In other news, I also got banned from the Nicole Curtis, Rehab Addict, Facebook site. Dedicated non-readers may recall that the gopher on her show took umbrage with this This Old Ferrerman and a few others who were critical of her Huck Finn-like attitude towards painting the houses she rehabs. Free help is usually worth every penny you paid for it. I don't know about the others but, This Old Ferrerman got a series of Private Messages from her gopher, Leaf Garrett (not his real, stupid name!) The kid, you may recall had called out detractors by challenging them to show up at the job site to fight. That's what he said! If you've seen the show, he passed out on a hot day on one show and brought her gas when she ran out on another. Other than those duties, I guess he threatens people on her Facebook page.
It was on her page that I noticed that she apologized for some screw ups on the page with her emails or whatever and I simply asked if she had put "...that Leaf Garrett kid in charge of it?" Next thing I know, I'm poster non grata on her page! Well. I get that a lot....
Frankly, I didn't really care. I enjoy the show and I'd spank the daylights out of her bottom but, her Facebook page is fucking horrible. Never minding that it's a fan page that tolerates very little dissent, I think it's also geared towards illiterate, deaf, dumb, blind people. They absolutely love Nicole Curtis but, they have no concept of what she does and where she does it. Maybe 95% of the posts are people telling her how much they love her (which is nice and, honestly, I don't get that here, myself) but also imploring her to come fix their house, which is not what she does. She works primarily in Minneapolis, Minnesota fixing up houses or her native Detroit. Single mom, yada yada, doing houses in iffy neighborhoods, on the cheap. She 's pretty clear about this. She not Mike Holmes or any of the DIY guys and gals who hang out at Lowes ambushing people who need new kitchens, baths or backyards. That's every other show on DIY and HGTV.
The comments section of any site can be a mixed bag. You should see the ones I don't publish here. Yikes! But, earlier this week i was looking at the This Old House site and I was quite taken by a photo of a seen-better-days Queen Anne in Warren, Ohio that was being offered FREE to a good (i.e. rich and skilled) homeowner. TOH often posts interesting properties all around the country like that. Some are those tease ones where the house costs $1 BUT....you've got to move it. I hate those. Move a house? Why? What is so special about that square footage of land that you must build something else- right there? I'm guess someone needs a McMansion and that Victorian is in the way but, they're not animals. Well, unless no one bites on the Dollar Menu that is, then that bitch is coming down.
Well, I don't think it was planned but, Nicole Curtis fans spammed the shit out of the TOH page with better than one hundred posts pledging love and devotion to Nicole and all basically saying: "This looks like a job for Nicole Curtis!!!" It looked like a troll infestation like when gun nuts gather on a liberal site to combat logic and human sensibilities with Thomas Jefferson quotes taken waaaay out of context. One person saying that it looked like a job for Nicole Curtis and getting a couple hundred likes makes Facebook sense. But, Facebook reality is 200+ people all saying the same goddamned thing. Two hundred some people, all well-meaning but, totally unclear of where Warren, Ohio is in relation to Minneapolis. A few million fans also linked the Queen Anne on her site.
It was kinda ironic really. You know who does travel the country fixing up old houses? No, not Nicole Curtis. Try again.... Yes! The guys at This Old House! NORM! Kevin. Tommy. Richard. Roger.
Not very spankable but, very capable. They do pretty good work themselves and they don't leave the painting to the kindness of strangers. Or, threaten people....
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
In this episode, We Win Topix!
As long as Hegel and I have been driving around in our custom van, solving Topix mysteries, we've known that we've been going up against Topix moderators, much of the time. We've been beating them senseless under any sock or graybox they threw at us. I'm not bragging. Topix mods are not college educated scholars who, given a choice between a career in medicine or moderating a message board wisely chose the latter for the obvious contribution to society. Rather, I think they tend to be rather trollish in nature and sociopathetic. <~~See what I did there? I really do rock!
But, I digress. Several months ago, one of the mods unceremoniously snagged Hegel's Topix profile. She is a woman who has never violated the Terms Of Service of anything in her life. The Topix TOS now essentially is a challenge of sorts. It reads something like: "Try and be nice." Maybe that's a suggestion? The reality, as they habitchually (see what I did there?) point out, is that they can pull your profile for any reason- ANY reason- they want, without explanation. That's what one did with Hegel. It was probably done out of jealousy and maybe to get at me. Regardless, it was weak and cowardly. The offending mod refused to give an explanation as to why. Now that is really putting the P in USSY. I know you saw what I did there.
For some reason I still have my profile. I rarely use it. I took down my profile pic, I think last June. Some trolls delight in believing my profile was banned but they are stupid and too lazy to google. I did try my profile the other day and, despite being active, I can't post with it. Nor can I post gray. I was just getting used to my posts getting pulled for no reason when I realized that, for the umpteenth time, my posts were getting pulled out of the starting gate. It's like I'm banned without being banned. Ya know they don't do that to just anybody. Like Reggie Jackson said: "Fans don't boo nobodies."
Hegel and I very good posters. Two different styles but we both can totally dominate anybody out there. Her very presence caused a misogynist like Sublime to leave the Chicago Forum. Know what she did? She just showed up and posted in a calm, rational manner. That fucking pussy ran crying from the forum! I told you that we have two different styles. I'm not necessarily that harsh when I post but, I reserve the right to be. Sublime has a lot of anger in him, often directed towards women. He wants guys to get e-tough with him. That's his element, or so he thinks. But, he cannot handle a woman being smarter and more controlled than him. That's when he loses it.
We have complained to Topix, knowing that the person we are complaining to is probably one of the trolls we are complaining about. It would seem to be futile (especially since nothing gets done) but, should one day things come push to shove, we have a boatload of complaints that have gone unanswered that someone at Topis is going to have to answer for. Maybe not but, they are there if we need them. With few exceptions in life, you can always go over someone's head. The more they rather you didn't, the more you should.
Isn't that kinda unfair? Trolling people AND being the one who heads the complaint department too? It's really kinda obscene. I've compared it to the old westerns where the outlaws run the town. The mods protect their friends too. My enemies always seemed to know which posts were mine and which were done by one of them with a proxy. Pretty clearly, friendly mods provide that service. Currently, the mod known as "Susan" is trolling the shit out of Sublime and a couple of her other friends. We can see that. I'm pretty sure they aren't in on it and they have no idea that, like a horror movie, the calls are coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! Mod Susan has been doing that for years. Maybe s/he's convinced the bosses that such trolling is good for business. I don't think they care.
The reality of Topix is that, Topix doesn't give a shit about Offbeat (now Weird) the Main or the Chicago Forum. They make their money off of the other several thousand forums all over the world. Topix doesn't think Topix will be a better place for all once Ferrerman and Hegel are gone. Topix doesn't know who we are. They probably don't care that we're bitch-slapping their useless mods. Seriously, if they cared, would they put these dipsticks in charge?
Hegel and I accept the surrender of the troll mods and their henchpersons. We wish you had been more worthy but, you couldn't hang. That's a shame.We would have beaten you even if you had been good, though.
But, I digress. Several months ago, one of the mods unceremoniously snagged Hegel's Topix profile. She is a woman who has never violated the Terms Of Service of anything in her life. The Topix TOS now essentially is a challenge of sorts. It reads something like: "Try and be nice." Maybe that's a suggestion? The reality, as they habitchually (see what I did there?) point out, is that they can pull your profile for any reason- ANY reason- they want, without explanation. That's what one did with Hegel. It was probably done out of jealousy and maybe to get at me. Regardless, it was weak and cowardly. The offending mod refused to give an explanation as to why. Now that is really putting the P in USSY. I know you saw what I did there.
For some reason I still have my profile. I rarely use it. I took down my profile pic, I think last June. Some trolls delight in believing my profile was banned but they are stupid and too lazy to google. I did try my profile the other day and, despite being active, I can't post with it. Nor can I post gray. I was just getting used to my posts getting pulled for no reason when I realized that, for the umpteenth time, my posts were getting pulled out of the starting gate. It's like I'm banned without being banned. Ya know they don't do that to just anybody. Like Reggie Jackson said: "Fans don't boo nobodies."
Hegel and I very good posters. Two different styles but we both can totally dominate anybody out there. Her very presence caused a misogynist like Sublime to leave the Chicago Forum. Know what she did? She just showed up and posted in a calm, rational manner. That fucking pussy ran crying from the forum! I told you that we have two different styles. I'm not necessarily that harsh when I post but, I reserve the right to be. Sublime has a lot of anger in him, often directed towards women. He wants guys to get e-tough with him. That's his element, or so he thinks. But, he cannot handle a woman being smarter and more controlled than him. That's when he loses it.
