Saturday, March 31, 2007

Don't like our Ways..

You don't want remove your facial covering for a drivers license? Nor remove it for court proceedings in Detroit, so your case is dismissed unless you abide by the rules governed by the U.S.A. ahhhh, identification...!Your Language is NOT the first language of THIS country! Just as my forefathers came here and LEARNED to speak ENGLISH, PRIOR to even coming, so they would be AMERICANS. You too can Adjust...IT's called respect..Want your language to be #1, GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY... Freaking give me a break.APPARENTLY your countries aren't THAT bad, as you wish to abide by your laws from YOUR country, YOUR language, FROM YOUR COUNTRY. GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY THEN..STOP SHITTING DOWN OUR GOVERNMENT which allows your to be here, pays your Social Security if you make it that far, supports you(welfare) when your in need. YET YOU wish to shit down OUR throats with YOUR countries ways..GO THE FUCK BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY THEN!! I've really had enough crap..

Scream and yell how we're being unfair TO YOU...LOL..NO I AM NOT A BLEEDING LIBERALIST...You can have your way..Once YOU ABIDE BY THE LAWS OF THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...Any further Questions..? Oh wait, that's right you pretend not to speak out language, thinking you'll get away with all sorts of bullshit, pretend not to understand English..YOU WANTED A BETTER WAY OF LIFE RIGHT? SO YOU CAME TO AGAIN....THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, so save your sorry asses. Beat your women, ohhhh no that's no inhuman, YET turn it around onto you, and it's OMG, AGAINST THE LAW..FUKK that..Who the sam hell do you think you are? YOUR not AN HONEST TO GOD, FULL BLOODED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CITIZEN.. For you don't abide BY OUR LAWS..FUKK in LEAVE THIS COUNTRY.. LET US come back to some sanity of realism, in which through the destructive powers of SOOOOO MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS has been tarnished.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

The feds need to lower the prime??

HIGHLY cynical this evening with the world in general.

FreeMarketNews.com

The U.S. economy is showing signs of a potentially rapid deceleration. In particular, there is accumulating evidence that the housing sector slowdown may be becoming a meltdown. In many areas house prices are falling. House sales are down nationally, and mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures are rising—especially in the sub-prime market. Is it preventable. Maybe for the moment, in my humble opinion, but eventually, were going to be devastated economically. My belief any way.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/27/preventing_economic_collapse.php

China has started to drill an 8,875-meter-deep well in southwestern Sichuan Province to explore an untapped underground oil and gas field, sources with Sinopec Corp. said on Saturday..UH HUH. They own a large percentage of US soil, companies, business ventures gone over to them and now their drilling the deepest well for oil and gas..I smell major issues evolving here. Our downfall? See I don't have faith in our government anymore. I so wish I did, yet time has proven they're just not that damned concerned about the citizens of this once great country or the country itself. Do you see them taking 50% cut in pay to help? OH HELL NO...


http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-03/24/content_835770.htm

Lastly, declining home prices and tightening credit standards will diminish mortgage equity extraction, as is already happening. Since such cash outs have been an important factor supporting robust consumer spending, this augurs weaker future spending.

In addition to lowering interest rates, the Fed must also address two problems calling for deeper policy change. First, Chairman Bernanke’s close identification with inflation targeting has created something of a bind. Though the Fed has no official inflation target, it has allowed market opinion to settle on the idea of an implicit two percent target. With inflation stubbornly stuck above two percent, this means a rate reduction could dent the Fed’s credibility.

This confirms former Chairman Greenspan’s view that inflation targeting would adversely limit the Fed’s flexibility and discretion. The clear implication is that inflation targeting is a bad idea, and the Bernanke Fed should now distance itself from that idea by abandoning chatter about inflation targeting.

A second problem is that a rate reduction could trigger renewed debt-financed asset inflation, which highlights a major dilemma. If the Fed pushes rates too high in its attempt to choke off wider inflationary effects of asset inflation, it risks triggering a credit crunch and defaults as is now happening. Conversely, if it does not push rates high enough it risks triggering accelerated inflation as agents borrow more in anticipation of rising prices. This implies a knife-edge situation, with the economy being held hostage by asset speculation.

One solution is quantitative regulation extending the system of margin requirements to asset classes such as mortgages. This would enable the Fed to vary the cost of those assets without changing interest rates, thereby damping speculation without imposing collateral damage on the rest of economy.

As a graduate student, Chairman Bernanke wrote about how the Great Depression was fostered by a cascade of bank failures that rippled through the financial system. It would be ironic if he were now to preside over his own financial crisis. Moving promptly to lower rates and enacting policy reform that gives the Fed new tools for controlling asset inflation seems a good way to lessen that likelihood.

This article was originally posted on Tuesday 20 March. Paragraph two was amended on Thursday 22 March to take account of the Federal Reserve’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged but to alter its policy statement.

http://www.thomaspalley.com/?p=72#more-72
Dr. Thomas Palley is an economist living in Washington DC. He holds a B.A. degree from Oxford University, and a M.A. degree in International Relations and Ph.D. in Economics, both from Yale University...
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'Just because your necessary, doesn't mean your important."

"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

"The race for quality has no finish line-
so technically, it's more like a death march."

"Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up."

"The Journey of a Thousand Miles
Sometimes Ends Very Very Badly'

"Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Group"

"You Aren't Being Paid to Believe
In the Power of Your Dreams"

"It Could Be That The Purpose of Your Life Is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others"

"Hard Work Pays Off After Time,
But Laziness Always Pays Off Now"---NOT!!!

Trying to stomach TV..

Growing up in the MTV generation of great music, seeing the very first video aired on MTV, I wanted to revisit this great Music Station. OMG...I remember NOW why I don't even THINK of turning to MTV anymore..TV & Music for Morons. OMG the shows alone make you want to wretch.

Parental Control. MTV shoving Parental Control down our throats like the crap over played music of today's generation. TRL. This just sucked. Period. 10 seconds of a song and thats it.

Three hour block time again! (ahhh where's the Videos?) My Super Sweet Sixteen. The one show that makes you scream, "Please God! If you are up there! SHOOT ME!" The shows "premise" is sixteen year old girls, who are already rich, yelling, kicking and screaming because everything isn't just right. They are getting into Porsches, Land Rovers and what have you. They end up pissy because it's not the color of Porsche they wanted. WAKE UP HOOKER, YOU JUST GOT A FUCKING PORSCHE!!!!!!!! Anyone else would do anything, and I do mean just about anything, for their first car to be a Porsche.

I hate reality shows.

4:00 A.M. hits. MUSIC! HA HA! Four straight hours of music! ::Starts singing 500 Miles: I just felt dirty watching all that! I needed and took a much needed shower, I was in there for like an hour, with the soap. "I'm Still not clean! I'm Still not clean!" Well anyways, I'm pretty sure my brain is fried just as much as the CEOs and presidents of MTV.


Put me out of my misery

Music Television? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.(uncontrollable hysterical laughter).

Kids nowadays act just like the scripted people on MTV, not to mention all the other lame channels. Its either torture, sex, acting "cool" or terrorism. Even history channel is not even close to what it used to be....


We all know MTV sucks, and lets face it, its sucked for a long, long time. However, have you seen the videos that "artists" are coming out with these days? You've got rap videos which look exactly the same, pop punk/emo/ videos which look exactly the same, and you've got nu-metal videos with retards in masks and painted faces which all look exactly the same. The point I'm trying to make is, that with the bullshit and stupidity masquerading as music and the complete lack of anything innovative in music videos, do you really miss them that much anyway? UHHHH NOPE!!


After Headbanger's Ball dropped off for years on end, I completely gave up... I have seen pieces of the new HB and that's the part where I agree with everyone else here... These videos suck ballsack and aren't original at all...
...
Whatever happened to kick ass videos like Enter Sandman, Bark at the Moon or even cheesy videos like Separate Ways & We're Not Gonna Take It? Hell, pop songs might of sucked, but at least we remember the old music videos like Beat It & Thriller. Every new video is the same and just not that memorable.

In the early/mid-80's, when I was in high school, people were already bemoaning the fact that MTV was both [a] a shameless corporate tool that had nothing to do with real music (see the Dead Kennedy's "MTV Get Off The Air") and losing whatever "cool" factor it once had by repeating its content incessantly and coming up with stupid non-musical shows.

