The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

You know how I hate protestors - d*mn hippies!

Well, this is one issue I'm willing to risk my reputation on by taking myself to the streets and protesting AGAINST 'Earth Hour', and I implore all you sane and enlightened people out there to do the same.

On March 29th, 2008 at 8pm local time, 24 various cities around the world will be professing their naïveté by holding a "lights off" hour.

From News1130 in Vancouver: Canadian cities join initiative to turn off lights in gesture on global warming

Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver have joined two dozen cities around the world that plan to turn their lights off for one hour later this year in a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about global warming.

[...]

Under the plan, on March 29, lights in each city will be switched off for one hour at 8:00 p.m. local time.

Long ago.

Nonetheless, we must combat this globalized gullability, but how?

Here I am proposing a worldwide strategy to discredit the theories of man-made global warming, starting with the 'Anti-Earth Hour'. On that same day, March 29th, 2008 at 8pm, your local time, join the fight against the lights off hour by turning your lights ON.

In fact, turn everything on! Below, I will provide you with a list of all potential items and objects that you can turn ON as a way to counter the effects of Earth Hour.

Possible items you may want to switch ON:

-all household lights
-air conditioner
-heater
-automobiles (your ride)
-automobile headlights
-washer
-dryer
-dishwasher
-stove/oven
-put on oven's self-cleaning cycle
-microwave
-any/all kitchen appliances
-television
-dvd player
-game system
-stereo
-and any other electrical equipment you can think of

Fine print disclaimer: I am not liable for acts of stupidity. Don't be an idiot and burn down your house if you do this and have faulty wiring, or if you do something else senseless.

From now until March 29th, I will be reporting on and gathering support for the fight against Earth Hour. Comments, suggestions, and support welcomed.

Please sign in the comment section if you intend to join in. Plus, I've created an official Online Petition which could really use your signature.

Further, to get this thing going, I want to encourage you all to blog about this petition and forward the Online Petition around.

Earth Hour stupidity, and all it represents, must end.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (41)

I have been blogging since 2004 on and off at Bloggers, Wordpress, my previously esteemed blog, "Freedom Watch," and now of course here on The HILL Chronicles. I have watched-or in this case, read the need for our voices and opinions to be heard.

There is a consensus amongst bloggers that if I comment on your site you should comment at mine. Of course, this is a courtesy. But who decided that this was how a blogger or writer was deemed worthy of anyone's so precious opinion?

Perhaps I am not the average blogger. I don't blog to rant and just voice my opinion, which can become boring at times. I write for the love of writing and to bring you the news with my views skewed into it all.

I am allowed. I am also allowed to say I think it sucks when fellow bloggers tell you that if you want comments you must comment on other sites. Really? Michelle Malkin or even La Shawn Barber never comment at sites yet they receive plenty of comments. No one would dare say this to them or write them an email inferring such.

I know what you will say, but you are not a Michelle Malkin or a La Shawn Barber. Tu Che. But I do have a following, a readership, commenter's, and was deemed by Pajamas Media credible and professional. Therefore, I believe that gives me the experiential expertise to write about this very subject.

I get that some of you will call this post snobby, arrogant, and self-righteous. I'll take my chances because I really don't care - it is only the opinion of some, not all.

You either acquire a comment following or you don't. That is how it is in blogging. But what blogging is about is getting the news out there without the media bias. What blogging is about is writing what is important to us. It is about being responsible with what and how we write for our readership. It is about being responsible. It is not about if you receive comments to every damn article you write. If you do great! If you do not, so what! Who the hell cares but you, maybe. An even bigger maybe is that you are the problem.

If the only reason people comment here on this blog is so I will comment on theirs - think about how school yardish that is. How petty it sounds. But many believe that and do this. Most bloggers do not care what other bloggers write about - unless it can in some way enhance their blog and hike up their stats. That is the bottom line ad least amongst the political bloggers. The minute one of these bloggers perceives you are getting hits and maybe - just maybe - you might appear to be doing better than they are - they sabotage you either in word or deed. I know. I have been on the receiving end and it stops here - now.

I really do not have the time anymore to read others blogs everyday, though I really try to. I also read many books, magazine articles, newspaper articles, listen to a lot of cable news and online news, and then there is work and my family. So I cannot do it all.

To those of you that have sent me nasty emails whining about how you thought I was your friend and how could I possibly not be commenting at your blogs as often anymore - opps, I have no time for people like you - anymore.

To those sweet dear readers out there that have understood - I truly do appreciate it. But I do not believe my commenting on others sites or not should affect people commenting on my site. Should it, then it was never genuine. It was like that school yard nonsense--na, na, na, na, na. Is this really what it all comes down to? I have no time for it and this post is to inform those school kids to get off it. I do not need you and or your comments. Move on. This site is for mature adults. Period.

I am someone working hard to make a difference not play kid games. If some of you somehow mistook that - it is on you - you obviously have never really read my blog or you would know what this blog is about.

