Election Wrap-Up / Final Sign Update

Well, it's the next morning and I have to say I awoke with a LITTLE more confidence in the thinking ability of my fellow countrymen. C'mon, is there ANY coincidence that McCain took those states with the lowest education levels? Just askin.

Well, it's done now- THANK GOD!! We can get back to the really important topics, like Comic Books, cool shit in general, and of course- titty bars (whick I appologize for not having a whole lot of here before now- a sitiation I will be working hard to correct- lol!).

McSame and Failin are due for obscurity. Watch and see if McCain survives his current term, let alone get elected to another one, and the same goes for Palin. She has scandal following her enough to last her the rest of her term at least.

I do have to ask and wonder- when's Bristol's wedding? Will she even have one considering her impregnator's unwillingness for marriage- now that the spotlight is a little removed perhaps it will fizzel away, much like her mom's footnote in history.

To me, after seeing this campaign, the Republicans will have to go a LONG way to convince me that ANY candidate they try to introduce to the public is viable, let alone votable for. The Republican side of this campaign has left a shitstain that will not soon be removed from any descent person's conscience, especially any one with enough sense to back up whatever "fact" they might be spewing or spinning.

I'm seriously going to try to stay as far away from politics as I can for awhile.


FINAL McSAME SIGN UPDATE

On Halloween I sold another three signs, then on Monday sold one of the signs from my yard. This morning (Wednesday- the day after the election) I meant to pull up the last sign in my yard and place it in my garage (right next to the Ron Paul sign I still keep out there), but before I could get to it (around 10:30 am) somebody lifted the sign, pole and all, and made off with it. I figured somebody just doesn't have any sense of humor about them at all. Either that or THEY wanted a souvenier and decided that taking the sign was just what they needed.



Still, the final tally for the sign are: 9 sold, one given away, and two stolen. If you are the one that took it, you owe me at least 5 bucks.

Once more, if I had only thought of this about 2 months ago I might have made a small fortune from doing them.

I'll know better for next time.

And here "Next Time", no more politics. at least for a llooonnnggg while!

Wake Up!

WTF: Weekend Update

Catching you up on a few bits of previous bloggings, just to keep you as up to date as possible:

Obama last week (or perhaps the week before) actually had the words “geo thermal” hit the media from one of his speeches. Whenever these politicians publicly address our energy needs, and how badly we need to be self-reliant, absolutely none of them want to talk about, let alone USE the term “abiotic”, but every once in a great while you’ll hear them say “geo-thermal” probably just to screw with the heads of an energy corp or two- though I’m sure that part of making geo-thermal energy “practical” will be how much these corps can charge us a lot more than exactly how simple, cheap, and cost effective it could be.

I’d be more interested in what these politicians were spouting if they were actually trying to think a little more out of the box. Let’s see Obama start talking about real alternative energies- I mean here in Flint, we’re all excited about a bio-fuel plant that will actually take shit and turn it into fuel- literally. We’re losing our ass for being such a GM hub that when a few extra jobs for recycling shit starts to be whispered, we’re kissing ass grateful. Of course, our last three fast food franchises that opened here (Krispy Kreme, White Castle, and now Sonic- yes, we are in the “big time” now) they all had about a 10-1 application ratio. That’s 10 applications for each job. That’s one of many reasons why McCain never bothered to take Flint, let alone Michigan as viable. We’re too freakin’ poor for their elite asses to waste their time with us.


My “McSame” sign is still in front of my house as I type this. Guess the McCain folks who were stealing Obama signs around here are fooled. I did have my neighbor come over to tell me he appreciated my sense of humor. He’s a retired shop worker who’s VERY conservative, and he’s not fooled by all the negative campaigning- he thinks for himself. I’m almost looking at the election as a measure of intelligence for the country, which may be a problem on my end because I’m usually pretty cynical when it comes to folks being “sheeple”. I think the choice is too easy to make if you just THINK and look at the record, campaign, and demeanor of the candidates.

