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From the "Now We Become Communists" files: I foresee a huge American government owning all the banks, still putting multi-million paychecks out to those that do not deserve then all the while fucking with the every-day person, micromanaging the very cost of bread and salary payable, all for "The Good Of The People". Once they own all the banks, where will they stop? Mark my words, this is the beginning of communism in America!
From the "Gone but not forgotten" files: Paul Newman has died. Another icon of the 60-90's film establishment dies off... Paul Newman helped to usher in provocative films and great works of screen art... will he be missed, certainly by family and friends... for me, it just means I'll have to watch the reruns to catch him again. Ahh well, life goes on. celebrity deaths always leave me with little to say... I wonder if his salad dressings will live on?
From the "Who's taking our money now" files: Do you know what drives me crazy about this proposed $700 BILLION bailout that's making the news... supposedly if the American GOV doesn't dump all this money onto the flames of ailing bank business we all will fry in a burning down global economy event from hell.... but the thing is, we're loaning money to companies and banks that loaned a lot of people money then they released they couldn't make any more money off these loans, what with the interest rates, the impossibility if re-packaging and reselling the loans to some other stupid bank, so we're in a crisis. BUT these banks have all made billions in profits from these loans already, they've been squeezing the poor fool that actually took advantage of someone calling them up and saying "Hey, you have no money, no income, but I want you to live the American Dream now! Go and find a house, price is no object, and I'll loan you the money to buy it". NOW THEN, if a guy on the street has another guy on the street, walk up to him, give him a thousand dollars, signs a paper then walks away, how has just been the bigger fool with their money? Right, the guy that gave the money away. Well, I wouldn't want my money going to some ass that was walking around giving away money, not watching his own finances. And that's what's happening. Let them fry, I Say! From the "What's
with these TV people?" files:
Do you watch a TV show
and hear the "Closed captioning for this program has been
sponsored by ..." I have to ask, what the hell!!
Do we, those that actually listen to TV really care who's sponsoring a feature that we aren't using?! Like, c'mon, enough already! From the "Hey, we've got an election coming!" files: Must we all be sucked into the American election? Isn't it enough that the campaigning last for months up to the November vote? Must we end an eternity of these [primaries before we all go blind, deaf and dumb? Or if that the purpose? From the "If Robrob8 was King!" files: Robrob8 knows that if he was king there'd be less strife in the world. Peace would be available to everyone and there'd never be a year without a new season of '24'. But he's not king and this year sucks. From the "Writers Rule" files: Robrob8 agrees that the writers talent and their earnings capacity should be contracted to consider all the 'new media' outlets for their works. After all, would you like to create something and suddenly see it on millions of websites and not make any money from it? Especially when you know that millions of websites are making money from what you've done? It's time to end the strike, pay the writers for the work they have done, including internet distribution... AND bring back 24... NOW... Jack needs us!!! From the "Crushed Under Democracy" files: Robrob8 thinks that billions and billions of dollars, trillions even! of our tax money being spent on weaponry, to kill another human, extinguish life, instead of getting people off the streets, feeding the hungry in our own backyards, getting people into places of help for addiction and dependencies, psychosis, paranoids... geesh, spend some of that fat wallet and create places to HELP PEOPLE, by force if necessary!
