Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[Baldy]

There are 12 employees in my section who work for me...ALL 12 are women.

The Director of the section next to mine is a woman. My boss is a woman. Both have told me, even a couple of my employees have told me that our section is in dire need of a testosterone injection (male employees) to help level out all the **** drama.

JFC, some days I feel like I'm on Real Housewives or something.

Pix or STFU!

Trust me, no.

[CID1990]

This is another good reason for police body cameras

This isn't a case of heat of the moment, tunnel vision, or a split second decision that Monday morning quarterbacks love to pick apart

This guy tried to bully a nurse into a clearly unlawful seizure and when he got told he was making a mistake, he made a conscious decision to show that ER staff who was boss

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/every ... st-of-this

[Chizzang]

This is another good reason for police body cameras

This isn't a case of heat of the moment, tunnel vision, or a split second decision that Monday morning quarterbacks love to pick apart

This guy tried to bully a nurse into a clearly unlawful seizure and when he got told he was making a mistake, he made a conscious decision to show that ER staff who was boss

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/every ... st-of-this

It'll all work itself out...
She'll become a hero and get a $200,000 settlement
He'll get protected by his union and move to another town and be fine



and so the story goes... sh!t happens

[Jjoey52]

This is another good reason for police body cameras

This isn't a case of heat of the moment, tunnel vision, or a split second decision that Monday morning quarterbacks love to pick apart

This guy tried to bully a nurse into a clearly unlawful seizure and when he got told he was making a mistake, he made a conscious decision to show that ER staff who was boss

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/every ... st-of-this

It'll all work itself out...
She'll become a hero and get a $200,000 settlement
He'll get protected by his union and move to another town and be fine



and so the story goes... sh!t happens

That happened out here. They just got over a cop shooting a guy's dog for no good reason, people are pissed at the SLC PD.


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[CID1990]

This is another good reason for police body cameras

This isn't a case of heat of the moment, tunnel vision, or a split second decision that Monday morning quarterbacks love to pick apart

This guy tried to bully a nurse into a clearly unlawful seizure and when he got told he was making a mistake, he made a conscious decision to show that ER staff who was boss

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/every ... st-of-this

It'll all work itself out...
She'll become a hero and get a $200,000 settlement
He'll get protected by his union and move to another town and be fine



and so the story goes... sh!t happens

If those guys had worked at my old department they'd be flipping burgers now


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[HI54UNI]

This is another good reason for police body cameras

This isn't a case of heat of the moment, tunnel vision, or a split second decision that Monday morning quarterbacks love to pick apart

This guy tried to bully a nurse into a clearly unlawful seizure and when he got told he was making a mistake, he made a conscious decision to show that ER staff who was boss

http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/every ... st-of-this

Kudos to the nurse for sticking up for her patient.

What a couple of douchebag cops.

The Mrs. and I were discussing this earlier tonight. This is her 20th year of working as a lab tech and lab manager in a hospital so she knows quite a bit about drawing blood. She can't believe the cop that did the arresting is a trained phlebotomist and didn't know about the 2016 Supreme Court ruling. The lieutenant was also talking about "knowing the law". Guess he needs some more training too. They both need to be given their walking papers but Chizz is probably correct on what will happen.


Interesting side note - other articles mention that the nurse was an Olympic skier in 1998 and 2002.

[Jjoey52]

This isn't your normal hospital, it is the University hospital, the top one in the state and one of the better research facilities. Lots of rich people donate there.


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[houndawg]

Well that settles it...
Thank you for your deep empirical evidence Joey

There are 12 employees in my section who work for me...ALL 12 are women.

The Director of the section next to mine is a woman. My boss is a woman. Both have told me, even a couple of my employees have told me that our section is in dire need of a testosterone injection (male employees) to help level out all the **** drama.

JFC, some days I feel like I'm on Real Housewives or something.

I knew that if I could just keep looking l would eventually see a post of yours that wasn't full of shit.

