MotherFUCKERS

Remember a while ago when I posted bitching about how J. C. Penny's now makes you go through a $2/minute 900 number to verify employment?

We just got a $48 charge on our long distance bill for that call. They're trying to charge us TWELVE DOLLARS A MINUTE. (Which is NOT the rate they quoted at the time.)

MotherFUCKERS.

In other news, I spent the day semi-constantly on the phone with either the mortgage broker, the mortgage lender, my agent, potential tenants for the other house, and one random jackass calling trying to get me to sell the house I live in for presumably not nearly enough money if they're trying to cold-call people they suspect don't know the value of their property, and (through the web) the health insurance people. That was between five loads of laundry, emptying the trash at the bus stop, cleaning a little graffiti there and on a signpost, being stood up by yet another supposedly-potential-tenant (this time around, 2/3 of the people making appointments never show or call to cancel), hanging the last(!) cleaned miniblind in Din, and hauling the tarps out into the garage.

And delivering a paper late notice to a tenant.

And some other stuff that I forget about.

I'm tired. Here, have a quiz.
( mmmmm... quiz... )

motherFUCKER!

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2&prgDate=current

Looks like Kerry will support an anti-gay constitutional amendment if the language is right.

Mother. FUCKER.

Here's the relevant bit.

NPR: I'd like to turn to the subject of gay marriage. The highest court in your home state of Massachusetts has said that same-sex couples do have the right to marry; I know that you've said you oppose gay marriage; but would you support a Constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a heterosexual union?

Kerry: Well, it depends entirely upon the language, as to whether it permits civil unions and partnerships or not.

Here, I stole this from a mailing list I'm on; it's text forwarded from a Dean blog:

The man today said clear as day that he'd be ok with a constitutional
amendment if the "language" was right.

He didn't say no.

He didn't say that we shouldn't be making constitutional amendments that strip rights away from one group of US citizens.

He said that his decision depended upon the language.

That is terrible. My Jaw dropped when I heard it.

What if was talking about black people or hispanic people? Would he be OK with a similar amendment if the "language" was right?

The reason it is a huge deal is the same reason it would be unconstitutional and immoral to call white people "citizens" and black people "residents" even if they had the same basic rights.

If we crafted an amendment saying that from hence forth, all states shall never refer to black people as "citizens" but they shall enjoy the same rights as white people; it would rightly be denounced.

"Separate but equal" has a very ugly history in our country. To allow for a constitutional amendment that enshrines that failed and divisive concept is reprehensible and dangerous.

Kerry knows better but he is covering his political butt. You know that, I know that. It is a shame and people who care about basic human rights should speak up.