Wednesday - April 25, 2012
Bamboo: is it straw or sticks?
Strange news from last week:
Pigs die as houses are blown down
Hundreds of pigs died when a strong wind blew all their houses down at Dongxiang county, in south China’s Jiangxi province.
The region has seen a massive increase in the last 10 years in the number of pig farms which is now a staple of the local economy.
But although locals are famous for their pig breeding skills their building skills are not so renowned – and officials now estimate that the strong winds that the region recently experienced had flattened 30 farms, killing hundreds of pigs in the process.
Officials are now planning checks on all new pig farms and existing ones to make sure the building regulations are up to standard.
Farmer Zeng Huobao, 48, whose pig farm collapsed killing all 200 pigs said the collapse had ruined him and he’s planning to sue the builders who put up property in the first place.
He said: “I had one of the best droves of pigs - now I have nothing.”
In mostly unrelated news over in the UK, bacon prices are about to jump 20%, for the same reason that the price of eggs is way up: new PETA-esque “cage free” livestock regulations are dramatically raising the cost of raising the animals.
Bacon prices could soar by 20% after new EU pig welfare reforms banning stalls set to come into force
Britain’s breakfast lovers are facing a hefty hike in the cost of their favourite fry-up as the price of bacon could increase by 20 per cent next year.
A new report has revealed that the cost of the much-loved meat could dramatically increase when new EU pig welfare rules come into force.
The British Pig Executive (Bpex) has warned that pig meat supplies could plummet by between 5 per cent and 10 per cent at the start of 2013.
It says a ban on sow stalls could lead to pork producers who are unable or unwilling to comply with the new rules leaving the industry.
And the bacon hike warning comes as the price of eggs has soared for Britain’s shoppers in the wake of the EU-wide ban on battery cages introduced in January.
Bpex deputy chief executive Mick Sloyan warned that as the EU produced around 20 million tonnes of pig meat each year, even a 5 per cent drop could have ‘very sizeable effects’ .
‘We are forecasting wholesale price rises of at least 10 per cent year-on-year which could rise to 20 per cent if production is reduced aggressively’ he told trade magazine The Grocer.
If pig meat production drops and prices rise, bacon would be affected first, he said.
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Permalink • Sunday - April 08, 2012
Fair And Balanced?
I can’t say if Fox News is getting on the gun control bandwagon again, or if they’ve decided to report more stories of violent crime in the wake of the Treyvon story, or if it’s just been a busy week for the shooters, but I did notice that today’s news has quite a lot of these stories. Maybe it is a good thing, maybe not. Depends on how you want to spin it. But people shoot each other every day in America, for a variety of reasons; some groups of people are more violence prine than others seemingly, and some areas are far more violence prone than others, no question about it. Perhaps if Fox were to just report them all, it would open everyone’s eyes to the reality. Raise their awareness. The stories are out there, locally. And many could be written if reporters made a tiny bit of effort. Perhaps it would be best not to categorize them at first, and just let a pattern emerge. You can see it already if you know how to read between the line a little: “Police in Gary are looking for a purple PT Cruiser and a white Cadillac involved in the shooting.” Gangs and ghettos and felons, oh my. And crazy psychotic evil people.
5 Detroit men charged with kidnapping, torturing, killing 2 women.
Texas flash mob beach party shooting, 1 dead, 3 wounded.
Shot dead in the street for his sneakers.
Father dies as human shield shot many times, protecting his 8 year old son Tre.
violent felon Nakwon Foxworth shoots 4 cops in Brooklyn shootout.
AZ Taco Bell drive-through customer shoots special needs pedestrian.
Possibly hispanic guy in hoodie robs Walmart, shoots and kills manager.
and the list goes on. And on. Albert Rodriguez Arias stabs his elderly father 6 times with knife, turns himself in. Maybe it’s high time the news groups started running the stories. There is a lot more crime going on than most of us realize; don’t just report the most sensational cases.
Speaking of sensational ...
Taking it up a notch? Florida prostitute borrows idea from “McNuggets hooker”, will have sex for 2 double cheeseburgers. And a $40 tip. Busted!
No word on what she’d do for fries and a Coke.
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Permalink • Bad Eggs At Easter
HOLFORD, England – A child on an Easter egg hunt organized by a pre-school group in an English village stumbled upon an unexpected surprise—a hand grenade.
