There's nothing like waking up at 12:30 am to sounds that make you think your downstairs neighbor's apartment is being broken into. (Only to find out later they were apparently trying to steal an electric meter?!?!?) To call 911 and ask for police assistance. To have the guy leave what he's doing, come back with a friend, break some glass on the meter, walk away talking about, "I wish a security guard would catch me, I'd say 'I'm gansta!'." then proceed to hang out in the parking lot with their friends for an additional half an hour or so, get in a car and leave. THEN two minutes later have a cop FINALLY drive up, circling around the building a little bit and then just LEAVE.

I'll probably be filing a complaint with the sherrif's department today.

Go to this link: http://www2.snapfish.com/info18

All you have to do is sign up and you get a free 20-page booklet that you pick photos to go into - It's FREE!

Details from the site:

This offer is only good for one standard 20-page 8" x 11" custom cover photo book per household. Coupon dispersal ends on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 11:59pm PST. Free photo book must be redeemed by Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 11:59pm PST. Offer does not include customary shipping & handling charges or additional pages. Offer applies only to US customer accounts and mail-order delivery to U.S. customers. Offer cannot be combined with other coupon codes. Coupon cannot be resold or otherwise transferred, and is void on the earlier of redemption or the offer end date.

So, I guess you have to pay shipping, but I doubt it'll be too much.

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=242

http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/ZN5/

  


It has a built-in 5.0 megapixel KODAK camera.
FM Radio.


If I upgrade my phone to this and extend my contract I can save $250 and get it for only $100 with rebates.

I've never owned a motorola phone before because typically I think they are pretty stinky.

But I WANT THIS PHONE.

It would be my Birthday/Christmas gift to myself.


Any thought?

Anyone who can give me good reasons why I shouldn't???


I'm all ears!!

The People Have Spoken—Victory for Animals in CA and MA!

Tuesday was an historic day in America in more ways than one. With resounding victories for California's Prop 2 and Massachusetts's Ballot Question 3, voters on both coasts sent a clear message that preventing animal cruelty is a national priority.

In California, the factory farm-related Standards for Confining Farm Animals Act (ballot Proposition 2) won in a landslide, with over 60 percent of respondents voting "yes" to mandate an increase of confinement space for veal calves, breeding pigs and egg-laying hens. On the Act's effective date, January 1, 2015, these animals will have their rights to turn around, lie down, stand up and fully extend their limbs guaranteed by state law. Violators will face a fine up to $1,000 or six months in county jail.

The Massachusetts ban on dog racing has been a long time coming—in 2000, a similar ballot measure was narrowly defeated, and attempts to get the question included on the 2006 ballot were unsuccessful. With the ban's passage this week (57 percent to 43 percent), commercial dog racing will be phased out in Massachusetts by 2010. There are two dog tracks in the state—each of which is believed to currently house about 1,000 greyhounds. Because the phase-out will occur over a period of 14 months, greyhound advocacy groups such as Grey2K USA are confident that they will be able to find homes for any racing dogs who become available for adoption.

Great job, California and Massachusetts animal advocates! The ASPCA strongly supported both proposals, and promoted them to members of our Advocacy Brigade. If you would like to be alerted when animal-friendly legislation is being considered in your state, please sign up to receive email alerts from the ASPCA—the alerts are targeted to your area, and taking action is easy, fun and free! Join the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade now.

I totally forgot to type this out yesterday, as I was so enthralled in the election, as most of America was.

I'm going to share some information with you that I'm copying over from my online banking.

09/17/2008  CHEVRON 00200792 HOUSTON 09/16CHEVRON 0  $68.19


Sep 17th I filled up my tank with close to $70


Pending  POS DEBIT KROGER STATION 4 HOUSTON TX  $35.03

That's from yesterday.
I FILLED my tank. It's 20 gallons, My gas light was on the entire way home, which is roughly 16 miles. I put in 18.84 gallons. For THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS

Is that not the awesomest eVAR???

I was so excited I forgot to even take a picture. So, I tried taking one of my receipt, but my camera phone is not the best.

Now lets just hope OPEC doesn't decide to cut production just cuz they're all about the dollars

What if in previous elections all of these people had gotten off their asses and voted like they did today?

How would the country's recent history be different?

It angers me to no end that all these voters, only for this election, found it convenient enough to do so.

Brought to you by: El Supremo

Y'all have surely heard by now that my favorite one-man gaffe machine, Joe Biden, opened his fat fucking mouth and inserted his designer shoe-clad foot in Pennsylvania by saying that tax cuts should go to those making under $150,000. Of course, the amount of $150,000 is substantially below where Obama says the threshold will be under his tax plans. An Obama spokesweasel rushed to correct the gaffe:

Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor issued a statement that corrected the vice-presidential candidate without explicitly saying so.

"No family making less than $250,000 will see their tax increases one cent," Vietor said. "And if your family makes less than $200,000 - as 95 percent of workers and their families do - you'll get a tax cut."

The money quote here is, "No family making less than $250,000 will see their tax increases one cent," which is a pile of bullshit visible from outer space. Would the Obama campaign please stop lying about their tax plans? Under Obama, every tax bracket except the bottom bracket (a 10% tax rate for those making $14,000 or less annually) WILL receive a tax increase. Obama is playing with words when he says there will be no tax increase because he does not view allowing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, aka the Bush tax cuts, to expire as a "tax increase". Using his fuzzy grammar, this is simply allowing tax rates to return to their previous levels. How that is not, in his mind, a tax increase is an act of mental masturbation only a Democrat could understand.

You're being lied to. When those cuts expire in 2010, every tax bracket save the bottom one and the top one will go up 2%. That means your taxes. Yeah, yours, too, over there. And you. And you. And you back there. And you, the lurking sumbitch who never comments. For the top bracket, taxes will go up 3.8%, plus whatever additional penalty Obama intends to levy to punish success. On top of that, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will be lumped into the highest tax bracket when its threshold is lowered from the current $307,950 to $250,000. As an added bonus, married couples will also face the reintroduction of the marriage penalty, which was phased out under the Bush tax cuts, further increasing their tax burden.

So let's cut the cutesy little bullshit word games. Your taxes are going up with Obama. Every last one of you. If you're not bright enough to figure that out, well... that explains why you're an Obama supporter.

...just so I can stop listening to & reading to all the bullshit.

Everything negative will come out about everyone.
It's what happens. And it's used by the opposing party followers to make their point that their candidate is better than yours.

It's obnoxious.
And I wish it was not that way.

I wish we had politicians like our founding fathers.

Cuz all these assholes are just that.
Assholes.
They suck.
And all politics are is bullshit.
Get over it.

Oh, Mr. Tobi Wan Kenobi.... he is so lucky.

I went to take him to get neutered this morning...

We get there, and the damn clinic is CLOSED.

I don't know if they're like SHUT DOWN - closed, or just, the vet had an emergency this morning - closed. I'm thinking the first one.

So Tobi gets to keep his balls for another week or so.

Lucky devil.