“Father Shouldn’t we put a stop to it” “Aye lad we should, we should it’s our duty”
Policeman 1: [Running into station seeing big fight & massive crowd] Call up Ballinrobe tell them to send the inspector down here send reinforcements the regents. There’s a riot down here!
Policeman 2: [Picking up phone and shouting into it] Ballinrobe, Ballinrobe!
[scene changes to the fight and then returns]
Policeman 1: [On the phone] Yes inspector, thank you sir.
Policeman 2: What did he say?
Policeman 1: He said put Five Pounds on Danaher’s Nose
The Quiet Man 1952
Every now and then people make a wish, a really stupid wish and every now and then the world decides to grant that stupid wish and give said people just what they asked for.
This happened to the “protestors” at UCLA yesterday. Police had arrived in force and the “protestors” being the leftists that they are did not take kindly to their arrival.
They chanted “Pigs Go Home” and had signs up saying “Fuck UCPD” and “ACAB” (all cops are bastards) deriding the police who had arrived to restore order.
This went on for a while, and then the police decided to grant their wish and decided to withdraw…
…coincidently right at the time when a group of people, armed with pipes, upset at an attack the sent a Jewish girl, arrived.
For two hours. Multiple agencies responding to a mutual aid request from campus police apparently had conflicting or limited orders, with people on the campus hearing that officers were warned to avoid using force or making arrests.
It was at this point where those folks who where chanting “Pigs go home” were suddenly shocked SHOCLED and outraged at the lack of police presence to protect them.
Getting texts from terrified @UCLA students in the pro-Palestinian encampment, which is under attack by pro-Israel counterprotesters. "This is urgent. Please. It's getting bad. No police."
No police? Isn’t that what those students showing “pigs go home” just a few minutes before wanted? Why aren’t they all delighted?
Zionist groups at UCLA attacked the pro-#Palestine student encampment. They launched fireworks, assaulted students, and used pepper spray and bear spray. Clashes are still ongoing.
Where are the police? Why they “fucked off” just like you asked them to.
What we seem to have hear is a failure to communicate the redefinition of words which has become common among the left these days. When the pro-hamas anti-Semite radicals where saying:
“Pigs Go Home”
They apparently actually meant:
“Please Mr. Policeman protect us from our enemies who want revenge on us for beating up that girl”
They never meant “fuck the police” as a statement of principle, as any form of expression regarding their personal beliefs. It was cosplay; they were making fashionable mouth sounds, morally and intellectually empty child-noises from howling human voids gibbering mindless nonsense with absolutely nothing happening in the gob of fat they use for a brain. Empty, pathetic, worthless.
Fortunately for the Hamas crowd the Mayor, perhaps realizing that it was a crowd of Democrat voters who were now at risk instead of just Jewish girls, finally called the police giving permission to engage and within an hour things were quiet again.
It’s worth noting that once the police had removed the danger the pro-terrorist protesters faced from their attackers a familiar refrain returned to the anti-Semite encampment:
UCLA 🚨 3:03 am – LAPD closing in on Pro Palestine encampment as they chant “PIGS GO HOME!”. pic.twitter.com/iMXz2M41Xk
— Anthony Cabassa (IWA) (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024
(...until our enemies come back to fight)
On the plus side the students at this place of education were given a valuable lesson about police. One of their primary duties is to protect criminals from mob justice, which can be a life saving task if you’re one of the criminals who the mob is crying for vengeance against.
Expect cries of outrage from Democrat pols who were 24 hours earlier decrying the police moving in at Columbia.
Unexpectedly of course.
For those too young to remember the great fight scene referenced at the top here it is:
Ok. You’re a campus protestor 18-22 years old and have decided that you’re going to take the victory that life’s lottery has given you, a spot in an elite university that will lead to a high paying job and now you find yourself before a judge because you’ve decided to occupy a building or hit a cop or strike some Jewish kid because he’s a jew and you’ve done it at a time when Democrats are starting to worry that these protests are hurting their electoral chances for 2024.
What do you say to the Judge?
I think there is only one thing to do, move that they be tried as juveniles.
That might seem odd, after all if a crime is heinous enough you see juveniles tired as adults but I’ve never heard of an adult (18 & older) tried as a juvenile.
But think about it for a second.
For their entire lives they’ve been told they are special. They were given trophies for just showing up. When teachers tried to enforce rules on them they ran to their parents who immediately backed them up making school kowtow. They were told they could define themselves as they wished, remake words as they wished had their lessons dumbed down and their grades inflated. And if anything bad at all happened anywhere near them grief councilors were deployed and safe spaces created so they could cope.
