Scum Report

"As you make ruthless plans for the battles you win, your victory's in turn will be traded again and again"

© Rory Bãs November 23, 2008

Let the wise man discern

"The People Get The Government They Deserve"

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa

"If man has come to the point of pride, ego and greed to even conceive the idea that humans could harm God's Creation in any way, they have denied usefulness, and should be eliminated."

© Rory Bãs March 22, 2009

"Time goes by fast, even when you're not having fun." 

© Al Platt 1967

7-3-2009

More poppycock about the non existent hoax of global warming keeping Al Gore in his shuttle like jet.

WASHINGTON: Global warming seems to be shrinking sheep. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London.

``The decrease in body size was due to a reduction in growth rates caused, in part, by the changing climate,'' Coulson said in an interview via e-mail.

If Aunt Millie gets the gout at 120 years old, it's blamed on global warming.  Global warming has been debunked as well as Darwin's "Theory."

Please stop, no one can do anything about it anyway even if it wasn't a fairy tale.  Everyone should adopt the attitude:

BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA!  -end message- 

6-28-2009

My adventure started with a visit to Sears to check a left from brake noise and ended with a manager from Sears Auto, who says he is a master mechanic but doesn't work on cars.  A loud mouth, know it all, tells you your car is perfect even though when I took off I heard the left front caliper noise that might cause a roll, endo, flip and spin.  The total was about $1700.  When I brought it in, there was a little noise in the left front brake and is grabbed a bit.  The steering wheel was centered, now it isn't.  After an attempted repair on the left caliper which they say had a bolt that was stripped, a lug nut that was stripped, one very loose tie rod, cylinder 2 & 4 misfiring, tire wear on the left front side, hmmm, etc. This is akin to going to a doctor to have something looked at, then you start displaying stroke, heart, cholesterol, sugar symptoms, etc.  They thought they had a sucker.  But no!  They needed to align the car, I said no because I have never seen an alignment work except on a printout or a hand written drawing.

Anyway, after telling me how great my car was and at this time I have to give kudos' to the guys who did the work they were told.  They were good. The last guy was the alignment guy, nice kid, respectful, what a work ethic, I don't see that anymore in teens, early adults.

End of the story, the loud mouth said he would take the defective tires back in for some more money.  I said I offered that two weeks ago and it will now be an even trade, top of the line Michelin Performance tires, even trade, I was charged the same price.

He started really embarrassing himself in front of about 7 customers.  I said to them all in a calm, yes I am the nasty guy, I really don't want to be like this.  Of course, I will forget the trouble that Sears Auto got into for doing the same exact thing years ago.  He then shut his mouth.

Beginning of story.  I have to remember all this anyways.  I brought it in for someone to look at the left front caliper.  I went with them each step of the way, I'm a waiter.  The left front caliper had to be drilled, have larger threads put in, rotors put in, the same gypsy scheme over and over, because the bolt that holds it to the bracket was moving in and out, someone had stripped it.  

They then put on four tires which were supposed to be high end racing, low profile tires, either Michelin or Bridgestone but I got the only tire they had four of, Sumomachimoto.  Rotors replaced, not necessary and A low end 30,000 mile tire.

The next day, the car did stop in a straight line but it wanted to cross the median and crash into anyone on the other side of the highway.  I went back, they balanced the wheels.  Next day, car goes right, wants to crash into a guardrail.  Back, tie rod Very Loose, replaced.  The car is now unmanageable and dangerous.  Back again, the alignment guy did his best.  He had all wheels on all hubs, balanced every time.  He was in and out for about an hour an a half.  He was a great example of a real role model young adult.  He says I tried, I think I got it, then one of the two master mechanics said what's this, why did they drill the caliper out, this should have been replaced.  Of course, not knowing that the left caliper was ordered, the new right caliper was sent, non interchangeable and put on anyway on the right front.  No difference, back again.  So, the manager pronounces the car, race ready and made a buffoon of himself.  Sad.  I then told him all parties agreed including one of your master mechanics that the car was unsafe, and the tires were defective and had to be replaced.  I asked the stallion manager to replace the tires with the ones I came in for in the first place, he refused and wanted still more money.  I said I will give you five dollars, he said no, I said I will make a note of that, he said "I will two," it was like talking to a belligerent 5 year old, I stopped because I did not want to go to jail.