How the sam do they stay on tv? Please..End of Rant..

Logic + Safety go hand in hand

Remind yourself

of these things to do

in an emergency situation...

This is for you,

and for you to share

with everyone you know.

After reading these 9 crucial tips ,

forward them to someone you care about.

It never hurts to be careful

in this crazy world we live in.

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do :

The elbow

is the strongest point

on your body.

If you are close enough to use it,

do!


2. Learned this from a tourist guide

in New Orleans .

If a robber asks

for your wallet and/or purse,

DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM .

Toss it away from you....

chances are

that he is more interested

in your wallet and/or purse

than you,

and he will go

for the wallet/purse.

RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown

into the trunk of a car,

kick out the back tail lights

and stick your arm out the hole

and start waving like crazy.

The driver won't see you,

but everybody else will.

This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency

to get into their cars after shopping,

eating, working, etc.,

and just sit (doing their checkbook,

or making a list, etc.

DON'T DO THIS!)

The predator

will be watching you,

and this is the perfect opportunity

for him to get in

on the passenger side,

put a gun to your head,

and tell you where to go.

AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR ,

LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.

a. If someone

is in the car

with a gun

to your head

DO NOT DRIVE OFF,

repeat:

DO NOT DRIVE OFF!

Instead gun the engine

and speed into anything,

wrecking the car.

Your Air Bag will save you.

If the person is

in the back seat

they will get the worst of it ..

As soon as the car crashes

bail out and run.

It is better than having them

find your body

in a remote location.

5 . A few notes about getting

into your car in a parking lot,

or parking garage:


A.) Be aware:

look around you,

look into your car,

at the passenger side floor ,

and in the back seat


B..) If you are parked next to a big van,

enter your car from the passenger door .

Most serial killers attack their victims

by pulling them into their vans

while the women are attempting

to get into their cars.


C..) Look at the car

parked on the driver's side

of your vehicle,

and the passenger side.

If a male is sitting alone

in the seat nearest your car,

you may want to walk back

into the mall, or work,

and get a guard/policeman

to walk you back out.



IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)
6. ALWAYS

take the elevator

instead of the stairs.

(Stairwells are horrible places

to be alone

and the perfect crime spot.

This is especially true at NIGHT!)

7. If the predator has a gun

and you are not under his control,

ALWAYS RUN!

The predator will only hit you

(a running target)

4 in 100 times;

And even then,

it most likely

WILL NOT

be a vital organ.

RUN,

Preferably !

in a zig -zag pattern!

8. As women,

we are always trying

to be sympathetic:

STOP .

It may get you raped,

or killed.

Ted Bundy,

the serial killer,

was a good-looking,

well educated man,

who ALWAYS played

on the sympathies

of unsuspecting women.

He walked with a cane,

or a limp,

and often asked

"for help"

into his vehicle

or with his vehicle,

which is when he abducted

his next victim.


************* Here it is *******

9. Another Safety Point:

Someone just told me

that her friend heard

a crying baby on her porch

the night before last,

and she called the police

because it was late

and she thought it was weird.

The police told her

"Whatever you do,

DO NOT

open the door."



The lady

then said that

it sounded like the baby

had crawled near a window,

and she was worried

that it would crawl

to the street

and get run over.

The policeman said,

"We already have a unit on the way,

whatever you do,

DO NOT open the door."

He told her that they think

a serial killer

has a baby's cry recorded

and uses it to coax

women out of their homes

thinking that someone

dropped off a baby

He said they have not verified it,

but have had several calls

by women saying that

they hear baby's cries

outside their doors

when they're home alone

at night.

Please pass this on and

DO NOT

open the door

for a crying baby ----

This

e-mail should probably

be taken seriously because

the Crying Baby theory

was mentioned on

America's Most Wanted

this past Saturday

when they profiled

the serial killer in Louisiana ....


I'd like you

to forward this

to all the women you know.

It may save a life.

A candle is not dimmed

by lighting another candle.

I was going to send this to the ladies only,

but guys,

if you love your mothers,

wives,

sisters,

daughters, etc.,

you may want to

pass it onto them, as well.

Send this to any woman you know

that may need to be reminded

that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it

and it's better to be safe than sorry.

Time to get in hot water with the Warthogswrants..


Thankfully we have differences in views on many things. It keeps life interesting between us.

CHILDREN: Of course they're obnoxious, they're children. Learning, Playing, pushing those buttons to see how far they can go. Not knowing when to sit down, be quiet, or behave. It's a hyper thing. Sometimes they can't even stand themselves. Boing, Boing, Boing. They even stop on occasion, ahhh yes when they're sleeping. It is our job as adults to learn them or school them in appropriate behavior. Even when in large groups, children can be more than a handful. They're children. I have gained more tolerance for children or rather people in general as I age. For aren't we all just a bit irresponsible, erratically over charged from time to time. Take a child to a new place: sporting event, park and watch them go NUTS..It may very well be anew experience for them, in which SUPER hyper kicks in. Because they are THAT wired and Excited at experiencing new things.

In this insane world that I speculate why we are selfish enough to bring a child onto this planet, yes I get pro creation, doesn't always justify it though. It is our job to also be patient and tolerant of those that don't know well enough. Stupidity is a crime. Ignorance is not. Its a learning process. Children are often ignorant, because they are Children...They're still in the learning process.

Mind you I remember being say oh around 7 and bouncing off walls. Massively HIGH Strung Child. I knew right from wrong, how to be respectful and courteous and yet seemed to go OUT of my way to a public embarrassment to my parents. Just couldn't make my mind do anything but GO GO GO GO. My body was worse than my mind. Always on the move. Being still was NOT an option for me. Nothing against them, but scheez, I was a child, I had no sense. The same speech week after week, Especially after Fidgeting through church went kind of like this:

Dad: Well now young lady, you know better than to be disrespectful.
Me: Yes sir, but, but I was just trying to see and
Dad: enough excuses young lady, your grounded.
Me: But, but, I just wanted to see what my voice sounded like if it would echo from those big places up in the ceiling and..
Mom: That's enough, you've heard your father.
Me: Uh huh, but wait, didn't you hear how COOL my voice sounded.. and it
Dad: Young lady, another word and your grounded..
Me:(self delusional state of being heard or thinking I was) And it came back REALLY Loud Daddy, it was...
Dad: Your grounded. No going outside today, no tv, phone, friends, you may eat dinner in the den by yourself. No horseback riding to Amy's today either.(my best friend who lived on the lake with 2 of her own horses) Why don't you ever listen. Don't you think once in a while.
Me: (I think alright, now listen dang it, I have something to say too) Yes daddy.

On the way home, nope, will never ever forget this one:

Mom: Honey were you going to get around to the lawn this week, or should I have one of the neighbors boys come over and do it(2 3/4 acres of all lawn) this is about 1973.
Dad: I suppose I should, its getting a bit long, we could let the horses graze
Me: But daddy, didn't you listen to mommy, I thought she asked you to mow the lawn a few days ago.(OMG, WHAT WAS I THINKING)..
Dad: (stopping the car. UH OH, This is Gonna HURT) come here Young lady, NOW. Get out of this car, this instance.
Mom: Wesley she's just a child, don't be so hard on her.
Me: But, but but but but , daddy didn't you say people should do as they're told. (Not a very bright child)
Dad: Standing looking directly at me outside the car, with this look of complete stupor on his face. (Yep you've been ONE UPPED by your own CHILD). Shaking his head, "GET in the car, DON'T say another word until we get Home" (scchhheezzz just til we get home. OKAY!).


In the long run, this resulted in a nice long paddling for talking back, grounding for thinking, removal of all joy for being a child. A CHILD..

I learned by the time I was 8. The more hell I raised the more I drove them nuts. I raised alot of hell in my younger years. Why? Because it drove them border line Insane with their stupid ass rules of being quiet and doing what THEY wanted. I've always wondered if people forgot how to be free, carefree, childlike. (ahhheemmmm)..
Patient is a most precious value in this world. CHILDREN ARE the FUTURE. let them be young, creative and get all that energy out. If it bugs you, deal with it. Look at life through their eyes once in a while. It's really a kick ass world! Did you know you could do this and that and this(breath) and omg, I found out today if you mixed this with this and and ummmmhhhh and and and. LOL.. Once you have your own wonderful children, you tend to look at life through their eyes. INCREDIBLE..

