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Yahoo! News – Report: Africa’s Debt Should Be Canceled

You know I really don’t think that anyone we have loaned money to in the last several hundred years is going to pay any of it back. I think realistically, our government knows this, and they probably don’t expect for these loans to be paid back…but we probably shouldn’t really advertise that fact or everyone would want more money with the expectations that we are just the rich uncle (sam).

Zenarchery.com: “Is it legal to exile someone for stupidity? To, say, Antarctica? Of course, she’d probably last about fifteen seconds — girlfriend ain’t go no meat on them bones. Which is too bad, because the polar bears are hungry this time of year.”

…because, isn’t it a fact that there aren’t any polar bears in Antarctica? (I do agree with the whole ‘Get rid of Paris Hilton’ thing. Can’t we just have her neutered?)

(posted EVERYWHERE I can find a way to talk shite about these people. Yes, they were that infuriating. Go send them a nasty letter for abusing yours truly.)

I ordered a computer from Vann’s.
After their initial fraud check, a call from my credit card and 3 more calls to the customer service department (they promised to call me back, but never did any of those times) I FINALLY was able to talk to the person who was holding up my order.
I had specified a shipping address for this expensive package. My house sits directly on the street and I have had packages ‘disappear’ before and I had no recourse. So I obviously didn’t want something this expensive to disappear. I put down the address of a person in the company I own who would be available to sign for the package. Not only did the website NOT specify any terms for when shipping addresses were able to be used, the person in the shipping department made an arbitrary decision that my house was safe enough to send this computer to.
This company is in Montana and I live in California. The sheer arrogance of this person deciding that I was too stupid to know what was best for me and what I was not allowed to do after having spent the past 24 hours jumping through verification hoops infuriated me.
I think this company is populated with liars, condescending jerks and their tagline “Since 1961 we have taken pride in offering a large selection of quality name brand products at competitive values and backed by outstanding customer service.” is a fraud… outstanding customer service never has included arbitrary decisions or screwing your potential customers. I’m going back to ordering from Amazon, and I never should have trusted anyone else.
Especially not this company.

I wanted to say spiteful things on the official sites like “these rat bastards shouldn’t be allowed to deal with other humans and should be locked in dank cells with rabid rats.” or (and this one should win lots of fans) “Never trust anyone from Montana.” but I thought that it might be a bit over the top… even for me.
I know I’m just infuriated right now, I’ll calm down later and then just wish a pox on their collective weenies.

Yahoo! News – Gene to Blame in Rare Cases of Extreme Obesity: “Gene to Blame in Rare Cases of Extreme Obesity”

But then again, his mama naming him Eugene was just cruel.
heh.

(Yes, I know they mean ‘genes’. I’m too caffeinated and hopped up after eviscerating some schmo at a store in Montana who wouldn’t send my order to a secure place (I mean really, if you are going to provide an option for shipping address, you can’t just arbitrarily decide when and when not to allow it.) He thought my house would be just fine (oh yes, because he KNOWS.) I thought cramming something spikey in his eye sounded fine to me (because I KNOW.) and I cancelled my order and then spent about 40 minutes yelling at them in my ‘official bitch’ voice and writing bad mouth-y reviews of them and their condescending manner in MANY places. They had the cojones to send me a BizRate rating… boy are they ever going to be sorry they messed with me.)

Yahoo! News – Martha’s “Cupcake” Assignment: “She was granted a stay of sentence while her case was under appeal, but elected to waive it in the interest of doing ‘the right thing for me and for my company,’ according to a statement on her Website. “

I was wondering earlier why she wasn’t summarily hauled off in irons to the pokey.

Yahoo! News – Martha’s “Cupcake” Assignment:
“Once Stewart completes her five-month sentence, she’ll spend five additional months under house arrest at her 153-acre farm in Bedford, New York. “

You know, after not having had a real vacation in about 2 years, house arrest at Martha Stewart’s 153 acre farm sounds rather appealing. I wonder if they would let me serve out her sentence in lieu of Martha and she could come out here and work at my job.
(Deal’s off if they won’t let me near my email though.)

