IT IS AWARDS SEASON AFTER ALL .........

I love an award show and here we are in the midst of when most of them take place. I think I shall start an award of my own this week!  There are accolades to be given so let me introduce "THE MOST OBNOXIOUS  AWARD" .  This week we have a true "winner" who deserves every measure of our disgust. Let me introduce Mr. Jooooooe Riccccckey Huddddley. Hold your applause folks, this guy deserves none!

Hudley, age 60, up until a few days ago would have probably retired as the President of an airplane parts manufacturer with a large pension. Now, not only is he unemployed but he is charged in Federal court with simple assault .... on a toddler!  Yes this is THAT guy.

If you have not heard of incident ..... Mr. Hudley boarded a plane to Atlanta ..... and sat coach? What president of a Company sits coach? ...... next to a Caucasian women with her adopted 19-month old bi-racial child.  Apparently, that bother Mr. Hudley from the beginning as he was reported to be complaining that the child was "too big" to be seated on her lap  .... could be I've seen some big 2 yr olds ...... Throughout the flight he visual appeared to be somewhat intoxicated and became more belligerent to where the mother was feeling uncomfortable as it was. After having to put up with him for the nearly 2 hour flight finally, the plane started the descent to land. However, the toddler started to cry due to what the mother assumed to be painful ear pressure from the attitude change. As she tried to comfort and quite him,  Hudley reeking of alcohol told her to shut that (N-word) baby up! The surprised mother look at him and said, "What did you say?" The drunken Hudley literally fell on to her face as he said in her ear the offensive sentence again. She pushed him away and started to call for assistance and at some point during the shuffle Hudley then slapped her crying toddler so hard to where the boy's face was bleeding. Passengers came to her rescue.

What has Joe Rickey Hudley done since then ....... besides losing his cushy job?  ....... Well, he has not been offering any apologies. Instead, he has his lawyer spouting off that he will be pleading "not guilty" as "things are not as they are reported" and "no one should rush to judgement". Hmmmmmm ..... tooo bad there are witnesses JOE.

'CATCHING' UP WITH MY URBAN DICTIONARY

"CATFISH" ....... "CATFISH" -ING  ....... "CATFISH"- ED ...... hmmmmmmm .... NOT the homely mustached creature I'm used to ...... loooking ..... searching ..... googling ........ What does this have to do with this Notre Dame football player   ... Manti Te'o ?????  OK!!!  ..... found it was a movie title where the plot line is a guy who has an online relationship with a woman in another state, who turns out not to be the person she said she was. Like allllll online relationships!  ....... Ohhhhhhh, poooooooor poooooor little Manti! What a tragedy  .... what a cruelty .... what a ...... Waaaaaaait a minute ...... 

Grown man, STAR football player probably with cheerleaders probably hangin' off every arm,  falls for a girl on the internet and continues a relationship  ..... "Love of his life" style ..... with her ONLINE and never ever meets her, never went to see her when she was in the "car accident" ..... although I don't know when this happen ..... never jetted in to see her during her "fight" with Leukemia ..... played a football game the day she "died" never hopped the other  jet to go to her funeral ... grave site ..... or What? didn't he even try to send flowers?  ....... Now he is claiming hoax victim?!!!??!?

I hear there is new word being added to the Urban Dictionary this week ...... "Te'oing" ...... its where you photo yourself in a pose with a picture of your imaginary "miles between us" love of your life and show it around with a frowny face and heavy heart ...... sighs included! 

Reminiscences of an Old Crabby Broad

Finally the Holiday Season is define!  For the past month I have been driving by Halloween Ghosts blowing in the wind while hanging off the lower tree limbs next to a waving plastic Santa Claus blow-up sharing the same yard space.

I have "younger" neighbors that faithfully on November 1st  throw out the stuffed scarecrow from Michael's with their cornstalks and pumpkins and hang the artificial pine wreath and the red and green twinkle lights. Can't say I blame their "what holiday season is it?" confusion solely on them. Retail stores were doing the same thing!

