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What it means…

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…to be a lie detector:

a). You will never be popular.

b). When people know you can see through them, they run.

c). Far away.

d). Or, they become highly insecure and doubt their own sanity.

e). Your delurking crowd says “hi” but they don’t want you to know who they are.

f). They don’t leave any contact e-mails or their homepage. 😛

g). Most of your visitors don’t comment and remain completely in the shadows.

h). People who don’t see the lies you point out, call you crazy or looney.

i). It is just a sign of their insecurity.

j). Because they can’t see what you see and it freaks them out!

k). These people can’t get far enough away from you.

l). Didn’t I already say that?

Being a natural born lie detector is a curious thing. It’s my life and I’ve come to accept it. I am content with it. It’s just the way it is…

Click-n-ship: Deception?

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If you stumble on to, or hear about the United States Post Office service called Click-n-Ship, be careful. There is something you should know…

If you are not familiar with Click-n-Ship, let me explain. The post office offers you the service of being able to purchase your postage online at home. You enter the type of mail you are sending (envelope, package, etc), you enter the weight and shipping information — and then they calculate out the cost. Next, they print out a label for you right there on your own printer. You cut it out, paste it to your package and drop it in the mail.

Isn’t that a great idea? No more having to wait in line at the post office. You can do it all from home. What is not to love?

The problem: You are paying for this service, but they don’t directly tell you. I only realized it after entering several different weights for different packages and they all came back telling me they were the same price: Priority Mail for $3.85. It didn’t matter than one package was 2 oz., another was 4 oz. and the last weighed nearly a pound. I knew something was up…

Essentially, the Click-n-Ship’s cheapest charge for all packages under a certain weight is $3.85. They don’t forewarn you about this either. You have to figure it out on your own, or do some close reading on their website.

Instead of paying $3.85 for my last few packages, I actually could have mailed them for $1.06 or even less!

Nice, wouldn’t you say??

From now on, I am going to buy dollar stamps at the post office and keep them home. Then I am going to weigh my packages myself, use their online postage calculator (not Click-n-ship) and write my own labels.

Why would I want to do their work and then pay them for it? H E L L O.

Someone tell me this is a lie

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Please, someone, anyone, tell me this is a lie…

Bigger breasts offered as perk to U.S. soldiers (Story put out by Reuter’s News Agency on MSNBC.com)

In the article, Reuter’s quotes: “(The New Yorker Magazine)…quoted an Army spokeswoman as saying, ‘the surgeons have to have someone to practice on.’ ”

I just can’t believe this is true. It’s seems like a farse. It seems too weird and suspicious. Who would EVER say that??? I can’t believe Reuter’s would publish an article like this. I am baffled.

I wish I could watch people tell me this story to my face, I’d see the truth for what it is. In this situation, on paper, I am having to logically guess what is going on.

In digging for more facts, I found this article by the Army. They state they only have 12 plastic surgeons on staff in the entire country…

Then I found this European-based U.S. Army hospital’s criteria here. It says that they will perform a reduction if there is significant pain or interference with everyday life — but it doesn’t offer anyone an augmentation — nor for FREE.

So, what’s the truth??? Did Reuter’s do their homework or mess up royally??

I suspect their is probably some loop-hole that allows top Army level employees to benefit from free cosmetic surgery, but I don’t think the average Army employee can tap into this. I just don’t believe it for one second.

Something is amiss… Reuters??

Delurking Call!

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Okay, Philip at the Blue Sloth had a de-lurking call a few weeks ago — and I thought it was really cool. If you come here to my blog and see this, make a post. Say hi, talk to me, tell me what is on your mind. Do you like this blog? Is this your first time or do you come often? Do you have any questions you want to ask me – if so ask me! I’ll answer. Any comments, critiques, suggestions, thoughts and ideas are welcome so have it.

This post is for my visitors. This is your post! Have at it 🙂

Seeing through the Salesmen

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While in my week long quest to find the best oven-range, I have met my fair share of salesmen. The ones who get through to me, of course, are the ones who are honest.

So, how do you know which are honest and which are not?

Well, it’s really kind of simple. You ask them one question.

What is the best range you have?

If they answer you back, “All of them are good. We only carry the best ranges.” Run for the hills! Clearly in every grouping, there is a range of bad to good to better to best. In this situation, the salesman offers nothing worthy of trust. He’ll talk you into anything he can get you to buy — or worse, he is just hoping to get lucky and sell any model — which is NOT good for you. If the guys wants commission, he better earn it. Look for the next guy.



An honest salesman will point you to one or two models and he will clearly explain why he believes those models are superior. While this doesn’t indicate an honest salesman, with good investigation, you can sniff him out even further.

You see, just because a guy makes one or two recommendations — you still can’t tell if he is being honest because he might just simply be steering you to the model he makes the most commission from. So, question the salesmen again. Ask him to compare two more different models: a higher priced one and a lower-priced model a couple of times. See if he always chooses the higher model. If so, beware.

While this isn’t foolproof, it doesn’t help you narrow down who you can trust. When you find a salesmen who often recommends a much less expensive model over a costly one — you know with pretty good certainty, he is honest — especially when the dollar variable is sizeable.

So, I have weeded out the poor salesman, found an honest salesman and yet I still can’t decide on what I want. So, with all of that — just why can’t I decide? Well, these darn men who design these models just don’t make the model I want!