We have complained to Topix, knowing that the person we are complaining to is probably one of the trolls we are complaining about. It would seem to be futile (especially since nothing gets done) but, should one day things come push to shove, we have a boatload of complaints that have gone unanswered that someone at Topis is going to have to answer for. Maybe not but, they are there if we need them. With few exceptions in life, you can always go over someone's head. The more they rather you didn't, the more you should.
Isn't that kinda unfair? Trolling people AND being the one who heads the complaint department too? It's really kinda obscene. I've compared it to the old westerns where the outlaws run the town. The mods protect their friends too. My enemies always seemed to know which posts were mine and which were done by one of them with a proxy. Pretty clearly, friendly mods provide that service. Currently, the mod known as "Susan" is trolling the shit out of Sublime and a couple of her other friends. We can see that. I'm pretty sure they aren't in on it and they have no idea that, like a horror movie, the calls are coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! Mod Susan has been doing that for years. Maybe s/he's convinced the bosses that such trolling is good for business. I don't think they care.
The reality of Topix is that, Topix doesn't give a shit about Offbeat (now Weird) the Main or the Chicago Forum. They make their money off of the other several thousand forums all over the world. Topix doesn't think Topix will be a better place for all once Ferrerman and Hegel are gone. Topix doesn't know who we are. They probably don't care that we're bitch-slapping their useless mods. Seriously, if they cared, would they put these dipsticks in charge?
Hegel and I accept the surrender of the troll mods and their henchpersons. We wish you had been more worthy but, you couldn't hang. That's a shame.We would have beaten you even if you had been good, though.
Filthy socks
Remember "Joe the Plumber"? He had 15 minutes of fame back during the '08 election when the GOP hired him to be an 'everyman' who was against taxing rich people because he hoped to be one. His job was to ambush Barack Obama and give him what for. As I recall, he failed miserably. Candidate Obama was not ambushed and handled the question well. In my opinion, Joe was in awe of Obama. But, the spin had Joe *winning* for awhile because that's how that works.
Joe wasn't really a plumber anymore than I am. He no more a "Joe" than I am either, as his real name is Sam Wurzelbachachercocksucherdoorknocker. Something like that. Not sure of the spelling. He wasn't licensed and he wasn't in any danger of owning his own plumbing company and making over $250k and being taxed to death. In fact, after some sort of a failed run for some political position, he took a job a Chrysler. The stupid fucker probably doesn't recognize the irony of his party choice even when he looks at his paycheck. Don't support union busters and then get a union job! Joe the DUMBER!
After the recent murder spree in California, the father of one of the victims spoke out against gun violence and the lack of gun control. Joe decided to speak out against him. Joe said:
"As harsh as this sounds, your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."
Motherfucker! He really did say that.
I haven't heard of any GOP officials condemning his words. Of course, he's not a party official....
He's a sock. He says things that the real party officials think but can't say. Of course, if you listen to Louie Gohmert , Issa, Jindahl and all, you wonder what wouldn't they say? Joe, Palin, Limbaugh, Coulter and several hundred other sock puppets sole purpose to exist in life is to say the harsh, cold-blooded things that Mitch McConnell is thinking but cannot say publicly. Joe The Plumber is just a live-action sock, like an avatar (profile) on an internet board like Topix or the political pages. I've read people on Topix say outrageous things and thought to myself that they- clown avatar and all- could be a tea publican candidate for anything. That's how bad things are. That's how sad things are.
If Sam What'shisname says says your dead kid isn't as important as his 2A *right* he's just an idiot on the internet. But, if he says it as "Joe The Plumber" someone you know who was famous for 15 minutes without being a Kardashian, you take a bit more notice.
What he said isn't the problem. It's what leading politicians didn't say that is disgusting. They didn't say he was wrong. They didn't even dismiss him as an ignorant asshole or live-action troll. The silence was deafening. He said what they were thinking though. They know it's wrong to think it. It might even be politically damaging to say it. That's why they have socks, many of them volunteers, to speak for them. Cowards.
Joe wasn't really a plumber anymore than I am. He no more a "Joe" than I am either, as his real name is Sam Wurzelbachachercocksucherdoorknocker. Something like that. Not sure of the spelling. He wasn't licensed and he wasn't in any danger of owning his own plumbing company and making over $250k and being taxed to death. In fact, after some sort of a failed run for some political position, he took a job a Chrysler. The stupid fucker probably doesn't recognize the irony of his party choice even when he looks at his paycheck. Don't support union busters and then get a union job! Joe the DUMBER!
After the recent murder spree in California, the father of one of the victims spoke out against gun violence and the lack of gun control. Joe decided to speak out against him. Joe said:
"As harsh as this sounds, your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."
Motherfucker! He really did say that.
I haven't heard of any GOP officials condemning his words. Of course, he's not a party official....
He's a sock. He says things that the real party officials think but can't say. Of course, if you listen to Louie Gohmert , Issa, Jindahl and all, you wonder what wouldn't they say? Joe, Palin, Limbaugh, Coulter and several hundred other sock puppets sole purpose to exist in life is to say the harsh, cold-blooded things that Mitch McConnell is thinking but cannot say publicly. Joe The Plumber is just a live-action sock, like an avatar (profile) on an internet board like Topix or the political pages. I've read people on Topix say outrageous things and thought to myself that they- clown avatar and all- could be a tea publican candidate for anything. That's how bad things are. That's how sad things are.
If Sam What'shisname says says your dead kid isn't as important as his 2A *right* he's just an idiot on the internet. But, if he says it as "Joe The Plumber" someone you know who was famous for 15 minutes without being a Kardashian, you take a bit more notice.
What he said isn't the problem. It's what leading politicians didn't say that is disgusting. They didn't say he was wrong. They didn't even dismiss him as an ignorant asshole or live-action troll. The silence was deafening. He said what they were thinking though. They know it's wrong to think it. It might even be politically damaging to say it. That's why they have socks, many of them volunteers, to speak for them. Cowards.
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpufA
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpufA
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
I
am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the
one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now.
But:
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
As harsh as this sounds – your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/joe-plumbers-letter-parents-dead-kids/#sthash.eIfqTpr4.dpuf
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
This Blog Is NOT For Sale
I was thinking about net neutrality and the net futility fight against it. It's going to happen for one simple reason. The people who want it ended, have the money to end it. I don't know if you're aware of this but, in this country, it takes money to make more money and that takes Congressmen. They ain't cheap!
Net neutrality basically means that all people have the same access to internet regardless of content. You looking at porn is no more or less important than someone viewing Facebook. Your service provider can't determine that you should be blocked from the porn or from DB, Wiki or any site. And currently all these sites are accessed with the same speed and at the low, low rate of whatever you are paying your service provider. The problem with this is that it is un-fucking-American!
You know who has high-speed internet for ALL, at a low cost? Communist Europe! Yep. Whether you are Juan Pablo Smucatelli in Italy or Schlomo MacGuilicuddy in the UK or Haywood Jablome in Poland, you get good, fast access to internet and you pay less than we do here.
Leading Internet Service Providers like Verizon are petitioning the savings accounts of Congress for the God-given right to charge more, of people who are willing to pay for it. We know how this country works. When the founders said that all men are created equal, they knew that blacks were then counted as 3/5ths of a person and they weren't remotely equal anyway and the figure was just for accounting purposes.
It seems stupid, doesn't it? Well, this is a country where people think they are fiscally conservative holding back the wages of millions of others so that they save maybe forty cents on today's lunch at McDonald's. A lawyer on Topix explained that to me. He is not alone in his density. In fact, at this moment someone is probably selling him against net neutrality by telling him that poor people have the same access to the internet as him! How does that make him feel?
Livid, probably. BTW, most people like the lawyer fear not a 40 cent increase in Big Macs as Australia saw with their minimum wage rising to $16 per hour, they fear $20 Big Mac's like professional McDonald's trolls claim on the internet. If Ronald McDonald ever charges $20 for a Big Mac, it will be because they CAN. That, my friends, is free market capitalism.
Free market capitalism is also taking something that flows and impeding it so that you can charge more for it. It would be like if you diverted a river supplying water to parts of Southern California because other parts of SC might pay more. So, just as you might dam the river, you might damn the internet...to make more money. Essentially the service providers want to provide more expensive and exclusive service. so they can make more money. Hey, that's business. The only thing holding back solar and wind energy is that Exxon doesn't own either. If Congress gives them the rights plus subsidies, we'll see electric cars all over the place...getting run over by the exclusive gas-powered cars of the wealthy one percent and the wannabees.... Part of me wants to see this knowing that a Topix lawyer will be LOL'ing at the poor liberals who exist in darkness half the day because they can't afford to pay Exxon for sunlight during business hours and Enhanced Tier Noir Sunlight delivered to their homes after hours.
