This is War!!!

Once again, Iran has proven that they do not believe in diplomacy and that they crave war. The kidnapping of 15 British sailors in an overt act of war. Britain must not engage Iran with wussified diplomacy, they must show Iran that the West will not fold to their terroristic tactics. Britiain must give Iran a 24 hour deadline for the safe return of the sailors. If they are not returned safe and sound, bombs will start to fall on Tehran and they will not stop until every prisoner Iran has in captivity is released. No troops, no rebuilding, no regime change. Drop a few MOAB's and utilize all B-2 bombers, this will send a strong message to the Hitler in Iran that the West will not fold to his antics. God speed on a safe return of these sailors.

Welcome Home Laptop!!!

After 18 days in "rehab" my beloved laptop is back home. Of course it was not a smooth recovery. I dropped the laptop off at Best Buy on March 2nd and told them them to fix the broken hinge. On March 12, they told me that the computer was ready and I can come pick it up. They brought me the computer and I saw that the hinge was not fixed. I was told that there was no way to fix it. After giving these dumbasses a piece of my mind they promised to fix it. So its 18 days later and all is well with my beloved laptop and its broken hinge.

Hooters in Israel

I can't believe that it took this long for someone to bring Hooters to Israel. Hooters in big (no pun intended) in most beachy type places. I know along A1A in South FL you can find Hooters almost every other mile. Unlike the other American franchises that failed in Israel, Hooters will do great because sex sells in any language in any country. Of course, you know if you see any haradis there, you know they come for the wings!

I think the coalition forces in Iraq should open some Hooters franchises in Baghdad and Falluja it might help the terrorists think about something else aside for blowing themselves up!

Stop Gun Phobia in NYC NOW!

New York City hates guns! Last week there was a shooting in the Village in which two UNarmed auxiliary officers were murdered in cold blood. And of course the incessant media coverage over the Sean Bell incident back in November where police officers killed a man when they felt threatened that he had a gun. Three of the five officers were indicted in this incident. Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be ashamed of themselves. These cops have miliseconds to react to a dangerous situation and their reward for doing their job is an indictment. Bloomberg has turned NYC into a gun phobic city. The police officers thought Bell had a gun and he was not being cooperative, so they shot him, end of story. Bloomberg and Kelly should have backed these men and not convict them in the media the day after the shooting. Bloomberg, do I need to remind you what happened the last time guns were taken out if the hands of the people, something called the Holocaust. Jews should be the biggest supporters of the NRA and they are not.

NYC keeps enacting tougher and tougher gun control laws and gun related crimes are on the rise in NYC. In 2005, Gov. Bush of Florida signed into law the "stand your ground law" this allows citizens to use force when threatened anywhere on anyone. Since this law took effect gun related crimes in FL have been on a decline. If someone walks into a restaurant and starts shooting, you can bet most of the patrons in the restaurant will shoot the gunman and continue their meal. Not so in NYC. Last week when a gunman walked into De Marcos in the village and killed an employee, no one shot back. It was left to the unarmed officers to give their lives in pursuit of this murderer. These men could still be alive today if NYC didn't have their ridiculous gun laws. Imagine, if even half the patrons in the restaurant had guns and confronted the gunman, we would probably have a happier ending. Bloomberg has instilled such a fear of guns in the population that people think guns are our enemy. I have seen commercials where the person is stating "make sure your child doesn't play in a house where there is a gun." These ads add to the fear of guns. The bad people will always find a way to get guns, we need to put the guns back in the hands of the good people so the good guns on the streets can outnumber the bad ones on the streets. God bless the two officers, may their deaths not be in vain. Bloomberg, change the gun laws NOW!

Those Born 1930-1979...

I received this in an email several years ago and deleted. My sister sent it to me again. I think its great...

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because ... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound, CD's or Ipods, no cell phones!, no personal computers , no Internet or chat rooms....... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! If YOU are one of them . CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us....go ahead and ignore this. For the rest of us.....pass this on.

BEWARE: SCAM ARTISTS ON CRAIGSLIST!!!

My turn has finally come... I tend to think I am a proactive person and try to prevent problems from happening before they arise, this has worked for me until now. In January I put my apartment for rent on Craigslist. As many of you know, I received hundreds of responses. I told those who responded that they need to contact my roommate since she was doing the roommate screening and work out the technicalities with her. After about a week on Craigslist, my roommate found someone she was satisfied with and I moved on. About three weeks ago, I received an email from someone in Africa stating that she sent me $3,400 for my apartment and why hadn't I contacted her. I told her no one ever told her to send the money and the apartment was already rented out. A week later a cashier's check from Chase Manhattan Bank in the amount of $3,400 arrived in the mail. I immediately emailed her and told her I was going to return the check right back to her. She asked me if I could cash it and wire the money via Western Union to her agent in Miami. I was not really comfortable depositing the check in my name because I was unsure of the sender. I went to a local Chase bank, since it was Chase who issued the check and asked them to cash it. Of course they gave me crap about it and told me the only way to cash this was to deposit it into my account (I already had gone to one of those bootleg check cashing places). At this point this was becoming very time consuming and I notified her that I was going to take a $100 PITA (pain in the ass) fee for my troubles. I deposited the money and waited for the check to clear and when it did I went to Western Union and wired the money to her agent. I wired the money and sent her the confirmation and was happy that this was all over, or so I thought. I then received a slew of emails telling me to go back to Western Union and withdraw the transfer and wire it to Nigeria and she would pay me $700 for my trouble. This raised red flags in my head. First, Nigeria in my mind equals some sort of terror cell. Second, why would someone so easily relinquish $700 to a stranger. My brother told me this was definitely a scam and told me to read this on Craigslist about avoiding scams. After reading the scam page I was in shock. I could not believe that I could not see through this piece of shit. Basically what these assholes do is respond to ads of craigslist and then send more money than necessary (my apt was only $1100, she sent me $3400) with a FAKE cashiers check. They then instruct the person to cash it and wire the rest to a travel agent. The bank will cash the check and will only pick up that its a fake check weeks after its cashed and the money is gone, they will then slam you with fees and possible criminal charges. (Using a fake check is a felony!)

