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Right Angle: Backstage (06-09-2020)

Right Angle: Backstage (06-09-2020)

Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, congregate at an appropriate anti-social distance for this week’s pre-production meeting of the entire crew of Right Angle. Thank you to our Members for funding this folly.

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My radical proposal for improving the potential teacher pool is to disallow applicants who majored in “education” (minors perhaps okay, but no more than say 20 hours, or preferably as part of the certification process). Also disallow majoring in “political science” or any “studies” majors. Preference hiring people who have majored in a traditional liberal art or science. Like English. Or History. Or Physics.
Ditto graduate degrees. No more degrees in “education,” period.

Re: members pointing out ‘bugs’…
In my previous career, one of my skills (in my toolbox) was being able not only to discover but ‘nicely’ point out bugs/errors in things. You can call it ‘debugging’ when it refers to code, beta tester, whatever.
The key – as I learned, honing this skill – was in doing it w/o ego. Since criticism is mostly seen as a negative thing, putting it in a positive light (so that you can not only acknowledge it but also correct it) helped so greatly.
I wasn’t the ‘member’ pointing out the particular bug Scott mentions, not in this case, glad to hear someone else is keeping Scott on his toes!

“The Teutonic reputation for brutality is well-founded: their operas last three or four days and they have no word for fluffy!”
Blackadder Goes Forth

I am not a LEO, so my information comes from three friends who are city, state and federal LEO and daily reading of the Second City Cop blog.
In the current and recent past, police are likely to have bogus complaints filed against them. Even if a complaint is not substantiated, it remains on their record. Often to placate the grievance groups, an officer may be issued a “caution” or brief suspension without adequate evidence. It is understood that it is a political decision. Who don’t get bogus complaints? The cops who remain fetal and do not enforce much of anything. This is the bigger problem. Guess who gets the “merit” promotions?
Those who get grievance complaints are the “problem” cops likely being targeted by SF. Every police department conducts back ground checks. It doesn’t require the city council to tell them to do that. It would require them to order them to reject applicants with unsubstantiated complaints on their records because the departments know the political game being played.
In many if not most, cases of serious misconduct, it is the politically connected “merit” cops who get a pass or hand slap. They believe their political or special connections give them what other cops call “exempt” status. I believe that about 50% of the CPD leadership are “merit” picks (polically connected, mostly affirmative action groups).
On the issue of low cop pay: A rookie cop in Chicago starts at about $90K. They still are short qualified applicants. You have to live in the city and their pension fund is millions in the hole. They are often working paid overtime to cover shortages so even a rookie can earn six figures. Most blue cities are in the same bind. Too few beat cops, too much administrative overhead, many poor leaders and every incentive to be fetal prevent grievance risk.
Despite these serious issues the majority of cops are outstanding LEO’s. You have to wonder why.
This is another “defund the police” type of virtue signaling. Check out what the NY legislature is up to.

Bill, there are other ways you can tell the new cartoons from the old. In the new ones, the timing is off and the jokes aren’t funny. They toned down the violence and it spoils them quite a bit. Plus, without Mel Blanc, the voices just aren’t the same.

Yes, but it conjures up such images as machete’s being used to hack at people who get in the way. Think Rwanda… I’m sure there’s other examples of mundane tools being used to kill/maime people… But in cartoons, no one gets killed, even the ‘Acme’ bomb technician…

To return to the isssue of Wagnerian opera: Birgit Nilsson said that the secret of her success as a Wagnerian soprano was *a comfortable pair of shoes.*

I think Scott needs to cut down on the coffee. He was practically giddy during the whole 30 minutes. I grew up on Loonie Tunes. I hate that they have decided to removed Yosemite Sam’s pistols. How can he have any fun without them. Same thing happened to E.T. when they removed the agent’s firearms and put radios in their hands. quite trying to change history by whiting it all out.

I think they shoot BackStage pretty early. They all need all the coffee.

I love it when all 3 of them are quick-witted and sharp, especially with the sarcastic reply! Coffee? Whatever it takes!

These re-boots, re-makes, re-mastering classics in cartoons, movies and songs, tells me that the people doing this don’t have any “original ideas” at all. Grr
I thought for sure one of you would pick the democrats kneeling.

I loved it that Nancy couldn’t get up off her knees without help. Talk about cultural appropriation, those scarfs are only worn for special occasions, in Ghana, I believe. What a bunch of swamp rats. Then Nancy has the gall to say that they have made the first step to racial equality. What the heck has she been doing in Congress all these decades? They should have done something during BHO’s run. They controlled both houses. Nothing.
 

Worse, it means that they don’t respect the originals. If they did they wouldn’t be so arrogant as to think that they could improve upon it. Take Mary Poppins for example.

“They” have no respect for themselves so they can’t have respect for others, or others doings.

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