Bent Corner

This prick’s name is Timothy Tackett and he used to work (past tense) at a Xenia, Ohio Burger King. Evidently he thought it would be hilarious to bathe in the fast food restaurant’s deep-well sink. Not only was he fired, but so was everyone else that was privy to this stupid act of depravity.

They wash vegetables in that sink. If you ever ate at a Burger King in Xenia, Ohio and you thought the tomatoes on your Whopper tasted like ass, now you know why.

This has got to be the first time ever that someone in Ohio actually got in trouble for bathing.

ABC has a TV showed called Extreme Makeover where they take the home of a supposed deserving family and remodel it.  By that I mean that they totally demolish the old house and build something totally new.  They do this with the aid of thousands of volunteers and they do it in only a week.  No expense is spared.  No corner is cut.  Nothing is too lavish when it comes to the remodeled home.

It appears that simple greed got to one of the beneficiaries of these extremely made over homes.  From the AP (via Yahoo!):

After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it’s set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed.

I wonder how the Harper family qualified for the makeover. They normally select families with extreme sob stories. Families where mom is dying of cancer and the six kids all have allergies to plastic.  I also wonder how long it took them to turn around and take out a loan against the home.

I guess I should feel sorry for these people, but I simply don’t.  Not even a little bit.  I do feel sorry for the thousands of volunteers that put in the hours of hard work building these people a mini-mansion.

I bet that wont happen again.

From the Dallas City Hall Blog on the Dallas Morning News website:

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”

Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.

I’d love to see the video of this.  What I find to be hysterically funny about this is that even though commissioner Mayfield wasn’t being the least bit racially degrading when he used the term black hole, commissioner Price (seen here letting his hair down) was being racially insulting when he responded to the imaginary slur with the term “white hole”.

At least he was trying to be which makes it extremely funny.

If I wasn’t such a cheapskate, I would send commissioner John Wiley Price and Judge Thomas Jones copies of Stephen Hawking’s landmark book, A Brief History in Time.  I was looking around Borders yesterday and happened to find an updated, re-written version of the book entitled A Briefer History of Time.  I was published in 2005 by Hawking and American physicist Leonard Mlodinow.

Her husband might be a beady-eyed, Holocaust denying whackjob, but you’ve got to admit that the First Lady of Iran is a real looker.

Obviously she is his trophy wife.

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Don Imus is once again in hot water over something he said on his radio show. Last time is was about the hair style of the Rutgers ladies basketball team. This time it was concerning former Tennessee Titans defensive back Pacman Adam Jones.

Maybe the I-Man shouldn’t talk about sports?

He and the rest of the people on his show were discussing Jones and how he has been arrested multiple times for multiple offenses. This is what Imus said:

Imus: “What color is he?”

Warner Wolf: “African-American”

Imus: “There you go. Now we know.”

Maybe it’s just me, but I think any time you begin your statement by asking what color someone is, it cannot be good.

I thought much of the Imus outrage the last go around was overblown.  I thought what he said about the lady basketball players was stupid, but I did not think it was as bad as most people pretended it was.  With that said, I think this statement is worse then what he said about the lady basketball players.  A lot worse.

Don Imus is just a big old racist idiot.  He needs to just go away.

What a wingnut. I’ll admit that the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise isn’t for me, but even I know it’s not intended for children. How do I know this?

Because I can read.

The game is for adults. It states so right on the game. It is labeled with the ESRB rating of MATURE. What does that mean? From the ESRB website:

Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.

The game is clearly not intended for kids. Why is Glen Beck saying that it is?

Not only does Beck rant against Grand Theft Auto IV, he delves into the topic of military history, focusing on how soldiers have been trained to fire their weapons over the years. He claims that during World War One, American solders couldn’t shoot the enemy because they weren’t killers. Killing another human being was not a natural act. They had to be trained to kill other human beings.

If Glen Beck actually believes that, I’ve got a couple local Civil War battlefields, Antietam and Gettysburg, that I’d like to show him.

Video games aren’t just for kids. Like any form of entertainment, some video games are intended for children. Grand Theft Auto IV is not one of those.

