Two too dumb to be criminals
Sometimes one may feel sorry for criminals. And in this case I do. Not because of their upbringing. Or any of the normal reasons one might feel sorry for a kid gone bad. I feel sorry for them because they are obviously too stupid to even be good petty criminals. I know, harsh words. Too bad.
Several years ago, I was on my way to lunch, and I happened upon a bank robbery in progress. I saw the criminal running across the parking lot from the bank towards some other retail stores. This guy left his properly registered car running in the parking lot, and if I’m not mistaken, wrote his demands on an envelope that was addressed to his wife or girlfriend at their actual address. I thought that was a pretty dumb criminal. What made this one so unique was that he decided to rob a bank that was next to one of the newest restaurants in the city, at lunch time. With cops in the store. He was caught before he ever really started running. Now there was a 4 hour stand off with him inside a retail store, SWAT call out and so on. He was eventually captured. DUMB.
Then these two guys show up on the news radar, within a week of each other.
Dumb criminal number 1
You have THIS brain surgeon who videos himself ripping off a bunch of IPODS and sending the video to his girlfriend. http://bit.ly/k8gca
Dumb criminal number 2
And this rocket scientist who breaks into a house, finds the homeowners cell phone, takes a picture of himself, inside the house with the phone and leaves it behind for the police to find. http://bit.ly/tTGiS :
Now come one. Just how much sense does it take to be a petty burglar? Or rip off IPODS out of a store? Surely not THAT much. But these guys even lack that. They need to share a jail cell.
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Where is Kenneth Chandler?
On June 20th, this article in the PilotOnline referred to Ms. Betty Burrell is the Acting City Manager for the City of Portsmouth.
News to me. I didn’t know the Portsmouth City Manager Kenneth Chandler was out of the office.
I’ve heard all sorts of rumors, from he had surgery on his leg after a soccer incident with his son, to the extreme of being asked to step down.
I don’t know what’s up. I really don’t. I do know the last time I saw Mr. Chandler, he had a plastic cast on one of his legs. Or foot I guess. So the surgery aspect may be accurate.
Beyond that? I have no idea. Inquiring minds want to know.
July General Membership Meeting – Iron Shields of Virginia L.E.M.C.
Our next meeting is July 6th at the Virginia Beach FOP on S. Birdneck Road. 7PM – Board of Directors meeting is at the same location at 6PM.
GET THE WORD OUT!!! We must have your application at this meeting for you to be considered a CHARTER MEMBER. Let folks know who are considering joining that this is the FINAL meeting for Charter Membership.
DUES ARE DUE by July 6th. Your dues should be in hand on July 6th. You can bring them with you or mail them to:
Iron Shields of Virginia, L.E.M.C., Inc
Post Office Box 9783
Chesapeake, Va 23321-9783
Please note in the memo field 2009 Dues. Make checks payable to IRON SHIELDS OF VIRGINIA, L.E.M.C., INC (or as much of that as you can fit). Your dues will be applied retroactively to your application date.
I set off some firestorms this week
Well, apparently I’ve set off a few firestorms this week with my comments about the death of Michael Jackson. On Facebook and Twitter, I have appeared to minimize his death, mainly in light of some other deaths that have occurred recently.
Michael Jackson was an incredible performer. An artist in his particular field like no other. I might even go so far as to say he surpassed Elvis in his overall impact of the music industry. He was bleeding edge innovative with both his music, dancing and use of the latest technology. Absolutely the top in his field during his peak years. I feel sorry for his family, close and extended and the fans that truly loved his work. Personally? There were maybe a handful of songs that I even remotely liked. Just not my style, but I do recognize he was an incredibly talented man.
His personal life left a lot to be desired. While some may say I am convicting him of something the courts acquitted him of, he was a freak of nature when it came to his personal life. Between his eccentric behavior with regards to his skin color and his criminal behavior with young boys, he was just weird.
While I am not minimizing his death and the impact it has on his closest family and friends, I think as a country, our priorities are screwed up. (Oh, and this applies to Farah Fawcett and Ed McMahon as well).
