Reinke Faces Life

… … another holiday that has lost its meaning?

Now call me “Ebenezer” (Stone of Help? Or, Charles Dickens’ character) but, with the illegitimacy rate climbing, single moms, marriage rates falling, the coarsening of society, and the general demise of the “nuclear family” … …

… … has this become another “Norman Rockwell” holiday?

That’s is where it looks better in a picture than it does in real life.

Nothing more than excuse to take some days off, kickoff some pathetic football games by overpaid “athletes” with “interesting antics”, and begin the over commercialized “holiday shopping season”?

This year, there was a deluge of propaganda about “airport security” and how people should prepare for what I call “unreasonable search and seizure” by the gubamint at the airports. And people just line up and take it. (No security expert with any kind of credentials that I have read or talked to thinks this in anything more than what one of them calls “security theater”!) So the media lackeys, (remember they are regulated by the FCC in violation of the First Amendment) obey their big guabmint masters, and put out the gang’s (oppressive) message “well keep you safe as long as you comply”. What “barabara striesand”! Personally, I won’t fly, unless my employer really really insists. When they discharge all these extra government hacks, then and only then will I consider it.

So, here we go into another holiday season, when all I can say is “tsk, tsk”.

Maybe I’m getting old but that’s how I see it.

Comments?

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 22 November at 0713 est on Route 295S Exit 47 … …

… … a white suv sg 24 301 … …

… down route 295 at a leisurely 80+ (Speed limit is 65 for commoners!)

… in lots of traffic

… tail gating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane! (as it disappeared into the distance!)

(Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from the scene of most crimes against the people of NuJerzee (aka trenton) to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4690294?source=rss

Discounts on gas add fuel to fools’ ire
By David Harsanyi
Denver Post Staff Columnist
Article Last Updated:11/19/2006 11:44:53 PM MST

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This month, King Soopers and City Market (both owned by Kroger) were forced by a federal jury decision to cut out a program called Buy Groceries/Get Gas — which offered consumers modest savings on gas purchases.

Two “independent” gasoline stations in Montrose brought the suit and were awarded $1.4 million in damages. The jury found the big stores had violated Colorado’s Unfair Practices Act, illegally selling gas below cost.

Yes, King Soopers was selling gasoline too cheap. It’s illegal.

So let’s quickly review an old economics adage: Charge too much and you’re price gouging. Charge too little and you’re predatory pricing. Charge the same as your competitor and you’re in collusion.

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You have to admit that the gubamint skools (aka: political reeducation camps) have done a superb job of making the new citizens of Amerika stupider than tree stumps! Without the collective brains of a box of rocks!

Minimum prices, minimum wages, price supports, price floors, … … …, and anything else of this ilk that you think of are just taxes in a transparent disguise.

You can’t sell something for below your cost?

Tell it to WalMart, and all the other discount store that use a loss leader!

How stupid were the people on this jury? How stupid were the prosecutors for filing this case in the first place? How stupid were the legislators who passed this absurdity?

How stupid are we for tolerating it?

Now I am as patient as the next person. Really I am. But even a really good server can’t read my mind. Too many “everything ok?” questions is annoying. More annoying is the “lost server”.

For example, last night, Frau and I went to the “good” Chinese restaurant, not the “closest” or the “closer”, but the “good” one. Their food is great; the service leaves much to be desired.

(I’m working on them. I’ll get up and go get them when I need them to do something. Frau’s a big tipper. So they “tolerate” me. I guess)

Now when you’re paying two bucks for a soda, I expect Frau’s glass never to be empty!

Not so.

So I want a little flag on the table that I can raise when I want something. (Can it be wired to the waiter’s cell phone?) Or a push button that illuminates like the flight attendant call button.

That’s enough!

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 08 Nov at 0654 est on Route 295 S at Mile 60 … …

… … a white truck td 0342 … …

… … was seen at leisurely 80 (Speed limit for serfs is 65)

… … in lots of traffic

… … tailgating the poor peon in his way

… but he was in the right lane (heading for the exit)!

