{"id":7218,"date":"2011-05-22T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/may-monday-morning-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:59:00","slug":"may-monday-morning-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/may-monday-morning-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"May Monday Morning Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paid work is piling up, and neither myself, my creditors or my employers were raptured on Saturday, so . . . hey, buckle down to it and provide that good bloggy ice cream. Top o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Sgt. Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s list of stuff to blog about \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the discovery that the Pima County Sheriffs department is about as good at doing no-knock SWAT raids<\/a> on ordinary citizens as they are when it comes to protecting local politicians doing a meet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122greet with constituents from an obvious and frequently offending nutcase like Jared Loughner. Which is to say \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not very good at all, which accounts for the stonewalling from Sheriff Dupnik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s department. SWAT . . . I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always been told it was an acronym for Special Weapons And Tactics. It this case \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Special\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is more like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Special Ed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> The fact that all this went down early in May and two weeks later, there is nothing much about what the SWAT team was after, or found in the Guerena house only reinforces my suspicion that they had the wrong damn address. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the crime, Sheriff Dupnik \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the cover-up.<\/p>\n

On a cheerier note, the gourmet foodie suppliers Harry and David<\/a> are encouraging customers to donate quantities of their Moose Munch chocolate bars to the troops \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more here. Note that if you go to the linked Facebook page, they will provide another Moose Munch bar for every \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfavoriting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of that page. I like Harry and David, by the way. Their fruit basket assortments are to die for.<\/p>\n

In a satirical response to President Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech demanding that Israel return to its\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 1967 borders \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that the United States return to it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1847 borders<\/a>. The sarcasm, it burns. Finally, courtesy of Weasel Zippers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c pictorial comparison<\/a> of the commando and the hipster \u00e2\u20ac\u201c comment is superfluous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paid work is piling up, and neither myself, my creditors or my employers were raptured on Saturday, so . . . hey, buckle down to it and provide that good bloggy ice cream. Top o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Sgt. Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s list of stuff to blog about \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the discovery that the Pima County Sheriffs department is about as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,81,1,28,30,36,17,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aint-that-america","category-devil-dogs","category-general","category-good-god","category-history","category-israel-palestine","category-politics","category-rant","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}