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Planet of the Apes: Firehouse “Jokes”
Pass the Salt? When is a “joke” really ritualized hazing or bullying? I worked in a firehouse once where three members decided to place pubic hair in the kitchen salt shakers. The same crew would also...
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Words: The Manchester Bombing
To Speak, or Not, of War Syrian Children (CBS News) In the aftermath of the Manchester bombing, UK government officials and the press refer to the incident as a “terrorist attack” while those killed...
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Wait, I Know That Guy
Ripping Off Sick Kids Trump Donald Trump’s ghastly behavior, his lying, bullying and abuse, have caused more than one person to say, “wait, I know that guy.” That guy being Harold Schaitberger, of...
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MAGA: Donald Brings Out the Wackos
A Lefty with a Gun James T. Hodgkinson (BBC) It’s been a long time since lefties were running around shooting, kidnapping and bombing. I recall some of it during the Vietnam war in the early 70’s....
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Safety: USS Fitzgerald Collision
A Cole with No Explosives? USS Fitzgerald This past weekend, the USS Fitzgerald, a Burke class, Aegis equipped vessel, was struck in a t-bone type accident by a large cargo carrier off Japan during...
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Philando Castile: “A Legal Lynching”?
Philando Castile Philando Castile was shot and killed by St. Paul, MN, police officer Jeronimo Yanez on July 6, 2016, during a traffic stop for non-working tail lights. CNN.com Officer Yanez was...
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IAFF and Grenfell : Another Missed Opportunity
Asleep at the Switch or Worse On June 14, 2017, a fire consumed Grenfell Tower, a residential building located in North Kensington, London, killing 79 and injuring many more. Rarely has a building fire...
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Shady Schait’s “Missed Opportunity”
Mr. Blow Writes In Harold Schaitberger What a tragic missed opportunity. Harold and the entire board could have justified an all expenses paid trip to London. It could have been one of those ‘fact...
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Fox Leaves Board; Shady Schait Kept in Dark
Out-Foxed? Recently elected IAFF Seventh District vice-president Kelly Fox is reported to be resigning from the board to take a position with the California public employee retirement system, a.k.a....
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What Would George Think?
How About a Little Self-Control? Washington George Washington, President Number One, is known to have been a man of few words. Historians point to his rather humble beginnings and his lack of a formal...
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Line of Duty: Miosotis Familia
Rest in Peace? Miosotis Familia Miosotis Familia, veteran NYPD officer, was killed last week by a deranged, psychotic man as she sat in a mobile command unit in the Bronx. Her murder was not unlike the...
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Words: N*gg*r in the Woodpile
Anne Marie Morris, British MP: Clueless or Worse Anne Marie Morris, MP Her gentle-ladyship was discussing the exit of Britain from the European Union when she said: “Now I’m sure there will be many...
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IAFF in Court: Motion Denied
Case Now Set to Proceed Pete Gorman Parties in Pete Gorman’s wrongful firing/retaliation suit against Harold Schaitberger met this past Friday in Judge Wingo’s chambers here in DC Superior Court. The...
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Shady Schait and Ducky Don
Jeff Sessions Feels the Love Sessions Donald Trump all but fired his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, in an interview with the New York Times yesterday. He said, “Sessions should have never recused...
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“Road Trip” Off to Greenland
But Copenhagen First (and Last) SAS A-330 So, it’s off to chilly Greenland for ten days but who knew that the way there was through Denmark? The Danes own Greenland (sort of) so we come here and then...
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Copenhagen, Friendly for a Price
Don’t Even Look A Church? The exchange rate is about 6.4 Danish Krone to the dollar but unfortunately, nothing can be purchased for a dollar, or two or three, etc., etc. I have given to not looking at...
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Greenland: Kangerlussuaq
The Arctic Desert Greenland Ice Cap from the air. I’ll start by observing how blessed I am to have seen a fair chunk of the world and yesterday may hold the record for the greatest single day contrast...
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Sisimiut: She Had My Number
Greenland’s Second City The population of the entire island, the biggest in the world, is just 55,000 and the majority of that is on the west/southwest side. Nuuk, the capital, has a population of...
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Greenland: Ghost Town
Assaqutaq We have been traveling on the southwest of the island, in and around Sisimiut, on the Davis Straight and east of Baffin Bay. Greenland is a place of coming and going, for at least the last...
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