No I Am Chuck!

I am “pro-animal”. Even some of the lower forms, like the idiots downtown who yell across Richmond street about drug deals gone bad.

However, I am anti-gross, and Pedigree seems to be quite happy with themselves and the large number of nauseating adverts they are currently showing on TV right now.

Maybe it is just me, but I know that I never had that sound come out of any dog I have ever had (I have had Dino, Billy, Shasta and finally Dax).

I wonder how much McDonalds would profit from having a bunch of people eat like that on TV?

WTF is wrong with the government of the US of A?

National Guard has been called out to provide security for Tamiflu?

I mean, thankfully HOMELAND SECURITY is all over this pandemic.  If you are a virus, entering the US of A legally, please have your documentation ready.

I am sorry, but all of this grandstanding, gladhanding and backpatting is completely ridiculous.

First off, had they just called it H1N1 Influenza A in the first place, Bob Trailerdweller wouldn’t be calling the police asking if eating pork is risky.  But no, let’s sensationalize it.  109 cases at the time of this writing, btw.  Not deaths … CASES.  Wow, just 3 MILLION more, and 1% of the US of A will be affected.  How many people have AIDS in the US of A, now? 

Oh, brb, I just heard the doorbell.  Probably Swine Flu.

Ontario is about to impart a new law.

Well, not a “new” law, it is an ammendment.

Have a look at this if you are interested. The new penalties include the usual DUI charge, suspensions and possible jail etc if you blow over 0.08 (80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood), as well as the new suspensions for the “warning zone” of between 0.05 and 0.08.

There are a number of bleeding hearts (who obviously have not had someone killed in a drunk-driving accident where the impaired driver was physically unable to drive due to impairment, but not more than the legal 0.08 level) who believe that this new blow and go level of suspension is somehow “unconstitutional”. They are arguing that it ‘negates due process because the accused is not able to seek a trial and is guilty without representation’. What a joke. I have it on reasonably good authority that you don’t have to wait for your court date, or have to blow a 0.09 to have a firearm confiscated – especially if you just shot a carload of teenagers, or a mom and her three children under 11.

Zero tolerance for alcohol is the only real way to prevent alcohol-related vehicle collision fatalities. Would you want your heart surgeon to perform on you if he only blows a 0.07 ?

*EDIT*
I am going to start posting these – people can find them by searching Google, so people don’t fall for them.

(This entry formally known as Is That 6.5 M USD In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?)
*ASIENDA EDIT*

I have been getting a series of these e-mails.  The sad thing, as I have said before, is that many people – especially in desperate times – fall for these scams.

This is slightly different that most of the Nigerian scams:  It is a simple way to help criminals with Identity Theft.  You don’t have to send money, so it seems harmless.  Most of the time I reply with a GMail address I made up for SPAM’ers like this one (If you want to mess with these people, do not use your normal e-mail, as they have no idea what it is until you reply), and include a fictitious name with an actual phone number, FAX number and address (usually the RCMP – Canada’s Federal Police force) and thank them for contacting me.  I don’t know if the morons figure it out before calling, or actually try to register credit cards or lines of credit using a fake name with the local RCMP information, but I figure if they do, the investigation of it will be a little quicker.

Oh, the name I use – Jean Lauman (John Law Man).

 
FROM:  Steve Morgan [morganst0@mail2world.com]
SUBJECT: Good day to you!!!

Good day to you,

My name is Steven Morgan and I work with the finance house here in the Netherlands. I found your address through my countries international Web directory. During our last meeting and examination of the bank accounts here in the Netherlands, my department found a dormant account with an enormous sum of US$ 6,500,000.00 (Six million five hundred thousand US dollar) which was deposited by late Mr. Williams from England.

Before is death he transferred the sum of US$ 6,500,000.00 (Six million five hundred thousand US dollar) to a bank here in Netherlands. From our investigation he had no beneficiary or next of kin to claim these funds. Because of our financial house regulations only one foreigner can stand as next relatives or next of kin.

The request of a foreigner as a next of kin is base on the fact that the depositor was a foreigner and some body in the Netherlands can not stand as the next of kin.On behalf of my colleagues, I need your permission as the next relatives or next of kin of our deceased customer, so that the funds can be released and transferred to your account.

We need a foreign account, which could not be noticeable in the time of the transfer. I still work at the financial house and that’s the actual reason that I need a second party or person, to stand and work with me and apply to the bank here in the Netherlands as the next of kin. At the end of this transaction, I want you to put aside 60% for me and my colleagues and the rest 40% for yourself for standing as the next of kin and also providing a reliable account. I have in my possession all the necessary documents to have this transaction carried out successfully.

Further information will be provided upon the receipt of your prompt response and I shall give you a call for further clarification. We do not have too much time and I want you to know that there is no risk involved and I fear that without your assistance everything will be lost. Because of the privacy kindly reply to my private email address: {morganst022@yahoo.de} with the following data:

Complete name,
Address,
Telephone
Fax number.
Thanks.

Best regards,

Steve Morgan
email: morganst022@yahoo.de

Champix Quit Date: April 24, 2008.
Today’s Date: April 24, 2009.

So, that is one year, and in that time, since that quit date, I have not wanted a drag, a smoke, a pack … I don’t even want to be near smoke: My allergies from my childhood are full-on again, and now cigarette smoke (don’t ask) now makes me sick to my stomach and gives me a headache.

It IS possible. It isn’t necessarily easy, but it is possible.