 Monday, October 27. 2008Racism, What's it Get You?It was late on a Sunday night. Rack sat in his newly remodeled office/garage watching the Iraq War on TV as the media and the American people wallowed in ecstasy with every bomb released when he saw headlights flash against the house wall. Who it could be so late was soon answered as the patio door slid open and Bubba and friend entered. “Yo Rack! What’s happening? This here is Randyman, you remember him don’t you?” A somewhat toothless Randy offered his tattooed “H-A-T-E” fingered hand while Rack looked to see if “L-O-V-E” was there on the other. Rack did remember him, an almost always drunken sometime drug dealer who last he had heard, was in trouble for shooting up his trailer park with a flare gun. “Hey Randyman, I remember you, staying away from flare guns?” Rack joked. “Gosh Randyman, what did you do?” Randy walked to the bar and tossed a case of beer up on the bar. “Shit, assault with a deadly weapon. I shot a couple people, but I only shot them a little!” He guffawed. “Yeah,” Bubba followed up, “it was only a couple n-words and they’re okay now. Hey Randy, show Rack the gun.” “Oh gosh.” Rack sighed as Randy reached behind him and pulled some sort of automatic pistol from his back pocket. Rack moved his attention back to the carnage on TV while Bubba and Randy fawned over the gun. Rack thought how hypocritical it was that Americans wet their pants with flag waving glory jolts of glee when guns and bombs kill thousands of people in some far off land, but are horrified when some miserable screwed up American shoots another here at home. “Woo-E!” Cried Randyman turning his attention from the gun on the bar to the carnage on the screen, “Look at that one go! Must a blown a hundred of dem sand-n-words all to Hell!” “So how was it in Huntsville?” Rack asked wanting to get away from n-words-kill talk.” “Oh,” Rack said reaching behind him on his reference shelf grabbing a Bible and tossing it to the Randyman. “Show me where in here it talks about blowing sand-n-words away, shooting n-words or calling them monkeys?” “Hey Rack, I’m not a racist, I just don’t like n-words.” “Gosh... Just out of curiosity, how far you get in school?” “Screw you Rack,” Bubba butted in, “Big college man hey, so Randy and I didn’t get out of High school, that has nothing to do with anything, we aren’t ignorant or racists, we just don’t like n-words. What’s the big deal?” “Okay Bubba, hating n-words got Randyman two years in prison, what does it get you? Don’t you see?” “Sure we see Rack, you’re a stuck up Yankee college boy calling us racists.” “We gotta go anyway, keep the beer for that crew tomorrow.” The crew arrived with the equipment to begin the process of house leveling so many Houston home owners living on the gumbo usually put off until windows began shattering. Rack was surprised that the 12 man crew was Black rather than the usual Mexicans who did all the roofing-digging labor White Texans seldom did. He welcomed Eugene, the Black foreman, at the door only to hear the phone ring. “Yeah.” He answered. “Yeah, the crew is here Bubba. I understand. No problem, they have the hydraulic coring equipment all over the yard and the foreman seems friendly enough. I am sure you can scarf all the information you need about the whole process and get out on your own in no time! Yeah, I’ll give them the beer.” The crew worked fast, boring 25, 15’ deep three foot in diameter holes around the house with the wheel barrow men hoppin’ it out to the dump truck in no time. Eugene came in to say it would be about an hour wait for the cement truck and asked if it would be okay if his crew sat around the yard and ate their lunch. “We’ll take you up on that friend, thank you.” Rack went back to work on his computer. Eugene came in after only a few minutes with a long level to note the tilt before the house was jacked which would come in a few days after the cement hardened. He was crawling around on the kitchen floor, unseen behind the dinning bar that opened into the living room when Bubba burst in through the front door. “Damn Rack, there must be a dozen damn n-words in your garage! You can’t let n-words run wild on your property, they’ll steal you blind” Bubba stated. “You know Bubba, we were just talking about this last night weren’t we? I tried my best to explain to you that racism and your dislike for people of color doesn’t get you anything. I have a suspicion that lesson is about to hit you square between the eyes. To no avail.” As if taking a rehearsed cue, Eugene rose from behind the counter. “You listen to your friend here Bubba, he be telling you true.” He said nothing more and once again disappeared behind the counter. Bubba stood embarrassed in the hallway, stammering for a way out. Realizing there was none, he left, $10 in the hole for the beer, and without the information he so wanted to get his business started. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Monday, July 28. 2008DOJ publishes names of 10,000 "graduates" of Spokane diploma mill.