Okay I'm done pointing out WHY we as people need to have a bit of patience, or more with the developing children of this world. They far too often can't stand their little selves with all that energy. I KNOW I was ONE of them! Had someone been bright enough back then, they'd have given me a puppy and a cup of coffee and let me torment myself for a few hours, until it all finally wore off and I'm certain the dog would have bitten me to shut me up. I may have learned quicker. Doubtful, but hey you never know.

There is no other animal as funny...as a WET cat..


Nope, there just isn't. Cat's in general amuse me..HIGHLY!!

How's YOUR MoNdAy Going!!

Well-done pizza may be better for your health


http://www.lifescript.com/news/reuters/Well_done_pizza_may_be_better_for_yourhealth_558.asp

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cooking whole wheat pizza crust at slightly higher temperatures, for just a bit longer, can substantially pump up its antioxidant content, according to new study results presented at the 233rd annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.

"This is something people can really do at home," Dr. Liangli Lucy Yu of the University of Maryland in College Park told Reuters Health. "You don't have to have extra cost, you don't have to have extra effort."

Because pizza crust is one of the most widely eaten whole wheat foods in the U.S., Yu and Jeffrey Moore, a doctoral student in food chemistry, investigated whether changes in dough fermentation and cooking times, as well as cooking temperatures, might also change its antioxidant content.

The researchers tested dough made from two different wheat varieties. Increasing cooking temperature from 400 to 550 degrees F increased antioxidant content by as much as 82%, while extending cooking times from 7 to 14 minutes boosted antioxidant levels by up to 60%. When Lu and Moore allowed the dough to ferment longer, up to 48 hours, antioxidant content as much as doubled.

Higher temperatures and longer cooking and fermentation times increase wheat's antioxidant content because more nutrients are released from the wheat's bran coating, Yu noted in an interview. It's unlikely the same effect would be seen with non-whole wheat crusts, she added, given that refined flour doesn't contain wheat bran.

Students and faculty who tasted the pizza crust found it "highly acceptable," Yu said.

The study represents one of many "little things you can do at home to make your food better," she noted, such as storing vegetables properly.

For those trying this at home, she added, it's key to keep a careful eye on the oven so the crust won't burn.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Post about John Longnecker

Check out his, Warthogswrants post on this controversial subject. Valid points of distinction and backing it with concise logic.

Think you know about Social Security Numbers

I am sure there are a lot of people out there who have never heard about most of these facts. Here is what I found out:

* The original social security card was designed by Fred Happel of Albany, N.Y in 1936. He was paid $60 for his work.
* The first social security record was established for John David Sweeney on December 1, 1936 with a social security number of 055-09-0001. However, this is not to be confused with the *first social security card* issued. No one can point out the first card issued because hundreds of thousands of them were distributed around the same time through 45,000 post offices throughout US. Ironically, Sweeney died at the age of 61 without receiving any social security benefits.
* The lowest SSN was given to Grace D. Owen of Concord, New Hampshire in 1936 and it was 001-01-0001.
* The first recipient of social security benefits was Ernest Ackerman who received a lump-sum payment 17 cents in 1937.
* Social security numbers are not allocated serially; meaning, the first number ever issued was not the lowest and the latest number issued will not be the highest.
* So what’s the meaning of the numbers on the card? Most people probably know this, but I will mention it nevertheless.

The first three digits are called the area number, the next two digits are called the group number, and the last four digits are the serial numbers. The area numbers are assigned on the basis of the zip-code on your SSN application. The group numbers are just for bookkeeping purposes only, they don’t have any specific meaning. In each group number, the serial numbers are allocated consecutively from 0001 to 9999.
* Area numbers increase from east/northeast coast to west coast. People living on the east/northeast coast have the lowest area numbers (for example, people who apply for SSN from New Hampshire have the lowest area numbers) whereas, people living on the west coast and southwest areas have the highest area numbers.
* Apparently, there have been rumors in the past about the group numbers being used for racial profiling. Here is an interesting *clarification* on www.ssa.gov regarding group numbers:

Apparently due to the fact that the middle digits of the SSN are referred to as the “group number,” some people have misconstrued this to mean that the “group number” refers to racial groupings. So a myth goes around from time-to-time that encoded in a person’s SSN is a key to their race. This simply is not true.

* 078-05-1120 is the most misused social security number ever….some 40,000 people have claimed this SSN as their own. Here is the story behind it:

Hilda Schrader WhitcherIn 1938, wallet manufacturer the E. H. Ferree company in Lockport, New York decided to promote its product by showing how a Social Security card would fit into its wallets. A sample card, used for display purposes, was inserted in each wallet. Company Vice President and Treasurer Douglas Patterson thought it would be a clever idea to use the actual SSN of his secretary, Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher.The wallet was sold by Woolworth stores and other department stores all over the country. Even though the card was only half the size of a real card, was printed all in red, and had the word “specimen” written across the face, many purchasers of the wallet adopted the SSN as their own. In the peak year of 1943, 5,755 people were using Hilda’s number. SSA acted to eliminate the problem by voiding the number and publicizing that it was incorrect to use it. (Mrs. Whitcher was given a new number.) However, the number continued to be used for many years. In all, over 40,000 people reported this as their SSN. As late as 1977, 12 people were found to still be using the SSN “issued by Woolworth.”

* From the start of the program in 1936 till 2005, an estimated $8.9 trillion have been paid out as social security benefits. In the same period, the program has received $10.7 trillion in income.
* In the present times, invalid social security numbers include numbers with set of zeroes ( as in 000-xx-xxxx, xxx-00-xxxx, xxx-xx-0000), numbers starting with 666, numbers from 987-65-4320 through 987-65-4329 - which are marked for advertising, and numbers with the starting three digits above 770, which are not yet allocated.
* Social security numbers are not reassigned after a people die. Here is what socialsecurity.gov says about it:

We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 420 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.

References:

* Social Security History , government source
* How Social Security Numbers Work, Howstuffworks.com
* Social Security Number, Wikipedia
* Image sources: www.howstuffworks.com and www.ssa.gov

Fad diets..

The word diet shouldn't be in anyone's vocabulary. Healthy eating should. MSN ran an article about cutting back just 50 calories a day to shed weight. This article was run a few weeks ago either on MSN or CNN health. While being incapacitated for the next few days to either a hard chair or laying down, how ideal this would be to continue with what I've been doing. In the last 3 days, I've cut out 120 calories a day, accommodating my lack of physical activity besides being in the high end scale of pain. The scale this morning as of 3:21 am shows I'm less 6 lbs. Well there ya have it.

I also cheated..I have a GREAT site to help monitor what the heck I put in my mouth. I'm an emotional eater by nature, and it's been difficult trying to break this habit. My body wiggin out and putting on weight in the last 5 months, woke me up to my lack of care for my health.

I found this: http://www.mealographer.com/user.php?action=new&invitation=10..

You can put in what you've eaten: say ohhhh, cereal and it will give you choices to pick from, go with the closest option. Along with quantities. Milk, you can pick from again a variety of quantities and whether you've chosen Whole, skim, 2%, non fat. This little helper has been a gem. I'm able to track my eating habits a bit more meticulously. Not going overboard, but looking at the source for what I'm eating, when and monitoring the intake. I also have a journal now in which I subscribe to daily, what I was feeling when I ate, what time, how much, etc. What a wake up, for me. for some this method doesn't work. I know that I eat to live and not live to eat.

The reality for me is that I'm good with 2 medium sized meals a day, 2 snacks, alot of greens, and fresh fruit. I use herbs for flavorings more than anything else. Salt lives in my house, I myself do not use it. I just don't like salt. I refuse to cook with it. Just as I don't use salted butters/margarines. I won't. Once I'm able to get back up and moving again, my physical activity is going to increase by 5% daily. Until I hit 100% over my usual daily activities.

