BURN YOUR CREDIT CARDS AND TELL THEM ALL TO GO TO HELL!

No photo today... just a rant about the freaking credit card companies. Let me start by saying that I am lucky enough to be able to come up with a little cash now and then to pay off/down a credit card. But not always, and like I said, I'm lucky. I happen to know lots of people aren't so lucky.

I've just spent a half hour on the phone with one credit card company, and I am totally fired up about how freaking ridiculous they are. GREEDY BASTARDS!

Yeah, my rate went up, but a lot of other people had their rate go up even more. OVER 23%!!!!! I ranted at them on the phone, what do they think they are doing??? Don't they realize how many more people's lives they ruined? Don't they understand how many people were on the edge already, and are being pushed into the black hole of bankruptcy court now???

So today, I make a new challenge for myself and the rest of you out there... STOP USING THE GODDAM CREDIT CARDS! That's right, let's all stop using them, and then, get them paid off, if you can, and BURN THEM! And... and... if you can't pay them off... go to bankruptcy court and tell them to POUND SAND!!!!

I mean it. They are PARASITES. We don't need them. They are only sucking the blood out of our country, and we don't need that! Next time you get an offer in the mail, call them up and take up their time for as long as you can. Just go on and on about nothing, asking a million questions about the terms and all that shit. I mean it. Ask every stupid question you can think of, and then tell them: "Pound sand."

If we work hard at it, we can put these bastards out of business in about 3 to 5 years , I figure. Think about it... we'll just find some other way. In fact, once we put the greedy ones out of business, others will appear that might have learned the lesson. Or not. I don't think we need to actually go burn down their ivory towers, but we have got to teach them a lesson. We have to remind them that they are here for us, not that we are here for them. My God it's like in the Matrix movies, we are all here just to be plugged in and sucked dry for life.

I'm pretty sure their only concern at our death is which poor sucker is going to pay off the monstrous debt that could never be satisfied. I used to think bankruptcy was a bad idea. I never wanted to go that road before. But I am starting to wonder. If they care so little, and if they insist on sucking everything they can out of us, then let them have it with both barrels.

Yes, color me done with credit cards. My new mission is to get mine paid ASAP, and burn the damn things. I will find some way to learn how to live without them. There must be a way, I know we lived before credit cards, and I know we can survive without them. We will just have to start living within our cash means. I haven't done that in a while, but I know I can. I know I can.

*expletive aimed at credit card companies*

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Dunedin, Florida: Some Ducks Are Such Posers!

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I snapped this total poser of a duck (that's Muscovy Duck) while walking around Lake Paloma. I tell you, he was totally posing! The more I snapped, the more he posed. Hmmm, come to think of it, it might have been a FEMALE duck! lol

I gotta tell you, when you see this little lake for the first time, Lake Paloma, you might think it's just another overgrown (barely) pond. I mean, it really isn't all that big. BUT... I see some of the coolest birds in the lake, or in the vicinity. Here's a list of all the different birds I have seen in my last couple of walks around and near the lake: Muscovy Duck, Mallard Duck, Mottled Duck, Wood Duck, White Heron, Great White Heron, Great Blue Heron, White Ibis, Kingfisher, Osprey, Crested Night Heron, Bald Eagle (FOR REAL!), Gallinule, Blue Jay, Starling, Crow, Grackle, Mockingbird, Cardinal, and I am sure I am forgetting at least two more.
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Dunedin, Florida: Purple Heart Park, City Employees Keeping It Real

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A simple shot, a simple image, a simple thing. Keeping it real in Purple Heart Park. This is right in Downtown Dunedin. Not a big, sprawling, we're better than you, park. A simple small park to acknowledge the incredible sacrifice made by so many of our military personnel. After all, no park or monument is big enough, or grand enough, or heart-wrenching enough to do justice to their sacrifice. Good to see some of Dunedin's fine city employees taking care of this special place.

Hats off to all those serving or who served. Remember them with pride, respect and gratitude. For without the dedication and sacrifice of those willing to bear arms, we would not be living in such a wonderful (yes, even with its bumps and warts) country. Oh, and let's hear it for #44, P.B.O.!
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Dunedin, Florida: Every Pretty Place Has A Back Alley

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Well there you go, I went and posted a picture of one of the back ends of Dunedin. Yup, it's like seeing behind the curtain, eh? But hey, we gotta have a place to put the trash so the garbage man can come and get it!

