You'd think that after Ferrerman was banned from posting on Topix that there would be trolls dancing in the streets of Topixtown. Well, as Josef Stalin may have said: "If Ferrerman were not posting, it would be necessary to troll people and then say that Ferrerman IS doing it, via private messaging or hints in the threads." The trolls don't seem to know. If they do, they aren't telling.
SusanA770 (the Troll Mod) banning us was the cowardly, foolish act of a beaten troll. It was dumb! What idiot takes their best enemy out of the equation?
I suppose Troll Mod figured we'd get new profiles, although I don't know that that is possible in my case since I'm IP banned from that site. That's where it gets stupid. I can't post there yet, they continue to claim that I do. They always did. The easiest thing to do is get a proxy server, make troll posts and then sign into your account and tell other people that "so and so" is really making the posts...with a proxy.... The person who plays Billy R has been doing that for years. It's really Trolling 101. Get a proxy, troll, accuse someone else of trolling with a proxy. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
So, if you ban a Ferrerman and a Hegel, how do you convince easily convinced idiots that they are still posting? Proxies!!!!
That will work on Walmart shoppers and jackleg lawyers. Sublime, in particular, can disavow reams of bandwidth evidence of his unseen friend's obvious years of trolling as long as s/he calls him handsome. He might even believe TM770 if s/he says he has flowing locks of hair. But, he's definitely buying it if TM770 says Hegel and Ferrerman are trolling him with proxies. This is why he never is allowed near courtrooms. This is why his own family seeks counsel outside of the bloodline. He is an idiot.
To be fair, he's not alone in his stupidity. Topix is rampant with people who so readily know stuff, they don't even have to think. Not even for a second.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
If they build it, will they come?
Though a life-long Cubs fan, I am also old and wise enough to no longer pin my hopes and dreams on groups of men who may or may not be up to the task. This includes Congress as well as sports teams, all of which technically represent us but, do well financially regardless of how they perform so, there's always a question of whether their hearts are in it.
The Chicago Cubs have been under new ownership for a few years now and I have to say I don't like the Rickett's family that owns the team. Tom, the spokesman for the family, the face, looks like Ted Cruz. Joe, the father, might as well be Ted Cruz. He's a bit of a wealthy reichwinger who sunk a lot of money into anti-Obama activities. The other kids are more active in regular business (daddy founded TD Ameritrade) and Tom is the face because he has the backstory to be the face. More of a free spirit than his sibs, Tom spent many summers after college sitting in the bleachers, watching his beloved Cubs. He met his wife there!
So, I don't care for their politics. And, like people who might move into a neighborhood where there is a Major League ballpark and complain that there is a Major League ballpark here, I have to point out that the Rickett's family should have talked at length to the neighbors before they moved in and maybe gotten a home inspection too.
Actually they did. They knew what they were getting into. Beautiful Wrigley Field has landmark status. You can't replace the iconic, manually operated scoreboard, for example. Changes must be approved by persnickety people. There is also the matter of a contract with the people who own the rooftops out beyond the left and right field bleachers. When the Tribune Company owned the team, they made a 20 year agreement with the roof top owners. So, Rickett's plans for view-blocking signs and jumbotrons have been met with lawyers. Frankly, they should be. New ownership does not void previous agreements. Even a Topix lawyer would know that. So, he'll probably have to buy them out or wait another ten or so years until the agreement is ended. And that's assuming all other plans are approved by the persnickety folks in charge of approval. Ricketts wants to build a hotel (I think where that McDonalds was/is) aside from the accoutrements inside the ball park because he figures you have to spend money to make money to buy better ball players....
Meanwhile in Atlanta, the Braves are getting a new stadium to replace perfectly good Turner Field. They want to move 10 miles further north to Cobb County "to be closer to their fan base". Turner Field is 20 years old. Wrigley is 100. There are some shenanigans going on in Atlanta. I think the neighborhood around Turner is too urban for the suburban fans. I don't know the neighborhood though. I think there's plenty of parking though! The two oldest ball parks in baseball, Wrigley, and Fenway in Boston, were built before automobiles and suburbs became our way of life. Both are sorta land-locked.
