"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."
-- John le Carre
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Ma-Ma-Ma-Mariah
The following is a comment I posted on "She Said WHAT?". Normally I wouldn't self-gloss myself, but this was pretty funny. The following is a response to Mariah Carey at the Golden Globes:
As a man, I must say (boobies) that Mariah Carey's dress is disgusting (boobies). She looks like a hooker (boobies), and I wouldn't give her the time of day if she (boobies) begged (boobies) me. She a wonderful actress (boobies), and I've heard she had read Thoreau and Plato (boobies). What's not to like about a well-read boobie, er, woman?
Monday, January 23, 2006
Sundae, Bloody Sundae!!!!
Good, lord! Here's another story from Moronville. Apprently a woman in Delaware went to McDonald's and bought a hot fudge that she claims " was contaminated with human blood, but the owner of a fast-food franchise says the red substance was really just strawberry syrup." So, of course, she's sueing Micky D's.
Most of us, at some point, have venture to a fast food resturant and bought a sundae. And I recall several times when I bought a hot fudge sundae there was some strawberry syrup in the sundae. Did I think it was blood? No, because I know the difference between a blood and syrup. I'm not saying this woman is an idoit or anything; hell, you have to some intelligence to come up with a scam like this, right? Right?
Wait, wait, wait. She's not that bright after all. Apprently, when commenting about the store manager's reaction to her claims (he told her it was strawberry syrup), she stated "What is he, a botanist? No, he's a 21-year-old assistant manager who saw her screaming in the lobby and said 'whatever you say lady." Mmmm.....miss.....do you know what a bontanist is???? As defined by dictionary.com, a bontanist is "a biologist specializing in the study of plants".
I can see him working here. He knew that "blood" was really strawberry syrup, and starwberrys come from plants, therefore, the store manager must be a bontanist, since he obvioulsy knew what he was looking at was derived from a plant!!!! Or, it could be (i'm going out on a limb here), that it was just strawberry sryup, and you're just a simpleton!
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Woman Claims Sundae Tainted With Blood Del. Woman Claims Her Son's Fast-Food Sundae Was Tainted With Human Blood The Associated PressGEORGETOWN, Del. - A woman filed a lawsuit claiming that a hot fudge sundae she bought for her 12-year-old son was contaminated with human blood, but the owner of a fast-food franchise says the red substance was really just strawberry syrup.
A Superior Court judge was scheduled to hear arguments Friday in a lawsuit filed by Carmen Jara against AJM Enterprises, which operates a McDonald's restaurant in Georgetown.
According to court documents, Jara bought food, including four hot fudge sundaes, at the restaurant's drive-thru window on Dec. 30, 2004.
Her son, now 13, dug into his sundae and "recognized the taste of blood and, upon careful inspection, noted a red substance on the side of the sundae cup as well as mixed into his ice cream," the lawsuit claims.
Jara then went into the store and spoke to a swing manager, who confirmed that it was blood, according to the lawsuit. The manager, Joshua Ferrell, said the employee who prepared the sundae had an injured, bleeding finger, and told Jara that he had advised the employee to keep a bandage on his finger, according to the lawsuit.
Jara, who filed a report with Georgetown police, requested that the employee, who no longer works at the restaurant, undergo a blood test to rule out any diseases, but that her request was refused.
Michael Meoli, owner of the McDonald's franchise, said the claims are unfounded, and that strawberry syrup probably had clogged the sundae machine.
Ferrell, who no longer works at the restaurant, should not have said the substance was blood, Meoli said.
"What is he, a botanist? No, he's a 21-year-old assistant manager who saw her screaming in the lobby and said 'whatever you say lady.'"
Meoli, who ran unsuccessfully for a state House seat last year, said the allegations are meant to ruin his business.
"I hope she gets the same thing the Wendy's lady got," he said, referring to a woman recently sentenced to nine years in prison for planting a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili to extort money from the fast-food chain.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Mommy has to go see Jerry Springer!
