Random Ideas

Here I was, reading about an injustice, and up comes a popup. This is odd for the news site I was at. I calmly close the window and go back to my reading. IT POPS UP AGAIN!!! I have nothing particular against Campbell’s Healthy Request, but popups are sleazy and should NEVER come back up when closed. They seem to have contracted some pile of filth at “promotion.familytime.com” to perform a form of spam. I don’t know about you, but I will not be buying any form of Campbell’s product for my family. I am going to look at the label of every product I consider buying. If it’s connected to Campbell’s, it will be a product I doubt I will buy.

Who would have predicted to return of Reagan’s economic idiocy? Republicans in New York and other financial centers are once again touting the theory that if we charge less tax to corporations and rich people, the money will “Trickle Down” to the rest of the economy. I was born at night, but not LAST NIGHT! Corporations have already shown what they will do with the money. AIG partied like maniacs with bailout money. Other companies who have gotten give-backs from unions and lower level employees have ELIMINATED jobs and tried to bring in cheaper workers from other countries. They have taken assets offshore to avoid taxes and generally flaunted the fact that when they do wrong, they are largely untouchable.

On the other hand, New York City has become a dictatorship run by an attempted “Mayor For Life”. Bloomberg has hampered efforts to control the rougue agency known as the MTA. When they see advantage to it, they act as a private company. When cornered about breaches of ethics and laws governing corporations, they are suddenly a city agency. A city agency that is in no way officially answerable to anyone. They raise the rates and leach off taxpayers at will. People working for minimum wage are paying full time salaries to fat managers who outnumber actual workers by a ridiculous margin and paying for them to have a free car and fuel to run it on. When there is a public outcry, the gluttonous management point to a select few who “double dip” the pension system and scam the overtime system. When they run out of people who played the system at the lower levels, they vilify the union in general as the true cause of the public’s woes, while cutting services and raising rates. All supported by the mayor and other key people in government. This makes people feel insecure enough to think they need a “money man” in the mayor’s office. So the City council gets pressured until the term limit laws are set aside, without any attempt to give the people of the city any choice in the matter. Now, it already looks like he will try it again! Term limits were put in place democratically, they should not be removed in any other way.

Yes, the UN has, yet again, given a podium to one of the most idiotic figureheads in the world. Somehow, the puppet president of the fundamentalist dictatorship was given free reign to verbally abuse anyone willing to sit through his yammering tirade of verbal abuse and lowbrow conspiracy theory. Honestly, anyone over the age of five ( if they can read ) would know better than to agree with. He even went so far as to blame 911 on the US as some sort of nebulous conspiracy to make money. Ignoring for a moment that there are audio and video recordings and piles of evidence, as well as signed confessions that verify the guilt of Osama Bin Laden and various other afghan and Taliban operatives. It is sheer stupidity to give this maniac a platform to spout his tripe and trash to the masses. Meanwhile, he openly mocks and defies the world with his continued efforts to develop nuclear weapons. When will we cease to enable such insanity? All we have to do is cut businesses off from dealing with this criminal state and penalize anyone who does. War is not required, but harsh penalties are.

The wonderful land of the Scotts has now been revealed to either be run by morons, or run by BP sell-outs. The “terminally ill” murderer of Lockerbie has now been revealed to be in wonderful health. How could the Dr. make such a mistake? Maybe his equipment malfunctioned? Could the samples been mixed up? No. He was simply paid off by a Lyban sympathetic BP. WHy would BP work with a country with such a history of evil and pay for the release of a man who is evil incarnate? Oil. Plain and simple. It’s the same thing that has lead Sarah Palin to sell out the great state of Alaska. It’s the money gotten from oil that has lead the Republicans and some Democrats to accuse our government of being too hard on the company that has, trough penny pinching and other unethical measures, destroyed a huge part of our ecosystem. The same company who created the worst oil disaster in history… Wouldn’t it be scary if they were the same ones who bought the freedom of a mass murderer in Scotland… Oh, wait, IT IS! I am finding it hard to think of a more evil company outside of the tobacco industry.

If these acts of evil bother you, act on it. No, do not throw mud. Do not throw anything or break anything. Simply pull across the street and buy gas at another place. The consumer has the power to kill a company by choking off their income. Vote with dead presidents.

So, I open my email yesterday. What do I see nestled in my inbox? The most transparent spam I ever saw. Being the person I am, I HAD to mess with this filthy creature. Here is the original spam. I will follow it with the messages that were exchanged…

2010/2/12 Jon wells <test@raytrade.nl>