Today In The USA

Change, change, change.
It seems that “change”, whatever the hell that is, has become the big thing in government.

Change has certainly become the big thing in Brighton, Michigan where the city spent $5.21 to send a 51-cent property tax bill to a local doctor. At least the good doctor has more sense than the city administration as he intends to write a check for 51 cents and *drop it off* at city hall. This as opposed to mailing the check for 42 cents. Maybe next time around the folks in Brighton ought to elect the doctor to office as he obviously has more common senses than the last group they elected. Read it at Mich. City Spends $5.21 To Mail 51-cent Tax Bill and be proud you don’t live in Brighton, Michigan…

Speaking of running for office and “change”, John Tyler Hammons, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma is the new Mayor of the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma. This after Hammons received a whopping 70 percent of the vote over former Mayor Hershel Ray McBride. Obviously the folks in Muskogee, Oklahoma USA really wanted “change”. Read it at Teenager Wins Muskogee Mayoral Race and tell the folks in Brighton, Michigan they might want to elect a kid as mayor, just for a “change”…

Sean McGuire of of Glenview, Illinois has been busted for gunning down an officer, apparently a security guard at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Seems that the campus cops, security guards or whatever you wanna’ call them were investigating a hit and run traffic accident when McGuire allegedly felled the officer with an “M & M” to the shoulder.

Yeah, you read that right, the guy zapped him with a tossed piece of candy.

And least you think the folks in Des Moines take this “candy attack” lightly, McGuire was cuffed, stuffed and hauled off to jail for his vicious attack on the guy’s shoulder.

Read it at Iowa Man Charged With Throwing Candy At Police and wonder what folks in Des Moines do when a real crime occurs…

Long gone are the days when airlines used the phrase “friendly skies” in their advertisements. The “unfriendly skies” would be more fitting for today’s airlines and their passengers.

Man talks on cell, plane does not crash - Southwest Airlines says a passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him. Read it at Southwest Passenger Cited For Cell Phone Chatter and wonder if he was talking to the Spitzer hooker booker…

From coast to coast by toilet - A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Read it at Man Says JetBlue Made Him Sit On Toilet and understand what they mean by “cheap seats”…

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That might be the question on the minds, assuming they have minds, of this dynamic duo.

911 operator losing his cool and his job - Frank Roth, a Nashville 911 operator has been fired after saying during a call that he didn’t “give a s—” about what happened to a woman who reported her ex-boyfriend was threatening her. Read it at 911 Operator Fired After Cursing During Call and realize some folks just can’t handle high pressure jobs…

Foul-mouthed NYC cabbie feels the pain - Zbigniew Sobczak a New York City cab driver has been fined $1,000 for launching a foul-mouthed tirade at another cabbie. Read it at NYC Cabbie Is Fined $1,000 For Foul-mouthed Tirade and wonder if before becoming a NYC cabbie if Mr. Sobczak was a Nashville 911 operator…

Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, accused of booking clients for a high-priced call girl ring pleaded guilty to federal charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering Wednesday in the federal probe that brought down “Client No. 9,” former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

As part of her plea deal Lewis agreed to tell all she knows including when taking to a federal grand jury, one that just might be going after “Mr. Do As I Say, Not As I Do Spitzer”.

Read it at Woman pleads guilty in Spitzer probe and also at Spitzer Call Girl Booker Pleads Guilty and wonder what sex with a $4,000 per-hour hooker is like…

Giant beetles invade Philly - Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles _ some the size of a child’s hand _ from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises. Read it at Giant Beetles Seized At Pennsylvania Post Office

Ants take over Houston - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. Read it at Ants swarm over Houston