John Rooney, Background Checks v. Civil Liberties, "TRL", Cop-tards and Big Hat Guy
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
----- Rita Dove - "On The Bus With Rosa Parks"
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John Rooney:
Mr. Rooney was in the Portland paper yesterday for his "embezz(lement)" of $10,000 from the Freeport Little League to finance a recent trip to Las Vegas. The 10/12 headline read "League president charged in thefts."
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Background Checks v. Civil Liberties:
Little League's national organization claims to conduct background checks on each individual league's president, mostly sexual predator stuff. Makes sense too....in the abstract. But of course these background checks seem to be so limited (do they check all 50 states? almost always NO.) and are designed mainly for legal reasons. So that when the Mr. Rooney's of the world get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, the league can say to one and all, "But hey, we did a background check. Nobody can sue us! Nah Nah!"
According to the Supreme Court, as far as our civil liberties are concerned: suck on it, losers!
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Back to Mr. Rooney:
I'll bet you my next paycheck....no, wait....even better...I'll bet YOUR next paycheck (since Apartment404's income is so limited, you see) that this dude owns his own lawn care company or runs some shady pyramid scheme company, so that if and when he gets this felony hung on his ass, he knows it won't cost him a cent, because he can't/won't be fired. I betcha this guy isn't sick or mentally ill (I'm getting to the good stuff, just wait.), he's just devious and a big damn con man. Rooney had his "What happens here, stays here" fling, then came home to do a week in CC jail, and will likely get off with probation and time served for a sentence. (But they're kids, dammit, man. Just little kids.)
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"TRL" and Media Mike Chitwood:
I used to have a good friend whom I'll call "TRL", since she was kind of a rock n roll grl, that got in some trouble with the law six years back. She was in the midst of a manic high when, while working at a home for the elderly, she stole (not embezzled, ya hafta rip off the big money for that, and cross state lines or something. no, she just stole.) from a few of the inmates...I mean residents. It was, in Burgandy speak, kind of a big deal. In the paper for weeks. Media Mike claimed that her suspended sentence plus probation for ripping off the people she cared for of a whopping $100, "including a blind woman" (....Oh my god, an OLD BLIND PERSON?), was "one of the most ludicrous, horrible sentences I've seen in a long time." Of course Chitwood KNEW that TRL was going to prison for a decent stretch anyway for parole violations. This, I guess, he couldn't fit into a good sound bite, so he didn't mention it.
TRL musta been a complete mastercriminal, you say? Well, not quite. You see, she was seriously mentally ill, was manic when she stole, and always (ALWAYS) got caught. As a crook...well...she kinda sucked.
And compared to Rooney's perfect crime, she is just about the most inept crook I've personally ever visited in prison.
But I'd visit her again, if she asked (BTW, she's out.). Because the difference between good people who do bad things and bad people like Chitwood, Rooney, and just about the entire Portland police force (IMO) is that she suffered inside for what she did. They don't.
Which leads me to....
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Cop-tards and Big Hat Guy:
Thnk that that shootout in South Portland went down like the Portland Press Herald wrote Friday: "As officers were let into the apartment by the woman who lives there, Dubois appeared from a back room and started firing." Um, yeah. Not likely. Either that hard-to-believe story is true or this supposedly hardened criminal can't shoot for shit. Remember "Pulp Fiction" and the guy in the back room who couldn't shoot straight? That was fucken' (f)iction and this tale is, too, methinks.
No, I think that the South Portland cops as well as Portland's chief of police, Big Hat Guy (go to page 12 of the 2005 annual report for a look at him...) wanted to get this dude for some unknown reason. So SP imports three headbusters from the big city to force a confrontation. They come in, blast away when the guy calls them "pigs" or something. Dubois is now in critical condition. The SP cop got treated for a hand injury and was released.
The three headbusters from Portland? Not a scratch apparently.
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So.....who do YOU think fired first?
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Edited 10/14/06 and 10/15/06. As always don't blame me, blame my editor for the misspellings and awkward phrasing. He can be emailed at russcousy.editor@blogspot.com.
Followup 10/15/06: Not a word in the paper about Mr. Rooney since the initial story. Christ, when TRL got nabbed, it was like they caught the Brinks bandits. But I guess he was a sort of "President", and she was.....not.
