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It’s your typical rupuglican bs trying to revive the Hillary / obama strife and weaken the party.

So i try to post a comment that basically says:

If you want to talk about VP choices let’s talk palin, picking her was this years election world class pandering to the woman vote. Was she really the best possible GOP choice for a VP. I hardly think so.

Now i’m a smart guy (or so i’m told) aand i know that the VP pick usually is done to round off the ticket, but at least the selection has some merit in terms of filling the office if the pres dies.

Does anyone think the vetting process in the McCain camp cared about that. I don’t think so.

I also went on to say that i would think that the woman voter out their should be outraged at such an egregious pandering attempt. How stupid does McCain think they are anyway!!!

Well guess what, i must have submitted ten times and over the course of the whole day they would not post the comment.

Let me start by saying I think both of these candidates have been subjected to unfair attacks, Hillary has not cornered the market on abuse in this election by any means.

The reason I prefer Obama better is that all along his “main” message, while a little vague, has been a positive one about what he wants to do for this country. For quite some time Hillary’s message has been all about “Why I am Better”. I learned long ago to question arguments from people that are based on putting others down. That is the only message she has had for quite some time.

Now Obama has taken his Jab’s but if memory serves me right it’s almost always been a response to attacks. Now Here’s another thing that bothers me and no matter which way I slice it, it’s a loose/loose for Hillary.           

But when our lovely Wellesley Graduate starts doing shots for the camera you know it’s a load of bull. Now please don’t jump down my throat with “Why can’t a woman do shots”. Of course woman can and do shots, some of the woman I party with can drink me under the table, so what. My point is this woman doing shots in Indiana is a pure stunt to appear as something she is not. Either way I don’t really want a president that does shots, that’s more like G.W.’s style. Once again Loose/Loose

But most of all, Hillary has really turned into the poster girl for disingenuous statements leading up to and since Obama clinched the nomination as well as the dictionary definition of delusional.

• She has decided to suspend her campaign, not end it.
• She says she’ll support the nominee but wont concede
• She speaks as if “her” 18 million votes are to be wielded like a sword. Against whom??? This is a primary, unless she intends to truly decimate the party and run as an independent it’s time to throw that 18 million behind the party candidate.
• She said she will endorse Obama but couldn’t even do it properly when he clinched the nomination
• She complains about Florida and Michigan but how can you count Michigan votes into her popular vote tally when Obama followed rules and was not on the ticket??
• How can you hold her tally of popular votes as legitimate when Rush Limbaugh has been urging republicans to vote Hillary since McCain was the GOP presumptive nominee. In a few states exit polls showed she got over 100,000 republican votes! there’s a reason the republicans want to face her in November and that is because the name Clinton stirs the republican base like no other. So who really is the strongest candidate to face McCain??

She is suffering from the inability to call it quits. She has to win at any cost no matter how unethical her actions. That is not a person who represents the people, that is a person who represents herself.

Now Al Gore got a pretty raw deal in Florida in 2000 and he stood his ground and tried to make sure a fair election was to be had. Hillary has had it a lot better than Al did in 2000 but even Al knew there is a time to do what’s best for this country instead of dragging a situation out to any “possible” conclusion.

Hillary needs to show ME that she will do what’s right. At this moment in time, for the country or my respect will be lost for all time. And Bill has been no prize lately either!

And BTW, to all you Hillary supporters who say they’ll vote McCain I reply: What are you on f’n drugs??? Wake up, Shake off the sadness and do what’s right, not what’s spiteful!

Well I’ve learned a little about overdraft charges since then and Bank Of Arse-serica is doing it’s best to put me asunder. These guys have formulated their M.O. so craftily that it’s hard to believe. Here’s my two main observations/complaints:

• Re-Ordering deposits and charges so that they can maximize overdraft fee’s
• Approving debit card uses that should flatly be declined

My wife and i are out on the road and do a lot of trips through the D&D drive through (god love’m). One day Bank Of Ass-lappia approved 8 separate charges (4 of which were under $6 each). These all should have been declined since my overdraft account was maxed at the time, but hey it’s more profitable to charge me 4280 in one day then decline the charges.

Now rightly so some people will tell me that it’s my responsibility to make sure i have enough money before i go using the debit card.

I say no way Jose. Don’t approve a charge that i have mistakenly made just to charge me a overdraft fee!

Well consider it from the bubble persons point of view. They don’t need to know the truth, only how something makes them feel. How wonderful to be free of the burden of knowing the truth or context of an event. They can just decide that: this “thing” made me feel bad, therefore it is. It doesn’t matter if this “thing” was perfectly natural given circumstances or a completely just response to their very own bubble condition. Now remember we all have the bubble at times, it’s those of us that recognize it in themselves that don’t let it ruin their lives. It’s the ones who except and embrace the bubble as the natural state of things that are in trouble.

Those of us who rule the bubble have emotional responses to events but are able to look back over the event and realize that given the context there was nothing wrong here. The event may have bruised our feelings, but hey we’re grown up…. Get over it. One of the glowing traits of a person who rules the bubble is that they can freely admit: Hey, I fucked up. Learn from it and move on (apologize if necessary).

