The Insane Asylum Blog (@insaneasylmblog) - Social Commentary Off Meds

MAN AXED VICTIM, EATS EYE AND PART OF HIS BRAIN

2012-02-02T06:00:00.003-06:00

#insaneasylumblog- Throughout history we have heard of many murderers who have practiced cannibalism. Some of those include American Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (AKA 'The Boogeyman"), who from 1924-1932, raped and murdered children and ate parts of their corpses.

Russian Nikolai Dzhurmonglaier, who from 1980-1991, murdered 100 women, dismembered them and cooked and served them to his dinner guest. And then you have Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, probably one of the most well-known American serial killers who from 1978-1991 murdered, dismembered, had sex with and even ate some of his victims.

Well, now you can add 35-year-old Tyree Lincoln Smith of Florida to the list. Smith is accused of hacking to death 43-year-old Angel "Tun-Tun" Gonzalez of Bridgeport, Conn. with an axe on December 15th, 2011, and eating one of his eyeballs and part of his brain and washing it all down with a bottle of sake while standing over a dead cousin's grave.

The day before Smith committed the murder, he showed up at the apartment of his cousin Nicole Rabb, telling her that he had eaten a rare steak in a restaurant in Florida. He stated that when he tasted the blood in the steak, it gave him a sexual sensation and that he now had a "lust for blood". Rabb told police that when Smith arrived, he was carrying a book bag and appeared out of sorts. She said he was drinking from the bottle of sake and pulled a small axe from the bag. He told her about a book he was supposedly writing that was about murder, rape and Greek gods. He said he needed blood and was on a mission to get blood. He returned the next evening covered in blood and the small axe he had was also covered in blood. He then sat down at the dinner table with her and her children where he announced, "I got my blood."

Rabb said Smith told her how he had gone to Beardsley Park looking for victims, but found no one. He then went to the Brooks Street House where he used to reside back in the day. That's where he came into contact with Mr. Gonzalez who was squatting in a vacant apartment. Gonzalez offered to let Smith stay with him for the night to get out of the cold. That's when Smith said he heard a voice telling him, "This is your blood." Smith then told her how he bashed Gonzalez's head in and ate one of his eyeballs and parts of his brain. He told of how he got such an indescribable rush from doing this. Rabb said she then kicked Smith out of her apartment and called his mother.

Smith had left the book bag behind which contained the axe, a roll of duct tape and a list of names that included those of his his mother, father and sister. Rabb eventually gave the bag back to Smith in order to keep him away. It was only after Gonzalez's body had been found that Rabb decided to contact the police. They had her call Smith, who had already returned to Florida, and got him to confess to the murder. Although the family says that Smith suffered from mental illness, police said there were no records indicating that he was being treated for any such illnesses. Smith was arrested on Wednesday January 24, 2012 in Lynn Haven, Fla. at a friends house. He was being held on $1 million bond and waiting extradition back to Connecticut. He has since been returned to Connecticut and is scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court this morning, February 2nd, for an arraignment hearing.

I don't really know what to say about this story. It's chocked full of all kinds of crazy. I do have some questions, though. Why did Rabb wait to report the murder after the victims body was found? Did she just not wanna get involved? Was she afraid of her cousin and feared that, had she said something, he would return to take revenge? If that's the case, that would be more of a reason to have initially called the police, at least he would've been off of the street. I don't know, like I said it's full of crazy to me. But at least he's been taken off the streets before there were any more victims. I can bet that him killing Gonzalez only heightened his thirst for blood.

Deuces Smooches...

Nena Grace

DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: DELAWARE

2012-01-25T14:00:00.000-06:00

1. It is illegal to get married on a dare. Why someone would be rude enough to do this, I don't know. But, would that person be bold enough to actually admit it, is what I am wondering.

2. It is illegal to sell dead people for money without a license. Who would be selling dead bodies? I know people donate loved ones bodies to science at times, but why would someone want to sell a dead body? And, who would buy it for that matter? I wonder what they do with them... Use them for Halloween decorations? I don't get it...

3. No person may change clothes in his or her vehicle. Well, I know people who would be so guilty of this. A night of partying and drinking and realizing that it's the next day when you exit a nightclub was always grounds to change clothes in the car. Especially if you had to be at work. Don't worry... soap and toothpaste were always kept on deck, as well as a change of clothes in the trunk for such occasions. I mean, hey, who would want to face their boss, or anyone for that matter with the morning dragon all day.

4. One may not whisper in church. Being a member of a church where people dance all around, jump up and down and tend to take off running when least expected, I must admit that I never whisper. I just laugh. Hysterically. Don't judge me.

5. Six-year-old girls may not run around without being fully clothed. Why would this even be happening? With all of the craziness that's been going on in the world with people harming children, I don't think a girl of any age needs to be running around half naked. Or boys either for that matter.

6. Alcohol may not be served in nightclubs if dancing is occurring on the premises at the same time. Say what?! That's when I really get my groove on when I'm feeling a little buzz. Shoot, let me get about right, and I will dance all friggin' night. Even by myself.

7. Changing into or out of a bathing suit in a public restroom is prohibited. Well, times have surely changed. What do you do when you're swimming and need to put your clothes back on? And what about high school swim teams? What do they do?

8. It is illegal to wear pants that are "firm fitting" around the waist. Okay, now maybe the guys who like to "sag" would be better off moving to this place. Then they won't catch so much flack for their pants hanging off of their asses.

9. "R" rated movies shall not be shown at drive-in theaters. I haven't been to a drive-in in like... forever. I'm not even sure there are any still around, at least not in this area. But, I don't remember anyone paying attention to the movie anyway. There was too much heavy petting and slobbering going on. Maybe they should bring them back and just show "X" rated movies instead. Hey, I'd go. Very often... *side eyes*

10. It is illegal to tailgate. Okay... so that's it. If they had this law in the state of Alabama, all of the 'Bama and Auburn fans would be in jail. Oh yeah, WAR EAGLE!

Okay friends, are you from Delaware? Know of any crazy laws still on the books? Feel free to share them here!

Deuces, Smooches...

Nena Grace

DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: CONNECTICUT

2012-01-17T19:45:00.001-06:00

1. It is illegal to dispose of used razor blades. Yeah, unless you like sporting the razor burned and infected look, I'd advise that you take a chance on this one. Hey, who would know anyway?

2. It is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset. If walking backwards is your thing, then by all means, have at it. But if you get caught maybe you can tell the authorities you took the H1N1 vaccination and now you have 'dystonia'. But, that's another story...

3. In Hartford, you aren't allowed to cross the streets while walking on your hands. This is gonna put a lot of street performers out of work.

4. It is illegal to educate dogs. So, teaching Fido to fetch and roll over is actually against the law, huh? Whodathunkit?

5. In order for a pickle to be officially considered a pickle, it must bounce. Or maybe it's a ball in the shape of a pickle... Hmmm...

6. In Waterbury, it is illegal for any beautician to hum, whistle, or sing while working on a customer. But, it's perfectly okay for them to gossip about their other customers to you while finding out your information so that they can gossip about you after you leave. Yeah, I know a lot of beauticians.

7. In Bloomfield, it is against the law to eat in your car. Well, that cancels that plan you had to grab a breakfast sandwich on your way to work. I wonder if they have special police officers sitting on every corner waiting just to catch people eating in their cars. "Hey, man let's get that speeder who just flew by doing 80 in this 45 mph zone." "Nah, I'm waiting on somebody riding past eating their sausage biscuit. Gotta meet my quota."

8. The marriage of imbeciles and feeble-minded persons is prohibited. Lmao! They really need to pass this law in Alabama.

9. Any dogs with tattoos must be reported to the police. I'm kinda torn on this one. Although I would never do any one of these, there are some people who would do this 'just because', and there are actually some people who would put a small tattoo on their pet in order to trace them in case they are lost. I guess this is a matter of personal choice and as long as it's not harmful to the dog, maybe it's okay. *shrugs*

10. A 16-year-old boy could be put to death if he "cursed, struck, or disobeyed" his parents or was "stubborn or rebellious". Wow... I thought we had it bad growing up getting the spit slapped out of our mouths. Sometimes we got our butts beaten so bad, we wished we were dead... None of the boys in my family would've have made it to the age of 17. Thank God I'm a girl.

Okay readers, do any of you live in Connecticut? Know of any dumb laws you would like to share? Feel free to do so here.

Deuces, Smooches...

Nena Grace

INDEPENDENT WEATHER FORECASTERS TO GET JAIL TIME FOR INCORRECT REPORTS

2012-01-17T16:35:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog #weather - Meteorologists seem to be the only people who can be partially right all the time and still get as much respect as a doctor or lawyer. They're literally hailed as local and national superstars, and when they're wrong, it's written off as "Mother Nature" doing her thing.

Nowadays, people use social networking to share information about weather. A storm can be spotted doing heavy damage by someone out driving, and they can warn people about it on Twitter and Facebook.

Social media weather reports from eyes on the ground seem like a legitimate and reliable source. In South Africa however, independent weather forecasts and warnings are not only frowned upon, but come with a hefty price if they're incorrect.

Independent forecasters have been told they could be imprisoned for up to ten years – or fined up to $1.2 million – if they issue incorrect severe weather warnings without official permission.

The threat is contained in a new law designed to prevent panic and economic damage caused by false predictions of gale force winds, flash flooding or drought. The proposed amendment to South Africa's Weather Service Bill would mean that anyone wanting to issue a severe weather warning would first need to get written permission from the country's official national weather service.

If found guilty of breaching the law, first offenders could face up to five years in prison or a five million rand ($600,000) fine.

Repeat offenders face a maximum of 10 years imprisonment or a ten million rand ($1.200,000) fine. *

So, only those not affiliated with a government-recognized weather service is fair game for this new law. Professional meteorologists can still be wrong as usual about the weather without being penalized. This kind of reminds me of blogger Crystal Cox being fined $2 million for slander after writing about the CEO of a company who was allegedly misusing funds. Because she wasn't affiliated with any news/media entity, she wasn't "protected". Not even by the First Amendment.

*source from the Telegraph

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WOMAN LOSES ARM AFTER INJECTING BATH SALTS

2012-01-17T16:33:00.003-06:00

If you still haven't heard of the synthetic narcotic, Bath Salts, it's the lab-manufactured version of crack/cocaine.

Some people leave it rocked up and smoke it like crack. Some people crush and snort it, while others choose to shoot it in their veins. An unnamed 34-year-old woman from New Orleans chose the latter.

She initially went to the emergency room complaining of local redness and irritation at the spot of injection on her right arm. Doctors gave her antibiotics for the infection, but a couple of days later she was back with more pain, redness and smelly discharge.

They immediately sent her to surgery to remove the infected skin. During the operation, doctors could literally see the infection eating her skin right before their eyes in real time. In the spirit of saving this woman's life, they cut off her arm and shoulder, and gave her an emergency radical mastectomy.

The doctors said she suffered from necrotizing fasciitis caused by streptococcus bacteria.

No one knows whether the Bath Salts being injected into her arm was the cause of the deadly disease. It could have been the needle she used or poor hygiene or any combination of the three. It is safe to say that she wouldn't be missing part of her body had she chosen to not to do the synthetic drug in the first place.

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NASTY WOMEN, CABBAGE AND POOP

2012-01-14T20:49:00.006-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Throughout my life I have come across all types of people. There are the liars, the thieves, the lying thieves, the wanna-be's, the wanna haves, the pretend to haves, the know-it-all's and the ones who just really don't have a clue at all. You have your clean freaks, you know the ones, who if they see a speck of dust it's time to clean the entire house. And then you have your Nasty McNasty's. These are people who will do sh*t that is so gross, or say things that are so filthy, and it doesn't phase them at all. It's like second nature to them. I sometimes watch the show Hoarders on television and some of those people just seem to have mental problems to me. Now, going overboard when you're collecting things, I may let you pass on this one. But, when you have hundreds of cats or dogs and they are pooping and pissing all over the place and you're not even bothering with cleaning it up, hey, you are in need of some serious help. Or a good a*s-kicking.

I know this chick, we'll just call her...Shaniqua. Shaniqua and I have known each other for a very long time. Shaniqua's house was always messy. Sh*t was always everywhere. Clothes, trash, you name it. I can remember going to Shaniqua's house one day and saying, "You must've cooked. I smell cabbage." To which Shaniqua replied, "Oh, no. We cooked collard greens like three days ago." I just shrugged it off and left it alone. Maybe the smell just got 'trapped' in the house somehow.

Well, I went to Shaniqua's house again about a week later. And the smell was still there. I had to pee really bad, and though I tried to hold it, I just couldn't. So, I broke down and asked to use the bathroom. Big mistake. (Oh, I failed to mention that Shaniqua had a toddler that was still in diapers.) As I entered the bathroom, I noticed that the smell got stronger and more rancid. I immediately changed my mind about using the bathroom which was in such disarray that I wouldn't have wanted to squat over that toilet anyway for fear of something leaping up from the seat and attaching itself to my poon.

I decided to play detective and find out where in the hell this smell was coming from and what it was. I looked under the cabinets and in the laundry basket that was overflowing anyway, so that didn't take much effort, and then I pulled back the shower curtain that was obviously pulled to hide something in the tub. And there it was. The tub was full of worn shi*ty, pissy diapers. And maggots. I almost screamed. Maggots were everywhere, all over the wall of the tub, on the inside of the shower curtain. I guess I had disturbed them because they seemed to have gotten angry. I immediately exited the bathroom and told Shaniqua that I had to go. I never said anything to her about it but, I knew she knew what I had seen.

I didn't get it. How could a person live like this? Did they become so accustomed to the scent that they didn't smell it anymore? Why weren't the diapers discarded? And, where in the hell did they take baths at? I was full of questions, and I still am 'til this day.

Recently, one of my facebook friends shared a video. It was of a woman in a store doing the unthinkable. The people that commented thought this was hilarious. I thought it was just filthy. Here, check it out for yourself.... Watch

Why in the hell did this woman do this? Was there not a public restroom? Did she even ask? And she didn't even wipe her a*s. Maybe she is related to Shaniqua. *shrugs* I dunno... I will never for the life of me understand why people are this way. Maybe it's not meant for me to understand. I'm getting a headache now, so I'm gonna end this. But, what do you think readers? Do you have an explanation as to why people can be this way? Do you have any stories that you would like to share? You can share them here. I'm curious to know.

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

FIGHT OVER ORANGE ENDS UP IN TRIPLE MURDER/SUICIDE

2012-01-13T09:56:00.000-06:00

It can be stressful to take care of someone who is bedridden. It can be even more stressful when you feel like people are undermining you in your efforts. Such as the case with 63-year-old Paul David Gilkey from Ohio.

He had been taking take of his wife, Darlene, who is bedridden with terminal cancer. Apparently her sisters who were there, 70-year-old Barbara Mohler and 63-year-old Dorothy Cherry wanted to give Darlene some toast, a banana and some tea. Gilkey, who had already peeled an orange for her, wanted to give her that. After a huge argument over the matter, the man who once stabbed his father and beat another man to death with a fence post, snapped.

Gilkey shot Mohler twice in the head and Cherry once in the chest. He didn't kill his wife and he let his stepson, 36-year-old Ralph Sowers III, leave after he shot the sisters and his own son, 38-year-old Leroy Gilkey three times in the head. He then killed himself. It was Sowers who dialed 911.

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MAN WEARING BRA AND CROTCH-LESS PANTIES EXPOSES HIMSELF TO STORE CLERK

2012-01-12T08:10:00.000-06:00

Remember the lady who was fired from Macy's because she didn't want the man trying on women's clothing in the women's dressing room? Well, Nena agreed with not wanting the man in the same area as the women because he could expose himself or worse to the other women who were around.

Meet Jeff Watson. This 48-year-old from Oklahoma City, OK. went into the Modern Maternity store for - you guessed it - pregnant women, and started looking around for clothes. The clerk told police that Jeff, who had shopped there before, asked for her phone number and offered to take her to lunch. She declined his offer, so he took the clothes he had in his arms to the dressing room.

When he got there, he called her over to check him out. He was standing there wearing a bra and crotch-less panties set posing like a model. After that, she made him leave the store, and she called the police.

He was arrested and charged with indecent exposure, but I want to know what about the situation made it indecent. Is it the fact that he's a man wearing the outfit? I mean, the store should be charged with indecent exposure for selling crotch-less underwear to pregnant women. I mean...come on. That's just nasty. Can you imagine a baby falling through the hole in them bad-boys?

Seriously though, people giving themselves labels so they can do things the opposite sex normally does without persecution is only going to spark more incidences like this. Soon, the world is going to be unisex, and we're going to have to accept it.

You can read about the lady who was fired from Macy's here

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DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: COLORADO

2012-01-11T16:40:00.002-06:00

#insaneasylumblog- Throughout history there have been laws passed and removed from the books. Depending on what era you grew up in, I'm sure all the laws made sense at that time. As time has progressed, some of the laws that could be deemed crazy, weird or just plain stupid have managed to slip through the filter and remain intact. In this series, we will be taking a look at dumb laws that are still on books in these here United States. Sixth in the series... Colorado.

1. Couches may not be placed on outside porches. Now, let me begin by saying that, honestly, I don't think this law is dumb at all. They need this law here in Alabama, only it needs to be revised to include no refrigerators on the porch and and no using the front porch or the bushes in front of your house to dry clothes on. I'm just saying...

2. It is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next door neighbor. Once again, a law we need here in Alabama. It also needs to include no lending of sugar, flour, toilet paper or feminine hygiene products. Yes, someone actually asked to 'borrow' the last two. My response, "That's okay. You can keep it. I don't want it back."

3. It is illegal to have weeds in your yard. Hmmm... So, the weed I have in the house is okay?

4. It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep. Well, so much for being romantic in the mornings on your way to work. Just throw that sweet love note away and wake her up and tell her goodbye.

5. It is illegal to crash into obstacles on a ski slope. One of the very reasons I will not be visiting Colorado any time soon. I would like to one day learn to ski, but I know me. I would be crashing into everything. Guess I need to become something like an expert before visiting this place though. Who wants to go to jail so far from home?

6. In Denver, it is illegal for barbers to give massages to nude customers unless it is for instructional purposes. Can someone please help me understand why the customer in a barbershop would be nude? And what kind of instructions could you be getting from a barber other than tips on the art of shaving? Maybe it's a full body shave... Yeah...

7. It is illegal for a woman wearing a red dress to be out on the streets after 7 p.m.. This one reminds me of my grandmother and how she would tell us that wearing red was for 'bad' women. Red somehow symbolized being a whore. So growing up the rule was no red lipstick and no red nail polish. I was a very rebellious child...

8. In Sterling, cats may not run loose without having been fit with a taillight. Show me the person who can manage to stick a light in a cats tail, and I will shake his hand. With a glove on, of course.

9. It is illegal to drive a black car on Sunday. I'm assuming they may think it's a hearse or something. Wouldn't want to feel like you've missed out on a funeral I guess...

10. And last, but not least, Colorado law requires that wine be sold in containers of at least 24 ounces and spirits in containers at least a fifth of a gallon. But, at the same time, it also decrees that no alcohol beverage can be stored on hotel mini-bars in anything larger than miniature containers. Hey, lets just cut down on the confusion, give me mine in a fifth bottle and I'll just sit the damn thing on top of the mini-bar. I'm versatile like that.

Okay, friends... Are any of you from Colorado? Do you know of any other crazy laws that are still on the books? Share them here!

Deuces, Smooches...

Nena Grace

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EUGENICS TASK FORCE IN NC GIVES FORCED STERILIZATION VICTIMS $50,000

2012-01-10T19:57:00.000-06:00

Is $50,000 enough compensation for being forced into not having children anymore? Imagine being told (or not) that you are going to be sterilized as a condition of the welfare benefits you're receiving.

Between 1924 and 1974, 33 states participated in a forced sterilization program that sought out the mentally challenged, criminals, people with low income, the uneducated, and people who were deemed unfit to have more children (which I guess would be all of the above). Out of those 33 states, North Carolina is the first to apologize and offer a settlement in the matter.

In March 2011, Governor Beverly Purdue assembled a eugenics compensation task force. The five-member panel which did not include anyone who could genuinely empathize with the situation just voted 3-2 to pay verified surviving victims $50,000. The "2" didn't think the government should pay a penny over $20,000.

