The Kaos Theory

One of the nice thing about Comcast is the ability to play previously aired shows on demand. Up to a couple of days ago, most of the shows had the commercials removed or you could fast forward through them. Not any more. Now I am captive as they have removed the ability for me to bypass this crap. It looks like I’ll be DVR’ing EVERYTHING now. What pisses me off is I pay a shit load of $$ to get TV with on demand and now Comcast has gone and screwed that up.

Okay, it looks like I’ve got that feeling again. I’m efforting (a new word I made up) to start writing again. I don’t know why I stopped but sometimes my mind decides to venture off and is hard to corral. My impetus was a documentary I DVR’d on HBO entitled “Secrets of the Tribe“. It evolves around, get this, Anthropology and not just Anthropology but vindictive, nasty, back stabbing, sexual abusing, genocidal Anthropology.  All that in 90 minutes, I know its hard to believe.

A little back story first. Back in the halcyon days of college, circa 1982-3, one of my favorite “elective” courses was an intro to Anthropology…………through FILM! At that time I was an aspiring wanna be film student, but since I didn’t personally know Spielberg or Lucas it made it impossible to get into the film school. Alright, back to the main topic here. It had to be one of the best classes I ever had. Basically, we would watch movies these anthro guys made as they ventured of into the “unknown”. The Yanomami Indian section was a blast, little did I know but because of this I was exposed to one of my favorite people of all time, Napolean Chagnon. Not only did this man piss people off, nothing wrong with that, but he shattered some myths about human evolution. The general consensus that primitive cultures were forced into fighting with each other but he proved that aggression was a natural state of humans, primitive or not. My favorite revelation is when he interviews some the Indians asking what all the warring was about. In a nutshell, they were always fighting about women. If you get a chance to see the documentary I highly recommend it. I also recommend reading his book about his experiences with the Yanomami , Yanomamo: The Fierce People .

to all 4 of my readers.

What’s the big frickin deal? So he screws around behind his wife and family in epic fashion but other than the pain caused them, where’s the problem? He will either reconcile with her or not. What I don’t get is the sanctimonious bull krep that the self-proclaimed, pure is the driven snow, Mass Media? If these journal-jizzers actual do their job and take a look at the 535 buffoons leading this country over a cliff. How many of these wastes of humanity have screwed over their families, the list is endless. Leave the sensationalist reporting to the likes of the Enquirer.

I’ve lost all my energy in dealing with the morons at Best Buy. I finally got on Saturday from another manager, Armando, to inform me the parts to remedy the black screen issue won’t arrive until mid August. I’m not sure which year, I should have asked. Fortunately, they offered to replace the entire TV with a brand spanking new one. It better be of equal or more $ than the one I originally bought. He asked if I wanted it delivered and I said no thanks, I’ll come by and pick it up. So I left the situation at that and later during the weekend I decided it would be better to have them deliver it and set up the cabling etc, so I called back and talked to Armando again and asked if I could have it delivered. He said the earliest he could get it out to me would be Thursday and I said in no I think this Monday would be fine. Well, he states in that voice only a minimum wage associate of a large electronics dealer that this would be impossible to do because they contract out to the delivery and the route was already finalized, blah, blah blah. In other words he didn’t care one iota about the customer who has spent thousands of dollars in his store over the years. He kept saying Thursday and I responded Monday. Thursday, Monday, Thursday, Monday……… I was getting nowhere with this little piss ant and explained to him over and over the story and how I expected the delivery Monday…FINAL. He started getting snippy with me and I lost it. Dropped a few F-bombs on his sorry ass and let him know exactly how I felt. Later in the same day I got a message on my answering machine that they would deliver it THURSDAY! I resigned myself to the fate of having absolutely no control over the problem and didn’t return his call. This leads me up to about 20 minutes ago when I get another call from another person saying since I didn’t respond to the phone call, (Which I did) the delivery had been pushed back to FRIDAY! Keeping what little of my composure I had left, I told the associate I would be down to pick it up myself but please keep open the delivery until I could get me somebody to help with the install. Here’s the other kicker to this saga, if I’d kept the delivery for Friday, all Best Buy would have done was drop off the set and do a minimal install (sound). You see, I would have had to wait until after the 14th to have the Geek Squad do a full install. Unfriggin-believeable!!11!

