No-Love-Thursday:
Thought for the Day:
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
(Mother is so very proud)
Guess What:
I am working tonight, as such… there is No-Love coming my way. I trust the members of this most illustrious of drinking clubs will carry on with out me. I picture them as a swarm of hornets set upon the weak, finding the vulnerable exposed parts of the unknowing’s self-esteem, driving their stingers deep and afterward buying them a drink. At least that’s how they treat me.
On the Work Front:
I am running around “like my ass was’ on fire and my head a catch'en”. Such is the joy of being out of the office days on end. However, my words were carried on all three local networks and one radio station yesterday, so once again I am famous… I roll like that.
In Today's Newspaper:
Injured ex-GI to receive refund, Forced to pay for body armor:
A former soldier injured in Iraq is getting a refund after being forced to pay for his missing body armor vest, which medics destroyed because it was soaked with his blood, officials said Wednesday. First Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV, 25, had to leave the Army with a shrapnel injury to his arm. Before he could be discharged last week, he says he had to scrounge up cash from his buddies to pay $632 for the body armor and other gear he had lost.
Rebrook, who graduated from West Point with honors, said he was billed because a supply officer failed to document that the vest was destroyed as a biohazard. He said a battalion commander refused to sign a waiver, saying Rebrook would have to supply witness statements to verify the vest was taken from him and burned. “When that vest was removed from my bleeding body in Iraq, it was no longer my responsibility,” Rebrook said Wednesday.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., questioned Gen. Peter Schoomaker, chief of staff of the Army, on Tuesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee budget hearing, and on Wednesday an Army official said Rebrook would get refunds for the $510 vest and its contents, worth about $50.
Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for the First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, said there have been at least 21 similar cases. “In all of those cases, not one soldier was held accountable for items lost in combat,” he said. Told of the refund, Rebrook said: “How kind of them.” He blamed the dispute on bureaucracy. “It’s the nature of the beast. ... I still love the Army, loved being a soldier and loved my unit. I’m not going to look back on my service with anything but pride,” he said. Rebrook was standing in the turret of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded Jan. 11, 2005, fracturing his arm and severing an artery. He said he still has movement problems and pain, despite seven operations.
Ohio mom gets 6 years in ’99 infant dumping
A woman accused of stabbing her newborn son and dumping the body in a flooded quarry, weighed down by a duffel bag full of rocks, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
Jessica Coleman, 22, pleaded guilty in November to involuntary manslaughter and six other charges. She wept quietly as she was sentenced.
When the baby was born in 1999, Coleman was a high school sophomore who had concealed the pregnancy from family and friends. Authorities say she beat and stabbed the newborn, and her boyfriend helped her get rid of the body. The boyfriend, Thomas R. Truelson Jr., 25, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to three charges, including gross abuse of a corpse. The baby’s body was found by recreational divers in 1999, about five months after it was born. It was dubbed Baby Boy Hope as authorities searched for the parents. There was a break in the case last spring when Coleman told a boyfriend about the baby. The boyfriend told a friend and two family members who contacted authorities.
More news at the top of the hour.
Today’s Bill:
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go." --From Hamlet (III, iii, 100-103)
Quote of the Day:
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remain, much like the tie that binds you:
JQP esq.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
(Mother is so very proud)
Guess What:
I am working tonight, as such… there is No-Love coming my way. I trust the members of this most illustrious of drinking clubs will carry on with out me. I picture them as a swarm of hornets set upon the weak, finding the vulnerable exposed parts of the unknowing’s self-esteem, driving their stingers deep and afterward buying them a drink. At least that’s how they treat me.
On the Work Front:
I am running around “like my ass was’ on fire and my head a catch'en”. Such is the joy of being out of the office days on end. However, my words were carried on all three local networks and one radio station yesterday, so once again I am famous… I roll like that.
In Today's Newspaper:
Injured ex-GI to receive refund, Forced to pay for body armor:
A former soldier injured in Iraq is getting a refund after being forced to pay for his missing body armor vest, which medics destroyed because it was soaked with his blood, officials said Wednesday. First Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV, 25, had to leave the Army with a shrapnel injury to his arm. Before he could be discharged last week, he says he had to scrounge up cash from his buddies to pay $632 for the body armor and other gear he had lost.
Rebrook, who graduated from West Point with honors, said he was billed because a supply officer failed to document that the vest was destroyed as a biohazard. He said a battalion commander refused to sign a waiver, saying Rebrook would have to supply witness statements to verify the vest was taken from him and burned. “When that vest was removed from my bleeding body in Iraq, it was no longer my responsibility,” Rebrook said Wednesday.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., questioned Gen. Peter Schoomaker, chief of staff of the Army, on Tuesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee budget hearing, and on Wednesday an Army official said Rebrook would get refunds for the $510 vest and its contents, worth about $50.
Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for the First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, said there have been at least 21 similar cases. “In all of those cases, not one soldier was held accountable for items lost in combat,” he said. Told of the refund, Rebrook said: “How kind of them.” He blamed the dispute on bureaucracy. “It’s the nature of the beast. ... I still love the Army, loved being a soldier and loved my unit. I’m not going to look back on my service with anything but pride,” he said. Rebrook was standing in the turret of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded Jan. 11, 2005, fracturing his arm and severing an artery. He said he still has movement problems and pain, despite seven operations.
Ohio mom gets 6 years in ’99 infant dumping
A woman accused of stabbing her newborn son and dumping the body in a flooded quarry, weighed down by a duffel bag full of rocks, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
Jessica Coleman, 22, pleaded guilty in November to involuntary manslaughter and six other charges. She wept quietly as she was sentenced.
When the baby was born in 1999, Coleman was a high school sophomore who had concealed the pregnancy from family and friends. Authorities say she beat and stabbed the newborn, and her boyfriend helped her get rid of the body. The boyfriend, Thomas R. Truelson Jr., 25, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to three charges, including gross abuse of a corpse. The baby’s body was found by recreational divers in 1999, about five months after it was born. It was dubbed Baby Boy Hope as authorities searched for the parents. There was a break in the case last spring when Coleman told a boyfriend about the baby. The boyfriend told a friend and two family members who contacted authorities.
More news at the top of the hour.
Today’s Bill:
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go." --From Hamlet (III, iii, 100-103)
Quote of the Day:
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remain, much like the tie that binds you:
JQP esq.
posted by John Q. Public esq. at 2:20 AM
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