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Well unlike video cameras where the government is watching, there is always someone in the sky that is watching…. God Is Watching ™

There is nothing that pisses me off more than when people in a multiple dwelling apartment with limited washing machines and dryers are inconsiderate of the other people living in the building. What do I mean? How about leaving your clothes in the washing machine or dryer for hours, or days. Then someone like me walks in there, tosses in a load thinking I have time to get this done before I have to run here or go there. I set my timer on my microwave and 25 minutes later stroll down to toss everything in the dryer. But wait, I can’t put my clothes in the dryer because some asshole left his load of boxers in there and they have probably been there, dry, for at least an hour. Or that girl down the hall who is always bringing home some new guy from the bar, like I really want to reach in and grab out her collection of thongs. Sick.

So the other day I was frantically trying to get everything done before I left town on business for a few days. I had tossed in a load of whites, mostly undershirts and socks, to have ready before I left. Well, I didn’t really need the clothes but I figured I had the time and wanted to get them out of the way so when I returned I didn’t have 3 loads to do.

So I set my timer, switched the loads, then reset the timer for 45 minutes, the length of the dryer cycle. Well amongst all of my frantic packing and tying of loose ends I somehow forgot to unload my whites. Three days later I was unpacking and went to toss some soiled whites into my basket and “oh shit, it is still down in the laundry room, with my clothes in the dryer”. Someone had taken my clothes from the dryer and put my them into my basket. At least they didn’t throw them all over the room or defecate on them. I know how much this irritates me, I can only hope the person who needed the dryer wasn’t as annoyed as I am. But hey, at least I didn’t leave my g-strings in there for someone to dig out.

How many of you have seen or currently have a plastic bag from the grocery store or local mass retailer lining a garbage can? Maybe you are too cool for such a thing, but grandma sure isn’t. You have to have seen this being done in some elderly persons house, you know what I am talking about. Even I have used them from time to time to line the ol’ bathroom garbage. I mean hey they are free, we all seem to have them and don’t have any real use for them, and oddly enough most people save them. Why is it that people save these things? We’ll save that topic for another day. So back to the problem at hand, advertising in the garbage.

You know I hate coming from the grocery store or discount retailer and having to advertise as I walk into my building. Why is it that I have to be a walking billboard for a store and truly get nothing out of it? Sure I supported my local chain of discount or mass retailers, but do I really need to advertise for them? Isn’t my decision to spend my hard earned dollar at their store enough? They employ entire teams of marketers and spend billions on advertising, how come I am not getting a cut. Every time you see that brand name on a billboard, television, or in print do you really think someone let them put their logo there for free? Hell no.

Trust me, there is a great value in printing logos on bags, especially at the mall but that is another story too. Why do you think they do it? Those teams of marketers know it makes a difference, otherwise they would use what I am almost 100% sure would be cheaper, the plain white bag. But why do we as consumers let these mega corporations use us this way? Why do we accept this over saturation of brand logos and colors and sounds? What is wrong with us?

So they spend the extra 2 cents a bag and laden it with corporate logos and colors. We walk home with them, we parade around not realizing we are walking advertisements, not thinking about what is happening around us. We unpack the bags and toss them under the sink or into the closet, not to be thought about again. Whew, no more brands to look at, no more exploitation of innocent consumers as billboards, the battle with brands is over…. or is it?

Next thing you know it you empty the bathroom garbage and need a replacement bag. You reach under the sink and pull out that bag from the grocery store. You drop it in the garbage without thinking and BAM, that extra 2 cents just became an even better investment. Now every time you stop to “do your business” and you look over at the garbage and see your local retailers brand or logo know that they too are doing business. They are subtly reminding you of their name, or that you need groceries and that you would like to shop at that store again.

I simply ask that you start to take notice of what is happening around you every day. What types of messages are you being barraged with? Who is saying what, and why? Pay attention to the size of the shopping cart, the temp of the store, and the brightness of the lights. They are all that way for a reason, usually to make you spend more. The simple logo on the plastic bag from the grocery store that you don’t ever think about has its place and reason. If it didn’t it wouldn’t be there, trust me.

If you take anything from this article let it be the idea that you should really pay attention to what is happening around you. Don’t let things “just happen”, otherwise you never know where “they” will lead us.

Ervin Dank
Cynical Bastard, Otherwise Nice Guy

I am so pissed off right now. I was on the freeway at lunch today and some prick cut me off, flipped me off, then jerked with me for the next 20 miles as I tried to pass him to return the favor. I was so angry I secretly followed him home and snapped this picture of his car for all to see. So instead of getting my errands done on my lunch break, I had to spend it stalking the jerkoff that almost caused me to crash. Not to mention I haven’t been able to eat anything either, which adds to my irritability.

So if you or anyone you know sees this car, please do me a favor and flip him off. Please do not try to race or cut this man off because he might not take it lightly. I do not want anyone hurt or killed over this so a simple “fuck you” from me to him is all I ask for.