The way we are in our personal non-cyber life sometimes bleeds into who we are in the cyber world. That my friends is the real "social handicap."

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Posted by Layla Elizabeth at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

There has been a lot of news insanity of late. Hillary is ticked because the Pentagon did not stop, drop, and roll when she wanted classified information regarding an Iraq pullout. Then there are all the unending polls - Hillary tops Obama, and Edwards. Of course then you must know that Giuliani tops McCain, Thompson, and Romney. The lovely polls that are wrong half the time have the election won by Hillary beating out Giuliani in 2008.

Wouldn't it be nice if the media did not know something - just once? But the media knows it all and Fox News has become the biggest culprit all the while claiming exemption because they are "fair and balanced." So much for fair and balanced, I mean if you are fair and balanced that means - that says - you are capitulating with the enemies of western civilization.

There is no longer one media outlet that can be completely trusted and Fox News has blown the trust of many Americans. How many more blond haired - blue eyed bimbos report to us our news before we ask are they all cloned?

Via Media Bias Basics:

The Liberal Media Exposed (PDF Report): Formatted, easy-to-print pages detailing the key results of nearly two dozen surveys about media bias. The report also includes quotes from top journalists denying a liberal media bias, plus comments from journalists acknowledging the problem. Updated May 2007.

How the Media Vote. Surveys of journalists’ self-reported voting habits show them backing the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964, including landslide losers George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. In 2004, a poll conducted by the University of Connecticut found journalists backed John Kerry over George W. Bush by a greater than two-to-one margin. See Section.

Journalists’ Political Views. Compared to their audiences, journalists are far more likely to say they are Democrats or liberals, and they espouse liberal positions on a wide variety of issues. A 2004 poll by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press found five times more journalists described themselves as “liberal” as said they were “conservative.” See Section.

How the Public Views the Media. In increasing numbers, the viewing audiences recognize the media’s liberal tilt. Gallup polls have consistently found that three times as many see the media as “too liberal” as see a media that is “too conservative.” A 2005 survey conducted for the American Journalism Review found nearly two-thirds of the public disagreed with the statement, “The news media try to report the news without bias,” and 42 percent of adults disagreed strongly. See Section.

Admissions of Liberal Bias. A number of journalists have admitted that the majority of their brethren approach the news from a liberal angle. During the 2004 presidential campaign, for example, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas predicted that sympathetic media coverage would boost Kerry’s vote by “maybe 15 points,” which he later revised to five points. In 2005, ex-CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter confessed he stopped watching his old network: “The unremitting liberal orientation finally became too much for me.” See Section

Denials of Liberal Bias. Many journalists continue to deny the liberal bias that taints their profession. During the height of CBS’s forged memo scandal during the 2004 campaign, Dan Rather insisted that the problem wasn’t his bias, it was his anybody who criticized him. “People who are so passionately partisan politically or ideologically committed basically say, ‘Because he won’t report it our way, we’re going to hang something bad around his neck and choke him with it, check him out of existence if we can, if not make him feel great pain,’” Rather told USA Today in September 2004. “They know that I’m fiercely independent and that’s what drives them up a wall.” See Section.

Evidence of Bias in News Coverage. The Media Research Center continuously reports on instances of the liberal bias in the mainstream media. Daily CyberAlerts offer a regular roundup of the latest instances of biased reporting, while our NewsBusters blog allows Web users to post their own reactions. Media Reality Check fax reports showcase important stories that the news media have distorted or ignored, and several times each year the MRC publishes Special Reports offering in-depth documentation of the media’s bias on specific issues.

The insanity marches on.

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Posted by Layla Elizabeth at 07:42 PM | Permalink

I got a kick out of this site, so I thought maybe you would too.

How To Defeat an 8 Year Old In 4 Easy Steps

Perhaps someone should try something like that on this next kid.

NOT The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World Talks About O'Reilly

Parents brainwashing their kids politically instead of teaching them to make their own decisions in life, how cool (said while rolling my eyes).

Not to mention encouraging disrespectful and blasphemous language.

Ignorant Morons.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

(By the way, I realise that I'm not the first one to create this title, but it was original in my mind until I researched it, lol)

You know, it's so like the environmental/animal rights nuts out there to prefer killing humans to killing animals (I mean, we're all really just animals in the end anyhow).

And, yes, I do consider their wish to withhold medical progress/options from people similar to actually killing someone.

But, what I'm referring to is how the animal rights activists choose saving a d*mn lab rat over saving the lives of our relations.

They probably spew malarky like we should all die naturally, animals and humans alike. What they don't realise is that nature was created to use it to our benefit. If we can create medicine from it, then we are respecting it and using it for what it's intended for.

With that said, animals are a part of nature, so let's use them to grow and survive and all that jazz.

But, I suppose if we can't have it that way without an arguement from the nutjobs, then I say hunt those freaks, and not seals, or moose and squirrel, or whatever.

My only fear is that we would become contaminated by the meat of the animal rights freaks.