Out of the 7500 people who were forced to participate, it's estimated that 1,500-2000 of the sterilization victims are still alive. Those people would have to contact the government and apply for the compensation; victims will not be notified of the settlement. Oh by the way, victims have three years to apply for the compensation. After that, they become ineligible.

Although North Carolina stopped their eugenics program in 1977, the involuntary sterilization laws stayed on the books until 2003.

So, what do you think? Is $50,000 enough money for the trouble? You know they figure the money is going to low-life citizens anyway, that's why they're not trying to contact the victims. Is three years enough time to claim the money? What about the mentally disabled victims who don't know or remember what happened to them? What about the families of the deceased victims?

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PARENTS OUTRAGED AT SCHOOL FOR USING SLAVERY REFERENCES IN MATH ASSIGNMENT

2012-01-08T20:00:00.000-06:00

How would you feel if you looked at your elementary-grade child's math homework and saw a problem that read, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" Would that make you mad?

Parents who have students at Beaver Ridge Elementary school in Norcross, GA. are upset that the school used slavery references in a math word problem homework assignment.

Another question read, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

The parents contacted the principal to ask why the math problems had slavery references in them, but at time of this article, there's been no response.

A district spokesperson said that it was the teachers' attempt at a cross-curricular activity, but parents aren't buying it. They say that there's no historical reference in the assignment, nor any reference to a lesson on slavery the children had taken. Parents literally had to explain to their 8, 9, and 10-year-olds about slavery, something they weren't expecting to talk about until later on in life.

So, who approved the use of slavery references for the math assignments, the teachers? Surely teachers have to get authorization or have their assignments mandated by the school board, right?

Upon a little research, I found out that the district policy says that worksheets are to be reviewed and approved before being distributed to students, but apparently that didn't happen for this project.

Based on the information given, should the principal be fired? What about the school board president? Should the teachers who issued the assignment be fired? Tell me what you think.

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ONLY IN FLORIDA: MAN CHOPS OFF ANOTHER MAN'S HEAD WITH MACHETE' OVER STEAK

2012-01-08T10:58:00.001-06:00

The state of Florida has been gracious with providing material for the Insane Asylum Blog, so we've decided to give it a segment called "Only In Florida". From now on, every time a story from Florida crosses our desks, it will go under this category.

I've heard of crying over spilled milk, but killing over spilled food is a bit too much.

I don't understand how, but three homeless men were in the woods just north of Sarasota barbecuing some steaks on the grill and drinking rum. (I said Only In Florida).

Homeless Guy #3 told police that a fight broke out when Homeless Guy #2 accidentally knocked over the grill Homeless Guy #1 was using to cook the steaks. Homeless Guy #1 AKA Ricky Leer jumped up and knocked Homeless Guy #2 on the ground, grabbed a machete, and proceeded to chop the man's head off.

When the police found Leer, he was leaning against a tree, drinking rum, and eating steak. CBS Tampa says the 48-year-old was charged with 2nd degree murder.

Only in Florida...

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THE INSANE ASYLUM BLOG TURNS 1

2012-01-07T17:00:00.000-06:00

One year ago, Chap's Corner - The Magazine became The Insane Asylum Blog. Random Thoughts, Anal Glaucoma and Political Rants was the tagline, but we somehow got into odd news and social commentary.

We toggled back and forth between the taglines "News, Opinion, Random Thoughts and Political Rants" and "Social Commentary Off Meds". We got more SEO-conscious. The look changed so much, that there was at least one thing different every single day. As webmaster, I tried various design packages, font styles - you name it. We even had the fold-down flap in the upper-righthand corner of the site. It was nice, but when I learned how to turn the header into a flash banner, I knew I had done something then.

Despite the identity crisis, we still churned out the hits. Our posts from Chap's Corner - The Magazine converted to Insane Asylum Blog posts, but the very first post under the new name and look was entitled, "An Open letter to the city of Tuskegee, AL." It was written on 1/7/2011, and although it made people laugh, it pissed some people off too. One person even started a website just so he could write a post entitled, "An Open Letter to Mr. Chap." I'll never give him the satisfaction of saying where this site is, and if it weren't for Nena Grace apparently Googling me (o_0), I never would have found out. Hey, at least he called me "Mr."

Anyway, we thank you for your support during a time where anybody can get your attention. We plan on doing this for a long time, and I hope you stay with us during the journey.

An Open Letter To The City Of Tuskegee, AL. can be read here.

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MAN STABS GIRLFRIEND 16 TIMES FOR DISRESPECTING HIM IN FRONT OF OTHERS

2012-01-07T14:30:00.000-06:00

Phoenix police say homeless man Larry Lee Thompson and his equally-homeless girlfriend were hanging out late the other night with some other homeless people. It isn't clear what she said to him exactly, but when they arrived, she was on the lying on the sidewalk bleeding next to her walker. Yes, she's handicapped also.

Witnesses say Larry Lee beat her like she was man. He then stabbed her 16 times as she pleaded for her life. He responded by saying, "I hope you die." After that, he kicked her in the head twice and ran. Shortly after arriving on the scene, police found him not too far away with blood all over his hands.

Once captured, Larry Lee said that his girlfriend disrespected him in front of people, that's when he stabbed and kicked her.

He also told police about an incident last month where he stabbed for the same reason using the same knife. The girlfriend is in stable condition and will make a full recovery from her injuries.

How many times does it take to get stabbed before you realize that you need to leave someone alone?

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MAN STABS FRIEND BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW BEYONCE AND JAY-Z WERE MARRIED

2012-01-06T00:00:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - I've often heard people say that ignorance is bliss. I've never agreed with that nor have I ever found joy in being stupid. And I'm sure that if you asked the 48-year-old man from Parma, OH that was stabbed by his friend for not knowing that singer Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z were married, he would beg to differ also. This fuckery went down on December 31 and I'm just gonna assume that alcohol was involved, I mean hey, it was New Years Eve.

According to reports, 31-year-old Ronald Deaver and a 48-year-old unnamed friend were standing outside Deaver's apartment talking when the subject somehow turned to Jay and Bey. Apparently, the victim was unaware that the pregnant Beyonce was married to Jay-Z. I guess that Deaver is a die-hard fan because he went ballistic and stabbed his friend. The stabbing happened right around 11 p.m., after which, Deaver took off running. Emergency services were called and the victim was rushed to a local hospital. He was later transferred to MetroHealth Medical Center where he is reported to be in good condition. Police looked for Deaver at his apartment where they were told by 31-year-old Jennifer Forman, who I'm just gonna assume was his girlfriend, that he didn't live there anymore. Deaver was arrested a short time thereafter and charged with felonious assault. Ms. Forman was also arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.

Now, I have a few questions... At what point do you become so damn fanatical that you just start stabbing people up? Does he get an allowance from Jay-Z or something to make sure people know that Beyonce is his wife? I mean, hell, is Beyonce his cousin and the guy said something out of the way like, "Beyonce ain't nothing but a bitch. Jay wouldn't marry her.", so he had to seek vengeance? I'm baffled here. I can't for the life of me understand why people take stuff like this so seriously. I can assure him that Jay nor Bey could care less about his ass and they sure as hell ain't about to bail his ass out. I have some advice for Mr. Deaver... Getcha' ass something constructive to do and stop acting like a damn teenager when it comes to these celebrities. Stop arguing about senseless sh*t. I'm sure the next day after he sobered up, he thought to himself, "That was real f*cked up what I did." To which I say, Yes. Yes, Mr. Deaver it was. And for that, you get... The Ultimate Face Palm.

Deuces, Smooches...Nena Grace

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GIRL WHO WAS MISTAKENLY DEPORTED TO COLUMBIA GOT WHAT SHE DESERVED

2012-01-05T16:30:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog #kanyeshrug - Sorry to break up the pity party, but I can't believe the outrage around the blogosphere and in my Twitter feed about Jakadrien Turner, the young lady who was mistakenly deported to Columbia by ICE agents in April of last year. There's all kinds of hate toward the ICE agents, the Columbian government, Houston police and the media for not treating it like they would a White girl in the same situation. If that's the argument, say that, but don't bash the agencies for doing their job.

I read and re-read every piece of information available about this incident - ten, eleven times - because I wanted to be sure that I wasn't missing anything. If I am missing anything, somebody please let me know because all I see is a series of unfortunate events that she brought upon herself, and a bunch of people tripping on this girl's race.

At 14-years old, when she lived in Dallas, Jakadrien ran away from home. Her Grandmother said that her Grandfather's death and her parents' split-up drove her to do so. She ended up in Houston where she was arrested for theft. She didn't have an ID on her, so she did what anybody who doesn't want to get caught would do: give a fake name. Ahh, but the fake name was a real name indeed, belonging to someone who apparently earned deportation status.

So...she was deported.

After Columbian authorities couldn't find anything wrong on their end, she was released. She obtained a work card and has been there ever since. She's pregnant now and apparently has or had a steady boyfriend, as advertised on her Facebook page. I also understand they've detained her since our government has begun to show interest in her.

Jakadrien choose to lie about her identity. She even maintained her fake identity throughout the whole deportation process. It's not like she was arrested in Houston one day, then sent to Columbia the next day without a process. She could've called home then.

I mean, I understand her Granny being upset and everything, but Jakadrien seemed happy in Columbia up until the part where they began holding her again.

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DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: CALIFORNIA

2012-01-03T23:48:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Throughout history there have been laws passed and laws removed from the books. Depending on what era you grew up in, I'm sure all the laws made sense at that time. As time has progressed, some of the laws that could be deemed crazy, weird or just plain stupid have managed to slip through the filter and remain intact. In this series, we will be taking a look at dumb laws that are still on books in these here United States. Fifth in the series... California.

1. In Chico, a $500 fine will be given to anyone who detonates a nuclear device within city limits. Considering the fact that there may not be anyone left, they may want to re-think this one.

2. In San Francisco, it is illegal to use used underwear to wipe off cars in a car wash. Yeah, I mean you wouldn't want to be riding around with Dad's boo-boo stains all on your windshield and what-not.

3. In Baldwin Park, no one is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool. Unless their name is Jesus, then he can walk on the water too.

4. In Palm Springs, it is illegal to walk a camel down Palm Canyon Drive between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.. Ladies, it is legal however, to walk your camel toe down Palm Canyon Drive after 4:00 and 6:00 p.m..

5. In Los Angeles, it is illegal to cry on the witness stand. Yeah, you'd probably end up looking like a bitch like this guy anyway...

6. It is illegal to have caller ID. Whoa, you mean to tell me that I can live in Cali, prank call restaurants and never expect a call back? I am so there!

7. It is illegal to sell a piece of gold without teeth marks in it. So, for all of you gangsta rappers going broke, there is still hope.

8. It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a belt or strap wider than 2", unless the wife consents to it. Well, California is just fullof freaks, huh?

9. It is illegal to eat an orange in your tub. Could you imagine juice squirting in your eye, flinching, hitting your head on the side of the tub knocking yourself unconscious and drowning? Hey, it could happen. Safety first people!

10. In Long Beach, nothings allowed in the garage besides a car. Unless you're my grandmother. Then you'd have my dead grandfather's clothing she's been promising to give to Goodwill for the past four years, old school books my mother and her siblings had back in the 60's and that 8-track tape player with cassettes that she swears still works.

11. Molesting butterflies can result in a $500 fine. Does this qualify?

12. Person's classified as "ugly" may not walk down any street. Is Flava Flav still living in Los Angeles? Somebody better put him in the know quickly. I'm just saying...

13. Sunshine is guaranteed to the masses. So, if you have a cloudy day in the neighborhood, do you report it and they fine God? I don't get it.

14. It is illegal to serve a gay person alcohol. Come on... The worst that could happen is they'd sashay all over your ass while giving you three snaps up in a circle. Fiercely!

15. It is illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner. Really. Who wants to live in a shitty neighborhood anyway?

Okay, friends... There you have it. Fifteen of the dumbest laws from California. Do you know of any more? Share them here, I'd love to read them!

Deuces, Smooches...Nena Grace

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WOMAN GETS REVENGE BY MICROWAVING NEIGHBOR'S CAT

2012-01-03T09:30:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - I talk to my cat, Catticus Finch, and he talks back to me. I think he works as a mechanic or something during the day because he always comes home dirty in the evening. And his little cat overalls with the patch that says "Catticus" on it kinda gives it away. We never talk about our jobs though.

You know...it's funny how I'll tell you that Michael Vick got railroaded over those dogs - that he deserved to be back into the league. How he should be one of the highest paid players in the NFL again. That people overreacted and still do about the situation. To be honest, that's because I don't like dogs the same way I like cats. If the whole thing were about cats, I would never speak Vick's name again.

About two years ago, I cold-turkeyed a perfectly good friendship with someone whom I considered to be one of my best associates. I remember the morning he and his friend came to my house and told me how they took a kitten and dropped it into the pit where the friend's dog lives. I remember how happy he seemed when he recreated the moment. He was so animated and visual. Anyone who could do that with no remorse has a serious problem, and I don't want to be around them for any amount of time. I just...stopped talking to him until he got the picture - or didn't.

Then I recently read about Gina Robins, the woman who microwaved her neighbor's kitten. The 31-year-old from the U.K. was allegedly in an abusive relationship, and her neighbor, 35-year-old Sarah Knutton called the police one night after hearing commotion at their home. Gina's boyfriend was arrested, and Gina didn't like it one bit. There was a big argument about it, and Gina vowed to get revenge.

It was days since the argument and Gina was ready for payback. She went to Sarah's house and convinced her to let her heat up a jar of baby food in the microwave. Instead, Gina grabbed one of Sarah's ten cats, and put it inside. When Sarah heard what sounded like a loud screeching noise in the kitchen, she yelled to ask Gina what the noise was. Gina said she didn't hear anything. A couple of minutes later she ran to where Sarah was to tell her that something horrible had happened in the kitchen. When she got to the kitchen, she saw her kitten in the microwave.

Gina said that the kitten must have smelled the food and gone in and one of the big ones shut the door...and apparently turned it on. The next day however, Gina sent Sarah a text message that said, "remember the saying, 'what goes around comes around'? It has already started to bite you...The cat? Karma."

Sarah possibly saved Gina's life when she called the police, and that's the kind of thanks she gets? See what I mean about people who harm cats? There's something not right with them mentally. You really have to be a numb person on the inside to even pull a move like that, and hopefully she will do some serious time because of it.

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DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: ARKANSAS

2012-01-01T18:30:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog- Throughout history there have been laws passed and laws removed from the books. Depending on what era you grew up in, I'm sure all the laws made sense at that time. As time has progressed, some of the laws that could be deemed crazy, weird or just plain stupid have managed to slip through the filter and remain intact. In this series, we will be taking a look at dumb laws that are still on books in these here United States. Fourth in the series... Arkansas.

1. A voter is only allowed five minutes to mark his ballot. Well, I guess this wouldn't be much of a problem for those who just vote straight down the ticket, whether it be Democrat or Republican, and don't know anything about either of the candidates anyway.

2. As far as pets go, alligators are not allowed in bathtubs and dogs are not allowed to bark after 6:00 p.m. Why someone would put an alligator in their bathtub is baffling to me, but if you want to shut that barking dog up, put him in there with the alligator and may the best one win.

3. It is said that not long ago, an Arkansas legislator proposed that the state provide growth hormones to dwarfs. I don't know how true that is, or how 'long ago' it was, but thank the Lord for advancements in science and technology.

4. In Fayetteville, it is illegal to kill any living creature. Even this... Watch

5. It is illegal to buy or sell blue light bulbs. Well, I'm glad they didn't outlaw red bulbs, that would have killed all of the 70's basement parties.

6. Flirtation between men and women on the streets of Little Rock may result in a 30 day jail term. Wow, with all of the PDA seen these days, some people would probably get a life sentence.

7. It is illegal for the Arkansas River to rise higher than the Main Street bridge in Little Rock. So, is this a law against God or something? If it rains too much and the river over flows, will the police go to heaven and put the cuffs on him? I'm confused...

8. Teachers who 'bob' their hair will not get a raise. I wonder what would happen if they wore a beehive...

9. It is illegal to "suddenly start or stop" your car at a McDonald's while in Arkansas. So, if you're in the drive-thru, pray that the person working the window is swift about doing their job.

10. While in Arkansas, the name of the state must be pronounced "Arkansaw", because it is illegal to mispronounce it while there. So, Mr. Chap, that just killed your Ar-Kansas joke. Sorry.

So, friends, do any of you live in Arkansas? Know of any dumb laws that were missed? Share them here, I'd love to hear them!

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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PSA: IF I EVER WORK ON YOUR COMPUTER, MAKE SURE I DON'T FIND NAKED PICTURES OF YOU...BECAUSE I WILL LAUGH

2012-01-01T14:30:00.000-06:00

Being a computer repair guy comes with its perks: I always feel a sense of accomplishment, I get to help people in need, and I'm able to see what kind of person I'm dealing with simply by doing my job.

Computer owners literally put their lives on their machines, so all of the music, bookmarked websites, pictures and videos can easily tell me all about a person.

As a computer repair guy, I feel like I have the right to go through your folders and your downloaded programs, as well as your browsing history and bookmarks. All in the name of diagnosing your computer.

So Chap, what do you do with what you find?

That's where integrity comes in. As a computer repair guy, I find credit card numbers, passwords, bank account information, porn, and all types of pictures. Speaking of pictures, let me tell you what I found a few years ago on a computer I fixed for my Cousin, a Cousin who doesn't read The Insane Asylum Blog.

She came to me because she knew she'd gotten a virus from something she downloaded. I went through the usual Windows Explorer folders - My Documents, Downloads, Videos and Pictures. When I got to Pictures, I saw all these naked bathroom pics of a woman. There were these frontal neck-to-ankle shots where the woman had nothing on but a feather boa, and the rest of the pics looked like somebody had attached a camera to her ass. I mean, these pictures were so close, they looked like pictures for medical research. Like a doctor took these pictures or something. You know those vagina pics they show to med students? Like that.

Anyway, after looking for defects on the crotch shots, I get to the next set of pictures which were of my Cousin wearing nothing but the same feather boa I saw in the neck-to-ankle pics. What's more noteworthy than finding out that I've been looking at my barely legal cousin in naked bathroom pics with a camera shoved up her vag, is the fact that she was trying to kiss her boob in one of them.

Depth perception is the ability to perceive the relative distance of objects in one's field of vision. That means if you can't tell that it is physically impossible for your mouth and boob to connect...only to find out while taking a picture that makes you look severely disabled, then you might have low depth perception. I went ahead and fixed her computer, but I couldn't stop laughing. I never told her what I saw, and didn't even charge her. The laugh was payment enough.

The next time you need a cheap laugh, make your chin touch your neck, cock your head to the right and stick your tongue all the way out. Now cup your hand underneath your chest and hold it there.With your head still down and to the right, and your tongue still hanging out of your mouth, raise your eyes to look at the mirror. If you don't laugh, something is wrong with you.

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BLACK-EYE PEAS, GREENS AND LOOSE CHANGE: 10 NEW YEAR SUPERSTITIONS

2011-12-31T13:18:00.000-06:00

(repost from 1/1/2011)

I recently heard about some very weird traditions/superstitions that go on in people's homes on New Year's day. I thought the year-round superstitions were bad enough, but hearing about these made me understand a bit more why I think humans are crazy. At first I thought some of these were a joke, but I went to the internet to see if this was as widespread as it was made out to be, and surprisingly it is...which is scary.

Anyway, the list goes as follows:

Eating black-eye peas bring you luck. I remember this one growing up. Everyone in the family used to (and sometimes still do) put quarters in the pot to bring money throughout the year. You know, I do fancy the taste of dirty money on the first of the year. You know what else brings money throughout the year? A job. I noticed that for some reason, no one ever blames the black-eye pea when their year turns out crappy anyway. Just sayin'.

Eating greens bring you luck. Ahh, but not just eating them is enough. You have to stir the greens toward you in order to bring money to you throughout the year. What fun is it being lucky without any cash, right?

Do not wash clothes on New Year's day. It's believed that if you wash clothes on the first day of the year, the owner of those clothes will die (be washed away) some time during the year. So if your significant other, parent or child is washing your stuff, chances are they're trying to kill you...and get away with it.