The hunt was taking place in a field near the town of Holford, Somerset, on Saturday, This Is Somerset reported:
[ Police were forced to close a section of a main road in Somerset this morning after a hand grenade was found during an Easter Egg Hunt.
One of the families taking part in the hunt near Holford raised the alarm after discovering what appeared to be a hand grenade on the side of the road. ]
The area was cordoned off and the bomb disposal squad destroyed the grenade in a controlled explosion, police said. It also resulted in the closure of a highway for a few of hours.
“We were beginning to count up the eggs at the end of the hunt and I saw a boy of three standing on an object,” Stuart Moffatt, who was attending the hunt with his three children, told the Daily Mail.
“It was brown and about four inches high. It looked like an Easter egg, but it was a hand grenade.
“I was shocked. The boy who was standing on it thought it was a rock. The leaders did a great job keeping the children calm.”
The grenade was believed to have been a relic from World War II, according to the Mail.
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Permalink • Friday - April 06, 2012
Oh Snap
Yo, Your Momma So Loud ...
Florida teen calls police to report mom having sex
A Florida teenager called 911 last week to ask police to place her in a children’s shelter because she “heard her mother having sex.”
The 15-year-old girl felt disrespected when overhearing her mother having sex late one night, so she called Panama City police to report the situation, The Smoking Gun first reported on its website.
When police arrived at the home in the early hours on Jan. 19, the girl’s mother explained that she was with her boyfriend and didn’t intend to wake her daughter. But their bedrooms are right next to each other, according to the police report, which was obtained by FoxNews.com.
At some point, the mother and daughter had an argument, the police report said.
The teen, who told police that there was no abuse, originally asked to be taken to the Hidle House, which is a temporary home for children who are homeless or abused. But after speaking with a representative, she decided it was almost time for school and decided to stay put.
Disrespected? I think she was just jealous.
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Permalink • Thursday - March 29, 2012
TSA Gone Wild
A manager at the Transportation Security Administration at Dulles airport has been arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of a Maryland hotel.
According to court documents, the agency had received a complaint of “very similar” activities back in 2009.
Bryant Jermaine Livingston, 39, was arrested while on the job as a supervisor of TSA agents at Dulles International Airport. The Manassas, Virginia resident, said by phone he is innocent of the charges, but declined to discuss the details of the case.
According to charging documents, on February 15th, Livingston used cash to rent a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring, Md. The hotel manager recognized Livingston as a previous customer who, on earlier occasions had “groups of males and females frequently entering and exiting Livingston’s room,” according to a court document.
And then the cops showed up ...
Responding officers say they saw, “11 people inside the room [including] three naked females and four males attempting to get dressed. Multiple people were laying on the two beds and other people were sitting in chairs and standing in the room.”
Sounds pretty innocent to me. Just a dozen complete strangers getting together for an orgy. Must be one of those flashmob things.
I’m so glad that everyone at TSA is of high moral fiber.
A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration confirmed that Livingston had worked for the agency since Oct. 29, 2002, but he is now “no longer employed by TSA.”
In a subsequent interview, one of the men in the room told Montgomery County police that, “he paid Livingston $100 to enter the hotel room to engage in sexual activities.” Charging documents also say a TSA investigator told police that, “in 2009, a very similar complaint concerning Livingston was on record. The complaint alleged that Livingston was operating a prostitution ring and charging individuals $25. for sexual acts.”
$25 in 2009, and $100 in 2012. And the government says we’re not having serious inflation!
I’m waiting for Obama to stick his nose into this one too ... since Livingston could another one of those sons Teh Won never had.
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Permalink • Sunday - March 11, 2012
Today’s Lie
I was laughing so hard at this whopper I shot some coffee up my nose. Horry clap, who does he think actually believes this rot? Pull the Gulf drilling permits, cancel the Keystone pipeline, forbid any new drilling on federal land, the continued moratorium for ANWR and offshore, billions thrown at useless green alternatives as a way to pay off his financial backers, his impossible mpg mandate to CAFE for cars, the Supertrain to nowhere, the moronic continuation of food based ethanol which wastes billions and has doubled the price of food in 6 years, ... the list is endless. And let’s not forget Transportation Secretary Chu, who is all for $5/gal gas. And the US still does not have one more refinery or nuke reactor than we did in 1973.
