Archive for March, 2011
The Good Humor Man….literally
Just when I thought I had seen and read every crazy story out there….something new comes along.
NEW YORK – Authorities say a New York City man sold highly addictive black-market prescription painkillers out of his ice cream truck.
Louis Scala is accused of being one of the leaders of a Staten Island drug trafficking ring that illegally sold nearly 43,000 oxycodone pills — worth $1 million on the street — between 2009 and 2010.
Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan says the ice cream truck was a “primary sales point.”
Authorities say the 29-year-old Scala doled out treats to children and then sold oxycodone to adult customers.
Scala is among more than a dozen people suspected of being members of the drug gang who were arraigned Tuesday and Wednesday.
He was released on $15,000 bail. The voice mail on his phone wasn’t set up to take messages Thursday.
The kids can get a Orange Creamsicle and the moms can get Oxycodone.
I’m speechless.
Friday Open Thread: March 18th, 2011
What’s on your minds this Friday?
What are your weekend plans?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
The Palin Doctrine
http://www.nysun.com/opinion/palin-doctrine-emerges-as-arab-league-echoes-her/87263/
One woman emerges when America needs leadership most.
Notice: ain’t nobody talking about a Romney, Pawlenty, or Gingrich Doctrine.
Thank God for Governor Palin.
Miss Meghan wants Mitt
Little Miss Meghan had a speaking gig at Kennesaw State University on Monday. Yes….it’s the same Kennesaw State University that has hired the marxist provost and is involved in the illegal immigrant controversy (the Jessica Colotl case). I really don’t like Meghan McCain so I can’t imagine why anyone would hire her to speak but I guess since she’s young, colleges think she can relate to their students. Whatever.
During her speech, she began pontificating on who would be the best candidate to take on Barack Obama in 2012. Here’s what she had to say…..
“I think there are more qualified candidates,” McCain said, on why she doesn’t believe Palin is right for the job. “I just don’t agree with the moves she’s made since the election. If I was advising her I would have told her to go away, stay silent, read up on everything, then really start campaigning hard. The reality shows, it’s just not what I believe in for the White House.”
That’s not to say McCain, who is a columnist for Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast, doesn’t have respect for Palin.
“She is captivating on every level, and she’s a lot smarter than people ever give her credit for,” McCain said. “I do not think she’s stupid. I do not think she’s crazy. There are these things that she is stereotyped to be.”
McCain said Palin has been treated unfairly by the media, which is something the media does to other conservative women as well, like McCain herself. But McCain said Palin is too conservative for her taste.
McCain said she didn’t believe Palin hurt her father’s chances against Obama in the last election when she served as the vice presidential nominee.
“I think my father could have had Jesus Christ himself as his running mate,” she said, reminding the audience to think back to how the country was in the grip of “Obama-mania” at the time.
For similar reasons, McCain said she doesn’t like the idea of Donald Trump eyeing the presidency either.
“I have actually kind of a problem with people like Donald Trump saying they’re going to run for president. This shouldn’t be something you do for publicity,” McCain said. “I think it’s very strange.”
Of course if he ran, the country would have two reality shows to follow, Trump’s and Palin’s, she said.
“My personal favorite right now is Mitt Romney,” she said. “I like that he’s not so radical. I like that he has really, really played his cards right, almost perfectly since the last election.”
McCain said she didn’t believe Mike Huckabee had what it takes to beat Obama.
“We’re going against the Obama machine, which even if it’s a little less bright and shiny than it once was it’s still the Obama machine,” she said. “And we need something intense to really showcase exactly what his administration is doing wrong. And not get caught up in the fray.”
Following her talk, McCain held a book signing on her recently published memoir, “Dirty Sexy Politics: A True Story.” Caleb Wallace, 23, of Powder Springs, a junior majoring in history, said he was impressed.
“She brings something fresh to the table from our generation as opposed to always hearing from the older talking heads who we’re always hearing from on the news,” Wallace said. “She really just brings a fresh perspective and encourages people like me who are kind of cut off from the Republican Party as a young voter.”
Criminal justice major Deanna Pucci, 20, of Woodstock, is also a fan.