And, I can see it now....

We'd start off by hunting them, then we'd get into farming them.

Then, we'd get some meat-eating nutjobs who want either couscous fed, tofu fed, or free range animal right's 'tards.

It would all end up in the same fiasco. We'd have protesters against hunting the PETA nuts; we'd have others demanding that the free ranged animal right's meat be labelled; and we'd have others freaking out about the way the meat is processed.

Then, we'd get into the whole issue of steroids and genetically modified animal right's meat.

By the way, the animal right's meat acronym is ARM (which is probably the tastiest part of the animal), although I wouldn't know for sure, nor would I really care to know.

Okay, I may have scared a few people with this article, but I had fun writing it, lol.

PLEASE CONSIDER THIS SPACE AN OPEN THREAD.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

(Alternative title: Sam Blows A Gasket... and I don't mean in a good way)

What is with all the "what the f*ck" commercials out there?

You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones that you watch all the way through, and at the end of it all, your only response is "what the f*ck?"

Like, for instance, this new Skittles commercial, which undoubtedly begs that familiar question, WHAT THE F*CK?

Seriously, do you get it? Because I sure don't.

Gaw dang, some commercials suck sh*t!

Are they running out of ideas, or something?

I just don't get what's driving companies to create such wretched cr*p.

If they think this is going to sell their product to me, they are completely wrong. In fact, with many of the commercials that annoy the p*ss out of me, I purposely elect not to purchase their products as a result.

Or, how about that anti-Dave Reichert ad where the Democrats say something like don't vote for him, he supports the Bush agenda.

If I was able to vote in that election, I would see the commercial as a pro-Dave Reichert ad BECAUSE he supposedly supports the Bush agenda.

Bush is doing the correct thing for the most part, so... uh, ya, I'd vote for the guy.

Negative advertising. Is that how they think they're all going to sell their wares? And I say negative because it has a negative effect on me. I want to beat the poop out of the people who create those commercials, not buy from them or support them.

Anyhow, I'm not really going anywhere with this other than to say they suck. They suck-diddley-uck. They suck-diddley-iddley-oodley-iddley-uck.

Seriously.

F*ck.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

This article is not typical of Samantha Burns site which consists of mostly humourous material but hopefully should be worth the read.

Some people still don't get it. The Iraq war did not happen because Iraq was involved with 9/11. The war happen because 9/11 'woke many people's eyes', and they realised that they cannot let a threat build to the point of biting everyone in the arse. Bush said Saddam was a threat and did not say he was involved with 9/11.

Everyone believed Saddam had WMD. In fact, he did, around 500 found thus far; they were old stock, though, so I guess they "don't count". Saddam had invaded another country and executed hundreds of thousands of his own people. If he cares that little about his own people how do you think he feels about the US, which he swore as his enemy?

He tried to assassinate former president, George Bush Senior (isn’t that an act of war?), and he supplied money to Palestinian families of the terrorists who suicide bombed against Israel. This was to ensure that the families were rewarded once the bombings took place and they'd killed both children and adults in pizzerias and busses, often targeting children specifically to create the biggest "shock" effect.

Continue reading "Was the Iraq War a Mistake?" »

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Posted by MrBig at 12:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)

Yeesh, where do I begin?

Everytime I head to Home Depot around here, I get the royal screw job. After the first time, I thought maybe they were just low on staff. Perhaps they were just busy that day and couldn't have staff available to answer my questions.

So, I got what I needed, forgot about what I wanted, and wrote the experience off as one bad day.

I returned another time for something else, figuring forgive and forget.

No chance.

Same drab treatment, cr*ptacular service.

But, as time goes on, one tends to forget the horridness, so I returned for one last venture.

A friend of mine needed a lawnmower for her place. I also needed to get myself some minor goods, so we headed to Home Depot together.

Once in the store, we headed to the lawnmower section where we picked out something that didn't look cheap, but not too expensive, and it had to be electric. She had made her decision from looking at the floor models and looked around for a service person to get us one in a box.

Oh, just our luck, a service person was just walking by at the very moment we needed one.

Unusual, but desired.

But, as luck would have it, this person told us she'd get someone from that department, as she was too much of a dimbulb, apparently, to get a d*mn box herself.

So, we waited a little while and finally got some high school-looking kid to help us out.

Or, so we thought.

My friend tells him what she wants, and he says he'll go get a trolley to pack it on for us. He returns a while later, with the trolley and proceeds to put the floor model on the trolley.

My friend's like, no 'tard, I want a new one. Okay, she didn't call him a 'tard at that point, but I was sure thinking it.

So, the kid says he'll go track one in a box down for us. He reads the information for the model we want, and he leaves.

Luckily there was some patio furniture beside us, so we sit down there and wait.

He returns, looks at the information again, and he leaves.

We continue to sit and wait.

He returns and says he's not sure if they have one, but he'll check the computer. He takes down the information on a notepad, and he leaves. At this point, I'm like, why didn't he just write the information down in the first place.

