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Anything left behind the table stand? Couch?
"The cure for Halloween hangover; There’s a foolproof solution to all those candy leftovers, but the kids won’t like it" by Sam Allis, Globe Columnist | November 1, 2009
Rise and shine, campers. Welcome to The Day After Halloween, the second ugliest day of the year behind hangover central on New Year’s Day.
Today, parents confront piles of unspeakables like melted candy corn, smudged Snickers, and warped Almond Joys, the gift of the gods. This concoction compares unfavorably to nuclear waste. What to do? You can’t put Halloween detritus in a compost heap. You can’t burn it. What you can do is put it out with the garbage, but only if you’ve signed a Halloween pre-nup with your children before the big day. If not, we’re talking DEFCON I on the home front.
The Halloween pre-nup is critical to the survival of the American family. It is a negotiated agreement between parents and children that determines the amount of candy offspring can consume over what period of time. These pre-nups come in all stripes. Some allow offspring one piece of candy a night after they’ve cleaned their plates at dinner. Others include a more generous daily consumption. Still others create free-fire zones where candy can be consumed any time, any place. This is called the mayhem pre-nup.
I say the mere presence of candy around the house for any length of time invites antisocial behavior like stealing and cheating, among other romper room no-nos. So the candy must go, pronto....
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So THAT is where the BANKSTERS and WAR LOOTERS learned it! From the sugar highs!
"Balmy weather boosts number - and spirits - on Halloween" by Jeannie Nuss and John M. Guilfoil, Globe Correspondents | November 1, 2009
SALEM - Vampires sporting sunglasses, whimsical wizards, and at least one Teletubby roamed the streets of the Witch City yesterday, reveling in a magical brew of warm weather and witchery....
Yeah, I never read about the early snowfall but one warm day and bang, it's in the agenda-pushing paper.
With the temperatures rising over 70 degrees and Halloween falling on a Saturday for the first time since 1998, police brought in reinforcements to ensure public safety. More than 200 uniformed police officers patrolled yesterday among their costumed counterparts. A stiletto-clad officer strolled down the main drag and a handcuff-wielding dog sported a blue uniform.
So, WHO was BEHIND THAT MASK?!!! Glad I never take propositions!
Salem Police Lieutenant Conrad Prosniewski said early today that officers made numberous arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct. Police were also investigating two stabbings. Prosniewski said one man was stabbed on North Street and another on Ward Street. Both victims were expected to survive, and no arrests had been made.
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In Boston, late afternoon festivities were marred when two men, ages 21 and 22, were shot and wounded in their legs on Norton Street. Small children in costumes were walking down the street with their parents in tow, as police scoured the area for evidence....
In Salem, a helicopter hovered over the scene - a private donation to help police monitor mayhem, according to Prosniewski.
Hey, what do you know, private tyranny using public tools?
For those who choose to indulge in tricks, fines for debauchery such as public drinking and disorderly conduct were tripled this weekend.
So WAR CRIMINALS and BANKSTERS are in DEEP DOO-DOO, right?
Fines for spray painting were $900 and for carrying a weapon-like object were $150.
Of course, we'll train you and pay you to murder brown people overseas.
Officers had to determine when guns and swords appeared too realistic, said Prosniewski.
How about WHEN THEY are ACTUALLY REAL, how does that work?
“We can’t have soldiers carrying real rifles, even if there aren’t any bullets,’’ he said, adding that confiscated replicas are later returned to their owners.
Only if you say the password: Sig Heil... PLEASE!
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Already preparing the kids for the new future, I see.
On the streets yesterday afternoon, a crowd of pirates, hippies, and witches swarmed....
The most popular costumes this year, according to the owner’s wife, Mary Lynn Pergantis, have been current event and politically themed with shoppers looking to dress up as ’“Octomom’’ Nadya Suleman as well as celebrity mother Kate Gosselin and the late King of Pop Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson
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"White House a special stop for treats" by Associated Press | November 1, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama yesterday distributed presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families....
No raw meat? Or war lies?
The Obamas smiled, chatted, and gave out cellophane goody bags that were also filled with a sweet dough butter cookie made by White House pastry chef Bill Yosses and a National Park Foundation Ranger activity book.... The loot handed out was just part of the treat for the children, ages 6 to 14.
Isn't that a BACK-HANDED INSULT consider the LOOT STOLEN by WAR-PROFITEERS and BANKSTERS?
Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was dressed as Darth Vader.
Then I'll fight him! I ALSO HAVE a JEDI ROBE!
Sure it wasn't Dick Cheney under there?
It was the first White House Halloween for the Obama daughters, 8-year-old Sasha and 11-year-old Malia. But the White House refused to say where Sasha and Malia Obama were celebrating Halloween and what the two girls were wearing.
Well, I won't sleep tonight wondering....
... partly because of the candy:
"the Halloween sugar binge is ridiculous in an increasingly obese and diabetic America"
Of course, we wouldn't want to hurt candy corporation profits too much, right, Globe. And I TOLD YOU KIDS to BE CAREFUL!! ALL JOKES ASIDE, readers!!!
HALLOWEEN will NEVER BE the SAME for SOME FAMILIES!!!!
"Falling tree kills trick-or-treater
Last night’s Halloween outing turned tragic when a 10-year-old boy was killed as gusty winds blew a tree down on top of him. According to Pelham police, rescuers responded to the Fineview Circle area at 6:36 p.m. and found the boy.
I KNOW WHERE THAT IS!!!!
