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Funny Story

So, Heather came over this afternoon for a bit before she headed out to Birmingham to see her folks. She left here, heading out to the interstate. About 5 minutes after she left, she called me back and said, “You’re not going to believe this. I just got rear ended!”

That’s not the funny part, just stay with me. I ask if she’s ok, yes, if the car is ok, she’s not sure. So since she’s just right up the road, I get in my car and go up there. I get there just as the cops pull up. There’s a blue car, something generic American, like Mercury Sable or something and there’s Heather’s car with no obvious damage. Breathing a sigh of relief, I hopped out to check out her bumper to see if anything was loose, etc.

There were 2 black guys in the sedan, probably about 20 or so. The driver is a big guy, he’s kind of perched next to his car and the passenger is this rasta looking guy who looked quite uncomfortable when the POlice pulled up. Heather has been in a rear end accident before, so she’s a bit rattled.

So, I crawl around, check out her car and the the boys’ car and there’s literally NO damage to either vehicle. I asked if everyone felt ok and they all did. I ask Heather if she wants to do anything more and she says no. So the cops ask if the parties are gonna just leave it and we said yes and I thanked them for being so prompt.

The cops leave and the boys are visibly relieved. The driver runs up to me and says “Can I have a hug?” I laughed and said sure and grabbed him. Those boys were SO happy that they didn’t have to talk to the cops. So I turn my attention back to Heather and try to get her to come back to the house for a minute to calm down, but she has a bee in her bonnet to get to Birmingham. As the boys are pulling away, the rasta guy says, “You ladies need something for your nerves?” while making the universal toking motion. I laughed again and “No thanks, hon, we’re covered!”.

They left and I turned to Heather who had missed all the underlying tension when the cops were there and told her that those boys were carrying, hence their consternation about the incident. Heather says, no, really? And I say, well, YAH, they just offered to sell us some weed, dude! We horse laughed over that!

That’s got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen lately!

Heather decided to go ahead and hit the road and I came back here to write this down before I forgot!

LOL Hey, I guess you had to be there! :-)

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Animal testing results

[This post updated in 2017 with current animal testing policies.]

The other day I was thinking about the products I use around here and wondered just exactly where the various companies stood on animal testing. PETA, of course, has lists upon lists, but I tend to shy away from PETA.

The thing to remember is that these companies only test on animals when law requires it. And trust me, there are LAWS demanding animal testing. You cannot fault a corporation for complying with the law. Also, having been with a research scientist for 8 years, I can assure you that the regulations for working with animals are STRINGENT. The animals are spared as much pain as is possible and they are kept in clean environments. Animal testing is necessary, sadly. Not for makeup, IMO, but companies have to comply with the law. PETA is a bunch of rabid vegans who don’t even understand that we’d still be plague and disease ridden if not for animal testing.

I challenge every PETA member to forego ALL medications, since ALL medication has been tested on an animal at some point. That’s right, ALL OF IT.

Anyway, here is the info I found.

So, I hit the internet and started going to the various large consumer companies looking for animal testing policies or any other info I could find. Here are the results:

Johnson & Johnson: has a very detailed description of their policies on their site.

Nestlé Purina (includes Friskies): I got a VERY nice email back asking me to please call customer service and I did. The lady was extremely nice and she said that yes, they do keep animals to taste the food. I figured as much. The PETA people are trying to make Purina look like satan, but I know how stringent government animal care guidelines are and I am not worried about the animals they keep for taste tests and the like. It is all noninvasive, nonvivisection type things. They even adopt out the pets once they are retired. They now have their policies on their site here. There is no specific info about animal food testing.

Proctor & Gamble: This company does have its policy up here.

You know, when one realises that a large chunk of consumer products are owned by one company (P&G) and a large chunk of the food industry is dominated by one company (Sysco) and the media is consolidating (Cox Communications) and communications is going back to a monopoly (AT&T) and retail is dominated by one company (WalMart), it makes one wonder whatever happened to originality in America?

Just damn.

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W00t! No more McKinney!

To the person who accused me of racism when I pointed out that Cynthia McKinney is only good for playing the race card and courting the ghetto:

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ATTITUDE, DUMBASS!

Not only did that HO McKinney scream “Conspiracy!” about 100 times, but she does not even have the class to give a proper concession speech. She waited until 12:30am to show herself – probably because she was incensed that she lost.

Forbes reports:

“Though her supporters and staff were teary-eyed early Wednesday as she conceded, McKinney remained defiant. She blamed her loss on the news media, which she said failed to “tell the whole story,” and echoed her previous criticism of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.

McKinney also said electronic voting machines, which have been used in all of Georgia’s precincts since 2002, “are a threat to our democracy.”

