A British therapist wants free access to WoW so that he can counsel "at risk" teens and children who are addicted to the game.
My serious opinion first. This will open the possibility of providing perverts with a perfect way to introduce themselves to children and gain their trust in the game.
"Hello I'm Dr Soandso, do you have a few minutes to talk? I have been authorized by Blizzard to discuss game related real life situations and would like to find out more about you."
How is anyone going to be able to tell if the person sending the message is really who they say they are? Even if Blizz makes the idiot decision to allow this to happen and gives the therapist a moderator chat application, kids won't recognize the difference between the fake message and the real message.
On a less serious note. I can imagine the response from players in the midst of fighting with 25% health left and they get a message from a therapist wanting to dicuss game addiction. Oh yeah I think Blizz will need to create a special policy for this so that 90% of players aren't banned for their responses.
All the way around this is a really bad idea.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
How My Dad Got Rid of a Mooch.
My dad was the type who if had to confront a problem he would, however he usually tried to find a solution that left everyone still friends.
There was this one time when a friend of his showed up every night at dinner time, and of course my parents invited him to share our meal.This would have been all fine and good except the man limited his conversation to "yup", "nope", "I cain't rightly say" or reminding my brothers, my sister and me that "children are to be seen and not heard" It finally came to a head when my mom overheard the man tell my dad that he needed to find a good woman to marry that knew her place was in the kitchen. Oh yeah my mom was on the warpath and my dad was in jeopardy of moving into the doghouse, literally.
The next night the guy shows up at dinner time, my dad invites him to stay and share our meal. It went the same as always with one slight change. After we had finished our meal my dad put all the dinner plates on the floor, let the dogs lick them clean, and then put them away in the kitchen cabinets.For some reason that was the last time we saw the guy at meal time.
There was this one time when a friend of his showed up every night at dinner time, and of course my parents invited him to share our meal.This would have been all fine and good except the man limited his conversation to "yup", "nope", "I cain't rightly say" or reminding my brothers, my sister and me that "children are to be seen and not heard" It finally came to a head when my mom overheard the man tell my dad that he needed to find a good woman to marry that knew her place was in the kitchen. Oh yeah my mom was on the warpath and my dad was in jeopardy of moving into the doghouse, literally.
The next night the guy shows up at dinner time, my dad invites him to stay and share our meal. It went the same as always with one slight change. After we had finished our meal my dad put all the dinner plates on the floor, let the dogs lick them clean, and then put them away in the kitchen cabinets.For some reason that was the last time we saw the guy at meal time.
E Network Bans Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag!
In June the E network announced that they were banning the Speidi Brats from he E network. E online wrote a full page story explaining that the E television network had banned the self promoting couple. Ok so writing a story about not writing any more stories seems to be promoting these two in my opinion. *shrug*
However E did include a bit of a disclaimer stating that if Heidi became pregnant they "might" find that newsworthy enough to report.
Spencer Pratt has proven he is the type to take this as both a suggestion and dare so here's my theory on what he might think up.
Spencer decides to de-throne Octomom by having Heidi implanted with 10 embryo's and sells the rights to cover the pregnanc to the highest bidder.
Once the babies are born Spencer then replaces Jon & Kate with "Speidi Decuplets Unscripted"
As soon as the decuplets are old enough to talk Spencer will have them singing and dancing their way into their own show " 10-canSingers"
By the time their teens he can have them ready for "NYC the Real Prep World"
The scary part is Spencer Pratt might actually come up with a scenario like this.
However E did include a bit of a disclaimer stating that if Heidi became pregnant they "might" find that newsworthy enough to report.
Spencer Pratt has proven he is the type to take this as both a suggestion and dare so here's my theory on what he might think up.
Spencer decides to de-throne Octomom by having Heidi implanted with 10 embryo's and sells the rights to cover the pregnanc to the highest bidder.
Once the babies are born Spencer then replaces Jon & Kate with "Speidi Decuplets Unscripted"
As soon as the decuplets are old enough to talk Spencer will have them singing and dancing their way into their own show " 10-canSingers"
By the time their teens he can have them ready for "NYC the Real Prep World"
The scary part is Spencer Pratt might actually come up with a scenario like this.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
A bit more about me and my blog.
I view life with a twisted, warped and demented sense of humor. I grew up in a family filled with people always looking for a joke in everything. The more serious the subject, the less seriously they viewed it.They believed laughter was food for the soul. Without laughter the soul dies and the only humans that survive are politcians.
Why did I decide to do my own blog page?
A: I'm old, I have PMS, I'm going thru menopause, I'm slightly senile and this combination makes me not responsible for my actions.
