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Stamps Go Up, Concern Goes Down

I received an email from William this morning about the new price hike in postal stamps. To quote Casey Kasem, “and he writes…”

Postal rate increase in May, buy stamps now and save money….

I have confirmed you can indeed buy postage stamps now for 42 cents and they
will be good “forever” no matter how high the postage rate goes. Without
having to add additional postage….

“”" The Forever stamp will always be valid as First–Class postage on
standard envelopes weighing one ounce or less, regardless of any subsequent
increases in the First–Class rate.”"”

You can get the “Forever (Liberty Bell) non–denominated First–Class Mail
definitive Forever Stamp” from the U.S. Post Office website at…

https://shop.usps.com

you can buy them in 20 and 100 and packs, but they are in booklets only and
not rolls.

I understand the concept of the “Forever Stamp”. It’s less money and hassle to just accept that stamp than it is to make 1 or 2 cent stamps. I have no problem with it.

My problem comes with why the raise in price? Granted, some people don’t have access to the Internet and need to snail mail. Or they just don’t trust the Internet with handling there money transactions. These seem like the dumbest reason to use USPS.

The increase should be for some reason. I know that the USPS relies on postage sales and not Government funding. I also believe in a supply and demand system. And the USPS doesn’t fit under that category.

You take a business that’s know for it’s not so fun and it’s a pain in the ass to visit environment. Less technology advances than it’s competitors. Disgruntled employees. Plus, it’s decreasing demand of use. And then you make use pay more for this service?

This effects me in no way what so ever. As far as I know. I just don’t like the answer of, “we just need more money”. If the product was that good, you won’t need to increase the price.

With the recent bailouts and the USPS increases, it makes me wonder, what ever happened to going out of business? Did Circuit City not get the memo about just asking the Government for money? Or did they get reject with an “Eh, we’ll just go to Best Buy” letter?

How long will it be until we have to bailout a service no one uses. Just like the cars no one buys.

Someone higher up is going to have to realize the fact that companies just go out of business sometimes. If I could, I’d drive my 2009 DMC10 to the grocery store for some Superman Peanut Butter, but I can’t.

Brett Favre Retires… Again… Maybe

Due to his shoulder injury and maybe because of throwing footballs for 18 seasons, Favre thinks it might be time to retire.

Then again, maybe he’s due for a short stint in Minnesota.

I like Favre. At first it pissed me off that Favre moved over to New York. Then again, it’s nothing new to watch a great player team hop. Jordan with the Wizards. Gretzky to the Blues then Rangers. So I support his decision to un-retire again. Which he hasn’t done yet but, give him time, again.

[via Fanhouse]

Miss March (2009)

Fajax

I was searching the Googles for a fix that randomly started happening to a web site I was working on. Well, it might not had been random but I don’t feel like reverting back to versions just to find the culprit. IT might be the table. Might be something else.

“ie page flicker” took me to “Stop IE Flickering Between Pages”. OK, nice, I’m clicking, I’m reading. Turns out that IE sucks. No, really.

I really didn’t care to read into exactly what this snippet of code does. It just fixed my problem. My problem being, when submitting a page in IE the browser goes blank (all white) for a split second while it tries to load the new page. This is not an issue in Firefox.

Calling it Fajax for the mere fact it looks like an Ajax load? I guess. Anyways, here’s the HTML for your cutting and pasting pleasures.

<meta http-equiv=”Page-Enter” content=”blendTrans(Duration=0)”>
<meta http-equiv=”Page-Exit” content=”blendTrans(Duration=0)”>

Bull Riding vs Ball Grabbing

This topic/conversation is a week or so off but I just remembered to look up the facts.

A certain redheaded “animal lover” drunkly claimed that bull riding was animal cruelty. Making statements like, “look at the bulls eyes, he’s so sad” and “they tie a rope around thier balls to make them buck.” Although I had valid question about why these thoughts had been thought, I know the best thing to do is not agree with a drunk person, but rather agree with them and make the situation seem worse than it is just to upset that person more.

Now to review some things.

Do I agree with bull riding and do I think it’s cruel. Strapping my left hand, extremely tight to the back of a naturally wild animal doesn’t sound like a barrel of laughs. Although it does sound like entertainment. I’m sure there are some establishments that don’t tend to the bulls with the greatest care to hopefully increase the pocket depths of others. I assume the events on TV, those probably treat the bulls like kings.

How the hell can you tell if a bull is sad? Do bulls get sad? Do they understand the concept of being sad? If I was in a metal cage with a guy strapped to my back, I wouldn’t be sad. I’d be nervous, a little confused and most likely flamingly gay.

The major argumentative point was, the tying of the bulls balls Tightly to supposedly make them buck. Now, I don’t have my balls tied on a daily basis but, I’d believe that having my balls tied would decrease my urge and wanting to kick my legs as I spin in circles. Also, I’m no animal doctor but, the “second rope” seems to be tie around the stomach, in front of the legs. The testicles then, I believe, are located “at the back of the plane”. If that confuses you then let me put it this way. I don’t have to adjust myself to a more comfortable position during the process of putting a belt on.

Try wrapping a rubber band around your cat or dogs foot. Most likely the animal will find it annoying are try to remove said item. Since animals don’t have opposable thumbs, kicking is a close second process of removing items off their body.

If there is any evidence of otherwise, send me a photo. Photo’s are worth 1000 words but a 1000 word response about hearsay is worthless.