Monday, May 16, 2011

International update: Mexico


It's amazing the things that pass for trends in some places. In this Northeastern Mexican town, girls won't look twice at a guy unless he's wearing these clown-like boots. You have to wear them or people might think you look stupid. That's if you are not wearing them. Bizarre.


School boycott

Parents of some Buffalo Public schoolchildren will be encouraging their kids to skip class tomorrow in protest of the district's poor performance. They will hold a rally at 12 noon in front of city hall.

Substitute teachers will be holding a second rally at 1pm. They will be protesting many of these same parents, who allow their kids to come to school without pens, pencils, or the most basic of life skills. In an ironic twist, the parents will actually serve their own kids breakfast and lunch, while the teachers stay home and play video games and drink beer...


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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Black couple gives birth to honkie


I see no mention of a DNA test in this article, which raises the obvious question...What color was the village milkman in Congo?

In a million-to-one quirk of nature, Francis and Arlette, who have no white relations, had given birth to a white baby.

The genetic mix-up has baffled experts, who say Daniel is NOT an albino with no skin pigment – not to mention the parents, who already have a two-year-old black son, Seth.

Francis adds: “My first thought was ‘Wow, is he really mine?’

Shock of the black couple who had a WHITE baby - mirror.co.uk

Osama's dirty pictures

Osama bin Laden's computers apparently contained a few pornographic images. Criticized by some for not showing pictures of the deceased terrorist, the United States government has decided to release some of the pictures confiscated during the raid...






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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Sanity



“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
- Albert Einstein

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.” - Charles Manson


As soon as someone takes on the establishment, the first thing the establishment does is try and portray them as crazy. They said Jimmy Griffin was crazy when he fought against machine politics. They called Carl Paladino crazy when he ran against two career do-nothing politicians. It's funny how he wasn't "Crazy Carl" when he and Rus Thompson were fighting to get the unnecessary tolls removed from the 190. You know who was crazy? People like Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, who said at the time that we needed the tolls because of the "revenue" they generated. They were crazy. Crazier, were the people who believed him for years (as well as others) and kept reelecting him and throwing 50 cents in the bucket. Not me. I got off, drove through the ghetto, and then got on again by the Peace Bridge, whenever I had time. I guess that made me crazy.
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WNY's latest person "crazy" person is Akron businessman Jack Davis. I'm not a supporter of Davis. I don't live in the district. However, spending his own money and being a 3rd party candidate does not, in and of itself, make Davis crazy. If you ask me, Jane Corwin's chief of staff, Michael Mallia, shrieking like a teenaged girl and trying to incite a 78 year old man, is much more of a threat to us than Captain Viagra. People like Mallia and Nick Langworthy should both be stocking shelves at WalMart, not running our government.

Oh, yea. Because I write (poorly, I might add) about news stories and offer my opinion on things, I'm crazy too. The people who say such things are usually afraid of their own shadows. They are followers, with little confidence in themselves. Back-up point guards. They were the people in The Emperor's New Clothes who told the emperor how great his new suit looked. Who needs people like them as friends anyway? While Griffin, Paladino, and Davis might have had their flaws, craziness was not one of them.


Now. Posting every single day since August of 2009? Some might say that is a little crazy. Others, persistent...

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place...


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Barnaby charged in domestic incident


Former Sabre and Amherst resident Matthew Barnaby was charged in a domestic violence incident involving his estranged wife and a male friend on Friday night. To avoid the violence, the two fled to an area they knew Barnaby would have trouble finding them. They went to the garage and hid inside the back of a street hockey net...

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Misuse of 911

I can't believe this Connecticut man was charge with misusing the 911 system. If this doesn't qualify as an emergency, I don't know what does?...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A 65-year-old Bridgeport man faces criminal charges after police say he called 911 to solve a beer emergency.

Raymond Roberge called the emergency number three times on Sunday.

Authorities say when emergency personnel arrived at his home, Roberge offered them money to go to the store and buy him some beer.

Man calls 911 to solve beer emergency

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Steel City Snake

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Wow. This is why you read this blog. Check out the size of the water snake (pictured below) Lackawanna Police encountered today at Smokes Creek in the Crack City while looking for an abandoned car. They couldn't find the car and determined that the snake probably ate it whole...
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Darnell wants his money


Instead of the full $15,000 reward for bringing in the City Grill shooter, the Erie County DA offered community activist Darnell Jackson $1,000. He has refused it and has hired a lawyer...

The community activist who arranged the peaceful surrender of City Grill shooter Riccardo M. McCray to police has rejected his $1,000 share of the $15,000 reward, describing the amount offered to him as pitiful.

Darnell Jackson says the Erie County District Attorney's Office should have given him all of the reward, which had been posted for the arrest and successful prosecution of the individual responsible for killing four people and wounding four others last summer outside the downtown nightspot.

"I got the man off the street. The man told me to bring him in," Jackson said. "I felt that the thousand dollars they offered me was an insult."

Why didn't the DA just say, "we're offering a $15,000 reward, unless we don't like you. Then, it's $1,000?" Obviously, law enforcement and the DA do not want to give Jackson anything. He arranged the surrender and should get the full reward. I don't blame him for hiring a lawyer. I'll be surprised if he loses the case.

Jackson spurns reward of $1,000 in McCray case


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Hey, I have a blog too


Wacko Jacko- has a $1.5 million dollar endorsement offer from Viagra

Jack Davis is on the Tea Party line for this month's Congressional race, however, the people in charge of the Tea Party are urging voters to vote for Jane Corwin. So how did Davis get on the line? From today's Buffalo News...

Tea New York, a force behind last year's Paladino campaign for governor, backed Corwin. But the Western New York Tea Party Coalition, affiliated with blogger and activist James Ostrowski, backed Davis.

The Davis campaign paid Ostrowski $51,500 for legal work aimed at getting the independent candidate on the ballot.

And while Ostrowski has insisted that he stayed out of his coalition's endorsement process, that's not how it looks to Russell, who said Davis "has paid tens of thousands of dollars to somebody to give him the endorsement."

Good for Ostrowski. Take as much money from these politicians as you can get. I, for one am glad Davis is running. The more third party candidates the better. Maybe one of the major parties will then wake up and actually look after the needs of the residents. I'll start holding my breathe now...

Tea party activists eager to disown Davis


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