We sit and wait.

He returns, looks at the information, and leaves.

What the...?

We sit and wait.

I tell my friend that we should just leave. She's says to give it a few more minutes.

We sit; we wait.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see the kid walking up an aisle. I figure, okay, he's finally going to get it out of storage. Then, a few minutes later, I see the same kid walking in another direction down the front end of the store.

Finally, I just say, enough, we've got to get out of here. I told my friend that this isn't worth her business or mine, and she agrees.

We are no longer sitting and waiting.

In the end, I vowed not to go back to that Home Depot Hell; plus, I created a more appropriate slogan for the company:

Home Depot - where everybody's a nobody.

Linked to Liberal Common Sense, Conservative Cat, The Dumb Ox, imaginekitty

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Posted by Samantha at 10:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (10)

I don't know how many news stories I read about some dumb thing the police have done.

Like this, for instance. A couple got arrested and thrown in jail for 8 hours merely because they were asking for directions on a city street.

Duh.

I mean, who knows the real truth of the matter, but by the sounds of it, the officers were really behaving like imbecilic dipwads. The couple, Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, got lost after leaving an Orioles game, but came across some cops hoping they could help the couple get out of the area.

"I said, 'Thank goodness, could you please get us to 95?" Kelly said.

"The first thing that she said to us was no -- you just ran that stop sign, pull over," Brook said. "It wasn't a big deal. We'll pay the stop sign violation, but can we have directions?"

"What she said was 'You found your own way in here, you can find your own way out.'"

Talk about serving the public.

Serving arrest warrants maybe, but certainly not doing their job. Geez, the more I read about incidents like this, the more I believe the police are the real criminals.

I typically have a lot of respect for those who do their job the right way, but over the years, I've noticed more and more dumba$$ moves by the police.

Are they just not training them right or something?

Hmmm... this is really starting to sound similar to my views on teachers these days. I don't know how many embarrassing moves by teachers I've read about either.

Anyhow, after leaving the officer, the couple pulled up a few feet ahead and got on their phone to the girl's father (who's also a police officer) to get directions from him, but the officer, Natalie Preston, pulled up behind them again, and proceeded to arrest them.

The couple ended up spending time in jail and were released without being charged anything.

I wonder what was up that cop's a$$ to behave so stupidly.

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Posted by Samantha at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Click on the sign to get a larger image of the ACLU's information board.

I was tagged a while ago to post a sign for the outside of the ACLU's offices, by A North American Patriot, who was tagged by Holly Aho - who was in turn, tagged by REAL Teen- Right on the Right who was tagged by Cao’s Blog who was tagged by Third World County who was tagged by Euphoric Reality.

I tag those who support or contribute to Stop the ACLU blog. Or, those who have a link to Stop the ACLU. Or, those who've seen a link to Stop the ACLU. Or, heck, why don't I just tag Stop the ACLU themselves.

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Posted by Samantha at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

(By the way, I realise that I'm not the first one to create this title, but it was original in my mind until I researched it, lol)

You know, it's so like the environmental/animal rights nuts out there to prefer killing humans to killing animals (I mean, we're all really just animals in the end anyhow).

And, yes, I do consider their wish to withhold medical progress/options from people similar to actually killing someone.

But, what I'm referring to is how the animal rights activists choose saving a d*mn lab rat over saving the lives of our relations.

They probably spew malarky like we should all die naturally, animals and humans alike. What they don't realise is that nature was created to use it to our benefit. If we can create medicine from it, then we are respecting it and using it for what it's intended for.

With that said, animals are a part of nature, so let's use them to grow and survive and all that jazz.

But, I suppose if we can't have it that way without an arguement from the nutjobs, then I say hunt those freaks, and not seals, or moose and squirrel, or whatever.

My only fear is that we would become contaminated by the meat of the animal rights freaks.

And, I can see it now....

We'd start off by hunting them, then we'd get into farming them.

Then, we'd get some meat-eating nutjobs who want either couscous fed, tofu fed, or free range animal right's 'tards.

It would all end up in the same fiasco. We'd have protesters against hunting the PETA nuts; we'd have others demanding that the free ranged animal right's meat be labelled; and we'd have others freaking out about the way the meat is processed.

Then, we'd get into the whole issue of steroids and genetically modified animal right's meat.

By the way, the animal right's meat acronym is ARM (which is probably the tastiest part of the animal), although I wouldn't know for sure, nor would I really care to know.

Okay, I may have scared a few people with this article, but I had fun writing it, lol.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Enough. I get it. There's a new movie coming to the theatre. I get it already. Can we move on?

Lol.

I wonder if they know that showing movie previews too frequently on tv can have an adverse reaction.

I'm getting so p*ssed off watching that d*mn same commercial for the movie, Ultraviolet, that I'm definately NOT going to see it.

Not in the theatre, not on dvd.

Not ever.

