Eat Your Way Out Of Jail Free Card

http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/05/ray-harding-avoids-jail-because-he-is-obese/?utm_source=suggested&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=outbrain

Here is the story of a man who is responsible for an $800,000 theft, and yet he gets off because-drum roll please---he is too obese to go to jail.

"What should the sentence be for a man who has stolen $800,000? You would think that it would be at least a few years in jail, but for former Liberal Party boss Ray Harding, there were no such consequences. In fact, the man got off completely scott free, supposedly because of his cooperation with the authorities and for the “family troubles” that caused him to make “a misguided grab for money.” Harding was accused of being involved in a pay-for-play scheme that involved the State of New York’s pension fund. He even admitted to being a fake intermediary between the the pension funds and the investment funds. However, the real reason that Harding got such a light sentence is his poor health. Harding does not have a life-threatening illness like cancer or AIDS; instead, he is obese. And his obesity is a big factor in the very light sentence that he received after stealing $800,000. He will not spend even one day in jail, nor will he be required to pay back the money he stole.

So why is Harding getting off for being fat? Perhaps it is the possible health consequences that he will suffer while he is in jail. Obesity has numerous negative health side effects, including everything from lower back pain to strokes and heart disease. In fact, nearly 10 percent of all medical costs in the USA can be attributed to obesity caused illnesses."

Wow, I can see it now, All future cons are hitting the all you can eat restaurants so that they can pull off their next job. 

Truth in a Nutshell

The other night on a television rerun, George Jefferson was running for a local office that would enhance his personal cleaning business. His wife was questioning his honesty in what his motives were for running. His answer was " I'm running for office, what does honesty have to do with it?"

Need I say more?

Twinkies, Not just for Kids

If there was one cure for whatever ails you, lifting your depression, turning a rainy day into sunshine,making the world's problems vanish, and putting a smile on everyone, would you take the cure? I would, because I happen to have done it many times. Yes, it, you know, the great it, Nope, not that "it", I am talking about the one, the only,box of "Hostess Twinkies" For only about $2.50 per box, if you buy two of them, you can eat your blues away.

Imagine a world where pills were a thing of the past. Good by Ativan, Good by prozac, good by viagra, well, wait a minute on that last one. Anyway, all that you need to heal yourself is one box of Twinkies, and a quart of chocolate milk,( or even better is pint of half and half). Go to the privacy of your room, turn on some oldies music, and indulge. Not many people know this, but Twinkies is the fifth member of the basic food groups. I know, they used to always so four, but there are really five. Here is the updated list. Cheeseburgers, Macaroni Salad, fries, milk shakes, and Twinkies.

So, before you spend another day mired in the throes of misery, depression, anguish, and clean arteries, go now to tour favorite convenience store and plop down the money for a box a Hostess Twinkies, and make sure that they are the real ones, and not on of the imitators. You will be glad that you did.

It's A Gas, Gas, Gas

New Zealand truck driver Steven McCormack nearly pops after getting air hose lodged in buttocks

By Michael Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Well, ok, read it for yourself.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/25/2011-05-25_new_zealand_truck_driver_steven_mccormack_nearly_pops_after_getting_air_hose_lod.html 

 I have nothing more to say that would not get me banned from blogging.(:)

 

Spam, Do I eat it or do I delete it?

We never did know what the ingredients were for sure, but we ate it . Yes, growing up we ate sandwiches made out of it, we fried it, added cheese to it, put mayo on it, but ask someone what it was, and, well, no one seemed to know.I still do not know, although now I see that there is a product called Turkey Spam on some grocery shelves. Well, whatever it was and is, it has endured on grocery shelves like a fifty year old box of Twinkies.(my personal favorite)

Now, however , in the computer age, we got a new kind of spam. Recently my AOL account was some how taken over by a spammer,and they are sending out advertisement for a work at home get rich site. My entire address book was used. I have asked several computer folks how to get it stopped, and they say that I can't.
So, it seems like the new spam is much like traditional spam. It lasts forever, and who knows what is really in it.
So,spam sandwich, anyone?

