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"It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction." - The American Abroad speech, 1868 - Mark Twain
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. - Letter to W. D. Howells, 5/20/1891 - Mark Twain
Click the picture (below) to enlarge this WaPo, color "sample":
North Korea’s shit is getting old. Kim Jong-il is a pinheaded crack-pot and his son, Kim Jong-un, is just another punk.
North Koreans should learn from the Iranian people.
The PEOPLE of Iran are getting fed up with their corrupt government’s bullshit and taking to the streets.
In North Korean they are too cowardly to stand up to their insane government leaders in mass. Let ‘em starve.
Yesterday I ask someone who drives a full-size, freshly minted Dodge Ram pick-up truck how he likes driving a Fiat.
He answered by asking me if I know what “Fiat” stands for and I ask “What?”.
He says, “Fiat stands for “Fix It Again Tony”. ;-)
I’m glad my old Jeep CJ8 was built by American Motors in Toledo Ohio.
Ok, here is a link to this news in the Business Journal: http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/06/08/daily45.html
Big deal, so what?
Visit that link and read some of the comments left by readers and you’ll see the anti-tax crowd going into full meltdown.
Lots of attacks on “free” shit. Even on “free” shit that really isn’t free, or shit; public education for instance.
It has right-wing nut conservatives popping veins all over.
I love it. This is the part where the majority, who handed these righties their collective asses in recent election cycles, FINALLY get just a bit of satisfaction from our efforts.
The every man, woman, and child for themselves crowd … the same geniuses who have been running this country into the ground ever since Reagan. The righties that are too stupid to learn from their mistakes, and who can’t recognize the error of their ways, even when those ways generate near total collapse.
If you’re an Oregonian and you heard or read the news about this tax increase in passing but are too busy working for a living to stop and research all the facts yet, here is a highly recommended article that might help put it in perspective for ya:
Oregon Business Taxes: We’re number 2 (lowest)
Chuck Sheketoff
Cheer & Beer(tax)!
I would not own or drive a Communist Chinese rig if it had an EPA rating of 100 miles per gallon, came with a lifetime-bumper-to-bumper warranty, they were giving ‘em away free with every fill-up, and the deal included a lifetime supply of Melamine!
Why they want it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/09/general-motors-china-hummer
Government for and by the Credit Card Companies. That is what America has become.
The average American just got fucked by the Corporatocracy, AGAIN.
The credit card companies sent their puppet Barack Obama out onto the bully pulpit and the stump to insult the intelligence and scold average Americans for living beyond their means on behalf of his corporate handlers.
That was bullshit. Those same average Americans have been under heavy attack by the Corporatocracy ever since Reagan, and Obama has the balls to advise them not to over-charge on their credit cards???
The honeymoon just ended. This asshole is just another slippery politician. Same old, same old. Fuck ‘em all, regardless of political affiliation. It really is “them versus us”. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Goodbye Banks, Hello Credit Unions. Make the switch, and cut up the cards. Never look back. Deposit enough to cover payroll check-cashing if you are lucky enough to still have a job, then cash it and stash it. Pay for everything you can with CASH to avoid increasing the profits of credit card companies. Think you’re not helping to grease their palms by using a debit card, forget that! They get paid every time you swipe regardless of whether it is credit or debit. Use CASH.
When you “swipe” they know what you use to “wipe”!
Obama and Congress FAILED us by passing legislation that was watered down in order to appease their corporate handlers. WE-THE-PEOPLE have to respond ourselves.
Use CASH and micro finance everywhere we can. Fight them at every turn and watch for them beg for more of your taxpayer dollars when you force their failure. Take no prisoners. Politically oppose those who vote to give them more $$$.
