Hi,
Tomorrow’s the anniversary of the most expensive movie to date’s release, The Titanic (1997), speaking of movies, the Music Man was released tomorrow as well (1957). Tomorrow is the birth anniversary of Leonid Brezhnev (1906).
After my rant yesterday, there was some great articles in today’s newspaper and I thought I’d talk about them.
On September 26, I talked about Pittsburgh Police Detective Jack Mook, he was volunteering training kids how to box. Two of the boys he was teaching, Jesse & Josh, he became friends with. And noticed a significant change in their behavior. Taking them out for pizza he learned about their drug addicted parents and offered to foster them. He ended up adopting them and their story is going to be on CBS tonight on their feature Home for the holidays. What a great holiday story!
In my December 1 post, I talked about that dirt bag Martin Shkreli the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and he raised the price of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 and it just costs pennies to make. Daraprim is a little know drug that people with compromised immune systems (cancer patients, HIV patients) can’t fight a severe parasitic infection can use. When asked if he could go back and change anything while on TV, he said yes, he would have raised it even more! Well the Feds pulled him in on a Ponzi scheme! He set up a hedge fund and was playing with peoples’ money. He lost a lot of money in his first hedge fund and set up a second to cover his loses, when he lost more money with the second hedge fund he started raiding another pharmaceutical company he was running. The Trib has the complete details.
I just think it’s funny Trump has a new endorsement, Vladimir Putin. I have nothing else to say here. 🙂
Speaking of dirt bags, they convicted Chuck McCullough. He is a former county councilman and solicitor. He helped himself to $50k from the estate of one of his clients. He said he certainly meant no harm to his client, of course not, she had money and he wanted it. There was no ill will on his part, just greed. In addition to the five felony convictions, he also has to face several perjury charges. He said he was sorry to the court for any undue delay, of course he’s sorry that he couldn’t keep delaying this years long saga. He truly is proficient at dragging out the systems. Again, the Trib has a great article on the details.
Have a great evening,
ed
