JJ - Thanks. Actually, Bricker isn’t a bad guy, just younger.
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.
I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history’s pocket change. Courage is history’s true currency. Charleton Heston
*yamo: I grew up in NYC. Was mugged 8 or so times never by a white guy. I used to think kinda like Cap Ed. Have lived in a white state for 14 years. Most of the violent/street level crime is committed by whites. Just got mugged by a white teen. *
Just curious: do you walk down bad streets or something? I’ve lived in the DC area for 14 years, and have only been the victim of two crime, both car-related.
The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.
Address only the issue of news coverage: I remember the Colin Ferguson murders and trial – well that made national headlines didn’t it? I’m in the D.C. area and recall reading about the Senate aide, too. don’t know if that went national. I think the major factor in what gets reported is how heinous/gruesome the crime is, how public, and how many are killed. A dragging death is pretty rare and pretty gruesome. There was a dragging death in this area about 5 years ago - two black men carjacked a woman’s car while her baby was still in the back seat - reaching in get the baby, her arm got caught in the seat belt, but the men kept driving and dragged her for about a mile (she was Asian although I don’t think in this instance race had anything to do with it.) Did that get reported in your newspapers? I bet it did. Here (D.C. area)there are newspaper reports almost every day of black-on-black crime - mostly drug related. Okay, so a couple blacks kill another black over a drug deal - big deal - it gets a small blurb in the Washington Post and certainly not considered worth reporting by other papers. But a black guy charges into the D.C. subway system and kills 6 passengers (regardless of race) - yes, it’ll get front page coverage and, I bet, national.
This alone is enough to prove that “Captain Ed” hasn’t even been in the Navy, much less is a senior Commissioned Officer.
“BZ” means “Bravo Zulu” which is Navy jargon for “Good Job.” It’s quite commonly used to compliment someone for a good job.
And this particular posting (mine), is froma Personnelman First Class who’s transferring to the Fleet Reserve on February 29, 2000.
BTW, “BZ” to Rick for helping to expose yet another imposter!
Please be so kind as to edit “froma” in my posting above to “from a” so it reads correctly.
Cheers!
-Chip
OMG! I actually checked the Commissioned Officers Register this afternoon and it does, in fact, show an individual listed there under the name “Captain Ed” says is his. Shows he was born in 1931 and retired in 1968 (or 1969, I was in shock actually seeing the name listed).
So, one of two things is possible:
(1) Someone’s having a whale of a good time using the LCDR’s name (which probably isn’t all that much fun),
or
(2) Contrary to some posters’ opinions about me, I am able to admit my mistakes and that particular banned poster is really who & what he said he is. If “Captain Ed” is really that retired LCDR, then he’s one of the biggest bigots I’ve encountered in my life and thank heaven he’s retired. I bet it was a hell of a good time being a minority under his command.