From the "Truth in advertising" files: Robrob8 wants to know: If Wal-Mart is famous for always lowering their prices, doesn't that mean that their prices are too high to start with? Just wondering.... From the "Proof the biggest bastards rule the world" files: Robrob8 just read about Chicago's fight with Wal-Mart. Go get them Mayor Daley. Robrob8 says that if the majority needs to save another 10 cents on a roll of toilet paper to make their lives easier, all the while forcing people to work below living wage jobs because that's what's available, then let Wal-Mart leave town. Let all those cheap-ass customers, enchanted by the roll-back mantra, roll themselves out of town too! Or better yet, do yourself a 30 Days and see what minimum wage means. It's about time that the people we have voted in charge of our better living city standards actually stopped taking payoffs, stopped granting tax breaks and stopped allowing big business to suck us in with the "Hey, we're bringing you jobs!" sweetheart line and started looking at the jobs themselves. People that make minimum wage don't pay taxes. Everyone else just pays more to bring these sad-sack jobs into town. More communities need to kick Wal-Mart in the ass -- or better yet, in the wallet. Maybe finally all those Chinese factory workers will become customers too! From the "Technology is ruining my life" files: Robrob8 recently did a 'technology survey' of his house. He found: 7 computers, 5 currently in use, all internet enabled. 2 cell phones. 6 landline phone outlets, 4 with phones attached. 4 televisions, all with cable set top boxes for over 140 channels of nothing but crap to watch. A wide assortment of clocks that tell time, take indoor and outdoor temperatures, plan recordings, wake me for the morning ritual of getting out of bed. 1 wireless security camera. 1 house alarm. And then the power goes out. But am I worried? No. Every piece resets itself to do what it's supposed to do without any intervention on my part. I wish I could remember what the simpler times were all about! From the "If I Could Catch Them I'd Strangle Them" files: Robrob8 hates people that drive. Well, not all of them. Just the idiots. And today the particular idiots are the ones that drive around at night, a clear, no rain, no cloud, full moon kind of night. With their ever-so-bright fog lights on! What the fug!! Isn't there some kind of law that says you shouldn't be blinding the cars and traffic that is approaching you? I mean, really people... turn off your damn fog lights when it's not foggy, or prepare to feel my wrath! From the "Big Business Runs The World" files: Robrob8 is absolutely aghast at the latest revelation of NASA wanting US$100Billion dollars to get back to the moon. Now, I'm not putting down the request, if NASA can get regular trips to the moon we may have somewhere to put all these awful sex offenders and child molesters. But, seriously, $100Billion? Why not $100Billion to end world hunger instead? Why not put all that money to wiping out world hunger and increasing the standard of living of the other 85% of the world's population? ell, Robrob8 knows why. It's Big Business! Let's use Wal-Mart as an example. To sell billions of dollars of stuff every year, at their so-called low prices, they extort manufacturers and importers to provide as low a cost as possible for their products. Now, Robrob8 is no fool. If you want low product costs, you first take the money away from the workers by paying very low wages. Subsistence wages. Below the poverty line wages. And this wouldn't work if you had an increased standard of living in these poorest of the poor countries, would it? No, they'd need higher wages to pay for their standard of living, just like us in the consumerist west of the world. So, if you spend NASA's requested on the world's poor instead of going to the moon and you teach all these people to fish instead of just feeding them. Show them what they're missing in the new digital world of 200 television channels, non-stop Internet, fast cars and faster food, well, they'd need to be paid more, wouldn't they? And your McDonald's burger suddenly costs $8.00 instead of $3.00. Those pants now cost $80.00 instead of $25.00. The higher prices you would end up paying now support a better standard of living for the poor of the world. But, don't worry, Big Business won't let us share. They won't help to feed the poor and increase the standard of living throughout the world. You'll get your cheap products on the backs of foreign workers. And NASA will once again fly to the moon.
From the "Action Needed Now" files: Robrob8 knows that gas prices are inflated, advantage taking, people's money stealing, big business methods of keeping the common people down. They create the communities that force us to drive incredible distances every day to get to work, to be able to afford the lifestyle and conveniences that the marketers tell us we need in our lives. And, with these high gas prices Robrob8 has received countless spam emails suggesting that he not get gas on a specific day to send the gas company bigwigs a message. Well, Robrob8 knows that if you stop the high demand for the gas product the gas prices will fall. So, in an effort of conservatism Robrob8 suggests that you walk, bike, or take public transportation more often. Conserving fuel and lessening gasoline demand is the only real way to get companies to reduce these outrageous prices. So, let 'Reduce the demand, reduce the prices' be your motto! From the "Better Living" files: Robrob8 once believed what the marketers were telling us "Lower prices improve the quality of living for everyone". But now the