Adventures with Walmart

I bought 2 new tires cheap at wallyworld in 2008...45,000 mile warranty. This weekend I had the usual rotation with the oil change and found a bump on one of those tires. It has just over 20,000 miles...not even half the life it was promised. I checked online and found other bloggers mentioning how they recieved a pro-rated credit, one guy got $13 as his tire had used up 30,000 miles. So I went to Walmart on Monday expecting 15 or 20 bucks off because of the lower mileage. Things went badly from when I pulled up to the garage. Instead of the tire guy writing up my order, he ran off with my paperwork (I brought the original reciept with me). So, I go inside and there are 4 employees surrounding one other at the computer. She looks up at me and says, "What do you want, I have to go to floral." Well, I was so shocked I don't think I answered her other than to point at my paperwork on the counter and say I need it back. I think the lady realized how abrupt she had been and started to backtrack and become helpful.

Missing people.

I've been to 10 different schools, grades 1-12. I've lost track of hundreds, actually, thousands of people. The girls grew up, married and changed their names. How can I find Diane Lewis who graduated in 1978 from North Chicago Community High School in North Chicago, Illinois and then ended up moving to the Mississippi gulf coast later that year?

Influenza = Death

The flu killed more people than all of WWI. It started mild in the spring of 1917 and by October had mutated to killer strain. Please take precautions. Get Ready! Put up 60 days food and water and quarantine yourself when it STARTS to get bad. Don't go to work. Don't go to the store. Don't go outside. And Don't let anybody in. The only people who survived the last plague were those who didn't allow mailmen to enter their town. Don't expect the government to provide you with any assistance. They'll be looking out for themselves. Good luck to us all and God Bless!

BPA is bad

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Cancer Update from Johns-Hopkins

Bottled water in your car is very dangerous!

On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said this is what caused her breast cancer. It has been identified as the most common cause of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue.

Sheryl Crow's oncologist told her: women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car. The heat reacts with the chemicals in the plastic of the
bottle which releases dioxin into the water. Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. So please be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

Use a stainless steel canteen or a glass bottle instead of plastic!

No plastic containers in microwave.

No water bottles in freezer.

No plastic wrap in microwave.

A dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic
bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Do not heat our food in the microwave using plastic containers.. . This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat,=2 0and plastic releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the
body...
Instead, use glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food... You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper.

It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.
Plastic wrap, such as Saran wrap, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.

Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Amy and I bought 3 new glass bowls to use in the microwave. They were listed as BPA free and have rubber lids.

Beware the Antichrist

If there is peace in the Middle East, if there is a grand peace maker, beware.

Jill, Josh and Angie circa. 1991-ish

Psychology 101 Emergency

What would entice or convince a person to place false hardeners onto their fingers, as in, false fingernails, and create hands that are defenseless and practically useless? What would entice or convince a person to wear short open clothing to give an offender easy access? I wonder how women were conditioned to make themselves into venerable weaklings and not recognize it for what it is...a lie. The best life is for the strongest. The fulfillment of life is found by the wise, for they know the truth. Anything less, is questionable, a tactic perpetrated to keep women down and in their place.

Why I quit watching "The View"

I am not a fan of the Dixie Chicks but the last word of the hot topics chat, the last word whispered by Elisabeth was "traitor." There was no further discussion and this arrow was left thrown out there. One day, and Barbara was on the show, Elisabeth tried to vindicate the Bush policy that torture is morally right when trying to get information from enemies. I know Elisabeth has always attempted to support the president and that is what loyalty is all about, but torture is always morally wrong and for her to try and justify its use was offense and abhorrent. The fact that none of the others on the show argued against her, silence means assent, they let it go. I am not okay with TV people bearing false ethical standards. If there is a question here someone ask her if its okay for little Grace to be tortured by a foreign country when she is a captured military private in a few years. Elisabeth has a voice, a medium, millions of people who tune into the show, and for people to support her beliefs is nothing short of evil. Recently, Oprah interviewed Tom Cruise, who stated that what has the most value in this world for him is loyalty and truth. The guy is an actor. He makes his living pretending things, faking feelings, in short, lying. The better the liar, the better the actor, the more believable his false performance. Here is a guy, the epitome of falseness, declaring his highest value as truth. I am seriously disturbed that I live in a society where ethics comes from TV people. The famous are not the moral. We must all be vigilant to recognize the Devil when he walks into the room, and consider turning off the TV when it has become so obviously EVIL.

Downtown Atlanta drugs...

