Where education stoped

This poor 22-year-old has suffered the loss of her father, "a known bussines man here before his untimely death."

I'm really tempted to help her, as she so desperately wants to -- and needs to -- continue her education.

Please I have suffered alot of humuliation from my immidiate uncles due to this funds that is the reason I contact you to help me secure the money in your country so that I can come over and continue my education from were I stoped.

Dear lord, don't make her settle!

No wonder this woman says, "I'm beginning to panic because I know how long it takes" to get a job.

Despite the looming loss of [unemployment] benefits, she said she remains focused on finding an accounting job with pay that's comparable to the one she lost 14 months ago.
-- "A loss of benefits looms, anxiety grows for jobless Minnesotans," St. Paul Pioneer Press 

It's tough to be sympathetic.

FTC, please stay out of my journalism

Thankfully, FTC chairman Jonathan Leibowitz thinks it's a "terrible idea" to subsidize journalism through a tax on consumer electronics.

He was responding to recommendations put forth in the FTC's recently published document, "Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism."

The FTC has come under fire for considering such silly ideas as bailing out journalism by taxing technology, cellphone data plans and advertising.

But the organization wants everyone to know that the document in question is not a proposal by the FTC, rather a discussion of recommendations put forth by various parties.

The recommendation for a 5% tax on CE was "an idea submitted to the FTC's staff as part of workshops we've been holding since last year," writes FTC Deputy Public Affairs Director Peter Kaplan in an email to CE Pro. "It was never FTC's proposal or recommendation ...."

He adds, "The FTC hasn't even finished holding the workshops yet, much less made any recommendations. We hope to release a report in the fall, which may or may not include recommendations."

Kaplan points to a press release that was distributed on June 4.

See, no wonder we need to reinvent journalism! Damn reporters got this story all wrong.

Read on for my response to Mr. Kaplan ...

Remote control recidivism?

 

Can't we all get along?

Today, a 13-year-old gets arrested for throwing a TV remote control at a woman, striking her in the back.

The girl should be charged as an adult and taught a lesson before she goes on to commit more heinous remote-control crimes.

MARY ESTHER – A 13-year-old girl was arrested after she allegedly threw a TV remote control at a woman, striking her in the back.
About 5 p.m. May 4, the girl pushed the woman down and scratched her neck, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. She then threw the remote, which left a “large red mark” on the woman’s back.
The report doesn’t make clear the relationship between the woman and the girl.
The girl was charged with domestic battery and is due in juvenile court June 30.

Good one! She was charged with "battery".

[via NWF Daily News]

Son who tries to stab Mom over remote has "anger issues"

Which is worse? That a 20-year-old is still living with his mother, or that the ungrateful miscreant threatens to stab the woman over a remote control?

When Anne Daniels tried to usurp the remote from her son, he pulled out a knife and swung at her neck.

Mom explains, during her reenactment for News 3 in Memphis, "I'm here feeding you, clothing you, putting a roof over your head ... then you're going to stick me?"

According to the report, Ms. Daniels says she hopes her son Michael gets help with his anger issues: "I love him. That's my baby, you know what I'm saying? I don't want to see him down there (in jail), but I'm not fixin' to see him threaten my life either."