PS, did you know that there is a Spam Museum? Really.

http://www.spam.com/games/Museum/default.aspx

Killer Tornado and Hugs

Usually news reports of a tornado don't garner much interest from me, but the one yesterday in Joplin, Missouri certainly did because both sides of my family came from there, and indeed, there are still numerous cousins still there. I was born in Idaho, but my parents were born, raised, and are now buried in a cemetery there only a few blocks from where the center of the tornado hit.

I have not been back there since 1973, but as a child, I was there quite a few times on vacations. My
uncle had two large farms there, and it was great fun for a city boy from Wallace to visit the country so see how those folks lived.Of course, I was so much more worldly wise, being from Wallace and all, than my cousins were.

Seriously, thought, the devastation there yesterday is unbelievable. From what i can find out, all of my cousins are all right, although a distant relative did lose everything.

I guess that the theme of writing today was the thought of how quickly life can end. They are now reporting 89 dead in Joplin that they know of.. Do you suppose that any of those 89 woke up Sunday morning and knew that this was their last day on earth? Probably not. Life is short, and fragile. Live for today. Tell someone that you love them. One never knows when their time or a loved one's time is up.

MAC ATTACK

http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_964d5bcc-811d-11e0-b8a4-001cc4c03286.html

Wow, a 59 year old man in Wisconsin recently consumed his 25,000th  Big Mac.. 39 years ago he began his journey to the MAC world. It just goes to show  you what one can accomplish when they set their minds, and stomachs to accomplish something. Amazingly, he is trim , his cholesterol is good, and he walks daily.
Hm, and they said the big M was not health food?  I wonder if I can set the record for the Double Cheese,my personal favorite, not that I ever eat there.(:)

Coming Soon To A Police State Near You

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html

This is going to be an interesting court case on the national level. Evidently. the State of  Indiana decided that police can enter your home whenever they wish, and there is nothing that you can do about it.
I have included the first paragraph  from the above link.

INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.

I will leave it up to the legal eagles to interpret this, but it does sound a little ominous to me.

Justice, or Just Bad Luck?

On Thursday, in downtown Seattle, a man allegedly stole a tip jar from a restaurant and ran into the street. So far so good, right? Wrong. As he entered the street he was hit by a Metro Bus.Now, there are several was to analyze this story.

1. The liberals will say that this poor man was a victim of society. He was the downtrodden, the poor, the huddled, the---Society did this  to him, and that is just the way poor people end up.


2. He got what what he deserved, and instant justice was done. He got his just reward .

3. But wait, there is more. So far he is still alive. Will he or some family member sue Metro for running over the alleged thief? Now, is that justice, too? And around we go.

4. This guy is just plain unlucky. Let's put it this way. I would not go out in a lightening storm if I were he.

It Is So Simple

Around and around the leaders of our nation go in trying to decide what to do about the conglomerate financial mess they have created. How can we have the services that we need, and still balance the budget without raising income taxes. The solution is so simple that it will never happen


Do away with income taxes, and have a national sales tax. Everyone pays, no exemptions. Even crooks, hookers, and other assorted folks buy things. Do, it. Get it done. I have been contacting my Congressmen to express this simple, old idea.

Let The Games Begin

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/05/09/2011-05-09_passenger_pounding_on_cockpit_on_american_airlines_flight_subdued_third_midair_m.html


This weekend was a not kind to US airline passengers. Three incidents happened on flights this weekend,. I think two things are happening simultaneously,
1, All of the nuts are coming out
2. The terrorists are starring a psychological war. After all, it has already been well documented that we scare easily.
They don't really even have to do anything, They just need to act like they are doing something.

Happy birthday-I am one years old.

Yesterday, May 4th marked the first anniversary of my demise. However, I am feeling much better now. Yes, one year ago yesterday I was brought back from land of the non-living. Every morning when I first wake up I say a quick thank you to God for allowing me to be here another day. Then, get up, and like any normal one year old, I look for some mischief to get into. Life is good.

