As faithful readers know, I recently attended a family wedding in NYC, where I took lots of bad pictures. (Luckily for all, I wasn’t the official photographer.)
Here’s one I took outside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. I call it, “Now THAT’S a baby!”
The actual wedding was held in a slightly smaller church.
PS: WordPress has been laggy and weird all day in the backroom, which may explain the paucity of posting. The commenting function seems to be working as usual, meaning comments get hoovered up or incinerated at random like terrified humans fleeing the giant vacuum cleaner monsters in the “War of the Worlds” remake. In other words, Tuesday.
Cassidy
Florida
http://gawker.com/nude-beach-blow-job-jet-ski-fight-leads-to-wife-s-death-1608253016?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
yopd1
I believe I can now say that Conservative Christians have officially cost my family an extra 10 years with living with Parkinson’s Disease because they wanted to save the “babies” from being experimented on and just thrown out.
Trollhattan
New Jenny Lewis album due at month’s end, which is a very good thing in my book.
The Voyager
bago
Lookit them people, suffering the little children!
Kropadope
I read this in a story someone linked to in the last post. This is what qualifies as a “moderate” judge in our MSM:
Waiting for the right opportunity to be an activist judge instead of pounding away at your bugaboo issues constantly regardless of the facts/scope of the case.
Trollhattan
Baby it’s [the opposite of] cold, outside.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-warmest-weather-california-20140721-story.html
FlipYrWhig
If shit like the DC circuit/panel ruling is the new normal, is there any way that any future Democratic Supreme Court nominee doesn’t get filibustered ad infinitum? Because I can’t see why any Republicans would ever allow any Democrat to pick judges. And if I were a Democratic Senator, I would swear to filibuster all Republican judicial nominees at all levels for as long as there was a filibuster in my power. If Republican judges are just going to discard basic precepts of American jurisprudence when they don’t like a certain law, we might as well have total judicial review from now on, or, to wit, no judicial review, just clashes of will and stubbornness. To paraphrase Orwell, picture a boot stomping the floor petulantly forever.
Baud
@FlipYrWhig:
Supreme Court nominees tend to get lots of media coverage. In that past, at least, it’s prevented the GOP from filibustering successfully. There’s also the nuclear option, which the Dems have now used and could use again.
But it is a whole new world of crazy, so anything is possible.
The Pale Scot
So Betty, are you going to get to the MMA? It’s an all day thing, just stay out of the medieval section because if you’ve seen one Madonna, You’ve seen them all.
FlipYrWhig
@Baud: Yeah. I just feel more than ever like they’re going all in with scorching the earth (per Trollhattan above, in more ways than one), devil take the hindmost. Between this statutory construction thing and the religious liberty for businesses thing… berserk.
KG
@FlipYrWhig: given that the procedural tactics have been used by both sides for a decade now, the nuclear option is probably the only way it gets solved. Once out of committee, up or down vote, no bullshit cloture requirements for nominees.
Betty Cracker
@FlipYrWhig: That’s why I think it’s foolish as hell for lefties to clamor for Ginsberg to retire so Obama can replace her. The old rules are no longer in force.
Baud
@FlipYrWhig:
As bad as the rulings have been lately, a lot of the bad ones do involve statutory construction, which a Democratic Congress could fix (that’s what Lily Ledbetter was — a fix). Constitutional rulings, like Citizens United, are much harder to deal with.
SatanicPanic
@Cassidy: I don’t get that story. He had to kill his wife because she found out he likes dudes? It’s 2014 man, it’s not that big of a deal anymore.
FlipYrWhig
@efgoldman: Fair enough, but even if this case gets hashed out in a reasonable way, I feel like an important dam is breaking, and that more and more judges are giving up on the pretense of “judging” in favor of waging hand-to-hand combat against laws and policies they just don’t like. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean the government can’t do it. That’s pretty basic civics, or so I thought.
FlipYrWhig
@FlipYrWhig: Shorter me: damn activist judges!
Kay
@Kropadope:
You’re really tempted to let them have it. Let’s see how Judge Brown does navigating her regulation-free paradise. Nothing she purchases or consumes will be regulated, at all. None of the transactions she enters into will be monitored and we’ll have no standard process. She’ll be on her own on everything from judging the purity of prescription drugs to evaluating her new tires to determine whether they’ll blow up at 90 miles an hour.