And, that's not the first over-shown movie they've done this with. I can't remember them all right now, but when I head to the video store, I remember immediately and purposely choose not to see them.

It really ticks me off.

Same with commercials for products.

Hey, Taco Bell, it's good to go... TO H*LL! So, shut up already.

Okay, I understand that the more they show something, the better chances they have of more people seeing it and suckering people with repetitive brainwashing, and all. But, there is obviously a disadvantage to it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who refuses to buy something on the grounds that the ads annoyed the h*ll out of them.

I really gotta stop having the tv on for background noise, and turn on the stereo instead.

I can't stand it anymore.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

If you've been to my site, which everyone who is reading this has (duh), you possibly have seen this...

The annoying Google Ads search engine.

Well, it annoys the snot out of me anyhow, and I'll tell you why.

First let me explain for those who aren't aware. The purpose of putting Google Ads on your site is to make a few pennies here and there if readers click on the links. The other goal is to increase your chances of higher placement in the google search engine. Perhaps there are more reasons, but those are the ones I know of.

The issue many people (including me) have with this whole thing is that they rarely show anything of interest or worthy of being clicked on. Like who the h*ll wants to SEARCH for ads? Not only that, but when you do type in a key word to search for, you get cr*p generally.

For example, I typed in "moron" into the ad search, and it came up with some Argentina study abroad hits. What are they saying about Argentina - full of morons or something, or do you have to be a moron to study in Argentina? It just doesn't make sense.

But, seeing as I'm still waiting on my blogads to pick up steam, I need to make a bit of money elsewhere for my blogging efforts, so I leave the google ads up.

And, come on. Don't I write about enough stuff with a fairly common theme that their ad search can't pick up on key terms?

Funny Blogs, Find Blogs, Free Blogs, Online Blogs

What's that cr*p all about?

Duh, I've got a blog. Come on, like you can't determine anything else from my site.

It used to show up with decent hits when I first started, but like a month later, it just shows that junk all the time. So, I thought I'd change placement to see if that makes a difference. No such luck; just cr*p all around.

And, I know I'm not the only victim of cr*ppy ads because I've seen this over and over again on other sites with google ads.

Lame-o!

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Posted by Samantha at 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Macstansbury.org encouraged me to check out this article that seems right up my alley.

I have to agree with Right Hand of God on the issue of health foods, starbucks, and PETA.

They all suck!

Although I'm not sure what Whole Foods (a natural and organic grocery store) is like inside, I do know that we have one here in Vancouver somewhere. I've obviously never been there, but I'm having a desire to visit the place just to harrass a few neo-hippy freaks.

I try to stay as far away from those rip off joints as I can because I really don't give a d*mn if my pasta is chicken friendly or my cows are corn fed, or whatever. And, I'm not about to pay high prices for that bologna. Just give me a big fat juicy lump of your best prime cut, chemically enhanced steer, and I'll be on my way.

And, if I can get it for cheap, even better.

I think that's all those places are about anyhow. Wannabes trying to prove themselves, thinking they're healthier than everyone else, and thinking they are gaining prestige in society by paying 3 times more than what one pays in a regular grocery store.

Dream on, hosers! Besides, most people couldn't care less how healthy and 'perfectly' brown your floaties are after you poop 'em out.

(sorry for the image, but it had to be said)

I've shamefully admitted it before that I have a neo-hippy friend or two, and these people DO in fact discuss their turds on a regular basis with me. Hence, one of the many reasons why I don't hang out with them too often.

They are also just SO pious buying their "natural" products, too, aren't they?

Give me a gawd-dang break already.

And, as the article implies, these are the same organic fools who pay an arm and a leg to drink their frickin' coffee at Starbucks (Upchucks, as I call it).

How can neo-hippies afford all these added expenses when many don't have decent jobs, if any job, AND they are on the road protesting everywhere they go?

Save the whales and the red woods.

I got your red wood right here, b****!

Mommy and Daddy must be pretty darn loaded to pay off their embarrassment of a child all the time. What is it? Like,

"Here you go, Johnny, take this $100 from mommy if you promise me you won't embarrass the family name for at least one week. Please!"

Ya, I know there are also some white collar folks out there who buy organic and drink Upchucks, but that's all just for show.

Apparently, it's still fashionable to waste money on junk.

That is so 80's, as they say.

Nope, it's regular coffee (and I don't care if it's fair trade/free trade/f*cktard coffee either), chemically altered food, and a whole lot of normal living for me.

And, heck, throw in a bottle of absinthe, some ammo, and some cigars while we're at it, and I'll go off with a bang.

Who wants to live to be 100 anyways? Similar to what Denis Leary says about smoking, the end years are the worst years of one's life, anyhow. They're the wheelchair, kidney dialysis, adult diaper years.

You can have 'em.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I did enjoy, and have pondered, questions as Spiderman's Web discusses about whether pedophiles and other sexual deviants are merely victims of their own mental illness. I mean, on the one hand, it is so easy to claim everything as an illness and to make people seek treatment for their "problems", but isn't that just an easy cop-out for dealing with why these things happen?

