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Woman Accused Of Stealing $2 Pumpkin Faces Trial

Posted on February 19th, 2012 at 22:16 by John Sinteur in category: News

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According to court employees, a woman accused of stealing a $2 pumpkin will face a jury trial Tuesday.

Annette Atencio said she can’t believe her 23-year-old sister, Lauren Medina, will actually have to go to trial over a pumpkin.

“I’m in disbelief — the more I talk about it, the angrier I get,” Atencio said.

Atencio said the charges stem from October 2011, when her sister went to McCall’s Pumpkin Patch in Moriarty and forgot to pay for a small pumpkin.

Medina spent $75 that day on funnel cakes and other food, and then, Atencio said; her sister went on some hay rides in the back.

But, when Medina was leaving the property, Atencio said her sister picked up a small pumpkin and police approached her.

“(Medina) said, ‘Oh my god, I’m so sorry. Can I pay for them?’ (They said), ‘Nope,’ and she was handcuffed immediately — end of story, no ifs or buts,” Atencio said.


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  1. itspast on February 20th, 2012 at 0:39:

    Get your pumpkins at the store, they’re cheaper.

  2. Sue W on February 20th, 2012 at 1:41:

    Grow your own, ma’am, they’re bigger.

  3. Gene on February 20th, 2012 at 5:56:

    What a wonderful way to spend taxpayers money, helping to keep wicked criminals under control….

  4. itspast on February 20th, 2012 at 12:33:

    Too many cops, judges and law makers. To add insult to injury, they throw away the left over pumpkins.

  5. pete on February 20th, 2012 at 16:42:

    Oh, come on now, I can remember the time when there were pumpkin vendors on every street corner, you don’t see that nowadays, totally because of opportunist pumpkin theft crime. We need dedicated pumpkin police patrolling the pumpkin patch to prevent people purloining and pocketing pumpkins.

  6. Mykolas on February 20th, 2012 at 17:02:

    I agree with Pete. The cops should be heavily armed and home security should be involved. Image what terrorists could hide in pumpkins! Quick, some call “fux” news to whip up fear so the tax payer expenses can be justified.

Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash

Posted on February 19th, 2012 at 19:39 by John Sinteur in category: Robber Barons

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In the United States, ultrafast trading in financial markets between 2006 and 2011 was the underlying factor for over 18,000 extreme price changes, according to a new study. Neil Johnson, a professor in the physics department of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, one of the authors of the study, thinks that a buildup of such “fractures” can destabilize the market. This study, “Financial Black Swans Driven by Ultrafast Machine Ecology” was submitted to arXiv earlier this month, suggesting the link between extreme-change fractures and market crashes.


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  1. Sue W on February 19th, 2012 at 21:30:

    Does this mean one can prove common sense empirically?

Cartoons

Posted on February 19th, 2012 at 17:38 by John Sinteur in category: Cartoon


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Rick Santorum on euthanasia in the Netherlands

Posted on February 19th, 2012 at 16:57 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

Today I learned there are two totally different countries both called “The Netherlands”.

The one I live in, and the one Santorum describes.

And to think this idiot is one of the five possible candidates for the most powerful position in the world. America, get your shit together.


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  1. SteveG on February 19th, 2012 at 18:29:

    Oh, my. What an embarrassment!

  2. Sue W on February 19th, 2012 at 19:11:

    He’s just like the Ayatollahs in Qom, although he has a better hair colorist.

  3. Mykolas on February 19th, 2012 at 20:41:

    Well said Sue. Having experience medical care and surgery in both countries, I will take the Netherlands any day of the week. It is vastly superior on so many levels.

    And on abortion, Rick Santorum is justification for free and widely available abortion. Too bad his Mom opted to have him.

  4. Sue W on February 19th, 2012 at 21:27:

    Eww…you said it Mykolas! I was trying to avoid the “blame the mother” thing. I’d say she wasn’t to blame, he’s a self-made bastard, surely.

  5. Mudak on February 19th, 2012 at 23:21:

    I have lived in Pennsylvania most of my life, so on behalf of my state, please allow me to apologize for the embarrassment that is my (thankfully) former senator. May he never hold elective office again.

  6. itspast on February 20th, 2012 at 0:52:

    I’m going to play this for everyone at work. Hold on, half of them would believe it. Maybe more, I’m in Texas.

  7. Jan-Mark on February 20th, 2012 at 10:22:

    If mister Santorum wants to bash Obama’s healthcare, by all means, let him, but to suggest that 5% of the people that die in the Netherlands are being involuntary euthanized? He most seriously be out of reasonable objections and probably out of reasonable sounding unreasonable objections, too. The worst part is the acknowledging sounds from the audience, I would not have posted this if he was laughed right out of the studio. What kind of education, I wonder, have those in the audience had, to actually believe these horror stories? Killing old people because the are too expensive to care for, like the Nazis did? We don’t even have the death penalty in the Netherlands.

  8. itspast on February 20th, 2012 at 17:03:

    Oh my god, you don’t have the death penalty?

  9. Mykolas on February 20th, 2012 at 17:11:

    @Sue – yep, you’re right. No need to blame dear old Mom. Your comment reminded this Buffet song “Were you born an Asshole” Song and Lyrics here It fits Santorum!

  10. Living in Thailand on February 21st, 2012 at 13:32:

    John, you live in The Netherlands???!? Always wondered where in the world you live… Why do you follow American politics so closely?

  11. John Sinteur on February 21st, 2012 at 13:36:

    Same reason I follow Apple, intellectual property, and all the other things you see here: it interests me.

Microsoft’s Biggest Miss

Posted on February 19th, 2012 at 10:36 by John Sinteur in category: Microsoft

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Like the curtain finally falling from the Wizard of Oz to find just a small, frail, man pretending to be far more powerful and relevant than he really was. Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get real work done. Or anything done, really.


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  1. Sue W on February 19th, 2012 at 16:21:

    IMO, the biggest mistake was in making their customers feel cheated. Every time. For decades.

  2. Roland Hesz on February 19th, 2012 at 20:07:

    I’m still struggling to create a spreadsheet on the tiny screen of the iPhone.
    I mean a real spreadsheet, not a toy one.
    Or write a document.

    Must be me, but I like to be able to type fast and see what I do – I think Office on the iPhone is not really a good thing.
    But you can have office on the iPad. Yes, for real. It’s called Office 365. Very cloud. Very up to date.

    Nice article. Unfortunately, people still need Excel and Word (or the OpenOffice or the iWork version of that.)
    But at least it was a long article.