I never intended to register on Topix. Back in the day, when Troll Mod Susan was Angelique770, she was always harping on people to register with Topix profiles. I figured early on that, if it was important to her, it was important to her and that couldn't be good. S/he claimed that registering would keep one safe from trolling. To illustrate this, she trolled a couple of people until they registered and then quit trolling them. Problem solved!
I did eventually register and it was as a result of being trolled. The former Terri at home had made a big production out of getting something out of (her) closet that amounted to a proxy server. She then made posts in my name, matching my location. People bought it. I don't know if she had done that to others or if Angelique had. I like to think she innocently got duped into thinking that she was (somehow) doing the (seemingly) *right* thing. But, I don't know. People get caught up in group think. Sometimes willingly, sometimes not.
Regardless of her intent, people thought her false Ferrerman posts were mine even though her Ferrerman impersonation was not at all good. The thing is that, with the general Topix population, you don't have to be a Rich Little wordsmith to impersonate someone. You can be like the drunk guy at the party whose impersonations all sound the same. It's the thought that counts if everyone else is wasted as well.
I was thinking about this when Hegel noticed that long after she had been banned the "Game Over" badge had been added to her deleted profile. We gathered that was supposed to be ironic since she had never played the game and, well, getting banned was "game over". Kinda bitchy on Troll Mod Susan's part. I have no such badges, BTW, because Troll Mod didn't ban my avatar, just my IP. Thus, I can't post gray.
It's a control thing. Topix doesn't require people to register except on the new political forum because they make their money in the sheer volume of (mostly) gray posting that goes on all over the world. It is the Troll Mod's idea that everyone post simply so s/he can track you easier. That's it. The mods know who is who. That's why we don't take the advice of long time posters to re-register using new email addresses and getting new profiles. The mods and Troll Mods know. And they talk...
That's the game we won't play. A lot of posters brag about losing profiles. Lose one, come back with one.Repeat the cycle.
As I pointed out here several months ago, even this little ol' blog is privy to people's IP addresses. Once again, it doesn't mean I know your home address or your shoe size, but it gives me a pretty good idea who is who. And that's even true in some cases where the person is viewing with a proxy. I check IP addresses from time to time and some come up in other familiar locations. I gather proxies get better the more you spend?
The thing is, if my little ol' blog can gather such info, what kind of stuff can a huge operation like Topix gather about you?
I don't know. But, corporations are people, my friends, and surely they are friends just like imaginary people are. What could go wrong?
If you are registered with Topix, quit using your profile. You can't quit your profile- unless you know someone... Only Topix can delete a profile. There are still dead people who have active profiles. Evidently, Topix transcends death! Post gray. Use a proxy if you must as that would at least thwart the Troll Mods. Since they don't do their jobs anyway, why not make it harder for them?
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Shaking Off the Trickle Down
It has long bemused me that conservatives take a hardline against immigration when they were so enamored of it when illegals were driving down labor costs and driving up profits. I guess that things have leveled off and now that illegals have served their purpose, they are no longer needed. Besides,they might stay, become citizens and vote! With nearly half of eligible citizens voting, the last thing we need is more pesky voters to thwart! But, I digress...
I've never really blamed illegals for coming here.If you are lucky to make a dollar a day in your home country but can make $5 an hour in America, why wouldn't you go there? Much of life is at least taking an imaginary stroll in the shoes of others and, as a young man in the bar/restaurant business, I realized that if the circumstances were reversed, my friends and I would have been going to Mexico to bus tables and wash dishes.
That was in the late 70's and early eighties. By the mid-eighties, construction contractors were discovering that those busboys could be taught to swing hammers and sling paint at low, low prices. It wasn't about migrants doing the work Americans didn't want to do any more, it was about them doing the work that Americans wanted to be paid to do. Illegals, primarily Mexicans, were a bargain. Everybody loves a bargain!
However, those low, low labor costs were rarely (if ever) passed on to customers or consumers. Nobody ever advertised that they could beat anybody's price because they used cheap labor. For some reason, business doesn't work that way. The way business does work is that if you build a half million dollar house using largely cheap labor, you make more profit. Duh! It's still a half million dollar house you are buying. You'll just sleep better knowing that the contractor saved thousands in labor costs? I guess that's it....
Maybe back during the Reagan years some conservative think-tankers engineered this but, I doubt it. Cheap labor is pretty much the history of the world. It's nothing new. The novelty, I think, was this country's experiment with the middle class. This was something the world had never seen before. We exported it to the rest of the world and they seem to like it. Our corporate overlords think it's "not cost effective".
So, no genius conservatives discovered cheap labor in Latin America and tapped into that. Probably. It did come in handy though for them with their plan to decimate unions.I think they caught on to that pretty darn quick though.