It is driving me NUTS that all the outcry over Obama’s socialistic tax hike on the rich works out to a lousy THREE PERCENT!! And it returns the tax structure to the same levels when Clinton was in office- BUT adds a deduction for every employee. Once you actually READ the fine print and look at the real percentages, then you realize that the folks screaming about “socialism” are the same guys shipping jobs and opportunities for employment elsewhere. These guys aren’t really worried about socialism as much as losing a lousy THREE PERCENT! That just means they MIGHT have to stop getting their coffee from Starbucks and get it from McDonalds every morning in order to maintain their exact standard of living. Either that or be a little more charitable, or actually do something else like invest in their business infrastructure, or hire an American employee or two to balance it all out. It’s SO ridiculous that it plain pisses me off! “Socialism” indeed!

Getting off the soapbox now and back to the updates… On the Flint front, the guy who hand spray painted “Isn’t Flint Great?” on his store front has now changed his tune…



I understand (and even show there from his little poster he’s tacked up next to his door) that he’s printing t-shirts out of the store front now. I was looking at getting a store front to print t-shirts out of not more than 2 blocks away from where he is, but was told I had to install an extensive sprinkler system into the building THAT I WOULD BE RENTING because those pesky shirts catch fire SO often (not!) that a fire extinguisher would not do the job properly. Needless to say I farm out any t-shirt print jobs I get now, which thanks to the economy are getting fewer and fewer.

One thing I can say I’m proud of for living around Flint right now is that we’ve had two crappy mayors, and now Flint’s about to have their second recall election for mayor within the decade- that’s kinda cool if you ask me. I’m making a shirt that says “2 Mayors- 2 Recalls, FLINT MICHIGAN, Making Democracy Work For US.” Seriously. Let me know if you want one.




On the comic front- the latest posting of Lying In The Gutters on the Comic Book Resource site: http://www.comicbookresources.com/ (a kind of comic book gossip column) makes mention that DC may soon be revamping the Paul Kirk Manhunter back into a full fledged series. If you look back a few weeks on one of my “Heroes I Miss” postings you can see more on what he’s all about. This is well past due to happen, I just hope they take their time with the property and DON’T FUCK IT UP! We’ll see.

On the blog front I’m still behind on those “Heroes I Miss” sections and I’ve mentally prepared a number of other postings as well, I just need to get off my ass (or more on point- get on my ass in front of this computer) and type them in. In the meantime I’m working on a couple of other fun things that MIGHT actually work out. Yep, more “obi-Wan Kenobi off on a wild crusade” kinds of things so they’re really not worth getting into.

Thanks again to all you folks sticking with this blog- I hope you’re finding it entertaining. As always, I encourage you to stop lurking at any time and comment, or drop me a line via my MySpace page if you’ve got anything you feel would be worth mentioning here. Doing so might inspire me to post more often. Thanks again and. As always…

WAKE UP!

Wake Up Site Of The Week: The Consumerist

Hey out there, just thought I'd share a site with you that you should have bookmarked and check in on from time to time:

http://www.consumerist.com

Taglined as "Shoppers Bite Back" this is a consumer reporting site that covers a wide range of topics, corporate fraud, consumer abuse, and in general consumer news that is constantly updated and lets you know that you aren't alone in being fucked over by big corporations and what some everyday consumers are doing to fight back.

Never a dull read recent articles cover such a wide range as McDonalds talking about knocking their double cheeseburger off the dollar menu, to Circuit City sending out an edict to their employees to destroy all copies of the latest issue of Mad Magazine because of a parody they ran of CC's newspaper ad (and don't get me started on Circuit City's practices, I could take up a week's worth of blogs on their practices and screws), to the average Joe's fight(s) with big corps like Comcast just to get a little dignity and "fair play".

So check them out, bookmark them, recommend others to do the same. Consider it all part of your ongoing education in the continuing war against the middle class (a war we are all LOSING by the way), and another handy hint from this little monkey who just wants everyone to WAKE UP!

You're welcome.