The "campus" pictured is similar to the lovely hallowed halls of many such fraudulent institutions.
I usually love irony. The brains behind the highly profitable Spokane,WA diploma mill, trading cash for college diplomas are high school drop-outs. Somewhere they'd obviously gained an unofficial degree in fraud, now they'll be going to a "graduate school" of sorts. Dixie Ellen Randock was sentenced in early July to three years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Her husband will get his turn in court next week. Among the 10,000 names of people known to have selected the diploma mill as the fast track include people working in military, government and education fields, though the numbers may prove to be much higher. I suspect there will be at least 10,000 job openings since the names were released by the DOJ and listed on The Spokesman-Review's Web site DOJ publishes names of 10,000 "graduates" of Spokane diploma mill. Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Monday, July 28. 2008Travel, meet and stay free with strangers with "Couch Surfer program"
Gone are the days of "Europe on $5. a day" but the internet has provided a unique new twist with benefits. Not surprisingly, the idea started in Ashland, OR where the second annual Mystic Garden Party is pictured. As you might guess, Ashland is one of the more creative, free thinking bastions in the Pacific Northwest.
Through CouchSurfing.com, web surfers can find hosts with spare rooms and free couches in 200 countries through a web site connecting hosts and travelers. The service claims more than 600,000 members and more than 1 million positive experiences. Many report being treated royally, being introduced to friends and shown a fantastic time in a new country without feeling like a tourist or stranger. Sounds like the internet which has kept people isolated to a large extent, is now bringing them together in a good way. Travel, meet and stay free with strangers with "Couch Surfer program" Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Thursday, April 10. 2008Dave Csaky, Seattle's squirrel man,evicted from tree and homeless until neighbors wheel in with new home. In Seattle, the neighborly spirit of helping a neighbor was observed
just this week.
David (Squirrelman) Csaky a self-taught carpenter,had lived for years in his creation - a treehouse, high above the ground on a 300 square foot self made platform - or treehouse, accessible by a ladder counter weighted with sandbags on pulleys on city land. In his cozy airie, he had a tent, wood stove, three chairs, shelves and a counter.He shared living space with Lucky a rat, Rainbow a ferret, and Tilt a squirrel. Earlier this week, the city tacked an eviction notice on the door for all four of them.claiming the desirable east side property was a "health and safety concern." The story of the quiet neighbor who hit really hard times became nationwide news, also reaching neighbors Brandon Ferrante 28, and Maria Bolander 27.They had befriended him after watching the tree house take shape. After learning of the eviction Ferranet said "It broke our hearts,he's taken care of the neighborhood. We couldn't sleep at night. We decided to make it happen." Browsing through Craig's list, they found an aging RV. Their landlords,Janet Yoder and Robby Rudine agreed to buy the rig for $500 after being offered the "Squirrelman" special price of $500. "David's a unique character but a good neighbor," Yoder said. RV owner Timothy Custer delivered the RV Tuesday Evening, and decided to sell it to Csaky for a penny. "It's Dave's new house."Custer said. To make the house a home, Ferrante said, the task is now to find a permanent parking place. "We don't want to see it get towed," he said. Csaky, who got his nickname for his ability to tame squirrels, said he was amazed at the public attention, including newspapers,television,radio interviews, and talk show appearances. Neighbors chip in to buy RV for Seattle man facing eviction from tree houseDigg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Wednesday, April 9. 2008Cedar Rapids Homeowner Derdre Rodriquez and ice scraper, deter Jake
