Bowen Designs warns customers to limit the visits to their website or else
From the official website of Bowen Designs, makers of fine licensed Marvel Comics comic book characters:
Please Do Not attempt to use any type of software to repeatedly access our site to monitor for changes or updates to the site. This is abuse of our server – and may have been the cause for the technical difficulties experienced previously.
Going forward we will be monitoring all IP addresses and any abuse of the website or server will be dealt with accordingly.
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. – The Bowens
I don’t really know what to make of this “warning”. I signed up a while back for email updates to their website so that I would know if and when they produced new sculptures. Though I like Bowen Designs statues and busts, I only own one bust. It is a Spider-Woman and she has a cracked finger. I was doing some dusting about a week after I bought it and I accidentally tipped her over.
I took that as a sign that maybe I shouldn’t collect Bowen busts or statues. I’m too clumsy to trust myself with them.
I’ll be totally honest and admit that I don’t know an awful lot about denial of service (DoS) attacks, but to the best of my knowledge, they require a massive amount of computers to perpetuate the attack. One computer simply reloading a web page over and over isn’t going to adversely effect the server in any way.
And if their hosting provider hasn’t been logging I.P. addresses from day one, they need to find a new hosting provider. That’s a basic function of any website host.
If they are receiving what they deem to be an excessive amount of visits to their website from one computer, why don’t they simply block that person’s I.P. address from accessing their website? Once again, that’s something any hosting provider can and will provide to any hosting customer. I’ve never been a big fan of mass warnings.
Is Rush Limbaugh abusing pain pills again?
Conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu area hospital for chest pains. The 58-year old Limbaugh is in Hawaii on vacation playing golf. KITV, the Honolulu ABC affiliate, reported that Limbaugh told paramedics that he was on medication for a back problem.
Does that mean he is back on pain pills?
In 2003, Limbaugh went to drug rehab for an addiction to prescription pain medication. This was after the National Enquirer ran an article detailing Limbaugh’s abuse of the addictive pain medication OxyContin, as well as other pain medications.
In 2006, Limbaugh settled a federal criminal case for doctor shopping. That’s when you go to different doctors seeking prescription pain medication and you don’t inform any of the other doctors that you are already being prescribed pain medication. It’s what addicts do to get more pills.
I know of no other pills someone could take for a bad back other than pain pills or perhaps muscle relaxers, but muscle relaxers don’t do anything if the pain is due to a disc problem. Furthermore, if Limbaugh still has a bad back, why is he playing golf? Bad backs and golf don’t mix. I’m no expert in addiction, but I would think you’d want to avoid the things that got you hooked on pills in the first place. In the case of Limbaugh, that would be playing golf.
One of the main reasons I hate golf is how much it would hurt my back. Plus, I really sucked at it.
Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach picked a bad time to pretend concussions aren’t real
(AP Photo/Mike Fuentes)
Texas Tech head football coach Mike Leach has been suspended indefinitely. If he was a radio shock-jock, being suspended indefinitely would just be a fancy term for getting fired.
The thing that got coach Leach suspended was how he treated a player who suffered a concussion, and not just any player, the son of a former NFL player who had to retire early because of concussions. A former NFL player who is now an ESPN college football analyst who, coincidentally, feels very passionate about concussions and the proper treatment of concussions.
The Texas Tech player is wide receiver Adam James, son of Craig James.
A source close to the family said James sustained a concussion on Dec. 16, was examined on Dec. 17 and told not to practice because of the concussion and an elevated heart rate. The source said Leach called a trainer and directed him to move James “to the darkest place, to clean out the equipment and to make sure that he could not sit or lean. He was confined for three hours.”
A source told The Associated Press that James said Leach told him if he came out, he would be kicked off the team.
According to the source, Leach told the trainer, two days later, to “put [James] in the darkest, tightest spot. It was in an electrical closet, again, with a guard posted outside.”
Coach Leach picked the wrong time to treat concussions as though they were things players pretend to have to get out of practice. If he is fired over this controversy, I’m not sure a team in the NFL will touch him. The NFL has been working very hard at changing the way teams treat concussions. If a team were to turn around and hire Leach, a guy who evidently believes the best way to treat concussions is to make the injured player stand in a dark room for hours, I don’t think the league would react very positively to the hiring.
To think some people question why I refuse to wear underwear from Nigeria
Behold the jockey shorts of would be terrorist, Nigerian Muslim Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab. The guy must really hate America (for our freedoms) if he is willing to put on a pair of explosive underpants.
Injured football players annoy Pam Ward
I guess ESPN college football play-by-play announcer Pam Ward didn’t know that the TV viewers were still watching when she started complaining about the injured Marshall football player on the field. That, or she didn’t know her mic was on.
Classy.
Let’s see iPhone propagandist Luke Wilson spin this
AT&T has suddenly stopped selling iPhones to people living in New York City. If you go to the AT&T website and try to purchase the iPhone, upon entering a New York City zipcode you will be instructed to “Please shop for another phone.”
Supposedly this is because the high-speed data network in New York City is overburdened. I’m not sure why this would stop AT&T from selling more iPhones. I know from personal experience that they make people pay for the high-speed data network whether you can use it or not.
Enhanced security measures only make flying more troublesome
In the wake of the Nigerian Muslim terrorist that tried to blow up a Northwest airliner as it was preparing to land in Detroit, authorities have introduced a whole host of added security procedures that don’t make flying any safer from the threat of terrorism, but they do make flying on a commercial plane even more of a pain in the ass.
This morning, travelers flying from Canada to the United States were subjected to a second layer of security including a pat down of every traveler and a 100% luggage search by hand. The added security measures added an extra three hours to the already lengthy security processing time.
The fun doesn’t stop at the plane’s door. Passengers over the weekend were told to remain in their seats for the final hour of their flight. They were also told they could not use any electronic devices, even iPods, or even their own personal headphones. They were also told that they could not access their carry-on luggage or have anything in their laps. They were also told to keep their hands in plain sight until the plane landed.
Need to use to the restroom within an hour of landing? Too bad.
