The Officer Pike Collection

[leegs]

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Insert Taibbi quote: "All that tricked-up military gear, with that corny, faux-menacing, over-the-top Spaceballs stormtrooper look that police everywhere seem to favor more and more – all of this is symbolic of the increasingly total lack of ideas behind all that force."

I'd like to see a progressive (whatever that means?) mayor in some big city mandate that his local storm troopers to be outfitted with bright yellow and pink and green pads, helmets, boots, etc. Probably would take a lot of the edge off of the attitude of everyone involved.

[BigBagel]

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I saw this in the NYPD. Over the years the some things became more militarized. Some specialized uniforms, the cop all decked out with a more menacing gun in possible terrorist locations in midtown. We all got riot helmets but they put shield numbers on them.
How do you ID one of these guys in the photo above if he goes off the reservation?

You can't. You're almost anonymous. You can do what you want.

[doom&gloom]

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I saw this in the NYPD. Over the years the some things became more militarized. Some specialized uniforms, the cop all decked out with a more menacing gun in possible terrorist locations in midtown. We all got riot helmets but they put shield numbers on them.
How do you ID one of these guys in the photo above if he goes off the reservation?

You can't. You're almost anonymous. You can do what you want.

you're not supposed to identify them, especially if they are told to incite a riot so the clamp down can begin.

how many places have now passed laws against videotaping police?

when we lose the sunshine, the darkness envelopes all.

[lektrode]

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...post a pic & i'll try to shop it...

not quite what eye was looking for, but close:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleybaccam...th-vader-to-do
8. Care about Wall Street




and then there was this one:




and here's a beauty:

or maybe this one...


So, we have discovered Darth Vader's true identity.

[lektrode]

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'i wish he'd pepper spray these assholes... post a pic & i'll try to shop it...

The Fed Strikes Back…

Posted In: The Fed

According to Bloomberg:

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may be most famous in the United States for cheating on his taxes (you can even buy a t-shirt to acknowledge his tax dodging), but he’s becoming a punch line in the rest of the world for different reasons.

I wrote two years ago about Chinese students erupting in laughter after Geithner claimed the Administration believed in a strong dollar.
Now he’s getting mocked by the Europeans.
After Friday’s post about the absurdity of Obama sending his Treasury Secretary to lecture the Europeans, you can imagine my great amusement today as I read that the Europeans basically told Geithner to go jump in a lake.
Here are some passages from the Reuters report.

and the pIece of resIstonce:

[don]

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It looks like old Barn is about to re-tire, to Mayberry no doubt. It should be of some interest to see his public audit, after 30 years in Congress and the longtime chair of the House Financial Services Committee, comparing his original net worth with . . . what? . . . excuse me . . . there is no public audit? . . . no confidential audit either? Omigosh . . . .

[lektrode]

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GASP!!!
not sure we even want to go looking into _his_ closet....

[doom&gloom]

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and who are they talking about replacing him? Maxine Waters. we go from slick and corrupt to outright stupid.

[don]

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and who are they talking about replacing him? Maxine Waters. we go from slick and corrupt to outright stupid.

Unless she changes her party (anything is possible) the House Financial Services Committee is a Republican chaired committee.

Change we can believe in . . .

[lektrode]

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....Change we can believe in . . .

now don, surely after all the time we've (well... some of us/the rocketscientists and physisists's) spent hashing out all sorts of the theoretically possible, techologically speaking - i must say and think you would agree that kind of change is right up there with Area 51 - but yeah, i guess _anything_ IS possible ;)

[don]

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latest on officer Pike . . .

2011-11-30 — youtube.com

Believe the pepper sprayer made $110K per year, was in foreclosure, and had declared bankruptcy. He's still unaware of the pension he doesn't have.

[don]

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not sure what to make of this . . .

officer pike in legoland