Criminal habit

Dutch Nuns on Bikes Chase Suspected Thief

9:28 AM PST - Monday, July 24, 2006
AP Staff

(AP) Dutch Nuns on Bikes Chase Suspected Thief

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
Two Dutch nuns, wearing habits and riding bikes, chased a suspected thief through Amsterdam, police said Monday.

On Saturday evening, one of the sisters believed she recognized a man walking past their chapel in southern Amsterdam as a thief who snatched hundreds of dollars in cash from the building two weeks earlier, Amsterdam police spokesman Rob van der Veen said.

She invited him inside for a drink and asked a fellow nun to alert police.

The man, apparently suspecting what was happening, fled the building and snatched a bicycle from a passer-by.

"The nuns then grabbed their bikes and gave chase. They tried to grab him, but he managed to escape into a residential neighborhood and they lost him," Van der Veen said. Police hunted for the man in the neighborhood but could not find him.

From someone else's collection

Chicago
Originally uploaded by ekalb.

My sister and niece actually got a picture of this, but here ... I'll joke about it.

"Yes, but what is it?"
"It's an egg!"
"An egg?"

"Yeah, you know ... an egg! You see I won that. It's a national award."
"Hell; you say you won that?"

Perhaps it a job security peice for glass cleaners as the pigeons probably drop by often.

New Ang Lee movie

It's All Greek to Me
It's a story about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern whose lives interrupted when they assigned to take Hamlet to be beheaded. Well, the homosexual comedy really gets going when the execution order is fouled up and Hamlet is to be headed and the story goes on ...

I think some directors should burn in Hell this time, not having to wait for the afterlife/afterdeath. If there's an opening, a good boxer takes a swing. That's what I'm doing here. Next up is Kevin Costner -- whose movies need no introduction (they all blow chunks -- out the nose).

DS9 series

DS9 series
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Doc, doc! You're telling me, you built a Star Trek series out of a space station. That's right Marty! I decided, if you're going to do it ... do it where they stay a while.

Okay, so the series isn't perfect, but ... it is better than the next generation, for the several episodes I saw of that. I didn't and couldn't watch Voyager, as it always gave me Deja Vu during and after. It was too strange to watch it.

The series -- with many subplots and an overall plot, which I think the many writers decided ought to be included, is okay. If you remember the original series -- no plot to the series, other than go here, get into and out of trouble with science fiction and the occasional political message.

Ground Zero

The Prisoner of the Sacricy and his wife went to New York City, where Cerpicio's wife lived for a while. While there he mentioned visiting ground zero and that the city is worth a trip for anyone and that, by implication, visitors should see ground zero.

I would also like to invite Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian military to ground zero, located in scenic Syria. Some might note that there is no ground zero in Syria. Oh, but wait. Just get all of those hate-lovin' folks together -- smack dab in Syria and I think they'll find that there will be much obliging persons making that celebrated ground zero. I think you know what I mean. In the end, Martyrs can't be choosers, otherwise it wouldn't work.

Reading a book online

How would you like to read 700 short and detailed jobs listings. Does this sound right for you? Then you must be a job hunter, like me. Join me in saluting those responsible for writing incomplete ads on "possible" and "potential" values and salaries. Please also applaud those who offer <$30K, requiring 5+ years of expeience with travel and relocation very likely.

One of the worst offers was for $23,600 annual working including nights, weekends, holidays and very likely relocation. What a rip off.

Anyway, I sent out some resumes after hours of tedious reading finding grammatical errors in job postings and listings. I am spent!

more stuff with job searches -- laughable ads

PCA – Church Division "Making Memories for Tomorrow"

Regional Account Director

Base Pay: $34,000 - $50,000/Year

base/commission for 16 weeks then draw/commission + quar/ann bon

Full-Time Employee

Art - Photography – Journalism, Sales - Marketing

Req'd Education: High School

Req'd Experience: At Least 1 Year

Req'd Travel: Up to 25%

Job Description

You've heard about the proverbial career ladder of success? Well here's where you get on! PCA International, Inc. offers significant opportunities for growth and career advancement. The work environment is stimulating, challenging, and fun. You'll be working for a Company in which each Associate's contribution is clearly valued, recognized, and rewarded as well as working with an innovative, dynamic Team eager to help you develop and expand your skills.

