On March 24th, 2008 I published a blog about the UHO being a big, fat scam. I got a comment on that post on May 15th, 2008 from Vonte Vakel Johnson, a UHO worker. The original post and Vonte's comment here:
http://sandraoday.blogspot.com/2008/03/mr-hobo-selfish-bum-from-united.html
A judge shut down the UHO:
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/shame/091215-judge-shuts-down-uho
This morning I got an e-mail from Vonte, clearly feeling very, very scammed:
i was totally pissed when i found out that steve riley of uho was taking the fee money i was giving him for his own personal kitty fund while i was living day by day. how F**ked up is that?
now the stupid C**ksucker has the balls to open up streettalk news in midtown manhattan. he even sent his goons to force me to join so he can F**k me out of my money. Thjat N***er ain't getting S*it frm me. I wish The F**k i wold give that Basterd my money. i don't know how i'll live from day to day. When that shut him down in december of 09 i took an cup and begged on the corner. I'm going to live so i can improve my life. no matter what. i'm doing ok but not big time. i'm surviving. that's all any body can ask for.
yours truly
vonte vakel johnson.
Hang in there, Vonte. I'm rooting for you. And I hope Stephen Riley gets his own very special hell -- sooner rather than later.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Fresh Ground Coffee
The following conversation took place while I was visiting a friend in her very fancy, extremely expensive Manhattan apartment.
Sandra O’Day : Mmmm. That coffee smells really great, Doris!
Doris the Whiner: It better! It’s a pain in the butt to make.
Sandra O’Day: How so?
Doris the Whiner: Well, I really like super-fresh coffee. So I have to measure the beans, put them in the grinder, grind them, clean the grinder, boil the water, pour the water by hand through the filter bit-by-bit to slowly saturate the coffee ... it just takes a really long time!
A quick silence.
Sandra O’Day: Let me get this straight. You’re complaining about pushing a button on a grinder so that electricity, which you and everyone in your entire city has, will grind the expensive, designer coffee beans. Beans that were hand-picked on a treacherous mountainside in the relentless heat by someone in a developing country who has no electricity or running water and is paid a fraction of a penny for her hard work?
More silence.
Doris the Whiner: Cream and sugar?
Sandra O’Day: Black.
Sandra O’Day : Mmmm. That coffee smells really great, Doris!
Doris the Whiner: It better! It’s a pain in the butt to make.
Sandra O’Day: How so?
Doris the Whiner: Well, I really like super-fresh coffee. So I have to measure the beans, put them in the grinder, grind them, clean the grinder, boil the water, pour the water by hand through the filter bit-by-bit to slowly saturate the coffee ... it just takes a really long time!
A quick silence.
Sandra O’Day: Let me get this straight. You’re complaining about pushing a button on a grinder so that electricity, which you and everyone in your entire city has, will grind the expensive, designer coffee beans. Beans that were hand-picked on a treacherous mountainside in the relentless heat by someone in a developing country who has no electricity or running water and is paid a fraction of a penny for her hard work?
More silence.
Doris the Whiner: Cream and sugar?
Sandra O’Day: Black.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Change
Well, at some point tonight we will have a new president. (Hopefully.) Being a felon, and still on parole, I am apparently not allowed to vote. This discovery made me understandably furious when I went to my polling place at 7 AM and was loudly rebuked by the facially scarred woman with the speech impediment who screamed for the benefit of the hundreds of people in line behind me, "You can'th vote. You're a cwiminawl!" (Former criminal, thank you Scar Face.)
But instead of throwing things at her, as I so deeply wished to do, I went out and took three extra anger management classes, a yoga class, ran five miles and told the kid at Starbucks that I had gone to vote (I did go) so I could get my free coffee. Decaf.
While I can't vote to make Change happen for our country, I did make Change happen for myself, in my personal life. I did not attack the disfigured volunteer and wreck her pathetic face further. Instead, I worked out my aggression in a healthy way. And I ordered a decaf instead of a regular coffee. For Sandra O'Day, that's a pretty good start at real Change.
So, I have to ask you, people -- now that all the hype of "Change, Change, Change" will be quieting down, will you continue to Change? Or will you go back to being uninformed lemmings who let the newscasters and your neighbors tell you what to think? Will you go back to gorging yourself on cheese-stuffed crusts while popping pills to lower your cholesterol? Will you go back to watching junk on TV and complaining that you're gaining weight because you spend too much time on your patootie?
Or will you really do it this time? People, you don't have to wait until the New Year to start over. Do it now. CHANGE.
E-mail me at PowerofSandra@aol.com and tell me what you want to work on. Together we’ll make a plan for you, a rigorous program of transformation. Let's put you on the true path to Powerful Positive Change. You can do it. I'll make you do it.
PowerofSandra@aol.com
But instead of throwing things at her, as I so deeply wished to do, I went out and took three extra anger management classes, a yoga class, ran five miles and told the kid at Starbucks that I had gone to vote (I did go) so I could get my free coffee. Decaf.
While I can't vote to make Change happen for our country, I did make Change happen for myself, in my personal life. I did not attack the disfigured volunteer and wreck her pathetic face further. Instead, I worked out my aggression in a healthy way. And I ordered a decaf instead of a regular coffee. For Sandra O'Day, that's a pretty good start at real Change.
So, I have to ask you, people -- now that all the hype of "Change, Change, Change" will be quieting down, will you continue to Change? Or will you go back to being uninformed lemmings who let the newscasters and your neighbors tell you what to think? Will you go back to gorging yourself on cheese-stuffed crusts while popping pills to lower your cholesterol? Will you go back to watching junk on TV and complaining that you're gaining weight because you spend too much time on your patootie?
Or will you really do it this time? People, you don't have to wait until the New Year to start over. Do it now. CHANGE.
E-mail me at PowerofSandra@aol.com and tell me what you want to work on. Together we’ll make a plan for you, a rigorous program of transformation. Let's put you on the true path to Powerful Positive Change. You can do it. I'll make you do it.
PowerofSandra@aol.com
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