Do not lend money on New Year's day or you'll be lending money all year. Chances are if you're the only one you know with a job, you'll be lending money all year. Just sayin'.

Do not cry on New Year's day or you will be crying all year. No watching Overhaulin' for me then. You know I love happy endings. What if I stub my toe on the first day of the year? Can I cry then? Will I be stubbing my toe all year?

The first person to walk through your door will bring you good or bad luck. This is tricky. Supposedly if it's a woman, you're going to have bad luck all year. If it's a man, you're going to have good luck. You are to let this man walk into every room of your house I guess to spread the luck or something. This is also the man that will break into your house later in the year when you're not home.

Do not take anything out of your house on New Year's day or you'll be taking things out the house all year. You mean if I take the garbage out today, I'll be...taking garbage out all year?! NOOOOOO!

Do not break anything on New Year's day or you'll be breaking things all year. I tried to not break wind today but failed. What can I say? I'm a farter.

Do not spank your kids on New Year's day or you'll be spanking them all year. It's believed that it sets the tone for the year. Chances are you'll be spanking them again if you've spanked them before. Who's ever gotten just one spanking?

Open the front and back door of your house at Midnight. It's believed that one should let the old year out the front door and let the new year in the back door. I wouldn't advise this for people living in like, Minnesota or something like that. Just sayin'...it's cold.

I had no idea so many people were so warped in this way. At first I thought these were more crazy things Black people did, but being superstitious on New Year's day is an across-the-board mentality.

Did you or someone you know partake in any of the traditions/superstitions? Tell me about it.

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10 THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH $50,000 WORTH OF MARGARINE

2011-12-29T08:30:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Earlier this month, authorities in Des Moines, Iowa said a thief stole a delivery truck parked outside a Target warehouse. Five days later the truck was recovered, but the cargo was missing. What was it you ask? $50,000 worth of margarine! Apparently the theft was the latest in a series of semitrailer thefts in the past 18 months. The others included a trailer filled with beef jerky, one loaded with dog food and one carrying dental hygiene products. The thief is yet to be apprehended.

As I read this story, I couldn't help but to wonder, what could a person possibly do with that much margarine? Well, I sat down and composed my own list of things that the margarine could be used for. Here are ten things I came up with...

1. Sun-tanning: A Thanksgiving turkey covered in margarine comes out golden brown, I'm sure it would do the same for your skin. Just don't forget to flip!

2. Strippers: Go to a strip club and grease down the strippers. This will give shine and help with the sliding down of the pole. Not to mention if a body part just so happens to bump your lips during a lap dance, its okay to lick them. Baby oil isn't edible- remember that.

3. Lotion: You know how ashy Black people's knees and elbows get? I can remember my grandmother telling me how, when she was young, they would use lard as lotion. Why not margarine? It comes mostly from plant oils anyway and that has to be better than cold pig fat.

4. Hair grease: For the person with the dry, itchy scalp... Slap a little margarine on it and massage it in. Hey, you could even put some around those edges before perming to prevent burns.

5. Oil door hinges: Got a squeaky door? Rub a little margarine on the hinges. Save that WD40 for your grandmother's arthritic knees. (that's another story)

6. Lip gloss: Ashy lips? Kiss a tube of margarine!

7. Remove glue: Use margarine to loosen up glue. The oils soften the glue and makes it easier to remove. Hey, it may even work on those tracks you glued in last month.

8. Make a foot scrub: Save money on frequent pedicures. Mix the margarine with sand to make a foot scrub. You have your natural 'pumice' and oils all-in-one. Just don't forget to wipe your feet pretty good afterwards, you wouldn't want to slip up and bust your head to the white meat.

9. Polish shoes: Slap a little margarine on a rag and shine those shoes right up. Voila! Sunday's best all over again.

10. And finally, for all of you women who try to squeeze all of that into last years clothing... Lubricate yourselves and slide on in. Watch here...

So, do you have any ideas for the use of margarine? Share them!

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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WOMAN PUNCHES ELDERLY WALMART CASHIER IN THE FACE

2011-12-28T20:30:00.000-06:00

#insaneasyumblog - If there's one thing that grinds my gears more than the angry Black guy routine, it's the angry Black chick routine. It's depicted in those reality shows and made to be the behavioral standard nowadays. It's really played out, and if it doesn't stop, what little respect that society has for us will be no more.

Jacquetta Simmons is a perfect example of what I mean. She and who is assumed to be her boyfriend were at a Batavia, NY. Walmart doing some last-minute Christmas Eve shopping. When they were ready to check out, they ended up at the register where 70-year-old Grace Suozzi was. Suozzi noticed that the man who was with Jacquetta had a Walmart bag with items in it, so she asked to see a receipt. That's when Jacquetta went off. She cussed Suozzi out while screaming that she didn't have to show her a f-ing thing. I can see her doing the whole, "oh, because I'm Black I'm stealing" bit along with it.

Suozzi called a manager who told them that everything would be okay if they had a receipt. Suozzi then walked around and grabbed the bag from the man. Jacquetta furiously snatched the bag back from Suozzi. When Suozzi grabbed the bag back from Jacquetta, the bag tore - and so did her fist right into Suozzi's face, breaking her glasses and fracturing her jaw.

Then they ran.

Other shoppers chased the couple to a van in the parking lot, and one of the shoppers blocked them in with his car. Jacquetta got out and they followed her around the parking lot until police came. The man who was with her was overheard on the phone saying, "mama, she's flipping out. She just punched someone".

Even when the cops came, she was still acting like a wild animal. When police checked the bag in question, the receipt was there. She wasn't charged with theft, but she was charged with causing serious injury to a person over 65 years of age or older, and two counts of second-degree assault. She was taken to jail and held in lieu of $20,000 cash.

She was released after someone bailed her out. Can you say "indentured servant"?

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DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: ARIZONA

2011-12-28T14:10:00.001-06:00

#insaneasylumblog- Throughout history there have been laws passed and laws removed from the books. Depending on what era you grew up in, I'm sure all the laws made sense at that time. As time has progressed, some of the laws that could be deemed crazy, weird or just plain stupid have managed to slip through the filter and remain intact. In this series, we will be taking a look at dumb laws that are still on books in these here United States. Third in the series... Arizona.

1. It is legal for a man to beat his wife, but not more than once a month. I don't care what the law says, he only has one time in his life to lay a hand on me...

2. It is illegal to hunt camel. Apparently around the mid 1850's, camel roamed the deserts of Arizona and the southwest. They were brought over from the middle east, but eventually humans started killing them off, with the last one being taken out by a farmer who found him grazing in his garden. Who knew? And with that being said, why is this law still on the books, now?

3. It is illegal for men and women over the age of 18 to have less than one missing tooth visible when smiling. Well, I don't know about Arizona, but a lot of people here in Alabama would be under the jail if this law were in effect here.

4. In Mohave County, anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up. Hmmm... What other reason would they have taken it for other than to wash with it?

5. Oral sex is considered to be sodomy. *clears throat while looking all wide-eyed at the computer screen* Moving on...

6. It is illegal to manufacture imitation cocaine. Sooo... I guess real cocaine is okay, then?

7. There is a possible 25 year prison sentence for cutting down a cactus. But a former Davison County state’s attorney (Daniel Gukeisen) was sentenced to serve five years in an Arizona prison for the stabbing death of a 22-year-old Arizona State University student... Go figure...

8. When being attacked by a criminal or burglar, you may only protect yourself with the same weapon that the other person possesses. So, I'm guessing that depending upon the circumstances, the criminal may stop to allow you to getcha' gun... I wouldn't put my money on it.

9. It is illegal to refuse any person a glass of water. Hey, who'd be that rude? I mean, Arizona is uber hot!

10. And finally, last but not least, it is illegal to have more than two dildos in a house. *shrugs* Hey, I never really wanted to move to Arizona anyway.

Okay readers, what do you think? Are you from Arizona? Do you have any dumb laws to share? I'd love to hear them!

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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TEACHER PUTS 9-YEAR-OLD AUTISTIC BOY IN DUFFEL BAG, PLACED IN HALLWAY

2011-12-25T17:35:00.000-06:00

Teachers use different disciplinary measures when their kids misbehave at school. Some take away a snack or activity. Some southern schools use corporal punishment to enforce their rules. Some use the less-effective and more passive timeout. But a teacher at the Mercer County Intermediate School in Harrodsburg, Kentucky has a different method.

Christopher Baker misbehaved on December 14, but instead of doing something disciplinary within reason, his teacher put the autistic 9-year-old inside of a duffel bag. You know those big green army bags with the drawstring at the top? Yep, that's exactly the kind of bag he was put in. Afterwards they called his mother, Sandra Baker to tell her that her son had been "jumping off the walls".

While walking to the classroom she saw the moving bag outside the door. She was thoroughly surprised to hear her son's voice come from it, saying "Mama is that you?" The mother of the fourth-grader was livid. She told the teacher's aide who was standing there to release her son immediately. "He was treated like trash and thrown in the hallway."

When he got out, he was sweaty and wide-eyed. There were small balls inside the bag which was explained further in a meeting. The bag is what the teacher calls a "therapy bag". Students from the special-needs class are normally instructed to lie on the bag and roll back and forth. It's supposed to calm them down. I guess he was so belligerent that they didn't even want to see him until it was time for him to go.

When his mother asked him what happened, he said that he wouldn't do his work, so they put him in the bag. A few days later at a meeting with school officials, they told her that he smirked at the teacher when he was asked to put a basketball down. Then he threw it. Then they threw him in the bag. Sounds different from "jumping off the walls". They told her it was the first time that he was put in the bag. Maybe that's why they didn't realize that putting a child in an army bag for 30 minutes or longer was a problem.

Personally, if that were my son, I'd be going to jail that day. I guarantee it.

What do you think? If that were your child in that thick, sealed army bag, what would you do?

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CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS AND THEIR DERIVATIONS

2011-12-25T00:00:00.003-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - It's that time of year again, and things are all abuzz with people cooking, shopping and traveling. Trees have been erected and decorated, the halls have been decked and presents have been wrapped and await exchanging. In the midst of all the excitement, have you ever stopped to wonder why people do the things they do during this time of year? I'm almost sure that if some of you knew the history behind a lot of Christmas traditions, you would be surprised.

Here we will take a look at some of these traditions and how they came to be.

1. Santa Claus: Santa's image is closely related to that of the pagan god, Thor. Thor was the god of the peasants and common people. He represented a heavy-set elderly, jovial man with a long white beard. He drove a chariot pulled by two white goats named Cracker and Gnasher. He lived in the "Northland". The fireplace in every home was sacred to him because his element was fire and his color red. He came down through the chimney 'into' his element. His friendly greeting was "Ho-Ho-Ho".

2. Tree: The cutting down, erecting and decorating of trees has a paganistic background. Tree worship was customary in early times. Trees were brought into the house and set up as idols. Pagans would hang apples and other fruit on the tree as a food offering and would offer gifts to the tree, which is where the idea of putting presents under the tree derived. I wonder if the Christians that are familiar with God's word can recall this scripture - ¹Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: ²Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. ³For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. ⁴They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. ⁵They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Now, do you still think it is just an innocent tree?

3. Star: A lot of people may argue that the star on top of the tree represents the star that led the way of the Magi to baby Jesus so they could bring gifts to him. But originally, the Magi were on a mission from King Herod to find out the location of Jesus so that he could kill him. Satan placed the star in the sky to lead the way. How dare I say that, you may ask? Well, if the star was from God, he wouldn't have had to intervene when he sent his angels to direct the wise men in the opposite direction.

4. Lights: Pre-Christian Romans and pagans believed that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed the sun god Ra had died. An evergreen tree, which was one chosen to worship because it stayed 'alive' all year, was cut down and decorated with lights as a symbol that Ra will be resurrected.

5. Mistletoe and holly: Witches and other pagans considered the red holly berries a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana. The white berries of mistletoe was believed to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god. Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those that stood beneath it and kissed. This supposedly caused the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.

In no way am I trying to discourage anyone from celebrating Christmas. I just wonder if now that you know the origins of some of your traditions, would you continue them?

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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14-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH DOWN SYNDROME SUSPENDED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT

2011-12-21T08:39:00.000-06:00

According to his Mom, Aleczander Scott of Park Hills, MO. is a natural hugger. But the 14-year-old boy with Down Syndrome was suspended from school for doing a little more than just hugging.

Desi Mayberry, school Superintendent, said that while he was on a school bus last Wednesday, Aleczander grabbed a female bus aide around the waist for a hug. The hug then took a turn for the worst when he ended up on top of the woman, hunching her repeatedly.

"He grabbed her around her waist, like a bear hug, and then he gets on top of her and moves in a sexual motion, imitating a sexual act."

The driver separated the two after the aide screamed for help, and Aleczander was put on a "short-term" suspension.

His Mom, Tonia Fujimoto was upset in a "my baby would never do that" kind of way.

"How can you put a sexual harassment charge against someone who doesn't understand sexuality? It doesn't really take my faith of people away, but it reminds me of the ignorance in this world...the teachers and the administrators are not educated on children with developmental disabilities and they don't want to be educated on them...all they want to do is push them out of their doors."

That's understandable and everything, but what's not understandable is how this boy knows about hunching. Especially if he doesn't understand sexuality like his Mom said. Either he does understand, has been watching it on television, or someone is doing something with him that no ones knows about.

Since the incident, he has transferred to another school.

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AM I REALLY MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: HOW FAR WILL YOU GO TO PROTECT A FRIEND/FAMILY MEMBER?

2011-12-20T15:50:00.001-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - A recent police video, captured by a patrol car's dash camera, has been all over the internet. The video is of two North Charleston, SC brothers who were pulled over by police for a broken headlight. After police searched their vehicle and found plastic bags with white powder in them, the men were placed in the back of the patrol car so police can further search the vehicle.

The video shows 22-year-old DeAngelo Mitchell and his younger brother, 19-year-old Wayne Joshua Mitchell. DeAngelo Mitchell has prior convictions that include drug possession from 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was also convicted this past August for distribution of cocaine base. Afraid that he would go to prison and not get out if police discovered that he had cocaine hidden on him, he convinced his younger brother to get rid of it for him.

The video shows him hand off the drugs he had hidden in his buttocks to his brother who ate them. Minutes later, you can see younger brother Wayne having difficulty holding his head up and DeAngelo start to yell for help. You can also hear Wayne tell his brother he loved him. Wayne later died at the hospital. You can watch the video right here without leaving.

After the incident, DeAngelo Mitchell was facing drug charges. He posted a $25,000 bail on December 1st. Toxicology reports came back and revealed that Wayne had died from cocaine overdose. DeAngelo was reprimanded on Tuesday and also charged with involuntary manslaughter.

This is heart-wrenching and crazy. I couldn't imagine asking anyone to put themselves out there like that for me, as I know that I probably wouldn't go to that extreme for anyone else. What I want to know readers is, how far would you go to protect someone close to you? Would you go so far as to risk your life?

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: ALASKA

2011-12-20T12:00:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog- Throughout history there have been laws passed and laws removed from the books. Depending on what era you grew up in, I'm sure all the laws made sense at that time. As time has progressed, some of the laws that could be deemed crazy, weird or just plain stupid have managed to slip through the filter and remain intact. In this series, we will be taking a look at dumb laws that are still on books in these here United States. Second in the series... Alaska.

1. In Anchorage, it is illegal to tie your pet dog to the roof of your car. Now, I know people take vacations all the time, and sometimes they wanna take Fido with them, but I'm sure actually letting him ride inside the car would be more suffice for Fido. Unless, he's going for that wind-whipped hair look.

2. In Haines, employers of bars may not let their bartenders serve while they are drunk themselves. I think I'll just move to Alaska and bartend. I mean hey, where else can you go to work, get drunk and not have to actually do any work and still get paid?

3. In Fairbanks, moose are not allowed to have sex on city streets. I don't know how you could actually stop them, but I guess they can go into the woods... or a Motel 6... they always leave the lights on for you.

4. It is illegal for moose to be viewed from an airplane. But, it's okay for Sarah Palin to shoot them from her helicopter? I don't get it. How can you avoid that? Let's just pray that the pilot keeps his eyes straight ahead, wouldn't want him closing his eyes in the middle of a flight.

5. It is illegal to whisper in somebody's ear while they are moose hunting. I guess you wouldn't want to distract them and have them Dick Cheney your ass.

6. It is illegal for kangaroo to be inside barbershops at any time. So, I'm guessing there is no exception if they need a little taken of the top, huh?

7. Even though it is legal to hunt a bear, it is illegal to wake a bear for photo opportunities. Who would want to do that? Give a sleeping bear any day.

8. In Haines, a person may only carry a concealed sling shot if that person has received the appropriate license. I'm sure Goliath is somewhere wishing they had this law in his time.

9. It is illegal to drive a vehicle where there are more than three people in the front seat. Well, that just killed it for Mexicans and clowns. *shrugs*

10. And last, but not least, persons may not live in a trailer as it is being hauled across the city. So... Do they have to temporarily move out? Why would a trailer be hauled anywhere if it's occupied? Is it really an RV? If that's the case, isn't that what it was designed to do? I just have so many questions...

So, what do you think readers? Do you reside in Alaska? Are there any crazy laws you are aware of? Go ahead and share them!

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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52-FAKE, OBAMA, THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, REX 84 AND THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN

2011-12-19T20:00:00.002-06:00

Where I live, the football term "52-Fake" is used in everyday conversation to describe the action of someone convincing you of one thing and doing another. To better understand it, picture a quarterback taking the football and handing it off to the running back. The split second before the ball touches the running back and the running back grabs the ball to run, the QB snatches it back and does something else with it. That's what President Obama does: 52-Fake...often.

At the beginning of the 2011, the President gave a two-faced speech about envisioning "prolonged detention". He started by saying that the laws following 9/11 were poorly planned, neither effective nor sustainable, done out of fear, and basically has to be changed. He then went on to say that he wanted to develop an appropriate legal regime so that people (terrorists) can be imprisoned indefinitely without legal ramifications, judicial, military or Congressional oversight. watch

So when the new National Defense Authorization Act was presented this month, the President threatened to veto it. The bill states that "any person who has committed a belligerent act" faces indefinite detention, but no trial or evidence has to be presented, the White House would just need to make the accusation. But when you weren't looking, he pulled a 52-Faked, and is expected to sign the bill into law. The sad thing is that the average citizen doesn't even know when they've been 52-Faked.

I know, I know. Surely the government would never use the military to snatch up American citizens and detain them indefinitely, but that's what the bill entails. And no matter how you want to spin it in your head, we're slowly surrendering our constitutional rights and freedoms in the name of "national security".

This law appears to be another installment of the framework that will make it legal to implement Rex 84. Rex 84 (written by Colonel, and once NSC liaison to FEMA Oliver North in 1984) is the authorization to arrest citizens deemed to be a national security threat, such as those who protest against the government in large numbers. It puts the military in charge of local and state governments, and it also authorizes them to shift the population to designated areas. You know, Martial Law...FEMA camps? Look it up. Rex 84.

It's no surprise that politicians count on the average citizen to be ignorant. If a politician says something, the average American citizen either doesn't know, doesn't care, doesn't understand, or will soon forget anyway - due to lack of interest.

Politicians love the fact that the average citizen doesn't have time to be bothered by all of their promises and stances on issues. Luckily, that's where we come in. We do the listening and remembering for you, and all you have to do is come here or any of the other brave websites out there to get your information.

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DUMB LAWS OF AMERICA: ALABAMA

2011-12-17T09:45:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Throughout history there have been laws passed and laws removed from the books. Depending on what era you grew up in, I'm sure all the laws made sense at that time. As time has progressed, some of the laws that could be deemed crazy, weird or just plain stupid have managed to slip through the filter and remain intact. In this series, we will be taking a look at dumb laws that are still on books in these here United States. Today, we start with none other than... Alabama.

1. It is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity. Why someone would want to willingly stab themselves is beyond me. I mean, I can barely stand a paper cut. And stabbing is really taking it to the extreme. Maybe that's why people started taking pills instead. Hmmm...

2. It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. Although some people drive like they are blind as bats, I don't think I would want to be in a car with someone who even entertained the thought of being blindfolded. And if it's your friend in the back seat (you know the one who likes to think of themselves as a practical joker) that literally likes to pull the wool over your eyes while you are driving, maybe you should unfriend him/her.

