Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras

The next time that I’m driving down to Biloxi, I’m going to defiantly run a few lights to get there faster, because:

The Sun Herald reports that

Mississippi’s capital city will stop issuing tickets and collecting fines when automatic cameras snap pictures of vehicles running red lights, city attorney Sarah O’Reilly Evans says.

The change in Jackson is being made immediately, even though a new state law sets an Oct. 1 deadline for the cameras to be taken down in the only two cities already using them – Jackson and Columbus.

David Letterman Drops the Ball

David Letterman, we had hope for you and you dropped the ball.

Sadly reported in the Tribune:

David Letterman dropped a bombshell during Monday night’s “Late Show” on CBS: He and Regina Lasko, his girlfriend of 23 years, got hitched last week.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

What’s wrong with our government? Are we now Socialists, Fascists, Communists or plain thiefs?  We shunned Cuba for over 50 years  for doing far less.

WSJ Reports:

The Obama administration will ask Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies.

123Spoof Makes Caller ID Spoofing Easy

Just what the bad guys need:

There are a number of reasons why you may be interested in using a phone spoofing service such as this one. In looking through the provided FAQ, we learn that 123Spoof is ideal for people who want to play pranks on their friends, businesspeople who want to “research” their competitors, and even concerned spouses who want to check on their partners.Marketing Business Review, 123Spoof Makes Caller ID Spoofing Easy, Mar 2009

Site Build it is Not For Me

I’m a really big fan of Blogger Unleashed and loved Vic’s review of Site Build it (SBI) and how he unleashed his fury on the product.  I have to agree with Vic — in the sense that I’m a cheap bastard — and would never pay $300 bucks a year for a website.  There are far better alternatives to making money online when running a business.

Sure, I may pay $300 for a really nice design and use WordPress for the content management, but never $300 recurring fees for building a site.  These recurring costs eat away at my profit.

Vic’s business model is to produce lots of sites.   He claims that his 1200 sites earns him about 22k per month, or about $220 per year per site.  If he used Site Build it exclusively to build sites, he would take a $80/website loss or 96k loss per year.

To be fair to Site Build it, if you’re a business owner wanting to put up a site and not deal with getting domain, getting a webhost, getting a designer, SBI may be for you.   That’s how I started and worked perfect until I wanted to expand into the online market and had to keep my costs low.

Like Vic, I have lots of sites, a few make lots money, but majority of them are duds and don’t break the $50/year.  But with shared hosting these duds are making still $40 year in profit.

If I spent $300 for each “bright idea” I had, I would have still had lots of duds now costing me $250/year instead of making $40 year.  Site Build It is not for me … I just couldn’t afford it.

Rush Limbaugh Go Home

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This is simply the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard about Rush Limbaugh

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CBS News‘ Bob Schieffer that Limbaugh had become the new leader of the GOP, and the “voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”

WTF. If you believe that then you’re plain dumbass.  Limbaugh is a Republican impostor that doesn’t represent the conservative values of America.

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The (Bacon Belly) Bomb Will Kill You

OMFG, I would die from a heart attack if I  ate this bacon belly bomb.  I can’t believe that anyone would think up this half-baked pork idea yet try to eat it.

But there are people out there that actually will try to convince you that it is the best thing out there.  There’s a reason in the Bible that you should not eat pork cause the bacon belly bomb will kill you.

Tonight I’m Watching UParty 2009

Here in the Windy City, I’m staying in for once on New Years, not getting drunk and making a fool of myself and waking up with a stranger, headache and some STD I’m going to regret becuase I couldn’t get that condom on just right…

So tonight, I’m going to force myself to watch UPARTY 2009 with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly.  I’ll probably fall asleep wishing I was with Megyn …

Lindsay Lohan Should Be Happy About Another Sis

Instead of rejoicing, Lindsay Lohan is bitching:

Lindsay Lohan took to her MySpace celebrity blog this week to say she has a half-sibling fathered by her dad, and she’s not happy about it. But her father strongly denies the claim.

“My father just let my family and [me] know, amongst other [things] that he had another child after my little sister Aliana,” Lohan, 22, wrote Wednesday in a post titled “Random Thoughts.”

She continued: “Or maybe he had it before Aliana?? Either way, he cheated on my mother and that really sucks.”