B: I realized I can embarrass my family and friends by blogging on the internet.
C: Someone keeps leaving the puter turned on unsupervised when I have the credit card, and since they all know better, its their fault.
D: Humor makes the world go round and comics rich so I may as well cash in on it too.
E: All of the above.I have absolutely no control over how my mind works.
A friend of mine once commented that having a conversation with me was liketalking to several different people all at the same time. I told her I would have a talk with me, myself and I and encourage them to take turns talking, but me, myself and I were stubborn and unreasonable so I had doubts that it would do any good.
It has also been suggested that I try to organize my thoughts and remember to present them in some sort of sequence. At my age if I remember to organize my thoughts so I know the correct sequence for going to the bathroom, I'm ecstatic!
This is my place to share my unique views on our world and the people around us, as well as introducing you to my crazy family.Please come in, take your shoes off, spray your feet with Febreeze, and make yourself at home. If you like what you see y'all come back now, you hear.
Why did I decide to do my own blog page?
A: I'm old, I have PMS, I'm going thru menopause, I'm slightly senile and this combination makes me not responsible for my actions.
B: I realized I can embarrass my family and friends by blogging on the internet.
C: Someone keeps leaving the puter turned on unsupervised when I have the credit card, and since they all know better, its their fault.
D: Humor makes the world go round and comics rich so I may as well cash in on it too.
E: All of the above.I have absolutely no control over how my mind works.
A friend of mine once commented that having a conversation with me was liketalking to several different people all at the same time. I told her I would have a talk with me, myself and I and encourage them to take turns talking, but me, myself and I were stubborn and unreasonable so I had doubts that it would do any good.
It has also been suggested that I try to organize my thoughts and remember to present them in some sort of sequence. At my age if I remember to organize my thoughts so I know the correct sequence for going to the bathroom, I'm ecstatic!
This is my place to share my unique views on our world and the people around us, as well as introducing you to my crazy family.Please come in, take your shoes off, spray your feet with Febreeze, and make yourself at home. If you like what you see y'all come back now, you hear.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Government Spends $100,000 for Engraving!?!?!
The US Congress voted to spend $100,000 to engrave "In God we trust" on the Capitol Visitors Center, why?
How can adding a cosmetic change for this amount of money be justified at this time in the US? For $100,000 you could serve 20,000 school lunch's for an entire school year, or pay 4 teacher's salaries, or pay for 2,000 full time college students to go to school.
At a time when states are cutting educational benefits and teachers salaries how does it make sense to spend this amount of money in such an idiotic manner?
How can adding a cosmetic change for this amount of money be justified at this time in the US? For $100,000 you could serve 20,000 school lunch's for an entire school year, or pay 4 teacher's salaries, or pay for 2,000 full time college students to go to school.
At a time when states are cutting educational benefits and teachers salaries how does it make sense to spend this amount of money in such an idiotic manner?
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Whatever Happened to Jabba the Hut? He RUSHed into Radio and Television
Jabba the Hut is a oily, gelatinous pile of slime which brings me to the subject of Rush Limbaugh. Comparing Jabba to Limbaugh is unfair since Jabba is more attractive as well as more intelligent. As you can tell I have absolutely no respect for Rush Limbaugh.
His opinions are based on research, facts and common sense, huh?
When Limbaugh says "I'm not making this up folks." he's probably telling the truth. He pays someone to make it up for him, so he can claim ignorance if challenged. His views show how ignorant he really is.
His opinions are based on research, facts and common sense, huh?
When Limbaugh says "I'm not making this up folks." he's probably telling the truth. He pays someone to make it up for him, so he can claim ignorance if challenged. His views show how ignorant he really is.
Enuff Snuff
On the subject of snuff.
I don't have an aversion to snuff because of the danger warnings to a persons health, I detest the nasty toxic waste because I grew up in an area where 90% of the houses you went into had a container to spit that vile stuff into. You notice I didn't says spittoons, I said container. It can be a coffee can, cooking pan, cookie jar, beer bottles basically any container larger than a thimble. For some reason unknown to the intellectual world the containers are placed in every corner on the opposite side of the room from where the chewer is sitting. The person then spits in the general direction of the container and usually misses, hitting the wall, the floor, the carpet, the cat and well anything else within a 6 ft radius of the container, but rarely getting it inside the container. Aside from the smell, there is the brown poopy looking smeared design that is seriously NOT a good room make over design choice.
If the odor doesn't kill you, the visual makes you wish it had.
