Mild Rants

A highly effective Advanced Placement history teacher from NYC had quite the contrary opinion of a group of hacker pornographers. Educator Michelle Britto was almost weak-kneed regarding a pornographic intrusion into a Zoom meeting and/or Google virtual classroom. She stated the perverts were well read and historically well informed. In fact, Miss Britto did not even call the cyber terrorists perverts, heaping praise in the form of advanced high order thinking, activating prior knowledge and other teacher speak vernacular. Much recognition goes to other APushers including Coach Toomer, Petraitis, Erin Hudson, Emily Sumrall, Lehman, Brandon Eldridge, Laurel Houle, Ashleigh Denny(obsessed with the notion of 6 degrees of separation)

Who is not impressed with the enthusiasm of Ngniayie Nelong Euloge Flaubert for the online educational content delivery system Zoom. Teachers are swarming to this LMS in droves because the virulent COVID-19 killer bug is forcing them to stay home and school districts are still required to have some educational interaction with K-6 students. There are many teachers who actually use their white background shower stall to provide an upright backdrop to write their lessons on!! There is no convenient way to use Zoom to capture anything you may be writing on FLAT FUCKING desk top! However, the burning question still persists. How in the hell can you write freehand comments on top of any "New Share" content that you may be presenting? The writing tools are OK but do not allow educators to write freely as they would on old fashioned chalkboard or the more modern dry erase. Let's not forget the stress many fledgling online teachers are experiencing trying to teach remotely at

Dear Clarence O'Berry, I read online that you are an entrepreneur who builds businesses and an investor in diverse business and business initiatives.  You also like to pushes boundaries. By that do you mean sending official looking snail mail with FAKE CHECKS ($35,000 see below pic) that are really nothing more than high interest rate loans designed to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to fall for your ploy? Is this what you mean by innovative thinking? I guess so if that means financially exploiting alcoholic native Americans who have maxed out all their credit cards and cannot even qualify for a payday loan since they don't earn a paycheck to back a loan that has around a 400% annual interest rate. There is a place for your "geographic footprint" where the sun don't shine too brightly Mr O'Berry. I would expect the Chief Marketing Officer of Lyle Advisors to be more "innovative and creative" than mass mailing FAKE CHECKS(Document has a color

Has anybody else been going through a lot of inconvenience and hassle with Citi Accelerate Savings Account? They originally advertised a waive of the $4.50 monthly fee if account holders maintained a balance of $500. Then once we opened the account, they said that we had to do direct deposits of our paycheck in order to not pay any fees!! This was an egregious lie on their part and we spent over 4 hours on the phone and also that cheap piece of crap messaging app where you are talking to a bot and then they finally hook you up with an Asian call center who can't really help you!!! Then they want you to fill out customer satisfaction survey after no service was rendered!!!!!! It gets worse....when we signed up, the APR was 1.85%. Now it has plummeted to 1.6% AND Amex Bank High Yield Personal Savings is still holding steady at 1.7% with much better customer support and an easy and reliable money that will transfer any amount of money in less than 48 hours. We got lured in by a

How many of you grew up in Odessa Texas back in 60?. Yep Mojo Land, the meteor crater which 5% of the oilfield worker population is aware of, AND Manuel's Mexican food over on 2nd street with the cliff ocean view of giant Marlin jumping out of the ocean water with a diver half way down plummeting toward the water surface. When dad was home from work early and Mom didn't feel like cooking, that is where our family dined! Friendly and attractive waitresses who did not mind my weak attempts at speaking Spanish thanks to Nimitz Junior School teacher named Hawkins. She was a good bowler that we would see at Busby bowling lanes occasionally. I wanted bus boy Bill Cameron to know I remember him. He seemed like a grown man to me at the time, but he probably was a High School kid earning some extra money to spend in college where he said he was going to study engineering. Me and my little brother liked him because he was respectful and did not treat us like kids. Yes Mr Cameron, tho

Many thanks and debts of gratitude to  college and school administrators in the GREAT STATE OF NEW MEXICO for stepping UP to the plate to soundly address the insecurities and, for many, the horrors of the Corona virus SPREAD that did NOT NECESSARILY originate in China according to Larry Romanoff who sites the research of  Japanese and Taiwanese epidemiologists to support his nutty, wild claim!!! These guys are saying  COVID-19 started in the home of the American Dream. YUP, that would be the United States!!!!! A COVID-19 Briefing Memo for Higher Education Institutions came straight from the Governor's office in a blanket email. Competent admins in public schools, junior colleges, community colleges, and military reform and boarding schools responded with poise and wisdom to this issue that could lead to mass hysteria if not handled properly by our iconic leaders who get paid the big bucks to handle toughies like this!!!!!  Rodriguez, Stephanie, GOV <Stephanie.Rodriguez3@s