To the bubble lover the inside is as insidious as the outside of the bubble. When they float happily in the middle of the bubble they believe all is well with them and their actions. The world around them could not be happier to be subjected to their “me centric” point of view. When others have had enough and comments or actions make the bubble person think “about themselves” they start floating closer to the inside edge. This is when all sorts of strange behavior comes out of them. It seems that they have to act especially self centered to ward off the truth. As if only some absolutely abhorrent act will push them comfortably back to the center.

Enough ranting for now. Just remember, it’s all or duties to pop the bubble when ever possible. Just like Neo in the Matrix, they’ll thank you when they know the truth. The truth being that their own self importance is the fertile ground that the bubble grows in. It’s better to shed that skin and join the world.

Have you dealt with the attack of the bubble people yet? Make sure you don’t become a victim of B.E.D. (Bubble Existence Disease)

These are the folks who run around and shape their view of proper behavior based solely on “what’s good for me”, or not good for me as the case may be. They mask themselves quite nicely as well balanced people.

The bubble may rub up against you at all sorts of levels. It could be the guy who borrows your oil drain pan and returns it full of oil because he didn’t realize it’s not nice to saddle you with his responsibility of returning it like he got it and dealing with his own waste oil. He just comes back thinking “I don’t know how to get rid of this stuff” and that shapes the whole decision process on what’s right to do in the case.

With some people the bubble may be invisible almost their whole lives. It has been rendered such by sheer luck of the draw and your own unobservant nature though. With these lucky individuals good fortune has made their life comfortable enough so that the “what about me” thought process is filled very nicely and effect others very little. These folks are the most dangerous though. I say this because I realize the unwashed masses do not, dare I say can not detect a ticking time bomb when the lit fuse is wafting smoke in their faces, so understand this:

The hidden bubble person is the most dangerous for when his bubble is forced into your life it will be with the force of one million nuclear bombs.

This might be the sibling you have always though quite highly of who attempts to steal the family fortune because daddy didn’t “wove me as a child”, and I just deserve it because of that!

One trait of the garden variety bubble human is they are prone to “why me” types of moaning. They do this about myriad problems as if no one else has ever had a busy schedule, been sick, been short on money, had a loved one be sick or suffered some other way for the first time in human existence. OMG!

Watch for this as it forms the basis, the birth right of B.E.D. in a person. You can help potential disease sufferers at the early stages though if you gently remind these folks that everyone’s life is a trial by fire and how we take it is a monument to our own greatness. If the person is allowed to fully succumb to B.E.D. it sometimes becomes impossible to make them see that they should consider other people in life because their shopping list of “wrongs” has become too large.

A list filled with things like:

- Why didn’t daddy love me (he probably did stupid, but even if not, how you live as a grown up has nothing to do with that does it!)

- I always wanted “fill in the blank” and my brother got it (So what, your grown up, get your own and stop blaming your brother!!!)

- Why did Joe get the promotion I deserve (first off been there, maybe Joe did deserve it, maybe he blew the boss, either way your better off, so once again stop the moaning)

See what it really comes down to is we are all people and we need to get along. If you go off and say “My needs” are more important than yours than you are the one derailing society. Here’s what I suggest for all you out there:

- Stop moaning

- Respect others

- Care about others needs as if they were your own

- If you want something get it the old fashion way: EARN IT

- If you can contribute, contribute, and not to some stupid politico group BTW, contribute to breast cancer or something that has a right to be an organization.

- Next time your driving in your Escalade SUV and the guy on the motorcycle is going too slow for you, don’t run him down, he might be a software engineer and father of three who has something to contribute and your pissy rush don’t mean shit anyway.

Look we all have the bubble sometimes; like when were down or stressed. The measure of our own greatness is in how quickly we realize it and pop it by our self…

If you have not got the idea by now, you probably never will, but don’t worry, there’s a guy with a needle just around the corner dying to pop the bubble for you!

I have once again been amazed at the totally sucky nature of my fellow man (and woman). My comments are typically of the personal relationships nature so if your looking for political commentary go watch a Red Sox game.

The depth of bad behavior I’ve seen lately is just sickening. totally self indulgent behavior that knows no bounds. People I know and love are going off the deep end. I think if these people had a lick of self awareness they’d turn red as stop light with embarrassment.

Now I’ve watched this escalating for some time and have had a moment of clarity. Seems that the general populace, the one’s who have a little self respect and would never act so badly are putting up with these hacks because it’s just better to not make waves.

It’s like the line from “repo man”: Ordinary people spend their life avoiding tense situations, repo man spends his life getting into…… You get the idea. I’m guilty of this weakness myself. I’m a nice guy, I don’t want to make waves so I look the other way when those near and dear run afoul acting like idiots.

but hey, clarity time… that’s why these butt heads get away with it. no one calls them to the mat for acting like completely self centered bastards. So what do us naive people expect. Oh they’ll do the right thing, I always try to. Well here’s what I say:

f… that shit. These bone heads need to be put in the spotlight when they step off the platform. Then they’ll think twice, so meet the new me!

