Wiener Crash!

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. – One southern Wisconsin homeowner is probably not in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener. The famed hot dog's Wienermobile crashed Friday into the deck and garage of a home in Mount Pleasant, about 35 miles south of Milwaukee.

Police said the driver was trying to turn the Wienermobile around in the driveway and thought she was moving in reverse. But she instead went forward and hit the home. It sat in the driveway as if it were stuck in the garage Friday afternoon.

No one was home and no one was injured. No citations were immediately issued.

Both the home and vehicle suffered moderate damage, which Oscar Mayer spokeswoman Sydney Lindner says insurance will cover.

Police hadn't been able to speak to the homeowner as of early Friday evening.

Smoke up Arnold!

California: Pot tax could generate $1.4 billion

Making marijuana legal could help state fix money problems, report says.
Posted by Elizabeth Strott on Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:05 AM
California's problems could be solved with a little weed.
In a report released late Wednseday, the State Board of Equalization said that California could reap $1.4 billion in revenue from taxing and regulating marijuana. The report estimated that retail sales of marijuana would bring $990 million from a $50-per-ounce fee and $392 million in sales taxes.

And that revenue could be put toward the state's $26.3 billion budget gap.

San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano proposed a bill in February that would allow adults 21 and older to legally possess, grow and sell marijuana. "It defies reason to propose closing parks and eliminating vital services for the poor while this potential revenue is available," Ammiano said in a statement.

Hearings on Ammiano's bill are expected in the fall.

About 16 million ounces, or 500 tons, of marijuana are consumed in California each year, the Equalization Board calculated, based on law enforcement and academic studies. In 2008, law enforcement agencies seized nearly 5.3 million marijuana plants.

In late June, the state started issuing IOUs for the second time since the Great Depression and the first time in 17 years as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers continued to battle over the budget gap. The IOUs help the state controller stave off a deficit of nearly $3 billion for July.

Barfly

Sullivans:
I do believe I already talked about Sullivans in the past. Put I went there twice last week. Both times when they have their bar appetizer and martini specials and it really is a great deal considering. Both times I went and they seemed to be having a problem with their air conditioning. We asked the waitress about it and she said the building was old and had issues. I assumed she was going to tell us it was built in the early 1900's. No, turns out it is 13 years old. This is a sign that she needs to travel out of Texas.
Side note: The Gnocchi was yummy through I got in trouble for eating spinach.

Apple Bar:
It's as if a few gay 16 year olds opened a bar in their parents basement. And only shop at Abercrombie & Fitch.

District Bar & Grill:
For being sort of a dive, the staff has a bit of an attitude. The only thing exciting was a guy who let us give him a new first name (after a vote was taken) and then built a pyramid with straws.


Opal Divines:
I had been here once before on St. Pats day and it was packed. Not so much on a staurday afternoon. While they have a great selection to choose from, they have No frozen drinks. Not a biggie for me but friends wanted some magaritas. Btw, don't sit in the big corner both by the window. It's where all the flies hang out!

Trudy's:
I used to go here all the time with my friend Harry and company back in the day. It was our weekly wednesday round table. I have had not been since a visit to austin 2 years ago and a few of us from the old gang met up. Went to the north location this time. Same good food but the central location will always be where the memories are.

Kona:
Not much to report.Only had one drink cos it was too damn hot on the patio.

Jaspers:
New fave place to have a drink. The appetizers are yummy and happy hour on weekdays is til close. And my fave bartender is there. The 27 year old from Cool River. Hi Ian :)

El Arroyo:
I have been here 100 times and the only reason I really bring it up is because I outed the waiter.


Comal and Guadalupe Rivers:
Ok,odd mention but a floating bar in a tube is not a bad way to spend the day looking at the sky and singing Chaka Kahn with friends.
Con: having to carry the cooler when it is full of beer. Pro: Cooler is empty at the end!

Humanity is a dying art. Part 2

EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — A 75-year-old woman is accused of beating a fawn to death after finding it in the garden of her home near a wooded park.

Dorothy Richardson has been charged in a warrant with animal cruelty on June 15 at her Euclid home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation.

Ann Mills, a Euclid animal control officer, requested the warrant.

Euclid’s cruelty to animals charge is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Richardson has not yet appeared in court.

She told Cleveland’s WKYC-TV she was afraid of the fawn and used a shovel to try to make it move. She said after it died she put it in a box and took it to the curb on trash day.

Humanity is a dying art. Part 1

An Ohio firefighter faces jail time and may lose his job for shooting his two dogs to death rather than pay to board them while he went on a cruise.
Columbus, Ohio, firefighter David Santuomo shot his two dogs in his home's basement, prosecutors say.

Columbus, Ohio, firefighter David Santuomo shot his two dogs in his home's basement, prosecutors say.


Columbus firefighter David P. Santuomo, 43, took Sloopy and Skeeter to his home's basement, suspended them from a pipe near the ceiling and fired at least 11 shots from a .22-caliber rifle fitted with a homemade silencer, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron J. O'Brien said.

Santuomo then wrapped the carcasses in plastic and dumped them in a trash bin behind Firehouse 27, where he worked, O'Brien said.

"This is pretty heinous," said Cheri Miller, spokeswoman for the Capital Area Humane Society, which carried out a search warrant in Santuomo's home. The humane society has limited law enforcement powers in Franklin County.

Santuomo pleaded guilty in June to two misdemeanor counts of improperly killing a companion animal and a felony count of possession of a criminal tool. Santuomo had fashioned a makeshift silencer by taping a 2-liter soda bottle to the end of the rifle. The incident happened in December.

Miller said appalled fellow firefighters turned Santuomo in to authorities.

"There were reports that he was bragging about this," she said.

Have to admit...

I seriously considered it for a moment.