What I Heard This Week 07-21-2022
In June of 2020, Wanda Palmer was attacked, hacked at, and left in a coma for dead. She had massive head trauma consistent with a machete or hatchet type injury. Investigators interviewed her brother, considered him a suspect, but he denied any involvement and they didn’t have enough evidence against him. Two years later on June 27, 2022, the woman started coming out of her coma saying single words, so her caseworker called the police. On July 12, she identified her brother as her attacker, he was arrested, and charged with attempted murder, as well as malicious wounding. Hmmm. What goes around, comes around… sometimes it just takes a while.
Cooking Hint: After cooking your pasta, reduce the cooking water to concentrate the starch, then freeze what is left into ice trays. The starchy ice is perfect for adding body to sauces and soups. – Cook’s Illustrated
Disney has agreed to pay a woman $100,000 after she said, she was bitten multiple times by bedbugs while staying at the Disneyland Hotel in 2018, causing her to suffer emotional stress ☹ and anxiety from the bites which caused severe rashes over her body and led to her losing clothing and other personal items. The lawsuit alleged Disney failed to maintain its rooms in a “decent, safe and habitable condition.” Disney says bedbugs “don’t discriminate” and can be found in any hotel of any quality across the globe. Disney says that they reached a settlement in an effort to avoid the cost of litigation. How in the heck did she lose her clothing and other personal items? That sounds like alcohol, not bedbugs.
If you’re injured in New Zealand, regardless of cause or blame, the ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) scheme entitles you to: Free medical care. Payment of a proportion of your salary, while you recover. Payment of compensation, if appropriate. The ACC scheme replaces the right to sue for damages. In New Zealand you cannot sue someone for causing you injury. Hmmm.
Now, a father in Illinois is upset that the Raging Rivers Waterpark turned away his 13-year-old daughter from their newest ride called the Mississippi Monster, because she weighed five pounds over the 200 lb. weight limit, which was posted at the beginning of the ride, along with a scale, just in case you don’t have a clue how much you weigh. The dad said, while it was disappointing for his daughter to not be able to get on the new ride, it was worse to endure the “public humiliation of being asked to step on a scale,” adding, “then further than that, being told that you’re overweight.” Hmmm. Remember the 340 lb. 14-year-old, thrown from a ride in Orlando that had a weight limit of 287 lbs. He fell 400 ft. to his death.
It’s so dry outside, the Baptists are sprinkling, and the Catholics are using a damp cloth.
The 2022 Great Texas Mosquito Festival is July 28, 29 & 30 at Clute Municipal Park, sponsored in part by Del Papa Distributing Co. and Karbach Brewing. Entertainment by Gabe Garcia, Creed Fisher, Dos Borrachos, Elida Reyna Y Avante, Duelo, Tilluride, and Spazmatics, BBQ cookoff, carnival, and vendors.
Paul Rudd, who in my book will always be the sexiest man alive whether he is on the front of People Magazine or not, found out that a 12-year-old boy was being bullied. The real-life Marvel onscreen superhero arranged a FaceTime chat with the young man. Then he followed-up with a personal letter saying, “It’s important to remember that even when life gets tough, that things get better. There are so many people that love you and think you are the coolest kid there is – me being one of them!” He sent a signed Ant-Man helmet, then several of the older students at his school started asking for selfies with the young boy and signing his yearbook. Be kind to everyone…
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 86. Frumpy little old hair-netted spinster lady on Laugh-In named Gladys Ormphby that beat people with her handbag. “No, it didn’t hurt,” she revealed. “It looked vicious, but it was just a felt purse lined and filled with old pantyhose and cotton. I was able to swing it with all my might and it still wouldn’t hurt anyone, although it looked great and sounded great with a ‘thud’ when it landed. She lives on a 629-acre ranch close to Dallas now, but recently suffered a series of strokes that have left her bedridden and incapacitated. She has sure given us lots of laughs.
Actor John Aniston of Days of Our Lives is 89. Actor Mark Goddard of Lost in Space is 86. Actor Lynda Carter is 71. Country singer Pam Tillis is 65. Actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 54. Actor-singer Jennifer Lopez is 53. Drummer Jim McCarty of The Yardbirds is 79. Bassist Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire is 71. Supermodel Iman is 67. Actor Matt LeBlanc “Joey” of Friends is 52. Singer Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones is 79. Actor Helen Mirren is 77. Drummer Roger Taylor of Queen is 73. Actor Susan George is 72. Actor Sandra Bullock is 58. TV producer Norman Lear is 100. Jazz saxophonist David Sanborn is 77.
Actor Delta Burke is 66. Singer Maureen McGovern is 73. Cartoonist Jim Davis of Garfield is 77. Actor Sally Struthers is 75. Drummer Simon Kirke of Bad Company is 73. Guitarist Steve Morse of Deep Purple is 68. Keyboardist Neal Doughty of REO Speedwagon is 76. Documentary maker Ken Burns is 69. TV personality Tim Gunn of Project Runway is 69. Singer Patti Scialfa of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is 69. Country singer Martina McBride is 56. Blues guitarist Buddy Guy is 86. Singer Paul Anka is 81. Actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is 75. Actor Lisa Kudrow of Friends is 59.
Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, until replaced by Marla Maples, died at 73 after suffering blunt impact injuries of the torso, after falling down stairs in her home.
Mickey Rooney Jr., the oldest of Micky Rooney’s children, died at 77. Rooney Jr. was an original Mouseketeer who appeared on the Mickey Mouse Club in 1955 along with his brother Tim. Longtime friend Paul Petersen (Jeff on The Donna Reed Show) said, ”Mickey Junior was tall and talented. He could sing, dance and act … and get in trouble,” he joked of the fact that the three of them were let go from the show after just a few episodes. “We three were fired for Conduct Unbecoming a Mouse!”
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck aka Bennifer, married in a tunnel of love drive-thru chapel in Las Vegas, at twelve thirty in the morning. She was in a dress from an old movie, had done her own makeup, BUT later changed into a lacy gown featuring a corset bodice and fishtail train for the ceremony. The groom chose a white tuxedo that he found hanging in his closet, which he changed into in the men’s bathroom before the ceremony. Hmmm. Isn’t it just swell to have such great celebrities to look up to!
I’m a social vegan, I avoid “meet”.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says that they plan to close 16 stores because of security and personal safety issues. Evidently, this is just the beginning and there will be many more closings because of crime, homelessness and drug use in the bathrooms. I gave my copy of his book, Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, to someone. I don’t remember who that was, but if you are finished reading it, please return.
A transgender inmate was transferred out of an only women’s prison in New Jersey after impregnating two female inmates earlier this year, following consensual sexual relationships. Just one year ago, the state reached a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey to house transgender inmates according to their gender identity, instead of their sex assigned at birth.
Sometimes a drink(s) after work, is not such a good idea. A city worker left his office, stopped off at a restaurant and had a few too many alcoholic drinks, then fell asleep on the street. When he woke up, someone had stolen his bag, which contained a flash drive with the personal details of every individual in his city. Details like names, birth dates, and addresses of 465,177 people, the city’s entire population. The flash drive also contained sensitive information including tax details, bank account names and numbers, and information on households receiving public assistance such as childcare payments. The employee had been authorized to access the data, but he had not been given permission to transfer it onto a separate electronic device and leave with it.
A 53-year-old Oklahoma man confessed to killing a man that he went catfish noodling with, because he was afraid the man intended to feed him to Sasquatch/Bigfoot. Hmmm. You’ve got to be careful who you take with you when you go catfish noodling.
Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” was the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Spielberg was the second director, because the first director was fired when they found out he didn’t know the difference between a whale and a shark. It cost $750,000 to make three mechanical sharks, each with different functions. Spielberg named them all Bruce, after his lawyer. The line, “you’re gonna need a bigger boat,” was ad-libbed by Roy Scheider/police chief Brody. Co-stars, Richard Dreyfuss (oceanographer Matt Hooper) and Robert Shaw (Captain Quint), couldn’t stand each other in real life, which resulted in some believable tension between the two.
When I was little, I bit my fingernails down to the quick. My dad would take hot sauce and put it on my fingernails to remind me not to put fingers in my mouth. It wasn’t bad until I rubbed my eyes. I never thought much about it until I read a story this week about the Hoover First United Methodist Church day school that used hot sauce as punishment “for years, if not decades,” to punish children two years old and younger. Hot sauce, and apple cider vinegar. It all started with taco night at one home, where both a 4-year-old and 5-year-old both of their parents that the hot sauce on the table was “what they give the babies at school.” The part-time pastor said the practice has stopped and will never be done again. I would hope NOT. The daycare was not even licensed with the state.
Good-looking country and “Ameripolitan” singer Dale Watson, is looking for his guitar after it was stolen from the back of his black van at a Houston restaurant last week. They also took fan merch, personal stuff, and lots of money. He got his van back, but not the coin-encrusted guitar that he has owned for almost 30 years. If you like vintage country sound, try listening to The Dumb Song.
Dallas ISD, the second largest school district in the state, will require students to use clear or mesh backpacks. Is that just so people will be satisfied that something is being done, because I don’t see that as a fix. The extraordinary heat wave in Europe is showing what is now possible already with climate change, and more important, what lies ahead. A speedboat carrying more than 800 pounds of cocaine, worth more than $13 million on the illegal market was seized off the coast of Columbia, but not before they dumped several bricks of the drug into the ocean. Bass Pro Shop is changing their Redhead brand Lifetime Guarantee All-Purpose Sock policy. One man has been exchanging his socks for years, so he is filing a lawsuit against the company. Speaking of redheads, Showcase Cinemas in the UK where temperatures have soared to dangerous levels, is offering free admission to redheads to enjoy a movie and cold air-conditioning. Redheads are often more vulnerable than most to the sun’s rays. The pentagon now reports over 400 UFO encounters. The title of the news article was COVID is Getting Stronger, and We Are Growing More Complacent, as new coronavirus variants and subvariants spread. Research found that people given caffeine before shopping, in the range of 25 mg. to 200 mg., spent significantly more money and bought a higher number of items. So do NOT drink coffee before your weekly trip to the grocery store. In honor of Shark Week, you can pick up a blue coconut slush at Sonic with strawberries on top, along with gummy sharks. It’s cute.
LISA
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