November Weight stats

Forgot to do the stats for November...

What is going  to be surprising is next months weight. To be done around the 1st of Jan.

More human stupidity..

 Man gets jail for stealing, snorting ashes

SILVER SPRINGS SHORES, Fla. (UPI) -- One of three men accused of stealing, then snorting human and canine ashes in Florida, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison.

Jose David Diaz-Marrero, 20, pleaded guilty in June to four burglaries, including one in which he and two others stole urns, that contained the cremated remains of Holli Tencza's father and her two dogs, the Ocala (Fla.) Star Banner reported.

The trio also allegedly stole about $1,500 worth of jewelry, a laptop, a DVD player and a 42-inch flat-screen television.

When questioned by detectives, the suspects said they thought the urns contained crushed pills and decided to taste and snort the contents.

Later, they realized they snorted were the remains of a woman's father and her two dogs.

"I recognize that I've made a big mistake," said Diaz-Marrero, who was sentenced Friday.

"I wish the victims were here so that I could tell them how sorry I am," he said.

Along with serving 8 years in prison, Diaz-Marrero was sentenced to six years probation, and to pay more than $20,000 in restitution to the victims in the cases.

One of Diaz-Marrero's accomplices, Matrix Andaluz, 19, pleaded guilty in June to the burglaries and was sentenced to nine years in prison and 12 years of probation.

The other suspect, Waldo Soroa, 21, still has a pending case. 

Sunday's Finest

7 Dec 1941

For what it is worth - probably very little to those that have been taught revisionist history.

Words to remember

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. " ~ Mark Twain

Need to find the male version..

How about this one from Facebook?

23 Adult Truths and one stupid news story

1 Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind-of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.

17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.

23. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.

Ladies.....Quit Laughing.

 Probation for Maui woman in bat incident

WAILUKU, Hawaii (UPI) -- A Hawaii woman told a judge her anger-management therapy was going pretty well after she cracked her boyfriend with a baseball bat.

Mirivic Simpliciano, 30, was placed on probation in a Maui courtroom this week after pleading no-contest to beating her boyfriend in April, and told the court she thought she now had a handle on things.

"After the incident, I took the initiative to get some help," Simpliciano said.

The Maui (Hawaii) News said the woman's public defender told Judge Rhonda Loo his client was indeed getting her feet on the ground with the help of a therapist.

But the judge wasn't entirely convinced. "You do have an anger problem," Loo told Simpliciano. You need to keep it in check. If you don't keep it in check, I'm going to check you into prison.

The incident began when Simpliciano's boyfriend came in a little late at 7:30 p.m. She started out flailing at him with a foam-rubber bat and a toy light-saber. But she moved up from kid toys to the real deal and let him have it with a metal bat, the newspaper said.

"Couples argue, but most couples don't take it to the level of getting a baseball bat and using their boyfriend's body for batting practice," Loo said. You did cross the line. 

3rd post for today & from a newspaper in France

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03 December 2012 - 23H14

Study finds social networking taking up toilet time

Blame social media the next time it feels like forever for your turn to use the toilet. According to a study released Monday, 32 percent of people in the United States aged 18 to 24 say they use social networking in the bathroom.

According to a study released Monday, 32 percent of people in the United States aged 18 to 24 say they use social networking in the bathroom.
The same report from marketing research firms Nielsen and NM Incite also found that 51 percent of US adults between 25 and 34 use social networking in the office -- more than any other age group.
While personal computers remain the primary tools for logging onto sites like Facebook and Twitter, the report -- posted at blog.nielsen.com -- noted a significant increase in the use of cellphones and tablets as well.
Forty-six percent of respondents said they used a mobile phone to connect online, up from 37 percent last year, while 16 percent used a tablet like Apple's iPad, up from just three percent in 2011.
Facebook remained by far the most popular social networking site among Americans -- but there was a stunning 1,047 percent year-on-year increase in the number of unique PC visitors to the online scrapbook Pinterest.

Amsterdam to create 'scum villages

Heaven forbid but I can see the day of this coming here to the US  if the liberal/progressive/democrats continue to be elected to our political positions.

You think I'm being radical? Or super paranoid? Or being just plain stupid?

Do you believe it after reading the article? Just read the below...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/9719247/Amsterdam-to-create-scum-villages.html
  


Amsterdam is to create "Scum villages" where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant police supervision.
  
    Holland's capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave.
   
    Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.  
    Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam's Labour mayor, has tabled the £810,000 plan to tackle 13,000 complaints of anti-social behaviour every year. He complained that long-term harassment often leads to law abiding tenants, rather than their nuisance neighbours, being driven out.