If you know sports you know that there is no commitment in life more easily broken than that between team and city. Atlanta's story is interesting. Usually a team has to threaten to move further than the next country to get new digs. Years ago the Chicago White Sox were about two literal minutes away from moving to Florida when then governor Jim Thompson freed up state funds to build them a state of the 1970's cookie cutter of a ballpark that was out of date when they broke ground.
Everybody loves Wrigley. Only the most soulless bastard could step inside and not feel the beauty of the baseball love. But, ya know, it's a hundred years old. There's no parking. Whereas other teams have spacious locker rooms, the clubhouses are so small you can barely change your mind. State of the art today is batting cages for the players. The players at Wrigley get a batting tee and a net inside the clubhouse if a pinch-hitter (for example) wants to take a few warm-up swings. The amenities are nowhere near state of the art. The players- home and visitors- love the ball park but....they've seen better everywhere else but Fenway. From a fan's perspective, it's a great place to visit, but there's no parking. The last time I was there I used one bathroom that was more *modern* but I think the trough urinals are still grandfathered in. Code won't let you build them like that anymore but for the masses getting in and getting out between innings, it's the way to go. The women's facilities have always been more modern, I should add. But, not much room to expand that either.
Move the team to one of the suburbs offering acres of free land. Build it to look like a brand new Wrigley Field. Build condos and rooftops that you own or control. Smart investors would clamor to build restaurants, bars and hotels in the area around the ball park. And...PARKING! There could actually be parking. If you build it, they will come...
Probably. The Ricketts family didn't so much buy a baseball team as they bought a ball park. The attraction is Wrigley Field, not so much the men who play there. That's pretty much it. Story for another day but, the Ricketts are business men. They've already lowered payroll and that' as American as apple pie. It's euphemistically called "rebuilding". People come to Wrigley because there is no place on earth like it. Would a replica be better? Sure but, no, it wouldn't be the same. Tourists might not plan yearly trips to Schaumburg or Naperville like they do to Lakeview/Wrigleyville. You can't build 100 years of baseball love.
Well, so what? Even pouring money into it, how many more decades can Wrigley Field last? While not exactly paying the Federal minimum wage to his players, Ricketts can't fucking wait to get rid of 29 year old pitcher Jeff Samardzia to save paying him the big bucks and only 2 players (Castro and Rizzo) are signed beyond '16. We're going to be rebuilding as long as he can get away with saying "We're rebuilding!" Other teams manage to build new stadiums AND better teams at the same time. The Cubs can't do either. This makes it very hard to be a fan. Very hard to love.
So, move! What will become of Wrigley? Sell it to Nicole Curtis for $1. Let her rebuild it. I hear she's the only one who can pull off such a task....
The Chicago Cubs have been under new ownership for a few years now and I have to say I don't like the Rickett's family that owns the team. Tom, the spokesman for the family, the face, looks like Ted Cruz. Joe, the father, might as well be Ted Cruz. He's a bit of a wealthy reichwinger who sunk a lot of money into anti-Obama activities. The other kids are more active in regular business (daddy founded TD Ameritrade) and Tom is the face because he has the backstory to be the face. More of a free spirit than his sibs, Tom spent many summers after college sitting in the bleachers, watching his beloved Cubs. He met his wife there!
So, I don't care for their politics. And, like people who might move into a neighborhood where there is a Major League ballpark and complain that there is a Major League ballpark here, I have to point out that the Rickett's family should have talked at length to the neighbors before they moved in and maybe gotten a home inspection too.
