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How can one story get so many points?

'Do your job, you b#&*h!' slap at cop, New York Post

According to the press accounts, from his car, Wayne Mahlkeshouted at a police office "Do your job you fat bitch".

Here is how I score it:

• The story only is a story because the b-word was used. 1 pt.
• The utter pointlessness of it all. 1 pt.
• Non-lethal confrontation with a police officer. 1 pt.
• One person white, one person black. 1 pt.
• Fat person calling person fat. 1 pt.
• Very familiar location: Bridge Plaza North at the Queensboro Br. 1 pt.
• False claims to work for Bloomberg, Brown. 1 pt.
• A gay angle which I don't understand. 1 pt.
• The arrogance of being a former staffer for a New York State senator (or two). 1 pt.
• Producing two phony parking placards. 1 pt.
• Not producing a valid driver's license. 1 pt.
• "Don't you know who I am?" 1 pt.
• The officer, Denise McDonald, refusing comment to the media. 2 pts.
• The great understatement that "this former public servant should have known better" 2 pts.
• The revealing insight into how the politically powerful regard themselves and how they regard the police: arrogance. 3 pts.

Elsewhere, some comment boxers who have looked at the story that "reasonable suspicion" does not proceed from merely yelling an insult at a cop, so everything that followed the cop's approach to Mahlke's Honda Civic is going to be thrown out, since the stop wasn't constitutional.

I wonder how much time elapsed between his arrest and when he was released on his own recognizance. It might have been a hour. It might have been 24 hours.

Labels: crime, newyork, politics, schadenfreude

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 10:29 PM   Permalink  

 
Saving New York's Catholic high schools by making them independent?

Newsday: 10 NY Catholic high schools to be independent

NEW YORK - Ten Catholic high schools in New York City and Westchester will become independently operating schools run by local boards of directors.

OK, I don't know the real reason for this. However, I don't think it is designed to break the power of the unions which represent the teachers at these schools.

As "independent", of course, there is no commitment to maintaining a Catholic identity and a Catholic character to the schools.

These schools were built with the donations of hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the pews over a century. Now they are to be "gifted" to lay local boards of directors.

Let's look at this in 10 years and see if these schools remain "Catholic" in any sense.

Labels: catholic, church, education, newyork

posted by Patrick Sweeney at 10:44 PM   Permalink