She’s not going to have time to do anything else, and either will anyone else. The entire modern commerce system and economy would grind to a fucking halt as we all attempt to survive and limit personal and financial risk in her “Wild West”.
They don’t live in the world. They’re not conscious of the elaborate system that surrounds them and allows them to spin these anti-regulatory fantasies, because that’s a luxury. She wouldn’t be able to do it if she lived in the world she wants to create. She’d be busy boiling her tap water.
FlipYrWhig
@Kay: The downside is clear. Then again, I’m very much in favor of any system that increases Janice Rogers Brown’s potential exposure to toxins.
ETA: Not really…
ETA2: Well…
ETA3: Le Sigh.
srv
Wanna see some mayflies?
gwangung
Given the judicial activism in Hobby Lobby, I think the reactionaries could conceivably just ignore everything and rule however they damn please.
Baud
@Kay:
Too bad there’s no way to let them have it without letting us have it.
Shakezula
@Kropadope:
I wonder if she gave any thought to how that might have worked out in the real world or was she just thrilled to have a chance to barf some libertarian talking points into the opinion?
Amir Khalid
Sad news: a tree planted in Los Angeles in George Harrison’s memory has been killed by beetles.
FlipYrWhig
@efgoldman: Enjoy!
Shakezula
@srv: I live in Brood X territory (17-year cicadas, big red-eyed beasties that don’t fly too good). But that, is fucking disgusting.
I wonder how long until SciFi releases the movie. Mayflynado? Mayflies of Death? Shoo Fly, Don’t Suck Out My Brains?
Bleh.
But since this is an open thread – I bought two bitter melons at the farmers’ market and would appreciate any tried, tested and not too difficult recipes.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Was it Coleoptera Yokoono?
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Fixes which the same judges will then throw out using some other strained argument. Statutory construction is just an excuse for indulging their ideology.
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman: mrs efgoldman sang a concert and made a recording at the cathedral with the Paul Winter Consort a bazillion years ago. I was home in MA with then-toddler daughter.
Did she have billing above or below the wolves?
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman: Many happy returns of the day for Mrs. Goldman!
Baud
@Roger Moore:
Always possible, but it’s rare, even with these wingnut judges. It’s impossible to avoid all ambiguities in statutes, but it’s not that hard to fix a statute when the courts have made a specific error.
Cacti
@Kay:
Not to mention that during the halcyon days of “economic liberty,” the Supreme Court found that people like the Hon. Judge Brown had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect”.
currants
@srv: Oh my.
@Shakezula: bitter melons: Indian recipes! Try any of Madhur Jaffrey’s recipes (easy and delicious, in my experience).
Kay
@FlipYrWhig:
It’s such a silly, egotistical conceit. She lives in and probably thoroughly enjoys the modern world but she’s just decided to pretend that all of that certainty and safety came about spontaneously and organically and will remain in place. Someone else built it, and she just gets to reside within it completely oblivious to its advantages.
Baud
Although the Warren court gets tagged with the “activist” label by conservatives and the media, I think the two most activist courts have been (1) the Lochner era court and (2) the current Roberts court.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: I blame Paul.
Interesting trivia. George died at Paul’s house here in LA.
ETA: Oh, you beetles, not Beatles. Never mind.
Calouste
@Kay:
The example I would use there is ask Judge Brown if she wants to take a chemistry kit to the gas station every time so she can check that what’s being sold will actually power her car and not blow up the engine. And a measuring kit so that she can make sure she’s not charged for more gallons than actually went into her car. And good luck arguing with the gas station attendant if she thinks she got overcharged.
Kay
@Cacti:
They have to get over FDR. I manage to soldier on every day after Ronald Reagan. They can do it too.
Amir Khalid
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Another bit of trivia: both surviving Beatles are left-handed.
Cacti
@Baud:
I think of Roberts as the 21st century Melville Fuller, as it’s been about 100 years since we’ve had a Chief Justice that was so completely in the tank for big business.
ranchandsyrup
@Trollhattan: cosign.
Elmo
@Cacti:
Thank you! I was about to point that out myself. I don’t think many people know that JRB is African-American.
scav
@Amir Khalid: Both left-handed and left behinded? That’s sinister.
ok, yes, had to get it out of the way. I’m leaving.
Baud
@Cacti:
The one saving grace with the Roberts court is that he currently has only a slim majority, which gives us a chance to make Roberts the dissentingest chief justice in history.