I remember a time when you never ever ever never saw so much as a Christmas bulb till the day after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving season ..... a fall Harvest season holiday ..... has somehow now become .... or shall I say .....  blended with Christmas.  Unfortunately Christmas ... and the shopping of .... is slowly being forced on us earlier and earlier each year. Stores that formally closed on Thanksgiving, giving their employees a holiday off .... unpaid I'm sure  ..... and not having them worry about "requesting off" to spend the day with family. It was sickening to see alll the stores that opened virtually during dinner .... THE WHOLE FOCUS ......  of the holiday and enticed those weak individuals to shop. Was that couple $$$ they "saved" actually worth giving up their holiday allll to satisfy the greed of some CEO retailer looking for their next Million dollar bonus in January ?

I stayed home. Oh, I'll shop for Christmas ..... I have a WHOLE MONTH!!! .... and I'll spend the same amount of money and on the same amount of people I planned on from the beginning. For now, me and my "older" neighbors will be decorating our houses now that it is after Thanksgiving ....... like we remember.

I'M STILL EXHAUSTED!!

It's allll over ... THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN !! ...... 

If you had listened to the pollsters in the last few months, the State of OHIO went from "Obama" country to a "SWING" State ... as in it was up for grabs for either candidate ....  and in the last ....  ohhhh, month or so, there were several other "Obama" States added to the playground and my State was one of them! AND I suffered for it ..... because the automated calls started and kept coming day and night and they were all Republicans!!!!

The calls were early AM thru late PM .... there was 1 sometimes 2 calls EVERY  hour  ...... I heard from pollsters and Candidates ALIKE!  Why MITT himself called .... and his wife ..... and his kids ...... and his employees ..... and his random supporters and it didn't stop at the Presidential race ..... there was the U.S. Senator candidate, and his wife, his kids, his employees, his random supporters ....... the U.S. House candidate, and his wife, his kids, his employees, his random supporters .... Dick Cheney stop by for a heart to heart chat and Clint wanted to make my day  .... then the State Attorney & Auditor Generals, State House & Senate ...  the wives were not as involved at this level .... I quit answering the phone.  DID IT STOP THEM????? What do you think? The pollsters ..... that started it alll in the first place ..... started knocking on the door the last three weeks ..... at one point I had a pollster at the door and one on the phone at the same time  !!!!!!!  I reached a pinnacle around last Friday where I decided no matter what, no matter how much I liked them ....... I was not voting a REPUBLICAN anything !!!!!

I was done and then it happen: Monday late afternoon ......... SARAH CALLED !!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh Joy!

Yesterday, all the "Swing" Sates apparently swung back ....... one tooo many phone calls maybe? ......  I JUST WISH THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT A LITTLE SOONER!!!

BINGO UPDATE !!!

Bingo's "owner" showed up ....... finally after 5 DAYS ..... . with a plan of some sort apparently.

The plan? Show up at the VET’S office as an indignant screaming white trash banshee ….with outfit and face paint to match ….. , acting out for the clients in the waiting room that SHE is the injured-party of this conniving VET who is out to extort money from her for unnecessary medical care given to her dog. Yea he's faking that broken leg there ..... They did not get permission from her to treat her animal. SO uuuummmm aaahh ... Banshee ...... when you woke up out of either your liquored up or drug induced stupor ....  that apparently lasted FIVE DAYS ...... this was best ploy your small impaired mind came up with to NOT pay the VET bill?

When she found out daughter .... who happen to be there when the banshee arrived ..... saved her dog from the street and brought the dog there ..... NOoooooo ...... Thank YOU wasn't what she had in mind ....... she yelled she was going to have her arrested for .... wait for it ..... kidnapping!!

Needless to say police were called. Police said you are not getting the dog white trash banshee. Police made her leave empty handed.
Lesson learned today: Banshees who abandon their dog for five days do not have the police on their side. 

Nor are the police on their side when they show up the next day .... knowing there is a transfer to the shelter ..... to prevent the dog going to the care shelter. Especially, when are screaming you want the person who saved your dog arrested as you luge for her and grab on to her.
Lesson learned that day: Those actions do not get banshees dogs. It gets them a set of handcuffs and a free ride to jail. I have a feeling she has been there before .........

