A Bullshit Free Post With A Funny YouTube Video

by BS Artist on November 19, 2011

Man, it’s been quite a while since doing a post on this blog, and it’s not because I haven’t come across any bullshit either. Seriously the bullshit has been flying thick and fast, I just haven’t had the time to do anything about it. Not my fault really considering how I am only one man and all and when you think about it there’s just so much shit happening in this world of ours.

To make it up to you I want to keep this post to be BS free which is why I’m posting a video of a joke I did on YouTube

Anyway, I certainly hope you enjoyed it enough to recommend it to all your friends.

That was a pretty old joke so some of you old timers may remember it and perhaps a lot of you younger folk will appreciate some old humour.

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Beware PayPal Policy Updates Email

by BS Artist on August 5, 2011

I have just received an email from PayPal which looks completely legit, especially as it is addressed to me personally, but I believe it to be a total scam.  This is the email.

Notice of Policy Updates

Dear Peter Pelliccia,PayPal recently posted a new Policy Update. You can view this Policy Update by logging in to your PayPal account. To log in to your account, go to https://www.paypal.com.au and enter your member log in information. Once you are logged in, look at the Notifications section on the top right side of the page for the latest Policy Updates.

If you need help logging in, go to our Help Center by clicking the Help link located in the upper right-hand corner of any PayPal page.

Kind Regards,
PayPal Australia

 

The problem is the link withing the email takes you to the following url https://email-edg.paypal.com/r/EKDHPWQ/GILQ/IPUS5/8JGL/YHWFO/PP/h which the redirects you to this one http://www.paypal.com.au/au? Normally PayPal uses a secure site which you can tell from the url starting with https://!

Perhaps the email is legitimate but I have never known PayPal to redirect urls before. I don’t know about you but I’m not taking any chances. I logging in the good old way just to make sure I don’t get sucked in to any phishing scam.

OK, did that and as it turns out there is a policy update, but I still don’t trust that email and if I was you I wouldn’t click on that link.

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I’ve just finished watching Julia Gillard, Greg Combet the Minister for climate change and energy efficiency and our esteemed second in charge Wayne Swan. They were on National TV trying to sell their carbon tax. I noticed while they were crapping on that they had a website, cleanenergy.gov.au as it was listed under the telecast. Don’t bother going there though because at the time of me posting this it didn’t exist. OK, the actual website should be cleanenergyfuture.gov.au! If they can’t even make sure their website goes live on time what hope have we that they got they got their modelling right.

The whole point of that telecast was to get the electorate to believe that they will be better off under the carbon tax. To help sell this idea they’re offering a lot to help sweeten the deal, things like;

  • Nine out of ten households will be compensated with tax Prime Minister Julia Gillard (25)cuts. That’s around 6 million households! I think they plan to do that by lifting the tax free threshold to 18000
  • Single pensioners will get $338 per year whilst pensioner couples get $510 per year.
  • Then there was a whole lot of malarky where they will be spending billions of dollars to ensure people in those industries that will get hardest by this tax will not be effected.
Naturally all this is because there is going to be some fallout when the carbon tax is introduced as 500 of Australia’s biggest companies will be expected to pay $23 a ton for the next three years. But don’t worry this will encourage them to change the way they operate so that they reduce their emissions. You will also be happy to know that the governments so called modelling has taken into consideration that they may pass on this extra cost to their customers.
Greg Combet speaking in November 2005, shortly...

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This is why our pensioners will get from $338 – $510 depending on their situation. But is this going to be enough. Personally I don’t believe so and I hate to think the heartache they and every other Australia will have to live through if the government has got it wrong, again. Let’s not forget the electricity fiasco or the huge waste of money funding themes such the education revolution just to name a couple.
Personally I can’t see how they can factor in all the variables into their modelling. They can’t know how much those companies will pass onto their customers and knowing them they will use favourable figures because they have to make the model look favourable to the Australian public. If say the electricity companies decide to pass it onto their customers, say the manufacturers, who will pass it onto theirPM and Wayne Swan customers, let’s say the wholesalers who will pass it onto their cutovers and so on and so on. That’s not even including all the steps in between such as transport costs and the like. Do they really believe that an insignificant amount of $500 a year will cover those costs?
They’re even introducing another authority, the Climate Change Authority, at what cost I may add, and then almost in the same breath said that it really won’t have any authority because the government has the last authority overruling anything they came up with if the government didn’t agree with it. If that’s the case why have it at all?
Honestly, the whole thing was full of government subterfuge and gobbledigook. They are like a magician using slight of hand, they try to take your attention away from what they are really doing so they can put their hand in your pocked in order to remove your wallet. One last thing we should all ask ourselves is how in hell will this carbon tax actually help the environment?
OK, enough of me raving on! If you missed the speech you can read about it on this article by Jeremy Thomson.
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I’ve done a lot of posts on this blog warning people of all those lottery scams out there. Truth be told though, although a legitimate lottery site would never email you of a win when you never bought a ticket, there are online sites where you can buy lottery tickets safely. Having said that I’m sure there are also sites who would gladly take your money giving you absolutely nothing in return, which is why I decided to start my own Buy Online Lottery Tickets site.

While you cannot actually buy tickets from the site itself it will guide you to online lottery ticket agents, as well as provide a lot of what I hope to be interesting articles. Truth be told there are a lot of reasons for buying your tickets online and I’ve listed the Top Five Reasons For Buying Your Lottery Tickets Online. My favourites being not having to go out to get them and the fact that I never have to worry about losing a ticket again.

If you’ve yet to experience the ease of buying your lottery tickets online, not to mention the fact that you can actually buy a ticket from almost any of the worlds lottery draws, you should really go and check out my latest site.

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