You can fool some of the people, some of the time. Not all of the people all of the time. Let the games begin. Start with a call to the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/05/who-killed-credit-card-interest-rate-cap
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/05/americas-most-hated-industry
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/05/universal-default-soon-be-reduced-galactic-default
WHAM! No sooner is WAMU gone and CHASE takes over, the wheels begin to fall off. WHAMO, I have just had two unapproved, and unauthorized debits against my debit card for $19.95 from this chicken-outfit:
I have never even heard of these companies, nor ever requested any of their services and yet they have somehow gained access to my debit card account!
And, I am not the only one. According to the reports on the following sites, this has become a pandemic and many of those reporting this problem are reporting that their banks have refused to help protect their accounts!
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-993-6264
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/210/RipOff0210862.htm
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8779936264
http://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/W8LPKa7SjACUqAjKLLdeZg
http://phoneowner.info/Number.aspx/8779936264
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/ap9privacymatters123-877-993-6264-ct-c135357.html
Lawyer time. State Attorney General time. Local media time. Both Senators Wyden and Merkley, and Representative David Wu time. Time for Oregon’s Division of Finance and Corporate Securities (DFCS) that regulates banking in the state. Federal Trade Commission time. Time to cancel that bank account and go back to using my credit union account when cash isn’t practical, and using C-A-S-H-only for EVERYTHING else. Screw banks and credit & debit card companies! Every purchase we make with plastic, beit credit or debit helps the very same crooked, scum-sucking leeches that are bleeding taxpayers dry to stay afloat!
Consumers could do themselves and the nation a favor by doing as much of their business in CASH. Buy your own safe and stash your CASH. Buy all your “stuff” with cash. Screw banks and the low-life scum-bag scammers like “Privacy Matters 1-2-3” that banks try to protect. It's bad enough that banks and credit card companies are trying bilk the public with inflated fees, and rapid-fire rules changes, huge over nigth increases in their interest rates, now they are allowing corporate raiders to just access their customers' accounts and simply steal the money! Wholly crap, banks and credit card companies are a bigger threat to homeland security than Middle Eastern Terrrorists!
Ditch your bank for a credit union:
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/BetterBanking/DitchYourBankForACreditUnion.aspx
Where DNA databases are concerned, I am an advocate for "all or nothing".
I'm fundamentally opposed to DNA database building but, the Genie is out of the bottle.
So, let's make it universally mandatory. Ya know, include the collectors, not just their "subjects".
Let's require it at birth, just like a birth certificate, AND for everyone who even visits the USA, just like a passport!
Then, let's reassign all those law enforcement detective-types to database administrator gigs, because the need for real "police work" should be reduced, right?
Maybe too, we could just lock-up everyone, innocents included, and only let enough folks out on work-release to keep the upper 1% in $6,000 shower curtains and $15,000 platinum toilets, and to cook & serve their food, and clean their clothes, and pump their gas.
That should keep the upper 1% feeling all warm and fuzzy and "safer" too, right?
How about serial number tattoos? Oh that's right, that been tried elsewhere already. That experiment didn't caused a real mess.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin
Yo',
To any & all that I had previously told about "Grand Central", the free phone number for life, and had suggested that you reserve a number ... you probably never got one as the Beta remained closed to new sign-ups. That will soon change, and I'm gonna repeat how slick this service works. Many folks, including myself, wondered if this thing would EVER become real. We finally have some clue what took so long. A patent lawsuit may have been what was holding up the roll-out. That lawsuit was settled on Monday it seems:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/VOIP-and-Telephony/Google-Settles-Voice-Mail-Patent-Lawsuit/
On Wednesday Google announced they are moving forward with what was "Grand Central" and have renamed it "Google Voice". Lemme tell ya, I have been using the Grand Central version for what must be a year now, and I STILL am amazed at what a slick tool it is. At this writing you STILL can't start using it unless you had already gained a Grand Central Beta account, but stay-tuned, coz you will definitely wanna try this freebie when they open up registration within a few weeks! It is to voice communications what GMail has become for E-Mail. I STILL highly recommend it. You can read more about it, and there is a link to several videos of how each of its features work here now:
and their Blog is here:
It's slicker-n-snot.
