In These Times

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• • 18 Dec 07
  • 8:47 pm

  "A PNC spokesperson says such a policy 'helps our customers avoid embarrassment.' " Is that some kind of a joke? Is their business supposed to be comically corrupt? The swindled should merely accept this tongue in cheek, wink and nod to the obvious swindle? Think of a world where the consumer has power. A world of consumers that reacts to a $217 overdraft scheme by pulling all of their accounts with that bank. No shortage of banks in Pittsburg, I'm guessing. Unfortunately, in these times, the consumer is broken from the power of their consumption. There is no consumers union; it's …

  Posted to Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

• • 11 Jul 07
  • 11:53 pm

  It's nice to see the fear of the transsexual ϋberfrau finally being tempered with common sense and precedence. If transsexual female atheletes were so much better than natural women then all women's sports would be dominated by transsexuals. Marianne Bagger wouldn't just be competitive, she'd win every event by 12 strokes. Where's the great transsexual marathoner, tennis player, golfer, vollyball queen? The only competitions I can actually remember hearing transsexual women win are beauty pageants. And in those cases (I think I've heard of two) the crowns were taken away. Go figure. I guess being born male gave them an unfair …

  Posted to He Shoots, She Scores

• • 11 Jun 07
  • 11:54 pm

  We all grew up with the knowledge that we could be vaporized at any moment. If we now learn that people want to build devices to vaporize us, how and why would we be alarmed?

  Posted to How worried are you about current nuclear developments?

• • 17 Mar 07
  • 2:02 am

  Productivity is directly proportional to Hope.

  Posted to Productivity: Is The Boom Over?

• • 17 Jul 06
  • 12:47 am

  I was wondering..... At least 47 whole bodies were recovered from the WTC. Would an autopsy on these bodies reveal whether they had inhaled Thermite/Thermate before they died?

  Posted to The 9/11 Faith Movement