You see, folks, America is a business and the business of America is business. Need I remind you to buy low and sell high? I trust, not.
The busting of unions and the insane fight over a minimum wage (whether to raise it or shitcan it) is the most important issue we have to consider in America. It's even bigger than BENGHAZI!!!! Our whole future rides on what we pay the least of us. It doesn't really effect what we pay for Big Macs as I mentioned here before. Ronald McDonald will get his. We are dealing with Americans here, nearly half of which (voting wise) are republicans and believe that businesses only hire when generous tax breaks free up enough cash to hire people. Fuck that supply and demand shit you've heard about in business school. Tax breaks and low, low wages now make this country great.
Tax breaks for the wealthy free up more profits is all. Same with low, low wages. The new business model is the old business model of screwing as many people as you can to get ahead. There have always been slaves, toiling away their existence for the man, whether paid poorly or not at all. It's really the only way the rich can get by. They can't do it without us or just with tax breaks alone. It's always been this way, except for a 35 year period after WWII when, much to the horror of the wealthy, we learned it didn't have to be that way. The American Dream just turned out to be too expensive to maintain. The big money is in exporting it. Tax breaks and low wages, ya know. The new business model for America. They haven't been pissing on our backs like we thought. Turns out it was just raining.
I've never really blamed illegals for coming here.If you are lucky to make a dollar a day in your home country but can make $5 an hour in America, why wouldn't you go there? Much of life is at least taking an imaginary stroll in the shoes of others and, as a young man in the bar/restaurant business, I realized that if the circumstances were reversed, my friends and I would have been going to Mexico to bus tables and wash dishes.
That was in the late 70's and early eighties. By the mid-eighties, construction contractors were discovering that those busboys could be taught to swing hammers and sling paint at low, low prices. It wasn't about migrants doing the work Americans didn't want to do any more, it was about them doing the work that Americans wanted to be paid to do. Illegals, primarily Mexicans, were a bargain. Everybody loves a bargain!
However, those low, low labor costs were rarely (if ever) passed on to customers or consumers. Nobody ever advertised that they could beat anybody's price because they used cheap labor. For some reason, business doesn't work that way. The way business does work is that if you build a half million dollar house using largely cheap labor, you make more profit. Duh! It's still a half million dollar house you are buying. You'll just sleep better knowing that the contractor saved thousands in labor costs? I guess that's it....
Maybe back during the Reagan years some conservative think-tankers engineered this but, I doubt it. Cheap labor is pretty much the history of the world. It's nothing new. The novelty, I think, was this country's experiment with the middle class. This was something the world had never seen before. We exported it to the rest of the world and they seem to like it. Our corporate overlords think it's "not cost effective".
So, no genius conservatives discovered cheap labor in Latin America and tapped into that. Probably. It did come in handy though for them with their plan to decimate unions.I think they caught on to that pretty darn quick though.
You see, folks, America is a business and the business of America is business. Need I remind you to buy low and sell high? I trust, not.
The busting of unions and the insane fight over a minimum wage (whether to raise it or shitcan it) is the most important issue we have to consider in America. It's even bigger than BENGHAZI!!!! Our whole future rides on what we pay the least of us. It doesn't really effect what we pay for Big Macs as I mentioned here before. Ronald McDonald will get his. We are dealing with Americans here, nearly half of which (voting wise) are republicans and believe that businesses only hire when generous tax breaks free up enough cash to hire people. Fuck that supply and demand shit you've heard about in business school. Tax breaks and low, low wages now make this country great.
Tax breaks for the wealthy free up more profits is all. Same with low, low wages. The new business model is the old business model of screwing as many people as you can to get ahead. There have always been slaves, toiling away their existence for the man, whether paid poorly or not at all. It's really the only way the rich can get by. They can't do it without us or just with tax breaks alone. It's always been this way, except for a 35 year period after WWII when, much to the horror of the wealthy, we learned it didn't have to be that way. The American Dream just turned out to be too expensive to maintain. The big money is in exporting it. Tax breaks and low wages, ya know. The new business model for America. They haven't been pissing on our backs like we thought. Turns out it was just raining.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Pro Boner Trolling
I found this to be rather entertaining:
"There is nothing you can do on here, tho. Even mods are impotent. Other than deleting posts quite some time after they are posted, there is nothing that can be done, because they just switch IP addresses.
