Charles “Chuck” Foley, the Inventor of Iconic Party Game Twister Dies at Age 82

Say it isn’t so …

Charles “Chuck” Foley, the inventor of the iconic and one of the greatest party games ever, Twister, has died at the age of 82. Foley died July 1 at a care facility in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. According to his son, his father had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The game  was originally called ‘Pretzel,’ but when they sold it to Milton Bradley, they came up with the name ‘Twister’. The game became an overnight sensation after Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor played it on “The Tonight Show” in 1966.  Thank you Mr. Foley for creating one of the greatest games ever.

Twister called itself “the game that ties you up in knots.” Its detractors called it “sex in a box.”

Charles “Chuck” Foley, the father of nine who invented the game that became a naughty sensation in living rooms across America in the 1960s and 1970s because of the way it put men and women in compromising positions, has died. He was 82.

Foley died July 1 at a care facility in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. His son, Mark Foley, said Thursday that his father had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Foley and a collaborator, Neil Rabens, were hired in the mid-1960s by a St. Paul manufacturing firm that wanted to expand into games and toys. They came up with a game to be played on a mat on the floor, using a spinner to direct players to place their hands and feet on different colored circles.

Wegmans Ends Health Care Benefits for Part-Time Workers Thanks to Obamacare

Wegmans, the Rochester, NY based grocer that has previously  providing health insurance to its part-time workers will no longer offer that benefit, thanks to Obamacare.  Under the Affordable Care Act, part-time employees are not eligible for health insurance subsidies if their employer offers insurance. Wegmans employs roughly 1,433 full-time employees and 4,304 part-time employees in the Buffalo Niagara region. America was warned that this would happen and no one wanted to listen. Instead they wanted to call those folks alarmists. From the outset Obamacare has been a misrepresentation of the plan and now Americans are learning it the hard way.

The Rochester-based grocer that has been continually lauded for providing health insurance to its part-time workers will no longer offer that benefit.

Until recently, the company voluntarily offered health insurance to employees who worked 20 hours per week or more. Companies are required by law to offer health insurance only to full-time employees who work 30 hours or more per week.

Several Wegmans employees confirmed part-time health benefits had been cut and said the company said the decision was related to changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act.

However, part-time employees may actually benefit from Wegmans’ decision, according to Brian Murphy, a partner at Lawley Benefits Group, an insurance brokerage firm in Buffalo.

Michelle Malkin reminds us … Remember when President Barack Obama said to the American people when trying to sell Oabamcare as a good thing and stated, one of the three tenants of Obamacare was that if you like your present insurance you can keep it? Guess what America, HE LIED!!! He stated that if you like your current insurance, you can keep your current insurance. LIES. LIES, AND MORE LIES.  This was all part of the ultimate goal of destroying the insrance industry and creating a single payer system.

The Daily Caller calls Obamacare for what it is. Obamacare is a disaster and and it is owned by Barack Hussein Obama.

No, call it what it is: Obamacare.

They don’t want to call it that, as disaster looms, but that’s what it is. It’s called Obamacare. He owns this. It’s not Wegmans’ fault, or the fault of any of the other businesses that are going to suffer. This is all on Obama. And the worse it gets, the more the press will try to cover for him.

Closing Arguments Begin in the George Zimmerman Murder Trial in the Death of Trayvon Martin … Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda Blames Zimmerman’s Assumptions (Live Video Feed)

The closing arguments began in the murder trial of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda said to the jury that George Zimmerman “tracked” and then shot Trayvon Martin instead of waiting for police to arrive because he made the wrong assumptions and profiled Martin as a criminal.

From CNN:

“A teenager is dead through no fault of his own, dead because a man made assumptions and acted on them, unfortunately, because his assumptions are wrong, Trayvon Benjamin Martin no longer walks on the earth,” prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda said as he opened his argument.

“He profiled him as a criminal. He assumed certain things, that Trayvon Martin was up to no good. And that’s what led to his death,” de la Rionda said.

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Trayvon Martin is dead because George Zimmerman “tracked” and then shot Trayvon Martin instead of waiting for police to arrive, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told the jury at Zimmerman’s murder trial.

De la Rionda, presenting the prosecution’s closing argument, accused Zimmerman of taking the law into his own hands during their February 2012 confrontation. De la Rionda asked the six-woman jury to use “your God-given common sense” and find the former neighborhood watch volunteer guilty of second-degree murder.

UPDATE II: https://twitter.com/jeffweineros

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 43s
BDLR: #TrayvonMartin “was minding his own business” but #GeorgeZImmerman decided “he was up to no good.” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: #TrayvonMartin went to store, bought Skittles & Arizona drink. “That was his crime.” #ZimmermanTrial #GeorgeZimmerman

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 2m
BDLR: But in this case, #GeorgeZimmerman “profiled him as a criminal… and that is what led to his death.” #ZimmermanTrial #TrayvonMartin

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: #GeorgeZimmerman pursued, didn’t wait “for the police to come & do their job.” #ZimmermanTrial #TrayvonMartin

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: #GeorgeZimmerman called cops, “then he followed him, he tracked him… in the defendant’s mind, this was a criminal.” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 37s
BDLR: Focus on “what she said #TrayvonMartin said, and isn’t it consistent with the evidence?” #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR stressing Jeantel’s lack of “sophistication,” asks jurors if they’d disregard her because of that. #ZimmermanTrail #GeorgeZimmerman

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR: Why mutter “assholes” line, “other than that’s how he feels?” Mentions ill-will, hatred. #ZimmermanTrial

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 1m
BDLR plays #GeorgeZImmerman’s non-emergency call, “These assholes, they always get away.” Doesn’t it show “what he was feeling at the time.”