I quickly called Western Union and they put a stop on the money transfer and I was able to get the cash back. I emailed her and told her that I know that she is a scam and that I will go to the FBI and police. I haven't heard a word back from her. I went to the police station today and told the officer what happened (I want to cover my ass, ex post facto) and the officer looked at me and ever so frankly said "police are reactive not proactive. You are in the middle of being scammed and until the scam is over we cant do anything about it." I was like wouldn't we have a safer world if law enforcement was PROACTIVE and not REACTIVE??!?!?!

I will call the FBI in the morning. I am not so much pissed as much as I am shocked at myself for not trusting my gut and ripping up the check when I got it. I usually have a good eye for assholes and shysters and I usually avoid them at all costs. I will post the developments as they happen.

Borat is out on DVD today

I think Borat has given me a birthday gift by releasing his movie today (my birthday). Of course this is my birthday gift to myself. Thanks Borat.

The Religion of PEACE?!?!

Here is another example of the barbaric practices from the religion of peace. In any other civilized country a rape victim would be protected, would even receive free counseling and some sort of justice. Not so in the great Kingdom of Saud. A victim of rape does not have the benefit of rape shield laws or the comfort in knowing that the justice system will give the her attackers some sort of justice. A rape victim in these wonderful countries is sentenced to 90 lashes (or even to death). Where are all the 'human rights' groups who lash out against Israel for their human rights "violations." Where is Amnesty International, the HRC, all the feminist groups, the United Nations??? Their silence is deafening. Only when Israel kills a terrorist murderer in Gaza these groups are screaming bloody murder, yet when real human right violations are committed, they are silent.

Laptop Withdrawel

It has been five days since I have been separated with my beloved laptop and I think I am starting to feel the effects. I lent my laptop to my brother in law for a business trip he went on and when he returned it to me the hinge was broken. I brought it to Best Buy because I have an extended warranty, but they told me it will take 2-4 weeks to repair. (Although I find that hard to believe it takes that long). In any case, I feel like I am missing a limb without my laptop. Sitting at a desktop to do casual things like surfing the Internet is too stiff and not relaxing for me. I like being able to lie on my bed or sit on the couch or at the kitchen table or in my car or ANYWHERE while on the computer. I think I need to find a laptops anonymous...

On another note for computer savvy people out there, hang out at the Geek Squad counter at Best Buy. Best Buy charges an arm and a leg to do the most basic computer diagnostic test that a second grader can do. There was a girl there who plopped down almost $200 for the Geek Squad to back up her hard drive and install an anti virus program. Then there was a women who wanted to bring in her laptop so they could run the Windows and anti Virus Updates (about a hundred bucks!). I thought of a new business I can open; I will stand by the Geek Squad counter and talk to the customers and offer to run their anti virus and Windows updates for 1/2 the price. People are really DUMB!!!

Walter Reed - much ado about something...

Over the last several days, one of the newsworthy stories have been the conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Maryland. Last week C-Span brought cameras into the facility and interviewed a variety of wounded soldiers about the conditions at Walter Reed. It seemed that they were aware of the article in the Washington Post that sparked this madness and were very guarded with their answers. Today two wounded vets and a family member testified before Congress about the conditions at the hospital. In everything I had read and seen regarding the complaints against the hospital were basically aesthetic. That there is a mold problem, that there are some buildings are in disrepair and red tape roadblocks. I have yet to read about a complaint regarding the medical treatment and medical care the soldiers receive there; that the doctors did not perform adequately or that nurses were neglectful. My intention is not to belittle the situation, as I have the utmost respect and admiration for our brave and heroic servicemen and I believe they deserve care and treatment suitable for royalty. I have been to Walter Reed and the Bethesda Naval hospital, to the naked they both seemed to be superb medical facilities. Bureaucratic red tape is usual for any government agency and it is an epidemic in the Army, so the fact that one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing should surprise no one. Mold infestation does not happen over night. This is something with adequate maintenance is something that should have been controlled. I do believe that the military does provide superb medical care for its service members and I have many family members who have served and will only go to an Army doctor or medical facility. Several years ago my 11 year old cousin broke his arm at school and the school was going to take him to a local hospital; my aunt was adamant that he be taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital even though it was a considerable distance from the school.

This is definitely a travesty for the military and especially for the servicemen who put their lives on the line for this country and the least we can do for them is insure that if (God Forbid) they are wounded, they receive top notch medical care in facilities that would be fit for a president.

I hope this sheds light on the conditions many vets face in VA hospitals around the country. There are WWII, Korean and Vietnam vets who are subject to deplorable conditions in some of these hospitals. These are the unsung heroes of yesteryear who have been replaced by the Iraqi vets of today. When I was in college I interviewed Vietnam vets for a project sponsored by the library and visited many VA hospitals. Some had positive experiences, but many had horror stories of VA care. The vets of yesterday should be treated no different than the vets of today's. They are all heroes. I only hope and pray that the spotlight on the problems at Walter Reed will be a wake up call for the military to examine all medical facilities. This should not be a witch hunt by the media against the administration (which it has already become) but a wake up call not to forget those who almost made the ultimate sacrifice. The Army should have a program "No Vet left behind." God bless all those who served and continue to serve.