realization has dawned that low prices, when they force industries out of the country and take good paying, family supporting jobs with them, are a detriment to society as a whole. Think about that for a minute. and put yourself in that place. You have a good paying job. Then, your main customer forces your company to lower costs. Where are those costs cut? They are cut from good paying, family supporting, living wages. Layoffs and cutbacks are a fact of life. Businesses move out of the country to cheaper workforces. To save a few thin dimes on the production costs of an item, so someone can save a dollar at the checkout, you lose your job. And you're told that this lower pricing scheme is good for you. And you get retrained as a minimum wage earner in a low-paying job market that forces you to now hold down two jobs to maintain your standard of living. Shopping by price alone, without regard to the place of manufacture and supporting your own country's manufacturing and production systems actually aids in the decline of your buying power. You now earn less, you can afford less. You work harder. Your salary actually gets smaller and smaller every year as the cost of living rises annually faster than your wage does. Robrob8 has the cure. Stop shopping by price alone. Shop by country of manufacture. Shop for things that are made nationally, not internationally. Avoid like the plague cheap imports. Force legislators to improve the minimum wage. Introduce duties on foreign made products that bring them to a level competitive pricing field that protects local jobs. Boycott cheap prices that take away jobs from your friends and neighbors. From the "Hype Hurts" files: Robrob8 knows how the marketing machines of the world works. And he knows how refund policies work too. And he has no fear of returning items to retailers when expectations aren't fulfilled. But Robrob8 wants to know why he can't give back badly made fast food? When he gets a burger that doesn't look as good as it does on the TV ads, should there be retaliation? Yes, there should be some response from the consumer (Robrob8) and the store manager. It's time we all took this issue to the streets and began returning our poorly made fast food! Are you with me? From the "Get out of my way, the next Star Wars movie is starting" files: Robrob8 is waiting for the next report of 'Man injured in Star Wars lineup' news report. This over-hyped, much-anticipated, dogmatic-story-line throwback of a film is sure to excite and disappoint. Blah blah blah. I'll wait for the DVD. From the "Watching Movies" files: Robrob8 has had the opportunity of late to watch movies. You know, on the movie channel, on DVD, bought and rented. And he's noticed that lately most movies are 89 minutes or less in duration. Now, when growing up it seemed that movies were at least 120 minutes. 2 hours of entertainment. These days an hour and a half is sufficient. But it really isn't. A movie that is less than 90 minutes is just like a longer episode of 24 or something. And I feel ripped off when I don't get a full 2 hours of movie story-telling. How did we get sucked into agreeing with the Hollywood studios that 89 minutes of film is worthwhile? Don't you feel ripped off too? From the "Stop Before You Kill Me" files: Robrob8 was almost killed the other day when this lady driver ran a red light making a left turn almost right into me as I was going through the intersection. I think all drivers, when seen to be so careless, stupid and dangerous, should not be protected from assault laws and have the living s--t beat out of them. And, if you don't want to do it yourself, because you're so shaken up from the near-death encounter, you should be able to hire a local goon squad to work the person over. That's a law I'd support! From the "Disappearing Politicos" files: Recent news reports that 25% of all apes are in immediate danger of extinction. Robrob8 knows that we shouldn't let this happen, so let's all get our politicians aware of this and start doing something. Otherwise, we'll run out of politicians soon! From the "There's been a murder!" files: Robrob8has been following the Terri Schiavo case quite closely. Robrob8 knows that not feeding someone, whatever the reason, is murder. Because someone is in an unrecoverable condition, but otherwise alive except for being able to feed themselves, is no reason to kill them. This murder sets a chilling precedent. From the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" files: Robrob8 knows that April Fool's Day is right around the corner. And he's got plans. Stay tuned. Or, better yet, keep your head down! From the "Can't We All Just Get Along" files: People should stop killing people. This is something that Robrob8 firmly believes. Get rid of your guns, everyone should own only plastic knives... Cars should be limited to 25Mph to lessen the accident rate. Heck, live closer to where you work, or work closer to where you live, ok? From the "I'm Not A Pedo" files: Michael Jackson's Trial will tell all! From the "Fantasy Mirrors Life" files: I read in the paper that a recently discovered 'little person' fossilized remains may actually be a separate human ancestor... not part of the current 'homo erectus' line. 1 meter tall, smaller brain, but just as useful as many of the brains of people that visit weird Internet sites, and most convincingly, named "hobbit" according to the toe tag. I guess old JRR Tolkien had it right after all! From the "Get Over It" files: Jose Canseco used steroids and was a great baseball player. Now he's saying what he did to earn millions of dollars and tons of respect from the fans of baseball. Does no one