  

I "C" HORRIBLE PEOPLE

Five days ago youngest daughter witnessed and had to get out of the car to saved a dog that was hit by a vehicle on a busy State Route ....... 4 lanes with added turning lanes where every driver thinks they are going slow if they are doing 60 ......   The small dog would have been hit again and as my strong minded daughter step in front of cars to stop them they angrily honked and screamed at her.  Fortunately for the dog she scoped him up and took him to our VET. Youngest talks of becoming a VET tech and has interned in a VET office .... she had to help with operations and gagged up whatever the first few times afterward ......  so, she is used to seeing animals hurt. This pooch got himself a broken leg out of his adventure.

The scuffy little dog .... not him in the pic by the way .... had a collar with a name .... BINGO .... and the phone number of the owner. Youngest visits her rescue everyday .... and he wags his tail and looks happy to C her ..... since she took him to our VET. The VET's office staff told her they have been calling the owner 4-5 times a day and left messages as to what happened to and how their pet is. NO RESPONSE. This is where I would normally rant but you are probably already doing that so .... I will save my energy!

Of course, daughter wants to adopt him BUT we have an old pooch that would never put up with a newbie. The VET has made arrangements to send BINGO to a local organization "no kill" shelter called ANIMALS FRIENDS. There he will have a better chance of having someone that really wants him and take him home instead of the scum bags he obviously ran away from!

I'd like to get my hands on that collar phone number!

THE FORTUNATE ONES

The Fortune 500's list of America's largest Corporations came out today. Does it surprise you that within the top 4 are 3 oil companies?  Nooo?  How does our elected government let this happen? During a reported oil "shortage" the shysters persons of business ... dare... post record earnings. How do you make more $$$$$$$$ selling less?  I must of been absent that lecture day in economics class!

BUT why isn't this a top presidential political platform. I hear so little of any resolutions, except to rape and ravage federal and state pristine forests, game lands, parks, etc. ........ don't even get me started about pollution and greenhouse effects!!!!   This isn't hard!!!  We have made strides in wind, water and solar power. All of it is old old ooold technology but yet it seems never to expand beyond a few grid systems. Okay we all know about the lobbyist system in our government and the big contribution machine to political campaigns .... they need a boot out of government too!

20 years ago I remember seeing the invention of hydrogen cars.  Hydrogen a cleaner "burning" fuel when processed to use in a purer state and we have a ton it in our atmosphere. 20 years later there isn't one in my driveway!!! I doubt yours either due to the expense and limited "hyrostations". If someone found a way to make this cheaper, EXXON would be giving their "shortage" away for practically nothing.  I would feel so bad for them  ... sniff sniff  


OH ... Who is the other bottomdweller bloodsucker reputable conglomerate in the top 4? I'll give you a hint:

Was the EMERGENCY stop button broke?

Did you see this? ...... This is 44 year old Patricia Krentcil ... yes you read that right 44 YEARS OLD ........ Patricia is an admitted avid tanner ... ya think!! Patricia is accused of bring her fair-haired 5-year into the tanning booth with her. Depending on which news agency you read, the child went to school with 1st-2nd degree burns. Her parents claim it was sunburn. We shall see .......

But apparently, since Patricia was receiving all this attention she thought it best to also add a spray tan to that "healthy glow"  .... her words ... for the all the camera interviews she felt she needed to give to plead her case to the general public for sympathy??? .... stardom??? ..... the ethical treatment of microwaving ???

 
I think it may have been your second worst decision this week Patricia!! 

MATHEMATICAL HEADACHE

SIGH ........ After spending $520 on a hair cut .... or 2 as the stylist tells it  .... or 15 as Nadya imagines tells it ... AND borrowing $450K last year  .... how much was this house?  ..... to buy the current home for her "children" ...... tomorrow the Octomom house will be on the auction block. Yet, the CYS in California that visited her again this week claim "the children are in no imminent danger".  

Oh the guy who lent her the $450k to purchase the house?  ... he is suing her for it?  Surprise!  

Let's see how many hair cuts does that come to ..... $520 divided by + or - (14) + truth - Brazilian blowout + Radar Online pic purchases - denial + added TV exposure via scandal X multiplied by another CYS visit  ...............