He had been out with other children trick-or-treating, police said in a statement. The boy, whose name was not released, was taken to Saints Memorial Hospital in Lowell, where he was pronounced dead. The National Weather Service reported winds at 20 miles per hour, gusting to 35 miles per hour in southern New Hampshire yesterday. Police released no other details.
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There go the waterworks again. I can't take much more.
Every time you turn around.
"Coroner says six bodies found at suspect’s home" by Thomas J. Sheeran, Associated Press | November 1, 2009
CLEVELAND - A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested yesterday after police found six decomposing bodies at his home....
And yet AUTHORITIES are going after POT CLINICS!!!! Sigh!
Police established a command post in the neighborhood to take missing person reports and additional information on missing persons in the neighborhood.... Police were checking missing person reports back to June 2005, when Sowell was released from prison.
Teresa Hicks, 48, was among the neighbors who said they were relieved about the arrest but left with a heightened fear of crime.... Hicks said her daughter would not be trick-or-treating.
Nothing like that around here.
Minutes before the arrest was made, police Chief Michael McGrath tried to reassure parents that it was safe for their children to go trick-or-treating in the neighborhood if they followed standard precautions like avoiding strangers and staying in a group....
Detectives with a search warrant found the two bodies Thursday on the third floor of a duplex and began checking a fresh grave dug in the basement. The bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition, suggesting that they had been in the home for a long time.
There is your HORROR STORY!
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What, you want a GHOST STORY, too?
“It’s a ghost town.... We feel like we’re cut off from the world’’
I'm afraid already.
"A bridge to nowhere; When the historic Lake Champlain Bridge closed, it was more than an annoyance - it entirely upended a way of life" by David Filipov, Globe Staff | November 1, 2009
ADDISON, Vt. - .... The rusting bridge was closed indefinitely on Oct. 16 after inspectors discovered that the deterioration of at least two of the 80-year-old concrete piers raised the threat of imminent collapse....
Vermont business owners along what has been a vital artery for decades have found themselves, abruptly, in a backwater. Farmers who work the land on both shores are now forced to make the costly 90-mile trek around the lake to reach crops a few miles away. Hundreds of workers from impoverished upstate New York towns who have low-paying but steady jobs on the Vermont side now face long-distance commutes that add hours to their day and take dollars from their pockets. People joke that you can’t get there from here, but nobody here is laughing.
No, YOU DON'T SEE THAT HERE, do you? Because it is NOT FUNNY!
“This is a disaster on so many levels. So many businesses, so many people,’’ said Lisa Cloutier, owner of The Bridge Restaurant, a blue barn-wood family eatery that sits at the foot of the span in Addison, a hamlet on the Vermont shore where businesses are almost entirely dependent on bridge traffic.... “We are collateral damage,’’ she said. “And they don’t care.’’
Transportation authorities on both sides of the lake say they do care. They had expected the aging piers to crumble gradually, but they figured that they would remain safe at least until 2013, when repairs were planned. Now they say the bridge - a deck truss bridge similar to the one that collapsed in Minneapolis in 2007, killing 13 people - will stay closed at least through the winter, if it can be repaired at all....
Yeah, TOO BAD the COUNTRY is TOSSING ITS MONEY AWAY on WARS and BANKS!!!!
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Some people have been crossing in craft as small as kayaks. On Wednesday night, with the air temperature in the low 40s, Cloutier and several other business owners rode an 18-foot Stingray speedboat across the pitch-black lake to attend an emotionally charged meeting between frustrated residents and officials in Port Henry, N.Y.
Where is global fart mist when you need it?
A safer alternative for Champlain’s gale-swept autumn waters is being offered by the Basin Harbor Club, a resort that has made its sturdy tour boat available to ferry pedestrians across the lake, where free shuttle buses take them where they need to go....
Yeah, IF you DO NOT MIND the WAIT!!!!!
The temporary ferries will have to stop running in a few weeks, unless authorities bring in ice-breakers, such as the ones that operate on the border with Canada.
WHY would you need ICE-BREAKERS in a FEW WEEKS if we have GLOBAL WARMING?
If that does not happen, people are worried that some commuters will try to cross the lake on snowmobiles. Underwater currents in the lake are fickle, and the thickness of the ice is not uniform; even experienced ice fishers fall through, said Joe Ezzo of Witherbee, N.Y., an amateur ice fisherman....
Some lakeside residents said they would be willing to take risks - including using the now barricaded bridge. Robert Smith, who since 1966 has owned Chimney Point Farm in Addison, is one of them. He grows corn and soy on the New York side to feed his 271 cows. The business is already on the ropes because of the steep decline in the price of milk over the past two years. He estimates that trucking his feed around the lake will cost him $17,000, an expense he cannot afford. “It’s just choking me to death,’’ Smith said. “We feel like we’re cut off from the world.’’
John Zicconi, a spokesman for the Vermont Agency of Transportation, said authorities were looking into safer solutions. Along with the possible bridge-side ferry, another idea being floated is a temporary bridge. Both ideas involve complications. It may not have been a problem in 1929, but nowadays, building even a temporary ferry dock requires elaborate research into possible harm to the environment and historic or archeological sites.
Well, F*** THAT!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
WHAT GOOD is the STATE when they DESTROY YOUR WAY of LIFE through NEGLIGENCE!!!
WHERE, oh WHERE, has ALL the TAX LOOT GONE?
Late last week, teams of transportation officials were surveying the area.
“We are aggressively pursuing this,’’ said Scott Newman, historic preservation officer for the Vermont transportation agency. Darwin Pratt is one of many people who say they cannot wait long. The general store he has run for 40 years in Bridport, Vt., is losing thousands of dollars each day. “It’s a ghost town,’’ he said.
