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How greed destroyed a great company.

Shotgun Vinny — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:44:00 +0000

No, not Boeing this time.

Dell Computer.

Back before I built my own machines, back when I knew squat about PC's, I started out with Dell machines, and thier ultra wonderful 24/7/365 support.

In fact, I still have 2 vintage dell machines on my network that are still up and running, the oldest now 9 years old and still functioning perfectly.

Then support was farmed out to india, and the machines are built in mexico, and now Dell simply doesn't give a shit.

A once great company, the former leader of the industry, is now totally fucked.

Want to complain about Dell? Forget it

Now they are TELLING us.

Shotgun Vinny — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:30:00 +0000

China Tells Congress To Back Off Businesses

Things are still lovey dovey between Corporate America, the globalist free traders, and the Communist Chinese.

When we lose the majority of the United States seventh fleet and our bases on Guam defending Taiwan,will they still be in bed with the reds?

The Nontaxpaying Affluent Grew by 15% in One Year

Shotgun Vinny — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:11:00 +0000

The chances of having a large income but not paying taxes on any of it are growing, according to the data, issued in the Internal Revenue Service's annual report to Congress on well-to-do Americans who live tax free. About one in every 436 high-income Americans paid no taxes in 2002, up from one in 531 in 2001 and one in 1,010 in 2000.

Over all, the top 2 percent of earners, the 2.5 million filers with income of $200,000 or more, paid almost 27 cents in taxes for each dollar of income they reported in 2002, other I.R.S. data showed. This group accounted for 53.5 percent of the income tax paid by all Americans.

Among that high-income group, however, almost 83,000, or one in 33, paid less than a dime in taxes for every dollar of income. An additional 79,000 paid less than 15 cents. The average for all Americans was 13 cents.

one fatal decision

Shotgun Vinny — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:48:00 +0000

For China, Taiwan is not the only issue behind the buildup of military forces. Beijing also is facing a major energy shortage that, according to one Pentagon study, could lead it to use military force to seize territory with oil and gas resources.

The report produced for the Office of Net Assessment, which conducts assessments of future threats, was made public in January and warned that China's need for oil, gas and other energy resources is driving the country toward becoming an expansionist power.

Click the text. Then demand corporate America and the globalist free traders stop playing footsie with the commies.

Meanwhile, back at the pumps:

Shotgun Vinny — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:18:00 +0000

Simulated oil meltdown shows U.S. economy's vulnerability

It's ok with me if you monster truck and suv driving idiots don't want to learn that your over consumption of petroleum is a national security issue. I've been watching our march toward a big economic fall for some time, and I'm ok with it. Because it's going to take the political landscape, turn it upside down, and shake the dirt out of it.

Corperate enemies of prosperity and freedom for the American people, as well as their political toadies will be held to account.

Then, there was stupidity.

Shotgun Vinny — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:13:00 +0000

Coming war with red China not enough to make this a no brainer? I don't undertstand:

With Bid for Unocal, U.S. Struggles on China Policies

It's greed vs national security, freedom, liberty and democracy. Flash a little folding green in the fat cat's faces and they forget all that.

"Let's all wake up. The post-Cold War peace is over,"

Shotgun Vinny — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:09:00 +0000

China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials

All of you had better WAKE UP.

Especially you globalist free traders who have been playing patty cake with the communist Chinese. Yeah you. You Boeing and Wal mart fans (aka drooling idiot greedheads).

Dead Parrots.

Shotgun Vinny — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:29:00 +0000

The right is still on John Kerry.

Hey you idiots, you (we, and I mean that very loosly) won. Now drop it. He's Massachusetts problem now. Whassamatter, you have a guilty conscience or something? I don't. But I am tired of the post election Kerry phobia.

And you jerks on the left: Bush won.
Now it's up to you if you want to win next time or not. Hourly Bush bashing won't get you there. You would be better off getting Howard Dean and Dick Durbin back in their cages.

Or you can lose again. Your pick.

Gassed and Burned.

Shotgun Vinny — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:23:00 +0000

Oil hit 60 bucks a barrel today.

The economic right wing greed heads will tell you this is due environmental laws restricting refinery capacity.

Bullshit.

