General Idiocy

I could speak on the Constitutionality - or lack thereof - that is inherent in a Sheriff checking IDs before a person can enter a storm shelter.

But instead I'll point out that Tinhorn McUnchristian here has - like so many others in America's militarized police army - awarded himself four, count them, four stars.

It only actually takes one star to be called "General", but this "man among men" has theoretically so distinguished himself down there in Dogpatch County as to have managed the second star, then for yet more brave deeds, the third, and then for who knows how many valorous acts later, the fourth.

Ahh, if only I could sit with him a spell, perhaps rocking on a porch with some lemonade, and here tell his tales of the Invasion of the Drunk Drivers or the Night of the Living Wife-Beaters. Maybe if he was of a mind, he could show me some of his battle scars from that time Jimmy McBumpkin didn't want to pay his traffic citation.

I will pray that he has not acquired PTSD in his long climb up the ladder of rank.

Uh huh.

What's even more impressively idiotic about this is when it's remembered that it used to be that to be just a Colonel - a rank below that of a one star Brigadier General - you used to have to be sufficiently well off to equip and provision 500 men.

I am some how sensing that his deputy/soldiers are not paid for out of his own pocket. And that he is not serving for love of God and Country.

In any case, the fourth amendment has been suspended down there now, so if you've a ton of parking tickets, but fear flooded out jails where the guards will abandon you to seek safety, then you'd best just brace yourself.

Apparently it's the death penalty for such offenses now.