Whats the point of this droning piece..to share a bit of knowledge. We are indeed a nation lacking in self discipline. We're over everything. Weight, excessive, greedy, yeah you get the general idea. Exercise is free. Walking, which I do highly enjoy, especially at night, is wonderful for cardio, muscle and overall health. And it's free. It's doesn't cost and arm & leg to join, participate, continue in. Tennis shoes, shorts, pants, tops, jackets. Have all those. See I'm all set. There again, I refuse to spend a ridiculous amount of money of something I'm not at least 4x weekly highly active in. Walking, I do daily or every other day. Especially in warmer months. The biggest expenditure i have at this time is my weights, which found at a garage sale cost me $5.00 for 2- 8 lb hand weights. Not expensive and I can justify spending it. I have a jump rope which I bought 2 weeks ago for $3.00, another GREAT exercise. Again, easily justified, and cheap. I'm all about cheap. Just found out the consignment shop I go to carries roller blades on average for $10.00 to $15.00. Yep buying a pair soon. Cheap enough to learn in.

Warthog is going to be my leaning post while I learn to Roller blade this summer and kick his butt in it, while I'm at it. Then I'll be able to have him teach me how to ice skate again and kick his butt in that Too..Yeah not happening. lol..He's like a tree walking in the door, just as broad. He's gonna spend a lot of time laughing at me though. It's all good. I'll get him and his little birdie too. ((SMILE))..He's a good boyfriend.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

You gotta be kidding me..

Now there's putting a Chocolate shortage on MSN as NEWS!! It's Chocolate. We're going to buy it. Non negotiable. Really go read it.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/WorldChocolateShortageAhead.aspx?GT1=9215

Really. The news is slightly lacking these days. Too tired they are of what reporting on the depression economic situation in this country, the deficit, blaming GUNS for killing people-not the people the use them to shoot people. Ahh maybe there's just no really good reason to start a small war in THIS country over the illegal aliens, the drug problem, the serial rapist, oh and lest we forget about the individuals driving around on a suspended drivers license with 14 plus violations and STILL DRIVING..Yeah, taking the car and selling it wouldn't be a logical process of thought. Oh no not at all. What the fuck happened to the 3 strikes and your out rule? Can ANYONE give me a logical answer..Oh wait, that's right just an Anna Nicole Smith's judge was found smoking dope in a park in Florida, Probably with other law makers, judges and lobbyist. Cause in this country it appears that someone's lost their back bone and must be blowing someone or taking it up the ass to get a consensual vote.

Psstt, if you come over here to this park with me, this little matter of new legislation about illegal aliens, can be resolved fairly quickly. AHHH YEAH!! The original transient state from hell. I'm on a bit of a vicious turn tonight. Suppose I should shut up, take another muscle relaxer and go to bed soon. Grrrrr...STUPIDITY PISSES ME OFF!! No, I'm NOT happy with our government right now. NAFTA my ass.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Activist to zoo: Wrong to save baby polar bear


Comments fuel debate over whether humans should raise abandoned cub":


BERLIN - Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insists it was wrong to intervene and save the cub.

"Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht was quoted as saying by the mass-circulation Bild daily, which has featured regular photo spreads tracking fuzzy Knut's frolicking.

"The zoo must kill the bear."

I got to this comment and just stopped. You can go read the rest of the story if you so choose at:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17703212/?GT1=9145..

Freaking Crack head. Activist..Wrong thing to say..In relation, and yes in my opinion it is relevant, if their animal was ill would they take them to the vet or let him die. No, no NO lie's here. They'd rush right to the vet. It's the same thing, in my opinion. Saving an animal is saving an animal. Sometimes intervention comes in different forms. Activist Albrecht goes on to say ""If a polar bear mother rejected the baby, then I believe the zoo must follow the instincts of nature," Albrecht said. "In the wild, it would have been left to die." True, there again maybe not. How many times has it been seen over and over again that another animal same or different species takes on the care of another's young. Many times.

The German animal rights organization "Four Paws" argued along similar lines, saying it would not be right to punish the cub for a bad decision made by the zoo.**They're what going to send him to a corner?**

Other activists have also argued that current treatment of the cub is inhumane and could lead to future difficulties interacting with fellow polar bears.**SAVING this cub is INHUMANE? Really..I see it as very humane**.

"They cannot domesticate a wild animal," Ruediger Schmiedel, head of the Foundation for Bears, told Der Spiegel weekly in its Monday edition.**They can't huh? Hmmm, cats, dogs, birds, Horses. Any OTHER STUPID ASS COMMENTS? The human race has been domesticating almost anything wild for many and many of thousands of years.

Who domesticates men? WOMEN..Who domesticates women? MEN. Polar bears live alone in the wild, the cub may very well have survived, but unfortunately his mother died. Which is why she abandoned them. HELLO..."Polar bears are under threat of extinction, and if we feed the bear with a bottle, it has a good chance of growing up and perhaps becoming attractive as a stud for other zoos," Schuele said.

This is insanely ridiculous..I think he, Albrecht should be wrapped up tightly in a form of meat and feed to the cub for survival. Moron.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

The continuation of the dumbing down of america

You have to know by now that it's intentional..
Come on Campbell's soup-Just add water. Not only are we to stupid now (according to the manufacturers) to add water or milk, but to lazy apparently.
Male Erectile Dysfunction Lotions-Yeah, and creams for breasts to make them larger. You know the targeted area on this one right?! People with less money each and every paycheck who will buy into the scam..There are no such "magic" lotions nor pills.

Gordon's new fish ad-LOVE IT..The square fish..Yeah if this isn't pointing out the stupidity in America. The guys comment in the commercial "Now that ain't right". Okay the fact the put Ain't in the dictionary, blindsided me completely. Its NOT an appropriate English word, in my opinion.

The new Pizza commercial, don't remember the maker, don't care. Stock car driver say Sunday special, every Sunday, buy one get one free. Customer calls the phone # to order the pizza, said driver answers the phone IN HIS CAR, WHILE DRIVING..Yep Land Line too..How many people are going to laugh at this incredibly IGNORANT stunt?! How many PoDunks are going to BUY into it? I'm afraid to know. Yet the marketing company targeted a specific audience on this one. Go figure..(chuckling)..

NASCAR-Mind you I LOVE my NASCAR. Stock car races in general, being raised around the industry as an Uncle I had was a stock car racer. Any who. The VAST majority of racers are highly intelligent. Even their crew chiefs have to have an engineering degree in order to even be considered to work for the companies. Yet they continually TARGET the Dumb, PoDunk, Backwoods mentality. While many fans are degreed, intelligent professionals, they continue to market the original good ole boys. Which would be what: Predominantly White, not of high education, live in modular homes, drives trucks. NOW ON the other hand A new commercial with Dale Jr, Tony Stewart hosts african american males, newer, sportier cars, hip hop music. Juan Montoya has entered and is becoming a fast favorite in his rookie year. Toyota has come to play the field. I dare say the Good Ole Boys Syndrome is on it's way out. I think to some degree I will miss some of their "dumb commercials". Awweee. NASCAR is growing up. FINALLY!

Thats it for the moment..

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates next week will get intense attention.

It's been far too long since the Fed's have raised the prime in this country. We've consistently stayed at 8.25% since, hmmm, let me think here, since, I believe June 28th or July 28th, 2006. Watching the markets frequently for signs, The Dow is down 2.8%. The S&P is down 2.2%, and the Nasdaq is off 1.8%. And they haven't raised the prime in too long of a time frame.

As of Wednesday at 2:15 pm(E.T.) The statement will come out at the end of a two-day meeting.

Too many investors are looking for reasons to sell at this time. With no rebound in sight, I'd think the Federal Reserve would finally raise the prime, which is coincidentally what banks base their rates upon or after. The housing market is still slack, unemployment essentially nationwide remained unchanged at 4.5% in February. Yet Michigan unemployment rate decreased slight to 6.9%. Ahhh the reasonings though..So many individuals who've been on unemployment for the last 1 - 2 years are now done, being unable to collect any further assistance. Jobs are still leaving this state, at a higher than usual rate. Our governor has no real answers nor solutions for our economic future, yet Michigan State Police Patrols are being cut by 1 in several cities statewide, for a total of 30. Yeah, right before summer. It gets hot, so do tempers, crime.
"Continued losses in Michigan's manufacturing sector have hampered the ability of the state to show net job gains," Rick Waclawek of the Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth said in a statement. "Additionally, Michigan began shedding construction jobs in 2006 due to the national housing slump."http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/11196567/detail.html

I fear another depression coming. Far too soon. I know, I know, the outlook for the economic growth in the U.S. is "suppose" to be looking up, I'm hard pressed to be convinced of this. NAFTA is one of my biggest issues.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The estimated population of the United States is 301,203,162
so each citizen's share of this debt is $29,311.61.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.91 billion per day since September 29, 2006!

