Today, among other things, I am thankful for the gmail SPAM filter.

ADDENDUM.  I just ran across a new (to me!) feature of GMAIL!  When I hit the “mark as SPAM” button, a popup offered to “attempt to unsubscribe.”  Very cool.  Maybe it’ll even work.

The following is a sample of some recent missives received via my contact page.  They serve to exemplify my opinion of the type of person interested in such things.

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From:
Serina (deleted)

Message:
You should make a show where bad girl and real world all get to throw
down who ever has problems with each other gets to have three five min
rounds together. theres soo many fights i want to see. U can barrow
the host of bully beat down it would be best.
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Dear Serina:  Hasn’t bum fighting been done?

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From:
keyona (deleted)

I’m a bad girl because despite the pain and suffering the beatings
heart aches being homeless child being took once upon of time and my
babydaddys parents not letting me see her I was still able to graduate
high school get my daughter back move away from the abusive
relationship etc. I hold my own never afriad to ask for advice the
truth. I know ive never knew what it was like to have the best at all.
I grew up on perry hill the bottom projects and still not once carry
myself as a hoe. I Can give you a story. Despite all im funny outgoing
giving respectful to my elders and can be mad at you and still talk to
you. I dont argue at all we gone fight if necessary. Ill try and walk
away first. Pick me for your show and ill do it all what ever need a
jumpstart.
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Dear keyona:  Walk away.  Please.

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From:
Eddie (deleted)

Message:
Jonathan,

My name is Eddie (deleted), and i have the best idea Ever for the bad
girls club! i knoe this club is for girls, but we should do a twist
for your upcoming season. I think this will help your ratings as well!
Not only the house is full of bad girls, but i think we need a Bad Gay
guy , who knows how to drive these ladies crazy. They will Think they
are waiting for their final roomate, but really i would pop out ”
Bitches im here” . im a very outgoing guy , im about to be 21 , puerto
rican italian and i know how to have a good time! Wheather its on
stage at the clubs, stealing the girls boyfriends (because thats what
i do best, they dont call me K.O for a reason)Im from New york, but
currently stay in Ohio. Its a thought and i would love to be part of
this journey!
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Dear Eddie:  Already done, it was called “Three’s Company”, now tell your rude friends to find a reason to call you names!

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From:
Celeste

Message:
hi jon i am celeste (deleted) 19 yrs old and am the youngest of 7 girls
and i notice how you was the creator of BGC and i was thinking you
should try a sister episode we are under 30 and fun we know a few
celebrities and we i know we would entertain alot of ppl for you we
are at hard times right now but we know how to have fun we are very
sexy and yes we all have our problems please email me back and we can
talk more i know we can work something out thanks for your time!
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Dear Celeste:  AAAAAAGGHHHHHH, my eyes!  Seriously, I ran out of breath just trying to read that.

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Addendum:  While looking up links to be helpful, I came across the page these maroons must have thought they were on.  The similarities between their contact page and mine are uncanny, to be sure.  How could I be so callous?

What a fraud.

Joint session of congress, so he can once again lecture congress, on a subject of which he is unqualified to speak.

One more job needs to be lost before the economy can recover: Barack Hussein Obama’s.

Click here to view the embedded video.

President Obama’s approval rating of the American public has fallen to an all-time low, according to a new Gallup survey of White House residents and employees.

Fewer than one in 10 Americans earned the president’s favor, according to the president. That is down sharply from six in 10—the percentage of Americans Obama approved of shortly after his election in November 2008, and the lowest level yet for his administration.

“They’re not doing a very good job, frankly,” said the president. “Most of them, I mean. Some are. But not many.”
Obama’s job approval for how Americans are performing has fallen in every category, from the economy to health care and the environment.

And for some reason, I fully believe this President does sit in judgement of the people he’s supposed to serve.

But then President Obama had to ask the Supreme Court to step in.  And now I know all about the crime that Humberto committed on the sixteen year old idiot who should have been at home sneaking phone calls to boys instead of drinking and doing drugs with people who saw her as nothing more than a piece of meat.  I know that this animal deserved to die, and citizen of the United States of America or not, represented by the country of his birth (Mexico) or not, represented by the crack legal team of Robert Shapiro and Jose Baez or not, this confessed murderer, sodomizer and rapist deserved his punishment.

So despite the plethora of weird shit coming out of Texas lately, the Lone Star does continue to shine and on occasion lights the way for the rest of us**.

If you missed the story, the gory details are here.

We can all sleep better knowing the Supreme Court still has a sane majority.

Thank you, Texas.

* It should be noted that this particular illegal immigrant was brought into this country at the age of two.  I don’t fault him for his status as an illegal, but I do fault Mexico for pretending they actually care about this nothing who has contributed nothing to their country.

** Have to give the pig credit for trying… shouting “vive mejico” on his way to his eternal slumber was a “made for TV” act.  I wonder how much the producers told him they’d give his family if he would do that for them?

Lately, I’ve been getting spammed from a mailing list that I did not recognize, and as is the norm for poorly operated and maintained mailing lists, further spammed by morons hitting “reply to all” and requesting to “unsubscribe.”  To add insult to mental injury, the spam from the list contained NO information regarding the game, other than to say, “Here’s a mailing list for suckers who provided us their email address but haven’t been selected to actually play the game.”  Kind of a sick joke, but my dark side gets it.

None of the emails I’ve received contained instructions to unsubscribe.   I assume that “feature” uses a specialized address to handle such functions; I recall one list I used years ago that appended -unsubscribe to the actual address.  I guess it is my civic duty to crack this nut and… spam the list with the information.  Heh.

A hundred or so ignorant “reply to all” messages later (thanks google, for merging them into blocks (‘threads’) instead of feeding them all to me in-duh-vidually!) and I decided to track down the original site in order to manage my subscriptions to this mailing list.  No such luck.  The system doesn’t recognize my email address as registered.  So obviously it cannot be sending me email.  But it is.  Or am I imagining it all?

*sigh*

Recently, the DoD acknowledged that cyber attacks are acts of war.

The DoN can’t properly manage a mailing list.

We’re doomed.

BTW, if you want in on the spam fest, check out MMOWGLI (Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet)