Corcoran Brothers

There’s a big hullabaloo about homeless people in Hawaii, now.  for the life of me, I can’t figure out what the deal is.  Homeless folks in Hawaii like to set up in parks and what have ye, since the weather is nice and they can approximate normal life.  That’s a no-go to our government.  Why?

If people need someplace to stay, they don’t have the money for a home, and they find a nice patch of land in a park to occupy, then why would anyone boot them from that area?  Well, they are drug addicts, safety hazards, etc. would say the critics of allowing homeless folks to squat.  Then bust them for those crimes individually, rather than busting them for the state of affairs that lead them to existing in such a way!

Last year, they booted a bunch of folks who were living at Mokuleia Beach.  Courtney and I were right pissed about it.  Here were folks who had set up semi-permanent shelters, were sending their kids to school, and trying to get by.  Some haole tourists, or kamaaina campers didn’t like the ‘eye sore’ of homeless folks occupying their beloved beach, and the true campers (i.e. homeless folks) had to go.  How did that turn out? Not so well.

Ah, some might say, you live in a nice community, so you don’t know how dealing with these people causes stress in your life, etc.! Fuck that.  I lived a couple blocks from Mokuleia for 3 years, and I got along with them fine.  Sure, there were a few more B&Es than I was used to, but I honestly think it was area kids doing that shit.  Hell, it was more disruptive living in Allston, halfway between BU and BC , than it was living near all of those teddible homeless folks.  Ask Seamus.  We spent several hours offroading, siteseeing, and motorcycle riding at Mokuleia during the height of squatting, and we didn’t have any trouble.  All of the littering was from local campers who spent the day, threw away their beer cans, and left.

I guess I don’t understand why I am a libertarian.  What made me so different from democrats and republicanics?  I love Ayn Rand, but I think OS stuff is the bomb-diggity.  I have no intention of paying for sex, but I think prostitution should be legal.  I am fully ready to kill someone on the battlefield, or anyone who fucks with my family, but the thought of the state executing someone via lethal injection makes me sick.

How different are we libertarians?

I don’t even know where to start with this:

The “Harry Potter” book series may soon be taken off the shelves of all media centers in Gwinnett County Public Schools if a parent’s appeal is successful.
A parent of students at J.C. Magill Elementary School filed appeal forms for each of the books, requesting the wildly popular series be removed from public school libraries.
On the forms, she wrote that she objected to the series’ “evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and teaching children all of this.”

Ah, but don’t miss the best part:

She wrote she had not read the series because it is long, and she is a working mother of four.

I want to know what Sean the uber-Catlick thinks of this.

I say it with a heavy heart as a former employee, but screw Williams-Sonoma!  How dare they mess with a hometown crew?

The makers of Marshmallow Fluff, a sweet confection that traces its history back more than 80 years, have sued Williams-Sonoma Inc., claiming the high-end culinary retailer is misusing the registered trademark Fluffernutter.

Durkee-Mower Inc. claims in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston that Williams-Sonoma has been selling a marshmallow and peanut butter chocolate-covered candy named Fluffernutter without permission of the Lynn, Mass.-based company.

Truly a David-vs.-Goliath situation:

Williams-Sonoma, based in San Francisco, operates more than 500 stores including Pottery Barn, Hold Everything and its flagship Williams-Sonoma chain. The company, with about 36,000 employees, had sales of about $3.5 billion in its latest year.

Durkee-Mower has 21 employees and distributes if original [sic], raspberry and strawberry Marshmallow Fluff directly and through groceries mainly east of the Rockies, Durkee said.

I feel bad for people outside the Boston area who’ve never had a monstrous need for milk after consuming a delicious concontion of white bread, peanut butter, and marshmallow Fluff(tm).  Hell, when I got my fake tooth, I had to spend hours learning to eat a Fluffernutter without causing injury to myself - and it was worth it!

While this may seem outwardly funny, I seriously find it cruel and disturbing.

US News Article | Reuters.com
Melissa Huff, an Arcadia High School student who uses a $16,000 prosthetic limb to play softball for the school team and another one, valued at $12,000, for everyday use, said both were taken from her bedroom on Tuesday.

“I was picking up my little brother from school when my mom called me and asked where I left the two prosthetic legs,” Huff, who lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City, told Reuters in an interview.

“I knew right then that it had happened again.”

A co-worker suggests adding a GPS tracker to the legs. When you find the thieves, break their knees.

Update: The stolen limbs have been returned. No leads…

Insert your own joke here:

Woman Accused of Mailing Condom Explosives - Yahoo! News
BOSTON - A former strip club waitress mailed condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture to a television station, strip clubs and other places, saying she was tired of being mistreated by men, according to court documents.

In FBI documents unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston, Kimberly Lynn Dasilva, 40, said she “couldn’t take it anymore.”

None of the condoms exploded. They each contained a mixture of drain-cleaning detergent and gasoline, which could explode when combined, authorities said. Dasilva told investigators she did not think they would explode.

On Sept. 21, a suspicious package arrived at the Bridgewater State College admissions office, according to two FBI affidavits. When it was discovered that fluid had leaked from the package, the building was evacuated and the State Police Bomb Squad was called in. A note inside the package said “Boom.”