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Police at UC Davis Pepper Spray Non-Violent Students

November 19, 2011 By 10 Comments

I’m neither for or against the “Occupy” movement, but I am definitely a supporter of the US Constitution which guarantees:

…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances…

Yesterday, police at UC Davis demonstrated that they don’t value that particular edict established by the people when they turned a can of riot control pepper spray on a peaceful group of students sitting on the ground. The entire event was captured on video and in photos.

The man responsible for the attack on these citizens is UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike.
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NEVER Pay to be “On The News”!

October 17, 2011 By 2 Comments

Today I got this random call from God-knows-who claiming to be a PR agent looking for “people in my industry”. Here is Google Voice’s translation of the message:

Steve. Hello. Just give me this is Riley (815) 633-3375 and I’m calling it’s fox news and ABC News are looking to do an interview and I need someone in your industry and I did happen to come across your name and number, see if you’d be interested in being in on Fox News at ABC, but we don’t work for the of the stations. But we are, P R firm and we charge $900. If you choose to do the story in at a it doesn’t hear that you don’t pay. Please call me today (815) 633-3375.

The translation is terrible, but the point is that this was a random cold call from someone who clearly didn’t even know who I was offering to get me on TV news. And if you ever, ever get a call like this you should NOT do it. Let’s talk about why…
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Congratulations! You’re a Douchebag!

March 16, 2011 By 12 Comments

You probably arrived at this page because someone wanted you to know:

“You’re a Douchebag!”

Chances are you:

  1. Were rude, mean or nasty to someone on Facebook or Twitter
  2. Left a scathing comment on someone’s blog post
  3. Generally acted in a socially unacceptable manner

…for no good reason.
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Leaking Naked Photos, Crotch Grabbing, and Other TSA Hobbies

January 18, 2011 By 12 Comments

TSA Full Body Scanner

TSA Full Body Scanner

If you’re an experienced traveler, you may have noticed by now that the TSA has installed the full body scanners in basically every airport in the US. It was over three years ago when I reported that “The TSA is Going to Photograph You Naked!!!“, and the mandatory scanning has now gone into effect.

“We Don’t Save The Photos.” Really?!?

Despite promises that these full body scanning systems will not save naked photos of you, recently it was discovered that 35,000 photos of naked citizens were being stored by the U.S. Marshal’s Service (another Federal agency) and over 100 of those photos were leaked.
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Help Me Break the World ReTweet Record!

August 6, 2010 By 7 Comments

Is there a World Record for the number of times something has been ReTweeted? I have no idea. But you know what? There should be!

Just a few minutes ago I put out a tweet in an attempt to set a new World ReTweet Record! Is this rediculous? Of course! And it isn’t even close to being the last time I do something rediculous!!! But come on folks, you gotta admit it’s also a little cool. Well, maybe not cool. But funny. No? At least you’ll give me pathetic! So would ya do me this one little favor and pitch in with a retweet?

If you’re following me on Twitter you should have seen the World Record Retweet attempt go out already, so you can handle it from there. But if it makes it any easier, just click on the following link to preload Twitter into a new browser window with the ReTweet ready to GO! We aims to please!

By the way, there is no expiration date on this World Record attempt! So if you EVER read this article or see the ReTweets a flyin, please help out and toss one in! In fact, there isn’t a limit as to how many you can contribute either. So go hog wild!

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“Repent Amarillo”, or These Christian Jihadists Will Probably Kill You!

March 8, 2010 By 18 Comments


Ahhh, this is a strange story. It begins as the tale of a “church” in Amarillo that wants to get rid of a swingers club. But after peering a little deeper it seems evident to me that the religious group in this case is really just the thin disguise for a hate group led by their “pastor” David Grisham,”…a security guard at nuclear-weapons facility Pantex who moonlights as a pastor.”

By the end of this story you are going to be wondering if you want David Grisham guarding the nation’s nuclear weapons facility. More importantly you are going to wonder how many of the people running that facility are just like David Grisham! But I digress…

The “church” is called Repent Amarillo, and it comes complete with a military style website modeled after the US Army, and a hate map of all of their current targets including not only sex establishments but businesses, churches, masonic lodges, Islamic centers, Buddhist temples….
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Today We Lost Our Baby Lexi

March 3, 2010 By 24 Comments

There is nothing that can fill the hole in one’s heart that comes from the loss of a loved one. The pain is profound, and immeasurably deep. Sometimes the loved one is a human, and sometimes not. I can tell you from experience that the pain pays no mind to species.

Today, for the second time, we experience this deepest sense of loss with the passing of our “little girl” Lexi, and when she died, a piece of me went with her. It’s been nine months since we lost her younger sister Sandy, though I swear it seems like three. Now our house is empty and quiet.
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Comment Spammers Get Sneaky, But You Should Delete Them Ruthlessly!

February 27, 2010 By 10 Comments

You guys have heard me drone on and on about my hatred of Spammers. I really mean it when I say I want to shoot them. Like with a real gun. In Texas. (Yee-haw)

Anyway, some people seem to think that they are not spammers as long as they leave a nice sounding comment along with their spammy “made-for-adwords” website link. And I guess they even think it’s ok for them to use different names on different comments… and different spammy MFA website links.

Another Spammy Example

In fact, here is an example of someone who used 4 different domains and two different names when leaving comments. Of course, they didn’t take into account the fact that they have the same damn IP address on every comment (all of which have now been deleted).

Oh, by the way, normally I would feel bad about putting someone’s name or email address up in an image, but since I don’t believe the names are real anyway, I have no sympathy.


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Have You Ever AcciTweeted?

January 13, 2010 By 9 Comments

AcciTweeting is what happens when you meant to send an SMS to someone, but instead you send a public Tweet. Like for example, I follow my wife @Hollypoz on Twitter. I also get SMS notifications when she tweets. Sometimes I want to send a quick SMS to her, but the last thing from her in my phone actually came from Twitter!

Do you see where this is going?

So, I respond to Twitter as if I was SMSing her, and Voila! The world has my private SMS! :-) Ever happened to you?

PS – AcciTweeting is a spin off of AcciDialing. That is when you already called someone, but you somehow accidentally call them back and don’t know it, and then they have to listen to whatever you are doing while saying, “Hello? Hello!!!” Aaron Phillips taught me that one. He loved to accidial me.

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