Nothing screams "trash" more than this story can. As a side note, I wasn't aware Jerry Springer was still on TV. Didn't he get busted for staging his shows? As if they were real in the first place.......
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Woman jailed for leaving kids to go see Springer 'I didn't think I'd be gone that long'
WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours, while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of "The Jerry Springer Show."
Shannon Cook, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this week to misdemeanor child endangerment. She also was placed on probation for a year.
"It was an appropriate sentence, given what she did," said DuPage County Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Ruggiero.
The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home October 19, while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later the two oldest knocked on the door of a neighbor, who called police.
Cook was arrested when she returned home after midnight. According to a police report, she said: "I didn't think I'd be gone that long."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/21/springer.homealone.ap/index.html
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Don't Smoke With Your New Face!!!
You might have heard the recent story about a French woman that had a face transplant. Her face was disfigued "after being mauled by her dog last spring". Now, I'm not a doctor, but, I think it's common sense that anytime you have surgery, espically when you have surgery to get a new face (I still can't believe we're at the point now when we can get face transplants), that you should not smoke.
The main point here is that doctors are afraid that her new lips will reject her body due to the toxians in the cigerettes. Hell, I say let her smoke all she wants. Let her new face just slide off her skull, and don't give her a new one. Same goes to you liver transplant recepitants that decide to take up drinking again, only to kill off your new liver. When one get the gift of a second chance at life, one should not return to being an ass-monkey and mock at what they've received. Shame on you!
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Face Transplant Patient Smokes Again Face Transplant Patient Has Taken Up Smoking Again, Worrying Doctors By MARILYNN MARCHIONE The Associated PressTUCSON, Ariz. - The world's first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.
"It is a problem," Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who led the team that performed the pioneering transplant in France on Nov. 27, acknowledged on Wednesday.
The woman's French surgeons made their first scientific presentation on the partial face transplant at a medical conference here this week.
The news about her smoking came even as American surgeons said that they were growing more comfortable with the French doctors' decision to try the operation and that they hoped to offer such transplants to more patients.
The 38-year-old Frenchwoman received a new nose, chin and lips from a brain-dead donor after being mauled by her dog last spring. The woman has been identified only as Isabelle because of French privacy laws.
The woman suffered a tissue-rejection episode last month but is now doing well, her doctors said. However, they said she has resumed smoking, which besides being bad in general for health is especially a problem after surgery because it impairs circulation to tissues and could raise the risk of rejection.
Some doctors have questioned the woman's psychological fitness for the operation because of reports that she had taken sleeping pills in a possible suicide attempt when the dog attack occurred an allegation Dubernard repeatedly has denied.
He said she received extensive psychiatric evaluation and counseling before the operation.
Some American doctors at the conference said it is time to stop debating whether the French operation was ethical or wise and focus now on making such transplants as safe and widely available as possible.
"Face transplants can be done and should be done," said Dr. Warren Breidenbach, the surgeon who did the first hand transplant in the United States, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, in 1999.
Another Louisville transplant expert, Dr. Suzanne Ildstad, said: "A number of us here are interested in making this a widespread procedure available to the public. It's the future, and could benefit millions of people."
Problems with other novel types of transplants surfaced at the medical conference.
Doctors have been encouraged that success rates were roughly 90 percent among the 24 hand transplants performed to date, but a Chinese surgeon surprised the conference by reporting that up to half of the nine or so patients in his country have since rejected the new organs because they couldn't afford immune-suppressing drugs.
One patient even asked to have the new hand amputated after the one-year period during which the hospital provided free medication ended, said Dr. Guoxian Pei, chief of orthopedics at Nanfang Hospital at Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China.
Dr. Frederic Schuind, a surgeon at Erasme Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, revealed that a hand transplant recipient in his country had made "a mild suicide attempt." The patient had been deemed psychologically stable enough to undergo the operation even though he had attempted suicide as a teenager.