Think this over. Why would crude rise if there is more than can be refined? That should cause an excess supply of crude right? So why buy more oil that can't be refined, when gasoline prices will go up on short refining capacity anyway?
Where are all the bills floating in congress, submitted by the right and backed by the oil companies to relax environmental standards for the purposes of new refinery construction?

How come, with all the globalist free trade facism today, do we not import refined fuel oil, diesel, and gasoline? How come there are no oil refineries in Nogales and Tijuana supplying the United States? No tankers of #2 diesel fuel from Malaysia?

The wealthy, the fat cats, and the economic right wingers want it this way folks. It's just another hand they can slip into your pocket, making you think it's your fault at the same time. Stop driving so much they say, as they stifle mass transit, and sell you SUV's.

For fucks sake people, stop being such suckers.

7 5/8ths

Shotgun Vinny — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:01:00 +0000

My hat size.
VCU STUDY SHOWS BIG-BRAINED PEOPLE ARE SMARTER

Was justice done?

Shotgun Vinny — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:48:00 +0000

I dunno. I do know that as in many such cases, money was done, a lot of it. But Jacko's case clearly illustrates that the notion of any sort of equality or equity as far as one's rights goes is pretty much a joke in this, the land of the free.

Only half over.

Shotgun Vinny — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:45:00 +0000

June has been a bad month for me. May it pass quickly. Unless I'm asleep.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollowpo...

Shotgun Vinny — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 04:53:00 +0000

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hollowpoints expand on impact.

Election Freakout.

Shotgun Vinny — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:20:00 +0000

Now I know there are lot's of you that have your nipples in a twist over the apparant "theft" of the Washington gubanatorial election.

Personally, I expect nothing less, because all elections in our supposed democracy are stolen.

All of them.
This one just happend to be barely nicked VS being a wide margin ripoff.
Thus it will ever be as long as money is the predominant factor in outcomes.

The very fact that we have an often used initiative process in this state is prima facie evidence of a corrupt process. We have it because we supposedly can't get out elected officials (or unelected for that matter) to do what we want. If an intiative passes, the majority of the post election effort goes to trying to figure out how to ignore or skirt them anyway. If the system weren't completely broken and corrupt, we wouldn't need an intiative process. Now the initiative process is corrupt as well.

Then we corrupt the intiative process itself, with finacial backing from out of state interests, corperations, and paid signature gatherers. The initiative process is often used by the majority to opress the minority. There are no checks and balances to the intiative process. And it has no proper place in a constitutional republic.

What we have in this state isn't even democracy light.

Call it something else. Greedocracy. Idiocracy. Eliteocracy. Make up your own. Do something, anything. Except perhaps vote. Voting is a waste of time generally speaking. You are given a vote for no other reason that to get you to shut up. The dirty little secret is that it seldom matters in the eventual outcome, which is how well, or how poorly you live. Why vote when you could spend the time buying a few boxes of ammo? Figuring out how best to take care of yourself and your own?

The degree to which you are angry or gleeful over today's court ruling is a measure of your own neurosis and detachment from reality.

Party on dude, becuase while you gyrate in the politcal cesspool, I'm going to go on living life my way.

The problem with libertarianism

Shotgun Vinny — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:57:00 +0000

The problem with libertarianism is that it relies on non existant, collective human good will.
The average libertarian can be accurately described as an anarchist without a brick to throw. Thus, while we have the corrupt demagoguery of the republicans and the democrats, we have the more palatable but wholly ineffective libertarian brand. Sort of ‘nerf politics’.
So, where does that leave us? In a world of shit I’ll tell you.
Talking about it has never and will never do any good. Human faults and frailties such as greed (the operative human foible in America) eliminate the possibilty of any sort of intellectual/societal solution.
Corrupt societies eventually implode on themselves. All of them. Then you dig out of the rubble heap and start over. This is where ownership of a decent rifle comes in handy if you happen to be unfortunate enough to be alive during an implosion.
So the sooner you admit that our politcal, financial, and corporate systems are rotton with corruption and greed the sooner you can just stop fighting now when it matters not, and be ready to fight when it does. Altruism and faith in human nature are fine things, but lacking in utility and foundation in fact.