I know in my short lifetime, I've noticed that an awful lot more things are being treated with drugs that, perhaps, don't really require drugs??? Just thoughts to ponder as I don't have the answers for any of these, either.

Look at how many kids are being improperly labelled as ADD and ADHD, and they're drugged up, become drones, and end up not really having a mental problem. They just are young and have energy, and dang that ticks me off. Let them grow as they should. Besides, I wonder what the long term effects will be for people who have prolonged drug use like this. Further, what did parents do many years ago before these weird drugs came into existence? They treated their kids like normal human beings, that's what they did.

Anyhow, all I'm asking is how can we throw drugs at everyone who is different than the "norm" and walk away with a clean conscience? I don't condone poor or negative behaviour of others, but perhaps there's a better way than trying to solve all the world's problems by doping everyone up.

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Posted by Samantha at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)

I find it interesting that Dianes Stuff brings up the question:

"What are your feelings about mandatory driver’s testing for seniors? Should there be a law? How strict should the tests be?"

I don't know how many near misses I've been in because some f*cknut doesn't know how to bloody follow the rules anymore.

I don't know if a test would change that, but I think it's worth a try.

I mean, the driving around here is so bad that it sometimes makes me question my own driving, and I sometimes end up referring to the drivers manual just to make sure I'm not in the wrong.

AND I'M NOT!

They're wrong, all the time, they're wrong.

But, I suppose I can't ask for much from the transportation department since they allow people to slip through the driving cracks all the time, particularly for immigrants and especially here in the lower mainland of BC.

People who can barely see over their steering wheels, are holding everyone's life at risk by speeding, or sometimes crawling, in their death traps. And, I can't count how many times I've been cut off by some goober who doesn't check the lane s/he's merging over to.

Now, I'm not looking down upon immigrants - in case that's where you went - because I think they would be better off if the driving test were more challenging for them, too. I'm sure a lot of people new to the country would be less stressed at the end of the day knowing they have confidence in their own driving skills as a result of being properly challenged. I've seen it happen where a new driver to this country gets flipped the bird by someone because they didn't do the correct thing.

You can't tell me that makes a person feel good.

There are also different approaches taken in different towns. Smaller towns seem to have easier tests, so when those small town people drive in the big city, they mess things up royally. I know someone from a small town who took her driving test and didn't have to do half the things I had to do on my test, including parallel parking. She had no clue how to do that.

It really frustrates the heck out of everyone when they encounter a poor driver.

And, for the umpteenth time, the LEFT lane is the fast lane and the RIGHT lane is the slow lane, you ignorant knobs who aren't following the rules.

I'm flabberghasted by how many people have the right to drive when clearly they haven't a clue.

I'm really interested to hear what others think about yearly, every second year, or so mandatory tests for everyone. Aside from the obvious "who's going to pay for it" problem and "it sounds like a hassle" issue, is there any hazard you see in having such a thing?

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Posted by Samantha at 10:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (11)

Moonbats, as we know, state idiotic things like terrorists are freedom fighters. However, many moonbats oppose this use of politically correct terminology for the word "terrorist".

Further, it is important to differentiate the terrorists who attack countries in order to annihilate those who believe in freedom from the terrorists who attack laboratories to eradicate animal testing.

That is to say, we should probably create a term for al-Qaeda terrorists that is different from a term for an animal rights terrorist.

So, to that end, I was thinking it might be neat to help the moonbats out...

WAIT, WAIT, don't leave, hear me out...

I mean, terrorist have been given such a bad name that it might be good to alter their title to something more admirable.

Hmmm... let's see, we could call them loyalists, but that would be contradictory.

How about the morally impaired? or, the sanity disabled? or, those with Deferred intelligence? or, troubled murderers?

I think it would be best left for my readers, who always seem to have brilliant ideas. What pc term for "terrorist" do you have? It could be for either al-Qaeda killers or for animal rights extremists.

Of course, if you know me at all, you know this is solely tongue-in-cheek.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (11)

Click on the sign to get a larger image of the ACLU's information board.

I was tagged to post a sign for the outside of the ACLU's offices, by A North American Patriot, who was tagged by Holly Aho - who was in turn, tagged by REAL Teen- Right on the Right who was tagged by Cao’s Blog who was tagged by Third World County who was tagged by Euphoric Reality.

I tag those who support or contribute to Stop the ACLU blog. Or, those who have a link to Stop the ACLU. Or, those who've seen a link to Stop the ACLU. Or, heck, why don't I just tag Stop the ACLU themselves.

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Posted by Samantha at 01:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (10)

insert witty title here has a funny write up conversation at a Tim Hortons drive-thru, scroll down on the site to date posted October 14, 2005 (can't find permalink).