I'll never be through with my life.
----- Rita Dove - "On The Bus With Rosa Parks"
=====================================
John Rooney:
Mr. Rooney was in the Portland paper yesterday for his "embezz(lement)" of $10,000 from the Freeport Little League to finance a recent trip to Las Vegas. The 10/12 headline read "League president charged in thefts."
=====================================
Background Checks v. Civil Liberties:
Little League's national organization claims to conduct background checks on each individual league's president, mostly sexual predator stuff. Makes sense too....in the abstract. But of course these background checks seem to be so limited (do they check all 50 states? almost always NO.) and are designed mainly for legal reasons. So that when the Mr. Rooney's of the world get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, the league can say to one and all, "But hey, we did a background check. Nobody can sue us! Nah Nah!"
According to the Supreme Court, as far as our civil liberties are concerned: suck on it, losers!
================================
Back to Mr. Rooney:
I'll bet you my next paycheck....no, wait....even better...I'll bet YOUR next paycheck (since Apartment404's income is so limited, you see) that this dude owns his own lawn care company or runs some shady pyramid scheme company, so that if and when he gets this felony hung on his ass, he knows it won't cost him a cent, because he can't/won't be fired. I betcha this guy isn't sick or mentally ill (I'm getting to the good stuff, just wait.), he's just devious and a big damn con man. Rooney had his "What happens here, stays here" fling, then came home to do a week in CC jail, and will likely get off with probation and time served for a sentence. (But they're kids, dammit, man. Just little kids.)
=================================
"TRL" and Media Mike Chitwood:
I used to have a good friend whom I'll call "TRL", since she was kind of a rock n roll grl, that got in some trouble with the law six years back. She was in the midst of a manic high when, while working at a home for the elderly, she stole (not embezzled, ya hafta rip off the big money for that, and cross state lines or something. no, she just stole.) from a few of the inmates...I mean residents. It was, in Burgandy speak, kind of a big deal. In the paper for weeks. Media Mike claimed that her suspended sentence plus probation for ripping off the people she cared for of a whopping $100, "including a blind woman" (....Oh my god, an OLD BLIND PERSON?), was "one of the most ludicrous, horrible sentences I've seen in a long time." Of course Chitwood KNEW that TRL was going to prison for a decent stretch anyway for parole violations. This, I guess, he couldn't fit into a good sound bite, so he didn't mention it.
TRL musta been a complete mastercriminal, you say? Well, not quite. You see, she was seriously mentally ill, was manic when she stole, and always (ALWAYS) got caught. As a crook...well...she kinda sucked.
And compared to Rooney's perfect crime, she is just about the most inept crook I've personally ever visited in prison.
But I'd visit her again, if she asked (BTW, she's out.). Because the difference between good people who do bad things and bad people like Chitwood, Rooney, and just about the entire Portland police force (IMO) is that she suffered inside for what she did. They don't.
Which leads me to....
===================================
Cop-tards and Big Hat Guy:
Thnk that that shootout in South Portland went down like the Portland Press Herald wrote Friday: "As officers were let into the apartment by the woman who lives there, Dubois appeared from a back room and started firing." Um, yeah. Not likely. Either that hard-to-believe story is true or this supposedly hardened criminal can't shoot for shit. Remember "Pulp Fiction" and the guy in the back room who couldn't shoot straight? That was fucken' (f)iction and this tale is, too, methinks.
No, I think that the South Portland cops as well as Portland's chief of police, Big Hat Guy (go to page 12 of the 2005 annual report for a look at him...) wanted to get this dude for some unknown reason. So SP imports three headbusters from the big city to force a confrontation. They come in, blast away when the guy calls them "pigs" or something. Dubois is now in critical condition. The SP cop got treated for a hand injury and was released.
The three headbusters from Portland? Not a scratch apparently.
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So.....who do YOU think fired first?
==================================
Edited 10/14/06 and 10/15/06. As always don't blame me, blame my editor for the misspellings and awkward phrasing. He can be emailed at russcousy.editor@blogspot.com.
Followup 10/15/06: Not a word in the paper about Mr. Rooney since the initial story. Christ, when TRL got nabbed, it was like they caught the Brinks bandits. But I guess he was a sort of "President", and she was.....not.
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