Thursday, May 31, 2012

The little irony of Obama's birth control mandate

Birth control or the oral contraceptive is not without its complications:

Does ObamaCare cover this?  Something tells me no and if not why not but if it did how is this saving $$$$$$?  A little feminist conundrum if you will, enjoy.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Etan Patz Case - some doubts

You'll remember not that long ago in fact some guy came out of the woodwork claiming to have some intimate and important knowledge of when and how Jon Benet Ramsey died, we all got excited but then he turned out to be a kook and we got introduced to the whole abnormal psychology concept of false confessions or false confessors and were told it was not as uncommon as you think.  NYPD police now seem to have wrapped up the 33-year old Etan Patz case the 6-year old boy who in 1979 was allowed to walk to the bus stop for the first time alone in SoHo in Lower Manhattan at West B'way and Prince St. not that far from home in fact and went missing, practically vanished into thin air and was the first kid really to be featured on milk cartons.  Now they seem all set to prosecute this 51-year old Pedro Hernandez guy who confessed and his story goes he all of a sudden got the sudden urge to kill the kid, out of the blue really and took him in a basement of a local bodega where he worked as a stockboy at the time and strangled him THEN put him in a garbage bag and kept him in the walk-in box until he could put him out with the trash for the day.  OK so we've all heard one of the criticisms of the investigators or the investigation here that for starters Hernandez would have a history of killing other kids or at least be a suspect in other cases, think budding serial killer who stopped after one victim and resumed a normal life but let me cover the whole walk-in box angle for a minute since I worked in a deli/gourmet kitchen kind of deal for many years myself.  Now a bodega is generally thought of as a kind of Spanish or Latino deli/mini-market/grocery store, a deli in a Hispanic neighborhood otherwise being known as a bodega and they tend to be busy if I'm not mistaken.  Think hot day in the middle of July on Jerome Ave. in the Bronx and now the walk-in box which is really deli slang or lingo for cooler or the big refrigerated room where they keep the meats and cheeses and raw chickens to be spit and salads etc., temp just above 32 degrees but not a freezer by any stretch, that'd be in bakery.  So let me tell you how many people, workers on average go into and out of the walk-in on any given day - ALOT - and so Hernandez apparently lugged this big heavy trash bag in there and left it there for a time w/no one noticing.  Now someone asked me today but what if the walk-in was disorganized and messy? well yeah but any decent enough deli mgr. or bodega mgr. in this case would at least have a rough inventory in his head of what's in there and would almost certainly over time ask what's the bag all about?  Believe you me many deli mgrs. watch you like a hawk all day ("what are you looking for?" "where's Moussa?") and some of the Spanish ones are practically humping you where I told one guy to back off, where's the fire I said.  Just have my doubts is all:)

Friday, May 25, 2012

What this election is NOT about

- Osama bin Laden
- Women's lack of access to birth control
- Mormonism
- gay marriage
- Romney giving a gay kid a haircut
- Trayvon Martin/hoodies
- Stop 'n' Frisk
- Bain Capital

"Throw another log on the fire Cory"

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

What does OWS & ice-fishing have in common?

Not much.  I lost alot of respect for them when they stopped protesting throughout the winter months.  Sure some judge told them they can't camp out in Zuccotti Park anymore but what was it? by late December or early January they weren't even in the news anymore probably replaced by some Kardashian crap and the latest political scandal.  Lost alot of steam imo by hibernating like this, even the 'possum risks ice-frost every now and then to get a bite to eat.  The brave May Day protests to shut down work, schools and banks, expect more brave protests throughout the summer months, probably into the fall as well.  This blogpost is not about whether you agree or disagree with them, you probably don't and will comment as you see fit but real protesters protest in whatever kind of weather.  12 degress in the middle of January, you're out there with your frozen snot and a chapped ass, a rumbling belly because you're body expelled all that fine OWS cuisine and you have to use the Port-o-San at least 10X because you had a couple cups 'o' joe when you woke up in the morning, now that's Democracy in action and I can respect that politics be damned!  They really need to watch reels of those old-time black civil-rights protesters from the 60's getting pushed back by fire hoses and bitten by German Sheperds these hippy/yuppie hybrid malcontents.  Bunch 'o' pussies, meteorological cowards.  They don't make protesters like they used to:)