Be Well,

Ervin Dank

Now why in the hell would a dog need a bathrobe? How many dogs really take a bath regularly enough to necessitate such a garment? The correct answer is that no animal needs or should wear such a thing.

I have started to wonder about the sanity of some of these “over-the-top” pet owners who treat their pets better than most people treat their children. Hell, there is a growing number of pets in the US alone that live better than 3/4 of the world. They have clothes, fancy bottled water, psychiatrists, doctors, jewelry, they get facials, and are pampered like no other. Personally this makes me sick. It is a fricking dog, it should not be wearing a ball gown or tutu or three piece suit. These are animals not people, so stop trying to treat them like people. I think in some cases this human behavior could be considered insanity. People thinking their pets are humans and treating them that way.

This next product demeans both the pet owner and the pet. If I were a dog I would be very pissed off if I had to shit in this goofy contraption. Then after I shit in a manner that is unnatural to me, my owner then forces me to carry around my feces in a big red pouch on my back. I’m sorry but I would rather maul my owner that be forced to parade around with a backpack full of shit.

I did a quick search for dog clothes and turned up this mink-coat for dogs. WTF is this for? Dogs have a natural coat call HAIR. I bet it is only a matter of time before crazy pet owners start giving their pets “coats” made from other pets. “My Bichon Frise is wearing a Great Dane/Bloodhound cross fur coat with 3 carat diamond earings”

The next question is, would people buy this stuff if corporations didn’t make it? Who really is to blame? Yep, it’s the insane 1st world pet owners yearning for love in their meaningless material based lives. I can’t wait until the aliens or robots take over and make humans dress is stupid little outfits and shit into bags attached to a leather strap. We will pay for this, I promise you that. What goes around comes around.

It’s really too bad this was before my time. I wish I would have been able to experience the true power of cartoons selling cigarettes to children. All I got was Joe Camel.

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his sleep. No matter: The land was his, and he was the land's, whether that was missing was the sound of the drums and bronze bells. No afternoon drowsed away. Voices murmured in the marshes outside the

No, this isn’t a pledge drive where Betty White and Fred Rogers chase after you in the PBS van to claim the money you pledged. This is far more serious. President Bush is proposing close to a 25% CUT in funding allocated to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which I believe to be a very bad thing. Just like community access or public access is a dieing venue for people to share their views on the TV, I fear the same might happen to PBS. We cannot let huge corporations with their agendas dominate what we see and hear. We need to start filling the airwaves with our agendas too, hell its out right.

If any of you have or have not heard of the news program Frontline, I strongly urge you to check it out. It is in my opinion one of the best investigative news shows on the television today. Frontline’s coverage of important news stories seems real compared to the fluff broadcast and cable news spit out “on the our, every hour”. Frontline’s true journalistic integrity is something that is fading in the politically charged, commercially sponsored news that too many people accept today.

Any what about Sesame Street and Mr Rogers Neighborhood. These are not trashy cartoons filled with 10 minutes of commercials for toys or candy. These are truly educational programs that air without continual bombardment of commercial messages trying to turn young children into mindless consumers of mouth rotting, mind numbing garbage.

I urge you all to take interest in public programming before it is completely gone and all our children have left to watch is McDonald’s Brand Chicken Nuggets teach the ABC’s. I am sure glad that the internet is ushering in a new era for video broadcast and is opening doors for small companies to bring truly beneficial programming to today’s youth. Now we can only hope that the cable companies (also the people that provide access to the internet) don’t close the door before we get our feet in and block “certain video programs” that might undercut their revenue streams from advertisers. What happens when small broadcasters try to use the cable companies pipes to distribute video over the web that takes viewers away from the cable company’s programming? I hope nothing, but realistically know that probably won’t be the case.

What happens when large powerful players on the internet (MySpace for example) start censoring traffic? The integrity of the internet crumbles. Here is a post from AskANinja.com about the topic. Ask A Ninja for those that don’t know is top ranked and highly acclaimed video podcast, one of the first big ones on the net.

Let me start off by saying we love all of our friends and fans that we’ve made through Myspace.

But sometimes Myspace the company does some gross stuff that violates the spirit it was created under and the values of the Internet itself.

Over the last few months there has been a lot of debate over Net Neutrality, which basically boils down to one company blocking access to to another companies servers in order to gain a business advantage. This debate has usually focused on the companies that charge for bandwidth like AT&T, but recently Myspace has pioneered a new form — blocking sites that users link to in their bulletins and profiles.

Right now if you link to anything at a site like “http://revver . com” (remove the spaces) Myspace will delete the link. Try it. That sucks right?

Revver is not the only site. There are dozens of smaller video and photo sharing sites that they are doing this to.

Why should you care?

Ask A Ninja was created because we were in control of where we posted the videos. That’s a big deal because if we’re forced to put them on MySpace video then FOX could take the episodes and make money off of them without paying Douglas or me anything. Which isn’t fair and takes away the incentive to create cool shows for you to watch.