Then there is the relationships aspect of chewing snuff. When you see your partner spit a stream of poopy brown, slimy toxic waste out of his mouth, thats a real romance killer. It like dude if you think your using that mouth anywhere within 100 yards of my body sometime between now and uhh never you need reality therapy.
Then there is the oh so attractive snuff cheek bulge. The mumps look went out of style when you were... wait the mumps look never was in style.
As for the delightfully colorful layer of gross on a persons teeth, never mind I won't be able to write my opinion with out several trips to bathroom, gagging all the way. Draw your own conclusions.
Chewing snuff is a personal choice, and I understand every human over the age of consent has the right to make moronic choices even if it makes their homes and mouth a toxic waste site.
I don't have an aversion to snuff because of the danger warnings to a persons health, I detest the nasty toxic waste because I grew up in an area where 90% of the houses you went into had a container to spit that vile stuff into. You notice I didn't says spittoons, I said container. It can be a coffee can, cooking pan, cookie jar, beer bottles basically any container larger than a thimble. For some reason unknown to the intellectual world the containers are placed in every corner on the opposite side of the room from where the chewer is sitting. The person then spits in the general direction of the container and usually misses, hitting the wall, the floor, the carpet, the cat and well anything else within a 6 ft radius of the container, but rarely getting it inside the container. Aside from the smell, there is the brown poopy looking smeared design that is seriously NOT a good room make over design choice.
If the odor doesn't kill you, the visual makes you wish it had.
Then there is the relationships aspect of chewing snuff. When you see your partner spit a stream of poopy brown, slimy toxic waste out of his mouth, thats a real romance killer. It like dude if you think your using that mouth anywhere within 100 yards of my body sometime between now and uhh never you need reality therapy.
Then there is the oh so attractive snuff cheek bulge. The mumps look went out of style when you were... wait the mumps look never was in style.
As for the delightfully colorful layer of gross on a persons teeth, never mind I won't be able to write my opinion with out several trips to bathroom, gagging all the way. Draw your own conclusions.
Chewing snuff is a personal choice, and I understand every human over the age of consent has the right to make moronic choices even if it makes their homes and mouth a toxic waste site.
Racist Christian the Ultimate Oxymoron
I have never understood how someone can claim to be a Christian in one breath and make prejudicial racist remarks in the next.Lets try breaking down the facts in a logical manner.A childs Jewish heritage, their place in a Jewish family is through their mothers bloodline. Therefore Christ was Jewish. There is no where in the Bible where he repudiated his mother or the Jewish faith, so at the time of his death he was still Jewish.Bethlehem is located in Palestine, which is in the middle east. While there is some arguement as to if Palestine is on the continent of Asia, Africa or Europe, there is no dispute that it is in the middle east.Christ was a carpenter by trade and as such he worked in the sun a great deal.Following this line of logic we can surmise that Christ was:An African, Palestinian, Jew or in the street vernacular loosely translated, an sand African Jew.An Asian, Palestinian, Jew or in the street vernacular loosely translated, a Chinese, Jew.An European, Palestinian, Jew, and in that case it depends on which country you associate his race with as to which street vernacular slur would be used.People from the middle east are naturally dark skinned, and as a carpenter Christs skin would have even been darker, so any way you look at it Christ was dark brown or black.So exactly how can bigots claim to be Christians while making racial slurs against Christs heritage through his Jewish mother, the color of the skin of the people he descended from and lived amongst, the country and continent where he was born and lived, or a combination of all?
Don't get scammed by Igomogul
I was scammed by Igomogul. I’ve finally figured out how this scam works. Igomogul gets you to contract a website design through them. Igomogul makes an account with godaddy listing you as the registrant, this is $10 a year. Once a person looks at the “who is” and sees they are the registrant they are convinced they control the domain name. If they look at the bottom they will discover that it says registrant can not delete, renew, transfer, or update the account.
Should you call godaddy they will tell you that only the person or company with the log on, password, PIN or account number has control over the domain account. As such the person or company with that information can delete, renew, transfer, update, sell, give away, or close the account at any time without consent from the registrant or their knowledge.
Should the website fail Igomogul simply tells the registrant is it their fault. Should the website prove successful Igomogul hs the legal right to sell it and keep the money. Furthermore the content placed on the website is copyrighted to whomever has the account information, so that also becomes the property of Igomogul. Igomogul can use GoDaddy design and development tools to create the site; this costs less than $50 a year.
At the end of the first 90 days Igomogul demands more money, if you do not pay then they remove the ads from the free AdSense program and the website now requires a membership log in fee. If you want links added to your webpage Igomogul asks for more money, again this is a free program that they do not pay for. The bottom line is that Igomogul takes advantage of people who do not have the experiance to realize everything provided by Igomogul is free or costs less than $100 a year.