Kay
@Calouste:
I see the temptation of “let it burn” sometimes, I really do. “You know what Janice? I don’t really give a shit if your paycheck lands in your bank account twice a month. I, like you, am willing to depend on market forces for all that stuff”.
shelley
Talk about ‘ laggy and weird ‘. Newsmax headline. “Ruddy: Pat Buchanan Discovers the GOP ‘Comeback’ in Nixon”
What the hell does that even mean?
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@FlipYrWhig: Appellate panels go rogue a lot. If you get two assholes out of the randome draw, bad shit can happen. That is why rehearing en banc exists.
Suffern ACE
I can’t see my cat enjoying this form of exercise for long. Can you train cats to self exercise?
wasabi gasp
An earworm for your infestation.
Roger Moore
@shelley:
If you click on the headline- and I truly understand why you might not want to do that- it turns out to be a review of Pat Buchanan’s book about Nixon’s 1968 election and how it provides a blueprint for the Republicans to win again. It’s too complex a concept to express neatly in a headline, so the writer mangled it into incoherence rather than simply it or leave out details.
Baud
@Roger Moore:
Step 1: Obama invades Vietnam.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: VICTORY!
SatanicPanic
@shelley: the way to the presidency is to break in to the other party’s offices?
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
So, assassinate the leading candidate from the other party and you’re home free?
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
My husband won’t let me buy one, but I know that one of our cats would probably enjoy that.
Kay
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I’m curious if it will work for them, politically. Republicans aren’t very enthused this cycle, is my feeling. The health care law was the only energizing element they had, and it had really fizzled. I think they overstate the importance of anti-immigrant fervor (just as they did in 2006). I wonder if this gives them a boost w/ the base and if that will be a wash because “normal” voters are just exhausted and sick of this “debate”.
Roger Moore
@Suffern ACE:
Maybe the cats would see it as an alternative to running rapidly from room to room for no obvious reason. I assume some of that is a desire to burn off nervous energy, so they might like a place where they can keep running without worrying about obstacles.
Kay
I got the best young politico in the county (!) to agree to help Ed FitzGerald in Ohio today, so you can all thank Amanda if he wins :)
Roger Moore
@Baud:
I think Step 2 is “Southern Strategy 2: Electric Boogaloo”, but it might be “UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!!”.
bemused
@Suffern ACE:
I can’t imagine any of our many cats, past or present, getting excited about this toy. Kitties are not hamsters.
Baud
@Roger Moore:
I don’t see what Southern Strategy II could entail, since Southern Strategy I already put the South in their column.
Roger Moore
@bemused:
The main way I see cats being interested in that kind of thing is if they find some unintended use for it, like trying to climb the outside or getting two cats to go around it in opposite directions.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Kay: It is a technical legal issue regarding statutory interpretation; it isn’t the ACA is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!11ELEVEN!!!!! like the last case was. I think it is harder to gin up outrage. Also, enough people have benefited by the law that, while they may want to bitch about Obama and the damned liberals, they don’t want the law overturned or the subsidies eliminated.
gogol's wife
@Suffern ACE:
That’s cool. My cats would ignore it.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Sure, but parts of the South are starting to slip back out of their column, and they need to do something about it. They’re going to have a very hard time winning the Presidency without Florida and Virginia, and they’re absolutely sunk if they can’t hold onto North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona. Hence the need to crank up the bigotry ever further.
Cckids
@Suffern ACE: mine would sleep on it.
bemused
@Roger Moore:
Yes or young kittens crazy with energy. otoh, it you have a kitty that is easily startled as we do, this toy would probably freak her out.
Suffern ACE
@bemused: yeah. I could see Boris getting on that once and running away when it moved. He would then avoid that side of the room for years.
Cacti
@Baud:
Their national electoral calculus is in its death throes, because the GOP has forgotten how to talk to anyone but disaffected white people.
Bush 41 and Mitt Romney both carried 59% of white voters in their elections. In 1988, Poppy Bush cruised to a 426-111 electoral college victory. Mittens got drubbed 332-206.
They’re still in denial about the need to broaden their appeal.
Suffern ACE
@Cacti: or they could punt. Try to split California into six states long term. Hope to hold on to Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin PA and Ohio this cycle and vote to force congressional district based electoral voting on those states.
Davis X. Machina
@Roger Moore: They don’t need the White House. Just for war-starting, and hey, you can’t have everything.
To not-govern, all you need one house of Congress, that’s it. The courts help.