I think alot of people confuse The National Debt and the Deficit.

The National Debt is the total amount of money owed by the government: the federal budget deficit is the yearly amount by which spending exceeds revenue. Add up all the deficits (and subtract those few budget surpluses we've had) for the past 200+ years and you'll get the current National Debt.

Politicians love to crow "The deficit is down! The deficit is down!" like it's a great accomplishment. Don't be fooled. Reducing the deficit just means we're adding less to the Debt this year than we did last year. Big deal -- we're still adding to the Debt. When are we going to start seeing the Debt actually go down?

What can we do about the Debt?
Write or call your U.S. Senators and your Representative. Tell them your concerns and ask them what they're doing to reduce both the Deficit and the Debt. If you don't like their answers, vote them out of office!
Call the Concord Coalition, a group dedicated to eliminating federal budget deficits, at their toll-free number: 1-888-DEFICIT (1-888-333-4248) and ask them your questions. You may very well end up joining the Concord Coalition!

If either of your Senators or your Representative has a web page which discusses reducing the Debt (not just the deficit) and/or they have a link to my Debt Clock (I've heard that some do) drop me a line with their URL and I'll put together a list of "the Good Guys" in Congress.

Friday, March 9, 2007

Inabilites to Cope..How fitting!!


One of the great tragedies of our time is that in our desperate incapacity to cope with the complexities of our world, we oversimplify every issue and reduce it to a neat ideological formula. Doubtless we have to do something in order to grasp things quickly and effectively. But unfortunately this "quick and effective grasp" too often turns out to be no grasp at all, or only a grasp on a shadow. The ideological formulas for which we are willing to tolerate and even provoke the destruction of entire nations may one day reveal themselves to have been the most complete deceptions....The American conscience is troubled by a sense of tragic ambiguity in our professed motives for massive intervention. Yet in the name of such tenuous and questionable motives we continue to bomb, to burn, and to kill because we think we have no alternative, and because we are reduced to a despairing trust in the assurance of "experts" in whom we have no real confidence.

Thomas Merton

Thursday, March 8, 2007

For the love of chocolate...

My honey loves Chocolate..Eh, who doesn't..Found this great blog: http://www.chocablog.com..I have a feeling I'll be awfully busy making goodies for the man..(Hi Honey ). You ought to check out his blog: WARTHOGSRANTS.BLOGSPOT.COM....

I can't even comment.

You've got to be freaking kidding me...www.theonion.com/content/node/46453..

The fact that this was even published!! Even a year ago, what the sam hell..I'm fairly livid at this second, maybe later..I am however doing something about the publishing entity.
Ran across this little piece of interest, to me, today...I think it's LOVE:
That's not only bad government, it's bad capitalism. It makes legalized bribery and political connections more important factors than performance and competition in the corporate marketplace. Beyond that, it's just plain fucking offensive to ordinary people. It's one thing to complain about paying taxes when those taxes are buying a bag of groceries once a month for some struggling single mom in eastern Kentucky. But when your taxes are buying a yacht for some asshole who hires African eight year-olds to pick cocoa beans for two cents an hour ... I sure don't remember reading an excuse for that anywhere in the Federalist Papers.

Want more? http://www.smirkingchimp.com..

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Forethought would have been NICE!!

See now, I'm sitting here and this commercial is going off about how easy it is to just open the pre-made pre-packaged container of, okay instead of chocolate chip cookies, M&M cookies..Mind you've I've been seething for years over this one and several others. Why?!

It's right about 1978, in my parents kitchen with my best friend. We're concocting things. One of them being THESE cookies..Which mind you went on to become my families favorites. Over the years I've added pecans to the chocolate chips cookies and oatmeal. I was right around, I'd say 22 when I saw the first commercial for MY COOKIES..ARRRGGHHHHHHHHGRRRRRRRRRRRR...Who Gave them my recipe..Where are my proceeds. Yeah.

So many recipes over the years found on TV as a commercial 15-20 years later. Friggin EH..NOW, when I come with something overly creative and strange, I run taste test(s). Really. Make up a few dozen of a possible "IT", take it around to the neighbors, family,hell I've even taken it to the local grocery store and asked the staff to taste.

I swear to god I'm marketing my own things from now on..It could have been MY Goodies out there, but NOOOOOOOOOO..FORETHOUGHT apparently was far to much WORK..Sigh..

While I also make home made confections, candies, I'm much more mindful now. I will one day come up with something so strange and highly delectable that I will begin marketing my own products under my registered company/name.

I have a love for food. For the gourmet styles in life. To be highly creative, original and create unique one of a kind savory dishes that are healthy and tasty. I partake in multiple "forums" or board for chefs, which isn't it odd that while I've been a part of a "chefs" community for 20 + years, NOW it's HIP to be on FORUMS about cooking..Well GO FREAKING FIGURE..

Seriously considering starting up my own web site for home chefs and others to be a part of a "monitor" board for feedback. No, they'll be no gifts or awards per say, but positive, learning feedback, to become better in the gourmet realms of cooking & baking. NO, NOT DRESSED UP MAC & CHEESE EITHER. Testing each others recipes, reviewing the contents of spices and their effectiveness in the recipes. Yeah, I know there's boards out there similar to this, but usually it's a you make it, post it and if we make it we MIGHT give you feedback. Okay okay its but a thought in the process still and the appropriate structuring of it, to be functional and educational and a step in the direction of beginning renowned one day..Off to mull, ponder and beat myself over the head with ANOTHER cookie recipe made up LONG before PILLSBURY EVER came out with it..

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Specialization is for Insects

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

Do You remember..


Tesla? Too young to know? Just found out I missed their concert 2/22/07 in MI at Kewadin Casino - Sault Saint Marie. Yep I'd have drove the 3 hours up, in a heart beat. Great Band. Far not enough attention these days..Go to their site to take listen to some great Tunes...www.teslatheband.com..Yes an 80's band..Sigh..Just take a listen will you.

Predators..

I'm on MSN checking out stories from around the country. You've seen the show about catching a Predator-men who chat on line with individuals stating they are minors, 13, 14 year olds. Boys & Girls.

These individuals continue in their chats, being highly sexually suggestive to whom they are lead to believe, babies..What in the world is wrong with people! No, really. Have people become so deprived or warped in their own minds about sex and its pleasures that they find they have to meet up with children to get aroused? I can't even begin to comprehend the degenerative psychological mental illnesses in these individuals.

They KNOW right from wrong..yet they continue on with making plans and following through on them..And the lying about the meeting(s). The taste this leaves in my mouth is a full on fungus. No it's the bacteria on the bottom of the fungus on the bottom of a shoe in a mud pond. I know, I know, individuals have a right to experience their pleasure(s) of the flesh in a variety of fetishes. But THIS..NO HELL NO. This could be their daughters, nieces, nephews, sisters and YET they chat with them and as one gentleman recently in one of the stories Drove 1 HOUR 45 MINUTES, with Chocolate flavored Condoms..AND even initiated in the chat that he wanted to be her first in a hot tub. Taking her virginity..That's just massive mental issues. Apparently they liked their first time a bit too well.

What grandeurs in their mind(s) actually lead them to believe they would meet up with a CHILD and Not only potentially corrupt them but scar them for life! NO I DON'T want to know.

My suggestions for Rehabilitative therapy for the Predators:Mind you if they fail or falter the follow up therapy should widely published and known for all of society.

*Mentally, emotionally emasculate them DAILY until the day of their judgment..

*With a pair of Rusty tweezers, pick out their genital hairs. yeah basically because I think They should FEEL the repercussions of their actions.

*Nope, no band aids, no gauze, no water, no pity, sympathy or care.THEY WERE/ARE BABIES!! NON NEGOTIABLE.

*Genitals once cleared of all hairs, will then be subjected to 3 hours of a THICK coating of Tiger Balm-RED. Get OFF on THAT.

*Said heated genitalia will then be placed in a container which straps around their hips, thus keeping the container firmly in place, AROUND AND TIGHTLY on the genitalia.

