Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Civilization Trembles

Two Los Angeles County men were arrested Monday night in Camarillo on suspicion of felony theft after a deputy spotted them stealing avocados from trees, authorities said.
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Sherry and Luna were booked into Ventura County Jail. Stealing avocados can be a felony when the fruit stolen is worth more than $100 wholesale, Kenney said.
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Woman who claimed rental scam is arrested

Ruse positioned her as a victim, T.O. police say
A woman who claimed she was duped in a rental scheme was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of residential burglary, grand theft by false pretenses and filing a false police report, Thousand Oaks police said.
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Walker claimed she had paid a $3,000 cash deposit and signed a month-to-month lease with landlord Sonya Martinez for a three-bedroom house on Calle Jazmin earlier this month.

Within days, Walker and her husband were forced out of the house by sheriff's deputies after the rightful owner, Ventura-based attorney Tim Quinn, learned someone was living in the home.
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Two articles in the paper this morning. Get a lock for your gas cap.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Map Porn

This is a good one.


HotPads
I'll put up a few of the best finds. I went to Chatham, Massachusetts and found a few eyeopeners.

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Saturday Angry Rock Blogging


Because trash like you will never have
The means with which to live
In any modicum of luxury
Or vague derivative
Of comfort don't stray beyond your class
You'll never crack this ceiling made of glass

Just live to work and then expire
Keep your mouth shut you might retire
With something more then debts
Stretched far beyond your means
Pledge allegiance
To the corporate machines

Don't you dare step out of line
Everything will be just fine
But you'd better mind your place
Just learnt to be a good consumer
You're now a number
You've no longer got a face

Let my anger be my declaration
My dissent my participation

Resistance isn't any use
Just consume, obey and reproduce
The next working class who'll shoulder
Your burden of despair
Your empty cries for a living wage
Our system doesn't care we don't care

That our system won't provide
For public health
We don't care that your left
Out in the cold all by yourself
We don't care

And for the Akubi crowd the full on anti-Bush version here.

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Friday, April 25, 2008

The Second Horseman


‘A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!’

Words from the 1st Century reverberate through the ages. Why couldn't they just say beer is going to get expensive in 2008 or something useful like that?