Comments on: Gamblers Unanimous

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 20 May 2012 02:48:52 +0000

I knew it was too obvious to be original with me. But if there’s any person more easily amused than you, BadTux, I am that person…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:20:19 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

That was a terrible pun, and it only applies to certain people who are natives of the City, not state of New York.

Plum Island was a test site for nasty things like anthrax, not currently a prison, but the same isolation factors that make it suitable for testing that involves highly contagious diseases in animals, would make it a good place to send sociopaths – isolate the infection. I don’t believe it is currently being used for anything, but the land may well be contaminated forever, so it is available [until it sinks beneath the ocean as sea level rises].

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:17:25 +0000

Steve, even New Yawkers refer to it as Lawn Guy Land. Go take a gander at Alternate Brain one of these days, it’s on my blogroll, one of the guys is a vet who lives on Lawn Guy Land and occasionally spells it that way :).

– Badtux the Easily Amused Penguin

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:00 +0000

They don’t make people any more deep-down honest than our lawn guy, so he would never be sent to the prison. But if he ever moved to the NY area, I’m pretty sure he would move to (ahem) Lawn Guy Land…

Seriously… to a Texan’s ear, that’s exactly what that name sounds like when spoken by a NY native: the “g” begins the second syllable.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:33:32 +0000

In reply to Badtux. We should 'retire' him to Plum Island. If it was good enough for Hannibal Lecter, it should be good enough for Jamie Dimon. The financiers with homes in the Hamptons can see the site of their 'retirement village' in Long Island Sound.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:35:34 +0000

Accountability is for the little people. Rip off millions of Americans by selling liar loans to their pension funds as “prime AAA-rated good-as-Treasuries bonds”? Still there, on the job. You see the same thing whenever underlings misbehave in modern military units or police departments. The leadership never gets any consequences, and it is also rare that the underlings get any consequences. The generals who encouraged “enhanced interrogations” that led to Abu Ghraib? Got promoted, while the “few bad apples” got the accountability stick. The police chief whose cop kicked a pregnant lady in the stomach then lied about it? Still on the job. Accountability? There is none. If you have the right people behind you — people with lots of money or lots of guns — you can do anything you want, with no repercussions at all.

The casino has been rigged, alright. My guess is that Jamie will end up getting a multi-million dollar golden parachute and retire to some extradition-free island vacation paradise.

– Badtux the Disgusted Penguin