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Bums, Bears and Blow Ups, Oh My

10/24/2014

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I’m catching up on the news. This item caught my eye. A bank robber in #Pittsburgh has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. It seems he was apprehended after he stopped to bum a cigarette from a construction worker. He’s probably glad that he took only one. Ten years for bumming a cigarette seems too lenient. His lawyer argued that he had a life-long problem with alcohol and therefore should get a shorter sentence. Huh??? I would argue that his addictions led him to a life of crime. Asking for help AFTER he was caught is a little too late. I think he might sober up in ten years. He might even quit smoking. Good luck with that.

Here’s another item that piqued my interest. In Ashland, #Oregon a black bear cub found wandering in a drugstore will be given a year of rehab so it can return to the wild from whence it recently came. What? I should point out that one year is more rehab than #BobFilner, ex-mayor of #SanDiego received before he was returned to the wild (out of office). #RobFord, current mayor of #Toronto, took two months for rehab and still is not ready to be turned out of office. Why does this wild bear need one year of rehab? How long does it take to teach a bear to crap in the woods? I don’t know the answer.

This out of #Springfield, MO. A funeral director is sending his father’s ashes up in fireworks followed with a cookout and memorial celebration. It reminded me of a guy in #China who took a teaspoon of gun powder every day for his health. He lived to be 102 years old. When he was cremated, he blew a hole ten feet wide in the crematorium (author unknown). This is just another reason not to make an ash of yourself.

That’s all the news I care to print for now.
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NILDA M. TAPIA
10/24/2014 02:13:43 am

You made my day, Monte... After reading greetings on my birthday, Oct. 24, I came across your wonderful and witty writings. I will follow you from now on.
I am a free lance writer and a reviewer of plays and musicals. This Sunday I have a very interesting event. The Queens Symphony Orchestra is reviving Leonard Bernstein's Mass, composed by special request to inaugurate The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. The conductor who premiered this piece at The Kennedy Center, now the director of The Queens Symphony Orchestra, will be conducting it again at Queens College Auditorium on Nov. 1 at 8PM and on Nov. 2, at 2PM. This is in memorial to all those who, like President J. F. Kennedy, died in office.... The College premises have been turned out into a Real Memorial Place... Check their website at www.queenscollege.edu. Be all my guests...

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Nilda M. Tapia
10/24/2014 03:35:22 am

Monte: Give the little cub food and then drive the little darling beast to a nearby wood. Let him practice for a while. First to do his duty... Drive him out again to learn how to look for food... It might take you around four weeks, weather permitting, to get him familiar with his real home... Then you have to teach him how to love the place... That is not easy because it is soooooo subjective...

As for your question: I would say three to four months, being conservative and, of course, weather permitting...

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