Network television pre-empted regular programming on the day he died to run specials and video clips of Michael all evening long. Newspapers had his face plastered all over the front pages of online and print versions. And within 5 hours of the confirmation of his death, I was tired of seeing him rolled out of an ambulance, and reporters saying the same thing over and over and over again.
Here are some questions for you. How many US Troops died this week while defending freedom? Can you answer that?
How many innocent civilians died because they are Christians and the “Religion of Peace” decided they should die?
How many freedom loving people in Iran were killed, again by animals who proffer the “Religion of Peace”? Do you know who Neda Soltan is without searching on Google?
Did the House of Representatives observe a moment of silence for Christopher Leggett? An American killed by Al Qaida for being Christian?
I don’t minimize the impact of the death of Jackson, Fawcett or McMahon. But I refuse to minimize the impact of the deaths of our troops or any other person killed because of someone elses beliefs.
So get Michael Jackson off my screens, and lets cover the Christopher Leggetts and Neda Soltans and American Troops that are gone. They had family and friends too and were fighting for the good of many people they don’t even know.
Let’s pick our heroes carefully.
Test Post Using Drivel
Drivel is a blogging client designed for the GNome desktop (Linux, Ubuntu). I have a couple of Linux boxes laying around and I am looking for a good blogging client to use with them.
This is a test entry.
Change you can believe in!
I’m NO FAN of the ACLU… but…
There is some amount of satisfaction seeing this situation being litigated.
The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers.
Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by the TSA.
Steve Bierfeldt, the man at the center of the controversy, recorded his confrontation with the airport security agents on his phone. The audio caused waves of indignation across the Internet, as he was seemingly harassed merely for carrying cash and Ron Paul campaign material. -=SOURCE=-
I wrote about this incident back in April, here and here.
This is probably the first time I have agreed with the ACLU. This case needs to be heard by a court. Mr. Bierfeldt’s rights were, to me, clearly violated by these thugs in uniform and they should be personally and corporately held accountable.
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Wow! Pilotonline doing something right!
I don’t get a chance to pat Pilotonline on the back too often but every now and then they do something right.
Recently, they added some enhancements to the user experience by fortifying the comments sections on various articles.
PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com readers have yet another way to control comments they see on stories: You can now choose to hide all comments from specific users. -=SOURCE=-
This is a good thing. There are several people who comment on various articles that I would like to delete from the Interwebs altogether. But this is a start. A mute button if you will.
Now if I could only mute of couple of the editorialists. But in due time.
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PETA? Are you guys on crack?
Maybe someone (Norfolk PD???) needs to initiate an investigation at PETA Headquarters in Norfolk, Va. Because it is clear to me, that short of some sort of mental disorder, these folks must be smoking crack.
Two stories in two days in the PilotOnline:
Story One: PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted that fly during interview
Norfolk-based group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter-in-chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House.PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
Uh… really now? A humane bug catcher.
Story Two: PETA seeks ‘cow empathy museum’ at site of closing dairy
PETA has an idea for the Pet Dairy milk-production plant that’s closing in August: Turn it into a “cow empathy museum.”The Norfolk-based animal rights group sent a letter today to Gregg Engles, the CEO of Dean Foods Co., which owns Pet Dairy, asking to lease the building on Turnpike Road.
“The museum would convert a building built upon cruelty into a tribute to compassion and kindness,” wrote Tracy Reiman, PETA’s executive vice
Ok. It must be crack cocaine. I can think of nothing else that could explain these thought processes. The really scary part is they are serious. Absolutely serious.
- I cook steaks on a grill. Just finished cooking half a cow. They taste great.
- I have a bug zapper. It electrocutes various flying bothersome insects and drops their crispy little carcases to the ground where they are unceremoniously eaten by other critters or simply decompose into the soil. I rejoice every time I see my lights dim and know that a critter has been zapped.
- Put the crack stem down, throw away your chore boy and go get help. There are many many agencies available to help you kick the habit. Many for free!!!
- Quit messing with Pat Robertson. Many of his dissertations have crack cocaine written all over them too. Don’t share your drugs with him any more.
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