Oh oh!!

This picture is worth a trillion $$

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Here is the message i sent to CBS News (Twitter handle: @CBS8), on August 8, 2011.

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On 3 August 2011, Rawesome Foods, a private food buyers club in Venice, CA was subjected to a SWAT-style armed raid conducted by the FDA assisted by 2 or 3 other government agencies. Although the reason for the raid was conspiracy to sell raw milk and cheese, authorities confiscated not just dairy, but also mangoes, watermelons, computers and cash - in fact, they completely cleaned out the whole place. The news about this has been widely disseminated through Twitter and various other news sources.

I watch CBS News every evening at 6 and 11 o'clock, thinking of CBS as a reliable and unbiased source. So, it has been a big surprise to me to not have heard a single word on CBS about this raid since it took place. I have, however, seen CBS stories about a missing dog and other relatively minor events.

So, a couple of questions come to mind, like:

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Someone sent me this in an email. I am reproducing it here - verbatim - because it's relevant to the present situation in our country.

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An "Entitlement???"

What the hell is wrong here?

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever had.

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Barack Obama met with the Queen of England.  He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government?  Are there any tips you can give me?"

"Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people."

Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"

The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle.."

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A man had just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when
another man sat down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador Retriever
in the middle seat next to the man. 

The first man looked very quizzically at the dog and asked why the dog was
allowed on the plane. 

The second man explained that he was a DEA agent and that the dog was a
'sniffing dog'. 

'His name is Sniffer and he's the best there is. 
I'll show you once we get airborne, when I put him to work.' 

The plane took off, and once it had leveled out, the agent said, 'Watch
this.'

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Recently, while researching material for the new No-GMOs section of the Timos site, I have learned a lot about Monsatan. One of the things I have noticed is their unique interpretation of certains words, acronyms and phrases in the English language. Following are a few of the definitions I have picked up.

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Company Memo
FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 1, 2009
RE: Gala Christmas Party

I'm happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House.  There will be a cash bar and plenty of drinks!  We'll have a small band playing traditional carols... feel free to sing along.  And don't be surprised if our CEO shows up dressed as Santa Claus!  A Christmas tree will be lit at 1:00 PM.  Exchanges of gifts among employees can be done at that time; however, no gift should be over $10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for everyone's pockets.  This gathering is only for employees!
Our CEO will make a special announcement at that time!
Merry Christmas to you and your family,

Patty

Company Memo
FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: October 2, 2009
RE: Gala Holiday Party

In no way was yesterday's memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees.  We recognize that Hanukkah is an important holiday, which often coincides with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year.  However, from now on, we're calling it our "Holiday Party."  The same policy applies to any other employees who are not Christians and to those still celebrating Reconciliation Day.  There will be no Christmas tree and no Christmas carols will be sung.  We will have other types of music for your enjoyment.
Happy now?
Happy Holidays to you and your family,

Patty

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Lately, when I don't get a response I am expecting and follow up on it, I often get "Sorry, your message got caught in my spam folder". Consider this:

1. You send someone (hereinafter called "the flake") a polite email regarding an important issue, knowing that it is the recipient's duty to address your concern and expecting a reply within a day or two.
2. A week goes by and you hear nothing.
3. You send the flake a second polite message; another couple of days pass, nothing.

At this point, most of the time you say "screw it" and forget the flake exists, as there are many alternatives.

Note I said "most of the time". But if the flake is the gateway to something you really want and there are not a lot of alternatives, maybe you go farther.

4. You get a little pissed off and decide to take further action, even if it means lightly stepping on the flake's toes. So you contact a third person who you know can put the flake on the spot; you tell this person what is going on and ask if he/she can help. The helper can and says "I'll give the flake a call and get back to you".
5. All of a sudden you hear from the flake, who apologizes profusely, even sends you a free sample of a product, after telling you your original message got caught in the Spam folder. You know he values this tool because "Spam" is capitalized. Most flakes are proficient at being flakes and many times nothing happens afterwards anyway; but that is beyond the scope of this item.

Sometimes step 4 is skipped. Either way, I now realize that the spam folder excuse is just that: an excuse – and it's BS.

The flakes have no excuse; it's their spam folder and it's up to them to set it up and deal with it in a way to not miss important communications. We have all this technology to help us get things done, not to use it as a stupid excuse.

I have a spam folder. I don't empty it without giving a quick look to the subject lines of the messages it contains. I am glad I do this because, a couple of times, I have caught items that I wanted or expected. It's a pain in the ass, but necessary. It's like going through your post office mail; you give a quick look and dump most of it.

"Your email went to the spam folder" is the 21st. century's "I got a flat tire" or "The check is in the mail" – 99.9% of the time, a lie.

Don't buy it. Nail the sommbitch!

Most of us know about a certain tiger who was compelled to submit to sex rehab recently. Too early to know if that is going to work (I doubt it); if it does, maybe it would be a good thing for a bunch of catholic priests.

But now, I learned about something else that struck me so hard I just had to write about:

Now we have these "experts" working on "rehabilitating" a female wild tiger because she killed people who stole her cubs, I am not kidding! Go to the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/world/asia/22tigers.html?th&emc=th and read the NYT article.

Some of these schmexperts are isolating tigers so they "grow to fear humans again"; if I were a tiger, I think I would attack if I were scared, so I really don't like the idea of tigers fearing me. Plus I think a tiger's fear is inversely proportional to its hunger at the moment.

Those of us who have seen the numbers know that rehab does not work, except in very few isolated cases. It's just amazing to see the things people dream up to put their energy and resources to work, as if there were not a ton of more important issues we should all be working on.

If this rehab thing is any good, I can think of several much better candidates: cub thieves, members of Congress, bank, insurance and Big Pharma executhieves.