And they’ve got the House for as far as the eye can see.
bemused
@Suffern ACE:
Our girl would be the same. She does not like being surprised and hates if we move things around, always on the alert for danger.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Davis X. Machina: Gerrymandering is a dangerous thing. One creates a bunch of GOP majority districts where the majority is fairly thin in order to maximize seats. This means that a comparatively small swing in votes can tip an awfully large number of seats our way.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Results are trickling in here.
KS in MA
@efgoldman: Happy birthday, mrs. efgoldman!
Ninedragonspot
@Shakezula: One of the best things in the world on a hot summer day is bitter melon juice over ice. Perhaps mixed with a bit of apple juice for sweetness.
You can also serve the bitter melon as a cold dish. Blanche slices of bitter melon briefly, drain and splash with a combination of sesame oil and chicken stock.
I have had tasty Japanese style stirfries of bitter melon, onion, and egg, flavored with soy. The Hakka also love stir frying bitter melon. If you or your loved ones or a little resistant to the bitter flavor, you can blanch them briefly to take off some of the edge.
There is also a fun soup where the bitter melon is filled with a pork stuffing which is sliced after poaching and returned to the soup.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
2014 seems like it’s going to be a very weird election year. I feel like I have no idea what will happen.
Trollhattan
Howard Jarvis’ corpse does not like your non-binding vote on stabbing Citizens United in the neck, not one bit.
http://www.sacbee.com/capitol-alert/##storylink=cpy
Probable quote fail: am sure they said “Democrat-controlled.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Trollhattan:
Jerry Lewis is still even alive?
Oh, wait.
:: puts glasses on, rereads comment ::
Never mind.
Baud
@Trollhattan:
If they win, does that mean every ballot measure ever enacted in California is null and void?
Ninedragonspot
@Shakezula: One of the best things in the world on a hot summer day is bitter melon juice over ice. Perhaps mixed with a bit of apple juice for sweetness. An acquired taste perhaps, but those who love it (ME!) absolutely adore it.
You can also serve the bitter melon as a cold dish. Blanch slices of bitter melon briefly, drain and souse in a combination of sesame oil and chicken stock.
I have had tasty Japanese-style stirfries of bitter melon, onion, and egg, flavored with soy. The Hakka also love stir frying bitter melon. If you or your loved ones or a little resistant to the bitter flavor, you can blanch the slices briefly to take off some of the edge.
There is also a tasty soup where the bitter melon is filled with a pork stuffing, which is then sliced after poaching and returned to the soup.
Baud
@Cacti:
They won’t change unless they lose about 8 years worth of elections. They have too much money and media propping them up.
ETA: Plus, they’ve not got a sizable cadre of conservative loyalists who would be SOL in a more modern, moderate GOP.
Suffern ACE
I suppose, if we can’t get folks to stop,polluting, we can turn ourselves into human scrubbers.
Trollhattan
@Baud:
Including Prop 13? Hmmmmmm…snake swallows self.
Baud
@Baud:
that should be “now got”
WaterGirl
@Baud: Does that qualify as talking to yourself?
I don’t blame you, it’s pretty quiet around here. :-)
Baud
In other news today, the court tossed Sen. Johnson’s suit against Obama for lack of standing. IIRC, Johnson didn’t like the fact that his staff were eligible for Obamacare subsidies.
Ironic.
Cassidy
@SatanicPanic: According to my gay friends, Florida is a hotbed of married “straight” dudes looking for some action.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Looks like it’s just us.
Baud
@Baud:
And Cassidy makes three.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I hope folks haven’t bailed because Cole is gone for awhile and DougJ is down for the count, politically speaking.
Or maybe it’s because last week you said you didn’t like all that many people? Some of us here asked for clarification – “but you like us here at BJ, don’t you?” and all we got was radio silence. So sad. Maybe between that and Cole it was too much, they’re all in therapy.
P.S. Raven and Cervantes are on the other thread.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@WaterGirl: FPers have been rather absent too ( not just Cole and DougJ).
WaterGirl
John loves us and wants us to be happy, but apparently some of the other front pagers do not. Surely one thread a day is in the front-pager contract.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, as you can see. Thank goodness Betty Cracker came back from NYC! I think the new guy Zaid is pretty interesting. TBogg clearly doesn’t want us to get too dependent on him.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
The radio silence was because I’m a wage slave to the man.
And most BJers are exempt from my general sociopathy.
