Too friggin’ hilarious!

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Maybe you could be my intern, and in turn, I could show you  how to cook up summer in the winter.

~Kanye West, Gone

 1. Nine Inch Nails - Since buying a ton of old-new (pre Year Zero) NIN songs 2 weeks ago, I have been all about Trent Reznor’s nightmare.  

 2. Nintendo Wii - Having passed on buying one pre-Christmas, I was elated to get one on Sunday morning (getting in line at 5am, waiting for Target to open at 8am).  I was #1 in line.  btw, if you haven’t played a Wii…drop what you are doing and do so, immediately.

 

  3. Cash Cab - Fuzz will tell you I am a trivia junkie.  No tv show (that I am home to watch) puts my knowledge to the test like Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab.  The premise is simple…you get in a NY Taxi to go somewhere and you answer questions along the way to win money.  What a concept! 

From WorldNet, via Rach, via Cassy Fiano:

 Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”

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Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.

“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”

I just bought a humidifier from Wal*Mart, and when I opened up the box, the humidifier was wet and the filter was utterly disgusting. Seriously… what a pain in the butt. I’m not a cappy little hamper right now.

It’s been awhile since I’ve done any community service. So, I’m kind of excited that Tracy and I are joining the Red Cross FAST program (First Aid Service Team). She’ll be a helluva lot better at it than I will (she’s almost an RN for goodness sake) but I’m sure that she’ll be able to teach me a lot, too.  And first-aid knowledge is never a bad thing to have.

Oh, and I’m not doing it just to be able to ride on the first-aid golf cart at the State Fair and Summerfest! Haha!

(no, not my carpool buddy’s baby UGH!)

I’m working on something… we’ll see how much time I have to devote to it.

BlockObama.org

 

I just received this email, as it applies to me:

February 21, 2008 To: Civil Service Employees
From: Vice President of Human Resources

Civil service staff make significant contributions to the University every day. We greatly appreciate the commitment and passion that civil service employees bring to the work of the University. Special challenges this past fall made their work particularly appreciated. Moreover, the efforts of civil service employees in the past few years on various initiatives, task forces, and committees have helped the University move towards its strategic goals. Therefore, I*m pleased to announce that a $300 one-time, lump-sum payment to civil service employees has been authorized by central administration and will appear on the March 12 paycheck.

I’m going to get me a Nintendo Wii!

Every Tuesday I carpool to UWM with a woman named Aimee. She’s nine months pregnant. Her due date is today, actually, and it also happens to be my day to drive. I have been hounding on her to have her baby before today so that she doesn’t mess up my car!

As a joke (but not really) I gathered up some towels, plastic bags, and puppy pads to cover my seats today. I mean, Hampton Avenue is extremely bumpy, and I’d feel bad driving my car if she would have to have my car detailed.

Well… she just sent me a txt message to tell me that she and her husband are on their way to the hospital to have the baby delivered. Darnitall! She also told me that she was planning on pulling the same seat-protection joke on me. DOH!

Good luck, Aimee & Ty!

OMFG! (thanks Claude!!!)

Last night at about 9pm, when I finally got home from school, I had two messages on my answering machine.

Call 1: Campaign representative for Barack Obama

Call 2: Michele Obama (Barack’s wife) campaigning for Barack.

I’m guessing they won’t care about Wisconsin as much come November, but three calls from one candidate in approximately 24 hours is nuckin’ futz!

Hilarious! Thanks to JG for the link.

Side note: It was kinda weird to see Geoff Jenkins in the Phillies’ locker room.

West Bend’s mayoral primary is today.

Their choices:

1. The Queen elect, Kristine Deiss - eek
2. The 18-year-old who plays with light sabers in his front yard with his brother (according to neighbors), Christopher Jenkins
3. The liquor store manager (who is also a member of the Downtown West Bend Association), Michael Christian

I’m thinking that Michael Christian is the least-worst choice in that race, but like the presidential primaries, there isn’t really a good choice.

I’m not voting today. If there was somebody I was passionate about, I’m sure that I’d certainly find the time to get back to May-town to vote. I’m not, however, going to put 50+ miles on my car, and take an hour of my day, to vote for John McCain, Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama. No way. No how.

Barack Obama totally just called my house. I thought for sure that he was Chase trying to get me to put fraud protection on my credit card (they ALWAYS call), but it was the Democrat senator from Illinois! He wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise, but man did he convince me to vote for him.

Okay, honestly, it was a recording, but that man does give good speech. Too bad he doesn’t share a damn thing with me in terms of morals, thoughts, beliefs, ideas, values, etc.

In an attempt (I assume) to improve security at schools, CNN has taken it upon themselves to request students fill out a form, send pictures and videos about their school security.  But, realistically, CNN wants to hear about the lack of security, and you can bet they will put together a 30 or 60 minute special on it, showing all of the video clips, pictures and comments from students, along with their specific institutions…pointing out all of the flaws…allowing any would-be-psychopaths to do their research on CNN, instead of having the possibility of someone actually seeing these nutbars doing their own work.