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get to I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.

Took last night off from life. Due to Montezuma! Now I haven’t been anywhere near South America; nor, have I even thought of South America, so why is he exacting his revenge on me? Aghh.

Maybe I have given myself an ulcer with trying to keep too many “plates” twirling. Hmmm?

Oh well, today will be better.

Especially since the NuJerzee taxpayers have something to show for all the money they have pumped into the pigeon hole labeled “State U”.

(Every real state has to have one right? Don’t want our distinguished Congress critters to be looked down on as rubes by their fellow fascists. Do we?)

Anyway, the Rutgers semi-professionals beat the Louisville semi-professionals in an exciting football game last night. As befits an educated and cultural elite group (in their own minds), there was no violence in the streets “celebrating” “their” victory.

(Never understood how buying a ticket to watch some men, who have sweated their butts off, who have practiced “a lot”, and who  have sacrificed a lot, when those men win, how does your ticket, your tuition bill, or your tax bill, make that”your victory”?)

In the grand scale of things, I’d have rather they announced a cure for <insert your favorite disease: aids, breast cancer, montezuma’s revenge>. But I guess you have to take joy where you find it.

And, no, I’m not jealous because there’s no Jasper football. There is Jasper Rugby! Now that’s a real man’s game. No equipment. No “scholarships”. Nothing professional about it. Just played for the joy of sport.

Isn’t that what student athletics and amateur is  supposed to mean?

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Why would you go to anything but http:// www. sears. com?

While I have a sears account, and they have my email address, it’s not one used for ANY other purpose. Also, that email account, is EXCLUSIVELY Sears! So if something, anything, comes purporting to be from Sears on ANY other email account, it is –prima facie (on its face) –res ipsa loquitur (it speaks for itself) — a FRAUD!

Even if you don’t want to go to the trouble of setting up different email accounts for different financial uses, you can do the same thing with gmail. Use the plus sign when you give out your gmail account to anyone. Regardless if you use or don’t rules or sort on it, it’s its own credential. After all how many spammers are going to guess that 6D4EAEBB87685D @ gmail.com will go thru with their spam fraud, but that the had to say 6D4EAEBB87685D + 57USHYW1 for me to really believe it was from the real Sears. (I know the address from writing them nasty letters.)

So maybe I create a code log. And, +58BD is Pennys, +BDFD is food town, +7BB3 is my bank, and +A6F1 is my credit union.

Go ahead try and fool me!

I can even carry a list in my wallet of the next forty strings. If I lose it NBD (no big deal). I can just make up another.

You don’t need to risk being fooled. You can take simple steps to protect yourself. I’ll help.

Here are some random plus codes for your to use:

5DC6E8 748A46 C9737A 4D5C6F
E5634C 3D4D42 222986 8C8F5A
CF9678 F349F3 776962 355D48
EEDD4D 53A768 C25D4F DA356E
698A7E 7768B3 C9F39B E244F8

Yell if you need more!

I just listened to the supposedly unbiased ABCTV NEWS. It sounded like they were democrat cheerleaders.

Common guys, at least pretend objectivity.

Now I don’t like the fascist from either flavor of big government “party”. But, you have to laugh at the pretensions of the “reporters”.

WOW! What a joke!

Referencing:

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/09/23/
money-wal-mart-to-offer-4-generic-prescription-drugs

I found one comment this morning which, of course, “spun up my ire”.

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From: Bill
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:50 AM
To:
Subject: [Reinke Faces Life] Comment: “MONEY: Wal-Mart to offer $4 generic prescription drugs”
New comment on your post #780 “MONEY: Wal-Mart to offer $4 generic prescription drugs”
Author : Bill (IP: 24.48.51.63 , 24-48-51-63.ashbva.adelphia.net)

This is only for a thirty pill supply

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OK, that’s a fair enough comment.