3. Incestuous marriages are legal. Okay, there you have it Mr. Chap, you can stop worrying yourself about why no one else finds your neighbors' relationship an abomination. According to Alabama law, they're not doing anything wrong. So, now feel free to bake those brownies and become acquainted. Don't worry, I don't think it rubs off on you, it's kind of an acquired taste I guess you can say.

4. It is illegal to play dominoes on Sunday. If this is true, I know a lot of old men sitting under trees drinking beer that need to watch their backs. I'm just saying...

5. It is illegal to flick boogers into the wind. Why you would be digging boogers all willy-nilly without a tissue in the first place I can't fathom, but since you can't flick 'em, guess you gotta wipe 'em on your clothes. Or at least slyly wipe them on the person next to you. You know how you laugh so hard you gotta reach out and touch someone. :)

6. You may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time. Aside from the fact that it could melt all over your pants, I don't think you would want to forget it's there and sit down.

7. In Auburn, men who deflower virgins, regardless of age or marital status, may face up to five years in jail. I would like to be a fly on the wall of the groom who lucked up and found himself a virgin bride on their wedding night. Can you say, "Awkward"?

8. In Huntsville, if an animal control officer is in uniform, it signifies to the public that he is an animal control officer. Lord forbid anyone mistakes him for a real officer.

9. In Mobile, no person within the city limits may possess confetti. Makes me wonder why they keep celebrating Mardi Gras there...

10. And last, but not least, slavery is still legal in Decatur, Al.! I will not be visiting there any time soon. The last thing I need is some redneck walking up to me asking to see my damn freedom papers.

Okay, friends... Are any of you from Alabama? Do you know of any crazy laws that are still on the books? Share them, I would love to hear them.

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

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10 THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WERE A MIDDLE-AGED WHITE MAN

2011-12-16T14:55:00.000-06:00

Tech writer Gene Marks (@genemarks) stepped outside of his box when he wrote an article entitled "If I were a poor Black kid". In it, he admitted to being a middle-aged White man, then proceeded to list all the reasons why he would be a better poor Black kid than actual poor Black kids.

"It takes brains. It takes hard work. It takes a little luck. And a little help from others. It takes the ability and the know-how to use the resources that are available. Like technology."

Obviously disregarding the words "it takes luck", "help from others", and "the ability and the know-how to use the resources that are available", Marks goes on with his list. What he didn't say is what he's going to do now that he has recognized the issue with poor Black kids.

In the spirit of trying to relate to something that I've gotten most of my information about by watching television, but in reality know little about, here are 10 things I would do if I were a middle aged-White man.

1. Not shake twice after using the bathroom, and not wash my hands.
Come on man, middle-aged White men are nasty, and far too busy for the follow-up jiggle. I would totally not jiggle.

2. Pose as a lesbian on the internet.
For some reason, middle-aged White men like to start blogs and pose as lesbians on their websites. Two middle-aged White men were caught posing as lesbian bloggers just this year. One even faked his (her) abduction.

3. Raise the roof at social gatherings.
There's one thing middle-aged White men like to do at social gatherings where alcohol is being served other than get drunk, kiss and hug other men, talk loudly, play air guitar and let the dogs out...and that's raise the roof.

4. Become a priest.
I would become a priest because middle-aged White men tend to become priests. Not because of little boys.

5. Become a football or basketball coach for a school.
I would become a football or basketball coach because middle-aged White men are good football and basketball coaches. Not because of little boys.

6. Date a Black chick on the side.
There's one thing middle-aged White men like as much as Asian chicks, and that's Black chicks. True story.

7. Listen to rap music.
You gotta know how to talk to the Black chick you're dating on the side, right? Right.

8. Go on an expedition in search for something that isn't there.
Middle-aged White men love spending money looking for Bigfoot

9. Go mountain climbing, then get stranded, then get rescued.
You know how every winter a middle-aged White man takes his wife mountain-climbing with the intent to kill her and make it look it like an accident? But they get stranded by an avalanche or snowstorm, and the adversity brings them closer, causing him to admit to having a Black chick on the side? Yeah, I'd do that.

10. Commit suicide.
After a life of mountain-climbing, dating Black chicks on the side, raising the roof, becoming a priest and a coach, as a middle-aged White man, the only thing left to do is kill myself. Since middle-aged White men are at the top of the suicide pile, this one's a gimme.

There you have it. That would be my life. Fortunately, I'm a 30-something Black man and not a middle-aged White man. Hopefully Mean Gene will stay in his lane next time, and hopefully he doesn't commit suicide soon. Because um...his clock is ticking.

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BACKLASH: THE ALABAMA IMMIGRATION LAW

2011-12-14T07:30:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Has anyone seen Gazoo? Because Dum-Dum (@governorbentley) is either losing control of his controversial Alabama immigration law, or his plan to put jobs back into the hands of the citizens isn't as genuine as he claims.

It must've felt pretty good at first, knowing that he was forcing "undocumented persons" to leave the state and getting away with it. He denied them their jobs, made it illegal for churches and charities to reach out to them, and even had utility companies disconnect the services of those whose citizenship they couldn't prove.

But now, things are happening.

You know how schools get money based on the number of students they have? Well, since the law requires background checks on the parents of um...students who I guess look like their parents are undocumented, attendance had dropped dramatically. That's right, students are literally disappearing from school - even though that part of the law has been placed on hold.

Then there's the landscape and nursery industry. Since it has become illegal for employers to hire undocumented persons, these industries need up to 4,000 people to fill the positions. Not to mention the forestry and farming industry, who also need thousands of workers to fill positions. With Alabama at 10% unemployment, that should be more jobs for the people, right? Wrong.

Although the season for these jobs are months away, it's already being said by farmers that some residents of Alabama aren't physically able or mentally tough enough to handle the positions. Others, they say, won't do the work because of the wages - even though the agriculture jobs pay well above minimum wage.

So, assuming that no one will do the work because farmers said so, guess who's going to do the work? Inmates.

The Alabama Agricultural Department is in talks with the Alabama Department of Corrections to see if they can get prisoners to do the work. Prison spokesperson Brian Corbett said that although work-release inmates aren't the solution to labor shortages linked to the law, the state has about 2,000 eligible men for the jobs.

Hey, what about the thousands of positions that need to be filled?

The website www.joblink.alabama.gov has 70 jobs posted, with 500 people vying for those positions. Like I said, where's Gazoo?

On December 16th, immigrant groups and civil rights organizers from 20 states will meet in Montgomery for two days of meetings and a march that will end at the Governor's mansion for protests. It ought to be one for the ages - one Dum-Dum will probably never forget.

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SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OFFERS BELTS TO STUDENTS WHO SAG THEIR PANTS

2011-12-13T12:42:00.000-06:00

Northwestern High School in Rock Hill, SC. has offered a new version of a solution to their "sagging" problem. Students who violated the dress-code in the past got written reprimands, but principal James Blake is expecting this "new deal" to help students realize how they look as well as trim the number of students who are disciplined overall.

Under the new deal, if a student is caught with their pants hanging low, they get the option of "checking" a belt out for the day. Students don't like the idea very much because they feel like they should look the way they want - even if makes them look like a fool. Good luck, Northwestern High School...most saggers already wear belts.

A few years back, MSNBC aired an interview with "Fleece" Johnson, aka the "Booty Warrior" from their show, Lockup. In the interview, Fleece said that in prison, having a man's butt was more important than food and water. He said that if you were an inmate, and he wanted your booty - and you didn't give it to him the easy way, he was going to take it the hard way.

Fleece also gave a stern warning to the guys walking around thinking that "sagging" is a part of being a gangster. In case you didn't know, in the prison world sagging is international language for "the easy way". Watch

His words were etched into the minds of millions. In order to discourage sagging, local governments around the country began making it against the law to walk around with their pants hanging off them. As you can see, the laws aren't being enforced enough, because people still walk around with their goodies showing, and they're not afraid to do it.

It just looks plain bad to be in public with your clothes hanging half off. You literally have to not care about your appearance and be as dumb as they come. Not to mention the influence of the new hip-hop generation has on sagging. Maybe there's a connection. Not caring about yourself, stupidity, new hip-hop...hmm.

What do you think about sagging? Do you or would you allow your kids to sag their pants? Do you know any adults who sag their pants? What kind of people are they?

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JUDGE ORDERS BLOGGER TO PAY $2.5 MILLION TO COMPANY SHE WROTE ABOUT

2011-12-09T16:23:00.000-06:00

Remember the name Crystal L. Cox because she just might be the new pioneer for bloggers' rights. This woman from Montana runs many whistleblower sites including bankruptcycorruption.com, obsidianfinancesucks.com and crystalcox.com.

In January, investment firm Obsidian Finance Group filed a $10 million lawsuit against Crystal for critical blog posts about their company - citing the blog posts were defamatory.

She represented herself during her day in court last week, with U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez throwing out all but one of the blog posts in question. That one however, was the dagger in the back - or face, depending on how you want to look at it. He told her that the singled out blog post seemed more from the heart than the other ones.

She told the judge that it appeared that way because an inside source to the finance company provided information for the other ones. Because she wouldn't name her source, none of what she wrote could be proven, and therefore taken as slander.

He then told her that bloggers aren't entitled to the various protections given to journalists - whatever that means - because she has no affiliation with any newspaper, magazine, book, news service, wire service, feature syndicate, broadcast station/network or cable TV system.

That's when he hit her with the $2.5 million judgement.

Now, if it's like that, then what the hell is the first amendment about? When I say things like, "the Governor of Alabama sucks" or "President Obama sucks" - because they do - I say that with an air of confidence. I say those things knowing that as a citizen of this country, I have the right to say whatever I want (of course within taste). Especially since I'm saying these things as a journalist. Or social observer - whatever.

From what I understand from the judge is that if we're not affiliated, we're just a bunch of people with too much time on our hands.

What do you think? Are freelance bloggers different from people affiliated with a company or network of companies? What's the difference between the two? Shouldn't bloggers be protected by the First Amendment? Do you think there will be a crackdown on bloggers like in other countries?

(bonus)What if you were sued for $10 million by Pepsi or any other company because of a comment you made on Facebook or Twitter?

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COUPLE GIVES 6-MONTH-OLD GIRL GENITAL WARTS AFTER SEXUALLY MOLESTING HER

2011-12-09T13:12:00.001-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - 21-year-old Ashley Stapert and her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Byran Strickler were homeless, so her friend did what any good friend would do: let her and her ex move into her arpartment in Muncie, IN.

The arrangement seemed like a good idea, because while the couple needed a place to stay, the friend needed a sitter for her new baby.

From September to November, presumably every day while the friend was at work, Ashley and her ex-boyfriend did all sorts of things to the child. No one knows exactly what they did, but whatever it was, the 6-month-old got genital warts out the deal. I asked five people what they thought could have happened...you don't want to know what they said.

It was only after she was taken to the hospital for a "rash" and diagnosed with genital warts that an investigation was launched. That's when Ashley admitted to "fondling and performing a sexual act" on the baby. She also said that Bryan did "things" to the baby as well.

"I never in a million years would have thought (this could happen)...it's bad because I can't do anything. I've got to sit here and watch my little girl suffer."

Stapert is at the Delaware County Jail on a $75,000 bond and is being charged with two felonies: child molestation and criminal deviant conduct. Bryan disappeared for a while but was arrested in his hometown of Streetsboro just outside of Cleveland, OH. on yesterday evening around 7pm EST.

"What I want for her, I want her to look me in the face and tell me exactly what she did to my daughter. And then I want her to get the maximum sentence that she can get. I don't every want her back on the street, ever."

The mother of the baby also said that she and Ashley had been friends since the eighth grade and never suspected that she would do that to her child.

Believe it or not, there's an Ashley Lynn Stapert is innocent Facebook page, and they're giving the person who started that page all the hell they can stand.

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WOMAN FIRED FROM MACY'S FOR NOT LETTING TRANSGENDERED MAN USE LADIES' DRESSING ROOM

2011-12-08T22:27:00.000-06:00

When a transgendered man tried to use the ladies' dressing room in a Texas Macy's last week, employee Natalie Johnson stopped him and said, "You're a man".

And although Macy's has a store policy that lets transgendered people choose which dressing room they want to go in, Natalie wasn't going to go along with the policy. She told her store manager that she was a devout Christian, and her religion prevents her from recognizing transgendered people. Quite naturally, she was fired.

Look, from the business point of view, if I need a position filled, and you need a job, and I'm going to pay you for the work you do, then that's it. I don't want to hear about why you can't work today, nor do I want to hear about babysitting issues or anything concerning your religion.

When working for a large retailer like Macy's, how could you even feel worthy enough to impose sanctions on customers? Doesn't Natalie know that there are people roaming the earth looking for a reason to sue a company like Macy's? So what she didn't want to see a man dressed as a lady change in the ladies' dressing room. She should have informed her manager of the situation before acting all "holy" on the person. Even if she didn't want to let him into the dressing room for fear that he could rape all the women in there, and he actually did rape all the women in there, it wouldn't have been on Natalie, it would've been on her manager.

What grinds my gears is the way she used Christianity to justify her behavior. Are you serious? "My religion prevents me from recognizing transgendered people"? What happened to Christianity being about love? How is anyone supposed to take White Jesus seriously when all people do is use Him to promote hate.

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PRINCIPAL IN TROUBLE OVER FACEBOOK PICTURE, COURSE CREDIT SCANDAL

2011-12-06T09:30:00.000-06:00

The woman in the picture getting a chocolate syrup bath and a dance from what appears to be a male stripper is a South Bronx principal.

Sharron Smalls, principal of Jane Addams High School is on the hot seat after students began circulating pictures from her Facebook page including the chocolate syrup pic.

The students passed the profile pic around in retaliation for a course credit scandal that Smalls is being investigated for.

The scandal, which involves Smalls giving chemistry credits for cosmetology classes and geography credits for tourism classes, may lead to about 100 seniors not graduating from the already F-rated school. Just last year, only 45% of their seniors graduated, and teachers say a scandal like this could get the school shut down.

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9-YEAR-OLD BOY SUSPENDED FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT AFTER CALLING TEACHER CUTE

2011-12-06T09:20:00.000-06:00

A substitute teacher at Brookside Elementary school in Gastonia, NC. suspended a student for what she considered to be sexual harassment.

9-year old Emanyea Locket was talking to a friend at school when the teacher overheard him refer to another teacher, Ms. Taylor as "cute".

He was taken to the office where they called Emanyea's mother, Chiquita, to tell her that her son had been suspended for two days - and why.

Chiquita was upset to know that her son's school record will always paint him as a sexual harasser.

"It’s not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way,” she said. “So why would he be suspended for two days?"

Personally, I think the school overreacted. Making that child miss two days of school because he said a teacher was cute is not logical. I bet if he said a male teacher was cute, the school would've been scared to suspend him for fear of a lawsuit.

I don't know what this sub looks like, but something tells me that the substitute doesn't look like Ms. Taylor.

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PRESIDENT OBAMA LEGALIZES THE SLAUGHTERING OF HORSES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

2011-12-05T06:57:00.000-06:00

Picture this: You're tired from a long day of doing whatever it is you were doing. In order to cook dinner for the evening, you need to go to the grocery store and pick up some things. Fortunately, your list is so small and simple, a child could do this. You need a bag of Freedom (French) Fries, a bottle of ketchup and a pack of ground beef. It doesn't matter if it's ground round or not. You just need to make hamburgers and fries. You get home, unwrap the meat and throw away the package. That's when you notice the words ground horse on the label.

That scene could very well be your reality thanks to President Obama and Congress making it legal to slaughter horses again. You probably don't remember this, but in 2008 then candidate Barack Obama specifically promised to keep the ban on horse slaughtering intact because of how cruel it was.

Also, since 2005, a portion of the Agriculture Appropriations Bill has been dedicated to barring the use of taxpayer dollars for the inspection of foreign-owned horse-slaughtering plants. The signing of this new bill into law undermines that.

Understand that the horse meat can't even cross state lines unless the place it came from is inspected. Its next destination needs to be inspected also. It takes money to do that, and it opens the market for the horse-slaughtering industry to lobby in Washington once again for money. So that's money needed for domestic horse-plants, and money needed for the USDA to inspect the facilities around the world so our horses can be put on the international market.

Now, the argument for the resurrection of horse-slaughtering for human consumption is job creation. The re-opening of the industry is supposed to help stimulate the economy. But we all know that these plants will operate in rural areas only, and they're mostly privately owned by people who own horses. Long story short, I really don't see who's going to benefit from these "jobs".

So put the word out: horse meat is back. With the rising cost of beef in the U.S. don't be surprised if your fast-food joint advertises "better tasting patties". They just might be switching to horse.

Oh, if you're wondering about PETA, they think it's a good idea. That, my patients, is what what we call irony.

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HERMAN CAIN DROPS PRESIDENTIAL BID, SWITCHES TO PLAN B - ZOMBIE MODE

2011-12-03T21:18:00.000-06:00

"I am not going to be silenced and I am not going away. As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign. I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt caused on me and my family. Not because we are not fighters. These false and untrue allegations continue to be 'spinned' in the media, and in the court of public opinion so as to create a cloud of doubt over me and this campaign and my family."

There you have it, folks. The Cain Train has officially derailed. Now I can finally pull my head up from the sand. From the beginning, his unorthodox, ungroomed campaign strategy made me feel as embarrassed as I did in 2004, the year of the angry Negro Presidential candidate.

But Cain didn't play angry Negro Presidential candidate. He played stupid Negro Presidential candidate. There's a character voiced by me who appeared on the Mr. Chap Morning Show often, Darryl Jenkins. I constantly received hate mail regarding this character, from people saying that he was minstrel. Here's a sketch featuring Darryl Jenkins interviewing the Emperor of Japan.

Now, while I'm not saying that Herman Cain is minstrel, I am saying that Herman Cain reminds me of Darryl Jenkins (who is friggin' hilarious, btw). A limited-vocabulary man who tries to sound like he knows what he's talking about. The more Cain spoke, the more I realized that this is the kind of guy his Republican friends would love to see fall on his face.

I didn't know what his strategy was here, but he started his campaign by pissing people off. Remember this: "Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself! It is not a person's fault because they succeeded, it is a person's fault if they failed. And so this is why I don't understand these demonstrations and what is it that they're looking for."

I don't know how Cain even made it to front-runner with all the thoughtless statements he made. Remember the response to a question from PBS' Judy Woodruff in reference to China being a military threat:"Yes, they're a military threat. They've indicated that they're trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat."

*sigh* I swore he was gonna say that China also has plans to build a giant wall.

From my hiding spot in the sand, I realized that Herman Cain had absolutely no idea what he was doing. Literally winging it. Not taking any pages from previous candidates and the way they handled themselves.

Remember the one about Uzbekistan: "And when they ask me, 'Who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?' I'm going to say you know, 'I don't know. Do you know?' And then I'm going to say, 'How's that going to create one job?'"

After that, I prayed to the 8-pound, 6-ounce newborn baby Jesus that something would happen - a change of heart or something, anything that would get Herman Cain off of my TV and computer. Then it happened: Women began appearing out of the blue accusing him of all sorts of things sexually related. His poll numbers dropped. Support began to waiver and contributions began to fall off. It was because of this series of unfortunate events that Cain decided to drop out of the race. Thank you 8-pound, 6-ounce newborn baby Jesus!

In the spirit of not totally going away, Cain is going to implement what he called "plan B". Plan "A" was to become President and make changes from the inside. Plan "B" is to make changes from the outside and roam the country like a zombie - dead but not knowing it.

Hopefully if his plan "B" works out the way Sarah Palin's plan "B" did, he'll disappear right before the election.

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TEEN FAKES HIS OWN KIDNAPPING TO GET $50,000 FROM FATHER

2011-12-01T20:32:00.000-06:00

Looking for an easy way to get money out of his dad without doing any work to earn it, 17-year-old Kevin Ashton decided to fake his own kidnapping.

While at the Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celebrity Tennis tournament in Delray Beach, FL. earlier this month, he "disappeared". Later that evening, Kevin's father got a call from his "captors" demanding $50,000.

That was on a Sunday. By that Tuesday, detectives and agents had somehow pinpointed Aston and his friend, 23-year-old Joshua Pee to a Budget Inn, also in Delray Beach.