This story seems to be never ending. While on our way to get a new front door knob, the other one broke some how. I notice I have a message on my cell phone. It’s from the Geek Squad informing me the part from Samsung will be delayed and could I give them a call. Since I was going to Home Depot and Best Buy is in the same vicinity, I would drop by and find out what their problem was. We queue up in front of the Geek Squad counter and wait for the next geek to talk to. Finally, a big sweaty kid with bad acne asks if he can help us. I explain the story and add the new info about the part delay and he say’s come with me. He waddles us over to the section of the store where they sell the TV’s and tells us to wait at the kiosk. He comes back armed with another cohort and I have to re-explain the situation to him. He asks another associate about what they can do and she tell us to go talk to “Sam”. We’ve lost acne boy and now are stuck with the cohort and he escorts us back towards the Geek Squad counter, tells us to wait right here. We wait. Finally, he comes back from the bowels of the store and says there are 2 things we can do. He can try to expedite the situation with Samsung or the manager would offer us a great price on a new TV and when our other is fixed we could just return it. WTF! That’s a policy I would have never expected from any company. I asked him if they could just loan me a TV and I’ll return it when mines fixed. He states they cannot do this so the wife pipes up, “I want to speak to the manager” and the cohort lumbers off to fetch him. After a few minutes “Jake” comes to talk to us. Jake? I thought they told us to talk to Sam? I’m beginning to think this is a ploy by the store to completely flummox me and it’s working to perfection. We run thru the litany again and ask why can’t the store just loan me a TV and he goes on trying to justify it with some krep about inventory blah blah blah. At this point I’m not listening anymore and I want out, quickly. As I start to walk away, he gets into his manager mode and asks for our name and phone number and says he will personally look into it. I’ve my doubts and don’t expect a call in the near future.

Due to technical difficulties with WordPress, I could not get any post to load. It appears there was a an issue with the random header generator I was using. I’ve been going back and forth with my domain manager to resolve the problem and they finally fixed it today. More post forthcoming, they might not be as topical as when I wanted to post them but what can you do. I blame Obama.

The Messiah’s wife is a piece of work. I’m gonna have to come up with a good name for her that exemplifies the contempt she has for us normal people and the country as a whole.

First lady Michelle Obama called her “current life” in the White House “a very blessed situation, because I have what most families don’t have — tons of support all around, not just my mother, but staff and administration. I have a chief of staff and a personal assistant, and everyone needs that.”

Well duh! Of course it would be nice to have all those things, In fact I do have a Chief of Staff, I’m married to her. She’s worth everything.

During her 10-minute speech, Obama advocated for sick leave for parents, flexible work hours for employees and on-site child care, which she said “is something that keeps many of us up at night….You’re just wondering where are we going to put our children where we feel like that they’re being safe, that they’re safe and being loved. That will relieve many of the stresses that parents feel on the job throughout the day.” 

So putting your littles ones in a government run and regulated day care(indoctrination) system will solve the problem? Here’s the rub, if we weren’t taxed to the nines, maybe just maybe, one of the parents could stay home and raise the children. I can’t think of a better way to make sure “they’re safe and loved”. Isn’t that a funtion of the parental units?

Obama said she personally knows the challenges of balancing work and family “trying to do a good job at both — and always feeling like you’re not quite living up to either — and trying not to pit one against the other, really trying to balance.”

Oh, she knows personally? She gets a 300k job working for a hospital that hubby funnelled earmarked tax money too? Move along, nothing to see here. If that job was sooooo important, how come they never refilled the job when she left to soil the White House?

Here are a few dire predictions of the Glowball warming crowd culled together in one spot for easy elocution.

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
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Just for Jen.