Three cops for a speeding ticket? Arrested for having his hands in his pockets? No, he was arrested for not kissing cop ass and for telling them to mind their own business.
The description of the crime I am about to give is disturbing, but I think that it is needed, so that we all can understand the nature of the evil that we are looking at here.
A police officer in Bartow, Florida has been arrested after he went to a party and had four girls naked in his home in Lake Wales: two were 18 years old, one was 17, and the last was 16 years old. All were nude, all of them were high school students, and he gave them alcohol and marijuana before he directed the 17 year old to perform a sex act upon one of the 18 year olds. He had sex with all four girls, and even choked some of them.
He compounded this by recording the entire thing before showing the recording to his police officer coworkers. I guess he felt that the blue wall of silence was strong enough that his fellow gang members in blue would support him. At least one of them was brave enough to come forward, and for that I recognize that there is at least one cop with a conscience in the Bartow police department. As a result the police chief turned this over to the Polk County sheriff’s office, and Grady Judd himself made the arrest announcement. Judd, who occasionally does the right thing and never misses a chance to look tough on camera, then ran with it.
I know from personal experience that Bartow cops doing the right thing isn’t always the case, since one of them was part of a scheme to get me in some serious hot water a few years ago. That failed for two reasons:
I could prove with certainty that I wasn’t where this cop was trying to say I was, and in fact I wasn’t even in the country at the time.
What is most revealing about this, is that the cop thought that he would be safe in telling other cops about molesting kids, and that they would be OK with it. It makes one wonder what the police culture looks like, and how many crimes cops ARE cool with covering up.
Still, in this case, the police who decided to do the right thing are to be commended.
As empires collapse, the government employees/legislators begin to loot the treasury in preparation for the coming hard times. I believe that we are there. In support of this, I offer the increasingly blatant examples of Congress making hundreds of millions, the Bidens selling access, this morning’s story about CBP agents on the take, and someone in the Arkansas Department of Education creating a fake $66 million contract that, according to the vendor, doesn’t exist.
This morning I interviewed Jeff Jones,CEO of Solution Tree for a story airing on Monday's Ozarks at Large. He pointed out is that the Transparency website for the state of Arkansas shows they have $149.9 million in contracts with the state. Except… he says they don't. 🧵1/5 pic.twitter.com/6hcTDpsszO
I have been posting on this since 2009, nearly since this blog began.
Reagan borrowed his first trillion in 6 years
George HW Bush borrowed his first trillion in 3 years, and he increased the National debt by 170% in four years.
It took President Clinton 3 and a half years to borrow his first trillion dollars. All told, he borrowed $1.2 trillion in his first term, and $600 billion in his second. He increased the national debt by 140% in eight years.
President George W Bush borrowed his first trillion dollars in two and a half years. He borrowed his second trillion a year and a half later. Another two years, another $1 trillion. All told, President Bush borrowed $5 trillion in 8 years, increasing the national debt by 187%.
Obama borrowed his first trillion in 13 months.
Trump borrowed his first trillion in just over 7 months. In all, he borrowed about $8 trillion in four years.
Biden has borrowed $6 trillion in the three and a half years he has been in the Oval office. Now we are borrowing a trillion dollars every 5 and a half months.
The US treasury has borrowed $24 trillion in the past 15 years.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office estimates that George was paid between $300,000 and $400,000 during the time he worked with traffickers. Among the purchases George made with the bribe money include cars, motorcycles, and jewelry, prosecutors said.
Eric Fiedler declared war on Seminole County license plate readers, dismantling 22 of them before being caught. He was arrested June 1 after deputies noticed missing Flock Safety Falcon License Plate Readers (LPRs), which the sheriff’s office deployed to identify passing cars for surveillance purposes.
Note that no one in this story is asking why police are carrying out general surveillance of citizens who are not suspected of committing crimes.
When you realize you’re being tracked every day going to the grocery or church or school, and you didn’t have any say in it, it’s a little concerning to me,
Many colleges have what they call a liberal studies degree. What this means is that you earn a degree by taking whatever classes appeal to you. You take the basics like math, writing, etc., but then you take so many ‘upper level’ courses to get a degree.
What happens if you take that concept and build an entire college around it? The result is NYU Gallatin. A school where students take classes in some random subjects for a period of years and then receive a degree that is, let’s say, a bit eclectic.
These are real majors that NYU students are going into debt for. This is not satire. pic.twitter.com/rNXWhTeCrC
So how do the graduates of this school do in the working world?
69% of them are women, 28% men, 2% are other
77% employed, 17% still in school, 6% unemployed
Of those who are employed, most are employed by NYU and make an average of $59k per year.
$59k per year. In Manhattan, where there is a fast food joint right across the street serving $20 cheeseburgers. Keep in mind that a nursing associates degree in Florida, where the taxes and cost of living are much lower, sees a new nurse starting at $65k.
Waste of money, and Biden is forgiving their student loans.
The pay package, valued at roughly $50 billion in stock, was originally approved in 2018 contingent on Musk meeting various goals concerning the company’s finances and stock price, which he did.