The incidents prompted several surgeons to say that no such transplants should be done unless surgeons first make sure patients are psychologically healthy and prepared to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
"We need to alter the risk-benefit balance" before hand or face transplants are done more commonly, said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Worst Father In The History Of The World!!!
There are some men that are meant to be fathers. And there some men there aren't. There are some men that shouldn't be, then there are those that should steralized like this moron. Check this: not only did he escape "from a work detail in 1979 while serving time for failing to pay support for two kids" (oh, yeah, he was in jail. how nice), he convinced a family member to "call Family Court to report he had died during a bar fight", so that he could avoid paying child support and continue to live "in Myrtle Beach and using his real name for about 20 years."
OK, let's me try to understand this: he had someone in his family tell the family court he died in a bar fight???? Didn't they follow up on this? He escaped from prison, and just happen to die in a bar fight???? Did anyone bother to check for death certificate??? Hell, he didn't even try to hide his fake death, by conituing to live in the same state, using his real name!!!
He's a moron for just being an awful dad. Sack up and pay your child support. This whole scneario wreaks of stupidity; from him, the family for lying for him, and for the family court for not doing their job.
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Man Fakes Death To Avoid Paying Child Support
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A South Carolina sheriff is calling him "the ultimate deadbeat dad." Police say Johnny Martin faked his own death 25 years ago to avoid paying child support.
The 58-year-old man has now been recaptured and jailed, and he now owes more than 30-thousand dollars in child support.
Authorities say Martin escaped from a work detail in 1979 while serving time for failing to pay support for two kids. They say he had a relative call Family Court to report he had died during a bar fight.
Investigators say he'd been living in Myrtle Beach and using his real name for about 20 years, and had a third child. They reopened his case after one of his ex-wives tipped them off that he was still around.
Thursday, January 5, 2006
No Different From A Preacher In The Subway
When I was a kid growing up in NYC, I saw my share of freaky things; bums, hippies (it was the 70's, some of them were still hanging on), etc, but I always remember the "nuts" walking around with signs saying the world was ending, or that lord was going to come down and bitch-slap us all.
All of these memories came flashing back when I saw news of Pat Robertson's latest rant regarding Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Having suffered his second stroke in three weeks, Robertson was quoted as saying ""He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'", ecentally saying that "Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza"
First of all, the Prime Minist is old, and overweight. The fact that he had a stroke should come as no surprise, because of his condition. Second of all, Robertson is just off his rocker. He's suppose to be a man of God, yet, he has again run verbal diherera out of his mouth that's more fitting for those street preachers I mentioned earlier. Christians are suppose to show compassion; that's what I was taught, and continue to learn in school today. Yet, Sharon is on his deathbed and all that Robertson can do is push this garbage. I think Mr. Robertson should just keep his yap shut. As Ralph Neas was quoted saying, "Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance." No kidding.
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Robertson suggests God smote Sharon Evangelist links Israeli leader's stroke to 'dividing God's land'(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.
"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."
"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.
Robertson's show airs on the ABC Family cable network and claims about 1 million viewers daily.
Sharon, 77, clung to life in a Jerusalem hospital Thursday after surgery to treat a severe stroke, his doctors said.
The prime minister, who withdrew Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza and parts of the West Bank last summer over heated objections from his own Likud Party, was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain.
In Washington, President Bush offered praise for Sharon in a speech on Thursday.
"We pray for his recovery," Bush said. "He's a good man, a strong man. A man who cared deeply about the security of the Israeli people, and a man who had a vision for peace. May God bless him."
Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, compared Robertson's remarks to the overheated rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Full story)
He called the comments "outrageous" and said they were not something to expect "from any of our friends."
"He is a great friend of Israel and a great friend of Prime Minister Sharon himself, so I am very surprised," Ayalon told CNN.
Robertson, 75, founded the Christian Coalition and in 1988 failed in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He last stirred controversy in August, when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez. (Full story)
Robertson later apologized, but still compared Chavez to Hitler and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the process.
