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So, let me make a little sense here from what I just said above.  Rather than admitting that Michael Jackson was a man, and a human being with god and bad and trials and tribulations just like the rest of it, the are trying to point to the doctor and say that he did it, so that Michael’s “image” can seem untarnished by this, it was the doctor that caused his death not his addiction to drugs.

I say come one people, look at the facts, the real facts, not what the news pundits are trying to spoon feed you.  My bet is that Michael was in a lot of pain, between all the surgeries he had, and the extremely physical performances he put on, all that stuff takes a toll on your body and I bet he used the pain killers to help with that.  The problem thought, is that like with a lot of people, famous or not, they get to depending on them too much and whammo, they are addicted.

Michael Jackson was a man of huge and extreme talent, the likes of which we probably never see again, at least not any time soon, but he was still a man nonetheless, and a great loss when he died.

Wow, seems to me like they are sending the wrong message, and really, I think this is just one more way that the folks in charge are buying votes.  I mean, let’s get real, if you are already not having to work for a living because you are getting funded by the Feds, and now on top of that they toss in a new phone and service for free to boot?  Who the heck would you vote for, the people that keep giving you free stuff, or someone that might want to cut that back and expect you to take care of yourself just a little bit.

Yeah, that’s what I thought too.

I knew Best Buy was run by a bunch of crooks, but this takes the cake.  Heck, I didn’t even know they sold water (they don’t in my home town), but I think they will sell anything if it means turning a buck.  Check out the original article for information and updates, I don’t want to steal their thunder, but this was one thing that had to be shared.  Just another notch in my hate stick for Best Buy.  Why do all big corporate companies also have to be jerks?

I still don’t know what the hell I did that made him so mad, I was trucking on Interstate 81, three lanes, left lane for fast runners, middle lane for normal I guess because the right lane was for slow moving vehicles.  I wasn’t going fast or slow, so I was in the middle.  This jerk decides to come up behind me fast, right on my ass, and then hit the left lane.  Keep in mind that the left and right lanes are clear, I’m in the middle.  He hits the left lane, comes up about halfway past me and then comes on over into my lane.  At first I thought it was just a mistake, it happens, nobody’s perfect, right?  Wrong, he proceeds to move all the way over to the right lane to hit the exit ramp.  Now, he could have just hit the right lane in the first place, but no, he had to get beside me on the left and run my ass off the road.  I got out of his way so he didn’t succeed, but  it wasn’t any damn fun.

And that’s one thing I have noticed about the big rig truck drivers, a profession that used to be honorable that is now rife with wage cutting mexican job stealing wheel monkeys that have to care for the craft.  I have noticed that since they are driving the big vehicles on the road, they pretty much don’t give a shit about the rest of us.  They have some kind of king of the road ooh boy look how much I can compensate with this big thing complex and all the little four wheelers be damned.  There are some good drivers out there sure, but unfortunately they are in the vast minority anymore.  All this just gets me circled right back around to my point that people are self centered jerks.  Here’s a tip, try not to be one, maybe life will be better for all of us.

“First of all, Criss, can I call you Chris? If you’re going to take a pseudonym, why don’t you not spell it like a jackass? I mean, I understand if you’re one of those people whose parents thought they were being original and decided to spell your name with all kinds of crazy extra vowels, misplaced consonants and the letter Y. But you, you CHOSE this name and that’s the route you went? Interesting.

Anyway, I don’t know if any of you have ever seen the show “Mindfreak” on A&E – but it’s terrible. It’s got “acting” and a production quality on par with porn and is generally pretty uninspiring. In addition to dressing like a model from the Hot Topic catalog CA’s deep self love and constant chest pounding/finger kissing/pointing at the sky routine wears thin pretty quickly.”

Check out the rest of it here …

Forgive your enemies – It really messes with their heads!

“C, E-flat and G go into a bar. The bartender says, “sorry, but we don’t serve minors.” So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished and G is out flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough.

D comes in and heads for the bathroom saying, “Excuse me. I’ll just be a second.” Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, “Get out! You’re the seventh minor I’ve found in this bar tonight.”

Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he’s under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of D.S. without Coda at an upscale correctional facility.”

I know, I know, you are reading this and thinking that I had a double helping of my fanatic-o’s this morning, but that isn’t true.  This is a real situation and problem that we are all facing (or soon will be facing) right here and right now.  I am talking about the war that is waging between the banks and the Federal Reserve, a war over something as simple sounding as “swipe fees”.

You see, swipe fees are what retailers pay the banks when you and I swipe our debit card as we buy something.  To the tune of about $0.44 cents per swipe or purchase on average.  This is where it gets interesting, the Federal Reserve has gotten all puffed up and self righteous saying that they need to cut those swipe fees by more than 70%, to about $0.12 cents per swipe.  Take that few cents difference and multiply it over a few bazillion times a day that people make purchases and you can see why the banks are pretty peeved over it.

Naturally, the banks reaction is to cut out those rewards programs they have been enticing people with.  Not to mention jacking ATM fees up high and faster than gas prices at the pump.  In some places, people are seeing $4 and $5 ATM fees for non-customers!  Yowza!  Another tactic that the banks are proposing, is capping the limit of what you can purchase with your debit card, like making it so that you can’t purchase more than say $50 worth of stuff at a time.  This means you’ll have to get more swipes in to ultimately make that purchase, even if you run it as a credit card.  On top of all that, if you make a late payment, even a customer in good standing that previously never missed one, they have it worked out so they can hike your APR to as much as 30%!  Nice customer loyalty program there, isn’t it?

Sneaky, huh?

Right now, most of this stuff is not in effect yet, but it’s being tested in certain locations and plans are being made while bank lobbyists and Federal Reserve Weenies argue over it.  Either way this falls, stay informed and keep an eye out for tricks so you don’t get hammered by one side or the other.  Take a look at this article and get some more details too, it’s an eye opener.

That’s really funny to me since I have yet to hear anything out of his pie hole of a mouth that isn’t a lie.  From his fake documentaries funded by George Soros that spread misconceptions and half-truths just to stir the political pot and provide fodder for the biased as hell media outlets, to his phony speeches and rigged awards.  The guy is a useless factory of misinformation and now it seems, a hypocrite as well.  I guess we see why he and our so called President are on the same side, they both lie, cheat and steal better than most of the crooks in prison.  They haven’t been caught after all.

I know, I know, you are all thinking that I shouldn’t hide my feelings and I should tell you how I really feel about him!  LOL