notice that the pressure to be a great player was the motivating factor here? Seriously, do you think that Robrob8 could be a great baseball player without some 'illegal' help? As far as I care, Canseco can join Pete Rose in baseball's Hall of Fame for their accomplishments. And their reasons for performance enhancement drugs and gambling can be buried once and for all. ... That's Entertainment!... From the "News From The Bleeding Obvious" files: So 56% of the NFL players are obese. Why is that news. Do these headline writers and editors not watch any games? I want money paid to me for my time for reading such a stupid article. And, I guess the headline writers and editors that thought this story up should get a raise, since they caught my attention. For good or bad. From the "That Dog Is A Real Animal" files: So, Ontario bans pitbulls. Good for them. You take a breed that was bred for protection, for it's strength of body, mean disposition and then try to manage it as a family pet. Why not try to keep an elephant that's been shot instead. The elephant will be in a bad disposition, but you'll know better to get out of it's way. People that keep these dogs do so because they are at the top of the mean dog hill. People that will fight this law are mean. They will say that it's a harmless family pet and when someone is injured the response is always, well, they provoked the dog. I think that jail terms should be enforced against any pet owners who's 'family animal' causes harm to people. That'll put a lot of cat people in their place too! From the "My Will Has Been Broken" files: I went to the government owned liquor store and purchased a 12-pack cans of Budweiser beer. I paid $20.15 for the twelve cans of beer. It's now too expensive for me to cry in my beer. I'm so sad. From the "I Am Always Getting Screwed By Big Chains" files: I know that it is only a matter of time before Blockbuster gets there pants sued off over the latest "No more late fees" ploy. Did you know that if you are a Blockbuster member you are being forcibly upgraded to a membership that states you are responsible to purchase the movie or game rental if it is more than 30 days overdue. Now, that may not be a big deal, but I don't recall ever agreeing to such a membership stipulation. Ever. It's like when the cable company had 'negative option billing' where you had to agree not to get certain cable packages or you'd be billed for their premium package at full price. Now, with Blockbuster you're agreeing to make a purchase without your consent! And if you're 7 days late you're charged a 'restocking fee'. Isn't that the same as a late fee? Isn't a rose by any other name still a rose? My question is "Who's going to sue them first over this?" From the "I Was Fed This Way" files: I love it when FAT kids have an excuse and it isn't momma telling them to eat everything off their plates, the floor and whatever is left in the doggie dish. Point of fact : http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/25/news/fortune500/mcdonalds.reut/ - I hope they get rich from this insane lawsuit against McDonald's Restaurants. They'll be rich enough for the FAT farms and the future psychology sessions they'll need when they finally realize that they can't blame EVERYONE ELSE on their problems. Like the rest of us. And Robrob8 thought he had bad parents. At least he was FORCED to eat at home. From the "Did You Try-it, The Latest Diet?" files: Robrob8 knows that most Americans and Canadians are overweight. Heck, one only has to walk around an indoor mall to see the excessive structures that are being built to support all the flab wrapped around skinny people. But, now that the Atkin's Diet and the Low-carb craze is ending (I know this because my local Safeway has all their Low-Card foods on clearance and they aren't restocking them anytime soon!) how are these super-seized consumers going to be encouraged to lose their wrappings? Is walking coming back? Will yoga again lead in the late-night infomercial ratings? Robrob8 can hardly wait to see what happens. What about you? From the "Happy New Year" files: Robrob8 wishes only the best for you. Success, financially and romantically, should be yours this year. And if it's not, if your life turns out to be just so much crap-ola, so be it. Maybe, in all realities, you deserve to be beaten upon. Afterall, not many can be as cool as Robrob8, and you shouldn't be so concerned that you're just a wimp at the core. That you are the steam off the poo shouldn't hold you back from trying to succeed. So, Happy New Year! From the "Life is NOT Fair" files: Robrob8 is a guy that knows that this time of year isn't fair. There are plenty of people that we can all be thankful for that we are NOT them. The guy hustling the passersby with an empty coffee cup in his hand asking for a buck or two.... the family with no one employed, 3 kids that are praying for gifts, prayers that probably won't be answered; the lonely, the aged... the list goes on and on. Life isn't fair. But, if you have the motivation you can make this holiday season a little fairer for someone in your town, city, heck, even your country or a different place in the world altogether! The next step is yours. Do what you can, however small a gesture it is for you, it will make the world a much much warmer place for someone else! From the "All's Fair In The World" files: Robrob8's been busy doing some holiday shopping. He's really a giver at heart. He even buys things from the poorer nations as gifts. Perhaps you've heard of "Fair Trade" a company that pays workers in poorer countries a fair wage and a fair price for the goods they produce? Sure the items