Google Voice will become a reality loooong before Congress will move to restore your privacy and your right to use the phone line you are subscribing to in peace. So watch for the roll out.
Combine a new Google Voice account (when available) with the info already available at sites like 800Notes.com and WhoCalled.us and WhoCallsMe? and NoCallerID in conjunction with Google Voice to preempt the Robo callers!
Cancer claims 'Winston Man' Landers
I look forward to being able to report on the passing of every Tobacco Corporation. Only idiots would mourn the loss of big tobacco.
Hey, how can ya go wrong holding a Ho' Down with keynote speakers like Joe the Plumber, Karl Rove, John Bolton, Sarah Palin, Lush Bimbaugh, Ann "the man" Coulter, and Newt Gingrich? I mean really, how ya gonna top that guest list, huh? It's a regular GOP Dream Team! WTF are Gee-Oh-Pee'ers thinkin? ;-)
Here ya go ... a few posts about this past week's CPAC gathering:
Another goodie: http://www.atlargely.com/2009/02/cpac-where-psychotics-can-roam-without-medication.html
"Traitors" even: http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2009/03/traitors.html
This is the Nuke Chicago crowd: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/28/155810/965/727/703039
Muther Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/02/john-bolton-cpac-benefits-nuking-chicago
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/02/cpac-conservatives-blame-others-not-their-own-ideas
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020926/cpac-prediction-another-ann-coulter-tantrum
The Republican Party gave us the current recession, just like the Republican Party gave us The Great Depression. Despite the fact that Republican economic policies have historically proven to be WRONG-headed, over-and-over again, these dumb-asses want to dictate to the majority how we should proceed to repair the damage that Republicans have caused. WTF is that about!?
On last night’s news I saw Repuke after Repuke march up to the podium and stick his fat jowls into the microphone and whine and cry about tax cuts versus spending. Amazing.
Do these shit-for-brains Republican’ts really think that our memories are THAT short? I mean hell, when they were in charge of every branch of government they cut their executive pal’s and the upper 1% of the populations’ tax liability to damn near zero in order to prove to us that when the rich have more monies they will start more businesses and hire more of us great unwashed masses, and that will take us to the promised land. They have been preaching that stupid-fucking-lie to us for decades!
Ok ass-holes, how’d that work out for ya? It was a 100% FAILURE. It didn't work. It was a train wreck. It doesn’t work, and Republican economic policies are dead-fucking WRONG. Period. Look around people. This is a Republican economy we are stuck in right now.
Now who are you going to follow on economic policies? The same Morons who brought us to this point? Or are you finally fed-up enough to try a little change, hmmm?
Obama went directly to the Republicans. He went unarmed (so-to-speak). Obama went ALONE into their midst. Obama dropped some very positive and sensible elements of the stimulus package from his proposal in an effort to appease and cooperate. But, at this stage, it isn’t about the details of the stimulus package proposal for the Republicans anymore. Republicans are willing to play politics with the economic health of our nation. The economic health that they themselves are responsible for mis-managing. Now they want to delay the repair of their own damage and play politics while the majority of us are at risk and/or suffering as a result of their own misdeeds.
Obama is America’s President so he has to be diplomatic and as bipartisan as he can be. As citizens we have no such constraint. Let’s take back our country. Call and tell every Republican Senator where YOU stand. Tell them you are willing to donate MORE monies and more time and more effort to their political opponents in the next election cycle, and Blog about their misguided opposition to this economic stimulus plan and that you will not forget their opposition to it over time, and that you will not allow this issue to fade with time and that you will not rest until a political price has been extracted from those who are obstructing WE-THE-PEOPLE this time around. It ain’t enough to vote and then sit back and watch people. This is government for and BY THE PEOPLE. Get in the game. You can can be a game-changer. Yes We Can!
Bipartisanship? DeMint Predicts Zero Senate GOP Votes For Obama’s Recovery Package.»
