add me to the list of people who think the NYPD does a good job. it doesnt matter how good of a job you do there will always be people in the city finding the few bad apples.. there are police departments out there (im looking at you every town in hudson county NJ where i grew up) that are like fully 100 percent corrupt.
They are not perfect and certainly we have proof of mistakes they have made, but I am impressed generally by what I see as well as what I don’t see. They are highly trained and the skill they have in dealing with terrorism is constantly short circuiting terror plots — bridges, tunnels, subways. I used to work down at Ground Zero, pre-9/11 and post (with a break working in KC during the 9-11 cleanup) and my interaction with the police, watching their training and even how they dealt with people terrified by their swat team outfits and automatic rifles and many many drills racing around the area was great.
They have room for improvement but when you look at the range of skills from anti-terrorism to managing events, protection of international dignitaries, keeping down crime here, with their skytops and other community efforts based more on info and surveillance, I think it is impressive.
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Another lesson for *rob*. Just cuz an organization is a ‘non-profit’, doesn’t mean the employees get paid nothing. Hospitals are non-profit (generally), the heads usually make in the high six figures. Same with musuems etc.
yes i KNOW that and i know that non profit is a total misnomer as so many of them are always rolling in the cash yet are always having charity drives and whining for more federal funds. probably like 80-85% of non profits in america are ponzo scams like bernie madoff
DIBS — back when my wife and I were looking for a place for our wedding, the woman from the Golden Pheasant (apparently the Grey Gardens of old Bucks County inns) showed us all these pictures of her with Forbes and his biker friends stopping at the Golden Pheasant. Why she thought that a biker scene would entice us to hold a wedding there was beyond be, but she could not have been more proud of the association. Anyway, whenever a see a group of bikers in Bucks, I now assume they are all big finance and media types slumming it.
Another place we looked at was a little B&B with a barn. The owner was a ditsy chef and her husband was a skanky arbitrage cokehead burnout. Took about a month to get a phone call returned. Obviously, we didn’t go with those guys, either.
This weekend we go to a wedding in Hartford. That is in one of those other NewEngland states but can’t recall name of it right now. Not one of the nice ones.
He was a stranger and everyone knew everyone else. Haven’t I told you what my nonprofit does? We do mysterious things.
add me to the list of people who think the NYPD does a good job. it doesnt matter how good of a job you do there will always be people in the city finding the few bad apples.. there are police departments out there (im looking at you every town in hudson county NJ where i grew up) that are like fully 100 percent corrupt.
*rob*
What is it about the NYPD bothers you, Gem?
They are not perfect and certainly we have proof of mistakes they have made, but I am impressed generally by what I see as well as what I don’t see. They are highly trained and the skill they have in dealing with terrorism is constantly short circuiting terror plots — bridges, tunnels, subways. I used to work down at Ground Zero, pre-9/11 and post (with a break working in KC during the 9-11 cleanup) and my interaction with the police, watching their training and even how they dealt with people terrified by their swat team outfits and automatic rifles and many many drills racing around the area was great.
They have room for improvement but when you look at the range of skills from anti-terrorism to managing events, protection of international dignitaries, keeping down crime here, with their skytops and other community efforts based more on info and surveillance, I think it is impressive.
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(I only sampled — on a diet.) $3.89 (not $10!) for a cone.
still a rip off. dave… would YOU pay 4 dollars for ONE lick!?
*rob*
“btw cobble, we are planning to attend.”
Excellent! Glad to hear it!
Why did this particular newbie stick out, Jester? What exactly does this non profit do?
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Another lesson for *rob*. Just cuz an organization is a ‘non-profit’, doesn’t mean the employees get paid nothing. Hospitals are non-profit (generally), the heads usually make in the high six figures. Same with musuems etc.
yes i KNOW that and i know that non profit is a total misnomer as so many of them are always rolling in the cash yet are always having charity drives and whining for more federal funds. probably like 80-85% of non profits in america are ponzo scams like bernie madoff
*rob*
DIBS — back when my wife and I were looking for a place for our wedding, the woman from the Golden Pheasant (apparently the Grey Gardens of old Bucks County inns) showed us all these pictures of her with Forbes and his biker friends stopping at the Golden Pheasant. Why she thought that a biker scene would entice us to hold a wedding there was beyond be, but she could not have been more proud of the association. Anyway, whenever a see a group of bikers in Bucks, I now assume they are all big finance and media types slumming it.
Another place we looked at was a little B&B with a barn. The owner was a ditsy chef and her husband was a skanky arbitrage cokehead burnout. Took about a month to get a phone call returned. Obviously, we didn’t go with those guys, either.
This weekend we go to a wedding in Hartford. That is in one of those other NewEngland states but can’t recall name of it right now. Not one of the nice ones.