Evidently Netflix subscribers already felt the sensation of life after net neutrality when the squeeze was put on Netfix by providers who slooooooowed down Netflix until they agreed to pay more. When Netflix has to pay more, you have to pay more for Netflix. Remember: they are not asking you to pay for improved service brought to you by expensive technology. They are telling you to pay for not-slowed service. We could be like Europe but then we would be communist socialists. Do you want the same internet speed available to inner city types? Nope. In America it's not enough to make more than others, it's just as important that they make less. If that doesn't make sense to you, you are not American.
The Ferrerman blog remains free. For now. I made a vow to my dedicated non-readers and a threat to Topix trolls:
Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so good people can post, I'll be there. Wherever they's a mod beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk post the stuff they believe an' live in the threads they build—why, I'll be there...
Now, is that priceless or what?
Net neutrality basically means that all people have the same access to internet regardless of content. You looking at porn is no more or less important than someone viewing Facebook. Your service provider can't determine that you should be blocked from the porn or from DB, Wiki or any site. And currently all these sites are accessed with the same speed and at the low, low rate of whatever you are paying your service provider. The problem with this is that it is un-fucking-American!
You know who has high-speed internet for ALL, at a low cost? Communist Europe! Yep. Whether you are Juan Pablo Smucatelli in Italy or Schlomo MacGuilicuddy in the UK or Haywood Jablome in Poland, you get good, fast access to internet and you pay less than we do here.
Leading Internet Service Providers like Verizon are petitioning the savings accounts of Congress for the God-given right to charge more, of people who are willing to pay for it. We know how this country works. When the founders said that all men are created equal, they knew that blacks were then counted as 3/5ths of a person and they weren't remotely equal anyway and the figure was just for accounting purposes.
It seems stupid, doesn't it? Well, this is a country where people think they are fiscally conservative holding back the wages of millions of others so that they save maybe forty cents on today's lunch at McDonald's. A lawyer on Topix explained that to me. He is not alone in his density. In fact, at this moment someone is probably selling him against net neutrality by telling him that poor people have the same access to the internet as him! How does that make him feel?
Livid, probably. BTW, most people like the lawyer fear not a 40 cent increase in Big Macs as Australia saw with their minimum wage rising to $16 per hour, they fear $20 Big Mac's like professional McDonald's trolls claim on the internet. If Ronald McDonald ever charges $20 for a Big Mac, it will be because they CAN. That, my friends, is free market capitalism.
Free market capitalism is also taking something that flows and impeding it so that you can charge more for it. It would be like if you diverted a river supplying water to parts of Southern California because other parts of SC might pay more. So, just as you might dam the river, you might damn the internet...to make more money. Essentially the service providers want to provide more expensive and exclusive service. so they can make more money. Hey, that's business. The only thing holding back solar and wind energy is that Exxon doesn't own either. If Congress gives them the rights plus subsidies, we'll see electric cars all over the place...getting run over by the exclusive gas-powered cars of the wealthy one percent and the wannabees.... Part of me wants to see this knowing that a Topix lawyer will be LOL'ing at the poor liberals who exist in darkness half the day because they can't afford to pay Exxon for sunlight during business hours and Enhanced Tier Noir Sunlight delivered to their homes after hours.
Evidently Netflix subscribers already felt the sensation of life after net neutrality when the squeeze was put on Netfix by providers who slooooooowed down Netflix until they agreed to pay more. When Netflix has to pay more, you have to pay more for Netflix. Remember: they are not asking you to pay for improved service brought to you by expensive technology. They are telling you to pay for not-slowed service. We could be like Europe but then we would be communist socialists. Do you want the same internet speed available to inner city types? Nope. In America it's not enough to make more than others, it's just as important that they make less. If that doesn't make sense to you, you are not American.
The Ferrerman blog remains free. For now. I made a vow to my dedicated non-readers and a threat to Topix trolls:
Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so good people can post, I'll be there. Wherever they's a mod beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk post the stuff they believe an' live in the threads they build—why, I'll be there...
Now, is that priceless or what?
Friday, May 23, 2014
I'd give my right arm...
So far this Spring, some 20 Major League pitchers have been side-lined and will undergo "Tommy John surgery", a procedure where a new tendon (from elsewhere on the body) is replaced in the elbow of the throwing arm. It's happening to more younger players than ever before and this is very troubling.
The surgery is named after it's first patient, Tommy John- who was with the Dodgers at the time and is one of the best left handers of all time, compiling 288 wins. He used to pitch for the White Sox too but, I won't hold that against him. Being the first, Dr. Frank Jobe, who did the surgery, figured John had a one in one hundred chance of pitching again. The surgery now is about 90% successful. John was good before the surgery and was good after as well. He pitched until he was 46 years old.
There was a school of thought that the injury made a man's arm stronger because John and others had performed 'better', post-surgery. It's human nature to want to think so. The reality is that after a debilitating injury and the subsequent recovery, the patient likely adopts better conditioning techniques, taking better care of his throwing arm. I have heard that some people, thinking they could throw harder after it have asked doctors to perform it on their sons. It doesn't work that way. They are not creating robo-arms. John "Smokin' Johnny" Smoltz had the surgery and performed well afterwards and was one that I had heard often threw harder. He recently explained it on the MLB Network as a case of him going to the Braves bullpen after his surgery (after having been a starter) and throwing harder only because of his role. Coming out of the bullpen a man can throw as hard as he wants for an inning or two rather than having to pace himself as a starter. Makes sense to me.
So why the epidemic of injuries? Well, there's nothing in the water. It's simply a case of young men, mostly pitchers, throwing too much and not throwing enough. I told you it was simple.
When I was a kid in Little League and Pony league, we were told not to mess around throwing a curve ball until we were 16. That was arbitrary but, fairly good advice. Throwing a baseball as pitchers do is a very unnatural act for an arm. The motion involved whether you are throwing heat or a curve is very hard on the elbow, as well as the shoulder. I've often wondered just how many throws a guy would have in his arm. Consider a man who has been pitching since he was 10/12 years old and the countless pitches thrown in warm-ups and games leading up to his twenties when he would be throwing in the bigs. Now that we are seeing young pitchers in the Major's getting hurt you have to question why now, why so soon? Tommy John was a veteran when he succumbed. It's happening to fellas in the minors now.
Hall of Famer, Jim Katt- another lefty, probably has the answer. Kids today often play baseball year round, in traveling leagues and thus, dedicate their young lives to baseball in hopes of one day playing in the majors. Katt says it's too much. Go out and play another sport, off season. Have an off season. But, throw everyday. Not hard. Just throw. Exercise the arm. Don't punish it with curves and sliders. He threw every day whether it was playing catch or working out off the mound in the bullpen. He never had the surgery (to my knowledge) and his workout regime was probably more common sense than scientific. For years pitchers have been icing down their arms after a start. In Katt's day, there were no pitch counts and guys like him, Fergie Jenkins and Bob Gibson threw hard and finished their games, regularly throwing as many as a 140 or more pitches.
I'll never question a pitch count again. For a lot of starters it's 100 and they are coming out of the game, no matter what. I used to think that was the player's agent talking there, taking care of his investment but, most teams are looking after their investment in the player. Forget the macho bullshit of being old-school and finishing what you started. The bullpen's are stocked with extra arms for a reason. You finishing a game is not as important as finishing your long career
Youth coaches, parents and the boys themselves have got to embrace this. Play for the love of the game and make it a long, loving relationship. You know, a little ping pong never hurt anybody.
The surgery is named after it's first patient, Tommy John- who was with the Dodgers at the time and is one of the best left handers of all time, compiling 288 wins. He used to pitch for the White Sox too but, I won't hold that against him. Being the first, Dr. Frank Jobe, who did the surgery, figured John had a one in one hundred chance of pitching again. The surgery now is about 90% successful. John was good before the surgery and was good after as well. He pitched until he was 46 years old.
There was a school of thought that the injury made a man's arm stronger because John and others had performed 'better', post-surgery. It's human nature to want to think so. The reality is that after a debilitating injury and the subsequent recovery, the patient likely adopts better conditioning techniques, taking better care of his throwing arm. I have heard that some people, thinking they could throw harder after it have asked doctors to perform it on their sons. It doesn't work that way. They are not creating robo-arms. John "Smokin' Johnny" Smoltz had the surgery and performed well afterwards and was one that I had heard often threw harder. He recently explained it on the MLB Network as a case of him going to the Braves bullpen after his surgery (after having been a starter) and throwing harder only because of his role. Coming out of the bullpen a man can throw as hard as he wants for an inning or two rather than having to pace himself as a starter. Makes sense to me.
