I want to thank everyone who pitched in to make the emergency Open Forum earlier this week as lively and interesting as it was. Now don’t rest on your laurels, though: as usual, there’s a lot out there in the ethics trees and underbrush to chew on…
What ever happened to the Doublemint Twins? I worry that they ended up like this…
Ethics Alarms 
Anyone pick up this ridiculous story?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/politics/boebert-beetlejuice-musical/index.html
Why should individual patrons feel the need to behave when elected officials see no similar need? In an era of cameras everywhere, why are people not on their best behavior?
So I would definitely agree that elected officials should be held to regular standards of courtesy and decorum. If Boebert actually was acting up and causing a disturbance, she should be held to account.
Sadly, I find myself unimpressed by CNN covering the story — I would like to have seen some comments by theater goers who were actually there. I recall the BLM activists harassing people in restaurants in 2020, not to mention mobs harassing Republican officials and officeholders for daring to come out in public.
It kind of angers me that I cannot just accept a story such as this at face value. CNN, however, has earned our distrust many times over.
and I agree it’s hard to trust the objectivity of the news source but it would appear that there is video footage of the vaping. And it’s not like Boebert has fully comprehended in the past the importance of her reputation – her name – when it comes to being given the benefit of the doubt.
https://news.yahoo.com/lauren-boebert-appears-vaping-theater-181726036.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Boebert is as unethical a Representative as there is in Congress. She warrants no pass because of her party or ideological orientation. She’s a hypocrite and an asshole.
Funny, the opening song in the musical has the line, “And if I see you on your cell phone, I’ll kill you myself.”
Don’t they ever learn?
Dove Soap hires BLM fraudster
A stray dog comes up to your property. A little skiddish. Keeps its distance. Has a collar but no tag. It won’t leave. Put water and food out and it eventually warms up to you. Seems in good health and taken care of- mostly clean and trimmed claws.
Take it to the vet and vet discovers a microchip and contacts the owner.
Arrange a meeting to give the dog back.
Dog recoils and goes tail between legs when it sees it’s owner and tries to hide.
What’s the right move at that point?
Dog belongs to the other person…
Give it back. There could be a number of reasons the dog’s not happy to see its owner. Its a new dog and still needs time to warm up to them (just like it needed time to warm up to you), it has a health condition that’s affecting its temperament, It escaped after an intense vet visit and is having trust issues at the moment. If they live close by you can watch for signs of neglect or abuse, but if the dog looks well taken care of from the outset, you don’t have enough evidence to presume bad treatment at this point.
Well, no doubt. The dog is provably the other person’s.
But is there any duty to ask questions?
And the dog traversed 3 miles in 2 days through the city before arriving in our alleyway.
Well anyway. It was all hypothetical to anticipate. Turns out the dog was extremely happy to see its owner. 2 days wandering the streets and one day at our house.
Oh good! If it was like you feared, yeah I’d say asking questions might be called for, if you accept there’s a limit on what you can do if you don’t like the answers.