Archive for March 29th, 2010

SUBWAY’S LAUGHTER.

29th March
2010
written by jed

Sorry, I misread the headline. It’s actually SUBWAY SLAUGHTER. Apparently, ten (10) pals boarded a 2 train at 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning at 42nd and 7th. “One of the men had a bag of trash and tossed it out the door as the train stopped at 14th Street,” according to another of the men (Brian Woods, 24). “The trash struck one of four men boarding the train at that stop — and he pulled a knife.”

Woods claims that his group apologized profusely “but they took it as an insult. They came at us with knives.”

Two of the ten were killed, another was wounded in the arm and neck.

Here’s an idea: Don’t throw bags of trash out of a subway car. There are garbage cans in every station. And if, due to some mental deficiency or dementia, you decide that you have to do it, wait for the large men boarding the train to move out of the way. Did any of these people deserve to be stabbed (let alone murdered)? Of course not. But I can understand why they were.

Is Governmental Employees Chairman Peter Abbate (D – Brooklyn) really introducing a bill that would give all public workers the same “rubber room” protection that teachers currently have? Is he insane?

It’s the Post, so you have to take everything with a wheelbarrow of salt, but if this is true, I’m flabbergasted.

Michelle “B0mbshell” McGee’s father told reporters that his daughter is “in seclusion right now in San Diego.”

“But then,” he added, “I repeat myself.”

Oh, hello, article on the Pope! DOLAN FROND OF POPE (see what they did there?) is the (heavily re-written) print version of the article I read online yesterday. Dolan is quoted here as saying, “The dramatic progress that the Catholic Church in the United States has made… could never have happened without the insistence and support of the very man now being daily crowned with thorns by groundless innuendo.”

Oh, that poor former Nazi. I hope he gets through this OK.

O needs Dustbuster is a nice page 6 (not to be confused with Page Six, which is on page 14 today) story that points out that the helicopter that brought Obama to the Bagram Air Base (for a surprise visit with our troops) also “stirred up the chalky desert topsoil while he was boarding, leaving him coated in powder.”

How do I go about nominating S.A. Miller for a Pulitzer?

National Grid is accused of stealing millions of dollars from Con Ed customers “in a complex price-fixing scheme” that cost NYC residents an average of $40 each (for a total of $157,000,000). They are being asked to pay a $12,000,000 fine by the Justice Department and they think that’s fair.

Now that’s what I call justice.

The Bounty Hunter came in fourth place at this weekend’s box office, bringing the total domestic gross to just over $1,000,000 less than its production budget ($38,812,000 / $40,000,000). Even if you add foreign box office (under $7,500,000), it still hasn’t reached my predicted total. Perhaps I was too kind?

Alexander Clement, 68, and Christine Clement, 64, have been arrested for buying Jell-O pudding, removing the bags of pudding and replacing them with bags of sand, resealing the boxes and returning them for a full refund.

Teresa! They stole our idea!

Is there anything sweeter than the six words that appear on page 16?

On vacation

* Andrea Peyser

* Cindy Adams

Lindsey DeLeon, the alleged lying whore (the lying is alleged, but she’s totes a prozzie), was allegedly engaged to Colton Braig, 26, while she allegedly strung along Robert Brot, 67.

Her parents (and her kids) must be so allegedly proud.

Kathryn Erbe, of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, has been stalked by Charles Nagel, 36, for some time now. He was caught by police and arrested on Tuesday in Philadelphia, where he performed under the stage name Chaz Rose.

$20 says Dick Wolf has at least one episode “ripped from this headline” by the end of the year.

Prez ripped on ’sneaky’ pick throws up its hands in outrage at Obama’s recess appointments of 15 people. Senator Lamar Alexander responded by screeching, “What the president has done is throw fuel on the fire at a time when the debate about politics is a very angry debate to begin with.”

Guess how many recess appointments George W. Bush made in his first seven years in office. Go on, guess. I’ll give you a hint: Clinton made 139 in eight years. Give up?

171.

When Bush suggested a recess appointment for John Bolton, John McCain said, “I would support it. It’s the president’s prerogative.” And what does the bitter old fart have to say about Obama’s recess appointments? That he’s “very disappointed” and that the Obama administration has “little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress” and that they have once again “forced their will on the American people.”

Alexander has the audacity to claim that Obama is “throw[ing] fuel on the fire” by doing the same (perfectly legal) thing Bush and Clinton did? Then what does he call what McCain is doing? Also, the reason Obama HAD to do this is because the GOP has made it clear that they will obstruct any and every little bit of political minutiae they can. These appointments had been unnecessarily delayed for months, with no end in sight.

Despicable.

First Ramel Green, 23, beat his girlfriend’s 22-month-old to death on March 20th. Then Allen Shannon, 27, was charged with the beating death of a 19-month-old girl in Corona.

Now comes the story of 9-month-old Neveah Jackson, whose father is being held “for further investigation.” She died of “blunt-impact injuries to the head” and had “skull fractures and brain injuries.”

What is going on? Why are people in New York City killing babies with such great frequency?

I blame Socialism.

There’s a nice photo on page 26 of MTA boss Jay Walder riding the W train.

I’m so glad he got a chance to ride it once before it goes away forever.

The Chinese have purchased Volvo for $1,800,000,000.

I assume they’ll be changing the name.

If RadioShack gets bought, the current CEO stands to make $93,000,000.

I don’t understand why RadioShack still exists.

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino of Jersey Shore fame (Jersey Shame?) threw out the first pitch at a Mets game last week.

Know your audience, as they say.

The only theater in New York City currently scheduled to screen the NCAA Final Four games in 3-D is the Pavilion in Park Slope. Tickets are $25. To watch a basketball game in 3-D.

Anyone else think that’s ridiculous?

Michael Starr reports that Rip Taylor is slated for Joe Franklin’s WBBR show next month.

I know what most of those words mean. Keep up the great work, Michael!

Linda Stasi gives tomorrow night’s The Real Face of Jesus? four stars and ends her review with, “Startling — and definitely better than the images of surfer Jesus on those back scratchers.”

Has anyone ever seen Cindy Adams and Linda Stasi in the same place, at the same time?

House is still in repeats. This is unacceptable. But I am powerless to change it. Sigh.

Try to stay dry, kids.

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