For the skeptic there remains only one consolation:
if there should be such a thing as superhuman law
it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Ambler
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Are we really going to go through 5 more months of this crap? Donald Trump on Hillary playing the woman card & Hillary saving women's world?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
I've been spending so much time bashing Trump's BS that I haven't started on Clinton's. Federal personnel policies hurt, not help workers.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Have we learned nothing from Europe's sticky high unemployment numbers? Benefits are expensive, they tie the hands of reluctant employers.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
It's not so much Hillary plays the woman card, but she plays the Bill Clinton card. I've seen turnips with more charisma and personality.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton reminds me of the boring teacher character Ben Stein plays on film. I keep waiting for her to call out "Bueller?"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
It's like she's reading Paul Krugman columns out loud to the masses and tries to stoke excitement by raising the volume of her voice.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
So yeah, we would never have seen Clinton in national politics if she hadn't been married to the former governor and POTUS.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Clinton is banking on the fact that her husband held office during the Internet boom economy. She rejects Bill's more conservative policies.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Pushed even more leftward by Sanders' economic nationalist policies, Clinton has rebuked NAFTA and TPP, welfare reform & Bill's record.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Everyone is buzzing about Ted Cruz' major announcement this afternoon. It will NOT be to announce he's dropping out and endorsing Trump.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Well, everybody is speculating that Cruz will preannounce his choice of Carly Fiorina as running mate: the anti-establishment ticket.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
"I went to the best school, I’m like, a very smart person”-Trump. Smart people don’t say they are smart.- @JRubinBlogger— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
This is Soft Rock America. This goes out to Donald Trump who declared "I am me": https://t.co/uAtMq9WXGU— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Former Speaker Hastert is going to serve jail time over child molester charges. I'm sure the NY Times checking if he's secretly a RC priest— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Cruz and Kasich: people want to know:how do you get beaten like a drum by a guy with a 67% unfavorable rating?I could win on Mom & puppies.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Cruz fell into a burning basketball ring of fire. But Trump has Bobby Knight there to ensure Ted doesn't steal delegates from his team.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
OK, wild guess, but Cruz isn't in Obama's White House March Madness pool. Hoop, rim, basket--anything but 'ring'. BTW it's HORSE, not DONKEY— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
"NAFTA was a disaster, [Bill Clinton] signed it. And it was a disaster for this country." - Donald "Retard" Trump. Trump is BEYOND WRONG.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
I have to literally filter what I'm writing about Anti-Trade Trump because I want to use profanity and I would seriously hit him in the face— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
I mean people get prosecuted over practicing medicine without a license but there are [expletive] politicians practicing bad economics.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Now Clinton and Sanders are just as bad as Trump on trade, and Cruz isn't much better. Krugman must be going nuts on this: this is his area.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Krugman is such a political whore as a columnist I'm sure that he would probably find a nuance to make Clinton or Sanders look not so bad— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Now, to be sure, there are people on my side, particularly the Austrian School economists who are against NAFTA, TPP, etc. But it is nuanced— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
The ideological difference has to do with all the tedious side agreements.Free trade is a simple thing; the government just needs to stay out— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
So the two sides negotiate to say they ended up with an advantage; it's crap because the real winners are consumers who get improved access— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Austrian economists point out the glass is half-empty; the rest of us argue the glass is half full: it's the best we can do given politics.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
@marvelmom711 I left the GOP because it is becoming the Party of Brain-Dead Trump. I regret I only have 2 votes to cast against the bastard.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
@marvelmom711 Trump has an unfavorable rating of about 68%. He has no upside. People aren't going to change their minds. He is DONE.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
The reports I'm seeing is that Trump has motivated Latinos in the same way against him like blacks lined up to vote for Obama. Trump is DONE— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Matt Drudge is nuts: after Erickson tweeted that Drudge did not report Cruz' VP pick of Fiorina I checked.The only Cruz link was "desperate"— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Going back to trade, yes, no doubt some domestic suppliers lacking the comparative advantages of new suppliers will find it hard to compete.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
On the other hand, our domestic suppliers may also have advantages on the other side of the equation, one which allows them to expand.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
But if I'm paying above-market prices for domestic goods, I don't owe them squat. I will be better off & can spend my savings on other goods— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
@marvelmom711 Dead wrong. Nearly every pairwise poll I've seen of Cruz and Trump, Cruz wins 54-41. Facts are stubborn things.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
@marvelmom711 It took Trump until NY to get a simple majority. Cruz whipped his ass in TX, the biggest state. Trump will lose this fall.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 27, 2016
Oh, crap. I knew Trump had stepped into it with his #womancard bullshit.All the ideological feminist nutjobs are out,including the 77centers— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
I grew up with 4 little sisters. I knew better than to play my Trumpcard around the house. Does anybody wonder why Trump has had 3 wives?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
In college, I remember catching a ride with a car full of women. One rough bump and the driver's BBT chart flew into my lap: TMI. And then— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" starts playing over the radio.The women started humming along.And you know the "oo" part?Every woman's eyes on me— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
I'm like "Oh, damn. They're going to kick me out of the car in the middle of nowhere." I was a geek: I didn't even have a girlfriend yet.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
I was working as a programmer/analyst working for a computer timesharing company branch in Houston. Boss didn't like his commute into loop.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
When BB opened the company's offices off the NW loop spur, it included a large room for his own company's (yet to be hired) programmer staff— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
My ex-boss was exactly the stereotype the feminists imagine. He thought he was quite clever: he would hire female programmers 80 cents on $1— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
BB would charge market rates for their services and pocket the windfall profit. I don't know how it worked out. He fired me over my chair.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
I never before heard of anyone fired over office furniture. In this case, he had taken my functional chair during the move and replaced it.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
I don't know where he got a chair with a broken caster (the city dump?). He caught me retrieving my old chair from the empty programmer room— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
I don't know what he told his boss in VA. We had a later conversation, and he kept asking me about my boss' wife. I met her once in passing.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
The boss' wife had brought doughnuts to celebrate the branch's relocation.I don't think we talked beyond a greeting.He probably smeared me.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
Dead Wrong: Why Trade Barriers Strengthen Authoritarian HandsAdults explaining the logic of senior entitlement funding to kids: https://t.co/fky5W7j3Cg— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 28, 2016
This Story Has a Good Ending
I think probably shortly after this video was released IJ tweeted that Muskogee was dropped charges and returning the money. I covered the incident with a couple of supportive tweets. Why present the video now? Because most stories don't have a happy ending, and the same conditions persist for the next driver going through and/or any of 39-46 other states with some version of civil asset forfeiture on the books. This guy got pulled over for a mere busted taillight and the police grabbed $53K in assets without even probable cause of a crime.
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Rod Stewart, "I Was Only Joking"
