Today I saw the cover of their new cover with the big headline, “The Decade From Hell.” After wretching a bit, I wondered that the fuck was wrong with them. Seriously, maybe — just maybe — the 1930s, or maybe even the 1940s were just a little bit worse. Do the Great Depression or World War II ring a bell?
If this is hell, then someone please sign me up and put me at the top of the list.
I just saw a commercial that said something like “if you walk 30 minutes a day, you’ll live a year longer!” Or, if you do the math, if you walk 30 minutes a day, every day, for about 50 years, you’ll extend your life by the same amount you spent doing all the walking.
I think I’d rather have a drink instead.
Don’t worry, the same company that just months ago said that bankruptcy was not an option, has now emerged from bankruptcy. Of course now we’re being told that all the government loans will be paid back in full and ahead of schedule. In addition, “[The new CEO] said the U.S. government, which owns a majority stake in GM, has vowed that it would not get involved in day-to-day decisions.” It seems that Congress isn’t aware of that pledge.
A majority of House members have signed onto a bill to reverse the closing of 789 Chrysler dealerships and block General Motors Corp. from closing more than 1,300, while the full House could vote on the bill as early as next week….
“A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives, an astonishing 222 members, and a quickly growing number in the Senate, from both parties, now fully recognize what is clear to the American people: The leadership of GM and Chrysler made a horrible mistake by their arbitrary termination of profitable dealerships,” the statement said. “Detroit and the (White House’s) auto task force’s flawed business plan will lead to the direct loss of more than 169,000 good jobs and cripple the U.S. auto industry’s ability to come back from bankruptcy.”
Here’s a question, have any of you actually thought to yourself how sorry you feel for these dealerships? I know I sure as shit have not.
Anyway, the executive branch is making business decisions for GM and Chrysler and Congress has decided they have veto power over the executive branch. Perhaps the government isn’t involved in “day-to-day” decisions, but they’re most certainly involved in the biggest decisions facing the companies.
Coming soon to a dealer near you:
Protesters in New York were angry at plans to kill 2000 geese. “Gassing 2000 geese is not a long-term solution,” their signs say. And they’re right. We need to gas all the geese. That is a long term solution we can believe in.
I’ve complained about stupid, shit-generating geese in the past. Now there’s even more reason for even more people to join my crusade to kill and destroy Canada geese.
A U.S. Airways airplane crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after geese apparently entered the engine causing it to malfunction just minutes after takeoff, CBS 2 has learned.
I’m serious. We need to start killing these fucking things (and deer and squirrels, too).
I’m pretty upset with this one (more than my normal state of being upset).
On December 8th, well before Christmas in my book, I ordered some Christmas presents. You can bet (since I’m posting this here) that they took my money and haven’t bothered to do anything. I just filed a complaint with paypal, so I may be able to get my money back.
They’re a real great website to order from. They don’t offer a phone number. They don’t reply to emails. And they go on vacations over the holidays, for over a week at a time, or so says their auto-response email. But they do list a phone number, 614-895-2170, if you dig through the details of the paypal transaction; the downside is that it’s disconnected. As is another phone number, 866-488-2170, which shows up through some Google searches as their “service number”. Real pros there.
On the upside, I don’t feel as bad because I just read this thread at Amazon. Apparently eftgifts was offering some kind of Playstation bundle for Christmas. They of course failed to deliver the Playstations, and in some cases shipped boxes filled only packing materials.
I guess this will cure me of ever again not buying from the retail giants.
UPDATE 2009-01-18: It’s been 5 days and EFTgifts has yet to respond to my PayPal complaint. Only 5 more days until I learn whether or not I can get any of my money refunded.
UPDATE 2009-01-24: Paypal agrees that EFTgifts ripped me off. EFTgifts didn’t even bother to respond to my complaint.
After careful review, we have concluded our investigation of the Buyer
Complaint described below.We have decided in your favor, however, we were unable to recover any funds
from the seller’s account. As stated in the PayPal User Agreement, recovery
of funds associated with a Buyer Complaint cannot be guaranteed.Please know that we will make our best effort to recover the funds in
question if they become available in the seller’s account in the future and
will take appropriate action against the seller. Such action may include
issuing a warning, a temporary restriction, or terminating the account.
Keep in mind that PayPal uses a number of factors to determine when to take
action, including member complaints. Due to privacy laws, we cannot discuss
the details of any action taken. We hope you understand our policy and that
it assures you that you are safe using PayPal.
Well I certainly don’t feel safe using Paypal. Although I have a sneaking suspicion that once they are sent more money by anyone else, that money will become mine. If so, that’s a really twisted way to handle these types of situations.