Here is the Senate Org chart for ya:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/e_one_section_no_teasers/org_chart.htm
Keep an eye on their voting record:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm
Let’s git ‘er done.
Hey, have you received YOUR bail-out check yet? No? Me neither.
The entire nation’s economy is in the swirly with this exception:
But most of the mainstream media spins it differently:
What a crock.
In yesterday’s vote on the stimulus bill in the House, Republicans all joined forces and followed their misguided leader, Ohio’s John A. Boehner (who should consider changing his name to Bone-US) like the obedient sheep their party has become. Willing to follow Boehner right over an economic and political cliff the way their party has already done to this nation, over and over again, ever since Ronnie Raygun. Boner told them how to vote and just like Stepford wives, they all obeyed. But, thank goodness and Democrats for this:
Democrats proved to be slightly more free-thinking as a handful of their own broke ranks to vote with the dark-side (Republicrats). But, far from enough to matter, so fuck ‘em. We’ll just have to keep an eye on those “rebels” ‘til next election cycle! ;-)
Here’s a link to see how they ALL voted:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 46
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)
So ask yourself this question … why should we give a damn what Republicans think about the stimulus package when it is Republicans whose misguided, dumb-ass economic policies brought us this mess in the first place, hmmm? I know I don’t (give a damn what Republicans think anymore)!
Oh sure, it’s very appropriate for our President and our party leadership to talk about and promote bipartisanship (ya see how much that effort gained for the country so far). And obtainable bipartisanship is a noble cause; it’s a good thing to strive for … but as citizens, it is our job to call ‘em the way we see ‘em.
The way I see it, Republicans fail to learn from their mistakes and want to blindly forge ahead with the same bullshit ideas that got us in this mess in the first place. Republicans continue to favor the Corporatocracy over We-The-People. Republicans only want to bail-out their rich executive pals and help them to buy some more executive jets with taxpayer bailout dollars. As long as they continue to be stupid, and want to bail-out Wall Street before Main Street, we should continue all-out efforts to reduce their ranks. Fewer Republicans = a healthier nation. There is this citizen’s stimulus plan.
Hey, have you received YOUR bail-out check yet? No? Me neither.
And the Award for the Biggest Cold-Hearted Bastard in America Goes To...
Bay City (Michigan) Electric Light & Power manager Robert Belleman
Call the county elections office and confirm the murder's party affiliation. I'd wager he's a registered GOPer. GOP="Get Old People".
Suggestion for Obama and the DEM Congress: Mandate all new home construction be self-powered and include 3 built-in power sources: 1) Vertical Wind Turbine, 2) Solar panel roof, 3) Propane or Bio Diesel Back-up Generator. And include in the stimulus package funding for the retro-fitting of all pre-existing homes, including rentals. Mandate the conversion be completed in 2.5 years, tops.
And if the dumb-ass Banks want even one more CENT of taxpayer bail-out monies, they first have to show that for every home they have foreclosed, they have retrofitted it to go-off-grid before they are allowed to re-sell it. How many could they have retrofitted with that $50-million that Citibank spent on an executive (reads:asshole) jet, hmmm?
Currently each of us has plenty of choice about phone service thanks to VoIP and Cellular services and the legacy land-line. But where are the choices when it comes to electricity? Life in America should be about having options. The electric utilities are an aberration in a so-called Capitalist system, and it should be our goal to put them out of business.
Let's go off-grid and simply be done with the power companies and their manipulated and protected monopolies.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I’ve heard all the bullshit excuses about feasibility and costs, and yadda, yadda, yadda. I’ve also watched the wealthy actually build off-the-grid homes in precisely this way and seen it documented on Public Television broadcasts!
Like everything else in this country, it’s all a function of money. And right now Uncle Sam and our smooth brutha Obama are looking for ways to spend a shit-pot-full of money to stimulate this economy. Oh sure, we can burn through a butt-load of greenbacks by filling potholes and fixing old bridges, but if you wanna be truly forward looking, get us ALL (young and old, rich and poor) off the friggin’ “Grid”, and do it NOW.