Pulling into her driveway Derde Rodriquez heard someone jump out of a back window. She saw the teen running across her lawn, his arms full of jewelry, cell phones, and a video game. Sixteen year old Jake Merfeld had to pick up the pace when Ms Rodriquez joined the chase with a long handled ice scraper she'd grabbed, increasing the reach of the long arm of the law considerably.The increasing speed caused the ill gotten gain to fly out of Merfeld's arms at various points along the merry chase while trying to find a way out of the yard.Eventually Rodriquez reached far enough to club Jake atop the head with the ice scraper. At that point Jake chose to surrender. It was not to be a time to rest. When Police arrived, Ms Rodriquez had him busy engaged in retrieving all of the items which had dropped from his arms during their impromtu foot race. Merfeld, who was treated for a cut on his head, faces a second-degree burglary charge, and is likely to have been glad to see the police arrive. Woman Stops Alleged Burglar With Scraper Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Thursday, April 3. 2008Waycross, GA Elementary Students Plot to Off their Teacher
When a woman arrived for work according to authorities on Tuesday, there was a plan to handcuff her, place duct tape over her mouth, hit her over the head with a heavy paperweight, then cut her with a broken steak knife. What kind of job carries this sort of evil peril inherent in it? The lady whose name has not been disclosed, is a third grade teacher at Center Elementary School in Waycross, GA. The perpetrators - several of her nine year old students! This may well have raised elementary school teacher in the ranks of most dangerous professions. On Friday a pupil told a teacher that a student in the third grade had brought a weapon to school. If not for the report, teachers might not have uncovered the rest of the plot. Lt. Dwane Caswell of Waycross police stated "It was a rather elaborate scheme for children of that age. The students spent a week planning the attack and planned to carry it out on the day they were caught." Police plan to charge three of the children in juvenile court with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on school property. The Waycross Nine, all nine years old, have been disciplined though details were not disclosed.
Friday, March 28. 2008Mandi Hamlin, Gloria Allred find nipple ring removal with pliers brutal
Perhaps she seemed like a terrorist threat to the TSA agent, though it's a far stretch. Hamlin passed through the large metal detector without incident. The female agent used a hand held detector which beeped in front of Hamlin's chest. Hamlin explained she was wearing piercings. Apparently this was cause for a pow wow with the male agents who insisted she remove the jewelry. Explaining she could not remove the piercings, an offer to show them to a female agent was turned down. Taken behind a curtain, she managed to get one bar shaped piercing out, but had great trouble with a ring which had obviously grown into the skin. "Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," said Hamlin's attorney, Gloria Allred, reading from a letter she sent Thursday to the director of the TSA's Office of Civil Rights and Liberties. Allred is a well-known Los Angeles lawyer who often represents high-profile claims."After rings are inserted, the skin can often heal around the piercing, and the rings can be extremely difficult and painful to remove," Allred said in the letter. Applying pliers to the torso of a mannequin that had a peach-colored bra with the rings on it, Hamlin showed reporters at the news conference how she took off the second ring. Male agents snickered as she took the ring out. She was scanned again and allowed to board though she was wearing a belly button ring. Obviously that wasn't the exploding one. I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."Hamlin filed a complaint, but the TSA's customer service manager at the Lubbock airport concluded the screening was handled properly. Allred said Hamlin wants an apology from the TSA and an investigation by the agency's civil rights office.Allred said she might consider legal action if the TSA does not apologize. Call me crazy, but an apology seems a small price. Hamlin was publicly humiliated and has "undergone an enormous amount of physical pain to have the nipple rings reinserted" because of scar tissue, Allred said.Hamlin said her piercings have never set off an airport metal detector."The conduct of TSA was cruel and unnecessary," Allred wrote. "The last time that I checked a nipple was not a dangerous weapon." There may still be a few glitches which need working out in our airport security practices, though I assume like everything else dealing with our safety, it's being handled by trained professionals. Woman Says TSA Forced Piercings Removal Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Wednesday, December 26. 