Last Saturday, we got a call from our bank. They had noticed someone from Ireland had placed a charge on my card. Was it me? (Answer: no.) Had I authorized someone to use my card? (Answer: No.)
We do not use that card on line. How did it get clear over there?
The college killings in Moscow, Idaho are creepy, but I have a question: Two roommates survived the attack. One of them heard one of the victims say, "There's someone in here." She heard a thump. She heard a dog barking. She hear a victim crying, and a man's voice say, "It's okay. I'm going to help you." She opened her bedroom door to see what was going on and saw a masked man dressed in black she did not recognize walking towards her. She watched him pass by in shock and then went into her bedroom and locked the door. The first 911 call came in seven hours later.
Um...why would a masked man dressed all in black in her home not have warranted an immediate emergency call?
Prince Harry claims to have killed 25 Taliban soldiers in battle. When you're in the heat of battle, how do you know whether it was your bullet or someone else's that actually killed someone? It would seem to me that your adrenalin would be pumping, your heart would be pounding, you'd be falling back on training and seeing your own life flash before your eyes...and yet you've got the presence of mind to mentally mark another kill on your tally sheet?
It just doesn't ring true to me. One of many things that don't ring true to me.
George Santos and his resume:
~He lied about his educational qualifications, claiming schools he never went to.
~He claimed he held jobs that he never held.
~ He claimed his mother was working in an office on 9-11. She survived the initial attack, but died of the cancer she contracted from the dust and smoke in the air several years later.
~He posted very racist photographs, and when called out on it, claimed to be half-black.
~He claimed multiple times to be Jewish, with his grandparents both fleeing the holocaust, but when he was called out on that, he claimed that he'd been misunderstood and that he was saying he was 'Jew-ish'.
How on earth doesa person think he is going to publically make all these claims and no one will ever realize he's lying? And what about the family he DOES have? He did not think some of them would be looking around wondering aloud, "What the heck is George running on about now?" In addition to being Jew-ish, I think the man is fool-ish.
Crazy times we are living in.
It is blowing and snowy today.
Houdini was perched on a kitchen chair pushed under the table. He's turning out to be quite a character.
I hope it wasn't northsider Dave buying festival tickets with your card???
ReplyDeleteWell, I'll let you know if I wind up with a charge for a poly-tunnel cover.
DeleteSantos, were he not going to be in power, would be kind of funny. The quote he used that he attributed to Winston Churchill is said to be actually from a D&D tie in novel.
ReplyDeleteI just can't get over the vast amount of wild tales. About everything. I mean, this is crazy stuff. Pathological, even.
DeleteGood read Debby (and good questions), I actually read this twice. The credit card thing is scary, something similar happened to me last year, but it was after I used my card on Keurig.com--a week later someone bought $500 of gift certificates with my card. How?? I wound up losing the number I'd had since 1995. As for that masked killer, George Santos & Prince Harry, yes yes yes. I'm going "huh" too!
ReplyDeleteIf curiosity killed the cat, it's lucky I'm a people, or I'd be dead by now.
DeleteIt's a fair Cop JayCee.👍
ReplyDeleteLOL. You are incorrigible. I'm going to make sure that my card is no where near the computer when I'm reading your blog.
DeleteHad my ATM card number used last year as well. From what I've read, they just use random number generators to generate codes and use them at places online that don't ask for a pin number, i.e. a brute force attack. They don't need your name or card to do this. Fortunately, my bank refunded my money but it took a month to review it. After that, I got an ATM only card meaning it can only be used at ATM's and not online. Not sure if that is truly the case but that is what they told me.
ReplyDeleteAs for Santos, you can't rationalize the irrational.
I had the same thoughts about the Idaho roommate as well. Glad she wasn't my roommate back when I had them.
It wasn't even a huge sum of money, but I wonder if it was a test, to try for a bigger hit later.
DeleteEd and Debby, exactly right about the card
DeleteI think mine was for $200 which considering what I had as a balance at the time wasn't a huge loss if I never got it back. But it was worth the phone call and non-use of my ATM card for a couple weeks to get it back.
DeleteThe only thing I can think about the room-mate locking her door is that some room-mate situations are different from others. I lived in some households where my housemates were like extended family. We didn't lock our doors, spent time, cooked and ate together and if something seemed off would have investigated as if we were home with family. I've lived in other places where we not only didn't socialize, we really didn't know the other people (and in some cases didn't want to know them), and kept to ourselves in our locked separate rooms because weird people coming and going was not unusual.
ReplyDeleteThe second situation sounds more like an apartment building scenario, where everyone has their own self contained space. Here, they were sharing a common living area and kitchen space, and two bedrooms shared a bathroom. I think perhaps people came and went, but boy, the mask and the dark clothing and a room mate crying in the night would have done it for me. (Disclaimer: I am not a college student. I am also pretty wary).