The same month, the Anti-Defamation League criticized Robertson for warning that God would "bring judgment" against Israel for its withdrawal from Gaza, which it had occupied since the 1967 Mideast war.
Robertson said Thursday that Sharon was "a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition."
He linked Sharon's health problems to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo peace accords that granted limited self-rule to Palestinians.
"It was a terrible thing that happened, but nevertheless, now he's dead," Robertson said.
Rabin was gunned down by a religious student opposed to the Oslo accords. The killer, Yigal Amir, admitted to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.
Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, criticized Robertson's comments Thursday, saying the televangelist "has a political agenda for the entire world."
"He seems to think God is ready to take out any world leader who stands in the way of that agenda," Lynn said in a written statement.
"A religious leader should not be making callous political points while a man is struggling for his life," he said. "I'm appalled."
Ralph Neas, president of liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, said "it is astonishing that Pat Robertson still wields substantial influence" in the Republican Party.
"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance," Neas said in a written statement.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/robertson.sharon/index.html
According to The Associated Press, Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of people who criticized the comments: "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?'"
"This is what the word of God says," Watts told the AP. "This is nothing new to the Christian community."
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Barbie Accused of Being Part of the Transgender Movement
Dear Concerned Women for America,
I want to thank you for making the public aware that Mattel, the makers of the Barbie doll, were part of the "transgender movement." I had no ideal that trannies were bent on world domination. We must be vilgant against all he-she's and she-he's that are out to create "bisexuality gender confusion", and cause the space-time contiumin to flux and spin the Earth off of it's axis. Now that I've pretty much wasted valuable time already, can I ask you something? Did it ever cross your mind that you're nuts? I just saw that poll on Barbie's webpage, and thought it was a little silly, and not threatening to anyone except moral morons like yourselves. That is to say, you're making something out of nothing. Speaking of which, why were you on the Barbie website anyway? Really, if the Concenred Women for America are to be concerned, you should be concentrating on important things like ethics in Congress, or saving the whales, or discuss the rise in Hurricanes; global warming or a typical 40-year pattern? Just wait; I bet you'll come out with a warning that the Chuck E Cheese webpage has question pointed to confuse kids that their Smurfs, then you'll come out and say The Cheese is leading the Smurf revolt. Losers.
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Barbie Accused of Being Part of the Transgender Movement By JAKE TAPPERWASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 3, 2006 — - The Concerned Women for America were ... well, concerned. Outraged, even. Was Barbie becoming part of the transgender movement?
On Dec. 30, CWA, a leading Christian conservative group, noted on its Web site that on the Barbie Web site, www.Barbie.com, "there is a poll that asks children their age and sex."
You can see a screen grab of the poll here.
The age choices were 4 to 8 but children "are given three options for their choice of gender": I am a Boy, I am a Girl and I Don't Know.
Bob Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute, said Barbie manufacturer Mattel was being influenced by the "transgender movement."
To pose "this transgender question at little girls, they've really crossed the line," Knight said, who added that "bisexuality gender confusion" is the Web site's agenda, which is "very dangerous."
The concern comes after a conservative boycott of Mattel's American Girls dolls. The American Family Association and the Pro-Life Action League protested that some American Girls dolls were wearing "I Can" wristbands, which support Girls Inc. Girls Inc. is a national, nonprofit organization that promotes education and self-esteem programs, as well as sex education, and supports abortion rights and the acceptance of gays and lesbians. The Mattel-Girls Inc. partnership ended on Dec. 26.
But Mattel, which also manufactures Barbie, said the Barbie incident is much ado about nothing.
"This was just an innocent oversight," says Lauren Bruksch, a spokeswoman for Mattel. As a rule of thumb, Bruksch said, the questionnaires at barbie.com always try to have a neutral answer or nonresponse option. For gender, this third option should have been "I don't want to say," rather than "I don't know." The Web site has since been fixed.
Knight had said CWA would contact Mattel to investigate the matter, but Bruksch said Mattel first heard of the complaint when ABC News called for comment.
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