Secrets of the City

An oldie but a goodie.

If corn guy does get tased… does he pop?

On a serious note, I’m seriously starting to dread the convention and chaos that will come with it. 230 tasers…

Maybe the idiot anarchist / trustafarian protesters should stay home.

Tase ‘em bro!

Maybe the idiot anarchist / trustafarian protesters should stay home.

You can’t hold a convention without delegates, bud.

I live far too close to the Science Museum. Thinking about taking a vacation somewhere else the week of the RNC.

I heard a lot of New Yorkers did that in 2004. My office should be far enough away, but it won’t make getting around town very easy.

bob…you slay me. sharyn…rent your place out…you could pay for a vacation with the money you’d make.

I’d be out of here in a second if I had a choice, but it’s gonna be an “all hands on deck” kind of week in my industry. At least I’m not in St. Paul.

I hope the St. Paul police plan on tazing anyone who uses the Taser-related catch-phrase of 2007.

And now some Taser related video footage.

I’m hoping to capture a video of someone being tased. I plan on running around St Paul with a mild buzz and a camera just taking it all in.

I think we’re going to have a pretty boring convention. Street confrontations featuring aging hippies versus country club republicans is so 1990s.

The real fun will be in Denver where I’m feeling it’ll be Chicago 1968 all over again. All we’ll need is a Richard Daley-like mayor and it’ll be must see TV!

I think we’re going to have a pretty boring convention.

They are, after all, Republicans.

Unlike those lively Democrats!

Actually, both sides have been pretty lively this year…

Ten bucks some drunk frat boy chases a cop around yelling “Don’t tase me, bro! Don’t tase me, bro!” until he gets tased.

That Florida goon squad who tased that loumouthed little prick should all lose their jobs turning that phrase loose on society.

I’ll sell my exclusive hippytase photos and videos to the blogger offering the highest price.

I think we’re going to have a pretty boring convention.

Gulp. I agree with Maz. WTF?

While little details like an endless occupation of Iraq are troubling, I don’t think McCain causes the brand of ire that will get people burning down St. Paul. Also, I’m designing tase proof tie-tied t-shirts, so I hope there’s enough ire to support the market.

When the democrat candidate asks McLame about the “endless occupation of Iraq,” I have it on good authority that he’s going to ask his opponent about how the 50-year “endless occupation” of japan or germany or korea or any of a hundred other countries is any different and why they never brought up legislation to end those occupations.

Let’s not discuss specific candidates and policies, and stick to the discussion of tasers. There are a lot of other forums to discuss national politics, if that’s of interest.

Even drunken frat boys in “Don’t Tase Me, Bro!” t-shirts don’t deserve to be tased. Well, unless he is actually just about to date rape you.

Marsh, FTW.

i long for the days of knight stick head bashing.
So much more humane.

Their are non-lethal batons now.

Don’t give me too much credit, aliecat. I borrowed that line from Gov. Patrick.

about how the 50-year “endless occupation” of japan or germany or korea or any of a hundred other countries is any different and why they never brought up legislation to end those occupations.

Uh, because those aren’t technically “occupations?” Aside from the DMZ in Korea, US military forces do not provide domestic security within the countries where they are stationed. In addition, military downsizing — and the fall of the Soviet Union — have made it possible to eliminate the need for the hundreds of thousands of US troops that were once stationed outside the US during the Cold War. There are, for example, far fewer US troops in Korea now than, say, 30 years ago.

So, yes, in essence, Congress has already legislated the withdrawl of overseas troops before when they mandated new troop levels in the 1990s.

It may also come as a surprise that the post-WWII occupations of Japan and Germany were better planned and better executed than the current mess in Iraq. Specifically, original plans for the Occupation of Japan called for the permanent stationing of 250,000 US troops there immediately after Japan’s surrender. However, by November, 1945, MacArthur was already telling the bureaucrats in Washington that he needed fewer than 120,000 to accomplish the occupation goals of demilitarization and democratization.

Funny, nonetheless, steve…I always get a chuckle out of a good frat-boy bashing…

Funny, nonetheless, steve…I always get a chuckle out of a good frat-boy bashing…

Hey noodleman, too bad George Bush didn’t have a Douglas MacArthur to do the job.

Hey noodleman, too bad George Bush didn’t have a Douglas MacArthur to do the job.

Gen. Shinseki was warning them about their undermanning of the post-invasion plans, but they fired him for that.

Hey noodleman, too bad George Bush didn’t have a Douglas MacArthur to do the job.

More like George Marshall, IMHO.

It will be interesting to see how much planning actually went into preparations for a post-war Iraq. Planning for the Occupation of Japan began in early 1942, just months after Pearl Harbor.

Ten bucks some drunk frat boy chases a cop around yelling “Don’t tase me, bro! Don’t tase me, bro!” until he gets tased.

Would they be a democratic frat boy or a republican one. I have a feeling the convention will be the blind protesting the stupid.

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