A random mental walk.

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The comments to crime videos are often more entertaining than the video itself.  I was checking the comments to a Stayawake video about a former boyfriend who murdered a former girlfriend with a bomb. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfDrht0zXIQ)

The woman who was killed, Ildiko, had an extensive sex life which presented multiple suspects.  Many comments wondered how she could manage all those relationships and still run her business.  Several stood out  

  • @reignman30: Turns out Ildiko was the only registered female at the local sperm donor clinic, and she was considered a regular.
  • @brycedaugherty9211: That's not a love triangle. That's a love dodecahedron
  • @DoctorDerpman: She picked up more dudes than a city bus 
The description, "Killer Rocket Scientist vs Expert Detectives" was misleading.  The killer had a hobby creating rockets and was not a "rocket scientist" by any of several definitions.

Red Tree Stories - Chloe

"Red Tree Stories" is a YouTube channel with videos of police investigations. One particular post, "Chloe Thinks She Can Manipulate The Police" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcmCNfJnTs) concerns a young woman who set up a drug by which resulted in the pusher being killed by one of the two guys she told bout the buy. The main feature of the video is a 17 year old young woman throwing a temper tantrum in the interrogation room.  Because she pounds on the metal table and screams the video has a number of warnings for and apologies to viewers with headphones.  My favorite caption read, ""More entitled ranting".

Seeing someone that age behaving like that is either funny or alarming. I'm sure that just a few seconds of the video is enough to keep parents talking for hours or not. In the end the shooter was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The young woman given a 20 year sentence for testifying against the two. The shooter's wingman was given a life sentence and an extra 75 years for the attempted murder of the man who drove the pusher to the place where the buy was to take place. (www.nwfdailynews.com/story/news/2015/06/15/1-491401/33964899007/)

Such a waste.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Trump's Helicopter Ride with a Black Person


Quoting from August 10th LA Times article  (www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/willie-brown-wasn-t-on-that-frightening-helicopter-ride-with-trump-here-s-who-was/ar-AA1ozVEC):

Ever since Donald Trump said Thursday that Willie Brown had bashed Vice President Kamala Harris years ago during a scary helicopter ride together, the former president has insisted that the story is true. This despite the fact that Brown, the former California Speaker, said he had never done business with Trump, let alone been on a flight with him.

But it turns out that another California official had.

In an interview Saturday, Nate Holden, the former longtime Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, recalled vividly what happened one day in 1990 when he had been invited by Trump to fly from Manhattan to Atlantic City on his chopper.

There are multiple ways this story can be spun: 

  1. Donald Trump can't tell one black person from another.
  2. Donald Trump's memory continues to fail.
  3. Proof that Donald Trump isn't a racist because he let a black person ride in his helicopter.
  4. God made sure that Donald Trump did not perish in a helicopter crash because God had great plans for The Donald.

The Whole Grail Typo

No, the title is not a typo.

CNN's travel article "They all say they’ve got the Holy Grail. So who’s right?" (www.cnn.com/holy-grail-leon-spain-valencia-genoa/index.html) contains a typo (or not).  The article lists at least 4 sites which claim to have the Holy Grail.  With the multiple locations in mind, here's the typo: 

"You might even be able to feel the mystical power of the Grail if you visit one of the many places it is said to be hiding, just out of SITE."

The last word would normally be "sight" not "site" unless the author was making a sly comment.  I tried to post a comment, but to do so I'd have to subscribe to CNN.  No thank you.

It wanted to send a message to the author, but, as is so typical, there was no easy way.  To contact her I'd need to join another site as a journalist.  So bag that baloney.  


By the end of the article the prototype of a multiple choice quiz with images materialized: From the following select the image which most closely represents your concept of the Holy Grail. One of the images was a sippy cup.

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