I am a crazy mom, wife, friend and hockey nut. During the day I'm a mild mannered computer geek. But at night, by the light of the full moon, I am a hyperactive shutterbug. I love shooting the beautiful scapes and people of Miss’ippi.
Ok, in case you’ve been living under a rock, some nutjobs at a factory farm for Hormel got caught on camera mistreating pigs. Don’t watch this if you like pork and want to keep liking it. Oh, and keep in mind this was heavily edited to air on CNN, the raw footage, which you can also easily find on youtube, is much MUCH worse.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, I am back to sneeze all over you. I even brought my little sneezelings and Congestion Man. We’re all here to cover you and yours in super snot.
Now if I could just find my cape and some Kleenex……
Well, I heard back from Gloria at the local Comcast office in Mempis today, and she was much nicer. She said she had an inquiry from us about cable, and she verified all our info. Then she called the construction group and called me back and said it’s still no good. So I still have a cable modem on the way that I can’t use, but at least she was sweeter about it. Oh well, your loss Comcast!
So this morning I see a commercial saying that Comcast is in new areas and check out this website or call for more details. We have DSL, which sucks, so of course I want this. So I check out the website. First thing that pops up is a box asking me to plug in my phone number and address to see if Comcast is available in my area. I fill it in and usually it comes right back up saying something like “Sorry, you live out in the sticks weirdo. We don’t want to come there. Have a nice day.” Today it goes through to the “What kind of monthly plan” and “Where can we ship your modem” screen. So I’m thrilled! YAY, finally! So I go through it all and place the order. Then I have to call to schedule installation. With my trusty confirmation number in hand, I call. They are baffled because my address doesn’t appear in the system. They say they’ll send a message to my local office and I will hear back from them about installation. Cool. I can’t wait.
A few hours later I am away from my desk but come back and I have a voicemail from Comcast. Not from an employee at Comcast, because she left no name. Or a number. She just said, “This is Comcast, and we don’t service your area because your neighborhood has to be 60% complete before we’ll wire it. Have a nice day.” Well, that’s not quite was I was expecting to hear. And last time I checked, our neighborhood was 100% complete, has been for about 3 years. So I call back the number on the caller ID and the mayor of Attitudeville answered the phone. I told her why I was calling and asked her who I could speak to since they were wrong about my neighborhood. She told me no, I couldn’t speak to anyone about that, it was out of my hands and Comcast could go where ever they wanted for any reason. I said “I get that, but if they’re wrong, maybe they would like to reevaluate the situation so ya’ll can take my money.” She said that it didn’t matter and she wasn’t going to transfer me to anyone in construction. I said that’s not right, especially if the website let me go through the process of ordering a modem and everything. This is where she pulled out her brass ones and told me that “Our number is available 24 hours a day. You should have called us for better service instead of going to the website.” I know, baffling, right? So I say “HUH? Are you seriously telling me this is my fault for going to your company’s website?” And she says “Yes. We can only control what we tell you out of this office. I don’t know anything about the website.” So, still in shock I ask for an 800 number or something to speak to someone about the website and my order. This is where it gets funny. She says “I don’t have one, but you can go to the website to find contact information.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct.
The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.
New regulations, which don’t require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said late Monday the changes were needed to ensure that the Endangered Species Act would not be used as a “back door” to regulate the gases blamed for global warming. In May, the polar bear became the first species declared as threatened because of climate change. Warming temperatures are expected to melt the sea ice the bear depends on for survival.
The draft rules would bar federal agencies from assessing the emissions from projects that contribute toglobal warming and its effect on species and habitats.
“We need to focus our efforts where they will do the most good,” Kempthorne said in a news conference organized quickly after AP reported details of the proposal. “It is important to use our time and resources to protect the most vulnerable species. It is not possible to draw a link between greenhouse gas emissions and distant observations of impacts on species.”
If approved, the changes would represent the biggest overhaul of the Endangered Species Act since 1986. They would accomplish through regulations what conservative Republicans have been unable to achieve in Congress: ending some environmental reviews that developers and other federal agencies blame for delays and cost increases on many projects.
Is it just me or does anyone else want to strangle the Sonic people?
I hate them. Hate, hate, hate them. They annoy the crap out of me. Especially the married couple that is never speaking the same language. Yes, these commercials now have me thinking about Sonic, so points for that. They have me thinking not about Sonic’s food, but that only complete idiots go to Sonic to sit in their cars and eat with other idiots. Way to go advertising firm!
I also don’t like either of the Geico campaigns (cavemen or lizard). The only one I do like is the one of the cavedude in the airport on the walking escalator thing. And I only like that one because I like that song. All the others, can’t stand. And I have never in my life seen a lawyer commercial that didn’t make me want to punch someone. And I especially despise the ones with the songs. Oh, even worse are the ones with the catchy songs with their 800 number in the song. That gets stuck in my head all day. Wonder if anyone’s ever been distracted by some lawyers theme song and been so distracted they caused a car accident. That would be ironic, and not a just a little funny.
About the only set of ‘themed’ commercials currently out that I like are the Progressive “Flo” commercials. I can’t explain why, but that Flo chick makes me giggle like a schoolgirl. And I am not the type to giggle, not even when I was a schoolgirl. But I think they’re clever and cute. Flo cracks me up. She’s got tons of personality and great expressions. I adore the whole thing.
Way to go Progressive. You’ve actually got me thinking it might be time to convince Mr Cranky to reevaluate our insurance.
Yesterday I posted that two real winners (sarcasm dripping), Tristan Hathaway and Vincent Boykin, burned a 3 month old puppy after dousing her with gasoline. Now according to EyeWitness News, a judge with some sense increased the bail for Tristan Hathaway to $100,000. Good. Lock them both up and throw away the key.
Men charged with setting puppy on fire Reported by Lori Brown
Two young men are charged with felony aggravated animal cruelty for dousing a three-month-old puppy with gasoline and setting her on fire.
The young German Shepherd mix was playing on Kilarney Street in Whitehaven when Tristan Hathaway and Vincent Boykin set her on fire.
The puppy survived the flames and is now under the care of veterinarians at Memphis Animal Services. She suffered burns to her face, back and all four legs, but is expected to make a full recovery.
Neighbor Jerrica Agnew says she saw Boykin hold the dog while Hathaway set her on fire using a lighter.
Agnew said she smelled gasoline as she tried to saved the animal’s life. “His whole body just lit up in flames.”
Agnew said the puppy rolled in the dirt in an attempt to quench the flames.
“It was crying…doing what dogs do when hurt…hollering,” said Agnew. “I didn’t want to touch it, I knew it’s skin was so…”
Click here to read their mommas swear they would never do anything so horrible.
If you’re local, and you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the local blogger at MPD Enforcer 2.0. He/she/it blogs about the Memphis Police Department. They have been critical of the muckity-mucks in the MPD, and of the way some investigations are handled. Now the city of Memphis and Police Director Larry Godwin are suing to find out the identity of the blogger. Here’s a blurb about it from the Commercial Appeal
Paul Alan Levy, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a Washington-based public interest law firm founded by Ralph Nader, will represent the anonymous bloggers at MPD Enforcer 2.0 whose identities are being sought by Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis.
The lawsuit, filed in Shelby County Chancery Court, asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership. The bloggers operate under the name Dirk Diggler, a porn-star character in the movie “Boogie Nights.”
Super Allergy Girl is back! 
Is GW just looking to jack up everything on his way out?
Is it just me or does anyone else want to strangle the Sonic people? 
About the only set of ‘themed’ commercials currently out that I like are the 