President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices.
Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to underscore his administration’s work to develop alternative energy sources and increase fuel efficiency.
“I’m going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas, both right now and in the future,” Obama said. “I hope politicians from both sides of the aisle join me.”
He accused Republicans of a “bumper sticker” approach to solving the nation’s energy problems.
“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices — not when we consume 20 percent of the world’s oil,” Obama said in the address
After 39 straight days of increases, prices fell nearly a penny from Tuesday to Thursday and held steady on Friday at $3.758 per gallon for the national average. The lull won’t last long, and gas is still nearly 50 cents higher than it was at the beginning of the year.
And this news is from CBS, one of the biggest Obama whores going.
I seem to recall that when we had that huge gas price under Bush, which the media blamed him for 10,000%, (of course Obama gets a free ride; none of this is His fault) and the oil stock prices and corporate profits skyrocketed to the point where they nearly equaled those of the iPad people this year, and the government was condemning speculators, that it all came crashing down when Bush announced that new offshore drilling would commence. Just the word that new supplies were being dug for, not actually delivered at this time, was all it took. And the crude price per barrel dropped like a rock. We went from $4/gal to $1.99 in two weeks it seemed, and the price kept dropping for several months after that. Perhaps the economy going to rack and ruin around the same time had something to do with it, but all these years later the economy doesn’t seem to be doing all that much better, and we’re right back to $4 gas again.
The truth is, Obamba isn’t doing squat to bring down gas prices. He and Chu want them this high, even higher. What else can you believe? Another presidency, and another bunch of years, and still the USA has a self-destructive energy policy. Still. How many times do you need to be kicked in the wallet before you see the reality? The government is not on the people’s side on this. And some in government are actively the people’s enemy on this.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 10, 2012
Fake And Inaccurate
An Army of Andrews fights all the BS memes, all the time. I found this one at CNN this morning while looking for news stories. It’s a 15 picture photo essay of the Por ‘n Starvin’, their harmonious-with-nature home brought low by Glowball Warming!!!1111!!
On the shore of a vanishing island
Daesung Lee sees global connections the rest of us often don’t recognize or choose not to dwell on.
Lee, an international photojournalist, spent two months photographing the people of Ghoramara Island, located in the Ganges Delta region in India’s West Bengal state. The island has been dramatically affected by global climate change.
“I have researched the effect of global warming, which is caused by mass consumption and pollution. Since the 1980s, more than 50% of the Ghoramara has vanished due to erosion by the sea. As a result two-thirds of the population have moved away from the island,” Lee says.
“This world is more connected than we can imagine by globalization. Most of the products we use for everyday life are produced by people we never know.”
He says many people who aren’t involved in the consumption of these products become “environmental refugees.”
“I hope people realize that climate change is more serious than we know and we have a major responsibility for it. I also hope people consider the impact that our consumption has on the world … and make efforts to reduce it by recycling products and using them long term.”
Working on the remote island had its challenges. With no electricity, Lee was forced to leave the island to go to the mainland every three days to charge his camera batteries.
He posed villagers on the shore and took portraits of them in juxtaposition with the beauty of the vanishing island.
“The villagers in Ghoramara have begun to save money in preparation to buy new farms,” Lee says. “I could see the traces of a heritage vanishing by the rising tides. Exposed roots of plants destroyed by the erosion serve to illustrate the absence of foundation in the lives of these people. The sea is swallowing up their past, while their future remains unknown.”
– Robert W. Johnson, CNN
What he isn’t telling you is that the island of Ghoramara is little more than a hump of mud on the outside edge of a bend in the Rupnarayan River where it dumps into the Bay of Bengal at the north end of the Indian Ocean. It’s a pile of silt with some grass growing on it. As anyone who knows anything about rivers knows, they are constantly changing. Riverine silt islands come and go all the time. It’s just that in this overpopulated and poorest corner of the Turd World, people will live on any piece of somewhat dry ground they can find. In this case, there was probably no more room in the nearby town of Kakdwip (is that the ancestral home of Barney Frank??) and it was either live on the silt pile or share the stanky mangrove swamp to the East with a bunch of tigers. Climate change, global warming, increased consumption, and insufficient recycling have nothing to do with this eroding mud pile whatsoever. But it does make a better picture than some lone polar bear clinging to a bit of sea ice, right? And most folks won’t even read the whole one paragraph story, they’ll just look at the pictures. And then Blame Bush.
