Yesterday I got a call to go out and repair a PC for a previous customer, a very sweet, 88 yr old lady. Her complaint? “I can’t get on there where they got all that stuff on there, you know?” Translation: she couldn’t get on the internet.

I think it’s Donald Trumps turn to release a couple statements, one for his earnings and taxes, the other to acknowledge that he knows no one is fooled by his ridiculous hair pie. I think it would say a lot about the man’s character if he thinks he is actually fooling people. I hope he does run for president, it will be like open season for comics, I can just imagine how much material he will give them during campaigning and I love a good laugh!

My Paypal debit card information was on the Playstation Network and involved in that reported data theft of 77 million people this past week. Rather than worry about it, I decided to report the card stolen and cancel it, and get a new one. Suddenly Paypal has no idea who the hell I am after 7 years and is requiring me to send in three forms of ID to give me a new one. My Social Security number, a utility bill with current address and a scan of my drivers license. Having a premier business account and my local bank account information verified and a security key card log in apparently isn’t enough. I’m now surprised they didn’t require an iris scan, DNA test, my blood, my urine and a freaking stool sample as well.

Went to renew my La. drivers license this morning and checked the DMV website to make sure I brought everything I needed before I left. Two notable things that I read were that I didn’t need to retake the eye exam since my old license wasn’t yet expired and the other was that credit cards, debit cards, cash, money orders and personal checks were all accepted. Guess who had to take an eye exam and had no choice but to pay in cash only? Good thing I happened to have enough cash on me. On the plus side, holy shit they were fast! I was in and out in about a half an hour with finished license in hand.

2001: Congress mandates that in the future all cell phones will track user locations to facilitate finding people making 911 calls.

2011: Congress is like HOLY SHIT cell phones are tracking people!?!?

After a week of silence Apple finally states that their iPhones aren’t tracking people. They also promise an update that will stop their cell phones from tracking people…

I really, really, really hate to talk about anything to do with politics because just thinking about it makes me want to spew, since there’s hardly ever any meaningful political discussion, it always descends into name calling and blame hurling from both sides, but I’m going to make this exception. By law, we apparently have to have a budget for the government to operate at all but when it’s all said and done it’s a useless gesture. They know they are budgeting more than we will take in, it’s already a deficit the moment it’s passed. But I think an equally large problem is that no matter what they pass they will never stick to it anyway. They are completely incapable of running this country in a way that it could operate within it’s means or it’s budget.

And the problem isn’t just the Feds, it’s virtually every city, town, county and municipality in this entire country. They cannot operate within their means. They set budgets then fail to abide by them. And by them I mean us, ALL of us. At the very root is the average citizen who cannot live within their own personal and household means and uses credit as a way of life. As long as we’re ok with that we will never be able to hold our government to operating within it’s means. Borrowing against the future seems to be business as usual and until it stops we will always be in the hole. It’s human nature apparently and as long as most people have some sort of way to get credit and carry credit cards around it just enforces the mentality that borrowing is good and by extension it’s ok for the government to borrow money against the future as well. Eventually there will be nothing left to borrow.

/end rant

Does anyone REALLY care if Sen. Larry Craig is gay or not? Personally, I don’t and I would actually be more surprised if he wasn’t considering all the shenanigans and wacky revelations coming from members of congress in the past few years. Just so long as the man does a good job in office is what counts. What I DO care about is that how does someone so utterly frikkin’ STUPID get himself elected to office. I mean seriously, first he pleads guilty to the ridiculous charges, then changes his mind, then decides to quit his position, then changes his mind again. The guy is obviously a total DUMBASS, especially since he risked throwing away his career on something so lame.

And as far as I know propositioning someone for sex isn’t against the law, even if it’s in an airport toilet. It should only be illegal if there was money (prostitution) involved. With that in mind, why was he even arrested in the first place?? I’ve never heard any mentions of him offering to pay for sex. The whole mess is senseless and most especially the way he’s handled it. You guys have any thoughts on this?

