The minimum wage in Washington State is $16.28 an hour, California $20 and Australia $15.49 (23.23 AUD). On Sunday, employers must pay double, so many eateries and cafes are closed. Family run immigrant businesses are notable exceptions. Those figures made me think of a 2013 murder in Bà Rịa, a city adjacent to Vũng Tàu, my provisional home.
An off-topic comment on an ongoing theme: how does the progressive vulgarization of discourse unfold? Here's a recent 2023 case in point.
I was watching American Rust season 2, a dramatic depiction of America's white lower class in decline and turmoil. The stars Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney are swell. My problem w/ season 1 was the message that homos and people of color are sincere and vulnerable, while whites are crafty, predatory and violent. Still I was hooked like watching the aftermath of a train wreck.
In part 2, Broken Justice, there was a karaoke scene in a redneck bar where the formerly prim and proper female County DA unleashes a song by Khia to slavering approval by the crowd of drunken rednecks. Actually it's not a song. It's a rap. Here's an official video version of this degeneracy.
Much like Smell Yo Dick, liberal white girl singers seem eager to embrace this transgressive cheek. The tactic isn't about the blackening of white culture. It's the niggerization of it. We're encouraged to emulate the worst aspects of black behavior.
If memory serves me (and it's been a few decades) from my Criminal Procedure class in law school, the police can detain a drug smuggling suspect long enough to wait for defecation and then check that.
Would you pass me that box of vinyl gloves, please?
I do not think this is a popular opinion, but I truthfully believe - on principle - that in a civilized society (strike one, I know) it is wrong, except for age restrictions, to criminalize what one chooses to ingest, drink, smoke, shoot, or snort. There are no exceptions. I already hear the din from the protests - "But that is crazy! 'X' people die from 'X' drug EVERY DAY!"
But 10,500+ people died in drunk driving accidents in the US in 2019. That is ONLY drunk driving; not liver damage, not alcohol-related cancers, not wife-beating, not anything else.
I am not saying alcohol/morphine/tobacco (or chocolate or caffeine) are apples-to-apples identical addictions. I am saying we (in the US) recognize without a second thought that alcohol is a drug many people want and it has been around since civilization began. Some people become ruinously addicted; that is the price of freedom - when it comes to alcohol.
I do not want Prohibition, despite that fact that an uncle of mine was killed by a drunk driver. Alcohol is included in my statement "there are no exceptions". I can only ask one thing: are alcohol-related corpses somehow less dead than meth/heroin/cocaine/oxy corpses?
An off-topic comment on an ongoing theme: how does the progressive vulgarization of discourse unfold? Here's a recent 2023 case in point.
I was watching American Rust season 2, a dramatic depiction of America's white lower class in decline and turmoil. The stars Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney are swell. My problem w/ season 1 was the message that homos and people of color are sincere and vulnerable, while whites are crafty, predatory and violent. Still I was hooked like watching the aftermath of a train wreck.
In part 2, Broken Justice, there was a karaoke scene in a redneck bar where the formerly prim and proper female County DA unleashes a song by Khia to slavering approval by the crowd of drunken rednecks. Actually it's not a song. It's a rap. Here's an official video version of this degeneracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR93oMa9uGM
Much like Smell Yo Dick, liberal white girl singers seem eager to embrace this transgressive cheek. The tactic isn't about the blackening of white culture. It's the niggerization of it. We're encouraged to emulate the worst aspects of black behavior.
That opening pic looks suspiciously like an "AI girl".
How do they catch the people who are swallowing stuff to smuggle it in? X-ray?
Hi JustPlainBill,
Here's a video of that incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1SXAT7zjk
It took a while to extract some truth out of them, but the final proof was obtained at the hospital.
Linh
If memory serves me (and it's been a few decades) from my Criminal Procedure class in law school, the police can detain a drug smuggling suspect long enough to wait for defecation and then check that.
Would you pass me that box of vinyl gloves, please?
The easy tell is having 6 or 7 fingers.
I do not think this is a popular opinion, but I truthfully believe - on principle - that in a civilized society (strike one, I know) it is wrong, except for age restrictions, to criminalize what one chooses to ingest, drink, smoke, shoot, or snort. There are no exceptions. I already hear the din from the protests - "But that is crazy! 'X' people die from 'X' drug EVERY DAY!"
But 10,500+ people died in drunk driving accidents in the US in 2019. That is ONLY drunk driving; not liver damage, not alcohol-related cancers, not wife-beating, not anything else.
I am not saying alcohol/morphine/tobacco (or chocolate or caffeine) are apples-to-apples identical addictions. I am saying we (in the US) recognize without a second thought that alcohol is a drug many people want and it has been around since civilization began. Some people become ruinously addicted; that is the price of freedom - when it comes to alcohol.
I do not want Prohibition, despite that fact that an uncle of mine was killed by a drunk driver. Alcohol is included in my statement "there are no exceptions". I can only ask one thing: are alcohol-related corpses somehow less dead than meth/heroin/cocaine/oxy corpses?
Wow. I had long admired SRVN for maintaining the firing squad. Thanks for catching me up.