Tag: Stupidity

DHS Employee Gets A Noose

AS reported by CNN:

A noose was found Wednesday on the desk of an African-American supervisor at the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, according to the agency’s director.

The supervisor and a colleague found the rope “tied into a noose at the supervisor’s desk” in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said a statement from agency director Mark Cooper.

“Let me make myself clear: This type of behavior is 100 percent unacceptable and will not be tolerated on my watch,” Cooper said at a news conference recorded by CNN affiliate WBRZ.

State police responded to the office where the noose was found, Cooper said.

“Once it is discovered who is responsible for this act, we will pursue criminal charges against the person or persons responsible to bring justice for these two employees and send the strongest message possible that we will not tolerate any type of harm to our personnel,” he said.

Both the supervisor and the other employee are African-American, GOHSEP spokeswoman Veronica Mosgrove said. The noose was about 8 inches long, she said.

Public display of a noose in Louisiana is a felony punishable by up to a year in prison a fine of up to $5,000, state police Superintendent Mike Edmonson said at the news conference.

Cooper said he told both employees that “we will do what it takes to assist and support them and their families in any way possible to deal with this gross violation of an individual’s right to work in a safe and

Looks like this type of crap never stops.  And people think that the South is changing….sounds about the same as it has been for years to me.

A Penny Short…….

The 73-year-old blind woman could not believe that Attleboro City Hall was threatening to impose a lien of up to $48 because she had mistakenly underpaid her last water and sewer bill by a penny. She couldn’t fathom why the city would pay 42 cents for a stamp to collect a penny.

“It made me sick – my adrenaline was really going up,” Wilbur said in a telephone interview yesterday of the notice she learned about on Monday. “You can do anything to me, but don’t touch my house. I paid for this house with very hard work.”

Wilbur, who raised seven children over the past 50 years at her five-bedroom house in South Attleboro, asked her daughter to fax the letter back to the city collector’s office with a note that read: “Why don’t you use the 42 cents of my tax dollars to clear that up? The lack of common sense is staggering.”

When Wilbur didn’t hear back from city officials, she went to The Sun Chronicle newspaper of Attleboro, which first reported the story.

City Collector Debora Marcoccio said the letter to Wilbur was computer-generated and sent out with 2,000 other bills for outstanding balances. She said she would have been happy to discuss the bill, but Wilbur’s fax didn’t include a phone number for her to call.

As word spread about the penny owed on Wilbur’s $45.61 bill, Wilbur said she received a flurry of calls from neighbors offering to help. A local limousine service called and offered to drive her to City Hall.

But before she could take anyone up on their offers, Antonio Viveiros, 62, a former city councilor from Attleboro who never met Wilbur, acted on his own.

He marched into the city collector’s office yesterday, but the clerk at the window didn’t recognize him. When he said he wanted to pay Wilbur’s bill, he said the clerk asked whether he had the bill. “I said, ‘I don’t need a bill to pay a bill.’ ”

After the clerk checked with a colleague about whether he could pay Wilbur’s bill, he wrote the city a check for a penny.

“I understand these things are computer-generated, but there has to be more compassion in government,” he said. “Arrogance is never appreciated.”

Sowing The Seeds Of Hate

Much has been made recently about statements made by people within the campaigns. Palin, McCain, Rep. Lewis all have been accused of sowing the seeds of hate. Of course, both camps have denied that anything said was words of hatred. But unfortunately, not many voters are buying the bullsh*t.

I guess when you have an election at stake all things are acceptable. The seeds of hate? First it was the terrorist thing….McCain has taken a minor occurrence and turned it into a question of judegement. But the radical fringe has turn it into calls for violence, like “kill him”, “traitor”, and no one is asking the crowds to calm down. This is not an isolated thing, all the surroigates are harping on this issue. Even the surrogates are saying that Obama was the preferred candidate of terrorists.

Then a Congresswoman on MSNBC’s Hardball, Rep. Michele Bachman R-MN, recently called all liberals anti American and went so far as to say that a journalistic investigation should be done on all memebers of the democratic party in Congress. This dinosaur is a throw back to the days of McCarthy where there was a “commie” behind every pillar in Washington. It was silly then and it is twice as moronic NOW!

How about “robocalls” that remind people that Obama was “palling” around with terrorists.  Or the sheriff in uniform that made sure to use Obama’s middle name (btw, I believe that is against the law to do political stuff while in uniform).  And then there is the head of a Republican party apparatus that told workers to equate Obama with Osama.  Does any of this NOT sound like the sowing of hate?

These are just a few of the most recently hatred attacks. I am told by the McCain campaign that John would word with the Congress in a bi-partisan way, but yet these types of hatred attacks are just making the divide between the two parties deeper, to the point that if he should somehow fool the American people and become president, that Washington would become a more hateful place than it is now.

Let us not forget the old broad that called Obama , an “Arab”….McCain did try to disfuse that one. How about the head of a Repub organization that put out a flier saying that if they put Obama on a bill it would be a food stamp along with a bucket of chicken, ribs, etc. These types of caricature is not helping the seeds of hate to disappear. The McCain camp has done nothing to discourage this type of bullsh*t with the exception of some veiled attempt to say that it is all true.

Maybe he should fire his staff of advisers and hire Mickey Mouse, at least he is from a terminally happy place something McCain has abandoned–happy and good taste and sense. Sowing the seeds of hate is NOT something a responsible leader would do. It is an insult to anyone with half a brain.

Diplomatic Mission To Iran?

Wait!  I read this in the NY Times:

The Bush administration is considering establishing an American diplomatic presence in Iran for the first time since relations were severed during the 444-day occupation of the American Embassy in Tehran nearly three decades ago, European and American officials said on Thursday.

The idea would be to establish a so-called interests section, rather than a fully staffed embassy, with American diplomats who could issue visas to Iranians seeking to visit the United States. But the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under diplomatic rules, cautioned that the idea had not been approved by the White House and could be delayed or blocked by opposition within the administration.

The proposal comes as the White House is adopting new tactics in dealing with Iran. With six months left in office, Mr. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appear to be looking for new ways to reach out to the Iranian people as the administration tries to bring a peaceful resolution to the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program.

Wait!  Is this the same president that said diplomatically meeting with Iran would be compared to the appeasement of Hitler by Chamberlin of UK?  Did I miss something while I slept?

The Fist Bump Heard Around The World

This media frenzy is just plain stupid.  For days, we have been bombarded with visions and explanations over the fist bump Obama and wife exchanged on the stump.  Why?

The affectionate fist bump between Senator Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, before his victory speech last week in St. Paul became an instant source of fascination among commentators in the news media, who for days have tried to decipher the meaning behind this supposedly odd gesture.

But perhaps none went as far afield as E. D. Hill of the Fox News Channel, who, teasing to a segment last Friday on the Obamas’ moment, said: “A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently.” Media Matters, a liberal group, called attention to her comments that day and demanded an apology on Monday.

The Fox News segment was part of a fist-bump-related media dorkathon that continues, even a full week after the Obamas’ onstage moment.

Um, people: This is a common gesture, and its use is not limited to Democrats with unusual names. In 2001 it was used by Carleton S. Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive — now advising Senator John McCain — and Michael D. Capellas, then the Compaq chief executive, to salute the completion of their merger. And in 2006, former President George Bush shared a fist bump with Anna Kournikova at a celebrity tennis event — and he was 82 at the time.

Is there nothing else the media can focus on……I don’t know…..like taxes, gas, Iraq, and I am sure there is a wealth of subject that need to be covered, and this one is no where on the list.  A fist bump is the new high five….it is that simple and that innocent….please move on to something important.