*Electricity HIGH VOLTS(say a few thousand or so..) mind you, will then be Executed. NO not Shock treatment..Too simple..Full Blown, All OUT Persecution...DEATH of said Anatomy and of life.

Yes, they're ALL going to claim "mental incompetence", or some form of bs EXCUSE. In which if it is not proven by a Complete Board of like minded Psychologist to evaluate and subject said mental fallacies to specific observations and further evaluations, WITHOUT DRUG ENHANCEMENT, IN ANY FORM. If all concur to said "mental Incompetence" Then the individual Should by all means, be not only incarcerated FOR LIFE, but in an institution..NO THERE IS NO RELEASE..

A CHILD of such a young age HAS NO CLUE of the ramifications of playing online..NO, THEY DO NOT..The damaged caused by such SICK individuals will be Incomprehensible. HOW are the activities of such ADULTS on A child any different than RAPE..NO, your not going to convince me otherwise..IT'S ALL OUT RAPE..PERIOD..

Now if you wish to discuss Predators in general of adults, that's a whole different rant. Lying to people, attempting to use them, is just not tolerable.

**SIGH...

Friday, March 2, 2007

Intelligence does become us.

If you've ever taken on a Customer Service Representative, then you know how daunting this can be. Trial and error. I've worked for well over 12 years in the field. Know what your talking about, have all of your information in front of you when speaking with the said representative. No matter how many bluffs I myself put up, as being "bullish", I'm not.It doesn't get one any where. Be courteous, intelligent, calm, articulate, and listen.

I was questioned to prove my prior experience in a Managerial capacity today with my knowledge of/in and about Customer Service. The first and foremost thing I can tell anyone is this: There is most definitely a bit of joy when you encounter a hostile, screaming, yelling, belligerent, demanding, you get the idea, individual. I've told everyone of my staff through the years, "There is no need to tolerate this type of behavior, do not do so. Contact a supervisor, manager, get assistance." If the individual continues to be obnoxiously intolerant, advise that the call will be disconneted.

To be very frank I cannot Stress ENOUGH Read your Terms & Conditions. PERIOD..Specifically where you money is concerned. Credit cards, loans, etc. The majority of companies these days, record each and every phone call in and out bound, for the legal aspect. When a customer calls and demands they didn't agree to said agreements or never authorized this, POOF, documentation is pulled up, not only by voice, by that documents back to the phone number the call was made from. Match. I'm slightly irked by commercials going on and on about: "all those credit cards you have where they're just charging you so much, you can never get out of debt." Bullshit. Many many individuals NEVER even read the Terms & conditions, nor the fine print PRIOR to signing up for these deals, which many offered rewards, deals in general. There are a lot of good options out there if your intelligent enough to Read and comprehend the financially binding agreement in which you are entering. Not complicated.

The next time you decide to Call and Rant and Scream and Swear at said company: remember this, YOU had to agree to said terms prior to it being issued, if they're a reputable company. Don't sign up with some fly by night company, with Fabulous offerings and no backing. It's far too easy to check out and verify a viable company these days. Your T&C's will also highly for you in your Customer Agreement booklet you received any form of cash advance charges. ie: 3%-5%($10 to $50. more than likely not to exceed the $50.00 amount, which said information will detail for you) on each and every cash advance transaction PLUS many companies have gone to an additional charge of the higher interest rate. So if your at 9.99%, your cash advance INTEREST RATE would be right around(depending upon your credit and which offer you Accepted) 19.99%.

The accrued fee's are not a surprise unless you've not paid attention to the terms in which you AGREED upon. HOWEVER (fancy word for But), the representative WILL be able to explain this in detail to you, if not Get a MANAGER/SUPERVISOR. BE NICE. Sometimes you have to own up "Geez, you know I don't quite understand what I got myself into, could you help me go through these terms & conditions so i have a better understanding and not do THIS again". Admitting you oops is one of the BEST ways to get effective, fast results.

If the company is by and large at fault, don't be hostile. Talk to them. Ask questions, BE NICE..Until Nice is not feasible any longer. Take each and every step up the ladder, I know this is a pain, but its necessary. Just as with your job, if you follow the chain of command, then you have the appropriate documentation. DO write DOWN each and every person and their extension to whom you speak with. If a representative has given ill information you then have the appropriate information to give so this situation will be addressed, rectified as it NEVER happens to another individual again.

If you do get a difficult, anal, shouldn't have their job representative, then call back and get a Manager. There are some situations in which you will need to take drastic steps.

Recently I encountered such a situation. This incompetent Idiot is out of a job now. They had the audacity to berate me. Berate me on the phone.I personally don't care about what type of day your having, I was nice to them, the courtesy was not returned. Not smart. And then gave a Half nit wit apology for having a bad day. Kiss my what? After requesting their manager, I was conveniently hung up on. That's okay, i call back well. Spoke with Supervisor, then Manager with no satisfactory results. A simple letter to the President of the company, seemed to have solved all of these little road blocks of mis management. In the long run all they had to do was contact the carrier in which was not UPS, so I couldn't check the status of my own order, but a company that doesn't have on line accommodations as of yet. Anywho, it was the carriers inconsistency. One phone call and they could have avoided my calls and letters. I'm a happy camper again. Unfortunately the individual who lost their job for their language towards me and their unprofessionalism is out of work and not likely to be hired in the same field anytime soon.

Okay done spewing forth my senseless knowledge. Try being NICE, it tends to go along way.

Hiki's Hiku.-Ways to OWN your PET..

I'm smiling at her..She thinks she owns me...I AM: I breath, visualize and AM Pathetic. See now she's doing the awweeeee thing. Yep, she's gonna give me a piece of that, I don't know what it is, but it looks really good. Ohhh and it has a bone too. I'll just smile and flirt a little. More. I know if I grin really big and keep grinning, pawing at her, she'll give in.

There it is. Smell it. Oh yea, come Here Meat..SNACK. Yep, she's giving in. Keeps telling me she's not, but she is. Wait, she's putting it on that round thing, cooling my hind leg. I'll fix this: One more Big smile, I'll just keep on smiling showing lots of teeth, and flirting. BINGO..Take it over here, hide it and then she'll think i ate it all and get some more. See there it is, the whole round thing on the floor "for you" she saying. Yep, and I'm gonna take it all. Little stingy there aren't you..Could have given me some more. I'll just lick her shirt. She seems to like that, that laughing she does.

UH OH, wait, why is she doing THIS. Okay its just the kitchen. Feeding me more! I have a really good pet in this one. Whats with all the water in the silver thing? What do you mean "It'll make me feel better and smell better". What is IT! No, wait, I SWEAR I won't SMILE or FLIRT for any more Food. I SWEAR...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...OOOOOOHHH, I get this scratching though. It's warm. Oh yeah, I own her. A sauna. Who knew! All this stuff it smells funny. Wonder if its a Hey, now wait a minute, here, can't get a w a y from her. The thing is going to take me with it, its sucking my tail down with it..She's going to let it eat me. Ohhh NOOOOOO..

Why is it so dark in here? Doggie heaven, is there MEAT Here?! Fluffy, warm. LIKE this rubbing on me though. HEY LIGHT. IT didn't eat me..God, I smell good. Look at me. Dang I'm Gorgeous. See she even tells me this. Oh NO (kissy, kissy, the good puppy, what a beauty and she smells soooo good, kissy kissy). Now if she'd stop doing this on my nose. It's bugging me. NOT A GOOD PET...Hmmm, maybe it's time to ooooohhh Treat, treat, treat, Oh yeah GREENIE..Gimme gimme gimmeeeeeeeeee. I love my pet..She's not bad for a pet, suppose I'll keep her for now.

*Warped and slightly amused is a good terminology. I do ADORE this stupid, little 4 lb Chihuahua. I've hated Chihuahua's all my life, until THIS one. She looks like a cup of coffee and a container of cream was thrown on her, in an artsy way. She is stunning. Tiny little head. Warped little personality. She fits here well. As much as I wanted to get a Burmese Mountain Dog, I think she'll suffice.

Inclement weather..

Yeah, weather individuals pipe in this morning with: After rain, snow, sleet, hail and dropping temperatures, wind chills in the teens. Quite an icing out there this morning, leave early..One of many reasons why I set my alarm clock for the butt crack of Dark of 5:30 am. It's winter Still. It's white out, no I means it's White OUT. I can't see a thing beyond the windows in the apartment. All righty common logical prevails, warm up the auto for 15-20 minutes, making sure windows/views are completely clear, leave early for possible incidents.

