The horror of holiday shopping has all ready started getting to me and I haven’t even set foot in a retail outlet. First, there is amazon dot com which seems to be taking forever - or timing out – or “this page cannot be found” and is really getting on my nerves. Is anyone else having this problem? Is it that more people are online shopping for the holiday’s and the amazon servers canno’t take much more of dis, Ca’pan? (Ok, so my brogue needs work – hush!)
So then I get to the Mart of Wal site, find the one item I need to purchase to make one little girl really really happy for about five minutes (a baby that wets itself – for the love of all that is holy – why?). I click the item to thrown it in my cart and head to the check out ASAP because this thing is selling out like cabbage patch dolls on crack. Note to self, if ever I bear children, I solemnly swear that the child will not watch one iota of commercial TV until they move the hell out. Normally I don’t buy into the “must have” mentality, and I am really not sure why I did this time. It’s now a learning experience. Anyway, I fill out all the necessary information like name, address, billing info and click the continue button at the bottom of the page, when all of a sudden, this secondary page open (in the same window, mind you) supposedly from my credit card company asking for personal information to ensure that it is really me using the card…
I said, “I don’t think so!” I told the hubster about it, he called the company and sure enough – they don’t do any such thing and knew nothing about it. So, Wal-Mart did get my money, but the scam thing after that got nothin’ from me. I will also be calling them when I get home…
Did anyone else see this bs? It seems that my un-esteemed senator wants to give money to the people of Puerto Rico. I’m sorry, beeeyotch – perhaps you don’t remember the Puerto Rican people telling the US they didn’t want to be the 51st state. So, since that is the case, I can’t see any logic whatsoever in giving freakin’ tax refunds to those who PAY NO TAXES!!!! You freakin’ moron dipshit assnugget. I didn’t vote for you, get the hell out of my state!!!!
Also, I am more than just a little tired of hearing all the whining coming from New Orleans. I am sorry your city got flooded and a lot of people lost their homes and every thing they owned is now refuse. Really, you do have my sympathy as well as some of my hard earned cash. And apparently you are getting a lot more of my hard earned cash in the up coming years. Now, let me answer one of the questions I keep hearing over and over and over again.
There are many reasons why we are spending more money in Iraq than on your sunken city. One of those reason is because we went in there and bombed the shit out of it. Now, no matter what your personal stance is on the war in Iraq (I support it, by the way) the fact of the matter is that we went in and pretty much tore the cancerous tumor of Saddam’s government out and ruined a lot of the buildings and infrastructor in the process. We need to fix that. Kind of like “you’ve broke it, you’ve bought it” or in this case, you fix it. Leave it a better place then how you have found it.
Now, in the case of New Orleans – the federal government didn’t bomb your levees, didn’t force you to live there, didn’t personally direct Hurricane Katrina into your fair city. The federal government didn’t leave 500 buses to rot in a parking lot while telling everyone to head to the Super Stinky dome. The tax payers gave money to your State and Local governments to fix the levees to keep them up to code – and your government didn’t do it.
Now, let me fill you in on a little secret about the average human being living in this nation of ours – many of us, when we lose our house to mother nature – we get no federal help whatsoever. If a blizzard blows through Rottenchester and my house falls down because of it, well, this is my problem… right? Right.
Back when we were going through the process of buying a house here, we had to provide the bank and the insurance company affidavits from land surveyors to prove that we didn’t live on a flood plain. In other words, we cannot buy a house on a flood plain. Just that simple. So, when you think about the fact that New Orleans is actually built in a bowl surrounded by water, ya gotta wonder – why would anyone allow anyone else to live there? That – and it’s a miracle it didn’t happen sooner, followed by “Why the freak should I pay you to re-build there?”
I’m sorry. Not feeling very “peace on earth, good will towards men” today.
A nice breath of sense, I call it. And this whole, "oo,ooo, bad FEMA is going to throw us out of the hotels - how can they DOOOO this?!" is the worst. Helloooo? Two months to find an apartment when every aid agency in the vicinity is falling over backwards to help you?
We're trying to buy a spot of land in Tennessee for retirement in 15 years or so, and the real estate agents tell us the housing market in the area between Memphis and Huntsville, AL is crippled - refugees (or whatever we're supposed to call them) are parked in every available-normally-for-rent-or-sale spot, with lots of cash but absolutely no interest in turning it into a housing investment, just buying "toys" (cars, etc.). Like you, I wonder why, after a certain point of human decency, this is MY problem. Cheerio!
Posted by: Sheryl at December 1, 2005 11:20 PMYour link to Hillary's gift is the same reason she is in favor of giving the vote to convicted felons and illegal aliens; most of them, percentage wise, would vote for a Democrate over a Republican. Politically she is smart, the problem is she would and has sold her soul to the Devil in order to obtain power and gain more of it.
Posted by: TF Stern at December 1, 2005 11:21 PMI haven't noticed any slowdown on Amazon, but then I wouldn't likely notice on dialup. It only seems to time out once every five to six thousand hits. The worst part of the holiday shopping season is the mob mentality. It's a-okay to want to buy something as a gift for someone, just have a reason for that want other than "everyone else wants one" or "the media told me to buy it."
Hillary sure is making the rounds lately. WTF?
Re: Iraq - New Orleans isn't exactly having suicide floodings nearly every day either, is it? Rebuilding a country that's still under attack and rebuilding a city that was (past tense) flooded will have two wildly different costs. And that's only taking into account physical infrastructures...
Posted by: Ystros at December 2, 2005 02:46 AM