Michael Z. Williamson's Blog, page 10
June 3, 2011
Stupid Stuff Online
I felt compelled to respond to the comment, but the article is interesting too.
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/06/01/video-family-lives-in-320-square-foot-shotgun-shack/?ncid=webmail#aolc=A1CQ8g
You "home eded" your kids? I hope their spelling, grammar, punctuation and phrasing are better than yours.
Also, the lot rent they're paying exceeds what I pay for my mortgage on a house 5X that size. They don't actually "own" a home. They own a trailer on someone else's land.
Then, the new laws on child products may put their little business under. I disagree with these laws, but compliance is something all businesses have to deal with. They may be in a world of hurt shortly.
I also wouldn't allow the kid to stay up there for "2-3 days at a time." As someone else said, he's living like a squirrel. Also, fire code in almost every jurisdiction requires two escape routes from all sleeping areas. He seems to have one ladder entrance only, and that directly over an ignition source.
As a cabin for a summer camp, it's smaller than either of my tents. As a house, it's smaller than my garage and of questionable safety.
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June 2, 2011
In the News: Politicians Respond to Power
Snark: For people who don't care about money, the "left" sure spends a lot of time worrying about money--other people's money, and how to get their hands on it.
If rich people own most of the businesses, generate most of the GDP and pay most of the taxes, it's hardly a surprise that the politicians respond to them.
The unions shot themselves in the head repeatedly in the 70s, insisting that the US should just practice isolationism and pay semi-skilled workers a "living wage" that in some areas is more than that earned by degreed professionals--doctors, engineers. A decade later, Japan owned the steel, auto and electronic industries because they had the work ethic without the greed.
This is not to say we should emulate Japan. But that was the threat at the time, and the unions failed to even acknowledge it, much less respond.
I worked at FedEx during the UPS strike, when the Teamsters spent 6 months trying very hard to convince FedEx employees to unionize. They offered a deal that was actually LESS beneficial than FedEx already delivered. Then they made their power grab on the freight industry, only to harm UPS's market share and employees, while empowering FedEx and several small, now large, trucking firms, who responded to the crisis.
A decade later, I found out the key bargaining point was control of pension funds, which is possibly a good idea. However, that's not what they presented, not what they fought, and not what they accomplished.
The unions have failed at least as much as the parties.
In the meantime, American Idle is sure raking in the bucks from the morons, isn't it? How many of those viewers can name a single Senator or Justice?
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And this is on top of the numerous naive elements of the "Story."
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May 31, 2011
The Strangest Scam I've Ever Seen
From: Haris Moore <fdavis1946@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:33 AM
Subject: MY ORDER
To: nia_a@yahoo.com
hello am haris moore by name and and My son Birthday is coming up on the 20th of june so I will like to place an order for,100 chicken and salad so can i get the total price and i am making the full payment of the order now with my credit card now and it will be picked up by a private carrier agent on that date by 5 pm and i will like you to calculate the total cost now plus the tax
I am hearing impaired a deaf and the best way for me to contact u is by my e mail address and via text msg and i will like u to give me ur cell phone number now so that i am going to send u a text on ur cell phone now and make sure uu be with it now okay
thanks
haris moore
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May 21, 2011
Boggling
This is a decent enough song, with a better than average video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpdmKELE1k&feature=topvideos_music
So in the comments, we find:
Dog spelt backwards is God.
Only God can save the world.
Yes, because rather than say, "God," it's so much easier to show a dog, and hint deceptively (how, exactly?) that "god" did it. Nevermind that the band is Swedish, and in Swedish, the words are "Hund" and "gud." (Pause while the twit runs off to chant "god is gud!")
I have no problem with faith, but it is possible to ascribe way too much to it. Especially as there's nothing on the band's site to indicate any religious affiliation at all.
