Detail, Pacific City photo, courtesy David Hollander.


Our endorsement.


Our endorsement.




Excellent tunes -- free! And on your browser right now. Just click on Radio Bojack!


Meter updates every 30 seconds. Click here for
an instant update.
Our complete Portland debt series linked here.



E-mail us here.

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on February 26, 2007 5:22 PM. The previous post in this blog was Google Search o' the Mornin'. The next post in this blog is Wild Oats, Whole Foods, and guess who!. Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Links

Law
How Appealing
Bag and Baggage
TaxProf Blog
Mauled Again
Native America, Discovered and Conquered
The Fire of Genius
OrCon Law
Ernie the Attorney
JD2B
The Volokh Conspiracy

Hap'nin' Guys
Tony Pierce
Parkway Rest Stop
Utterly Boring.com
The Vig
Dwight Jaynes
Various Observations...
The Daily E-Mail
Portland Freelancer
Saving James
Bob Borden
Dan Zanes
Dingleberry Gazette
The World's Maddest Dog
The Rural Bus Route
Another Blogger
The World of Today
William Bragg
Bradach Blog, The War on Error
Jeremy Freese
Izzle Pfaff
Jeremy Blachman
Straight White Guy
Furious Nads (b!X)
The Grich
HinesSight
Onfocus
AntSaint
Kevin Allman
Jalpuna
MTPolitics
The Naive Optimist
Beerdrinker.org
As Time Goes By
AboutItAll - Oregon
Quark Soup
Alas, a Blog
GusBlog
Worldwide Pablo
Misterblue
Tales from the Stump
Two Pennies
Scott Hendison
Mikeyman's Computer Treehouse
Rusty
Comentario Loco
Appliance Blog
The Bleat
Rosenblog

Hap'nin' Gals
My Whim is Law
I Count to 4 (Nth of Pril)
I Could Kill Her
Lelo in Nopo
Rose City Journal
Kimberlee Jaynes
Frances de Florida
Rainy Day Thoughts
Ready or Not
I am a Fish
Raging Red
Sarah Bott
That Black Girl
Posie Gets Cozy
Lao Ocean Girl
Here Today
{A}
Cat Eyes
View from the North
Chantel Williams
Althouse
Frytopia
Menagerie
Ragwaters, Bitters, and Blue Ruin
This Stony Planet
Heather Bea
What If...?
Superinky Fixations
GirlHacker
Pinktalk
One Fish, Two Kids...
Mellow-Drama

Portland and Oregon
Isaac Laquedem
Portland Gentrification and Other Problems
Jeff Mapes
Our PDX Network
Stumptown Lunch
Amanda Fritz
PolitickerOR.com
O City Hall Reporters
RoguePundit
Guilty Carnivore
Metroblogging Portland
Old Town by Larry Norton
Bend Blogs
Lost Oregon
Cafe Unknown
Tin Zeroes
Another Portland Blog
Mark Nelsen's Weather Blog
Oregon Media Insider
Portland Food and Drink.com
Dave Knows Portland
Idaho's Portugal
Alameda Old House History
MLK in Motion
ORblogs Site News

Retired from Blogging
1221 SW 4th
Twisty
Jim Treacher

Wonderfully Wacky
Dave Barry
Borowitz Report
Blort
Stuff White People Like
The Dullest Blog in the World
Worst of the Web
The Ultimate Insult
Scrabo's Mad World
Lancow's E-mail

Valuable Time-Wasters
My Gallery of Jacks
Litterbox, On the Prowl
Litterbox, Bag of Bones
Litterbox, Scratch
Maukie
Ride That Donkey
Singin' Horses
Rally Monkey
Simon Swears
Strong Bad's E-mail

Oregon News
KGW-TV
The Oregonian
Portland Tribune
LocalNewsDaily.com
KOIN
Willamette Week
KATU
The Sentinel
Southeast Examiner
Sellwood Bee
Mid-County Memo
Eugene Register-Guard
OPB
Topix.net - Portland
Salem Statesman-Journal
Portland Business Journal
Daily Journal of Commerce
Oregon Business
KPTV
Portland Info Net
McMinnville News Register
Lake Oswego Review
The Daily Astorian
Bend Bulletin
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Roseburg News-Review
Medford Mail-Tribune
Ashland Daily Tidings
Newport News-Times
Albany Democrat-Herald
The Eugene Weekly
Portland IndyMedia
Not the Oregonian, the Oregonion
Oregon's Future
Brainstorm Northwest
The Columbian

Music-Related
The Beatles
Bruce Springsteen
Seal
Sting
Joni Mitchell
Ella Fitzgerald
Steve Earle
Joe Ely
Stevie Wonder
Lou Rawls

E-mail, Feeds, 'n' Stuff

Monday, February 26, 2007

Bernie's totally unrepentant

I got an e-mail the other day responding to this post. The "From" line on the message read, and I quote, "SHERIFF." The message said:

Mr. Bogdanski:

Thanks for your email. You might guess there is much more to the story than the "National Enquirer" Oregonian version. I would like to have the opportrunity to speak with you directly about the issues involved. I have taken my 33year law enforcement career very seriously and have served this state honorably and with a commitment to the professional integrity of the agency. That does not mean that strong leadership will not lead to the need to make difficult decisions around that professional responsibility. Also private life decisons of elected officials are ften less contgroversial than those of others the only difference is that they are open to public view.

