Some would like to think that I am negative towards shifty corporations and critical of everything so I made a list of some of the corporately owned things that I like:
1. American Express
American Express is the card of champions. Their customer service is on point, they have exclusive member deals (mywishlist.com), and when you call them for help you hardly ever get sent off-shore (if at all). Today I called Amex and they reduced my APR and reversed two finance charges, after losing my wallet they overnighted me a replacement card last Saturday. To make things even better they cut me a check every year for cash back on purchases that I would have had to make anyway (i.e. gas, bills, etc.) its to the point now where if a store doesn’t take Amex i really should not even shop there.
2. Costco
Costco has everything you need want to buy except homes. Despite changes they still have one of the best return policies in retail & they’ve been selling Hot Dogs for $1.50 for the past 24 years!
3. The Better Business Bureau?
A place (albeit biased) where you can take a step towards getting some rights as a consumer. Through the BBB I have received a refund and a rebate that would have otherwise been lost to the hands of greedy unscrupulous companies, despite their process being slow and not the most effective.
Give me your children.
U.S. leads the world in child incarceration Nice. At least in the developing world they put kids to work, here we make them fellons so they can’t work.
Tragic Comedy: reminds me of a song though.
[audio:http://thataintright.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/TheLittleChildren.mp3]
(Lyrics)
I was going to misbehave and suggest that Bush get treated like a 19-year-old Saudi girl, but I decided that would be inappropriate given how tragic. So even though Cheney is in fact satan were not going to wish that upon him either.
I think that despite the Saudi ass-backwards treatment of women and people in general we’re ok with it because they are our allies in the war we’re waging on drugs terror (and they produce a hell of a lot of oil). Plus they aren’t part of the axis of evil, and if we clamp down on them it would be a poor display of Christian tolerance.
Following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq and Iraqi civilians killed in attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003:
U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:
United States 3,858
Britain 171
Other nations 134
IRAQIS: Military Between 4,900 and 6,375#
Civilians Between 76,241 and 83,057*
# = Think-tank estimates for military under Saddam Hussein killed during the 2003 war. No reliable official figures have been issued since new security forces were set up in late 2003.
* = From www.iraqbodycount.net (IBC), run by academics and peace activists, based on reports from at least two media sources. The IBC says on its Web site the figure underestimates the true number of casualties. The U.S-led military coalition toll includes casualties from Iraq and the surrounding area where troops are stationed. (Writing by David Cutler; Editing by Stephen Weeks)
From Rueters AlertNet
So about a year ago I had something to say about Bow-Wow and I have seen the most responses to a post since…I guess thats cool, I just wish the people that respond had more ambition than being some whack rappers ‘baby-mama’. This narrow, hardly updated site points to a lot of issues that a lot of people don’t find all that important but DAMN. That ain’t right that WE are on our way to a hundred thousand deaths in Iraq and folks are arguing about much they love Bow-Wow and how much of a hater I am for using MY site to say otherwise. I would go off on some tangent/rant but honestly it just makes me a little depressed…
Really get off your damn Myspace; keep a watchful eye on your ‘leaders’; try to empower yourselves through means that benefit and uplift your community; and get the hell off my site with bad grammar and ignorance.
Excuse me did i miss something…
Woman Gets The $222,000 RIAA Shaft
How the hell is this right? WTF was that jury thinking? These record labels should be ashamed of themselves. Yet another reason not to buy music. $9,250 per song…thats a little more than itunes. Hopefully they do some online fund-raising for this lady.
At least some of the readers have a little sense:
you say “Thank God” that this woman got hot coals heaped on her head, and hit with a ridiculous sum she probably can never come close to paying, for what amounts to nothing more than a hill of beans? Don”t thank my God, He is not for stoning people for petty crimes. As for you, you”re typical of the “jaywalking is a crime too” mentality that has caused the legal system in this country to run amok. Your god is, apparently, the god of corporate wealth, and you worship the corrupt system that prosecutes middle class apple-thieves while CEOs and senators walk away with the mint. And, you”re a shill for the shady, grasping record industry (who have been guilty of actual real crimes in their illustrious history — can you say “payola”?). How do you like being one of their shills? Is it rewarding?
“It was probably the best return policy in retail,” said Jamil Brush, a 30-year-old Los Angeles claims examiner. “They pretty much would take back anything.”
But even grateful shoppers suspected that others were abusing the policy. After all, Brush added, “what, basically, would stop someone from buying something, using it for a little bit, and taking it back?”
This week, after losing “tens of millions of dollars” annually on the policy, Costco said enough.
Costco halts liberal electronics return policy – Los Angeles Times
This has got to be the most retarded use of resources EVER.
MPAA Shows Off Anti-Piracy Dogs in Dubai at TorrentFreak
