Retail hell

A few months ago, I took a job that landed me on the ass end of the retail experience. According to the United States Department of Labor, unemployment in Michigan has risen to 15.2 percent.

Like many of the people of Michigan, I was faced with a choice. Take any job I could get and keep a roof over my head,or join a roving road warrior type band of outlaws in the abandoned areas of my state, notably Flint and Detroit. It was a no brainer for me. I’ve never been able to pull off the leather, sports equipment and feathers look. So, I took a job in a gas station/convenience store and returned to the world customer service.

Like anyone working in customer service, there are times when you just want to reach across the counter and smack the people you are being forced to wait on. Having been out of the customer service field for several years, I had forgotten how annoying and entitled people can be.

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Hollywood Edition

I have a bone to pick with Hollywood and with some American moviegoers. Over the last few years, Hollywood has been masturbating all over itself with a string of “reimagined movies.”  At some point in the early days of the 21st century, the film industry decided it was okay to cannibalize movies from the past and repackage them as new ideas. You know what, Hollywood? That’s bullshit, and I am calling you on it.

We all had to write reports in school. Can you imagine what one of your teachers would have said if you took a report you had already handed in and changed a few things then handed it back in as a completely new piece of work?  There is no way that would be acceptable. That would just be a sign that you were too lazy or stupid to come up with something original.

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For the Good of the People

Sarah Palin has decided to step down as the Governor of Alaska to save the state all the money it is spending on investigating her for ethics violations. She has also stated that she doesn’t want to be a “lame duck” and that “one term was enough”. Please watch this video while I go look for my soap box.

OK, I’m back.

Boy, where to start. As many of you know, I am extremely liberal. On most issues I’m so far to the left that I start to wrap back around. I’m so far left when I stick my head out my door I can see Rush Limbaugh’s house. Right now he is relaxing by his pool, popping drugs by the handful and sporting a Speedo, it’s not a pretty sight. Oh wait, I’m sorry. Rush isn’t popping drugs, he’s taking his “prescription”.

Back to Sarah. Lets talk about “One term being enough”. She was elected in 2006. Took office in January of 2007. She spent around four months running for Vice President. And now has retired with a year and a half to go on her term. Maybe my math is off, but in the two and a half years as Governor of Alaska she was only really there for about two years worth of work. I know some people will say while she was running for V.P. she was still doing her work as Governor and that is kind of true. Let’s be honest, in those months she was running for V.P. all of her attention was focused on winning and getting the hell out of Alaska. How can she claim one term was enough when she BARELY completed HALF of her first term as Governor?

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