It's Halloween!
Have you seen this video?
(Description of video in case it's no longer available at some point in the future: In a demonstration of the unfairness of wealth redistribution, a man sets up a "booth" with a hidden camera at a Trunk-or-Treat and attempts to redistribute candy among children.)
Unless the parents were already in on the "prank", I think he's lucky an adult didn't step up and confront him! (To be fair, he did apparently give all the kids he "pranked" a bunch of candy to make up for the redistribution/frustration...)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The REAL Question...
Federal jury convicts movie theater crawler.
The real question here is... what in the world were these women doing putting their purses on filthy movie theater floors in the first place? Ew! No, there are germs (and apparently, slithering, slimy crooks) down there. You keep it in your lap-- at most in an empty seat right next to you (though I'm too cautious to do even that). Same thing goes for restaurants. And I pray for your everlasting soul if you dare put it on a public restroom floor. If there's no hook on the stall door, you find a way to hang it on the corner of the door or you wear it the whole time. There is no excuse for anything else. --No! I said there's no excuse.
...I think we all learned an important lesson here, today: Paranoia pays. ;o)
Anthony Johnson's weekends of crawling across movie theater floors, pilfering purses and running up $30,000 bills on other people's credit cards are over for now.
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Johnson, formerly of Philadelphia, was known on the street as "Hustlin' Tone". He drove a gold Mercedes and had a taste for dapper designer clothes and high-end sunglasses.
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[His two female accomplices] described Johnson as slithering "like a snake" across movie theater floors before reaching inside partially opened purses and pilfering the credit cards...
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"A good weekend was $50,000 to $70,000," McGowan told the jury. "Thirty (thousand) to $40,000 was a bad weekend."
She said Johnson chose primarily Fairfield County theaters showing movies like Eat, Pray, Love; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; and Twilight Eclipse because "there'd be a lot of white women there ...He said these were million-dollar movies."
The real question here is... what in the world were these women doing putting their purses on filthy movie theater floors in the first place? Ew! No, there are germs (and apparently, slithering, slimy crooks) down there. You keep it in your lap-- at most in an empty seat right next to you (though I'm too cautious to do even that). Same thing goes for restaurants. And I pray for your everlasting soul if you dare put it on a public restroom floor. If there's no hook on the stall door, you find a way to hang it on the corner of the door or you wear it the whole time. There is no excuse for anything else. --No! I said there's no excuse.
...I think we all learned an important lesson here, today: Paranoia pays. ;o)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Such a Nice Guy.
It's nothing new. We've known for a while that he has a tendency to be, well, a jerk...
Still, last night was a reminder (if any were needed):
So very... Presidential!
Still, last night was a reminder (if any were needed):
So very... Presidential!
Monday, October 22, 2012
Vaguely Creepy Song of the Day*
Music for when you're walking in leather boots through a rain-slick, eerily empty city at night, possibly pursued by an ominous foe, in which case I suggest you pick up the pace...
"Tick of the Clock", by the Chromatics
*Why "vaguely creepy"? Well, we are getting close to the end of October... (There may be more Vaguely Creepy Songs of the Day to come.)
"Tick of the Clock", by the Chromatics
*Why "vaguely creepy"? Well, we are getting close to the end of October... (There may be more Vaguely Creepy Songs of the Day to come.)
Keeping It All in Perspective
Joe Klein (of Time, according to the article) has stated that the Benghazi attack (and, one presumes, the resultant deaths of four Americans, including an ambassador) "has been like the October mirage-- it really isn't an issue".
No, but he's right. The attack and the coordinated attempt to pin it on some inane video-- them's small potatoes compared to the BIG BIRD CONTROVERSY and that shocking-- and quite frankly, stomach-turning-- incident in which Mitt Romney spoke of having (~whisper~) "binders full of women"*.
Let's keep the focus on the real burning issues of our times!
* Are there really women out there who are truly-- somehow, inconceivably, illogically-- offended by that phrase, taken in context (or, really, out of context)? I mean seriously, honestly offended, not just making a show of it because it's the best they could come up with on short notice. Because I'd like to stare at them with a look of mingled disgust and disbelief. Then point and laugh. And then walk away with a shrug. Girl power! ;o)
No, but he's right. The attack and the coordinated attempt to pin it on some inane video-- them's small potatoes compared to the BIG BIRD CONTROVERSY and that shocking-- and quite frankly, stomach-turning-- incident in which Mitt Romney spoke of having (~whisper~) "binders full of women"*.
Let's keep the focus on the real burning issues of our times!
* Are there really women out there who are truly-- somehow, inconceivably, illogically-- offended by that phrase, taken in context (or, really, out of context)? I mean seriously, honestly offended, not just making a show of it because it's the best they could come up with on short notice. Because I'd like to stare at them with a look of mingled disgust and disbelief. Then point and laugh. And then walk away with a shrug. Girl power! ;o)
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