 Way to go CNN.  First “how to sneak a bomb onto a plane” and now this.

I’m switching over to The Guardian or BBC to get any decent news.

I bet Jed is glad that he bought a combo Blu Ray/HD-DVD player. All signs are pointing to Toshiba pulling the plug on its HD-DVD format.

Multiple users have written to tell us that Toshiba is planning to halt production of devices related to HD-DVD. According to Japanese broadcasting network NHK, Toshiba will lose “hundreds of millions of dollars” as the format war finally draws to a close. Regardless, investors are pleased that Toshiba has made the decision to cut its losses. This comes after a last-ditch price cut was unable to prevent Wal-mart from throwing their lot in with Blu-ray, although some sources suggest that Wal-mart was already aware of Toshiba’s plans to withdraw from fight.

Hat tip: Owen @ B&S

Coincidentally, I was just looking at T-Mobile’s WiFi @ Home service yesterday. But, it looks like they have some customer service issues that they need to shore up before anybody considers doing business with them.

From Rachel’s blog:

The following is a post from a DFW-area political blog, and was written by a friend of a friend of mine. I want to pass it along in case anyone reads here has TMobile and is willing to call them to complain. If I had TMobile, I’d cancel my account today.

T Mobile vs. Gymboree
February 10th, 2008
by Doug Miller

Two weeks ago tonight I had visitors from out of town. My daughter, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old granddaughter came to visit. My son-in-law was in the Navy, and they were transferring from Virginia Beach to Ingleside. We were all glad to see that they were going to be living closer to home.

They left my house about 8:30pm and headed north on 377—the “back way” to Lake Dallas, where my ex-wife lives—to spend the night.

They didn’t make it.

They were struck by a car trying to pass in a no passing zone in Roanoke and my son-in-law and granddaughter were killed instantly. My daughter was careflighted to JPS and had emergency surgery. She will make a complete physical recovery.

In the last two weeks, I was tasked with more items to complete than I can even remember. Besides making the funeral arrangements, one of the menial tasks was to replace my daughter’s phone that was destroyed in the accident. I figured, no problem, I’ll run to TMobile, her provider, and get a loaner. I’ve done this multiple times with my employee’s phones, I’d run to AT&T/Cingular and pick up a phone until we could get a replacement off EBay or some other used phone outlet.

The “gentleman” who is the manager of the TMobile store in Southlake told me under no circumstances could he give me a phone. I wasn’t authorized on my son-in-law’s account. I explained to him that my daughter had just gotten out of ICU and was needing a phone to make some phone calls. Not going to happen. I told him that I was willing to give them my credit card to secure the phone, but to no avail.

When I explained that the United States Navy had cut all sorts of red tape to make my task easier, they didn’t care. When I told them the DFW National Cemetery had gone out of their way to make things happen on our schedule, they didn’t care. They wouldn’t budge.

I called TMobile when I got home, got a sympathetic person on the line and was told she would try to get a phone out to my daughter. She also encouraged me to send a letter to the CEO. I did, and was so angry I FedEx’ed it out Monday morning.

Tuesday I got a call from somebody at the company headquarters…but got the same answer. No dice…no phone…no bending of any of the rules. In fact, they had cancelled the order that the customer service agent had placed on my behalf. I explained to the “lady” that I could very easily go get a new account from AT&T and have a lot less stress in my life; she didn’t budge. I told them what I thought of their company, hung up the phone, called my AT&T rep and got my daughter set up with a new account in 5 minutes.

I told the people at TMobile that I would tell everybody what a bunch of douchebags they are, and hence the post.

Let me tell you a story about how customer service SHOULD work.

My son in law returned from deployment in November of 2007. My daughter had ordered a little navy outfit for my granddaughter to wear during the homecoming ceremony and her wish was for my granddaughter to be buried in this outifit. Problem is, their household goods are being shipped from Virginia to Corpus, and there is no telling where they are.

My wife and I came home from the hospital and searched Gymboree.com, only to find that it was apparently last year’s outfit and had been discontinued. We searched EBay, and couldn’t find one in the size that was needed and didn’t have any luck on Craigslist either.

I sent a desperation email to Gymboree customer service about 1am on Friday morning, letting them know of the situation and asking for help. They responded Friday with an email stating that they would do everything in their power to try to find one, but they couldn’t promise anything.

Saturday morning the supervisor of Customer Service called my wife crying…telling Shannon they had found the outfit, had pooled their own money and they were FedEx’ing it to us immediately. We offered to reimburse them, but she refused. She had a two-year-old of her own, and the story of what happened to my granddaughter touched her and she wanted to hep.

I have sent the CEO of Gymboree a letter via FedEx telling them what a great bunch of employees they have, and they should be proud. TMobile can rot in hell.

I would also like to take this moment to thank the fine people at the Roanoke Police and Fire Departments, the Keller PD and Fire Department and the fine people at Careflight. Without them, my daughter wouldn’t have made it. I am forever in their debt.