CBS News | Bush’s Top Ten Flip-Flops | September 30, 2004�04:28:06:
“Same-Sex Marriage

During the 2000 campaign, Mr. Bush said he was against federal intervention regarding the issue of same-sex marriage. In an interview with CNN’s Larry King, he said, states ‘can do what they want to do’ on the issue. Vice President Cheney took the same stance.

Four year later, this past February, Mr. Bush announced his support for an amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as being exclusively between men and women. The amendment would forbid states from doing ‘what they want to do’ on same-sex marriage.”

Also included are fun topics such as:
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Iraq and the Sept. 11 Attacks
Gas Prices

and for the record, flip flopping is not the same as learning new information and revising your opinion. Bush makes statements and says that’s what he said all along.
The probelem with that, shrubby, you bozo, is that the world is videotaping your speeches and your every move. We aren’t as stupid as you are. We know what you said and when you said it.

defective yeti
and
Yeti’s point of view on Shaun of the Dead

Sock References

This was an interesting book, but it was tiring to read. I can imagine that if you got Penn Jillette hopped up on amphetamines, this is what he would be like…

Blogthings – Cool Stuff To Put In Your Blog

You Know You’re From the Bay Area When…
You Know You’re From Austin When…
You Know You’re From Silicon Valley When…
“ -You can name four different programming languages and you are not a programmer
- Standing in line at Starbucks you wonder why the employees don’t call a head hunter
-You cringe when you see people in suits at your office, wondering if someone in management will make you stop wearing bunny slippers
- You don’t ask the staff any questions at Fry’s. You know they hire idiots and pass the savings on to you. “
You know You’re Addicted to XM Radio When…
“- Anytime you listen to FM and look at the radio expecting to find out the Title & Artist Info on the screen.
- You intentionally switch all the way over to the third lane because you know that the signal does not cut out when going under a certain bridge in that lane.“

I’m spoiled and the cream is spoiled.
I switched to heavy cream (not whipping cream either, no sweetener added – hence no carbs) in my coffee when I decided to go heavy duty Atkins, I don’t drink tons of the stuff, so don’t fear for my arteries, but it really is different from just milk in my coffee.
Milk just seems too wussy to put in coffee now. No body, no oomph and definitely doesn’t taste as good.
In the midst of the move, I’m not at one place or the other enough to lay in a stock of cream in the fridge, so I let this container stay where it was and inevitably the last dregs of it went bad.
Spoiled.
Saturday I’ll go get more. I might survive until then, but who knows. I’m sure I’ll whine about my deprivation more here… or just go to Starbuck’s.

11:37 PM Upload: “At 4:59 PM I hose the living and dining room and sunporch with Pier One Citrus Cilantro air freshener. See, if I really pour it on at 5, there’s a light fresh lingering fragrance at six when my wife comes home after a hard day at work. I want her to come home to a house that’s immaculate, and presents no obligations or duties. Nothing to sweep or dust or sort or clean. All she has to do is eat dinner and spent the night with her daughter. I get boocoo husband points and she has absolutely no basis for complaining if I want to go upstairs and play Doom for an hour. Yes, guys, I do have it figured out. “

This part is especially interesting to me… “I want her to come home to a house that’s immaculate, and presents no obligations or duties.Nothing to sweep or dust or sort or clean.”
Some people just don’t get that…and that’s one of the myriad reasons why my marriage is over now and he still thinks he’s the martyr and that I done him wrong.

GOP urges a vote on same-sex marriage ban / Some see it as effort to stress gay issues:
“Washington — Republican leaders pressed for a House vote Thursday on a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage they acknowledge will fail by a wide margin but will force members to vote on the issue less than five weeks before the election.
The vote appears part of a GOP effort to raise the pre-election profile of gay issues — and to kill a popular hate-crimes measure that could land on President Bush’s desk before Nov. 2 if it is allowed to proceed. “

Nicole Kidman has a new man; is P. Diddy after Elizabeth Hurley?; Madonna hosts Britney’s honeymoon: “Oscar winner Marisa Tomei is considering leaving her beloved New York if President George W. Bush is re-elected in November because she thinks America will become a ’scary’ place.”

Wine & Apples
(sent to me by Mikey)
Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten apples from the grounds that aren’t as good, but easy……. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they’re amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who’s brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree. Share this with other women who are good apples, even those who have already been picked!

Now Men…. Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it’s up to women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.