I believe it is possible topix could have standing to sue people who continue to post on here after being banned and told they are not welcome... for cyber-harassment. The laws, especially in California are quite strong. Topix does suffer a direct injury because of such behavior and if you have told people they are not welcome to post, a court would be sympathetic, especially with the behavior of some of these people. It would be a novel claim, but a lot of lawyering is thinking outside of the box like this. Topix has really been harmed by trolls"
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This was a post by Lifestyles And Entertainment editor of Topix, Sublime1. With absolutely no irony felt, he was making the post to Troll Mod *Susan*. Though not even licensed to practice law in the state he works in, he's contemplating the merits of representing Topix- clear across the country- in a case against various trolls. If this were a Perry Mason case, it would be called: "THE CASE OF THE IDIOT POSTER TRYING TO KILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE EVEN THOUGH NO ONE ASKED HIM TO BECAUSE THAT WOULD JUST BE A DUMB, STOOPIT THING TO DO."
You see, folks, the business model of Topix was built on anonymous trolling. That would be some yummy irony if they did sue anonymous people for "injury" because, that's their business!
But, forget about that. Ain't no jackleg patent attorney suing anybody (FOR FREE!!!!!!) on behalf of Topix. Sub musta had a five martini lunch and started believing his own press because he went on to say that the Chicago lawyers he beat up for mishandling his daddy's case are refunding every single penny daddy paid them (teach them not to not do as good a job as Sub would) and they'll re-sue (at their expense!) and win this time or Sub will sue them for malfeasance for losing again. Some shit like that. One more martini and he's surely be balling their wives....
Anyway, as a poster pointed out, Topix COULD require people to register to post and that would stop unregistered people from posting. They could do that but, they won't. They want grays posting. Duh! Another poster pointed out that Sub was using a fake profile of his and that he was making the complaint to the Troll Mod Susan who, his/herself has a couple hundred profiles. Him/her may be a real-life Sybil but, not to the tune of 200 legitimate profiles. But, that's Topix- people claim over and over that they had the "guts" to register and post with their "real" profile. Huh? Show me your drivers license with "Hillbilly Dragon Dick Licker" on it. Now THAT would show some guts!
Sigh. So, the Speaker Of The House is suing Barack Obama. Sheesh. Lot's of butthurt idiots out there. Hey Boehner! I know a fiscally conservative lawyer out your way that will do the job FOR FREE!
"There is nothing you can do on here, tho. Even mods are impotent. Other than deleting posts quite some time after they are posted, there is nothing that can be done, because they just switch IP addresses.
I believe it is possible topix could have standing to sue people who continue to post on here after being banned and told they are not welcome... for cyber-harassment. The laws, especially in California are quite strong. Topix does suffer a direct injury because of such behavior and if you have told people they are not welcome to post, a court would be sympathetic, especially with the behavior of some of these people. It would be a novel claim, but a lot of lawyering is thinking outside of the box like this. Topix has really been harmed by trolls"
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This was a post by Lifestyles And Entertainment editor of Topix, Sublime1. With absolutely no irony felt, he was making the post to Troll Mod *Susan*. Though not even licensed to practice law in the state he works in, he's contemplating the merits of representing Topix- clear across the country- in a case against various trolls. If this were a Perry Mason case, it would be called: "THE CASE OF THE IDIOT POSTER TRYING TO KILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE EVEN THOUGH NO ONE ASKED HIM TO BECAUSE THAT WOULD JUST BE A DUMB, STOOPIT THING TO DO."
You see, folks, the business model of Topix was built on anonymous trolling. That would be some yummy irony if they did sue anonymous people for "injury" because, that's their business!
But, forget about that. Ain't no jackleg patent attorney suing anybody (FOR FREE!!!!!!) on behalf of Topix. Sub musta had a five martini lunch and started believing his own press because he went on to say that the Chicago lawyers he beat up for mishandling his daddy's case are refunding every single penny daddy paid them (teach them not to not do as good a job as Sub would) and they'll re-sue (at their expense!) and win this time or Sub will sue them for malfeasance for losing again. Some shit like that. One more martini and he's surely be balling their wives....
Anyway, as a poster pointed out, Topix COULD require people to register to post and that would stop unregistered people from posting. They could do that but, they won't. They want grays posting. Duh! Another poster pointed out that Sub was using a fake profile of his and that he was making the complaint to the Troll Mod Susan who, his/herself has a couple hundred profiles. Him/her may be a real-life Sybil but, not to the tune of 200 legitimate profiles. But, that's Topix- people claim over and over that they had the "guts" to register and post with their "real" profile. Huh? Show me your drivers license with "Hillbilly Dragon Dick Licker" on it. Now THAT would show some guts!
Sigh. So, the Speaker Of The House is suing Barack Obama. Sheesh. Lot's of butthurt idiots out there. Hey Boehner! I know a fiscally conservative lawyer out your way that will do the job FOR FREE!
