What’s All This Then!

All it takes is a little bit of nature to act up and spoil the day for the rest of us. Still, it has been heart warming to listen to the news and learn that people are still being pulled from the rubble alive. Best yet was those people who were indoors and survived unharmed. When the Hiatian earthquake struck, they were buying envelopes in a Stationary store …

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Today I finally had a few moments to upgrade my Wordpress software to 2.9.1 from 2.8. Guess what? Still can’t preview a saved draft post! All I get is “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” Haven’t been able to see a draft since version 2.2. Thanks, WP developers!

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Usually everyone at work is excited when Friday arrives — a much welcomed break from the craziness of work, a few days to regain some sanity, and we’re ready for Monday’s helping of management-by-chaos. Last Friday was a little different when an emergency plant-wide meeting quickly curtailed our excitement. We learned that some of us would have pay cuts while others would be working one or two days less per week. Not because the economy was bad or because we couldn’t pay the business loans to the banks. No, that was all covered. What happened was the result of banking greed and bad planning by our leaders. Our financial geniuses at the top had promised the banks that we would sell more stuff in December than we actually will. Missing that sales goal means that the banks could triple the interest rate of the loans (which makes me wonder if a crook is simply a banker without an office). Actually, our sales were right on target for this time of year. In fact, any high school student could look at the past 10 years of sales and see that the numbers are high during spring and summer and low during fall and winter. It’s not rocket surgery or brain science.

So the company missed their fantasy income by almost half a million dollars. Judging by the hastily arranged meetings, our fearless leaders didn’t realize the mistake until last Thursday. Then, panic ensued among the powers-that-be. To make up the $500,000, they quickly decided that we should cut our pay and hours to give them almost $50,000 in savings. OOOOOOOooooooo! That’ll satisfy those mean ol’ bankers.

Of course, the exercise did provide us some valuable lessons about our employer. When management announced who would have their hours cut and by what amount, it was obvious that company leaders have not a clue about who is critical to the operation of their business. When they told us that we would have to work harder, we realized that they don’t know or care about the tremendous effort of unpaid overtime, the multiple jobs that each of us have had to take on and numerous sacrifices we’ve already made to help keep the business going.

If anyone had doubts about leaving, this is no longer the case. I believe I am watching the end-of-days drama of a company as it is run by bean counters and sales instead of by principled business leaders. The countdown begins….

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Not so long ago, the sun travel around a flat earth. Beyond the edges of our world, there be monsters. Stories upon stories testified to those truths and the deniers were ridiculed or killed.

When you look back through history, it’s amazing how seemingly intelligent people will blindly and fanatically accept half-truths and outright falsehoods as gospel. Of course, it helps if you’re in power and you need something scary to keep those ignorant peons in check. When someone doubts your story, that’s usually the last thing they’ll ever do … aside from setting an example for the rest of the unwashed masses. And it never hurts to throw a little money around to have ‘reputable’ people back your erroneous tales with a few fun ‘facts’ of their own.

Today, we don’t have such crafty kings and devious popes to mislead us. We have the likes of Foxy Loxy Gore who has garnered a flock of Chicken Littles. (Funny how none of them question Foxy Gore’s hypocritical life style — gas guzzle vehicles and homes with a carbon footprint larger than a family of Bigfoots.) But if you can scare or belittle or find enough low self-esteemed people who hate human kind, you too can win a Nobel Peace prize. Not only that but your followers will form groups and participate in Blog Action Day where prime ministers and religious leaders take time to regale all of us with the monsters of global warming.

Yes, human-caused global warming must be true because thousand of scientists say that it is so. Just because these studied fellows are paid by governments who need a good reason to tax and control their citizens, this doesn’t discredit the researchers’ work. Besides, any one who disputes their findings is an idiot. Apparently, the thousands of other high ranking scientists (some who have won real Nobel prizes) must be drooling baboons because they’ve discounted human causes and proved other, more vital causes of global warming. Amazingly, this latter group wasn’t paid to prove anything. These deniers-to-the-cause followed that silly practice of only looking for the facts.