The TSA is also for some unknown reason requiring JetBlue to suspend showing TV on flights. Not just for the final hour, but for the entire flight. No TV, no movies, no XM radio.
This is a huge personal loss to me. JetBlue is the only airline I use simply because of the ability to watch Law & Order marathons while I travel back and forth to California.
None of these added procedures would have posed so much as a speed-bump to Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab. He had the explosives stuffed in a condom stuffed in his underwear. Would a pat-down search have detected the explosives? Unless whoever was doing the search was willing to stick their hand down his pants, I’m guessing it wouldn’t.
Not allowing Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab to listen to an iPod wouldn’t have done anything to make things safer.
What’s a SonicTap?
Direct TV announced that it’s dumping XM satellite radio and will replace it with SonicTap. I’ve never heard of the service.
I think something like this just goes to show the stupidity of treating XM and Sirius as though they are two separate companies. They’re not. It’s one company with one CEO and one board of directors. It only has one product, satellite subscriber based radio. Instead of treating XM and Sirius as though they are two separate entities, the idea ought to be promoting one unified brand name.
Before the two companies were allowed to merge by the federal government, both companies were causing confusion and indecision in the marketplace. Not only did consumers have to decide whether they wanted to pay to listen to radio, they were required to then decide which of the two competing services they wanted to choose. If they bought a Sirius radio, they could not listen to XM. If they bought an XM radio, they could not listen to Sirius.
Unfortunately, they are still required to choose.
The sale of video tape recorders didn’t take off until VHS beat out Betamax. The same thing happened with HD video. Sales in both players and media didn’t take off until Blu-ray beat out HD-DVD. The marketplace has shown that when consumers are forced to decide between two competing technologies, they simply wait.
If Sirius XM was offering only one service and then concentrated of promoting that one service, maybe they wouldn’t be losing business to something named after the mocumentary movie This is Spinal Tap.
Photo: Flickr user Rodc
Nigerian Muslim terrorist was placed on a terrorist watch list last month
Abdul Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Nigerian Muslim that tried to blow up a Northwest airliner on Christmas day, was added to a terrorist watch list only last month, yet he was still allowed to board an airplane for the United States.
Abdulmutallab was added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) list after his father told U.S. State Department officials that he was worried about his son’s radical beliefs and extremist connections. To think that I have to take off my shoes and have TSA inspectors x-ray them before boarding a commercial airliner, but a guy can be reported to the federal government for being a dangerous Islamic extremist with dubious connections, yet he is allowed to board and aircraft for the United States like a regular person.
Do they want another terrorist attack to happen? I live in a world where if you fail to do your job correctly and something bad happens as a result, you get fired. It would be nice to know that someone is getting fired because Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab was allowed to board an airplane for the United States. I know that’s not about to happen. If nobody was fired as a result of the 9-11 terror attacks, nobody will be getting axed because of this.
I just don’t get it. Supposedly the only reason Abdulmutallab’s bomb didn’t go off is because the detonator was faulty. I have to wonder if he was able to blow up the jet, would we even know that someone on a terrorist watch list was on the plane? Would we even be told it was an act of terror?
My guess is that we wouldn’t. It would be explained as some kind of mechanical failure and life would simply go on.
Who knew you could make money by not paying your bills?
The Consumerist has a story about a guy that was going through Chapter 13 bankruptcy that was continuing to receive calls from Sallie Mae about his student loan payments even though evidently when you begin filing for bankruptcy, creditors aren’t allowed to contact you.
“Jeff” wrote:
I have recently gone through Chapter 13 bankruptcy and had an experience that might enlighten others. After the filing, during the mandatory stay period, Sallie Mae continued to contact me about my student loan payment. I documented each call — time, number of origin, and person I talked to if I could get the information. I mentioned this to my bankruptcy attorney, who made effort to stop the calls. He finally filed an order that stopped the calls. He then asked me if I wanted to file a suit against Sallie Mae. I assented.
He filed suit for $14,000 – a grand per call. Within DAYS, the Sallie Mae attorney offered a $4,000 settlement. I had my money in hand several weeks after that. The whole process took about a month.
I don’t know if my case was unique, or if Sallie Mae illegally harasses everyone who files Chapter 13. Just wanted to let you know.
It’s worth pointing out that unlike most debt obligations, bankruptcy protection does not protect you from repaying a student loan. If that was not the case, I imagine every student upon graduating college would run to the nearest mall lawyer and seek bankruptcy protection.
No matter what the bankruptcy judge ordered concerning Jeff’s debts, he was going to pay every penny back to Sallie Mae. That being the case, why wasn’t Jeff paying Sallie Mae? You’d think that since he wasn’t paying any of his other debt obligations, the debts that could be restructured with bankruptcy protection, he should at least have the money to pay his student loans.
Jeff just rubs me the wrong way. I don’t know what caused him to seek bankruptcy protection, but it seems kind of scummy to make a profit for being a deadbeat. So someone from Sallie Mae called him about his student loan obligation. Big deal.
Nigerian Muslim tries to blow up Northwest Airlines airliner
Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian Muslim flying on board a Northwest airliner from Amsterdam to Detroit tried to ignite some kind of mystery powder and blow up the plane. He was tackled by some of his fellow passengers before the power could do whatever it was intended to do.
He has told investigators that he was acting on the behalf of Al-Qaeda.
Good thing there were some able bodied passengers on hand to give Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab the beating he richly deserved. It’s not like the flight attendants could have done it. If there’s one thing we learned on September 11, 2001, it was that flight attendants that weigh 105 lbs might be pretty to look at, but they are entirely unless when it comes to stopping a Saudi with a box cutter.
If it was up to me, I would have taken the billions of dollars TSA spent staffing pointless checkpoints and shoe inspectors and instead used it to pay former Army Rangers and other military types to be flight attendants. Not coffee. tea, or me type of flight attendants made popular in the 1950’s and 60’s, but flight attendants for the new century. Flight attendants that might not know how to make you a good Bloody Mary, but they would know how to kill you with a pencil.