So I shot back the following:

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Bill: You have to admit regardless if 30 pills or 30 days for some body’s four bucks, it’s a hell of a deal. Certainly better than for example the gubamint’s Medicare Drug Benefit with the crazy rules and the “doughnut hole”. Fjohn

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Nothing like starting off the morning with thinking about gubamint!

I have some other RANTs to pass out this morning in no particular order.

(1) I have some old folks that I poa for. Why do the docs insist on:

(a) prescribing expensive drugs in large batches that the old folks won’t take? Those old codgers are too polite to tell the good doc that. They yes the doc to death, go home, and do what they want. I know there are several hundred dollars in their various apartments sitting on the top of the counter that will never be taken. Wasting money, and these ain’t rich people.

(b) prescribing complicated dosing regimes to old folks, who while not doddering idiots, have a hard time remember stuff. Take this pill at 11am, that pill at 4pm, except on alternate Thursdays, unless the month begins with a vowel. Hey dummy doc do you realize that it has to be sesame street simple. Even for me, when I was taking lost of meds, it got confusing. And, I was a doddering idiot! DO they think that these people live in a nursing home with 24 hour nursing care? Heck, even hospitals make drug erros if it gets more than one a day!

(2) The Gubamint’s Medicare Benefit, with the stupid doughnut hole, is a joke. Despite having 4 old folks, on the gubamint plan, taking lots of stuff, I have yet to have one qualify for something. When I talk to the various druggists involved, they universally and uniformly describe it as a “scam to fool the old voters”! That’s their words, not mine. They also tell me that the BIG WINNERS in this were CORPORATIONS. Huh, yup, you got it, they were allowed to dump their retiree drug plans cause the government let them. Argh!

(3) Those corporations that drop their retirees either thru bankruptcy or shenanigans. A special curse on you! May your balance sheets get Cloroxed to the “holy land”, and may your bedsheets get starched! And, you better hope you don’t need me to buy something from you.

(Ahh that feels much better!)

(4) The Gubamint for getting the WW2 wage and price controls that allowed businesses to get into the “benefit business” in order to avoid those controls. This hid the true cost of stuff, got people used to getting free stuff, and tied people to their jobs to keep their benefits. Can we ever roll it back? From my consulting business I still carry my own benefits. It’s not that much, about 4k / year. But, I am not an indentured servant to any corporation, beholding to them for protection from outrageous medical expenses.

(5) How dumb are we, the American people, for allowing this to go on? Welcome to the new fascist Amerika, home of the stupid, land of the handout, and cesspool of corrupt politics.

How’s that for a morning rant?!

P.S.: Bill left a fake email address. I wonder why? A drive by commenting?

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 03 November at 0715 est on Route 295 milepost 43 … …

… … a white DOT truck TD 4754 … …

… down 295 at a leisurely 85 (Your serf speed limit is 55)

… in lots of traffic

… tailgating the poor peon in his way

… never left the left lane (Do you teach them to do that, or is that a qualification for working for the state of nujerzee!?)

Almost didn’t get the plate he whizzed by so quick.

Remember I wanted all the getaway cars in the state painted a hideous florescent color.

(Well what to YOU call the cars that criminals drive away from the scene of the crime? The laugher here is that they rob the taxpayer and we GIVE them a getaway car!)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get away from, I assume, the scene of the crime, trenton, to somewhere more important, of course, to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

At least next Tuesday, there’ll be ZERO state workers on the road. They’ll all be hung over from celebrating their ethnic holiday INCUMBENT REELECTION DAY, aka CINCO THE TAXPAYER BY THE HUEVEOSEZ, aka SAINT TAMMNEY HALL DAY patron of crooks, (did I miss any religions).

P.S.: Dear reader, I don’t write these every day. Just when I ARRIVE early for work, particularly agitated aggravated and have to wait for my employer workstation to get online.