Daily Archives: November 22, 2009

North Pole man sen­tenced on forgery charge

Author­i­ties believe Cesani was part of a group of about 10 peo­ple who tar­geted mail­boxes in the out­ly­ing areas of Fair­banks and stole checks and credit cards. Cesani had eight stolen credit cards when he was arrested and told author­i­ties he used metham­phet­a­mines as trade to obtain other people’s mail and a shotgun.

Asso­ci­ated Press — Novem­ber 21, 2009 5:24 PM ET

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An exten­sive mail theft ring bro­ken up late last year has led to a 5-year prison sen­tence for a North Pole man.

Anthony J. Cesani, 30, pleaded guilty on Fri­day to one count of second-degree forgery and was sen­tenced to five years in prison, the Fair­banks Daily News-Miner reports. Cesani’s sen­tence was part of a plea agree­ment with pros­e­cu­tors, who dropped a num­ber of other felony theft and fraud charges.

Author­i­ties believe Cesani was part of a group of about 10 peo­ple who tar­geted mail­boxes in the out­ly­ing areas of Fair­banks and stole checks and credit cards. Cesani had eight stolen credit cards when he was arrested and told author­i­ties he used metham­phet­a­mines as trade to obtain other people’s mail and a shotgun.

Steal­ing mail?  From the North Pole?  Santa’s Mail?  Now this is going to far and… oh!  Wait.  There have been a lot of lay­offs lately.  And they don’t say if this Cesani char­ac­ter was, you know, short.  With pointy ears.  Long white beard.  Uh-oh!

Well!  All I can say is that if they can bail out all those coun­ter­par­ties who were dumb enough to buy insur­ance poli­cies on secu­ri­ties backed up by rot­ten mort­gages that the same guys who sold them those Feds had bet­ter have some bailout money left for Santa.  Yessiree!

And maybe we should send the Moun­ties.  Sgt. Pre­ston of the Yukon could han­dle THIS! (H/T: KTUU)

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Ear­lier I was pok­ing around and hit on a Daily Beast post.  Do Sex Tapes Mat­ter? by Meghan McCain.  Never read her before, but I must admit it.  Her open­ing para­graph was some­thing of an effec­tive tease.

If you’re a Repub­li­can, is it bet­ter to be in favor of gay mar­riage or to make a sex tape? That is the question.

And that was just to get us inter­ested, so show us that if we kept read­ing we wouldn’t be dis­ap­pointed.  Fur­ther down (empha­sis mine)?

After watch­ing sev­eral of Prejean’s media appear­ances this week, it was not her incred­i­bly uncom­fort­able threat to walk out on Larry King that had me most unnerved; it was actu­ally her appear­ance on Sean Hannity’s show. This was Prejean’s first stop on her book pub­lic­ity tour, and when the sex tape came up, he pro­ceeded to ask her if she was “in love with her boyfriend at the time that she made [it].” I’m sorry, why would being in love mat­ter when it comes to film­ing your­self in a sex­ual context?

Gee, Meg, I don’t know. I’m a guy and it’s dif­fer­ent for us.  If we’re not movie stars we could blan­ket the coun­try with nude films and unless they came with a pre­paid Mas­ter­card nobody would give a damn.  So I’m the wrong per­son to ask.  We could ask Mar­i­lyn Cham­bers or Linda Lovelace but they’re pretty unavail­able right now so let’s do a lit­tle thought exper­i­ment.  Ein­stein believed they could be use­ful and who am I to dis­pute Albert?  Here goes. Let’s go to Trixie’s (sorry — first name that came to mind) cor­ner and ask her.

• Hi, Trix.  Mind if I ask you a question?
• Shoot!
• If you loved a guy and he loved you, would you let him take a video of you two doing it?
• (think­ing, thought­fully) Uh… If he really wanted to and I thought it’d make him happy, yeah.
• You would?
• Yeah.
• Well, then, how ’bout we go back to your pad and make a movie.  I’ll pay double.
• No way.
• Triple.
• No way.
• Why not?
• You said “if I loved the guy.”  You’re a cus­tomer.  I offer a ser­vice and that ain’t part of it.
• Not even for triple?
• Look, you give me twenty thou and dis­tri­b­u­tion rights and I get to pick the lead­ing man and you’re on.  Oth­er­wise, no.
• You’d do it for your guy.
• I told you.  I love him.

Well, there we go.  For some peo­ple it makes a big dif­fer­ence if you’re in love.  Just ask King Edward VIII.  And watch your step if you’re Meghan’s honey.

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