So why the epidemic of injuries? Well, there's nothing in the water. It's simply a case of young men, mostly pitchers, throwing too much and not throwing enough. I told you it was simple.
When I was a kid in Little League and Pony league, we were told not to mess around throwing a curve ball until we were 16. That was arbitrary but, fairly good advice. Throwing a baseball as pitchers do is a very unnatural act for an arm. The motion involved whether you are throwing heat or a curve is very hard on the elbow, as well as the shoulder. I've often wondered just how many throws a guy would have in his arm. Consider a man who has been pitching since he was 10/12 years old and the countless pitches thrown in warm-ups and games leading up to his twenties when he would be throwing in the bigs. Now that we are seeing young pitchers in the Major's getting hurt you have to question why now, why so soon? Tommy John was a veteran when he succumbed. It's happening to fellas in the minors now.
Hall of Famer, Jim Katt- another lefty, probably has the answer. Kids today often play baseball year round, in traveling leagues and thus, dedicate their young lives to baseball in hopes of one day playing in the majors. Katt says it's too much. Go out and play another sport, off season. Have an off season. But, throw everyday. Not hard. Just throw. Exercise the arm. Don't punish it with curves and sliders. He threw every day whether it was playing catch or working out off the mound in the bullpen. He never had the surgery (to my knowledge) and his workout regime was probably more common sense than scientific. For years pitchers have been icing down their arms after a start. In Katt's day, there were no pitch counts and guys like him, Fergie Jenkins and Bob Gibson threw hard and finished their games, regularly throwing as many as a 140 or more pitches.
I'll never question a pitch count again. For a lot of starters it's 100 and they are coming out of the game, no matter what. I used to think that was the player's agent talking there, taking care of his investment but, most teams are looking after their investment in the player. Forget the macho bullshit of being old-school and finishing what you started. The bullpen's are stocked with extra arms for a reason. You finishing a game is not as important as finishing your long career
Youth coaches, parents and the boys themselves have got to embrace this. Play for the love of the game and make it a long, loving relationship. You know, a little ping pong never hurt anybody.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
You deserve a break today! Well, not YOU...
OK. Everybody hates McDonald's. The food is awful and the service sucks. You don't HAVE to go there, just like if people don't like being paid minimum wage, they don't have to work for it. If you want a burger AND the satisfaction of having it delivered to your table by someone making barely any money because they made poor life choices and do not deserve to have a decent life in THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD© go to any restaurant in the country, sit down and order a burger. They'll probably serve you actual beef from an actual cow. It's WIN/WIN! Except for the server, whom you're not going to tip because you don't owe them a living for their poor choices in life. You do have to pay homage (and $15 bucks for the burger) to the owner because he's a small business owner who had the fiscal fortitude to sink a ton of money into his Chili's franchise so he could make a restaurant conglomerate extremely wealthy. Ya gotta respect that.
Folks, it isn't about paying the idiot at McDonald's $15 an hour to screw up your order. Had things progressed at the proper pace in the wage-paying world, you wouldn't know or care what the mother of three working the counter at Mickey's was making. I like to believe they are asking for $15 to reinforce the Obama administrations desire to raise the minimum to $10.10 per hour. This isn't Donald Trump and The Art Of The Deal but rather, basic horse trading. You start high and settle for what you're comfortable with. The other party balks at the higher figure and ultimately settles lower and believes he did good and so did you.
The federal minimum is $7.25 and hasn't been raised in three years. The price of practically everything has risen in that same period. Doubling the minimum all of a sudden (or even bumping it by nearly $3 dollars) is a shock to anyone's bottom line. No doubt about that. You have to ease into these things, a little bit at a time. A quarter here, 37 cents there. Economist's say the minimum, to reflect the cost of living in 2014, should be $15 an hour. Some put it higher. Republican Congressmen put it lower, somewhere around less than zero, plus or minus nothing. Carry the-2.
The problem was, the GOP- the fiscally responsible party of business- has fought EVERY small hike in the minimum wage in the last 50 years. The reality of those people is that workers don't deserve a $0.28 hike either. In fact, the GOP would rather there be NO minimum at all. They actually sell this as being 'good' for the worker too. They- with straight but, wrinkled, old white faces-say that without a minimum, you would be free to negotiate for more! You could afford to buy that unicorn you always wanted! How 'bout that? Now, it's true that your employer might pay you less than the current minimum but, that's the invisible hand of the free market. You are free to move on down the road until you get the pay you desire or until your hat floats, whichever comes first. That's their argument for dismantling Unions too.
They mention free a lot. Once upon a time in this country people worked for free. It was called slavery. Slavery is great for the bottom line. After an initial investment of capital in the purchasing of a slave, it's just room and board after that. The War Of Northern Aggression (Civil War) ended that and it took the south several decades to recover. Ever do payroll? They never had. I'm told it's not fun. There's a lot of math and you wind up just paying money out instead of taking money in.NOT what you got into business for!
There are @310 million people in this country. We can't all be business owners or score 30 points a game and be paid millions for it. We can't all be accountants or regional sales managers or firemen. You get my drift. A certain percentage of people, for a variety of reasons, just aren't going to get their own Wiki page or vacation every year in Costa Rica. So they must work. I'll let my friend, activist George Bailey expound on this:
George Bailey: "Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!"
Well said, Mr. Bailey. And while that was a rant from a small business owner, it was a rant for the common man and woman, as well- the people who do the bulk of the working and paying, living and dying, in this world. The We The People of of colonial and Declaration Of Independence lore. The people They gave up on. They people They want US to give upon. US.you
Folks, it isn't about paying the idiot at McDonald's $15 an hour to screw up your order. Had things progressed at the proper pace in the wage-paying world, you wouldn't know or care what the mother of three working the counter at Mickey's was making. I like to believe they are asking for $15 to reinforce the Obama administrations desire to raise the minimum to $10.10 per hour. This isn't Donald Trump and The Art Of The Deal but rather, basic horse trading. You start high and settle for what you're comfortable with. The other party balks at the higher figure and ultimately settles lower and believes he did good and so did you.
The federal minimum is $7.25 and hasn't been raised in three years. The price of practically everything has risen in that same period. Doubling the minimum all of a sudden (or even bumping it by nearly $3 dollars) is a shock to anyone's bottom line. No doubt about that. You have to ease into these things, a little bit at a time. A quarter here, 37 cents there. Economist's say the minimum, to reflect the cost of living in 2014, should be $15 an hour. Some put it higher. Republican Congressmen put it lower, somewhere around less than zero, plus or minus nothing. Carry the-2.
The problem was, the GOP- the fiscally responsible party of business- has fought EVERY small hike in the minimum wage in the last 50 years. The reality of those people is that workers don't deserve a $0.28 hike either. In fact, the GOP would rather there be NO minimum at all. They actually sell this as being 'good' for the worker too. They- with straight but, wrinkled, old white faces-say that without a minimum, you would be free to negotiate for more! You could afford to buy that unicorn you always wanted! How 'bout that? Now, it's true that your employer might pay you less than the current minimum but, that's the invisible hand of the free market. You are free to move on down the road until you get the pay you desire or until your hat floats, whichever comes first. That's their argument for dismantling Unions too.
They mention free a lot. Once upon a time in this country people worked for free. It was called slavery. Slavery is great for the bottom line. After an initial investment of capital in the purchasing of a slave, it's just room and board after that. The War Of Northern Aggression (Civil War) ended that and it took the south several decades to recover. Ever do payroll? They never had. I'm told it's not fun. There's a lot of math and you wind up just paying money out instead of taking money in.NOT what you got into business for!
There are @310 million people in this country. We can't all be business owners or score 30 points a game and be paid millions for it. We can't all be accountants or regional sales managers or firemen. You get my drift. A certain percentage of people, for a variety of reasons, just aren't going to get their own Wiki page or vacation every year in Costa Rica. So they must work. I'll let my friend, activist George Bailey expound on this:
George Bailey: "Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!"
Well said, Mr. Bailey. And while that was a rant from a small business owner, it was a rant for the common man and woman, as well- the people who do the bulk of the working and paying, living and dying, in this world. The We The People of of colonial and Declaration Of Independence lore. The people They gave up on. They people They want US to give upon. US.you
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Vowel Movements By Pat Sajak
Noted game show host...Pat Sajak, recently tweeted that, in his opinion, "global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists."
As opposed to patriotic racists?
