RIP: Corey Haim
Dude was found dead of an overdose. No one could have predicted that outcome. Maybe Corey Feldmen could have.
March 8, 2010
SOME TRAVEL SCAMS TO WATCH FOR… I’VE SEEN SOME OF THESE
There is also the one I got stung with in NYC where you’re getting in a cab and somebody is looking for change for a hundred. He did change my hundred but for $0…
THE FLAT TIRE SCAM:
Not all moving vehicle scams involve taxi drivers, suggests Robert Siciliano, head of IDTheftSecurity.com. “My wife was traveling in Spain and stopped at a red light,” he recounts. “Someone knocked on her passenger window and kept pointing towards [the car] and saying ‘tire flat, tire flat.’ She got out of the car to look and they opened up the passenger door and took her purse off the seat.”
THE TROJAN HORSE SCAM:
Tour guide Ann Lombardi of the Trip Chicks says she “recently watched a schemer in action in Frankfurt Germany train station” perform the classic hollow suitcase with rollers and frame trick, which Lombardi says works thusly: “A distracted tourist takes his eyes off his bag for a second. Behind the tourist lurks a guy with an enormous suitcase. In a flash, the thief lifts the enormous hollow luggage, puts it over the tourist’s bag, and calmly wheels away with his prized catch.” Avoid such schemers by always protecting your luggage between your legs while in crowded transportation areas, she says.
THE BASKSHEESH SCAM:
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March 5, 2010
Week in Review
File under Week 9 of 2010.
March came in like a baby lamb on Monday after the conclusion of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There were some great moments.
February and March have also proven to be difficult times for me as a parent. I won’t share the details here (and if you know them, please don’t comment on them in this forum). Suffice it to say that teenagers can be very tough on their parents. Nuf said.
I have been suffering from a bout with pneumonia for the last two weeks. It has taken a toll as I have been forced to catch up a little with The View and Oprah (not really). My work has suffered and I am weeks behind and may never get caught up. That will not stop me for gearing up for JuggFest on 3-19 which happen to correspond to the 50th annivesary of the birth of Yarbz. Two weeks and counting.
On Wednesday, I caught a few minutes of the Tyra Banks Show. Why this woman has her own TV show/podium/soapbox is beyond me, but I digress. They had two girls on who were models and promoting something they called BIO. It stands for Beauty Inside and Out. The two teen models had both prepared videos for the show. The first featured a young Caucasian woman who took off her jewelry and her make up during her video and said that people from her “generation” would be making consumer decisions based on how women were featured in advertising. Those products whose adverts used women as objects would be ignored and boycotted. The second video was made by a young African American woman whose message was basically the same, but she had a real attention grabber at the beginning of her video that started by her saying the words “bitch” “ho” and “slut”. She asked if the music industry was listening because any commercial enterprise that featured women degrading themselves and “bouncing around while dollar bills were being thrown at them” was destined for failure due to the new BIO efforts. I report this only because of the delicious irony that immediately followed when the show went to a commercial after Ms. Banks had gushed all over these two and lavished them with praise for “the cause”. Note this was coming from one of the world’s most famous supermodels. The commercial that immediately followed had a beautiful women coming out of a pool while adjusting the front of the bottom portion of her very skimpy bikini. God, I love truth on TV. I wanted to throw dollars at it. Hypocrites piss me off. And let’s not forget that Ms. Banks also has another show that compares the assets of various women who want to be America’s Next Top Model, a show I find to be cruel and humilitating to the contestants (but I have only seen a few moments of it). Is she trying to look stupid or just trying to make herself feel better that she is part of the problem (if in fact there is a problem, cause I ain’t real sure).
Twenty three year old Jeremiah Scott leads our list of Fucktards this week. OMG.
In a story that combines both hypocrisy and Fucktardary, check out this one on CA State Senator Roy Ashburn.
One more this week: Jessie Canfield. Another OMG for this young Fucktard.
Here is a little tidbit for Yarbz: Cuse #1 for first time in 20 years. I still think Kansas will be the team to beat in the tournament that begins soon.
Is gun ownership a fundamental right in America? I certainly think it is and so did the founding fathers.
In case you were wondering, It’s official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
Enjoy your freedoms and happy healthy weekends to all.
TWO VIDEOS I RECENTLY EDITED DOWN TO WATCHABLE QUALITY FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DAYS IN 1986/7… SO MANY MORE TO COME… SO MANY…
February 26, 2010
Week(s) in Review
File under Weeks 7 & 8 of 2010.
Are you brave enough for Chat Roulette? I am reluctant for some reason.
This woman, Amy Bishop Anderson, has to be the lead Fucktard of the Week this week. How uncommon is it that we have a female shooter in situations like this? I bet Trench knows. Did I read that she shot her brother when he was 18 and the gun “accidentally” discharged? Three times? There are no accidental discharges, only negligent ones. Three times? And she was a suspect in a pipe bomb case? She is a lunatic and has had other problems in the past..
But that was last week, wasn’t it? I was too ill with bronchitis to publish a WIR for week 7, so we got a new FTOW challenger: A pediatrician in a small town who molested over 100 kids. Kill him without delay.
Twenty seven year old soldier Joshua Tabor is a Fucktard for waterboarding his four year old. OMG.
Mr. Samson Ojo has to go on the list of Fucktards this week for leaving a family movie in a theater, only to rape a woman in an adjoining theater and returning to his seat as if nothing had happened. Wow.
Buh-bye to Evan Bayh, who is retiring as Senator from Indiana. Thanks Indiana! Mr. Bayh now paves the way for hope and a real change. Number 42 is on the way folks. Maybe it will be John Mellancamp? Oh please no.
Did some Fucktard actually assault the potential future leader of the free world on an airplane? Speaking of incidents on airplanes, Silent Bob (Director Kevin Smith) had something to say about his recent run-in with Southwest airlines about being too big for one seat.
Did you wear black for Cash today?
We can thank Ariana Huffington and her Post for the Most failed funny headlines.
Robert Pattison is allergic to vagina. Say what? Allergic to vagina? Something is bad wrong with that guy and not in a vampire kinda way either.
The Winter Olympics have been pretty cool these last two weeks Congrats to all of the medal winners. There have been some great stories; Lindsey Vonn, Joannie Rochette and more… The US has been kicking all form of ass in the games and medal contests.
Check out this slideshow of dolphins surfing near South Africa. Perhaps they were trying to warn us about what might happen when you put killer whales in theme parks.
From the “no shit?” headlines of the week comes this one: School Shooting Suspect Troubled. Ya think?
This story about Carnival in Rio had me recalling the last time I was at Soldier Field for a Bears game.
Enjoy your freedoms and happy healthy weekends to all.
February 24, 2010
TOUGH MORNING… ALREADY
We’re putting Satchmo to sleep in about 1 hour. He seems to know for some reason. He is crying and he has never done that before.
He can’t drink water anymore and he has a tough time swallowing… I imagine it’s like if I had a super bad sore throat. He has been unable to clean himself like he used to… He was a meticulously clean cat. He was crusty and stinky yesterday so Mariann and I gave him a warm bath and shampooed him. After he was dried he seemed to be very happy with how he looked. It’ll be real tough at the vet office but we both know we’re doing the right thing… He is just beginning to be unhappy and unable to function. Our other cat, Ella, doesn’t give a crap…
Anyway, that is what is happening on this 35 degree rainy Wednesday morning…
February 20, 2010
Online Tax Protest
I joined the Online Tax Protest as a member of the Boortz Fair Tax Brigade at 9PM last night (18 Feb 2k10). When I noticed the count of members (after joining), it was showing 26. About 16 hours later, it was over 12,000. As of this post there are 17,008 marchers.
February 17, 2010
Vermont may have it right!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA !!!!!!!!!!!
Sensible Gun Registration Plan That Will Work
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermont ’s own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.
Maslack recently proposed a bill to register “non-gun-owners” and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.




