PCA International, Inc. is looking for experienced outside sales professionals to call on new and existing clients for our Church directory/photography business.

Qualifications:

Ranks within the top 10% of current sales force. Has a proven track record of at least 2 years in outside sales exceeding quotas and market share goals.

Has excellent organizational skills.

Makes articulate, effective presentations to a variety of audiences.

Ability to develop rapport with clients and maintain strong working relationships.

Self-motivated. Thrives on doing a job well. Has the independence, initiative, and desire to achieve.

Available to work after hours and weekends, as required.

Demonstrates strong work ethic. Uses time productively to accomplish challenging work goals.

Sets clear goals and pursues them until desired results are achieved.

Manages time effectively and prioritizes, completing tasks to meet deadlines.

Presents key selling points, features, and benefits while focusing message on customer needs and expectations.

Presents a professional, positive image that reflects well on the organization.

High School Diploma or GED.

BENEFITS
Our Benefits will put a smile on your face! We are pleased to offer an excellent benefits package to ensure the well being of our associates and their families. These benefits are offered at a reasonable and competitive cost.
Immediately available to both Full Time and Part Time Associates!!

Option to enroll into a Medical plan, with additional options for Dental

Direct Deposit

Enhanced Benefits are offered to Associates after completing 6 months of continuous employment:

A Consumer Driven Health Plan (CDHP) which is an innovative health plan that offers tools to assist you with achieving a healthier lifestyle while providing 100% preventive wellness care for children and adults when discount physicians are used, and provides coverage for doctor, hospital and prescription needs

Medical & Dependent Care "Flexible Spending Accounts"

Dental Coverage

Life and Accidental Insurance - at no cost to you!

Optional Life Insurance for the Associate, Spouse and Children at very reasonable group rates

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Paid Holidays, Vacation and Sick days

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan<

Service Award Recognition Program
And it keeps getting better! After completion of 1 year of continuous full time employment:

Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - at no cost to you!

Annual complimentary portrait package
(Benefits may vary in the US and Canada and are subject to change without notice at any time)

.....

--- CDHP means that your health is in for a scary trip. The pay is inconsistent with the cost to do the job. A church-division of photography studio or photography division of church, either way -- scary

Picture worth a lot of critique

I have blocked out their faces for good reason. What you can't see is that the "man" on the right is really joyful about the superman toy and the girl to the left was, not so excited, but happy. I am left with the picture on the box of a too-happy superman, fill in any words you need. The girl here is only twice its height, therefore quite young. I wonder though, what is that thing in her hand? It's not a Mr. Microphone nor for karaoke can it be?

What could make this more disturbing, oh, I know ... the boxer shorts at the top. This was on a picture website, not marked as much of anything. I randomly found it and indeed found it. I found it disturbing on a number of levels. God help this child, and maybe put in something for the guy there too.

drowning in the insignificant

"They only tell ... only tell what they wanna"

I definitely know some things or do I? What I can read is cold filtered for my reading pleasure. What I can see on TV is warm pasteurized for security. What do or can I know? I can't know much and I read lots. The media today reminds me much of the women's magazines -- well scoffed for their lack of content despite volumous girth and weight. A $4 magazine contained less info than a doctor's pamphlet, yet cost $4 for an encyclopedia of ads and "free samples" of odiferous perfumes -- smelling of gumshoe tartar.

I could read on a fourth generation (4th-person) story on something in the middle East. This is a story where the names have been changed because otherwise the stories wouldn't sell. Also -- the "extraneous" has been removed and the more difficult concepts have been switched to a Matel (R) box cover. When you read it, it's generally as ambiguous as it is rampant with inuendos and contrived agenda relationships.

Without these, I would never know that Bush is to blame for Bolivian cotton price rises and that Al Gore once bought a fuel inefficient car for a friend who sold it to a brother who sold it to a cousin of a former roomate, who then did something questionable. I like to claim that I don't watch soap operas, but I do. I watch them everytime I turn on the news. "You know the boys in the newsroom have got a running bet"

It the pagentry and idol worship of glitz TV. Every newscaster, decorated in garb for the affair. The news begins and it is why this bit jibes well with the correct side. I'll even have thirteen people on this news channel agree with me and tell you why -- there, you have the news. You can't argue with us, you just heard thirteen people side with me.