Actually they did. They knew what they were getting into. Beautiful Wrigley Field has landmark status. You can't replace the iconic, manually operated scoreboard, for example. Changes must be approved by persnickety people. There is also the matter of a contract with the people who own the rooftops out beyond the left and right field bleachers. When the Tribune Company owned the team, they made a 20 year agreement with the roof top owners. So, Rickett's plans for view-blocking signs and jumbotrons have been met with lawyers. Frankly, they should be. New ownership does not void previous agreements. Even a Topix lawyer would know that. So, he'll probably have to buy them out or wait another ten or so years until the agreement is ended. And that's assuming all other plans are approved by the persnickety folks in charge of approval. Ricketts wants to build a hotel (I think where that McDonalds was/is) aside from the accoutrements inside the ball park because he figures you have to spend money to make money to buy better ball players....
Meanwhile in Atlanta, the Braves are getting a new stadium to replace perfectly good Turner Field. They want to move 10 miles further north to Cobb County "to be closer to their fan base". Turner Field is 20 years old. Wrigley is 100. There are some shenanigans going on in Atlanta. I think the neighborhood around Turner is too urban for the suburban fans. I don't know the neighborhood though. I think there's plenty of parking though! The two oldest ball parks in baseball, Wrigley, and Fenway in Boston, were built before automobiles and suburbs became our way of life. Both are sorta land-locked.
If you know sports you know that there is no commitment in life more easily broken than that between team and city. Atlanta's story is interesting. Usually a team has to threaten to move further than the next country to get new digs. Years ago the Chicago White Sox were about two literal minutes away from moving to Florida when then governor Jim Thompson freed up state funds to build them a state of the 1970's cookie cutter of a ballpark that was out of date when they broke ground.
Everybody loves Wrigley. Only the most soulless bastard could step inside and not feel the beauty of the baseball love. But, ya know, it's a hundred years old. There's no parking. Whereas other teams have spacious locker rooms, the clubhouses are so small you can barely change your mind. State of the art today is batting cages for the players. The players at Wrigley get a batting tee and a net inside the clubhouse if a pinch-hitter (for example) wants to take a few warm-up swings. The amenities are nowhere near state of the art. The players- home and visitors- love the ball park but....they've seen better everywhere else but Fenway. From a fan's perspective, it's a great place to visit, but there's no parking. The last time I was there I used one bathroom that was more *modern* but I think the trough urinals are still grandfathered in. Code won't let you build them like that anymore but for the masses getting in and getting out between innings, it's the way to go. The women's facilities have always been more modern, I should add. But, not much room to expand that either.
Move the team to one of the suburbs offering acres of free land. Build it to look like a brand new Wrigley Field. Build condos and rooftops that you own or control. Smart investors would clamor to build restaurants, bars and hotels in the area around the ball park. And...PARKING! There could actually be parking. If you build it, they will come...
Probably. The Ricketts family didn't so much buy a baseball team as they bought a ball park. The attraction is Wrigley Field, not so much the men who play there. That's pretty much it. Story for another day but, the Ricketts are business men. They've already lowered payroll and that' as American as apple pie. It's euphemistically called "rebuilding". People come to Wrigley because there is no place on earth like it. Would a replica be better? Sure but, no, it wouldn't be the same. Tourists might not plan yearly trips to Schaumburg or Naperville like they do to Lakeview/Wrigleyville. You can't build 100 years of baseball love.
Well, so what? Even pouring money into it, how many more decades can Wrigley Field last? While not exactly paying the Federal minimum wage to his players, Ricketts can't fucking wait to get rid of 29 year old pitcher Jeff Samardzia to save paying him the big bucks and only 2 players (Castro and Rizzo) are signed beyond '16. We're going to be rebuilding as long as he can get away with saying "We're rebuilding!" Other teams manage to build new stadiums AND better teams at the same time. The Cubs can't do either. This makes it very hard to be a fan. Very hard to love.
So, move! What will become of Wrigley? Sell it to Nicole Curtis for $1. Let her rebuild it. I hear she's the only one who can pull off such a task....
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Kicked out of Rehab!
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....
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....
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.
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