In short they were constantly protected from the dreadful reality that the world is not going to be at their beck and call and life might actually be a tough slog. They were in fact so protected from the realities of life that when expected that you actually had a word created “adulting” to describe the moments when they were expected to act like adults.
I mean cripes, they have taken over a building and briefly held a hostage and even after that they are demanding that Columba feed them.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'." pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1
So I guess it would not be much of a stretch for them to go to court and plead that they be tried like juveniles, after all they’ve been treated like a bunch of immature kids all their lives.
If I were giving a commencement address this year, it would go something like the following:
Graduates:
I want to congratulate you on becoming the least-educated class in recent history.
During the past four years, you have made excuses during COVID for missing class, turning in late assignments, and failing to meet the requirements of many courses.
You have learned to make excuses or blame someone else for your mistakes.
Since COVID has ended, you have honed your skills for making excuses.
Then, you decided to protest for much of your senior year.
Fifty-two percent of you will be underemployed a year after graduation, meaning you are working in jobs that don’t require the degrees you earned, according to a recent report by the Burning Glass Institute, which analyzes the job market. Five years out from school, the report said about 88 percent of you who are underemployed will be “severely” underemployed.
Peter McCoy of The Wall Street Journal wrote recently: “Here is a brutal fact for the college class of 2024: There aren’t enough college-level jobs out there for all of you. Some of you will snag them. Others will have to settle for jobs that don’t require a college education. And history shows that many of those who start out in a job that doesn’t require a college education are still toiling in that kind of job a decade later.”
Also, you have amassed an enormous debt to pay for your degree, and it may take decades to pay the money back.
Nevertheless, the federal government recently decided people don’t have to repay their loans. That’s one of the few upsides you have that others didn’t.
As you head out into the real world, I recommend improving education for your families from the beginning of school through college and beyond.
Otherwise, my sobering message will be given time and time again.
Posted: April 30, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized
It’s been an interesting tax week for me.
Until Sunday I had no idea there was anything to do with taxes still going on with me. I had mailed my Federal and State returns on the day before Pintastic NE 2024 (April 10th) to make sure they were taken care of before I left. On Saturday I went to the bank and found that the check I owed the feds (thanks Joe Biden) had been cashed but the state refund had not come yet. I found that slightly odd but it was only a couple of weeks so I didn’t think anything of it.
After work on Sunday my son ask me if I could scan a document for him that he had to email out as his own scanner was toast. I agreed went to scan the document and to my horror found my Massachusetts scheduled C1 sitting in the copier/scanner from the day of me copying everything before mailing.
Now years ago you used to be able to put a federal Schedule C on your mass taxes with a note saying “no mass differences” with your state taxes. The new form is different and unlike the federal form which has the “cost of goods sold” part on the back of schedule C that bit of notes is on a separate form C1.
So when I doubled check my taxes and saw “Schedule C” in my mass pile it didn’t hit me that C1 wasn’t there.
Because I pay sales taxes on the 2 to 3 copies of my book that I sell each year I have an account on Mass Tax Connect so that night I scanned the form C1 and attached it in a message explaining how the form was forgotten and asking if that was enough or if they wanted me to resend the lot.
I got an email noting a reply on the account and signed on. The message I got was a nasty surprise.
They apparently didn’t notice the missing C1 form because apparently despite me mailing my taxes at the desk at the post office they never received my tax return.
This was a real surprise as my federal taxes were sent at the same time and they wasted no time cashing my check.
So now I’m torn between the idea of taking part or all of tomorrow off to try to get all of this taken care of or waiting till my next day off and doing it Thursday but either way consider this:
At the time I found that form in my scanner I was kicking myself thinking this was the reason my refund wasn’t in and considered it a big misfortune. It turns out however that if I had not forgotten that form C1 I would have absolutely no idea that the Post Office lost my tax return (I presume it’s lost as it wasn’t returned via the return address).
Furthermore if my son had note decided to go to do a weekend visit at the National Our Lady of La Salette and his scanner wasn’t down who knows how many days it would have been before I realized that form hadn’t been sent.
Now thanks to both of these things the problem will be solved before the end of April instead of being discovered months from now and becoming a bigger headache then it already will be.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Update: Got the day off to contact DOR and talked to Courtney. She tells me to wait six weeks or so as paper returns aren’t always processed right away so that would explain the lack of a record. Just to play it safe I scanned everything and sent it via the online site but I’ll breathe a sigh of relief