Uh, if the emperor is nude, he's nude, no matter how the collective or mob perceive it or believe that he's clothed. More often I am blindsided with images that seem authentic, seem complete until you listen. There are too many generalities there. If you hear 80% opinion with 20% fact, that isn't right.

You see, we have here three words of a ten page report. Now, what these words mean are ... and that makes us right and the first to show it to you. Real News, Real Fast, Fair and Balanced. If you have to say it, people can't tell by looking. Great and good things tend not to need labels. If you have to say what it is, then it isn't.

Real News: in ten second spots, repeated every half-hour.
Real Fast: nice grammar; apart from the speed of the statements, the commercials are long and the tail ends of the news (CNN a.m.) have "community link" and "Suzanne" with statements for the AARP
Fair and Balanced: hmmm, don't think so. Name ten non-Republicans who watch FOX News. Why? FOX News is a conservative Republican soundboard, much like CNN (Turner fool television) is Democratic liberalism.
Fox News is more likely to bring on a group of yessirs and andhows to verify their statments.

I would like some news in edgewise, between the rally to the left, rally to the right, do the news political hokey pokey every single night. In the end, do I feel informed? If I watch CNN, I get long speeches against Bush. If I listen to FOX news, I get long winded speeches supporting Bush. What if Bush has little to do with it and I want just the news -- the facts, not how it relates to the 2008 election? I'm stuck, I can't get no ... news satsifaction.

Hamas US invasion scenarios [wargaming]

Hamas successfully lands in LA, California and tries to take over city: overly protected with guns, citizens repel and conquer invaders within 30 minutes

Hamas successfully lands in NY city, NY: while mixing better in the area, are quickly robbed of their weapons, including strapped C-4 vests and are left in various parts of the city, lost and naked.

Hamas successfully lands in Texas: They are uncharacteristically comfortable, but upon crossing someone's yard and slain together by unhappy neighbors

Hamas successfully lands in Kentucky: They are as foreign as E.T. and are subdued and introduced as the other dark meat at a few restaurants while the supplies last

Hamas successfully lands in Kansas: A decade later, they find their way out, but are intermarried withe the locals and have since renounced their attack on America

Hamas successfully lands in Utah and find that polygamy is accepted and finding a much better, easier life, settle and never leave.

Hamas successfully lands in Las Vegas, Nevada and after selling their weapons for cash, gamble away -- some winning millions, others selling organs for that one big win. In the end, they forget why they came, having not seen the "real sun" in 96 days.

Hamas successfully lands in in Indiana: after fighting and blowing up buildings, damage is assessed and there weren't many buildings away. The neo-Nazis hunt them, while the Klan stupidly thinks the white garb is in need of ironing and fixes them. The Hamas find themselves running in circles.

Hamas successfully lands in Chicago, IL: the are stuck at O'Hare for so long, they wind up blowing themselves up on the tarmac waiting to get out

unanimous adoption

US and Israel alike wholeheartedly adopt triggerless guns. After years of arguing about ethical use of triggerless guns, US companies have created and released new triggerless guns for military.
"It was in constant conflict that I found the true need for such a weapon. I asked several military personnel their opinions on this. Generally I got a positive feedback", said Malcom Durtch.

"The only time I stopped firing was when I was reloading. It was madness really. I would lay down supressing fire for as long as I could, making a daisy chain with others along a ridge, where one team would peter out, needing to reload, my partner and I would start firing before they would exhaust their load. The next team would do the same and so on. All of our fingers were tired and I actually have a repetitive motion injury to my hand. I'm not alone." -- PVC Redman

"This is great! I'm standing patrol or walking patrol every day. Not a day goes by without some guy popping out of nowhere, shooting up my station. I return fire in short bolts, but that never works. I begin firing a straight line and the guy gets scared out of his mind. He turns runs, and I tag him. Most of the time I find various explosives on him. Sometimes, they just blow themselves up right there. If I were to shoot once and wait, I'd either be dead or there would be more of them coming behind him. With this new triggerless gun, it's bam! There's no waiting. We're gonna get more of these the dike will be fixed. There won't be this trickling of Syrians or Jordanians here." -- border patrolman

New triggerless guns. Sometimes there's no point in not firing. This is the gun for those points. When your gain is measured in putting down the enemy, these guns are your newest and best defense.

