Hey, it’s cool- my monitor needed a good wipedown anyway!
Doncha hate it when you know where a piece of music is from, but you can’t bring it to mind? (IOW: Hey, a little help?)
I am concerned as to what the matter to be addressed here is. That the officer was wearing an unauthorized patch, or that the patch was unauthorized.
“Frolic” by Luciano Michelini…
Generally speaking, patches aren’t specifically ‘unauthorised’. That is, there’s nothing that says ‘Officers may not wear the following patches or insignia: Flying Spaghetti Monster, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Where’s Waldo…’ Instead it’s something like ‘Only patches and insignia specifically approved may be worn.’
Wow. I’ve never watched Curb Your Enthusiasm. I thought it was from a Britcom.
Thanks.
Great show if you like Seinfeld.
I’ve never watched Seinfeld.
Love Seinfeld. I should look into ‘Curb’.
I’m sharing that link with all my friends. It’s freaking hilarious. The Secret Service needs a large butterfly net.
I get the impression that regular-duty police are required to wear undecorated uniforms (officially prescribed patches and tags only), because they have direct contact with the public, but this officer was a member of the murder-police (SWAT), so his uniform requirements might be looser, since his contact with the general public would tend to be somewhat limited.
I was thinking Yakety Sax, but that works better.
Yeah, I get that, I was just making a (possibly too) subtle dig at the authoritarianism of our friendly law enforcement agencies, and suggesting that they were immediately addressing the matter of authorizing the patch.
Nm
That’s the greatest thing I’ve seen in… ever.
I beg your pardon.
Can we all admit though that these people aren’t really seeking asylum but are economic migrants at this point? I would be happy to make them U.S. voters (especially in swing states); but they are now in Mexico, so if they ever truly had to fear for their lives in their home countries, that is no longer the case.
Has Mexico granted them asylum, or merely allowing them to travel through Mexico so they can seek asylum in the US?
It’s a good question, that has not at all been addressed in any of the reporting I’ve heard. No one has ever even hinted that there might be some ticking clock before Mexico deports them back to their home countries, but if that is in fact the case it should be reported because it makes a huge difference as to the substance of their predicament.
No, I don’t think we can agree on that.
Press reports from before the election indicated that about 2000 had accepted Mexican asylum. Haven’t seen an update from the last 3 weeks.
However that usually implies that you will stick around and then seek to move on through regular channels rather than continue “caravanning”.