Random Ideas, Comments & Thoughts, Sometimes Political, Sometimes Adult… Hope you don't choke.
I’ve tried 3 times to come up with something to put here…
It’s one of those days where nothing seems to want to work. Everything is muddled and incoherent.
So… I’m going to spare us all the embarrassment and just wish everyone a good day.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll have something worth saying.
As I’ve mentioned over the past 6 months or so, SPAM in my email had become a major problem.
At one point I was getting over 100 SPAM emails per hour. That was at the height of the SPAM blast and it was very annoying.
I’d given up. No filtering that I could apply stopped the onslaught. It had gotten to the point that I didn’t even open email because my email account had been reduced to complete uselessness.
I’d got to bed with zero SPAM email in my junkman folder and by morning there’d be 1000 and more coming in.
I finally started just emptying the junk folders blindly. I wouldn’t even look, I’d highlight everything and hit delete.
Now, over the last few days, the SPAM email count has dropped off precipitously. I have no idea why. As I said I’d given up trying to set up filters because nothing I could do would stop more than a handful of the ever changing addresses.
I still believe that I should be able to select specific countries to literally lock out. Pretty much every country has a specific set of IP addresses. Why shouldn’t I be able to say, “I don’t want ANY email or communications from country X, Y, or Z?” If I don’t know anyone there, am I going to be interested in email from strangers? Probably not!
The thing that annoyed more about all of this is the cost in battery, CPU time, and my time to deal with bullshit emails saying I’d won this or that, or I was eligible for a legal settlement or asking if I’d like to see some whore’s pussy or prolapsed anus.
Every one of these emails imposed a penalty on my computer, phone, and iPad performance and battery life. Not to mention sucking up cellular data if I happened to be carrying my phone outside my WiFi range. I think I should be compensated for those costs.
I’m not holding my breath, mind you, but this stuff has a real cost and consequence associated with it. Which is one reason that I think all SPAMMERS when caught should be castrated with a dull spoon.
Now suddenly, this major annoyance has pretty much dried to a trickle. In fact it’s back to the level of SPAM that I was getting before the FTC blasted my email address to fucking PayPal who then sold my information to SPAMMERS. All for a lousy $10 settlement against LifeLock.
I think the FTC and PayPal should cough up $10,000 for the inconvenience they caused me. Again, I’m not holding my breath.
It is nonetheless interesting that as quickly as this began, it’s over. I ask the question(s) Why? & How?
Did someone just realize that their servers were wide open and insecure? Or do the SPAM lists get old enough that they’re retired?
I know it sounds like I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I’m curious. Did the Russians or Ukrainians blow up a server farm???
Has China given up trying to extort me over my porn habits? They can threaten me all they want, If you get pictures of my naked ass, and like ‘em please send $2.00. Thank you!
Oh God!!!
Maybe the folks trying to extort me have decided I’m too old and not hot enough. That would totally suck!
I’m not sure how I’d feel discovering that I was too old and gross for SPAMMERs or Hackers to try to extort money from me by threatening to post captures of me jerkin it in front of my web cam…🤣
In any case, I’m glad to not be buried in SPAM anymore. I just hope this lasts.
Friday on her show Deadline, Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC said, “shit is about to hit the fan in this country,” she apparently believes this because former President Donald Trump was inciting his “cesspool” MAGA base.
People like Wallace and Joy Reid, and too many others to list say things like this and completely miss the irony of their statements.
When Wallace and these other talking heads effectively call the approximately 50% of the county a cesspool, you better believe folks are going to be offended. In that offense, and the divisiveness already existing in this country, if something were to happen. A mass shooting for example, or a building being burned down, then Wallace should be held to the same standards as Trump.
Trump supposedly gave a speech on Jan 6th that incited an insurrection. Wallace called half the country a cesspool because they happen to disagree with her position and that could incite violence too. So do we indict people like Wallace before or after something bad happens?
I don’t want Trump in office again, but I’ll be damned if I vote for Biden or Harris. If it comes to Trump versus a Democrat I’ll vote Trump!
That being said, I really detest these talking heads painting everyone who has had quite enough of Biden, Bidenomics, Harris, and the rest of what is clearly the worst administration in my lifetime including Nixon, Carter, Clinton, and Bush 1 & 2, and oh lets not forget the Obama years, as some kind of wrong headed piece of shit.
That is what she’s saying. She’s saying MAGA comes from a cesspool. It’s understood that the floaters on the surface of a cesspool are shit.
