Well after a long break of me just forgetting stuffs I’m back and will continue blogging…YAY
100 View Day
February 2, 2008 at 12:33 am (Miscellaneous, Technology)
Tags: 100, gmt, hit, milestone, official, press, tomorrow, views, word, wordpress, yay
Well since wordpress runs on GMT tomorrow has hit and it is official, I have had my first 100 view day.
WOOT!
Stella Awards
January 30, 2008 at 11:45 pm (Miscellaneous)
Tags: 81, awards, funny, idiotic, law, liebeck, mcdonald, mexico, new, pathetic, sad, stella, stella liebeck, sue
This is definitely a very funny read and also sad how stupid we all are. I got this in an e-mail btw.
It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For
those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named
after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot
coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald’s
in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You
remember, she took the lid off t he coffee and put it
between her knees while she was driving. Who would
ever think one could get burned doing that, right?
That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish
lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds
of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head
scratcher handy.
Here are the Stella’s for the past year:
7TH PLACE:
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded
$80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her
ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a
furniture store. The store owners were understandably
surprised by the verdict, considering the running
toddler was her own son.
6TH PLACE:
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won
$74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran
over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently
didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the
car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s
hubcaps.
Go ahead, grab your head scratcher.
5TH PLACE:
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was
leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the
garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic
garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get
the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter
the house because the door connecting the garage to
the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut Forced
to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT, days on a case of
Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s
insurance company claiming undue mental anguish.
Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must
pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all
have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more…
4TH PLACE:
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock , Arkansas , garnered
4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500
plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt
by his next door neighbor’s beagle – even though the
beagle was in its owner’s fenced yard.
Williams did not get as much as he asked for because
the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked
at the time of the butt bite because Williams had
climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly
shot the dog with a pellet gun.
Grrrrr … Scratch, scratch.
3RD PLACE:
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury
ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500
after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke
her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms.
Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30
seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened
to people being responsible for their own actions?
Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are
only two more Stella’s to go…
2ND PLACE:
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a
night club in a nearby city because she fell from the
bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two
front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to
sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying
the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club
had to pay her $12,000….oh, yeah,
plus dental expenses. Go figure.
1ST PLACE: (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos
please) This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner
was Mrs. Merv Grazi nski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On
her first trip home, from an OU football game, having
driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control
at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to
the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich.
Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway,
crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs.
Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the
owner’ s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the
driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The
Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down,
$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually
changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just
in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also
buy a motor home.
Are we, as a society, getting more stupid…?
Supposedly it’s fake, but really still it’s kinda pathetic none the less
January 27, 2008 at 12:32 am (Miscellaneous)
Tags: gelu, twitter, friend, using, page, home, user, name
Well after my friend kept using it, I finally decided to give it a try and get one. My twitter user name is “gelu” and my page is https://twitter.com/gelu
New Domain for my Blog!
January 26, 2008 at 11:54 pm (Miscellaneous)
Tags: blog, complaints, gelu, gelu6713, new, remember, theme
I started to get some complaints about how the old domain gelu6713 was hard to remember so I made this one and got rid of the numbers to make it easier to remember. Please let me know what you think of the new blog and theme!
Bad News Everyone
January 24, 2008 at 2:35 am (Miscellaneous)
Tags: bad, canada, change citizenship, news, onion, politics
Is the Voice Back or is it in a Different Form?
January 7, 2008 at 1:46 am (Miscellaneous)
Tags: 68.4.241.102, smchs, voice
Well I just got an email asking to moderate a comment for this blog and guess what the user name was, “wethevoiceless”. I thought this whole thing had finally gone away but it seems it has not. The new person who seems to be some kind of voice possibly tied to the old one has a new blog http://wethevoiceless.wordpress.com/ They have made 1 blog post so far which can be seen at the link but there is also a copy of it below:
Shocking Report Just In-There Is Life Outside Your World
Posted January 4, 2008
Seniors!
With the greatly anticipated 18th birthday approaching each Senior individual, comes the realization that we have the ability to smoke, have sex, watch porn (boys seem to love to recognize this factor), move out as adults, and VOTE! Now while we know the first 4 options are typical choices that we consider, we need to eventually reflect on the power we have as Seniors when voting. Living in such a priveleged community, as victims of pop culture and media, the way we have been raised has shaped our ideas and persona. But on our journey of self-discovery, it’s our unique ability of embracing the ideas of others, and applying those to our own values to come up with an individualistic perspective of the world. This world we are trying to get to, is the world of politics. So even though we may be too lazy to read about our country’s choices of candidates, taking the easy route of voting who are parents are voting for-which is as sad as our pathetic attempt as do-gooders when receiving religion credit for our sad service endeavers- try to be productive for a change… Maybe try to watch the news for once instead of A Shot at Tila Tequila. (Or just tivo it instead.) Because in the end, we promise that you will probably feel more accomplished with your attempt at actually taking interest in the political debate, rather then finding out that Tila Tequila had to choose between Bobby over Dani.
Facts on the candidates will be posted soon…
IOWA Caucas Results:
Democratic Party:
Obama 38 %
Edwards 30%
Clinton 29%
Richardson 2 %
Republican:
Huckabee 34%
Romney 25%
Thompson 13 %
Mccain 13%
Iowa ‘08: Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee Score Caucus Victories
WARNING: FOR BLONDE DUMBASSES THAT CANNOT HANDLE BIG WORDS, DONT READ THE INTELLUCTUAL ARTICLE BELOW. BUT WE INSIST THAT YOU ATTEMPT TO TRY TO READ IT IF POSSIBLE.
