you can't make this up...

This article in the StarTribune is from the day after the beating settlement was written up.  Seriously, these jackoffs are evil and there needs to be some major house-cleaning in metro area law enforcement branches.

"Hey, what's that sound?"

"Oh that?  That's public trust dying a slow death."

http://www.startribune.com/local/95194044.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU

another $235,000 down the crapper...

Another day, another $235,000 down the toilet.

Today, the Minneapolis City Council has agreed to pay Derryl Jenkins the aforementioned sum for getting the crap beat out of him by Minneapolis' Paramilitary Goon Squad, aka, the Minneapolis Police.

I've ragged on the metro area cops in this blog before and I see no reason to stop.  Today, however, the video in the link to the Minneapolis StarTribune below says much more, and more eloquently, than I ever could.

Of humorous note:  at the tail end of the article, chief Tim Dolan states that he later ordered a review "of many arrests that resulted in medical treatment."

That's humorous because in my blog post from March 21 of this year [linked below], chief Dolan is noted for the extremely low percentage of officers he disciplines even after the civilian review board forwards recommendations to do so.

http://reggiefcat.blogspot.com/2010/03/premiere-nightand-other-stuff.html


A last comment before the StarTribune link.  More than ever, I believe that committing a felony while wearing a gun on the job should be a capitol offense.  That's death.  Watch these morons beat the crap out of this guy and tell me you couldn't pick one or two out of the group that deserves execution.

http://www.startribune.com/local/95135534.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU

pet peeve #42

Ok, ya.

Hey, Ford guy.  Ya, you, the guy in the jeans and the baseball cap endlessly shilling Ford vehicles on my television.

If I buy a Ford, will you get the hell off my TV and go take a shower already?

new book from Palin? [or, One More Reason Why She Sucks]

The AP states that Sarah Palin's forthcoming book will include "selections from classic and contemporary readings that have moved her" [I'm wondering if The Quitters' Handbook is among them] along with "the nation's founding documents to great sermons, letters, literature and poetry, biography, and even some of her favorite songs and movies."

First off:  who gives a green runny crap what songs and movies this egocentric airhead likes?

 Second off: a book of things you like?  Wow, inspired.

The title is alleged to be "America By Heart: Reflections On Family, Faith And Flag [and whatever other crap I have scribbled in my palm]"

May I suggest other, more realistic titles:

"Things I Wish I Had Written But Lacked The Skill, Determination, And Intellect"


"Passing Myself Off As An Author By Presenting A Book Of Other Peoples' Work"


"Idle Vacuous Thoughts I Had While Not Completing My Term As Governor."

Note:  the book will have a collaborator.  What?!  You need a collaborator to present the work of other people? JHC on a popsicle stick!  How can anybody like you? Are people really that freakin' stupid?  I mean, clearly Palin is, but still: how stupid are you when you become enamored with a stupid person?

pet peeve #36

This isn't a big deal.  It just kinda bugs the stinkin' crap outta me.

I have this friend.  Ok, he's actually less a friend now than a blight on my memory, but anyway, I digress.

He has this way of referring to his mom.

Let me first paraphrase the way I think this sentence should be spoken:

     "Well, after my mom passed away, yada yada..."

Now let me demonstrate his technique:

     "Well, after Mom passed away, yada yada..."

What that makes me want to say:

     "Hey you friggin' nimrod, she wasn't my mom.  Unless, I don't know,       was "mom" her birth name?"

Idiot.

When he was more my friend, I'd probably have let that pass, but since he has proven to be more of an assface, not.

The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards...

OK, so I see today that SNL alumnus Jimmy Fallon has been named to host the upcoming Emmy Awards, saluting the years' best in television.

Am I the only one who doesn't get Jimmy Fallon?  Am I the only one who thinks a more apropos name for him would be Jimmy Shallow?

I didn't find him funny on SNL.

I haven't found him amusing in movies.

I don't find him funny OR capable as a late-night host.  In fact, I don't even watch it because I regard him as sucking heartily.

He makes me wax nostalgic for the unfunny Conan O'Brien.

So the question is:  who does this spoiled twerp have pictures of?