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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

gas holiday?

if you would have told me three years ago that the price of regular unleaded would be any where from 4-5 dollars a gallon. i would have laughed in yor face and told you that the American public would never let it that far. But here we are paying those prices some places even more. cussing while filling up our tanks at least i was when i spent 70 bucs to fill up my Dodge Dakota the other day. then turning around and cussing while spending more on every thing else while they tell us it's because of gas prices we as Americans have seen the of our food go up the price of electric clothes and every thing else.


what are they doing to help us?

they talk about a gas holiday.... now what a gas holiday is you say? it is where the state suspends the high taxes that a state puts on gas. and we are so desperate now we cry out yes give us that any thing that will help us with these prices. but what most don't realize is, that states that have a high gas tax use these taxes to fund over 30% of there annual budget. and they can't afford to lose this money. so we will end up paying in other ways and other taxes. plus this doesn't fix the problem at all this is like sticking a piece of gum on a damn to stop a leak. it does help a lil but when these so called gas holidays are over. we go back paying more at the pumps, because the states have to raise the money back that they lost during the time the we where on this so called holiday. so remember this the next time you hear about these gas holidays on the news and don't be fooled a quick fix.

thanx for reading till next time
ryan

Sunday, May 25, 2008

can't wait till August to play fantasy football


ahh yes here we are redskins fans or just plain football fans. no i didn't say fut ball i mean the nfl.

the draft is over and now we find our selfs counting down the days until the next fantasy draft starts in August. but if your like me and patience isn't one of yor many virtues in fact the wife said it's not even in my vocabulary lol.


fear not the football gods have been hearing our prayers. and blessed us with a site that lets us play the game even in the off season called goal line blitz . it completely free and really fun, all a person does is sign up and he is awarded 500 flex points. and by what kind of player a person wants he spends his flex points to make that player like a QB,hb,fb,and so on and yes there is def players also but the really great thing is that is yor player they run off a program kinda like madden and NCAA football when creating yor player where you get to allocate what they will be good at including special moves and you can even set up what you would like your player to get better at like if you think yor player needs better field vision. You can set it up so he practice's that every day and that stat well go up . you even get to choose what team you sign with with a CPU team or a human based team and get paid a salary every day which you can use to make your player better. so this is your chance to own a pre Madonna QB or yor own lil power or sneaky back.


this a text based game you create yor players hands on yes and games are played every other day. but during the game you don't get to control them (a draw back i know) but hey we can't have it all . but one of the great things is in most games like this, where the players with the X/P play the whole game this game lets every one play at least twice in a game so you can get yor player better. so if your like me and have beaten NCAA and madden 08 give this a click http://goallineblitz.com/game/signup.pl?ref=13155573 you'll surprised with it i promise

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

how to get off the call list of the telemarketers


ah yes we all know the feeling right when we are about to eat, or relax after a hard days work watching our favorite TV show. the phone rings and you pick it up and on the other line is some person trying to sell you something. most people will say it's harassment that they do this, but not really since harassment is almost like trespassing you have to tell them to stop before it becomes harassment. so what most people do is just hang up on them or they don't answer the phone (my wife does this Lil trick) but me being a telemarketer my self i will tell you guys the same thing i tell her that doesn't work at all. all you are doing is telling them to call back since you well not talk to them. but before i tell you how to make the calls stop lets see how telemarketing works.


How do they get my number?

i know you like millions of Americans like you. Ask your self this question every time the phone rings and there is some one on the line trying to sell you something. even an unlisted number doesn't help any more. here are the ways they get your number



  1. BANKS: Banks and credit unions are the number one reason why you get those annoying calls offering you something. you always give your personal info with out a bat of the eye not only will a bank use your phone number to try to sell you something that has to do with the bank but they well sell your info to other company's for millions on their own.

