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”…