All I have to say is, they are lucky wherever they're from because we don't have a donut listing on our bill boards here. I always wonder how people order donuts at the drive-thru when they can't even see what is available to them or not. Further, the Tim Hortons here doesn't bake the same donuts every day. They put out a variety and they run out of donuts, so they are never consistant. It doesn't seem possible that they would even be able to have a listing of what donuts they have here.

Not that I go much to care, but I do wonder about it. The line ups must get rather long if the window person has to list all of the donuts they have to just about every customer. Geesh!

And, what the f*** is that about ordering a donut with half sprinkles??? We don't have that option here. You get what you get and you shut up about it.

But, I'm sure we all know the knob who wants to pay for the measly items with a credit card. So, why did you show up at a fast food place if you don't have the money on you in either cash or debit??? Is it their reason for living to drive everyone completely mad?

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Posted by Samantha at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I just had the worst experience at the store I'd like to refer to as Smellymart, but we all know it as Walmart.

Well, it started in my car driving there with some a$$hole crotch-rocket rider (motorcycle) doing about 100 km in a 60 km zone (not too big a deal as I do the same at times in my car - WHEN IT'S NOT RUSH HOUR!). But, all the cars were sitting at the red light waiting and this f*cknut starts weaving his way to the front of the line.

Hello... hello... you're not getting anywhere on a red light, dingle nuts!

Aside from that, it was an alright trip other than having to drive 30 minutes to get there since it's the closest one around. I decided to get the shopping cart that was not in its rightful place, but was parked between two vehicles, because I knew that once I got inside the department store, there wouldn't be a single shopping cart or basket around anywhere. Perhaps you need a ph.d. in cart-ography or something to locate the frickin' things because I can never find one when I need one.

How bloody difficult is it to hire staff to work for minimum wage and collect the shopping carts anyhow?

So, I have my cart and go to pick up a tv stand and... I actually find one. There is unbelievably one left for me, but, of course, the price is labelled wrong. That's right, the first time I've ever been to a Walmart where they had a price tag for the item I want, but IT'S PRICED WRONG!

I take it anyways hoping that it was a simple, but idiotic, mistake (I guess I can't expect much when their staff consists of high school kids or drop outs with hair uniquely displayed with every colour of the rainbow - puke green being my favourite).

So, now I have this big arse box lying sideways underneath my cart because, of course, it won't fit inside the cart because it's too big. I'm walking down the aisles looking for other things I need, trying to dodge people so that I don't hit them in the legs with this big arse box, and at the same time, knocking down bread and paper plates off the shelves because the big arse box is sticking too far out on that side too. Then of all things to happen, the big arse box falls off the cart and almost crunches the toes of another innocent shopper. No, I'm not embarrassed by this as it's not my fault; I'm p*ssed at Walmart for not having their sh*t together and employing more help.

ARRRGG!!!

No help at all - NONE!. If I had at any point found an employee of Walmart to help me out, I would have asked them immediately to take the big arse box off my hands while I shopped and I'd pick it up when I went to the checkout, but nooooo... no help at all - NONE!

Well, after not finding half the things I needed - not wanted - needed, and threatening the ankles and toes of many other shoppers with my big arse box, I decided it was high time I left the store. I was done. Caputnick. Finito. F*cked. I had enough of that pitiful adventure and headed to the checkout for a new adventure.

Ya, checkout, right. More like the limbo line - and I don't mean that fun dance. I mean, we were all waiting in the Walmart netherworld to purchase our newly found cr*p. TWO CASHIERS! TWO! Oh, about 50 people waiting to pay for their stuff, but TWO CASHIERS! Needless to say, my 15 minute stop at the store ended up being 1 hour. Ya, can you believe, I only had to wait 1 hour this time to get out of that "paradise" they call Walmart.

But, I can honestly say that I made it safely home alive.

I guess that's something.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Many people take the blogging environment a little to serious for their own good. They are the ones who call you on your "facts" as if you are supposed to maintain some sort of journalistic integrity.

Well, guess what, this blogger has none.

Like most bloggers, I am writing for the sake of getting out my ramblings, and hopefully getting a few laughs and making a few bucks in support of my entertainment. And, like most bloggers, I did not take any journalism courses, so I do not follow the standard practises of the field.

I have no desire to do so.

I don't, by any means, claim to have outstanding blog etiquette and have little interest in researching whether my words and interpretations of information are ipso facto. I do try to make sure my information isn't too far off its mark, but I can't guarantee precision.

Those who take this s**t too seriously, should lighten up a little, take a pill, chill, enjoy life a little more, and quit nitpicking minute details because it's not getting you anywhere in life.

You're just annoying.

But, if annoying is your intent, then irritate away. You'll just be looked upon by other bloggers as banal, irksome, and tedious, and they'll end up skipping your site as a result.

You do realise that your daft commentary does nothing more than give one heartburn, and an eventual ulcer, right? What are you trying to prove anyhow? Commonplace, that's what all them numbskulls are, commonplace.