  2. CABLE OR SATELLITE: are another way they get your number i mean look at this way. how do they identify who you are when you call them by your phone number right ? and again they make millions selling your number to others.not to mention the fact they will call you to update your services

3. PHONE COMPANY : yes even your phone company well not only sell your personal info but they will call u with updates on on your service. (even if you have a unlisted number)


OK those are the main ways telemarketing firms get your phone number there are ways around this....


one is called a privacy block that is supplied by your phone company that blocks all incoming 1800 numbers from coming to your phone but this has some draw backs to it. one is the price phone company's charge any where from 5.99 to 10.00 for just this service. two is that blocks all incoming 1800 numbers even the ones you want to let through. like if you are trying to use a calling card or any thing like that. also it really doesn't work since now firms are wise to this Lil feature and are shying away from 1800 numbers. like just the other day i got a call from a telemarketer that popped up saying cell phone on my caller id so your just throwing your money out there for nothing now.


another is called the National Do Not Call Registry. now what this does is it sends a letter to the telemarketing firms and says this number is on the our list you are not to call it any more. while this works on about 50% of calls it doesn't stop all the calls what they don't tell you is this



If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?
No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.


i don't know how many times i have made a call to somebody and been told they were on National Do Not Call Registry and never knew that since they have a business relationship with the company i am calling about that the National Do Not Call Registry help them


OTHER THINGS THAT WILL NOT HELP THE CALLS TO STOP



  1. having your spouse or a child tell them to take you off there list it has to be the lead (the person on the screen) that has to tell them to take them off their calling list. they will just call you back till you talk to them

  2. this is my favorite, telling a person on your answering machine to take your name off their calling list will not also stop the calling

  3. hanging up or just plain not answering will not help either

  4. also something that most people don't understand is that when you tell one caller to put you on the do not call list that doesn't mean that you won't get a call back from that place. for example lets say your bank calls you for an a anti theft program and you you say no and take me off your calling list. that means you will not get any calls about the anti theft program. but you still will receive calls about all the other programs out there for your bank


but it's not all bad news i can tell you how to stop almost all the calls. since calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted (sorry no stopping them) but the others i can help u with but it will take a Lil work OK here we go



  1. go to this web site https://www.donotcall.gov/ and register.. i know i can hear you now saying but Ryan you said this doesn't work no i said it will work on the firms that you don't have a business relationship with.

  2. call every body you do have a business relationship with your phone, cable,cell phone,credit,bank,electric/gas companies. and tell them to add you to their universal do not calling list. and after 90 days i grantee most of the calls will stop

not that hard huh? but you would be amazed how many people still don't realize how easy it is. or they are just to lazy to do this and keep getting calls, then complain because they do.



why i always say that we should make marijuana legal in the USA.






well this is my first post so be gentile on me. i also want every body to know that i don't do any type of drug at all . well besides prescription drugs.

OK any body who has been in cc3 knows this topic comes up at least once a day. and why it should be legal (me)and then the ones that say no it shouldn't. then they ask that question what was i thinking by saying it should be legal so here we go on why i think it should be.

  1. is that prisons are being over filled with marijuana users and sellers, out of all the drug arrest made in 2007 4.8% were for marijuana sale/manufacturing and 39.1% were for marijuana possession. those numbers are staggering that's more than the harder drugs like meth, coke, LSD,acid and so on.... In fact where i live in Illinois a man was caught with 6 pounds of pot in his car and got 40 years in a state prison. while a month later a man that stabbed a man to death only got 13 years. another man that was convected of raping a Lil boy then killing him was allowed to plea bargain down to a lesser charge of rape and only got 7 years are we seeing a problem here?
  2. pot is a drug that is safe if you really look at it and compare it to the other drugs out there . now i hear all of you right now saying not if you drive or run equipment . yes i know those risk as well but for right now i am comparing it to the harder drugs out there on the streets right now. u can't overdose on pot like you can crack, meth, LSD, and x. in fact your no danger to any body but the pantry. you never hear about a person high on pot shooting someone because they thought the person was a demon or something like that. The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alcohol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

3. there are allot of good things that come could from making pot legal. Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor and unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

4 money yes i said money.....By legalizing this drug, the government would save the money it currently spends fighting the drug. right now the government spends in a ball park figure of 77.8 billion estimated, 20 percent of the government's war on drugs expenditures goes toward marijuana. so why not put that money to work for us and not to a drug dealer in fact looking at a drug enforcement site it says that Americans spend a whopping $11 billion just on pot. so how many states would that help? and they could almost double that with a tax on it the fact of the matter is that a state could make more money by making it legal and taxing it then it would fighting it. why do you think prohibition ended on liquor? because the government was losing more money than it could have been making.

now i know i will get some comments asking what about a person that gets high and goes to work? but i as them this what the diff between that person and a person that is taking a narcotic pain killer? the biggest diff is that an employer will tell you if your high on pot just call in. But they well tell the person taking the pain med's to come in and work the way a pot smoker would be working