When agents moved in, Pee ran and broke into a house trying to hide from FBI and officers. The owner of the house and her daughter ran and flagged down police who were in the area searching. A policeman cornered Pee and tasered him when he refused to lay down and surrender.

Pee denied trying to extort money from Ashton's father, but he was charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling and resisting arrest. Agents later discovered that Pee bought a cell phone at Walmart and made the ransom call to Ashton's parents.

Young Ashton was charged with grand theft.

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WORLD AIDS DAY: WHAT'S THE ORIGIN OF AIDS?

2011-12-01T17:43:00.000-06:00

Since AIDS was first diagnosed in 1981 (U.S.A.), the disease has killed millions upon millions of people. And, since AIDS is such a killer, it's only natural to wonder where it came from.

The origin of AIDS is a very, very muddy story. Most people believe that the origin of HIV, which leads to the AIDS virus, comes from some natural event perpetuated through evolution.

Besides intellectual curiosity, understanding the originmay help in developing ways to cure or prevent AIDSorprevent the outbreak of similar diseases.

Among the many origin theories is the so called "cut hunter theory" in which a human, allegedly African native, receives a bloody wound or infected splash while preparing a chimpanzee carrying a virus known as Simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV.

When I was growing up, I was led to believe that AIDS came from African Green Monkeys who had sex with humans. The Africans passed it along to each other, and those who moved outside of Africa just spread it throughout the world.

There have been numerous competing theories for the origin of AIDS, including for example that a biological warfare experiment went wrong and that factors other than HIV are responsible for AIDS (Lederer 1987/1988). For the purpose of analyzing the scientific reception to competing theories, the focus here is on one particular alternative: that mass vaccination campaigns in Africa in the late 1950s, using an oral polio vaccine (OPV), were responsible for the AIDS pandemic (Cribb 1996; Curtis 1992; Elswood & Stricker 1994; Goldberg & Stricker 2000; Hooper 2000; Lecatsas & Alexander 1989; Pascal 1991).

The most recent research however, holds that the origin of HIV and AIDS could never have happened this way. That research is probably still wrong.

I'd like to add yet another theory to the mix...

Many historians and conspiracy theorists like myself, trace the discussion of AIDS back to June 9, 1969. During the first session of the ninety-first Congress, at a hearing before a subcommittee on Department of Defense Appropriations, the conversation began.

I'm not going to put this in your face like I normally would, but if you GoogleHouse Resolution 15090 (H.R. 15090) or go your local library and review the transcript from that session, (public information) you should be able to see what I mean.

Whatever the case, AIDS is a serious disease and it won't stop killing. Just yesterday, I saw a report on CNN that said one in five people with it don't even know they have it. We need to educate ourselves the best way possible on this menace, and use good judgement when dealing with other people.

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BLACK MAN BURNS CROSS IN HIS OWN YARD IN ATTEMPT TO SALVAGE MARRIAGE WITH WHITE WIFE

2011-11-30T13:32:00.000-06:00

There's two things I know about the KKK: They hate Black people, and they can't stand interracial relationships. With that said, meet LB Williams. He's a 50-year-old Black man from Panama City, FL. His wife of seven years, Donna, is White.

LB and Donna were having marital problems to the point where Donna has filed for divorce. Desperate, but obviously not thinking clear, LB decided to place his family in a situation so horrible, the adversity could only bring them closer together.

In an attempt to scare the love back into his wife, LB decided to burn a cross in their driveway. His plan had worked perfectly. His wife Donna said, "When I saw that cross burning, I was scared to death. I was terrified…we all were."

But when investigators took a closer look at the alleged hate crime, they noticed something strange about the location of the cross. They told Donna that whoever left the burning cross in the driveway seemed to not want to damage the grass or the house.

A couple of days later, Donna found two notes: one taped to their front door, the other taped to their side door. The notes, that were signed "KKK", mentioned how they had been watching her and the kids, and how she better not leave that n*gger she's married to.

"When did the KKK start supporting black and white, interracial marriages?” Donna asked the police.

They immediately suspected LB, and when they asked him about it, he confessed to everything. Donna said she knew it was him when she saw the handwriting. It wasn't exactly the same, but it was close enough to recognize.

He said he did it so she wouldn’t proceed with the divorce she filed for. Donna, who couldn't take any more said, "He truly is a good man. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t do drugs and he works like a dog. We just can’t be together."

LB was charged with felony domestic violence stalking and felony exhibit with the intention to intimidate.

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WOMAN PUTS 10-DAY-OLD BABY IN WASHING MACHINE

2011-11-29T16:08:00.000-06:00

26-year-old Lindsay Fiddler put her 10-day-old daughter, Maggie Trammel into the washing machine along with a load of clothes. Afterwards, she went to sleep.

Fiddler's Aunt, Rhonda Coshatt came over to check on the new mom, but she had a hard time waking her. She then noticed that the baby was nowhere to be found, and heard banging noises coming from the washroom.

The Aunt walked to the washing machine and slowly lifted the lid. That's when she saw Maggie's lifeless body. She had nearly gone through an entire wash cycle.

Police in Bartlesville, OK. say Fiddler called 911 and screamed "My baby is dead!" to the operator. Fiddler was also arguing with Coshatt in the background, telling her Aunt that she killed her baby while she was asleep.

Fiddler has a history of drug related incidents, and tested positive for drugs including crystal meth, amphetamines, benzodiazepine and opiates when she washed her baby.

When she was being questioned by the police, Fiddler said she remembered wrapping the baby in a blanket and giving her a pacifier. She didn't however remember washing her.

Fiddler is being held on a $100,000 bond and is only facing child neglect and manslaughter charges.

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MAN BURNS 2-YEAR-OLD SON'S GENITALS BECAUSE HE ASKED FOR A DIAPER CHANGE

2011-11-29T13:28:00.001-06:00

When his 2-year-old son walked into the kitchen and asked to have his diaper changed, Marco Santos snapped. The 39-year-old Chicago man attempted to yank the diaper off, but when only part of the diaper came off, he became even more upset.

Santos grabbed a hot frying pan from the stove and put it on the toddler's genitals. As a result, the boy suffered second-degree burns to his penis, scrotum and thigh.

In an attempt to "fix" what he did, Santos tried to put burn creme on the injury. It isn't clear how, but he ended up putting toothpaste on the boy's gents instead.

For three days, Santos and the boy's mother, 36-year-old Joanna Pawlina, watched the boy struggle to walk. They finally decided to take him to the hospital. The emergency staff at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago suspected the burns to be a result of child abuse, and an investigation was started. Santos was arrested and charged with aggravated battery of a child. He remains in the Cook County Jail and held on a 500,000 bond.

Pawlina was charged with endangering the life and health of a child, while the little boy's injuries will require skin graphs to repair.

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AFFIRMATIVE REACTION: THE ANGRY BLACK MAN ROUTINE...

2011-11-28T12:05:00.003-06:00

…and why it’s finally time to give it a rest, already.

Warning: Someone is liable to find this post offensive. Ask me if I care? There are truths that need to be spoken, and the disapproval of complete strangers will certainly not deter me from telling them. There’s going to be some sweeping generalizations made here – deal with it – like I’ve had to deal with all the racial invective hurled my way this past weekend -- and spare me the hate e-mail.

One of the consequences of living in Michael Bloomdouche’s New New Yorkistan is that you will always come across all kinds of people. This was always true enough -- New York being a cosmopolitan place, a true melting pot of the sort that Davenport, Iowa or Charlotte, North Carolina tries to pretend they are but never could be, attempting to acquire by association with the whole of America what they don’t have because of certain cultural conditions and traditions. Recently, because of the Mayor's dunder-headed concessions to the Occupy Wall Street Retards, it has become fashionable to be a ragingly obnoxious asshole.

One of the more mundane and stereotypical denizens of New York City is the Angry ______. New Yorkers are often accused of being horrible people; lacking in basic manners and courtesy, heartless demons wandering the streets of a Modern Day Gomorrah, but this is simply untrue; we just have better things to worry about than your sensibilities, Hillbilly, and the conditions and pace of life in these parts is such that we simply don’t suffer fools -- we have no time for them -- and you’re all fools to us; now as to whether this automatic assumption made reflexively by a Native New Yorker is actually true or not is up for argument, and that’s not one I’m going to take up at the moment.

Perhaps the most (in-)famous of the Angry New Yorkers are the special breed of African-Americans that several generations of deluded democratic (small ‘d’ intentional) party policies have kept like favored house pets and imbued with a sense of entitlement that would hardly be believed if one had not ever seen it with one’s own eyes. And ears; because if anything, this sense of extreme entitlement is usually long heard before its actually felt or otherwise discerned.

New York must have the loudest, angriest, most offensively-minded black folks in all of America, and that’s saying something. African-Americans in New York are known for letting you know exactly what they think (dare I call it thinking?) whining incessantly about everything under the sun, playing the race card faster than you can say Rosa Parks, and for making public nuisances of themselves when defending their supposed entitlement to be complete doofuses, all at someone else’s expense. They believe their owed something, usually for nothing. Constantly. Asking for different nets you a Je$$e Jackson Picket Line, an Al Sharpton Editorial dripping with barely-concealed racism, and a Charles Barron playing his old game of threatening to lead a riot every four minutes if he’s not – personally -- mollified.

New Yorkers typically ignore this sort of thing the same way they ignore everything else. If you gave any more than three seconds of thought to anything one is likely to hear from an Angry Black Man on the Streets of New York (and you will certainly get an earful, I must say) you’d go completely apeshit insane. It’s simply one of the costs of living here that one has to pay, and typically the ones with the biggest mouths are typically the dumbest pansies of all, hardly worth the effort of arguing with.

After all, if you argue with idiots they simply pull you down to their level and then overwhelm you with superior weaponry.

In recent weeks, however, the invective, the attitude, the anger displayed by your typical New York Angry Black Man has rocketed off the scales. It has become sheer hyperbolic invective that goes beyond quaint, old-fashioned notions of the Good Old Days when all we had to hear about was the ‘Inequality in the System’ (yawn!), and the presence of unreformed racism in everything from employment to housing to who gets the free, taxpayer-paid-for flu shots first (heard this song before…). Nowadays the invective is simply vicious; its intent is not so much to express displeasure but to be intentionally menacing. There are now, apparently, Angry Black Men roaming the streets of New York with no direction in life except where irrational, pathological anger manages to take them by sheer chance.

The first example of this new phenomenon was personally witnessed (twice) by me last Friday on the 1 train heading towards South Ferry. An overly-aggressive panhandler entered the car I was sitting in from another car, and announced without much in the way of shame that he had just been released from prison -- where he had done 15 years for rape and attempted murder – and had no job, and he wanted money…right fucking now. He used to ‘play ball’, he tells you, and he’s extremely pissed off and hungry, making an effort to stoop threateningly in front of every seated white woman. Just in case you didn’t get it the first time, he was also happy to supply this little nugget of barely-concealed, double-edged racism:

“There’s nothing more dangerous than a hungry black man…and I don’t give a fuck…”

Naturally, this being New York, no one gave a shit; everyone is suffering tough times, and you’re a piece of shit just released from the can. You want Christian Charity, Asshole, go see the Salvation Army and stop with the threats, already. We’ve lived through 9/11 and about fifty attempted attacks since then, and we don’t scare so easy, anymore. Needless to say, Mr. Threatening Ex-con walked off the train at the next stop, empty handed.

Not two minutes later another Angry Black Man -- another panhandler who doesn't seem to have missed too many meals -- steps into my car and begins making some of the same noises: he’s hungry, homeless, has no job, and suffers from severe mental problems, so fork over some money. When none was forthcoming a vicious stream of racial epithets was hurled at everyone in the car. Naturally, this being New York, no one gave a shit. Unlike the previous panhandler, however, this one actually took a swing at someone – an older gentleman, naturally – and then fled the train as it entered the next station, screaming over his shoulder that America is still a hotbed of racist slavery, and fuck us all.

Now that’s just the garden-variety stupidity that one sees in the streets all the time. In the Good Old Days, when we had actual Mayors and not rich douchebags buying votes so that they can treat the city like their personal kingdom, people like that got locked up. Correct that: first they got beaten within an inch of their useless lives and THEN they got locked up. But we don’t do that in Bloomberg’s New York anymore, witness the Angry Black Fella associated with the Occupy Wall Street stupidity that got front-page attention for threatening to start a campaign of Molotov Cocktail Bombings. So far as I know, he’s still walking the street, despite it being a crime to make a terrorist threat.

It got especially annoying Saturday evening, when my girlfriend and I went out to dinner.
We had called a local car service to pick us up, and when the driver arrived he had another passenger in the front seat. This passenger, a youngish black male, was making a horrific racket about being late for his appointment because the car service had double booked the car. Fair enough, that would piss me off, too. However, he crossed the line of decent behavior when he strung together a long line of F-bombs that got my good lady all bent out of shape. She asked if he would stop using that sort of language (which doesn’t bother me, because mine is far worse).
Apparently this was too much to ask, that a gentleman should refrain from cursing in the presence of a lady, and he began an angry diatribe about “who the fuck do you think you are”, which ended with “If you don’t like it, go somewhere else, Bitch, this is New York Motherfucker…” This got me super-angry.

After telling this young dickhead that if he didn’t observe a reasonable level of acceptable behavior I would be more than happy to rearrange both his facial features and dental work for him, I was subjected to a recitation of his resume, and how he was a respectable media figure in this city, who had to go to a very important function, and double-booking the car was going to make him late, interspersed with f-bombs galore You read that right: He gave me his resume, and this was supposed to prove…just what, I don’t know.

Somehow he’s trying to convince me that he’s in some way justified in making a total, blithering idiot of himself, and picking a fight with a chick…a chick with Muscular Dystrophy, no less ..and that I was being a racist for:

a. Insisting he observe some sort of standard that could be construed as “Acting White” (his words), he’ll act however the fuck he wants to, and there’s nothing I can do or say about it.

b. We had somehow, intentionally, ordered a car at the same time he did, specifically to screw up his timetable and get him fired, because God Forbid A Black Man Should Be Allowed to Have a Responsible Job That Pays Better Than Yours, Cracker (I refrained from saying what I wanted to: which was that I used to be a VP at Citigroup, and could have bought him ten or twelve times over in those days. That would only have evoked a diatribe about Slave Markets and The Middle Passage, I reckon, so I bit my tongue).

The Driver then makes this situation worse by dropping my girl and me off first, as we’re on the way to Angry Black Asshole’s appointment. This completely unhinges him. He’s now shouting that my girl should spend more time performing oral sex acts upon me, so that I woun’t be so uptight, and then offers to stand in for me. I politely invited him to exit the car and take care of this minor disagreement like gentlemen, but of course, he declined, the big pussy. The cab then drove off, with Asswipe hanging out the open window -- rapping at me (no kidding!) -- as he sped away.

Later that evening, the same driver picked us up from the restaurant, and told us that his self-professed VIP passenger was dropped off at the Park Hill Houses (a notorious housing project best known for crack and illegal gunplay), and refused to pay his fare, complaining that the double-booking made him late. Which is what all the fuss was in the first place: Angry Black Man was playing a game, setting the driver up with an elaborate excuse not to pay him for the ride. If I ever see that bastard again, he’s dead meat. Mark my words:

“There’s nothing more dangerous than a pissed-off Sicilian. People just disappear when we're angry…”

What strikes me as odd -- even enraging -- about these incidents is the brazenness of it all, and not only that, but the sheer hypocrisy and self-serving stupidity on display.

On the one hand, African-Americans decry the use of stereotypes to demean and belittle them, but resort to them often enough when it suits their purposes; in this case, the Angry Black Man is to be given his way before he resorts to violence or creates a condition which is intended to frighten others into giving them something he hasn't otherwise earned or paid for, whether this is money or a free cab ride, under the mistaken impression that the majority of White Devils will simply buckle under rather than fight. They might be excused this assumption, I guess, based on the fact that 40+ years of the American Welfare state has taught them that violence, or the mere threat of it, pays dividends. After all, what is the Welfare State if not outright bribery; we’ll give you stuff you don’t deserve and haven't earned, just so you won’t riot?

On the other hand, some African-Americans will routinely complain about the evils of racism and the legacy of Slavery, but have no issues with engaging in the basest racism of their own, and feel wholly justified in doing so. There should be no double standards regarding race and proper behavior when it’s a Black Dude on the receiving end, but not the other way around. I can’t use the word Nigger (not that I want to), even in it’s proper context, but I can be called Cracker, Devil, Pilgrim (that was a new one on me. Anyone know what exactly that meant?), and worse, and should just be expected to deal with it as my just rewards.

And as for Slavery: I’m Sicilian. My ancestral island is the most-conquered in the history of Earth, with the Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, Byzantines, Vandals, Lombards, Vikings, Moors, Mamelukes, French, Spanish, Germans, and Italians having all – at least once – possessed and enslaved the population. If it were possible to trace my family tree back 4,000 years there’s probably more slaves there than in your background, so shut it already; I’m playing the World’s Smallest Violin for you, you Crybaby. My people came here 50 years after slavery was abolished, too.

I’ve seen this dialectic at work before; after 20+ years on Wall Street as a manager, my office became a smaller version of Grand Central Station, with a constant flow of Black employees routinely complaining about not getting promotions or bonuses based upon the flimsiest of pretexts. Whenever you shot holes in the self-generated theory of just why someone didn’t get something, it must always became a matter of...all together now -- the consequences of racism…you fucking cracker-ass motherfucker. Been there, heard it all before.

Point out that other black employees did get promotions and bonuses and it made no difference to sees-racism-everywhere type; the fortunate ones must have gottenthem because they ‘kissed your white, motherfucking ass’, according to the worst of the entitlement-minded complainers. Apparently the concepts of merit, professionalism, and a work ethic haven’t reached some parts of Black America. Black folks know how to make unfounded accusations of racism, call lawyers and file bullshit discrimination suits, but not how to get to work on time? But, I digress…

There’s always been an anger, and it’s usually been an irrational one, but nowadays this is beginning to boil over into aspects of New York Life that it didn’t previously, and it’s becoming ever-more vicious and gratuitous. Perhaps African-Americans believed that Barack Obama was going to reintroduce Reconstruction and prise the Reparations out of the Slave-owning Class only to be bitterly disappointed when it becomes clear that even in America with a (half-) black man in the Oval Office, you’re still expected to work for a living, and you’re still expected to observe some social conventions whether you like them or not.

I guess the acceptable response to being denied something they don’t deserve – whether this is money or respect -- amongst the new generation of Angry Black Men is to take to the streets inciting or threatening violence, but we’re way past the point where “Burn, Baby, Burn!” actually works anymore. And this is perhaps even more maddening to them, as a simple convention that has worked to shower the majority of African-Americans with everything from free health care to racial preferences in Law School Admissions for decades finally collapses under the weight of both reality and a bad economy.

And because a once irrationally-guilty White Population that felt that it was obligated to comply was all to happy to buy peace. But not anymore: everyone’s broke, so it’s now every man for himself.

It’s all quite sad. Not only that, but it makes you all less sympathetic to the cause when there is a real injustice to worry about. Do something more useful with your life, for Christ’s Sake!

In the meantime, I’m thinking it might be prudent to be buying me some Prison-Related Stocks (is there such a thing?) because it appears as if there’s going to be a steady supply of Black Men in New York engaged in letting loose with their deranged anger entering the local jails for some time to come. Maybe the jokers who use the fake-outrage-Crazy-Black-Man routine to panhandle a couple of bucks on the Subway, or to scam a cab driver out of $6, will learn a lesson when they’re on the receiving end of some unwanted romantic overtures from a 300-pound AIDS-infected cellmate named Bubba.

Which is a crying shame, because if some of you put the same effort and energy into doing something constructive as you do with scamming The System and crying about what you don't get instead of what you do have, there'd be a whole lot less of this bullshit to deal with.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: HOW LONG IS TOO LONG TO PRAY OVER YOUR FOOD?

2011-11-25T07:47:00.000-06:00

I was wondering...how long is too long to pray over your food, when you're eating someones cooking at their place?

