SHOCK: New York Corner Stores Appear to be Facilitating Rampant Abuse of EBT Welfare Benefits

◼ Most people run to the corner bodega for a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread, but some welfare recipients are plunking down $500 at a time in suspicious transactions... Welfare users are only allowed to use their Electronic Benefit Transfer cards to buy food, yet they are rung up like fat cats in tiny stores in The Bronx and Brooklyn where the priciest item is usually an $8 pound of ham. - Doug Ross

Earlier this year, an owner and a cashier at Glenwood Food Corp. in Canarsie, Brooklyn, were arrested for ringing up bogus transactions... A federal sting found the bodega was recording phony purchases on EBT cards, handing customers about 70 percent of the amount in cash — and pocketing the rest. Goods were rarely exchanged in the scam, which defrauded taxpayers out of $985,000 in two years... More at the link.

That's what I'm talking about ....

◼ There's more where that came from jerk ....

Baby, It's Cold Outside

The Best Fireplace Video (3 hours long). What to do with your computer for the holidays.

What matters? Very little. The flicker of light within the darkness. The knowledge of love within the void.

◼ 26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year - Buzzfeed

Sometimes you need a reminder that people can do wonderful things. Click the link.

OpenROV

◼ OpenROV is a DIY community centered around underwater robots for exploration & adventure. We're a group of amateur and professional ROV builders and operators from over 50 countries who have a passion for exploring the deep.

Evening gowns and bikinis

◼ Eighty nine beautiful women from all over the world have gathered at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to battle it out for the much coveted title of Miss Universe 2012. - Daily Mail

Unimaginable, Unthinkable, Unbearable.

MEDS? Shooter suffered from 'personality disorder' ...
*Brother has told investigators that Adam was autistic...
SCHOOL SLAUGHTER: Dozens Dead...
Shooter Son Of Teacher's aide ...
District Had Just Installed New 'Safety' Protocols...
8-year-old says teacher saved him...
Screams 'over intercom'...
Four weapons recovered...
Scene 'atrocious'...
Newtown, CT Described as 'Adorable Little Town'...

◼ CONNECTICUT SCHOOL SHOOTING UPDATE: Death Toll 27; Gunman Now Identified as 20-Year-Old Adam Lanza - The Other McCain

◼ Killer Killed His Parents First - Ace of Spades

The thoughts of a loser gone lunatic are not particularly mysterious, and not very interesting; they're all basically the same, as FBI profilers can tell you.

Man this is sad.

Ht: I own the world

School's in the news today, sad all the way around.

6.4 Off CA/Mexico

◼ The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4, was recorded at 2:36 a.m. (1036 GMT) Friday, 163 miles (262 kilometers) south southwest of the California city of Avalon and 167 miles west southwest of Rosarito, Mexico. - AP

It was at the relatively shallow depth of 6.3 miles (10.1 kilometers). No tsunami warning has been issued

The Better To Track You With, My Dear

◼ CA TO PROVIDE FREE CELL PHONES FOR HOMELESS - Breitbart News (image source)

In California, the unemployment rate may be above 10.2%, and the state debt may be above $16 billion, the state’s GDP may be in serious trouble and businesses may be leaving in droves due to ever-increasing tax rates, but that isn’t going to stop the gravy train for the state’s poor and dispossessed.

No word on how - or where - they're going to charge them.

This is why California needed Prop 32

If you're a teacher, you're paying for this bullshit propaganda. Shame on you.

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell… who was right?

◼ Amusing Ourselves to Death

Time to jump off the Fiscal Cliff...

Get y'er wingsuits ready.