- From the “Campus Visit” Department – A small black bear recently took a tour of a school in Alaska. A door had been left open for a construction crew, and the little guy just wandered right on in. Reports are that he helped himself to some school food, which leads me to believe that things must be pretty lean in the woods up in Alaska. The bear is also reported to have urinated in the hallway of the school, but let’s be honest here. How many of us can say that we’ve never heard of a human doing the same thing at one time or another? The bear ran off when staff frightened it, and has not been seen again.
- From the “Adults Behaving Badly” Department – It’s a three-way tie for the “DaddyBear Parent of the Week Award” this time, campers. Our first contestant is a father in Georgia who is being charged with murder and child cruelty. Authorities maintain that he put vodka in his 4-month-old daughter’s bottle, which led to her death. His lawyer says that “Everything isn’t always what it seems”, so I guess her defense will revolve around the vodka gnomes spiriting the spirits into the formula while the man’s back was turned. Next up we have a couple in Georgia who are accused with child cruelty after police say they let a 4-year-old girl suffer for several days after she shot herself in the abdomen with a gun she found in their hotel room. Now, I’ve caught a stray piece of buckshot, and that hurt like a mother. I don’t know how much being ‘grazed’ by a pistol shot at contact range must hurt, but my guess is “a lot” doesn’t cover it. These two are accused of letting a little girl suffer for two days before a family member called in the authorities. How about we shoot them in the stomach and leave them in a hotel room for a weekend and see how they like it? Finally, we have a nice couple from Illinois who had car trouble in Kansas, left two young children tied up and blindfolded next to their car in a department store parking lot, and left three older children locked in the car while the mother went in to shop. Now, I’ve lived in the Mid-West in the heat of the summer, and you don’t leave a dog in the car while you run errands, much less stake out a couple of kindergarteners on the blacktop while you leave the teenagers to bake in the backseat. Both of the ‘adults’ involved have been arrested, and the children’s guardian angels must have been working overtime, because not only are they alive, but they’re being put into foster care over the incident. Guys, is it just me, or is the “Stupid People Hurting Their Kids” category of the news getting mighty crowded lately?
- From the “Cry me a @#$!@#! River, Sweetheart” Department – A 49 year old man, who admits to deserting the United States Air Force in 1984 because he didn’t like President Reagan’s policies, now wants to be able to come back and visit his parents. I say let him. Of course, I think he ought to be met at his port of entry by two of the ugliest Air Force S.P.’s they can find, who will then introduce him to his cell mate at the nearest disciplinary barracks, but that’s just me. Hey, brain-dead, the correct way to express displeasure with your commander-in-chief is to not re-enlist, not walk away from your unit to go to the land of good booze and leggy blondes. I’m sure the people you left behind in Augsburg appreciated the security sweeps, extra scrutiny, and extended workload your little trip north cost them. Putz.
- From the “Dumbass” Department – We’re all familiar by now with George Zimmermann, the man in Florida who shot and killed a teenager, claimed self-defense, and is at the center of a maelstrom of press and political hyperbole. He is back in jail after the $150,000.00 bail in his second-degree murder case was revoked. In addition, his wife is being charged with perjury after it came to light that she wasn’t exactly truthful in discussing the family finances and the amount of money in a legal defense fund. It seems they were busted when authorities took a listen to recordings of their conversations over jail telephones. Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The phones in a jail are not there for your convenience. They are there as an evidence gathering tool. Quit. Using. Them. If you need to get a message to your wife, mother, bookie, or poker buddies, send it through your lawyer. Of course, you shouldn’t be lieing in court, but that ought to go without saying.
- From the “Unintended Consequences” Department – Hey, President Obama, you betrayed a long-standing ally in a supremely strategic location, allowing his regime to fall and be replaced by a the political arm of a terrorist organization that has turned out some of the vilest murderers our world has seen in generations! Now, instead of a stable border between Egypt and Israel, along with problem-free access to the Suez Canal for us and our allies, we have a hostile regime who will use their new power to hurt us any way they can. After all that, are you going to Disneyland? No? Oh, you’re going golfing again. Well, have a good time, Mr. President! The rest of us will be back here in the real world, trying to figure out how to keep the wheels on for just a few months longer.
News Roundup
Posted by daddybear71 on June 19, 2012
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Old NFO
/ June 19, 2012Not a good set today… sigh…
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julie
/ June 19, 2012You’re right the “Stupid People Hurting Their Kids” category is getting way to crowded 😦
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