Karen in GA
@efgoldman: Happy birthday Mrs. efgoldman!
raven
Just say what you have to say, take some responsibility!
WaterGirl
@Karen in GA: I enjoyed Iggy today. I always enjoy Iggy and the cat.
Formatting question, though… Is the singing always in italics? ‘Cause it took me a minute to tell the difference between you and Iggy at first – Iggy is usually in quotes.
WaterGirl
@raven: Cervantes and I are discussing that on the other thread. I want them to say what they really think, but I also want to get them elected.
It’s hard to believe, but none of the candidates call me for campaign advice.
Cassidy
@Baud: Don’t you put that evil on me.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I would reply to your comment, but I hate it when the last 3 comments on a thread are mine.
Oh, wait.
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl: I think the problem is this blog went from way too many eleventy!! FP’ers to having 3 fairly steady ones in AL, Mix and B Crack.
The blog made it through the last month on the back of FIFA, with some random Yargh! posts by Cole.
Without futbol this place would have been a graveyard of summer doldrums.
It’s got to be incredibly hard to get up in the morning and tell yourself that some number of assholes “deserve” your time, effort and energy that day. Especially when you know we’re just going to nitpick the fuck out of your post.
Cole had some salad days, but along with the mustard, that aragula substitute is long gone.
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl: Iggy Azalea? She’s hideous.
Fucking Omnes.
raven
@Corner Stone: We also have some topics that no one is going to change their fucking minds about and the thread just keep going around in circles. You know, the cycle of violence.
Corner Stone
@raven: No, I don’t know. What topics are you referring to?
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: No, the Iggy Dialogues.
I googled Iggy Azalea. Not my cup of tea.
I like all the front pagers we have, I would just like some more threads. And no one can start a conversation like Cole can, sometimes with just one line.
WaterGirl
@raven: Yeah, those threads I could do without.
I’ve been pretty impressed, though, that the Israel-Palestine threads haven’t devolved into the GG thread style.
Mnemosyne
@bemused:
There’s probably a reason why most of the YouTube videos involve kittens on the wheel. Though I suppose if you get them started young, they’ll still play with it occasionally.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Corner Stone: I only posted her stuff to punish bad people. I am sorry if any decent folk were caught in the blast area.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
That’s probably because most people in those threads seem to have similar views on that issue.
raven
@WaterGirl: really?
raven
@Baud: yup
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I will forgive you anything because you posted a link to Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet singing Different Drum.
Edit: some days I play that song just to calm myself when I find myself getting too frustrated by current events.
cmm
Feeling kinda messed up tonight. I’m an intermittent commenter, loyal reader, and I hope you don’t mind if I vent here a bit, because I can’t really talk to family and coworkers about it. In my day job, I’m a cop — a liberal, pro civil liberties, pro reasonable gun regulation, pro anti poverty program cop, but nevertheless one of those that JC invariably refers to as fuckers.
So last night this fucker had to draw down on a 14 year old and hold him at point blank range, him yelling and screaming at me the whole time, til we got enough officers on scene to secure everyone in the vehicle. One gun had already been located in the vehicle, and the person who had that gun had fled on foot when officers started to get him out of the car (with 2 of the four on-scene officers chasing him), so the other officer and I pointed our guns at the two remaining people in the car and told them not to move. The kid is screaming at me ” Don’t point a gun at me, I’m 14 years old, man, I’m a kid!” the entire time. We got everyone out of the car and in handcuffs, and then checked where the two left in the car had been. Both of them had guns on the floor where they had been sitting. The kid screaming at me had a gun in a bag that had been between his feet.
One of the guns was stolen in 1995, 4 years before this kid had been born.
Everything was fine at the time. But afterward, things were catching up. I had to hold a child at gunpoint. If he had moved wrong, I would have shot him. Since I was only the width of a Honda backseat away from him, he almost certainly would have died.
The kid had a gun. The one who ran had actually been reaching for the gun at his feet (the one that turned out to be stolen) when the first officer approached and the whole thing started.
I could have had to kill a 14 year old. I could have been killed by a 14 year old. The kid could have made a wrong move and I could have mistakenly shot a 14 year old.
My brain was screaming about this the rest of the shift, which was three long busy hours with lots and lots of calls, including a totally separate situation also involving a teen with a gun (he is almost certainly part of a robbing crew, but the gun was a bb gun and all we had on him at the time was carrying concealed, but a bb gun isn’t considered a “firearm” in the carrying concealed law. Argh.)
