In Today’s News
Amazingly enough Duncan’s tenth blogiversary™ at Eschaton and the naming of Tom Friedman as the ‘Wanker of Decade’ is not the top story. Nor is the fact that this is the last day to file your Federal income tax return [or request and extension].
It turns out that the top story is a misunderstanding of the meaning of ‘Free Trade Agreement’ in Colombia.
Apparently the Secret Service advance team for the President’s visit, as well as assorted military personnel totally misunderstood what was to be signed, and assumed that their night of drunken debauchery at the Pl#yboy Club was going to be free. Of course when the ladies of negotiable affection and club owners demanded payment, the agents et al. were at a loss and left without making such payment.
Obviously this is going to require days of Congressional testimony, rather than arranging to pay the bill, firing those involved, and accepting the resignation of the director of the Secret Service. Despite the fact that ‘pay, fire, resign’ would be much cheaper and more efficient than even a week of Congressional hearings, the perverts in Congress are going to want to hear all of the details. 😈
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Heh. Yeah, like I was saying in the breakroom at work today, there’s a long tradition at these kinds of events of showing the flag if ya know what I mean (wink wink), but Rule #1 is, if you’re gonna go flag-wavin’, you don’t stiff the local talent. That’s bad form ugly American territory, stiffing the local talent, and will get you in trouble big-time. Especially when the local talent has the cops on the payroll. And Rule #2 is that they know Rule #1 too, so they’re gonna charge ya an arm and a leg, so ya better darn well have it or else Kleenex are your friend. These rules aren’t written down anywhere, but if you break’em, Bad S**t happens. As we now see :).
Youngsters today. Just no respect for ancient traditions. Heh.
– Badtux the Patriotic Penguin
While it wasn’t an ‘official’ form, there was an SOP for flying outfits that specified how much would be deducted from paychecks and how many grade levels individuals lost when crews went TDY and behaved badly. The squadron fund paid the bills and was ‘voluntarily’ reimbursed by the individuals.
One of the best pilots I ever flew with made Major three times. Great pilot, but he had a serious lack of inhibitions when he was deployed.
[For non-military readers: SOP = Standard Operating Procedure; TDY = Temporary Duty]