And here’s how they pissed me off:

About a year ago, I signed up for a Sears credit card. I’d never had one before and thought it would be kind of nice to have, just in case I needed some work done on the car, or needed an appliance repaired or something. The family even has pictures taken there from time to time, and I figured the card would work for that too.

Well, I never used the card. I got it, and then just stuck it in my desk drawer. And then I sort of just forgot about it; mainly because nothing broke or needed to be replaced. Sure I knew I had one, and it crossed my mind from time to time that I was one of those select few with a shiny Sear’s card in the drawer, but I never used it. I even got emails from Sears now and again reminding me that I could use the card to buy cool Christmas gifts, or summer vacation clothes etc…

Well, a few weeks ago, I got a letter in the mail telling me, and I quote: “IN AN ONGOING ATTEMPT TO SERVE YOU BETTER IN THESE TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL YOUR SEARCH ACCOUNT…. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.”

My first thought was “HOLY CRAP BATMAN, HOW BAD DOES YOUR CREDIT HAVE TO BE FOR SEARS TO CANCEL A CARD YOU’VE NEVER USED”? I then went online and wandered around the net and found out that all the credit card companiess are doing that to their customers. I even had a friend, with kick ass credit, tell me that Bank of America had cut his credit line in half, even though the card was paid off in full each month, so he’d canceled the card.

So, what’s happening in the United States is that the credit card companies are getting available credit off their books, but they are doing it the wrong way, and screwing consumers in the process. Here’s an example of how this is messing up consumer’s credit scores:

Part of a person’s credit score is based on how much of their available credit they are using. So lets say I have credit cards that have a total available credit line of $25,000. Now, if I’m using $5,000 worth of that credit line, then my score is going to be higher, because I’m only using 20% of my available credit. BUT, if all of my credit card companies cut my credit in half, then my credit score is going take a small hit, because now I’m using 40% of my available credit. And, it happened all at once, so I must be in trouble.

Now, what happens when companies like Sears totally cancel the card. All of a sudden, the consumer might have only $10,000 of available credit, which is going to kick his credit score in the A**. Not only are you now one of those people who are using too much credit based on how much is available, you’ve had cards canceled, your credit score has dropped, and the companies that are still carrying you on their books are going to see that in a few months, and cut the rest of your credit, so they don’t get caught holding all of your debt.

In other words, your credit is going to go straight to hell, and all of your cards will be reduced to the amount you owe on them… leaving you using 100% of your available credit, which will cause your score to spiral farther down. That right there is just one of the reasons I hate Sears.

The other reason I hate Sears, which seems kind of petty, now that I’ve outlined the future credit apocalypse above, is because even though they canceled my Sears credit card, they kept me on their email list and are now spamming the hell out of me, trying to get me to buy the kids new clothes and gear for school. Well Sears… I would, but you canceled my F***ing card, so I can’t…

Bitches!

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It seems that back in March, a guy by the name of Christopher Lunny of Strafford, NH, decided he wanted to go to the movies. “Well”, you ask, “what’s the big deal about that, lots of people go to the movies every day, right?” Sure lots of people go to the movies every day, and it’s a good thing, since it sort of helps the economy. ($5.00 popcorn’s got to be helping someone make money…)

Well, it looks like Mr. Lunny was watching his child that day and decide to leave it in the car while he went to the movies. You’re probably going, “so what, most teenage kids would rather stay in the car, or wander around the mall instead of going to the movies with dad”, and you’d be mostly right. Except for one thing, his kid is just three years old!

Who leaves a 3 year old buckled in the car while they go to the movies? When my kids were three, I had to beat them every time we got in the car, because they would try to take their seat belts off and run around the inside of the car like cats on crack. We’re probably all lucky it was his spawn, so that it didn’t have the mental capacity to unlock it’s seat belt, open the door, and wander into the nearest river or onto the nearest highway.

Here is the article, in Foster.com, if you’re interested in reading it. On a side note, it looks like Mr. Lunny was arrested in July of 2008, for “driving after suspension/revocation of his license”. That was reported in the Hampton Police Logs for July 29, 2008.