DeleteThere are so many situations where we simply can't judge because we weren't there. And people who are in the situation don't agree on what happened! So I reserve judgment either way on people I don't even know outside of mass media reporting.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the random number generator hitting a viable card once in a while. Unlucky when it's yours.
I think that when a public figure puts him/herself out there, we have every right (and in some cases, a responsibility) to weigh the facts and to form an opinion. The middle of the road is not always the high road.
DeleteThat does not apply to the room mate situation, but still, a masked man inside my dwelling in the middle of the night. I don't get it.
I have the same questions about the roommate and her reactions to a masked intruder in the house. She says she went in her room and locked the door. Something is fishy. Were they all that drunk that they completely lost their judgement? Did they pass out? Every time I read anything now about H&M I cringe/roll my eyes. I'm done with the drama.
ReplyDeleteI guess that I don't consider it so much 'fishy' as just amazingly, wildly clueless.
ReplyDeletenot sure why I suddenly went anonymous there.
DeleteThe most astonishing thing about Santos isn't his lies -- it's everyone else's reactions to his lies. So many fellow Republicans, willing to seat him in Congress and make excuses for him. It's mind-blowing.
ReplyDeleteI also wonder about the roommate. I can only assume she was incredibly drunk and/or high and thus unable or unwilling to call the cops until she passed out and woke up moderately sober the next morning.
It's like tRUMP. He'd lie and lie, and people would say, "All politicians lie." This was lying taken to a whole different level, and people seemed unable/unwilling to see that.
DeletePS, call me clueless, but that scenario never occurred to me.
DeleteYeah. Some people are truly pathological liars. That's all there is to it but the gullibility issue lies with the people who believe him.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your credit card company was alert to the misuse of your card. Good for them!
As to the roommate situation- I have no clue. And as to Harry- there is no way for me to fairly discern the truth of his statement.
Gullibility is a problem, to be sure.
DeleteDebby, I believe you are blessed with a great deal of common sense and integrity. The people you mention are not as fortunate as you are. Sadly.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! Bonnie in Minneapolis
Well...I don't know, but I have questions. I always have questions.
DeleteOur host here is watching foxx on TV..and the ballot for speaker...and it isn't a secret ballot?!
ReplyDeleteHoudini's place...our cats have always used that space on a chair under a table.."I can see all and be unseen"!!
No. It is a public vote.
DeleteThere have been many things about the Idaho murder case that have seemed odd to me. As for the gap in time before calling 911 - I could imagine Steve's scenario happening.
ReplyDeleteI'm not one for airing dirty laundry in public. I hope Harry and Megan never want to reconcile with his family because I would think they've burned all the bridges by now.
That actually made it all make sense. I can see it happening like that if that roommate had been drinking.
DeleteTo throw into the mix, why isn't a deal worked out behind closed doors to decide who is going to be Speaker, instead of this absurd nonsense we are now witnessing.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Harry, he later watched the footage from his aircraft showing his kills. Just like removing chess pieces from a board, as he said. Effing tosser.
It never occurred to me that he was not on the ground. I am glad we can see what is going on, who are the holdouts.
ReplyDeleteI find it strange that George Santos lied about everything and the republicans don't seem to have a problem with that. WTF! I guess they were also okay with trump, so there's that.
ReplyDeleteCut from the same cloth, they are.
DeleteI wonder if someone picked up the credit card number from your England travels, was it? People tolerate Santos just like they love DJT; just under 50% of the voters didn't care how badly DJT behaved. Personal morals is not important to those voters. Sad and sickening. Houdini is coming around. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteI have a traveling credit card that goes with me. We have a separate account that we put x-amount of money in. We can transfer more if we need it. But we use a credit and debit card that is not attached to our regular bank account.
ReplyDeleteGlad Houdini's coming round. Pippi is mending now. Currently sat beside me whilst Lulu plays football with a string covered pingpong ball she can carry around in her teefs!
ReplyDeletePeople in the public eye who lie their back teefs out have to be pretty stupid and batting to a totally gullible public.
As for Harry, you write things like that and attract instant Fatwah's for your wife and family. How stupid can you be? As for having a hotline to your therapist - words blardy fail me. Yet he wants his father and brother to carry on liking him - he's gone the wrong way about that hasn't he?! At the bottom of it all - making MONEY. Stupid man and manipulative wife.
