“We want more time, and we want it fast. ‘Impatience is a virtue,’ a Samsung ad proclaims, while a Sprint broadband slogan warns that ‘Now waits for no one.’ ” Here.
Will the persistence of our memory be supplanted eventually by the persistence of the present?
Family death ties… “The suicide note said it all: ‘I love everyone, but this is what I want.’ Anne Morell Petrillo left the note to her family before jumping off the Tappan Zee Bridge, a source close to the family told the Daily News yesterday. The 38-year-old daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas leaped to her death on Thursday night – nearly 16 years after her stepfather took a fatal plunge from the same span after beating her mother to death with a hammer. ‘The murder set the tone for her entire life,’ the source said. ‘She had threatened suicide in the past, but no one thought she would actually go through with it.’ “
Remember, Joe Friday always gets his man.
Obama’s inept Treasury Secretary finally gets grilled by some no thrills LA cops.
A byproduct of unimaginative script writing: cell phone signal cliches (it was bound to happen)…
I know one thing, at my launch party I’m gonna have those miniature hot dogs…
Who was it that said Numbers don’t lie? Any way, when you find out give that man a cigar…
Update: “Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse. Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Department’s latest numbers, from July, only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open, with 14.5 million people officially unemployed…” Article here (N.Y. Times).
Ever hear that Neil Young song about Spanish conquistadors, the one called “Cortez the Killer“? It’s about how the Aztecs lived in a kind of paradise until Cortez and his 150 man army virtually annihilated that “glorious 
kingdom” in what is now Mexico.
Here’s one of the pivotal lines, lamenting the arrival of the Conquistadores, before which “Hate was just a legend and war was never known.”
As with most propaganda–and Young’s song was merely a symtom of long standing propaganda saturated history lessons–the stuff longstanding myths are made of– that still predominate today–it is a concoction of half truths, and in most cases no truth at all. Look at this recent article by historian Hugh Thompson.
“…When the recently excavated pyramid whose finds provide the centrepiece of the British Museum show was first inaugurated in 1484, there were prisoners lined up for sacrifice stretching in all directions as far as the eye could see. Some estimate that 20,000 victims were killed over four days. The actual reign of the Aztecs was relatively short. They dominated the centre of Mexico properly for less than a hundred years before Cortés’s arrival. Driven by a greed equal to anything the Spaniards were to reveal later, they had mercilessly conquered neighbouring tribes under the direction of emperors who worked closely with priests — indeed some emperors, like Moctezuma, had previously been head priests…The smell and stench of blood at such mass ceremonies must have been nauseous. While the heart itself would have been burnt, each skull was collected on a rack; the rest of the body was flung down the steps of the pyramid, to be eaten later with chilli sauce by nobles or favoured warriors.” Article here.
The quote below is from another article, this one from the Daily Mail commenting on a recent London exhibition of Aztec civilization.
“..Cortes and his men as they reached the precise geometric centre of the city, a huge plaza containing the Great Temple. From a platform high up on this stone pyramid ran steep flights of wide steps. The horror was that, from top to bottom, they were streaked red with human blood, while alongside them were rack upon rack of skulls. A rank smell of putrefaction hung in the air. It became clear to the invaders from Christian Europe that, in this otherwise perfect city of hospitable and well-mannered people, human sacrifice was practised on a massive scale. A stone at the top of the steps was where men – usually but not always tranquillised with ‘magic mushrooms’ – were held down while the high priest slit open their chests with a sharp blade made from flint or volcanic rock, and plucked out their hearts…” (Funny, in the Neil Young song, sacrifice is mentioned, but I wonder how the victims would have felt about this line: “They offered life in sacrifice / So that others could go on…”)
Montezuma’s Revenge, we could say, has been that the myth of his “paradise” would serve as real history.
Why, Vdare’s Brenda Walker asks–and I have to admit it’s a vey good question at that–are fifteen million American citizens out of work while over eight million illegal aliens have jobs? Article here.
By the way, here come some more.
Different People. Don’t forget my favorite–Slow Moscow.
