Milk "Chocolate"

Ugh... here are the ingredients of this brown product masquerading as milk chocolate. Oh, and the front label says "YUMMY MILKY & CHOCOLATY FLAVORED CANDY!" Apparently the "chocolaty" part is only the FAKE color.

INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, PARTIALLY-HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (PALM KERNEL AND/OR PALM), WHEY, SKIM MILK, U.S. CERTIFIED COLORS (FD&C YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1, BLUE 2, AND RED 40 LAKES), SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), VANILLIN (AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR).

Not even an homeopathic amount of chocolate in there.

Eliot Spitzer spells it out

Eliot Spitzer is very eloquent in describing what needs to happen with Wall Street and the OCCUPY movement. KQED Forum interview

Tony Kiritsis vs the Mortgage Banker

Wired a shotgun to his neck and was on television for three days. see video

Annoying gifts

A gift card that requires you to give the corporation your date of birth, address, phone number is an evil thing.

The Revolution is Love

My response to a video "There are a few good nuggets in here, but there is also a lot of idealistic vagueness that nearly submerges those nuggets. I think there are specific things that the movement does want, or at least that *I* think could be solutions. Number one is the changing legal structure of the corporation. A corporation is not a person, and under the current legal structure, a corporation is granted all the rights of citizenship with none of the responsibilities."

Which elicited: @DocSquat This video is trying to show you, in particular, that there's a bigger picture that you're not seeing. In the system the way it should be, it wouldn't matter whether a corporation is considered a person or not. ----beauxq 9 hours ago

@beauxq Oh my god! Thank you for revealing my blindness, I am still reeling from the lightning bolt of truth that has landed upon my consciousness from your wisdom. I will immediately sell all my worldly possessions, and not send worthless money, but shall buy a tanker of soup and have it delivered to your tent. I am sure you will use it wisely.

Credit Union - paper statements

Today is the end of a transition. My credit union now gives you an "either" "or" option: If you don't agree to electronic statements, you can't use the web site for banking. Arg.

It's not that I don't like internet banking, it's just that I envision a day where I need to do something and for some reason, internet access is not working. Of course, getting a statement in the mail has nothing to do with whether I can make an online transaction. But despite occasional problems, for some reason I still trust the U.S. mail more than I trust having internet access?

Forty-some cents to mail a letter. Much more than that to maintain internet access.

Lose your password?

Yeah right... a company that wants you to trust them will all your passwords has in its terms of service agreement "may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately." Whoops - you no longer have any of your passwords. What a great service?!