I went across to the lawn furniture and called GE Money Bank and disputed the charge, not part of it but all of it.  The guy took every word down said in a respectful way.  He said we will take the money out of Sears bank.  Obviously there were other people that were complaining.  Dick the supreme manager also mentioned that he was a master mechanic, but not working on cars.  Yikes?  

He started to come over to get some paper work from me but thought better, and went back someplace.  I finished the call with the dispute department.  Since all work is guaranteed, I owed nothing so I hopped in my car and took off.  I have or found out that day I don't have a rage problem anymore, and once again didn't want to go to jail. Now I have to spend days at drafting my response.  With Sears having been caught at this before, I don't foresee a problem.

I have all the names and do well at this sort of thing but $1700. later the problem I brought it in for is still there.  Talking to a former manager of a Valvoline lube job business, they were instructed by the bosses to make sure they up the price by telling people things are bad that aren't.  One favorite trick, if they got women in, they would either throw away the over priced air filter, show an old dirty one and of course, she would say replace it.  This manager refused to those dishonest things and was constantly harangued by his boss and employees.  Unfortunately for Valvoline, he taped everything, harassing phone calls, office one on ones, everything.  The manager was eventually fired and Valvoline settled.  Discriminate and that's your fate.

6-24-2009

Good luck Mark Sanford, the great governor from the state of ?  Payday, someday.  No one really believed that one Sanford, by the way any relation to Sanford & Son, hint.

6-3-2009

NYSEG raised it's electricity rates overnight.  This explains why I got a call from NYSEG one month ago saying I was going to have a big balloon payment is June and July to catch up.  I said catch up, at the moment NYSEG owes me 450 dollars.  Apparently this rep from NYSEG knew that the rates would be going up today.  Is there any dirty play involved.  How did this rep know there would be a price rise?  Is this illegal?

The rep informed me that he would like to raise my budget payment from 115. a month to 157. a month.  I thought it was just a scam to get the HEAP money plus the money I pay in addition every month.  After paying another 100. in May, I should be way ahead of my current usage.

I asked him how since our usage goes up and we start using less, despite the cost issue, could this be happening.  Either there is something wrong with computers or our meters are way off.

He jabbered away until he dug a hole for himself.  When there was no explanation why our usage was up when I told him we were savers and watch our NYSEG bill closely and compensate by using less, he excused himself and hung up.

First, he knew there would be a huge rise in electricity today one month ago.  Second, when he did not offer to send someone out to check the meters, I knew something was amiss.

I hope NYSEG gets caught real soon.  They have been sticking it to us for decades.  What about the purchase of 50 Segways when they first came out @ 5000 dollars a pop?  Who paid for that, ?  you got that right!

6-1-2009

Obama went on a $24,000. + date.  Absolutely no comment on this one.

5-23-2009

Well, about now you've got to be wondering why you voted for Obama?  He nor McCain could have done anything to stem the greed and jealousy that started with Cain and Abel.

I hope everyone realizes by now the Presidential election makes no difference.  The people that we send to represent us don't have a say, we send our money to the US government and the "lawmakers" we elect put pork in bills that have to pass so they can have institutional gatherings attached to their names.  Much rather have the cash, wouldn't you?

As I hit Drudge this morning and Obama said, "we are out of money," I went, hmmm, wow, I wonder who told him that.  I knew it in 1970 when I was being screwed by car dealers, musical instruments dealers, the gas and oil companies, NYSEG, AT&T, put it on a piece of paper and pull it out of a hat, literally, everyone.  I knew we were behind a couple trillion dollars at that point in time.

Someone said to me, so and so graduated and so and so will be putting her to work, they want to be millionaires. My reply, oh, so they want to be at the bottom of the pile, he's too old anyway, forget about it.

Anyway, as we come to a close as a planet, perhaps some of us will realize, there is only ONE TRUTH and He's coming soon.

Cheers, dearie!

5-20-2009

American Idol

The Man Too Hip To Be Hip To Be Too Cool To Be Hip

Randy Jackson always irritated me with pseudo too hip to be square, dig it, dawg, dog, man, etc.

Further, I just record it so I can watch Simon Cowell's comments, Paula Abdul, why is she there?, the other girl, who is she?, and so I can fast forward through the commercials.