Hey … have you received YOUR bail out check yet? No? Me neither.
WE-THE-PEOPLE bailed this Arab owned bank out on a Sunday night and here is where the money is going!
At least if you’re an Oregonian you can lock down access to your credit info. And based upon the state of the banking and credit card industry, we should ALL lock-up our credit cards too. Yep, lock up your daughters, it’s gettin’ ugly out there:
Heartland reveals huge credit card scam
Heartland Payment Systems Hacked, Possibly 100M Accounts Stolen
Debit-card processor claims data breach part of bigger fraud
Data breach at Heartland may be bigger than TJX's
Heartland Payment Systems: Breach Bad As Tylenol Poisonings?
Heartland data breach proves PCI compliance is not enough
Card-data theft puts legislation in spotlight
Heartland Payment Systems' Big Breach & Lame PR Tactic
Heartland’s breach disclosure timing raises eyebrows
Another area credit union impacted by Heartland's security failure
Heartland data breach "shocking" says Canada's privacy commissioner
Got YOUR bail-out check yet? Nah? Me neither. I guess that $35,115 Commode on Legs will have to wait.
Or, just say: “Charge It"! But, ya gotta also watch-out for this scam:
Credit card rates rise 'out of the blue'
We-The-People – Fucked AGAIN.
Sounds sorta like Barbara Bush telling us how well-off the poor folks of New Orleans were to be in the Houston Astrodome. Did I mention that I don’t like Republicans, or that I don’t even like anyone who likes a Republican? Damn, they are some dumb muthers.
I said I opposed all bail-outs for the Corporatocracy.
This is another example of why I oppose bail-outs.
Former Merrill Lynch CEO spent $1.2 on redecorating
Merrill Lynch CEO Thain Spent $1.22 Million On Office
* Area Rug $87,784
* Mahogany Pedestal Table $25,713
* 19th Century Credenza $68,179
* Pendant Light Furniture $19,751
* 4 Pairs of Curtains $28,091
* Pair of Guest Chairs $87,784
* George IV Chair $18,468
* 6 Wall Sconces $2,741
* Parchment Waste Can $1,405
* Roman Shade Fabric $10,967
* Roman Shades $7,315
* Coffee Table $5,852
* Commode on Legs $35,115
I get the Obama desire/wish for uniting the nation. It is a noble goal; a lofty ambition. And, I think it is entirely naive. At least until the thirst for a few public hangings of Bush-era robber-barons has been quenched.
President OBAMA! The long American nightmare is over!!!
“Free Trade” is bullshit. FAIR TRADE is what we should be striving for in the world.
I hate Bush. If I NEVER see or hear from that lousy S.O.B. again it will be too soon. The Bush administration has done more harm to the United States of America than anything or anyone in history.
Meanwhile, the shit main stream media hardly even mentions his latest stunt. I hate the sneaky little rat-bastard. The excerpt and link below had to come from a British media source! And the Oregonian newspaper buried the story deep on page A11!
When did the Bush-Weasel do his latest bullshit deed? On a Friday because Friday is a black-hole news day. And 5 days before the very end of his administration while all the media hub-bub is about Obama’s inauguration.
Bush signs Peru free trade pact
Critics say Peru's leaders are opening up the rain forest to biofuel crops
US President George W Bush has signed off a free-trade pact with Peru despite strong opposition from ecologists and labour-rights activists.
Four days before handing over to Barack Obama, he signed a proclamation enacting the pact on 1 February.
The pact was concluded nearly three years ago but concerns over Peru's environmental policies had held up its approval in the US.
The Peruvian government is accused of putting the Amazon rain forest at risk.
Peru is the 14th country to have signed a free-trade pact with the US since Mr Bush took office eight years ago.
Ya want to know what is wrong with our economy? Let me emphasize one of the lines in that report which should give even the dumbest Republican a CLUE:
Peru is the 14th country to have signed a free-trade pact with the US since Mr Bush took office eight years ago. ……..
