"Affidavit: Patient stabbed psychiatrist more than 160 times"

"WICHITA, Kan. - A slain Kansas psychiatrist was stabbed more than 160 times at his clinic in Wichita last month, according to a newly released arrest affidavit for a patient charged in the attack.

"Umar Dutt, 21, is jailed on $1 million bond on charges of first-degree murder in Dr. Achutha Reddy's Sept. 13 killing at his Holistic Psychiatry Services clinic."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/affidavit-patient-stabbed-psychiatrist-more-than-160-times/


After fighting for two weeks to get a prescription filled that I used to take regularly, and still not getting it, I'm beginning to have some thoughts . . .  Why do they lie and say I have no appointment scheduled?  When I tell then the exact time of my appointment, they say I haven,'t seen this healthcare provider before.  When I give them that time and date, they say it's "someone else's" fault.  Who?  God only knows.

When I was a kid and someone screwed up, that person was sought out in order to prevent future screw-ups.  We no longer do that.  There are a million things now that are "nobody's" fault.  Dysfunction reigns supreme while daily life becomes more and more of a chore.  If you don't like it, too bad.  It's the wave of the future.

Open Blog - Weekend

Check out some trees turning color.

"WiGWAG: Ric Flair's excess, Kathy Griffin's neighbor, and more"

From the Wisconsin Gazette:

News with a twist

Lisa Neff and Louis Weisberg, Staff writers  Oct 5, 2017 Updated 22 hrs ago

He deserves a break
Filming a documentary for ESPN’s 30 for 30, WWE star “Nature Boy” Ric Flair said he’s slept with around 10,000 women. He’s also confessed to consuming about 20 alcoholic beverages per day during his wrestling career. And he’s been struck by lightning. But after four divorces, the 68-year-old says he’s changed his ways and become a “one-woman guy” since meeting his fiancée Wendy Barlow.

No longer matters

The Chicago home that was used for the exterior shots of the popular ’90s sitcom Family Matters will be demolished to make way for a three-unit residence in the city’s posh Lincoln Park neighborhood.

‘Mad Pooper’ on the runs

Police in Colorado are looking for a jogger they say is interrupting her runs to defecate in public. Cathy Budde says she was first alerted to the woman — whom she’s dubbed “the Mad Pooper” — by her children, who caught the jogger in the act. Even after apologizing to Budde, the runner has left something behind at least once a week for seven weeks. Police have asked Budde to take pictures of the woman so they can try to identify her.. And the makers of Charmin recently announced that if the Mad Pooper would turn herself in, they’d give her a year’s supply of TP — for use at home.

With friends like this …

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, wanted U.S. Sen. John McCain to be recalled while undergoing treatment for brain cancer so Republicans could replace him with someone who supported the party’s most recent failed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. The sympathetic Gohmert went on to say that he was concerned about McCain’s health. “Stress is a real inhibitor to getting over cancer,” Gohmert told Fox & Friends. “I think Arizona could help him, and us. Recall him, let him fight successfully this terrible cancer, and let’s get someone in here who will keep the word he gave last year.”

Trust in artificial intelligence

A recent survey finds millennial parents of Generation Alpha kids less nervous about their kids riding alone in self-driving cars than their kids driving alone. They also say if their kids want a robot pet, they would be likely to get one instead of a real pet. And, about 63 percent say they’d rather have artificial intelligence help them live independently than rely on their kids in their golden years. The survey results come from IEEE, an international technical professional organization.

Sweet news

Among the hoax stories circulating in late September was a report from Breaking News 365 that Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups would be discontinued in October, just before Halloween. Not true, says Hershey’s, which makes the sweet and salty treat. A company statement said, “The only people removing Reese’s products from shelves are consumers, who are taking them home to eat.”

Un-neighborly conduct

As CEO of the homebuilding company KB Home, Jeffrey Mezger might be one of the most powerful people in real estate. But that doesn’t give him license to hurl out-of-control slurs and threats of gay bashing at his neighbors. The board of his company slashed his bonus by 25 percent after he went on a rough, anti-gay tirade against his neighbor Kathy Griffin after she and her partner reported a noise disturbance coming from his home. The scene was captured on a security camera. Next time, the board warned, he’s out.

Bad karma

Young Living Essential Oils must pay a $500,000 fine, $135,000 in restitution, and make a $125,000 community service grant for the conservation of protected species of plants used in its essential oils. The Utah-based company was sentenced for Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act violations.

