Gemini Blue

When what to my wandering eyes should appear, but this post over at Silver Blue’s. Seems that he has a friend, Neil, who sent the article on how the suffering of Hurricane Katrina victims isn’t enough.

I’m all for changes to laws when they do good. Above all, they should do no harm. I’m sure that then Congress, in it’s frickin’ finite wisdom, decided to change the Code, they were acting on the pay of large credit corporations who have enabled Americans to over extend themselves to the point of not even owning the blood that may be gushing out of their slit wrists from high interest rates, foreclosures, and the like. Individuals that have medical emergencies (or cancer treatments, or the like) are similarly fucked. After all, businesses can’t continue to turn high profits if people can declare bankruptcy and keep their house, or a car, or some shadow of a life.

But now that Katrina has caused death, havoc, destruction, devastation, (plague, locusts and dark of night remain to be experienced), one of the (perhaps) unintentional side effects is to ram the shaft in those victims who have lost the most, in most cases, everything. By the time the Code changes on October 17, those who have been displaced, disowned, disenfranchised, disenchanted, and disheartened will also find despair. Sorry victims, but you’re twice fucked. And don’t think we’re going to use any lube. Or kiss you afterward. Obviously you brought this destruction on yourself by not supporting Supreme Comrade Bush not planning far enough in advance to have an equal amount set aside to pay off everything that you’ve lost. Better yet, they’re going to be told “It’s your own damn fault for owing for anything in the first place.”

May someone with an iron boot kick the shit out of our legislators until they finally see why “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Quit listening to big business and their donations, and try to frickin’ remember what it was like to be a regular citizen…. one who now has nothing to go back to — no job, no house, in some cases, no family; then look and try to figure out why the suicide rate is steadily increasing two, four, eight months after the reconstruction begins. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. These people are starting with zero and really appear to have nothing to lose — except what the government will be taking from them in punishment via the Bankruptcy Code.

I hope they find it damn hard to sleep at night.

There are no stupid questions..But there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

Evangelical wiccans? Oh, great. “The trees in your front yard want you to stop touching yourself.”

From the comment section of this post on Hit & Run.

around here because, well, I just haven’t had the time to waste behind a keyboard to let you know how things around here.

Going around to other blogs seems like everyone’s doing ok and you haven’t missed me.

ATTENTION:

I’m to busy to fuck with you today.
You’ll have to go fuck yourself.

but would gasoline hurry the hell up and pass the $3 mark? Just for a day?

Why?

I’m frickin’ tired of reading this bullshit:

Though both the AAA and Lundberg Survey reported record highs for gasoline, prices remain below their all-time highs when inflation is taken into account. According to Lundberg, gas prices were the equivalent of $3 a gallon during the Iranian revolution in the early 1980’s.

Fine. Gas hasn’t reached it’s all time high yet. But do we need to append this frickin’ paragraph on every damn article about high gas prices? We already KNOW gas was out the ass back then. We know we’re paying through the nose now.

GET. OVER. IT.

and I’m in the hand basket.

All around me people’s lives are in upheaval. Relationships are splitting at a record pace — maybe because, IMHO, people aren’t allowing them to allowing them to grow and change. I can’t tell you about the number of times I’ve dated someone (I’ll be realistic here — the number of times I’ve been in a relationship with someone) and watched it all fall to shambles because the other person didn’t want it to change, and in preventing the natural growth and development, ended up strangling it to death.

No one likes change — in fact, one of the most often heard phrases is “if it could only be as it once was — but believe me, it can’t, it won’t, and it’s best that that it never be that.

The hardest part of love isn’t the letting go. The hardest part of love is seeing that person, at whatever time after the relationship ends, and they’re with someone else and they’re happy. Happy in a way that you were never able to make them. That’s the hardest part of love. That’s when you fall back and say “why couldn’t I do that?” Or “they never were that way around me…”

Light a candle, move on. The time just wasn’t right for the two of you.

Was talking to the site owner who passed this one along. Pissed me off royally.

Seems he knows someone who owns a business. Business is down at the moment, but instead of saving money, what happens? The fool runs up a $7K charge card bill by taking his family out to eat at exclusive, expensive restaurants. His wife runs up close to a grand at a local gas station (for ONE MONTH ONLY) as well as a food bill for five people (not counting what was part of that 7K) for the house of close to $1500.

Now, they’re having to cut hours and personnel back at the company he owns.

Excuse the hell out of me, but since when did people not take a look at what was coming in as to what was going out? How does one person run up a grand a month in gasoline? It costs me about 150 a month, and I have to drive 55 miles a day to get to my job and back.

There comes a time when you need to use your head for something other than a hat rack. Of course, that’s asking too much when you’re cash rich and brains poor.

If you’re one of us who likes to fly, and appreciates WiFi, good news. Continental Airlines is providing frequent flyers with free WiFi.

The bad news is Logan International Airport in Boston is suing to stop them, as they claim it’s a “security issue.”

Bullshit. The real reason they’re suing is because they (Logan International) wants to charge, and Continental would be cutting into their “profits.”

Airport, airline argue over wireless

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) — Logan International Airport is trying to block Continental Airlines from providing free wireless Internet access to its frequent fliers - a service for which the airport charges $7.95 - calling it a threat to security.

The Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Logan, claims Continental’s Wireless Fidelity, or “Wi-Fi,” service has interfered with other wireless devices, but did not give specifics.

Continental rejects the claim and argues Massport cannot legally restrict its use of the technology. The Houston-based airline filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission.

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Oh! That baby’s name is on the “do not fly” list. They may be a terrorist and hiding a bomb in their diaper!

Sound stupid? Unfortunately, it’s true.

Babies caught up in ‘no-fly’ confusion

By LESLIE MILLER
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government’s “no-fly list.”

It sounds like a joke, but it’s not funny to parents who miss flights while scrambling to have babies’ passports and other documents faxed.
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