Rushing is just asking for a situation. In my Humble Opinion. And it is most definitely Icy, as I slide around the first corner to get to the main road of the apartment complex. Yeah. Here it comes. This person in a Rush has now placed himself so that'll I'll need dental floss to get him out of my back end. I begin braking, waiting for the inevitable (in my mind). As I begin to brake, knowing I can't even to begin to see the front entrance, mind you which is uphill, 2ndly which is incredibly icy. I begin to veer slightly to the right side as I want to feel the curb(oh yes) against my tires(No,no really it's alright, I enjoy the close proximity).

This individual needs another cup of coffee. He is completely lacking in ANY notice that I've moved to the right, yeah, he's now accelerating and crawling along the side of me. I'm thinking this just isn't good. I get driving in hazardous conditions (not brain dead). I've come to a stop now, right about 2 feet from the main road. He's still going, chatting on his cell phone he'll have you know, flipping me off. Nice birdie, Parakeet I presume.LOL, uhhhhhh OKAY SPORT..By the way That's the ROAD your heading into.

Oblivious to any form of Sense, this individual being in the Mad Rush that he's in, continues forward south bound, Not braking even once, into east/west traffic. Snapping up my cell phone, kicking it on, I'm dialing 911 and he's broadsided and the cars begin to come together in something highly terrifying to watch. Because he's in a freaking RUSH, ON his cell phone and in a hurry, in a white out conditions and icy roads.

Yeah, HE'S alright, of course. My statement being taken, he refers to me (man should be ducting right about now and isn't..silly silly fool) as this stupid F*****G B***H that was doing only 10 miles an hour(yeah in a 10 mph Zone) and in his way. Sniff, sniff..Now mind you in my warped little brain, I've duct taped him to the front of my car, dressed up in a PINK tutu(amuses me) am doing roughly 80 down a busy 28th st in Grand Rapids at RUSH HOUR and forgetting to BRAKE. Moron..He's actually blaming ME.
The officers in question know that I was the one who was detailing this scenario on top of the fact the sound of this multiple car incident has been taped. Yeah, All my fault. Hey if it makes you feel better, sure why not.

This bozo concludes by getting 2 inches into my face and screaming "What the F*** do you think you were doing". Mind you I have police officers in my presence in which to assist in my not getting my head bashed in to badly and I throw a pretty good punch. My smart mouth comes off with "Well see I packed a picnic lunch this morning and it appears I'm short a Full Sandwich..Oh wait(looking directly at him) FOUND IT. Can't seem to find the juice though, hmm Smells like YOU Know where it's at"..I smile sweetly, batting my eyes, one of the officers comes directly in between us shaking his head, chuckling lowly, shakes his finger at me and tells me "You've been a bad young lady this morning"..I can live with that.

He didn't get it! I've just dogged you out and you Don't Get it..OMG!! Twit..Personal Property damage, causing the accident(recorded live at the 911 center),reckless driving, driving too fast for road conditions, ooohhh and you know they're going to nail him for the cell phone bit(hence the call can be traced and documented that he was most definitely on a call while causing the incident).Driving while under the influence(so sucks to be him this morning) OH, he has NO insurance! 100% Liability anyone? Well there ya go..Yeah, NEXT time(doubtful)maybe GET YOUR FAT LAZY BUTT OUT of bed 10 Minutes early and LEAVE EARLY. I know you overslept, because you'd been out partying, apparently by his smell of eau au-la whiskey. He's not going to be happy with these ramifications.

Needless to say my appointment this morning is irrelevant! Fortunately the bank in which I was having a 2nd meeting with was understanding and reset this for next week. I wore the wrong pantsuit anyways.

As you hear an ambulance remember this, Someone is crying. They may have just lost someone they love dearly. Get Out of their way, they've a life to save.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Decedant Chocolate Cake...


Mind you, I have a passion for Gourmet cooking & baking.. This is one of my all time favorite chocolate cake(mini cake) recipes:

Ingredients
7oz. dark, bitter chocolate
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 stick butter, plus extra for buttering molds
1/4 c. ground almonds
4 eggs, separated
Powder sugar-for dusting
Or you may if you so choose to completely hype out on sugar do a buttercreme frosting.(I wouldn't recommend it for this recipe..The powdered sugar is more than enough).

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and lightly butter a tray of large muffin moulds.

2. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a double broiler(or place a glass bowl ontop of a pan with which there is heated water in). Then add the sugar and butter to the chocolate in the double broiler and stir till well combined and you have a smooth, glossy sauce. Remove from heat and cool for 5 minutes.

3. Add the ground almonds and stir in till evenly mixed in, then beat in the egg yolks one at a time till combined.

4. Place the egg whites in a large dry bowl and beat till you have stiff peaks. Stir a large spoonful of the egg whites into the chocolate to lighten it, then gently fold in the remaining egg whites with a large rubber spatula.

5. Spoon the mixture into the muffin molds, and bake for 25-30 minutes.

6. Leave to cool for 10 minutes (don’t worry if they sink a little in the middle, this is perfectly natural) and serve at room temperature with a light dusting of icing sugar.

Just because...It tickled me.


a Warning..Apparently...

9 Things to Reduce Your Stress (A Geek Must-Read)


I've borrowed this from simplechoiceliving blogspot and then added a couple of my own..


Stress CPU Cycles They say stress can kill. It also robs joy and peace out of life. While stress is normally a healthy blend of emotions that are necessary at times, unchecked stress can lead one to despair, depression and a mediocrity. It can steal your will.

How is your stress level? Is your mental CPU maxing out at 100%? Here are some tips to get rid of stress, short term and long term.

1. Get out of debt – when I say debt, I’m talking about debt which is used to fund consumption rather than investment. $3.50 cups of Star bucks/Beaners coffee, the latest IPod, or other junk that serves to nickel and dime you to credit card oblivion. How much debt do you have? How often is your debt in the back of your mind? Is that debt forcing you to maintain a job/geographic location/lifestyle that you would otherwise not tolerate?

The point is, you can make your own coffee, you can get a cheap portable CD player, and you can get yourself out of debt (if you are in it) so as to start living the type of life that you are in control of. Not Bank of America. Article: Beyond Debt Reduction from Motley Fool.

2. Get out of town – Take a break. That means literally getting out of the house and away from your responsibilities. Tell everybody that you are leaving for a week and won’t be available at all. Leave your cell phone at home. Don’t check your email. Period. Of course, don’t go into debt by getting out of town (see point above).

You can’t stay at home and have the same effect. The phone will ring. You might not answer it, but you just know that someone left a message. You’re computer is staring at you, saying “check me!!”. Next thing you know you have spent three hours scanning Stumbleupon or something even more useless, and stressed out because you want to check out but are still completely hooked up to the machine.

If you were in a burning building, the first thing you would do is get out, away from the toxic gases that impair your judgment. Then outside you can consider the problem objectively. It’s the same for us in life. Sometimes we have to get away – not to escape, but to be able to think about things one at a time with no distraction. That way you can go back and handle the issue with a fresh start.

Sometimes you have to let go for a little bit. Remember, the universe will get along just fine without you.

3. Get off the couch – Move and your body will respond with kindness. You’ll feel better. You’ll also look better. It also creates a biochemical reaction that reduces depressive symptoms and creates feelings of elation. Moving, stretching, breathing heavy are things that strengthen the body to withstand anxiety

Start a little at a time. Don’t go overboard. Try it at home for 15 minutes at a time. You’ll start seeing a difference quickly. But keep doing it. It’s cheaper than prescription medications, and the side effects are fantastic. Article: Positive Steps to Work Out Your Worries

4. Get off the ‘net – After you read this article, that is. Understand that the Internet is not life nor does it make a good Second Life. It’s a part of life, but it needs to be in its place. This point is for those who spend large amounts of time on the Internet, especially those whose Internet usage is on as well as off the job.

If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, remember this fact that is already in your subconscious: your life is limited. If your surfing habit does not change, imagine how you would feel looking back on life and seeing all the wasted time in things that mean nothing. The same holds true for video games, especially MMORPGs. Remember, all the loot you get, all the levels you attain, all the quests you complete and kobolds you slay, mean nothing when you log off. However, there is one thing that will change: you will be older than when you started.