Ig Nobel discoveries

Harvard University recently hosted the 27th annual Ig Nobel awards for absurd scientific achievement. James Heathcoat won the anatomy prize for his research on why old men have big ears. The biology prize went to a team from Japan, Brazil and Switzerland for their discovery of a female penis and male vagina in a cave insect. A team of French researchers won the medicine prize for using brain-scanning technology to measure aversions to cheese. Researchers from Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom won the cognition prize for demonstrating that many identical twins visually cannot tell themselves apart. The winners received “$10 trillion cash prizes in virtually worthless Zimbabwean money.”

Selecting a name

Officials in Brookline, Massachusetts, are expected to decide in November whether to rename the town’s governing board — from the “board of selectmen” to the “board of selectwomen.” Selectwomen would apply, regardless of the gender of the board members, say advocates of the change. A second option would be to change the name to the board of selectpeople.

From:  http://www.wisconsingazette.com/blogs/wigwag-ric-flair-s-excess-kathy-griffin-s-neighbor-and/article_01e0892c-a9d5-11e7-af11-138a9ac73e8d.html

Four for Fridays!

Hello how is everyone doing on the nice cold wet morning. I know one thing I would rather have the wet rain then the nasty snow. I hope everyone has been enjoying the nice weather we been having. Here are your questions for this week.

1) Have you ever made gifts for your friends and family?

2) What kind of gifts have you made for them?

3) Have you ever bought gifts for your friends and family from garage sales?

4) Have you ever bought gifts for your friends and family from thrift stores?

I hope you have a nice weekend!

Open Blog - Friday

Best wishes!

"Foxconn's impact on Wisconsin will be closely watched by environmentalists"

Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 4:41 p.m. CT Oct. 4, 2017 | Updated 3:07 p.m. CT Oct. 5, 2017 

STURTEVANT - Foxconn Technology Group identified the site for a massive electronics plant in Racine County on Wednesday but provided few other details, prompting environmental groups to continue to raise questions about the impact a 20 million-square-foot facility might pose on natural resources.

The groups said they will monitor how the Taiwan-based company’s sprawling plant will conform with the regulation of Great Lakes water; the amount of pollution the plant will discharge; and the impact on wetlands at a site in the Village of Mount Pleasant.

The factory is targeted for the far southwest corner of the village on nearly 1,200 acres, bounded largely by I-94 on the west, Highway KR on the south, Highway H on the east and Braun Road on the north.

Racine County officials also disclosed on Wednesday that Foxconn plans to acquire more than twice that acreage for future development, creating a far larger footprint over time.

Read more:  http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/04/foxconns-impact-wisconsin-closely-watched-environmentalists/733113001/

Alltime10s Thursdays

Open Blog - Thursday

Enjoy!

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.  How are you?  I hope that you're feeling well.  I'm feeling OK.  The weather continues to be delightful.  Soon, though, will come the bite of winter.  Take it one day at a time, and everything will be fine.

The Packers just keep beating every other team.  This Sunday they start at 4: 30 pm. at Dallas.  Make them cry, boys.

 Here's the standings from the Irregular Football League:

Things don't seem to move much on that board.

Now, about the Las Vegas mass murders, it's difficult for me to even gather my thoughts  What makes someone act out like that?  He planned the attack.  He was the Angel of Death, randomly firing into the crowd below.  It was some sort of automatic weapon or a semi-automatic made to fire fast.  He killed so many and injured a catastrophic number.  So now life has changed for many, many people.

What the hell is the matter with these bloodsuckers?  They suddenly jump out at you and attempt to attach themselves to you.  Nice work if you can get it.

I'm sure that you heard about Tom Petty.  He was the same age as Mr. OrbsCorbs.  Que spooky music.  Let's dance my last dance  Everybody jump up and down for a minute.  There you go.  This dance will sweep the nation.

Thanks for stopping by to talk a little bit.

 madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

 Get out and enjoy this weather.  Soon enough, we'll see the s-word.  No, no, no.
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"Foxconn factory to be built in Mount Pleasant; announcement set for Wednesday morning"

(Photo: Dreamstime/TNS)

"Over the summer, representatives of Pitts Brothers & Associates, a Kenosha-based real estate firm, began approaching property owners in that slice of southwestern Mount Pleasant, seeking options to buy their land. Some owners signed up quickly, while others held back. 

"Now, it appears the brokers have put together a critical mass of property, paving the way for Wednesday's scheduled announcement.

"Still unknown is just how much land will be dedicated to Foxconn, and possibly for supplier plants that could locate nearby.

"The bloc where Pitts Brothers has sought options contains more than 2,000 acres bounded by Highway 11 on the north, I-94 on the west, Highway KR on the south, and Highway H on the east. A two-lane road, Braun Road, divides the bloc into roughly equal sections of a little more than 1,000 acres each. The northern section includes about 80 acres in Sturtevant.

