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Blogrolling

Well, it appears that the assholes at Tucows have disabled Blogrolling. This happens EVERY time some small service gets eaten by a large corporation.

You’ll notice that the list is gone and I can’t add or delete anything because blogrolling.com is down. Fuckers.

This REALLY pisses me off!

I think the blogosphere could use a new service, don’t you? I think Angela had a good idea with BlogXchng. I’m calling Paul. There has *got* to be a way to get a new linking service going without breaking the bank.

Anyone interested in starting up a new blog linking project? PHP, MySQL and PERL programmers are needed!

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Oh, and you think I’m bad?

Heh, then you have obviously never heard a Foamy the Squirrel rant!

They make me scream with laughter! (Thanks to Russ and Heather for getting Nick that T shirt!)

Now, go get yerself some Foamy the Squirrel and don’t EVER tell me I rant too much EVER again!

I mean it. I never want to see another pissy complaint about my foul mouth, my foul rants or my overall misanthropy. Clearly, there are others worse than I. And they make money at it, too. Hmmm…

Why are you still here? GO NOW.

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This is the problem!

You can’t legislate morality, people. NO. You can’t. I can’t believe the moronic divorce law changes that are sliding right on through the GA legislature with nary a raised eyebrow. WTF?

When did this country slide completely off the track like this? Who are the people pushing for this Nazi agenda that wants to legislate every tiny aspect of everyone’s lives? It’s ridiculous!!

Is it the Boomers? Is it sinister sleeper cells left over from the Pinko commie days that have finally crept all the way to Washington? Is it rabid Southern rednecks who think it should be their way or the highway? Who?

I want to round up the culprits and toss them out of this country. OUT!! It would probably be a good idea to toss them all the way out of the gene pool while we’re at it, but I think it’d be easier to just toss them into the Middle East so they can LIVE in a theocracy and see what they are trying to do to this country.

You can’t tell a woman what to do with her OWN body. You can’t tell a couple that they cannot divorce if they damn well feel like it. You can’t stop people from doing whatever the hell they want to in their bedrooms. You can’t tell people that they can’t smoke. You can’t offer civil unions to only one set of people.

You just can’t!!! It’s NOT the government’s job to regulate morality! When did the idea that it was come into vogue?

This country was founded to get away from oppression and restrictions on free speech! It was founded on separation of church and state! This is NOT a theocracy!!

Goddammit, why doesn’t anyone seem to understand this? Why doesn’t anyone seem to give a rat’s ass if our liberties are eroded and our lives legislated?

It’s not just the South, it’s this whole country, I know. I am flummoxed by this odd attitude from people who used to value freedom. Hell, this country was the poster child for freedom. What happened?

This is the insidious problem that lurks in our government. The desire to impose more and more and more rules about how you should live your life. It’s disturbing.

Just damn.

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Car Repair is a Racket

I just spent $955 on my fucking car and now it won’t start if it’s raining. The goddam asshole at the shop denies that it’s anything they’ve done, of course. Ugh, car repair is a racket. Finding a good mechanic is nigh impossible.

Asshole Dave @ RH Auto [now defunct because they sucked] wanted $600 for a new distributor plus labour, natch. NO. I called Honda and they wanted $300 to put in plug wires!! Can you believe the balls these people have? The distributor is around $400 (NOT $600) from Honda, but you can get an aftermarket for $135. The plug wires from Honda are $75 or $48 from NAPA. The distributor cap is $18. The rotor button is $11. So I got all new replacement parts for $100 from NAPA and I will do the fucking work myself. [I did replace all that stuff, but it all got replaced again when we did a big maintenance a few years later at Avondale Independent.]

I have used Avondale Independent in Avondale Estates for years now [Feb 2013]. They are not the cheapest, but they ARE the best, because they specialise in HONDA. Dave and Randy know their shit and they take great care of my now 19+ year old Civic EX. My Honda still gets ~30mpg in the city and almost 40mpg on the highway. TOP THAT, new cars!

I highly recommend Avondale Independent if you have a Honda, especially. They can work on anything, but Hondas are their specialty. :)

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Stupid Traffic Tricks

Last night, I witnessed the dumbest driver that I’ve EVER seen. I live in Atlanta, so I’ve seen many morons on the road!

I was taking a friend home to Oakhurst via E College Ave. This requires a left hand turn onto McDonough right after Agnes Scott College. There is no turn signal at this light. Traffic was still heavy at 7:15pm or so, which means that in order for anyone to turn left, the first car must pull up into the intersection on green in order to make the turn on yellow. It’s standard practice to do this in order to keep any sort of traffic flow. Otherwise, no one will get through the intersection, like, EVER, as the case in point will illustrate.

We pulled up just as the light was going from green to red and one car got through. The stupid woman in front of us was first in line. The light got around to green again and she didn’t move an inch into the intersection, so I figured she planned to gun it on yellow and squeak through as is the practice here. Well, NO. She sat there. (We’re on light no. 2 for those keeping track.) The light goes through another cycle and comes back to green (#3). She still sits. Now there are 4 or 5 cars behind me patiently waiting, but I’m now yelling out the window for her to MOVE INTO THE INTERSECTION. She moves up about 2 feet, then stops again and lets the light go red. Now she’s too far into the intersection.

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