The Randy Jackson's put together video assessment of Ryan Seacrest's best moments of Randy Jackson's 2008-2009 career, (by the way who is Randy Jackson?, was he one of the backup drummers for Earth, Wind and Fire or the Allman Brothers? or the Dead? or Phil Collins or did he just play bongo's) I never heard the, Dude, (well that one I did, kind of forgot about it because it sounds so stupid), train wreck shared by them all, just wasn't right for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, for me, etc., but the thing from me to you, look dawg, etc.

I believe Adam Lambert got the shaft last night, even though I don't follow these things, too old but many, many years ago, I would have given everything but my soul to sing like that, Lambert's voice was superior.  I wish Chris the best in his idol career.  I guess America was looking for something warm and fuzzy which I don't cast any aspersions on.  Any of that we can get now is the best.  Besides, Lambert will make out astoundingly well, anyway and I wish Chris well on his next year as the "idol."

4-27-2009

Is This Really A Surprise?

4-24-2009

Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.

According to Monckton, House Democrats told the Republican committee staff earlier this week that they would be putting forward an unnamed 'celebrity' as their star witness Friday at a multi-panel climate hearing examining the House global warming bill. The "celebrity" witness turned out to be Gore. Monckton said the GOP replied they would respond to the Democrats' "celebrity" with an unnamed "celebrity" of their own. But Monckton claims that when the Democrats were told who the GOP witness would be, they refused to allow him to testify alongside Gore.

Al Gore has done the impossible.  After being literally finished in politics, he reinvented himself as a proponent to breaking the God's set in universal stone law of physics.

The only slight scare I had was when he ran for president.  Can you imagine this idiot as icon of the White House?  Al, babes, you can't break the law of physics.  It's never been done and never will.  

We can get minutely closer to looking at the wonder of it all, but any man that thinks any other man can do anything to help or harm God's Creation is fooling himself and only himself.  He is scared to face a person that could debunk his entire life with a few paragraphs.  Follow the money.  It's Al's paycheck and everyone connected with it makes money.  It's sad to to see someone publicly self destruct.  Sadder still is thinking others blindly follow this darwinian approach to physics.  God is Sovereign and will always be the great I AM.  He alone will destroy with fire all man's works, and He alone will create the new heaven and the new earth.  After this is done Jesus will hand the keys back to the Father so all will be in all.

4-17-2009

Geoff Taylor, the chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents the UK record industry, said: “We hope that this decision will encourage British music fans to steer clear of these parasitic illegal download services and support the future of British music by downloading legally.”

Hey, Geoff, what do you think about curbing child porn, child predators and killers, can we do anything about that? WTF.

4-17-2009

Well, the copyright people have brought down Pirate Bay a file sharing network.  They have found the people that run the system guilty in Round 1.  They have fined them 3.6 million plus.  On the other hand I give my music away and am a household word around the world.  Isn't that what musicians want, selfish popularity.  Yes, people know me around the world but do they know the Beach Boys or the Beatles, I seriously doubt it.  Keep on killing the music business you rock and rollers but learn how to knit socks first.

4-7-2009

Doesn't Congress or Obama ever feel really dumb?  How many people in the US are unhappy.  I can name one this past week.

General Motors Corp
(GM.N) is in "intense" and "earnest" preparations for a possible
bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans
told Reuters on Tuesday.

 A plan to split the corporation into a "new" company made up
of the most successful units, and an "old" one of its
less-profitable units, is gaining momentum and is seen as the
most sensible configuration, said another source familiar with
the talks.

Enough money for the Executives to split the 32 billion plus and give it to the American public again.

3-23-2009

Disaster

We have come to a point where the President laughs at the second trillion dollar "budget" plan, is doing the talk show circuit and being interviewed by whoever will have him on the Tube.

While being interviewed about all the supporters that have left him, he was asked about the insanity, my words, of the President Oback Barama revival.  I don't use this misspelling as disrespect but apparently others have made this mistake as well, so I will just leave it.

He started laughing at the interviewer, much the same as when Senator Clinton was on meds and laughing at inappropriate times.

