And the beat goes on...

Wow, just CNN alone has enough on the front page to make one despair for the state of our law enforcement apparatus.

We have a man locked away and forgotten by the DEA for 5 days being rightfully awarded over 4 million dollars.  They forgot about him, likely in a "I thought you processed him" fiasco. The agent in charge of the office stated that he held his employees to "High Standards", but I doubt so much as a single agent will be formerly reprimanded for this incident.  Business as usual.  Also, I notice, once again, that President Obama and Al Sharpton were strangely silent on the revelation that a member of a racial minority was unlawfully imprisoned and effectively left to die.  I guess it only counts for the right racial minorities.

Then we have a man looking for something in his car (located in his own driveway) after returning home late.  Deputies responding to a call of a possible car thief confront the man in his darkened carport and shot the unarmed individual after (according to a witness) less than 30 seconds of contact.  15 shots were fired and only two hit the victim.  The sheriff is already making statements to the press indicating that the victim was possibly drunk or high, not even vaguely entertaining the thought that his officers may have jumped the gun a bit.  This is my shocked face.

And finally we get back to our favorite subject, the TSA.  A three year report card:  9000 violations. The TSA thinks this isn't a problem.  Unfortunately, the rest of us that have to live through the farce that is security theater really take a less charitable view.  Their job is (supposedly) to keep us safe, and when agents are caught stealing, sleeping and otherwise abusing their position, we want to know what our tax dollars are really being used for.  I guess they were too busy harassing Peter Mayhew about his cane.

Really, its days like this that make me wonder why I got out of bed...