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the U.S forgot about us
Oct 30, 2008 | 7:10 AM PST
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first about who us are
i am dissabled
and been for a long time
i do not see good enofe to work any more
so i get dissablty
now they guys that want to be our presdent always say ill give so and so a break on there taxes and that will put money in so and so pocket
well they seem to forgot about us dissabled because they never say oh ill help these guys out by doing this or that
i get around 900 a month and the goverment takes out 100 for medicare that leaves me 800 for my bills and to pay to live
they will raise it a very little in jan but not enofe to let me live any better then i do now
giveing so and so a break on taxes does me no good and outhers like me
it wont make the rent cheaper or the food or
yes even going to the game wont be any cheaper
lol like i go to the game
i am in no way asking for a hand out i never have
but it would be nice to be able to do some of the things outhers enjoy once in a while
i worked for around 20 years i had paid my taxes
yeat it seems the u.s. a. forgot about pepole like me
we did the best we could and keep doing it
so i ask what does the next presdent want to do with us
what will he do to help us have a little more what will he do for our medical things we nee
something for all to think about
simply amazing
Mar 31, 2008 | 10:09 AM PST
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i wanted to share with you all its amazing how some can just do things like this just goes to tell you anything is possable
http://www.flixxy.com/extraordinary-people-seeing-
without-eyes.htm
burning cars and the police
Mar 25, 2008 | 7:12 AM PST
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ok i knowtice something about this story
the police was looking for these pepole burning up our cars and they put some cars out
now one of thers got burned and all of a sudden they put more cars out and even an eye in the sky
to me it seems like we hard woking for our stuff pepole dont matter much until its the police are afected
isnt that suposed to be the outher way around? are they not suposed to protect us and proptery?
this is just my opion maby it would of stoped way before now if they would of done things this way to begain with
jurry dutie in michigan?
Mar 10, 2008 | 6:38 AM PST
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i had to tell you all this
first me and my gf moved here two years agao because her job moved us here
now rember i said two years agao
sat i went to get the mail i looked and saw part of the addy on it and it said from united states district court
i said dang again i just had gotton out of one now i got anouther this year then i opened it and saw that it was for the eastern distrci of michigan the city of detroit it is in
now the kicker is it did not have my old addy in michigan on it but my one here in dallas texas
i am still in shock over this opne has got to be the dumbest thing in the world like what they going to give me money to get there and back and hotel lol ill call them today and let you know what they say i just had to share with all of you
update
i called and they said it was suposed to kick me out but for some reason it didnt they had said to fill it out and where it says do you live in michigan check th box no and the next one no also
i was like daaaaaa oh and i_s i added mmbath just for you he said what i said exalty lmao
article that aol is showing today read below especially 3rd one listed.
Ubiquitous 20th Century Brands That Will Disappear
Several brands which were extremely
powerful during the last few decades are about to disappear. Many of them no longer drive big sales. Some are a part of companies that are in trouble. Some are part of industries which are falling apart.
Big brands disappear all the time. Sometimes we simply miss their passing. Cingular Wireless was on most Top 100 brands lists. Once AT&T (T) took over BellSouth, it dropped Cingular completely. Compaq was one of the most visible PC brands in the world. It began to fade away after it was bought by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). The IBM PC brand, one of the original PC brands, no longer exists since it was acquired by Lenovo, a Chinese company, several years ago.
Here is a list of brands, most over them a decade old, and some much older, which are likely to go away in the next year or two.
XM
Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: XMSR) will disappear either in a merger with Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) the acquiring company will use its brand for both services or because without a merger XM may not make it. The company has over $1.2 billion in long-term debt. XM has always been the service with the largest number of subscribers. The XM brand could begin to disappear a few months after the potential marriage is complete.
E*Trade (NASDAQ: ETFC) has survived in a discount brokerage business where a number of famous brands, like Quick & Reilly, have gone away because of mergers. For the time being, management at the company says it does not want to sell out, but the firm's $12 billion in
home equity loan exposure may make staying independent impossible. The most likely buyers of E*Trade would be TDAmeritrade (NASDAQ:AMTD) and Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW). It would be ironic if a discount broker brand disappears because it was scuttled by its mortgage business but the housing crisis does things like that.
K-Mart is one of the two big brands at Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Eddie Lampert's failing retail play. Based on same store sales for last year, K-Mart is the less successful of the two retail operations. Spending to promote K-Mart and Sears may cost more that the holding company can afford. It certainly makes sense to kill off the K-Mart name and re-label all of the stores with Sears. It could save hundreds of millions in promotion dollars every year.
Dodge is part of the Chrysler company which was recently bought out by private equity firm Cerberus. Chrysler management has already said that the company has too many brands and too many dealers. It is trying to cope with a vicious downturn in the US auto market. Keeping a
car brand means huge advertising and marketing costs and product development. Dodge vehicles will probably be re-branded as Chrysler and Dodge will go the way of the Dodo.
Circuit City (NYSE: CC) has been synonymous with electronics retail, but companies like Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) have brought too much marketing muscle and wholesale buying power to the industry. Outside investors are already circling Circuit City trying to "improve shareholder value". That means that there is a good chance the chain will be sold. The price of the company's shares has already dropped from over $30 less than two years ago to just over $4. Best Buy could be the most logical buyer by keeping the locations that do well and closing the rest. Virtually all the merchandising, management, and public company costs would go away as would the Circuit City brand.
Gateway was recently bought by Taiwan PC firm Acer. Some investors may not remember when Gateway was considered a peer of both Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Compaq. In 1993, Gateway was in the Fortune 500. Acer will not keep the Gateway brand and its own. The dual promotion costs are too high. Starting soon you will be buying an Acer PC online or at your electronics retailer.
