Froth Slosh B'Gosh

Overheard

I stopped by McDonalds for a quick breakfast this morning on my way to hunt morels.  I generally don't do fast food, but I do like McDonald's coffee and their sausage biscuit.

The place is usually filled with older men, I think because they get free coffee or something.  These are people generally 10 to 20 years older than me, so they were teenagers in the sixties to early 70's.

This one fellow was railing about how some person on some TV show kept saying "Damn this" and "damn that" and he was quite upset that children found that funny.

I was amused that he was so put out by such a mild curse on TV, and wondered what people who were his age in the late 60's felt about his hair, or his clothes, or his music.

And then he said, quite loudly, "That's what's wrong with America.  No one gives a shit."  He was so put out by "damn" but loudly says "shit" just a few tables away from the McDonald's Playland.

All I could do was chuckle. 

 

On The First Day Of My Vacation....

I was in NYC for a mounted police conference.  As a bonus, the Harbor Patrol took us out on their high-speed launches for a tour...I'm suprised this is in focus as we rocketing along at about 70 MPH.

T-ball Time! The Frothling at the plate!

Finally

Well, were finally getting some decent weather.  I finished making the new garden boxes, so the process of moving the garden from the soggy back yard to the side yard, where its both closer to the kitchen and the water spigot is nearly completed, I just have to finish carting the garden soil to the new location and erecting the trellis.  Maybe I can get the grass cut while I'm at it?

Plutocrat Gets Jail

Finally, one of these bastards has to pay for his crime.

One day after the sixth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion, which killed 29 men, U.S. District Judge Irene Berger gave the ex-Massey Energy CEO the maximum prison time and fined him the maximum $250,000. A federal jury convicted Mr. Blankenship on Dec. 3 of a misdemeanor conspiracy to violate mine safety standards at Upper Big Branch.

Does he get it?  Of course not.

“It is important to everyone that you know that I’m not guilty of a crime,” Mr. Blankenship said.

Um, yes you are.  That's what being convicted means.  It would be nice if his actions bankrupted him, because I frankly feel the most appropriate penalty for a rich criminal is to impoversh him.  Unfortunatly, he'll still live quite comfortably on the millions he bankrolled by cutting corners on safety.

 

PLAY BALL!