Krokodil
2011/06/29 Leave a comment
Wednesday already!?
/Life is tough en’uf without having to worry about-Krokodil.
It’s a new designer drug that can turn an addict’s skin greenish, scaly and cause it to rot!!!!
A derivative of morphine, Krokodil, (also called desomorphine) is something new from Russia but U.S.
drug administration officials expect it in the States sooner than later! If the past holds Canadian
health officials won’t know anything about Krokodil until the Americans tell them!
Russian police say they seized 65 million doses in the first three months of 2011. Guesstimates,
also by the Russians, suggest more than a million people in that country, known for its love affair with vodka, are users of KROLODFIL………main attraction: cheap!
Mix codeine with gasoline, paint thinner, hydochloric acid and red phosphorus. And that gives you Russian heroin!
Take some and say “Dobra vacher, Boris.” Krokodil-another of life’s sink-holes./
/Pass me the soda pop–yes!!! no, no,no?? How about this: diet soft drink drinkers, as a group, experienced ” 70% greater increases in waist circumference” compared with those
who drink no diet soda!!! Abdominal fat is a major risk factor for diabetes, cardio problems, cancer and other chronic health worrisomes.
That was the result of studies using humans. They did a mouse study feeding them aspartame—but we all know nobody takes just aspartame. And neither would the mice
but they were conscripted after refusing to submit voluntarily. The researchers claim after forcing the aspartame into the mice, the mice showed elevated blood sugar levels!!!!
Remember when eggs and butter were no-no’s and after telling us to use only margarine, we were told get back to butter…..? As I recall they started that rollercoaster with mice too……..
/The Dodgers may be bankrupt, BUT when you consider pitching so are the Blue Jays!!!
Last night Jo Jo Reyes left his mojo in the clubhouse. Gave up 9 hits and 6 earned runs in 3 and a half innings!
The announcer said 17-thousand paid for the game, but I don’t think 17 thousand attended. This year’s edition has expansion written all over it…
Last night it was no pitching, poor fielding and squandered hitting. Night before in Detroit it was the Bullpen that missed the game.
As Casey Stengel once said about his useless New York Mets, “, can’t anybody here play this game?”
/The people of Illinois can put together a streak! They have now elected two Governors in a row who have gone to jail.
The latest is Rodney Blagojevich(Blago) for short. In today’s Wall street journal Roger Simon details the hilarious Blago Saga, including
a quote about the convicted Governor from a Chicago political insider–“you could cut off his head and he wouldn’t be any dumber.”
/And here’s another. This one an observation by Paul Sullivan writing about women’s shoes in today’s freebie paper-Metro:
“wherever I look, women’s shoes have morphed into something Darth Vader would wear if he were into cross-dressing >”
Lord ain’t that th truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Road Back
2011/07/03 2 Comments
/…Michael Vick, disgraced, convicted as a felon, excoriated by his former boosters, booted from the NFL and sent to jail for five years is back.
Dropped four years ago by NIKE, the world’s largest sporting goods company, Vick has been re-signed by Nike to a multi-year contract.
Terms not disclosed….but the circle has been joined and the Philadelphia quarterback can say it, “the road’s been rough but I’m back………….
/…It was a stunning reversal of fortune moving DSK(Dominque Straus-Kahn) from 5 to 20 in Sing Sing to release
on his own recognizance and back on the road to the Elysee-Palace. Before his strange encounter in a New York hotel suite he was being
given better than 2 to 1 odds of winning the French Presidency. The encounter cost him his job at the IMF but he was preparing to leave that anyway
for the move on the Palace. It will be some time before the image of the “perv” walk is erased and before that’s erased there will be some messy days in a New York courtroom.
But in France, DSK’s tangle with the New York police is looked upon as a badge of honour! Make way for the DSK motorcade!! Maybe?
/…Conrad Black was whiplashed in a Chicago court by Judge Amy St. Eve and he’s going back to jail but there’s a silver lining….a couple of days after that shock, Black got some goods news!
Prosecutors told his lawyers they will be returning the 5 and a half million dollars they confiscated from the sale of his Manhattan apartment.
They have been holding the money for almost six years so he gets it back plus interest. Lord Black is on his way back BUT not before the prison detour. Nevertheless
the light on the other side of this tunnel is freedom road.
/…In Thailand, another stunner! That country has elected its first female Prime Minister.
Yingluck Shinawatra, is the 44-year-old sister of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister who was ousted in a military coup five years ago.
His sister has never held political office but she leads her Pheu Thai party to a majority in the Thai House of Representatives. The hope is with this majority
she can calm the nation that was wracked by deadly riots just last year. Her victory is impressive when you consider the numbers…
Forty parties looking to fill 500 seats. Her party wins over 300. She’s earned substantial political capital which Thais are hoping will be spent wisely.
/…Now consider how easy it is to squander, political capital! Rob Ford arrived at Toronto City Hall with immeasurable political capital and even after
making some silly statements about blowing up work already done on solving transit problems, and sticking to that nonsense about Subways to Nowhere
he still had plenty. So as he was about to embark on his seventh month into the job, his approval rating high and his political capital account flush,
(Political capital-never easy to attain and even harder to retain-look at Flinty Mc Guinty) why would he squander his largesse on such a stupid decision.
“If invited I will not come to the Pride Parade.” NO NO NO! Substitute FATHEAD Ford for MAYOR FORD!
…don’t take my word, that his Political Capital account has diminished exponentially–check out Sue Ann Levy in today’s Sun.
She has been one of Mayor Ford’s major media boosters. She writes, “in their six months in office, I have never seen the mayor and his advisers
screw up something so simple as recognizing an important community in this city and attending just one(only one) of a signature series of events.”
… Sue-Ann Levy..The Sun July 3, 2011!
The Ford Political Capital account will not be replenished anytime soon and although there are supporters of his “hell no, I won’t go” mantra
you have to be seriously without political moxy or common sense to see Ford’s decision as anything but goofy!!!
His road back is uphill!!!
/…Others who are finding the road back difficult include Federer, the Williams sisters and Sharapova in tennis and
of course Tiger Woods. His ride continues on a muddy road. Lost his wife, his children, his home, his stroke and his health with no prospect
of finding the Road Back, at least in the foreseeable future!!!
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