And then we have:
Fucking Marxist propaganda
Really? I'm afraid I'm not following that, either. Dogs are marxist? Well, if they take down criminals in pain, I'm okay with that. And it's nice to see some artists who don't push the hippie myth that criminals are just misunderstood and only need a hug. It was nice to see a beat down.
I guess I see it more as "be like a dog, not like a sheep."
Because, you know, there were DOGS in the video, representing loyalty and strength.
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Disaster Preparedness--Boats
Extracted from some comments I sent elsewhere, on the subject of dealing with disasters by gettting a boat and using it as a bug out vehicle:
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My inlaws had a 46' Dolphin Catamaran for a while. This is, in current dollars, a near million dollar, state of the art boat, with sails, diesel engines, GPS, auto-pilot, radios, staterooms, the works.
I've got moderate experience in several types of boats, from pocket fishing types to speed boats and small sport sailboats.
They were constantly having to replace "canvas" (usually nylon, fiberglass or kevlar on boats these days), lines, electronics and do engine work. Nearly every letter from aboard was about the latest round of maintenance, the need for safety lines while at sea (including a man overboard incident), rough weather, mechanical failures at sea, keeping watch during such problems.
Pontoons are a catamaran, and almost proof against swamping, unless shot full of holes, though that is fairly easy to do. As I've noted previously, there's no cover nor concealment on open water.
Small boats carry almost nothing.
Large boats carry a lot less than many people think.
Unless one has a classic 18th Century wooden pinnace, with crew, including carpenters, maintenance is expensive, time consuming, and takes tools or a port. On second thought, it does even then.
Life on a boat is not some happy-go-carefree existence of drifting along watching the lesser castes starve. It requires, if anything, more work than a landed lifestyle. If it was so cheap and easy, more people would do it.
If one has a definite bug out destination in mind, a boat would certainly be ONE means to consider. It is not, however, the solution to any other problem. It is a hole in the water that one must pour money into to maintain, even when not in use. That money can better be spent on beans, bullets and band aids, a chunk of land, tools, etc.
Like the "get a light plane and pilot's license" threads on this forum a few years ago, there's much more involved than a casual glance suggests, and I believe even experienced boat owners are underestimating what's involved.
I'd like to see comment on this subject from experienced Naval boat and ship handlers. I suspect they'll be a lot less sanguine than many readers.
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May 17, 2011
Lawyers In Hell, Coming Fall 2011
We were told to take historical people, especially lawyers, and create their perpetual demise and torment.
LAWYERS IN HELL OFFICIAL NAME/ENTITY LIST
(04/25/11)
© 2011 Janet Morris, all rights reserved
The Adjudication of Henrietta (Hetty) Howland Robinson Green--Allan Gilbreath
Henrietta (Hetty) Howland Robinson Green
Edward (Eddie) J. O’Hare, Esquire
Inferni Club
Brother Francis
Valeria Messalina
And Injustice for All--Jason Cordova
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and of Navarre
Rasputin
Nostradamus
Madame Blavatsky
Henrietta Maria
Prophecy Dolls, LLC
Unwelfare Housing
Perdition Broadcasting System (“PBS” )
Gremlins Chinese Theater
Hellywood Walk of Shame
Hellywood
Counselor John Pym
Henri Sanson
Madame Toadstool’s Finery
Beasterly Hells
