You are starting to get out of control with the political talk
On 2/14/2017 2:31 PM, Dan--- via Mercedes wrote:
Here's our current political cluster, of which I can only comment on in a
limited manner as my department has been involved with the investigation:
Our county has a commission, the PTC, which manages cabs licenses and other forms of paid
public transportation. It's been well known to be a serious cesspool for reasons too
numerous to go into here. Suffice to say when Uber and Lyft came onto the scene a year
ago, the PTC and its "buddies", the local cab companies, were in a major uproar
over it and did everything they could to keep them out of the County.
The guy who headed the PTC and his right hand thug were former sheriff's
investigators, to give you some context.
While both ridesharing companies attempted to negotiate ways of working in the
County, the PTC threatened them with all sorts of nasty tickets, citations,
etc., etc. to try and discourage them from operating.
So dumb and dumber cook up this idea where they get cabbies to volunteer to be customers
for the ridesharing companies and hire them out. The punch line is that when they take
the "rider" to their destination, someone from the PTC is waiting there with a
citation for $700. Surprise!
The County administrator got wind of this while it was going on due to the
complaints and put the head of the PTC on suspension and ordered an
investigation. This only pissed the doofus off, so it appears that in the
interim he gathered up many of the commission employees' County issued cell
phones and took them to an outside data forensics place to have them wiped. So
much for public records!
So now a citizen has filed suit for public records disclosure and doofus is
pleading the Fifth. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has, as one might
expect, opened an investigation, as destruction of public records is a crime.
The best part? Some of his texts between he and his minion (who has since
resigned as well) have been made public, and they're not at all complimentary
they used to be online but have since been taken down. Here's an op-ed piece on
them:
http://www.tbo.com/news/carlton-could-salty-talk-be-the-final-straw-for-the-ptc-20170208/
It just keeps getting better...
http://www.tbo.com/news/former-ptc-chief-cockream-pleads-the-fifth-amendment-over-missing-public-records-20170214/
-D
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On Feb 14, 2017, at 2:49 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
I like my wine to be a bit insouciant, jejune but not particularly banal.
On a related note, after the County Council meeting last week, at which I once
again gently pointed out what fools the majority of them are, the former
Chairman, whom we got deposed after exposing his lies in 2 meetings I set up
with him, chased me down as I was leaving the CC meeting and presented me with
a thesaurus, saying that my schtick on our FB page was getting a little stale
and I needed to find some more words to use (I think he was referring to my
characterization of him as duplicitous and mendacious, so I guess I will have
to start using two-faced liar). I thanked him, then kindly suggested he could
polish his stand-up routine and we would have him come to another meeting
sometime soon, it would be great entertainment, we might even make a vid of it
so everyone could see it. That took him aback a bit, he tried to recover but
failed. The funny thing is, I bet he was thinking about this for a whole week,
and made a special trip to a bookstore to buy the thing, and was all excited
about it. What a little d*ck this guy is. He knows we basically killed his
political future so this is how he acts now. I think it is awesome, yet
pathetic.
--FT
On 2/13/17 11:33 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote:
OT offering
When your brain knows just the right word, you can be more concise. And
sometimes you can slip in the verbal dagger without the victim understanding
what you’ve done.
*Insouciant*
When you want to say the defendants in the medical malpractice case just don’t
give a damn, you can label their procedures insouciant. Insouciant translates
from French as “uncaring.” Insouciance encapsulates the essence of negligence.
Specious
The law is a learned profession, right? So you would never call your opponent a
liar. But you might assert that their arguments are specious.
Banal
You (and the judge) have heard this (specious?) argument a hundred times. It’s
trite. It’s boring. You could say, “Counsel’s banal assertion does not justify
the position set forth in this case.” This word is correctly pronounced as many
as three ways, though the preferred pronunc
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