Bullshit Detector Busy This Week

Whew!

It's been a busy week. This morning when I turned on the B.S. detector it was pointing toward Ottawa and showed a 9.5 out of 10 on the scale.

Nothing unusual about centering on Ottawa, which has the highest concentration of bullshitters this side of the American border. But don't get me started on the Yanks.

No, it seems that administators at Canada's venertated Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been using the pension fund of their rank and file to pay off relatives working in the said pension office, where nearly 50 of the sixty odd employees are relatives of the administrative team. (See my March 25 post in the Archives section for more on family run business and the Mormons.)

No wonder the Mounties are hiring new people! Doesn't say anything in the recruiting poster about being a relative of a Mountie though. Must be a typo on their part.

But it doesn't end there. Seems the same administrators were contracting out work at inflated prices. No trail of cash, at least not yet, back in to the Mountie's administrators pockets. (See my post from March 21 on Corporate Greed leading to Unhappiness.)

This is a helluva way for the RCMP to support the young people of Canada, by showing them how to be white-collar crooks. Youth suppport is one of their mandates.

And incredibly, it still doesn't end there! Accused of neptotism, the former head of the RCMP, who was fired after changing his testimony under oath on the Mahar Arar case, ordered the Ottawa municipal police to investigate the hiring practices of the Mountie pension board, then two days later called off the investigation, changing his mind, to order a financial audit. He should have known, it's only a woman's perogative to change her mind. (See my post of March 23, Why I Don't Like Cops.)

So it's been a busy week for dirty administrators, what with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission in hot water after failing to investigate its own dirty laundry.

I'm not hard on administrators, they are exceeding hard on themselves, and some of them haven't even been caught yet. Well, we shall see about that. Time to slap a couple of wrists then persecute someone who is innocent to take the fall.