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cell phone stores are so lame

I’ll never go to a store to get a cell phone again. I ‘ll always buy online.   A tale of 2 shopping experiences. The lame experience:  Couple of years ago, it took about 2 hours at the AT&T store to get my new phone.  A lot of the time the sales guy was  fumbling around [...]

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No Cheap Canadian Meds for My Kitty

Something is dreadfully wrong when I can use the internet to easily order all sorts of prescription medications, including tightly controlled substances, as well as the human growth hormones and such stuff (if email and comment spam is to be believed). Yet I cannot easily order prescription medicine my cat takes daily. My vet writes the [...]

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Social Security Crowd Big on Protesting Government Spending

Look at those photos of tax day protests — those anti-Obama “tea party” events to protest taxes, government bailouts and big spending budget proposals. Did you ever notice how the faces in the crowds are mostly retirees who are the benefactors of the biggest government entitlements ever: Social Security and Medicare?   .

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Why Salmonella Recalled Products Still On Store Shelves?

Why is a local upscale grocery store still selling products that are on the FDA’s expanded list of recalled products for salmonella?  Even after I pointed out the problem?  Likely not grubbing for profits.  I’m guessing it is confusion over the list of recalled products. That list grew fast and kept changing as supply chains were [...]

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Girl Scout Cookies Continue Lame Tradition of Trans Fats

Girl Scout cookie season is upon us.  Last year I wrote that I was disgusted that the cookies still contained partially hydrogenated oils, yet the Girl Scout HQ folks proudly proclaim the cookies to be trans fat free because each unrealistic serving size is below the FDA lame definition that .5g per miniscule serving equals 0 grams transfat. [...]

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Your Package Has Experienced an Exception

Today, my email inbox taunts me with subjects like: There’s Still Time! Rush shipping extended on great gifts … Christmas Gift Baskets in Time For Christmas Last Chance for Christmas Delivery Get Delivery by Christmas … Last Day to Order Gifts in Time for Holiday Delivery  That last one is from the company that I placed a toy order with on [...]

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“Going To the Polls” a Quant, Old Fashioned Notion

Another election rant. The media talked and wrote about polling places, the impact of the weather on voting, and more. How quaint. How old fashioned. I live in a county that is all vote by mail. The vast majority of my state is that way. All of Oregon is vote by mail. Younger voters [...]

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Lame: The Endless Race Thing From the Media

I’m excited that Obama won and that the long campaign is over. Dear media, I really don’t want to hear how Obama is the first “African-American President” or listen to any talk of the significance of his race. Let’s just welcome him as our new president. Quit parading around the race card and get on [...]

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Many Millions of Dollars for 3 Weeks Work

Apparently, the CEO of WaMu, Alan Fishman,  was on a plane from NY to Seattle when the company was seized. He got on the plane a CEO and got off the plane unemployed.  But shed no tears, he gets to keep his multi-million $$$  bonus for joining WaMu 3 months weeks ago plus he gets a multi-million $$$ golden parachute. [...]

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Lame: SEC Is Set to Issue Temporary Ban Against Short Selling

According to the Wall St. Journal, the ban will be on ANY shorting of stocks, not naked shorting.  Crazy. Lame. Dog lame.   When financial companies were using shorts to drive high tech companies out of business, it was the “free market at work. ” Now that the financial companies are being hurt by shorts, it [...]

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