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Name: Steggie
Birthday: 2/23/1987
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| Heil?Nazi gingerbread men moved to new town
Fri Dec 15, 7:29 AM ET
WELLINGTON, Ohio - An artist who was forced to remove his Nazi gingerbread men from the window of a hardware store has set up the display in an empty storefront in another town.
"The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men" depicts a small gathering at a Nazi rally. Keith McGuckin set up the display in this northeastern Ohio city Thursday night, a day before the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah begins at sundown.
The owner of a hardware store in nearby Oberlin made McGuckin remove the display last month after getting complaints.
McGuckin, 50, said the subject is meant to provoke thought, not offend.
"I remember thinking to myself, 'What's the worst thing a gingerbread man can do?'" he said. "They're just copying things that people have done. There are no hidden messages here."
Last winter, McGuckin used the hardware store window to display a "caroler-bashing" snowman and a little boy excited about using his chemistry set to create the illegal drug crystal meth.
He said he wasn't aware he had set up the Nazi gingerbread men so close to Hanukkah.
"This one does seem to rub people the wrong way," he said. "But I hope it'll stay up for a little while."
McGuckin received permission to use the empty storefront from the owner, The (Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram reported Friday. | | |
| Maybe Darwin can finally stop rolling over in his grave. But probably not.S.C. official: Sterilize bad parents
Sun Oct 1, 7:14 AM ET
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can't properly care for their kids should be sterilized.
"We pick up stray animals and spay them," Larry Shirley said in a story published Saturday by The Post and Courier of Charleston. "These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs. Once they have a child and it's running the street, to let them continue to have children is totally unacceptable."
Shirley's comments come after police say a video store was held up by a group of children, including a 14-year-old girl suspected of wielding a BB gun that looked like a pistol.
The holdup happened about 9 p.m. Wednesday at a Hollywood Video store. A 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy were charged as juveniles with armed robbery. A 9-year-old boy was not charged because police said he was too young. He was released to his mother.
"What we've got is a failure in society, whether it's in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it's on the East Side with poor crackhead parents," he said, referring to areas in and around Charleston.
State Sen. Robert Ford, a Charleston Democrat, agreed that the crime highlights a societal problem but dismissed Shirley's suggestion to sterilize people as "crazy."
"What Larry Shirley needs to talk about is getting City Council to provide some recreational facilities and activities for these kids and creating an atmosphere conducive to a normal society," said Ford, also a former councilman. | | |
| Huh?If this weekend is indicitive of the rest of the semester, then I just have one thing to say: wow. | | |
| Sweet.Finished packing and cleaning, finally. 5 hours before I have to leave, which means 4 and a half hours of sleep, if I'm lucky.
Oh well. Going back to school with very, very mixed emotions. I think I finally put my finger on what was bothering me. Basically I was expecting this summer to be spent with the same people I hung out with before, people I had already said good bye to last summer and who I had been used to existing without, and had been used to having had things changed with them.
However, as always, things didn't turn out as expected. Didn't really hang out with anyone that I was close to last year, and as a result got close to people I hardly knew before the semester. (Oh yea, this is very repetitive from last night's post. Dunno why, I'm in the mood for writing in this). But basically I wasn't expecting leaving to be difficult, but it is, because it largely is a repeat of last year, saying good bye to people I was really close to and hadn't been without since I got close to them.
Regardless, I get to be back to school, which means freedom, fun, water, sailing, alcohol, interesting classes, research, and a lot of other awesome things with some really awesome people, even if it's missing some people.
NEXT BROADCAST FROM SMCM! W00T! | | |
| Woah.Holy Jesus it's been awhile. An interesting contrast compared to the daily postage that happened Junior/Senior year. I guess I have a life now, and one that does not lend itself to posting online.
...Or does it?
I got bored today and read my senior anthology (I suppose the simple fact that I'm actually writing in here is indicitive of the fact that yes, indeed, I am bored). It's interesting how much and how little things have changed in the last year or so. The things I like, the things I hate, really haven't changed. Case in point, I still hate stupid people and wasting time. But I've changed the definitions. Example: people that I quite possibly would've considered stupid had I met them senior year I'm now very close to, and people that I probably would've considered worth my while I've now realized really aren't (both people that I knew already and people that I didn't). Oh well. It's just interesting.
Ok, so enough of the sappy wah wah wah woe is me entry. Because guess what: today's my last fucking day at Chuck E. Cheese! Fuckin' a right. I can't wait to get outta that hell hole. And then, tomorrow will be filled with packing and possibly working out, and then Saturday I wake up early and move in back at SMCM. Can't wait, at all. Having said that I kinda wish I could snap my fingers and already be finished unpacking down at school.
The suite is, well, sweet. Saw it a few weeks ago. Can't wait to get back on the sailboats. I'm going to miss playing rugby, that's for damn sure, but I'm pretty sure that the firefighting will fill the niche quite nicely, in addition to a few others.
All in all, this summer has been really mixed. I've had a lot of good times with a couple of friends from school and a couple back here. Things going straight down the tubes with some have opened up friendships with others that I never expected to happen in the first place, much less to get to the point where they have.
Germany was absolutely amazing, but sadly I think it's the last time I'll be there for quite awhile.
Working at CEC has sucked absolute ballsack. That's material for at least a few rants, which, should I be bored enough at SMCM (possible though not likely), will be written.
Otherwise, my summer has consisted of working out, which I've actually found to be quite enjoyable, and reading, which has always been great and I've never done enough of.
Can't wait to start my research at school and training with the fire company. This semester should be pretty amazing, even though it'll be pretty tough.
Anyway, I think it's time to resurrect a little tradition...
This has been another broadcast from the edge of sanity. Signing off,
Spongerob. | | |
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