What is a quiet evening and night?

I wouldn't know. The Bumpis families still have fireworks! 5 minutes here, 30 minutes there. You'd think they would all pal around together for one -- just one night, but no. They either try to one up each other or are just buying fireworks with their groceries. Please, and for the sake of all that is rational, stop firing the ****ing fireworks for a month. You have to about be out of firework money or excitement with them right?

I've got a great way for you to experience them -- cram them up your backside and fire away! If Indiana wants to repeal it's decission, this is an example of ammunition that proponents could use. I think the tax dollars being acquired here and spent here makes more sense than neighboring states, but gracious.

I am tired of the asses with fuses! I have grown used to the train, though I hear it often, as I am a light sleeper -- training, not of my own. Have you had a spouse or lover who wakes you when they hear a spider spin web, I have. I found that sleeping soundly so that dust mites walking doesn't bug me, was wasted on bed mates who would hear the same. Through angered waking repeatedly, I now rest fitfully and lightly. I suppose that I could hear someone robbing me blind then -- alright!

Anyway ... during the typing of the post, more fireworks. I wonder if the term works in fireworks is related to the fact that those firing them seem not to work day shifts (if at all). They work so the humans don't have to work.

Sent to bed without any supper

or something like that

He killed them because he didn't get his way. Hmm ... I suggest execution, promptly, because he wasn't forthcoming with evidence against himself. Seriously, I would like him to be promptly executed, having gotten away with his crimes and truly, killing family -- he killed witnesses. I can't believe the defense was criping about lack of fingerprint use in court. Uh ... didn't he live at the address where the killings took place? Would his prints already be there?

Schmucks!

Thanks MR for finding this. Also -- MR must have been searching for something else, as CNN is not his source of news -- generally.

Getting slayed tonight! He missed bowling and dinner and a trip to an amusement park. Well, you can see why he had to kill, right?

naughty squirrel

naughty squirrel
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

This squirrel is doing exactly what it's supposed to do -- feed itself and stay live, but, I'm not trying to feed the squirrels. Little bugger likely jumped up from the ground, but I don't know. The black cylinder is supposed to prevent this, but as you can see, it did nothing to stop the "pest". They are getting used to me though, staying with 4' of me. Why not, I feed the birds and they eat the bird seed. Why should they fear me.

Man!

Place so neat -- I have to go there

Playing and Learning are married; shown here in Rochester, NY.

Clinton Gates

Bill Gates, Bill Cliton -- money to medical research and affordability. Not zippergate, not watergate, not white water ... Clinton Gates

You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll kiss your bucks goodbye. I'll just call the foundation to ask some questions:
Your call is important to us. Calls are being answered in the order they were received. Our highly trained Indian reporters will assist you momentarily. Please wait ...

9 hours and many advertisements for My Life later ...

Your call is being transferred [click]

[no noise]

Why CNN

I was looking for a story on a police chase in Texas, running on CNN Headline News, where a robbery suspect eluded police for 90 minutes, culminating in his splashing in a shallow creek ravine. There was a stand off with the armed suspect and when I returned from dinner, CNN didn't have squat on it. How in the world could that be?

The story, it seems, was still going ... negoiations or whatever. I say fire!

You pay too many fees with eBay

They are charging you fees so that they can advertise, not only above your news search, but also for crap they don't sell. This is "police chase", but others have proven this with search terms such as "prostitutes", "slaves", "marijuanna", etc.

eBay, you charge too much, because you have too much money to be in places you don't need to be. So I guess I'll look for "rip off". You didn't disappointment me.

My car's new name

I shall call you Dentine, much like the gum, looking chewed, wrinkled, glossy in some areas, yet cute in a bizarre way.  I would call it Sr Dent.

 

Hey!  Someboy punk'd and junk'd my car!  Oh, that would be me.  Monkeyjack has new dents.  I have no new dents, not that you'd notice if there were any.

Pain in the boob

Thanks Dave for the artwork! My sister came up with a term, "Boob that took over [some large city]". She's had some pain and I thought, since Dave did a great job on the Toilet Movie poster, that, if given time, he could put together a movie poster about large insidious boob that "attacks" large metropolis.