Happy birthday Jesus
About 2,014 years ago in the city of Bethlehem, located in the Palestinian West Bank, Jesus Christ was born. His mother Mary and his foster-father Joseph were in town from the city of Nazareth to pay some taxes.
We celebrate the birth of Christ by engaging in various Pagan rituals including decorating evergreen trees and kissing under mistletoe.
Do people still kiss under the mistletoe?
In 350 AD Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s birth would be celebrated on December 25. Was Jesus really born on December 25? Probably not, but December 25 was already a big holiday with the Pagans. Pope Julius I was no dummy and he knew that he could get more Pagans to convert to Christianity if they could still enjoy their Pagan Winter feasts.
I think it worked. When was the last time you ran into a Pagan?
Merry Christmas and happy birthday Jesus.
Is this as good as it gets?
The fight for health care reform has really made me think about things. When I look at this joke of a bill coming out of the Senate, I have to wonder what being a Democrat really means.
Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and the House. If there was ever a time that we could get substantial health care reform in this country, it’s now. If there was ever a time we could make sure that every American has access to quality, affordable health care, it’s now.
Instead, we get a health care reform bill that the Republicans could have written. It does not have a public option. It does not expand Medicare. It requires all Americans to purchase health insurance from the for-profit health insurance cartel.
That last part is the real kicker for me. I can see requiring Americans to purchase health insurance if there was a not-for-profit alternative. Because this bill lacks a public option, this is not the case. This is requiring Americans to purchase a product that’s purpose is not to improve health, but to make a profit for the health insurance company.
I cannot help but thing the Democratic party is a lot like a dog chasing a car that doesn’t quite know what to do when it catches the car. The Democrats are in position to enact a good health care reform bill. They are choosing not to do that.
I have a real problem with that.
I guess nobody at the Chicago Tribune listens to Sirius XM on the iPhone
The Chicago Tribune has an article concerning Howard Stern and his chances of resigning with Sirius XM radio. His five year, $500 million, four-days-a-week contract is set to expire at the end of the next year. That means now is the time for Howard Stern and Sirius XM to begin negotiating a new contract.
About the only thing that is clear at this point is that there is no way he will get another $500 million contract.
Back when he scored the original $500 million contract, Sirius and XM were locked into a satellite radio war. Sirius needed Stern because they needed a big name to add to their lineup. Now Sirius and XM are the same company. At least they are supposed to be. They are still run as though they are two separate entities.
The point is, Sirius and XM aren’t about to get into a bidding war for the services of Howard Stern. So what does this mean for Howard Stern? According to the Chicago Tribune, maybe he will become a podcaster:
Stern could leave to start a new venture, perhaps a subscription service that sends his show to PCs and mobile devices. Sirius already streams Stern’s shows online and through the iPhone. Or he could explore more options in cable TV, where his first pay-per-view special, “Howard Stern’s Negligee and Underpants Party,” was offered in 1988.
Contrary to the Chicago Tribune, Howard Stern is not available on the iPhone. His show is about the only things you cannot listen to via the Sirius XM iPhone app. What’s funny about this is that he was pushing for a Sirius XM iPhone app for some time. Evidently his $500 million contract did not allow Sirius XM to stream his show over the iPhone. You can listen to his show on the computer, just not the iPhone.
Terminator Salvation has one of the worst movie endings I’ve ever seen
I finally got around to watching Terminator Salvation this past weekend and I’ve got to say that this movie had one of the worst endings I’ve ever seen.
Other than that, the movie wasn’t half bad.
Anyone seeing the trailers for the movie knows that it was bursting with CGI special effects. The special effects are so good that it almost makes up for the fact that the movie ends with one of the most ridiculous movie endings of the century, which technically, is really only the past nine years.
If you haven’t seen the movie yet and you don’t want to have the ending spoiled for you, than maybe you should stop reading this. Read the full article »
Are the Comic Book Haters back?
While perusing the World Wide Internet Web today, I accidently clicked on the wrong link in my bookmarks and it took me to the official website of the Comic Book Haters, a podcast that stopped putting out new episodes a long time ago. Seriously, I don’t remember the last time they did a new show, but I seem to remember Ronald Reagan being the president and listening to the show on my Sony Walkman personal stereo cassette tape player with Dolby B noise-reduction.
It was a really long time ago.
It appears though that they have returned to the world of podcasting. It looks as though they put out a new show on December 14, 2009. I haven’t listened to it yet, so for all I know it’s 45 minutes of Schooly G going through his copy of Previews picking out the comics he wants to read three months from now.
Now that I think about it, that might not be that bad to listen to.
18 inches of snow makes this blizzard some kind of record
The blizzard looks to be over. The sun is shinning and it’s not snowing anymore, but the ground is still blanketed with the white stuff. The Herald-Mail is reporting that we received 18 inches of the stuff here in Williamsport.
The National Weather Service is saying this storm was a record for the month of December. I’m not sure why it’s important to categorize it by the month. It’s not like it’s August or July. It’s December, one of the months we get snow.
I guess a lot of people yesterday decided to would be a good idea to go out and drive around even though local law enforcement was pleading with people to stay off the roads and to please stay home. It’s not like there were a lot of places for people to go, except of course a snowy ditch on the side of the road. That’s where a lot of people ended up yesterday. In a snowy ditch.
Most if not all of the stores in the area were closed yesterday. I guess it’s hard to get people in the world of retail to come to work in the middle of a blizzard when you are only paying them minimum wage.
Yesterday was some kind of major shopping day in that it was the final Saturday before Christmas, the day we honor the birth of the Son of God, the man that told people to forsake treasures here on earth and to instead sell everything we own and give it to the poor. We honor his birth by ignoring what he said and instead we buy lots and lots of stuff for the people in our lives. If these people also happen to be poor, than so much the better.
Now that it’s stopped snowing and the roads look to be clear, I imagine the malls and other stores will be making up for yesterday with lots of shoppers. And yes, I will probably be one of them. I have a 30% off Borders coupon that expires on Monday. Plus, I think we still have a few gifts to pick up.