I'm sure there are bloggers out there that enjoy getting comments and hatemail from annoying idiots, though. And, I admire those who relish the imbecilic ramblings because those bloggers have a noodle on their heads to dish out some deserving reprisals. Although I prefer, for the most part, to let idiocy slide, I appreciate reading from those bloggers out there who dish out the pain on unsuspecting halfwits.

Give it to them good for the sake of all us bloggers!

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Posted by Samantha at 12:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (19)

I think it's pretty bad when parents quickly switch channels on the tv or turn off the tv when they're watching a show and don't want their kids to see. Now, kids shouldn't see everything their parents watch, but I'm talking about shows like documentaries on cults, serial killers and rapists because typically these programmes don't have any violent scenes in them (at least, much milder scenes than what their cartoons and video games display).

Sheltering kids is sure to do more damage than if they were to watch it. Most documentaries are even rated PG and the parents flip out and change the channel.

When your kids join a cult later in life not knowing any better, history will be repeating itself; and you, as a parent, will be part of the problem. But, then again, I guess you're entitled to making baby Mansons and the women he manipulated.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Can anyone explain why tv commercials are allowed to be much louder than the show you're watching?

I had to lower the volume on my tv by 3 notches just to get it to the same volume as the show is, but then the show was too quiet when it came back on, so I had to turn it up, turn down the commercial, turn up the show....

I know there are rules to how loud things should go, but why do the commercials have to piss everyone off? I certainly am not interested in purchasing a product that blasts in my ears. I end up changing the channel because it's too darn loud and I can't be bothered by fiddling with the volume all the time. Then, I not only don't watch the commercial, but I forget which show I was watching, so I watch something new. The channel even loses my support when they allow this annoyance to go on.

Think about it, whoever you are, and keep the commercials at a decent, non-ear-piercing volume.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

A dedication to all spammers of the world can be found at Lingo Slinger. With a morsal of foul mouthed vexation, Lingo states, "Your mothers must be proud. Imagine the embarassment that you are causing for her and the rest of your family." Then, goes on to comment on what a conversation might look like for a spammer's mother when talking about them to friends.

So, does anyone out there know if they are developing any anti-spamming stuff for bloggers? For instance, anything that will control trackback spam, comment spam, and the like. I don't know if there is already something legitimate out there, but it would be great if there was some amount of control. Some days, this gets downright ridiculous dealing with all the junk porn sites and advertisements for products. I'd like to have some good filtration system.

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Posted by Samantha at 01:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

One thing that I absolutely just don't get is why places generally build parking lots out and not up.

I first wondered this in university where they used tons of land for parking then crammed all their students in little classrooms because they had no land to expand their building. D'uh, h'okay then. If they had spent a little more money to build parkades and raised parking fees slightly (which they do every year anyhow), I think they'd have been better off in the end.

Continue reading "Parking Pain In The Rear" »

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Posted by Samantha at 12:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I am so peeved right now about a housecleaning service I used from the neighbourhood. I just moved into a new place and got the WORST service for housecleaning possible. An important detail in hiring a new cleaning service is to stay in the house while they clean so that they are aware of your presence and can't slack off. As it was, I was packing and moving from the old place to this place and couldn't keep watch of the cleaning personnel, so I guess that was my major mistake.

I ended up with as much of a mess as I started with, only now it's more noticable because the areas that are clean make the dirty areas stand out even more. For example, the blinds were cleaned, but there are streaks left which are more pronounced than the original dust was, the bathroom cupboards have lots of hairs and dirt marks in them, and the windows have rain marks all over. What's worse is that the kitchen cupboards, where all the food I eat goes and the clean dishes go, are wiped but there are lumps of previous owner's food at the back of all the cupboards. Gross!

When I got back and saw the terrible job, I was mortified. Just to get the job done properly is a job in itself for me. Doing the work myself would have been less of a headache, if I had the time between caring for my website, packing, moving, cleaning the old place, and working. Instead of trusting that I'll get what I asked for in a cleaning service, I know now that I should have supervised this nimrod and to never hire her again because she was terrible. I'm not saying that all cleaning services are like that because I have hired more professional workers who have been spectacular, but this company was the worst. Professional, hah, dream on.

Note to cleaning services and employees: do a sparkling job regardless of whether you are being watched or not, you'll get hired back if you do well.

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Posted by Samantha at 12:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I am nearly at my wit's end with being put on hold by corporations of all types. I was relatively used to it until the other day when I phoned an order in for pizza - or at least tried to - and heard a voice recording stating that they had a high volume of calls and to please stay on the line or I'll lose my place.

So, being the tolerant, but starving, person that I was, I held... and held... and held. For 10 minutes, I gave them a chance only because I was ordering for others who were looking forward to that type of pizza. If it were just me, I'd have hung up and never called back again.

All I have to say is that the 310 ---- operator was lucky that I don't have narcolepsy because I would have been... zzzzzzz... snoring on the other end of the line.

Please hold... oh ya, please hold this [inappropriate gesture]!

Lost my business? You better believe they did.

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Posted by Samantha at 01:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)