Vonage (NYSE: VG) almost invented VoIP. It certainly made it popular. Then cable companies began to market the service to existing customers and much of the "first mover" advantage Vonage had went away. Patent suits from companies like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and other big telecom companies bled away most of the cash that Vonage raised in its IPO. Two years ago, the stock was above $17. Now it trades at under $2. Vonage still loses money. One the large cable companies is likely to take over the Vonage customer list and let the brand disappear.
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is still trying to keep itself out of the hands of
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), but with a $31 offer and no other bidders even close, Redmond is going to take over. Microsoft is not generous about letting other brands have the limelight. Yahoo!'s brand will last while the e-mail and instant message operations are integrated, but soon enough it will all be MSN.
Old Navy is one of Gap's (NYSE: GPS) three brands and it is the one that is pulling down overall sales at the big clothing company. Old Navy has a little over one thousand outlets. Maintaining the costs of separate buying, marketing, and management costs just isn't worth it. Soon, the Old Navy stores will just be Gaps.
Countrywide (NYSE: CFC) had an operation on almost every street corner, or so it seemed. The mortgage bank would give almost anyone a home loan.They were not so generous when foreclosure time came around. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is buying Countrywide. The CFC brand has so much negative baggage and such a poor image that BAC will be smart and quickly put its name on all of the Countrywide branches.
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is still likely to sell its large handset unit to someone. It simply loses too much money and it is dragging the company under, As Motorola's stock price drops, the amount it will take for its handset operation will drop. LG, Sony Ericsson, or Samsung are probable buyers at some price, and that price gets more affordable as Motorola's global market share drops. That Motorola phone is likely to be called an LG handset sometime next year.
Douglas A. McIntyre
my opions
Feb 7, 2008 | 6:45 AM PST
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i seen and herd alote about being forced to learn spanish and a few outher things
so i decied to give my two cents
forcing children to learn spanish
did we move accross the border to mexico?
i dont think so
you need to force them to learn english i seen that race they have around the world and not one of them have an easy time in the difernt contries unless the team knows the lanauge of the contry they are in i could see maby one the border but then you just need to know get off my land
next pepole crying about red light camerias and the new thing them lazers that tell you how far away you are from the car in front
i just say red meens stop and if you stop the state doesnt get any money from you and
BACK OFF my butt unless you have a thing for me and want to see me better take a pic and look at it latter no need to be so close anyways
well thats just some latter ill give more and you all have great day
GOING GREEN?
Dec 6, 2007 | 6:25 AM PST
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as you listen to the tv you here about how you can go green
they say your suposed to save things like trees plants and outher things
now i have a question for the masses
how can a city state go green by cutting down big trees to put outside and deckorate for christmas?
isnt it going gree by -planting a tree and then deckorate it better?
the reasion i ask this is
you seee DC cutting one down and here outher cities doing it too and even malls
now i my be stupied at some thing but these trees are now cut down and to me they arent going to help out at all after its cut down
has any one ever herd of cut a tree down plant two in its place or just pick a big one to be replanted and useing it every year?
when i li9ved in midland they had a tree like that they deckorate it every year now to me thats going green
i also have something to say to kroger yes your trying to help out but do you know how many will actualy buy them bags?
i know i wont because cant aford the many bags i would need to put things in
to me it would be better if you gave a discount for bringing in any bag and re use it
i myself love haveing a fresh cut tree in the house for christmas but what i did in the past was plant a new one at famlies house too now i have a fake one and had it for years
what one do you like better?
and what do you think ?
shouldnt they plant one and redo it every year ? or should they just plant two in its place?
oh and in case i dont have a chance ill say it now merry christmas and a very happy and safe new year to all bloggers here
TWC AND NFL
Nov 27, 2007 | 6:49 AM PST
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that guy from TWC is so full of it this morn he saying they have to pass the cost on to us
if that was true how could dish and verizon have a cheapper cable bill i myself am switching to verizon today for the price of cable and internet that TWC charges you can get the nfl and many more + 2 outher things also VERIZON does care enofe to awnser your call and not make you wait for a long time or they will call you back i gave up on TWC a long time ago sence they switched from comcast comcast was good then they switched to this junk i also have internet from VERIZON and it makes TWC seem like dile up
so i say let TWC charge extra for channels that outhers give you and switch this way they have noone to pay them to sit back and relax
side note where i live thers a guy who works for TWC and he not working as much as he did before his van sits at home most of the week so does that tell you noone ordering it ?
thats my two cents what do you think about it? and go cowboys we are number one woohoo
Waiting On the World to Change
Nov 16, 2007 | 9:26 AM PST
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i wanted to put this here and maby make some think it is a good song but has so much meening so i put it here
Waiting On the World to Change
Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting
Waiting on the world to change
Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want
That's why we're waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
It's not that we don't care,
We just know that the fight ain't fair
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
And we're still waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
One day our generation
Is gonna rule the population
So we keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting
Waiting on the world to change
THE N WORD IN A BOOK
Nov 1, 2007 | 6:19 AM PST
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This is just plain dumb getting all upset because a book in school
this book takes place in a time where the n word was said all the time where there was slaves ect
but maby you wasnt paying attion in histroy or something and dont know it oh now i get it the child just dont know how to study and needs an excuse to get out of that class
i am not one who picks or call pepole names if you read my blogs before but this is just nutts and dumb
i never get upset at cracker or any of the words that i am called
ever herd sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me
its just a word i myself dont say it but if its in a book ill read it and wont say we need to get ride of that book
note to this famly and everyone else that crying about a word
if someone hit you with a bat and then called you names a day latter what would hurt worse?
fight for rights and fight for fair treatment
but fighting over a word is stupied sorry for ofending by calling anyone dumb but this fight is dumb
grow up and stop worrying over words
i dont let words hurt me you shouldnt eather
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