See the map at Wiki, or Google Map up 21.916667, 88.129722.
Fight the meme. Do not accept the lie.
PS - the Rupnarayan River was dammed some years ago, some miles upstream at Kolaghat, for a hydropower generator. This lowered the level of the river, perhaps allowing this pile of silt mud to surface and dry out in the first place. The province of West Bengal is in desperate need of electricity, so it is entirely probable that the electricity people - government employees - have been running more water through their turbines to produce it. That would put more water in the river, which would in turn rise up in level, and erode or drown the mud island as it should have done all along.
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Permalink • Friday - February 24, 2012
Two From The K, and a PS
Yeah, Rich K is still around. Every blog needs a lurker or two, right? These links are from him. Thanks Rich!
Thick as a brick, and just as dead: fully drain the battery in your electric Tesla and it’s game over. Until you spring $40,000 for a new set of batteries!
And the Number 2 country in the world for having the most firearms in private hands ... may I have the envelope please ... and the winner is ... INDIA!!! Not that getting a gun legally there is all that easy, nor is the number of legal civilian guns anywhere close to the number in the USA, although illegal guns in India outnumber the legal ones nearly six to one. 40 million guns in total. Few can afford to buy one, new or used. But hey, in India, if you want a gun you MAKE one. Awesomeness. And the money quote is just priceless:
Holy cow!
Don’t worry, my good Desis. There is one way to get your license fast-tracked: have a vasectomy.
And you thought paying an arm and a leg for a decent rifle was bad!
Ok, this one is not from the K-man, but from reader PS. Sweet.
If there’s someone strange
In your neighborhood
Who Ya Gonna Call?
Mosquebusters!
Don’t you get a DFC for being a double ace?
“Progress So Far… 10,” reads the banner. To date, mosques in Blackpool, Bolton, Ealing, Huddersfield, Kirkless, Luton, and York have been fought off by the Mosquebusters. A mosque in Uxbridge, stopped initially by a Mosquebusters community petition, has now landed back in court under appeal from the local Muslim community. It threatens the Mosquebusters’ otherwise flawless record.
The Mosquebusters, or the Law and Freedom Foundation as they’re officially known, are part of a new wave of anti-Islamic campaigners in England with links to more established anti-immigrant groups such as England Is Ours and Stop Islamisation of Europe. Like many of these groups, the Mosquebusters fear that traditional British culture, laws, and values will disappear with the changing face of Britain and worry that extremist interpretations of sections of the Koran urge Muslims to kill non-believers and take slaves.
Until mid-February, the Mosquebusters advertised for volunteers, under a campaign called “No More Mosques,” on the website of the ultra-nationalist English Defence League (EDL), a group that organizes anti-Islamic street marches that often decend into brawls, riots, and arrests. The EDL and other anti-Islamic groups have no problem convincing their members to parade in public yelling insults like “Muslim bombers off our streets!” and “Allah is a pedophile!,” but the Mosquebusters have a quieter, perhaps more insidious approach: In offices and city halls, they are crafting legal cases against mosque construction applications across the country. It’s a war against Islam, but one that often resembles a bureaucratic turf battle more than a clash of civilizations.
Mosquebusters no longer advertises for volunteers through the English Defence League; a disclaimer makes clear that the two groups have no official association.
Still, Boby isn’t backing down from his crusade against Britain’s creeping Islamicization. “Authorities need to know that the wind is shifting and that when it has blown away the politically correct fog, they will be left in full view,”
Outstanding.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 02, 2012
Rlly? Srsly?
New report released by GOP lawmakers suggests top Justice officials had extensive knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious
Top Department of Justice officials had extensive knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, claims a new report released Thursday, hours before Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The report released by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, top lawmakers investigating the botched gunrunning operation, claims Justice Department officials in Washington and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved in the coordination in the early stages of the operation.
Justice headquarters “had much greater knowledge of, and involvement in, Fast and Furious than it has previously acknowledged,” the memo reads.