The interviewer in between Barack Obama giggling, the interviewer pressed the point about the inappropriate lack of seriousness about what Woodrow Wilson had taken the complete blame for turning our government over to the world, a government which we had fought for to be free by relinquishing the control of our economy.  He said it will certainly be the demise of our country, the United States, in the near future.

Well, it wasn't so near, if you consider our present and always 70 years average life span but it has happened.  Even the most optimistic people I know are saying goodbye, what that means is anybody's guess.  Everyone knows our economy will never come back as even people at the bottom knew it because of man's greed.  As AIG's officials have said, after they continued to give bonuses to executives, do not wear your colors, (motorcycle gang term of an identifying logo of any sort in public) because of the hostility of the average American law abiding citizen.  Some people have lost everything but invention is the mother of destroying the people that destroyed America from within and some of them guaranteed have laid plans to do just that.

What we now have is a person who even his own race is embarrassed of, along with no Democratic support and three Republicans that think he is very cool.

He mentioned he was giggling and laughing at the most serious non violent problem (so far) we are facing right now and called it "Gallows's humor."  I believe he is just enjoying his last days as President as the world gets closer to one world government, one world church and the one person who will control it all.

As another point comes to mind, while all this has been going on, gangs of all sorts have been equipping themselves with tactical weapons that the most combat ready soldier's don't even have access to.  The underground storage of a cache of weapons that can not be imagined are stored and ready, for what, I haven't the slightest idea but you know as well as I, most people have no compunction about using lethal, deadly force, even in the Honky Tonk bars across our land at the toss of a word.

I know if the people that really never cared less have woken up, and as AIG puts it ready for retribution to the greed of the people that took this country down in the name of free enterprise.  Free enterprise to do to them what they did for themselves.

Post mortem: there is none.

3-12-2009

Sentry Safe Warning.  Purchasing a particular model could be hazardous.  I bought a simple heavy fire and water proof safe from Wal-Mart.  It was a Sentry Fire Safe, to be used to protect paperwork.  The model purchased was a Sentry Fire and Water Proof safe.  The model number is Sentry Safe F-2300.

This Sentry Safe was in a controlled environment, and never subjected to a fire or flood.  The Sentry Safe was a year and two months old.

I wanted to look at a document one day.  I picked up the safe and carried it from the bottom hugged against my body.  As I turned to place the unit down on a flat surface.  The lid of the Sentry safe fell off, fortunately I had just made the turn to put the safe down and the lid fell off.  A mess of white powder came out of the safe.  Not only the hinge part of the Sentry Safe failed but the locking mechanism failed at the same time.

If it had fallen on any children or grand children it would have severely injured them or caused death.  Had the lid fallen on my feet, both feet would have had been destroyed.

I called customer service immediately, mainly to find out what the white powder was and to see if it was a dangerous substance.  It turned out to be concrete which held the back hinge in place and had turned to powder.  I'm not an engineer but using concrete for a hinge is pretty far out engineering.  Why the front lock mechanism failed at the same time is something that shouldn't have happened.  It had a double safety open and close system that should have held the lid, even though the back concrete hinge failed.

I had registered the Sentry Safe and all I wanted was an equal to or better than the safe I had.  The customer service representative said she couldn't replace it because it was "out of warranty."  I explained to her again the damage that could have been done, she said no replacement.  I figured out the email and iphone addresses of the owners, (not hard) and board of directors and the response was, no, let's see if we can work this out all the way to the top, explaining Sentry Safes had due diligence to products sold to everyone.  I tried several times to get this safe replaced and an attorney was in place to deal with me.

He threatened me, told me not to have contact with anyone at Sentry Safes and I told him to cease and desist contacting me.  This attorney also threatened my First Amendment rights.  Having no fear of them whatever, I told him to cease and desist calling me by any means.

I will put up a picture sooner or later but the crux is, if you have this model Sentry Safe F-2300, do not use it.

As a finale, the customer rep said they had problems with that model and had to completely re-design it.  I received no warning notice from Sentry Safe's about the danger of the lid falling off the safe by phone, email or US mail.  The safe was registered the day I bought it, and I have lived at the same residence for many years.

Find a different brand and do your research before buying a safe.

