Armageddon

With all due respect to Pennsylvania’s municipal workers, why is the possible laying off 20,000 or more of them due to PA budget problems Armageddon ? Why isn’t a national unemployment rate of almost 10% Armageddon ?
Why isn’t the almost daily announcement of private company layoffs Armageddon? When the taxpayers of the state of PA are being laid off, and their employees, PA state workers jobs are sacrosanct, that is Armageddon.

ANOTHER CELEBRITY SEEKING FAMILY

Maybe I have lived too long, but sending your 16 year old daughter out to sail around the world is nothing but a stunt. If her parents really are interested in her doing this stunt send her out with a chase boat and rescue team following her, all of which her family should fund.

One way or anther the taxpayers of the world have to pay for finding and rescuing people who go around doing stunts. The least that can happen is the royalties from their books and TV shows and movies are sent to a fund to educate people to not do stupid publicity seeking stunts.

Comments on a Charels Krauthammer Op Ed Article

Mr. Krauthammer,

I should begin by saying I am Jewish, and therefore biased towards Israel. That being said I must say your column in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the away in which the world is conspiring to eliminate itself of Israel and the Jews was very frightening.. It was frightening because it showed the ways in which Israel and its “troublesome” Jews are never going to have the peace and tranquility they so desperately crave and are entitled to.

Just by coincidence on this past Tuesday night I attended a lecture about among other things the past and future of anti-Semitism or as it should Called today anti- Israelism. Combing that with your column has made me even more resolute in my support for Israel.

It seems that as pessimistic as it might be, the only true friends in this world who really support Israel are Israelis , and enlightened Americans such as yourself.

Please keep up your defense of Israel and its “troublesome “ Jews, as I heard Tuesday night, Jews are the worlds Canaries, as Canaries are to coal miners. As the world treats its Jews so will if find out how it will treat its other minorities.

Working in a Call Center

If you work in a telemarketing / call center, you have lots of time to:
1. Make up fictitious company slogans:
Blah Blah the call center company that lowers your expectations one call at
a time.
Blah Blah the call center company that lowers the service bar one call at a time.
2. You also have time to call people you who actually want to know if they are on candid camera?

Call center employees are minor executives in minor corporations.

The Beginning of the End

I firmly believe that when Microsoft created the Excel spreadsheet program, most middle managers lost their minds. What I mean is managers actually believe that if they can put some figures and some words into a spreadsheet they must be true. Somehow spreadsheets have come to mean credibility. And what is even is spreadsheets have became invincible. Whatever an off the wall manager puts into a spreadsheet must be doable, and once something is supposedly doable, in this economy the downstream workers can't say no to doing it. No matter how outrageous or impossible to accomplish the goals are, as set forth in any spreadsheet the worker bees must agree to actually trying to reach these ridiculous goals. Goals used to be attainable and mutually agreed on. Today all middle management has to do is create a spreadsheet or a Word document and all of a sudden all the worker bees have to line up and agree to march into the sunset and commit suicide if they don't reach the absurd middle management goals.

Career Politicians

I am sick and tired of career politicians. Elected officials who act as if their only job is too get themselves re-elected. What has brought anger on my part to a head, is the Democratic Party primary in Pennsylvania between the incumbent Senator Arlen Spector and his challenger Rep. Joe Sestak. What Spector has done is to attack Sestak on minor unimportant points and too attack Sestak's "mental health" and Sestak's allegiance to the United States, even though Sestak served as a three star Admiral in the US Navy.
Arlen Spector has been in the Senate too long, and he needs to be sent home. The founding fathers made a mistake but not including term limits in the original US Constitution and now is the time for the voters of PA to exercise their version of term limits and send Arlen Spector home to Pennsylvania.

What Used Car Salesman Say between talking to Used Car buyers

So, I have been advised I have to blog a few lines each day. So here goes:
Some of these lines were said by others, but I found them funny enough to at least remember to write them down. These were said by various used car salesmen I used to work with:
1. Here comes the Woodall Family. They Woodall have come to the showroom floor but they can't fit into their current car.
2. Down South we use automobile air bag recovery systems for only larger women. Weatherman can predict everything, including tornadoes.
God made whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
3. While at a small church in the South during a witness service an Old Man got up and said" I am thank full to the Lord because I had a bowl movement this morning and I feel great."
4. The theory of Relativity is only for people who can tolerate illegal drugs.