- From the “Brotherly Love” Department – The police union in Philadelphia is holding a fundraiser for a police officer that has been suspended and may well be fired, at least for a few days, over an incident in which he punched a woman at a parade. You know, in IT, when someone gets caught abusing their privilege, like going through other people’s email or hiding their own unethical or illegal activity, they are kryptonite. In the army, someone who abused his rank, such as a drill sergeant who used his troops as a personal harem, was somewhere between whale scum and the bottom of the ocean with the rest of us. In this case, the police union is reinforcing the belief in an “us versus them” mentality in the police force. If the police want to have the trust of the rest of us, they need to be willing to single out those egregiously violate codes of ethics and conduct. Put another way, if the police won’t condemn one of their own who breaks the law, why should we allow them to condemn us when we break the law?
- From the “Big Plane, Small Plane” Department – The city of Minot, on the beautiful wind-swept prairies of North Dakota, is raising funds to build two models of B-52’s. The models are going to be donated to nearby Minot Air Force Base to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the B-52. The 1/8 scale models will have a wingspan of 32 to 36 feet, which will tell you how big a B-52 really is. Also, how many things in our world are still working after 60 years of almost constant use, including when people are shooting telephone poles at them at high speed?
- From the “Lying or Incompetent, You Make the Call” Department – Vice-President Joe Biden has started using our intelligence services and the State Department as wheel chocks for his tour bus after claiming that neither he nor the president was aware of requests by diplomats in Libya for additional security prior to the attacks of September 11, 2012. One of the things I look forward to in the event of a Romney victory is a plethora of hearings in Congress that feature a tape of the Watergate hearings saying “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” being played in a loop. To my brothers and sisters at Fort Meade and Foggy Bottom, you have my deepest sympathy, but at least you are in good company with the President’s grandmother under that bus.
- From the “Long Live the King” Department – The prince of Sealand, which is an artificial country situated on an old ocean platform the British military abandoned in the 1960’s, has died. His son, the crown prince, can now be expected to assume the throne. It’s been a long time since we’ve had a European coronation, so I expect to see the staff at the major news outlets freezing their butts off to cover what the new ruler and his family are wearing as they take control of their fiefdom. I’m guessing it will be a lot of fur and long underwear, accesorized with the scalps of all who oppose them.
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Posted by daddybear71 on October 12, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/10/12/news-roundup-160/
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