Pat said this on Twitter so, Federally limited by oppressive law to 140 characters, he didn't expound on the racist aspect of climate change. Perhaps he passed out before completing that portion of the puzzle? Aside from both Neil deGrasse Tyson and our president both being black and vocal about climate, I can't fathom how he finds race as a part of the global warming discussion. I probably just did reveal the reason but, that's just so far beyond idiocy, I won't pursue it further.
Suffice to say, Pat is several vowels and consonants short of solving the puzzle of his own tweets.
I have to admit that when I used to enjoy the show, back in the 20th century, I though Pat was a very personable guy and I really did think he should have his own talk show. When someone in Hollywood agreed with me, we both realized how wrong we were. I think that the show was cancelled in a couple of weeks. Wiki barely mentioned the show. He lost his day job on Wheel but went on to do the syndicated version and no doubt, he makes millions of dollars doing it still.
Being rich, naturally he's a conservative. Everyone is a conservative until they make that first hundred thousand and then they become experts on fucking poor people so that they might lessen their own tax burden. These days, the majority of conservatives don't make anywhere near $100k per year so that is why we're hearing about guns and Bibles more than tax rates. The reality of taxes is that the codes are written by folks that make more than Sajak's millions (Congressmen and ALEC) and if they pay at all, they don't miss it. Between the laws and good accountants, they are in no serious danger of getting hurt.The notion of *saving* taxpayer dollars by cutting welfare and such is never going to cut YOUR taxes. Not ever. Name a business with (or without) a board of directors (the Federal government and Congress) that wants to take in less money. Try it. Business doesn't work that way on purpose.
Wiki also told me that, in April of this year, Sajak also used Twitter to come out as a heterosexual so, yeah, he's a conservative. Interesting though, conservatives believe homosexuality is a choice. So, prior to April 18th of this year, what was Mr. Sajak's sexual preference? Was he not sure? Experimenting? Wondering if there was a "Q" and what was it for? Maybe he's just not that witty as he was in the last century.
He might believe like someone noted recently as they thought of pitching a movie about climate change, that global warming was a conspiracy by 97% of earth's scientists to destroy capitalism and the only thing standing in their way was a plucky band of billionaires. And one game show host who tweets.
As opposed to patriotic racists?
Pat said this on Twitter so, Federally limited by oppressive law to 140 characters, he didn't expound on the racist aspect of climate change. Perhaps he passed out before completing that portion of the puzzle? Aside from both Neil deGrasse Tyson and our president both being black and vocal about climate, I can't fathom how he finds race as a part of the global warming discussion. I probably just did reveal the reason but, that's just so far beyond idiocy, I won't pursue it further.
Suffice to say, Pat is several vowels and consonants short of solving the puzzle of his own tweets.
I have to admit that when I used to enjoy the show, back in the 20th century, I though Pat was a very personable guy and I really did think he should have his own talk show. When someone in Hollywood agreed with me, we both realized how wrong we were. I think that the show was cancelled in a couple of weeks. Wiki barely mentioned the show. He lost his day job on Wheel but went on to do the syndicated version and no doubt, he makes millions of dollars doing it still.
Being rich, naturally he's a conservative. Everyone is a conservative until they make that first hundred thousand and then they become experts on fucking poor people so that they might lessen their own tax burden. These days, the majority of conservatives don't make anywhere near $100k per year so that is why we're hearing about guns and Bibles more than tax rates. The reality of taxes is that the codes are written by folks that make more than Sajak's millions (Congressmen and ALEC) and if they pay at all, they don't miss it. Between the laws and good accountants, they are in no serious danger of getting hurt.The notion of *saving* taxpayer dollars by cutting welfare and such is never going to cut YOUR taxes. Not ever. Name a business with (or without) a board of directors (the Federal government and Congress) that wants to take in less money. Try it. Business doesn't work that way on purpose.
Wiki also told me that, in April of this year, Sajak also used Twitter to come out as a heterosexual so, yeah, he's a conservative. Interesting though, conservatives believe homosexuality is a choice. So, prior to April 18th of this year, what was Mr. Sajak's sexual preference? Was he not sure? Experimenting? Wondering if there was a "Q" and what was it for? Maybe he's just not that witty as he was in the last century.
He might believe like someone noted recently as they thought of pitching a movie about climate change, that global warming was a conspiracy by 97% of earth's scientists to destroy capitalism and the only thing standing in their way was a plucky band of billionaires. And one game show host who tweets.
Friday, May 16, 2014
A kiss Is just a kiss
The first time I ever saw two gay men kissing was several years ago in Memphis. Well, check that- I used to live in New Orleans and probably saw that many times in the Quarter and certainly during Mardi Gras but, I was probably too drunk to notice or care, one way or another. Anyway, in Memphis, a bunch of us were partying on our porch and the gay guy who lived in the house behind us was greeting his new boyfriend. They ran at each other like they were in a meadow, embraced and passionately kissed. I was a bit taken aback.
I was like: "Ohmydayum!!!" Words to that effect. Or affect? I'm never sure...
Whichever, I was a bit shocked. My friends asked what was going on. I told them. I think everyone but Eric's girlfriend, Shelly, knew about the gaybors. Shelly was incredulous. "That hottie? He's gay? No way!" Then, young Shelly declared, "I could change him...."
She was young. Bless her heart, I think she really thought she could. Anyway, I was just caught by surprise. It was unnerving to my decidedly Ferrerman sensibilities but I wasn't angry or disgusted. I just wasn't used to that. Neighborhood busybody, Chris, explained that the guy was kissing his new boyfriend. He noted that the new BF was the one who had been parking in our valuable (to us) rental trash parking spaces until I blocked his car in one day with my truck. I had been expecting a knock on the door, asking me to please move the Ford so he could get out but, amazingly, he was able to maneuver his little SUV out of there. We then surmised that his likely reason for parking in our spots was so the old boyfriend wouldn't see his vehicle in dude's driveway.
So, there you go- gay people are just like straight people in matters of the heart. And probably duplicitous parking too.
Now, women. I've seen thousands of girls kiss and I'm quite fine with that, as you might imagine. Women are soft and cuddly and they generally smell really nice! You probably knew that. And not to get Sublimey here but, it just seems so natural. They seem to take better to it than us fellas.
Waiting for a streetcar in New Orleans one night, I saw two attractive, young women approaching. Suddenly, they stopped, embraced and kissed very passionately. She kissed a girl and I liked it. The power was out and a bus rolled up to take us home. Five or six black teen boys boarded the bus with us. They were very aware of the two young ladies.
"Go on and kiss!" they begged and the girls obliged.
They were coming from the Quarter so, naturally, the girls had been drinking. I kinda doubted they were a couple and, quite likely given their show-womanship, had just picked each other up in a bar. So-yeah, gay people are just like us in their frivolous romancing.
That's the thing. They really are just like us. They have all the hopes and dreams and fears that we do and they can be every bit as goofy as us. In years of tending bar I was annoyed a few thousand times by the total lack of decorum and class displayed by straight couples in public. I used to say: Public Displays of Affection lead to public displays of erections!" Many times they literally did. No one wants to see that. A woman down the street from me used to make out with her boyfriend at the bar, just about 5 blocks from her home, the one with the husband and two kids. No one wants to see that despite the raging heterosexuality of it all. Really, they don't.
But, getting picked by an NFL team in the draft and sharing that joy and a soulful kiss with the man you love. well, why not? I'm sure straight couples have done that on ESPN too. I bet some have kissed their moms. That's kinda Oedipal. Others might have kissed their agents. Who cares? So, gay football players are just like the straight ones too. Now we know. We learn something new every day. That is, when we try.
I was like: "Ohmydayum!!!" Words to that effect. Or affect? I'm never sure...
Whichever, I was a bit shocked. My friends asked what was going on. I told them. I think everyone but Eric's girlfriend, Shelly, knew about the gaybors. Shelly was incredulous. "That hottie? He's gay? No way!" Then, young Shelly declared, "I could change him...."
She was young. Bless her heart, I think she really thought she could. Anyway, I was just caught by surprise. It was unnerving to my decidedly Ferrerman sensibilities but I wasn't angry or disgusted. I just wasn't used to that. Neighborhood busybody, Chris, explained that the guy was kissing his new boyfriend. He noted that the new BF was the one who had been parking in our valuable (to us) rental trash parking spaces until I blocked his car in one day with my truck. I had been expecting a knock on the door, asking me to please move the Ford so he could get out but, amazingly, he was able to maneuver his little SUV out of there. We then surmised that his likely reason for parking in our spots was so the old boyfriend wouldn't see his vehicle in dude's driveway.
So, there you go- gay people are just like straight people in matters of the heart. And probably duplicitous parking too.