Isn’t her statement what the Democrat party likes to call a dog whistle? Is she trying to incite violence against anyone who is pissed off at Biden and his administration and what he’s done to our country in such a short time? Is she trying to silence dissent by demonizing and devaluing people who may be in favor of making America Great, regardless of their party affiliation.
On the same show, Adam Schiff made the comment, “the Biden Inquiry is an evidence-free impeachment proceeding.” After my brain rebooted I thought, “Well asshole, you’d know all about evidence free impeachments!“
Still waiting to hear or see that incontrovertible damning evidence of Trump’s Russian collusion! I’m not holding my breath, you lying sack of shit.
LOL! Folks are calling fror a boycott of Dove products because Dove has partnered with some morbidly obese woman who falsely claimed a fellow student at UVA said BLM should be run over. (That’s not the exact phrase but I’m using literary license otherwise this paragraph would be more tortured than it is.)
This is the face of Dove marketing to fat people.
Her name is Zyahna Bryant.
“This woman put another UVA student through hell, and it was all a woke lie. Shame on Dove for hiring her. Worse than Dylan Mulvaney,” From a Twitter user…
“Dove Soap hired morbidly obese BLM hoaxer Zyahna Bryant for an ad campaign based around “fat liberation.” While a student at UV-Charlottesville, Bryant viciously ruined another student’s life by falsely claiming she joked about driving into BLM rioters.“ From another Twitter user.
The thing is, boycotting the Dove brand would actually be the second brand owned by Unilever that is being boycotted. Ben & Jerry’s is already in trouble with some folks.
I went to the Unilever site to see if there were any brands that I used. See, If I’m going to boycott someone… I’m gonna BOYCOTT them.
I don’t use Axe, Dove, or Ben & Jerry’s, but I need to watch what mayonnaise I buy or use.
It’s like Boycotting Bud Light… No, no, no, child…. You boycott all Anheuser-Busch products because otherwise they aren’t going to feel it.
Unfortunately, many brands are owned by relatively few multinational corporations. At some point you’re going to have to buy something from one of these corporations. I’ll tell you that their entire site has that “woke” feeling. If you’re serious about your boycotts turn the package around and look for this logo.
I’m not sure that I agree with boycotts in general, but I have to admit that the Anheuser-Busch boycott has really made a dent in their profitability.
Perhaps a similar boycott against the parent companies of woke brands is the only way to fight back.
For shits & giggles, I found that one of my cookbooks has a recipe for mayonnaise. Looks pretty darn simple… If it comes to it, I can always make my own! For the moment, there a couple other choices.
Thinking about Zyahna Bryant and her affiliation with BLM, It dawned on me that BLM & ANTIFA have gotten very quiet recently.
Isn’t that interesting?
Zyahna Bryant reminds me of very obese people within my own family they all used Dove soap. The all smelled bad because fat, and humidity in the Deep South lends itself to some nasty biological processes happening on sweaty skin surfaces. Yeasty Dove Soap smell is seared into my olfactory memory.
Seeing Zyahna Bryant, activates my scent memory and I gag. With her as the Dove spokesperson Unilever will never have to worry about me using their product.
Reportedly on Friday or Saturday she was concerned for her safety. Really? She’s too damn fat to be kidnapped. All she needs to do is sit her ass down and Hercules couldn’t move her. If she was worried about being shot, that’s not likely to happen from a legitimate media outlet asking for an interview.
For that matter, even the criminals running around with guns aren’t likely to be carrying an elephant gun so she’s safe.
Yeah, I’m being mean, but you know what? I’m sick to death of perpetual victims!
Yesterday while I was on hold with Apple, I was scanning news articles and one from Bloomberg caught my attention. The headline was a jaw dropper.
Is it me, or are the titles of officials sounding more and more like the stupid titles of drooling inbred Barons and Dukes who were 6th cousins to the king from old Europe?
Here is the persons’ title, “White House Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security” what the fuck? The translation of this title is, another cocksucking bobblehead yes person.
I’m gonna call him “Bobblehead” Amos Hochstein.
This person actually said publicly, “one reason why oil prices have surged and gas prices is that Bidenomics works.” Then started blaming OPEC for decreasing supply.
WHAT?
OPEC wouldn’t have the ability to fuck with global oil prices if Biden hadn’t within days of his inauguration screwed domestic oil production and caused oil prices to jump, not due to constraint… but due to Biden’s actions destabilizing oil futures.