2007I Bought my Wife a Lexus for Christmas As you will recall, last Christmas after sitting in the den with my wife watching TV for the months leading up to the big day, I, like any good American husband could not brush off the onslaught of watching other good American men buying big African diamonds for their wives. Everytime one of those ads came on, I got that look. So I pulled the kids out of college and went down to my local Jewlery store and bought the biggest diamond they had. I did indeed get laid that night - which seems to be the purpose of it all - and the kids seem happy working over at the Walmart selling lead covered toys and products that last almost 6 months or more to so many wise American consumers. So I went down to the Lexas dealer and found one the right color for only $63,000. I cut a good deal and paid nothing down. I only had to shell out $85 for the giant red bow. They had a lot of those giant red bows there. It all went even better than last year as this time I got laid with her wearing nothing but a giant red bow! Fueled by ads, luxury vehicles are a popular gift choice Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article | Kick! Home
Friday, August 24. 2007Seen These Two Cruisin'? WA Ferry Terrorist Suspects
Wednesday, August 22. 2007The Republican MindRecently I received an email joke from a republican friend. Yes, and I admit it upfront, I have a few. Republican friends that is. Basically the joke was about Hillary and Fred Thompson and their encounter with a homeless person on the street.
Wednesday, August 22. 2007Pit Bulls Break Into Home - Maul, Nearly Kill Woman
A woman on the key peninsula, a part of Pierce County, WA had a horrifying experience. Asleep in bed, she awoke being mauled savagely It wasn’t an armed intruder, or homicidal maniac. She was being attacked by two pit bulls on the loose. .They had gained access to her home through the pet door, killed a Jack Russell Terrier belonging to a neighbor, which had likely heard the noise and come over to investigate, they then tore into the sleeping woman. Pierce County Sheriff Spokesman Ed Troyer said “It’s probably the worst mauling our guys have ever seen.” The woman attempted to shoot the dogs, then broke away and locked herself in her car, where she called 911. Firefighters arrived within minutes, animal control in a couple of hours. She was transported by ambulance to a hospital where she’s still being treated. Officers “had to pepper spray and fight the dogs until they were detained, we almost had to shoot them on site” said Troyer. They’re at the humane society where they’ll probably be destroyed anyway, at the time of this article they hadn’t spoken to the owners yet. I for one, would certainly love to know what the owners would have to say for the actions of their dogs – and themselves, and why they felt at liberty to let them roam. The dogs will be destroyed, while not an advocate of capitol punishment, it almost seems reasonable in the case of these dog owners as well. What could be a reasonable punishment or retribution for this cruelty and carelessness?http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/nation/story/138339.html 8/21/07 The News Tribune
Saturday, August 18. 2007Namesake School Misprints Name, Madison Not Amused
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Mandi Hamlin. forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers before she could board an airplane for a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on February 24th, called this Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
Attention has been brought back to the suspected terrorists on the Seattle ferries, and we have a suspicious ferry employee to thank. We’re fortunate nothing has happened YET (knock wood for the suspicious).
Here in the dumbass bog lands, a timely story just crossed my desk. In the midst of the Vick bru-ha-ha about fighting dogs, this story highlights just how incredibly irresponsible and moronic some of the owners of these dogs are. Can’t afford a Corvette, get a macho dog and make it mean. It will serve as a machismo booster.
Dateline: America The Dim. We are NOT stupid, and we are edjumicating your children to the bestest and highest standards in the land. My Pet Goat is required reading, but that isn’t the only thing presidential we share here in Ogden. Our new elementary school shares a name with a former president. Most board members voted May 23rd for the name Madison because it’s the street which runs beside the school. Once the fact emerged, several allowed that Madison had been a great president. It is not clear how many actually claim to remember his term in office. 