Many Europeans shocked at how degraded a place America is becoming. Take under Vegas for starters, there’s almost a thousand people down there…Article here.
Alas, recession takes toll on the women of Roller Derby. “…Unemployment in the Detroit metro area recently hit 17.7 percent, and Miss Riker, the league president, said the group has lost about a dozen players because of the downturn. It wasn’t always like this for roller derby…” Article here.
Is professional wrestling next?
Yes yes of course we all know that cops are necessary for a civilized society. But we do need some standards; I mean we can’t be hiring guys with fascist tendencies who make the law and enforce it on the spot. Everyone’s seen the Rodney King video. When I first saw that I thought it was a terrible exception (yeah, even while arrestingcriminal bums like King cops must act professional). But it’s not. Undercover cop brutality videos are in the thousands, and what they show is only the proverbial tip of the berg. They seem to be getting worse and worse.
Here Chicago cops arrest a nurse because she didn’t run a blood test fast enough on some DWI suspect (article here):
Related:
Cops taser legless man in wheelchair.
Cops chase and taser 76-year-old man driving a tractor during a parade.
I love this line: Los Angeles (AP): “The chickens have come home to roost for Los Angeles city dwellers who keep roosters.” Trying very had to avoid political incorrectness status by not mentioning who exactly is keeping roosters in the city, the line (god bless it) does its best to invite us to read between the words (after all, looks what’s happening to Lou Dobbs). Yes, I’m afraid LA is very near official third world status. The law will now allow only one rooster to a household (good luck!)…The law was given some impetus (finally) by complaints over noise and hygiene and concerns over illegal cockfighting. Look next for LA to be forced to ban bullfighting in its parks….Imagine LA in twenty years…er, on second thought, don’t. Read article here.
Very instructive. Remember, for educated muslims, Islam is not a religion anymore; it is an ideology of group empowerment.
(Yes, Brigitte is a beautiful woman, but that’s not why she’s here.)
On the other hand Sweden is enjoying the perks and thrills of multiculturalism and mass immigration:
Bruce Bawer’s book, “While Europe Slept,” was one of the best I’ve ever read on the dangers of radically oriented self-imposed anti-integrationist Islamic immigration. I haven’t read his new book yet, “Surrender,” but have ordered it and am now camped out in the front yard waiting for the UPS truck.
Related: Bawer speech at the Free Thinking Film Society in Canada.
“…Some preliminary statistics. First, blacks commit an inordinate amount of violent crime. In 2005, for example, blacks were seven time more likely than whites to commit a homicide. Second, blacks themselves are typically the victims of this violence—between 1976 and 2005, 94 percent of all blacks killed in a homicide were killed by other blacks. In 2008, homicide was the leading cause of death for black males aged 10-24 and the second leading cause of death for women of that age. This pattern is true for other violent crimes—it is largely intra-racial with blacks across the board disproportionately being both perpetrator and victim. This damage far exceeds personal harm, though that is horrific enough…” Article here.
Sadly, America is not the future, or rather the future of America mostly lies in becoming a multicultural hodpodge of cultural/racial battles, endless rifts between competing groups, an oppressive ever-increasing Third World spiral of legal and illegal immigration, a place where corrupt Wall St banks and Washington politicians continue rulling dangerouly inflating money spickets. The future is China. Go East, young man and woman, go East. Though competition is gradually rising in China many young Americans are doing just that, getting out now while the getting’s good. Take Mikala Reasbeck.
” When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing in February to look for work. A week after she started looking, the 23-year-old from Wheeling, West Virginia, had a full-time job teaching English. “I applied for jobs all over the U.S. There just weren’t any,” said Reasbeck, who speaks no Chinese but had volunteered at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In China, she said, “the jobs are so easy to find. And there are so many…”China is really the land of opportunity now, compared to their home countries,” said Chris Watkins, manager for China and Hong Kong of MRI China Group, a headhunting firm. “This includes college graduates as well as maybe more established businesspeople, entrepreneurs and executives from companies around the world.” Read article here.
