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They ruin everything!

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By: Scoop Stanton

This past Sunday I had to run to the grocery store to pick up a couple of items. This grocery store is the closest to my home and I don’t like it. But you can thank the left. First, the store used to have two entrances.

This particular store closed one of them because of all the people running out of the store with stolen merchandise. Then I saw this sign recently posted.

People are buying and selling EBT benefits! And we pay for that. Im pretty sure you don’t see that sign at Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s!

It gets even better. At the pharmacy inside the store there are plastic sheets over the counter. Its not from COVID, it’s to deter criminals from climbing over the counter and steal pharmaceuticals when the pharmacy is open!

Then there’s the store “security guard.” They now have a person stand by the one entrance from open to close to prevent sticky lingered customers from walking out with merchandise. Then there’s the detergent. Apparently in some neighborhoods Tide is used as currency. So now the Tide detergent is under lock and key! Just like baby formula and cigarettes!

Why is all this happening? Because the rich liberals who don’t have to suffer the consequences of the way they voted. The county I live in voted for a George Soros Commonwealth Attorney. He won’t prosecute crimes. So the police figure it’s a waste of time to lock up people for petty larceny, so the few who are still on the job can’t respond or won’t arrest! Then there’s the Sheriff. Democrat of course. Sheriff Fife won’t turn over illegal aliens unless ICE comes with a court order!

This is one store in one neighborhood. There’s no middle class here. They moved away. They can’t afford to live here. So slum lords rent these houses out to multiple families or they rent rooms in these homes turning them into Single Room Occupancy (SRO) places. You have grown adults sharing a house using the same bathroom! The county would rather zone development for McMansions than affordable housing. The county does not care about the middle class. Welcome to Washington, DC.

Jaws at 50!

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By: Scoop Stanton

On June 20th, 1975, Universal Pictures released a motion picture that changed movie history: Jaws. Jaws was the first summer blockbuster. Universal figured the kids are out of school, so they have the time and daddy’s money to go to the theater.

Jaws was based on the book written by Peter Benchley. Benchley not only wrote the book but he also co-wrote the screenplay and appeared in the movie. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg, and in my opinion his best movie. Jaws was an action movie, horror movie and drama movie all rolled into one. Three men attempt to kill a shark. A shark is attacking people. And a town figures out how to keep the town afloat with a dangerous shark attacking tourists. Casting the movie was perfect. Roy Scheider as Chief Brody. Scheider made a name in The French Connection and The Seven Ups. Robert Shaw was one of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time with From Russia with Love, Battle of the Bulge and The Taking of Pelham 123. Richard Dreyfuss made a name for himself in American Graffiti. The supporting cast was also amazing including Murray Hamilton as Mayor Larry Vaughn who had some of the best lines in the movie! Then John Williams put the icing on the cake with the scariest music in movie history.

Jaws is now my favorite movie because of one man: Anthony Cumia. As a diehard Cumia fan he would talk Jaws nonstop! I already saw the movie a number of times and now I had to watch it again, paying close attention and wow!

Cumia is such a fan of Jaws that he had a suit made to look like the one Hamilton wore in the movie and his eyeglasses have the frames Scheider wore in the movie!

As for me, I went to Universal Studios in Orlando last year and I was bummed out to find out that the Jaws ride was replaced with a Harry Potter ride. Here’s the kicker. Jaws is a Universal Picture. Harry Potter is a Warner Brothers property!