Do Not

I got a call last night from a friend of my wife.  This friend is part of a group of medical professionals that go to help local hospitals when there is a disaster event.  She was calling to ask me to tell my wife that she was heading to OKC to help with the tornado recovery effort.

I had just been on the phone to a co-worker in OKC Sunday who told me that it was bad but they expected to get more storms.  I wanted to see how bad the tornado damage was so I started checking on line.  That's when I go hit with all the content driven ads begging help for the American Red Cross.

I have one word for you if your considering giving money to either the Red Cross or the Salvation Army, DON'T!

These philanthropic organizations do very little to actually help people.  Most of the money is wasted on paying big salaries to people who spend their time FUND RAISING.  When they do bother to head out to a disaster location its only to get photo ops and spend some time qualifying people for aid so they can justify the grant money they get from the federal government.

There are better groups to give money to, don't waste your cash on the American Red Cross.

Dinner Time

Q. What did the cannibal’s wife give her husband when he came home late for dinner?

A. The cold shoulder.

Washington DC (Dumb Cunts)

D.C. man won’t face gun charges for shooting pit bull attacking boy

How freaking generous of them.

Authorities last week made an agreement not to prosecute a Northwest D.C. man who used his unregistered handgun to kill a pit bull in order to stop it from mauling a child in his neighborhood.

As part of the agreement, Benjamin Srigley, 39, was required to pay a $1,000 fine but will not have criminal charges filed against him for the three unregistered firearms and the ammunition that investigators found in his possession, said Ted Gest

Whoo Hoo! he wont go to jail.  He still is out $1,000 and lost his guns.  Washington DC is the nations capital and has no right to enforce draconian gun laws on Americans.  I know "its the law".  The law is wrong.  This man did the right thing, he had a gun when it was needed and saved a life because he was ready willing and shooting when it counted.  Good for you Mr. Srigley.  Keep your powder dry and out of the hands of the feds!

Potty Humor

I though it was high time we enjoyed some potty humor.

Scientists study violent winds of Uranus

According to the article they are recommending a decrease in bean consumption.

If petroleum hydrocarbons are produced by dead dinosaurs why do we have so many gaseous planets?

Blog Observations

I've been experimenting with some blog related changes over the last six months.  My first change was spending some extra time working with bloggers spam filter.  Initially this took significant time.  I went through the old comments and tagged the spam as spam for the filter.  It seems that this strategy is working out.  Blogger now catches 99% of the spam before it ever hits the comments.

My most spammed post seems to be one from 2006, Electing Dinner Guests.  I have no idea why this is.  For some reason this post gets hit with a ton of spam attempts.  In fact most of my spammed posts are older ones.  I don't know what possible good this does for a spammer since I doubt any of my readers have visited that post in the last 7 years.  I've been marking ALL spam as spam regardless of how old the post is and it seems to be helping.

The filter catches most of the spam before I ever see it and that's a good thing.  Now I spend less than 5 mins a week dealing with the spam filter.  I can't be sure but I think that the filter "learns" as it goes and is doing a better job stopping the spam.  If you're running a blog of your own, it seems to be worth the time to use the filter and to tag the spam from the old posts.

For Q1 2013 I started a experiment of posting on average at least once per day.  This has boosted my daily hits by about 500%.  Which is a good thing.  Comments are still pretty rare so while viewer ship is up, participation still lags behind.  I assume this is due in part to the fact that: 1. I seldom comment on other peoples blogs, at least not as much as I used to, and 2.  Most of you dropping by are friends and share similar views and are basically dropping by to see whats going on and waste 5 min of time between meetings at work.

Thanks for all the new traffic.  I will be returning to my increased posting routine this week.  I had wanted to leave the Game Case Study post near the top of the blog to see how much attention and advice it would get.  I think everybody that wanted to sound off on that has.  I may update information on the post from time to time as the situation develops.

Worked Out Well

I confess, I got a kick out of this story.

Houston Texas

Intruder Shot After Locking Resident in Closet… Where He Keeps His Guns

Gaddis said the neighborhood has had a number of break-ins recently. He said that the residents in the area believe that they have all been connected. In reference to the shooting he says, “What happened today is exactly what guns are supposed to do — to protect your home and defend your life and your family.”

Note to crooks, always lock your victim in his gun closet.  ALWAYS its the best thing you can do.