- From the “DGU” Department – A man in Montana was arrested the other day when he violated a restraining order, showed up at a ranch, which he previously owned, and threatened the current owners. Apparently Captain Success lost the ranch in a divorce, then doubled down on stupid by threatening the judge in the case and a prosecutor. After spending 20 years in jail for the crime, he got out and decided to go back to his old habits. By the way, if you ever want to know how stubborn us northern people are, note that he served every day of his sentence so that he wouldn’t have to deal with parole. Yep, we’ll do that. Anyway, when he was arrested this time, officers found him proned out with the owners of the property pointing guns at him. The moral of the story, kids, is that the world is well stocked with crazies and bad people, restraining orders are just pieces of paper, and nothing says “get the hell off my land” like a gun and a smile.
- From the “PSH” Department – Anti-gun blood pressure went up, either from hysteria or visceral happiness, when a Oklahoma City shooting range, which allows customers to have a drink with their lunch at an attached cafe, opened. After you get past the first paragraph or two, you find that the range requires all purchasers of alcohol to lock away their firearms and scan in their ID, which then flags them as ineligible to use the firing line, prior to purchase. Personally, this sounds like a great idea.
- From the “Good News” Department – A judge in Hawaii has ruled that the state’s ban on issuing firearms permits to permanent, legal immigrants is unconstitutional. You see, the judge seems to have the mistaken impression that all civil rights are important and that all people are equal under the law. Imagine the nerve of this judge, to believe that someone who has passed a criminal background check to enter the country, has shown that they can stay out of trouble, and can do just about everything else that a citizen can do, should also have the same civil rights.
- From the “Scary” Department – The CDC has released projections on the spread of the Ebola epidemic in Africa, with their worst case scenario showing 1.4 million people infected by the end of January. The strain of EVD in question is about 70% lethal, so that translates to just shy of a million dead by Groundhogs Day. American and European resources are being ramped up to fight the spread of the disease and give aid to healthcare workers in the region. The U.S. is donating several field hospitals, and will be showing solidarity with the region by putting the 3000 soldiers being sent to set them up into quarantine for the holidays. There is work being done to come up with vaccines and anti-viral drugs to combat the disease, so hopefully that will come to fruition in time to make some impact. Of course, this all assumes that the disease will not get loose in a new location.
- From the “Just Stop” Department – I’d like to make a personal request to President Obama, and honestly, to all politicians: Please stop saluting. You aren’t required to do it, it’s obvious you don’t know how, and a lot of the time, it’s even more obvious that you don’t care. Either respectfully acknowledge the honor that’s being paid to you by the guards with a nod or a thank you, or place your hand over your heart like FDR did. Even if you took away the cup of coffee that the President had in his hand when he saluted his Marine guards, the little head bob to bring his forehead to his hand instead of bringing his hand all the way up is as ate up as a soup sandwich. This is embarrassing. If you’re going to do it, go get the senior enlisted advisor from the service of your choice, and have them spend an hour or so teaching you how to do it. And if you’re a politician and a veteran and you do crap like this, I suggest spending an hour or so with R. Lee Ermey doing corrective training on you because you ought to know better.
- From the “Flashback or Foreshadowing?” Department – Violent protests broke out again in Ferguson, Missouri, yesterday after a memorial to Michael Brown was set on fire. Several shop windows were smashed, and at least one fire was set while the peaceful protesters were peacefully protesting. The grand jury, which is looking into the shooting of a black man by a white police officer, is due in October, and tensions are said to be high. One wonders how the residents of Ferguson will react to the grand jury issuing a no-bill in the case if they start tearing things up over a cremated teddy bear.
- From the “Brilliant!” Department – Inventors in the United States have come up with a desk that includes a circular walking track that resembles the wheels pet owners put in cages for mice or hamsters. They are considering putting a brake and a generator on the contraption, so that workers have the ability to stop this crazy thing without breaking their neck and so that they can contribute to their employer’s bottom line by generating electricity to power the computer they are chained to. Next on their list will be a communal watering device that feeds liquids down a metal tube which is stopped with a rubber ball, as well as small bales of granola hung from the walls of offices.
- From the “Plowshares” Department – The South Carolina National Guard recently dropped several dozen outmoded armored vehicles into the Atlantic Ocean so that an artificial reef could form. Apparently this has been going on for years, and almost 600 old tanks and APC’s are being used to create new marine habitats. If you want to know what I think should be done with all of the surplus MRAP vehicles, I think that something like this would be better than handing them over to civilian police forces.
- From the “Greasy Kid Stuff” Department – An Oklahoma man was arrested the other day after police say he used a public fountain to wash his hair with mayonnaise. Local delicatessens are setting up a legal defense fund for the accused, and donations of mustard, hot sauce, and dill pickles are being made to the jail so that he won’t be without his grooming aids.
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 24, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/09/24/news-roundup-227/
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DaddyBear
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/ September 24, 2014“Marine habitats.” Tell me that wasn’t on purpose.
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Bryn, Isle of Anglesey, UK
/ September 24, 2014Re. Ploughshares – Interesting to see the sort of revenue figures being mentioned now because someone made a sensible long-term-view decision 17 years ago.
It must have been very tempting to look at the scrap value of good steel, and just say “let’s get that in the kitty NOW, for TODAYS problems….”. Good for them, and I wonder if any department today would be as brave in deciding to invest time & assets rather than just taking the immediate cash on offer.
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daddybear71
/ September 25, 2014I know with Navy ships, they’ve been using a lot of them to make reefs for a while. But you’re right, very few elected officials have the long vision to think about doing something that might not pay off for a decade or two.
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Old NFO
/ September 25, 2014Good ones, and agree on the MRAPs
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