It’s gonna be one of those days, I can already tell. Work’s slow as hell, which as stated yesterday, allows me to surf the web…and discover not only great TV Shows (is it crass to link to your own blog articles? Meh), but stuff that pisses me off to no end.
I swear, I really did used to be such a nice boy. I used to be happy and carefree and all that stuff. Blame politics, because often, that’s where my ire comes from.
I should clarify here, as I haven’t really expressed much about myself here on the Ravyn’s Nest. And maybe now is an opportunity to get to know me a little bit. So let’s start with that…who am I, beyond a feathery little big-mouth?
Hi, my name is Jeremy (or, depending on who you are, Ravyn or Jer). I’m a 30-year-old bisexual from Portland, OR, and I work for Yahoo! in their Connected Life Tech Support Department as a Tier III Support Rep. What this essentially means is as follows: Yahoo! has partnerships with four broadband ISP’s–AT&T and Verizon in the United States, Rogers in Canada, and British Telecom (BT) in the UK. We’re the third line of support for all problems that co-branded users report. So when they initially call in, they get the partner’s basic tech support; if it needs to be escalated, it then goes to their Tier 2 queue. Further escalation is done to us via a ticket process…this means that I don’t have to talk to customers, I communicate via email, our ticket system, and IM with Tier 2, and if there’s something I need to escalate, I send it straight to the last line, the Product Engineers. It also means that I end up supporting the Brodband Partner’s versions of all Yahoo! products (E-Mail, the MyYahoo! portal page, Launchcast music, Yahoo! Online Protection, Account Registration). The Connected Life team (of which there are ten of us) also handle all Yahoo! Mobile issues, as well as Widgets. I, in particular, am the primary contact on the team for Yahoo! Online Protection, or as we <sarcasm>lovingly</sarcasm> call it, YOP.
Honestly, I love my job…it’s the best company I’ve ever worked for. The company as a whole is very socially conscious toward it’s employees…the first employee shareholders group was Yahoo! Pride, a LGBT group. All of their offices have branches of the Yahoo! Employee Foundation, which are employees who do charity work in the community. You even have 8 hours a year you can get paid for taking a day off to do legit charity work. Hell, at Christmas, Jerry and David, the founders of the company, gave every employee $100 to donate to the charity of their choice (I chose CHAMP, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project). Sure, it’s a tax write-off for them, but considering my previous jobs have been mostly tech jobs at call centers where the employers wouldn’t spring for health care much less something like that, it’s an amazing gesture in my book.
In my personal life, I’ve been married to my partner of nine years for the last two of them. She’s a StoryTeller on the online World of Darkness site I also StoryTell on. She has a condition called Ideopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), also known as pseudotumor cerebri. It’s a build-up of cerebrospinal fluid that brings her spinal pressure up through the roof. It rendered her legally blind after being diagnosed a few years ago, and so she’s unable to work. A lumbar shunt keeps her spinal pressure down by draining the excess fluid into her abdomen, where it’s (I guess) reabsorbed into the body.
We don’t have kids and have no plans on it; our kids are our three cats, Bagheera, Khan, and Kali. In my spare time, I play RP and Storytell on the previously mentioned World of Darkness site, rant about politics, and watch a lot (A LOT) of movies. I’m a trivia buff, and am the undisputed Trivial Persuit (or insert pretty much every other trivia game here) champion of my local area.
And…that’s pretty much me. *Waves all around*
Now…that’s out of the way. Let’s get to the ranting.
So, it seems that as reported in the Cove Herald, not everyone has gotten sick of ol’ President Dubya. Fine, I can tolerate that. I can’t really understand it, but I can certainly tolerate that. Especially when, as it seems, they are absolutely delusional. Check this shit out. Posted from the article…
WASHINGTON – Bill and Georgia Thomas reported they were elated Monday when they met in the Oval Office with President George W. Bush to present him with a Purple Heart.
“We were just absolutely bowled over. Without reservation, it was one of the highlights of our life. He was such a gracious host,” Thomas said. “It was just an incredible, incredible experience.”
The couple was able to meet with President Bush for about 20 minutes to present him with one of three Purple Hearts that Bill Thomas received during his service in Vietnam.
“He said he didn’t feel like he had earned it,” Thomas said, noting the president looked thinner in person than on television.
Thomas said he and his wife came up with the unprecedented idea to present the president with the Purple Heart over breakfast one morning a few months ago as they discussed the verbal attacks, both foreign and domestic, the commander in chief has withstood during his time in office.
“We feel like emotional wounds and scars are as hard to carry as physical wounds,” Thomas said.
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Seriously. No, SERIOUSLY. Some war vet thinks that because Chimpy having people be mean to him about his rediculous policies, that he deserves a FUCKING WAR MEDAL.
Hey. Idiot. You earned that Purple Heart by putting yourself in the line of fire in a war that, while unpopular and misguided, you were willing to fight, because that was what you were told to do. You showed courage and bravery. Now you’re showing a complete lack of basic sentient reasoning.
I wouldn’t be so pissed about it, and would just consider it a lame stunt, if it weren’t for the following:
May, 1968: While soldiers are dying in Vietnam, George Bush, by virtue of his Congressman father’s considerable influence, gets snuck into the National Guard, inexplicably jumping to the top of a list of 500 people to get in, despite receiving the minimum passing score (25) on the pilot entrance aptitude test and listing no other qualifications. Ben Barnes, the former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Texas, stated under oath that he had called the head of the Texas Air National Guard, Brig. Gen. James Rose, to recommend Bush for a pilot spot at the request of Bush family friend Sidney Adger.
Sooo…let’s get this straight. Chimpy chickens out of the war because he has a rich daddy (if he had moral objections, he should’ve protested his conscience like everyone else), but he gets a fucking Purple Heart?
Unfuckingbelievable.
–Jer
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