This is the best they can do?
It looks as though health care reform will pass, but that’s only if you choose to label the bill coming out of the Senate as health care reform. The key points:
- No public option.
- No Medicare buy in.
- Penalize those that do not have health insurance.
- No tax on cosmetic procedures.
- A 10% tax on tanning.
What a joke. This makes me feel embarrassment to be a Democrat. Seriously, this is what you get when the House, the Senate, and the White House are all under Democratic control? We get 30,000 more combat troops in Afghanistan and a piece of crap bill pretending to be health care reform.
Is this what Change looks like?
The fact that people will be penalized if they don’t buy health insurance, coupled with the fact that there is no public option, means that the health insurance cartel is getting a heck of a Christmas present this year. I wish I sold a product that the government forced people to buy.
I look out my window and see white death
We in the north east/mid-Atlantic are getting slammed with a real life, honest to goodness snow storm. It started snowing last night before I got off work and it looks to have been snowing ever since. The state of Virginia declared a STATE OF EMERGENCY before even one snow flake fell.
Way to keep a stiff upper lip Virginia.
This morning the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning that is scheduled to stay in effect till tonight at 6:00 p.m. It looks like we wont be going anywhere today. Not that we really need to. I’m still reading the new Stephen King book (I love it) and I really should finish Call of Duty: World at War. When I last played, I was a Russian sniper stuck in a burning building surrounded by Nazi soldiers. I don’t know what I dislike more: having to pretend to be a Godless communist or being surrounded by Nazis.
I can’t help but wonder how this blizzard will be effecting the opening weekend numbers for Avatar. Having a major chunk of the east coast get hit by a monster of a snow storm has got to have an effect on the box office. Not that I was planning on going to see it. One one hand, being a science fiction nerd more or less requires me to go see movies like this. On the other hand, the movie looks to me to be a giant World of Warcraft game run amok.
Did Chris Henry kill himself?
According to one of Chris Henry’s neighbors, the Cincinnati Bengals receiver told the mother of his three children that if she proceeded to drive away, he was going to kill himself.
From ESPN:
Neighbor Lee Hardy told WLWT-TV and The Cincinnati Enquirer that he was working in his yard when the truck left the driveway. Hardy said Henry was yelling that he needed to talk to the woman behind the wheel.
“He said, ‘If you take off, I’m going to jump off the truck and kill myself,’” Hardy told the newspaper.
The first 911 tape was from an unidentified woman who said she was following a yellow pickup truck.
“It’s got a black man on it with no shirt on, and he’s got his arm in a cast and black pants on,” she told a dispatcher. “He’s beating on the back of this truck window. … I don’t know if he’s trying to break in or something. It just looks crazy. It’s a girl driving it.”
So much for Henry turning his life around. Whatever that means. It sounds to me that he was still doing stupid things. Jumping into the back of a pickup truck, shirtless, beating on the back window. On Monday the high in Charlotte, North Carolina was only 48 degrees. I have to believe that’s not optimum weather for taking a ride in the back of a moving pickup truck, especially when you’re not wearing a shirt.
Chris Henry 1983 – 2009
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry is dead. At least that is what ESPN is saying. It’s been my experience when the four letter network says you’re dead, you’re dead. He was 26.
He was out for the season with a broken arm. Though you may not be able to catch a football with a broken arm, you can get into a domestic dispute with the mother of your three children.
Evidently the dispute began at the Charlotte area home Henry shares with his fiancee and the mother of his three children, Loleini Tonga. Police say Tongae was leaving in a pickup truck and Henry jumped into the bed of the truck and continued arguing with Tonga. About a half mile from the house, Henry somehow fell out of the truck. Tonga didn’t stop the truck, but continued driving.
Henry was found on the side of the road in life threatening condition. Henry was transported to Carolinas Medical Center, where he died early this morning.
Raiders sign J.P. Losman, will start Charlie Frye at quarterback
Just how awful is JaMarcus Russell? The Oakland Raiders have announced that Charlie Frye will start Sunday against the Denver Broncos. They have also signed former Buffalo Bills and Las Vegas Locomotives quarterback J.P. Losman.
Charlie Frye began the 2007 NFL season by starting for the Clevland Browns, only to be benched in the first quarter and then traded the following day to the Seattle Seahawks for a bag of packing peanuts and a 20% off coupon for Bed, Bath, and Beyond. The joke was on the Browns though because the coupon was expired.
Watching JaMarcus Russell fill in for Bruce Gradkowski against the Washington Redskins this past Sunday was a truly painful thing to watch. It looked to me that he had no clue what the plays were supposed to be. He looked like me trying to play Madden football on the Xbox 360 trying to figure out which buttons to mash.
Has there every been a team in professional football that’s had more bad quarterbacks play for them? For every Jim Plunkett or Rich Gannon, they’ve had ten Todd Marinovichs.
Al Franken points out we are entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to our own facts
Senator John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, spoke on the Senate floor Monday and said that the benefits of the proposed health care bill don’t kick in till 2014. I’m told he even had a chart. Senator Al Franken, Democrat from Minnesota, openly challenged that assertion saying that it was not true.
Franken went on to say that though we are entitled to our own opinions, we are not entitled to our own facts.
If you were a listener on Franken’s former radio show on Air America, you probably remember the phrase. Franken also pointed out that many of his Republican colleagues have not read the bill and that if they want to debate the bill, they really need to read the bill.
All hail the $78 Blu-ray player
I celebrated my first day of my new job by by purchasing a Magnavox Blu-ray player at Wal-Mart for $78. Now I can watch all those Blu-ray movies I bought right before the Samsung Blu-ray player we purchased on Black Friday 2008 up and died. And to think how happy I was last year when I was able to buy a Blu-ray player at Circuit City for only $200.
My how things change.
Lima beans, fat-free mayonnaise, the music of Jimmy Buffet, and JaMarcus Russell
What do the four subjects in the title all have in common? They are all things I hate.