Had a gig as a QC engineer at a military ammo factory. Duties included supervising 18 QC inspectors, all female. Never again. Women are smarter, meaner, and they're grudge holders on scale that men can't comprehend.
Anybody that thinks they'd like to have more than one wife should have that job for a month.

If I would have gotten half the pussy I was accused of I would have died before I was 40.

[CID1990]

I manage a section here and it's all women. The only saving grace is they're all Thai women and they are extremely gracious, and well, Thai.

My wife jokes with my daughters that I am surrounded by women both at home and at work. It's true.

[CID1990]

LAWL

This thing is the author from Vogue that wrote about the bad "optics" of Melania Trump wearing heels in Houston



You can't make this sh1t up

I'm sure somebody must have already posted it

[Baldy]

I knew that if I could just keep looking l would eventually see a post of yours that wasn't full of shit.

Maybe I'll get the chance to say the same about you one day.

[Chizzang]

LAWL

This thing is the author from Vogue that wrote about the bad "optics" of Melania Trump wearing heels in Houston



You can't make this sh1t up

I'm sure somebody must have already posted it

Melania wears heels (period)
Why would anybody even notice at this point
It's been like 20 years of sharp professional skirts and heels for Melania

[houndawg]

LAWL

This thing is the author from Vogue that wrote about the bad "optics" of Melania Trump wearing heels in Houston



You can't make this sh1t up

I'm sure somebody must have already posted it

Melania wears heels (period)
Why would anybody even notice at this point
It's been like 20 years of sharp professional skirts and heels for Melania

Jeez'.. it's not like she was embarrassing the nation by wearing a dress with her arms bare..... lol

[CID1990]

LAWL

This thing is the author from Vogue that wrote about the bad "optics" of Melania Trump wearing heels in Houston



You can't make this sh1t up

I'm sure somebody must have already posted it

Melania wears heels (period)
Why would anybody even notice at this point
It's been like 20 years of sharp professional skirts and heels for Melania

The one similarity between Melania and this beast is that you can't look away from either of them


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[Gil Dobie]

Peaceful protesters in Boston

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[Skjellyfetti]

Interesting story. Didn't know this was a thing. Could be something... could be nothing...

Would like to hear AZ's or the other military guys' thoughts.

Why did one of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced subs return to port with a pirate flag?

An image posted to a Pentagon media site and tweeted by Scottish journalist Ian Keddie, shows the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, returning to her home port in Washington Tuesday flying the American flag alongside the unmistakable pirate skull and crossed bones, known as the Jolly Roger.

The 450-foot-long boat is one of three in its class and is specially modified to conduct some of America’s most covert underwater operations. That fact alone — as Keddie points out — makes the appearance of the black and white flag significant.

The Jolly Roger’s presence on the conning tower of submarines goes back to 1914, at the beginning of World War I, when a British submarine, HMS E-9, commanded by Lt. Cdr. Max Horton sunk the German Battle Cruiser Hela, according to Richard Compton-Hall in his book “Submarines at War 1939-45.” Upon his return to port, Horton struck up the iconic pirate flag, signaling he had successfully sunk an enemy warship. As Horton’s kills accumulated, he began denoting them by affixing bars to the flag.

Ali Kefford, in an article for the Mirror, said that Horton’s decision to fly the black flag stemmed from insults made roughly 14 years before by British Adm. Arthur Wilson, the then-Controller of the Navy. Wilson said submarines were an “underhand form of attack” and that their crews would be “treated as pirates in wartime.” Wilson went on to say that the undersea boats were “weapons of a weaker power and can be no possible use to the Mistress of the Seas.”

At least one other submarine took up Horton’s tradition during the Great War, according to Compton-Hall, but it didn’t catch on in the Royal Navy until World War II.

