Archive for October 8th, 2012

Life imitates:

Monday, October 8th, 2012

An episode of “Seinfeld”:

California’s generous recycling redemption program has led to rampant fraud. Crafty entrepreneurs are driving semi-trailers full of cans from Nevada or Arizona, which don’t have deposit laws, across the border and transforming their cargo into truckfuls of nickels. In addition, recyclers inside the state are claiming redemptions for the same containers several times over, or for containers that never existed.

A WCD post:

In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Mitt Romney blasted President Obama’s leadership in the Middle East on Monday, saying that a withering of American resolve had made the region a more dangerous place where the United States has less leverage.
“Hope is not a strategy,’’ Romney said.

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Quick followups.

Monday, October 8th, 2012

Remember the rapist HPD cop? The jury handed down his sentence: life in prison.

He’ll be eligible for parole after 30 years.

And the latest update on the “Rebecca” front: those four investors, including the one who supposedly died of malaria, never existed. At least, according to the producer’s lawyer. Still unclear: what was the motivation to make these people up?

(Darn shame that “Law and Order” isn’t on any longer. This story is starting to read like an episode of that series. And I can’t really see how you’d fit this into “Kinky Sex Crimes” – er, I mean, “Special Victims Unit”.)

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Headline of the day.

Monday, October 8th, 2012

‘Commander Squirrel’ Linked to Man’s Mystery Death

“Commander Squirrel”?

Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug cartel leader known as Commander Squirrel who they say is linked to the 2010 murder of American jet skier David Hartley on a border lake, as well as to more than 200 other deaths in Mexico.

Wow. If you’re a cartel boss:

  1. How do you get a nickname like “Commander Squirrel”?
  2. How do you not shoot anyone who calls you “Commander Squirrel”?
  3. Is there a sub-commander called “Moose”? There has to be, right?

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Your loser update: week 5, 2012.

Monday, October 8th, 2012

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:

Cleveland

I had the Cleveland game going on the background while I puttered around the kitchen and read FARK and Briarpatch. This looked like a game the Browns could have, and should have won, if they had just played smarter…

Speaking of playing smarter, I think I’m going to have to add the Chargers to my list of “most consistently overrated teams in the NFL”. Seriously, how do you lose to the Saints, even with the whole Brees record thing?

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