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Catching Yourself on Fire Because You’re a Flag-Burning Asshat?
PRICELESS
Six years ago today, I was living in a wannabe-First-World country that finally made me realize, “Hey, this place is more f&*$ed up than a Football bat!” After a couple of lengthy discussions, a bit of screaming, sporadic violence and some careful planning, I decided to come back to the United States after a three year absence.
To everyone who says, “Oh, the [insert some random country's pathetic, government-provided excuse for a public solution] system is so much better in [insert some random country] than here in the US!” I would only say one thing:
Move there and find out what it’s really like compared to here, instead of believing some fairy-tale novella written by some asshat academic who’s never stepped foot in the country he adores above his own.
When it comes right down to it, the hard truth is that we get to enjoy the fruits of our labors, enjoying the best of most everything, whereas other countries export it for the good of their GDP.
Never forget what happened six years ago today.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
I got this comment, and thought, “Hey, why not make this asshat famous? He’s almost as cool as Joseph Ferrante!”
mullah cimoc | shirin_hassan77@yahoo.com | IP: 67.166.109.28
mullah cimoc say paris hilton the good and the courage. him not run away, but go to jail. this calld the charcter.
she the beautifuyl and the natural and having so many baby in future to be good wife and mother.
but lesbian ameriki and lesbian ameriki mans hating her for natural the beauty and normal liking the boy.
ameriki so wicked and hate the woman unless she killing the baby and liking the lesbian.
in waziristan this not happen. father him not allow anyone hurting him daughter. taking the “special measure”. but ameriki so tame now. no respect for self.
in waziristan whole clan attacking this wicked judge and destroy, and also destry him entire family, to include even the second cousin. and burn with fire. and all grave of ancestor destroy and give bone for dog.
hypocrite liar ameriki say him “free” the womans but in true..ameriki woman the whore with LBT (low back tattoo) and hate husband. only free to having the abortion kill bnaby , to being slut and bad wife not cooking.
so soon all ameriki need make freedom and destroy controlling of usa by masters in tel aviv through spy in white house and pentagon.for him true and good info: stop1984now@yahoo.com
If you look around the ‘net, you’ll find all sorts of garbage like that from Mullah Comic … errr, Mullah Cimoc, rather.
Dude, yer not funny. Really. Stop it.
Besides, I still know several women with LBT’s who are pretty good cooks, although, I don’t know of any like that from where you are in Utah (which is a long way from Waziristan, Pakistan, last I checked). Regardless, when they’re not cooking, at least their husbands have something to aim at…
Last week, I inherited a website maintenance customer from a partner company. After getting everything working on Wednesday afternoon, I sat back and waiting until the next time they’d call.
On Thursday, I was forwarded an e-mail saying there was an additional issue with their site. I looked at the file dates, and of course, one of the files in their e-Commerce software had been modified at 9:03AM on 19-Apr-2007. I rebuilt the file, inserted the requisite variables, and called the customer.
“No, I haven’t been in it,” he said. “I just got this stuff yesterday.”
Clearly, someone had. The site worked perfectly fine when I left it on Wednesday. Regardless, I took his explanation, and asked that he setup an account with us.
“No, all this stuff should be part of the Setup,” he monotoned. “My wife does all of the billing, anyway.” Eventually, he promised to have her called me on Friday, 20-Apr-2007.
Friday came and went without a phone call.
Monday came, and there were new issues. At 3:30PM, interns at the company called me to tell me that they were unable to login to the website’s backend yet again.
Investigation showed that files had been changed at 2:30PM, an hour before they called. I told them I would call them back, made the required changes, and got it all up and running again.
The first intern I talked to didn’t know anything about setting up an account with us, but would pass me onto the person who did that.
Of course, the second intern didn’t know anything about setting up an account with us, but would pass me onto the owner. “Oh, she’s not in, but I’ll have her call you back tomorrow!”
Today … I never received a call from them. I called the company again, attempted to speak to the owner, and was told, “Oh, I’m sorry she didn’t call you back. But she doesn’t know you, and isn’t comfortable setting up an account when she doesn’t know what it’s for.”
“It’s for fixing your website,” I explained. “I’ve been trying to get hold of her since last week.”
“No, really? You didn’t talk to anyone here,” she said in a sarcastic tone.
“No, I spoke with your sysadmin, her husband, last Thursday,” I explained. “We need to get this situation resolved. I need to speak with her, and get this straightened out.”
