firefighters
The cash-strapped local government of Camden County, Georgia needs to hire some new firefighters to fulfill its basic public safety obligations, but it doesn’t have the money. Hey, that’s an easy one, though: just find some workers the county doesn’t have to pay! They are called “prisoners,” America’s most popular burgeoning source of unpaid government [...]
This Ohio Tea Party group “COAST” (note: Ohio geography fail) would on a normal old wingnut day probably tweet something less terrorism-y and more creative like, “Hitler had sex with dogs on public streetcars, THEY SHUD B DEFUNDED” but, eh, they had to tweet something to celebrate this weekend’s 9/11 holiday tradition of 9/11 political [...]
The un-benevolent ruling regime in Wisconsin got tired of those working people occupying the capitol, so this week the Republican authorities brought in new police officers to enforce the new, made-up occupancy limits. How strict is this enforcement? Firefighters responding to an emergency call in the capitol building weren’t allowed inside, either. Somebody could have [...]
Congratulations to former Tucson city firefighter Mark Ekstrum, a 28-year veteran who retired last month as the world’s worst firefighter because he, according to the Associated Press, refused to respond with his crew to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. He’s officially the world’s worst firefighter. Why? He said “he had different political views than his [...]
The mayor of a Long Island village has suspended its fire chief for 30 days — because he refused to remove a crude set of plastic testicles from a fire truck. The item is a novelty $24.95 pair of “Bumpernuts” — colored bright blue — that had been affixed to the rear end of the [...]
American Family Association blogger Bryan Fischer said a couple days back that firefighters in Tennessee letting that house burn down was the “Christian thing” to do, and after we picked it up and it spread across the Internets, it turns out a lot of people, Christian and non-Christian, thought he was quite incorrect about that! [...]
Bryan Fischer at the American Family Association’s blog has heard about this situation with the family that didn’t pay their $75 annual fee to be rescued from dying in a house fire, and he has thankfully decided for us What Would Jesus Have Done. Jesus would have shown compassion, right? Haha, no, do you think [...]