"In recent weeks, the area has seen a flurry of pre-construction activity — helicopters and drones conducting aerial surveys, drills boring into the soil for samples at multiple points, and crews flagging wetlands.

"Just last week, workers from Nielsen Madsen + Barber, a civil engineering and surveying firm in Racine, spent two days identifying wetlands on one property, a landowner said. After that, he said, a crew from the state Department of Natural Resources came to check the surveying company's work."

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/10/03/foxconn-factory-site-unveiled-wednesday-expected-mount-pleasant/726546001/

Open Blog - Wednesday

Roll out the red carpet for yourself.

"God’s Footstool"

From the Shepherd Express:

by Art Kumbalek  October 3, 2017  3:03 PM

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, just got the news that the great Tom Petty is now learning to fly with angel wings at the same exact age as a certain gab-about who more than likely shows up on this back page of the Shepherd. I better sit back and relax, what the fock.

But first, I need to get ahold of O.J. now that he’s sprung from the hoosegow so’s that maybe he can help me find the Milwaukee lion that no one has discovered yet. I’ve heard he’s supposed to be good at that kind of thing, I kid you not.

And speaking of discovery, I found out that Columbus Day falls on Monday, Oct. 9 this year. Cripes, that day always gets moved around like it’s an Easter Sunday or something. I do enjoy the day, however, for the simple fact that I cannot receive any goddamn overdue bills in the mail, which then forces me to piss away a lot of time concocting the excuses for why I still can’t come up with the dough.

I also recently discovered that sanity in a state government is still possible in this day and rage. This, from Salon:

“…the Republican governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, just made a startling move in bucking the religious right. Thursday, Rauner signed a law written by Democratic legislators that allows the state’s insurance programs, including Medicaid, to cover abortion. It also ended the state’s ‘trigger law,’ which would have banned abortion if Roe v. Wade were ever overturned by the Supreme Court.”

Praise be. This kind of reminds me of a plank of my speech that I was ready to deliver at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Phila-focking-delphia except I wasn’t invited. My speech was to go something like this:

“About this right-to-life argument that goes: ‘How can we do the condoning of abortion? Block the pregnancy from going the whole nine yards, and how do you know you aren’t denying the world the next Albert Einstein, the next Duke Snider, the next Clarence Birdseye?’ To that I say, what the fock. For argument’s sake, with the abortion, how do you know we’re not sparing the world the next Ivan the Terrible, the next Charlie focking Manson, the next Ryan Seacrest?

“And another thing everybody’s yelling about is the pinpoint time of when life gets out of the gates. Is it one month pregnant or three? After six weeks or two, or right off the bat at the conception reception? Just where the heck’s this line of the marcation anyways, ain’a?

“To argue right-to-life, you’d have to say ‘life’ begins even before the inception of the act of the womb inflation. It begins soon’s you get the nerve up at the cocktail lounge and say, ‘Howdy, good-looking, you come here often or would you rather come over by my place?’ If this member of a sex suggests a long walk off a short gangplank, I’d say we’d have a right-to-life violation.

“And think of the ramification of a right-to-life law here in our land of liberty. Any focking thing that would interfere or otherwise kibosh the mating ordeal of bodies together that would climax with life creation would be against that law. The word ‘no’ would be unlawful. There could be no more bar-time closings (in every cloud…). No contraceptives of any kind, including cold showers. Headaches—outlawed.

“Cripes, I can hear lawyers drooling even as I speak. A right-to-life law would increase their already legendary right-to-lucre. There’d have to be a courthouse on every block. Not doing the mating when called upon would be, judicially, murder; and murderers are capitally punished to death. Are you going to want to fry in the chair just for being too focking tired? I think not. Every man, woman and child who turned down the hootchie-cootchie would be cruising death row, and what kind of right-to-life would that be?

“Each and every one of us Americans would end up executed at some point in time. There’d be none of us left, and that’s just the kind of opening the world’s remaining Commies are looking for to march right in and set up their Red-herring shop here from sea to shining sea.

“In conclusion, about this pro-choice vs. no-choice: We got a focking law in this land to cover that subject. The law says something sort of like a ‘lady’s right to control the destiny of her own focking body, hey, focking A-OK.’ And that’s still backed up by the Supreme Court, as in the United States Supreme Court, Jack.

