"Our problem is badges," the Iraqis told the Ambassador.
"I think it might be helpful," he adds of Facebook's current trial strategy of badging problem content with warnings.
William J. Ryan, a Democrat representing White Plains on the County Board of Legislators, blamed Mayor Joseph M. Delfino, a Republican, for failing to address the badge drain problem.
And they regard Mrs Palin's apparent ignorance not as a problem but as a badge of honour.Another reason is the degeneracy of the conservative intelligentsia itself, a modern-day version of the 1970s liberals it arose to do battle with: trapped in an ideological cocoon, defined by its outer fringes, ruled by dynasties and incapable of adjusting to a changed world.
"They put out the word and make offers," he said, "and once they have one officer, they ask, 'You got any friends who aren't happy there?' " He said the only realistic solutions to the badge drain problem are stopping these chiefs from poaching his officers and adopting laws to make them repay instruction costs to departments whose officers they hire.
Having a cocaine or heroin problem isn't exactly a badge of honour, but it shouldn't be stigmatised more strongly than alcoholism.
But in what may be an implicit acknowledgment that diesel power has some image problems, the cars will carry badges on their trunks saying BlueTec, not diesel.
But outside of the nicotine addicts and Nora, "The Leftovers" has a big problem, and it wears a badge and a perma-scowl.
One imagines the survival skills badge would present little problem to the new chief scout, Bear Grylls.
The aide, Stu Loeser, said that he had heard of journalists "supposedly" wearing police press badges who "allegedly encountered problems on the streets of New York".
