That’s not possible is it?

Avery Axel was annoyed with his cable company, Comcast, and was considering switching to Verizon’s new FiOS fiber-optic TV and Internet service.

The picture on his TV would freeze now and then, and he had heard good things about FiOS. Then the 21-year-old student saw a TV commercial from Comcast that made fun of FiOS and claimed the cable TV company has a larger fiber-optic network.

“I thought to myself: Maybe I don’t have to switch, because if Comcast has fiber optics now, that means that they’ll be better,” said Axel, who lives in Roosevelt, N.J.

But after asking around online, he found that nothing’s changed about Comcast’s service: It still uses coaxial cable to connect homes. It does use fiber-optic cable further away in the network, as it has for many years.

Seems that all the cable companies are running scared.  Years of horrible service is catching up with them!  Best part is, Comcast knows just how much suck they are.

Disclaimer: I work for VerizonBusiness (formerly MCI) but have nothing to do with FIOS, I can’t even get FIOS.

When a soldier comes home, he finds it hard…

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Yeah you… wandering by the internet.

I’m not sure, but I think you haven’t stopped by Beertap.TV lately.  What’s the hold up?  Scared?

George Carlin has died.

My Grandfather is buried in a New Jersey veteran’s cemetery. 

This chickenfucker walks around on the graves and spits on them.  What the hell is wrong with this guy?  I’d apologize for the language, but I’m hoping someone does take something large, maybe the size of a typewriter, and shoves it up this guys ass.

The Jawa Report let me to this vile disgusting piece of trash.  Thanks Bluto.. sheesh.

Get a big tub of Mild Slim-Jims.  A small box of ultra-hot Slim Jims the same size.

Mix one or two of the ultra-hots in with the normal milds.  The wrappers look all but the same.

Wait and see who makes the “Got a hot one” face…

Europe’s CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. The new report, like earlier safety studies, rules out the possibility of global danger.

That’s good news you know.  I’m sure with all the other doomsday scenarios that the media just can’t stop propagating, losing just this one won’t hurt media sales that much.

Critics of the collider are pursuing a federal lawsuit challenging the safety claims - and they’re likely to continue the doomsday debate even in the wake of this report.

Now, the problem I have with the federal lawsuit:  You cannot sue for damages until you have… damages.  So this lawsuit should be put on hold until we’re sucked into the alternate universe where black is white, up is down, and the media is responsible and non-biased.

Ruining it for everyone.

Actually, they just ruined it for themselves.  It’s all about this.  Basically kids are banned from the mall Friday and Saturday nights unless they’re accompanied by an adult.  All because the rest of the state (This means you, Newark) kicked out everyone from hanging out relatively safely, and now this final spot that teenagers could go has had enough.

A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald’s.

Not Big Macs, french fries and chocolate shakes. Mostly salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.

Wait a minute.  I thought from all the propaganda I’ve been force fed (heheh) over the years, McDonald’s was bad and evil and solely responsible for the obesity in the US.

Since individuals can lose weight eating there, there must be another reason.  Maybe it is that dreaded term “personal responsibility” which causes those on the left great fear like a cross to a vampire.

What the fawning media shows you, Obama [spit] the hero saving the day.

What the fawning media doesn’t show you below the fold.

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British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustainable communities.

The body that represents the country’s local authorities has told its members to stop using management buzzwords, saying they confuse people and prevent residents from understanding what local governments do.

The Local Government Association, whose members include hundreds of district, town and county councils in England and Wales, on Friday sent out a list of 100 “non-words” that it said officials should avoid if they want to be understood.

The list includes the popular but vague term “empowerment;” “coterminosity,” a situation in which two organizations oversee the same geographical area; and “synergies,” combinations in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Officials were told to ditch the term “revenue stream” for income, as well as the imprecise “sustainable communities.” The association also said councils should stop referring to local residents as “customers” or “stakeholders.”

The association’s chairman, Simon Milton, said officials should not “hide behind impenetrable jargon and phrases.”

I hate these types of buzzwords.  I refuse to use them myself.  My vote on the word that needs to be banned first?

Methodologies.  Apparently that’s the plural form of method.  Silly me thought that the plural form of method was methods.  Apparently not enough syllables to make the speaker think they’re educated.

I’ve upgraded.

Mostly like it, with one exception.  Windows Live Writer is the best blogging tool I’ve ever seen.  I love it.  Makes everything so easy to use.

And with Firefox 2 there was a plugin that worked.  I’m reading something in Firefox, I could just highlight a quote, hit the button, and blog away.  It’s wonderful.

Except now the plugin doesn’t work, and the workarounds either don’t work or stop version checks completely.  So that’s kind of a big let down.  Gotta get that upgrade.

When I read about how pathetic some people are.

A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.

Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are about four pregnancies a year at the school.

Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none over 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and “seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were.”

Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers “is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” Sullivan told the magazine.

Something is just so damn wrong when you read stories like this.  But remember, these are life choices people are making, and these children have been taught from a young age that what the feel like doing is more important than making the so called “right” choice.