A few years ago, I was at my old-school buddy's house. His lady friend, who was over, cooked us breakfast for dinner. I didn't know her well, let alone her cooking rituals, and I wasn't gonna take any chances. With visions of the Churches Chicken incident and the Thanksgiving 2006 debacle still vivid in my head, I...oh, lemme tell you what happened:

(Cue dreamy flashback music)

I was with same buddy one night, and we decided to run through the drive-thru for some chicken sandwiches. I really like chicken sandwiches, especially Church's. Anyway, I ordered my usual: 3 chixs, extra mayo, no big deal. I damn near inhaled the first one, but chewed enough to notice that the sandwich wasn't as crispy as I remembered it to be. "Oh well" I thought and proceeded with the next. I noticed the same with the second one, but I tolerated it. We got to his house, and I'm walking through the door eating the third one. When I finally got into the light, I notice that this chicken isn't cooked...it's damn near raw! I didn't panic because I always pray over my food, and it's a very specific prayer. So I didn't get sick.

Thanksgiving was a different story. House-hopping, Old School and I ended up over his nephew's house. They had so much food, they were passing plates out to the neighborhood, and anybody walking by. I allowed myself to be satisfied with a generic prayer over the food for everyone by someone who uh...obviously doesn't pray much over food. (Thanks and Jesus wept...let's eat!) The food looked good but the texture...there was something about the texture it . The sweet potato pie, the dressing, and the mac 'n cheese looked, for lack of a better word, weird.

When I got home, I was running a small fever and started throwing everything up everywhere. I felt crappy and I stayed in the bed a couple of days. My homegirl told me that I should've prayed silently for myself, so lesson learned. (Cut flashback)

So I'm sitting with this breakfast for dinner in front of me, and I'm praying. I don't think you heard me, I'm praying...like it was bedtime or something. To the point where I was asked if everything was okay.

So I was wondering: Do you pray over your food, and if so, how long does one have to pray before it becomes rude?

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SPECIAL-ED STUDENT BULLIED BY HER TEACHER AND ASSISTANT FOR THREE YEARS

2011-11-21T09:41:00.000-06:00

I'm starting to believe that special-ed teachers abuse their students more than what's being revealed. More and more cases of teacher bullying are surfacing, and more and more I'm starting to blame the parents.

Remember the special-ed student from New Jersey I just wrote about, Julio Artuz? He told his dad every day for a year that his teacher verbally abused him. What did Dad do? Nothing. Dad figured that since Julio had a mental problem, he was susceptible to saying anything at any given time. Sorta like how we brush off children with their wild imaginations. It was only after Julio recorded his teacher via cell phone verbally assaulting him, that his dad got on TV talking about how appalled he was.

This time a 14-year-old special-ed student who is only identified as Cheyanne is speaking out against her old teacher. Cheyanne, who is now in high school, had been bullied for years at the Miami Trace Middle School in Washington Courthouse, Ohio. It started in the fifth grade and every day through the eight grade she was harassed by the same teacher.

When she first told her dad about the bullying, he thought she was just "going through something all teenagers go through". When he didn't do anything, she began hurting herself so she wouldn't have to go to school. After that, Cheyanne’s parents repeatedly called the school, with no results. Her dad Brian said, “We weren’t getting anywhere. Every time we called, it was always, ‘Cheyanne’s lying, Cheyanne’s making up stories. She’s taking parts of this story, parts of that story, and making her own story.’’’

Her parents then went to the school’s principal, and he spoke to the teacher, Christie Wilt and her teacher’s aide, Kelly Chaffins. When nothing happened, they went to the Miami Trace superintendent Dan Roberts.

“(That was) the first time we ever spoke with the man,” Brian said, “and he told us we were bordering on slander and harassment so (we should) let it go and he would guarantee me the best education possible.’’

After being told that his daughter was lying about being harassed and bullied, he placed a hidden tape recorder under her clothes. For four days, she recorded the teacher and assistant's comments toward her.

Here's what she caught:

I'm telling you, I really believe that special-ed teachers across the country are bullying their kids. Not all of them, of course, but a significant number of them are. There's something psychological going on here. I think it's the power they have over their kids. There's the fact that their kids' minds aren't normal, and they can say things that aren't necessarily true. There's a lack of patience and sensitivity training.

Just as I said with the teacher who posed with one of his student's helmet for Facebook, you have to be a special kind of person to be a teacher. Especially a special-ed teacher.

I know kids can exaggerate and lie sometimes, but to prevent a lot of pain and suffering, investigate every claim your child brings forth. Special-needs or not.

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NSFW: WOMAN GOES ON NAKED RAMPAGE IN NEW YORK RESTAURANT

2011-11-21T09:40:00.000-06:00

#insaneasylumblog #nsfw - You know, I really think it would be safer if everyone just stayed to themselves, and come together only when it's time to be social. It only takes one situation for someone to really show you what they're capable of, and this story proves my theory.

An unnamed 60-year-old woman from New York went what the illiterate rappers refer to as "ham" on a Chinese food restaurant last week, leaving it destroyed. Now, it's my duty to inform you that when they say that someone went "ham", what they mean is that someone went "hem", as in mayhem.

It was said that the woman, while walking past the restaurant fully clothed, noticed a sign in the window that said, "Free Free Free."When she went in to inquire, the cashier told her the sign didn't mean that everything was free. After hearing that, she snapped.

In the spirit of going "hem", her first instinct was to start screaming while undressing. She then began breaking things, answering the ringing phones and throwing money all over the place.

Noreen Monier, one of the Chinese food restaurant's neighbors said, "This old lady was trashing the place. I told her to stop and she threw a watermelon at me. She had superhuman strength. She said 'I'll stop when I'm good and ready.'"

Eventually she left the restaurant and went outside naked, taking her act to the streets. She laid down on the hood of a car that was coming and spread her arms and legs. Somehow, after eluding onlookers and police, the woman went back inside the restaurant. After drinking a bottle of Snapple, she began tearing up more things.

Police were finally able to catch her, covering her with a blanket. It's not yet known whether or not she'll be facing any charges.

TEACHER CAUGHT ON VIDEO BULLYING SPECIAL-ED STUDENT

2011-11-18T10:45:00.000-06:00

"I will kick your ass from here to kingdom come until I'm 80 years old."

Julio Artuz heard those kind of comments daily from his teacher who harassed him in front of the class so much that it was the norm. His teacher called him awful names and threatened him, and the embarrassment made the 15-year-old special-ed student dread going to school.
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He repeatedly told his parents about the harassment but for some reason they didn't believe him. Maybe chalking it up to him being...special. Desperate for action, Julio decided to record his teacher with his phone. This is what he caught:

First of all, unless he has some kind of mental problem, this teacher needs to be fired. He was however placed on administrative leave. Don't worry, the union insures that not only is he on administrative leave, but he's on paid administrative leave.

Second, what's worse than the teacher acting like a special-needs student is Julio's parents not believing their son. I remember having to choose my words carefully when talking about my day in school. All it took was one time for me to say the teacher yelled at the class before I understood that teachers didn't stand a chance against my parents. Julio's parents should have acted sooner. When Julio's dad finally talked to the teacher, he said that was his was of motivating his students. Later in the conversation he said he was having problems with his wife at home and he was sorry for his actions.

Nice, blame the wife for you treating your students like trash.

Finally, suicide is common among students these days. What if he didn't have a cell phone? What if he felt like there was nothing else to do but kill himself? Or what if he thought that the only way to solve his problem would've been to shoot the teacher?

What would you do if your child tried to tell you that his teacher was a bully only to find out it was true? How would you feel? I hope you'd feel really stupid the way I hope Julio's parents feel.

ALABAMA UTILITY COMPANY CUTS SERVICES TO UNDOCUMENTED CITIZENS

2011-11-15T00:00:00.018-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Ah yes, the Alabama immigration law is coming to fruition. Known as the toughest of its kind, this law checks the citizenship status of Alabama's students and parents. It penalizes drivers for giving undocumented people a ride. It also penalizes organizations and businesses for assisting, employing and providing services to them.

In the spirit of obeying the law, Decatur Utilities, which provides electric, gas and water to its customers is the first to begin disconnecting services to people who can't confirm their citizenship.

CFO of Decatur Utilities said "[in the past]We did not document or confirm whether or not people were citizens or aliens here legally. Because of the new law, we are now going through the process to confirm that they are either a citizen or an alien here legally. If not, we will deny them service."

Here's a question: how do you go about determining whether or not your customers are citizens? Do you send out questionnaires? What do you do? Background checks? For all your customers? Or just the ones you suspect are Latino, like they're doing in the schools?

This Alabama immigration law is already causing Latino children to disappear from the schools out of fear, now it's stripping people of basic necessities for living. I mean, they don't want us to talk to them, sell them goods, rent them an apartment or give them a job. It's literally designed to make Latinos leave Alabama, and it's very racist.

ENGAGED COUPLE LEARNS THAT THEY ARE BROTHER AND SISTER AFTER FAMILIES MEET

2011-11-13T20:25:00.001-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - An unnamed engaged couple from South Africa had their lives destroyed by reality after learning that they were siblings.

They met in 2007 at college and eventually fell in love. The two loved each other enough to get married, but of course they wanted their families to meet to discuss wedding plans.

At the meeting, the couple discovered that they had been separated from each other when she was eight months old and he was two years old. Their father said he dumped their mother back in 1983 because she cheated on him. Going their separate ways, the mother took the girl and raised her. The father took the boy and raised him. Neither parent bothered to mention to their kids that they had a sibling.

The kicker: she's pregnant. Very pregnant. The baby is due next month and the couple said they don't know what to tell him when he grows up. I don't know what they would tell him, but they won't have until he grows up. He's gonna wonder why he's "different from the rest of the kids" when they start laughing at his deformities.

FIRST COUSINS ARRESTED AFTER FIGHTING OVER RELATIONSHIP STATUS

2011-11-13T12:34:00.002-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - In this part of Alabama that I temporarily call home, First Cousins are known to openly share their love. I guess it's all fun living out living First-cousin fantasies if you don't care, but 32-year-old Jesse Brooks didn't want what his first cousin, 21-year-old Erica Wilson wanted.

Police say the Tennessee couple were together Tuesday night having drinks when Wilson decided to bring up the nature of their relationship.

They began to argue, during which she told her cousin that she wanted a relationship with him and that although she didn't mind being cousins, she wanted to be more than just his booty call. Brooks then tried to hug and kiss his cousin, while telling her not to think about it.

She wasn't trying to hear that...

Brooks became irate after being rejected by his cousin-lover and knocked Wilson to the floor. He then punched her in and around the face and neck. Wilson was able to grab a pair of scissors in defense, but Brooks attacked her again. That's when she used the scissors to stab Brooks in his face and neck. She was able to get free and call 911.

Since the police couldn't determine who the aggressor was, both cousins ended up going to jail with a bond of $4000 a piece. Ahhh...to be in love.

WOMAN SCAMMED OUT OF $500,000 BY FAKE INTERNET LOVER

2011-11-12T13:45:00.003-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Just months after her husband died of pancreatic cancer, 55-year-old Esther Ortiz-Rodeghero of Castle Rock, CO. began looking for love online.

She was instantly smitten by someone who claimed to be Army Major-General Wayne Jackson, a widower also looking for love. Jackson's "deal" was that his sister begged him to try looking online for someone, and he was giving it a shot.

“He told me he was a widower and he lost his wife in an automobile accident. I was grieving, and I was lonely, and I wanted someone to share my life with...He was romancing me."

They exchanged emails every day. They talked about having a future together and being in love.

She was thirsty and he had the Kool-aid...

“He would say things like, ‘We’re going to live together. We’re going to be happy together. You’re the woman of my dreams.’ Things that a woman who is hurting for attention and love would want to hear.”

After that, the Army Major-General began asking her for money. It started off as a few hundred bucks to help his son. He then wanted thousands to launch a business the two of them would share and run together.

She emptied out her savings account, her still freshly dead husband’s life insurance, and 401K. When the money ran out, she ran out...and got loans.

When it finally came time for him to visit her, she sent the money for a plane ticket. When he never showed up, she realized she had been scammed.

“I could just kick myself. I will never, ever, give another man another dime. This dating website thing is not for me."

She learned the lesson, but she learned it a little too late. She did what we all seem to do when it comes to "love": ignore the red flags.

With a title like Major-General, how do you have time to email daily, let alone spend money?

She was thirsty, she was afraid of being alone, and obviously insecure. Now she has nothing to show for herself but the receipt to her broken heart.

ARE BLACK REPUBLICANS REALLY BETTER?

2011-11-10T10:45:00.008-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - Recently on the Fox News Channel, Ann Coulter said "our Blacks are better than their Blacks". In case you didn't know, Ann meant that Black Republicans are better than the Black Democrats of the country.

I even heard on a mock debate that Democrats have quantity, but Republicans have quality. Meaning, the Democrats have a lot of Black people but the Republicans have few quality Black people.

Then I thought about it: Are Black Republicans better? It seemed like an attempt to get us to classify our people, but in the spirit of journalism, I decided to play the game and round up the names of 10 random Black Republicans to see what I could come up with.

Don King - Well, Don King has made millions of dollars over the years. He's a very shrewd businessman who managed a bunch of boxers and made them fight each other. Of course that doesn't make him better than businessmen/women who are Democrats, but he doesn't comb his hair - and he still gets respect. And that's good enough for me.

Allen West - Ah yes, the Florida Representative who still rocks the old high-top fade. He once said that he was the new Harriet Tubman. Well, if he meant because she was a Republican, then okay. If he meant because he's gonna help us Black folks escape to Conservatism, then he needs to be more than a Representative from Florida.

After years of denying his affiliation with a "White supremacist motorcycle gang", he finally slipped up and admitted it on a radio show the other day. Hmm...there's definitely something special here. I just can't put my finger on it.

Herman Cain - Every time I see him, I'll wonder if he was as serious as he said he was. He's a businessman and front-runner for President, and I'm gonna be honest: I don't know what to think about him. He "misspeaks" too much about things. Also, I don't think he knows anything about foreign policy. I can name the leader of every sovereign nation in the world, but I bet he can't. Not to mention the "scandal". The scary part is I liked him better than the other G.O.P. candidates.

Michael Steele - I don't know much about him except he ran for Senate in 2006, and I'm not going to Google him for the sake of this article. I'll never understand why the GOP made him Chair of the RNC. If it was to change the face of the Party, then I don't think it worked. Blacks still associate Blackness with Democrat, so um...yeah.

Sammy Davis Jr. - Hey! Who said Republicans aren't cool? What else do I need to say? It's Sammy, baby!

Condoleezza Rice - YES, MA'AM! Me likes the Rice like Gaddafi liked the Rice. Condi is super-smart and has broken all sorts of barriers. She's a 2-time political science professor at Stanford and W. made her the first Black woman to be appointed Secretary of State. You do remember my favorite President, W. don't you?

Deneen Borelli - Deneen is a Fellow with Project 21, which is a network of Black conservatives, an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research, and a national public policy group based in Washington, D.C. Deneen is also a Fellow with FreedomWorks, an organization that educates and mobilizes activists to fight for smaller government, lower taxes and freedom.

Clarence Thomas - Although people who seek the position of lawyer or judge shouldn't have a political affiliation, Clarence Thomas is one of the most unforgettable Black Republicans. His "he said", "she said" with Anita Hill, has spawned phrases such as "Long Dong Silver" and "pubic hair on my Coke". Since being chosen to replace Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court, Thomas has been fairly under the radar.

Curtis Jackson - There's got to something to the Conservative movement if 50 Cent is a part of it, right? 50 is a prominent businessman, actor and hip-hop artist. It seems like out of all the Black Republicans, 50 Cent is the most hated. Look at my many in the hip-hop community as a sellout, 50 sure is doing a lot better than his haters.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - During the civil rights movement Dr. King fought the Democrats who turned fire hoses on blacks, stood in the school house doors, and let dogs loose. The "ultimate Black person", Dr. King wanted all Blacks to just follow in his footsteps. That would include belonging to the Republican party, n'est ce pas?
Well, those are my 10 picks. What do you think? Is it quality over quantity? We're all adults so don't be afraid to speak your mind, no matter what you're feeling.

OCCUPY CHICAGO PROTESTERS GET MCDONALD'S APPLICATIONS DUMPED ON THEIR HEADS

2011-11-09T13:45:00.001-06:00

#insaneasylumblog - I've been trying my best to understand the whole "occupy" movement, but I can't seem to grasp the concept. I mean, I don't really know all the demands of the people who are protesting. I hear various gripes, but I think if anyone has a problem with how the country is being run, they should protest outside of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Anyway, the tension between the occupiers in Chicago and the traders at the Chicago Board of Trade is growing. The protesters, who are stationed across the street from the CBOT, got an eyeful when they saw a sign in the windows of CBOT that read, "we are the 1%". This time around, CBOT traders dumped paper on the heads of protesters from above.

Occupiers were mad to find out that the pieces of paper were actually employment applications for McDonald’s.

hilarious...

I thought that's what they wanted? I don't see how they could be upset when they were provided with a solution to their problem. Maybe they do just want handouts instead of jobs.

PASTOR ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH HAVING SEX WITH 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL

2011-11-05T17:00:00.002-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - I must admit, when I first read this story the other day, I wasn't the least bit shocked by it. There have been so many pastors involved in sex scandals, that all of the shock value has somehow just kinda oozed away.

Jimmy Swaggart, attacked televangelists Marvin Gorman and Jim Bakker in 1986 and exposed their affairs. In return, Gorman hired a private investigator to uncover Swaggarts own encounters with a prostitute. Swaggart stepped down from the pulpit for a year, but not after giving a tearful televised apology in February 1988, "I have sinned against you, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness." Three years later he was caught again with another prostitute in the car with him. He probably wouldn't have been if police didn't have to stop him for driving on the wrong side of the road. Maybe he should've asked Jesus to take the wheel first.

In July 1996, Bob Moorehead, Pastor of the Overlake Christian Church was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure in a public restroom in Daytona Beach, Fla.. He eventually stepped down when allegations were made against him that he molested adult members during baptism and wedding ceremonies. The allegations went back as far as 20 years. I have one question... How in the hell do you molest a grown ass person during a wedding? I dunno...

In 1999, Roy Clements revealed he was in a homosexual relationship. He resigned and divorced his wife.

In 2006, it was revealed that Ted Haggard had been regularly visiting a male prostitute, who had also been supplying him with methamphetamine. In January 2009, Haggard admitted to a second homosexual relationship with a male church member.

And who could forget Bishop Eddie Long, who was accused of doing the boot- scooting- boogie with several of his young male parishioners in September 2010... tight shirt and all. Several complaints were filed against Long by men who said Mr. Long used his position in the church to coerce them into consensual sexual relationships in exchange for money, travel and gifts. On May 27, 2011, Long settled the matter out of court, for a sum of almost $25 million!

That is just a few off the list, I could go on and on. These men are well known ministers who have/had mega churches, televised services, books and whatever else it takes to rake in the dough. But, what about the little guy? You know, the small-town preacher with a small church that actually knows every member by name. Is he excluded? Well, apparently not because 41-year-old Matthias Anderson, pastor and founder of New Wine Ministries in Oceanside, Ca., was arrested and accused of carrying on a two year sexual relationship with a teenaged girl.

The girl and her mother met Anderson while living in a women's shelter for two years that was part of the church. The mother sought help from the church because she was in an abusive relationship. She eventually began working in the church's office. The girl's mother told police in October 2010, that she suspected the pastor and her 14-year-old daughter were having a sexual relationship, but the investigation stalled because the girl wouldn't cooperate. Over the past year the mother discovered email messages suggesting an on-going relationship between the two. She confronted her daughter, who admitted to seeing the pastor and having a sexual relationship with him, when it was thought originally that he was counseling her.

Anderson was arrested at about 7:45 a.m. on Last Tuesday, when he went to the girl's house with the intention to pick her up, but found the police waiting for him. Anderson was being held at the Southwest Detention Center in French Valley. Bail was set at $1 million because of statements made to the girl that suggested he would leave the country if the police came after him. He's being charged with suspicion of unlawful sex and lewd acts with a child.

Now, is anyone not as shocked as I am? I can't deny that this is uber wrong, and Anderson should receive the strictest punishment available for his crime. I think the girl needs to seek some real counseling though, because to her, Anderson was her boyfriend. She was young and naive (it started when she was twelve) and she fell for the okie doke. I see that often with people who have been hurt or traumatized and are seeking some kinda refuge. Who better to trust than your pastor? What do you think readers?

