Random Frustrations...

May I have your Social Security number?
No.
Sir, I need the number to check your credit.
Who needs it?
The gas company.
You're not the gas company... who are you?
What do you mean who are you?
I mean how do I know I can trust you?
I work for the gas company.
Obviously, I called you, but that doesn't mean I should trust you.
Sir, do you want to open an account or not.
I already have two accounts with you.
Yes but you want a separate meter for your pool.
Just add it to my account.
We can't do that without checking your credit.
But you already have a year's data and my accounts on auto pay.
But this is a new account.
Why?
Sir, are you going to give me your Social Security number?
No, I'll give it to the gas company... put it on the phone.
Click!
I feel old, cranky, the pool is cold and my head hurts!

%**&^#

While Egypt was unable to supply medicine to the victims of the crash at Assiut ( where 50 school children were killed last month), it has sent millions of dollars worth of medicine to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. How about making sure the hospitals in Egypt have enough medicine to treat Egyptians? Morsi is not governing the country for the benefit of its citizens. He is using it as a platform to implement the objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood. by Michael Armanious http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3484/egypt-morsi-train-wreck

arrrrgghh!

A president who once taught the Constitution should be expected to think every now and then about the constitutional obligations -- the human restraints -- that rightly come with power-sharing. On the other hand, if "Machiavelli for Beginners" was in fact his curricular subtitle, ex-Professor Obama might think a little about what comes with upsetting the people, making them fearful and angry and desirous of throwing him out.

OMG!

Wahhabism is the only officially recognized and allowed religion in Saudi Arabia. Other forms of Islam and other religions are banned and persecuted by the state. Saudi Arabia is the only Islamic state in which there is no church, no synagogue and no other place of worship of any other religion. Shiite Muslims have been systematically discriminated against for decades. Jews are even forbidden to enter the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia practices a form of Sharia law that is one of the most brutal systems in the world. Saudi Arabia has at all times rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Women may not drive a car and can be punished by flogging. Corporal punishment, including amputations and executions, are part of everyday life in the country. Just two weeks ago a Sudanese immigrant in Saudi Arabia was publicly beheaded for 'sorcery.' Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries in the world in which the death penalty is enforced even on teenagers," the paper said.Die Presse, in an editorial entitled, "Islamic Center in Vienna: Austria-Aid for Propagandists of Intolerance?,"

Hmmmm?

When I was in the service I visited New York city. I went there to ride the Staten Island Ferry. It was past midnight, it was wet and foggy. It smelled like dead fish and wet oily hemp. It was where she was inspired to write ..."the world stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide". I stood on a huge coil of rope in the bow with the wet fog streaming past my face and shouted "My candle burns at both ends, it cannot last the night , but oh my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light". Hopefully there is someone or something that inspires you... for me it is Edna St. Vincent Millay. She is the unreachable goal in my heart ... a horizon I shall never reach but always strive for. The Grain of my imagination is but a seed to her fig.

Jeeeze!

From a friend in Israel... Please don't be naive in thinking that Israel-Palestine is the problem. I have often said that were there no Israel in the Middle East, there would still be a war every year. They hate each other. (Arab dis-unity has been perhaps Israel's greatest weapon). Arab League? Only the premier League is more violent.

Grrrrrrrrrr

Debasing the value of money by creating more of it is nothing new or esoteric. Irresponsible governments have done this, not just for centuries, but for thousands of years.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

All the pretty talk about how tax rates will be raised only on "the rich" hides the ugly fact that the poorest people in the country will see the value of their money decline, just like everybody else, and at the same rate as everybody else, when the government creates more money and spends it.

If you have $100 and, after inflation follows from "quantitative easing," that $100 dollars will only buy what $80 bought before, then that is the same economically as if the government had taxed away one-fifth of your money and spent it.

But it is not the same politically, so long as gullible people don't look beyond words to the reality that inflation taxes everybody, the poorest as well as the richest.

Thomas Sowell

Who knew?

As Abba Eban once put it: "If Algeria introduced a General Assembly Resolution that the world was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass 100 to 10 with 50 abstentions." That's pretty much what happened the other day. I wonder whether the European countries that voted for the Resolution knew what a tangled web they were weaving? Alan Dershowitz

Truth Speaking!

Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting.

First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the top two percent will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the government for ten days.

No previous administration in the entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion dollar deficit. The Obama administration has done so every single year. Yet political and media discussions of the financial crisis have been focused overwhelmingly on how to get more tax revenue to pay for past and future spending.

The very catchwords and phrases used by the Obama administration betray how phony this all is. For example, "We are just asking the rich to pay a little more."

This is an insult to our intelligence. The government doesn't "ask" anybody to pay anything. It orders you to pay the taxes they impose and you can go to prison if you don't.
Thomas Sowell

Bzzzzz

When the queen bee lays her eggs, worker bees can determine whether the resulting larvae are to become an adult worker bee or an adult queen bee. The type of food the larvae is fed dictates the developmental outcome - larvae destined to become workers are fed a pollen and nectar diet, and those destined to become queens are fed royal jelly.

barfffff

The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff. Every businessman knows this; that is why the “loss leader” or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama’s America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who – courtesy of Obama – receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote; so too those who anticipate “free” health care, who expect the government to pay their mortgages, who look for the government to give them jobs. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.By: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky