The Systematic Draining of America's Economy, Culture, and Pride.
Ok, I admit it. I love candy corn.
Not that crappy knockoff stuff that they try and sell you at some fly-by-night stores.
I am talking REAL Brach’s Candy Corn.
Course I have been told that some people believe that candy corn might not be good for you. (Who are these people?).
It looks like corn to me. There has to be some nutritional value right?
If you don’t click “Like” to this post, there will be hell to pay. Well, at least if I was to take my cue from Benito Apolinar who hit is wife for not clicking “Like” on his Facebook status.
You know, you just can’t make this stuff up – I know, I have tried. Life is just stranger than fiction. Or is that more stupid than fiction?!
Really? Punching someone? Frankly, I thought that is what the virtual “Poke” button was for on Facebook.
Ok, here is the deal…
CARLSBAD — An argument over a Facebook status update resulted in battery charges for a Pecos, Texas, man on Monday.
Benito Apolinar reportedly told his wife that “he had so many comments on his status” and was apparently unhappy that she did not respond to the post.”That’s amazing everyone ‘likes’ my status but you, you’re my wife. You should be the first one to ‘like’ my status,” he allegedly told his wife.
According to Apolinar’s statement regarding the battery, Dolores Apolinar had hit herself in the face and hit him the eyebrow area with her cell phone.
He was observed to have a scratch on his eyebrow, said police.
A pretrial conference has been set in magistrate court for Benito Apolinar for 9 a.m. on Dec. 22. The bond was set at $3,000. Read the full article here.
Well, she was practically asking for it. I mean NOT hitting the Facebook like button?
Wow, if getting punched in the face is the offense for “not liking” something what happens if she turns down his Farmville requests?
Click “Like” already…I feel the rage building inside me.
The writers of Toy Story are getting desperate.
Not a “Hey, let’s make Grease IV or Rocky XVII” kind of desperate. No, something far worse.
They are looking at…
Now, before I get too far in this rant, if you are not familiar in any way shape or form what Farmville is…consider yourself lucky, close your computer browser, and go kiss your significant other for the charmed life you live.
If you are aware of the popular game on Facebook, well, god help you.
First off, some people forget that Farmville is not real [ooops Spoiler Alert].
You are not really a farmer, you are not making any real money, and I don’t even want to know the details of how you “fertilize” someone else’s crops.
Anyway, I know Hollywood is desperate for ideas. Heck even Facebook the movie won a couple Oscars. But Farmville?
It also brings up the question…
Will Farmville fans actually go to the theater to watch the movie or would they only pretend they went the theater?
I can see the email alerts now…
Susie sent you popcorn.
Ralph buttered your popcorn.
You sold an order of M&M’s at your concession stand.
Mary wants you to join her Movie Theater Family (wait, that one is Mafia Wars).
Please Hollywood if we can get Betty White on Saturday Night Live we should be able to stop this. I will watch Message in a Bottle and Howard the Duck back-to-back if you promise not to make Farmville into a movie.
A trip to Disney World can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience…but you can always have more kids.
When a new mom decided, “I’m going to Disney World” she needed to figure out how to come up with a way to pay for the trip.
Turns out, ahead of saving money, a second seasonal job, or even a garage sale is….ta da…sell your kid!
Apparently that kind of stuff needs to be a bit more covert than throwing the kid on eBay or Craigslist. You have to ask around a bit.
NBC Philadelphia – A new mom is in hot water after selling her newborn son for $15,000 so she could take her other two sons on a trip to Disney World, according to court documents.
Bridget Wismer, 33, was arrested at her home in New Castle, Del. after she and the alleged baby buyer, John Gavaghan, 54, of Philadelphia, were caught on a surveillance camera taking care of the last bit of paperwork, according to New Castle County detectives.
The baby boy was born on Aug. 31 and according to court papers, Wismer didn’t want the child.
In early September, detectives were tipped off by Wismer’s grandmother, according to police. They investigated, but couldn’t substantiate the baby-selling accusation. In late September, police got another tip that led them to the place where Wismer and Gavaghan met to finalize the deal.
On Sept. 30, two days after Gavaghan had allegedly taken the 1-month-old boy home, police arrested Gavaghan at his Philadelphia apartment and placed the baby in foster care. Wismer was arrested that same day at her home.
Neighbors were stunned.
“I mean how can you do that,” said Iris Phillips. “Instead of selling, she should have given the baby to her sister of someone.”
Wismer held back tears Tuesday as she tried to explain what happened.
“My friend was helping me take care of my son that I just had,” Wismer said. “He’s always tried to adopt and I couldn’t raise another child.
“I wanted the best for my baby and he wanted the best for the baby and we did it the way we thought we were supposed to.”
Wismer and Gavaghan are both charged with Dealing in Children and Conspiracy in the Second Degree.
Read the original article here.
Oh, Bridget. If you sell the baby than how are you going to get access to the kiddy rides? People that go on those rides, without kids, well, they are just creepy.
On the plus side, she has since learned that if she lowers here standards to Sea World she only needs to “rent” her kid for a couple days for enough money to pay for the trip.
There has been a lot of talk about the deficit and budget. How much do we cut? How much is enough?
This was sent to me and should spell it out, in plain English, in numbers we can all understand…….
• U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
• Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
• New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
• National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
• Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000Now let’s remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget.
• Annual family income: $21,700
• Money the family spent: $38,200
• New debt on the credit card: $16,500
• Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
• Total budget cuts: $385
Seems to me that a household would never be able to survive…how can a government?
I have to admit, I have been keeping an eye on Groupon and Living Social Deals a bit lately. They are fun and I get some pretty cool deals on stuff around town I was going to do anyway.
Since they both have an iPhone app I feel more like an in-tune techie than an 85-year-old coupon clipping senior. In reality, we are one in the same.
This struck me as funny…look out Central Florida, there are going to be a whole lot of new guns around town!
As many as 603 to be exact. Course I have to wonder, how “social” are these people going to be?!
Ok, I will try and avoid the numerous puns that seem to be lining up in my brain this week as the Gibson Guitar Company was raided (again) by federal agents.
First, you would think that a raid of this magnitude would be for drugs (hey, it is a guitar company), illegal guns, or, at the very least, fake iPhones.
Nope, this raid was only about one thing…
“Got Wood?”
So much for avoiding the puns, but that is exactly what the government was looking for…illegal shipments of Indian hardwood.
It was not the first time the federal government stormed into the Gibson factory unannounced. In 2009, more than a dozen agents with automatic weapons charged into a Gibson factory and seized pallets of ebony fingerboards from Madagascar.
What the hell is a fingerboard anyway?
The fun part is that the Federal Government feels the need to run in with automatic weapons. It is a GUITAR factory.
Hell, just run in with a box of Twinkies and some decent Bourbon and they will probably open the books and give you a first rate tour. Sheesh.
I sure hope the people that make Tickle Me Elmo are not importing illegal stuffing or something. That strip search could get ugly for young viewers.
You can read more about it here for the NYT Gibson Guitar Raid article.
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