“So if these focking Bible-belting bozos and their ilk got a bug up their beatific butts about that, they’re welcome to leave the Amber Waves and go live in some focking country of women-hating religious nuts who put the woman on par with the dirt de la chattel of no-rights—and they’ll have a hundred-times more choice than they’re willing to allow their own fellow citizens. What the fock, I’ll even make travel arrangements courtesy of President Art Kumbalek, ’cause I’m, Art Kumbalek and I told you so.”

From: http://shepherdexpress.com/around-milwaukee/art-kumbalek/god%E2%80%99s-footstool/

Art for Art's Sake

R.I.P.

Another one bites the dust.  I'm getting freaked out at all of the performers that I like dying.

Open Blog - Tuesday

Yummy purple tacos.

A Funny

"Las Vegas shooting: 'YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE' – SHOCK WARNING"

Like shooting fish in a barrel.  I say ten more years and the U.S. will be eating itself alive.

Open Blog - Monday

Sounds just like me.

"The Real Reason Tom Price Resigned | The Last Word | MSNBC"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1rfmFzPSFE

Another pig bites the dust.

Open Blog - Weekend

Ha-Ha! I Outsmarted DMV

I finally got my '18 sticker for my truck's license plate.  I turned it upside down and applied it.  Now I'm good till 2081.

Four for Fridays!

Good morning I am so sorry this is being posted late. Yes it was a late night with the Packers and Bears game. They had a ran delay to make the game and hour longer and less sleep for the fans. Here are your questions.

1) Are you ready for the cold weather?

2) Have you seen the color of the leaves changing?

3) If you go out to see the leaves change how far do you travel?

4) Are you prepared for the nasty S word?

I hope everyone enjoys the nice weather this weekend!

"Reefpoint Brew House co-owner suggests killing kneeling NFL players in Facebook comment"

From the Journal Times:

PATRICK LEARY patrick.leary@journaltimes.com  Sep 27, 2017

WTF do the flag and national anthem have to do with football?

I think you need a Valium if you suggest killing the players of any game because they "disrespect" our flag.  How about killing restaurant owners over shitty food?

Read more:  http://journaltimes.com/news/local/reefpoint-brew-house-co-owner-suggests-killing-kneeling-nfl-players/article_743f36e4-87f6-51ff-a64c-07319e2a6a60.html

"How to Name Your Dog"

From the Journal Times:

"You researched breeds and mixes, considered age, gender and types of fur, and now you've picked the perfect dog. Now how do you pick a name? There are so many different options out there, and the task can be daunting. Here's a step by step guide to choosing a name for your new beloved family member. Don't forget to reward your new pooch with treats!"

Read more: http://tobyandolive.com/lifestyles/article_2ff15af0-8c2d-11e7-bf7c-a31be45a7fec.html?ok_cid=LJrGviPR&ok_msid=MTeF4ydtTqNDQAAb0AIMamyjrrvLOfjthVY&ok_ch=pw&ok_cx=Product



The Journal Times publishes a guide to dog-naming containing 9 steps.  Nine steps to naming an animal!  This must be close to rocket science.

Open Blog - Friday

I'm not sure if coffee or a sugary, carbonated beverage with caffeine is stronger in that department.  It all makes me go, "WEEEEEE!"

"Hugh Hefner, Founder Of Playboy, Is Dead At 91 | TODAY"

When I was in college, I tried writing short stories for Playboy. They were paying up to $3,000 per story. I never got anything published.

I also read that there were bowls of Viagra available at Playboy parties.

Alltime10s Thursdays

Open Blog - Thursday

Don't run out of gas.

"Intoxicated Moments in History - Nazis on Drugs"

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my buttercups!  How are you?  Isn't this weather something?  What did we do to deserve such fair weather?  Someone must have been very good.  I know it wasn't me.  But I'll take it, thank you.  The sun is shining, the birds are squawking, and the kids are screaming.  Everything is right in the world.

Huh!  Our beloved Green Bay Packers won only in overtime last Sunday.  They better beef up their game.  Tomorrow night they host the hated Chicago Bears at 8:30 pm.  This will be a match to remember.  The only cute bears are cubs.  Get 'em, Packers.

Here's this weel'sd standings in the Irregular Football League:

They don't look much different from last week.  Mr. OrbsCorbs is in the basement where he belongs and I'm nipping at first place's heels. 

It appears that the city is going to go through with both the events center and Machinery Row.  What the hell is the matter with people?  Go visit the central city and then tell me there aren't better things to spend our money on.  Most importantly, the voters DON'T WANT either of these projects.  We would much rather see some of our roads fixed up.  And some more felons thrown in jail.  And maybe even get back a streetlight or two.  What is this death wish that Racine has?  I thought that after cutting off the head of the snake (lying John), it would die.  But, no, the powers that be are forging ahead.  I wonder what it's like to piss away millions of dollars that aren't yours?  How can people of good conscience throw away our city's future?