Why is this against Net Neutrality? Because videos from Myspace Video and Youtube are not effected. It’s only these smaller, more innovative companies that haven’t been sold for billions of dollars.

Here’s what you can do:

Copy this bulletin. Repost it. Blog about it. Make Tom put up a little fix it bulletin saying he’s sorry.

Once you’ve reposted this, send a message to Tom (http://myspace.com/tomanderson) like this (or even better, write your own):

I’m sending this message to request that MySpace stop blocking videos from sites like Revver. Choosing the video-sharing service that is right for me is very important and is why you built Myspace. What I like most about MySpace is that I can generally do what I want here. I like that Myspace is a relatively open platform where I can communicate with my friends (and promote my stuff) in all sorts of ways. I feel good about sharing videos from Revver because I know they respect copyright and look out for independent artists. Please bring back Revver!

I just received this email in my mailbox a few minutes ago with the subject: “Jesus Wrote:”. Hey, if the good lord is tossing me stock picks they must be winners. WOW am I flattered. Its just too bad he doesn’t understand the English language. But hey, I’m not going to hold it against him.

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Market Cap: 55.00M
Delta dayly (open 0.370 on 01/25/2007 - close 0.600 on 01/25/2007)

Did you saw it grow on November ?
Time has come to another one.

What happens when you are a religious leader that predicts “mass killings” and “terrorist attacks”? You can cash in on the souls of millions. Well I don’t really know who is cashing in on what, but I don’t believe this guy. I’m not arguing whether or not God tells things to people, but Pat Robertson? From what I know of Pat Robertson I don’t think his God and my God are the same God. In any event, he is sure good at grabbing the media’s attention with his outlandish claims.

Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a “mass killing” late in 2007.

“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

“The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”

Robertson said God told him about the impending tragedy during a recent prayer retreat.

Jump to the CNN article

How many times have you been in your car or out and about and needed a number and just couldn’t get to a phone book? How many times have you dialed 411 on your cell phone only to pay several dollars for that phone number, then maybe a few more cents for the operator to connect you? Well now you don’t have to pay with money, you can pay with your time and your ability to listen to an advertisement. Hey, its not all bad, they will connect you to the advertiser for FREE!!!

Simply dial 1-800-FREE411 and get the listing you need for free. It’s just like 411, only better because it doesn’t cost anything. So who pays, you ask? Our advertisers do. And should you be interested in one of their great offers, we’ll connect you free of charge.

I’m not downing the service, I haven’t even tried it. I just hate advertisements. But, as traditional 411 costs increase to combat user loss due to free services like this, an ad might be worth it for the phone number to that awesome Italian place in Chicago. Have a smart phone, no worries either. Stop over to the website free411.com and find everything you need there. But then again, if you have a smart phone you probably won’t need to use directory assistance, you let google do the work…. at least I do.

In a somewhat related story, Verizon, one of America’s largest scam companies is going to be exploiting your already ballooning cellphone bill. They think that the $76.88 a month you are paying for your mobile isn’t enough revenue for them, they want more, more, more!!! Now imagine ads all over you phone when you go online, as if there isn’t enough advertising online now.

Beginning early next year, Verizon Wireless will allow placement of banner advertisements on news, weather, sports and other Internet sites that users visit and display on their mobile phones, company executives said.

Now this next part just pisses me off even more.

Verizon officials said their initial foray would be a cautious one — they will limit where ads can appear, and exclude certain kinds of video clips — and thus may invite greater demand to place ads then they can accommodate.

Cautious one, not to scare people I suppose. You are already holding millions of users by their short and curlies with your over-priced products (and this goes for ALL cellphone carriers), and now you want to increase your revenue even more and give us a crappier product. Here is my ideal solution: if you add ads, drop our rates 40%. Then you won’t have to be cautious.

It just goes to show you how people will continue to over-pay for something that isn’t worth the money they are spending. Its like cable TV. Why pay $100/month for COMMERCIALS? If I have to pay for a service, it should be ad free. If I get a service for free, I should understand that it is probably ad supported. I hope Google starts giving away the farm and makes everything free/ad supported and puts the hurt on current mobile carriers. $19.99/month for unlimited national calling and roaming. $34.99/month for unlimited calls and unlimited data (with data speeds 25x what they are now). Then I will be happy, at least with my phone bill.

The hottest pick this year!

It just doesn’t get any better than this. Booming sector, tightly held, with
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Physicians Adult Daycare, Inc.

Symbol: PHYA
Current Price: $1.90 (+18% Friday!)
Short-Term Projected Price: $4.25
Long-Term Target Price: $10.20

As the population ages, the economic value in the US market for adult
daycare is projected to grow nearly 600%. Globally the potential market
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PHYA is already hitting it big in the sector. With solid acquisitions,
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