I’ve been picking up some really screwy, oddball photos off the ‘net that I thought would be fun to share.

Check out this guys leg, MOTHAFUKKIN’ OUCH!!!!

This is too funny! Don’t let the terrorists see this one! We’ll all be screwed!

Flush 25 pounds from your COLON!! 25 POUNDS!?!?! OMFG!!! LOL

If Ronald McDonald was goth, truly weird!!

Here I am showing off my early electrical engineering skills as a child

Well, that’s all I got folks! Hope you have a great weekend!! Weee! TGIF!

I decided it was time to “repaint” the old FEMA trailer that’s been sitting out in the front yard. It’s been there well over a year now, unused, while we wait on FEMA’s engineering reports on what’s to finally be done about the house repairs. The worst part is that once they actually do something we may have to “live” in the piece of crap. Hard to believe but it has room for 8 people to sleep inside, talk about cramped. Sardines have more space to move around. LOL

I came across this cool quote from Ronald Reagan that sums up the governments laggardly response to Katrina.

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Doesn’t that just say it all? hehe

And speaking of Ronald Reagan, I came across this old cigarette advertisement. Gotta love the “Christamas Card” cartons. Hey Ron, I’ll take a dozen!

I got a brand new toy a couple of weeks ago and I just can’t stop playing with the damn thing. No it’s not a sex toy, minds out of the gutter please! Although it is almost as fun as sex.

It’s a new LG cu500 cellphone that’s also a music player and a video camera. My old Motorola was getting pretty tired and since I was eligible for an upgrade I decided to go for something really nice. It has a removable 1 gigabyte memory card that can hold up to 250 mp3 or wma songs or 3,000 photos or 300 minutes of video! The memory card even fits in my regular digital camera, so it’s very versatile. Granted, the video quality is pretty low, but the photo quality is pretty damn good, I’m really quite impressed.

And the data is all transferable back and forth to my PC thru a USB cable. It runs on At&T’s new high speed data 3G network and it has quad band so it can be used anywhere in the world. The music player is basically identical to an iPod with song shuffle and repeat and you can create custom playlists. I never imagined a cellphone could be so much fun to play with. Now if it just vibrated a little stronger…

I don’t know why Islamic Muslims think they will be rewarded with a harem of virgins at their disposal when they die and personally I really don’t care, but this photo made me laugh out loud.

If you think your “god” will reward you for being an evil, murderous, son of a bitch, it’s time to go “god shopping” is all I can say. And have your brain removed for forensic study…

Local Council Woman May Be Delusional
Sometimes an idiot comes along that really grabs my attention, and seriously pisses me off. There’s a story in the local New Orleans newspaper today about a city council woman named Cynthia Hedge-Morrell that was stopped by a Louisiana State Trooper for traveling over 100 mph on the shoulder of the road and weaving in her city owned SUV while she had a “blue light” flashing. When he stopped her she yelled at him “Do you know who I am? . . . What the hell are you stopping me for?” Apparently this isn’t the first time she’s been stopped under similar circumstances. This womans main claim to “fame” is that she was once a school principal and is the wife of La. State Representative Arthur Morrell. It’s good to see that we have such “quality” people with “god complexes” and who think they’re above the law running this city. Her “excuse” was that she was late for a meeting. Now there’s a good reason to risk the lives of everyone else on the highway. Link to the article

Yeah, like New Orleans doesn’t have enough problems, the state police have to deal with morons like this. I’m disappointed that the police didn’t haul her sorry ass in to give her a DWI or blood sample test to see if she was drunk or on drugs! Feel free to email her here: CHMorrell@cityofno.com if you want to give her a piece of your mind.

Here’s a nice parting shot for Papa Johns, I got this in my email the other day advertising their “Easter Special” and since we all know how I feel about their lousy ass service, I thought I would put it up. Apparently they think we should associate eating pizza with the resurrection of Jesus, LOL How frikkin lame is that! “Light the candles, say the prayers and pass the pizza!”

Have a fun weekend!