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

I REALLY MISS GEORGE W. BUSH

2011-11-05T10:00:00.000-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - You know what? I miss President Bush, and I'm tired of people still dissing him like he's some chump. Yeah Clinton was great, but who would you rather have had in office after that, Gore? Kerry?

With either of those guys as President, we would've been as lame as our neighbors by now. Don't get me wrong, I like Canada. They got free health care and poutine (which makes culinary sense). And Mexico...Mexico is warm.

Anyway, you need President Bush, like everyone else in this world does. Who else could have removed the threat in Iraq, trained the Iraqi people to defend their land, and instilled civility to a country?

Who else would've given us stimulus checks in order to pump up the economy? If you don't like that, then you're most likely a Democrat...a crack-whore welfare Democrat.

Behold, my favorite President of the United States of America, in the greatest State of the Union Address ever. A speech you probably missed because you were busy hating him and wishing that your lives were miserable:

Have a good weekend...

NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL FACES FOUR FELONY CHARGES FOR SCHOOL BUS TANTRUM

2011-11-03T18:15:00.005-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - A nine-year-old Florida girl is facing four felony charges after she went on a tirade on a school bus on Halloween day.

Anber Harris, a student at Royal Palm School in Fort Myers, Fla., was eating candy on the bus when the bus driver told her to stop. Harris "became very upset" and started yelling and cursing at the bus driver. According to the bus driver, Robert Middleton, Harris then started threatening to strike the other students. She then spit on Middleton and jumped off the bus. After exiting the bus, Harris then started throwing rocks at the bus.

Police were called and soon after, Deputy Iris Sullivan arrived on the scene. The officer tried to restrain the girl, but Harris ran into a nearby yard, picked up an aluminum lawn chair and threw it at Sullivan. The girl then started yelling at the officer, shouting obscenities. "F*ck you. F*ck you. Shut the f*ck up... I will f*cking kill you if you don't get the f*ck out of here." The officer was able to overtake the girl who happens to be 5 ft. and weighs 130 lbs. She was then handcuffed and taken to jail.

The police there charged the girl with four felonies: battery for spitting on the bus driver; throwing deadly missiles (the rocks) at the school bus; battery of an officer for throwing the chair; and resisting arrest. Once she was placed in a holding cell, Harris began to bang her head on the concrete wall. Officers asked her to stop, but when she didn't, they pepper-sprayed her.

Harris' mother says the girl suffers from Schizophrenia and she can often become aggressive if she hasn't taken her medication, stating that the girl felt threatened. It is unknown whether or not the girl had taken her scheduled dosage that day. Harris is currently serving three weeks of at home suspension from school.

What do you think? Is this a case of a child who was, at this moment, truly suffering from a mental disease or does Anber Harris just need a spanking? Do you think officers over- reacted like the mother feels they did?

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

TEXAS JUDGE CRITICIZED FOR BEATING HIS DAUGHTER WITH A BELT

2011-11-03T14:20:00.005-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - Seven years ago, Texas judge William Adams caught his daughter Hillary (who was 16 at the time) downloading music illegally from a website. So he did what any parent that believes in not sparing the rod would do. He disciplined her with his belt.

Hillary, unbeknownst to her parents, recorded the whole incident. She held on to the video over the years, but decided recently to upload it to YouTube in an attempt to make him "get help" according to her. She said that he's been harassing her over the years, and she wants him to stop. She doesn't go deeply in the details about the harassment, so I can't justify her uploading the video especially since she said the intent wasn't to get him trouble.

Since Hillary, 23, who has ataxic cerebral palsy (read the definition before you start criticizing) uploaded the video, it has been seen over 2 million times. People have already expressed outrage over the judge's actions, and a facebook page entitled Don’t Re-Elect Judge William Adams has been set up in an effort to get him off the bench.

First, let's watch the footage. Jump to the 1:00 mark if you don't want to wait for the action. At 2:45, go to 3:15 for more. The video will pop open right here so you won't have to leave.

You've watched it, so what do you think?

Personally, I didn't see anything wrong with it at all. I watched it with my referee shirt on and everything. Listen, the talking that typically goes with a whipping is rarely nice. It's part of the psychological effect. What's getting people in such an uproar is the fact that this is happening inside of a White family's home. This type of discipline is never seen on TV or in public places because Whites tend to favor the "time-out" approach over the direct-connect. I understand the reaction, but how would it look if his IP address was connected with illegally downloading music, and he got sued for millions like the others who got caught?

I used to get my share of the belt. Hell, the belt had a name, too. "Jim-Buck", short for "Jim Buckle". I got the standard whuppin', nothing fancy. There was no using of the buckle, no hitting in the face or my nuts or anything like that. And trust me, I deserved every one I got. They tried the punishment approach on me, too. I mean, they mixed it up and stuff, but the whuppins were more effective.

Hey, if you think that's bad, I know people who got beat with the first thing their parent or guardian could get their hands on. Sometimes they were beaten with extension cords, broom handles, clothes hangers, chairs, fists...whatever.

What the judge did was textbook discipline with a belt, and there was nothing abusive about it at all.

Do you think judge Adams committed a crime? Do you think his daughter uploaded the video to be spiteful? Judge Adams presides over cases involving children (child abuse cases), and they've taken those away. Do you think that's fair?

COUPLE ARRESTED FOR EATEN SANDWICHES, CHILD REMOVED FROM CUSTODY FOR A NIGHT

2011-11-02T14:15:00.006-05:00

#insaneasylumblog- A couple from Honolulu, HI was arrested and their two- year- old daughter removed from their custody for the night after a visit to a Safeway supermarket on last week.

Marcin (33) and Nicole (28) Leszczynski and their daughter Zofia, had just moved from California a few weeks prior to the incident and decided to go out and purchase groceries. They took a bus, but got lost and ended up at the Safeway supermarket. Nicole, who is also almost eight months pregnant, became extremely hungry and picked up two chicken salad sandwiches and proceeded to eat them as they shopped. All with the intention of paying for them at checkout. They even saved the wrappers.

But, as fate would have it, they forgot to pay for the sandwiches and were stopped by security, questioned and eventually led upstairs. The couple tried to explain that it was an honest mistake, and offered to pay, but the store managers weren't hearing it because apparently, it is against store policy to pay for items that have left the store... Even though the total price for them was only $5.00! Four hours later, the police arrived and the couple was arrested. A woman from state Child Welfare Services also arrived to take little Zofia away.

Nicole says she tried to keep her composure in front of her daughter because she had never spent the night away from them before. "I didn't want Zofia to be scared because she never spent a night away from us. She didn't have her stuffed animal. She didn't have her toothbrush." As soon a s Zofia was taken away, Nicole became so frantic, she had to vomit. According to a Honolulu spokeswoman, its mandatory procedure to call Child Welfare Services when a child is with both parents when they are arrested.

The couple was released after paying bail and returned to the store to retrieve their groceries, who in turn banned the couple from their premises for a year. Nicole vented about the incident on babycenter.com and contacted a lawyer who suggested they take their story to the media. The child was returned to her parents after 18 hours of separation. The couple is charged with fourth- degree theft and a court date has been set for November 28th. They have yet to decide whether or not they will pursue legal action against Safeway, who says they are reviewing the police report and store security footage before deciding whether or not to press charges.

Now, I have to admit I'm kinda torn with this story which has been pushed as far to the limit as it can go, in my opinion. I know people who have eaten things in stores and paid for it later at the register. Hell, I've seen people who have eaten things and never had any intention of paying for it, stuffing wrappers and containers behind items on shelves. I'm gonna be honest and admit that I have even eaten an occasional grape or cherry... or two... But, I've never known anyone to eat two whole sandwiches. But, I do believe they intended to pay. I also believe the store is over-reacting and should've let them pay, I mean the woman is pregnant. Pregnant women are always hungry. I know... I just had a baby two months ago.

What do you think readers? Is the store over-reacting? Should they press charges or should the couple get off because it was a simple mistake?

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

[UPDATE: The Safeway supermarket has decided to drop the charges against the couple.]

MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO OWNING AND SHARING IMAGES AND VIDEOS OF INFANT PORN

2011-11-01T23:02:00.000-05:00

Operation Predator is an Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) project that helps to protect children from sexual predators, domestic and international - targeting those who travel overseas for sex with minors. Operation Predator also targets child pornographers, sex offenders, and child sex traffickers. It was this very initiative along with Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Cyber-Crimes Division that caught 49-year-old Peter Lindsley of Houston in January of this year.

Initially in January, Lindsley was accused of having over 15000 pictures depicting children "who haven't reached puberty" in strong sexual situations. He was looking at up to 60 years in prison (up to 10 for each of the 6 counts they were charging him with).

But when Lindsley went to court Monday in Houston, his charges were changed to one count of distributing child pornography. And although, the 15,000 pictures turned into 3,805 pictures and 860 videos, the majority of those pictures involved infants...babies..."engaging in lewd exhibitions of the genital and the anus, sexual intercourse and deviant sexual acts". He also no longer has to worry about going to jail for up to 60 years. He's now only facing 5-20 years, a maximum fine of $250,000 and he has to register as a sex offender. When he gets out, he will do a lifetime of probation.

Lindsley admitted to searching for and downloading child pornography from the Internet, and possessing thousands of images and videos of child pornography.

He will remain in federal custody until the sentencing date, set for 3/5/12.

Now, what's grinding my gears is the fact that this guy could get out of jail in 5 years. They want this guy's money more than anything, and they're going to let him see daylight again just so they can get it.

It starts somewhere, man. You don't just wake up one day wanting to see children who can't even talk getting raped. I have a baby and I can't imagine anything like that happening to him. Shame on the feds for choosing money (which they probably will be collecting from income tax returns for the rest of his life) over a real punishment.

MAN BREAKS INTO DAY CARE, TRIES ON GIRLS' SWIMSUITS

2011-11-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - A man was caught on surveillance video breaking into a daycare in Indianapolis and trying on girls' swimsuits. Police say the unidentified man tried on various girls' swimsuits at the Kid Scape Day Care Center.

When he found a nice two-piece pink swimsuit, the man decided to walk around in it. The man, described as White or Hispanic and 5'5" - 5'7" with long, black hair in a pony tail was inside 10 minutes before jumping over the front counter, setting off the motion detector alarm.

After setting off the alarm, he hopped back over the counter, changed back into his clothes and left before anyone got there. Police say he most likely entered through a back window, and Kid Scape director Jaclyn White said he had to be specifically looking for the swimsuits.

He sure did know exactly where to go. Do you think this guy is some type of pedophile or something? Do you think he has a mental illness? If you found out that this happened at the daycare your child goes to, would you still want them to go there?

SNAPPED: WOMAN TRIES TO KILL FATHER OVER POTATO SALAD

2011-10-29T17:30:00.001-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - There's no doubt about it, patients. Florida is the epitome of crazy. This is the story of a Palm Coast woman who was arrested for attacking her father over what has to be the strangest reason ever.

Police say Karen Henry asked her dad, Hubert, for some of his potato salad while he was eating dinner. When the 80-year-old denied her, she got angry to the point where she began throwing things and cursing - both at the direction of Hubert. She then grabbed a large knife and threatened to kill him, waving the knife in his face.

The elderly man managed to get a chair in between them so he could get to the bedroom and call for help. Flagler County police arrested Karen, but on the way to jail, she complained of abdominal pain. She was taken to Florida Hospital Flagler, where she was quickly treated for abdominal pain.

While she was getting dressed, deputies overheard Karen in her room on the phone telling Hubert to drop the charges. Because of that, in addition to being charged with aggravated assault (because she was definitely aggravated), a charge of tampering with a victim was also added.

Karen now resides at the Flagler County Inmate Facility where she is being held without bail, and without potato salad.

@insaneasylmblog

WOMAN FACES JAIL TIME FOR BITING OFF BOYFRIEND'S TESTICLES

2011-10-28T22:15:00.006-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - Picture this...Sicily, February 2011...Well, maybe it wasn't Sicily, but in the UK things got kinda crazy for one couple. 44-year-old Maria Topp of Wreckenton, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, (UK) was arrested back in February and pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm at Newcastle Crown Court after she bit her boyfriends scrotum during a drunken fight at his Newcastle home.

Topp and Martine Douglas, a 45-year-old DJ from Newcastle, dated for five years. The couple had a troubled relationship where they split up and got back together numerous times.

Apparently, the couple had been drinking and a fight ensued. Somehow Topp ended up on her back with Douglas straddling her. Topp says she doesn't remember biting Douglas, but his scrotum had to be repaired using 19 stitches during emergency reconstructive surgery. Mr. Douglas called 999, which is equivalent to our 911, to report the incident but he was in such excruciating pain, that the operators had to struggle to understand what he was saying.

Topp is due to be sentenced on November 11, but she insists there was bad behavior on both sides. according to her lawyer, Topp suffered some injuries, also.

Well, just like most people do who find themselves in effed up situations, Topp took to the one place that she knew she could tell her side of the story and gain allies... Her facebook page. Topp hadn't posted on her page since February, but a few days ago she began updating her status again. Her first status reads:

Notice how she never answers her friends question about "what it says"? And, is she really surprised "it's on Google and in the paper"? I mean, that's what usually happens when you make the evening news.

Topp then went on to post this status 12 minutes later:

Hmmm...I'm sure it did, but since you're suffering from selective amnesia, will you ever remember that reason, Maria?

She ended the day's posts with "my story will come out".

Well since Miss Topp can't seem to remember, I'm gonna tell you how I think the fuckery went down that day:

Martine: Thanks babe for spending time with me.
Maria: Oh honey, you know I just love to be in your presence
Martine: I bought a new wine today. Let's test it out.

(pours wine in glasses)

Maria: Mmm...this tastes delightful
Martine: I'm glad you like it. I thought about you when I bought it.

(Time passes, and they have gone through two bottles of wine. They are feeling a little tipsy and a lot horny)

Martine: Come here, Hun-Bun and let me taste your sweet lips.

(Maria obliges, and a lot of heavy petting and breathing ensues. Martine gets bold)

Martine: Oh Maria darling, I want to try something new.
Maria: What my dear Martine?
Martine: I want to teabag you.
Maria: Teabag? What is that?
Martine: It's where I place my balls into your mouth, you suck them and hum or whatever suits your fancy
Maria: No.
Martine: Please?
Maria: Hell no!

(Martine straddles her face anyway...CHOMP! Time to dial 999)

Well, that's what I think happened. It may go over better if you read it with a British accent though.

Deuces, Smooches
Nena Grace

GET YOUR FREAK ON, GIRL: TSA AGENT FIRED FOR WRITING INAPPROPRIATE NOTE TO PASSENGER

2011-10-28T07:00:00.001-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - TSA agents can sometimes act like they can do whatever they want, like they don't have to answer to anyone. In the past, agents have thoroughly searched children, once made an elderly person take off their adult diaper, and caused one person to have an orgasm - and he got arrested.

Those of you who have been calling for action against TSA agents for their apparent behavior might feel like justice has been served here. An unnamed TSA agent working at Newark Airport has lost their job after finding a vibrator in a passenger’s checked bag and writing a note saying, “Get your freak on, Girl.”

That passenger, lawyer and blogger for feministe.us, Jill Filipovic, tweeted the note and brought the incident to the TSA's attention. It should be noted that when a passenger's bag is searched, a small card with information about the search and their policy is placed inside. It was on that card the note was written, and she didn't notice it until she got to her hotel room.

When she was told that the agent would be fired, she wrote a blog saying that she hoped the person wouldn't lose their job. What did she hope to accomplish by reporting the incident if she didn't want anything to happen?

Surely not extra hits on her website...nah.

The fact is, that agent had access to an embarrassing item in someone's luggage, and he or she abused their power by mentioning it. Even if was supposed to be encouraging. That small violation of privacy was enough to cost that federal agent their job.

Do you think the firing was justified? Do you think the note was meant to poke fun (no pun intended) at Ms. Filipovic or was it just a written high-five? Do you have a TSA story?

87-YEAR-OLD MAN CAUGHT WITH 104 BRICKS OF COCAINE

2011-10-27T09:30:00.002-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - Michigan State Police say a man from Indiana was stopped by one of their guys after he made an illegal lane change on the highway, coming through the city of Chelsea.

When the Trooper asked 87-year-old Leo Sharp for permission to search his vehicle, he refused. The Trooper then called for a K-9 unit for backup.

The dog, Trooper Apollo alerted to possible drugs inside the vehicle, which gave reason to do a search. Once inside, they found 104 bricks of cocaine in black bags hidden in the bed of his pickup. That equates to about 229 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of about $3 million.

Here's the part that grinds my gears

Sharp was arrested and charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. At the bond hearing, old man Sharp said he was forced at gunpoint to traffic the drugs, obviously convincing the judge to set the bond at $10,000.

Okay, this guy was out of jail in a heartbeat, paying the 10% of his $10,000 bond like it was a parking ticket. If he's convicted of what he's being accused of in November, he could get 10 years in prison. 10 YEARS IN PRISON? I know dread-heads doing more time for less marijuana in Michigan, and this guy gets a $10,000 bond and possibly 10 years? Seriously?

Did he show his AARP card for a discount? Maybe his "I'm an old white man" card. I don't know, but that kind of time and the size of the crime doesn't match.
What do you think?

WOMAN DUMPS BAG OF USED CONDOMS ON STORE COUNTER, EXPOSES HERSELF

2011-10-26T23:30:00.000-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - A Kangaroo store in Florida recently had to be shut down temporarily after a woman dumped used condoms on the checkout counter.

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office say the incident began when a 23-year-old woman came in the door cussing at the woman behind the counter and asking about her private life.

Witnesses say the woman seemed upset about being sexually involved with a guy who was also involved with the clerk. When the clerk refused to answer the woman's questions about her involvement with the guy, the woman dumped a bag of used condoms onto the counter.

Surveillance cameras then show the woman pulling her shorts down and lifting up her shirt fully exposing herself to the clerk. The woman left the store but came back shortly to hit the clerk with a used condom that apparently didn't make it to the counter the first time around.

The store had to close for a short while so the counter could be thoroughly cleaned.

Can you imagine this scene playing out in front of you? This chick comes in and starts asking the clerk about who she sleeps with. Then she goes on about how she's with him too, and proceeds to dumps their used condoms on the counter in front of her. Then chick shows her boobs and vagina just to let Ms. Clerk know that she'll never have a body like hers. And just when you think it's over, chick comes back in just to slap the clerk one time with one more used condom. Holy cow...only in Florida.

FACEBOOK CHECK-IN LEADS TO ARREST

2011-10-26T13:50:00.001-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - I can't put my finger on how, but it seems like Facebook has somehow made zombie meat out of people's brains. Even when committing a crime, people just can't seem to stay off of it.

Police in Jackson, MS. say a man who had broken into a business last week after hours logged onto his Facebook page on one of their computers. Now, it doesn't actually say if he used Facebook Places to "check in" or if he simply logged into Facebook. Either way, the activity is documented in some fashion.

He must've thought about that very thing, because five days later, he went back to steal the computer he used.

Jason Andrew Smith is charged with two counts of burglary at a Uhaul rental service. The prosecutors told Judge Houston Patton that the Facebook page holds all the cards against Smith. After review, Judge Patton agreed that there was sufficient evidence to recommend the indictment of the 30-year-old.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH STUPIDITY

2011-10-24T10:23:00.005-05:00

A couple of months back, I had decided that my little patch of America was headed for the infernal regions in a bicycle basket, and that it behooved me to do something about it. I was especially appalled at the behavior of the youth in my neck of the woods, and had decided the thing to do was to volunteer my time and talents to ensuring that Staten Island’s youngins had something more productive to do with their spare time than spray paint bus shelters, engage in flash-mobbing local businesses, or drink beer in the woods, so I tried to volunteer with the local Boy’s and Girl’s Club of New York.

Amazingly, I was rejected as a suitable example for fragile teenaged minds. Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the f-word as a noun, verb, adjective, and often as punctuation, throughout my interview, but in retrospect I believe that what really put a bee in the bonnet of the social-worker lady who conducted that interview was my stated belief that what kids really need is more discipline and less mollycoddling. This goes against the grain of the touchy-feely-fake-self-esteem-detached-from-actual-achievement mantra of the modern Boy’s and Girl’s Club. I guess.

