Comments on: 0070 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/07/0070/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mockingbird http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/07/0070/comment-page-1/#comment-80297 Mockingbird Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:14:23 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11592#comment-80297 That does it! I'm selling short. That does it! I’m selling short.

]]> By: martian http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/01/07/0070/comment-page-1/#comment-80294 martian Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:55:11 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=11592#comment-80294 It reminds me of when I lived in Monroe County in upstate New York. A new County Executive was elected and promptly appointed a new Director of Parks for the county. His qualifications for the job? He grew up down the street from a park. Being a consumer of a service qualifies you to run the entire agency? By that logic I could be named Surgeon General of the United States because I have had regular medical checkups, surgical procedures and take medicine for my blood pressure. I could be Transporation Secretary because I own a car and have ridden on planes, trains and boats. I could be Secretary of the Treasury because I have bank accounts and have invested in Mutual Funds. Man! I didn't know I was so qualified for cabinet level jobs! Then again, we're about to have a Commander and Chief of the Armed Services in a time of war who may have watched a war movie or two and had rubber bathtub boats when he was little. It reminds me of when I lived in Monroe County in upstate New York. A new County Executive was elected and promptly appointed a new Director of Parks for the county. His qualifications for the job? He grew up down the street from a park.

Being a consumer of a service qualifies you to run the entire agency? By that logic I could be named Surgeon General of the United States because I have had regular medical checkups, surgical procedures and take medicine for my blood pressure. I could be Transporation Secretary because I own a car and have ridden on planes, trains and boats. I could be Secretary of the Treasury because I have bank accounts and have invested in Mutual Funds. Man! I didn’t know I was so qualified for cabinet level jobs!

Then again, we’re about to have a Commander and Chief of the Armed Services in a time of war who may have watched a war movie or two and had rubber bathtub boats when he was little.

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