BLACKOPsMANNERs

Well the way CNN has been fueling the panic of the Swine Flu coverage I suppose I better help by preparing my readers for their own deaths. With all the coverage this “pandemic” is getting I’m sure we all have noticed the drop in population around our towns. I mean the death toll as to be in the millions by now right? I give it a week, and we will have an “I Am Legend” situation on our hands right (cool movie BTW)? Oh wait before I cause a panic let me do some research, and gather some facts. Ok in the us 36,000 people die from the flu every year.

“Every year in the United States, on average 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and; about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes”. I found that info on the CDC website.  So far there have been 331 cases WORLDWIDE of the swine flu.  That’s not deaths, that’s just cases.If you do the math thats 0.000005516666666666667%.

So if you are scrared of getting the swine flu shut off the TV, and wash your hands.

This next rant is the dumbest thing an adult can possibly do. Why in the hell would you not buckle up the children in your car? In the last 4 months I have seen babies being bounced on laps while the car is in motion! Toddlers standing up, and moving around while the car was in motion. The last one prompted me to rant on this site. It combined my 2 favorites - smoking in the car with kids and not having the kids restrained. I want to pull these people over and ask them why????  I am dying to know how you justify this? How dumb are these people??? Rachel MN

I was going to rant about the bad manners of Pirates, but I think the Navy Seals handled it much better. Thank you guys, and let me know if in this tight budget you need to be reimbursed for the 3 bullets. I will gladly donate to replace those 3. Thank you to these guys and all our men and women who are serving, or have served.

I was shopping at our grocery store today when someone knocked over a glass spaghetti jar, and it shattered all over the place. Did Mr. Manners let anyone know that he had done this, oh no that would have involved spending a few extra minutes telling an employee what he had done. This is the 2nd time in the last month that I have been to this grocery store, and someone has broken a glass jar and not told anyone about it. I know accidents happen, but let someone know so that the rest of the shoppers are not wheeling their cart through this, or some kid doesn’t slip, and get cut by the broken glass that you have so nicely left on the floor. Cathy, AZ.

I wanted to try and change up the site a bit, so I’m going to try this new theme. Let me know what you think.

If you want some of my money you can’t do drugs. Hmmmm let’s see a lot of use that work hard are subject to drug testing, and discipline if we are found to have drugs in our system. Can the government test you? I would say when you start living off other people’s money maybe you have to surrender some of your freedoms. Here’s the story.

Pee In A Cup.

Yesterday I was against more government, today I’m for it??? Oh what a fickle world.

Today on CNN’s website I say a poll that asked, “Do you agree that the CEO of GM stepping down will help the auto bailout (or something like that)?” Sounds like a good question right? I’m wondering how many people taking that poll have any clue what he has, or has not done for the company. I bet most don’t even know his name, I know I don’t. I’m thinking that pretty much any online polls is flawed, and should only be used for fun, but I’m sure that people base major decisions based upon these polls. What do you think?

Is this really the thing that government should be controlling.  Isn’t this the same government that just a few weeks ago was in a budget crisis, and they waste their time on.

California HDTV ban.

I want to try to push a new way to reconnect after a dropped phone call.  I have AT&T so I’m well versed in this subject.  When I drop a call I hate when you call the person back, and get their voicemail because they are trying to call you.  Here’s the plan…the person that made the call in the first place is responsible for re-contacting the other person.  After 1 minute the call receiver can attempt to call the initial caller maker.  Under NO circumstances is a voicemail to be left purely to say “hey we got disconnected”.   We know that we got disconnected, and don’t need to fight through our  voicemail menu to hear that message.  After  a few minutes a voicemail that says, “we got disconnected, but what I was going to say was I’ll meet you at (blank) at (blank time).  As long as there is some thing in the message that we needed to know in a timely manner.

Hmmm, how could television be a manners issues?  Let’s look at the digital TV conversion.  Since about 2004 they have been talking about the switch to digital TV, and the last year has been a bombardment of TV ads, and warnings that the switch is coming.  Even Bob Barker was on TV warning old people to buy a converter box.  The deadline was set, and for the last 2 years we were told every 15 minutes that February 17, 2009 the analog signal would be turned off.  This didn’t affect 90% of the population, because 90% of the population has cable or satellite, so that leaves 10% of the population.  I’m guessing that half of that 10% has chosen not to watch TV (god bless you), so that leaves 5% of the population.  Most people knew the switch was coming, and planned on buying a converter box right around Feb 17th.  The digital converter boxes run $49.99, but wait…the government will help you buy it.  The government will give you a $40 “coupon” to help cover the cost of WATCHING TV.  I’m not quite sure when watching TV became a “right”?  I guess we as taxpayers needed to help others pay for their television “right”.  Let’s go back to the cost of the switch the math is simple $49.99-$40.00(coupon)=$9.99.  Take that $9.99 and divide it by 2 (for the years we knew the switch was coming), and you get $4.995 which we will round up to $5 per year to pay for the switch.

5 FREAKIN’ DOLLARS stopped a major nationwide multi-billion dollar infrastructure improvement.  The old analog channel frequencies were going to improve cell phone service, and update extremely outdated public safety radio systems.  This is now on hold because a tiny portion of our society says they can’t afford to buy the box.  Do you know anyone that has such a tight budget that they can’t come up with $5 dollars a year?  If you can’t come up with $5 you SHOULDN’T have a TV in the first place.  I think that as a nation we can’t continue to grow and be prosperous if we stop major projects to let the bottom few percent of society control the pace of the country’s forward progress.

Did I mention that is was only $5 a year?  The people that delayed this plan have earned a Threat Level Orange: while you say you a protecting the unfortunate from undue financial hardship all you have done is protect people from something bad that  they could have prevented by saving $5 a year.  All you are doing is preventing people from dealing with the consequences of their actions (or inaction in this case).  It’s not like you are providing food to starving people, you are providing TV to people that probably should not be watching TV.