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China leading the way (pdf document)
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Not everything is perfect in the New World
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Strictly for men: If you’re a single young guy headed to the New World (China) here’s an added benefit if you plan to do some dating there. Asian women are less naturally hirsute than Western women. Read about it here.
“My favorite line from The Simpsons, FOX’s long-running comedy: Play the race card … play it! Homer Simpson demands it from his lawyer as a court case against Simpson appears all but lost. It’s a great line because our yellow-skinned hero got himself into his predicament — and it had nothing whatsoever to do with race, of course. It’s not unlike the comedy act coursing through the public square today — except I’m not laughing. And neither are countless other Americans being broadly accused of racism for daring to critique black politicians.” From here (Pajamas Media). Yes, he’s talking here of Jimmy Carter and Maureen Dowd* for starters.
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*I must admit though I did like her book, “Are Men Necessary?”
Muslim teen, wtih the help of the ever resourceful EEOC, sues Abercrombie & Fitch because they won’t consider hiring her because she wears a head covering, known as a handkerchief hijab. How about if she had applied for work in a full burka with face mask? How about if she had been hired and insisted on prayer five times each shift? What if she wanted to refuse talking to men coming in the store–you know like answering sales questions– something that would certainly, it seems fair to assume, would put a damper on sales? By the way I wonder if the PC EEOC would be so zealous if a Christian wanted to wear, oh say a cross in a Muslim owned store or how would they feel about taking up the case for a follower of the late Jim Jones of the Peoples’ Temple (remember Guayana) who insisted on wearing a vial of kool-Aid around her neck? How about a fanatic of Yoga who insisted it was his religious right to controt his body and wrap one of his legs about his neck while chanting? There really is no end to the madness of this society anymore.
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Related: Extra Extra read all about it…Jedi warrior of the Jedi Church tossed out of store for refusing to remove hood. Suffers deep humiliation…The universe has now been disturbed…”Mr Jones, from Holyhead [England], said his religion dictated that he should wear the hood in public places and is considering legal action against the chain.
Here’s another take on this case.
What was it that guy Timothy Leary said–tune in turn out turn down tune out turn around turn turn…? (something like that)…O the colors, the colors …wait, my mouth is falling off…
“…Gatherers [cave women--think Raquel Welch in 'One Million BC'] sifted the useful from things that offered them no sustenance, warmth or comfort with a skill that would eventually lead to comfortable shopping malls and credit cards…” Article here.
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Related: let’s not forget the shopping cart: [Such a] trivial device as a shopping cart may surprisingly contribute to shaping exchanges in supermarkets… from ‘Calculation, qualculation, calqulation: shopping cart arithmetic, equipped cognition and the clustered consumer’– Tell it like it is…Yeah!
“…Women: do you have a man? If you do, better beware. Chances are that some lone female has her eye on him. A new study provides evidence for what many have long suspected: that single women are much keener on pursuing a man who’s already taken than a singleton. “The single women really, really liked the guy when he was taken,” says Melissa Burkley of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, who conducted the “mate-poaching” study with her colleague Jessica Parker…” Article here in “New Scientist.”
This is why, guys, if you are going to have a CONSENSUAL sexual relation “with that woman” than there is one basic thing you need to know: if this woman becomes disenchanted with you, if you neglected to followup on the relationship, or if she feels she had made a mistake in having sex–there’s a thousand reasons–she may charge you with rape. This present case of an alleged campus rape is typical of what can happen.
