City to Offer Free Trips to Las Vegas for Officers

[blueturk]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Which cops get the vacation?

The ones that abandoned their posts or the ones that stayed?

Hmm?

Damn good question. The "cops" who left and took their patrol cars with them may already be in Vegas...

[Nitro Express]

I think the country is starting to come apart. I think hurricane Katrina and the way people behaved will only continue in other communities when the economic or other natural disasters hit the fan.

We as a country no longer work as a team and this is evident in everything. We have become a bunch of system players. More than half the workers in this country now work for the govt. directly or for a govt. contractor. We are running a huge trade deficite. Each year we produce less and less. The service industries? Automated or you talk to someone in Bombay. A record number of people are going to college right now. Most will come out with degrees that qualify them to play some sort of beurocratical system and actually add zero to the trade defficite. What we need more of is workers and innovators. We need more engineers and entreprenuers. We need more small business that will later grow into large successful corporations.

Corporate America right now is not ran by very good people. They are in the short-term buck for themselves. When there trouble, they blame someone else. The whole system in business and in the govt. works this way.

Katrina drives home to me that survival is more the individuals responsibility than ever before. Relying on your local, state, and federal govts for help might just be like shooting yourself in the head. We live in an imperfect world, you may die or get maimed no matter how hard you try to avoid it but some preparation and thinking will better your chances. The smart people got the hell out of the hurricane areas. Anyone living in New Orleans should have known they lived below sea level, surrounded by water in a hurricane zone. Locals also know they live in one of the highest crime areas in the country. So add these things up and see what you get. You get what actually happened.

All I know is with the magnetic flux of the earth changing it's polarization and the global warming. Huge hurricanes will be occuring more often, so will volcanic activity, and earthquakes. There will be more natural disassters. There have been more earthquakes and volcanic erruptions in the past decade than the previouse century. Disasters do happen. The main question I have is how are people reacting to them?

So far I've seen a shit load of blame. Politicians using situations to better themselves. The country becoming more divided and people thinking it's the govt's job to take care of everything instead of rolling up their sleaves and doing it themselves.

My advice to everyone is have some emergency food, water, medical and sanitation supplies on hand. Some emergency cash isn't a bad idea either. A trench shotgun with variouse loads. Slugs, 00 , BB, and dove shot for defense and hunting. I like trench shotguns because you can affix a bayonet for intimidation and crowd control. The bayonet is also a handy digging tool or can be used to pry things open with. I like to keep most my emergency stuff in my Kelty backpack. I use this on backpacking trips and it helps me assess what kind of condition things are in and what works and what doesn't. I also have a biological filtration pump and some iodine tablets. 72 hours worth of MRES for the family.

[DrMaddVibe]

I can't give 5 more stars for that one.

Fuckin' true!