For all my high falootin noise here, I’m really a nice guy. Ask anyone who knows me (like I’d tell you their names, HA).

I really am starting to wonder who raised these shameless pukes. How do you instill in someone a complete lack of self awareness anyway? Did mom and dad show them how you can be a total shit to people and no one will call you on it? They really think they’re fooling us because we don’t say anything about the stuff they do.

Well guess what, we know what your up to. We gather in small groups of self respecting people and check our facts to see if were not just dreaming it up and we always realize that YOU are in fact a sucky, self centered waste of the old O2.

We just have too much self respect to start a brouhaha to set you straight.

Next post: I’m sure it will be more on why people do in fact suck.

Well i happened to notice that comcast has made a little change in the menu structure used to navigate on-demand pay per view.

It seems that when ever your navigating the menus for a particular movie, or watching the preview clip and select “stop” or otherwise generally return, guess what….

The menu always ends up “buy movie” selection when it used to always return to the “last” selection (which you just always hit enter on to return to the list of movies). So now you hit enter as expected and you’ve just purchased yourself a movie you may not want.

Just like cingular’s little text scam, i’m sure the guy that fixes this problem will get fired also.

I’m just sick of calling comcast up to have them take the movie of the bill……..

It’s com-fuckin-tastic!

More on the solution in a moment. On to the problem,

I was getting close to 75 spam emails a week on my cell phone and and getting charged ~$20.00 a month in text messaging charges. They were usually long messages split into 5 parts and routed through cingular’s sms gateway (leaving me no return info). After receiving some similar spam at home I realized even if I had return info it would have been spoofed email addresses and domains. IP addresses showed china, Poland and Russia were the originating localities of the spam.

Now cingular provided a web site called cingularme.com which their documentation showed had the tools for me tools for me to self manage spam via aliases and rejecting mutli part messages, great solution…. except the site has been down for almost a year….@$@#%@$%@#$@#$

I thought long and hard about why they were so slow to resolve an issue that was costing me ~$20.00 a month, so here it goes:

Cingular has 58 million subscribers. If 10% of 1/58th of their subscribers (100,000 subscribers) are getting spammed and paying ~$20 a month that adds about two million bucks a month to the bottom line. The guy that fixes that would probably get fired!

1/58th of 58 mill is 1,000,000 subscribers. times 10% is 100,000 subscribers. I think that’s a pretty liberal number of subscribers to base this on given the depth of spam issues.

So, I try to resolve a problem. When I talk to umpteen service reps I get resolutions like reply back to the spam with things like “NO”, “STOP”, etc. great, I’d be replying to their sms gateway which is like dropping the reply in a bucket of trash. The end result of that: my text usage goes up!!!!!!!!

I go through too many interim steps to mention but basically the final working resolution: I either change my phone number or loose text messaging service all together. yeah! it’s fixed, blah, blah, blah, fucking teleblah……. I’m so impressed with the service, all they need to do is turn cingularme.com back on and I can manage my own problems, but then that guy would get fired and cingular would loose ~2Mil a month (24 million a year!!!)

Next why companies suck topic: Comcast changes their on-demand cable menu so it’s almost impossible to not accidentally buy on demand movies!

I’ve got friends, you’ve got friends right?

when your friends want something stupid, do something stupid (bad, wrong, mean, etc.) do you just do the good dube thing and go yeah man, I’m like totally with you on that! or do you go “hey stupid, that’s really not right”.

Most people go with plan A and talk about what a good friend they are. wrong, you stinking wad, you’re just a spineless jellyfish that’s so afraid of loosing a friend you’d let them walk in front of a train instead of speaking up.

Grow a spine and a wonderful thing will happen, you’ll attract better friends, not just the undulating mass of looser fish you’re with now (I’m sure the current crowd needs back support just like YOU!).

Next post topic: more on why people suck. i could talk this for a life time, oh yeah, BTW I’m really nice and great.

I’m like from that post baby boom pre gen-x generation, you know the “nameless widget generation”. Well i’m getting the benfit of watching the baby boomers really show their hand as truely disconnected, rather more impressed by style than subtance, generally ADD (can’t even read an email over two sentences long and deal with it). They had this whole flower child thing which seems like quite the cover act now. They’re re-writin’ history at an alarming rate.

Then there’s the gen x, y, z’s . They are an interesting lot. I just read a boston globe article about them being the most self absorbed generation (what with myspace, youtube, etc.). It’s all about showing off yourself, hooking up, how many friends you’ve got. Seems like a recipie for disaster, a greater depth of style over substance with even more emphasys on themselves.

But i have to say that I’m a hell of a lot more impressed with the gen’s than the BB’s. The BB’s seem driven by fear, no spine to me.

The gen’y's have their shallow lot like all generations but i’ve met more that are full of good common sense opinions, care about the outcome far reaching issues (and not just about how it effects themselves BTW).

I don’t know, once again lucky that i can shimmy out of taking a position because hey, i’m a widget anyway (that’s gen-widget to you).

What are you if you were born 1n 1961? (besides old and cranky)

Topic for next post: I think more on why people suck in general.