Now, women. I've seen thousands of girls kiss and I'm quite fine with that, as you might imagine. Women are soft and cuddly and they generally smell really nice! You probably knew that. And not to get Sublimey here but, it just seems so natural. They seem to take better to it than us fellas.
Waiting for a streetcar in New Orleans one night, I saw two attractive, young women approaching. Suddenly, they stopped, embraced and kissed very passionately. She kissed a girl and I liked it. The power was out and a bus rolled up to take us home. Five or six black teen boys boarded the bus with us. They were very aware of the two young ladies.
"Go on and kiss!" they begged and the girls obliged.
They were coming from the Quarter so, naturally, the girls had been drinking. I kinda doubted they were a couple and, quite likely given their show-womanship, had just picked each other up in a bar. So-yeah, gay people are just like us in their frivolous romancing.
That's the thing. They really are just like us. They have all the hopes and dreams and fears that we do and they can be every bit as goofy as us. In years of tending bar I was annoyed a few thousand times by the total lack of decorum and class displayed by straight couples in public. I used to say: Public Displays of Affection lead to public displays of erections!" Many times they literally did. No one wants to see that. A woman down the street from me used to make out with her boyfriend at the bar, just about 5 blocks from her home, the one with the husband and two kids. No one wants to see that despite the raging heterosexuality of it all. Really, they don't.
But, getting picked by an NFL team in the draft and sharing that joy and a soulful kiss with the man you love. well, why not? I'm sure straight couples have done that on ESPN too. I bet some have kissed their moms. That's kinda Oedipal. Others might have kissed their agents. Who cares? So, gay football players are just like the straight ones too. Now we know. We learn something new every day. That is, when we try.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Death And Statistics
Aside from the absurd politicking of BENGHAZI!!!!! the thing that bothers me the most is that there was no similar outrage and ensuing investigation of the deaths of 241 Marines and other personnel in Beirut in 1983.
Our guys were there as part of a multi-national peace keeping force. President Reagan had allowed them to deploy with guns but they were not to be loaded. The rules of engagement dictated that no rounds would be chambered, no magazines attached. Two suicide truck bombs crashed through a barrier of concertina wire and exploded in the Marine barracks. Moments later, at a French barracks, French paratroopers fired at truck bombs attacking their position, stopping one of the two trucks 15 yards from the building, killing the driver. Moments later that truck exploded. It was the largest, single day loss of life for the Marines since Iwo Jima during WWII and for the French (58 killed) since their war in Algeria in 1962. A truly awful day.
So, massive loss of life and unarmed troops. You'd think republicans would raise all sorts of Hell about that.
Not as I recall. And neither did democrats. They sure could have. Who in their right mind sends in unarmed Marines as peacekeepers? They are killers, not peacekeepers. Ask them.
Well, Ronald Reagan did that, that's who. It was a mistake and he was sorry but the nation pretty much pulled together and mourned the dead and moved on in life. There was no: "BEIRUT! BEIRUT!! BEIRUT!!!!" Well, no FOX noise at the time and, of course, with RR in The White House, no republican outrage from them even if there had been such media at the time. CNN hadn't even been invented yet. The dems could have made political hay those dark days but they did not.
Now we have Benghazi and republican outrage. Four died there in two assaults, our ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, Information Officer, Sean Smith and CIA Security Contractors, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
You are welcome to consult Wikipedia for the details. This, is about the sad, contrived outrage of the GOP after this tragedy and their near complete ignorance of the Beirut bombing and a dozen attacks similar to Benghazi, most of which happened under the GW Bush watch.
If you're going to pretend that hostages were released in Iran out of fear of Reagan and that communist walls in Berlin were torn down with but a word from him, you better have a good explanation why there was no republican outrage at unarmed Marines dying in Beirut. I can explain it. Simply, Ronald Reagan was not a black, democratic president.
That's it. And, not to imply that republicans are strictly racist, they are misogynist too. The Benghazi tragedy is a double-edged butter knife of blame as it's intent now is to hamper a presidential run by Hillary Clinton who was Secretary of State at the time.
No political outrage at their guy when 241 Marines die of their incompetence but plenty when four tragically die also probably as a result of their own negligence? Josef Stalin said: "The death of one man is a tragedy. The deaths of one million is a statistic." Was Beirut just a statistic? At the very best, it is a sham of a shame on a once great political party that is it's own worst enemy and perhaps America's.
Our guys were there as part of a multi-national peace keeping force. President Reagan had allowed them to deploy with guns but they were not to be loaded. The rules of engagement dictated that no rounds would be chambered, no magazines attached. Two suicide truck bombs crashed through a barrier of concertina wire and exploded in the Marine barracks. Moments later, at a French barracks, French paratroopers fired at truck bombs attacking their position, stopping one of the two trucks 15 yards from the building, killing the driver. Moments later that truck exploded. It was the largest, single day loss of life for the Marines since Iwo Jima during WWII and for the French (58 killed) since their war in Algeria in 1962. A truly awful day.
So, massive loss of life and unarmed troops. You'd think republicans would raise all sorts of Hell about that.
Not as I recall. And neither did democrats. They sure could have. Who in their right mind sends in unarmed Marines as peacekeepers? They are killers, not peacekeepers. Ask them.
Well, Ronald Reagan did that, that's who. It was a mistake and he was sorry but the nation pretty much pulled together and mourned the dead and moved on in life. There was no: "BEIRUT! BEIRUT!! BEIRUT!!!!" Well, no FOX noise at the time and, of course, with RR in The White House, no republican outrage from them even if there had been such media at the time. CNN hadn't even been invented yet. The dems could have made political hay those dark days but they did not.
Now we have Benghazi and republican outrage. Four died there in two assaults, our ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, Information Officer, Sean Smith and CIA Security Contractors, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
You are welcome to consult Wikipedia for the details. This, is about the sad, contrived outrage of the GOP after this tragedy and their near complete ignorance of the Beirut bombing and a dozen attacks similar to Benghazi, most of which happened under the GW Bush watch.
If you're going to pretend that hostages were released in Iran out of fear of Reagan and that communist walls in Berlin were torn down with but a word from him, you better have a good explanation why there was no republican outrage at unarmed Marines dying in Beirut. I can explain it. Simply, Ronald Reagan was not a black, democratic president.
That's it. And, not to imply that republicans are strictly racist, they are misogynist too. The Benghazi tragedy is a double-edged butter knife of blame as it's intent now is to hamper a presidential run by Hillary Clinton who was Secretary of State at the time.
No political outrage at their guy when 241 Marines die of their incompetence but plenty when four tragically die also probably as a result of their own negligence? Josef Stalin said: "The death of one man is a tragedy. The deaths of one million is a statistic." Was Beirut just a statistic? At the very best, it is a sham of a shame on a once great political party that is it's own worst enemy and perhaps America's.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
The Ridiculousness Of The Sublime
People usually believe what they want to believe. Bar stools were made for big talk and so was the internet. Bullshit is a little harder to prove on the internet but it can be done.
One of the biggest talkers on Topix is a guy who calls himself Sublime1. To hear him tell it, women are constantly throwing themselves at him, even in front of their husbands! There's just something about him...
The wife evidently approves. She knows full well how women are drawn to him and, in acquiescence to that, she agreed to join in wife swapping adventures. It wasn't really a fair deal on her part as all she got on her end (giggle) was men who paled in comparison to her husband.
People seemed to take Sub at his word about the swapping. I did. But it wasn't because I bought into his vision of his studliness. I believed it because I know that a couple doesn't have to be beautiful and desirable to participate in swinging. You pretty much just have to have genitals and be breathing. The best and the brightest aren't necessarily involved as the movies might suggest. And really, is sanctioned infidelity something to be proud of? He may be saying: "The wife and I are so desirable we share ourselves with other people!" however, it sounds an awful lot like: "We are sluts!"
That's typical though. Bragging about aberrant behavior is one way of legitimizing it. That's half of politics. But, what if Sub's talk of wife-swapping is as contrived as his regular reporting of friend's and stranger's wives willing to cuckold their husbands with him? To hear him tell it, every time he goes out in public some wife is willing to betray her marital vows pretty much upon sight of Sublime. Odd but, him and the Mrs. rolling around with other average looking people in suburban living rooms is far more believable.
He's posted their pictures. This is not Brad and Angelina. I always thought it was kinda dumb to tout yourself as a stud muffin and post a picture of your bald-headed self. Sub insists he's not bald but that he opts to shave his head on purpose. I don't know how he explains the five o'clock shadow on a semi-spherical section of his otherwise chrome dome. He just denies it. Not to be too catty here but, if you want to be perceived on the internet as God's gift to women, either do not post a pic at all and leave your handsomeness to the imagination, or post a pic of a model or movie star. It's Topix - behind every pretty girl avatar is a guy with his hand on his dick. Would a real, pretty woman want that attention? Please....
