In all honesty, I doubt Ms Granger has anything to do with the way this plays out, but I just had to post this.

I received an email from her or so it led me to believe.  Included in the email is a survey indicating what I think is needed to grow the economy. There were a number of things listed.  In order to check the ones I felt were most important, it was necessary to reply.  So I pressed reply, checked the boxes by the things I thought were needed and then I sent it.

Please note, there was an UN-CLICKABLE  line  ‘Submit and join’.

So then I got this message:
“This email address is no longer active. If you wish to send Congresswoman Granger an email, please visit http://kaygranger.house.gov and click on Email Kay Granger. For immediate assistance, please call Congresswoman Granger’s office at 817-338-0909 or 202-225-5071. ”

Excuse me?

So now, if I want to let Ms Granger know what I think is needed, I have to go to the site mentioned, click email Kay Granger, copy everything from the email she sent to me and paste it into a form! After SHE sent me asking me to tell her what I think!

(In all honesty, there WAS a link to take the survey on the web, but paranoid soul that I am, I hardly ever click a link in email. Since I have never contacted Ms Granger or her office, this email seemed a bit ‘spammy’,  and how did they get my brand spanking new email address to which this email was sent?)

I don’t think so.  What would you do?

Just another example of our incompetent Congress, or at least that is how it seems to me. At the very least there should be competent web/email handlers! But perhaps they feel the burden (once again) is on the tax payers to make our thoughts known.  In that case they are right.

But don’t do it this way!

Martha

I didn’t want to say anything before just in case.

And the chief thug is trying to make himself look like a humanitarian.  What a joke!

I just hope that one day the people of Iran will one day be free of the tyrants.

Martha

I recently received an email about a dog leading so many folks to safety during the attack of 9/11. It was very well done, with a picture of the heroic dog included. The Hoax.

It was a stirring story, except it wasn’t true. I usually check to see if stories are really true, but since this wasn’t of the murdering madmen variety or any one of the type I usually get, I didn’t check it out.  When someone brought my attention to the fact that it was a hoax, it burned me up.  There were clues in the original email that if I had checked, I would have known something was not kosher.

The email said the dog led some of those folks from the 112nd floor.  But how many people actually know that each tower had 110 floors? I didn’t!

I should have known that if this story was really true, it would surely have been televised at least once!

Now I wonder if this hoax was based on another story (which may or may not be true) about a guide dog on 9/11. Guide Dog Led Owner Down Stairs on 9/11

The reference to this story (Excerpted from Ventura County Star, April 25, 2003) does not seem to be availble.  At least I didn’t find it.

So maybe, since this article is to ‘persuade people to raise guide puppies’, the elaborate hoax about Daisy may have been done in order to get more people to raise guide puppies.  Unfortunately in this cas the untruth may have had the effect of making folks mad instead of getting the attention the hoaxer wanted.

Of course there is always the possiblility that someone just wants to ‘be funny’ and see how far the hoax will spread.

Martha

Not so for most of those commercials on CNN.

The EXTREMELY annoying one is for some firm showing all the people screaming out their windows, ‘It’s my money and I need it now’.

That one is the worst and I can’t get to the mute button fast enough when that one is showing.

AARP Insurance is another one.  Same old, same old. Over and over again. Another one is the ‘Do you owe the IRS more than $10,000? ‘. There are more, too numerous to name.

I have come to the conclusion these advertisers on CNN seem to be saying:

I need money (don’t we all?), I owe the IRS huge sums of money (I don’t!), I need one of those scammy reverse mortgages, (So I can pay the IRS?) I need a supplement insurance from AARP (it will cost a lot).

I guess they are saving  money by not making new commercials makes sense to them, but not to me! I wouldn’t buy anything from them due to the annoyance factor!

I think I will just quit watching CNN!

Martha

Especially with this guy!

Guess what, members of Congress.  We voted you in and we can vote you out.  Then where will your power trips be?

I just hope the current batch of ‘do nothings’ don’t destroy America before we can oust them!

Martha

Just read the log of Sony’s problems on this site, Sony’s hacking woes mount after PSN breach.

Maybe North Korean students are practicing?  North Korea’s Overseas Cyber Warrior Training.

Wouldn’t want to be a Sony IT person right now.

Martha

‘That’ is something malicious and I am wondering how ‘that’ managed to get posted from the user’s account!

One thing could be the user has a weak password for Facebook.  But the users that posted “I didn’t post that” are fairly computer savvy and should have used good passwords.

Now we are finding out that third party apps (like Farmville) are probably the culprits although they are probably not aware of the security issue.

Net-Security explains.

Egads, what next Facebook?

Martha

I had to go back to Firefox as it just has too much going for it the other browsers don’t.  But I do use Opera and Chrome, rarely Internet Explorer (that ActiveX thing is still there) and rarely still, Safari.

Imagine my surprise when Google Chrome couldn’t find Google!

Martha

I was getting responses from so many folks trying to sell me SEO services I decided to add this line to the page:

“If you are trying to sell me an SEO service, don’t bother, I won’t reply!”

Since I am still getting requests to sell me SEO, I guess there is a bot looking for contact forms.

Since the form is completely filled out, is this an automated response? (How do they do that?) Or do these SEO folks just don’t or can’t read?

Martha

The Super Bowl is being played at the Cowboy’s home stadium located in Arlington, Texas!  Arlington is NOT in Dallas!

Arlington is 20 miles west of downtown Dallas and is the 49th largest city in the United States.  It is also the home of the Texas Rangers, the International Bowling Campus (which houses the United States Bowling Congress, International Bowling Museum and the International Bowling Hall of Fame), the headquarters for American Mensa, and the theme parks Six Flags Over Texas (the original Six Flags) and Hurricane Harbor.  More…

Martha