What about your town? Got any cool back allies? Of course, any back alley in Dunedin will be tame compared to many in the big cities. And that's part of what we love about Dunedin, isn't it?
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Dunedin, Florida: Alien Cloud Formations Over Dunedin: Invasion?

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Greetings from down in the hole. Life changes. Busy moves in. Leisure moves out. Time passes. Blogs suffer. If you love Dunedin, or Clearwater, or Clearwater Beach, how would you like to consider becoming a contributing team member to this blog, or one of my Clearwater blogs? If so, leave a comment with some way to get in touch with you, or find my email address on this blog and write to me. No obligations, no minimum participation frequency (well, at least ONCE in a while).

Susan, I got your number, busy as all get out. I hope you can wait until after the holidays. LH and CC, I don't know what I was thinking, that I could get a chance to contact you this week. Things are pretty A&E at work for the next two weeks. (The E stands for Elbows). I will get in touch soon, but please be patient if it takes until after the New Year.

Meanwhile, life has such a wonderful way of going from good to crap in no time flat. That's why people write songs like "Feelin' way too damn good". Merry Christmas one and all. And if Christmas is not your thing, just replace Merry Christmas with whatever is your thing, and then say it to yourself from me. Thanks.
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Litter Sucks, And So Do The People Who Do It!

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Trash... garbage... litter... refuse... debris... junk... crap... I hate it. I hate the damned stupid morons who think it's okay to just chuck it out the window, or drop it onto the street. Who the hell do they think they are? Where are their parents?

Here are my ideas about this: Everyone, I mean EVERYONE, is issued a weapon. Some sort of gun. Then, whenever ANYONE sees ANYONE throw trash, or litter, or whatever you want to freaking call it, they MUST SHOOT THEM ON SIGHT! If they kill them, they get a bonus, if they simply wound them, they get a minimal bounty. All this would be backed up by the films from nearby security cameras (the ones the world is becoming more and more populated with).

IF you see someone litter and don't shoot them, we cut off one of your toes. In addition, if you are seen littering, we find your parents and cut off one of their toes. And another thing, look out Budweiser, we start penalizing companies if their product is littered more than others. Yeah, that's right, the cigarette companies would be in even MORE BIG TROUBLE!

And anyone who doesn't like this plan, or who refuses to participate (like refusing to carry their gun) would be chained to a damned garbage truck so they can pick up the freaking trash all day.

Next time, let's talk about licensing childbirth!
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Dunedin, Florida: Decorated Light Pole At Casa Tina's

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Another picture, another post, another day of wondering why I publish this blog.

Perhaps because I can't resist sharing this neat place where I live and work and play. Mayhaps I have been working too much lately, and not playing enough. Yes, that may just be the case. Either way, this is Casa Tina's. I have posted enough about them before, eh?
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Dunedin, Florida: Voting Poll Lobbying Boundary

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Well, the big day has come and gone, and we are all watching and listening to learn just what it will really mean to us all. More voters turned out on that one day than most other voting days in history. More people were engaged with the process than ever before. Where you?

This is a shot I snapped on Voting day while on walking photo safari in Dunedin. I found it interesting to see the blue "X" on the sidewalk, and guess that it is there to make sure that anyone there to lobby for their candidate remained the legally determined distance from the entrance to the polling place.
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Dunedin, Florida: Dunedin Causeway To Honeymoon Island: Hot November

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What can I tell you... November 3rd, lunch time, Dunedin Causeway looking toward Honeymoon Island... beautiful, warm, sunshine. That's why people live here. It's just that simple.

So I post this shot for the pleasure of my northern friends and visitors. Yes, I will miss the concept of snow this winter, and wish we had more of a season, but I cannot deny that NOT freezing is not always all that bad. If you click to see the larger version, check out the squiggly lines from the heat coming off the sidewalk. Wow!
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Dunedin, Florida: INSPIRATION: Dominique Benassi of France: Ironman World Championship 70.3

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This is Dominique Benassi of Bastia, France. This, and more, I learned from the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 website. He is 47, an Electrician. As you may have noticed, he has only one leg. He finished the Ironman, swimming 1.2 miles, biking 56 miles, and running 13.1 miles, with a rank of 586 out of 1,254.

I don't know much more about him, but this is all I need to know to be COMPLETELY INSPIRED! I didn't expect that when I walked, with my two good legs, down the street to stand, with my two good legs, and watch the athletes ride by on their bicycles. I never expected to see a man with only one leg competing in one of the hardest races on this planet. Incredible! My hat is off to Dominique Benassi.
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