Dishonorable Raum, Great Earl of Hell and Demonic Lord
Lost Angeles Uncivil Circuit Court of the Hall of Injustice
Decapitol Records Eternal Waiting Room a/k/a The Lobby
Appellate Angel--Edward McKeown
Arkiel, watcher cast down for dalliance with human women
Yoko, demon of lust, being a lawyer to punish being too sexy
Slamtrack
Gravelog, demon limo driver
The Appellate Section of the Grand Court of Hell, Pandemonium Division
Aztec Priest Huemac
Malfean, succubus/paralegal
Check and Mate--Bradley H. Sinor
John Adams
Lieserl Einstein
Aleister Crowley
Demon’s Gambit Chess Club
DisgraceBook
Big Bill Jansen, Proprietor of
The Hellegality Club
Walter Gibson
Hellizdat Publishing
Captain Meriwether Lewis
hellphone
The Dark Arts--Kimberly Richardson
Clarence Darrow
Penemue (fallen angel)
Nicolo Paganini
Attorney Boulder
John Ginger
Rue de la Mort in Lost Angeles
Thanatos Library
Disclaimer--John Manning
Aaron “Monty” Montgomery
Rudolfo (Imp, elevator operator)
Demonic Idol
Welcome Woman
Howard Hughes
Undertaker
Demetrius the Chief Librarian of hell’s Law Library
Justice Cardozo
Foreman
Belli
Golgotha Gardens Retirement Home and Assisted Living Center
His Satanic Majesty
Maureen Johanssen
Omar Sharif
Pazuzu (demon)
Mari (female slave to Pazuzu
Jehovah
Palestine
Sodom
Gomorrah
Jericho
Babylon
Damascus
Yahweh
Jerusalem
Canaan
Jordan River
Egypt
Persia
Sinai
Eastern Mediterranean
Allah
Mohammed
Christ
Kathy Griffin
Apsu
Marduk
Mummu
Ba’al
Che Guevara
Infernal Action Request
Asmoday, Amdusias, Amon, Marchosias, Marbas & Zepar, Attorneys At Law
Jean Harlow
Marquis Marchosias (demon)
Bram Stoker
Prince Vlad III Drakulya aka Vlad Tepes aka Drakulja, Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania
Count Dracula
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Sultan Mehmed II
Enemies Like These--David L. Burkhead
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lieutenant Colonel William Dunlap Simpson, Fourteenth South Carolina Volunteers
Midgarder
Nidhogg, the World Serpent, the Death of the World
World Ash Yggdrassil
Fimbulwinter
Surtr, the fire giant
Niffelheim
Wotan
Mirmir’s Well
Niffelhel
Vafthruthnir, the giant
Gjöll River, the river resounding
General Sherman
Thomas Huxley
Ragnarok, the Fate of the Gods
Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead
Jötuns
Asgard, the Abode of the Gods
Gold-thatched Hall of Gimle
Valhöl
Ginungagap, the yawning void from before the world was
Gjällerbru, bridge over Gjöll
Hel
Helheim
Modgud, the giantess
Garmr, the Hel Hound
Odin
Gold Teeth
Fenris the wolf
Jörmungand the world serpent
Erra and the Seven--Chris Morris
William Shakespeare
Lysicles the Athenian
Erebos
Styx
Hades
Tartaros
Asphodel
Elysion
Erra and his Seven Sibitti
Lethe the water of forgetfulness
Mnemosyne the water of remembrance
Hecate
Homer
Chares
Hammurabi
Draco
Alexander of Macedon aka Alexander the Macedonian
Aristotle
Oceanus
Ten Courts of Hell in Diyu
Yama Kings
Jahannam
Allah
Almighty Kur, lord of Ki-gal
Eshi, Kigali boy
Ki-gal
Arali
Pandemonium (city)
Irkalla, Babylonian goddess of the dead
Nature
Satan
New Hell’s Hall of Injustice
Laelaps, hound of Zeus
Zeus
Teumessian fox
Gehenna
Sheol
Hellywood Boulevard
Emeslam
Heads You Lose--Michael Z. Williamson
Captain Joseph McCarthy, “Tail-dragger Joe"
Lt. Roger Upton Howard, III
William Rehnquist, paralegal
Henry J. Summers, II
General S.V. Benet
Sergeant Strom Thurmond
Horace
Gandhi
Walter Cronkite
Mathew Brady
His Satanic Majesty
Sinberia
Hellaska
Coordinating Legal Airborne Platoon (CLAP)
Regulatory Statutes of Unfairness
Ashcanistan
Kabum, capital city of Ashcanistan
Taliban
Taliwhackers
Supervising Legal Airborne Group (“SLAG” )
Forced Unified Central Kabum Emergency Resistance
Perdition Seal on official legal documents
DisgraceBook
