Whipped Cream Difficulties

So, here, have some crap:

The complete “Mama’s Family” is being released on DVD, for those of you who were looking forward to this. And if you were, may God have mercy on your soul.

Burnett considered the “Family” sketches to be “Tennessee Williams on acid.”

Highly local, but mildly interesting to me, and also picked up from the LAT: Mayor Garcetti has more or less fired the head of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Chief Brian Cummings, who announced his retirement Thursday, never fully recovered from his management team’s admission in March of last year that highly touted 911 response times were inaccurate, making it appear that rescuers arrived faster than they actually did.
Subsequent Times’ investigations documented widespread delays in processing calls for help, routine failures to summon the closest medical rescuers from nearby jurisdictions and large disparities in getting rescuers to life-threatening emergencies in different areas of the city.

I don’t know what to make of this NYT article, so I’ll throw it up for grabs.

The brief summary: In 2010, Sheriff Deborah Trout of Hunterdon County, New Jersey was indicted, along with two of her deputies, on charges that included

…hiring deputies without conducting proper background checks, and making employees sign loyalty oaths. Her deputies, the indictment charged, threatened one of their critics and manufactured fake police badges for a prominent donor to Gov. Chris Christie.

What happened next?

Attorney General Dow, in a highly unusual move, sent a deputy attorney general, Dermot O’Grady, to assume control of the Hunterdon prosecutor’s office. In Trenton, a spokesman for the attorney general offered a confusing explanation. “It’s still a Hunterdon case. But we control the office.”

The paper of record is not helpful in explaining why the state attorney general’s office took over a county prosecutor. That just doesn’t make sense to me; where is the legal authority for the attorney general to just simply take over a county prosecutor’s office, barring something on the order of massive corruption within the office?

But let’s set that question aside for right now. You can probably guess what happened after that:

Later that month, the chief of the attorney general’s corruption bureau announced that the state was dropping the indictments, saying that the charges “seek to criminalize what are essentially bad management decisions.”

And you can probably guess what happened after that: one prosecutor was fired, and two others (including the one who secured the indictments) were “forced to retire”. The news peg for this is that the fired prosecutor has filed a wrongful termination suit, which has led to the release of the grand jury records for the original indictment.

Here are my problems:

1. I don’t trust the New York Times to be fair and objective in their reporting on a prominent Republican, especially one who is being spoken of as a possible presidential candidate.
2. I don’t trust Chris Christie, either. I think he’s a RINO. I know he’s no friend of gun owners, no matter what he’s saying now. When I think of the man, I’m reminded of “Arlen Specter is for winning.“. If he gets the nomination, I’m voting Libertarian. (Okay, who am I kidding? I’ll be voting Libertarian no matter what.)

So I report, you decide.