Crabby Blogging Lady

What do you do if you you’re a Japanese automaker, and have been threatened by American competition for decades?

Why, just wait for the U.S. government to buy out the American automakers! Competition gone!

I think I love this town board. The town of Kiryas Joel, in New York State. They are getting a ton of flack for a town welcome sign, but I think they are wonderful!

Basically, the folks in the town ask people to dress modestly and maintain gender separation in public areas. What a concept— love your neighbor!! But the poor townsfolk are under fire because some people “feel” that their right to dress like sluts and acts like monkeys in heat is being taken away.

Here’s the CBS video about it, for what it’s worth.

I love the idea! I find it unconscionable that it’s the decent people who are getting the flack. Don’t we have obscenity laws on the books somewhere? Where is the “right” to dress half-nude and act obscenely? It used to be that doing so was a crime in this country. So you don’t like the “atmosphere” in Kiryas Joel? Well, go somewhere else for your motorhome repairs, that’s not too hard.

And if you read the news story, the complainers say that the men don’t mind the slutty attire at all, it’s only the (“jealous”) women making problems. Well, IF that is even TRUE, it may be because if the men approached the tightly-dressed complainers, they’d get slapped with a lawsuit for “sexual harassment.” Just because the men aren’t screaming at you doesn’t mean that they like to see your butt line through your skin-tight short-shorts.

The world is upside down. When did this happen? How can it be that folks who care about decency and morals and guidelines and society are now the bad guys? Why is nudity or nudity wanna-bee suddenly the new “freedom”?

I read my local news to read about another tragic teenaged-driving death. This stuff is so horribly, horribly heart-breaking. An 18-year old drunk teenager, skipping school to drink, was roaring down the road in a SUV with another teen passenger (who was not drunk). A middle-aged woman in a minivan spotted the erratic driving of the oncoming SUV, and pulled over to let it pass. The teen driver nonetheless slammed into the parked minivan. Her teen passenger was instantly killed. The woman in the minivan was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.

This is just horribly unconscionable. I think everyone is too stunned and too sad to be angry. But they have a right to be angry. The teen driver is in jail, with a pretty high bail. She is charged with charged with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. Those are some pretty serious charges for an 18 year-old. It’s just a heartache all around. WHY oh WHY do teens drink and think it is so cool? And then, they drive??? Lawdy… just so heart-breaking. Mesothelioma and other diseases are bad enough… do people have to go around killing each other, too???

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Maybe word will get out about this very serious problem of carousing teens and careless driving. Then again, people have been idiots for thousands and thousands of years, it isn’t likely that they will stop anytime soon.

I got this from the PatriotPost humor email… OOOOOO this is SO BAAAAAD. But it’s SOOOO GOOOOOOD.

I recently submitted a building permit application for a new house.

It was going to be 100 ft. tall and 400 ft. wide with 9 gun turrets at various heights and windows all over the place and a loud outside entertainment sound system. It would have had parking for 200 cars and I was going to paint it snot green with pink trim.

The City Council told me to forget about it.

So, I sent the application in again, but this time I called it a Mosque.

Work starts on Monday.

Snob alert! Snob alert!

So what IS it about Apple computer products that make them so exceedingly superior to Microsoft products, eh? I NEVER dreamed I would in any way, shape, or form defend Microsoft… but after trying out a few Apple products (and spending TONS of money doing so, when I could otherwise have paid off my mortgage or bought a few decades of college tuition), I walk away *not impressed* with Apple. This is not to say that Microsoft is imminently superior, it’s just that… well, they both suck. lol.

I’ve been researching the iPad. I already own an iPod Touch and a Mac Mini (not to mention a few half dozen aluminum keyboards and other assorted Apple accessories). I’ve looked into buying a MacBook or a computer or an iPad… but was stricken with a severe case of sticker shock. Holy cow, WHO would PAY SO MUCH MONEY for those things and more?! And for what?! Just for the snob factor?

I like my iPod a lot, but it’s nothing more than a cute, tiny entertainment device that twitters, plays my music, and–when it works– checks my email. Big whoop. The Mac Mini is sluggish and clunky. I dislike the dock with all the goofy buttons. I’m an adult, I don’t want a flapping purple duck for my instant messenger and a smiling box with a juvenile name (“finder”?!) for my desktop search. Moreover, I can’t do ANYTHING on a Mac. Want to create graphics? Gotta pay for that! Want to watch Netflix or online movies? Nope! Mac doesn’t have the hardware! Oh, you want a Mac that has Intel graphics so you can watch videos? Gotta pay for that! :-p Totally sux.

This is not to say that Apple makes inferior products. They certainly do not. I’ve enjoyed my iPod and have been delighted with the technology. I also admire the gazillions of money Steve Jobs is making, something akin to George Lucas, on all the “Apple related” ad hoc toys and toodles that are born out of marketing schemes. For each and every Apple product function, there is an independent accessory. Apple Macbook briefcases in a zillion sizes and styles… docks and stations and keyboards and etc etc… Some of the accessories are VERY cool. Others are… extraneous at best.

So I’m not saying Apple is inferior. I am saying, however, that the Apple stuff is certainly overrated. And DEFINITELY overpriced. Is it humane to pay as much for a powerhouse Mac computer when you can feed entire villages in Africa for a year for the same price? And then the technology is outdated within a year or two? Is this insane? At least with PCs, they are cheap! You can throw those a couple of those in the landfill every year or so and still have enough money leftover to make your mortgage every month, sheesh!

Is the entire Apple hype all just part and parcel of The Snob Factor? We women know how men are– they must always have a “good guy” and a “bad guy”; they must always have a war or some kind of competition going on, ykwim? In this world, can’t we just have PC users and Mac users who all get along and play the midi version of Kumbaya in harmony? Must there be this “my computer is better than your computer” attitude? And must there be this “my computer is 20x more expensive than yours and therefore must be better so let’s build an entire rabid cult around the product line” attitude?

I don’t think it’s worth it.

Not for me. For YOU. Well, for those of you who haven’t been working 18 hours a day, gutting you old house and building it back from scratch, learning how to do it in your “spare” time at night, oh and also working a job as well as cooking and cleaning and doing laundry (without a laundry room, and with only intermittent plumbing & electricity) for six people, maintaining a vegetable garden, and overseeing home school for a few weeks during the summer… for YOU it’s been a boring summer, hasn’t it? And to think that I was actually entertaining thoughts of online college or medical assistant school, to boot! Ha ha!

I don’t have much leisure time, in case you haven’t guessed. But today, I’m kicking off for a whopping TWO HOURS. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am fooling around, watching online videos! Oh, this one made me laugh. LOLOL. I love these guys.

What a card!!!

My thoughts are a little disjointed lately. Too much joint compound dust in my nose these days. :S

Seriously, I’m sorry I have neglected my blog. I have neglected a LOT of things. I can barely lift my arm to brush my teeth at night. I’m heartened by the thought that my life will be back to normal sometime soon, and I’ll have a CLEAN, SAFE, and WARM house to live in, in relative comfort and style! Yay!

Hang in there.