I have never been accused of violating my oath of office. While I do calim to have a perefect life, I have conducted myself as an unmarried (for the past 18 years) in a reasonable and lawlful manner.

Please call me, I see you are an educator as such you should be open to some honest and open debate on the issue.

Bernie Giusto
Multnomah County Sheriff.
503-988-4404

A short time later, he was in the paper allowing uniformed county officers to police a private high school's ballgames in uniform and with county vehicles, on the ground that, well, he's the sheriff and he thinks it's the right thing to do. Forget all the messy paperwork that he's supposed to fill out to approve the uniformed moonlighting, and forget that the use of county cars in such activity is prohibited. It's the right thing to do, and it's cheaper to cut corners on the rules.

If it were the county librarian doing this, it would be one thing. But it's the county's top law enforcement officer. He's not too far from saying "I am the law." Not a healthy situation.

Comments (27)

I do calim to have a perefect life

No comment, on any number of levels.

I'll forgive him the typos; it was e-mail. As for the content, I shake my head.

It will be interesting to see where Wheeler and Naito go with the moonlighting.

It's not just the typo level. He also forgot the "not" between "do" and "calim", leading to several other levels of hilarity.

He does seem to have a problem with misuse of the word "not."

So Jack, are you going to take him up on his offer to speak to you directly?

Since Bernie is probably reading this....I think it's time he looked into getting FireFox.

It comes with a FREE spell checker!

He does seem to have a problem with misuse of the word "not."

Well, this can happen to anyone, after all - recall the so-called "Wicked Bible" version printed in 1795 that omitted the word "not" in Exodus 20:14, leading to the commandment "Thou shall commit adultery".

Wicked Bible?

Around here we call that Bernie's Bible.

Forget about Bernie, he is a lost soul I have met so many people like this who can convince themselves nothing they do is wrong - they only need to explain it to you.

I kind of thought of the sheriff as being a role model, but when you start with the basic Bernie, what do you expect from spoiled goods? This guy was gone from the minute he was sleeping with Neil's wife.

I just don't understand how he finds women dumb enough to sleep with him.

I second the question: Jack, are you going to take him up on his offer to speak with him about this?

I, for one, would love to hear about that conversation. On many levels. And I urge you to take him up on it!

If we're voting here, I'd rather see you spend your available time blogging than being bloviated upon.

Jack, when you meet with Bernie, ask him for more details about his knowledge, whereabouts, concerning Neil and the raping of a fourteen year old; and not reporting it. Ask him also about the incident with Neil up at Washington Park. Have him put his responses into writing.

I agree with the last comment. Biting commentary is far funnier using secondhand information and ignoring the actual people involved. It's much more entertaining to encourage the Sheriff's constituents to call/email with their complaints while simultaneously scoffing at the opportunity to have a one-on-one discussion that most of us will never have.

Maybe I'm alone in this opinion, but frankly, I'd rather have the Sheriff's staff spend their time on law enforcement than fielding questions from gossip columnists about our local Monica-gate. Way to take attention from the real issues our state faces.

"Last comment" referring to the one by Allan L., not lw.

spend your available time blogging than being bloviated upon.

"I never bloviated on her until they were separated."

I think we need a special prosector to look into these tawdry allegations. Let's see if Judge Larry is available: I'd love to see him go mano-a-mano with Bernie.

I vote: Have a chat with him.

It wouldn't hurt to send him a copy of 'The Elements of Style' either.

Out of all the "helpers" in society, teachers, nurses, firefighters, police, no one is dumber than the average cop.

No one. Including my nephew working the burbs. Nice kid, not that sharp. Working on his third marriage and he ain't even 30.

And here's the proof. A NY police department that refuses to hire smart applicants because smart people know how boring and mind-numbing police work is on a daily basis.

Read it and weep, Bernie.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE7DF133DF930A2575AC0A96F958260

Didn't Bernie drive Neil's limo when he was out looking for girls?

"I have conducted myself as an unmarried."

Me too, Bernie. Me too.

I predict a follow-up from the Stallion expressing (possible irony alert) righteous indignation that you published his message here. These political types aren't too clear on what's actually public record - ask Karlock.

I assume you checked the IP adddress.

adddress

I've developed a stuttter.

I guess theres "no controlling legal authority" over Bernie's penis....

A NY police department that refuses to hire smart applicants because smart people know how boring and mind-numbing police work is on a daily basis.