Monday, June 30, 2014
Semper Fidelis a Shareholders
"If I ran my army like the government runs theirs, I wouldn't have an army!"
That's paraphrasing the familiar conservative rant that typically goes: "If I ran my business like the government, I wouldn't have a business!"
That's usually said on the internet by people who don't actually have a business but did see the movie "Dave", where the line likely originated.
If people can have imaginary businesses on the 'net, why not imaginary armies?
If you think about it though, our military costs trillions and hasn't really shown a profit since 1945. It costs a lot of money and, frankly, it's government socialism to the nth degree. Maybe it's time we privatize the military by turning it over to our corporations and running it at a profit for a change? As any republican in the House of Representatives can attest, government ruins everything. This November, many of them will have spent millions of dollars to keep or attain a seat in government to keep destroying it from within so, that ought to tell you how serious they are. They really, really hate government. It shows.
Socialism is when the "state" cares for people from womb to tomb. Or maybe that's communism? It doesn't matter. The two are interchangeable on the internet and Fox news and I might really mean Muslimism anyways. I don't know. If you know you are probably one of those elitist democrats.
Anyway, if you are in the military, you work for the government. You get free food, housing and- worst of all- healthcare! How disgustingly socialist is that? Well, very. I cannot believe that our republican leaders allow this. It only leads to more and more wasteful spending that only serves to perpetuate the socialist military and socialist government.
If we privatize the military we would see it run efficiently and at a profit as the free market dictates. The government shouldn't pick winners and losers. If your army cannot fight and fight at a profit, you don't deserve to be in the army business. If lucky, your army may be bought out by more successful armies the same as mom and pop armies who discover that they can't compete with the volume-minded big armies.
It's a brave, new world of corporatocracy that we are marching into and privatization of the military would make the transition a whole lot easier. Plus, it would be a big slap in the face to that socialist Muslim, Barack Obama. I think that's something any idiot can get behind because, ya know, socialism in any form is evil!
That's paraphrasing the familiar conservative rant that typically goes: "If I ran my business like the government, I wouldn't have a business!"
That's usually said on the internet by people who don't actually have a business but did see the movie "Dave", where the line likely originated.
If people can have imaginary businesses on the 'net, why not imaginary armies?
If you think about it though, our military costs trillions and hasn't really shown a profit since 1945. It costs a lot of money and, frankly, it's government socialism to the nth degree. Maybe it's time we privatize the military by turning it over to our corporations and running it at a profit for a change? As any republican in the House of Representatives can attest, government ruins everything. This November, many of them will have spent millions of dollars to keep or attain a seat in government to keep destroying it from within so, that ought to tell you how serious they are. They really, really hate government. It shows.
Socialism is when the "state" cares for people from womb to tomb. Or maybe that's communism? It doesn't matter. The two are interchangeable on the internet and Fox news and I might really mean Muslimism anyways. I don't know. If you know you are probably one of those elitist democrats.
Anyway, if you are in the military, you work for the government. You get free food, housing and- worst of all- healthcare! How disgustingly socialist is that? Well, very. I cannot believe that our republican leaders allow this. It only leads to more and more wasteful spending that only serves to perpetuate the socialist military and socialist government.
If we privatize the military we would see it run efficiently and at a profit as the free market dictates. The government shouldn't pick winners and losers. If your army cannot fight and fight at a profit, you don't deserve to be in the army business. If lucky, your army may be bought out by more successful armies the same as mom and pop armies who discover that they can't compete with the volume-minded big armies.
It's a brave, new world of corporatocracy that we are marching into and privatization of the military would make the transition a whole lot easier. Plus, it would be a big slap in the face to that socialist Muslim, Barack Obama. I think that's something any idiot can get behind because, ya know, socialism in any form is evil!
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Crazy For Big Macs!
Occasionally, I like to think insane, ridiculous thoughts. No, I'm not a republican, I said occasionally.
But, it's fun to get in touch with ones republican side and, in doing so, get an insight into how they think.
Take the minimum wage argument. A lot of republicans argue that there shouldn't be a minimum wage at all, that every American should be free to set their own worth. You shouldn't have to accept the minimum if you want more, or settle for the rate that some Union has arbitrarily set through arbitration either. Now, you may not get what you ask for but, you are free to keep moving on down the road until some employer is willing to pay what you ask or until your hat floats in the ocean. Interesting thinking in that it seems to favor the employee/job-seeker but, it doesn't at all. It's got management written all over it. See also: collusion.
