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Life Online: The Breana Effect
The “Clutch” Auschwitz Death Camp I have taken to noticing lately how many people, most actually, walk around clutching their “smartphone” (SP) in one hand. It has become so essential to the pulse of...
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IAFF Ethics: Squeaker
A Leadership Referendum The recent and rather predictable IAFF convention was considerably enlivened by General President Schaitberger’s narrowly successful attempt to line his Board’s pockets. He...
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Ethics: Just the Way You Are
With Apologies to Billy Joel Keith Kemery of the IAFF’s first district wrote regarding yesterday’s “Squeaker” post: “…While my Local’s votes were not in favor of the pay increase, we fully support Mr....
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Texas VP Curtis Dunn: Queers OK
Fire Fighters Vice President Supports Same Sex Stuff I wrote yesterday about General President Schaitberger’s betrayal of Darren Bates’s fundamental union rights. In reply, Texas Association’s Curtis...
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Anti-Racism, Deconstructed
Story of the Grateful Negro Who doesn’t like the age old narrative where good triumphs over evil? It reminds us of how the world should be and eases the daily injustices we all have to face. In that...
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Phrase of the Week
Does Anybody Edit These Letters? Mergers, mergers. Like a lot of folks I belong to a gym, in my case, The Sports Club/LA (SCLA) because it has an indoor pool. It’s ridiculously expensive but very...
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Cock Fight: Mass. FF Suspended
“I Couldn’t Take It Anymore.” One rooster and 12 hens. Busy, busy rooster. You’d be crowing too. NYDN reports that Carlisle firefighter Frank Sargent confessed to whacking his neighbor’s noisy chickens...
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EMS Study: Shut the F–k Up.
When “Quiet Please” Just Isn’t Working. West Midlands We’ve all been there before: that patient who is making the proper provision of care all but impossible because of their yammering on. Loud,...
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American Jihad: 1865-2014
The Inner Struggle The news that Moner Mohammad Abu-Salah, a 22-year-old from Florida, was the driver of a huge truck bomb in a Syrian suicide attack has caused consternation here in the U.S. as...
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The Online Schmekel*
Smile For the Camera Does our collective heart go out to soon-to-be former Navy War College professor John Schindler whose penis was apparently tweeted, so to speak? Perhaps not. The tweet was of a...
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Leadership: Some Real “Swag”
On the Square Octagon House Benjamin Ogle Tayloe (1796-1868) is the son of Colonel John Tayloe III, the man who built the Octagon House at 18th and New York Ave., NW, Washington, D.C., about 1800. The...
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Ethics: IAFF’s Schaitberger Under DOL Scrutiny
2010 Reporting at Issue Harold Schaitberger IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger has attracted the attention of the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) regarding his handling of financial...
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Ethics: Reg Wants to Know
IAFF as ATM ATM Reg Verner, of IAFF Local 3591, pegged me yesterday as a faker because I didn’t call an ethics foul while I worked at the IAFF. Actually, he’s not the only one to do it, there have been...
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Firehouse Culture: “Say You Want To Be My Bitch”
$2.5 Million Lawsuit “Hey, Sugar” The facts are basically these: Guy’s on the job for 10 years, first day on a temporary assignment, in the locker room looking for a locker. He asserts that a...
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IAFF Politics: Shit-Canned?
Another One Bites the Dust Word on the street this week is that local 2068 president John Neimeic, a Harold Schaitberger protege, has been unceremoniously kicked to the fourth district curb. Some...
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Does It Really Matter Department
Will That Be One Shot or Two? When I was growing up, firearms were commonplace. Hunting was a routine activity. The woods were close enough, out the back door, and after school afternoons could include...
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Labor Rights Are Human Rights
Yes, Happy Labor Day Should Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul all agree that we have the right to band together to fight for decent wages and benefits for working Americans and their...
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Safety: Lopez Killer Sentenced
Arthur Lopez, Police Officer and Firefighter Officer Lopez Lopez made a routine traffic stop in Nassau County, New York, in 2012. He walked up to the car and the driver, Darrell Fuller, a criminal with...
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Ethics: The MOBO No-No
The First (In Line) Family The McDonnell’s The story of the year here has been the trial of Virginia’s former governor Robert McDonnell and his zany wife Maureen on public corruption charges; they were...
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