Day 290: Terror and Fog.

 

October 17th, 2011I hated today. I repeat, I hated today. First, I didn’t get much sleep. Secondly, I wore my shirt inside out for all of my 3-hour class, not noticing till the near end. Thirdly, my phone embarrassingly rang in class. Waddle Waddle. I went to my Polisci immediately afterwards before going to work to print out some delicious Ron Paul flyers. When the time came, I quickly had to eat lunch in 20 minutes at TapEx before proceeding to my 3-hour COMT100 video editing class. Afterwards, I video edited in the studio lab for roughly 5 hours, from 6 pm to 11 pm. I went home on a super crowded bus, ate noodles for dinner, and ended the night studying for my Vietnamese quiz tomorrow. My picture of the day is what happened when I went outside of my editing lab, fog and mist everywhere creating a yellow-oranish glow.

On this day in 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and 1930s. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899 to Italian immigrants. He was expelled from school at 14, joined a gang and earned his nickname “Scarface” after being sliced across the cheek during a fight. By 1920, Capone had moved to Chicago, where he was soon helping to run crime boss Johnny Torrio’s illegal enterprises, which included alcohol-smuggling, gambling and prostitution. Torrio retired in 1925 after an attempt on his life and Capone, known for his cunning and brutality, was put in charge of the organization. OOH TAX EVASION…

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Monday unveiled a plan to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget within one year by eliminating a handful of federal departments, including the Energy and Education departments. Paul’s plan would shape the federal government to fit the Texas Republican’s small-government, federalist views, slashing remaining department budgets, immediately ending all war spending, eliminating programs viewed as unnecessary, sending control over programs like Medicaid to the states, scrapping significant regulations and cutting taxes. YEEEE!

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