As if that weren't nutty enough, those same republicans who claim to be looking out for you also don't want the minimum wage to increase because they are terrified of paying $15 for a Big Mac. They firmly believe that would be the direct result of any increase in the minimum wage. Do you know when Big Macs will cost $15? When the McDonald's Corporation feels they can get away with charging that much, that's when. The price hikes in the last ten years or so regarding Big Mac's can't be attributed to the minimum wage because that has crawled along at a snails pace since the 70's. There are lots of factors in what things cost and labor costs are very important in that consideration. However, last year ABC news studied the ramifications of doubling the minimum and determined that would add 68 cents to a Big Mac's price. In a Big Mac-based economy, that really isn't a bad thing. I haven't had a Big Mac in years but if I had to pay 68 cents more and I knew the guy who rang it up for me was making a living wage, I would be fine with that.
But, that's not the crazy thinking. My crazy thought, since republicans fear rising prices so much, is that we retain the minimum and make it the maximum.
Pay everybody $7.25 an hour. I mean EVERYBODY. Cab driver? Patent attorney for a Swedish car company? Power forward for an NBA team? Teacher? Bank president? Fry guy at McDonald's? $7.25 an hour! No exceptions! That's the crazy thought! How about that? You heard it here first, folks.
But, so is (and are) the republican fits of logic that preceded my musing. If you can set the rate for others, why can't others set it for you? Or for all of us? If a low minimum means cheaper Big Macs, wouldn't the same low rate for all translate into affordable everything?Wouldn't low prices for everything benefit all of us?
If millions of people making as little as possible is the key to economic success for a nation, millions more ought to be merrier. Makes some kinda sense right? How about slavery? Now, slavery is really some low labor costs leading to serious profits! Ask any plantation owner is the American South prior to 1861. After the initial cash outlay in purchasing a human being, it's just room and board after that. It might suck to be a slave but a lot of current republican politicians think that American slaves actually had it pretty good. And from a strictly Biblical standpoint, God himself was rather accepting of people owning other people. So, there is also that.
We are all in this together and we ought to start acting like it. And we ought to start thinking for ourselves because so many others are vying to do it for us. Some of these thinkers are batshit crazy, not just messing around like a Ferrerman. It's hard to tell the difference some days who is an easily manipulated idiot, who is manipulating the idiots, and who is the playful Ferrerman.
But, it's fun to get in touch with ones republican side and, in doing so, get an insight into how they think.
Take the minimum wage argument. A lot of republicans argue that there shouldn't be a minimum wage at all, that every American should be free to set their own worth. You shouldn't have to accept the minimum if you want more, or settle for the rate that some Union has arbitrarily set through arbitration either. Now, you may not get what you ask for but, you are free to keep moving on down the road until some employer is willing to pay what you ask or until your hat floats in the ocean. Interesting thinking in that it seems to favor the employee/job-seeker but, it doesn't at all. It's got management written all over it. See also: collusion.
As if that weren't nutty enough, those same republicans who claim to be looking out for you also don't want the minimum wage to increase because they are terrified of paying $15 for a Big Mac. They firmly believe that would be the direct result of any increase in the minimum wage. Do you know when Big Macs will cost $15? When the McDonald's Corporation feels they can get away with charging that much, that's when. The price hikes in the last ten years or so regarding Big Mac's can't be attributed to the minimum wage because that has crawled along at a snails pace since the 70's. There are lots of factors in what things cost and labor costs are very important in that consideration. However, last year ABC news studied the ramifications of doubling the minimum and determined that would add 68 cents to a Big Mac's price. In a Big Mac-based economy, that really isn't a bad thing. I haven't had a Big Mac in years but if I had to pay 68 cents more and I knew the guy who rang it up for me was making a living wage, I would be fine with that.
But, that's not the crazy thinking. My crazy thought, since republicans fear rising prices so much, is that we retain the minimum and make it the maximum.
Pay everybody $7.25 an hour. I mean EVERYBODY. Cab driver? Patent attorney for a Swedish car company? Power forward for an NBA team? Teacher? Bank president? Fry guy at McDonald's? $7.25 an hour! No exceptions! That's the crazy thought! How about that? You heard it here first, folks.
But, so is (and are) the republican fits of logic that preceded my musing. If you can set the rate for others, why can't others set it for you? Or for all of us? If a low minimum means cheaper Big Macs, wouldn't the same low rate for all translate into affordable everything?Wouldn't low prices for everything benefit all of us?
If millions of people making as little as possible is the key to economic success for a nation, millions more ought to be merrier. Makes some kinda sense right? How about slavery? Now, slavery is really some low labor costs leading to serious profits! Ask any plantation owner is the American South prior to 1861. After the initial cash outlay in purchasing a human being, it's just room and board after that. It might suck to be a slave but a lot of current republican politicians think that American slaves actually had it pretty good. And from a strictly Biblical standpoint, God himself was rather accepting of people owning other people. So, there is also that.