    "This is the world turned upside down," the mayor said at the weekend. The project also involves setting up a special hotline and system for victims to report their problems to the authorities. The new punishment housing camps have been dubbed "scum villages" because the plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist Dutch Right-wing party, for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers.

    "Repeat offenders should be forcibly removed from their neighbourhood and sent to a village for scum," he suggested last year. "Put all the trash together."
Whilst denying that the new projects would be punishment camps for "scum", a spokesman for the city mayor stressed that the special residential units would aim to enforce good behaviour.


    "The aim is not to reward people who behave badly with a new five-room home with a south-facing garden. This is supposed to be a deterrent," he said.
The tough approach taken by Mr van der Laan appears to jar with Amsterdam's famous tolerance for prostitution and soft drugs but reflects hardening attitudes to routine anti-social behaviour that falls short of criminality.

    There are already several small-scale trial projects in the Netherlands, including in Amsterdam, where 10 shipping container homes have been set aside for persistent offenders, living under 24-hour supervision from social workers and police.
Under the new policy, from January next year, victims will no longer have to move to escape their tormentors, who will be moved to the new units.

    A team of district "harassment directors" have already been appointed to spot signals of problems and to gather reports of nuisance tenants.
The Dutch Parool newspaper observed that the policy was not a new one. In the 19th century, troublemakers were moved to special villages in Drenthe and Overijssel outside Amsterdam. The villages were rarely successful, becoming sink estates for the lawless.
"We have learned from the past," said the mayor's spokesman. "A neighbourhood can deal with one problem family but if there are more the situation escalates."

Bowling's Perfect game.

I have been bowling for around 50 years and the best game I ever had was a 299. As you know the perfect game is a 300.  I present the below story and how it would be even harder to obtain that elusive 300 for the seat of a wheelchair.

 Virginia man in wheelchair bowls 300

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (UPI) -- A wheelchair-bound man from Virginia who says he rarely bowled before he was paralyzed from the waist down, has bowled a perfect game.

George Holscher, 48, of Chesapeake, was paralyzed in a car crash when he was 25.

"When my doctor told me I'd never walk again, that was the worst 5 minutes of my life. And that's about as long as I let it last," Holscher said.

Since his accident, Holscher said he started playing a number of sports -- including wheelchair basketball, tennis and billiards -- The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported.

He stuck with bowling, and when he rolled his perfect game Nov. 26, he became the second person ever to bowl 300 from a wheelchair.

"I know I said I can't feel my knees, but let me tell you, they were weak," Holscher said of how he felt after bowling a 300.

"When you're on a streak like that, the whole house gets quiet," Holscher said. Everyone else stops bowling. It gets tense.

Copyright 2012 by United Press International

3 'Toons for a Sunday - - a nice day to have

A couple of cuties

Sent to me and I found it cute ! !

Nothing Special but

Ain't people stoooooopid?

 Man gets DWI after DWI hearing

MINEOLA, N.Y. (UPI) -- Authorities in New York state say a man was arrested for driving while intoxicated while trying to drive from a hearing for an identical charge.

Michael Nolan, 59, of Freeport appeared Tuesday in Nassau County court in Mineola on an aggravated-DWI charge from August and court officers noticed he smelled of alcohol and seemed unsteady during the status conference, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

The district attorney asked a police officer to follow Nolan when he left the courthouse and he was pulled over after climbing into his 2008 Toyota Tacoma and driving a few feet down the road.

Nolan was arrested on a DWI charge. 

500 Million dollars did not make itself home here

Gee what I could do with that much money.  Oh well now I don't have to worry about it.  Two winning tickets were sold; one in Arizona and one in Missouri with none here in New Mesico.

I bought one ticket.  Those numbers were 25,39,42,48,52 and 31 as the power ball.  Let me say, equivocally,   my numbers SUCKED !  ! !!

Just finished reading this news story. Just doesn't make any sense ..

 'Cleaning Fairy' gets probation

ELYRIA, Ohio (UPI) -- The so-called Cleaning Fairy who broke into an Ohio house, cleaned up and left a bill, was sentenced to one year of probation and 20 hours of community service.

Judge Peter Corrigan sentenced Susan Warren, 53, of Elyria, Monday after she pleaded guilty in October to charges of attempted burglary and trespass, WKYC-TV, Cleveland, reported Tuesday.

Police said Warren, dubbed the "Cleaning Fairy," broke into a Westlake home May 22, cleaned up and left a bill for her services. Investigators said she was previously accused of a similar crime in Bay Village. 