She ended her concession speech, which sounded more at times like a campaign stump, by wishing her successor well, but without naming him. “

After all, she expects to remain exactly where she is no matter what she does or says. And take a look this crazy shit. [article on 11 Alive was dumped] She’s a nutter, I tell you! A complete fruitcake!

Her constituents were complaining that “their votes were being switched to Johnson when they tried to press McKinney!” Well, actually, it was one black woman who made the complaint and the reason it was changing is because her long fake nail was selecting Johnson when she tried to press McKinney with her fingertip. I kid you not. Pathetic.

On top of all that, McKinney’s punk ass thug staff knocked down and threatened an 11Alive cameraman [article on 11 Alive was dumped] after her “I-didn’t-lose-it-was-a-Republican-conspiracy” speech! Now tell me again how NOT ghetto McKinney and her hard core constituents are?

The person that called me a racist because I dared call McKinney what she is, an arrogant, useless, racecard playing troublemaker can kiss my ass. If these things listed above don’t prove my point, then you are so incredibly naive that you probably believe that the UN can solve the Israel/Palestine problems just by asking nicely. Dink.

Cynthia McKinney is GONE because we are tired of her bullshit, period. If I’m a racist, then so are a LOT of other people who can’t stand McKinney’s stupidity. If the slobbering liberals would address the facts rather than wishful thinking, perhaps they’d not appear so ignorant and naive. Oh, but that wouldn’t be nice, would it?

From the [now defunct?] Monsters and Critics blog:

“[posted by] Whitey Aug 9th, 2006 – 16:13:21
Blame the whites, blame the poll machines, blame the officer, blame the president, blah blah blah.

It’s people like McKinney who hurt race relations. It’s people like McKinney who are so caught up in their own world that they fail to take responsibility for their own actions. Apologies and learning from experience go a long way. Obviously, the lack of these has finally caught up to this woman.”

Hmm, isn’t that what I said? Yah, I’m pretty sure it is. So, I guess this person is a horrible racist, too, if you apply the same criteria that was applied to me. NOT.

So, anyway, McKinney is now gone and hopefully her political career is over and we’ll not have to hear or see her EVER again. Anyone who is that low classed really does not belong in government or in any public arena.

I’m thrilled that Hank Johnson won! He’s a Buddhist, you know. He was described as stiff during one of the debates, but I find him to be more calm than stiff. He seems to be the kind of guy who will try to get people to come together and work for common goals. I’m so happy that we got him in!

Yay for Hank! I think I’ll send him some email love!

::ding dong the witch is dead!!::

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Best Foamy Mirror, Evah!

I was over at illwillpress.com looking for me some new Foamy and as I was watching toons, Nick came over and mentioned a mirror site with ALL the Foamy toons.

It’s a complete list of all Foamy the Squirrel toons, in order! W00t!

Some Foamy ranty goodness makes me feel much better.

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Why So Difficult?

So, I’ve been in a funk of late. Hence my lack of posts and/or interest in the internet. I’ve skimmed LJ a bit, but I’ve just not been up to interacting much with anyone. Last Thursday, Nick sat me down and said that he wanted me to be happy and he wanted me to do whatever I needed to do to feel better.

So, I decided to start working out with a trainer. I trotted my happy ass over to Sonz in Decatur and plopped down $800+ for 25 one on one sessions with trainer. This place comes highly recommended, so I figured it’d be as good as any other.

Weeeelll, I’m not really so sure about that now. I had my first session with this girl on Friday and it was, shall we say, less than satisfactory. No warm up. Weird exercises. ALL muscle groups. Weights that were too heavy. All lower body then all upper body rather than alternating. It sucked. Not only did it suck, but by using too much weight and her encouraging me to “pop” with weights (WTF?), I’ve spent the last THREE days just getting over it. Apparently these “trainers” haven’t got the slightest idea about basic physiology! You canNOT blow out your muscles so hard that you can’t move the next day! It’s counterproductive! Especially someone who hasn’t lifted weights in about 10 years! WTF? And since when do you try to do both lower and upper body work at the same time? And when did it become normal to want someone to JUMP with weights? And when was it deemed correct to do 5 leg exercises in a row, then 5 arm exercises then do sprints? That is just silly!

Not only that, but there was no weigh in, no measurements, nothing written down, no tracking of any sort. Well, damn, if I have to do all that myself, as well as put together my own frelling workouts, then what the blue fuck am I paying them for? I just don’t get it. Am I missing something here?

Tomorrow I go in at 9:30am, but I shall go early so I can have a conversation with this girl that’s supposed to be a “trainer”. She’s nice and all, but if all I can expect from her is to hand me weights (of the wrong size) and count, then we’ve got a problem. I’m going to ask that they convert my $800 into a standard membership or something. Just damn, can’t anything be easy?

In addition, the spot of poison ivy I had has resprouted and spread and I have a weird red dotty rash.

::sigh:: I’m having a truly sucky few weeks.