Russell is the new Marc Wilson – San Francisco Chronicle
Teabaggers are still confusing
Someone from a local Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper, The Herald Mail, and it was published in today’s edition. This person wrote:
TEA partiers consider themselves educated and responsible enough to make their own decisions regarding all aspects of their lives. Leftists who embrace big government, including Obamacare, feel they are neither well-enough educated nor responsible enough to make decisions regarding their lives. There is no argument here. Both sides are absolutely correct.
If this person ever bothered to read up on our nation’s history, he might discover that our system of government is based on a constitutional republic. We elect people to represent us and to make educated, informed decisions on our behalf. It’s not the best system of government, but I guess it’s better than everything else.
Does this person even know any “big government” embracing leftists? And what exactly constitutes big government? Is it spending billions of dollars on a massive professional military? Is it spending billions of dollars on weapon systems that may or may not work against enemies that may or may not even exist?
I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to spending our money, I’d rather spend it on health care then on the industrial military complex. Mostly that’s because sickness and disease is a far greater risk to America’s well being than any foreign army is. Since April of this year, 10,000 Americans have died due to the H1N1 virus. Thousands of others have died from other medical problems. How many of those deaths could have been avoided if we had universal health care?
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand people in the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party. They sat by and just watched President Bush spend billions of their children’s money invading two countries while cutting taxes to the rich.
They didn’t say a word.
President Obama then came into office and actually cut taxes to people making less than $250,000 a year and the teabaggers protest against him by holding up signs comparing him to Hitler.
I don’t get that.
Senate health care reform bill allows for an annual cap to benefits
Now this is just getting embarrassing. The Associated Press is reporting that the current bill floating through the Senate includes language that prohibits insurance companies from placing lifetime caps on benefits, but allows them to place annual, yearly caps on benefits.
This means if you have cancer and need surgery, followed by chemotherapy or radiation treatments, you very well may have to wait to get the chemotherapy or radiation treatments after the new year. The surgery may use up all your available insurance coverage for the year, leaving you all tapped out. It will be up to your insurance company. A company that is more interested in maximizing profits than making sure people are healthy.
I don’t know why they have to make this so hard. Every other industrialized nation has universal health care. Why can’t we? I’d like to think we are capable of doing anything. This includes ensuring the every American has access to quality health care.
It really shouldn’t be this hard.
More information emerges about the border crossing beating of the Canadian science fiction writer
The Times Herald has an article posted that sheds more light on the story concerning Peter Watts, the Canadian science fiction writer that was supposedly pepper-sprayed, beaten, and charged with assaulting a federal agent as he was driving back into Canada from Michigan. The article states that the incident happened when Watts was trying to enter the U.S. from Canada, not when he was going back home to Canada as it was stated on Boing Boing.
From the Times Herald article:
Port Huron police Capt. Jim Jones would not provide the Times Herald with a copy of a police report about the incident Friday. He did read the police report to a reporter.
Jones said Watts was crossing into Michigan from Point Edward when he was selected at random for a secondary Customs inspection. Watts exited his vehicle “angrily” and border officers began checking the black sport utility vehicle he was driving, Jones said.
Border officers ordered Watts back into the vehicle, and when he refused, officers attempted to handcuff him, Jones said. At that point, Watts began to resist and pull away from the officers “and became aggressive toward officers,” Jones said. Jones said a border officer used pepper spray to subdue Watts. Jones said Watts “choked” an officer during the struggle.
This makes a bit more sense I guess. I originally didn’t understand why U.S. border agents would want to search a Canadian’s car as he or she was returning to Canada. That’s usually not the way it works.
I generally don’t care too much for cops. With that said, I’m not stupid enough to not do what they say when I’m pulled over. I don’t mouth off and I don’t ignore what they tell me to do. When they tell me to stay in the vehicle, I stay in the vehicle. When they tell me to get out of the vehicle, I get out of the vehicle. My goal when dealing with a member of law enforcement is to make my time spent in their presence be as short as humanly possible. The longer you spend with a member of law enforcement, the greater the chance something bad will happen to you.
Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly quits to accept a ‘dream job’ at Notre Dame
Football coach Brian Kelly has been lured away from the undefeated, BCS ranked no. 3 Cincinnati Bearcats to coach the unranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Cincinnati will be playing in the Sugar Bowl without Kelly on the sidelines. Not only did Kelly quit on his school and his team, he did so before they had a chance to play in the biggest football game in school history.
This just makes no sense to me.
Granted, the job of college football coach is one of the most dishonest and corrupt professions a person can have. It’s right up there with used car salesman and military recruiter. I just don’t understand why the NCAA allows coaches to up and leave their program before the college football season is over to take another job at another school. Players cannot do that. If a player wants to leave and go to another school, he must sit out one complete season.
Brian Kelly is saying that coaching Notre Dame is his “dream job”. I wonder if he ever told the University of Cincinnati that. I don’t really quite understand the fascination so many of these white coaches have with Notre Dame. It’s just a Catholic college in Indiana that pretends to be better than every other college.
His former players at Cincinnati are both upset and hurt by the move. Kelly didn’t inform the team that he was abandoning them until after news of the hiring went public. Some are saying that he is dishonest. One former Cincinnati player said that Kelly’s actions were “cowardly”.
I cannot help but agree.
Tiger Woods speaks
Tiger Woods is planing an “indefinite” break from professional golf.
From his official website:
I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I’ve done, but I want to do my best to try.
I would like to ask everyone, including my fans, the good people at my foundation, business partners, the PGA Tour, and my fellow competitors, for their understanding. What’s most important now is that my family has the time, privacy, and safe haven we will need for personal healing.
After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person.
Again, I ask for privacy for my family and I am especially grateful for all those who have offered compassion and concern during this difficult period.
I think it’s kind of late in the game to be asking for privacy. For years he has gone out and inserted himself into the public consciousness by telling us to buy one product after another. Tiger Woods may like to say that he is a professional golfer, but for every dollar he’s earned playing golf, he’s probably earned one hundred shilling products.
Who knows, maybe Tiger Woods doesn’t even like playing golf.