Download a time keeping programs and set a specific time that you will spend surfing/playing/IMing. That way you are deliberate with your time rather than allowing it to slide through your day. Here are two free/open source time keeping programs:

Time Keeper
Tea Timer

5. Finish unfinished business – Are you upset with someone or are they upset with you? Do you have a card that has to go in the mail? Do you need to change your car’s oil? What about that customer you have to call back? What about that problem you need to tell your spouse? I don’t want to freak you out – but unfinished business is like a background computer process, wasting CPU cycles and basically slowing everything else down.

Leave the job unfinished and it will lay around somewhere in your consciousness. Finish the job and it leaves your mind.

6. Clarify your priorities – Sometimes in the rush of life we get caught up in things that we don’t really believe in. It’s easy to get stuck in such a situation. But it’s also imperative to regularly ask yourself if the life that you is leading really coincides with the long term values that you hold.

I saw an old man in the last months of his life grappling with the regret that he wasted his years on things that mattered little in the end result. Money being one of them. It was a very eduational experience for me, and taught me the value of not postponing my values until retirement, but to live by them now.

7. Say noooooooooooooo – Some responsibilities are healthy and necessary. But there are responsibilities that you have no business taking on.

Sometimes others superimpose their problems upon us to give their misery some company. And while we need friends to lean onto, there are friends who treat others as landfills to dump problems and issues and do little to face up to their own life. Friendship is about giving and taking, not one or the other alone. We all must give – but we also must take. If someone else does not understand or is incapable of being a friend in that manner, it might be healthy to seek friendships that will be mutually upbuilding. Otherwise, we might end up living our life for someone else.

The same principle has an effect in our workplace or other situations in life. The key is to know our limits and modestly work within them, not feeling guilty about the limits that we have. Accepting our limits will do wonders to reduce stress and anxiety.

8. Get courageous – It’s easy to complain of our lot in life. It’s harder to change our life. But it’s not impossible. You just need to have a little courage. It requires abandoning the beliefs that make you feel unworthy or give you a fear of failing (or succeeding).

9. Touch & Hug - Connection with another human being is stress reduction at it's best. Hug, Hold a hand, kiss someone, pay someone a compliment. It will make someone else feel better and most definitely yourself.


Courage is energizing. Courage makes you feel alive. Courage makes you grow, makes you laugh and puts a smile on your face. Courage makes you hold your head up and look people straight in the eye. Of all the tips in this article, courage is the fuel that will get you to where you want to go.

Self Preservation?

He honestly had no clue on how to handle a devastation of this matter.. I have empathy for the millions that experienced such loss.. It will be 2 years since Hurricane Katrina come August 2007... Mind you I've lived in the south, along the turbulent waters of the Gulf Coast. Brought my happy self right back to the north 22 years ago.


I am of firm belief it will take at least 5 years to bring this devastated region to a slight resemblance of it's prior years. I understand that the majority of these individuals are thinking with their hearts..Definitely understand this. Hurricane Katrina is in my opinion was the equivalent of an f5 Tornado. Living in a region known & climatically designated for Mass destruction, and worse yet, there is far more a volatile hurricane that will most definitely be produced with the next few years due to the instability of the existing climate. Knowing FULL well that Just ONE more of the Force of Katrina or stronger yet, will demolish, permanently any thoughts and pray tell lives in this region. Why are they still living there? Really!

Mind you, I would love to live in Tornado Alley. My lust for storms is unreasonable. Insane most will tell you..Yet ONE day I will most definitely move to the most active part of this country to live this life. Yet, I know very well, the insurance will be through the roof and my life will be laid on the line for my thirst to be quenched. Self preservation has it's limitations with me: skydiving and bungee jumping..Okay and swimming with sharks.. Building a shelter of unrealistic proportions is not going to save me from the finger of the heavens when it's destined to wipe out all forms of civilization. One will be built, stocked and locked..Prepared for the day my very blood losses it's audacity to chase/follow any longer. Hurricane regions however, there Is NO means in which to protect yourself, except to leave. Permanently..Bless these individuals for their tenacity, if that's what you so choose to call it, for their perseverance. I don't know they comprehend the level of devastation and the Years it will take to rebuild..

In his first visit to the region in six months, Bush sought to fight the perception that those whose lives were devastated by the August 2005 storm had fallen off his agenda.

The Bush administration's initial response to the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history was widely seen as a failure.

And the president is still dogged by criticism. Democratic lawmakers are pushing for more action.

"I committed to the people of this part of the world and the Gulf Coast that the federal government would fund recovery — and stay committed to the recovery," Bush said during his 14th trip to the region. It was his first visit since the one-year anniversary of the storm.

Much of New Orleans outside the tourist areas remains in shambles. Violent crime has soared and health care is limited. Many residents are thinking of getting out for good.

On the outskirts of the French Quarter, Bush had lunch at Li'l Dizzy's Cafe with Louisiana officials. Sitting next to him was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who has been outspoken in demanding a better federal response. Bush later lauded Nagin as a strong-willed leader.

Exasperated officials from the region said it was telling that Katrina did not get a mention in Bush's State of the Union speech in January.

"If you don't get New Orleans straight, the United States will never be the same," said Wayne Baquet, who owns the cafe where Bush ate. It was flooded and looted during Katrina.

Baquet said he worried the nation no longer was paying attention to New Orleans. "Everybody ought to be on the bandwagon trying to get New Orleans back," he said. "Everybody."

In Washington, some Democrats criticized Bush for not intervening more often.

"Long-term recovery for the Gulf Coast requires a whole lot more than 18 months of empty promises," said Sen.
Long-term recovery the Gulf Coast requires a whole lot more than 18 months of empty promises," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. "Businesses that were once the heart of the Gulf Coast economy are now hanging on by a thread."" type="hidden"> , D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. "Businesses that were once the heart of the Gulf Coast economy are now hanging on by a thread."

Kerry said legislation offering tax breaks to encourage businesses to build or expand in areas hit by hurricane was a good first step. But, he said, the government's disaster loan program needs to be overhauled, fixing problems that have prevented businesses from getting timely financial assistance.

At the charter school, Bush delighted math and science students by popping into their classes. They didn't mind the interruption and raced to his side for group photos.

Bush began his trip in Mississippi by touring five homes in a Long Beach neighborhood. He gave an American flag to Ernie and Cheryl Woodward, who rebuilt their home with the help of a federal grant.

"People's lives are improving, and there is hope," he said.

Bush got a friendly reception as he walked from house to house in the southern Mississippi neighborhood.

"Staying busy?" he asked a construction crew. One of the workers told him the crew was still working on the same block of the neighborhood a year and a half after the storm.

The federal official overseeing recovery efforts said Katrina's damage was so vast that it was hard to estimate when the recovery will be completed. Of $110 billion in relief aid that Congress has approved, $86 billion has been committed to projects, and $53 billion has been spent.

"We all have a sense of urgency," Don Powell, Bush's coordinator for the Gulf Coast recovery, told reporters on Air Force One.

"But I think it's important to put it in perspective about the size of the storm, and how overwhelming this storm was," Powell said. "I think there's been some good progress."

Parlyzer-Finger Eleven

LOVE this song..Yep link up on the right side for more info..

I hold on so nervously
To me and my drink
I wish it was cooling me
But so far has not been good
It’s been shitty
And I feel awkward as I should
This club has got to be
The most pretentious thing
Since I thought you and me
Well I am imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place

Well I’m not paralyzed
But, I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you

I hold out for one more drink
Before I think
I’m looking too desperately
But so far has not been fun
I should just stay home
If one thing really means one
This club will hopefully
Be closed in three weeks
That would be cool with me
Well I’m still imagining
A dark lit place
Or your place or my place

Well I’m not paralyzed
But, I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you

We’ll I’m not paralyzed
But, I seem to be struck by you
I want to make you move
Because you’re standing still
If your body matches
What your eyes can do
You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
[repeat]

You’ll probably move right through
Me on my way to you
[repeat]

THEM VS. YOU VS. ME IN STORES MARCH 06, 2007
Finger Eleven's new album ,THEM VS. YOU VS. ME, will be out March 06, 2007. The album will be released that same day in US/Canada. Please check back soon on Fingereleven.com when info becomes available.