As I theorized before, Bidenomics may indeed be working exactly as designed. Bidenomics isn’t to help the country, it’s to help the filthy rich and punish any and all Americans who might not be marching in communist lockstep with the Democrat party. A.K.A. all those who disagree with the direction the country is moving in, and are therefore domestic terrorists.
I’m predicting it here and now. It is going to be a very cold expensive winter for the average American Family. Because Biden’s energy policies will continue to drive up fuel prices. Don’t forget it’s not just gasoline.
Diesel fuel is what runs the container ships, the 18 wheel trucks, the farm equipment, the construction equipment, and petroleum byproducts go into almost everything else throughout our product and supply chain. So when fuel gets or remains expensive… the average American Family takes it in the ass.
An Interesting side note, Biden and his bobblehead staff all say repeatedly that The President is very concerned that the American Family doesn’t have undue hardship.
When you run that statement through the Democrat/Biden translation matrix… You get “The President want to make sure the American Family is hungry and cold.”
After all if you keep people cold enough, hungry enough, poor, and hopeless, long enough, then offer them free shit and relief if they vote for you, or if they’re asked to offer up their first born to be slaves, most of ‘em will say “yes”.
There’s a story about Vlad Țepeș of Romania inviting the poor, homeless, and destitute, of the town to his castle for dinner. He asked them what they wanted of him, they replied, “give us money, give us food, end our suffering.” At which point he ordered the palace guard to slaughter everyone in the dining hall.
He ended their suffering right then and there.
I don’t know if that is a story that actually happened or if it was a teaching tale.
I do know, that every time I see people with their hands out to receive “Free” stuff. I always think of Vlad Țepeș and his “Solution”.
“Free” in politics is just a word that obfuscates the actual price. If more people knew that, politicians would have a lot less power.
Vlad Țepeș actually Vlad III, had quite a life. Wars, imprisonment, loss of a throne and regaining it.
Stories about his “Unheard of cruelty” were circulating in his lifetime. Note we’re talking in the fourteen hundreds. By todays standards just living in that time would have been considered cruel and unusual punishment. This guy was considered unusually cruel then.
… Turkish messengers came to [Vlad] to pay respects, but refused to take off their turbans, according to their ancient custom, whereupon he strengthened their custom by nailing their turbans to their heads with three spikes, so that they could not take them off.
— Antonio Bonfini: Historia Pannonica
The pope was informed of Vlad’s methods. A Poem about him was performed at the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor during the winter of 1463.
While the story of him slaughtering all the poor from the town near his castle might be apocryphal, given the other stories about Vlad III I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually did it.
Interestingly, stories about Vlad III were some of the first best sellers to be printed with moveable type.
Bram Stoker did a great job of romanticizing Vlad III. As the source of all the vampire myths, in my Goth phase I was curious about Vlad III so I found out a about the real person.
I think he was an Arch Villain. This is certainly true through the lens of todays standards. It’s probably true through even the lens of the fourteen hundreds. But there was a lot of political intrigue and a lot more involved in keeping his kingdom together. Perhaps his cruelty was justified, perhaps not.
For some reason, Vlad III always pops into my mind whenever I hear Biden or his bobbleheads speaking. I think Biden and his administration are cruel and they call it “kindness”. They call failure, “success”. They call crime and criminal behavior, “Righteousness”.
By the way….
I did not preorder the new iPhone after all.
Apple wouldn’t allow me to preorder it and use their interest free financing without me declaring which cellphone carrier I was going to use. In other words they wanted me to buy a carrier locked phone and I won’t do that.
They didn’t make me declare my carrier when I purchased my iPad with cellular capability. Nor did they ask for me to declare a carrier when I purchased my Apple Watch. Yet I was allowed to put those items on their interest free financing.
For some reason, they wouldn’t allow me to do the same with a new iPhone.
I’d actually filled out the Pre Preorder forms that was supposed to make the preorder easy this morning. I stopped when I realized that for me to have the phone I’d have to put it on my card at whatever the interest rate is. Since the Apple Card is among the highest interest rate cards I have, that was a big RED NO GO!
Who am I kidding? All credit cards have nightmare interest rates these days!
The Apple Card is convenient, but it’s not something you carry a balance on unless it’s interest free. To be honest, I’m questioning keeping the Apple Card moving into the future. I don’t like the way they handle some things. The question is, does my dislike outweigh the convenience? It’s about neck & neck right now.
I’ll wait on the new iPhone. Maybe, I’ll wait until the next iPhone, or the next… I can wait, the battery on my phone isn’t that weak yet.
Sure there are things I’d like to have, but do I need them?
Maybe not…