Quote of the Day – Sean Parnell (11/11/2013)

“I’d learned that the strongest thing a leader can do once his men entrust power to him is to put it back into their hands.”

Sean Parnell – Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan; Page 351

February 2013


[Presented without further comment.  It applies to many aspects.  I recommend reading their story, it’s a good one. -B]

 

Saved from the dust bin of history…

Coworker had this stuff stashed on old reel to reel tapes.  He recently digitized it for our enjoyment.

I told him after listening to it it’s totally going on the blog.  They’re hilarious.

FYI: That was my coworker and Tim and they turned on the recorder.

Some Names Cleared…

I got an email today providing an update to a SSCC back in Nov 2011.  Earlier this year the men were cleared and the details indicate someone else really deserved the label.

Garrett has always claimed he was fired, along with five other officers who were either terminated or demoted, by then Police Chief Steve Graham for retaliation to a complaint they made against him to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in October 2009.

Garrett got some redemption this week when an arbitrator ruled in his favor, determining he did not lie and “the city did not have just cause to discharge (him).” The retaliation claim, however, was not validated based on the time lapse between the two events.

Ends up the Police Chief was no shining star and some of the men tried to call him on it.

That said, the way to get me to update an incident in the count is NOT to call me a “F–kin’ loser”.  Seriously.  I won’t repost the whole thread as he apologized at the end, but seriously folks not a way to get me to even pay attention to your email.

Accountabilibuddable – David Bisard

Via Tam I saw this and it made me feel a little bit better.

Suspended (and now soon-to-be Former) IMPD officer David “Bottles” Bisard has just been found guilty on all charges by a jury of his peers.

Now I’m not happy still for a couple of reasons.

  1. Took way too long.
  2. Still kept his job until the verdict was found.

Seriously, WTFO!?  Name me one other job in the world where they wouldn’t have canned your ass for doing something like that?  Heck, many employers will fire you if you’re charged with a felony.  “Come back after the not guilty verdict.”  They don’t want the publicity black eye, yet in law enforcement land they get a free pass because “COP”.

Not to mention the many other issues, honestly I don’t trust law enforcement anymore.  They have too many laws protecting them so they can get away with murder.  Seriously, they can kill you and as long as they’re in uniform most likely they will get away with it as long as it wasn’t “premeditated”.

If you still don’t understand, let me just quote Tam herself yet again on the subject:

… but I can’t think of any job I ever held where my employer would wait on the jury verdict to fire me if I’d killed somebody with a company car while three sheets to the wind.

Random Earworm…

This came across Slacker today while coding…  My immediate thought was both neat and awesome rolled into one:

If you don’t get it, I suggest this for your viewing pleasure.  Oh and in the theme of Deadmau5, here’s a costume a coworker wore for Halloween last Thursday.IMAG0677

I should have taken video too.  The eyes went to the beat of the music and changed  colors.

Deadmau5 – Closer