Crabby Blogging Lady

Here I was, unhappy with my DSL Internet service (they raised my rate when I closed my landline phone number), and wondering about going to cable. The only cable around here is the monopolizing Time Warner cable.

Well, they’re jacking up their rates. And from reading the comments on the various news stories about it, I can’t say people are very fond of Time Warner cable. Hmph. So what’s a lady to do???

TWC says they need to raise their rates for Internet, phone, and TV so that they can add more high-tech crap to their cable service.

But… I don’t want cable. Just Internet. Why are their rate increases across the board?!

I was NOT happy with Verizon for raising my DSL rates because I don’t have their phone service anymore. Sorry, but their phone service SUCKS. I have changed my phone number THREE TIMES for this address, because of the telemarketer hell I go through. Verizon just regurgitates old telephone numbers as “new” numbers. And these old numbers that I got were numbers owned by people in serious debt– so I would get clobbered with call after call, day after day, by debt collectors and banks demanding their money. Even when I told these knuckleheads that the debtors had changed their number, the kooks STILL called! I was about to panic, actually. Some were so rabidly persistent that I was afraid they’d come charging to my property in search of the indebted fugitives. I was practically ready to put up wireless security cameras to monitor my home!

So I have been displeased with Verizon and have been ready to switch. But looks like I may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

This, boys and girls, is why monopolies suck. And it’s also why the government just LOVES them.

Just saw another news headline: a man died because his car was hit. BY A DRUNK DRIVER.

Why oh why do people drink and then drive? Why????

These situations are so, so common. In my metro area, I hear of it frequently, maybe 5 or 6 times a month (so it seems, I haven’t exactly counted). Some innocents die, some are maimed. It makes me wonder what other metro areas experience. If there were, say, 5 drunk driver accidents per month in my city, and then let’s say every city has that many… and I can guess that there are, what, 20,000 cities in the United States….. that’s 100,000 drunk driver accidents PER MONTH. That’s over a MILLION accidents per year.

Oh my word, it’s an epidemic.

I wish the Powers That Be would quit focusing on smoking or saying the R-word as major blemishes on our society. My dad smoked churchill cigars and said the R-word PLENTY and we kids turned out OK, right???? But he didn’t drive drunk! Good thing he didn’t or we might not even be around!

Anyway. PLEASE don’t drink and drive. Just face it– you’re an idiot when you drink. The last thing you want to have on your conscience is that you killed somebody because you couldn’t resist another beer.

I don’t understand.

Why do people hate Jesus so much? What did He ever do to them?

On Twitter, people are so nasty. They mock Him “bring it to Jesus, girl.” They laugh at Him, they slander Him. Hello?! He did nothing to you! Why is He so hated?

Oh yeah, Jesus Himself said, “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.” But why do they hate Him? What has He done that requires such animosity and excoriation? Our modern culture barely even knows anything about Him, except as a popular epithet in Hollywood productions. If they really knew Him, I seriously doubt they would hate Him.

I tend to think that people hate Him because it’s popular to hate Him. Remember high school, how it was “cool” to be bad, to hate virtue and integrity and exalt debasement and ? Now, why was it “cool” to believe this? Did anyone ever stop to think Hey, why do I feel such pressure to go along with the crowd that revels in slobbery and sloth and hate virtue and integrity? Why do I slander Christianity when I know nothing about it? I sure didn’t. I just went along with the crowd, like a stupid head.

Ah, but once out of high school, I changed. For one, I became a Christian! I learned to think for MYSELF! Yes! I learned to weigh facts and data, to investigate claims and rebuff spurious excuses. I’m a big girl now! Not only can I choose my own best acne products, I can choose truth, too! Yeah!

I wish people would get to KNOW Jesus before they stupidly blast Him. He’s amazing. I especially admire His tolerance– He just sits back and allows idjits to rant away, without throwing lightning bolts and incinerating them on the spot. Good thing I’m not God.

It is SO gratifying to know that a handful of people out there STILL know what the Constitution says, and are willing to defend it!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson of Virginia ruled that forcing American citizens to obtain health insurance (the lynchpin of Obamacare– by the way, the spelling error is intended) is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! There is NO WAY the “interstate commerce clause” can be reasonably twisted to mean that Americans must buy or have federal health insurance (or a car or an ipod nano review or cans of spinach anything else, for that matter). I am totally, totally thrilled with this ruling. FINALLY. Some good news. Oh God, thank you.

Funny thing is… remember a year ago, when Nancy Pelosi scathing rebuked a reporter when she was questioned about the Constitutionality of the health care law? Oh it’s classic, my friends. This is what I had ranted last year:

In case you haven’t heard, those idiots in Congress are considering legislation that would FORCE us to get health insurance, or else the IRS stormtroopers will come knocking at our doors.

This is absolutely ILLEGAL to mandate. All laws in this country are supposed to abide by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Of course, this hasn’t stopped those Washington idiots since the days of FDR… but Pelosi was confronted about the issue, and her response is CLASSIC.

When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday occurred as follows:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a “serious question.”

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

I’d love to know what Pelosi meant by “Are you serious?” when asked about the Constitution. Interpreted, was she really saying, “Oh that old rag! Do we still use that thing??”

Um, Mrs. Pelosi? Memo to Mrs. PELOSI: HELL YEAH, WE ARE SERIOUS.

… it won’t be too soon.

I HATE Dodge minivans!!!

Not only do the transmissions fail every couple of years, but the sliding doors freeze shut. EVERY. SINGLE. WINTER. ALL. WINTER. LONG. Should the temperature drop below 32 degrees, you can forget about going to the grocery store, unless you’re happy stuffing it all in the passenger side. Oh did I tell you that the hatch sticks, too? We’ve had four Dodge Grand Caravans, and they ALL have the same problem: hatches that stick/lock shut forever, failing transmissions, sliding doors that freeze shut, and the “auto-lock” “feature” that I hate. It is NOT a comforting thought, being locked in one of these vans automatically. I always immediately unlock them right away. I’ve been doing it for 17 years… Hey, with cheap insurance companies, I feel safe. With these Dodge disasters on wheels, I’m apprehensive.

We had to get a minivan when the seat belt laws passed in New York. I had to ditch my beloved sedan for an ugly, awkward behemoth because Senator Hillary Clinton would take my kids away if I didn’t strap them into these lumbering wads of metal and faulty electronics. :-p I have never liked the minivan and I can’t wait to get a sedan again. Today, I had to go grocery shopping, and forgot that the sliding doors freeze shut. So here I am in the Walmart parking lot, tugging and yanking and screaming and crying, trying to kick and pull those dumb doors open! No go. I had to cram the bags into the passenger side.

*sigh*

Dodge makes its cars in Canada. YOU’D THINK they’d know better!!!

I was lamenting in my sweet, feminine, suggestive way that we had no chocolate in the house recently. Now I will tell you that I am no “chocoholic” like the other crazy women. I don’t understand why some women just go ga-ga for the stuff. Hey, chocolate is great, but SHEESH I wouldn’t go so far as to build a whole BLOG around it, ot write (or read) a whole book about it! So while I like chocolate a lot, I’m not a foaming-at-the-mouth-PMS-infested-crazy-rabid chocolate lover.

But GOSH DARN I wanted some that night. I howled in protest that there was not a speck of chocolate to be found in the house. Well, not counting the chocolate-flavored chapstick one of the kids wears. I didn’t want to get wax between my teeth.

Well, lookie what Mr. Crabby got for me the next day. He was going to go out looking for hudson valley lighting, and see what he did!

I tell you– married life is special. What a swell guy.

(It was gobbled up in half a day).

(Well, the kids ate MOST of it!)