About five years ago we had a discussion here regarding the whole "E and I" tv silliness, where programs were qualified as "educational and informational" so as to fill out the requirements of tv licensees to, well, do something.
I had brought up the tv show "The Inspectors" [a], which followed the life and advetures of US Postal Service Inspectors, starring Jessica Lundy and a further cast of unknowns Other folk here pointed out that "Saved by the Bell' also fell into this category... Anyway, the reason I'm wasting everyone's time is to point out a _Very Curious_ story in DC, where a bunch of folk, claiming to be part of Dep't of Homeland Security, were bribing US Secret Service agents and lots of other law enforcement folk, giving them money and gifts and... fancy apartments. Yes, really. This had been going on for years, but was finally broken when.. a US Postal Inspector, investigating an attack on a postal worker in that building, got a bit suspicious... More info: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/07/secret-service-members-leave-apartment-scheme/9493847002/ (Lots, LOTS, of questions here [b]) [a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspectors [b] brings to mind those claims that on Jan 6th, VP Pence supposedly, when the Secret Service tried getting him into a car and uot of the area, told the agent something like "Jim, I know and trust you, but I don't know these other folk so I'm staying right here" [c] [c] which, of course, dregs up that scene near the end of the movie "Six Days of the Condor": Joubert: You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift. _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [email protected] [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