The memo, which contradicts claims by the Justice Department, is based upon interviews, documents and emails involving key players of the operation run by the ATF. The operation allowed some 2,000 weapons cross the border into Mexico and into the hands of cartel members.
Gak, why is this even news?
Is it finally, finally becoming obvious to even the willfully blind that F & F had to be run from the very top, with the involvement of all the major players and all the LEO departments? We figured that one out 7 months ago, and then a short essay by a DC insider on how the system works (meetings, sign-offs, emails, CYA when things are ‘above your pay grade’, etc ) drove the point home. No kidding. It could not have been any other way. DHS, BATFE, FBI, DOJ, and the whole alphabet of agencies probably even including the CIA are in this up to their eyeballs and have been since the beginning. State Department too in all likelihood, right up to the very top (HRH HRC) and that strongly implies White House involvement. “We’ve got something in the works, under the radar” quoth Fearless Reader back in the day.
The media is only starting to bay about Eric Holder. They haven’t even begun to think about Janet Napolitano. It might take them a century to have the epiphany that at least a handful of Senators and Congressweasels are also involved, along with quite a number of top state officials. Fast and Furious was not an accident and it did not operate in a vacuum.
We The People aren’t stupid, and we figured out the obvious months ago: that a large chunk of our federal government and some of our state governments were knowingly involved in a wide ranging action that was this close to being an act of war against a neighboring sovereign nation, all done to further their Alinksi plans to fracture society and to serve as the ultimate example for shredding the keystone piece of the Constitution that protects the rest of it.
It failed. The word leaked out. And now DC is furiously blowing smoke and twisting mirrors as fast as they can. Needless to say, the media is fairly complicit, since this has never been more than a bit of a small scale back burner sidebar story for just a few of the networks. If this shit ever really hits the fan, Holder will be left holding the bag ... and nobody will ever connect the dots to all the other players involved.
Fast and Furious is 1000 times dirtier than Watergate. This should have toppled the whole government. It is the prime example of the hubris in DC and their above-the-law elitist mentality. And for the most part, the mindless sheeple ignore it or are completely unaware of it, because the media doesn’t want to splatter any mud on their masters.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 21, 2012
Homerun For Newt
Delivers knockout victory speech!
UPDATE: Here it is! And here it is:
Says the choice - between him and Obama - is one between an America that stands for freedom/opportunity/independence and one that’s a Saul Alinksy socialism that bows to Saudi princes. (actually he first says “the centerpiece of this campaign is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinksi”, and then it gets better)
HORRY CLAP. Newt didn’t just throw down the glove, he picked it up and smacked the crap outta the left time after time after time, in plain straight up talk, and called the far left and their policies a destructive anti-American bunch of pinkos, and the media their running dogs. He hit just about every single Tea Party point, and then a dozen more dear to Conservative hearts. Then he smacked Obama upside the head with a dead fish over the Keystone XL pipeline and our nation’s debt to China. By gosh, gumbo, and by Hillary’s hoary beard, hit the news sites and/or YouTube and listen to that speech. He’s on fire!
Not the victory speech, but a good talk, half an hour, from Newt:
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Permalink • Friday - January 20, 2012
How low can you go?
I know there has to be more to this story, but OMG.
Burbank, Calif. – A Los Angeles woman was arrested last week for offering sexual favors in exchange for chicken McNuggets, according to Burbank police.
Khadijah Baseer of Los Angeles allegedly opened customers’ car doors while they were in the drive-thru of a Burbank McDonald’s.
A witness reported Baseer’s activity to police and she was arrested on suspicion of prostitution.
In LA you get a happy ending with your happy meal?
Upon further research, the good news is that she was not actually a McDonald’s employee.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 19, 2012
The Shrinking Field
Rick Perry has dropped out of the Republican Primary race. He is going to throw his support to Newt Gingrich, news coverage at 11am.
Cain, Bachmann, Huntsman, and now Perry. Gone.
The decision comes after the Texas governor, who once led the field of GOP hopefuls, endured disappointing finishes in the leadoff Iowa and New Hampshire contests. While he is polling only in single digits in South Carolina, his decision to withdraw could end up giving a boost to one of his opponents should his supporters gravitate toward a particular candidate.
