State of Confusion

Crazy week with a lot of odd news from various states.

 California Love

 Charles Manson (yeh, that Charles Manson..psychotic killer) is supposedly engage to be married to a 25  year old.

The blushing bride's name  is Star who's been loyally visiting Manson in jail since she was 19 years old and
maintains several websites devoted to defending Manson and his pro-Earth environmental causes. According to an in depth article that is due to be published in   Rolling Stone today, Star says the pair will  be heading down the aisle.  

In 2007, Star moved to Corcoran to be near Charlie, who she visits each Saturday and Sunday for up to five hours a day. "Yeah, well, people can think I'm crazy," she says. (of course they do...because she is.)

She grew up near St. Louis, where she says she was smoking marijuana, eating mushrooms, not wanting to go to church every Sunday with her devoutly religious family, so they locked her in her room for much of her high school years. When she was 19, she took the $2,000 she'd saved up working in a retirement home kitchen and hopped a train to Corcoran.

Star's resemblance to Manson Family member Susan Atkins is beyond striking, and Star seeks to distinguish herself from the woman known as Sexy Sadie, who was incarcerated for her role in the Tate-LaBianca killings until her death in 2009. "That bi*** was fuc*** crazy. (takes one to know one)

Star says there won't be any conjugal visits because "California lifers no longer get them." If they were an option, "we'd be married by now."

Manson, however, seems less convinced the impending nuptials are a reality, "Oh that," he says. "That's a bunch of garbage. You know that, man. That's trash. We're just playing that for public consumption."

Seems that Charlie isn't quite as enthusiastic about the impending nuptials. Probably that would change if those conjugal visits were an option.  Perhaps Star needs to read the book "He's Just Not That Into You"

Kansas: This Land Is Your Land-ing

Crabby may or may not of been working in the tower.

A Boeing 747 jumbo jet hauling parts for a Boeing 787 landed at a small airport on Wednesday by mistake. It's destination was supposed to be across town at the Air Force base. 

The jet landed at Col. James Jabara Airport, about 8 miles north of its intended target, the McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. Jabara's runway is just 6,101 feet long, much shorter than is ideal  9,199 feet needed for an aircraft of that size.

Investigators don't know yet why the jet landed at Jabara. Atlas Air spokeswoman Bonnie Rodney did not immediately return early Thursday calls and an email from The Associated Press seeking comment. Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said he could not immediately provide any information on how or why the jumbo jet landed at Jabara.

The plane, operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, had to be turned around by a  tug to prepare for departure, said Brad Christopher of the Wichita Airport Authority.

On Thursday after a long night of calculations, dumping fuel to lighten the plane's weight,  and the surrounding  area being evacuated as a precaution if the jet failed to get airborne, the behemoth jet lumbered down the runway and took off.

Officials tell Fox News that the FAA is currently investigating the situation and findings will be released in the coming weeks.

With only 9 miles between airports, in a vehicle going over a hundred miles an hour, I suspect a wrong turn can happen fast...really, really fast.


New York ...Bad Santas

For any of you seasonal Santas that were planning on heading for the Big Apple to get your Santa on, there might be less alcohol served to your jolly ole selves, this year.

According to articles in the New York Times and USA Today, the city is asking bar owners to not serve anyone dressed in Santa duds.

This year's Santa Con has met with some bah-humbugish opposition to the annual event that draws thousands of  Santas to the city.

The NYPD  has sent a letter to bar owners from Midtown to Chelsea, asking them not to serve people dressed as Santa Claus during the next month’s annual bar crawl, according to a report from ABC news.

A number of bars have already promised to comply, the report said.  (call me a cynic but really???...bars are going to turn away thousands of customers because they are dressed up like Santa Clause?)

“Having thousands of intoxicated partygoers roam the streets urinating, littering, vomiting and vandalizing will not be tolerated in our neighborhood,” Lieutenant John Cocchi, of the Midtown North Precinct, said in a letter to bar owners.

According to the SantaConNYC website, “SantaCon is a charitable, non-commercial, non-political, nonsensical, Santa Claus convention that happens once a year for absolutely no reason.”

A code of conduct on the website lists several do’s and don’ts of the event, including be nice to kids and respect the city.

Although New York's SantaCon is receiving the most attention, people in cities all over the country plan SantaCon events.

Nothing says Christmas like drunk Santa peeing in the street.