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The Home Depot is a proud sponsor of the United States Armed Forces, the Olympics, and even NASCAR. Did you know that they were recognized by G.I. Jobs Magazine as the No. 2 Employer for Military Personnel according to their website. They even tout that they were recognized for its outstanding support of the men and women in the armed services by the Military Officers Association of America, and the United Services Organization (USO).

Now we know that’s not the reason why I’m writing about the Home Depot at all. Let’s take a trip down to Florida and meet Trevor Keezer, 20. He is was a hard working young man for the Home Depot for over 19 months, that is until a pin he was wearing got him fired.

Now it wasn’t an evil pin or a pin that made fun of your kid or kids. It was a simple pin that had the American flag on it with a line from the Pledge of Allegiance. It said, “One nation Under God, Indivisible,” nothing more and nothing less. He has worn the same pin for the last 19 months and it wasn’t a problem.

Keezer sees the pin as his way of supporting the Military troops overseas, and his older brother who is going to be heading back to Iraq come December.

Now he may have started to cross a line when he began to bring his Bible to work, but if he read it on his own time, it’s not an issue. A month a manager finally approached him about the pin he wore and told him to remove it or be sent home. Naturally he refused and they sent him home for 6 days without pay, and then they fired him.

Craig Fishel, talking head for the Home Depot of course couldn’t comment on specifics, but said that, “The company’s dress code policy states that we do not allow noncompany buttons, regardless of their message or content.”

Then he added the history of Home Depot and their history of supporting the military and they offered company buttons that its employees could wear. Keezer said, “I was cashier of the month and I’ve won six ‘Homer’ awards — that’s the highest award you can get at Home Depot.”

When we will finally draw a line that enough of ‘softness’ or the best way I have heard it was, “The Wussification of America,” has gone long enough and let people by themselves?

Sex Ed Merit Badge, Not In My Scouting Days

Home on the range in Fort Worth, where a volunteer mom is accused of having sex with a teen-aged Boy Scout. Courtney Sheward was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old scout in the troop she oversees.

Sgt. Chad Mahaffey said, “It was through her involvement as a volunteer parent that she met the 16-year-old male victim and a relationship began. As a result of the relationship, they had nonforcible sex.”

She was removed from her position on the local troop committee and helping plan activities once the scouts learned of the allegations.

Tired Of Drunks, Shock The Piss Out of Them….Literally

Meet John O’Connor, 46, who was tired of drunken revellers sing, dancing, and urinating against his store front.

He has decided that he will combat this tiring war against the drunk party-goers, by hooking up an electric current on the pavement outside of his music shop. He states that people should sip up of face the electrifying consequences of their actions.

“If anybody persists and continues with the anti-social behavior they’ll get a shock, they’ll know all about it. The wires are on the ground where I’m greeted every Monday morning with pools of their urine, mounds of their feces. You can see it (wires), it’s pretty obvious what’s there. There are signs everywhere,” O’Connor said.

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Home Depot WTF
There maybe Sex on Your Scouting Trip
Shocking the System

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Bare Ass-ed Busted

Welcome to Iowa, where posting pictures of yourself on Myspace and Facebook, just may lead you to the unemployment line. Abigail Keller, 27, an Altoona reserve police officer was just another in a string of people fired for “questionable” material posted online.

Keller resigned from her position in February after a local business man gave another police officer print outs from her MySpace page. She was in her fifth month of service for the Altoona department after spending three years as a volunteer officer, when the photos surfaced.

Police Chief John Gray said the photograph’s on Keller’s page depicted her in a bar surround by male and female patrons. He said, “In one photograph, she is displaying her naked buttocks or mooning the person who is taking the picture. In another, she is performing simulated sex acts on both males and females.”

Administrative Law Judge Debra L. Wise asked Keller whether she had posted such a photo to her site during a hearing for her unemployment benefits. Keller said that she didn’t post a photo of her with her “buttocks” exposed, but pictures of her “making kissy faces.”

Gray of course disputed the claim of the “naked buttocks” photo’s, because he happens to have a copy of the photo. Gray actually said, “You’re pulling your pants down. Your naked buttocks are showing.”

Keller said that the pictures were posted back in 2005, months before she was a volunteer officer and she thought the site was restricted. Gray was concerned due to other photographs with Keller in Police uniform and that these other photos would be linked to the Altoona department.

Judge Wise wrote in her ruling of the unemployment benefits, “In this technology age, she used poor judgment when she posted these pictures in albums on her social-network pages and naively believed no one but close personal friends could access these pictures.”

Overdue Library Book… Off To Jail

Killeen, Texas is the home of fugitive Victoria Rogers, 21. She has been wanted by the authorities since January 2009 and a warrant for her arrest has been issued.

She says that she wishes she could change the past, but out of fear of being hauled in on the outstanding warrant, she refuses to drive or apply for a job. If she only had returned that darn local library book to the Killeen Public Library, there wouldn’t be an issue.

Rogers said, “I apologized and said I didn’t mean to. I was floored, I couldn’t believe a warrant for a library book.”

Her warrant was issued as a class C misdemeanor. She say that she offered to pay for the book, but the city says it’s too late. The library has records of multiple messages being mailed out and then turned the case over to the city. Her penalty for one over due book… A date in court and a $340 fine. That’s one expensive ass book!

In The Navy!

Welcome to the land down under, Australia. Home of awesome spots like the Sydney Opera House and The Great Barrier Reef, is now how to some sailor scandal.

The Defence Department is investigating claims of Australian sailors engaging in a money for sex competition. Local news station Channel Seven News aired claims that sailors from the HMAS Success ran a contest of who could sleep with the most female crew members.

The sailors kept records in a book they called, “The Ledger.” They assigned a cash value on each of the individual female crew members. They even went as far as too step up the game by making the location where the sex took place as part of the game. Pool Tables and lesbians weren’t off limits, they were encouraged.

“The matter concerning sailors who were returned to Australia from HMAS Success in May 2009 remains under investigation, so the veracity of any allegations has yet to be confirmed,” Defence said in a statement to the Seven Network.

“The individuals were removed from the ship after an equity and diversity health check, which led to a formal inquiry being initiated. During the equity and diversity health check a number of concerns were raised by female crew members. These concerns are now subject to formal inquiry.”

Links:
Police Woman?
Arrest Her!
Sex Games: Navy

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Tuesdays are the sad day of the week. They really don’t have much going for them, except that they tend to be more destructive than the Plague. Tuesday we get to hear about the destruction that Mondays make. Now, it’s time for the stories from the wonderful world of the interwebz.

Story #1: Coach Micah Grimes was fired after his team lit up another school by a score of 100-0. The reason for the firing wasn’t because they gloated or celebrated and rubbed the victor in the faces of the opponents. It was for not apologizing for the defeat. To think that a coach had told him team to go out and do the best they can and win, only to be told to apologize for the defeat. Covenant School, posted a statement regretting the outcome of the blow out, “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by board chair Todd Doshier. The Dallas Academy has remained winless during the last four seasons. The academy specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

My opinion on the situation is to turn around and apologize about a victory and fire the coach for being “Non Christ like,” doesn’t mean to belittle these kids and treat then differently, because I’m sure they wanted to be treated like equals.

Story #2: According to researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found that our place in a social network is influenced by our genes. They go on to say that part of the genetic pattern is for human connection and help direct us on how to build our social groups. “I think that going forward, we are going to find that social networks are a critical conduit between our genes and important health outcomes,” says James Fowler.

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Story #1
Story #2

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