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August 29, 2005:
Hypocrisy:
There has been an a mini-outcry against the soft drink sugar
peddlers about peddling their products in vending machines in
the schools. A spokes person for the industry twaddled on about
how they are parents too and they care about kids too. Their
answer is to take a percentage, not all, of the poisonous products
out of the schools. She also denied any culpability, claiming
that obesity was the parents responsibility. She completely denied
that they deliberately target children in their ads, even when
shown an industry advertisement which did exactly that. She kept
harping on the percentage game as though we should see her as
a good guy for a meaningless token response. It's like if I robbed
a bank and gave back some of the money, I should be seen as a
good person. What a self righteous, murderous bitch she is!
This two bit low life even had the gall to contend that the
industry becomes part of the solution through these token responses.
The media person was too stupid to question her about brand bonding.
Even fools know that is the real reason for putting their vending
machines in the schools, but the media people did not seem to
know that or care about it. That made it really easy on the lying
industry rep. She did not even have to deny the obvious. She
was not confronted with it.
Another Example:
Another reason why our local media people will never make the
big time. One Flint, channel 12 person was giving a tease about
an upcoming item and stated that NASA invented Velcro.
WRONG!
Velcro was invented by a Swiss fellow named de Mestral in 1948.
That was a few years before the creation of the tax sink called
NASA. The agency was created in October of 1958 as a response
to Russia's Sputnik. It is not difficult to find this information.
It took me about 10 minutes to find the pertinent facts. I didn't
even have to go online. It was all in my encyclopedia. That is
the difference between a Brokaw or Jennings and these local jerks.
The good people take the time to check their facts before shooting
off their mouths, yet these local people will sit and wonder
why they don't make the big time. After all, they look so good
and have such grand mellow voices for delivery.
Illegal Aliens:
From the Stephanopolous show. According to the governor of New
Mexico, there are about eleven million illegal aliens in America.
He thinks the federal government needs to have a plan for dealing
with that. There were also two Senators "AKA, republican
presidential hopefuls" being interviewed by Stephanopolous.
They had differing ideas about dealing with this alien problem.
It was hard to follow because they were on the stump and the
blizzard of rhetoric got a bit slippery. It comes down to, the
government ought to have a plan. They also said Bush needs a
plan for getting out of Iraq. These guys must be blind to reality.
Bush has never had a plan for anything. He is, and always has
been, a hip-shot loose cannon kind of guy.
Bankruptcy:
Recently a local entertainment facility in Clio Michigan filed
for Bankruptcy. Up until the day they filed, they were selling
tickets for performances they knew would never occur. As a result,
a large group of citizens have useless tickets that they paid
a lot of bucks for. The people who did that to them, walked away
with a pocketful of money. They are getting off free when they
should be in prison for fraud.
This is just one more of these kind of big business swindles.
It is bunco in spades. K-Mart and United Airlines are not the
only ones. It seems everyone is doing it because they are not
being prosecuted and the courts are allowing them to openly commit
fraud. What has happened to our law enforcement people? Why are
the DA's not bringing these crooks to the bar? These things do
not require a federal investigation. The DA's where the crimes
occurred have jurisdiction and the power to prosecute. Why are
they not doing it? Were they paid off?
Bush:
He said the only way to make our people safe from the terrorists
in our homes is to attack the enemy where they live. Great line
George! Why are you not doing that? Why are you not attacking
Bin Laden in his home? Why did you waste our resources in Iraq?
I Told You So:
A few weeks ago when everyone was bitching about two dollar a
gallon gas, I said it has just begun. Now it is approaching three
bucks a gallon. I'll say again, get ready for five buck a gallon
gas. If we don't find a solution we will soon have to hunker
down and live like the early settlers. It's not gas people, it's
energy. Our world runs on cheap energy and we are running out
of it. We will not solve the problem because we are not looking
for a solution. Instead, King George is trying to jawbone OPEC.
It won't work. They cannot deliver fast enough to meet the world's
needs. The other Mad King George solution is to destroy the Alaskan
wilderness. That is a very short term move. We need another (not
oil) source of cheap energy.
Too Little Too Late:
Our government has failed to solve the energy crisis because
they never addressed it. The effort should have been undertaken
in the Carter administration when the problem first became obvious
in the late seventies. Now it's too late. So what is our government
doing. They are putting mileage requirements on SUV's and light
trucks. Nothing big. Just an incremental increase requirement
that will be imposed in a few years. That will not help. It is
the epitome of silliness. We need a real solution, not a political
ploy.
Meanwhile:
Ford and GM are doing business as usual and may go belly up doing
it. They run on about a hybrid car and deliver a kludge that
is only a slight improvement over the gas hogs they have been
making. A fifteen percent mileage increase is not a good tradeoff
for the enormous decrease in performance this kludge delivers.
Get some engineers William! Get some engineers GM! Quit ignoring
your problems. Stop babbling and start doing! You guys are dumber
than the Mad King George.
Why?
Do you wonder why our country has become so lawless of late.
It's not hard to figure out. In the Flint area of Michigan a
man stole property from an auto store of some kind. To cover
his crime he set fire to the place when he fled. He was caught
in spite of that. His penalty? He got five months home detention
and five years probation. This man committed theft and arson
and got no prison time at all, not one day! Why not commit a
crime when there is no penalty even if you are caught?
The Party's Over:
The Northwest mechanics walked out. Northwest promptly hired
mechanics off the street to replace them. Way it goes guys! The
party is indeed over. The fat and lazy days of largess are over.
Engineer and executive pay for skilled and semiskilled work will
become a thing of the past. The times are changing. The whole
world economy is changing and we are not keeping up. We can no
longer export our poverty to the third world. They are refusing
delivery. Instead, the third world is importing our jobs. It's
simple. They work cheaper and harder. We had better figure out
how to compete with that rather than whine about it.
America used to compete. We did it through innovation, by
making newer and better products. Now our government and business
world prevents that. They favor stodgy neanderthal management
over creativity. The government and the business community punishes
and block out innovation. Entrepreneurs are crushed before they
start by regressive rules and tax structures that favor the established
criminal controlled big contributor companies. If we don't change
that, we will become the third world. We need a new attitude.
We need new products and new ways of thinking about competition.
We need creativity. We need a new government.
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