Come on and Get Your Overdose

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816899995&sid=1&pageNo=1

After enabling RealID, I clicked Report Spam on a whispered gold selling offer. I believe this was the point at which my email address was transmitted, I could be wrong. But I've never opened an email address from someone I don't know, and I've never responded to a direct message from someone I don't know except to right click their name and Report Spam, which is what you are SUPPOSED to do.

If I can't disable RealID in its entirety, I am cancelling my subscription until Blizzard gets rid of the program.

If you play, I suggest you do the same.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_en_tv/us_immigration_take_our_jobs

From www.takeourjobs.org:
"TAKE OUR JOBS

There are two issues facing our nation--high unemployment and undocumented people in the workforce--that many Americans believe are related.

Missing from the debate on both issues is an honest recognition that the food we all eat - at home, in restaurants and workplace cafeterias (including those in the Capitol) - comes to us from the labor of undocumented farm workers.

Agriculture in the United States is dependent on an immigrant workforce. Three-quarters of all crop workers working in American agriculture were born outside the United States. According to government statistics, since the late 1990s, at least 50% of the crop workers have not been authorized to work legally in the United States.

We are a nation in denial about our food supply. As a result the UFW has initiated the "Take Our Jobs" campaign.

Farm workers are ready to train citizens and legal residents who wish to replace them in the field, we will use our knowledge and staff to help connect the unemployed with farm employers. Just fill out the form to the right and continue on to the request for job application.

** Job may include using hand tools such as knives, hoes, shovels, etc. Duties may include tilling the soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, picking, cutting, sorting & packing of harvested produce. May set up & operate irrigation equip. Work is performed outside in all weather conditions (Summertime 90+ degree weather) & is physically demanding requiring workers to bend, stoop, lift & carry up to 50 lbs on a regular basis."



Yeah, right. When my brother can't hire* his own unemployed friends to do a relatively easy job, you think unemployed Americans are going to take a farm laborer's job? But that's not the ideal job using the skills they trained for! And therefore unacceptable!

Illegal immigrants don't steal American jobs. They do jobs Americans won't.

I have a degree I can't cash in on. You know how I got the full time job I have? I temped. I voluntarily left unemployment before the perfect gig came along. Because it's NEVER coming. I hear about people waiting for the right job to come along and it makes me mad. Work through a temp agency. Substitute teach. Take the work that is offered. If it'll cover your bills, it's good enough. You don't have to commit to it--keep looking once you've been hired. But get off your ass and stop complaining about dem immergrints takin' yer jerb when you won't work!


* And yes, my brother ONLY hires documented workers. And pays a fair wage.

"...you wouldn't want to eat the oysters that are busily filtering and reclaiming the water in polluted harbors, which is why, apparently, the "New Jersey Department of Completely Bonkers" has banned their cultivation, preferring toxic water and no bivalves to clean water and toxic bivalves..."--Cory Doctorow

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/13/new-jersey-kills-suc.html

Whose braid-dead idea was this? I LIKE clean water!

In 5-10 years, we can expect the Presa Canario to be ranked with the bully breeds and the Rottweiler as "dangerous" because it is "gaining in popularity in protection sports." Here's an idea: don't train a damn herding dog to be an attack dog! What a cow can handle physically, a human can't.

I hate people sometimes, I really do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perro_de_Presa_Canario

I thought of this because of an episode of "It's Me or the Dog" in which a pair of idiots didn't control their dogs as per usual, but it was resulting in them fighting, in the house, around their two small daughters. One was a Presa.

So if you hear of someone training a Presa to be an attack or guard dog...that person is a moron. I have seen them do Schutzhund work, and the trainers even say that once they learn those behaviors, they are no longer safe in civillian households.

Meanwhile, when properly handled from a young age, a Presa can live perfectly happily as a pet in a home with children and small animals, like any other cattle dog.

HATE. PEOPLE.

Signal Boost: BP doesn't want the media talking about the leak. So let's keep talking about it, shall we?

The cleanup crews are getting sick, and aren't allowed to speak for themselves.

http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2010/05/26/oil-spill-clean-up-workers-report-feeling-drugged-disoriented/

http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/02/26/jenny-mccarthy-says-her-son-evan-never-had-autism/

HER KID DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AUTISM.

People like this make it hard to remember that not all conservatives are bad people:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/gop-rep-trent-franks-call_n_302713.html

So, I lost my job. They canceled my assignment mere minutes after they approved my leaving work to go pick up my car. The temp agency said they cited "attendance issues" but really? I don't believe it. How can it be an attendance problem when my 3 freaking days off work this whole summer were approved and I never received a warning? Then I hear that there are new temps today. Temps, which it takes a few days to process. Which means they knew about these temps before they let me go.

Attendance issues. Yeah, right.

So far I've applied for two clerical jobs at a medical center. I'm getting sick of temping and how easily you get screwed over. Especially now that I know what I want to be doing in two years. I need money, not just to live on, but for start-up capital. And I'd prefer to not need to rely more on loans than on the cash I have.

I'm so mad about this last job. It's sneaky and underhanded and I feel quite screwed over.

So what would YOU put on a T shirt?

http://www.cafepress.com/squiggly

I've been borrowing Jay's car for the past couple of days while he carpools with a coworker who lives in our complex. I had to get my brakes done: front & rear brakes & rotors, and rear calipers. And yet, it's the cheapest brake job I've ever had done. I question the honesty of north Jersey mechanics.

So, I've been reading www.crazyauntpurl.com lately, and beyond making me want to learn to knit, it's made me want to figure out how I became such an angry person. I carry it around with me and it gets in the way sometimes. And of course it's not just one event, it's lots of them, and bad timing, and people hurting my feelings and breaking my trust. But one thing among them is standing out at the moment, so I thought I might get it out.

( Marc H. )

BUT! I'm taking Heather to the Faire tomorrow! So you know that means pictures. AND I caught up on paying down my student loan this morning.



This song always makes me nostalgic for the nomad days:

We spotted the ocean at the head of the trail
Where are we going, so far away
And somebody told me that this is the place
Where everything's better, everything's safe
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone
And half and hour later we packed up our things
We said we'd send letters and all those little things
And they knew we were lying but they smiled just the same
It seemed they'd already forgotten we'd came

Now we're back at the homestead
Where the air makes you choke
And people don't know you
And trust is a joke
We don't even have pictures
Just memories to hold
That grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old

"Walk On the Ocean"--Toad the Wet Sprocket

Bought pants today. In Tripp for Hot Topic, a 13 is too small. But in Tripp for Torrid, a 12 is loose and roomy.

I hate fashion.