- From the “Honor to the Honorable” Department – The Navy has commissioned a destroyer named in honor of Lieutenant Michael Murphy, a SEAL who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. His actions to save his team earned him the Medal of Honor. Now his sacrifice is memorialized in a new ship that will continue his work to defend the nation.
- From the “Bad Things” Department – A fire on a Russian ammunition train caused several explosions recently. There are no reports on injuries, so I’m hoping that this just goes down as an “Aw crap” moment. No telling what caused this, but here’s hoping that the train wasn’t loaded by a bunch of conscripts that think that “Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives” sounded like a great combination.
- From the “Hard Time” Department – Jerry Sandusky, former football coach and current pederast, was sentenced today to at least 30 years in prison. Here’s hoping he lives to be a very old man so that he can savor each and every day of those decades. Hopefully some of those who covered for him and allowed him to continue raping little boys join him soon.
- From the “Aw Crap” Department – The Secretary-General of NATO has affirmed that the alliance is ready to defend Turkey from Syria if necessary. Those of you who have “The Guns of August” running through your mind at the moment, you’re not alone. I wonder how hard it is to entrench in southern Turkey? Unfortunately, almost all of my experience was up by the Black Sea.
- From the “Where Great Britain May Be Again” Department – The British Prime Minister has announced plans to change the laws on defending a home against an intruder in such a way that a person who uses force to stop a burglary will have an easier time avoiding prosecution. It seems that the limit on what you can and can’t do is to not attack a helpless burglar. I congratulate Mr. Cameron on his good sense and look forward to watching our British cousins take back their homes from criminals.
- From the “Taste of Things to Come” Department – A guidance counselor at a school in New York, who is reported to have had a stellar 12 year record in her job, has been let go because racy pictures, which she claims were taken when she was 18 to 20 years old, have started appearing at questionable websites. She is, of course, suing. With the advent of cheap, high quality camera phones, I see this as the tip of an iceberg that is going to strike the workforce in the next few years. All those youthful indiscretions would have been nothing more than memories to be dredged up at class reunions are now going to live forever on YouTube. I wonder how hard it would be to take a still picture of a job applicant and then run it through facial recognition software that mines the various picture and video websites looking for behavior that an employer might disapprove of. All of a sudden, taking a video of you and your girlfriends having a banana eating contest doesn’t sound like such a good idea, now does it? Or you and your fraternity brothers might want to make sure no-one has their phone out while you do a butt chug, just in case the people you try to get a job with after graduation do a quick check of your recreational activities.
News Roundup
Posted by daddybear71 on October 10, 2012
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/ October 10, 2012They’ll continue to do stupid things… They’re bulletproof at that age, and hormones are doing ALL the thinking… 🙂
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