We're the Only Ones Offended Enough

Chicago aldermen with their noses out of joint Friday demanded to know why they are searched along with the masses at the city's central headquarters for administrative hearings. [More]

How dare you not recognize out superior "Only One" status. Who do you mistake us for? Someone stupid enough to give us power?

And doesn't this just say something?

It's not a matter of giving anybody any preference. But us that are aldermen -- we are the ones who set your budget.

Forget it, Jake, it's Chi-Town. Which, with this attitude, makes me think of 1793 Paris for some reason...

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

We're the Only Ones Filching Files Enough

As defense attorney Joanne Cuccia discusses her client's sentencing hearing with the judge, Maricopa County Sheriff's Department detention officer Adam Stoddard walks up behind her, and begins sifting through one of her files, which she has placed on the defense table. Remarkably, Stoddard then removes a document from the file and hands it off to another deputy, who then leaves the courtroom with it. They don't even bother to inform Cuccia, who has her back turned the entire time. The judge appears to have missed the incident as well.

But it was all captured on video...[More]

Document control, "Only Ones"-style...

[Via Andre]

Anatomically Incorrect

Ruby Ridge - Anatomy of a Tragedy [More]

I liked Otto Preminger's title better.

[Via HZ]

We're the Only Ones Using Officer Discretion Enough

Normand said Casimir told the driver he would not arrest her if she performed a sex act. [More]

Is that discreet enough for you, sweetie?

I don't see what the complain is--most of the time when the "Only Ones" screw you, there's no payoff at the end.

For anyone not crouching down behind the Brady "glory" hole, that is...

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones Dismissed Enough

A Cook County judge today threw out an indictment against a Chicago Police officer accused of falsifying drunken driving arrests. [More]

If it's not acceptable department protocol, it's union rules.

That's why they're the "Only Ones" charged with enforcing laws on the rest of us and you're not. Even if they have to lie about it.

I want my Garrity! (Talk about your opportunity for a Dire Straits parody!)

Forget it, Jake, it's Chi-Town.

And your town...

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

Truth in Sentencing

A man caught having sex with a horse in a South Carolina stable has been sentenced to three years in prison. [More]

I can't figure out why the disparity.

Do you think it's because it was a horse and not calves that they went...uh...harder on him?

Or might it have been something else?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

The Source?

"Just because a soldier lives near Fort Campbell, doesn't mean it came from that facility," Cavanaugh said. [More]

True enough, "Waco Jim," but it does add another insight...

Interesting stuff going on at Fort Campbell these days...

[Via Ron W]

Does Padilla Shooting Mean Athletes Should Swear Off Guns?

There are risks associated with not having guns, too, you know. Sometimes terrible ones. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at yet another anti-gun "sportswriter" advocating ignorance and avoidance. Which shows how much he knows...

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This Day in History: November 5

But today, propelled by items of popular culture like the hit film ‘V’ for Vendetta, Britons have a take on Guy Fawkes that is much at odds with the historical one. Once Fawkes was a symbol of the traitor within. The people were called to be on guard against his like. No longer. Today Guy Fawkes is increasingly viewed as the heroic figure prepared to stand against an unjust and oppressive state, as a martyr and a victim of torture. [More]

Remember, remember...