“Late [last night] … the alleged victim of the sexual assault admitted that the encounter that took place early Sunday morning was consensual,” said Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice. “Innocent until proven guilty!” shouted an elated Kevin Taveras, 20, a Cablevision worker from Brentwood, LI, after walking out of jail. “I’m so happy. I’m glad to be going home.”His 19-year-old step-brother, Stalin Felipe, said that although he was “very happy the truth came out, I’m still embarrassed. “We were in jail for over 22 hours and we had to sit there and see our names on TV blurted out calling me a rapist. “I have no comment for that girl.” The four were arrested after 18-year-old freshman Danmell Ndonye made her ugly, false accusation. The fifth innocent person she accused was never arrested and his name was not released. Taveras and Felipe, along with Hofstra senior Rondell Bedward, 21, and Jesus Ortiz, 19, were all charged with first-degree rape. They’d been held in lieu of $500,000 bail and faced 25 years in prison if convicted. At least one of them had received a death threat through his lawyer. “I got a call from a blocked number saying I should keep my f—ing client off the campus. He’s a dead man,” said Taveras’ lawyer, Victor Daly-Rivera. Story here.
Though ideally she should be sent to prison for at least fifteen years this woman will no doubt not be charged with anything that will require jail time, whereas those she had accused would have faced years in prison. Their lives are already poisoned. Listen, this is why you should save your money and periodically acquire the services of a high class prostitute.
Remember the Duke case? (Here’s another overview.)
Thus spake Zarathustra Jimmy Carter: “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American…” yada yada yada…the drone of the Liberal elite. It seems anyone who disagrees with Obama is a racist. Evidently just looking at the president the “wrong way” can produce accusations of racist thought. Liberals will point out the deeper meaning behind an otherwise innocent turn of phrase. Thus when Senator Wilson shouted out that Obama was a liar he is now being locked in with the racist label. What Wilson did was ill-mannered at worst. Was there racism behind his outburst? Who knows. I do know this though– these Libs cannot read minds; they do not know what someone is thinking when it comes to race. But I think we know what’s really behind such accusations. Self-righteous Liberals, especially the kind represented by the finger-pointing former President, are merely trying to cover up their own racist views (now I’m going to read minds). By flinging out the racist epitaph at every turn, at every phrase and word, they ease their own racist conscience. And where does that racist conscience reside? Deep…deep down there in the R-complex. Maybe even a couple of levels above that. They have to struggle everyday to keep it in its hidden place. Every time a racist thought bubbles up like yellow pus in their grey matter they must accuse someone else of racism. Not only are race-bating Libs keeping society from looking beyond race, they are defiling language. See War of Words
Related: “…Angry. Bitter. Desperately trying to avoid irrelevance. Clinging to past glories. The average American, the beleaguered taxpayer in the age of Obama? No, welcome to the world of Maureen Dowd. Dowd is the signature columnist for The New York Times and Cardinal Richelieu to the King Moe (a dynastic line that includes Larry and Curly) of its publisher, Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr. Dowd faces a new information age in which readers continue to turn their backs on her and her employer of 26 years, leaving a shrinking readership of aging elites from academia, politics and media. Her readers are disappearin…”
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By the way: An excellent book on this subject is–Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream (by Jim Sleeper). Oh, and don’t forget to read this one: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness (by Lyle Rossiter)
Take New York. No, you are not alone, not by a long shot even on these cold, anonymously crowded concret sidewalks. You are among the thousands of murder victims over the last six or so years. No matter what race, gender or age you are, you’re in damn good social company:
If you’re black then you are among 61% of victims; hispanic, 27%, white 8%; Asian, 4%. Who commits these crimes? Interestingly, the perps-to-victims ratio is almost exactly the same as that for victim percentage: 61% black; 29% hispanic; 7% white; 3% Asian. As you might expect most murder victims are commited by men, 83%; women–17%. Again the ratio is very close to the victim percentage: 92% and 8% respectively.
Can we conclude that most kill from their own group? Even perp-victim percentages hold up, at least roughly, with age differentiation: Under the age of 18 the victims were 8%, the perps 9%.
Of course if you’re murdered it doesn’t really matter who from what group did it, or how hold he/she is, or what gender: on the purely personal bottom line you’re dead meat.
You can view this interactive chart in the NY Times.
Amazing what a disease can do for a comeback. In this case, Patrick Swayze. There’s tens of thousands of regular people out there who can’t even afford treatment; and when they kick off they don’t even make the back pages in the obits and here this guy is plastered on the front of every tabloid in town because a million years ago he made some shit movie.