“I absolutely love her,” Pucci said. “I’m not really that much into politics, and I follow her on Twitter a lot, but she’s just so funny and down to earth, and I think she’s a good role model for younger generations.”
Fake Tea Party candidates on Michigan’s midterm ballots
Mike McGuinness and Jason Bauer
(h/t Zip)
This is pretty pathetic.
PONTIAC, Mich. (WJBK) — Two former leaders of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing a total of nine felonies for allegedly forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on November’s ballot.
“It is not a partisan statement, and we need to make that very clear,” said Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper.
Former Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and former Democratic Operations DirectorJason Bauer face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.
“Some of the people didn’t even know they were on the ballot till they began receiving delinquency notices of filings that were required as a candidate,” said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.
The sheriff says 23 statewide races had questionable Tea Party candidates on the ballot and the investigation may go beyond Oakland County.
“It was learned that a scheme was developed by a party leader in Lansing to place on the ballot people pretending to be Tea Party activists and that this was going to be a statewide effort,” Bouchard said.
It makes you wonder how many other fake candidates are out there.
Did they really think they could get away with this?
Insanity
Glenn Beck and the Three Little Pigs
This was part of Glenn Beck’s show last night on Fox. It’s a 14 minute video but it’s worth watching.
No one can tell a story quite like Glenn.
Priceless
Thursday Open Thread: March 17th, 2011
Happy St. Patrick's Day
What’s on your minds this Thursday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Bloomberg’s approval rating lowest ever…would he be a Perot-like spoiler for Obama in 2012?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262275/bloomberg-scores-worst-rating-eight-years-brian-bolduc
Bloomberg’s indulgence of the corrupt and greedy unions has cost him BIG.
New Yorkers are not forgetting his incompetent handling of the Christmas blizzard last year…while was far away from the City, sunning himself like a lizard on a Bermuda beach.
The unions crippled the City to punish New York for budget cuts that affected union pork…and Bloomberg has done nothing to ensure the unions suffered any consequences for their blizzard work stoppage.
51% of New Yorkers now disapprove of Bloomberg’s leadership.
He doesn’t care, though, because he’s a billionaire narcissist who believes his vast fortune can land him in the White House.
Would a Bloomberg independent run in 2012 hurt or help Obama?
Normally third party candidacies help Democrats…but who exactly would vote for Bloomberg?
Could he be seen as an option for people who don’t think Obama is weak and incompetent enough? Is he the choice for people who think Obama does not take enough lavish vacations or bow to the unions as much as they want?
Seriously. Who out there would want a Bloomberg presidency…and which candidate would Bloomberg actually hurt the most as a vainglorious spoiler?
The hypocrisy of Hollywood
Of course, any good pro-union anti-American rally wouldn’t be complete without Susan Sarandon. Does she really say we’re not a plutocracy but a democracy (Plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth. I had to look it up.)? Wrong Ms. Sarandon….we’re a republic (Republic is a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of the citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them).
Once again, the wealthy idiots of Hollywood have nothing else better to do.
Perhaps Ms. Sarandon should enroll in an American History class.
Britain’s first Muslim Miss Universe contestant being harassed by Islamic zealots
Shanna Bukhari
Great Britain has it’s first Muslim Miss Universe contestant…..and she’s stunning. Shanna Bukhari has had a mixed reception from the Muslim community. As expected, she has gotten some pretty harsh criticism from the Islamic “zealots”, but she has also gotten a great deal of support from her Muslim friends…..which is refreshing.
( Alarabiya) Shanna Bukhari who is Great Britain’s first Muslim Miss Universe contestant told the press that religious zealots not only slammed her decision to enter the beauty contest but told her to rot in hell.
Miss Bukhari aged 24 had the zealots predicting her torments in hellfire and with some other religious Muslim men posting messages on her Facebook page condemning her Miss Universe move as offensive to Islam.
“Three men wrote that they would not support me because what I was doing was sinful,” the young beauty contestant told the Manchester Evening News. “They said I should rot in hell, which is pretty shocking.”
“They contradict themselves by going out clubbing, drinking and smoking at the weekends. That is completely hypocritical and they should look to themselves before they start judging others.”
