Comments on: How Feckless is the United States Secret Service? This Feckless

By: JC

JC — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:37:08 +0000

In contrast, almost sadly, I was never that way. So many people, with shoddy leadership, just go through the motions.

By: hawkeye

hawkeye — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:51:39 +0000

Maybe they think Walz is such a loser that he’s no threat, ain’t worth a plugged nickel, and therefore isn’t in any danger? If that was his regular detail, they likely know by now.

By: Darkman

Darkman — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:24:37 +0000

In reply to Shire-man. Exactly...400,000 patients die every year from medical malpractice and mistakes. I just read an article a few days ago about a doctor who took out a man's liver and he died. The doctors was supposed to take out his spleen.

By: uncommon_sense

uncommon_sense — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:42:27 +0000

This is a reminder that we cannot count on government employees to protect us. Are some government protection employees honorable and do a good job? Sure! And several are NOT honorable and do NOT do a good job. The problem is that we will never know, in advance, whether a government protector sent to help us will do an excellent job or a poor job.

If I am looking for assistance choosing an interior paint for my living room, I can live with the results if the paint employee blows it–and it is fine to roll the proverbial dice. If a government protector for me blows it, I will not survive the results and I am most certainly NOT fine with rolling the proverbial dice.

By: Felix

Felix — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:29:56 +0000

In reply to Shire-man. The key is to remember our own half-assing, they days we just phone it in. Even if that's only an hour a day, or an hour a week, how many people do we meet every day? How many of them are in their weekly half-assing hour?

By: Hush

Hush — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:09:26 +0000

As my mother used to say: Some people just Do At things and don’t really do a good/acceptable job.
There is a difference between doing At something and actually doing something.

By: Shire-man

Shire-man — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:55:55 +0000

I’ll let you in a secret nobody really talks about and nobody wants to believe:

Most everyone in every profession at all levels is half-assing it and there are no true masters or experts of anything.
Occasionally a moment and a person may meet in such a way that expertise or mastery is apparent but that is just a moment. More about dumb luck than anything else.

Think about that at your next checkup or next time you have to follow some order that puts your wellbeing at risk.