And then there's the Foxconn-job being laid on our doorsteps.  If we allow this monster in, we'll be paying and paying ad infinitum.  Foxconn must have done their homework well.  They realized that Racine is a relatively stupid city that doesn't know where all its money goes.  We're the perfect candidate for their monkey shines.  They'll milk us dry.

That's it, my beauties.  I have lots to do today.

madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Get out and enjoy this weather.  Soon enough, we'll see the s-word.  No, no, no.
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Open Blog - Wednesday

No shit, Sherlock.

"Red Glare"

From the Shepherd Express


playright,art kumbalek,pulitzer prize  By Art Kumbalek  2 hours ago

  

I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain’a? So listen, having survived our unwelcome rerun of a summertime, lo, these hubbub dog days of September, I decided I ought to do some exercising of what-you-call First Amendment rights and free speechifying (although I’d rather get paid); and so I wrote a play, what the fock.

And what I wrote is not your usual theater play with a gang of thespians crying up a forsoothing storm for a couple, three hours ’til the crows come home to roast, no sir. It’s not one of those plays where the actors, when they hit the stage, instead of wondering “To be, or not to be?” ought to wonder “Where the fock is everybody?” And that’s a question I can answer: Everybody is elsewhere ’cause all these plays charge too focking much to see, last too focking long and never have as many laughs and gorgeous focking dames as they ought to, so’s to keep those turnstiles humming a $nappy tune.

My play runs about a good 10 minutes, so you’re in and out of the theater before you even know it. And if you have kids, you wouldn’t have to add the expense of a babysitter—you could easily be back home before the katzenjammers had a chance to be abducted or light the house on fire and still have had an enjoyable theatrical experience, no focking sweat.

What follows is my play on the page for you’s to take a gander at, and yes, Pulitzer Prizes welcome. Break a leg.

The Focking Playboy of the Western (and Eastern) World, Waiting for Deliverance
(Setting: Art Kumbalek’s penthouse living room with fully stocked bar—and none of that fake stage-prop crap neither, capiche? Art’s reclined on battleship-sized sofa, having a cocktail, smoking a cigarette, talking on the phone. Art K. must appear as himself—no focking actors, please.)>

Art: Yeah, large, everything on it ’cept nothing that’s even close to being a vegetable. The only vegetable I want connected to this pizza is the guy who delivers it, and if there’s even so much as one anchovy, I’ll come down there and personally focking kill you myself. You got that?

(Enter Lola, abso-focking-lutely knockout swanky gorgeous dame. She sits on the sofa and plants one heck of a juicy smacker on Art’s lips that lasts for about 10% of the show’s running time)

Art: (Rising) Holy moley, you busy after the show?

Lola: I just don’t know, Artie. There’s so much trouble in the world today. Everywhere I go, there’s people with no money, full of hopelessness, full of hate…

Art: Sounds like you’re hanging with the wrong crowd.

Lola: You know what I mean, Artie. (Lola rises, puts her arms around Art and draws him close) I see people homeless, hungry…

Art: (Shakes cocktail glass) And thirsty.

Lola: (Whispering into Art’s ear) What’ll it be?

Art: I was having Manhattans, but now I’m thinking Sloe Screw.

Lola: (Draws Art even closer) Can I make it straight up?

Art: You always do, baby.

Lola: (Goes to bar to fix drink) So Artie, what do you want to do for dinner tonight?

Art: (Reclines on sofa) I thought we’d hang around here tonight, have some drinks, a few laughs; so I called for a pizza.

Lola: (Returns with drink, and plants juicy smacker on Art—even longer than the first one) When’s it coming?

Art: Any second, and if it doesn’t, no tip, or maybe I’ll kill him. What time does your husband need you back?

Lola: Soon. The nurse called in sick, so I’ve got to give him his medication. (Phone rings) I’ll get it. Hello? What? Who is this? (Hangs up)

Art: Who was that?

Lola: (Hysterical) I don’t know. They just said they were coming right over. And they were going to kill you.

Art: (Grabs Lola) Don’t sweat it, baby. The play’s almost over, then we can be alone. (Banging at door, Art rises)

Lola: Don’t get it, darling.

Art: Why the fock not?

Lola: That knock symbolizes one of two things: Our pizza or your death. If it’s our pizza, OK, I’ll only have one slice. I’m watching my figure.

Art: So am I, doll. Believe me you.

