mooks...

http://www.nj.com/south/index.ssf/2012/11/clothes_for_kids_sake_inc_dire.html ...same crooked scheme as former postmaster of Bridgeton NJ 08302 who is apparently doing time for that ...doesn't anyone google their looney ideas first ?? ...oh yeah ...reminds me also of the chief of police of Clayton NJ who also stole the money from such a charity ...I suppose he's got a ball-peen hammer and a big rock to work on now... and, of course, there's the former police chief of Elmer NJ who took guns seized from mooks and instead of turning them over to melt them down he sold them off to more creeps ...what a dope!! ...he lives second house over the bridge at the end of Fortescue NJ and locals call him "the bridge nazi" since anyone who stops their vehicle even for a short time near or on the bridge (only houses are there) gets his wrath and erratic behavior... sheesh !! does jersey have the market cornered on mopes and fools ??

the suffering EU...

In reflecting upon the EU as a political/social entity as well as their € unified (partially) currency experiment, it comes to mind the failure of function on both of these fronts stems from the persistence of each nation/state to function more-or-less in a vacuum with no world view of the group as a unit whether for trade, political, or security relations. Note the failure of monetary policy in the EU in finding any viable solution to their debt/deficit situation with ongoing hemorrhaging of funds as a consequence. Further, no power structure has come to grips with a massive exodus of the down-trodden into the northern well-to-do socialist realms where they are welcomed into a morass of freebies resulting in a ballooning welfare class. As for security, the military organizations each stagnate with aging infrastructure and out-dated management while the foreign service persists in allegiance to each individual EU member with no central power position. It's a set-up for decline, and fast, IMHO...

funny...

"If I had insisted on a woman saying 'I love you' I would have never had a girlfriend, a wife, or a mother..." Alan Harper (JonCryer)-Two and a Half Men

undeserving

I wish my mother were still alive she having had to go through such decisions over my younger life with little help from anyone for decisions… they almost killed me on my first surgery and my father had to disconnect my lines and carry me in his arms out of the hospital to hospital for special surgery where they did some experimental treatment to save me from staph aureus septicemia during a surgery for congenital hip reduction which failed …before that I walked unassisted and since I use crutches and barely can walk at all now. My parents were heros and took me far in life what with all they did to push me along. I was the first kid ever to be mainstreamed in my school for all 12 grades. My mother would not permit me to be in the “handicapped” class with the mentally deficient kids. In kindergarten the teacher stormed into the principal’s office refusing to have me in her class because I could not pour the juice when it was my turn and often wet my pants. The principal fired her. It was a long road to where I am. It is only a mother who can make her son into something when all others see him as a loss. In a mother’s eyes her son is perfect; my mother used to tell me that often. She told me god was watching out for me in a special way. Really it wasn’t god; it was her all along. My father was a saint; he dressed me every day of my life until I was 16 years old and insisted on going to the NYU Rusk Institute to learn to dress myself. In a day they taught me to dress completely, sent me to a shoemaker to get zippered shoes, built me a dressing apparatus for assistance, and since there was some time left over, taught me to get up off the ground unassisted in open space using only my own hands and my crutches. Also, they taught me to climb on to a bus, but I never did that. My odyssey was unreal and I never saw it from afar. I was never put amongst handicapped people and never saw myself that way. To this day, I don’t. Now, I permit myself to ride in a wheelchair in airports only. I still have difficulty seeing myself in the light of all the things people must do for me; especially, poor Annie bears so much of that. I am often surrounded by saints. I feel undeserving.

mor..

second to the last... "Anyone detained by the police is now entitled to a solicitor from the moment they are taken in for questioning. The changes follow a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights." ...they just thought of this??

third from last: " A new customer service charter stipulates that you should never have to wait longer than 2.5 minutes when calling a call centre. A free call back service should be provided if this cannot be achieved." ...good bye customer service ...now all they hafta do is call you back ...it does NOT specify someone has to speak with you when they do!!

relief beyond belief

"From now on pigs must by anaesthetised before they can be castrated."

http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/120101_What's_new

Amongst the increases in taxes (note some being from 21-30%) and the added layers of social burden from a socialist administration (well, what do you expect?), there is one soothing item left for last. I put it first. Eat pork, the other white meat, it's what's for dinner !!