Under a Gibbous Moon

Every year, around Thanksgiving time, we are asked what it is that we are thankful for. I personally, am thankful that I am not a moron. Intelligence seems to a rarer and rarer commodity these days as the following will show.

Pat Robertson has said many crazy things in his life but this is just bizarre, he is apparently unaware of Mac & Cheese.

I guess he’s one of those rich guys who pays people to go to the grocery store for him.

Are you worried that your turkeys are not Christian?

Well, Pamela Geller sure is.

And since turkeys are apparently Muslim here’s more fire for the conspiracy.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and remember, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.

In this country, sports in general and football in particular have become their very own religion. People so strongly identify with their teams that they get into fights over whose team is the best. Players are granted special privileges and get away with types of behavior that would land the rest of us in jail.

Of course, as has been recently shown, the Religion of Football is not above sacrificing children in the name of victory. To so many people, it seems, sports trumps all other concerns. The current case in point is this piece of news.

He’s been raped and abused and now he’s bullied out of school because, of all things, he being blamed for getting Joe Paterno fired. It seems that they believe that just because the man covered for a child molester as far back as 1998 that he doesn’t deserve to lose his job.

For years I’ve watched as people obsess endlessly over sports. While many people say they were shocked at the events of Penn State I can honestly say that I am not. Sports have become a god and this type of behavior is the end result.

Always good advice and backed up with evidence. The most recent piece is the sad story of Teresa Culpepper who, after calling the Atlanta police to report that car had been stolen, was arrested on a case of mistaken identity. Oh such things happen but the best part is the only commonality she shared with the actual criminal is that many years ago both their parents named them Teresa.

Yup that’s it because they shared the same first name, the wrong Teresa ended up spending fifty-three days behind bars. That’s right a five followed by a three, damn near two months. In those two months she was kicked out of her home, car (which was by this point was in a police impound lot, and was having a hard time explaining why she missed fifty-three days of work.

What did the District Attorney have to say about this miscarriage of justice?

After investigating this matter thoroughly and discussing it carefully with the Atlanta Police Department, we have concluded that the wrong person was arrested.

Let’s see, different last names. Check.

Different addresses. Check.

Different descriptions. Check.

And it took fifty-three days for the investigative geniuses down there to figure all of that out.

Because if you do, they’ll want their money back. The Ministry of Defense (UK) has taken back £433 from the family of Lance Corporal Jordan Bancroft because he was inconsiderate enough to die before the end of the month. Bancroft had received a check for £1,493.04 for leave that he had not taken.

Of course, he thought he had found the perfect scam by dying before the end of the month which meant he had been payed 433 pounds that he had not earned. Luckily the MoD is sly to ploys like this and made his family return the ill gotten gains. LCpl couldn’t be reached for comment but his father had this to say about it.

When I read the letter, it felt like I’d been poked in the eye with a sharp stick. I think it’s undignified and very petty to be sent a bureaucratic letter like this.

I can’t imagine what it must be like to receive a collection letter from the government specifically because of the fact that your son had just died.

It looks like the NYPD is determined to unseat the LAPD. I’m not sure why they can’t seem to be able to keep their officers under control. They way they have behaved since the protests started is utterly disgraceful.