It’s not like he ever chose to play golf. His father forced it upon him at a very early age. He was raised, programed even, to become a professional golfer. It’s entirely possible that he could hate playing golf and not even know it.
Canadian science fiction writer charged with assaulting a federal officer at the border
Science fiction writer Peter Watts was arrested this past Tuesday for assaulting a federal border agent as he was making his way from the United States to his home country of Canada. Evidently his vehicle was chosen by U.S. border agents for a random inspection as he was leaving the United States and things pretty much went down hill from there.
Peter Watts writes on his blog:
If you buy into the Many Worlds Intepretation of quantum physics, there must be a parallel universe in which I crossed the US/Canada border without incident last Tuesday. In some other dimension, I was not waved over by a cluster of border guards who swarmed my car like army ants for no apparent reason; or perhaps they did, and I simply kept my eyes downcast and refrained from asking questions.
Along some other timeline, I did not get out of the car to ask what was going on. I did not repeat that question when refused an answer and told to get back into the vehicle. In that other timeline I was not punched in the face, pepper-sprayed, shit-kicked, handcuffed, thrown wet and half-naked into a holding cell for three fucking hours, thrown into an even colder jail cell overnight, arraigned, and charged with assaulting a federal officer, all without access to legal representation (although they did try to get me to waive my Miranda rights. Twice.). Nor was I finally dumped across the border in shirtsleeves: computer seized, flash drive confiscated, even my fucking paper notepad withheld until they could find someone among their number literate enough to distinguish between handwritten notes on story ideas and, I suppose, nefarious terrorist plots. I was not left without my jacket in the face of Ontario’s first winter storm, after all buses and intercity shuttles had shut down for the night.
In some other universe I am warm and content and not looking at spending two years in jail for the crime of having been punched in the face.
But that is not this universe.
Stay tuned.
People online have already started donating money to his PayPal account so that he can mount a vigorous legal defense. If that is something you like to do, then by all means, send him some money.
I have to admit that when I read this story, my BS detector went off. Normally when traveling to and from Canada, it’s the agents of the incoming country that search vehicles. Since he was attempting to drive into Canada, I would think it would be the Canadian border agents that would be interesting is seeing what Watts was bringing into Canada.
I’m not sure U.S. Border agents are interested in hassling Canadians trying to return to Canada.
Additionally, when the police or agents want to search a vehicle, they normally want you to get out of the vehicle. Watts says he was told to get back in the vehicle.
There’s also the point about not being allowed access to a lawyer, even though he says he was arraigned and charged with assaulting a federal officer. How does someone get arraigned without legal representation?
I tried searching the World Wide Internet Web for a news article about this incident, but I came up with nothing.
I’m sure more information about this incident will come out.
The Mexican pig flu has already killed 10,000 Americans
Federal health officials are now saying that 10,000 Americans have succumbed to the H1N1 flu. And that’s only since this past April.
That’s more Americans than Islamic terrorists have been able to kill in the last 20 years.
It’s almost unreal to think that this many people have died from the swine flu. That just goes to show you that the flu isn’t something to take lightly. To me, it’s just one more reason that we as a nation should be investing our resources into a national, universal health care system. The chances that you will die from a virus are much higher than the chances that you will be killed by an angry Muslim terrorist, yet we are more than happy to spend billions of dollars on fighting terrorism. When President Obama wants all Americans to have access to affordable, quality health care, some people say it proves he’s just like Adolf Hitler.
Oh that crazy, wacky Pakistan
From the New York Times:
Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to a militant group, American and Pakistani officials said.
One of the men had left behind an 11-minute video calling for the defense of Muslims in conflicts with the West and suggesting that “young Muslims have to do something,” said one person who had seen the video, describing it as a farewell of sorts. Another person who viewed it called the video “disturbing,” though he said it was not a martyrdom video of the kind sometimes made by extremists planning suicide attacks.
A story like this makes me wonder how many other groups of young Muslim American men have traveled to Pakistan who weren’t stupid enough to leave a disturbing video behind when they left the United States.
No other place in the world is more dangerous to the United States than Pakistan. It’s the place Muslim terrorists go before they try to start trouble. The 911 terrorists all flew into Pakistan before traveling to Afghanistan. When they traveled to the United States, they all flew in from Pakistan. Pakistan was one of the few countries that recognized that Taliban as official government of Afghanistan.
Not only does Pakistan have nuclear weapons technology, the Pakistani scientist that developed Pakistan’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, reportedly worked with North Korea and other nations, assisting them in developing nuclear weapon technology.
Danica Patrick joins the world of NASCAR
Get your pink Rebel flags ready. The auto racing series known for turning left is about to get an infusion of estrogen. Indy Racing League’s Danica Patrick will be racing in select NASCAR Nationwide Series races.
The Nationwide Series is the series right below the Sprint Cup Series. Some like to say that it’s the minor leagues for NASCAR. The Nationwide Series used to be known as the Busch Series, much like the Sprint Cup Series used to be known as the Winston Cup Series.
It gets confusing.
Danica Patrick will still be racing full time in the Indy Racing League. This is just a part-time gig.
She might make the Nationwide Series races worth watching. When she perceives that someone has done her wrong on the racetrack, she tends to get in their face and let them know exactly what she thinks for them. NASCAR is full of racers that do other racers wrong. It should make for some interesting TV.
Assume nothing
It’s as though being laid off for nearly three months has made me forget everything I’ve ever known about technology. One of the things I learned a long time ago was to assume nothing. I wish I had remembered that little adage a couple of weeks ago when I made some minor changes to the theme my blog currently uses. I made the changes while using the Firefox web browser and I just assumed that everything looked right in other browsers.
How stupid of me.
It turns out that even though the changes I made to the css style sheet looked fine in Firefox, the changes looked anything but fine in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The changes caused my blog to not load correctly in Internet Explorer. When I finally got around to opening my blog with Internet Explorer, I discovered that the entire screen was dark brown, causing the text to be unreadable.
I didn’t know anything was wrong until I posted an email I received the other day from an angry reader that wanted to inform me that he was unsubscribing to my RSS feed because, well, he said he couldn’t read posts.