Unions on the attack against charter schools.

The state’s largest school employee union hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to craft a public relations strategy for limiting the expansion of charter schools in Delaware.

The Delaware State Education Association commissioned Belden Russonello & Stewart Research and Communications to conduct public opinion research in November and December 2007 and ultimately give recommendations on the group’s policy work concerning charter schools.

The 38-page report makes seven recommendations, including not to “attack charters directly,” make funding the main reason for restricting the number of charters and “use teachers to carry the message.”

“This is a jihad against charter schools,” said Greg Meece, president of the Delaware Charter School Network. “DSEA is trying to smear and tear down charter schools. It’s an all-out furor against charter schools.”

And here’s the real reason for the attack:

Unlike district teachers, charter school teachers aren’t required to be union members. Consequently, the union has few charter members because they don’t see the advantage of being unionized, said Meece, who also is the school director at Newark Charter School.

Is it they can’t stand the competition?  Nah, it’s because the union doesn’t have power over the teachers in charter schools.  While they might not have a coupla big thugs show up to break some legs, they’re still going to pull all the same dirty underhanded stunts they can.

I am so not awake this morning.

Muslim Women in Headscarves Banned From Obama [spit] Photo Op

Two Muslim women were prohibited from sitting behind the podium at Barack Obama’s Monday rally in Detroit, apparently so their headscarves would not appear in photographs with him, according to a report Wednesday in the Politico.com.

The Washington-based Web site reported that Obama [spit] campaign volunteers said the women could not wear the hijabs behind the candidate, though they gave different reasons for the rule.

One volunteer said that one of the women could not be seen on TV with Obama [spit] “because of the political climate and what’s going on in the world and what’s going on with Muslim Americans,” according to the Muslim woman’s friend.

The other volunteer gave a less political explanation to the other woman, according to the article, claiming nobody with any kind of headpiece could sit behind the stage.

Don’t believe any politically correct explanations like this.  Obama’s obviously a racist and a sexist.  Politics as usual of course.  Oh wait, he’s a Democrat?  It was obviously all a big misunderstanding.

Via FOXNews.com

A woman seen frequently in Ashland riding topless on her bicycle says she plans to be in Ashland’s Fourth of July parade free and independent of all clothing but a hemp G-string. The Chamber of Commerce says that’s contrary to the rules for the family celebration. She says she’ll sue if she can’t parade as she wishes.

Jen Moss has been known as “The Naked Lady” since she moved to Ashland in May from Ojai, Calif., drawn by the town’s nudity laws. They specify only that people must cover their genitalia in a city park or the downtown commercial district, which means Moss need not cover her breasts.

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City Council member Eric Navickas said he’s on Moss’s side.

If she can’t be in the parade, Navickas said, it would be “an interesting commentary on our society that we’re willing to tolerate dead bodies through our aggressive foreign policy from the war, but not healthy, naked bodies.”

What?  Does anyone else spot the ridiculousness of both what the fruitcake wants to do and the people that support her? 

I’m going to sue the guy who cut me off in traffic.  Because of our aggressive foreign policy that has dead bodies or something.

Anyways, don’t get me wrong.  I’m all for naked chicks in parades.  However, I have the basic morality and intelligence required to know that there is a time and a place for naked chick parades.  But that isn’t at a family event for 4th of July when there are a lot of small children attending.

Hurt Feelings will get you sued.

A hair salon owner in London claims her business was driven to the brink of ruin after she was ordered to pay $7,800 to a Muslim woman who claimed her feelings were hurt after she was not hired because she wouldn’t show her hair at work, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Wedge salon owner Sarah Desrosiers requires employees to showcase different looks for clients, as her shop specializes in alternative cuts and colors. Bushra Noah, 19, who made it clear during her interview that she would not remove her head scarf for religious reasons, accused Desrosiers of discrimination.

Desrosiers, 32, was ordered to pay Noah $7,800 for indirect discrimination by way of “injury to feelings,” The Mail reported.

Injury to feelings.  Attention all geeks: You can now sue the cheerleaders who made fun of you in front of everyone when you asked her to the high school dance.  Your feelings were hurt, you deserve compensation.

Via FOXNews.com

A Los Angeles woman claims she was injured by her Victoria’s Secret thong, prompting her to sue the underwear manufacturer.

The plaintiff in the case, Macrida Patterson, 52, attributed the May 2007 injury to a Victoria’s Secret “low-rise v-string,” according to a court document posted on The Smoking Gun.

Patterson’s lawyer told The Smoking Gun that a “design problem” caused a decorative metallic piece on the underwear to fly up and hit Patterson in the eye while she was putting the underwear on.

Wow… I never thought I’d actually see panties that have metal pieces on them.  That’s… well, for your imagination.

Hee, hee, hee. It seems as though someone is not practicing what he is preaching. Guess who’s electricity consumption is up 10% this year?

The good parts:

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore won an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”

Ha, ha, ha.