Lola: But if that knocker means your death, it’s my death, too, for I could never live without you, or without me. Behind the door, noisy but unknown, that knowledge must always remain so, noisy but unknown, for us to exist, ignorant angels bathed in bliss we are.

Art: Whatever you say, baby. Let’s fool around. (More knocking. Lola pushes Art down on sofa. And Art and the free-spirited gal Art chose to cast for the role of Lola get down to some really serious focking business, I kid you not, as lights fade)

There you go, 10 minutes or so of show, about as much time as it took to write, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.

From: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-30463-red-glare.html

Open Blog - Tuesday

That all looks delicious; even the leaves.

"Dream rental turns into house of horror for woman conned by bogus landlord"

From JSOnline:

"When Alishia Evans rented a home on the 5700 block of N. 81st St. in Milwaukee, it seemed like a dream come true — a good neighborhood, affordable rent and ample living space.

"The dream, however, turned into a nightmare a few days after moving in, when Evans, her fiance and her 12-year-old daughter were ordered out of the house at gunpoint by Milwaukee police.

"That is when Evans learned that the man who said he was the landlord actually had no connection to the house and no right to rent it and collect $2,000 from Evans and her fiance, Levon Osuji.

"'He was so believable,' Evans said of the man who showed the house, gave the couple the keys and took their money orders.

"Evans, 31, and Osuji, 25, went from renting a three-bedroom northwest side home to finding their belongings tossed onto the curb and eventually being forced to sleep in a Nissan Sentra. Their tale involves a con man, the Milwaukee Police Department,  a property manager and her client, Freddie Mac — the giant quasi-government agency that buys billions of dollars in mortgages from lenders."

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/reports/2017/09/25/house-horror-cops-charge-woman-wcouple-conned-bogus-landlord-charged-trespass-ordered-out-home-polic/670449001/

Years ago, I watched the Cook County Sheriff's office evict the tenant below us.  Just like here, they  threw his belongings all over the place.  They would lay out a sheet, put belongings on it, and then drag it outside.

Two Hours of Stupid Assholes

Open Blog - Monday

You can't be blamed for what you do when you're asleep, right?

"Introduction Sandy Weidner"

"Fire Reported At Tiny Home Village"

From Racine County Eye:

September 22, 2017 Denise Lockwood Breaking 0

Racine County Eye

"Update 10:18 a.m.: No formal determination has been made by investigators as to the cause of the fire. However, members of the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin were told the fire may have started after several cloth rags, whichused to put apply stain cumbusted.

"Original story: Firefighters are on scene after a shed caught fire about 6 a.m. Friday morning at tiny home village located behind the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin, 1624 Yout St.

"Operation Tiny Home is working with the veterans support services group and Zack Giffin to finish building the veterans’ homes. The fire has been put out, but fire investigators have been called to determine the cause of the fire. There was no electricity going to the shed, which contained gardening supplies and the cabinets being used in building the last home.

"Jeff Gustin, executive director of the Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin, said he doesn’t understand how a fire can just start when there is no electricity going to the building.

"'There were stain cans around there,' he said. 'I hope it was something silly like that. If it wasn’t, it would kill me to know someone would run into our yard and do this.'

"Home Depot is replacing the cabinets."

From:  https://www.racinecountyeye.com/fire-tiny-home-village/


"Silly??!!!"  They're lucky they didn't suffer an explosion.  Spontaneous combustion is real, especially in a pile of oily rags.  Use a metal container, with a top, for those rags.  Wash them as soon as possible.

Nice gesture, Home Depot.

WiGWAG: President flip-flops, Hillbilly Hotties, and more

From the Wisconsin Gazette

News with a twist 

Lisa Neff and Louis Weisberg, Staff writers  Sep21, 2017 Updated Sep 21,2017

 

These flip-flops, available for $27.99 per pair from presidentflipflops.com, come with a variety of conflicting words from Donald Trump’s mouth. The company — their tagline is “Going back on your word, one step at a time” — says 10 percent of sales go to the ACLU.
Photo: Sam Morrison

 

The bigger blowhard

When it comes to his status as a blowhard, Rush Limbaugh equals any hurricane. In the week leading up to Hurricane Irma’s Florida landfall, he urged radio listeners not to evacuate. The left-wing media frenzy over the storm, he claimed, was nothing more than a phony attempt to “advance this climate change agenda” and to sell bottled water. Just days after such ranting, however, Limbaugh evacuated his Florida home and canceled his next day’s program due to “the security nature of things.”

