- From the “What Goes Up” Department – A man in Philadelphia has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he fired shots into the air at a party. It would appear that the gentleman is a previous resident of state custodial organizations, so it should be no surprise that he is not being commended for his intellect when it comes to guns. My guess is that the words “habitual offender” were used to replace the word “dumbass” in his indictment.
- From the “Get A Rope” Department – It would appear that the Central Intelligence Agency used its intelligence gathering skills against the wrong people. Democratic Senator Udall of Colorado has reported that the CIA may have put the Senate Intelligence committee staff under surveillance after the committee refuted a CIA assertion. The theory is that the CIA figured that the only way that the committee could have known what it knew was through a leak at the CIA, so they took the logical step of investigating the committee that has oversight over them. You know, I want to send a message to my brothers and sisters in the CIA, and it is this: STOP IT! Now, assuming that someone did actually leak some documents to Congress, so what? Congress, in doing its job of overseeing the intelligence function of the government, automatically has need to know. The documents in question should have been given freely. But if you all did indeed feel that a crime had been committed, why didn’t you go to, you know, law enforcement? We have these people called FBI and Secret Service agents. Their whole reason for being is to look into possible crimes and investigate them. Putting Congress under surveillance was a stupid thing to do, and I hope that whoever ordered it, did it, knew about it and did nothing, or should about it but remained willfully ignorant is called on the carpet and prosecuted.
- From the “Veruca Salt” Department – A young woman in New Jersey got a crushing blow to her ego and self image yesterday when a judge threw out her petition to force her parents to continue to support her and pay for her schooling after she had left their home. Her bid to force her parents to pay for her college education will get a hearing later this month. The 18 year old woman claims she was thrown out, while her parents say she left voluntarily. To me, that means nothing. Once you’re 18, you’re legally an adult. If your parents continue to make sure that you eat and have a place to live, much less pay to send you to a good school, they do so because they want to, not because they have to. Hopefully the family is able to work something out privately, but dragging a lawyer in was probably counterproductive.
- From the “Rule Four” Department – A 9 year old child in Dallas is in critical condition when his jackass neighbor negligently shot him while doing target practice in the back yard. Again, it would appear that the jackass in question has a history with the police. You know, it’s almost as if criminals tend to be on the stupid side of the gene pool, and that they are more likely than the rest of us to commit crimes and hurt people. If he’s convicted, I hope this guy spends a very long time in a very bad place doing very hard, very dirty labor.
- From the “Legal Beagle” Department – The government of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is working to remove a law that criminalizes willfully irritating another person. Personally, I’d like to see the law strengthened, with first offense earning a public flogging and second offense earning tar and feathers. Irritating twits aren’t going to need a third offense, because they’re going to get their minds right.
- From the “My People” Department – The Dairy Queen in Moorhead, Minnesota, opened on schedule this weekend. The walk-up ice cream restaurant, which conducts all of its business outdoors, has been opening on the first of March since 1949. It is reported that a group of sturdy Northern folk lined up to get Dilly Bars and Peanut Buster Parfaits in subzero temperatures. This just goes to show how much you need to get out and do something different after a long winter.
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Posted by daddybear71 on March 5, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/03/05/news-roundup-212/
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bluesun
/ March 5, 2014As Harold’s uncle and my role model Red Green once said “Our prisons are not filled with our best and brightest.”
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oldnfo
/ March 5, 2014Glad they dumped her suit… There IS a bunch of backstory that we’re not hearing… 🙂
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auntiejl
/ March 6, 2014Well, the gal CLAIMS they kicked her out two days before her 18th birthday.
I still think the whole thing amounts to a load of hogwash and some rather terrifying mission creep possibilities, so I’m glad the judge used some good sense.
Plus, I saw the ridiculous amount of child support she was demanding per week. My brother doesn’t pay that much a *month* to support his three kids.
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