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The politicians are at it again. What this time? Try gas prices at the pump.

Another site on Multiplyc.com called C.J.’s site talks about this.

What I don’t understand is that the politicians in office right now had promised to work with the rest of the government to help the country. How is making the ordinary American citizen pay more at the pump helping us? What ever happened to the ‘lofty’ goals spoken of when they were first elected? I guess the office became more important than the people who helped to put the politicians there. It would be nice if the politicians would actually think about the rest of America for a change.

Why isn’t the media screaming about this to every one? How is it that the public (you know the ones paying bills) isn’t informed of the happenings? We hear about movie people having kids and divorces - that ain’t news. Congress hiking the gas tax is news

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Yes, I have commented on TV ads before. Here i go again.

Several commercials are so irritating that I find myself griping at the TV! Lot of good that will do. Ha as if.:) Well, anyway, there is this commercial where the man says his arm itches. The wife begins to pelt him with all types of tubes of medicine without once bothering to find out what type of itch it is. If I was the man, I would pelt her right back with all the ammo she has been throwing at me. Might get her to stop.

Then, there is this commercial. Someone is doing something that is making them happy. The face of a young man comes on and YELLS 1 flag! Then shows a scene from an amusement park with screams and stuff going on. The face of the young man shows again and YELLS how many flags that supposedly means that the amusement park is more fun. It doesn’t mention the cost which is in the double digits. The yelling is so irritating that I would not choose to go to that place, let alone pay that cost.

Why do ad agencies think that a TV commercial has to be loud and irritating in order to sell the product? It doesn’t work for me. It is a big time turn off. I wish the agencies would learn. It would make the TV viewing more pleasant.

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I was recently reminded of the old axiom - The squeaky wheel gets greased.

It is a fact of life that most people do not notice things when everything is going along smoothly. We have a tendency to ignore the things that work, and only pay attention to the things that cause us to notice them. Therefore the idea of the squeaky wheel being noticed, that something is wrong. Found another site on the internet (isn’t the internet a lot of fun!) that proved that old axiom. It remarkably is called, The Streisand Effect.

Over and over things get noticed only because someone made noise about what was going on. When living in Florida, the National Inquirer newspaper put an article in its pages that Carol Burnett had a drinking problem. She of course protested that lie. The paper put in a retraction article back in its rear pages. Right where someone would NOT notice it. Carol Burnett of course did not like the hidden retraction, after all the original article was put in the front of the paper, in a very public manner. She took the paper to court and sued. She only asked for 1 (one) dollar and a very public apology, which of course was only right. The jury agreed with her that the paper did wrong. They however awarded 1(one)MILLION dollars to her instead of the original single dollar which she asked for. If the paper had been as public with its retraction as it had been with the original lie, the court case could have been avoided. As it ended, trying to hide what it did wrong created more noise than if it had just done the simple thing.

We ourselves should become squeaky wheels when we see something wrong. We should not let only the arrogant noise makers be noticed. I’m talking about the Silent Majority here. Being silent has its uses, but not when things are wrong though.

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Welcome to another Two Ton Tilly Rant.

I have been trying surveys. I believe that I mentioned them in an earlier post. Well, I am fed up with one particular supposed survey call INBOX DOLLARS.COM. They promise 50cents for every e-mail read. However, they only give credit of one cent. Then when you try to actually get paid for any time and effort put into their activities, you get told that you can’t get paid until you achieve a credit way above what you supposedly have.

In other words, a royal RIP OFF. A lot of time and eye sight wasted on hidden spam and advertising. Nothing has been achieved except to tick off someone who isn’t afraid to label a thief for being a thief. So, beware of INBOX DOLLARS.COM. Their scheme is nothing more than a ploy separate you from you money and time.

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Recently here in Texas we have had a lot of storms, with the resulting damage to the areas around.

The authorities are trying to clean up what was brought down, and trying to reconnect downed power lines. However, on the other side of the world, the country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) still has bodies floating around in streams, inside the wrecked houses, in lakes. The supposed ruler has focused his attention on the capital city and is ignoring all the rest of the country.

I know that our government messed up when Katrina hit in the south of the US; but, nothing like this blatant disregard for what is morally needed. Any people that need food in the country have been getting spoiled goods. The list goes on and on. Those people need our prayers.

The BBC online has been keeping an eye on the goings on there and it is horrific.

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There is a commercial that I’ve seen on TV that irks me. It is not one I’ve mentioned before.

It involves cell phone service. A father gripes to his kids about how many minutes they use. Never mind that the girl has gotten excellent grades on a college course, never mind that his son almost kills himself ,destroys the garage, totals the car. The father can only see a bill. He doesn’t care about anything else.

His actions kill the girl’s excitement about achievement, the boy..in shock from almost being killed…does not understand why the gripe about a phone, and not the car or garage. The father’s priorities need to be rearranged. Not about the phone bill, but about his family.

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If you enjoy the internet and like to find different sites…well have I found something.

Some friends introduced me to a special service called Stumble Upon. I had wondered how to find things to look at when I didn’t even quite know what I wanted to see. Since then I’ve been looking at a lot of different things. It’s fun and easy. If you look at the bottom of this post you will see different icons in a row.

If you notice the icon that is blue & green and has an ’s’ and a ‘u’ in it, all you have to do is click on it then have fun. Try it out sometime. I did and haven’t regretted it.

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I am for the Right to Bear Arms. The constitution, through the 2nd amendment gives citizens that right. Many states and cities have tried to limit that right. The ones who suffer are the law abiding people that live there. Gun control advocates have misstated the statistics when they talk about ‘gun crimes’, all to make their opinion known. I just found a few sites that expose the lack of accuracy in those ’statistics’. One such site is

Union Leader.com

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Just spent about 7 hours on the internet looking at survey sites. Wow, some of them aren’t about surveys as much as they are about selling services, time shares, ring tones for phones, magazines, yata, yata, yata.

What a disappointment. Taking surveys happens to be something that can be fun. Sometimes surveys offer a chance at sweepstakes, or prizes. Most of the ones I met weren’t honest about what they wanted. Instead of answering questions that are part of a survey, you get presented with choices of services, over and over again. The answer of no is not taken easily. The same products are offered again and again. Where I come from, no means no, not try again. some surveys didn’t want to accept that I didn’t desire to publicize my phone number. The site wouldn’t move on until you gave them what THEY wanted. That isn’t surveying, that is only false advertising. The alt button and F4 sure did come on handy.

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I am beginning to hate spam. It shows up when you least want it. The food in a can is alright, but the electronic type is a pain in the bottom. ( I try to spell tucus, but the spell check tells me it’s wrong.) On this site I keeep getting spam for ring tones. If I wanted ring tones I’d ask my provider, not anonymous johnnies who sneak their messages in on you. Broadcast TV is well known for it’s commercials, it is a shame that going on the internet you are bugged by advertising anyway.

Even cable TV is not free of commercials. I know the ad agencies need to make money; but, butinsky spam is not appreciated. Tried to look at something in an article found in Stumble Upon, but spam got in the way. UG! Yes, I’m ranting again. At least if you’re reading this, you chose it of your own free will, I didn’t spam you after all.:)

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