Your lunch hour time waster

Dog doesn't understand why stranger sitting on a park bench won't play "fetch" with him.

Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a moron

My first car was a '59 Chevy that I bought for $600. It was a piece of crap.

But it was my fault for not checking it out completely.

Now, after all those years, I'm not feeling so bad.

Seems it can happen to the best of us.

Even to billionaires who should know better.

__________

“I don’t think Steve or any of us knew the condition of the facility was as desperate as it was when he bought the team. He really wanted to own the Miami Dolphins, it’s his home town, and I think he kind of made the bid, bought the team and figured it out later.” - Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee in an interview with Jim DeFede

Hey, Steve Ross...now might be a good time to finally put your money where your mouth is!

Click here to enlarge.

Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a billionaire times four.

And because he's wealthy, he's used to getting his way.

But, that didn't happen on Friday.

So, Ross did what most people with money who are used to getting their way do when they don't get their way. He threw a hissy fit.

Then he started threatening people.

But, in all the recent discussion of Ross's scheme to secure public money to fund a renovation of his private property, I don't think I ever heard anyone mention Ross's support for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential bid.

What does one have to do with the other, you ask?

In January 2012, Ross hosted a fundraiser for Romney at his Palm Beach home.

A few weeks after the fundraiser, Ross appeared on a CNBC program to discuss, among other things, why he was supporting Mitt Romney.

One of his hosts asked, "What do you think the number one thing this country needs to address in order to get the economy going again?"

"It's jobs. It's really bringing the business community back into the mainstream, where the jobs aren't going to be created by the government," Ross answered. (Watch has answer starting at about the 2:20 minute mark.)

(When you watch the video, take note of the Dow Jones average at the bottom of the screen back in Jan. 2012. Now, check the Dow close last Friday.)
 
Four months after he schmoozed with Ross, Romney was back in Palm Beach County, where, at a May 17, 2012 fundraiser, he made his now infamous "47 percent" remark.
 

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.
[...]
And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

So, there you have it, Steve...now that your plan to have the taxpayers fund the renovation of your property has gone bust, why not - to quote your buddy Mitt Romney - "take personal responsibility and care" for your life and stop being "dependent upon [the] government?"

It's your stadium. Use your money to fix it!

Put your money where your mouth is.

The Random Pixels Friday Night Funnies

Classic Dan Akroyd bit from Saturday Night Live, March 12, 1977: "Ask President Carter."

Your TGIF lunch hour time waster

Rottweiler makes a new friend at the deer park.

Andrew Mirmelli, scumbag owner of scummy Miami Beach parking lot, has a scummy past

Andrew Mirmelli.
via Local 10.

Andrew Mirmelli, owner of the Lenox Avenue parking lot that figures in one of the sleaziest parking lot/towing scams that Miami Beach has ever seen, has a criminal history that includes arrests for felony drug possession, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and passing worthless checks.

In April 1996, Mirmelli was arrested and charged with six felonies and one misdemeanor.

Click here to enlarge.

Court records show (above) that adjudication was withheld on four of the charges and he was sentenced to serve probation.

In 1998, he was again arrested and charged with passing a worthless check, a felony. Court records show that the state declined to take him to trial on that charge.

Mirmelli's first brush with the law came in 1994 when he was charged with petty theft. He beat that charge by participating in a pre-trial intervention program. 

Last night Mirmelli tried to mitigate some of the criticism leveled at him about his operation of the parking lot by talking to two TV reporters.

Mirmelli told CBS4's Brian Andrews that he's "looking for customers, not angry patrons," adding, "I have no ownership whatsoever in Tremont Towing," referring to the towing company that's been swooping down on motorists who don't read the fine print on the signs in his lot.



Technically, Mirmelli is telling the truth. But take a look at who is listed as Tremont Towing's manager.

None other than Deidre Mirmelli, Andrew's mother.

Source: SunBiz.org

Mirmelli and his mom own quite a few companies according to the Florida Department of State.

Click images to enlarge..

I'll bet Andrew's mom bakes a helluva an apple pie, too...that is when she's not dispatching Tremont's tow trucks to steal cars from unsuspecting Miami Beach visitors and residents who park at her son's lot.