PENNY BRILL WAS RIGHT!!!
That is the current headline on David Ranck's blog. We never knew anyone said she was wrong. Indeed, much to our chagrin, whenever we are in court going against her she usually has the correct law supporting her proposition.
In any event, some think this is important. So click on this link HERE
and read all about the pathos, the internecine intrigue, and everything else SAO from an insider.
For those of you out of the loop, Penny Brill is an ASA who works in the office's legal division. She's one of the ones who come to court and tell the judge the law that they should know, but obviously don't. (In fairness to our robed readers, it's awfully hard to read an FLW on a golf cart or at a table at the Forge.)
objection. relevance?
ReplyDeleteSo Ranck thinks that there is a job on this planet where you can insult your coworkers and threaten the boss and then just return to the status quo. Nice dreaming.
ReplyDeleteThese conversations are way beyond the Shumie/Q stuff that I like to read about.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Aloysius Blecher. A/k/A RUMPOLE
ReplyDeleteBorn: Friday November 13 1956, Battle Creek Michigan.
Dade PDs Office circa 1980
Law offices of JAB Circa 1990 to present.
Likes: fibonacci numbers
Dislikes: people who say he runs the blog.
I've been thinking about the whole Ranck situation for the last couple of days.........
ReplyDeleteand find it a sad sign of the times.
Ranck and many of the people he criticized are decent, hard working, and underappreciated public servants who all deserve better than they've gotten.
What Ranck did was irresponsible. I respect Ranck for admitting his error and apologizing, but it doesn't do anything to erase the pain and embarassment he caused unnecessarily. Can you blame Penny or the others if they never speak to him again? Can you blame the office if it take action against him?
Regardless, the truth is that we've all posted stupid things before. It's a lot easier to blast someone on a blog, when you don't have to see the person's face or feel their pain than it is in person. Not surprisingly, people keep posting over the top attacks. Ranck was man enough to admit his error, most are not. The point, however, is that we (including me) all should remember that we're talking about other human beings, people with families (including children) who may see these vicious posts. I hope (probably in vain) than the Ranck's actions (including the apology) will serve as a lesson for those who continue to attack, attack, attack without adequate consideration of the facts or other people. And I hope I'm not the only one.
BTDT
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci's 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics, although the sequence had been previously described in Indian mathematics.
ReplyDeletefibonacci numbers are nothing more than a number in a sequence that is the sum of the previous two, starting with o+1
ReplyDeleteng about
0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89...
ahh but there is beauty and mystery in the sequence that we could spend hours talking about.
Dear David Ranck:
ReplyDeleteCome Monday, I wish you do get fired. The fact that you had the audacity to attempt to embarass the SAO in public and signing your name and have the balls to admit your mistake when you have been proven wrong, shows that you are a man of principle and do have a spine thus you are not qualified to work at the SAO.
Favorite Fibonacci Fact #1
ReplyDeleteThe ratio of any two adjacent Fibonacci numbers is equal to the Golden Ratio; the larger the numbers, the more accurate the calculation of the ratio.
And Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio are WAY more interesting than Penny Brill or Fariba Komeily's work schedule.
Rump, you need to take down the Blecher post. His middle name is Garfield and he was born and raised in Sheboygan Wisconsin.
ReplyDeleteHis favorite activity is playing either the ukulele or the accordion.
He dislikes phony people, waiting in line at restaurants, the color orange, and people who drink tea with their pinky raised.
a+b/a= a/b
ReplyDeletethat is the golden ratio for anyone who cares. The number is around 1.618 which is 1 + the square root of 5 divided by 2.
I'm making money shorting the s&it out of the market. How about you?
ReplyDeleteWhere to next week? Nowhere good.
Ask yourself this: What needs to happen for next week's plot to be different? Well, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must complete a successful auction, the market must shrug off the takeover of IndyMac by regulators, oil must fall, second-quarter earnings and guidance must be decent, and there can't be any other big surprises.
Does it strike you as unlikely that all of those things will happen? I thought so.
OK. I don't know the guy real well, but I'll jump in:
ReplyDeleteMiddle name: Myron.
Born: San Luis Obisbo, California.
Likes: Pre-Columbian art; post modernist Asian sculptures and NASCAR.
Dislikes: fried foods, ballroom dancing, ee commings poetry and the writings of Anais Nin.
Blecher's heritage in the US dates back to the Civil War. His Great Great Grandad, Jakob "Garment Jake" Blecher, was a money lender from Amsterdam, who funded much of the textile factories in new York at the time.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Horatio Blecher,
ReplyDeleteBorn: Minneapolis Minnesota.
Raise in Skokie Illinois. Attended South Side Chicago Law School.
likes: deep dish pizza, ribs, Harry Carey, wind surfing and competitive checkers and tournament scrabble.
dislikes: everything NY, including the mets, Yankees, Jets, Giants, Rangers, Knicks, Nets and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chess, Clue, and most video games.
For those who wish to read about Fibonacci fanatics, try Fibonacci Flim-Flam
ReplyDeleteMost common misattribution of the Fibonacci sequence: the Nautillus shell.
David Ranck is a highly contientious public servant and very good guy who erred, if at all, in allowing his frustration with prima donna, elitist attorneys and an unresponsive SAO Administration get the better of his judgment, and so notoriously. But he didn't slink and slide around nefariously as so many in that building have done, and he did no more than any American ostensibly has the right to do by exercise of his constitutional rights.
ReplyDeleteIs it too much to hope that someone in authority at the SAO will ask why it was necessary for Mr. Ranck to risk so much just to be heard? Or, for the institution which prides itself on the fairness with which it prosecutes criminal defendants to show a little fairness and justice towards one of its own?
How can the State Attorney's Office fire someone for doing something they have a right to do, and that they should have realized would be the subject of a blog - which isn't aginst the law any way. Did this ASA lie about anything or anyone in the blog? Did the office warn him first that doing this would cause him to lose his job?
ReplyDeleteIt does look a little like retaliation for something else.