We are all in this together and we ought to start acting like it. And we ought to start thinking for ourselves because so many others are vying to do it for us. Some of these thinkers are batshit crazy, not just messing around like a Ferrerman. It's hard to tell the difference some days who is an easily manipulated idiot, who is manipulating the idiots, and who is the playful Ferrerman.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Naked And Afraid: Detroit
I know from my survival shows on the cable TV that, humans can survive for 21 days without food but only three days without water. That ought to tell you how important water is to human life.
The city of Detroit has cut off the water supply of thousands of delinquent customers and intend to cut off thousands more. The United Nations has stepped in to call this a civil rights violation. That's the UNITED NATIONS people- the folks tell people like the formerly alive dictator Saddam Hussein that he better allow inspections of his alleged Weapons of Mass Distraction or GW Bush is going attack him.
The UN is telling an American city that they are violating human rights! Have they looked into our voting? Maybe we could have free elections here if they did?
It's still early in the day but, I bet the reichwingers are going to be pissed about UN involvement on American soil. Some of their wackier elements have been warning that UN troops will be coming for our guns- "any minute now"- for hundreds of thousands of minutes, now. I venture that they will hate this UN appraisal so much they will fucking love it!
But, forget about them. In a major American city that has already suffered enough, thousands of people are being denied the most necessary element of life, the compound that is water. Many of these people owe a few hundred dollars. It sucks not to pay your bills and people do lose cars, stereos and houses over these things but, water is a different story. It's interesting (but typical) that wealthy and corporate interests in Detroit are also behind in their water bills to the tunes of thousands of dollars but, here in America, who do we fuck with, the people with lawyers and money, or the people without? I think you know the answer.
The folks that own the Red Wings hockey stadium and the Lions football stadium. and other private enterprises, owe some $30 million collectively in water bills. They are not going to be cut off. Well, they have money and lawyers. Evidently they can pay but, they won't. That is often the criteria for shutting off someones water in most cities. "Before we slowly kill these people, lets find out if they are poor or just jerks." I'm no expert but I think most cities draw the line at cutting off water. And there are generally weather related rules about cutting off heat.
I think the Detroit water department is owed something like $118 million dollars. Maybe $100 million or so ago they could have been a bit more proactive about this. One approach might have been to include water in tax bills. Think of any apartment you may have had. The water bill was included in the rent. It's not perfect but, it beats dealing with millions of individual clients. I know poor people get behind on their taxes too.There is no perfect solution.
There is another option though. Invade Detroit. Bomb them. Bring US troops and then democracy to the Motor City. This is something Lindsey Graham and all the republican crackers want to do all over the world, all the time. They think American democracy will work in Iraq and the Middle east, bringing them into the 21st century. Well, it hasn't worked all that well in Detroit now, has it? Maybe that's why they don't try?
The city of Detroit has cut off the water supply of thousands of delinquent customers and intend to cut off thousands more. The United Nations has stepped in to call this a civil rights violation. That's the UNITED NATIONS people- the folks tell people like the formerly alive dictator Saddam Hussein that he better allow inspections of his alleged Weapons of Mass Distraction or GW Bush is going attack him.
The UN is telling an American city that they are violating human rights! Have they looked into our voting? Maybe we could have free elections here if they did?
It's still early in the day but, I bet the reichwingers are going to be pissed about UN involvement on American soil. Some of their wackier elements have been warning that UN troops will be coming for our guns- "any minute now"- for hundreds of thousands of minutes, now. I venture that they will hate this UN appraisal so much they will fucking love it!
But, forget about them. In a major American city that has already suffered enough, thousands of people are being denied the most necessary element of life, the compound that is water. Many of these people owe a few hundred dollars. It sucks not to pay your bills and people do lose cars, stereos and houses over these things but, water is a different story. It's interesting (but typical) that wealthy and corporate interests in Detroit are also behind in their water bills to the tunes of thousands of dollars but, here in America, who do we fuck with, the people with lawyers and money, or the people without? I think you know the answer.
The folks that own the Red Wings hockey stadium and the Lions football stadium. and other private enterprises, owe some $30 million collectively in water bills. They are not going to be cut off. Well, they have money and lawyers. Evidently they can pay but, they won't. That is often the criteria for shutting off someones water in most cities. "Before we slowly kill these people, lets find out if they are poor or just jerks." I'm no expert but I think most cities draw the line at cutting off water. And there are generally weather related rules about cutting off heat.
I think the Detroit water department is owed something like $118 million dollars. Maybe $100 million or so ago they could have been a bit more proactive about this. One approach might have been to include water in tax bills. Think of any apartment you may have had. The water bill was included in the rent. It's not perfect but, it beats dealing with millions of individual clients. I know poor people get behind on their taxes too.There is no perfect solution.