Editorial Cartoon credit: Alycia Rockey, The Daily Eastern News

IT SHOULD BE ABOUT IGNORING COMMON SENSE

I have been wanting to rant about the Zimmerman case for the last few weeks since I heard the about the story on my AM news. This new video just gave me the incentive. My planned rant was going to include my total skepticism to the Zimmerman version of the incident. I mean come on, the whole accounting does not add up to “self-defense”!

First, it was around 9 PM on a Sunday night. What self-respecting criminal is looking for a heist at that time of night? Zimmerman …. the self-appointed head of neighborhood watch …… was getting ready to go grocery shopping. Many of his neighbors are awake to make 911 calls because all that screaming for help was disturbing their listening to the court room drama on “Desperate Housewives”.

So Georgie sees a baaad person walking around outside. He calls 911. Have you heard this call? Georgie says the suspicious person has “something wrong with him”! He could tell that all the way from inside his house because he took some criminal classes! Although, Georgie sounds like he had a few of something himself …….. hmmm has to get to the grocery store at 9PM!

He then goes outside while on the phone with the dispatchers to chase the kid ……. and he knows it is a kid because he tells the dispatcher he is a teen ………… and they tell him not to. He is still outside when the call ends and he wants the police to call him when they get to the gated community entrance. Why? You were a good citizen. You made your call. NORMAL people let the police handle it. That wasn’t good enough for a wanna-be-cop hero and able to catch a criminal before he hits the PUBLIX snack aisle Georgie. Already packin’ his pistol for the grocery store he gets in his car and hunts an unarmed kid down.

As Georgie tells it he was fearing for his life because the teenager half his size that he chased down to "corner" for the police was beating the crap out of him. Really???? Even if he was, you couldn't run to a neighbor ..... get back in your car ..... sit on him .... the only answer was shoot him? Now did that make sense? Oh and by the way Georgie that’s not what the new video shows either. There wasn’t a guy beaten to even half a pulp on that video.

What does make sense is Florida police screwed this one up. Let us hope for the sake of our justice system the Feds have a little more common sense from here on out.

THE VOTE FOR BETTER AMERICA -2012

Rick Santorum has now focused on one of the country’s most pressing issues as he sees it from his campaign trail. Yes, Americans when Rick is President ….. Gaaaaaag ……. He will save all Americans from the dreaded porn industry because as you know this is what is really bring down the American economy and world opinion of us. Yes Americans, forget that old tired on-going, fiscal draining, brave military killing, hunting down the “destroy America” terrorists war in Afghanistan. Forget about the fact you cannot find a decent paying job, the bank is foreclosing on your home and your kids are strung out on drugs. Rick’s says you do not need free welfare programs or foods stamps or medical assistance …. That’s your problem …. Rick says buck up and deal with it!

The government should not be providing for its citizens!!!!! America’s REAL problem is the fact that your morals are not the same as Rick’s. YES ….. when Rick is President, we will all become Christians with strict moral values and PORN IS OUT!!!! You cannot be watching that stuff on TV or the internet or in a movie or magazine. SO censorship is what the government should really be doing. After all, we should be in church, those slags will have to get off their birth control and have babies as GOD intended, …. Everyone should only be having sex if they are married anyway …… and we shall ship all those Gays off to Samoa because they should not be mixing with us God fearing people. THIS will repair things in America …. wave your flags now! ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜

And speaking of terrorists is not their war on Americans ….. I’m not a political analyst just an observer ….. based on religious morals? Who is to say whose morals are God’s preferred? RICK?

Sometimes Rick and his idealized scruples just need to shut-up!

MORE CONGENIAL COMMENTS FROM THE WORLD OF FASHION

NO this not about Gisele sticking her other Yeti sized foot in her mouth ..... but from the world that revolves around Karl Lagerfeld who says Adele is "a little too fat". Weellll, Karl should know all about getting rid of a little fat. Nine years ago he lost 92 lbs ......... that would be Karl in 2002 on the left and the 2012 svelte Karl on the right ........ Hmmmmmmm ..... on second thought Adele if your alternative is the look on the right maybe you need to stay just the way you are ....

ANOTHER REASON TO HATE (and not shop at) WALMART !!!

THE GREED OF THIS COMPANY IS UNMEASURABLE!

