Well…the right is all up in arms today about the reaction to the homophobic, racist comments that one of the stars of “Duck Dynasty” made in an interview with GQ magazine, going on and on about how his first amendment rights have been violated since he has been suspended from A&E for the comments. Man, these folks just don’t understand the document that they wave around their heads, do they? The first amendment protects your freedom of speech…and this idiot is still free to say whatever he wants…there is no one trying to silence him…but, due to the repubs continual deference to corporations and the right of these corporations to do whatever they want to their employees, A&E has every right to suspend him…the first amendment has nothing to say about the fallout from your free speech. This is something the left has been clamoring for for decades, to try to limit the power of corporations over the constitutional rights of employees but the right just thinks that there need to be no laws, that corporations will do what’s right just because they are “nice”…something we all know is not and never has been the case. I still support the right of this homophobic, racist ass to say whatever comes into his tiny mind, but the right has to remember that words have consequences…geez…
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Not sure again…
Well…have been sitting here and I could say I have been wracking my brain to come up with a topic, but that’s not true…have been getting hooked on bobsled, skeleton, and luge since they started to show it on one of my channels…pretty cool….one thing I did want to talk about is the idiot governors who are falling all over themselves to try to buy jobs from Boeing since the company screwed it’s workers in Washington and decided to build the next plane anywhere but there. These governors are doing the same thing that Tennessee did for Kia a few years back when they built them a factory to the tune of over $500 million dollars and gave to to them for free…along with tax incentives that will allow them to not pay any taxes…ever! Now, the governors of many states are upping the ante with Boeing…with incentives that will measure in the billions of dollars and make sure that each job will cost over $500 thousand dollars. I am just so tired of profitable companies being allowed or even encouraged to play the states off against each other to transfer taxpayer wealth to their owners….especially since one of the sweeteners is always to hold wages down by a non-union workforce…what I don’t understand is why Boeing would want to do that again…when many of the problems with the Dreamliner launch have been traced back to the low pay, low skilled labor that they used at the plants that made the sub assemblies….just another incidence of the blindness that comes from seeking lower cost labor as the silver bullet to profitability…and not innovation..geez…
This is just wrong…
Well…in my reading yesterday, I ran across a story that just made me shake my head it was just so wrong…in case you haven’t read it yet, there was an 18 year old in Texas who was driving drunk and killed 4 people and the judge in the case gave him nothing but probation.. a long probation but similar cases have resulted in jail time of up to 15 years…and the judges reasoning? Because this kid grew up in a rich, privileged household, he was not responsible for his actions since he always got his way and no one taught him right from wrong. It’s not as if the rich don’t already get away with whatever they want, now they can murder and get probation? I am just so tired of the deference the rich get in the US….no wonder they think the law doesn’t apply to them when stuff like this happens…people go to jail for stealing food to feed their families and this idiot gets to walk away? He’ll never have to learn any consequences either since he is rich and connected…and will never have to look for a job..or daddies rich cronies will give him one…this is just wrong….geez…
Another reason to not eat at McDonalds…
Well….as if a person needed more reason to not eat at McD’s….other than the food that will make you fat or kill you if you eat it all the time…okay, maybe that is a little harsh…the company came out this week with some tips on how their starvation level wages can be supplemented and everyone can have a wonderful, happy holiday….the first one is just a wonderful piece of corporate crap…they recommend that their employees just sell their Christmas presents or anything else they don’t need on e-bay…the problem with that is that, with the wages they pay their folks, they probably don’t have anything to sell anyway….maybe they should sell their food next? One other thing that this poor excuse for a company does is give out instructions on how to sign up for food stamps…not pay their people enough so they don’t need them, but get the government to pay for their food and subsidize the profits of the owners…and these are the same people who decry welfare or any type of public assistance and do their best to have it cut while feeding at the government trough themselves for billions of dollars a year…just like Walmart….what a bunch of crap…geez…
Almost forgot Joe…
Well…I was going to put this in the morning one on my life but I forgot for some reason…so, I’ll do it here and it will serve two purposes…it will get me caught up, and it will say Happy Birthday to one of my favorite rock and rollers…Joe Walsh turns 66 today and he has been a large part of the soundtrack that has accompanied my life from the days of the James Gang, through the Barnstorm years,, and into his solo stuff…who could not like an album named “The Smoker you drink, the player you get” or “you can’t argue with a sick mind”….so, Happy Birthday, Joe…and many, many more….