I didn’t know what this person was talking about, so I asked if anyone else knew. It wasn’t until I read the comments that I knew anything was wrong.
From now on when I make changes to my blog, I’ve going to take a look at the changes not only in Firefox, but Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari too.
It’s a good thing I’m starting work again on Monday. Any longer on unemployment and I would probably forget everything I’ve ever known about technology.
In a perfect world, all web browsers would share similar browser compatibility. Assume nothing.
The train wreak that is Tiger Woods just wont stop
Lester Cohen/WireImage
When will this national nightmare end?
First it came out that Tiger was seeing a skanky cocktail waitress on the side. Then it came out that he was seeing lots of skanky women on the side. Lots and lots of skanky women.
If Tiger has a fondness for skanky women, why did he marry Elin? That’s the thing I don’t understand, not that I feel the need to understand this.
I have no idea what this person is talking about
I recieved this email the other day and I didn’t know what to make of it. It reads:
From: [omitted]@aol.com
To:rick@bentcorner.com
Date: Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Subject: Bent CornerRick
I used to enjoy reading Bent Corner and since you changed it I went along and subscribed the articles to Yahoo and then I found I couldn’t read the comments, then I subscribed to the comments then I found I still couldn’t read the articles without subscribing to the email…so I just removed ALL OF IT.
Thanks but no thanks
I’m inferring from this that he is referring to the feed for this blog. I’ve had Feedburner doing the syndication since forever. I haven’t changed it. Anyone know what this person is talking about?
How about those Raiders?
AP Photo/Keith Srakocic
They’ve only beat four teams this season. It’s a shame Pennsylvania doesn’t have any more teams in the NFL for the Raiders to play.
I “watched” the game yesterday on the Raiders official website while I was really watching the Saints beat the Redskins on the TV. The Raiders game was actually exciting, waiting for the browser screen to update with the down and the field position. I was so focused on the actual field position that I didn’t even notice that the Raiders had scored with less than two minutes on the clock. I showed Sheri that they now had the ball on the 2 yard line and she had to point out that they had scored.
The ball was on the two yard line for the extra point.
Journeyman quarterback Bruce Gradkowski had a phenomenal game yesterday. He went 22 for 33 for 308 yards with no picks. He also threw 3 touchdowns. His quarterback rating yesterday was 121.8. I’d be lying if I really knew how that was formulated. All I know is that anything over 100 is pretty stinking good.
I grew up a Raiders fan, but my love for the Silver and Black has faded since I’ve been living in Maryland. At least I thought it did. I felt my fandom for the team rekindle while back home on vacation this past summer. I saw all the Raiders swag in the stores and it took me back to my youth.
Pearl Harbor Day
On this day 68 years ago, an aerial attack consisting of 353 aircraft from six aircraft carriers was launched by the Japanese Empire against the United States’ navel base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
It was a crippling attack. Four U.S. battleships were sunk. Four more were heavily damaged. Scores of other ships were sunk. Over 2,400 servicemen were killed that early Sunday morning.
Often times in war, battles come down to a giant, bloody game of rock-paper-scissors and Pearl Harbor was no different. Though at the time the U.S. and Japanese Empire were not at war, tensions were high. Japan was advancing through much of the Pacific, turning the map into a giant, bloody game of Risk. The thought at the time was that the U.S. Pacific fleet in Hawaii was susceptible to sabotage from super secret Japanese agents, not an aerial attack. It was believed that the Pearl Harbor was too shallow to allow aircraft to attack with torpedoes. The problem was that the Japanese had developed torpedoes that could be dropped from a plane in shallow water.
Oops.
To help ward of the threat of Japanese sabotage, the ships at Pearl would stacked close together so that they could be more easily guarded by ground-based sentries. Stacking them up this close made them very susceptible to an aerial attack.
Rock-paper-scissors. Paper beats rock, but scissors beat paper.
The attack on Pearl Harbor got the United States neck deep into World War Two and the world hasn’t been the same since. The world as we know it is the direct result of what happened in World War Two. Our entire foreign policy today is based on the world that was created after World War Two.
Why wont Sarah Palin admit she doesn’t like Asian people?
In the New Yorker review of Going Rogue, Sam Tanenhaus writes that Sarah Palin’s father said she left Hawaii Pacific University after only one semester because she didn’t care too much for Asians. From the review in the New Yorker:
Palin, though notoriously ill-traveled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.” Perhaps not. But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.” In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, “because it was much like Alaska yet still ‘Outside.’ “
I don’t know what I find to be more troubling: that Sarah Palin doesn’t like Asians or that she won’t just come out and admit it. If she had or has a prejudice against people of Asian decent, why can’t she just admit it? Where’s the harm?
I think secret racism is much worse than open racism. When a person is openly racist, at least you know who they are and where they stand. A person who is secretly racist is just as likely to discriminate against someone because of their racial background than someone who is openly racist.
It’s not as though Sarah Palin belongs to a political party that places a high importance on racial sensitivity. Coming out and admitting that she doesn’t care for Asian people wouldn’t prohibit her from ever seeking her party’s presidential nomination.
Who knows, it might even help her score more votes.
Hillary Clinton: ‘We’re not talking about an exit strategy or a drop dead deadline’
If your only problem with President Obama’s military escalation of the Afghanistan war was that you thought it included a set date for troop withdrawal, think again. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates taped an interview with David Gregory of NBC’s Meet The Press that seemed to contradict what President Obama said in his speech at West Point. From the interview:
HILLARY CLINTON: We’re not talking about an exit strategy or a drop dead deadline. What we’re talking about is an assessment that in January 2011, we can begin a transition. A transition to hand off — responsibility to the Afghan forces.
ROBERT GATES: We’re not talking about an abrupt withdrawal. We’re talking about something that will take place over a period of time…. Our military thinks we have a real opportunity to do that. And it’s not just in the next 18 months. Because we will have a significant — we will have 100,000 forces — troops there. And they are not leaving– in July of 2011. Some handful or some small number or whatever the conditions permit, we’ll begin to withdraw at that time.