Mayor Rabbit, Rabbit, White Rabbit!” Woo Hoo, I just stole your luck sucker! (Am I the only one that thinks I need more medication? “Not that I’m taking anything now. No, really I’m not, I’m perfectly sane”)

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200 dumb assed students from the University of Texas went to Austin, Texas last Thursday to protest against a bill that would allow concealed carry at public Universities in Texas. The dumbasse’s line of reasoning is that having guns on campus would restrict the free flow of ideas because people would be afraid to argue, and would increase the chance that minor squables would turn into shootings.

I haven’t checked out Universities in Texas, but I’m pretty sure that baseball bats are legal, but there’s probably no more than 2 or 3 baseball bat beatings a year… So what’s the big deal if a guy settles an argument with a gun? In Texas they have the chair, so it’ll turn out even in the end anyway.

The bottom line is that giving the people the chance to carry concealed will give the bad guys a really good reason to go somewhere else for their shooting sprees. When was the last time a gunman went into a police department in the United States and gunned down 13 people? What? Pretty much never? Do you know why? Because they all have guns you f*cking morons.

Here are a couple of story links dallasnews.com and the columbiamissourian.com.

Mayor out to 1500 meters with my .338 Lapua

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Ok, the last time I checked, you didn’t talk bad about your boss because it could get you fired. In this instance, if the Federal Government was giving out licenses to practice journalism, does’t it stand to reason that the journalists would be afraid to say anything bad about the Goverment in fear of retaliation and losing their license? Wow, sometimes you just have to say WTF and ask yourself where Obama finds these people…

Read the story over at FoxNews.com

ps. Didn’t the Russians do this? You know, the whole “State News Agency” thingy?

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So, come back often and see which politician is the current honorary Mayor of Idiot Town.

PS. Did anyone notice the redundancy in naming the Politician Category?

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“I would like to cancel my charter cable service please.”

“No, I don’t want to add the HBO/Showtime package to my Charter cable package, I would like to cancel it.”

“What?”

“No, I can’t understand you. What?”

“No, I want you to cancel my service so that I don’t have it anymore.”

“DON’T HAVE IT ANYMORE!”

“What Part of cancel my service don’t you understand?”

“GIVE ME SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH, NOW!”

OK, about now I was laying on the floor laughing my ass off. Shes yelling at some poor Indian or Pakistani guy named “Paul” or “Tom” who just barely made it through the english language class and is hanging on to his call center job in Timbuktu, India or Hakistani, Pakistan by the skin of his one remaining tooth.

After she gets the manager on the line and explains what she wants and needs and hangs up, I ask her WTF she was thinking yelling ” Give Me Someone Who Speaks English” at some poor 3rd world Pakistani with 17 kids to feed.

Here answer blew me away, and should make the rest of you PC bastards pay attention. She said, and I quote.

“The recording said to press 1 for English, but they lied. I pressed 1 but the Fu**er I got didn’t speak English, so I finally freaked out and lost it. If it says they’ll speak english to you, then they should Fu**ing speak english!”

My wife rocks,

The Mayor of a Northern English Speaking Populace.

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(Shit boy, if you can’t even beat the crap out of a woman, you ain’t much of a man!)

According to the guys over at CelebrityMound.com:

Police responded at 4:40 a.m. and said that Cagle’s girlfriend, Jennifer Tant, 29, hit Cagle in the head with an umbrella, while Cagle, 39, struck her with a purse.

OMG, was the purse his? Is that why they tossed his ass in jail? Was the “Country Star” wandering around Nashville with a purse, and then he got arrested for assault for hitting a girl with his purse? I wonder if this will end up on his next CD; “My Life’s Been a Country Song 2″?

Have I said this yet? “What a pussy!”

Mayor of Idiot Town, and way too much of a man to hit a girl with my purse….

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What Mitch was referring to was a German article that said smart women don’t have as many orgasms because they are spending too much time thinking, while stupid women tend to have better sex and more orgasms. Hence his statement that, “A German study released today says that Paris Hilton has great sex”.

He also pointed out that Britney Spears is probably giving Paris Hilton a pretty tight race… By the way, what goes “step, breath, step, breath, step, breath, swallow, breath, step, breath etc…?

Paris talking herself through walking and breathing at the same time…

Mayor of Smartville Idiot Town, where the sex is always good for the inhabitants!

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