So, if Sub is full of shit about so many wives wanting so desperately to shame themselves and their husbands to be with him, why should anyone believe the wife swapping stuff? When someone has proven themselves to be a liar, why believe other stories they tell? Why pick and choose?
Sadly, his real life wife likely has NO idea of his Topix life and the things he writes about her and the kids. Wait- maybe that's not so sad. He calls her "Bambi" in the threads and posts as her with an avatar. Yes, it *could* be her but, it's doubtful. *Her* posts sounded contrived, kinda phoned in... like someone was trying to prove they had a wife who was happy with their posting....
In reality, if you were talking about your and your spouse's sexcapades on a public forum, would you want your spouse anywhere near the scene of that crime? That's a door that can be opened at anytime. Some guys are that stupid. Sublime certainly seems to be.
I just doubt that the wife has even signed off on the wife-swapping or any of the cuckolding tales either. She probably has no earthly idea he talks about their autistic son or any of the other children on a regular basis. He used his autistic kid's small penis as a segue into talking about how large he (Sub) considered his own penis to be! Who does that?
Well- again- who even knows if the guy is even married? Why believe that? Why believe he has any children, let alone an autistic one? His Topix back story gets a little shaky when you think of an (alleged) lawyer with a good job, spending his work days writing lifestyles of the stupid and slutty-type shit on a message board. Who does that? Why?
Well, I don't really want to know. Whoever and whatever he really is in real life, he's just another braggart on the internet- the barstool of the 21st century.
One of the biggest talkers on Topix is a guy who calls himself Sublime1. To hear him tell it, women are constantly throwing themselves at him, even in front of their husbands! There's just something about him...
The wife evidently approves. She knows full well how women are drawn to him and, in acquiescence to that, she agreed to join in wife swapping adventures. It wasn't really a fair deal on her part as all she got on her end (giggle) was men who paled in comparison to her husband.
People seemed to take Sub at his word about the swapping. I did. But it wasn't because I bought into his vision of his studliness. I believed it because I know that a couple doesn't have to be beautiful and desirable to participate in swinging. You pretty much just have to have genitals and be breathing. The best and the brightest aren't necessarily involved as the movies might suggest. And really, is sanctioned infidelity something to be proud of? He may be saying: "The wife and I are so desirable we share ourselves with other people!" however, it sounds an awful lot like: "We are sluts!"
That's typical though. Bragging about aberrant behavior is one way of legitimizing it. That's half of politics. But, what if Sub's talk of wife-swapping is as contrived as his regular reporting of friend's and stranger's wives willing to cuckold their husbands with him? To hear him tell it, every time he goes out in public some wife is willing to betray her marital vows pretty much upon sight of Sublime. Odd but, him and the Mrs. rolling around with other average looking people in suburban living rooms is far more believable.
He's posted their pictures. This is not Brad and Angelina. I always thought it was kinda dumb to tout yourself as a stud muffin and post a picture of your bald-headed self. Sub insists he's not bald but that he opts to shave his head on purpose. I don't know how he explains the five o'clock shadow on a semi-spherical section of his otherwise chrome dome. He just denies it. Not to be too catty here but, if you want to be perceived on the internet as God's gift to women, either do not post a pic at all and leave your handsomeness to the imagination, or post a pic of a model or movie star. It's Topix - behind every pretty girl avatar is a guy with his hand on his dick. Would a real, pretty woman want that attention? Please....
So, if Sub is full of shit about so many wives wanting so desperately to shame themselves and their husbands to be with him, why should anyone believe the wife swapping stuff? When someone has proven themselves to be a liar, why believe other stories they tell? Why pick and choose?
Sadly, his real life wife likely has NO idea of his Topix life and the things he writes about her and the kids. Wait- maybe that's not so sad. He calls her "Bambi" in the threads and posts as her with an avatar. Yes, it *could* be her but, it's doubtful. *Her* posts sounded contrived, kinda phoned in... like someone was trying to prove they had a wife who was happy with their posting....
In reality, if you were talking about your and your spouse's sexcapades on a public forum, would you want your spouse anywhere near the scene of that crime? That's a door that can be opened at anytime. Some guys are that stupid. Sublime certainly seems to be.
I just doubt that the wife has even signed off on the wife-swapping or any of the cuckolding tales either. She probably has no earthly idea he talks about their autistic son or any of the other children on a regular basis. He used his autistic kid's small penis as a segue into talking about how large he (Sub) considered his own penis to be! Who does that?
Well- again- who even knows if the guy is even married? Why believe that? Why believe he has any children, let alone an autistic one? His Topix back story gets a little shaky when you think of an (alleged) lawyer with a good job, spending his work days writing lifestyles of the stupid and slutty-type shit on a message board. Who does that? Why?
Well, I don't really want to know. Whoever and whatever he really is in real life, he's just another braggart on the internet- the barstool of the 21st century.
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Of course, we're a nation of masturbators.
I don't know why we don't start all our government meetings with everyone masturbating.
Wait- I probably meant "Christians" and "praying". They like to say we're a Christian nation but, according to Wiki, 73% of us Americans identify as Christians. With 99.9% of us having genitals, I'm going to speculate that if 73% of us admit to masturbating, the other 27% are liars.
So, while 73% is a lot and even a majority, we're still not a Christian nation because the first amendment to the Constitution says that "....Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
That means we can not only not be officially a Christian nation, we can't be officially Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, etc. either. No state religion. So, no Church of England. No Sharia Law. Thomas Jefferson wrote of the need for separation of church and state and I don't think any of the other founders disagreed about that. Neither did the Supreme Court until recently. They haven't taken a sledgehammer to the 1A like it's an outdated kitchen on the DIY Network. It's more a systematic dismantling that'll take a little time. The Supremes ruled that it's OK for the town meetings in Greece, NY to begin with a religious invocation. Change it up to vary religions is fine. Give everybody a chance. That's kinda fair. Personally, I say leave all religion out of government but- admittedly- that's hard to do.
And Christians, if you give them an inch, they think it's a yard. One of the arguments for us clearly being a Christian nation is that it says "In God We Trust" on our money. That happened in 1956 and the phrase that pays started appearing on our money in '57. That was during the Cold War when we found Jesus and he delivered us from the communists. It was in that same decade that "under God" was added to the Pledge Of Allegiance, also to ward off or weed out commies. Christians believe these words have been American since for the entire 6000 year history of the world. That's fine. Wrong but, fine.
The founders knew that religion could really make people crazy and that a state religion would be officially crazy. Thus, the separation of church and state. If you want the Vatican to run your life, you can have that. But if your neighbor, Schlomo MacGuillacudy, doesn't want the Vatican running his life, in America he has that choice. Unless you are crazy, that makes perfect sense. I don't know why Christians have such a hard time with this. The way it is now, all religions are welcome. The way Christians are seeing it, only Christian religions count and should be welcome. The way it would be if made 'official' is, the winning religion after years of bloodshed would actually be officially official. If you are unsure about this, google: "world history". You'll see that religion and/or God is generally the leading call to arms.
It must be human nature that people can't be content with their own freedom, that they must covet their neighbors freedom as well. Like, how wonderful can my freedom be when my neighbor is also free? What if he has more freedom than me? And if everybody is free, isn't freedom diluted? Freedom Lite? That's the way people are. It's probably explained in a book somewhere.
So, end of the world up there in Greece, NY? Yeah, probably. The view is getting clearer at least. Religion is the opiate of the masses and, that means it's a great way of controlling people. But, you've got to get everybody on the same page. That takes coercion, either literal or figurative. It's never easy telling people what they want. It should not be.
I don't know why we don't start all our government meetings with everyone masturbating.
Wait- I probably meant "Christians" and "praying". They like to say we're a Christian nation but, according to Wiki, 73% of us Americans identify as Christians. With 99.9% of us having genitals, I'm going to speculate that if 73% of us admit to masturbating, the other 27% are liars.
So, while 73% is a lot and even a majority, we're still not a Christian nation because the first amendment to the Constitution says that "....Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
That means we can not only not be officially a Christian nation, we can't be officially Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, etc. either. No state religion. So, no Church of England. No Sharia Law. Thomas Jefferson wrote of the need for separation of church and state and I don't think any of the other founders disagreed about that. Neither did the Supreme Court until recently. They haven't taken a sledgehammer to the 1A like it's an outdated kitchen on the DIY Network. It's more a systematic dismantling that'll take a little time. The Supremes ruled that it's OK for the town meetings in Greece, NY to begin with a religious invocation. Change it up to vary religions is fine. Give everybody a chance. That's kinda fair. Personally, I say leave all religion out of government but- admittedly- that's hard to do.