There is another option though. Invade Detroit. Bomb them. Bring US troops and then democracy to the Motor City. This is something Lindsey Graham and all the republican crackers want to do all over the world, all the time. They think American democracy will work in Iraq and the Middle east, bringing them into the 21st century. Well, it hasn't worked all that well in Detroit now, has it? Maybe that's why they don't try?
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Letters- we get letters!
Here's some of the... trollespondence... that we here at the Ferrerman blog get quite a bit of and do not exschpanktly trust as legitimate correspondence on blog posts, for various reasons. Most didn't make any more sense in the context of the blog posts they were in response to and I'm doing them here to clean house a little and edumacate folks on how NOT to write a Ferrerman....
"If you guys can still see your profile instead of "Topix page missing" when you click on it, but you can't post AND see the post live, from what I can gather your IP is possibly banned. Have you tried posting with your account from a different IP? What amazes me are the icons. There can be the initial assortment of icons from normal everyday people who give checks, brilliants and such but the minute the mad iconer sees it, BOOM, 3 Racy, 3 mean and 3 disagrees. It's like a button was pushed. It would be nice if Topix allowed every icon to remain rather than let the socks sign in and out 100 times to create the icon sequence they want, which drowns out any decent ones. Mods do troll with non mod trolls. Just the other day I saw Dork ask Hegel where her account was. How would anyone know Hegel had account problems? Hegel is spot on 100% right, it is personal. Topix is taken very seriously."
~Emily Nelson
""Some people will believe what they want to believe". So true. You insist I am a troll because of my IP address but I am one of your biggest fans. Dr Dirty is in southern Oregon. I swear I am not he. He's an ass. Anyway. ------- Sublime CRACKS ME UP! What an e-fucking bragger! Like you said, if you're going to try and portray being a stud, don't post your real picture. That pic of him is hideous! He lies too. he said he never trolls gray but one of his SC posts were brought to his attention. THAT shut him up. He is worth the price of admission."
~Emily Nelson
"Ha!! It didn't take me long to bait ole dipshit Mikey did it? You liked the post and said it was a "good post". Note his comeback about the pic with Ernie Banks? I told you it was him and not Sub with that crap. In all honesty I had no idea he would say it, it was just opportune and begged me to point it out to you AFTER I made a comment here yesterday about that very thing. To answer your question my name is Emily Nelson. Happy now?"
~Anonymous
"So no one can be right when they make guesses except you and kegel, huh piehole? LMAO"
~itk cubs fan
"Oh this used to happen to me all the time. They'd make those random statements to get yours and everyone else's attention then when you reply, no matter what you said, they'd twist it. The fight was on. Again, one of the reasons I just stopped Topix all together. I do remember a few posts that were directed to you about a son and also about some painting business. You're saying that was Sublime making them? I thought it was the other dichhead that stalks woman's feelings online, first in Coffee with Pie then the music threads? The IP was TX and he used to post a picture of Ernie banks a lot. Sublime must be spending way more time on Topix than I had imagined. I am unfamiliar with the Angelique back story other than the accusations I read. I assumed Aneglique was Susan and Persephone. I guess I was wrong?"
~Bex
"Ok come on, you know who I am. Did I not leave a lasting impression? I did with a few of the others. If you Topix google my name there are at least 100 different threads dedicated to me. I must have had at least 25 accounts banned because of mass reporting by the clique for the silliest nonsensical chit. Yeah, I know you get trolled, and I got trolled right along with you for laughing at the way you rip the tards to shreds. Anyway, it became abundantly clear certain posters had an in with Mods who would divulge IP addresses to said posters, meaning you could not post in anonymity. I always wondered why I could be posting in peace in a totally hidden account, having chats about the most innocuous subjects and out of the blue have either Dork, Bex or Mikey jump my ass, create a fuss and blame the fight on me. The mods were clueing these f-wads in. I am just not so sure that's quite kosher even if Topix law prevails there. What next? Give them my IP so they can find me IRL??"
~Anonymous
"sup piehole"
~itk cubs fan
"Miss me Pieholeio?"
~GUESS WHO? ROTFLMAO
"Lumping Clackamas and Portland together as one person? Now you're starting to sound like the Twin who insists all Chicago IPs (and all the ones he posts as gray) are you! I guarantee this IP is not trolling you!"
