- From the “Elections and Consequences” Department – Walmart has announced that it will stop work on three planned stores in Washington D.C and will be evaluating three more that are under construction. This is done after the D.C. government passed regulations that seem to target Walmart. Large retailers, such as Walmart, will be forced to pay 150% of minimum wage as their lowest allowed wage. Competitors who already have stores in the city, such as Target, are exempted from the law. I guess D.C. will now fine Walmart for stopping work on business ventures that cost almost 50% more in labor than planned. Remember folks, if you make things difficult or unpleasant for businesses to make money, they will stop doing business where you get input.
- From the “Qel Surpris” Department – The press seems shocked, shocked I say, that President Obama has made a habit of posting people, who enabled or made large contributions to his war chest, to cushy ambassador slots. It appears that no-one noticed that the President was a politician from Chicago, which has a rich and long tradition of rewarding those who make payoffs. Sure, in this instance it’s campaign contributions, not envelopes of 10’s and 20’s pushed between stalls in the men’s toilet at Wrigley Field, but pay-for-play is pay-for-play. This is a long tradition among administrations of both parties. Does anyone think that Joe Kennedy was given the ambassadorship to Great Britain because he’d dropped his long-held dislike of England and his pro-Nazi sentiments?
- From the “Harsh Language” Department – A woman in New York recently bluffed her way through an armed robbery when she told the man holding a gun on her that he “didn’t have the balls” to shoot her. Luckily for her, he took his advice instead of that of his compatriot and ran off without pulling the trigger. I’ve read about a few of these situations in the past, and they seem to rarely work out for the person doing the daring. Good on her for having the courage to stare down a goblin, but for me, I’d prefer to have a gun and harsh language over just having harsh language.
- From the “Gradual Progress” Department – A federal judge has ruled that, while the Post Office has the power to restrict weapons inside its buildings, it cannot prevent an otherwise lawful person to not have a weapon in its parking lots. This is a case of where ignorance can get you in trouble. Before this, how many people knew that the Post Office, an agency with its own police force and SWAT-type units, asserted the power to restrict what you did and didn’t have in your car when you parked it at their facilities? How many more of these government gotchas are there out there?
- From the “Hands and Cookie Jars” Department – The Army has relieved a brigadier general, who commanded a large training base, for adultery and getting into a fight. It appears that the good general decided to step out on his wife and then got into a physical confrontation with his girlfriend. That horrific flushing sound you hear from the direction of Fort Jackson is 29 years of this man’s career circling the drain. Remember, kids, nothing good ever happens from having sex with someone besides your spouse when you’re married. I’m guessing that this case must be pretty egregious, because normally when a flag-rank officer steps on his schwanz, he’s allowed to quietly retire without a public shaming.
- From the “Tactical Teddy” Department – The Department of Defense is researching an undergarment for soldiers that would monitor how they’re using their bodies and give them ‘biometric’ cues that will aid in preventing stress injuries. Theoretically, the suit would only weigh a few pounds and would allow heat and moisture to pass through it for comfort. I think it’s an interesting idea, but soldiers already get warnings from their own bodies that things aren’t being done ergonomically, and I’ve yet to see a squad leader stop the mission or change things because of discomfort. Here’s a quote from earlier in my life – “Son, I don’t care if you’re bleeding from the eyes. I want that antenna on top of that mountain by sun-up, or you’ll be doing laps around the hut carrying it all day.”.
- From the “Junk in the Trunk” Department – A woman was arrested recently in Arizona when border patrol officers noticed that her derriere had been augmented by several pounds of cocaine. Ladies, if you’ve got a nice, round posterior, men are going to look at it. Unless you believe in hiding things in plain sight, don’t put your little packages in an area where law enforcement is going to take a good hard look.
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Posted by daddybear71 on July 11, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/07/11/news-roundup-196/
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