cost a little more than what we're all used to, but it goes for a good cause, right? Well, my beef with this is, is that if the idea is really is "Fair Trade" then why is it volunteers selling the items in our country. Don't they also deserve to be paid a 'fair wage'? Just a thought. From the "City Government Sucks" files: Where Robrob8 lives the tax payers get screwed over every year. Higher property taxes, higher service rates... you name it it goes up and my jeans get tighter because of all the hands in my pockets. It's no wonder that many people believe that the best politician is a dead one. LOL. I think that whenever possible, taxes should be reduced, not services increased. But that's just me. You know, a healthier middle class can do wonders for the economy, if we're only given the chance. From the "You Asked For It" files: Robrob8 just received a CNN news alert that said John Kerry has capitulated the election and congratulated George Bush on winning the election. Congrats to Bush for a well-run race. So sorry to the American electorate, you have 4 more years of "Big Government". Of course, "Big Government" is your only choice. November 4 2004 - From the "You Should Be Walking" files: Robrob8 drives like an old lady. What I mean by that is Robrob8 doesn't speed. Doesn't tailgate. Always shoulder checks before changing lanes. And all you a**holes that don't should have your license revoked ON THE SPOT. I'm really sick of having to watch not only my own driving but yours too. If you can't follow the rules of the road, if you ABSOLUTELY have to answer that cell-phone PULL OVER and leave the road to us that want to, need to, arrive home safely! September 22 2004 - From the "Pisses Me Off" files: Robrob8 has a lot of anger in him. Oh yes, he seems all cuddly and friendly, but get close and he's like a viper waiting to bite. So, as I go on a short holiday, I caution all you other drivers out there, I have a middle finger and I'm not afraid to use it. I have a horn and it honks just fine. All you room service cooks and waiters, I want my hot food hot, my cold food cold and I want it no later than 5 minutes after I phone down my order. Everyone everywhere, keep me happy, do what I say when I say it, and we'll all have a great time! September 14 2004 - From the "Hard Life" files: Robrob8 knows that a lot of people in this world of ours suck. They don't listen, they don't pay attention, they drive badly, they can't speak english well enough to be understood, can't add or subtract to save their lives. You know the type: when they have to bag their own groceries they always put the bread under the milk and the eggs under the canned corn. I used to really hate those types of people. I'd complain about them until I couldn't talk anymore after one of the extremely large group wronged me somehow. I have come to a realization. Now, thank goodness for the idiots of the world, they keep a lot of people employed and even more people in good humor. So, if you're an idiot, keep up the good work, if you're not an idiot then you're a fixer and you should remember to thank the idiots yourself. September 10 2004 - From the "Pringles" files: Robrob8 has tried the new Pringles Printable potato chips. They taste just like the original, but are fun with friends and a few beers. Unless you're Canadian and don't speak french. Why, you ask? Because, in Canada, half, or often more, of the questions and answers printed on the chips are in french, not english. As a matter of fact, I am eating a small snack size right now and I have only found one english printed chip in it, all of the rest were french trivia questions. Or they could have been swear words, bigotry, who knows. I don't. You Pringles people still suck! If I want to read crap on my chips, I want it to be english crap. September 4 2004 - From the "Inventions are evil" files: Robrob8 has been doing a lot of thinking the last few days and has come to a realization, the most evil invention ever sprung upon man has been the combustible gas engine. You know, the thing that powers the car you drive. Here's why: Before the gas engine and cars, people tended to live where they worked. You knew who your neighbors were because they were part of your life, not like it is today. There was no such thing as 'road rage' when riding horseback. Sure, there was poop in the streets, but better that than green house gasses, excessive noise and collections of metal that speed around as the number 4 most popular method of death in the USA last year. For all this talk of 'hybrid vehicles' why don't we just ban all cars in specific areas. Create greenbelt neighborhoods where people can live and work in near proximity. The general fitness level of the population would increase, with all the walking and riding pedal bikes everyone would just be naturally healthier. There would be no more supposed 'gasoline wars' since the value of gas would be non-existent. The would would be a much better place if the gas engine was never invented. Why did we deserve such an injustice to be inflicted upon us all? |
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From the "Bottled
Water Steals From Everyone" files: Robrob8 knows
that bottled water is a bad idea. Not only does the sale of bottled water
line the pockets of big corporations with easily earned money, bottled water
companies trade in the export of a precious commodity that no community
would otherwise accept. Does your city allow big companies to sell the water
they get from your taps in exchange of a few tax dollars? make it stop! Say
NO to bottled water! Say NO to the export of what should be free to
everyone, clean, fresh water.