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Notes 2006 Archives No Riot! On Saturday, November 14, the Detroit Tigers won the
American League championship. It was a decisive victory ending appropriately with
one swing of a powerful bat. The most impressive thing about this whole thing
is there were no rioting and looting in Ford Motor Company: The management at Ford has done a good thing for their retirees. They will be continuing our drug coverage insurance. They sent all of us a letter explaining that the coverage we now have is better than any Medicare plan available. With so many companies betraying their retired employees this is indeed good news for retired Ford workers. It’s not like Ford is prospering at this time. They are not, but I hope they will recover soon. I would love to see them get some creative engineers and scientists on their payroll. They desperately need people who can think outside the engineer’s normal mindset and come up with something new. While we are here with Ford, I think Ford could do Even The G. W. Library: They tell us three universities in Insanity: There was a small blurb about modern commuting on the local TV news. They say it’s taking much more time that it used to. Getting to work has become a chore in itself. Some people are using the commuting time to double task, so they say. Then they showed us one woman who was using a cell phone and a handheld computer at the same time while steering a vehicle with her elbows whenever she happened to look at the road. I would not call that double tasking. I would call it insanity and when she kills someone with her auto, I would charge her with murder One. That’s premeditated stupidity! Another Airline, Another Judge: Again, a judge has colluded with big business to allow another airline to throw out its contract with the unions. Bad management produces lost revenue, but the managers are never punished. Whether it’s Kmart, Northwest, or some other outfit, it’s the workers and-or the stockholders who take the hit. The judges collude with the managers and they all walk away laughing at the damn-fool workers and stockholders. NAFTA: Some of our political hacks, like DeVos of Michigan, are
supporting NAFTA. Usually these are businessmen or toadies thereof who do it
out of greed. I support NAFTA too, because All we need to do is bring He Got His Way: King George signed into law a provision to allow American
interrogators to torture detainees. It also suspends Habeas Corpus and allows
hearsay evidence. Nice going George! I hope none of our kids get captured
now. Of course, they will. Where will our high ground be when the Muslims
reciprocate? |