If you buy electronics from China, whatever you do, don't pop the bubbles in the bubble wrap.
It contains Chinese air.
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- "... when I first began applying for jobs, every application asked if you are or ever have been a member of the Communist Party."
I started working (officially) in 1953, at the age of 14 when I was issued my Social Security Card. To date, I have NEVER been asked on a job application, or by an employer in any way, if I have ever belonged to the communist party. That included my first job out of high school at the Douglass Aircraft Company. What kind of employer would ask that? And, would I even want such a job? Frank |
- Instant Karma's gonna get you
- Gonna knock you right on the head
- You better get yourself together
- Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
I don't worry about old age. It doesn't last that long. Frank |
- "game show state of the union with prizes, how low."
DTS is alive and well here in A'gon-land. *lol* Now then, speaking of the Rose Bowl ... That stadium holds 104,000 people. "Someone did something" and held a rally recently that could have filled that stadium to the hilt, and still had another 50,000 people outside the stadium looking at the big-screens. That's gotta hurt. Frank |
The man who came down the elevator snookered the entire left side of the House and Senate into attending Rush Limbaugh’s award ceremony. It turned out to be a real RIP roaring, upper-plate-loosening event.
Frank |
- "They party and travel with them, take in and launder their mob money, make lucrative business deals with them ..."
Hey, who said anything about an ex-vice president? Frank |
- "My first job was in a pink building with no windows. I was asked that question."
The only pink building with no windows I've ever seen was the strip club in West Hollywood. Why would they care about your politics? Frank |
- "Rush was a repeat drug offender with about 2,000 violations in just 6 months ...’
True that. It started with a back injury, for which, he took oxycodone. He, like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, got "hooked" on the drug. Humans build up a tolerance to these drugs causing more to be used in order to attain the same level of pain relief. Therefore, at some point, the doctors, being surveilled by the DEA, refuse to refill prescriptions. At that point, the "addict" is forced to doctor shop, then seek out street dealers, and then possibly turn to heroin. Rush, to his credit, entered rehab and kicked the habit. If one hasn’t suffered from excruciating chronic pain ... well, perhaps one should walk in the moccasins of another before passing judgment. Frank |
- "Oh, sorry Frank, I must have gotten Douglas and Boeing mixed up. I am not even certain if Boeing is in OR or WA but your screen name made me "assume" you're in Oregon, next door to Washington."
Boeing is in Seattle, Washington. During WWII my dad worked as a jig builder at Boeing, and my mom worked at the shipyards building merchant marine ships. I was just a little tyke at the time. Rain, rain ... and more rain.
- That was my point; most people who disparage socialism don't even know what it is.
Typical ... just assume that people don't understand the terms, because they just aren't as sophisticated and as well educated as you. What studies have you performed that allows for that assumption? I would say that most people who espouse socialism, have no idea what they are talking about. Not your fault of course. I'd place that fault at the feet of our government (socialized) monopolized school systems. Want to try an interesting little test? Ask any high school senior how many U.S. Senators there are. The vast majority haven't a clue. I've even asked degreed students that question and gotten a blank stare in return. Hey, we learned how government functions in the sixth grade. Yep, they don't know how their government works, and as a result, they can't tell when their government is taking advantage of them. They do know, however, that the planet will self-destruct in twelve years, that Heather has two Mommies, and that taking from producer Peter, in order to give to collectivist Paul, is a moral endeavor. Frank |
From the Guardian article provided by nonoise:
- What about the capitalist principles that people earn what they’re worth in the market, and that economic gains should go to those who deserve them?
It still applies. Once one realizes that as employees, we are nothing more than commodities on the labor market, one can start figuring out how to increase one's worth in that marketplace. Once realized, then one can start increasing one's skill level. Using that skill level in helping others get what THEY want first, allows money, that always follows the path of least resistance, to flow toward the person who has had the foresight to increase his/her skill, and subsequently his/her value as an employee. It has always worked for me. Frank |
- "Frank says most high school kids don't know when the government is taking advantage of them. Yet Frank apparently doesn't realize that the government is taking advantage of all of us when they take money from us and give it to hedge fund magnates and investment bank CEO's while those corporate titans pay NO income tax."
And that, my friend, is not free-market capitalism. It is crony capitalism ... the same as that practiced by the Robber Barons of a century ago and before. An interesting point in our history, if you want to know about crony capitalism, was during the period when the railroads were being built. When the free market has only the illusion of private ownership, with strict, dictatorial government control, it is indeed "socialism." It is the type of socialism known as fascism, and it was touted by both FDR and Churchill as a viable way to run a country. Both men are on record lauding the fascist system in Mussolini's Italy in the 1930s. Before FDR, it was Woodrow Wilson. Study the history of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution for some interesting answers. Frank |
- "Frank, there's only one "s" at the end of Douglas. You must have really made an impression on them. Congratulations."
I'm relieved to know that the spelling fascists are alive and well on this site. Thanks for the correction. Frank |
- Well, Frank, you didn't know that the president is "invited" to give the SOTU. He does not invite or "sucker" them into attending. Nice try.
One thing I've noticed about statism ... it depletes humor out of existence for its followers. :-) Frank |
Anyone besides me wondering how long these posts will be allowed to stand? Do the Mods work on Sunday??
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