A handful? What a load of crap. And to think that I and every other American was told that a vote of John McCain was in fact a vote for George W. Bush. The idea being is that John McCain would simply continue with the Bush ideas and strategies. Well, the ironic thing is that Defense Secretary Robert Gates used to be George W. Bush’s defense secretary and he is on national TV talking about an open-ended, no deadline set war in Afghanistan.
So how is this any different?
When I voted for Barack Obama, I was looking for some Change. I thought it was time that we stopped spending so much of our money (and future money) on a massive military so that we could have the distinct privilege of waging unwindable wars in far off lands. I thought it was time to instead spend our money and resources closer to home. I thought it was time to start spending our money on things like universal health care and reusable energy.
If Barack Obama wanted to be the war president, he should have said so during the campaign.
Conan O’Brien visits his local comic book shop
Conan O’Brien steps off the Universal Studios lot to check out some of the local businesses, including a comic book shop. The Hobgoblin will now forever be known to me as the Gay Prankster. Don’t let the Gay Prankster throw a turnip through your window!
I think I want that inscribed on my tombstone.
Before you are allowed to watch this video, you are forced to watch an obnoxious Bud Light commercial. I don’t know what’s more repulsive, the taste of Bud Light or this stupid commercial. Bud Light is an awful beer. Just because I’ve embedded this video on my blog, don’t think for a minute that I in any way endorse the drinking of Bud Light. If you are going to drink a beer, act like a gentleman and drink a beer you can taste.
I recommend Guinness, either Guinness Stout or Guinness Draught.
Me finding a job makes the news in a major newspaper
I was interviewed by two reporters from the Los Angeles Times for an article on unemployment numbers. I get mentioned as one of the success stories when it comes to finding a job in this jobless economic Apocalypse we find ourselves in. I was contacted because of something I posted to Twitter about getting a new job.
I was interviewed over the telephone three separate times. The most difficult part was trying to convey to them exactly what I used to do for a living. What’s so difficult to understand? I was an electronics technician that troubleshot and repaired high voltage, variable speed AC drives used to control and operate 3-phase electrical motors in various automated, industrial environments, including water and wastewater processing, paper mills, tunnel boring, oil drilling platforms and mining. I also provided telephone support to customers, assisting them in programing and operating their AC drives.
What’s so hard to understand?
I think my inclusion in the article demonstrates that if a boob like me can find a job in these difficult, trying times, anyone can. My story should be inspirational to unemployed people everywhere.
Books-A-Million comes to the Hagerstown area
It was only a few weeks ago that I was saddened to learn that the Waldenbooks in the Valley Mall was closing. The book store had been a constant fixture in the Valley Mall as long as I’ve lived here in the Hagerstown area. We stopped by the Valley Mall this evening and I was pleasantly surprised to see that a Books-A-Million had moved and and set up in place of Waldenbooks.
It’s a Christmas miracle!
A large Books-A-Million opened recently in nearby Martinsburg, West Virginia. This one of course is much smaller, but it’s still great to have a place in the mall to buy books and magazines. Walking around inside tonight, it looks as though the sections are more or less the same as they were when it was a Waldenbooks.
Sarah Palin becomes a Birther
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared on the Rusty Humphries Show yesterday and the topic turned to President Obama’s birth certificate. No really, it did.
From DailyKosTV:
HUMPHRIES: Sarah Palin here on the Rusty Humphries Show. One of the questions Jason asks is would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?
PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.
HUMPHRIES: Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?
PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don’t think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we’re seeing manifest in the administration.
HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?
PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son, and a lot of people that went “Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he’s your kid,” which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one.
I just don’t get the strategy of attacking Obama’s nationality. It’s been established that he was indeed born in Hawaii, which I guess technically makes him as American as Ronald Reagan or Thomas Jefferson. I just don’t understand the idea of attacking Obama for something he has no control over. Like every other human on this planet, he didn’t choose where he was born.
I think Sarah Palin needs to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Does she want to be taken seriously as a viable presidential candidate in 2012 or does she want to be the leader of a fringe movement that questions Obama’s nationality? I don’t think she can be both.
Jamal Lewis calls it a career
NFL running back Jamal Lewis has been placed on the NFL’s Injured Reserve (IR) list by the Cleveland Browns due to post concussion symptoms. His brain is damaged from injuries he sustained while playing football. Being placed on the IR not only ends Lewis’ season, it also means the end of his football career. Lewis previously announced that this season would be his last in the NFL.
Before playing for the Browns, Lewis played for the Baltimore Ravens who drafted Lewis with the fifth pick overall pick in the 2000 NFL draft. He played in a Superbowl his rookie season, running for over 100 yards and scoring a touchdown in Super Bowl XXXV. In 2003, he rushed for 2,066 yards, 39 yards short of the all-time NFL record for rushing yards in a season, a record held by Eric Dickerson.
Lewis was a hard runner with quick feet. He could run a defender over or run right past them.
I came up with the name for this blog because of Jamal Lewis. More or less. I was the winning bidder on an eBay auction for a “mint” Jamal Lewis rookie card. I paid for the card and when it arrived in the mail, it wasn’t “mint” as advertised. It had a bent corner. I emailed the seller and tried to return the card for a refund, but he was not interested. After emailing the seller a couple of times complaining about my “mint” card with the bent corner, I gave up. This was around the time I was thinking of starting a blog. I decided that I would try to take my dissatisfying eBay experience and make something positive out of it.
It was then that Bent Corner was born.
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Some people should really learn how Facebook works
Her comment to me was both insulting and extremely hateful.
I know this because when she posted the comment, an email was automatically sent to me by Facebook showing me her comment as well as a link to the comment on Facebook. When I clicked the link, it only showed the original comment thread. Her hateful reply to me was missing.
I can only guess that she regretted leaving the comment and deleted it from Facebook. The problem with that is, I still read the comment in the email.
People really ought to learn how Facebook, or for that matter, the Internet works. If you insult someone and call them names, deleting the comment doesn’t really do anything.