I need to add a section called, "Anything Is Possible In America" What a laugh.
Here is the link: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-fire-pool-boynton-p070709,0,2896414.story
Here is the story:
Boynton Beach arsonists try to set pool on fire South Florida Sun Sentinel
7:24 AM EDT, July 7, 2009
BOYNTON BEACH - Police are searching for arsonists who tried to set fire to a
pool using diesel fuel.
The case was reported about 6 p.m. Monday in the
40 block of Tara Lakes Drive East. After trying to light the pool, they turned
their attention to a plastic trash can, police said, and burned the contents and
the can.
No one was injured and there is no suspect information. more»
On 2/7/09 at approximately 6:35 PM a suspicious incident occurred at Hilltop Apartments, in the parking lot between the Beard and French buildings. A male approached a female from the opposite direction and came up within several feet of her personal space. The female turned around and left the area. The male walked away in the opposite direction. The male did not say anything or make physical contact with the female. The intention of the male is unknown. Description as follows: a white male 6’ 0” with shoulder length brown hair wearing a red or brown cloth jacket and jeans. Male described as older than college age. The male had a round face and large build.
If you have any information or witnessed the incident please call UConn Police at 486-4800. As always, you are encouraged to travel in groups at night and in well lit areas. Please notify police of any suspicious activity to police immediately.
You read it right. I have hard time believing what I read in this article below. Especially when I filed in Delaware courts for alimony and after they bungled my lost file for a year, the court then decided I waited too long to be eligible. You can't make this stuff up folks. Mean while if you visit the actual article the men responding in the comments are living in terror over things like this. It really does make men think that until the courts equalize the laws, that marriage is too much a risk to be a part of.
Wayne Tippett has just two things of any real value left in his life: a
10-year-old car and a granite tombstone.
At 51, Tippett is broken, bankrupt and bunking in the guest room of his
parents' Burlington home after a divorce settlement that's left him $75,000 in
debt and racking up $1,000 more each month.
Today, he'll appear in court at a default hearing to try to explain why he
can't afford to pay his ex-wife (the couple had no children) $3,300 a month,
$16,000 in retroactive alimony and $42,000 of her court costs out of a complex
case he himself still doesn't understand.
Even his ex-wife's lawyer calls the situation "a total tragedy." And while he
says Tippett "is paying for his own foolishness and stubbornness," the
settlement is, in many ways, a frightening example of bad timing, lack of
adequate information, and a divorce court system that can be deadly
unpredictable.
"You're absolutely insane if you want to go into the (divorce) court system,"
says London, Ont., family law lawyer Peter Eberlie, who represented Tippett's
ex-wife Darlene Cormier, also 51. "Any court case is Russian ... more»
Man helps police in scuffle to stop shop lifter. Police knock his cigarette the ground by accident, but noticing it on the ground immediately fine man for littering. Worse yet, man is embarrassed as people then think he may have been involved in the shoplifting.
Opec wants American's to pay more for gas. Again. They just bled the cow dry. Our economy collapsed due to sustained high gas prices. People paid for gas on credit cards for over two years and every American that isn't in the top 2% is broke. Unless you are Madonna (and even she is a miser I hear) or Tom Cruise, or someone loaded with money, you are hurting. You may have been fired or live in fear of your job. No one in your family except the children are getting Christmas gifts. Have I nailed this?
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- As if getting a DUI wasn’t enough, a man arrested for driving under the influence got in a lot more trouble at the police station. Police stopped Jose Cruz on Route 60 in South Charleston Monday night for driving with his headlights off.
Then, he failed sobriety tests and was arrested.
When police were trying to get fingerprints, police say Cruz moved closer to the officer and passed gas on him. The investigating officer remarked in the criminal complaint that the odor was very strong.
Cruz is now charged with battery on a police officer, as well as DUI and obstruction.
File this under bad parenting 101. Smart parents know the games their children play. Play with them to a degree (as to understand what it is their children are involved in) and simply take away the device if they abuse it. Nailing a toy to a tree and destroying it is immature.
I am really skeptical about this. Who doesn't want to believe that we actually have real proof of these creatures but no one ever comes through with real proof.
The photo in this article sure gets the discussion off to a good start. Word is Friday they will reveal to the world the evidence. Should be interesting to see.
This is one of those beyond words situation. This isn't stupid, it's brutal and cruel. Oh... and consider the ticket was issued while his van was parked in his own driveway.
Aside from the bastardization of the English word (K's for C's) this article proves once and again that people can be very cruel when they close their minds to the truth.
Think of the money spent to arrest and prosecute and suddenly you consider... Should we arrest someone for taking .42 cents from a mall fountain? Hey... I'm not saying it wasn't a crime but so is spitting on the sidewalk in some states. My father always advised me, "Son, you gotta pick your battles." That logic is not wasted on justice if you ask me.
It is rare perhaps... today I am without words. You just have to read it for yourself and try to wrap your head around it.
This is not so much a stupid headline as it is high-lighting the stupidity of what is becoming of our world. Ignore it... one day when it happens to you, you'll understand.
What is especially sad is that a reporter considered this "newsworthy". You know, my youngest son passed gas in the hallway this morning instead of at the breakfast table. I'd like to submit that as news today. It's just as valuable and credible.
Reading the article there are so many sides to debate, but frankly it just isn't worth it. It's stupid. Stupid news for these modern times we live in where actual news is lost.
Nope... I couldn't resist... take for instance the comments posted to the article. One person was astute enough to catch just ONE reason alone that researchers didn't consider; one I know to be true as I lived in the south. "They drink larger amounts of sweet tea in the stone belt of the south. Large amounts of tea are know to cause kidney stones."
I struggle as a sane and rational man when I consistently read tripe like this.
Thank God for comments like this one: "Let's look at the bright side of this whole thing. For every new kidney stone patient we will have one less frost bite patient." I've made a new best friend.
I'll close with this last comment which sums it up for me, "I would find it even more funny if we were not trying to use money to solve a problem that doesn't even exist."
I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could get my local government to waste money on mirrors to reflect light around a very old and large tree in my backyard to grow grass under it as a playground is there without grass for the children to run ... more»
The Editor of Pink Magazine Cynthia Good allegedly defaced a Men At Work sign by spray painting "wo" in front of the word men. Good says "It is a little bit bias to say 'Men Working, women are working too." So approximately 50 signs ranging from $22.00 to $144.00 each are going to be replaced.
I agree Men At Work is a misnomer, but the metaphorical extension of this term is by no way meant as an insult to women. What's next a ban on the phrase.. "Are we not men?" LOL My point to all this minutia getting stirred up is a case of Americans with far too much time on their hands. Look at me. Some say I blog too much. But things are never always what they appear. Did you know 95% of my articles are written at night after my kids are in bed and I have free time? I set my articles to post later. It works especially well when we go on trips and I want to give the illusion of being home. But I digress. It's good to have a blog where you don't have to answer to an editor for drifting off topic. LOL
The poll actually points out that Americans are the biggest spending and biggest tippers. It also points out that Americans are no longer traveling but the article above doesn't dwell on that. Instead it rationalizes that Americans travel less so our budget to spend is greater. You buying this? With gas prices sky high, our dollar worth garbage overseas and our spending power down due to our economic woes, the rest of the world can get used to less Americans traveling abroad.
This article takes great effort in rationalizing that the French get such high quality service at home, they expect it abroad.
While that may be true... the fact is the article does all it can to rationalize why the French scored poorest in the poll.
Here is my take. The French are no worse than any of us. When we have money the lower classes of our culture can travel and inevitably expose the world to our less refined side. That can be an American, an Englishman, Frenchman, Dutch, you name it.
When I see anyone anywhere that is a tourist, I don't think much of them. I get it. They are not at home and our country is something to compared and examined and either appreciated or ridiculed by its differences. The only tourist I have a problem with are New Yorkers, those obnoxious bastards.
That was a joke. Please put your pen in protest down. :)
Reading this article you can clearly see two things... Yes the woman should not have made a comment to the police officer at the scene. She should have just ate crow knowing he was in the wrong. But being in her same situation most of us would have felt the same and maybe voiced our amazement too.
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Opec wants American's to pay more for gas. Again. They just bled the cow dry. Our economy collapsed due to sustained high gas prices. People paid for gas on credit cards for over two years and every American that isn't in the top 2% is broke. Unless you are Madonna (and even she is a miser I hear) or Tom Cruise, or someone loaded with money, you are hurting. You may have been fired or live in fear of your job. No one in your family except the children are getting Christmas gifts. Have I nailed this?