Drownin’ Numbnuts
Interview with the Devil--Janet and Chris Morris
Marilyn Monroe
William Safire
New Hell Times Sinday Magazine
Mephistopheles
Richard Nixon
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pernicious Demonic Avatars (PDA)
Devil’s Children
Insecurity Service
Machiavelli
Nero
Saddam Hussein
Caligula
Sartre
Mortuary
Hell’s Angels
Island Out of Time--Richard Groller
Oracle of Delphi
Nichols
Richard (“Dick” ) Welch
Croesus, king of Lydia
Zeno of Elea
Achilles
Pythagoras
Infernal Observatory, Department of Apparent Time, Mount Sinai
Daniel Webster
Christopher Marlowe
Gurgle
SATSATPHORECNET (Satanic Satellite Photographic Reconnaissance Network)
USS (Underworld Satanical Ship) Arizona,
NUDET (Nuclear Detonation) sensors
(Infernal Japanese Navy) Yamato
Erik Weisz aka Harry Houdini
Captain John B. Merkerson
Major John Wesley Powell
TazzMania
Society of American Magicians
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
Measure of a Man--Deborah Koren
Alan Bensinger
William Barclay “Bat” Masterson
New Bodie
Unlucky Strike Hotel
Dead Hat Joe
Ungrand Opera House
Giacomo Puccini
Sally Lockett
Josie’s Saloon
Wyatt Earp
Luigi Bonzoni
Marshal Lee Hall
Orientation Day--Sarah Hulcy
Demetrius, Chief Librarian of Hell
Percy Foreman
Melvin Belli
Justice Benjamin Cardozo
Altos – the volunteer angel
Makalani, First Assistant to Demetrius
Dr. Miguel Bartsch
Hell’s Law Library
Register of Preeminently Damned Lawyers
Infernal Revenue Service
Out of Court Settlement--C.J. Cherryh
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
Sargon of Akkad
Hatshepsut
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Secretary to the Second Chancery de la Repubblica di Fierenze, lately Secretary to Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus
Julius’ sons: Caesarion and Marcus Junius Brutus
Emperor Tiberius
Caius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Augustus
Cardinal Richelieu
Stalenus, Dolabella & Crassus (law firm)
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Antonius
Claudius
Caracalla
Caligula
Decentral Park
Hellzacre BarBQ
Cong
Dante Alighieri
Erra and the Seven
German Guards
Cesare Borgia
Decius Mus
Scaevola
Scorpion Guards
Plains of Hell--Bruce Durham
General James Wolfe
Labratt’s Blew
Sludgeweiser
Helliken
John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Governor of the Hudson Bay Company
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Glenn Gould
Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Judge Roy Bean
One Ear (demon)
Snotex
Count Tilly
Marshal Ney
General Longstreet
General Benjamin Arnott aka Benedict Arnold
Plains of Abraham
Edward R. Murrow
The Rapture Elevator--Michael A. Armstrong
Kinmont Willie aka William of Morton Rig aka William Strang
Scott of Buccleuch aka Scott, the Bold Buccleuch
Queen Elizabeth I
Jamey (Willie’s horse)
Rapture Elevator
Salkeld
Carlisle Castle
North Road, New Hell
RMS Titanic
Shanidar the Neanderthal (sometime bouncer at Oasis)
Ringan’s Tam
Dick of the Side, Nixon aka President Richard Nixon
Job, the Ombudsman
Sassenach (derogatory term for English)
The Register--Michael H. Hanson
Alistair Chrysler-Smith
The Hell Register of Preeminently Damned Lawyers
Gefjon, Malfean, Alalahe, and Gemmeul (succubi)
Pandemonium (city)
Nile Boulevard, Pandemonium
Matali
Pandemonium City Courthouse
Death Rattle Club
Ungrateful Dead
White House contractor John McShain
Laborers’ International Union of North America
Register Ratings Department Demons: Mayet, Astraea, Mynndie, Vali, Naru-Kami, and Chantico
‘Dante and Virgil in Hell’ by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Miranda Attorney Alvin Moore
The Apostasies, Hell’s Supreme Court
Justice Taney
Remember, Remember, Hell in November--Larry Atchley, Jr.
