I’m Confused Again | Eastern North Carolina Now

    If you chose the wrong answer in the Fella’s Pop Quiz, don’t feel badly. It’s my quiz and I got it wrong also.

    It's words again. Some words I have been using all my life without giving them a second thought. It has always given me comfort to know I know what they mean. Then the people who are in control of my newspaper go about changing them. It's awfully confusing!

    This time it is the word "misbehavior". The dictionary defines it as...
"To behave (oneself) in an inappropriate way"

    Misbehave does not sound so bad. Its very definition above says it is only inappropriate. I have yet to see someone sentenced to death or life in prison for exhibiting Gross Misbehavior or Extreme Inappropriateness.

    Well we learn something new every day. I researched when Sergeant (he was promoted after he was returned to the Army) Bowe Bergdahl is due to go on trial. It looks like it is now scheduled for February 2017. He will be tried for...
Desertion & Misbehavior before the Enemy

    When I read these charges I said to myself... Self, why are they bothering even mentioning the fact that he Misbehaved? Desertion is serious stuff (an act of leaving military service or duty without the intention of returning). Misbehaving sounds like he deliberately kicked over a trash can as he was tiptoeing to the latrine in the middle of the night.

    My newspaper stepped into the middle of all of this and succeeds in its attempt to Confuse all of us even more...    
"It was his first court appearance since he was charged in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. If convicted of misbehavior, the most serious charge, Bergdahl, 29, could be sentenced to life in prison."

    If you are a regular reader of my Foolishness, you know that I sometimes am very good with words. In response to the use of the words "misbehavior, the most serious charge" above I am left with... Huh?

    If “Huh?” is all I can come up with, I guess I’m not so good with words after all.

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella
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( August 26th, 2016 @ 5:13 am )
 
Never trust the print media. We shall forge our own.
( August 24th, 2016 @ 11:31 am )
 
If you contact your local paper they may accuse you of misreading or possibly even misinterpreting what they were saying.

Back in my day and yours too I think misbehavior was punishable by either an Article 15 or perhaps a severe A$$chewing.

But I could be mistaken.

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