In 1940, the submarine HMS Osiris, infiltrated the Adriatic Sea, a body of water that then-Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini said could not be penetrated. Once inside, the Osiris sunk the Italian destroyer Palestro. Upon its return to one of the British flotillas in the Mediterranean, the flotilla’s commander signaled to the Osiris that the submarine would fly a special recognition following its successful mission and that the Osiris was “not to come alongside until the identity signal is showing,” Compton-Hall wrote. A launch from the flotilla then delivered a package marked “JR” to the Osiris. Inside, was the iconic black and white pirate flag which the Osiris then proudly ran up its tower before reuniting with the flotilla. From then on, flotilla commanders awarded the Jolly Roger to submarines following their first successes. It was up to the signalmen aboard the underwater boats to ensure their flags were updated with the symbols that denoted their sinkings and patrols, according to Compton-Hall.

For the British subs operating out of Malta, flags were supplied by Carmela Cassar, a business executive who maintained a lace shop supplied by the city’s surrounding convents, according to Compton-Hall. Her flags were 12 by 18 inches and “beautifully embroidered.” When the submarines failed to return, her flags were sometimes all that remained.

While the tradition stayed mostly with the British submarine fleets, Compton-Hall writes that Allied submarines also occasionally flew the Jolly Roger. After World War II, the flag popped up sporadically, appearing on the Churchill-class HMS Conqueror upon its return from the Falkland Islands in 1982. During its deployment, the Conqueror sank an Argentine cruiser with two torpedoes.

So why did it a U.S. submarine return home flying an undoubtedly British tradition? Much is unclear. U.S. submarine activity is rarely discussed by the Pentagon, and the vessels operate in almost complete secrecy. While it’s unlikely the Carter torpedoed an enemy ship or fired one of its cruise missiles, the flag could represent the success of a more covert mission. The Carter can insert commandos, deploy unmanned submersible vehicles, and likely splice undersea cables all while using specially outfitted thrusters to almost hover off the seafloor. One of the Seawolf class’s namesake participated in the Cold War-era operation Ivy Bells that saw U.S. submarines tapping Soviet underwater communication lines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/che ... ed34a5efcd

[Gil Dobie]

Looks like a couple killed her and took her baby, and dumped the body in the river.

Authorities in Fargo, North Dakota, have found the body of a missing woman who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared, three days after finding a newborn they believe to be hers.

Womb Raiders Link

Boyfriend gains custody of child of murdered woman.

Link

Ashton Matheny’s attorney, Krista Andrews, says he has been given full legal and physical custody of newborn Haisley Jo, his child with longtime girlfriend Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind.

[CID1990]

Looks like a couple killed her and took her baby, and dumped the body in the river.

Authorities in Fargo, North Dakota, have found the body of a missing woman who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared, three days after finding a newborn they believe to be hers.

Womb Raiders Link

Boyfriend gains custody of child of murdered woman.

Link

Ashton Matheny’s attorney, Krista Andrews, says he has been given full legal and physical custody of newborn Haisley Jo, his child with longtime girlfriend Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind.

What kind of name is that?

Injun?

[Gil Dobie]

Boyfriend gains custody of child of murdered woman.

Link

Ashton Matheny’s attorney, Krista Andrews, says he has been given full legal and physical custody of newborn Haisley Jo, his child with longtime girlfriend Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind.

What kind of name is that?

Injun?

She was from Belcourt, ND, on the Turtle Mountain reservation.

[Pwns]

Why am I not surprised it's white people holding up this banner?

[kalm]

What kind of name is that?

Injun?

She was from Belcourt, ND, on the Turtle Mountain reservation.

I assumed she was from the Iron Islands.

[bandl]

I cut my big toe last night while trying to trim the nail on my long toe.

[93henfan]

I cut my big toe last night while trying to trim the nail on my long toe.

Turn the light on next time.

[bandl]

I cut my big toe last night while trying to trim the nail on my long toe.

Turn the light on next time.

Solid advice.

I'm also going to try and do it sober next time. One too many scotchy-scotch-scotches I guess.

[Grizalltheway]

Turn the light on next time.

Solid advice.

I'm also going to try and do it sober next time. One too many scotchy-scotch-scotches I guess.

That's not a thing you silly goose!