Posted on 02/27/2015 6:24:23 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
(CNN)Nine people are dead after shootings in south-central Missouri, the Houston Herald newspaper in Missouri reported Friday morning, citing a sheriff there.
There are multiple crime scenes, including four in the Texas County community of Tyrone, county Sheriff James Sigman told the Herald.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol is expected to hold a news conference about the deaths at about 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) Friday, CNN affiliate KYTV reported.
Tyrone is about 135 miles (84 kilometers) southwest of St. Louis.
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They make more than you think. But think how many lawyers would be put out of business if you eliminated that many customers. The lawyers who aren’t in the elite class of lawyers, team up with other lawyers making for a sizable contribution. But yes, the lawyers involved in suits may bring down millions in 1 case alone. On top of that what is the percentage of politicians who are lawyers? I’m sure it is high. Though I understand Community Organizers are starting to give them a run for their money now.
What passes for journalism from so called reputable papers these days, would not have been accepted by our business teacher for the weekly high school newspaper.
The lady had high standards. In the typing class, if she could tell you had made a correction, it was counted as an error. The document had to be perfect to get and A.
One error was a B, two a C, 3 a D, and after that, you might as well start over. Any incorrect punctuation also counted as an error.
You get a B:)
Willing Buyer/Willing Seller = cheaper drugs.
Cheaper drugs & legalization = removal of drug user need to steal to feed habit.
I'm not so sure. Most people of modest income can't afford many prescription drugs now, without Gov't support. Factor in the addictive qualities of (presently) illegal drugs, and my guess is that the pharma-gov't-crony bedmates will make sure of the same. Power, control, and money will rule. Will the gov't pay for a heroin addict's fix?
Even cheap drugs will be hard to come by when you have no job, because no one wants to employ a user.
What passes for journalism today is a joke. Like so many other things it has been dumbed down. Problem is many of them think they are much smarter than the average American.
That’s true...
Hey, CNN: nobody’s gives rat’s backside how many kilometers it is.
I've never been drug tested for a regular position.
Heroin is dirt cheap, until made illegal.
Unlike western world originated pahrmaceuticals, drugs from plants like poppy bulbs and coco leaves can be made bu peasent labor, and the Western world does just-in-time deliveries very well.
If money were the motive behind the drug laws, wouldn’t politicians decriminalize drugs and then pin them with sin taxes? A lot of addicts would literally kill for their next fix. Countless addicts steal, lie, and assault others for it. There is no tax these people would not pay.
Never could figure out why we make people criminals for using a plant. It is their body! We tried that with alcohol and it was a disaster....just like it is a disaster with this WOD.
I grow more certain everyday, no govt is the lesser of two evils. And I am thinking decriminalization of drugs is also the lesser of two evils.
| Forcible | Aggravated | Larceny- | Vehicle | ||||||||
| Year | Population | Index | Violent | Property | Murder | Rape | Robbery | assault | Burglary | Theft | Theft |
| 2010 | 6,742,950 | 4,012.6 | 313.5 | 3,699.1 | 2.3 | 38.2 | 87.9 | 185.0 | 818.5 | 2,498.8 | 381.8 |
| 2011 | 6,823,267 | 3,874.4 | 295.3 | 3,579.1 | 2.4 | 34.0 | 82.5 | 176.5 | 828.9 | 2,386.4 | 363.8 |
| 2012 | 6,895,318 | 3,987.2 | 298.1 | 3,689.1 | 3.1 | 32.6 | 84.1 | 178.2 | 890.1 | 2,412.3 | 386.7 |
| 2013 | 6,971,406 | 3,988.2 | 277.9 | 3,710.3 | 2.3 | 25.8 | 83.5 | 166.4 | 837.0 | 2,465.9 | 407.4 |
Yes, but production cost no longer has much to do with what one pays, unless we are talking about the really big volume over-the-counter stuff. God help us if heroin becomes 1/10th that popular.
Interesting stats. It appears hard to see a big crime drop, overall, but violent crimes came down — a nationwide trend, I believe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War
The new world order of today are in essence heirs to the same elite factions that precipitated those wars and love to enslave people with drugs, taxes, slavery and debt.
About the same time British aristocrats were puffing themselves up as global humanitarians for finally having their puppets in Parliament pass a law to make their own slave trade “illegal” (just before it would be obsolete anyway), they were ramping up their heinous efforts to turn China into a nation of opium addicts so they could ease British global traders’ silver imbalance. Wicked and diabolical to the extreme, but, they speak with British accents, so they have to be nice people, right ?
Sheeple need to understand that drugs are bad for sheeple.
But some sheeple actually argue on behalf of their slave-trading, drug-trading masters, for drug legalization.
The Qinq dynasty saw the horrific consequences on their nation of legalized opium, decided to push back and fight the British banking/slave trading/drug trading/socialist/communist/banking elites...
and got whipped by them.
Ever since, the elites have ruled China as a slave state.
These elites are the ones that run the US and UK and Europe like Boss Hogg ran Hazzard County.
It’s a huge scam/conspiracy, but many of the local sheeple are so dimwitted they can’t see it or won’t admit it.
Opium was legal all over the world, including in China which had been using opium for 1000 years, since the Tang dynasty. Chinese officials were concerned because British opium was more potent than the domestic variety, which meant that it was preferred by Chinese users. The problem was that this reversed the balance of trade, which had previously favored the Chinese heavily, since they exported tea, porcelain and silk and imported very little except silver. It took some time, but it was only a very short period after the Second Anglo-Chinese War (what the Chinese call the 2nd Opium War) that the Chinese figured out how to cultivate the opium varieties imported via British merchants and ended the imports. Throughout all this, Chinese emigres living outside of China prospered, despite having ready access to opium. In the US, the emigre Chinese did so well that Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 to keep new immigrants from China out. It wasn't until 1914 that the US criminalized opium.
The real damage done to China wasn't from opium - it was from the Russian conquest of traditionally Chinese territory in Outer Manchuria. If the Qing dynasty's rulers hadn't organized the mass migration of Chinese into Inner Manchuria, that part of China would probably be Russian today. Just how big was Outer Manchuria, the territory taken by Russia at Chinese expense? Almost as big as Texas.
Methodists on the loose?
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