Igomogul also uses your google account information to add Analytic, AdSense and the webmaster tool. All of these programs are free so Igomogul pays nothing to use them. The webmaster tool is the most important one for Igomogul to have access too. Should godaddyagree to transfer the domain account to you then Igomogul still controls the website through the webmaster tool. Once Igomogul has the code to the webmaster tool you are locked out and can not verify ownership of the website or use it. At this point it is a standoff, you can sell the domain name however Igomogul is the only ones with access to what is added or removed from it. The website becomes worthless to both parties.
Igomogul knows the odds are in their favor that they will not have to refund any money.Most people have used their credit cards to pay Igomogul and are accruing interest; hiring a lawyer and the added expense of traveling back and forth to Pheonix is also beyond their means. Arizona small claims maximum is well below what most people have paid so they will take a loss if they pursue small claims and win. When faced with the options most people cut their losses, give up and go away.
Should you file complaints with the Arizona BBB then Igomogul says that if you sign a different agreement they will release control to you. If you agree to sign then you forfeit all the money you have paid Igomogul and also agree not to pursue any further legal action against Igomogul. Why should you sign an agreement to take control of something that Igomogul was paid to create for you and register ownership for you in your name?
Igomogul claims that the Statement of Work protects them from lawsuits and being forced to give you a refund. If you read the SOW carefully you will notice that it says they are working on a website for the client. Since Igomogul owns and controls the websitethey are their own client and they are using your money to develop and design a website for themselves.
When push comes to shove and you demand verification of anything via email or mail Igomogul refuses, they insist all conversations take place over the phone. If you should call them and you refuse to accept what they tell you they then begin playing a phone shell game with you, transferring you from one person to the next until you give up. They want to play he said she said phone tag so that you do not have any proof as to what was said over the phone.
Should you call godaddy they will tell you that only the person or company with the log on, password, PIN or account number has control over the domain account. As such the person or company with that information can delete, renew, transfer, update, sell, give away, or close the account at any time without consent from the registrant or their knowledge.
Should the website fail Igomogul simply tells the registrant is it their fault. Should the website prove successful Igomogul hs the legal right to sell it and keep the money. Furthermore the content placed on the website is copyrighted to whomever has the account information, so that also becomes the property of Igomogul. Igomogul can use GoDaddy design and development tools to create the site; this costs less than $50 a year.
At the end of the first 90 days Igomogul demands more money, if you do not pay then they remove the ads from the free AdSense program and the website now requires a membership log in fee. If you want links added to your webpage Igomogul asks for more money, again this is a free program that they do not pay for. The bottom line is that Igomogul takes advantage of people who do not have the experiance to realize everything provided by Igomogul is free or costs less than $100 a year.
Igomogul also uses your google account information to add Analytic, AdSense and the webmaster tool. All of these programs are free so Igomogul pays nothing to use them. The webmaster tool is the most important one for Igomogul to have access too. Should godaddyagree to transfer the domain account to you then Igomogul still controls the website through the webmaster tool. Once Igomogul has the code to the webmaster tool you are locked out and can not verify ownership of the website or use it. At this point it is a standoff, you can sell the domain name however Igomogul is the only ones with access to what is added or removed from it. The website becomes worthless to both parties.
Igomogul knows the odds are in their favor that they will not have to refund any money.Most people have used their credit cards to pay Igomogul and are accruing interest; hiring a lawyer and the added expense of traveling back and forth to Pheonix is also beyond their means. Arizona small claims maximum is well below what most people have paid so they will take a loss if they pursue small claims and win. When faced with the options most people cut their losses, give up and go away.
Should you file complaints with the Arizona BBB then Igomogul says that if you sign a different agreement they will release control to you. If you agree to sign then you forfeit all the money you have paid Igomogul and also agree not to pursue any further legal action against Igomogul. Why should you sign an agreement to take control of something that Igomogul was paid to create for you and register ownership for you in your name?
Igomogul claims that the Statement of Work protects them from lawsuits and being forced to give you a refund. If you read the SOW carefully you will notice that it says they are working on a website for the client. Since Igomogul owns and controls the websitethey are their own client and they are using your money to develop and design a website for themselves.
When push comes to shove and you demand verification of anything via email or mail Igomogul refuses, they insist all conversations take place over the phone. If you should call them and you refuse to accept what they tell you they then begin playing a phone shell game with you, transferring you from one person to the next until you give up. They want to play he said she said phone tag so that you do not have any proof as to what was said over the phone.
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