While The Cat’s Away The Mice Do Play Sunday Post for October 5, 2014

A pit bull owner whose dogs mauled to death a woman taking her morning stroll was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for second-degree murder Friday.

The case against Alex Donald Jackson was one of the few in which a dog owner has been charged with murder for failing to control pets known to be dangerous.

Pamela Devitt, a 63-year-old retiree, was on the home stretch of her daily walk in the high-desert town of Littlerock in May 2013 when four of Jackson’s dogs leaped a fence and attacked her in the street.

Rogue

 

 

October 4, 2014             

Departed Secret Service director Julia Pierson wanted the Secret Service to become more like Disney World – more welcoming. Omar Gonzales felt welcome enough to dash through the unlocked front door of the White House with a knife. Former Director Pierson has a legacy. In fact the new culture seems to be taking hold throughout the federal bureaucracy.

Peggy Noonan calls the attitude “the new bureaucratic brazenness”. Actually not so much welcoming as we don’t give a damn what you think.

Everything sounds like propaganda. That will happen when government becomes too huge, too present and all-encompassing. Everything almost every level of government says now has the terrible, insincere, lying sound of The Official Line, which no one on the inside, or outside, believes. The other day, during the big Centers for Disease Control news conference on the Dallas Ebola case, a man from one of the health agencies insisted in burly (and somehow self-satisfied) tones that the nation’s health is his group’s No. 1 priority. And I thought, just like a normal person, “No, your No. 1 priority is to forestall a sense of panic. To do that you’ll say what you need to say. Your second priority, connected to the first, is to assert the excellence and competence of the agency with which you are associated. Your third priority is to keep the public safe.”

I like my Grumpy character – Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Since Obama threw him under the bus I drew him with tire tracks on his back. Too bad he’s facing you.

 

Rogue 

 

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) –

A man driving a van full of stolen doughnuts led police on a chase through southeast Portland before he eventually stopped, put his hands out the window and dropped a pastry from his hands, according to police.

The chase took place after a delivery driver for Donut Land stopped his van on Southwest Fifth Avenue in downtown Portland so he could make a delivery of pastries.

He left the 2004 Chevy Astro van unlocked with the keys inside, and at some point it was stolen.

As a Portland police officer was taking the report, another officer spotted the stolen van heading east on Powell Boulevard across the river.

The officer activated his overhead lights as he positioned his patrol car behind the van, but the driver – later identified as 34-year-old Peter Johansen – didn’t stop and led the officer on a chase.

After about two miles, Johansen pulled over at Southeast 59th Avenue and Mall Street, and the officer began to give him commands to put both his hands out the window.

Johansen “put his hands out the window and the officer observed a pastry fall from the suspect’s hands,” police said.

He was arrested without incident and booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, theft and attempt to elude.

The Donut Land van had doughnuts littered all over the inside of the van, but there was no damage to the vehicle itself.

 

Rogue