“Well, what is it that you do?” she asked.
“Well, you call us for help, we fix it. Like when you called me yesterday,” I explained.
“Well, she doesn’t know you, and, uhh, we might not use you anyway.”
“That’s a bit rough,” I said firmly. “You’re leaving me in a position where my only recourse is to revert the fixes I’ve made and leave you with it. I don’t want to have to do that…”
“Well, okay, I’ll call her right now,” she agreed.
An hour later, I get a call from my partner company.
“Mark, she’s going off that you’re making terrorist threats against her website!”
“Man, I’m still trying to get hold of her. Her intern said she wouldn’t call me because they don’t know me.”
“That’s ridiculous … I sent them the e-mail last week!” he exclaimed.
“Yeah, and it’s their sysadmin’s position that if they break anything on the site right now, that they’ve already paid for it with setup,” I explained. “But he’s going to have his wife call me, only, she won’t talk to me, because she doesn’t know me.”
“Well, she said she’s not going to do business with any company that starts making terroristic threats against her website.”
“Maybe you should give her the number for Homeland Security,” I told him.
We had a bit of a laugh at the nonsense of the situation.
Nobody can fault me on my Customer Service skills. For that matter, no one can say I’ve ever been unfair when issues like these have arisen.
This is simply a client who’s attempting to get out of paying their bill. A previous maintenance company allowed them to pay with barter dollars, so I’m guessing they’re a bit miffed at having to come up with cash or a credit card to for the service.
Some customers nobody needs.
But in the meantime — I’m a website terrorist! *thumbs up*
Should I start wearing a turban?
Maybe it is an aspect of the litigious society, or maybe it is a notion that all problems are solvable. Maybe it is pansy ass hand holding and a Baby Boomer golden tit ideal of protecting children from any sort of negative anything. Whatever the motivations, let us please stop with Blaming and Fixing.
The news is geared toward trying to pin blame on all sorts of people. Not the perpetrator usually, but their parents, police, school officials, you name it. And then all sorts of Baby Boomers begin trying to prevent the incident from ever happening again. As though they could. They spend millions putting fences around Interstate overpasses so they can imagine no one can throw a rock off it any longer. They put a rent-a-cop with a gun in every school. They make us all take off our shoes and toss our banana creme pies in the trash at the airports. Worthless. The only value is for some smug Baby Boomer to feel like they “did something” and “if it saves one life, it’s worth it.” Bullshit. I’d rather let that one person die than make 350 million people take off their shoes. And I’d rather spend that $100,000 a year on education than a hall monitor with a gun. It is not worth it. Sure, if it is your kid harmed it is worth it, but it isn’t your kid. It isn’t anyone’s kid. It never happens. But that cop makes them imagine they have stopped it. They feel like they are doing something.
If only we just spent the money on Baby Boomers’ therapy bills instead. Stop with the over-protective crap! You are raising a nation of cry-babies and Momma’s-boys! Now repeat after me:
“Shit happens.”
Try fixing it with toilet paper instead of a butt plug. And keep your damn butt plug away from my asshole Senator! And stop eating different foods. It still stinks. Deal. Idiot.
From The Week:
A convicted terrorist and murderer who was released from prison last month is suing a German tabloid—for calling her a terrorist and a murderer. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, served 24 years in prison for nine murders she helped carry out in the 1970s as a key member of the Red Army Faction, a leftist terrorist group.
This poor chick. She spends 24 years in the German poke. I mean, she only took out nine folks when she was part of the Red Army Faction, right? As if it isn’t sad enough when one ends up spending all of one’s prime years in prison. But to get out, and to be ready to try to move on to a new life, say one where she can peddle Mary Kay products, only to find that the media is making fun of you for being such a sucky terrorist.
I mean, her ego must be completely shot. So, she decides to sue the rag that’s “defaming” her reputation as a kick ass terrorist, not a sorry excuse for one.
Sorry sister. You’re an idiot. Put your big girl panties on and handle it!
When 9/11 happened, I immediately began to think of other ways they might attack us. Using a transcoastal flight full of fuel was certainly ingenious. I looked around and the answer was near immediate:
Gas tanker trucks. 9,000 gallons of fuel.
If you went to a major hub like the one south of Knoxville, and put a time delay charge on tankers set for maybe 18 hours later, those trucks would be all over the nation when they went off. Coordinate a few of these and you can imagine if all across America, giant fireballs erupted on city streets and interstate highways. Shutting down the airports for a day was a disaster, imagine what shutting down interstate traffic, or at least fuel delivery would do.
