GO THE FUCK AWAY! Police department legend includes one story, apocryphal perhaps, in which a class of trainees searching one quadrant of the park for a missing person was reminded by a Southwestern District shift commander, with tongue planted in cheek, that they were looking for one body in particular: "If you go grabbing at every one you find, we'll be here all day."
I was starting to be disappointed in the otherwise estimable F$F with her heading "No offense to Tulsa, but.." when I though she was going to mention Albert Kelly - the Pruitt aide whom the FDIC banned from the banking industry for life. Turns out it was my bad because F$F actually referenced him in a previous paragraph.
But before yesterday, I'd never heard of Kelly, although as a Tulsan, I certainly know about Spiritbank. And I read the paper every day and they have some great reporters down to the Tulsa World but I don't recall anything about Kelly. I guess there's so much fuckery going on here that it wasn't on their radar.
I don't know about you, but the next resume I write to apply for a banking job will include the FDIC's phrase in their ruling about Kelly: “unfitness to serve as a director, officer, person participating in the conduct of the affairs or as an institution-affiliated party of the Bank, any other insured depository institution.” Yep, that sure sounds like a Trump appointee.
Interestingly, Kelly was hired to be the director of the Superfund cleanup process. And sure, you may scoff that he has no experience (see above Trump apointee) in the old ecological thing, but he did make several sweetheart loans to Pruitt - so 'nuff said...
On the other hand, it might be a kind of an "out-of-the box" appointment since Oklahoma has more than it's share of Superfund sites - what with the mining and oil and general industrial fuckery. I mean, Oklahoma's current tourism motto is "Come See For Yourself." I imagine Kelly's take on that would be: "Come for the cadmium and iron, stay for the hexavalent chromium (an actual thing)"
But the best part of the whole Kelly thing is the motto of his family (evangelicals, natch) that founded Spiritbank: our mission is "the ministry of banking." You may now gag at your leisure...
Until I read FDF's post I had blocked it out of my mind for years after missing the event where all the clothes and props used for the show were auctioned off to the public.
ESPN's GriftCenter host, interviewing the coach of the DC Swamp Slugs:
"Mick Mulvaney had pulled out ahead for a bit, with his admission to bankers about quid-pro-quo meetings, but then Pruitt really stepped on the gas!"
"I couldn't agree more. And unless Ben Carson gets caught selling Propecia pilfered from Trump's stash on the black market, he's never going to take the grift lead again."
'No man can serve two masters: for either he: will hate the one, and love the other; or else: he will hold to the one, and despise the other,: Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' Did I fucking STUTTER?- Yeshua ben Yusef
...And if you try to pin him down on his crimes, he just puts that "did I err?" expression on his face like he's trying to look like one of Memaw's Hummel figurines. I'm sure that got him off the hook all the time when he was six.
I had a longer version in the open thread yesterday that kept that:
It ain't so much a question of knowin' what to doI knowed what's right an' wrong since I've been tenI've heard a lot of stories and I reckon they're trueAbout how money corrupts all menI know I musn't fall into the pitBut when I'm offered a dollarI ferget!
I'm just a guy who cain't say noI'm in a terrible fixI always say 'come on, let's go'Just when I oughta say 'nix'
When a person tries to bribe a guyI know he oughta give his face a smack!But as soon as someone grifts meI somehow sorta want to kiss his ass!
Do you give lessons? Some small and carefully guarded part of myself still chooses to see the good in people.
I loved Homicide, Life On The Streets. Do you know if anyone is streaming episodes? I've never been able to find it, even on DVD.
I was starting to be disappointed in the otherwise estimable F$F with her heading "No offense to Tulsa, but.." when I though she was going to mention Albert Kelly - the Pruitt aide whom the FDIC banned from the banking industry for life. Turns out it was my bad because F$F actually referenced him in a previous paragraph.
But before yesterday, I'd never heard of Kelly, although as a Tulsan, I certainly know about Spiritbank. And I read the paper every day and they have some great reporters down to the Tulsa World but I don't recall anything about Kelly. I guess there's so much fuckery going on here that it wasn't on their radar.
I don't know about you, but the next resume I write to apply for a banking job will include the FDIC's phrase in their ruling about Kelly: “unfitness to serve as a director, officer, person participating in the conduct of the affairs or as an institution-affiliated party of the Bank, any other insured depository institution.” Yep, that sure sounds like a Trump appointee.
Interestingly, Kelly was hired to be the director of the Superfund cleanup process. And sure, you may scoff that he has no experience (see above Trump apointee) in the old ecological thing, but he did make several sweetheart loans to Pruitt - so 'nuff said...
On the other hand, it might be a kind of an "out-of-the box" appointment since Oklahoma has more than it's share of Superfund sites - what with the mining and oil and general industrial fuckery. I mean, Oklahoma's current tourism motto is "Come See For Yourself." I imagine Kelly's take on that would be: "Come for the cadmium and iron, stay for the hexavalent chromium (an actual thing)"
But the best part of the whole Kelly thing is the motto of his family (evangelicals, natch) that founded Spiritbank: our mission is "the ministry of banking." You may now gag at your leisure...
The man has staying power.
*fishes a well-worn copy of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist from his pocket**moves through the list**nods intermittently*
Until I read FDF's post I had blocked it out of my mind for years after missing the event where all the clothes and props used for the show were auctioned off to the public.
Yes, you read that right.
ESPN's GriftCenter host, interviewing the coach of the DC Swamp Slugs:
"Mick Mulvaney had pulled out ahead for a bit, with his admission to bankers about quid-pro-quo meetings, but then Pruitt really stepped on the gas!"
"I couldn't agree more. And unless Ben Carson gets caught selling Propecia pilfered from Trump's stash on the black market, he's never going to take the grift lead again."
'No man can serve two masters: for either he: will hate the one, and love the other; or else: he will hold to the one, and despise the other,: Ye cannot serve God and mammon.' Did I fucking STUTTER?- Yeshua ben Yusef
I'm just a shill who cain't say noto any old pollutin' lobbyist I know--Scott Pruitt "Oklahoma"
...And if you try to pin him down on his crimes, he just puts that "did I err?" expression on his face like he's trying to look like one of Memaw's Hummel figurines. I'm sure that got him off the hook all the time when he was six.
What else do you expect when we foster a system that is specifically designed for sociopaths to excel at?
Doesn't it increasingly seem likely that Pruitt is all mobbed up and is trying to protect himself from them and/or Putin's folk?
Wow.
I really, really loved that show.
You're missing the best bit:
It ain't so much a question of not knowin' whut to do I knowed what's right an' wrong since I've been ten.
Scott Pruitt knows and then does what he does.
Just remember, there's a Judas in the Hummel Last Supper.
I had a longer version in the open thread yesterday that kept that:
It ain't so much a question of knowin' what to doI knowed what's right an' wrong since I've been tenI've heard a lot of stories and I reckon they're trueAbout how money corrupts all menI know I musn't fall into the pitBut when I'm offered a dollarI ferget!
I'm just a guy who cain't say noI'm in a terrible fixI always say 'come on, let's go'Just when I oughta say 'nix'
When a person tries to bribe a guyI know he oughta give his face a smack!But as soon as someone grifts meI somehow sorta want to kiss his ass!
--Scott Pruitt, "I Cain't Say No" from Oklahoma