Jeff Weiner ?@JeffWeinerOS 47s
BDLR: I’d submit, “that there was a fight, there was a struggle.” #GeorgeZimmerman is “the one that’s had MMA traning.” #ZimmermanTrial [editors note, isn't this remarkable that the prosecutor would make such a comment that only George Zimmerman knew how to fight when it was Judge Nelson who unfortunately and I believe incorrectly did not allow Trayvon Martin’s texts messages on his double password protected cell phone that showed that Martin had sent texts about all of his fighting.

https://twitter.com/KBelichWFTV

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  1m
E6 is not taking notes now.. After taking notes the entire trial. Others are taking some notes. #Zimmermanon9

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  1m
The state wants to put a good spin on Rachel Jeantel’s lies about her age, going to the funeral and the changes to her story. #Zimmermanon9

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  27s
Juror E 40 is leaning her head on her hand. #Zimmermanon9

Kathi Belich, WFTV ?@KBelichWFTV  1m
Juror B 29 is avoiding eye contact with the prosecutor. She’s in the front row. #Zimmermanon9

UPDATE II: So far the prosecutions closing argument has been poor and weak.

For more updates, read comments, provide your own and continual Tweets of the accounts of the closing arguments, go to Scared Monkeys Forum: George Zimmerman Murder Trial.

34 Year Old Edwin Charles Tobergta Arrested … 10 Year Old Girl Catches Perv Having Sex With a Rubber Pool Float

Well alrighty then … ICK story of the day.

34 year old Edwin Charles Tobergta was arrested for public indecency after a 10 year old little girl caught the perv having sex with a rubber pool float. Are you kidding me? I guess that poll float is being put to the curb for the garbage men to take away.  Tobergta is being held at the Butler County Jail on $25,000 bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned July 23 before Butler County Common Pleas Judge Charles Pater. With a previous history of doing the exact same thing and in one case having sex with a Halloween yard decoration, what are the authorities waiting for, this perv to attack a child?

A Hamilton man repeatedly arrested for public indecency has again been indicted after a child saw him engaging in sex with a rubber raft last month, according to police.

Edwin Charles Tobergta, 34, of Harmon Avenue, was arrested June 17 for allegedly stepping out his back door naked at about 1:20 p.m. on June 15 and having “sexual relations with a rubber pool float,” according to the Hamilton police report.

In 2011, Tobergta was accused of having sex with a neighbor’s pool float. In 2002, a woman told police he did the same thing with an inflatable Halloween decoration in her yard.

Tobergta was indicted by a Butler County grand jury Wednesday for pubic indecency, a fifth-degree felony. If convicted, he faces 12 months behind bars.

Past history of criminal issues:

• In August 2011, Tobergta, was arrested at his home after he was seen engaging in sexual conduct with a pink inflatable swimming pool raft.
• He was indicted in May 2010 for tampering with evidence and possessing criminal tools
• After a July 2008 conviction for felony public indecency, he was sentenced to five years community control after he was naked standing in a neighbor’s yard engaging in sexual activity
• In December 2006, Tobergta was charged with public indecency and aggravated menacing while being held at the Butler County Jail.
• In 2002, a woman told police he did the same thing with an inflatable Halloween decoration in her yard

Zimmerman Attorney Don West Loses his Mind at the Prosecution For Introducing Third Degree Felony Murder Child Abuse Charge … Tells Court, ‘This Was A Trick’ (UPDATE: Judge Disallows Third Degree Murder Child Abuse Charges)

This morning the State dropped a bombshell that smelled to the high heavens as they tried to sand bag George Zimmerman and the Defense team with a last second underlying lesser felony of third degree murder child abuse charge.  UNREAL! Defense attorney Don West blasted the prosecution for their tactics and called it nothing more than a “trick”. West states to the Court, “This is outrageous “. Judge Nelson recessed the court for a number of hours in order to allow the defense to prepare for the change in charges the jury will be allowed to consider.

George Zimmerman’s prosecutors want to add lesser charges for the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, including manslaughter and third-degree murder, possibly because they’re worried he’ll be acquitted.

In the state of Florida, third-degree murder doesn’t require proving that Zimmerman acted with some sort of “ill will” or hatred. The new charge, however, does need a felony-basis. In a surprising move, the prosecution argued Zimmerman committed child abuse as the felony required for third-degree murder.

Richard Mantei, one prosecutor explained, “When one commits … child abuse, and the child dies — the child being defined as a person under the age of 18 — that can constitute felony murder in the third degree.”

From Mediaite:

“This is outrageous,” West said. He asked Judge Debra Nelson to recess the court for a number of hours in order to allow the defense to prepare for the change in charges the jury will be allowed to consider.

RELATED: BREAKING: Zimmerman Judge Rules Prosecution Can Include Manslaughter Charges Over Defense’s Objections

“It’s just hard for me to imagine that the court could take this seriously,” he noted, observing that the court had not been provided sufficient time to prepare for this change in charges either. Nelson dismissed this objection saying that the late introduction of requested materials has been from both the prosecution and the defense has been a regular feature of this case.

West protested again that this instruction was emailed to him only this morning, but it was obvious that the state had been preparing the background to support the additional charges for some time.

“Really?” he asked. West indicated that Angela Corey, attorney in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Court who presented the initial second degree murder charge against Zimmerman, apparently “approves” of the state’s maneuver.

“It’s not fair to me, it’s not fair to Mr. Zimmerman, or Mr. O’Mara, or the court for this to happen like this right now,” West said.

UPDATE I: Judge Debra Nelson disallows the State’s attempt to charge George Zimmerman with the ridiculous charge of Third Degree Felony Murder Child Abuse. Judge Nelson stated that the evidence did not warrant the charge.

For more updates, read tweets, reason others comments and provide your own, go to Scared Monkeys Forum: George Zimmerman Trial.