And the fact is that the globe is warming up. Just because unseasonable cold weather has occurred repeatedly around the planet most of this decade, that doesn’t mean global warming isn’t happening. The cause is just waiting to catch us off guard. Thus, we must band together to defeat a sneaky evil monstrosity that threatens to cook our planet in its own juice. That’s right! I mean the sun! It is bad enough when the sun blazes down on us in summer, erasing the polar caps, evaporating the snows of winter, and melting the ice cubes in our drinks. Now, thanks to verified reports that our malicious solar companion is heating up, our ice cubes will soon be melting in spring and fall too. This must be stopped! I know I can count the support of my fellows compatriots who make candles, manufacture light bulbs and produce electricity. They will readily agree that we need less sun and more cool darkness. I’m also pretty sure we can count on our Vampire brethren, sorry, our hemoglobin-challenge friends for their efforts to protect us from the sun. There may be a rumble between them and politicians as to who is the best parasite on human kind but that beats having the planet become a charred briquet. Yes?

Now some of you may be a little offended by this post. I apologize. You can do something immediately to reduce the human causes of global warming. Please take the hand of your fellow lemming and run, don’t walk, into the awaiting sea, breath deep the healing waters of our mother ocean, and sleep eternal knowing that your hot air won’t be harming the planet again.

You would think that the point of Blog-Action-Day is to draw attention and hopefully generate action on real problems in the world – human atrocities in Africa, needless poverty caused by greedy and ineffective governments — you know, actual human suffering that can be helped immediately. Instead blogactionday.org wasted a lot of people’s time and energy to focus on a problem that may or may not be a problem. Thanks, guys! Can’t wait for next year. I’ll bring the sun tan lotion … and an extra sweater … just in case.

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It didn’t just warped, it contorted! I can’t believe 6 months passed since my last post. Yet it has. Now, I have my daughter and future son-in-law out of the dregs of Georgia and in my home. My grandson, Cyrus, is going to make an appearance any day now. I have a bigger presence on Facebook now. As for this blog, Wordpress went from 2.7.1 to 2.8.4 and I still can NOT do a preview of my post without making it public first. ::: sigh :::

Overall, Life is very good!

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They said I was crazy! They said I was mad! They pointed and laughed and said it would never work! And I prove them all wrong! MWAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Actually it wasn’t that bad. When my girlfriend and her daughter came for a visit a few weeks ago, they saw my pile of cutup wire hangers, some screws and washers, and an old wooden board. Then they smiled at me with that knowing smile and the expression of “Well, he is special. Now, let’s go find his helmet before anything else happens.”  But then I hooked my contraption to my television.  When I turned on my TV and they saw the crystal clear reception … well, who’s laughing now?!

Actually, I build this because television broadcasters will be forced to switch from over-the-air analog television signals to a digital version.  Rabbit-ear antenna just ain’t goin’ get those TV signal like it used to.

If you want to find out which stations you can receive over-the-air now, check out: tvfool.com

NOTE: this post was started on March 17th and finally published on September 5th. sheesh!

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A man shopping at Wal-mart found human teeth in a wallet he was considering to buy. What? Don’t believe this actually happened? Well, let me assure you that this post is about the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth … and then some. (Or you can just click the link.) So what is worse: finding the teeth or not finding gold fillings?

Anyway, no one knows where the dental digits came from but I have my theory. The teeth belong to a robber. It’s obvious when you realize how hard Wal-Mart works to take the bite out of crime. This may explain why my local Wal-Mart has instituted random .. um, cavity .. searches of shoppers. Sure, it’s annoying. But since it’s free, who can really complain about a free check-up with every check-out?

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(hint: think about the Village People’s big hit song)

Forgive me? Oh wait! I think I already am!

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According to the news, a lot of people are excited about what the government is going to give them through its stimulus package. What the news media deceptively hides and what many people forget is that the government can’t give you what is already yours. All you can expect is that our bureaucratic friends will take a tiny bit less of our hard-earned money than they are now. Isn’t that exciting?!!! If the true be told, you are more likely to find an actual stimulus package on a male porn star than on the pages of any congressional legislation … although both are used for the same purpose … whether you’re willing or not.

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For tax evasion, Federal powers (back in the day) sent Al Capone to prison. For tax evasion, Federal powers this year made Timothy Geithner head of the tax system by confirming him to the post of Treasury Secretary ….? My, how times have changed!

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