And Christians, if you give them an inch, they think it's a yard. One of the arguments for us clearly being a Christian nation is that it says "In God We Trust" on our money. That happened in 1956 and the phrase that pays started appearing on our money in '57. That was during the Cold War when we found Jesus and he delivered us from the communists. It was in that same decade that "under God" was added to the Pledge Of Allegiance, also to ward off or weed out commies. Christians believe these words have been American since for the entire 6000 year history of the world. That's fine. Wrong but, fine.
The founders knew that religion could really make people crazy and that a state religion would be officially crazy. Thus, the separation of church and state. If you want the Vatican to run your life, you can have that. But if your neighbor, Schlomo MacGuillacudy, doesn't want the Vatican running his life, in America he has that choice. Unless you are crazy, that makes perfect sense. I don't know why Christians have such a hard time with this. The way it is now, all religions are welcome. The way Christians are seeing it, only Christian religions count and should be welcome. The way it would be if made 'official' is, the winning religion after years of bloodshed would actually be officially official. If you are unsure about this, google: "world history". You'll see that religion and/or God is generally the leading call to arms.
It must be human nature that people can't be content with their own freedom, that they must covet their neighbors freedom as well. Like, how wonderful can my freedom be when my neighbor is also free? What if he has more freedom than me? And if everybody is free, isn't freedom diluted? Freedom Lite? That's the way people are. It's probably explained in a book somewhere.
So, end of the world up there in Greece, NY? Yeah, probably. The view is getting clearer at least. Religion is the opiate of the masses and, that means it's a great way of controlling people. But, you've got to get everybody on the same page. That takes coercion, either literal or figurative. It's never easy telling people what they want. It should not be.
Monday, May 5, 2014
The Economic Sense Of Slavery
It's time for me to push slavery again. House republicans just voted down an increase on the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to the $10.10 that the democrats are proposing. This doesn't mean it's politically dead. It just means it will come to life again this fall, in time for the mid term elections. Evidently that is supposed to be good timing for republicans because their people vote in the mid-terms more so than democrats. Now mind you- we the people won't be voting on raising the minimum. We the people will be voting on the future of the assholes who vote on those things for us. Do we the people want assholes who care about us? Or, do we want assholes who care about 'our' corporations? That's what the mid-terms are about.
If the republicans can maintain control of the House and gain control of the senate, then they don't have to bother with the White House. You think there has been obstruction of Obama with a republican House? Try two houses controlled by republicans.Democrats can have all the President Hillary's they want. Not a fucking thing will get done unless the republicans say so. Now ain't that America?
I mention slavery because historically, slavery is a real money-saver for slave owners. After than initial expense of buying a person, you pretty much just have to feed and water them to recoup your losses on the initial purchase. As a bonus, you can breed them yourself and save on the front end. Prior to the War Of Northern Aggression (which is fun to say in a Foghorn Leghorn accent) and coincided with what the winning side refers to as "The Civil War", the greatest concentration of wealth in this country was in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This was largely due to the cotton trade and the low, low overhead of slavery.
You can argue about the causes of the American Civil War but you can't argue that not-paying workers is great for the bottom line of business!
No one actually is arguing for slavery but they sure are hinting about it. The GOP has been calling for the elimination of the minimum wage for decades. They claim it restricts people and actually keeps them from making more. I think they might be confusing minimum and maximum. They claim that doing away with the minimum means that instead of being stuck making the minimum at Walmart or some warehouse somewhere, you can ask for more instead.
The thing is, you can ask for more than the minimum now. You probably won't get it but, you can ask. Your fall-back wage would be the current minimum of $7.25. But, they say, without that minimum, you could ask for $20 an hour! You might not get it though and the fall-back rate would be whatever the boss was willing to pay you. It could be $18 an hour! Or, it could be $2. Or food and water. But, it could be the $20 you asked for!
Republican trolls on the internet will concede that, yes, it could be $2 an hour- if the invisible hand of the free market says so- but, you are free to move on down the road until you find an employer willing to pay your price or until your hat floats. Whichever comes first.
So, eliminating the minimum could bring room and board wages if the invisible hand of the free market went that way but it could also swing the way of $20 an hour. It's fickle, that invisible hand, isn't it? There are no guarantees in life though, especially if we eliminate them.
There are two economies at work here in America. There was no "Worst Recession Since The Great Depression" for rich people. The Koch brothers and lesser assholes like the Papa Johns fuckhead and the Walton family and the CEO of McDonald's all have made A LOT of money these past six years. All the one and two percent that you hear of did great. They almost always do. For all the bitching they do about him, these assholes have done very well under President Obama. The thing is, they could do better.
Letting that invisible hand of the free market setting wages would be better. Slavery would be better. It worked before. Very little overhead. FULL employment.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: "That's not America. That won't ever happen!"
Why not? It happened before. And, it makes good fiscal sense. As long as you don't think it will happen to you, why worry about it? And, it makes good fiscal sense.
Relax. We're not going to legalize slavery! Why do that when we can just expand unpaid intern programs? That sounds so much nicer. And, did I mention it makes good fiscal sense?
It's a world economy and, like Mitt Romney pointed out when he ran for POTUS in '12, the Chinese factory he visited had to have barbed wire fences with guards to keep OUT people who would otherwise force their way in for a chance at one of those 99 cent an hour jobs inside. We're America. We can do better. No, not $2 an hour. The other way. We're not communists! Sheesh!
If the republicans can maintain control of the House and gain control of the senate, then they don't have to bother with the White House. You think there has been obstruction of Obama with a republican House? Try two houses controlled by republicans.Democrats can have all the President Hillary's they want. Not a fucking thing will get done unless the republicans say so. Now ain't that America?
I mention slavery because historically, slavery is a real money-saver for slave owners. After than initial expense of buying a person, you pretty much just have to feed and water them to recoup your losses on the initial purchase. As a bonus, you can breed them yourself and save on the front end. Prior to the War Of Northern Aggression (which is fun to say in a Foghorn Leghorn accent) and coincided with what the winning side refers to as "The Civil War", the greatest concentration of wealth in this country was in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This was largely due to the cotton trade and the low, low overhead of slavery.
You can argue about the causes of the American Civil War but you can't argue that not-paying workers is great for the bottom line of business!
No one actually is arguing for slavery but they sure are hinting about it. The GOP has been calling for the elimination of the minimum wage for decades. They claim it restricts people and actually keeps them from making more. I think they might be confusing minimum and maximum. They claim that doing away with the minimum means that instead of being stuck making the minimum at Walmart or some warehouse somewhere, you can ask for more instead.
The thing is, you can ask for more than the minimum now. You probably won't get it but, you can ask. Your fall-back wage would be the current minimum of $7.25. But, they say, without that minimum, you could ask for $20 an hour! You might not get it though and the fall-back rate would be whatever the boss was willing to pay you. It could be $18 an hour! Or, it could be $2. Or food and water. But, it could be the $20 you asked for!
Republican trolls on the internet will concede that, yes, it could be $2 an hour- if the invisible hand of the free market says so- but, you are free to move on down the road until you find an employer willing to pay your price or until your hat floats. Whichever comes first.
So, eliminating the minimum could bring room and board wages if the invisible hand of the free market went that way but it could also swing the way of $20 an hour. It's fickle, that invisible hand, isn't it? There are no guarantees in life though, especially if we eliminate them.
There are two economies at work here in America. There was no "Worst Recession Since The Great Depression" for rich people. The Koch brothers and lesser assholes like the Papa Johns fuckhead and the Walton family and the CEO of McDonald's all have made A LOT of money these past six years. All the one and two percent that you hear of did great. They almost always do. For all the bitching they do about him, these assholes have done very well under President Obama. The thing is, they could do better.
Letting that invisible hand of the free market setting wages would be better. Slavery would be better. It worked before. Very little overhead. FULL employment.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: "That's not America. That won't ever happen!"
Why not? It happened before. And, it makes good fiscal sense. As long as you don't think it will happen to you, why worry about it? And, it makes good fiscal sense.
Relax. We're not going to legalize slavery! Why do that when we can just expand unpaid intern programs? That sounds so much nicer. And, did I mention it makes good fiscal sense?
It's a world economy and, like Mitt Romney pointed out when he ran for POTUS in '12, the Chinese factory he visited had to have barbed wire fences with guards to keep OUT people who would otherwise force their way in for a chance at one of those 99 cent an hour jobs inside. We're America. We can do better. No, not $2 an hour. The other way. We're not communists! Sheesh!
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