Crivens. At this rate, there won’t be any choice but Romney by the time the primary bandwagon gets to my state. Grrrrr.
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Permalink • Friday - January 06, 2012
TooDaze Stoopid Newz, Part 1
For once it wasn’t unexpected!
The nation’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly three years at the end of 2011, as a burst of private-sector hiring helped sustain what has been a positive trend lately in the job market.
The rate, which dipped to 8.5 percent in December, has dropped for four straight months. The direction of the numbers could help soften the political blow of what remains a tough economy for President Obama, who is charging into a competitive re-election year.
“It’s good news that more Americans found work last month despite a sluggish economy, but both parties must come together and do more to address the ongoing uncertainty that small businesses face,” House Speaker John Boehner [aka Crybaby] said. “Today marks the 35th consecutive month of unemployment above eight percent, and too many Americans continue to struggle to find their next job.”
The December report painted a picture of a broadly improving job market. Average hourly pay rose, providing consumers with more income to spend. The average work week lengthened, a sign that business is picking up and companies may soon need more workers. And hiring was strong across almost all major industries.
...
Manufacturing added 23,000 jobs. Transportation and warehousing added 50,000 jobs. Retailers added 28,000 jobs. Even the beleaguered construction industry added 17,000 workers.
Don’t read this part:
The drop in the rate, the lowest since February 2009, was driven by a net payroll increase of 200,000 in December. The rate also came down in part because the size of the labor force shrank by 50,000. Many who are unemployed have stopped looking for jobs. The government only counts people as unemployed if they are actively searching for jobs.
When including those groups, the broader “underemployment” rate was 15.2 percent. That’s down from 15.6 percent the previous month, but still high. The figure has dropped for three straight months.
Also please don’t think about the stats: 28,000 new jobs in retail is 14% of the gain, yet this could be almost entirely seasonal help brought on for the holidays. If half of them get let go in January, we’re right back up to over 9% again. Grain of salt? No, a bucketful.
Personally, I’m glad the unemployment situation is improving, however the numbers may be diddled. Every new job helps us get back on our feet. And I’m rather proud that the American economy can show some signs of life no matter what the Commie In Charge tries to do to it. But even if it should catch fire tomorrow, and a record setting hiring spree go on all year long, I won’t give him or his policies a milligram’s worth of credit. Any economic good news is coming in spite of the government, not because of it.
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Permalink • TooDaze Stoopid News, Part 3
Golly, I guess there’s no crime whatsoever in this town if the local fuzz has time for this BS!
A Charlton (MA) mom says her local library crossed the line when they sent police to collect her daughter’s overdue library books.
Her mom says the 5-year-old girl was so afraid that she burst into tears.
Charlton Police Sergeant Dan Dowd stopped by the home of Shannon Benoit to let her know that her daughter had two books several months overdue which needed to be returned or paid for.
They found and returned the books, but Hailey’s mom argues that sending a cop to their house was like pounding a ten penny nail with a sledge hammer.
Even Sgt. Dowd admits he wasn’t real keen on it.
“Nobody wanted to, on this end to get involved in it,” says Sgt. Dowd. “But the library contacted us, and the chief delegated, and apparently I was one of the low men on the totem pole.”
Talk about a creeping culture of cowardice. i guess the librarians were “too uncomfortable” with the situation to just pick up the darn phone and call these folks? Because, you know, prodding the public about overdue books is above the pay grade for librarians, and they don’t need that kind of workplace stress. Plus, somebody could get offended and come shoot them or something. Better to play it safe and send the police. No, better to send the SWAT team. A good tazering would teach that nascent little criminal what’s what, what what?
Ok, the cop got stuck with the tsk, and he’s gonna get a month of grief from his buds at the donut shop. But the library? If they had half a lick of sense, there would be a bright and shiny Help Wanted ad in the paper today.
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peiper over at Barking Moonbat EWS found some absolutely kickass aerial photos from WWII. I grabbed this one because I’m a big fan of the movie A Bridge Too Far.…
On: 11/23/09 04:14
Clear Thinking and Straight Talk
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Let Them Fight or Bring Them Home Read all of it--and tell every American you know to do so. (Thanks to BMEWS) UPDATE: The author of the above blog is…
On: 10/02/09 09:29
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It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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