Blame My Mom

Tags: Barack Obame, Ecomony, Larry Summers, wall street.

Tags: Currency, Geithner, Obama, Treasury.

Tags: Economic Stimulus, Economy, Obama, Recession, TARP.

Sorry for the delay. New stuff is coming soon.

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People like this make me shake my head:

A McNuggets “Emergency”

Floridian called 911 three times over McDonald’s chicken shortage

MARCH 3/Smoking Gun–Angered that her local McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food “emergency.” Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called police to complain that a cashier–citing a McDonald’s all sales are final policy–would not give her a refund. [To listen to Goodman's 911 calls, click here, here, and here.] When cops responded to the restaurant, Goodman told them, “This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn’t have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want one.” Goodman noted, “I called 911 because I couldn’t get a refund, and I wanted my McNuggets,” according to the below Fort Pierce Police Department report. That logic, however, did not keep cops from citing Goodman for misusing the 911 system. Even after being issued a misdemeanor citation, Goodman contended, “this is an emergency, my McNuggets are an emergency.”

People like this make me grit my teeth:

Circus CEO defends striking of elephants; says actions are necessary, do no harm

March 4/AP - The head of the company that owns the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus acknowledged in federal court yesterday that all his elephant handlers strike the animals with metal-tipped prods, but he said it is necessary to keep the huge animals under control and doesn’t harm them.

Kenneth Feld, chairman and chief executive of Feld Entertainment, said the circus probably couldn’t have elephants without the prods - called bull hooks - and chains that are at the center of a trial in US District Court. He said the prods and restraints are needed to protect the safety of his staff and the public.

And sometimes…sometimes, mind you…reading stories like these makes me wish for this:

Asteroid passes close to Earth

March 3/CNN — You had a close encounter with a 40-yard-wide asteroid this week, but the astronomer who first spotted the large rock said it’s nothing to worry about.

An asteroid (inside circle) passed within 38,000 miles of Earth on Monday.

Asteroid 2009 DD45 on Monday passed within 38,000 miles of Earth, less than twice the height of the geostationary satellites we depend on for communications, according to Robert McNaught of the Australian National University.

McNaught, who watches for asteroids with his telescope 250 miles northwest of Sydney, Australia, discovered the approaching rock last week.

“It’s not something to worry about, but something to be aware of,” he said.

While a direct hit on Earth could be a devastating natural disaster, McNaught said keeping track of asteroids can make a hit “potentially preventable.”

Too bad it can’t be a targeted strike.

Tags: animal cruelty, asteroid, circus, current events, elephants, mcdonalds, mcnuggets, week in review.

Yes. There is a lot of bad news out there. Whenever you browse your favorite news portal these days you are bound to find something that is disturbing, scary or just plain horrible. So it takes something pretty drastic to make one really take notice. So, ladies and gents, I give you Chalie Simon:

So, you ask, what did Ms. Simon do to make a cynical, world-weary type like myself recoil in horror? Just this:

Cops: Colorado woman in on-campus groin assault of ex-boyfriend

Smoking Gun - February 24–Does this woman look like a testicle crusher? Well, that’s what cops claim University of Colorado student Chalie Simon did to a former boyfriend early Saturday morning during a confrontation at a campus apartment. Simon, a 19-year-old sophomore, went to Job Donkor’s home at about 4 AM and became irate when he sought to remove her from the residence. That’s when Simon allegedly “grabbed his testicles and squeezed hard,” according to a police report. Donkor, 23, replied, “Yeah, it hurt a lot,” when a cop asked about Simon’s squeeze play. Donkor told police that he had dated Simon “on and off” during the prior 18 months, and that they had broken up “approximately 20 times.” Simon was apparently angry because Donkor had not, as promised, called or sent her a text message by 3 AM (police noted that another woman was sleeping in Donkor’s bedroom when they arrived). Simon, pictured below in a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office mug shot, was arrested on assault, trespass, and domestic violence charges.

They really shouldn’t print stuff like this. Haven’t they ever heard of copy cat crimes? Ouch.

Tags: attack, Chalie Simon, groin, testicles.

I promise I will stop beating this dead horse — after this one last kick:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/19/alan-greenspan-the-oracle_n_168168.html

And geez, doesn’t Greenspan look like a wax figure Woody Allen that is beginning to melt?

Tags: Alan Greenspan, Ecomony, Recession.

Most of us wonder, from time to time, if we aren’t getting a little laissez faire about our use of substances. We have that “one drink too many” and regret it the next day. Or we take a vicodin that was prescribed for pain when there really isn’t any. Whatever your substance of choice is, there is probably always an internal battle from time to time over whether or not you are abusing that substance.

Well, today I’m here to tell you it’s okay. Enjoy that drink. Take that vicodin. Because there is no way…no way…you are even close to this guy:

Tags: Joaquin Phoenix, Letterman.

When I was a kid, I remember watching the Super Bowl and having to sit through those horrible halftime shows. They used to have a group called “Up With People.” These were a bunch of conservative looking kids that ran around smiling and singing and acting so positive and happy that you wanted to strangle them. I remember thinking to myself, “Why do they have to always have this fake showbiz crap at these shows? Why don’t they ever get a really cool rock band to play at halftime?”

As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for.

Tags: Springsteen, Superbowl.

Honest John sent this to me a while back. I’ve been meaning to post it. It’s about 30 minutes long, but worth seeing, if you haven’t had the “pleasure” already. You might wanna pour a nice, stiff glass of scotch first, though:

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