“…For years, Ann Minch of Red Bluff, Calif., has carried a balance of several thousand dollars on her Bank of America credit card, making minimum monthly payments of about $130, sometimes paying an extra $50 or $100. She says she’s never missed a payment. Bank of America rewarded her loyalty this year by repeatedly raising her interest rate, which reached 30 percent in July…” Article here.
Update: A triumph, my dear, a triumph.
Gives new meaning to the phrase, My girlfriend/boyfriend is a real dog (key phrase being real dog): “….Being a ‘zoophile’ in modern American society, Beck [a, er, a zoophile] says, is “like being gay in the 1950s. You feel like you have to hide, that if you say it out loud, people will look at you like a freak.” Now Beck believes he and other members of this minority sexual orientation, who often call themselves “zoos,” can follow the same path as the gay rights movement. Most researchers believe 2 to 8 percent of the population harbors forbidden desires toward animals, and Beck hopes this minority group can begin appealing to the open-minded for acceptance…” I don’t know about you but this grosses me out. Now I can’t eat for three weeks (yes, I have a weak stomach). Read article here.
White kid beaten on school bus while black kids cheer. (Video at link) By the way, Rush Limbaugh gives a good take on this here.
U.S. Special Forces take out (that means kill) al qaeda big shot in Somalia. OK, great news, but here’s the funny part. A commenter on this story in the Times of London, who identifies himself as Taxi Driver from London says (and here’s the funny part; well, it’s sort of funny if you know what I mean): “And we will retaliate against you, we just don’t shout about it like football hooligans in the street.” Get it, huh? Huh? No, it wasn’t Robert DeNiro. I wonder what religion Taxi Driver’s involved with?
Yes, as if out of a sketch from SNL–or better yet, from MAD Magazine–we have those funny people in Mexico, especially in the state of Sonora, where they are being overrun by–Mexicans; that is to say, Mexicans that were illegal aliens in the U.S. and are now returning in droves to their home towns because of America’s economic downturn and increased crackdown on employers hiring the undocumented.
“…It seems that many illegal immigrants from Mexico are returning to their hometowns, and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off about it. A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson recently to say Arizona’s new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference the legislators said Sonora, Arizona’s southern neighbor comprised mostly of small towns, cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as Mexican workers here return to their country without jobs or money…” Read rest here.
“…The American people have been taken hostage to a broken system. It is a system that remains in place to this day. A system where bank lobbyists have been spending in record numbers to make sure it stays that way. A system that corrupts the most basic principles of competition and fair play, principles upon which this country was built. It is a system that so far has forced the taxpayer to provide the banks with the use of $14 trillion from the Federal Reserve, much of the $7 trillion outstanding at the US Treasury and $2.3 trillion at the FDIC. A system partially built by the very people who currently advise our President, run our Treasury Department and are charged with its reform…” Article here.
“…So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It’s sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they’re really looking up to. But ‘Fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael [Bay] will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!”-Loyal Transformers Crew…” Article here.
Megan Fox was all wrong for her part in Transformers role anyway; she played what appeared to be a 29 year old high school kid. Rediculous. On the other hand, let Ms Fox speak for herself: “If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like-you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.” – from GQ interview. Er…right, Megan….
Looks like it, at least according to the web police. Article here.
This is what too much Muslim immigration, mixed with a high dose of pollitically correct multiculturalism, can create.
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Related: Here’s another example of what MC has wrought in the mother country.
Three cheers for the Spanish Inquisition…Yes, a time when Christians were Christians and women were witches. It was a time when a Jesus freak could find endless amusement in torture and maiming.
Above is an early Christian sexual device (well, at least they got off on it) called the Pear of Anguish. Using it on the blasphemous, for example, was was said to bring Inquisitors to the point of orgasm.
Related: The start of the Inquisition.
Strange (or maybe not) there was no mention of the fact that his assailants were black; you can just imagine how this would be played up if the victim’s race were reversed.
Another “local case” only
One more example from thousands of such underreported “local” cases: Local Buffalo, N.Y. story.