3-12-2009

Purified Water Snake Oil Salesmen

Do have money to get a loved one treatment for cancer.  The best treatment for cancer.  I doubt in most of our cases.  There will be warnings on the current situation of the economy, playing on people's fears and the absolute willingness to screw your relatives, friends and enemies on these pages as the economy worsens.

At this juncture, be especially careful of the "snake oil salesmen" of the water purification trade.  You will be able to be talked into anything if a loved one's life is at stake.  

It just like the poor widow who's husband just died unexpectedly.  There are definite rules to follow if this happens.  Do not do anything financially or give possessions away.  Do no throw things away, emptying closets, selling personal items of his for low or no price.  Do not do anything for at least a year unless there are financial problems.  If there are financial problems, and as much as you don't feel like doing anything about them, as much as you are grieving, seek the counsel of many people.  Seek the counsel of the wise and the dumb.  

Write all the information down and study it before you choose a remedy for the financial problems, in doing this, perhaps there really aren't any financial problems and by forcing yourself to deal with them, there is a chance they can be remedied easily.

Purified water sales companies.  Stay away from them.  On a particular website, there is a "family owned" business that advertises juicing machines, acid and alkaline water machines and while telling you the evils of drinking "dead water", more commonly known as distilled water will tell you how it's killing you and it will help cure cancer.  While on the same website, he sells distilled water machines for making and drinking pure water.

These people are often multi level marketers who have a suit for every customer.  They know their trade and they know all the facts and anomaly's.  One particular gentlemen, mutes the TV, answers the phone and makes a couple thousand dollars by using fear alone.

Be careful who you talk to and who you do business with.

 1-1-2009

Praise Jesus.  I long for his return, yet do not hope for it, least the last soul shall not be saved which may be me.  Praise to you Lord of lords, King of kings, the name which is above all other names, Jesus Christ.

12-24-2008

Merry Christmas.  For me, Christmas means the blood of Jesus.  The universe is in perfect order.  If you are interested you can check out these few facts.   Jupiter moves in a path that is totally absurd.  Venus moves in a path that is totally absurd, yet you can trace where these planets were 2000 years ago, why because the universe is in perfect order.

Jupiter moves what looks like to be a straight line.  At a point in time, Jupiter stops and starts going the opposite way it came.  Venus does something similar.  

It amazes me the on the night when Christ was born, Jupiter and Venus were so in line that to the naked eye in those times it looked like one big bright light, only discovered later, observers could not tell that the reflected light from the two planets so close to each other  made the brightest star ever known to man.  

It was unmistakably the brightest light that had ever occurred, so bright that I believe, it lit up the earth.  These two planets were created for that one purpose, to appear over Bethlehem, the night Jesus Christ was born.  That was their only purpose for existing.  That was their only mission.  If we look at the universe as pure math, and that it was created, and we can look back 2000 years when this event occurred, the traditional date of December 25th is a man made date, which is all right, because it really makes no difference. 

Jesus was in April sometime, the exact day escapes me because I was so blown away by the math which God created, I missed the exact date, again which makes no difference.

The world economy fizzle seemed to start a "what are we here for,"  "why are we here," at least for a second or two in some peoples minds.  There was an unusual thought, why have we spent so much money for so many years trying to make up for our misdeeds to family and friends and have to be bitter because we have to pay it back in January which this year we really won't be able to afford.  No one will.

I was probably mistaken but I saw a little bit of,  "there is an answer," certainly not in the UAW or automobile manufacturers but I noticed a sprinkling here and there of "God Is Sovereign."  We will trust in him.

For those who know him, they turn to him, maybe for just a little while, but they do, maybe they even get down on their knees and thank him for the blood Jesus shed to be our propitiation for sin.  

The Christmas I long for is no santa claus, which is the first lie to your children, so they don't trust you anymore, ever, in the future, closely followed by the Easter bunny, fairy tale.  Parents continue to perpetrate it to their children and so on and so on it will go to their children, their children's children and their children's children's, children and the lie never stops.

R rated movies released on the day Christ was born, gone permanently.  No trees or plastic trees.  No lights except the light of Jesus.  No worthless mementos that will be in the garbage as soon as company leaves. No music which will be burned in the fire.

No expensive toys that will be broken the same day and thrown away for lack of room or the other thousands of toys that will be trimmed to make room for the "new."  

