Today In The USA

It seems that old folks just can’t catch a break.

Since the economy crashed there was not much, well actually any, increase in consumer prices during the current year and as a result those on Social Security will not get any COLA in 2010.

Now before anyone goes screeching “old folks don’t need soda pop, anyhow”, the COLA to which I am referring is the “Cost Of Living Allowance”, which those on Social Security have received every year since back in the 1970’s.

Supposedly the cost of living has actually decreased during 2009 and that makes some sense when one considers all the foreclosures and folks living on the streets and under bridges as a result of the recession or depression if you are one of those living on the street/under the bridge.

At least the politicians are not talking about taking back the COLA that old folks received last year and some are even talking about tossing the old folks a bone in the form of a $250 check courtesy of Uncle Sam, aka the taxpayers.

Now I don’t see anything wrong with charity.

After all, the bankers, Wall Street fat cats and others managed to suck hundreds of billions of dollars from the collective tit of taxpayers, so why not let the old folks have a nipple to suck on too?

But come on…

I mean the fat cats received at least a trillion dollars from the tax payers and then came back for more.

The proposal to give a lousy $250 to the 57 million Social Security recipients, those receiving veterans or disability benefits, railroad retirees, and retired public employees who don’t receive Social Security reportedly amounts to a total of $13 billion tax payer dollars.

Oh well, it won’t be the first time old folks and the disabled have had to survive on the crumbs from the table of the fat cats…

A 42-year-old Elgin, Illinois mother, thus far unidentified, is being investigated for allegedly trying to reconcile her 13-year-old daughter with a former boyfriend by threatening to publish nude pictures of the boy on the Internet unless he contacted the girl.

The woman reportedly contacted the 13-year-old boy with phone calls, e-mails and thousands of text messages aimed at reuniting the young couple, all to no avail.

Supposedly when the woman’s efforts did not bear fruit, she allegedly resorted to the threats to publish the nudie pictures of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend on the Internet. Reportedly the boy sent the pictures to the girl’s cellphone when they were still a couple.

The woman could face charges of child pornography, intimidation and harassment as police have seized cameras, computers, cell phones and other items from the woman’s home and the private school where she is employed.

Reportedly the girl’s brother got into the act by threatening to go to the boy’s parents with the pictures unless the boy saw the girl twice a week.

Judging from the extremes to which this family allegedly goes to get a boyfriend for the girl, one has to wonder if she’s that homely or if Mom and brother are that “weird”…

Cops: Mom said she’d post boy’s nude pics

Cops in Mankato, Minnesota have spent days searching for a woman supposedly shot during a disturbance at a birthday party on Sunday was not shot after all.

Turns out the “blood” was actually taco sauce.

According to the Mankato Free Press:

Witnesses had reported a woman was shot after Mohamed Ahmed Ali, 23, allegedly shot a gun during a disturbance at the Eastport apartment complex at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

Cops supposedly did find a rag with real blood on it, but it turned out that the stains in a hallway, which one witness thought was blood, was actually taco sauce as was the red stains on the clothing of the woman that was supposedly shot.

At the scene of the “shooting” cops found a gun and unfired ammo, no shell casings.

They did however turn up a broken taco sauce bottle.

One can’t help but wonder if the Detroit Police crime lab help investigate the case…

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