free contraception.

Or maybe pay down the debt accumulated by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Sheesh, freakin' hippie.

Our Germans didn't play as well as their Germans. Alas.