Cop's Obama Rant Embarrasses Officials, Spurs 2014 Nanny of the Year Win
Our nation's control freaks got even freakier in 2014–from jetpacks to parking apps, eco-ATMs and powdered alcohol, they were determined to kill anything cutting edge.
They targeted everything from dogs in parks to births at home, and they'll sic cops on you for hoarding or smelling bad. You might even get busted for doing things that are legal–like vaping while driving, warning motorists about speed traps, or putting up Christmas lights.
And whether it's yanking chocolate milk, boogie boards, homemade libraries or sunscreen(?!), the control freaks are (all together now!): Doing it for the children.
It's fitting, then, that 2014's Nanny of the Year recipients justified their power grab on the same grounds (although the real reason may have more to do with protecting city officials from future caught-on-tape embarrassments).
Check out how one cop's rant ("Obama has decimated the friggin' Constitution") embarrassed a city council into taking home this year's top dishonors!
2 minutes, 21 seconds.
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Consider fines for recording public interactions not an assault on free speech but a tax on transparency.
It's not a tax, it's an access fee.
Freedom isn't free.
Freedom costs a buck-oh-five
It's a photo-penal-tax.
God it seems like only yesterday when a thousand shrieking harpies would descend upon me upon me waving arm flab and bottles of sunscreen every time I took my nephews to the pool. I guess now they'll be coming, with identical cries of horror, to wrest the sunscreen from my hands. Eventually they'll ask themselves why they should take the trouble to educate me about such constantly changing dangers when they can just take the kids.
They'll pry my kids from my cold, dead hands!
The thing that chaps my ass is, no one seems to care that we have become a giant nanny state with millions of nosy assholes in our midst.
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I harken back to days of, "If you see something, STFU."
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This is quite a story. One could only imagine how it would be covered if it involved a former Republican President.
Epstein reportedly flew Tucker and Spacey to Africa on his private jet as part of a charitable endeavour. Clinton, meanwhile, flew on multiple occasions in the same plane to Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St James, between 2002 and 2005 as he developed his philanthropic post-presidential career. It would later be alleged in court that Epstein organised orgies on that same private island in the US Virgin Islands.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n.....54397.html
As it is, the US media isn't touching it.
It's almost hilarious.
RIght now, the big leftie story is about Sarah Palin's kid stepping on a dog.
Rape by a Democrat? Never mind, there are important things!
How long before the progs tell us that these rape stories are not to be believed because...reasons?
How old was the girl?
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Rolling Stone should assign a reporter to this.
Imagine a world in which you have thoughts other than "Democrats, man, they suck." That would be a world with a few more thoughts in it.
I agree with Tony. Republicans and right-wingers should be killed.
Exactly. I mean, how can anything be worse than Sarah Palin's kid stepping on a dog.
Due to Global Warming, the October Surprise will be 22 months early this year.
Is this the woman accusing Prince Andrew of being in on it? If so, the media is covering that angle of the story.
Hmmm, so apparently a Japanese student was gang-raped in India. Time for another article on how women's rights are so much better in India than the US!
Holy crap, they have privileged, white frat-boys in India?
Who knew?
Probably a college Cricket team!
Grab its leg, eh?
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Vapist.
I think it's "vapid."
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My favorite actor in many Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman movies. And of course, this "hybrid of the horror, action and car chase genres" I saw in the theater when I was 13.
"If I'm not grounded soon, I'm going to go into orbit"
Jeebus. Not only does donning a uniform instantly make you a hero, now. It apparently makes you an angel!
On the shoulders of fascism............
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That is majesty.
It is rectitude forged by devotion to duty and honor. It ?expects success and brooks no excuses for failure. There are no trophies for attendance.
Remarkably, I am aware of just two American institutions that still try to live by those standards. One is the United States military, the other is the New York Police Department. Both are widely respected for their professionalism and trusted for their devotion to causes higher than themselves. It is a measure of our warped era that both are under vicious attack.
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That is weapons-grade derp, my friend. Don't look it directly in the font, it's a brain eater!
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