Be that as it may, I was determined to do something. Someone needed to, and it would be extremely hypocritical of me to write and profess that ‘something needs to be done’ and then do nothing of my own accord. So, I cast about looking for some other cause to support, some other arena in which I might make, as the cliché goes, a difference to at least one person in need.

Which led me to make perhaps the third-biggest mistake in my life (and no, I’m not going to tell you what the top two were, so there!).

In my zeal to ‘make a difference’ I forgot that when it comes to charity and community service, the absolute WORST place to try and make that difference is in conjunction with an organized religion.

You see, I was ‘turned on’, as they say, to a local church group (the church and religious denomination will not be identified here) which was in search of people who could teach basic computer literacy. This was right up my alley, having had over 25 years of experience in computer operations and systems programming. The Church in question had just received a donation of some 30-odd refurbished computers, and a state grant to run a computer literacy workshop for the barely-employable. The idea was to give some folks some basic computer skills so that they could go out and find a job (fat chance: I’m a professional and I can’t find one!). So, I got a call from Reverend Bonehead who had heard through a friend-of-friend that I was looking to do something ‘good for the community’.

I should have said ‘No’. I should have said “Thank you, Reverend, but I’m not comfortable working with a religious organization because I’m not a brainwashed doofus...", I should have referred Reverend Nincompoop to someone else, if I could have. But no…I had made the decision to do ‘something’, and something I would do.

To make a long story short, barely four weeks after this 'program' began it all came to an inglorious end. Mostly because the money set aside for it was spent or disappeared under nebulous circumstances, but primarily because Reverend Dipshit – who should have known better, one would think – had a much more…shall we say, optimistic… view of the better aspects of Human Nature than was perhaps evident. Or maybe the whole thing was just a scam to begin with?

You see, the first problem lay mostly within the human material that entered ‘the program’ itself. There was a cornucopia of very good reasons as to why many of those people had been deemed ‘unemployable’ in the first place, and why even a certificate in Microsoft Word wasn’t going to do much to change that fact. A few of our potential students had extensive criminal records. Most had never held a job for more than a few months, ever, in their lives. Somewhere around 75% could be considered functionally illiterate. The remainder would probably never learn a thing, even if you drilled a hole in their heads and poured the knowledge into it like concrete. Most are single mothers, many with a ton of unresolved psychological problems that would make Dr. Phil walk away in abject disgust and disbelief, vowing to take up a more noble and rewarding enterprise, like drywalling or sceptic tank cleaning.

But the absolute worst aspect of the entire experiment was the very one I had warned Reverend Dumbass about before we even started, but he was unwilling to listen to my concerns, and even hinted at an accusation of racism on my part for even suggesting it.

I had asked Reverend Dipshit just what sort of facility he had for securing all these donated laptops when they weren’t going to be used during classes. They would have to be locked up if they weren’t to be stolen, and in that particular neighborhood a church full of computers would make a lovely target, indeed. Reverend Asshole was convinced that the best thing to do was to allow the students to keep ‘their’ laptops when they weren’t in class, the better to practice the skills they would be learning in their spare time. I protested; give those computers to people with no way to bring either machine or warm body back to class on a regular basis, I said, and they’ll quickly disappear.

I was proven correct within a week.

Out of the original 35 laptops donated to the church, 12 of them ‘walked away’ with their owners after the first night’s class. That is to say, their new ‘owners’ had signed up for the program in the hopes of getting a ‘free’ computer, and they were proven right. Once the computer was in their possession they saw no need to return for another class, especially since no one was going to make them come back.

Which led to a second, and most-disturbing, problem; now that the word was out in the neighborhood that the church was ‘giving away free computers’, numbers of people began figuratively beating the doors down looking for theirs, and when told there was no ‘free’ anything they often got extremely angry and downright nasty about it. Before the first week was up, somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 additional people came looking for ‘free’ computers that didn’t exist, and to hell with the idea of taking a course in anything. There's a feeling of entitlement in the neighborhood (where would anyone ever get that sort of idea, one wonders?), and there was even talk of doing violence to those who got the 'free' computers by those who did not get one.

Simply asking the 12 walkaways to return their computers because it would be the right thing to do was a fruitless exercise. The usual excuse for non-compliance was that between the time the computer was handed out and the ‘student’ failing to return for his/her next class, was that the computers had been ‘lost’ or ‘stolen by someone else’. The second most-common response, which is mostly unprintable, involved quite a few Oedipal Sexual references and an insistence that Reverend Dummy attempt to try something physiologically impossible.

Reverend Shithead's wife had managed to 'rescue' at least four computers -- from local pawn shops -- at great expense. We also found that a good proportion of those 12 miscreants had listed false addresses and phone numbers when they had signed up for the course. Calling the police was, Reverend Moron assured me, ‘counterproductive’, and I guess he meant that in terms of revenge; the church might be vandalized or burglarized in retaliation for reporting a bunch of thefts.

The third major problem occurred within the second week. A number of the remaining students are of West African origin, and the African-American students evidently have a long laundry list of beefs and prejudices against them. The primary indication of this friction is how many of the West African students had their computers or workbooks stolen or destroyed by their African-American counterparts out of sheer hostility, through attempts to bully and intimidate them, or, as one student put it to me, ‘just because they can...’. The hatred for the West Africans by the African- Americans in the class was palpable, and often vocal and borderline-physical. There was language used that would have gotten me arrested on a variety of terrorism, civil rights, and hate crimes charges, but which African-Americans seemingly have no problem applying against their African cousins.

I was beginning to think that even I, someone who has little fear of even the biggest punk-ass gangsta (because I can handle myself, and I own a better gun than you do, thank you), might have to arm myself before showing up to teach these classes. And by the way, the worst offenders were African-American women, much to my surprise and dismay. The majority of the hostility (no surprise whatsoever here) stems from simple jealousy; apparently, the West African women are considered highly desirable by the local menfolk, and their penchants for using perfect English, cleanliness, and for comporting themselves with class and dignity, make the African-American women feel wholly inadequate.

By the end of the second week of classes, my 11 West African students were sharing 6 laptops and workbooks between them, and travelling in groups in order to protect themselves on their way to and from the church from would-be terrorists-in-hair-extensions.

Another problem was that the few Hispanic students in the class are, for the most part, totally illiterate. English is not just a second language for them, it might as well be a fifth one, and some are even ignorant of standard Spanish, having come from mixed backgrounds where dialect is more likely to be spoken. My command of the Spanish language is limited: I can understand approximately 80% of what I read or hear, but I have trouble speaking the language with any fluency whatsoever. There were eight Hispanics in this class, all but one female, and the church made no provision for either a translator, or for instruction books written in Spanish. Give them credit for hanging in there and trying, but they’re fighting an uphill battle.

And that was before the money, mysteriously, dried up...and surprisingly quickly.

Coincidentally, this sudden lack of funding reared its ugly head at about the same time as the church expanded its food pantry and got itself a pair of new mini-buses. Reverend Dumpkopf insists the events are unconnected; it’s simply a matter of ‘the government’ cutting back on ‘this particular program’ and the added expense of keeping the church meeting rooms open after 8 p.m., he assures me, and had absolutely nothing to do with any diversion of funds from one church operation to another.

Eventually, the remaining students, mostly through sheer frustration, began to leave the class. By week three, we were down to 9 laptops and 14 students, and we only had those computers left because their ‘owners’ at least had enough respect for the institution of the church that they wouldn’t go so low as to steal from it. The money to keep ‘the program’ going was no more; not a single student completed the basic course, and my services as a volunteer were no longer required…unless I wanted to feed the homeless, which is sort of like feeding the pigeons in the local park; you’re giving sustenance to a persistent and filthy nuisance which serves no obvious function, and who will eventually only shit all over you.

Christian charity, in my mind, only goes so far, and is wasted upon those who won’t even help themselves. The whole thing has been a tremendous waste of time and effort, and it could have been mostly prevented. Any program which brings about a connection between The Poor, the Church, and Government, is bound to fail for obvious reasons, despite the motivations and efforts of those who choose to do the right thing, mostly because:

a. People, in general, suck, and ‘poor’ people (who often get paid and fed to simply to breathe and breed, and of whom nothing is ever expected) suck even harder.

b. The basest aspects of Human Nature are often impervious to the dictates of enlightened self-interest. People whose only concern is ‘right now’ and ‘what’s in it for me?’ are not exactly the best investments of (other people's) time or (other people’s) money.

The Road to Hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. It’s become clear to me in a way that perhaps wasn’t so previously that it’s also lit by the streetlights of stupidity. A program which was intended to provide basic job skills to a segment of the population which may not have the opportunities provided by even the cheapest community college was destroyed from within by a combination of theft, prejudice, wishful thinking, possibly creative accounting, collusion between politics and religion, and sheer human stupidity.

What little faith I still had in human beings in their ability to do the right thing has been shattered by the experience, and quite frankly, it seems no great loss to me as my expectations were, from the very beginning, exceedingly low. But, at least I made the effort, right?

Somehow, that question now rings hollow, given the cataclysmic failure. I don’t take such failure lightly as a matter of personal pride, but I’m beginning to wonder if it’s worth making another effort, altogether. If I do decide to try again, I can promise you this: there won’t be a church, poor people, government funding, or an unreasonable belief divorced from actual evidence in the ‘innate goodness’ of people involved ever again.

The only things I’ve learned through this experience is that there’s a specific reason why people wallow in poverty and ignorance; it’s because they obviously want to be that way, and because they’re aided and abetted in staying so by a ton of self-delusional little enablers who somehow get paid good money to profess a belief in ‘the Poor’s’ mostly non-existent virtues.

MIXED NUTS: A POTPOURRI OF THINGS WEIRD AND INSANE

2011-10-21T09:45:00.006-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - Man accused of having sex with German Shepherd - There's one thing I've learned from the Vick situation...never mess with a person's dog.

Police officers were called after a Memphis, TN. man was found having sex with a woman's dog in her yard. Within an hour, witnesses watched 40-year-old Kimberly Lawson pull down his pants, get on his knees and allow himself to be mounted at least three times by the German Shepherd who goes by Adam..

Owner Caroline Morris said that Adam was traumatized, and that she had to tell him that it wasn't his fault. Because Adam - the dog...was traumatized...and he needed to know...that it wasn't his fault. Um, Adam didn't seem so traumatized when he was...

Lawson was charged with criminal offense against an animal.

Woman arrested for allowing children to live among garbage and feces - I'll continue to say it. Anyone who chooses to live among filth and feces has a serious mental problem. Pittsburgh police were called when inspectors went into Shartayua Mason's apartment and saw so much garbage, human and animal feces, they could hardly get in.

Once inside, the investigators found garbage filling every inch of the place including filthy clothes, old moldy food. They also found her four children, 2, 3, 4, and 8 hidden within it.

The apartment was overrun with insects, and the 26-year-old also had a rabbit that ran freely. There was rabbit and mouse droppings inside the refrigerator, on tables and counter tops.

Mason was arrested and charged with child endangerment. The children are now in custody of the Division of Children, Youth, and Families.

Woman cuts off man's penis and throws it in the river - A Vietnamese woman who is only referred to by her last name, Pan, cut off her husband's penis with a pair of scissors and threw it into a river.

The 30-year-old told police that it was revenge for his years of abuse and an affair that he was having with another woman.

She told police that her husband, who is a huge drug addict, did his drugs and popped some pills before falling into a deep sleep. That's when she made her move.

She turned herself in after throwing it in the river.

She's facing assault charges, and if convicted, she could get up to 12 years in jail.

MAN ACCUSED OF LICKING WOMAN'S KNEE AND FACE IN PARKING LOT

2011-10-20T16:30:00.007-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - A woman walking to her car after leaving work fell in the parking lot, scraping her knee in the process. Three men from an adjacent construction site saw eevrything and drove over in a golf cart to see if she was okay.

One of the workers helped her to her feet. She thanked all of them, then continued walking to her car. Two of the guys got back into the cart, but not 43-year-old Martin Soto, he wanted to get a closer look.

Chandler, AZ. police say Soto walked up to the woman while she sat in her car with the door open. He then asked the her to show him the scraped knee. When the woman rolled up her pant leg *sigh* to show him, Soto leaned over and licked it.

She got "freaked out" and rolled her pant leg down. While she was doing that, Soto put his left hand under her shirt, grabbed her left side with the right one and licked the left side of her face multiple times. She was able to push him away, close her door and get away.

Soto was later charged with suspicion of assault after the woman identified him in a police line up.

MAN ACCUSED OF BEATING DAUGHTER AND GIVING HER A KNIFE AND GUN TO KILL HERSELF

2011-10-20T15:30:00.001-05:00

#insaneasylumblog- 29-year-old Alejandro Galvan III has been charged with endangering a child and injury to a child under 15 in an incident that happened at his home back on Sept. 7. Police in Houston, TX. say Galvan's 11-year-old daughter told CPS punched her in the arm causing a bruise, then beat her with a belt on her legs, stomach and behind. She also said he gave her a knife and gun to commit suicide with.

Galvan admitted to beating her, and that the bruise she pointed out on her right arm was from when he punched her out of frustration. He said he gave her the knife and unloaded gun and told her to use them if she "still wanted to kill herself".

Houston police say that the photos of her injuries show the beating was "beyond what is necessary for appropriate corporal punishment". Galvan's daughter is in the custody of Children's Protective Services. He's currently in jail with a $5,000 bond, and is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 1.

Personally, I don't think any police agency in Texas have the right to talk about appropriate corporal punishment, and I don't think Galvan would've said, "...if you still want to kill yourself" if she wasn't talking about doing it. A bit extreme his method was, but maybe he simply got fed up with her attitude and went there.

WOMAN'S FIRST NAME LANDS HER IN JAIL FOR 53 DAYS

2011-10-19T17:00:00.002-05:00

#insaneasylumblog -What would you do if your vehicle was stolen and you called the police to report it, but when the cops came to your home, they arrested you?

Well, that's what happened to an Atlanta woman back in August. Teresa Culpepper, who was recently released, was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days for aggravated assault- committed by another 'Teresa'! But, get this... the only thing that the two women had in common was their first names and the fact that they were both "black females".

Culpepper's lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, stated that her client, who was convicted of a misdemeanor back in the 90's, resides in a rough neighborhood that's frequently patrolled by police. She feels that had this been another part of town, this incident never would've happened.

Culpepper's family wasn't able to post the $12,000 bond that was set, so Culpepper wasn't released until her lawyer located the victim of the assault, who then confirmed that Culpepper was the wrong 'Teresa'. And get this... The right 'Teresa' was located and she still hasn't been arrested!

Apparently, the police department is investigating the incident. M'kay...

Here's Culpepper telling her story:

What do you think readers? Racial profiling at it's best or truly a case of mistaken identity? What would you do if you were Ms. Culpepper? What do you think should be done about the way this was handled by the police department?

Deuces Smooches...
Nena Grace

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: TODDLER HIT AND RUN

2011-10-18T17:50:00.005-05:00

#nsfw #insaneasylumblog [Author's note: Before I begin, let me inform you that this is not for the squeamish. The video attached to this article is very graphic and should be viewed at your discretion.]

Last Thursday, gruesome footage was captured by a surveillance camera in Beijing, China of a toddler being run over by not one, but two vehicles. The child was then ignored as she lay there in her own blood while passersby walked, cycled and drove around her body without stopping to help. This went on for 10 minutes until a woman carrying a sack moved the girl to safety and went for help.

Two-year-old Wang Yue wandered away from her mother into the street outside the family's hardware store in Foshan, Guangding Province while her mother hung laundry and her father was busy tending to the shop. The child's father, Wang Chichang, told CNN that she remained in critical condition in a coma as of Monday. "I feel helpless and angry." The father said. "Had one passerby stopped to help earlier, this whole thing wouldn't have been so tragic."

The drivers of both vehicles have been caught and detained by police. Wang, the father, told reporters that the driver of the van had called earlier and offered the family money, but refused to turn himself in.

The woman who stopped to help turned out to be a 58-year-old scavenger named Chen Xianmei. She told local reporters, "Blood was coming from her nose and mouth. I didn't understand why no one else carried her from the street." She went on to say, "I didn't think of anything at the time. I just wanted to save the girl."

Here is the video, but I must stress again, that it is very graphic and disturbing...

After watching this video, I was very emotional. I was angry, near tears and wondered the same thing as the heroine. How in the world could someone not want to help this baby as she lay helpless and lifeless in the street? I am infuriated that people could be so heartless and I can't even begin to imagine this mother's pain. Being a mother myself, I would be devastated if it were my child. I'm rendered speechless as I watch this video again as I add it to this post. So, as I end this article I wonder what my readers reactions will be after seeing this travesty.

Deuces, Smooches...
Nena Grace

MCDONALD'S EMPLOYEE BRUTALLY BEATS 2 WOMEN WITH METAL ROD

2011-10-17T16:30:00.006-05:00

#insaneasylumblog - This is one of those situations where you have to ask yourself, "what would you do?"

31-year-old Rayon McIntosh was working behind the register at an NYC McDonalds on Thursday around 12:30 am when two women came in to place an order. Things went smoothly until McIntosh informed the ladies that he would have to check the $50 bill they were using, to see if it was authentic.

Wasting no time, one of the ladies slapped McIntosh in the face, jumped on then over the counter. The other one walked around the counter in an attempt to apply the double-team coverage. McIntosh found a metal rod that was nearby and proceeded to beat the women like they deserved it. The beating was brutal and surreal. They went down fast, and even then McIntosh continued to beat them lifeless. A customer in the restaurant recorded the whole incident and immediately put it on YouTube. watch it here without leaving

Customers Denise (the slapper) Darbeau, 24, of Queens, and Rachel Edwards, 24, of Brooklyn, were taken to the hospital where Darbeau was found to have a fractured skull and broken arm, while Edwards suffered lumps, bumps and cuts from the incident.

The women were charged with menacing, while McIntosh - who is from the Bronx - was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. It should be noted that in 2000, McIntosh was convicted of Manslaughter when he shot and killed 17-year-old Oshan Litchmore at the Galleria Mall in Westchester. The bullet not only killed Litchmore, but went through and hit an 8-year-old in the leg. He did 10 years behind that, so you do the math. He's fresh out of jail, and he may be going back to stay.

Although some people were traumatized over what happened, some are also taking McIntosh's side. The Rayon McIntosh Defense Fund has been set up on Facebook to support him throughout the matter.

So, was this self-defense? Did McIntosh over-play the situation? Should he have let the ladies just smack him up and come behind the counter to smack him up some more? What would you do?

BLOG ACTION DAY 2011: FREEGANISM - EATING THE THINGS OTHERS THROW AWAY

2011-10-16T18:00:00.002-05:00

#BAD11 #insaneasylumblog - I was excited when presented with the opportunity to participate in Blog Action Day 2011, and even more so when I found out the topic was food, I mean, who doesn't like food?

I decided to choose Freeganism as my topic.

As I thought about the word and what it meant, I realized that some people are Freegans by choice as where some become Freegans against their own will.

In the past Black slaves were given scraps or leftovers from slaughtered animals for food, mainly the pig. These parts consisted of, but weren't limited to, the intestine, feet and head. The slaves took these items and made delicacies of them which are actually enjoyed by many races today but, I must admit, it is an acquired taste.

Some people are forced into Freeganism by acts beyond their power. Economic tragedies, the loss of jobs and eventually homes often adds to the homeless population. Homeless people usually have to find food by any means necessary. This could include: begging, stealing and even dumpster diving. But, then again, you have some people who do those same things just because they are frugal. There are some people who choose to go the cheap way out to preserve their own savings, so they'd rather eat someone's leftovers. They do say, "One man's trash is another man's treasure". I'm sure that pertains to food, too.

Now, I personally know some people who I would consider to be Freegans, or maybe they are just gluttons. There's my cousin who would go through the scraps left over from dinner that were saved for the family dog and eat his fill before giving poor Fido the rest. And then there's my uncle, God rest his soul, who on cleaning day would get all of the leftovers from the refrigerator, empty them all together into a pot on the stove, warm them and eat them. He didn't care if it were peas, hot dogs, pasta or soup, it all went into the pot and eventually into his gut. (Let me stop to say to all the inquiring minds, NO, he didn't die from eating bad food... At least that I know of...)

Although this is just a brief look at Freeganism from my point of view, I hope it helped someone understand it a little more as well as be a tad bit entertained in the process. :)

Deuces, Smooches...

Nena Grace