Guy Fawkes
Anton Szandor LaVey
Welcome Woman
Harlot of Hell
His Satanic Majesty
Eyjolf Bolverksson, Icelandic lawspeaker
Eric Blair (George Orwell)
Jonathan Swift
Yuri Andropov
Revolutionary Justice--Leo Champion
William Walker
Che Guevara
Kurt Cobain
Saul Alinsky
Leon Trotsky
Eric Blair (George Orwell)
Patrice Lumumba
Voltaire
Maximilian Robespierre
Simon Bolivar
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Devil’s Children
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus
Nouveau Paris
Erra and his pitiless Seven
Tim
Rosa Luxembourg
Boz
Totalitarian Club
DeadEx
Harry Innis, Third Associate Section Head for Traffic and Parking Enforcement
Infernal Bureau of Sewage and Drinking Water Management, Fourth Division, New Hell Department
Max Weber
Brigadier-General Henry Martyn Robert
New Hell Times
Tale of a Tail--Nancy Asire
Napoleon Bonaparte
Countess Marie Walewska
The Duke of Wellington aka The Iron Duke
New Hell City
Decentral Park
Viet Cong
Hellview Estates
Grand Marshal Duroc
Hellview Golf and Country Club
Attila the Hun
Ildilco, Attilla’s wife
Erra and the Seven
Unsafeway
HDOT
Hellphone
Queen Victoria
Ma-hell
New Hell I.D. card
Hell-horse
Hell-goat
Martin Chase Standish, Esquire, President Hellview Estates Home Owners’ Association
New Hell Human and Urban Development
Windows4U
Infernal National Guard
Purgatory
Goebbels
Hellview Estates Home Owner’s Association versus Demon of Unknown Origin, Emergency Petition Alleging Fraud Against the Infernal Government
Theos Khthonios
Scott Oden
King Leonidas, son of Anaxandridas
River Styx
Hades
Hades’ Realm
Tartaros
Skiritai (Spartan Scouts)
Dienekes
Stygian Mere
Blue Men
Argives
Spartan shields, the inverted ‘V’ of Lakedaemon
Simonides of Keos
Kleomenes
Ephialtes of Trachis
The Ataphoi – Shades of the Unburied
Caeadas, Temple of the Ephors
Kore (Hades’ wife, Persephone)
Kerberos, the Hound of Hades
Alexandros of Macedon
Nearchos
The Ephors: Chosen of Persephone
Erinys
Menelaos
Lykourgos, called the Lawgiver
Agis
Brasidas
Lysandros
Alpheus
Eurytus
Maron
Aristandros
Tribe of Hell--Janet Morris
Almighty Kur, ruler of Ki-gal and the Kigali
Eshi, Kur’s protégé and erominos
Erra and the Seven (the Sibitti)
Lysicles
Draco, lawgiver of Athens
Hammurabi
Chares
Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)
Aristotle
Alexander of Macedon (the Great) aka Alexandros Philippou Macedon
The Downward Road
Emeslam
The Three Fates, Atropos and her sisters
Elysion
Hades
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May 16, 2011
Vote For Me And Other Great Authors
May 10, 2011
More Pimpery
Went through galleys of the PB of Do Unto Others... today.
Corrected stuff from American to Brit for the Brit characters.
So, I am now offering this interesting artifact for commerce.
I'll sign it, and you get to see the marked up version.