No get togethers, where there is unabashed drinking and drugging, entertainment, fornication, then driving.  No extravagant meals, where everyone goes back for thirds, gets sick and extremely uncomfortable.  The TV is turned on to watch the football game where some real drinking gets done, everyone passes out, gets up a few hours later, completely depressed and wonders what is  the purpose of this behavioral problem.

On the day of Jesus' birth, he willingly became one of us. To live and die for us, to give us a gift that no one can take away but can be refused, this is a sad day.  

The coming Crucifixion and death for the sin of everyone that he loved that ever lived, are living and the spirits and souls of those he knew before they were conceived.  For the first time in eternity past, separated from his Father but still 100% man, 100% God, died for everyone's sin.   In reality, not one of least sin could be atoned for even if it took a quadrillion years.  

The physical dying of Jesus was horrendous but when the Father looked away from Jesus as he bore all the sins of the past and all the sins of the future, for the first time in eternity past, the Father had to turn his head from Jesus.  for the Father is all good and could not look at sin, which is us, except through the blood of Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross, his death and his Resurrection, which assures us every day is closer to his return that Jesus conquered sin and death for all who accept this free gift of salvation.

The only way I can live on this earth is knowing that Jesus paid for all my sins, past, present and future, I will always sin, and I have come to know truly that in the past year I must  rely totally on the blood of Jesus that covers me and gives me eternal security and not any "good deeds" that I've done for the kingdom is of any worth.

Bless Jesus, oh my soul.  I love you Jesus, I long to see you, look into your eyes and fall on my face before you for what I have done in my life , even daily, to murder you.  As you forgave me, I must somehow find the way to forgive myself so that I may  forgive others.  For without love and forgiveness, I have nothing.

12-13-2008

UAW Ron Gettelfinger thinks building cars is an entitlement.  GM cut back to 60% of cars being made.  Is it really hard to understand why no one is buying cars.  Follow this; if the baby boomers bought a house in the '60's, a new car will cost them in most cases, 3 and a half times more than they paid for there house because of the UAW.

I don't understand the shock of screwing people for 80 years and wondering why it's turning on you.  You all should find volunteer positions helping people and seeing what it's like with no food, no meds, no drinking water, no bathing and no anything.  Hopefully you would have a little different outlook on your pathetic whining.

There are enough used and new cars sitting all over the US to last ten years besides, no one wants to pay for gas or drive anymore.

Go bankrupt and come back in ten years with a viable product for under $3000. at 2019 prices.

12-12-2008

UAW Ron Gettelfinger is really singing the blues.  Let's see how much the blues cost.  $100. an hour x 40 hours = $4000. a week. X 4 weeks = $16,000. a month X 12 = $192,000.  a year.  Let's add time and half for Saturday and Sunday.  16 hours X $150. = $2400. a week. X 4 = $9600. X 12 Months = 115,200.  So, $192,000. + 115,000. = $370,000.  a year.  Lets throw in double time for holidays, you can figure that out.

A family of four or five will get all their tax money back plus all the claimed children benefits in cash back from the government.

If a worker, sitting his butt in a robot seat, which I saw on the news today, to take him 10 steps to the car makes $370,000. what does Gettelfinger make, why doesn't he open his books.

Gettelfinger you made a big mistake.

This country is in such bad moral shape that nothing will work.  I, along with other Americans have decided, without communicating, that we don't want to use any gas even at 24.9 cents a gallon, (the least price I can remember before that, was 19.9 cents a gallon).  We are tired of oil sludge, that takes 400 chemicals to refine to gas.  We are tired of those people over there making fortunes that can not be imagined.  Take a look a Dubai, and you better make it fast because it's all going to sink in the sand someday.  

I have not made over $8.01 an hour in my life, when Lennie the ?, told me I was at the peak of my pay rate and I would never get a raise.  Perhaps, I didn't buy into the more is better theory, bad theory, kind of like evolution, but nothing can compare to that lie.

 I always seemed to get along well and often had more cash on me than a person making $500,000.  Now truly, it makes no difference at all to me.  The mental stress I would endure if I had more than one apartment, one house, one car, one wife would blow me up.  If I was making $370,000. a year, it would tell me, boy, am I working cheap.  A BIG LIE.