Channel 46 had a headline news story about a woman who has to walk past street-crack-smoking-junkies in order to walk her dog. The property value of her condo, the neighbors fears, the open drug traffic on the street were major parts of the news story. It was a case of "scary situation" not of "here is what the city is doing to fix it," kind of reporting (even the news guy was a little freaked out to be down there at 10pm on the street). Ahhhh, but that was immediately followed by a report on whether or not to outlaw baggy pants, the Braves triple A team moving to Atlanta from Virginia, and a story on Florida plastic surgery problems. I swear, if Dagmar hadn't have come to the rescue with her Raquel Welch weather, I wouldn't have lasted another minute watching the idiot news. Is there no one at channel 46 who pays attention and grades how serious and concerned citizens need to be about what is happening in the city? How does pant length, baseball or elective surgery rate to the story of the street crackheads downtown? And, really, if anyone cared to actually think about baggy pants, they are a woman's best friend. Any guy wearing them has handicapped himself because he must use one hand to hold them up, he can't run as fast, he can't possibly attack while in such a state. Why would women complain? I love them, show me more!!! I have two good arms and two good legs to use in my defense whereas Iwould be up against a one armed bandit. I just wanted to spout off about the news because the only decent news in all of Atlanta is on channel 2.

Racism is...

The dictionary defines racism as "the notion that one's own ethnic stock is superior." How it is manifested varies, by word and deed. Most "white" people are not part of the Klan and do not believe in "white power" or "white superiority." They become guilty of racism if and when they are blamed for having privileges. Therefore, it is the act of another, being blamed by someone else, that white people become "guilty white people." In a very personal way, I become aware of the fact, from what someone says or does, I become aware of the fact that I am not you, most specifically, I am not black. That is precisely when I become a white person, when you have made me one. I always find that moment offensive. I also find your racism in my face your problem. I don't take it home with me. I don't spend time with it. Your racism is your problem, but you'd better believe, the minute you make me feel "I'm not you, solely based on race," is the minute I recognize you as what you are, racist.

National Weather Conspiracy

There was an f4 tornado last week which swept across the northern mountains of Arkansas and demolished a path 123 miles long. The weather people are all about the floods. The people in Arkansas went without power for a week and without phone for 4 days. Atlanta did get hit with a tornado. It didn't touch down, true, but it did touch the roofs of buildings and swipe city buildings about 50 feet up. But the truth is that north Georgia has had 3 tornadoes in the space of a week without the alarms going off. I had always been told that inner cities have a special atmosphere due to the amount of concrete, there is a heat layer that makes the ground hotter than surrounding land. It was because of this special atmosphere that a tornado couldn't or wouldn't ever hit a downtown area. Now we are seeing that change, although it did not actually hit the ground, the fact that a tornado could and did devastate an inner city is incredible. That our weather is changing is nothing new. The idea of la Nina or El nino years stopped people from freaking out about it changing 10 years ago...if we can name it, the phenomena isn't scary. Now that the intensity is increasing, it seems that the weather simply isn't being reported nationally, but locally. Without the warnings, without the big national picture, concerned only with local events, there seems to be a conspiracy to control the information and focus of the information so the public won't realize how much and how badly our weather is out of whack.

Responsible people...

Responsible people would demand polyurethane tires which never wear out, never go flat and absolutely never blow up and kill other drivers on the highway. The tire industry would colapse but is that a reason to continue to waste a natural non-renewable resourse?

The Chinese are holding us up!

In the 1970's we made a deal with the Saudi's - arms for fuel. It then became a race between the U.S. economy and the soviet to see which failed first. It turns out that we beat the Russians. Yeah! Our economic collapse was delayed because the west could invest in the east, bring them into the 21st century, great customers. Now, the Chinese have entered the world economic picture and it turns out that they have been holding up our economy. We don't have anything to sell them in return. They have been buying shares in our businesses and keeping them afloat. In order to be their customers, we use credit. Well, things are about to get worse for us financially, rather then better...


The economy is about to turn south for the auto industry. The Chinese are going to start selling cars in the U.S. later this year and early next year. It matters because we have 4 or 5 auto manufacturers, suffering to sell fuel inefficient vehicles. The chinese have over 500 auto manufacturers. That's right, I said over 500. The chinese have 2 billion people. USA has 300 million. In the State-of-the-Union address last year President Bush said that as a nation we need to have a GOAL of graduating 100,000 math and science majors. Last year the Chinese graduated 325,000 engineers. That bubble isn't a goal and it isn't "math and science" it is in fact just engineers. AND THEY ARE ALL WORKING!!! As for the economic race - the US can not compete, we can't even measure up at the starting line. The future is not just out-sourcing jobs to mexico, we are going to become mexico. This madness of consumerism not only must stop, we must pay our bills. If we default, the consequence will be the fall of America. If we get a grip on our "instant gratification" problem and work on paying ourselves out of debt, we could create a future of economic prosperity for ourselves and our progeny. It is a choice. The fact that our leaders are in denial and don't even want to recognize the direness of our economic situation is not a plan to address this issue. If we get responsible, through hard work, we could make a better world. It is a choice.

Looking for Carrie Miller from P.S. 209 NYC

We were best friends in elementary school until I moved to California. I imagine Carry married and changed her name years ago but I still miss my friend...so if you know a Carry Miller who lived in Whitestone and attended public school 209 in 1969 please tell her Angie Hilton is actively searching for her. She may have her birthday in 1961, 60 or 59. We lived at Ft. Totten, she lived in Whitestone and we went to school in Flushing. I've had this posted over a year now...someone's got to know her...or Arlene Finegold.

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