I think that it will end badly for Harry. The Pennsylvania Dutch have a saying, "Too late, smart." I don't dispute at all that he found he was unsuited to life inside the royal family, I think that publically airing every detail of his unhappiness is just awful. There are cases where he's made accusations of wrong doing that have already been addressed and put to bed. I.e. Camilla leaking a story to the press. That scenario had played out 20 years back and the woman who did inadvertantly leak the story was sacked and publically told the story of what happened, and how the story got to the press. Yet, Harry told the story as if his belief of what happened was more important than the actual events. I really think that as time goes on, his claims become more and more calculated to garner public pity. The whole 'my family seemed surprised that a ginger could attract such a beautiful woman'. Surely, no one said that. But he felt that this is what they thought, and that's what I think needs to be remembered.
DeleteDo you think any family could withstand the public scrutiny of an unhappy child throwing about accusations and spilling private details of an unhappy life?
Harry's always saying he wanted a normal family life. Then he gets upset about arguments with his brother - what could be more normal than that?
ReplyDeleteLOL. Now that made me laugh.
DeleteYou always give me so much to think about!
ReplyDeleteI have lived in shared houses where I didn't remember the names of the other people - never used the communal kitchen cos it was always full of piles of washing up, never used the living room cos it was full of smoke... I can easily imagine a situation where you see something odd - but your mind would go to the most likely option - my housemate has some weird friends - rather than straight to thinking that there is a murderer in the house... - but then again I don't live in the US. (I also haven't followed the case...)
For the Harry thing - he was "high value" so they had to keep him bubble-wrapped and make sure he was in virtually no danger at all the whole time he was out there - and he was in a helicopter - so maybe he did have plenty of time to count his "kills". He has problems that is for sure and is getting bad advice about how to cope with them.
The politician thing - incomprehensible. Cat from Paris
Well, I read, that for better or worse, Kevin McCarthy is speaker of the house. That debacle is done. You may be right about the room mate thing. I cannot imagine living in an anonymous situation like that. Reading more about Harry, I can see that you are right.
DeleteWe had a similar issue with our credit card when we went to Starbucks in Universal Studios within an hours time that card was being used in a Starbucks in Maryland. It is not just online transactions which are not secure.
ReplyDeleteHarry's lucky he's not my brother. All the stuff he is saying about the family, I'd do more than push him to the ground. If Harry wasn't in the Royal Family he'd be cleaning urinals as he is an uneducated buffoon.
You know, I think any family, royal or not, is a small group of people who see each other very differently than the public sees them. A family sees us and (hopefully) loves us, warts and all. So, I imagine that the royal family is no more perfect than my own, but complaining about them in exchange for money is less than perfect itself. No family could withstand this type of public scrutiny without looking bad.
DeleteI am on a message thread on a board regarding The Royal Family where both sides (and many others) get discussed. Here is the "kill tally" piece in full context - https://twitter.com/_PeterHunt/status/1611505889952800769/photo/1
ReplyDeleteI agree that it sounds far less inflammatory in his own words, but I do have to say, I have never heard any military person talking about how many people they've killed. Never. I was in the military with a lot of VietNam veterans I knew them personally. You knew that they had killed people. They never discussed them as a number. Ever. Even when they were very, very drunk and talking about the war.
DeleteThanks for that, Jeanie.
ReplyDeleteThose certainly are huhs. Houdini is coming right along. Daughter has adopted a rescue. They’ll have some fun too.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of huhs. I often find out more about things later and they cease to be 'huhs'. Right now, they are huhs.
Delete.....and, do you really think that the Prince (even if he is the Spare) would be allowed to be in a hellish battle such as that? Really?
ReplyDeleteand......wouldn't it be good if someone-ANYONE-from the other party would check out the educational and business statistics before the vote?
As to the last, I think that it should not be the responsibility of the other party to check if someone is qualified to run for office. I really do believe that there is no reason why these credentials should be checked at the time they submit their application to run, just like when you apply for a job.
DeleteIt does appear that he did fight in battle and that he was well thought of by his fellow soldiers. Regardless of all of that, I have NEVER heard a military person announcing how many people they've killed. It is simply not something that a soldier would do in my experience.
I was almost feeling sorry for Harry, but now… it’s tiresome. I think a lot of people are losing patience with him and Megan.
ReplyDeleteBetween Santos and Gaetc, I don’t know about those Republicans thinking these guys are OK.
Kay of Musings
What bothers me is that Margery Taylor Greene was openly taking calls from Donald tRUMP during the whole debacle and passing the phone to the other holdouts. The man is still holding trying to run the country.
DeleteCrazy times we are living in indeed. I try to focus on my own small world - most of the rest is too mad, bad or both!
ReplyDeleteSometimes the news is so awful that in self defense, I do narrow my focus. These news stories are not the ones that bring tears to my eyes or make me despair. They simply make me say, 'huh'.
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