Foil FEMA, valet, here come the hypocrites, No Nirubu, Bing for bucks

So my contact from the county really is trying to get my FEMA flood insurance issue to go away.  He copied me on an email that was sent to Fiserv that in a nutshell said “Look here dumb ass, he isn’t in a flood zone and here is the proof”   He told me that he was successful getting the requirement dropped for somebody else.  I am crossing my fingers the strategy works in my case as well.

I left work early yesterday to go pick up Ali at the airport.  I went home, grabbed the dogs and headed back out in the van. Of course the dogs were thrilled to see Ali. Luckily after the first couple rocky days out at the house of “incidents”, Nicki settled down for the last half of their stay and was acting normally.

After dropping off Ali and the dogs I headed home since I had stuff to do.

So yesterday was “Support Chik-fil-a day” .  This was brought about by the backlash from a statement their CEO made opposing gay marriage.  There had been a call to boycott the restaurant chain for the statement.  I find this scenario stupid from many angles.

The biggest dunce hat goes on the head of the CEO. As the head of a large business that makes it’s money by selling food to the public, I would think CEO 101 states you should never utter a word about religious/social/political issues.  You will piss someone off and there is nothing to be gained by that in his position.

The call to boycott Chic-fil-a also seems like a bit of an overreaction.  I would be content to trust independent thinking individuals to be able to make this choice on their own if they found the statement to be annoying. (I do)  I don’t need someone to tell me to boycott a business, I just won’t go.

Then finally we have the people that are hiding behind “Freedom of Speech” as a veil to support their opposition to gay marriage.  Puh-lease…   I wonder if they would be so eager to support the CEO’s freedom of speech if he said he supported abortion, of course not…

So it looks like if the world is going to end in a few months it isn’t going to be via Nirubu (Planet X) as some people assumed.  If Nirubu was coming it was supposed to be almost as large as the moon in the sky by this point.  No worries, there are still plenty of ways the planet could still be obliterated…

Did you know you now can collect rewards for doing your searches on Bing?  Check out some of the stuff you can redeem the points for.  Not a bad deal at all.

I am all about getting back end perks for my normal everyday activities using things like my Amazon credit card, my Autozone points account, my DD punch cards and more.

In related news, I have averaged 3 bucks a day in ad dollars from You Tube the last few days, multiply that times 30.