Peru is the 14th country to have signed a free-trade pact with the US since Mr Bush took office eight years ago. = worst economy since the Great Depression.
Hello! When you ship all your manufacturing jobs to places with slave labor and then base your economy on retail sales of the shit they make in those places you end up with what? ANSWER: SHIT ECONOMY. DUH! A REPUBLICAN ECONOMY.
Wake the fuck up America! The Corporatocracy is in control of everything.
"Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game,"
Gimmie a freakin’ break!
It does not take an advanced degree in Economics or a Pulitzer Prize to know what is wrong with the American Economy.
What is wrong with the economy in this country is that we have allowed the Robber Barons and their Corporatocracy to rule the roost since Reagan.
We have reached the point where they have squeezed WE-THE-PEOPLE so hard and for so long that there is no more blood left in the turnips.
Have any of WE-THE-PEOPLE received our bail-out checks yet? I haven’t!
I voted for the smooooth Brutha that is now our Prez.-elect. I donated a small amount. But, I am not wedded to that vote, or all the hoopla associated with his inauguration. He might be sumptin’ special, but that won’t cut-shit with this voter unless and until I see RESULTS.
When the Arab owned Citibank can get their bail-out in the middle of the fucking night, over a weekend, while the great unwashed masses sleep, WE-THE-PEOPLE know that shit ain’t right, and we are waiting to see if Prez-elect knows it too, or not.
NOW, Obama is talking about:
"Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game,"
I got your “everybody” swingin’ right here MoFo. You may ASSume that you can play this middle of the road shit forever, but I’m going to suggest you can only play it for the next 4 (not 8) years, if you get my drift. That pendulum has swung way too far in one direction, and it needs to be pulled hard back the other way even to reach a halfway point! We’re waiting, and we’re watching … for OUR bail-out [so-to-speak]. We-The-People already GAVE enough without seeing a corresponding giving from the Corporatocracy. GIVE THIS!
I like the idea that it ain't over, even after it's over. I hope this sort of thing dogs Bush and all members of his administration all the days of their lives. As the old saying goes: may they live in interesting times. It couldn't apply to a more appropriate group of ass-holes.
RNC Chair Candidate Distributes ‘Barack The Magic Negro’ As His Christmas Greeting»
Who names their kid “Chip”, anyway?
The Republican Party is now confined to being the party of the south, and no matter how many Dixie Cups you save the south will not rise again.
According to this bullshit appearing on MSNBC:
A new Senate star emerges from the auto row
Tennessee Republican Bob Corker is pivotal deal-maker in Thursday talks
The short of Corker’s so-called plan is a 3 pronged plan to
1) Screw Labor
2) Screw Labor, and
3) Screw Labor.
If this jack-hole named 'Corker' is the GOP's idea of a 'Star' the Republican Party is truly screwed.
The fact is that Senate Republicans are holding the so-called bail-out plan hostage and the hostage is American, living wage jobs.
I have said that I currently oppose any bail-out for any Corporatocracy. And, I still do. Let them go bankrupt and work their way out of it. Let’s force their hand rather than be threatened and frightened by anymore of their lying rhetoric.
Let’s NOT allow Senate Republicans to force Labor to make any MORE sacrifices while dumb-ass corporate executives get a taxpayer hand-out so they can continue to advertise $84,000 Cadillac Escalades during Sunday night football, as they did this past week!
Republicans will never be satisfied until they can permanently create an American under-class that is desperate enough to work for pennies like Chinese workers. THAT is their ultimate goal.
That is the GOP Republican end-game. It always has been. The suffering created by dumb-ass, out-of-touch auto industry executives and Republican failed economic policies must be shared by all, and not just the American worker.
I have purchased (never leased) literally dozens of American cars in my life time. I have only ever owned ONE Japanese car for a brief period.
