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Y’know, I really need to post more crazy stuff.  I used to do it all the time.  It adds some variety to this place.  But I don’t want to over do it.  In the past few years The Knight Shift has become more an intimate thing for me.  Although I need to post more “from the heart and mind” pieces too.  Just something I’ve noticed.

But back to weird stuff…

From Italy comes this story of a “youthful whippersnapper” who did a bad bad thing.  A man in Italy, 56 and an unemployed nurse, has been found to have been dressing up as his three-years dead mother in order to impersonate her and get her pension checks.  It’s as bizarre a story as has come about lately.

From the article at Daily Mail:

An Italian son has been accused of dressing up as his dead mother in an effort

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The last time that the thermopolium in Pompeii, Italy enjoyed patronage was August 24th, 79 A.D. And then nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted and completely buried the city. The stylish snack bar was evacuated in such a hurry that the tip jar was even left behind.

As of this week and under new management (previous owner Vetutius Placidus having long since retired or worse), the thermopolium of Pompeii has reopened for the first time in 1,921 years, and is reportedly already enjoying a thriving business! The menu for the first day included sugary treats that Roman citizenry were known to enjoy, but from here on out the thermopolium will be serving up a more modern repast.

(And probably a good thing too, ‘cuz the “sell by” dates on the potato chips have no doubt long, long since expired.)

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UPDATE 04/02/2009: Please click here for major new developments in this story!

The damned lunatic has finally gone too far. And not all the pathetic PowerPoint charts on his laptop can possibly save him now.

Local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the “Martinsville Church of Christ” – the very same individual who has harassed many churches in the area and has sought to inflict his own warped brand of “Christianity” with rude force and heartless lies – has been arrested in Vatican City following what is being called a “coordinated and persistent attempt” to threaten Pope Benedict XVI within the very Papal Apartments of the Apostolic Palace!

Behold the front page of today’s New York Post, screaming the over-the-top sins of Henry County, Virginia’s most rabid mad dog for all the world to see…

Robertson’s 16-year old son Micah Robertson is also in critical condition at a Rome hospital ...

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I don’t mind saying this: I’ve never liked or trusted Mike Easley, before or after he became Governor of North Carolina.

When I was a reporter in Asheville, I saw how Easley, who was then the state’s Attorney General, practically stole land from a private owner. Easley’s claim was that the land needed to be environmentally protected, as if it were pristine wilderness. Then an aerial photograph showed that there were already not only housing developments nearby but a chemical plant also. I saw the plans that the guy had for the land and there’s no question in my mind that he was going to responsibly manage the land and make it into something that everyone could enjoy. He was certainly going to do a much better job at it than the state government ever would.

Easley had the state take it anyway.

So now Mike Easley is on his ...

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