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A news story had a good report about Verizon FINALLY ceasing their profligate phonebook pollution:

The New York State Public Service Commission (Commission) today granted Verizon New York Inc. permission to provide residential white page directories only to customers upon request. The Commission’s decision to ensure that residential white page directories are only sent to those customers who want them will reduce paper waste and improve the overall environment.

“There is understandable momentum in all aspects of our society to create a more ‘green’ environment,” said Commission Chairman Garry Brown. “Customers have many options regarding finding telephone numbers, and future technologies may make this task even easier. Our decision today helps reduce paper waste, while ensuring customers who want residential white page directories can still get them. This is a win for the environment and for consumer choice.”

Well, ain’t that sweet.

It didn’t say anything about the most recent waste that Verizon made: namely, delivering the yearly phonebook on one of the rainiest days in New York State history. We got FOUR inches of rain that day, and some dunderhead at Verizon hung the phonebooks on the mailboxes! HELLO!!!!!!!!!!! The phonebooks got soaked– they expanded to 20 times their normal size and were all promptly thrown away!

WHY did Verizon do such a stupid thing? Everyone’s phone books in Upstate New York were totally trashed.

Anyway.

I don’t use the phonebook as much as I used to. I use my handy dandy ipod touch to check the numbers. Some amazing person created an iPod app with the White Pages and the Yellow Pages. So now all I have to do is flip on my iPod Touch, hit the icon, and the phonebook is there! All dry, no landfill trash, nothing.

Sheesh. FOUR inches of rain ALL DAY LONG and some goofball in galoshes places the phonebooks on the outside of the mailboxes. Unbelievable!

…is that Number One can boss you around.

China tells U.S. to keep out of South China Sea dispute

Anyone who doesn’t think that China has expansionist intentions has got their head in the sand. China is not a sleeping giant, it’s a sleeping DRAGON. And believe you me, you let this creature get enough fuel, it will breathe it’s flames on you.

For many, many years now, the United States has been kowtowing to China– socially, politically, and especially economically. We have handed over our manufacturing to them on a silver platter. What do you think they are going to do, sit fat and happy like America?

No, they are going to usurp power. Taiwan, Japan, the Asian islands, and then, Europe and the U.S. To think otherwise is idiocy.

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”? :wassat:

Sue the bloggers!

Yes, that is actually a “plan” to “save” the media’s financial crisis! “Improving the media,” and “telling the truth,” didn’t make the list, folks! Their scheme is to SUE us! And for what?! Why, for “copyright infringement,” that elusive, amorphous, wonderful magical mix of legal nonsense that changes every couple of decades!

It USED to be that “copyright infringement” meant that one person stole the works of others and claimed it as their own. You know– like, steal the top secret plans of the inner workings of a PS3 and sell it as something you yourself created. Today, “copyright infringement” is the mere passing along of information! Such as, copying and pasting from a news story online to “prove” a point or to quote someone. That’s copyright infringement?!?!?!??! IDIOTS. :rant: I’d posted about this before– I KNEW this was coming! You can’t even HUM a SONG on YouTube without being slammed.

I would love to copy and paste the news story from Wired regarding this “discovery” of how to “save” the media’s bankrolls… but I may get sued for copyright “infringement”! So what’s a blogger to do? Go and look for it yourself.

Kids these days. Holy cow. Look at this news story!

Security guards posted at Buffalo city pools after rowdy teens pull in lifeguard

BUFFALO — Armed security guards have been posted at public pools in Buffalo after a lifeguard was pulled into the water by rowdy teenagers and other unruly behavior prompted safety concerns for parks employees.

The city’s eight public outdoor pools were shut down last Thursday after fights broke out and a locker room was vandalized.

At one pool, a 16-year-old lifeguard says she was yanked by her ankles into the water when he tried to restore order. She says she struck her head on a drain and then was repeatedly dunked by several teenagers until another lifeguard rescued her…. read rest of story here.

These aren’t “rowdy” teens. This is getting dangerous now.

I hope that lifeguard and others have plenty of term life insurance. A CONCUSSION they gave her! They nearly drowned her!!!! This is unconscionable. And it isn’t just a bunch of unruly kids fooling around– this is a plague, circulating through the youth like an infectious disease. It’s enough to warrant SECURITY GUARDS being posted!! I hope you social engineers are happy! This is the kind of generation you’ve got because you all wanted to be “free” from moral restraints and “religion.” Shame on you for ignoring what wise men before us have said:

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. -John Adams

Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. -James Madison

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. -Benjamin Franklin

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments. -Charles Carroll, Signer of the Declaration

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars…The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them….Let it simply be asked, “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert?”…And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -George Washington