We’ve all dreaded this. But we knew it would arrive: 09/09/09, better known as 999 (or 666 upside down)…But what does it portend? Will we be safe? Only the phantom knows…
“…The Pyramids and Sphinx! I had believed, until we tumbled out of our coach, that they were located in the middle of the desert, miles from the nearest city or town. They are RIGHT next to Cairo and to be frank, boring, which may explain why there were so few people there. A massive let down to all of us on the trip made worse by the locals trying to force you to buy their wears – was little different to the antipodean chuggers on a British high street. The only upside is the history of both wonders. Reading about them is a lot more interesting than the visit…” (Don’t worry, the Grand Canyon isn’t much better.) Here.
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Speaking of fail: “Lowes, though having its fair share of disgruntled customers, is not the topper for bad customer service – it is beaten by Home Depot. When this customer wanted to complain to the Home Depot manager about a rude employee, the manager seemed to be worse! “After 10 or so minutes I asked where the manager was, the person behind the desk called again. At that time the so called manager Anthony called back, did not bother to come to the service desk just called and said, “What does the customer want”.” This Business Week article elaborates “The University of Michigan’s annual American Customer Satisfaction index shows Home Depot slipped to dead last among major U.S. retailers, 11 points behind Lowe’s.” Americans ranked Home Depot’s customer service as dead last, according to Steven Silvers. Home depot customers complain about the worst service they received from the company…” Here.
The writing hand, once writ, can never be deciphered. True enough, which is why these folks–probably users of high-end fountain pens (the kind you see in deluxe writing implements catalogs)–give us the detailed solutions (hint: these techniques require some practice):
Image from article.
Personal note: I have given up on my own penmanship. A mere five minutes after I write something in script it becomes indecipherable, wildly stretched, crumbled hieroglyphic scribblings that, from the purely symbolic perspective, resemble the markings on a map denoting the massacres of Genghis Khan.
Some Swedes are protesting governent arts funding for lesbian porn movies, such as Mia Engberg’s “Dirty Diaries,” [caution: this link may cause blindness] which was given $69,000. Amazing, considering that a worthy government sponsored art project is usually so hard to come by.
“They are a rock band from olden times,” adds Isabella. “They did lots of songs,” says Pearl, somewhat unhelpfully, but then Pearl’s musical interests are focused entirely on the soundtrack to Mamma Mia!, so she can be forgiven…” Article here.
I’m not a big fan of Michael Moore; but I’m even less of a fan of corrupt Wall Street and its sycophantic congressional lackeys
You know that recent religious riot that took place in merry ol’ England and was blamed on Brit fascists? Well it turns out radical Muslims were responsible for inciting the crowds. Article here.
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Related: 21st century religious war on pants continues. Can you imagine the day beautiful Islamic women start wearing bshort-shorts, bikinis and edible underwear?
Slow Moscow Moscow slowed down (24 fps maybe?) for better consumption of the details (btw, for the geographically challenged Moscow is in Russia; in fact, it’s the capital, just as Washington DC is the capital of what big banana republic?) Anyway, anyway….so relaxing……life slowed down…….so relaxing………..very nice…
Hey, let’s not leave my hometown of NYC out of the loop. Anyway, anyway, nice and slow, so relaxing, very nice…
This story is what I call small town cops syndrome: Writing tickets all day for things like low windshield wiper fluid, humming too loudly while driving and killing flies without a hunting license starts to get really boring after awhile–so hell, occasionally you just gotta shoot somebody. “…It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn’t hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps. The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court…” Article here.
Related: Another complaint.
“…Young prostitutes, mostly illegal African immigrants, grab at tourists if they say no. Others steal from unwitting clients during sex in the dimly lit alleyways leading off La Rambla. Pimps lurk near by, some offering drugs. La Boqueria, the famous food market in Barcelona, is by day a multicoloured feast for the eyes — and the stomach. By night it is the favourite haunt for prostitutes without homes to take drunken punters to. They have sex in the street, sometimes in view of tourists…” Story here.
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