Category: Bizarre

Report: Pruitt’s Lobbyist Landlord Changed Locks When He Failed To Move Out

440px-Scott_Pruitt_official_portraitThe scandals swirling around EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to get worse by the day.  The latest leak reported by Politico  says that the lobbyist owners of Pruitt’s condo became frustrated with his continued use of the property after the expiration of their lease arrangement.  Not only did they reportedly ask him to leave, but went as far as changing the locks.  Pruitt’s deal would be hard for most people to give up: $50 a night for a condo in a prime location where he would only pay for those nights when he used the room.  Realtors confirm that obvious that it was a sweetheart deal and the most recent disclosure would indicate that Pruitt was not eager to let it go.

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Roger Stone Warns President Not To Speak With Mueller

440px-Director_Robert_S._Mueller-_III I recently posted a column in the Hill on the curious case of Roger Stone who has caused himself and the President endless trouble with prior emails claiming to have had dinner with WikiLeaks’ head Julian Assange.  Stone’s best defense is that he is something of a buffoon or political trickster.  He is not the most credible source for giving advice to Trump on what to do with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. However, he is back on the news (after a respite following his calling his former protegé Sam Nunberg a “coke head” and “a**shole”) warning Trump that the interview is a perjury trap.  Indeed, as shown in his recent video with his grandson smoking giant cigars, Stone seems to specialize in a type of obnoxious theater of the bizarre.

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Post: Two EPA Officials and A White House Official Say Pruitt Personally Instructed Staff To Approve Controversial Raises

440px-Scott_Pruitt_official_portraitEPA administrator Scott Pruitt was adamant in his disastrous interview with Fox’s Ed Henry that he was unaware of the controversial raises given to two aides and that he attempted to find out which officials were responsible.  The interview not only did not sit well many viewers, it clearly did not sit well with people at the EPA and the White House. The Washington Post is reporting that he personally instructed agency staff to approve raises for two top aides who had previously served under him in Oklahoma, The Post reports that two EPA officials and a White house official confirmed that Pruitt not only knew of the raises but instructed underlings to approve them.

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Minnesota Woman Faces 12th DUI Arrest After Arrests and Outstanding Warrants In 10 States

schleicher_mugshot_hpEmbed_13x16_992Tasha Lynn Schleicher, 41, has achieved an ignoble distinction after being arrested for DUI in Illinois.  The arrest of the Minnesota mother of 11 was her 12th arrest in ten states.  She is now charged with two counts of felony aggravated drunk driving, two counts of misdemeanor drunk driving, not having vehicle insurance, driving with a revoked license and transportation of open alcohol while driving.

 

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Have You Seen This Man?

1522857538263Police in Warwickshire, England are looking for this man and I would hope that he is not particularly hard to spot.  Indeed, I am not sure what the burglary suspect resembles more: the character in The Mask or the Cheshire Cat.  I am also not sure who the sketch artist was but he may have previously worked on Ecce Homo in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza.

 

 

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Tandem DUI Driving: Two Women In New Jersey Take Turns To See Who Is Less Drunk . . . Leaving Four Wrecked Cars In Their Path

Gebrüder_OpelPolice in New Jersey are facing a rather novel case of two women in the same car who are both charged with impaired driving because they allegedly took turns driving drunk. Jamila Banks, 24, of Virginia andJanelle Green, 23, switched seats over the weekend.  It did not help. Both women allegedly smashed into cars. It appears that drunk driving is not one of those things that improves with numbers.

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GoFundMe: McCabe launches Online Drive For Donations For A Legal Defense

screen-shot-2018-03-29-at-9-15-07-pm.pngFormer FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has launched an online fundraiser on GoFundMe to raise $150,000 to cover the legal costs for McCabe.  Money has poured in with adjustment of the “goal” upward to $250,000.  It has now surpassed that goal.  What is interesting is that McCabe is moving to tap into the contributions before the public learns what caused career Justice officials to seek the unprecedented termination of the former acting FBI Director.

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Former Senator Al D’Amato Caught on Videotape In Heated Hospital Scene

Alfonse_D'AmatoFormer Sen. Al D’Amato (R. N.Y.) has demonstrated a single clear rule for anyone going through a nasty divorce or custody fight: do not use your estranged wife’s hospital room to vent your anger as she begs you to stop. A video was released by D’Amato’s wife Katuria Smith  that showed D’Amato raving at her as she laid in bed recovering from neck surgery. Warning: the video and discussion involves foul language.

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Connecticut High School Student Posts Picture Of Airsoft Gun That He Received As Birthday Present . . . Police Promptly Arrest Him and School Suspends Him

amity-regional-high-schoolDespite national outcry over the blind application of “zero tolerance” rules, school and police officials continue to throw kids into the criminal justice system without any logic or judgment.  The latest example is Zach Cassidento, a high school senior at Amity High Regional School who suspended and arrested after simply posted a picture of his birthday gift — an “Airsoft gun,” on Snapchat.  He was not charged but was suspended for a day from school.

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North Carolina Middle School Suspends 13-Year-Old Boy For Drawing Stick Figure With Gun

Screen Shot 2018-03-27 at 8.20.24 PM We have yet another ridiculous example of school officials applying “zero tolerance” policies against a kid for an innocent page of doodling.  A 13-year-old boy in the seventh grade drew a stick figure holding a gun and another holding two knives and was promptly suspended from Roseboro-Salemburg Middle School.

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Iraqi Couple Arrested in Texas For Allegedly Pouring Hot Oil On 16-Year-Old Daughter For Refusing Arranged Marriage

texasAbdulah Fahmi Al Hishmawi, 34, and Hamdiyah Saha Al Hishmawi, 33, have been arrested in another appalling case involving an attempted arranged marriage of a young Muslim girl.  This case however did not occur in Pakistan or Afghanistan but Texas.  They are accused of beating their daughter with a broomstick and the pouring hot cooking oil on her after refusing agree to the the arranged marriage.

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“Are You Going To Cry To Ya Mommy?” New York Police Search For Man Who Attacked Five-Year-Old Boy In Subway

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New York police are looking for this man in a truly incomprehensible crime.  At 4:30 pm, a mother and her child were waiting for a train at the Bergen Street Station in Brooklyn when this man allegedly walked up and punched a five-year-old boy in the face.  According to New York Daily News he then yelled at the boy, “Are you going to cry to ya’ mommy?”

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