But, if dumb-ass Harry Reid allows the GOP Republican MINORITY to dictate the terms of any bail-out which ultimately puts the weight of the changes on the backs of the American auto workers … from where the sun now stands, I have spent my last red cent on American iron. Period.
Secondarily, deep-south Republicans continue to ply their old-school scare tactics:
“It’s quite unlikely that an auto rescue package will cause riots. But if they did occur, a likely proximate cause of public outrage at that point would be the loss of three million jobs that will have resulted because the bailout was not passed.” [SOURCE]
Here is the TRANSLATION of what that ass-hat is really trying to convey:
My rich executive handlers are about to take it in the shorts, and so all you peon laborers had better bend over and spread ‘em for whatever bail-out concessions we demand of labor, or we might just take our show on the road to China, which we are already planning to do anyway, then you’ll be out of a job altogether, which you ultimately will be anyway.
Do you get it folks? This is a no-win deal already. It’s over. Go find a new job out of the auto-industry because that industry was murdered by failed Republican Economic policies, long ago. The only measure of satisfaction you have available to you is to take some richie-rich executives down with you. That’s it. That is the best you can hope for until there is a massive, paradigm shift in thinking and legislation which favors American manufacturing AND the labor that makes it all possible. Labor trumps capital and until that fact is accepted, we’re all screwed. And that acceptance cannot be advanced until there is a complete and total breakdown of the old, old system that is now faltering. Let it go.
Do you wonder why Ford is less at risk than GM & Chrysler? Because Ford has been selling little, high mileage puddle-jumpers to European consumers all along because gas has been $10/gallon in Europe. Meanwhile they have continued to bone the American consumer by denying us access to those kinds of rigs. NOW, you’ll start to see those types of vehicles brought into the U.S. market while GM & Chrysler play catch-up. The point is they have had the rigs available, just not to the American consumer who they have chosen to screw for decades! And now they want the very people they have been screwing all along to lend them a helping hand. Screw ‘em, and the horse they rode in on.
After reading this story:
Tow driver shows no mercy to assault victim
I gotta ask, if you came upon a Retriever Towing tow truck driver in need of some assistance, would you lend him your cell phone to make a call, or place a call to police on his behalf?
Nah; me neither.
How about this question instead ... would you and your friends, in a moment of pure boredom, help to coordinate PRANK tow opportunities, using your various cars, for these "commissioned" drivers, in places that are known to use that particular tow company?
Ya know, pull up, park a different rig either where that person in the story did, or some other place that uses this piece of crap tow company, and wait just out of site, keys at the ready, and have a friend or two be look-outs, from their cars. When the tow truck is sighted approaching, jump in your car, and pull away just before the tow rig can get close enough to do squat!
You could even have your spotter friends pull their rig out just before the tow truck pulls into the parking lot, and slow his progress just a bit to make the whole commission-tease just a bit more frustrating ... and laughable. Maybe snap a few cell phone pics of the cranky driver's expression as you drive past and shout-out, "you've been punked!"? Then, post the pics of their bitter beer faces to the 'net just for grins?
With just a little research and effort, just a few folks could really mess with this tow company and extract a perfectly unstoppable measure of sweet revenge by pulling this harmless stunt at random times and locations.
But hey, I'm not suggesting anyone would really wanna pull such a prank, or go to such trouble, of course. I mean hey, that poor tow truck driving sap works on "commission" after all ... even though most human beings would opt for cleaning bird shit out of coo-coo clocks before stooping to such a gig.
If you can supply pics of tow-away-zone warning signs specifically for "Retriever Towing", in the Portland Metro area, along with the address of where the signs are, and the pic was taken, I'll post 'em here.
How funny would it be if folks all around town started punking Retreiver Towing just for shits and giggles?
Maybe even video the incidents and post 'em to YouTube? Can't ya just see the new bumperstickers around town: "Honk if you've punked Retriever Towing".
Hey 'Chuckie White', Chuck You!
YES, WE-THE-PEOPLE CAN.
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