Crabby Blogging Lady

Short answer: Leave flattering but spammy comments on various blogs about what a great blogger I am and what a great (fill in the blank) you are.

That’ll do it.

Is it just me, or is the content of spam changing these days?

I hate spam. Ah, don’t we all. I’m one of those unique individuals who has no use for V*****a, Ci***s, Pri****s, ****** ****, and ******** with *******. None at all. I don’t need a new toupee, don’t need a colon cleanse, and I don’t want to watch any videos of… you or anyone else.

Anyone who has an email address or a blog knows that absolute CRAP that comes from spammers. It’s staggering– not necessarily the AMOUNT of spam I get (that’s a given), but the utter filth and disgusting topics. There has got to be an explanation for it. I mean, do spammers REALLY think everyone will come flocking to their website to see/buy their product/service, after SPAMMING us so disgustingly and incessantly?! Please tell me how this new marketing scheme is successful?!

So we bloggers have learned to shut off spam. I scroll through the Akismet pages as quickly as I can, reluctantly but speedily skimming the comments in case a *real* comment is caught in the loop. But one made me stop in my tracks. HAHA! Is this a joke?!

Hi – I don’t comment on many web sites but had to on yours. It well done much! I really like how your writeing– very to point, unlike the of other blogs. Keep up the great works! Come see my good stuff, too. It is all about what you are talking about and you will like it.

It seems spammers are changing their tactics. Their spam is no longer filled with 20,000 links to ***** sites with gruesome descriptions. Now, they seem to be cozying up to us, flattering us, complimenting us on our style or even our blog theme. And then they have the gall to leave their link to their site, saying how wonderful they are, how much I’ll love their latest new blog blurb! Are they THAT dumb? Do they think WE are that dumb? That we’ll all come running to visit their websites, infect our machines with viruses, and ruin our lives?!

I AM NOT FOOLED, you SPAMMING SCUM!!! Die die die!!!

This has got to end somehow. I am SO TIRED of the spam. *sigh*

Here’s another one for the idiot box, people:

80,000 Mailers Sent Out With Recipients’ Social Security Numbers In Plain View
Universal American Action Network Says Printing Error To Blame

You knuckleheads at UAAN can blame your printers for the “error” all you want, but it wasn’t the printer that programmed the numbers to appear on the postcard!

Right on the front of the piece of mail, in plain view, is the recipient’s Social Security number. Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients may be at risk.

…Universal American told News 8 that the Social Security numbers were on the postcards because of a printing error. And Universal claims it immediately terminated its contract with the printing service.

“There’s no reason for it to be out for the public to see,” Delores said.

The big question is — how did this company get the Social Security numbers? Well, in many cases, Medicare account numbers are your Social Security number. Universal American said it will send a letter to those who received the postcards notifying them of this problem and offer to provide free credit monitoring for a year. In the meantime, anyone with any questions can contact Universal American at 1 (877) 697-6228.

The problem with these kinds of “errors” is that banks and companies take these things SO lightly. SO lightly. I’ve ranted before about the ridiculously low security measures at banking websites and their weak passwords encryptions; and here’s a story about a bank employee sending SSN and bank account information to the wrong email address here. RIDICULOUS!! Plus, there are all the numerous stories about banks and federal bureaus storing OUR information on THEIR laptops, and taking the laptops to coffee shops and zoos, where they are stolen.

DUHHHHHHHHH!!!

They treat our information– life changing information– so very, very lightly. When is it going to stop?! Plus, they should even be USING our SSNs for such things. You can’t even get motorhome insurance or check out a library book or get a grocery store shopping card without divulging your SSN!! It’s just criminal, how many dunderheads and dunderheaded companies have our sensitive information and account numbers. And we are supposed to just *trust* that they will take care of us?! My eye!

P.S. And all this is not even mentioning that the Social Security Numbers were never supposed to be counted as identification numbers! It’s so enraging.

And this just makes it better.

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I think I hate CFL bulbs, even more than those lousy incandescent bulbs. For one, those new-fangled CFLs don’t fit in some of my light fixtures! And the light fixtures are new, purchased only a few years ago. Two, you can’t use the CFLs with touch-lamps or touch lights. I did it, and it totally blew out my $50 lamp! Gah! Third, the government and environmental wackos love CFLS and have pressured governments to force us to have them, so I hate them.

I never loved incandescent bulbs– they’re fragile. Whenever I purchased a dozen or so at the store, I can always count on one or two of them not working! It’s such a crock! Either they are already blown, or some overzealous stock boy, rocking to Metallica at 3am while shelving the inventory, rattles the boxes and breaks the filaments in the bulbs.

Plus, incandescent bulbs don’t last very long. My house has high ceilings, where we have to climb on ladders to change the light bulbs. It’s NO FUN hauling the 10-foot ladder out of the garage into the various rooms, just to screw in another light bulb (and then find out it doesn’t work).

Not that CFLs last long, either. Sure, they last longer than the 10-day life expectancy of the incandescent, but for CFLs being 10 times more expensive than incandescent, and being marketed as “lasting 5 to 7 years!” I think they are a CROCK!! I installed several about 8 months ago.. and they are all blown out already!

And worse of all, the CFLs are being forced into our lives! Governments with their fad “du jour” legislation are banning the incandescent and forcing us to buy CFLs!

Hello?! CFLs are full of toxic chemicals, like mercury! What are we going to do with all of that stuff, huh? Didn’t anyone ever stop to think about that? So if you break one in your home, or fill up your neighborhood landfill (or if you are like New York City, go fill up Upstate NY’s and New Jersey’s landfills to poison the people there) with these CFLs, you are introducing tons of highly toxic chemicals into the environment. Can someone please tell me how CFLs are supposed to “save” our planet?! And how are they going to monitor our bulb usage, huh? Have a Big Brother Ministry of Light Bulbs walking around towns with handheld gps scanners, looking for LIGHT BULB CRIMINALS?

Know what I think will happen? Those knuckleheads in government, who have banned the incandescent, will eventually “discover” that our landfills are suddenly filled with toxic chemicals from the CFL bulb. They will tax us to the gills for the cleanup, and then turn around and ban CFLs, too! And then you know what we’ll be left with! CANDLES! Yes, candles and other open flame lighting!! But even New York State has one up on that already! Because those idiots just created a law banning open flame fires, like campfires! These idiots! They are going to legislate us back to the Stone Age! GAH!