From corrupt gov to cleaning guy

Rod Blagojevich is more than five years into his 14-year federal sentence for corruption. And how is the former governor of Illinois spending his time in prison? He’s on cleaning duty. “I’ve been given the jurisdiction to sweep and mop two floors,” Blagojevich told WMAQ-TV in Chicago. “So my jurisdiction has shrunk from the fifth biggest state in America, to these two floors. But I don’t care what anybody says, I believe in clean government, and I believe in clean floors.”

The intern did it?

We were fascinated, but not surprised, when Ted Cruz’s official Twitter account “liked” a tweet from a porn account called @SexuallPosts. After all, how many righteous, evangelical leaders have been caught in such circumstances? But Cruz said it was simply a “staffing issue” that resulted in his Twitter account “liking” a two-minute scene from “Moms Bang Teens 20.”

Halloween drag time

As the first leaves of fall turned yellow, retailers already were on eBay selling blonde Ivanka Trump-style wigs for Halloween. Sellers of the coifs, which retail from $6 to $20, are predominantly based in China. You can complete the look with a pink $138 Ivanka Trump sheath dress from Macy’s. WiG, however, is more interested in seeing what our creative drag queens do with the Kellyanne Conway look.

Espresso and free expression

The owner of Hillbilly Hotties, a chain of coffee stands, and seven baristas who wear bikinis behind the bar were suing the city of Everett, Washington, over a city ordinance requiring “quick service” workers to wear a minimum of tank tops and shorts. The federal lawsuit alleged the ordinance — since suspended — denies employees the ability to communicate through their attire, is vague and confusing, and unlawfully targets women. The complaint compared the Hillbilly Hotties’ workplace bikini-wear to Starbucks’ green aprons, UPS’ brown shirts and Hooter’s orange shorts.

New way to toss a bouquet?

In Australia, doughnut bouquets have become a thing, so it was inevitable they’d wind up in the hands of a bride. It finally happened Sept. 9 in Rydal, New South Wales, where Page Kirk and her bridesmaids sported lovely bouquets of fresh doughnuts. We wonder whether the single women were covered in white powder and frosting after the bouquet toss.

Putting the ‘artificial’ in AI

An “ethical review” is underway of a Stanford University academic journal that published a study claiming artificial intelligence can determine a person’s sexual orientation using facial recognition. After several media outlets picked up the story, the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD complained to The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about the study’s obvious flaws and negative ramifications, setting the review process in motion.

Something about Mary

French medical anthropologist Philippe Charlier has dug up and dug into the past of Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, Napoleon Bonaparte and Rene Descartes. Now, according to National Geographic, Charlier and other scientists have reconstructed a face based on an ancient skull rumored to belong to Jesus’ companion Mary Magdalene. The skull and other remains were found in a crypt under a basilica in the south of France. The scientists used computer modeling of the skull to create the facial reconstruction, which shows a woman with high cheekbones and a pointed nose — and some resemblance to Cher.

From: http://www.wisconsingazette.com/blogs/wigwag-president-flip-flops-hillbilly-hotties-and-more/article_35306030-9ed7-11e7-b00f-63e90a5373c8.html

Open Blog - Weekend

Have a great weekend.

 

Racine County officials weigh sales tax to help fund Foxconn project

"A sales tax is likely to be enacted in Racine County as part of the local-funding package for the massive Foxconn Technology Group plant there but the amount and details of the tax haven’t been publicly disclosed."

https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/09/20/racine-county-officials-weigh-sales-tax-to-help.html 

Before Wisconsin, Foxconn vowed big spending in Brazil. Few jobs have come.

"The company's experience in Brazil and other parts of the world illustrates how difficult it has been for it to replicate its enormously successful Chinese manufacturing model elsewhere."

https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2017/09/20/before-wisconsin-foxconn-vowed-big-spending-in.html

 

We're gonna pay through the nose for this ripoff.

Four for Fridays!

Good morning everyone how are you doing this nice warm and humid day. I just can not believe that today is the first day of Fall. Where did the summer go already.

1) What was your favorite cartoon as a child?

2) Do you still watch any cartoons?

3) What was the worst cartoon you seen as a child?

4) What do you think of the cartoons that are out now?

I hope everyone stays inside with the heat and humidity. Have a good weekend.

Open Blog - Friday

Nooooooo!

"✔ How Old is Your Soul?"

My score was 280: "Mature Soul."

Alltime10s Thursdays

Open Blog - Thursday

Good morning.