Fellow Hagerstown blogger Steve Shives of Steve Likes To Curse wrote a blog post about home-schooling children. He pointed out that because these children are home-schooled by individuals — mainly their mothers — that lack a good background in science, these children shouldn’t be awarded a real high school diploma.

I thought Steve made some good points, but what do I know? I am the product of yucky government school.

Some of the mothers that home-school their children have responded to what Steve wrote. To say I enjoyed reading some of the replies is putting it mildly. Many of them were simply unintentional comedy gold.

One of these anonymous home-school mommies wrote the following:

The Germans, through their new educational system, turned the nation of Goethe and Beethoven into the nation of Bismarck and Hitler. Their students were thoroughly “socialized”; that is, they were indoctrinated to be loyal and obedient to state authority. This made them better soldiers and factory workers.

Hitler? I hereby declare Goodwin’s Law!

Hitler actually went to school in Austria, not Germany. He didn’t like school. In fact, he hated it. He never even graduated high school. He dropped out of high school when he was 16.

I think home-schooling is wrong. Not because home-schooled kids don’t learn enough science. To be honest, I could care less if a kid knows the entire periodic table of elements by heart. No, I’m against home-schooling because home-schooled kids miss out on the social aspects of school.

A big part of school is learning to get along with other people. People who you may not like and who may not like you. Not just other kids, but the teachers too.

Home-school proponents say their children get the needed socialization by interacting with other home-schooled children. Evidently many of them are members of home-school support groups and they schedule events for their kids to participate in.

In other words they get to interact with children just like themselves. Children who have been hand-selected by their mothers for the sole purpose of having someone to interact with.

What’s going to happen to these kids when they have to socialize and interact with people that aren’t just like them? People who haven’t been vetted first by their mothers?

In school you learn how to interact and hopefully get along with all sorts of people. It’s a skill children hopefully go on to utilize their entire lives. I don’t care what your career field is. If you don’t know how to deal with people, you are at a huge disadvantage.

I realize now that some home-school advocates think that if you send your child to a government school, there’s a chance they will grow up to be Adolf Hitler. I think maybe it’s worth taking that risk.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, but Lenore Skenazy is an awful mother. If you didn’t know any better, you might think she was just another woman with a mullet.

When she isn’t needlessly risking the life of her 9-year old son, she is a columnist for the New York Sun.

In her latest column, she talks about how she left her 9-year old son at Bloomingdale’s in New York City with a subway map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill, and a fist full of quarters in case he had to make a call.

She points out that she didn’t give him a cell phone because she didn’t want it to get lost.

She seems to care more about her cell phone then she does about her own son. To be fair, maybe she doesn’t like her son, but she really likes her cell phone.

Skenazy goes on to refer to people that protect their children “wimps”. She even points to crime statistics from the Justice Department that show that the number of children abducted by strangers has been going down over the years.

Gee, I wonder why that is?

I would argue that this is because parents are being more careful about exposing their kids to unnecessary risks. It’s not because there are fewer child predators. It’s because parents have heard the story of Adam Walsh. It’s because parents are being smarter.

Parents not named Lenore Skenazy.

Hopefully for her next column, she drops in at the local AIDS hospice and has unprotected sex with some of the patients. She can then take an AIDS test and if the results comes back negative, she can write another column. She can say that people who think unprotected sex with numerous AIDS patients is dangerous are wimps.

Maybe she is only brave when she is risking someone else’s life.

Looks like there may be some scandal brewing at Oral Roberts University. Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University and son of it’s founder and name sake stands accused of being illegally involved in a local political campaign. He is also accused of spending donated money on lavish luxury items including home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter’s senior trip to the Bahamas, and fancy cars for his wife, Lindsay.

The most interesting thing in all this is something his wife is accused of.

This from the AP story:

She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as “underage males.”

What is this woman doing sending text messages to underage males? There is nothing new with evangelical men of God misusing donated money intended for The Lord. It’s to be expected. If you donate money to one of these charlatans, you had better just expect them to blow the money on something stupid. Don’t be surprised if they use your money to buy a golden toilet or vacations for their spoiled children. Just be thankful they don’t use it for crystal meth and gay male prostitutes.

Having wives trolling for boys is something fairly new for these crooked evangelical men of God. Normally you expect them to be the ones just a little too interested in the underage boys. You don’t expect such activity coming from their wives.