I’ve been in law enforcement in some capacity for 14 years, a sworn officer for 11. I’m tired of this. I do help people sometimes, and there are still a few days when I like my job. Mostly I hate it, because I’m burnt out and our department has turned to shit in the last 3 years since the old chief retired.
And some nights, I think about the fact that I was in a potential kill or be killed situation with a 14 year old kid, and I go home and cry. Very quietly, so my partner doesn’t wake up, because these are the parts of the job that freak her out and I hate to remind her of them.
So that’s what one of JC’s fuckers does in her down time. In case you ever wondered. Now I have to go to a call. 4 juveniles just jumped out and abandoned a still-running vehicle in the back of an apartment complex. Another day in paradise.
WaterGirl
@raven: You disagree?
raven
@cmm: John has issues like everyone else. Sounds like you need to get out while the getting is good.
Cassidy
@cmm: I feel your distress. I was a finger pull away from lighting up a car in Baghdad that had a male and, what I assume, was his two kids. He kept circling our position then tried to come through us right around the time the insurgents got VBIED happy. Dude was probably just trying to get home. But I didn’t and you didn’t. Little victories.
cmm
I can retire on partial pension at 50. I turn 48 next month. I’m a pretty good writer and I have done freelance writing on the side for years. I’m working on turning it into a full time business. If it gets to the point where it can support my partner and me (and our 3 insane dogs) before then, I’m gone. I could retire with full pension at 55 but there is no way I can stand it that long. We’ve been downsizing to lower our living costs so it will take less money to hit that “able to support ourselves with our own businesses” point, and my partner already has her own small business that brings in some money. The hope that we can to get to that point sooner rather than later is what keeps me going.
Mnemosyne
@cmm:
Time to get out and find a new line of work. If you talk to your supervisor and tell them you need counseling, they’ll probably even help you find a new job (I’m only half-joking).
ETA: Just saw your second post. Is there any way you could get reassigned to desk duty of some kind? If you can write, maybe you can sneak into public relations. Whatever you can do that doesn’t put you on the street every day but lets you hang on until you qualify for your pension.
Cassidy
@cmm: Can you move to training?
cmm
Not a chance, for various reasons. I loved being an investigator and would love to get back into that but so far no luck on that request. There are a lot of politics involved.
PurpleGirl
@Suffern ACE: I think it’s cool but I don’t know if there are cats that would like it. Maybe BJers should join together and get one for Steve and see what happens?
Iowa Old Lady
@cmm: I have no good suggestions, just good wishes. One of my best friends is an FBI agent. It’s incredibly stressful to do a dangerous job with people hating on you and then be cast as the bad guy yourself.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): The collateral damage continued when I found out my son knew that song.
cmm
@Cassidy: Thanks for that. It helped.
As for training, I don’t think so. Part of what has worn me down so much are the current politics in thedepartment and the fact that a lot of the admin’s decisions are opening the department to some heavy liability issues. Getting into training would make me a much bigger part of the liability issues and I would have to fight (and probably lose) a lot more battles. Getting out is really what I need to do.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Corner Stone: Samsung is using it in an ad now.
Trying to stay au courant with what is going on in music has its pitfalls.
@cmm: It sounds to me like you handled the situation with tact and good judgment. Are there counseling options available for “gun drawn” situations like there are for shootings?
PurpleGirl
OT: Flags Changed on Brooklyn Bridge
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/american-flags-stolen-atop-brooklyn-bridge-cops-article-1.1875673
Friends pointed me to this story. I don’t this incident will give anyone much faith in the NYCPD security protocols for the Brooklyn Bridge, or for watching any of the cameras around the City.
PurpleGirl
@WaterGirl: That’s a nice rendition of Different Drum. Gotta go back and play it again later, and bookmark it.
Karen in GA
@WaterGirl: Very late to this, but if you see it:
Iggy’s in quotes, but quotes look weird when he’s singing or rapping or whatever the kids call it these days. So if it rhymes and the font is different — bold or italics or both — it’s Iggy singing/rapping.
The cat is usually in bold, no quotes. Authoritative.
Trouble is, the Chihuahua next door is also in italics.
I need a way to just change the fonts for each each character. No idea how to do that.
Joel Hanes
Old open thread, but who have I got to lose?
The legend returns
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Betty Cracker
@cmm: It sounds like you need to get out for your own health, but damn, you’re also exactly the kind of officer we need: an officer with good judgment and compassion.