When you tick off the American people past an indefinable point, something happens in everyone's mind at once, which I have witnessed, in a village and in a powerful country before, an industry, a business, a bar, is finished, overnight, and that's it, as an example Americans have found alternatives without finding the promised alternatives, promised by the politicians, the industries, the President, the inventors, and anyone who can see a buck to be made, see Al Gore, not a penny spent for his jaw flapping as he flies his Shuttle like jet around the world.  

Cars have not improved gas mileage since the fifties, something is wrong, don't you think.  As a prime, just perfect example at just the perfect time, Gov. Rod Blagojevich trying to sell Obama's seat, do you think he acted alone.  People are acting with total impunity.

I happened to be born in, and live in, an area that is brutal.  Among many other stories, I saw a wise punk from Chicago, a protégé' of the owner of McCaw Cellular, Craig McCaw.  This young man was started out at $80,000. in 1988, I watched him totally disintegrate into an arsonist, a drug dealer, an alcoholic and a woman beater.  

One fine sunny day, Craig McCaw came into town, told him to get his things together in a supplied cardboard box, was escorted and driven to the Cellular One's apartment they paid for, and left, by two gentlemen outside the apartment door, afterwards, he hung out in an area he disdained, for quite a while. 

I saw him one day after that, driving past an apartment up the street, knocking on his girlfriend's door, with a look on his face I have never seen on anyone since.  I felt a great sorrow for him, even though he owed me $80,000., co-incidentally, for a dealer network, I had locked up and owned.  I worked hard to put it together, of which I never saw a penny.  

Craig McCaw in 1990, was the highest paid CEO in the United States.  In 1994, the McCaw brothers sold McCaw Cellular to AT&T for $12.6 billion.  Which brings another anomaly to mind.

I feel the next thing to go is the cellular industry. What other industry, except for the car industry can screw their customers day after day, with 8 dollar an hour workers with bad attitudes, and have their customers, mostly teens and young adults, come back over and over again for another screwing, this is not normal behavior.  Of course, these are not normal times, if there ever was such a thing, and really will become so abnormal, it will implode.

America will someday stop in their stride and default on their super expensive, "cellular plans, designed to save you money," and  en masse decide they really don't need to text (the most time consuming, worthless waste that ever was invented), or talk on a digital  "walkie-talkie", (one person can speak at a time, if not, your voice cuts off the other persons, sort of like a speakerphone), state of the art overpriced digital phones where you really can't, (because of the digital delay time it takes to convert your analog voice, to digital and back to analog again), carry on a normal conversation.  

One way to check this out is to call your own answering machine and see how long it takes your voice to get there once the beep sounds.  That is roughly the same amount of time it takes to get to the person that you are talking to with the same process back to you.  If it is still not clear, look at a walkie-talkie the police use, only one person can speak at a time, this is exactly what your high tech, high priced phone that you probably got for free, with the foreknowledge of the cellular company, they will get the cost of that phone back so many times, you would puke, but even if you knew how much the cellular companies make on you, you would still go back for more, it hurts me to see my loved ones caught in this vicious cycle, mainly because of the moral degradation of this country, and because I was in the biz.

Those commercials with all the people in the background, just think, every time you pay your bill, you are dragging them with you, what a heavy weight on your shoulders in a world gone bad.

12-12-2008

The auto bailout is a dead issue.  When the UAW refused to co-operate the bill was killed.  UPS workers have a strong union as well but they are not foolish.  At $17. an hour, most have a cottage on a lake somewhere and a lot have the equivalent of a high school diploma.  UPS workers work.  They work hard in weather that is unimaginable all year round.  They make a fair wage but compared to the when all is said and done wage of the UAW, I just can't understand what happened in Detroit.

In reality, the UAW workers make $100. an hour.  You are now going to find out what reality is for the rest of us.  While I don't wish you harm, you should have thought of others before yourselves.

A contract with a bankrupt company isn't much good but again, take a nice vacation until 2011.  Perhaps when all the dust settles, Americans will have a great fully featured green car for $3000. made by people who love their job.

12-12-2008

Obama offers Israel a nuclear umbrella.  It looks to me that Obama is trying to gain Israel's trust.  The US will back Israel in any venture it should take.  Bless Israel and bless the Jewish people.

Dear Israelites, if the words peace with security come out of Obama's mouth, beware.