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Friday, February 26th, 2010- They ordered 14 condoms for every athlete in the Olympic Village . . . and they’re running out! Who has time to train?
- Mall Sharks sounds like a pretty awesome camp horror movie.
- Puppet decolletage: too hot for Colorado Springs.
- Sheriff who intimidated college professor apologizes.
- More from Barack Obama’s Facebook page.
- Speaking of Facebook, guards investigated for boasting on the site about beating prisoners.
- UK introduces vague law that could land you in prison for 10 years for photographing a cop.
- J.D.’s looking great post-surgery.
“If we try to bury every politician who made a mistake, we won’t have any left!”
I couldn’t have said it better, but I would have said it with more enthusiasm.
Glad to see that Brooke Seidl is officially being reported as a snitch. As much as I dislike police, I hate sniveling little narcs even more.
I’ve only ventured into tranny hangouts like the
Black Rose for a beer and a laugh, but come to think of
it, JD Hayworth *does* look like the type
of middle-aged, Baby-Huey, henpecked, pudgy
guys who hang out there indulging in a secret tryst.
I bet he goes by “Rita.”
You want to know how many stories have been written about condoms at the Olympics over the past two weeks? So many that I immediately knew that story was wrong when it said, “This appears to be the first time that a [condom] shortage has struck the Games.” Per the first ‘graph of this article, they first ran out of condoms at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Say what you want about new media… it’s clearly keeping me informed on the topics that really matter.
Maybe abnormally high levels of testosterone in both men and women explain the horniness. They are not like us.
I like the anecdote in the UK Photo Law article. Photographer takes picture of a cop. Cop threatens photographer to let him see the picture and / or delete picture and / or seize camera. Cop uses excuse “you shouldn’t have taken the photo, you were intimidating me.”
Yeah, silly photographer, don’t you know the people who are allowed to intimidate people are the state’s thugs?
Take the condoms away from the Olympic Athletes!
We need to mix up the world’s gene pool a little bit.
:)))
On double-dipping sheriff – the professor said most of his salary goes to child support payments, which the sheriff now denies. At his press conference he also stressed that he lives in a nice neighborhood. Doesn’t that prove the original point that his $210,000 a year salary is absurdly excessive? Or am I missing something?
Move over Cadillac-driving welfare queens. Police are the single biggest government handout scam artists in America right now. Their whorish government entitlement isn’t just a food stamp card and a monthly check for a couple hundred bucks. It is an entire lifetime of collecting taxpayer-subsidized executive level salary for a job that has the qualifications of a burger flipper.
So you take thousands of good-looking young people at the very pinnacle of physical condition, house them in college dorm-like conditions and (after their events are over) give them nothing much to do – and people are surprised that there’s a whole lot of fucking going on?
There was a quote I used to use as a tagline from an athlete at a past summer games: “It’s not an orgy,” she said, “but it is socially vigorous.”
“If we try to bury every politician who made a mistake, we won’t have any left!”–Kevin Meara
Works for me. This asshole with a badge broke several federal laws. He needs to go to PMITA prison.
Somebody needs to do a thorough study on excessive cop salaries in this country vis-a-vis the low job qualification requirements for becoming a cop. For years, cop unions and brass alike have built up an image of their profession as perpetually underfunded yet deserving of the highest levels of compensation. They do so by portraying their job as inherently risky and dangerous, by claiming that they are underappreciated by the public and constantly under extreme and unbearable psychological stress, by claiming that they are overworked and subject to long hours without just compensation, by suggesting that their budget is constantly on the chopping block, and by casting themselves as “heroes” who deserve to be a top funding priority. The reality paints a much nastier picture:
1. Policing is not a highly skilled profession. The entry level requirement is seldom more than a GED, and the “advanced” ranks require nothing more than a couple hours of community college in a dumbed-down major such as “criminal justice.” Relative to their job qualifications cops are probably the most disproportionately OVERPAID profession in existence. There isn’t another profession out there where you can easily make $40-70K a year plus benefits on such low educational standards and job skill prerequisites.
2. Cops are not “overworked.” The typical “on the clock” job requirement of a cop is 40 hours a week, no different from any other job. They complain of working after hours, but they have some of the cushiest overtime policies in existence. They are compensated at the equivalent of their full salaried rate for minimum wage-level overtime tasks such as filing reports and working a phone desk. They can even get overtime for doing nothing at all by sitting around in a courtroom all day to testify on the speeding tickets they write.
3. Cop retirement packages are absurdly generous. Most allow a cop who was hired at age 20 to retire by his mid to late 40′s and collect a full pensioned salary for the rest of his life while doing absolutely nothing, despite being an able-bodied adult who is fully capable of meaningful employment.
4. Policing is not an inherently dangerous profession. It doesn’t even rank in the top 10 of professions for on-job deaths, and is well below such mundane jobs as farmer and garbageman. Most of the actual work is routine administrative stuff such as filing reports and routine non-dangerous policing work such as issuing speeding tickets in suburbia. You could also probably even make the case that cops themselves are more likely to harm or kill a non-violent civilian on the job than be harmed themselves.
5. Police budgets are almost never on the chopping block. They are politically popular to fund, and chock full of excess frivolity such as funding to buy military-grade weapons and vehicles, wasteful federal and state grants to protect Podunk, Iowa from Al Qaeda, and millions of dollars in self-generated funds from traffic tickets and assets forfeitures.
6. The job security of a police officer is second to none. They are one of the most unionized and bureaucratized professions in existence, making them nearly impossible to fire. And those rare cases that do get fired usually have no trouble finding quick employment in another police department from a neighboring town, county, or state.
7. Policing is not an inherently stressful or underappreciated profession. To the contrary, it receives nearly universal acclaim, praise, and celebration from the public and politicians. There are hundreds of “charities” that exist for no other purpose than to lavish rewards and benefits to cops and their families. And most psychological problems associated with policing are not job-related stress, but rather mental illness among the ranks of a profession that tends to attract people who are prone to bullying, domestic violence, and even rape and murder.
srsly, much as i like to imagine horny medalists luging each other, I’ll bet a lot of these go home as souvenirs. wouldn’t you take a few?
every time I read condom updates, I can’t help but think there are a few nannies checking out 10 times more condoms than they could possibly use in order to ‘cut down on this immoral behavior’ in olympic village.
regarding the facebook prison guard story- prison guards are the slimiest people I’ve ever encountered. I’ve been in quite a few jails and prisons through work and have never been creeped out by a group of people as much as I have by guards. evil.
re: Guards on facebook…
A couple years ago, I ran into a guy from high school who had become a prison guard. I asked him how he liked it. Exact words:
“I like the feeling of power I get when I beat the shit out of prisoners.”
Charmed!
For good fucking time go to the Olympics!
For a good time fucking, hit the villiage!!!
Who needs Mall Sharks when you’ve got Birdemic ?
When Pelican Bay State Prison was being considered, the locals were concerned about the families of the prisoners moving close by and being a cause of trouble. Well, the town of Crescent City DID become pretty darn violent. But it is the prison guards and their families causing the problems.
Imagine my shock and surprise.
Up is now down. Black is white. And up next the U.K. will set up a ministry to administer New Speak as well as the Ministry of Love with Room 101.