We have spent incalculable amounts of time and money trying to prevent another person from getting on a plane with a shoe bomb, yet, giant gas bombs criss-cross our country continually, without any safeguards other than truckers themselves.
Think about that next time you are on the road next to a tanker truck. Then imagine what the wake of such an attack would mean.
I wish I got paid well to protect America from terrorists…
And in other news, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to the Great Flood, killing OJ’s wife, planting the fake Dinosaur evidence to screw with the Kristians and he’s pretty sure he is the daddy of Danielynn.
Oh, and that whole Global Warming thing?
His bad.
It’s amazing the lengths some Journalists will go to discredit anyone and everyone who doesn’t agree with their idea that Iraq is a quagmire and we should cut and run immediately.
Whoever didn’t read William Arkin’s Tuesday column in the Washington Post definitely should; what he delivered was nothing short of slander against every man and woman in uniform.
I’ve been mulling over an NBC Nightly News report from Iraq last Friday in which a number of soldiers expressed frustration with opposition to war in the United States.
I’m sure the soldiers were expressing a majority opinion common amongst the ranks - that’s why it is news - and I’m also sure no one in the military leadership or the administration put the soldiers up to expressing their views, nor steered NBC reporter Richard Engel to the story.
If he’s “sure,” then why the Hell did he even say it? Ahhh … because he wanted to remind everyone that his sense of sarcasm runs as deep as the spoiled, affluent high school girl who declares, “Oh, trailer park girl, my daddy’s going to buy me a BMW today. I’m sure you’ll be driving yours and parking right beside me in the parking lot!”
I’m all for everyone expressing their opinion, even those who wear the uniform of the United States Army. But I also hope that military commanders took the soldiers aside after the story and explained to them why it wasn’t for them to disapprove of the American people.
If that’s not a “Free Speech should only apply to us Journalists, not you morons!” then I must have missed something.
So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?
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…the recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.The notion of dirty work is that, like laundry, it is something that has to be done but no one else wants to do it. But Iraq is not dirty work: it is not some necessary endeavor; the people just don’t believe that anymore.
I’ll accept that the soldiers, in order to soldier on, have to believe that they are manning the parapet, and that’s where their frustrations come in. I’ll accept as well that they are young and naïve and are frustrated with their own lack of progress and the never changing situation in Iraq. Cut off from society and constantly told that everyone supports them, no wonder the debate back home confuses them.
America needs to ponder what it is we really owe those in uniform.
*gasp!*
What Mr. Arkin should remember is that those soldiers whom he despises so — who he thinks shouldn’t be able to speak their minds without disciplinary action — have earned their Citizenship and their right to an opinion. They have taken their Oaths of Service, protecting the United States and the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic. They have spilled their own blood and the blood of our enemies, all in order that people of Arkin’s ilk are ensured Free Speech and Representation.
It took him until yesterday to apologize — but only for calling them mercenaries.
Mercenary, of course, is an insult and pejorative, and it does not accurately describe the condition of the American soldier today. I sincerely apologize to anyone in the military who took my words literally.
Of course, the entire rest of the column is filled with same anti-War, anti-Bush, we’re-getting-nowhere-in-Iraq rhetoric, so does it really matter?
I can’t help but wonder … When was the last time Arkin looked at the Flag, remembered what it meant, and said the Pledge of Allegiance?
…the Dell rep shows up and goes to work, and all goes well. … As he’s walking out the door, he says “by the way, it looks like the hard drive they (Dell) sent you wasn’t a new one …”
Dell actually gave me a hard-drive straight from the Department of Defense.
Un-freaking-believable. This means that, at some point, one of three things occurred:
A little over a week ago, a law enforcement official called me to hack into a seized notebook. In under thirty seconds, I found the Administrator account (they had changed it — just like the DoD does), erased its password and reset the account protection on the file system. I then logged into Safe Mode as the Administrator, deleted the passwords on the client accounts, handed it back to said law enforcement official and said, “Have fun with that.” I got my $125, and went my merry way.
Sure, not everyone can do it that quickly, but I know there are plenty of people out there who are perfectly capable of doing what I did. Distributing Department of Defense hard drives to people with that kind of know-how could certainly be a serious risk to National Security.
In my book, at least three people need to be held accountable for that kind of screw up.
