Complaining complaint from that complainy guy

Two knuckles on my right hand have been red and flaky and itchy for several weeks now.

I do not want eczema, and frankly I do not want any other diagnosis consistent with these symptoms.

I wish to explain that I have already got numerous diagnoses of diseases and syndromes. Each time I acquire one I need to read at least one and probably more books about it, worry somewhat, and either change my lifestyle or take medications or both. This has become burdensome as my bookshelf is full of condescending books written by registered nurses, I now take four prescription drugs, and I have given up numerous pleasures.

Please remove the itchy red flaky situation from the knuckles. If I require any more diagnoses of syndromes or diseases I will contact your office directly.

Thank you in advance.

If "star wars kid" is Anakin, then this guy is...

Well, he's mostly drunk Jabba.

http://www.m90.org/download.php?image_id=5409

This is pretty much what I would look like doing this. Which is why I don't do this. Dear Lord, the tarp.

I'm starting to like Dashboard a bit more

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art for art's sake

drink up: http://www.catandgirl.com/archive/cgartbar.gif

We need a new sheriff in town.

Okay Mikey. You stonewalled the Newport PD when your rich pal's kids raped someone else's kid with a pool cute and videotaped it, and you stonewalled further when the kid committed crimes during his trial. You hid donations in a bogus charity with the same rich buddy on the board. You used Sheriff's investigators for private purposes. And now it turns out you handed out badges, guns, and peace officer authority to your drinking friends, wealthy political benefactors, and various cousins — without any background check — including people with arrest records and a history of failing police psych tests. You are so fucking fired.

O.C. Sheriff Made Donors His Deputies
Friends, relatives were also among the 86 who received badges, even though some lacked training. Carona says there was no public risk.
By Christine Hanley
Times Staff Writer

Shortly after he took office, Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona and one of his top assistants deputized 86 friends, relatives, political contributors and others, giving them badges, powers of arrest and in some cases guns — despite the fact that none had background investigations and some had not been fully trained.

Three years later, the state's Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training removed all 86 of the reserve deputies from California's peace officer database, which meant the commission no longer recognized them as peace officers. Even so, 56 still have their badges and identification cards, and 14 have concealed weapons permits.( What the hell...? )

Yup. It's a channel now.

http://www.foxreality.com/

My kitchen adventure today, by me, age 40.

I went to get some ice for my iced coffee this morning. When I opened the freezer, stuff fell on me. Specifically a package of two Trader Joe's Really Expensive Chicken Burritos fell on me.

In my own opinion this is because there are always too many things in the freezer, most of which will never be used, and some of which are not even foods.

I bent over and picked up the burrito. As I did so, the freezer door swung shut as it's designed to do, timed perfectly so that I came up under it and hit my head quite hard.

At this juncture I became upset due to the combination of annoying burrito cascade and head injury, and I slammed the freezer door shut emphatically.

Unbeknownst to me, other items had also shifted their place in the freezer so that the door could not close properly. Instead, it bounced off those other items forcefully and flew back open. The speed and force of this reaction caused the two rails on the inside of the door to pop off, which they are designed to do in case of stress rather than breaking or bending.

Because the door now had no rails holding its door rack items in, and was moving rapidly open, it hit the maximum open angle of the mechanism and bounced back yet again. This time, because the retaining rails were no longer present, the contents of the door racks were deposited on the floor all at once.

As a result, four glass jars fell to the floor and explosively shattered. Glass pieces were found as far as twenty feet away. A large quantity of mixed breadcrumbs, flour, nuts, seeds, and unidentifiable powders was dumped on the floor as well.

The cleanup operation lasted 90 minutes and resulted in one additional minor injury due to glass. Investigation is pending, but freezer overloading appears to be the primary cause of the spill, as well as operator error due to poor stress management.

Is pro governing faked?

Group Slams Product Placement in Schwarzenegger Ad
"Junk Food Arnold" First to Reward Political Donors through Ads

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should pull a political commercial off the air that promotes the junk food products of his campaign donors, consumer advocates said.

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) called on Schwarzenegger to return the quarter-million dollars he received from companies featured in the ad, and for the corporations to pay the market value of the advertising to the state because it is improper for the governor to use public office to sell corporate products.

The TV ad, released in May, features Schwarzenegger talking to people in a lunchroom, and places Pepsi and Arrowhead Water in prominent spots next to the governor for one-third of the ad.

( What the HELL... )