Did anybody else open up a Citi Accelerate 1.85% Savings Account which, at the time, beat the 1.70% American Express Bank personal high yield saving account? We did and and Citi Accelerate dropped back down to 1.70% yield, so we transferred every penny back to Amex Bank! Not sure if this was just a ploy to get our business, but it did not work because Amex Bank app is much simpler to use and is never down like the Citi Bank App is occasionally. Just for the record Citi Accelerate did a high profile promotion on how their rate was higher than Amex Bank to get new customers to sign up, AND then lowered it to Amex interest rate the minute you opened Citi Accelerate account!!! I wish I had read the 2 star review by Christina Majaski before we opened Citi Accelerate account because you will get slammed by fees unless you keep a minimum balance of $500.

Long waits in Doctor's waiting rooms have become more of a symbol of life in America than the so called American Dream of owning a home and settling down. The cartoon you see below of the elderly gentlemen waiting to see a doctor where he states "there is nothing wrong with me now, but by the time I see the physician I will be sick!, is so common to the lifestyle of the average USA citizen these days. An Asian friend of my sisters told me her mother went to see a GP in Roswell New Mexico after having left a doctor she really liked in Albuquerque or maybe Santa Fe named Maria Rodriguez . Before she could even schedule an appointment, she had to fill out a lengthy and tedious form BY HAND since the doctor was not technologically savvy enough to have an online form to so the patient could more conveniently type in the medical history etc. Mom patiently waited in line for over two hours only to be told she would have to reschedule!!! Being new to the United States and not

Was reading some fascinating online bulletin board IRS sob stories about back taxes owed in various spots in southeastern New Mexico. Some were accounts by Filipinas who had never filed their income tax returns during their teaching careers in the Land of Enchantment! One in either Carlsbad, Artesia, Hobbs, or Roswell owed the IRS around $17000 and was trying to get help with her debt from a place called Optima Tax Relief who specializes in  un-filed tax returns,  bank levies, or anything else involving delinquent tax debt. The frightened OFW's(Overseas Philippine Workers)  were facing possible wage garnishing by IRS from their bank accounts along with the bank levies. From what I gathered, the Pinoy school teachers were paying Optima Tax Relief big bucks to prepare settlements where they would pay Uncle Sam much less than what they owed and to get a certificate relieving them of ALL THE BACK TAXES THEY OWED THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. By all appearances, this entity with

I was doing my best to recall why Bill Maher's name popped into the forefront of my conscious after viewing this lawyer ad on Burt Reynold's Deliverance Movie. You all have seen that one where Ned Beatty's character was sodomized by some Hillbillies? Then Bill's quote surfaced: something like The celibacy of Catholic Priests are a magnet for homosexual pedophiles who like choir boys with pretty mouths. One of the mountain boys, with bad teeth, thought Angelina Jolie's father, John Voight had a pretty mouth and had insisted that Voight's character perform felatio(pray real hard boy) or die!!! So Knightline Legal firm was smart enough to advertise to Catholic Church Abuse Victims during one of the 5 minute commercials in the movie Deliverance. What better choice of rough sex flicks could the attorneys have chosen. I mean the scene where they made him squeal like a Sow before they cornholed him was ideal to conjure images up in the minds of the church based

The following advertisement in a South Eastern New Mexico newspaper urges readers to vote for Ed Heldenbrand two days before election day. The ad did not indicate what position the chief financial officer for the Krumland Auto Group was running for, nor did it indicate he works for the Toyota dealership on the Ruidoso Highway. This writer would like to inform those interested that Ed is running for city council, and to note that another CPA named Katie Lollar paid for the ad requesting folks show up to the voting locations to cast their's for Ed. His campaign slogan is the vague and positionless "A New Voice for a Growing Roswell". I guess that means the Mayor would like to see him elected to the Ward 2 councilor seat. Also, Roswell voters need to question why the mayor wants to build the security complex on private land(costing property tax payers $35 MILLION DOLLARS). Is the mayor friends with land holders where security complex would be constructed at 2nd and Garde