Thursday, June 22, 2006
What can unite right wing Jews & Muslims & bring peace to the Mideast? Their mutual bigotry against homosexuals, of course. There's no point killing each other over a few square miles of Palestine when "traditional values" are at risk & gay enemies are free to run loose in the holy land. (thanx to Pam for this bizarre story)
Here's a scam that was doomed to fail. To raise some money, a Missouri couple spread it around that they had critically ill sextuplets in the hospital whose existence was being kept secret by court order because a family member was out to kill them. It tests the credulity of even gullible neighborhood saints. Still, that kind of news would tend to get around regardless of court orders. I don't understand why they thought they'd make much money out of the con. They got some. But that's the sort of situation people love to respond to with practical charity. Cash? Keep what you have. We collected for you a truckload of Pampers, two dozen cases of strained green peas, a pile of dangly noisy Fisher Price doodads, six cribs, & the hardware store wants to know how many gallons of blue & pink paint you need. You understand we can't give you the Chevy Tahoe until we can take photos of the babies crawling around in it. Oh, & here's a $50 gift certificate from Domino's pizza. Yeah, try unloading all that at a local flea market without arousing suspicion.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Here's a scam that was doomed to fail. To raise some money, a Missouri couple spread it around that they had critically ill sextuplets in the hospital whose existence was being kept secret by court order because a family member was out to kill them. It tests the credulity of even gullible neighborhood saints. Still, that kind of news would tend to get around regardless of court orders. I don't understand why they thought they'd make much money out of the con. They got some. But that's the sort of situation people love to respond to with practical charity. Cash? Keep what you have. We collected for you a truckload of Pampers, two dozen cases of strained green peas, a pile of dangly noisy Fisher Price doodads, six cribs, & the hardware store wants to know how many gallons of blue & pink paint you need. You understand we can't give you the Chevy Tahoe until we can take photos of the babies crawling around in it. Oh, & here's a $50 gift certificate from Domino's pizza. Yeah, try unloading all that at a local flea market without arousing suspicion.
