I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.

Doesn't help that beloved companies like Apple cook up schemes to minimize federal
and state tax liabilities

 

Maybe this should go in its own thread, but consider this: You have a guy with a high school diploma who was a B/C average in math and English but has a good work ethic and is willing to learn the basics of running your own business, and decides he may want to open a doughnut shop in town...

...he'll need $500,000 to open a Dunkin Donuts franchise!

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/1/20/dunkin-our-future.html

And...

But, hey, "up by the bootstraps, you lazy mofo" equals $500,000 instantly!

 

Mitt Romney suggested that they borrow the money from their parents.

 

Heck, just get a loan from your dad. [/Mitt]

 

And, of course, if you want to open a doughnut shop, you HAVE to do it as a nationally franchised business. It's the law, I think. It might even be in the Constitution.

I really don't know how those five or six non-Dunkin shops -- all owned by Koreans or Vietnamese, oddly enough -- within two miles of my home pulled it off. The Senate must have been in recess or something.

 

The problem with doughnut shops is that they attract a bad element -- cops.

 

Well played.

 

It now appears that Mr Brown may have challenged Officer Wilson:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/police-officer-who-shot-michael-brown-suffered-fractured-eye-socket-friend-says/2014/08/21/177524ea-293c-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html?hpid=z1

 

There isn't one thing new in that whole story.

 

Well you're more well read than I. X rays of Wilson's blown out eye socket
being presented to grand jury is news to me. He must have had a hell of
a time aiming his gun with one eye.

 

Fucking Democrats.

 

Yup - that's not the party of Lincoln in that photo.