It may sound innocent enough but the recent company stance in regards to it’s employees gives me no choice but to say request denied.  The company has asked all of it’s employees to take a course on the best methods of shipping packages here in the States and internationally.  Shipping, the simple act of moving a package from here to there in this era of Homeboy Security, hazardous substances, customs is really becoming quite involved.  Here is the clincher.

By enrolling in the course the company wants to give me my very own personal “shipping number”.  Mind you I, personally am not shipping a package, I am asking the company to do so.  They are paying for it, they are the cause of the reason for shipping it and by all reasonable assumptions would be liable legally for it.  Let me quote from a most recent official company publication.

“Employees may also be held liable for damages suffered by the company”.

Now you may say I’m being an alarmist or perhaps taking the entire thing out of context but really I am not.  This particular publication deals with US and international business regulations, things which are ever evolving and lawyers specialize in.  We are all up on that stuff are we not?  The publication offers “amnesty” to whistleblowers who have information about “irregularities” in company business dealings.  It also specifically states your “options” should you choose to do so.  Very Catch 22 and specifically states the company will not stand behind the individual employee.

So, how was your day honey?

The latest in the saga of aging parents and their questionable competence in maintaining their suburban household is thus.

A two day old installation of an energy efficient oil burner system failed.  The old oil pumped from the old oil tank clogged the oil burner nozzle causing it to misfire and clog the “efficient” boiler with black soot.  The fire department was called.  Being in the transition stage from friendly helpful concerned with people small town to big assholian city attitudes one fireman said ” Well he best have pulled a permit” and “We are shutting it down and you will need to find another place to stay”.  Yes this cretin is talking to a sevety-four year old woman and her eighty four year old husband.  Clearly a product of the six year “war on terra”.  Since when did the fire department become part of the code enforcement police.  Yes, I know in the big city this is completely accepted function but I was under the wholly mistaken impression that the fire department was there to help people, excuse me.  A simple why don’t you call XYZ oil burner service, I use them and they are very good.  But no, a visit by the fire department came with an apparent eviction notice.

Really I live only 5 minutes away yet I cannot protect my aging parents from the assholes of this world and this has to be the most damming indictment of government left or right federal state and local.

“Don’t tell the station who to put on the air”, either listen or don’t, he said.  I do believe he was foaming at the mouth and I don’t think I ever heard him loose it.  The topic was Don Imus and the “small minority of kooks” who want him back on the air.

Most maintain Don Imus was fired because of a nappy headed ho remark but my thinking goes a little further.  The remark that gave them an excuse.

Don before his departure made references to the autism-thimerosal connection.  Any anti-Illuminati watcher will tell you big pharma does not allow dissemination of information casting doubts upon the Godlike benevolence of western allopathic medicine.

http://www.propagandamatrix.co…

Don also promoted green cleaners.  Apparently the kids, loaded with cancer at the ranch tolerated it far better than the other toxic crap.  Again see above but fill in chemical industry.

Also some of Don’s shows seemed to show an irreverance toward mainstream thinking and were starting to break out of the boundaries of “accepted” American “journalism”.  

http://www.projectcensored.org/

Don was just not playing the prescribed ball.

Why just this week testimony before Congress was going on about associating this group

http://www.ae911truth.org/

with Islamic “terrorist” websites.

Myself?  I think it would really suck and I will pull my internet plug the first day I notice the net becoming a vacuous airheaded shopping mall like AOL.

Comcast is approaching that venue already.

I attended a dinner at a fine Italian restaurant with a group of older mostly retired people who made their money by long term stock market investments.  They seemed totally upbeat and enthusiastic about “the market”.  Little do they know, I think.

I was sort of an outsider,having zero money and only attending because of my parents. We took our assigned seats as I met “John”, a regional sales manager for an investment firm.  His mannerisms were, well, rehearsed but my first impression was so powerful I will remember it until I die.  The black emptyness of this man’s soul literally shook me.  (Mind you I have been on occasion getting these psychic like impressions from pictures of late.  Alberto Gonzales scared the crap our of me.)  God, this man needs more joy in his life.  Two young children he has, yet the mundane conventional conversation topics prevailed.  As dinner progressed I sensed he knew not what to make of me, an engineer eating pollo continental style but talking about horses.  I didn’t watch that “big football game”, I was with the horses.

Horses are prey animals so in learning about them one learns also the ways of the predator, that’s us, in their eyes.  After a solid year of untrained horse and untrained rider the joy of accomplished man horse communication far and away beats the black soul of a money manager.  

Since the dinner though the thoughts of money have even gone to my mother’s head.  You see in this country having money simply means you are married to it.  It is actually not yours.  It belongs to those you hire to manage it, the lawyers you pay to craft documents you have no chance of understanding to protect “assets” that will change next year due to new laws and tax implications.  It is literally an entire industry of bullshit.

The real deal though is that even with an entire lifetime of saving, not spending and even my father collecting cans for the deposit here in America, land of the free and home of the brave you get squat from government.  All of this lifetime of savings is for the possibility of nursing home care.  The land of the free and home of the brave is searching through seven years of detailed financial transactions of its’ senior citizens in order to enter the nursing home.

Now even if I croak, a penniless homeless person I intend petition the Lord himself one last return to earth to mount my Apocalyptic horse, snicker at all the soon to be smitten and say, “I told you so”.  

A salesman friend in the electronics industry says business of okay, and in fact is changing from the ups and downs common in the 1980s.  Trade magazines say there might be an improvement in the future in solar cells and Applied Materials is even getting into the business.

http://sst.pennnet.c…

Silicon is one of the first things needed to make an electronic device.  It is made into wafers, 300mm is a common wafer disk size.  From there a complex expensive process carried out in ultraclean rooms turns silicon into everything from solar cells to mini NSA type spy cameras.  These “fabs” of course are moving increasingly to China.

Now I know we all wish the Bush years had actually been the Gore years but I do sense a fanaticism in the “carbon footprint” movement.  Yes, I’m going to cease calling it the global warming movement and opt for the true phrase “carbon footprint tax movement”.

For if the sky truely is falling and the oceans are going to rise every useless electronic device factory should be making solar cells today.  Every other use is simply a waste of silicon.  Do I really need a device which can track my location just so I can talk to other people and irradiate my brain in the process?
http://www.prolibert…

Now if you find that a little to far fetched try these.

How about putting the power of a V8 muscle car on your motocycle!
http://www.angellabs…

Or did the inventor of television discover a possible fusion energy reaction?
http://www.philotfar…
http://en.wikipedia….
Or can energy be tapped from luminous bubbles in a liquid?
http://www.futurepun…

All of these things might be possible…………

Not.  Humans are involved don’t you see.
http://www.pureenerg…
And politics.
http://www.bushflash…
http://www.democracy…

As the lead painted childrens toys arrive from the communist totalitarian police state arrive, I have to say I have my doubts.