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Hillary Clinton and John Edwards vying for second place in Democratic caucus.
Storming to victory on the wings of a call for change, Illinois Senator Barack Obama will win the Democratic Iowa caucus. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, CNN projected that Obama would take the first contest of the presidential race with 38 percent of the vote, outpacing former South Carolina Senator John Edwards and New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who were at 30 and 29 percent, respectively, at press time.
The win by a black candidate in what CNN analyst Jack Cafferty called “the whitest place outside of the North Pole” dealt a major blow to the campaign of Clinton, who had been the presumptive front-runner for much of the year. The lead on the Democratic side had shifted repeatedly among the top three candidates over the course of Thursday evening (January 3), but as predicted, Obama appeared to have tapped into a wellspring of support among first-time caucus-goers and younger voters.
And with 85 percent of precincts reporting, CNN has projected that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will win the Republican Iowa caucus with 34 percent of the vote, compared to 25 percent for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who has conceded, according to The New York Times.
CNN’s analysis of polling showed that among voters 17-24 years old, Obama got 57 percent of the vote, while Clinton, who conceded to Obama, did not finish among the top three in that category. Stunningly, 57 percent of Obama’s caucus supporters were ages 17-29, while only 18 percent of them were 65 years or older. In the crucial independent segment of voters — which make up almost a quarter of voters in Iowa — Obama had 41 percent backing to Clinton’s 17 percent.
The rest of the Democratic field failed to sway a significant portion of the electorate, with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson pulling just 2 percent of voters and Delaware Senator Joseph Biden clocking in at 1 percent. The bottom tier of Democratic candidates — Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel and Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich — failed to gain any percentage of the vote at press time. According to CNN, Dodd announced as the caucus results were coming in that he would be abandoning his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Among Republicans, Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson came in a distant third at 14 percent, followed by Arizona Senator John McCain at 13 percent. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who hardly campaigned in the state, came in at a disappointing sixth in the field, pulling just 4 percent of the vote, trailing long-shot anti-war candidate Ron Paul, who took 10 percent of the vote.
Just as the Iowa defeat was a major blow to Clinton’s campaign, which is among the most well-financed of all the candidates, the come-from-behind win by Huckabee came despite a huge outlay of cash by Romney in Iowa. Huckabee, a Baptist minister who was polling in the low single digits just six months ago, appeared to have appealed to the all-important segment of Christian conservative voters in Iowa, some of whom may have shied away from casting their lot with Romney, who is a member of the Mormon church, which some evangelicals view with skepticism. According to CNN, entrance polls showed that more than 60 percent of Republicans who caucused were evangelicals.
Speaking to CNN from Florida, Giuliani congratulated Huckabee, admitted that he didn’t campaign very hard in Iowa [ACTUALLY IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT HUCKABEE SPENT AS MUCH TO CAMPAIGN AS ROMNEY SPENT ON HIS CATERING BILL. WHICH SHOWS THAT HUCKABEE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A STRONG CANDIDATE IN THE ELECTION AFTER WINNING OVER IOWA.] and emphasized that he has been putting his focus on 29 different states, specifically Florida, which his campaign has said he is expecting to win later in the month. “Some people have paid a lot of resources to one state. We’ve kind of spread it out,” Giuliani said. “We’re ready for whatever the outcome is.”
The loss in Iowa is not a death blow for Romney — who has already spent $40 million of his own money on the campaign — but it does now put him into a more intense battle in the upcoming New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. There, he is expected to go head to head with McCain, who has lavished more of his attention in that state, where he is fast gaining on Romney.
The message of experience that has been the most frequent talking point from Clinton, who has often spoken on the campaign trail about what she would do when she is president, appeared to have lost out to Obama’s message of change and fresh blood. CNN predicted that if Obama could ride Thursday’s surge into New Hampshire, where the two candidates are currently in a dead heat, the once seemingly unstoppable Clinton political machine could be in serious trouble.
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-Allie
Something else I have gotten is their IP Address from their comment, yay moderation! I will post more concerning this later.
Edit: Unfortunately there is not much to go on with an IP Address of 68.4.241.102 but I do know that it is a Cox Communications IP so that is something and this poster is the same one that commented on John’s site. So it seems this is another version of the voice.
#1…wha?
December 23, 2007 at 9:58 pm (Miscellaneous)
Tags: #1, buzz, Disneyland, epic, lightyear, shooting
Yea so last night I went to Disneyland with John Soliman and we went on Buzz Lightyear. By the end of the ride John had told me to look at my score, but I was to focused on shooting the silly targets. At the end I look down to see 999,999. I was like what the heck? What did I do? So we came out to the computers found the picture, that I still have not received from Disneyland, to find out that I had been ranked number ONE! I got to put in my initials RCB and within a few moments on the plasmas above, I saw our picture and my initials at number 1. To think that I was the best out of everyone that day that had ridden the ride! It was a huge accomplishment and here are some pictures from my phone even though they are kinda blurry.


APPLICATIONS FINISHED!
December 11, 2007 at 3:42 am (Miscellaneous)
Tags: applications, college, finished
Yep so I turned in my final 4 applications in today and I am all done now YAY!
Almost Acoustic Christmas 07
December 9, 2007 at 9:21 pm (Miscellaneous)
Tags: christmas, concert, music
Wow that concert was AMAZING. Every band was really good, even though Rise Against got a little too much at times. It was all I had expected and more!