I may be society's dumbest helper, but I'm pretty sure the article says Connecticut not NY. And I didn't see any reference to boring and mind-numbing there either. You might want to use some of that big IQ of yours on reading comprehension. I recognize its a small, petty point, but after reading your post, I don't think I was the first one to be petty. Now please excuse me, I'm going to play a challenging game of Chutes and Ladders.

It was the New London, Conn. police chief who said he did not hire smart people becase police work is so boring.

It is widely-known as the "Bernie Kerik" rule in law enforcement circles.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.html

My mistake on the city, not the actual story.


'Ol Bernie's either got a short memory or he doesn't read his email.

I took exception to his quote (or something like it) of "we be 'jail'n'. If you want us to be the Arkansas of the west coast...".

I emailed him several month's ago and said that his comments made him look stupid and to definately leave Arkansas out of it. He's not from there so butt out.

Sponsors



We accept advertising through Blogads. If you're interested, click the "Advertise here" link above, or go here to place your ad through Blogads. For assistance, e-mail me here; I'd be glad to help. Reach lots of viewers -- we're up to about 2,900 unique visits a day, and more than 53,000 page views a week (as of October 4). Our rates are dirt cheap for the exposure you'll get!

In Vino Veritas

Robert Mondavi Solaire, Cabernet 2005
Castello Monaci, Liante, Salice Salentino 2006
Ricardo Santos, Malbec 2006
Quinta da Espiga, Tinto 2006
Charles Smith, Holy Cow Merlot 2006
Charles Smith, Boom Boom Syrah 2006
Charles Smith, The Honorable Pinot Gris 2007
Santa Rita, Cabernet Reserva 2005
King Estate, Pinot Gris 2007
Gloria, Douro, Tinto 2002
Bogle, Petite Sirah Port, Clarksburg 2005
Cardwell Hill, Pinot Noir 2004
Silkwood, Red Duet Cabernet-Syrah 2004
Portuga, Vinho Branco 2006, 2007
Osborne, Solaz 2004
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Reserva 2005
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill, Shiraz Cabernet 2006
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2004
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills 2004
Hannah Nicole, Red 2004
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2005
Protocolo, Red 2005
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2006
Portuga, Vinho Branco 2006
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1996
Kirkland, Roogle Shiraz 2004
Garda, Classico Chiaretto
A to Z, Oregon Pinot Gris 2005
I Giusti & Zanza, Nemorino 2006
Treana, Marsanne-Viognier, Central Coast 2005
Fife, Syrah, "Stanford" 2000
B.R. Cohn, Silver Label Cabernet 2005
Marques de Casa Concha, Cabernet 2005
Santi, Sortesele Pinot Grigio 2006
Al Muvedre, Tinto Joven 2006
Layer Cake, Shiraz 2006
Gritti, Ca' Andrea, Umbria red 2005
Altos de Luzon, Jumilla 2004
Thomas Leithner, Zweigelt 2004
Cain Cuvee NV 3
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot 2003
Meridian, Sauvignon Blanc 2005
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2003
Paringa, Shiraz 2005
King Estate, Pinot Gris 2005
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2003
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2005
Kris, Pinot Grigio 2006
Silvan Ridge, Pinot Gris 2006
Fife, Mendocino Syrah, "Stanford" 2000
Castle Rock, Cabernet, Paso Robles 2005
Willakenzie, Pinot Gris 2006
The Show, Cabernet 2005
Essencia Valdemar, Rioja Rose 2006
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Horse Heaven Hills 2004
Beaulieu Vineyard. Napa Valley Cabernet 2004
Irony, Cabernet, Napa Valley 2003
Rosenblum, Petite Sirah, Heritage Clones 2005
Fra Guerau, Montsant 2002
Barefoot Chardonnay
Kana, Syrah 2004
Castell Salegg, Chardonnay, Alto Adige 2004
Fetish, The Watcher Shiraz 2004
Gold Note, Fair Play Zinfandel 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Canoe Ridge Estate Cabernet 2003
Ponzi, Pinot Noir 2004
Red Diamond, Merlot 2003
Mateus, Rose
Benton Lane Pinot Noir 2004
Penya Cadiella Vins de Comtat 2003
Kamiak, Cellar Select Red 2003
Anselmi, San Vincenzo 2005
Rubrato, Aglianico dei Feudi di San Gregorio 2004
Le Grand Noir (Black Sheep) Cabernet-Shiraz
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2005
Los Vascos, Cabernet, Reserve 2004
Jackaroo, Shiraz 2003
Paul Jaboulet Aine, Crozes Hermitage Syrah, "La Jalet," 2001
Paul Jaboulet Aine, Cotes du Rhone, "Parallele '45,'" 2003
Rolf Binder, Barossa Valley Shiraz 2003
Oyster Bay, Sauvignon Blanc 2006
Woodbridge Chardonnay 2005
Barnard & Griffin, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2004
Quinto do Carmo, Alentejano Red 2000
Forefathers, Alexander Valley Cabernet 2001

The Occasional Book

Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 28
At this date last year: 102
Total run in 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Clicky Web Analytics