Today, I was searching some information on my car accident and insurance paying for hospital bills and I came across this story about a little practice of “Balance Billing”:

“One of the more unsettling cases happened in 2007, when Walmart successfully sued an insured employee whose car was hit by a semi-truck, leaving her with brain damage and permanently in a wheelchair. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the woman received a settlement of $417,000, after attorney fees and expenses, which her husband planned to use for her care. But when Walmart sued for recovery of $470,000 it had made in medical payments, a judge ruled for the retailer.
Walmart's health insurance coverage, like many companies, allows the company to recoup the medical expenses it paid if the person receives a settlement in an injury suit. The judge agreed, and the woman and her family lost its settlement.”

The story appeared in major media (click: CNN ) AND I somehow missed this story .... talk about silly and dim as a nightlight ....... as the decision to side with WALMART went all the way to the Supreme Court and greedy, greedy, a scourge on our American society, greedy Walmart won each an every time ....... who is running this company???? I'm not religious but if there is an evil Satan anywhere he has to be the CEO of Walmart.

By the way Walmart made 90 BILLION the year before! 90 BILLION !!!

I'm NOT one of the "People of Walmart"

That's right ...... NO MATTER WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD, do not look for me on that web site you will not catch a glimpse of me!
I WON'T, DON'T, CAN'T, SHOULDN'T, WOULDN'T shop at Walmart. As a matter of fact, Walmart could close down and I would not miss them. They came to my area about ten + years ago and the first time I went in .... Christmas season no less ..... I could not wait to get the hell out! Since my harrowing experience that one Christmas season in the late '90's, I could probably count on one hand ... okay maybe a few fingers on the other hand too ...... the times I've been in a Walmart. My apology to those that shop there on a regular basis ..... but I never felt so high class flutin' in all my life. I know, I know .... BEEEOTCH! .... I gladly accept the diva crown and title.

MORE REASONS I DISLIKE WALMART ..........
By the early 2000's I was in an engineering school ethics class .... yes we engineers have ethics .... part of the class was a mid-term paper on an chosen ethical subject within the construction industry. I chose commercial and residential urbanism fleeing to the suburbs ..... I was channeling my influence from a Harvey Milk speech, I know, I know.... In my web searches for fault w/ structural designers stripping away virgin forests while brown sites vacated by former industries sat empty and forlorn in cityscapes ..... I'm getting off my soap box now ...... information of another recently exposed wastefulness in the construction industry caught my eye termed: "disposable architecture". The term was derived by the building practices of Walmart. Walmart may have not invented "disposable architecture" but they sure perfected it. In case you are unaware of the term, disposable architecture refers to the commercial practice of building structures to last roughly 20 years. 20 years is when the life cycle of significant ... i.e., expensive.... building components need replaced. Instead of replacing them Walmart tears down the whole building, throws it in a landfill and constructs another usually close by. Have you noticed the incomplete nature of the warehouse edifice of your local Walmart? Little drywall and paint, no completed ceilings, inexpensive flooring, exposed steel framing, electrical wiring, ducts, and pipes, and when was the last time your local store remodeled the public restroom? Probably never and they don’t plan on it either because the toilet warranty has long expired and using yellow caution tape over the door of a stall is much more cost effective. Of course other Brands now subscribe to this practice too since it works so well for Walmart.

Of course ... warning .. hopping back on the soap box.... the long laundry list of Walmart atrocities that happens behind those cheap doors in that disposable building is probably more shocking to the general public: Low wages, preventing full time w/benefits putting a strain on public welfare healthcare system, contriving on how to close small local businesses, sexual and racial discrimination, child labor violations, uses of known foreign sweatshops ..... THE LIST GOES ON ..... all of it to provide cheap products while maximizing profits. WHAT OTHER COMPANY CAN YOU NAME THAT HAS MADE SIX PEOPLE BILLIONAIRES AT THE SAME TIME? Which brings us to the Bill Gates billionaires pledge .... yes I know it took me a long time to get to this point. There was much background to my dislike .... not one of these six billionaires have signed it. Think about it: Half of 22 billion (Christy Walton's est. fortune) is 11 billion .... she would still have 11 BILLION !!!!!!!

No ... Christy I know I'm done with Walmart .... gee I still hope you can still buy that next non-essential thing.