Time Magazine just apologized for...

featuring a non latino on their latino voting issue. When will they apologize for their discrimination and segregation. latinos do not deserve special treatment...unless it is first class seating back to the non developed countries they came from.


Where is latin land anyway?

Ship Of Fools, on a cruel cruel sea

Yesterday I did something that most people would find unimaginable. I quit a job I could not afford to loose. I'll try to keep this long story short. The first day I pulled into Saint George I saw a construction site with a sign that said "Dick's Sporting Goods coming soon". I thought to myself that it would be a perfect scenario for me. Five and a half moths later they begin the hiring process. First I applied for the freight lead position, then footwear lead, followed by apparel lead. No response so I applied for a generic position. Went thru the first interview and onto the second. Metioned that with my experience I felt the lead freight position would be ideal for me. " Well we hire everyone on as temporary and then assess the employees thru the opening process..." Okay. Then I go to the cult like orientation meeting. In the a.m. we met the store manager and two assistants. After lunch the bike tech, gun tech, running specialist and lastly the freight lead was introduced! Before any work was done! Then I looked at the guy, a fucking douche bag who looks like he'd been hit in the face with a cast iron skillet.(I myself have had several cranial injuries, but the real point is those of you who know my work know that no one can out work, out organize, out time manage, out drive a receiving dept.) Well I need the money so I got past that. The following Wed. I went in to see my schedule for the first week of incoming trucks. I saw that I was scheduled for only one afternoon shift. Again I reconciled and thought of the whooping $60.00 it would bring me. The following Sunday a.m. I woke up to find a message from the store manager asking me to come in on Monday. Sure. I went in and said I would do Thursday as well and the next week I could do Tues. Wed. and Fri.

I went in on Thurs (yesterday) for my shift and before clocking in reviewed the next weeks schedule. Again one day, a whole store pre opening drink the kool-aid rally. I was ready to just turn around and go right back out, but I decided to give it some time. As I worked I just kept getting more upset. If you call someone in and they do as well as volunteer other days you should react in kind. When everyone went to lunch I pulled aside the assistant manager and told him "I don't see this working. I thought blah blah blah". In the sports world if you want more ice time you step up and perform. I did but was still benched. I flip flop and say to myself that I should have just stuck it out and sucked up as many hours as possible, but the true side of me says I made the right move on principle. I may end up financially broke but I wont end up like a broken mustang saddling around some lower down higher up. Comes a time you've got to follow your heart and not fiscal policy.(Gandhi once paraphrased Jesus' words at Matthew 4:4 by saying "Man does not live on bread alone. He sometimes prefers self respect to food"). So many bosses making bad decisions that are covered up by the good honest efforts of those who work beneath them. As the Dead song says "I wont slave for beggars pay likewise gold and jewels, but I will slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools."

In closing I have to say that Dick's sporting goods is a great company. Founded by a man who's business plan was refused by his boss who then took his idea and created "Dick's" back in 1948. It seems as though here they are more into games than sports.

At Last, Something Has A Hold Of Me, Oh it must be Etta James

I remember the only time I got to see Etta James. It was the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1990 or 91. I'm a bit confused because it was in the heroin years. She didn't take the stage she stole it. Her show was raunchy and soulful, very much in contrast to what the networks and pc establishments showed of her with the 1960's photo and reference to "At Last". She was/is a blues woman. A soul with soul and character. A stage presence that would make your butt cheeks blush and give your ears gonorrhea. I learned a few things that weekend, first how to do the Detroit Shuffle, second don't get your buddy loaded on heroin if your not ready to carry him back to the car (I must confess I loaded the pot with heroin), third, Etta James ....man Etta James!

charactersunite.com

I'm not sure if you have had the pleasure of seeing the commercials for this movement that is being pushed by the USA network. It shows people in white t-shirts that say "I won't stand for _____" and the people write in various things they wont tolerate such as racism, discrimination...I really cant remember all of them but essentially it is the usual laundry list. The one that is missing, and most importantly the ad should finish up with is "I wont stand for people who won't stand for differing opinions". It is a rehashing of the Bob Dylan line from "Its Alright Ma" that goes "Some say they don't hate anything at all except hatred." Don't make excuses for the PC people. The only thing they think should be tolerated are their beliefs. To all these groovy hipsters you would think dissenting opinions would be welcomed. I don't like tattoos or excessive piercings yet some of my best friends have them. We don't need to agree on everything with everyone and if they're not getting violent big deal. Speak your minds, agree to disagree and get on with it. It is funny how people always connect hate with negativity but without hate/intolerance this country would not have been founded. Now we look at this land and see how far we have deviated from what our founding fathers had in mind, individual rights and freedoms.

Some more things I wont stand for; Mob Mentality, Occupy protesters costing cities/taxpayers millions, Illegal Immigrants, Lemmings, Drum circles without Fifes, White people with dreadlocks. If you don't like what I wont stand for thats alright with me. In fact I welcome you to hate it. Hate me even, it really doesn't matter. I hope you don't mind standing in a long line. I really cant waste my life trying to force others to believe as I do.

Cockeyed Cooper Uinta Bourbon Barrel Barley Wine

For todays mental distraction...

I started with doing the ABC's of mens names that are song titles. It was a much bigger challenge than the womens names. I surrendered my rules of its just being the name as the title and went with the name as part of the title. It was still a great task. One that I will work on again Monday. Speaking of song titles, names, and other randomness, I went out for a bike ride today and as is always the case was listening to the Dead, Alpine Valley 8/7/82, a great show which I highly recommend. As I was mid way through the song "Ramble On Rose" three quarters of the way up a hill singing along at the top of my lungs (gotta love riding in the desert) the lines in my ears and on my tongue were "The grass aint greener the wine aint sweeter either side of the hill". Riding up hill is taxing on the lungs. Riding up hill and singing is a tax increase. Riding up hill, singing, and laughing is obamanomics in action.

ABC's

I don't talk to anyone while I'm at work so to keep my mind occupied I come up with inane problems to solve. While being aurally attacked with yap yap yap from all directions today I decided to go through the alphabet and see if I could come up with a song whose title is a womans name for each letter. Although I sit here at a computer I refuse to google potential song title/names for the letters I fell short on, those being F,P (HeyHey Paula doesn't work because it has a womans name in the title, it is not the title) Q,T,U,X,Y, and Z. I'm not sure which is sadder, my job or the fact that I cant even come up with a womans name starting with Q or Z. Actually there are so many sad things here. We'll see what tomorrow brings.