~Anonymous
"Not Angelique writes, I read it because it's funny and I enjoy your special twist on life, Topix and politics. Isn't that your intent? If not, why write it in the first place? If IP holders who click your blog means they are your trolls, does that make Deer Whisperer your troll? Signed, Dedicated reader but not your troll. JUST a reader"
~Anonymous
"Angelique770? WTF? You're wrong dude. Way wrong. I have NO IDEA how you connected the dots from her to me. (I assume she is she). If you don't mind, I'll continue to read your blog. I find it funny. Would angelique praise you? Good luck to your Cubbies this year."
~Anonymous
"Whos Joy Edge Martin piehole?"
~itk cubs fan
"If you guys can still see your profile instead of "Topix page missing" when you click on it, but you can't post AND see the post live, from what I can gather your IP is possibly banned. Have you tried posting with your account from a different IP? What amazes me are the icons. There can be the initial assortment of icons from normal everyday people who give checks, brilliants and such but the minute the mad iconer sees it, BOOM, 3 Racy, 3 mean and 3 disagrees. It's like a button was pushed. It would be nice if Topix allowed every icon to remain rather than let the socks sign in and out 100 times to create the icon sequence they want, which drowns out any decent ones. Mods do troll with non mod trolls. Just the other day I saw Dork ask Hegel where her account was. How would anyone know Hegel had account problems? Hegel is spot on 100% right, it is personal. Topix is taken very seriously."
~Emily Nelson
""Some people will believe what they want to believe". So true. You insist I am a troll because of my IP address but I am one of your biggest fans. Dr Dirty is in southern Oregon. I swear I am not he. He's an ass. Anyway. ------- Sublime CRACKS ME UP! What an e-fucking bragger! Like you said, if you're going to try and portray being a stud, don't post your real picture. That pic of him is hideous! He lies too. he said he never trolls gray but one of his SC posts were brought to his attention. THAT shut him up. He is worth the price of admission."
~Emily Nelson
"Ha!! It didn't take me long to bait ole dipshit Mikey did it? You liked the post and said it was a "good post". Note his comeback about the pic with Ernie Banks? I told you it was him and not Sub with that crap. In all honesty I had no idea he would say it, it was just opportune and begged me to point it out to you AFTER I made a comment here yesterday about that very thing. To answer your question my name is Emily Nelson. Happy now?"
~Anonymous
"So no one can be right when they make guesses except you and kegel, huh piehole? LMAO"
~itk cubs fan
"Oh this used to happen to me all the time. They'd make those random statements to get yours and everyone else's attention then when you reply, no matter what you said, they'd twist it. The fight was on. Again, one of the reasons I just stopped Topix all together. I do remember a few posts that were directed to you about a son and also about some painting business. You're saying that was Sublime making them? I thought it was the other dichhead that stalks woman's feelings online, first in Coffee with Pie then the music threads? The IP was TX and he used to post a picture of Ernie banks a lot. Sublime must be spending way more time on Topix than I had imagined. I am unfamiliar with the Angelique back story other than the accusations I read. I assumed Aneglique was Susan and Persephone. I guess I was wrong?"
~Bex
"Ok come on, you know who I am. Did I not leave a lasting impression? I did with a few of the others. If you Topix google my name there are at least 100 different threads dedicated to me. I must have had at least 25 accounts banned because of mass reporting by the clique for the silliest nonsensical chit. Yeah, I know you get trolled, and I got trolled right along with you for laughing at the way you rip the tards to shreds. Anyway, it became abundantly clear certain posters had an in with Mods who would divulge IP addresses to said posters, meaning you could not post in anonymity. I always wondered why I could be posting in peace in a totally hidden account, having chats about the most innocuous subjects and out of the blue have either Dork, Bex or Mikey jump my ass, create a fuss and blame the fight on me. The mods were clueing these f-wads in. I am just not so sure that's quite kosher even if Topix law prevails there. What next? Give them my IP so they can find me IRL??"
~Anonymous
"sup piehole"
~itk cubs fan
"Miss me Pieholeio?"
~GUESS WHO? ROTFLMAO
"Lumping Clackamas and Portland together as one person? Now you're starting to sound like the Twin who insists all Chicago IPs (and all the ones he posts as gray) are you! I guarantee this IP is not trolling you!"
~Anonymous
"Not Angelique writes, I read it because it's funny and I enjoy your special twist on life, Topix and politics. Isn't that your intent? If not, why write it in the first place? If IP holders who click your blog means they are your trolls, does that make Deer Whisperer your troll? Signed, Dedicated reader but not your troll. JUST a reader"
~Anonymous
"Angelique770? WTF? You're wrong dude. Way wrong. I have NO IDEA how you connected the dots from her to me. (I assume she is she). If you don't mind, I'll continue to read your blog. I find it funny. Would angelique praise you? Good luck to your Cubbies this year."
~Anonymous
"Whos Joy Edge Martin piehole?"
~itk cubs fan
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