Sorry to hear about Fess Parker passing away. The whole Injun FIghtin’ Davey Crockett fad was a little before my time, but I was big fan of Dan’l Boone, and his Russian Jew “Indian” sidekick, Mingo (Ed Ames, aka Edmund Dantes Urick). And they let Fess wear his Davey Crockett coonskin cap, too, which was nice.
Tough day yesterday for the Big East, with a bunch of teams going down in the first round. So far, so good in my “Pick With Your Heart” bracket, where you’re required to pick SU as the National Camp, and you got a 10-point bonus for picking Georgetown to lose in the first round (which they rather conveniently managed to do). Hopefully Syracuse won’t lose tonight, since this has already been a shitty enough week for me.
Big weekend for health care reform, supposedly. Republicans are now saying that Democrats hate God, because they had one vote on Christmas Eve, and are planning to hold another one on “a Sunday during Lent,” which of course is clearly prohibited under the Constitution.
Oh well, been doing a lot of sleeping lately. These crutches are killing my arm pits, plus it’s pretty hard to actually carry much of anything while using them. Kinda sucks.
According to some conservative blogger of whom I’ve never heard, Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts charity is a scam. She says the charity which is supposed to raise money for scholarships for children of fallen soldiers spent only 4% of it’s take on such scholarships, much of the rest going to private jets and expensive accommodations for Hannity and his family.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/19/hannitys-freedom-concerts_n_505294.html
A computer database glitch has sent police to the home of an elderly Brooklyn couple more than 50 times since 2002, sheepish cops admitted yesterday.
The glitch began when cops randomly typed the Marine Park address of Walter and Rose Martin into their database during a test years ago, police spokesman Paul Browne said.
For some reason, the Martins’ address was never purged from the system after the test, Browne said — and it’s wormed its way so deeply into the cops’ database that they’ve been unable to scrub it out.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/nypd_has_senior_moment_DXWY2eLGmZyMu6xl4Z6tnK#ixzz0id9ByiEe
I am grateful that it isn’t MY address the police have. Instead it’s the post office that sends me mail addressed to my house number on any street. Recently I got someone’s W2 and threw it back in the mailbox only to have it delivered to me once again.
I also have my mother’s mail forwarded to my address and recently the post office has begun forwarding the mail of other residents of her apartment house to me.
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“Don’t shave your head Travis, they’ll think you’re dangerous.”