In exchange, either:
Show me a receipt for an advance order of Rogue from http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/search.php?authorsearch=williamson&title=Rogue&isbn=&binding=&location=Uncle+Hugo%27s+Only&status=Not+Yet+Received+Only&signed=Both+Signed+%2B+Unsigned&submit=SUBMIT
I prefer that method.
OR
Call dibs here and fight it out for Paypal. But don't get silly. It's not worth that much. Actually, yes, please get silly.
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you Have Got To Be !@#$ing Me
GPal, Inc. to me show details 2:05 AM (8 hours ago)
Dear Valued GPal Customer,
As some of our customers have been acutely aware of, GPal has been experiencing difficulties related to Credit Card banks holding of customer funds. These problems exist with funds from transactions prior to March 09, 2011. As a result, GPal suspended credit cards entirely on March 9, 2011, leaving us with only Checking Accounts to fund transactions.
Unfortunately, it appears that these Credit Card holds are not going to be resolved anytime soon, so GPal is taking pro-active action to raise funds to cover the entirety of the hold, fund customer accounts, and provide for future expansion.
Due to the difficulty of raising funds for a payments company in the firearm space, we are enlisting your help in this process. GPal is offering a $10,000 referral fee* to any GPal user who introduces an Investor (VC, Angel, PE firm, etc.) that leads to a deal in excess of $1million. Please send introductions to support@gpal.net with “Investor Introduction” in the Subject.
Please note that GPal is presently fully operational for checking account only transactions. Transactions originated on or after March 09, 2011 should now be processed within our 2-7 business day target.
GPal remains absolutely committed to providing the only pro-rights and non-discriminatory payment service in the world.
Sincerely,
GPal.
*= This email is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to sell shares or securities in the Company or any related or associated company. Any such offer or solicitation will be made only by means of the Company's confidential Offering Memorandum and in accordance with the terms of all applicable securities and other laws.
Referral fee of $10,000 will be paid to the registered GPal user’s GPal account. Must be a GPal account holder in good standing. Investors referred must be an Accredited Investors. Deal size must be in excess of $1million. Subject to SEC and State approval and eligibility restrictions. Fee is for Referral only, and referrer must not act in any capacity as a Broker or other regulated activity without the proper registrations and licenses.
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Wait, so after you promised to handle firearm and other transactions Paypal wouldn't, you screwed up and ran into problems. You never got properly licensed in 49 other states to do money transfers. You had trouble making payouts to customers, tried to blame this on our banks, and now on "Credit Card banks," not doing transfers in a timely fashion (All of them?!?). There are customers reporting they're out hundreds or thousands of dollars. Credit card processors won't deal with you. Customers are fleeing left and right. There are photos of the CEO on calguns.net in fancy cars and planes (someone joked about him being a valet). Now you want ME to help find operating capital for you?
How about I introduce you to some Nigerians?
PS: If I could arrange for a mil in capital, why would I want to give it you for a 1%, one time stake, when I could invest in my own development?
You get points for determination, though. You're determined to make this work no matter how much of other people's money you need, it seems.
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May 9, 2011
Now With More TV!
http://press.discovery.com/uk/dsc/programs/sci-fi-season/ UK fans can catch my props, weapons and military/preparedness advice(what they took), my location scouting, and my daughter's lead acting (and my son as an extra), in this show, May 20th. US release to follow soon.
Morrigan is the girl in the red shirt in the promo shots. http://www.MorriganSanders.com
Film location was Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, where my wife was a plankowner. One of the neat things about the place is that you can destroy almost anything on site as long as you pay to repair it.
I provided uniforms, helmets, armor, gear, 100 weapons from old double barrel shotguns and a sporterized MAS 36, all the way to AKs and M4s (though they didn't use even close to all of them). I was on set as armorer and military adviser, and my daughter is the girl with the alien artifact. Eric is in several scenes as a casualty/victim/fleeing child, etc.
Mike
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