"William H. Gates III COL '77, LLD '07 Q&A | The Harvard Campaign Launch"

"For weeks, Equifax customer service has been directing victims to a fake phishing site"

by Dani Deahl and Ashley Carman Sep 20, 2017, 1:17pm EDT

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

"Earlier this month, hackers broke into Equifax's servers and stole 143 million people's personal information, including their Social Security numbers. In response to the attack, Equifax set up a website — www.equifaxsecurity2017.com — for possible victims to verify whether they're affected. Because the process involves sharing sensitive information, consumers have to trust they're entering their data in the right place, which can be tricky because the breach-recovery site itself isn’t part of equifax.com. If users end up on the wrong site, they could end up leaking the data they're already concerned was stolen."

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16339612/equifax-tweet-wrong-website-phishing-identity-monitoring

Yikes! It's 'The Evil Eye!'

"Sandy Weidner For Mayor - Get A Yard Sign"

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hi, gang!  The nice weather continues.  I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.  And, as Tender Heart Bear so nicely reminded us, the trees and shrubs are turning to their fall colors.  Very pretty.  Can we go right from fall to spring?  Really. after sixty-some winters, can't I just skip one?  I'm afraid we're going to pay for the current pleasant weather with a wicked winter.  I know that my boys will shovel the walk and bring me food, but the whole city goes into the dump when we have a snowstorm.  Lying John Dickert would have better spent his time lobbying for a dome for Racine.

As expected, Cory Mason and Sandy Weidner are going to run for mayor of Racine.  I'm sorry, but Mason is a career paperweight.  He wants to be mayor because it would be another feather in his cap, not because he feels so dearly for Racine.  Having Mason for mayor would be like having lying John back.  We don't need any more career politicians, we need people who care about the people of Racine.  Cory will grandstand and announce this and that, but he'll do absolutely nothing to help the average Racinian.  He doesn't even know how.  He's lost in a political world of patronage and corruption.  Sandy is one of us.  She has tried and tried to change the course of Racine, but the big butts of people like Mason have stood in her way.  A vote for Sandy is a vote for sanity.

Oh, dear me.  The mighty Green Bay Packers lost last weekend.  Oops.  How did that happen?  This Sunday they meet the Cincinnati Bengals at 5:30 PM.  Murder 'em, boys!

Here are the Irregular Football League standings:

The Half-Astrophysicists slipped past me, but at least Mr. OrbsCorbs is still on the bottom.  Tee-hee.

Check this out:

A man credited with stopping a robbery of a Starbucks in July might now be sued by the suspect, over wounds the would-be robber received from the Good Samaritan.

Ryan Flores, 30, is facing charges for second-degree robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a robbery of a Fresno Starbucks. Flores was arrested after he allegedly tried to rob a barista with a fake gun and Transformers mask — and in the process, he was subdued by a customer and stabbed with his own knife.

Cregg Jerri, 58, was that customer, and he intervened in the attempted robbery by hitting Flores with a chair from behind. Flores pulled out a knife and fought back, with the two men wrestling over the weapon. Jerri sustained a stab wound to the neck, but was able to take the knife away, and stab Flores an apparent 17 times during the fight.

Flores's mother, Pamela Chimienti, described Jerri's actions as "excessive force" and told KSEE that Flores planned to file a lawsuit.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Starbucks-robbery-crime-stabbing-Good-Samaritan-12213420.php

My God, her son tries to rob a Starbucks and she wants to sue the man who stopped him.  What's happened to ethics and morals in this country?  Are we all to blame for this type of extortion?   Don't ignore misbehavior anymore; instead, correct it.  If the perpetrators refuse to change, then call the cops.  We need to stop this type of BS now.  Enough with people turning everything on its head.  Throw lawbreakers in jail.  If their mothers come out to justify their children's actions, throw them in, too.  These people are sorely in need of an ethical education.  Stop blaming us for the crap you bring down on your own head.  I hope he does sue, and gets thrown out of court.  If you bring a weapon to rob someone and it is taken from you and used against you, then that's only poetic justice.

Stupid, stupid, stupid people.  I think we should allocate one day a week to stupid people.  That one day they can all go out and get whatever they need to perpetuate their stupid lives.  Leave us alone.  And if a stupid person gets entangled in a row with a normal-minded person, throw the stupid one in jail.  I'm so tired of having to go out of my way to accomodate every and any type of behavior.  Act like an asshole and get treated like one.  My only regret is that the perpetrator of the above crime survived his wounds.  It would have been better off for everyone if another stupid person had been eliminated.  We can only carry so many.

That's it, friends.  I hope you enjoyed my blog.  I'll be back next week to write more.

madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com

Enjoy the waning days of summer.  Get out and do something while you still can.  Soon enough it will all be covered in frozen white.  Won't that be fun?
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