Tear Down the Electoral College Campus

It is time to abolish the Electoral College. It is an institution who that has outlived the original intention of establishing it. I have to be mildly amused and severely peeved that we give homage to our founding fathers for their high ideals of freedom  and yet, they did the political double speak that the masses, that is you and me , are not to be trusted with actually picking our supreme leader.

Well, the time has come to do away with that old college. First of all, where the heck is the campus? Does anyone actually know anyone who has graduated from there? And most important of all, do they have a football team? I think not, and therefore I say, tear down that old campus.

Seriously, eight states have now joined in saying that the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide gets all of the electoral votes for that state. California is considering joining that group.This would be a good interim way to do it. Abolishing the college would require a Constitutional Amendment, which could take years. This way, the popular vote would take the election without having to change the whole Constitution. The time has come. 

I am sick of politics, so I went a day without talking about them

I was working on my garden this morning. I was trimming the Bushes and planting my Jennifer Flowers and I was trying to decide if I wanted to be more progressive or more conservative with the manure this year. About that time, our young neighbor, Monica, stopped by to see the wife about some spot or something on her dress.

Our other neighbour, a collegiate looking middle aged man who used to have some kind of national job or something, stopped by and picked up a new tomato and said something about losing a spelling bee or something like that years ago when he spelled it tomotoe. He still seems a little confused, but then again, he is a bird brain.

I looked up about that time to see the neighbourhood degenerate walking down the street, wagging his head and muttering about not being a crook, or something like that. Also, he was always muttering something about a box of some type on the bottom of Lake Michigan. Weird old man.

Well, I was just about finished for the day when a familiar voice called out. It was the paper boy from the Black area of town, He was a good kid, and smart, but I had to laugh at him at times. He told me that he was going to be the first Black president. Yea, right, kid, I would mutter after he left. Yep, that would be the day when a Black man was the president. Well, at least he had dreams.

Well, I am done gardening for the day, and I never even once mentioned politics.Now, does anyone know where I left my tea bags?

Where Do I get a $1.00 ice cream cone?

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has come up with an interesting way to help first baseman James Loney raise his production, especially his .125 average against left-handed pitching entering Monday's action.
Mattingly said he will fine Loney, a left-handed batter, $1 every time he flies out to left field. Loney accepted the deal, then made an offer of his own.

James Loney will need to do some extra bookkeeping as he tries to raise his batting average. (AP Photo)

“He wants to take a dollar back every time he hits a line drive to left," said Mattingly, who agreed to the terms. "I want him to keep the ball low to left field. This will give him a chance to keep working on it."
Loney is hitting .204 with one home run and 12 RBIs and a .235 on-base percentage. He has been worse against left-handers, and he was not in the starting lineup Monday against Chicago Cubs southpaw James Russell. Righthanded-hitting Jerry Sands took Loney's place. Mattingly, though, said Loney’s night off isn’t part of a platoon situation.
Mattingly's deal with Loney resembles a Little League father making a bet with his son and it’s nice to see Mattingly having some fun with Loney as he gets his point across. But it seems there should be some incentive for Loney to pull the ball, because his power production as a corner infielder is below average.
Either way, we’ll see how many ice cream cones Loney loses or gains over the next couple weeks.

Read more: http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2011-05-02/mattingly-makes-a-deal-with-slumping-1b-loney#ixzz1LKkLMD15

My only question is where in the heck can you still buy an ice cream cone for $1.00???

May Day

There was just something nice about turning the calendar over to May . Nothing against April, but I have always liked May. Perhaps it could just be because May used to signal the end of the school year . May is a unique month because" in both common Western calendrical systems, no other month begins on the same day of the week as May." Put that one in your little known facts pocket.

Today the sun us shining, so maybe a new trend is starting. Wow, sunshine, would that not be nice?
I am craving it. I am not a school boy anymore waiting for the beginning of summer vacation, but I am still waiting for summer. Think lakes, picnics, warm beaches, air conditioning, scantily dressed ladies(whoops, I didn't just write that, did I?) Anyway, I am excited that it is May.