Thought this 'toon was cute:

And one for the road:

Women in combat.

Ran across this article on "The Grudge Report" today while taking a respite from housework/vacuuming.

Interesting,

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/25/few-female-marines-step-forward-for-infantry/

Especially the comments section.

Beetle for today

For Sunday...

Thanksgiving day

Have Sister and her family here for the holiday. Lots of noise (as it should be) between the kids and the dogs.  Nice time.

No subtleties meant but here is a funny 'toon:

Just a run-around Tuesday

   Not much to say.  Guests arriving tonight.  2 adults, 3 kids, and 2 dogs.  Plus on Thursday, some friends are going to drop by for dinner.  They are spending the holiday in Sante Fe and are from Colorado Springs.  Friends for 20 some odd years and at one time was my boss while in Guam.  Looking forward to seeing them - last time was 3 or 4 years ago where we met them in Sante Fe for lunch and conversation.

   Plus got to run around and pick up 5 or 6 pies for Thanksgiving...  Yummy

New Beetle Bailey cartoon kinda sums up things.  Too bad it is not like this in real life.  All the words you want but no war attached to them.  This from a guy who sez nukem till they glow!




and this odd one.

'Tis a Sunday

And for Sunday here is:




After watching CBS SUNDAY MORNING with Charles Osgood this morning went to check email and then decided to go to Arcamax to stop receiving a couple of cartoons I receive daily.  And.. that is where I found this little gem.  Ain't it the truth ! ! !



And ran across a Popeye cartoon that I thought carried a heck of a message:

Wished this would work:::::

For the aches and pains

Just another Thursday...

Just another Thursday and believe it or not, I washing down the base boards in the computer room.  This way when family arrives for Thanksgiving it will be super clean.  ;>)

For starters a cute Beetle Baily:


and a super neat story on the news last night.

 Wheelchair-bound football player takes the field and scores game's final touchdown.  High schooler's dedication prompts coach to name him captain

By Rheana Murray / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 2:59 AM

ABC News

Trent Glaze wheeled himself into the end zone, scoring a touchdown.

Fairfield Union's football captain Trent Glaze.

A wheelchair-bound high school football captain suited up and took the field for the first time Friday night, scoring a touchdown.

For Trent Glaze, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and has lived in a motorized chair for the past 10 years, it was a dream come true.

“I’ve still got butterflies,” he said in an interview with ABC.

Glaze, a senior at Fairfield Union High School in Lancaster, Ohio, joined the football team during his sophomore year. From the sidelines, he studied his teammates and gave them tips, trying to learn the game.

Fairfield Union coach Tom McCurdy calls Glaze his “right-hand man,” according to an interview with 10TV.

“He’s always telling me what we need to do and needs to improve,” he said.

Glaze, who is also homecoming king, was named a team captain this year.

“He’s a good kid, and he deserves it, and I love him dearly,” McCurdy told the Lancaster Eagle Gazette.

Of Friday night, McCurdy said it was Glaze’s “opportunity to shine.”

The clock was out, but both teams took the field for one last play. Glaze grabbed a handoff and wheeled himself into the end zone, as fans erupted in cheers and teammates raced to congratulate him.

“It means a lot,” Glaze told ABC. “It’s going to be in my memory for the rest of my life. I’ll never forget it.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wheelchair-bound-football-player-takes-field-scores-game-final-touchdown-article-1.971624#ixzz2CJ4A9B3H

A fantastic Movie.

If you don't believe how easy it is to create a fascist state, even in the United States,  just watch this movie AND remember even though this movie is in German (sub-titles in English) and was produced in Gernamy it really happened in the U.S.

See:  How it happened in CA.

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In essence it is about a German high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship but it spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

The Internet Movie Database is all one truly needs to find out about ANY movie.

See it at:  www.imdb.com/

For the movie go here: The Wave on IMDB

What one international critic had to say:

"Review by Andrew L. Urban:
It took one week - just one week, to turn a group of middle class high school kids into a Fascist mob with all the hatred and violence that represented Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy or Communist everywhere. While this is a dramatization of real events - in California, no less, not Germany - the message is still valid. Like the other German film about a real experiment, Das Experiment, in which volunteers play guards and prisoners, the ability of humans to slide into abhorrent, hateful behaviour is easier than we like to think

But the point of the film is not to preach, although it is certainly a genuine warning. The point is to explore human nature, to see how easy it is to create the conditions that appeal especially to the weak, the disenfranchised, the unloved, in which they feel empowered, and their resentment becomes a deadly weapon."