Argh!
# # # # #
Booked a trip. (Yeah, I know. I too would rather go to the dentist than fly. Unavoidable. Have to check on a old family friend!)
Travel Agent got us seats outbound but couldn’t on the inbound return.
So I filled out the airline contact form. (Agonizing detail. Required fields alone took 10 minutes — estimated)
*** begin quote ***
My travel agent says that he’s unable to reserve seats on the return trip. That seems strange and very ‘un Swiss’. We’d like to have seats assigned.
*** end quote ***
SEVERAL days later, I get this:
*** begin quote ***
Dear Mr Reinke,
Thank you for writing to us.
We have reviewed your request and wish to share the following information with you:
A specific seat will be assigned to you during the check-in process.
SWISS offers the following check-in options:
– Web check-in
– Self check-in machines
– Phone check-in
– Local check-in
For further details, please contact the following link on our website:
http://www.swiss.com/web/EN/services/checkin/Pages/checkin_overview.aspx
We wish you a pleasant flight with SWISS and are available to assist you at any time.
Sincerely yours
{Name withheld}
SWISS E-Mail Service Center-Team Basel
*** end quote ***
ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!
I LOVE getting form email. It’s like some one presses response buttons randomly.
And, business wonder why customer HATE them!
{Just shaking my head}
Maybe I should call the 1800 number and have a nice man from Bangladesh read to me from his script. Probably read me the same answer!
# # # # #
*** begin quote ***
Jury sees videos of La. congressman accepting cash
By MATTHEW BARAKAT – 17 hours ago
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal jury has seen video of a former Louisiana congressman accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000 in cash outside a northern Virginia hotel.
The videos played Tuesday are a key piece of evidence in the bribery trial of William Jefferson, a Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans. He’s accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes to broker business deals in Africa.
*** end quote ***
This bozo did not have the decency to conceal his corruption. ALL politicians and bureaucrats are the same. Some are just a little more circumspect than others. BUT they all are feathering their own nests at our expense.
Anarchy, not chaos, is the only solution. Government, as a meme, can NOT be controlled.
# # # # #
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090704/D997DI2G1.html
Venezuela assumes control of Spanish-owned bank
Jul 4, 12:22 AM (ET)
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ
*** begin quote ***
(AP) Venezuela’s Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque, left, shakes hands with former president of…
*** begin quote ***
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez’s government assumed control of Venezuela’s third-largest bank on Friday – making the state the largest player in the nation’s banking system.
*** end quote ***
And this is different than what Bush43 / Obama44 did?
Chavez = bad communist dictator!
Bush43 / Obama44 = “good guys”.
Why because they are “ours”?
Argh!
# # # # #
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/06/july_4_atlanta_tea_party_cance.html
June 23, 2009
July 4 Atlanta Tea Party Cancelled
Jason Lee
*** begin quote ***
With as many as 20,000 people attendance, the Atlanta Tea Party on April 15 was one of the largest and most successful Tea Parties in the country. The Atlanta Tea Party on July 4, 2009 had been expected to be just as large. Unfortunately, plans have changed. Simon Property Group has forced the cancellation of the Atlanta Tea Party.
*** and ***
Following the money, connecting the dots:
1. Gwinnett Place Mall shut down the Atlanta Tea Party.
2. Simon Property Group owns Gwennett Place Mall.
3. Melvin Simon (a Forbes 400 billionaire) is Co-chairman of Simon Property Group, Inc.
4. Melvin Simon has provided large political contributions to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Al Franken, John Edwards, the DNC and many other Democrats and Democrat organizations.
5. Melvin Simon was a major contributor to Barack Obama inaugural committee and has given at least $1 million to the William J. Clinton foundation.
6. Melvin’s wife, Bren, personally donated almost $100,000 to various political candidates, was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, and contributed to President Obama’s inaugural committee.
*** end quote ***
AND IN THE COMMENTS
*** begin quote ***
Two can play that game. Call for a boycott of all Simon Malls – there are plenty of alternatives looking for our dollar. Write to the merchants management and say why you will not shop at a Simon Mall – they suppress Freedom of Speech and the constitutional right to assemble. Boycotts worked in the South before, they will work again especially if wide spread throughout the country. Nobody tells Simon where to invest his money and it is his right to contribute to whichever candidate he thinks will benefit this country. But our choice of where to shop is beyond his reach. Not that one can’t smell the stink of perversion from Chicago via Washington. Hardball they want? Hardball they get.
*** end quote ***
BOYCOTT Simon Malls!
http://www.simon.com/findamall/noflash/find_mall.aspx
# # # # #
http://lewrockwell.com/spl/another-reason-for-secession.html
Another Compelling Reason for Secession
The Feds Plan To Stick Us With a National Sales Tax (in a Depression!)
by Lori Montgomery
*** begin quote ***
With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax.
*** end quote ***
Doesn’t anyone see this as the “fair tax”? It was exactly the argument that the opponents made when everyone assured us we couldn’t ossibly wind up with both a sales tax and an income tax.
Sorry to all the senior citizens who paid their taxes and saved, now when they spend those savings, guess what? They get to pay taxes again. Like the estate tax, it’s taxes on taxes.
Will this be the straw that breaks the taxpayer’s back?
# # # # #
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99055
We are out of money
Posted: May 25, 2009
Vox Day
*** begin quote ***
Steve Scully, C-Span: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?
Obama: Well, we are out of money now.
*** and ***
… … a number of contributing factors that are more important than others. Among them include:
1. The abandonment of constitutional money
2. The expansion of the voting franchise
3. Global military aspirations
4. Transformation of the labor force
5. Mass immigration
*** and ***
The expansion of the franchise to include many parties historically denied the vote has had the inevitable, and expected, effect of permitting society’s non-productive members voting themselves the right to obtain wealth transferred from society’s productive members.
*** and ***
Rather than lamenting the national mistakes of the past, Americans who value freedom, liberty and prosperity would do well to look to the possibilities of the post-American future.
*** end quote ***
You need the pitchfork and torch for all the congresscritters!
# # # # #
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/the_most_expensive_date_night.html
May 31, 2009
The Most Expensive Date Night in History
Rick Moran
*** begin quote ***
Thirdly, with GM set to declare bankruptcy next week and American families trying and, in many cases, failing to make ends meet in these hard economic times, shouldn’t the president be a little more circumspect in his private affairs?
*** end quote ***
Argh!
How out of of touch the rich (DEMOCRATIC) elite are!
Don’t get me wrong — both parties suck.
At least, the R’s don’t pretend to be in touch. The D’s are supposedly the party of the “little people”. Yeah, right!
Sorry, but this had to cost us taxpayers a fortune and it’s irritating.
Guess we should be happy it wasn’t a date in Paris!
# # # # #
UPDATE: Guestimates as high as 250k$ of taxpayer $
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/curl-cost-nyc-weekend/
*** begin quote ***
One thing is known — The Obamas picked up the cost of dinner costs and their orchestra seat tickets, which cost $96.50 a piece. So if the whole thing cost $250,000, the Obamas offset that by at least a few hundred bucks. Phew.
*** end quote ***
# # # # #
You must be logged in to post a comment.