Can Walmart get any more tone deaf?
Well…if you follow the news at all, you’ve seen the veneer start to crack on the supposedly wonderful company Walmart over the past year or so, exposing the just awful employee policies the company has…and the amount of subsidies that the American people give to each and every store (over a million dollars a year per store, 3.5 billion dollars total). But now, it has even gotten worse…with a store in Ohio setting up a food donation area in an employee lounge so workers can donate food so other workers will have a Thanksgiving dinner…yep, you heard it right…Walmart wants its poorly paid employees to subsidize even worse paid ones so they don’t go hungry. There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start…if Walmart was so damn concerned that it’s full time employees don’t make enough money to buy food without food stamps (and it’s not…it’s a policy they support), why not just pay them more? Or, buy every employee Thanksgiving dinner? But, even with the countless billions of dollars in profit they make every year, they won’t pry even a few extra dollars out of their grasping hands to make sure their employees don’t starve….what a poor excuse for a company…and the reason I will never set foot in one….geez…
Who would ever do “snapshot by Progressive”?
Well…this thought just came to me while I was doing the last post and this damn Progressive commercial came on…who would ever do that? Who would be the people who would give an insurance company the ammunition they need to cancel your insurance? Or, to not pay a claim if they determine that you were going one mile an hour over the speed limit when you were run into? I know that some people will make the specious argument they use for allowing police to search anyone for no reason…”if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t mind being searched”….so, if you’re not speeding, you shouldn’t worry about Progressive searching your data….what a load of crap. why would anyone give up their data for a few bucks off your car insurance? I am a professional speeder who has not had a ticket since 1974…shouldn’t that be more important than being one mile an hour over the limit? I am just glad that my car is so old it doesn’t have one of the new “black boxes” that records everything that you do in the car…even GPS location if your car has that feature…we need to stop giving up our privacy to these corporations who are just waiting for a new reason to screw us over…geez…
Another reason to hate Walmart…
Well…just a shorty on the jaw dropping stupidity that is the management of a Walmart here in Michigan who fired an employee for getting into a fight with some men who were assaulting a woman in a Walmart parking lot…and their reason? That they have a zero-tolerance policy for workplace violence….so, this guy is supposed to just leave this woman being attacked to keep his job? What a stupid, nasty company Walmart is…I’ve got nothing more to say…geez…
Goodbye “Burn Notice”…
Well…I have kind of been dreading this day for the entire summer…it’s the day of the last “Burn Notice” and I am not sure what to think about it. As my friends know, this has been my favorite show since it came on the air seven years ago, and I’m sure they are tired of hearing me talk about it….as classic tv goes, it won’t get into the top ten by a long shot, but there has been just something about it that has struck a chord with me…how can you not like a show about spies, with a hot woman that is just as dangerous as the men (or more)…and Bruce Campbell? Oh, well…I’ve been through this many times before with other shows…and this one may have been cheating a little since I am behind for the month. Felt the same way when “The Sopranos” ended…and my Thursdays are going to be emptier for a while…I guess that’s life…
It’s Europe’s turn…
Well…after listening to the increasing drumbeat for war in Syria, one thing came to me that has not been mentioned much, other than on Kos…why are we so hot on attacking Syria and footing the bill for the whole thing? If you look at it with a non-neocon eye, you can see that Europe has at least as large of a GDP as the US does but even more to the point is that the conflict in Syria and the effects of the refugee crisis to come is going to affect Europe much more that it will us. I know that this has been a humanitarian crisis long before the use of chemical weapons and they are being used as an excuse for a bombing campaign, but there are many, many humanitarian crises across the globe…what makes this different? This is a question that no one has answered yet…what about the Arab league? Why can’t these folks do something? All I can say is that there are many other actors who should be involved before the US and I think it is time for them to step up and take some responsibility for their own region…let’s give our military the rest it has earned….12 years of constant war is just too much for our soldiers to bear.