It is.
And it's a very penny wise/pound foolish strategy.
Because while it may be the cheapest way to resolve the one case, it encourages many more cases.
It's like paying a ransom. It may be the cheapest way out now, but it puts a giant target on you that says "attack here" for the future.
Live free or die is a stupid motto.
As Patton said, you don't win a war by dying.
The founding fathers didn't give their lives to defeat England. The risked them, but they (mostly) didn't lose them. If they had lost them they would have lost the war too.
The motto should be live free or kill.
I am sure some bean counters and lawyers got together and compared the cost to defend the lawsuit against the cost to redesign the whole product line.
And now we see what answer they got.
It's really just that simple.
It's ugly, it's cowardly, but it's just business.
There are a lot of things necessary for a society to function well that a government *cannot* provide.
Charity, when properly applied, can be very valuable for a society. But, it must be controlled to prevent abuse.
The *best* way for that to happen is a cultural aversion to using it. In an...
I could see it ending with federal obstruction charges against a lot of local officials.
I certainly would not want to be anywhere near that activity if I were a local or state officer.
Let me guess, the Chinese government will certify as many "credits" as anyone is willing to buy.
It's a nice racket if you can get it LOL. Reminds me of the pet rock.
Will be very interesting the first time a Chicago PD officer tries to arrest an ICE agent, and gets himself arrested for interfering in the ICE operation.
I'm not opposed to the concept of charity. It certainly has it's place in a civilized society.
But, it is a very dangerous drug. Just like opiates, it is important when it's necessary, and very dangerous if over used.
It also needs to be administered at a very local level. Too much...
Nobody needs a deep understanding of anything.
All you need is a cordless right angle drill, a bolt with the head ground to an eccentric, and some duct tape.
5 mins, *any* semi-auto is now full auto, with a variable rate of fire.
Well, I'm sure Ukraine will only strike targets in occupied greater Ukraine then.
The only question is "what can Russia do to retaliate, and why didn't they do that over the half a million dead Russians already ?".
And basically all they have left to escalate is "attack NATO directly", or...
Just go to home depot, and buy some red or blue chalk line refill.
If you need pink, just mix the red in with some baby powder.
Not a flare, but you can get a nice colored cloud.
Just be careful not to get it on people, they won't appreciate it. Hard to get off clothes. It will come off...
Well, he's half right.
Minorities *should* arm themselves. Everyone should arm themselves, unless they're illegals, then they should just fuck off back to where they came from, *then* arm themselves and unfuck the government that turned that place into th3 shithole they wanted to run away...
In typical democrat fashion, they were demanding *someone else* do the work.
No way in hell would the people calling for that be kicking in any doors themselves.
Missiles we sell someone aren't US missiles.
Unless you're saying every time some sand weasel anywhere in the world fires a Russian S-3/4/500 at one of our planes, we should have treated that as an attack by Russia on the US and just eliminated all their air defense worldwide ?
Read an article about why there's a shortage of labor for some positions like that during a shutdown, even when most are working.
If they take vacation time during a shutdown, when the shutdown is over it's counted as "furlough" not against their vacation time. But they get the back pay all...
The democrats are always playing a game of chicken with the shutdowns.
They want to use them for leverage, but if they go on too long people start to wonder why we need to start it back up again.
Which is why during a shutdown when they're in the white house they'll actually spend *more* money...
They think they're the modern version of the French resistance fighting the Nazis.
They *are* organized, but that doesn't mean you can just find and arrest a few leaders and they collapse. In that respect they *are* like the French resistance.
99% of Antifa are what Stalin would call useful idiots. They don't have evil intentions, they're just naive and easily manipulated.
But, at the same time, 99% of the Germans we killed in WWII were just decent regular guys too.
That doesn't mean they didn't have to die. It just means it's...
You're not entirely wrong there.
But, we were literally at war with ISIS not too long ago. If someone self identified as a supporter of ISIS wouldn't it have been reasonable to charge them for offering aid and comfort ?
If Newsome or AOC wins in 2028 and decides to declare the 3%ers as a...
But, some people will self identify into a group.
If that group is a terrorist organization, then they are terrorists.
If you show up to a riot in matching antifa shirts, then you *are* part of an organization.
And if there is a convenient and mysterious pallet of bricks on the corner for...
They have a right to an opinion, no matter how fucked up it is.
But when they act on it, that is criminal.
And if they work together to act on it, that is an organization.
18 months might be a bit longer than I would choose, but I would absolutely want actual jail time.
As for "accidents", that is a far greater crime than the spitting.
Just because they usually get away with it doesn't change that.
Neither does the fact that infractions aren't punished severely...
But, they spend money, and it comes from somewhere.
When they all show up in matching T-shirts, follow that money back and seize whatever mansion the guy who wrote the check lives in, just like if he wrote a check to ISIS.
Next guy that gets shot by one of their police officers that has any of those accessories should sue.
The county said right there that stuff is dangerous and unusual.
When it comes to probability, no matter how good your odds are, if roll the dice often enough, eventually they'll come up snake eyes.
But, when the odds are unknown, repeated success will give you confidence that the odds of failure are low.
If it's been successful 1000 times in the row...
Any place people might have to defend themselves they should be armed.
That seems pretty obvious.
Since churches seem to be a popular target lately they have more reason to be armed than most.
Yea, I trust an MSN "expert" about as much as the horoscope next to the comics in the Sunday paper.
If we're giving them Tomahawks, we'll give them the launch platform.