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This is how it works...Politicians start the wars, officers plan the wars, leaving up to the soldiers to fight them. In the end, the citizens are left to rebuild.

Customer Service and Sales

I was always taught that good customer service meant good sales. I believe that is true. As some of you know, we have been looking for a boat. We have been to 5 dealers and made inquires about their boats and why we should but from them. I guess I should really say 6 dealers. The sixth one did not do so well in customer service, in fact, they let me roam around the showroom for 10-15 minutes and no one spoke. How does Performance Marine of Nashville expect to sell any boats? One guy never moved from his desk. Three guys were polishing boats. And, another never moved from behind his counter. I got perturbed and left.



Being the way I am, after I left the store, I called Performance Marine and told them what had happened. The manager apologized. I told him to have a good day and hung up. Thirty minutes later, I got a call from Performance Marine inviting me back to their dealership to look at their boats. I told them that I was pressed for time, I actually was, and that I would come back if I had the time. I was asked back whenever I could. Poor Performance Marine. We found the perfect boat for us and it wasn't at Performance Marine.

The way the economy is, sales people need to go that extra mile when it comes to selling their merchandise. I hope Performance Marine learns this.

PS,

Will we go back and look at Ebbtide boats? I can't say...yet.

Politics sucks

I guess I've not posted recently might be attributed to the total amount of bullshit flying around Washington. I'll have to some up with something else.

Dems bow down to Limbaugh

OMG! IT IS true. The Democrats have apologized to Limbaugh over a web page that made fun of him. What is politics coming to in this country? I'm to flabbergasted to say more.

Michael Steele. What a wimp!

So, Michael Steele wants to be the leader of the Republican National Committee! What a wimp! Mr Steele I cannot believe that you were elected as chairman of the RNC. Why did you back down from loud mouth Rush Limbaugh? How can you defend the Republican parties mission if you cannot stand up to your own membership?

The RNC needs to sit down and rethink it's purpose from the top down. As long as Rush Limbaugh is allowed to control the air waves with is inflammatory message, the Republican party will be stuck in the shadow of the the Democratic party. The Republican needs to look at itself and get rid of the flotsam and work to return to it's conservative base without Rush Limbaugh.

Being a Republican sucks!!

I have discovered that being a Republican sucks. Do you want to know why? Of course, you want to know why. Two words...Rush Limbaugh. What a fat, overpaid, loud mouthed jerk! Rush Limbaugh does not represent my Republican party. He is not the leader, I say that loosely, that the party needs. I had rather pick back up with George Bush than have to settle for any possible leadership headed by Limbaugh.

Help me...

I was watching the news yesterday and a 'guest' was complaining about not being able to pay their mortgage. I empathize with them and their difficulty. There are tens of thousands of Americans who are in the same boat. Fortunately, and so far, my family is not in that boat. We bought a home by being smart about borrowing the money. It is not that I am so savvy. We got lucky.

I am talking about this one 'guest' who was having a hard time making the payments on her 2 homes and that her and her husband had lost their jobs. She was wanting help to pay for her two mortgages. I'm sorry. It sounds like you were a little irresponsible in your money spending. Irresponsible people do not need bailed out. What they need is taken down a notch to learn fiscal responsibility.

If we are going to help people, then we need to help those who really need it.

What'd he say?

I went through another year without listening to a presidential address. They really have nothing new to day. They say we have problems. They say we need to come together to make it better. Then, they say what they are going to do to make it better. Sounds good! Sounds promising! It never works.

Mr Obama made promises during his campaign that now he realzes that he cannot keep. The stimulus package is a joke. I am looking forward to my $65 a month tax reduction. What int he world am I gonna do with $16.25 a week? Am I supposed to take my family and treat them to McDonald's? I have a family of four.

Let's get politicans who don't make plans knowing that they won't work. Of course, it is not all Mr Obama's fault. Oh no! Mr McCain has gone back on his work when he vowed to help Mr Obama fix the economy. We have seen how far that lasted. Politics is politics and there is no way around it. It is a no win situation when both sides of Congress refuse to work together.

So, tell me honestly...did I really miss anything.

"A Nation of Cowards"

What does the new US Attorney General want us to do? I certainly hope the Holder was not directing that comment at 'White Americans.' That would show that he too is a coward. How can the US Attorney General do his job when makes comments that could be considered racist on his part? His job is to protect the country terrorists and to uphold the laws of the land. He cannot do that if he has issues.

We have a black man for a president. That's cool and I can live with that. We have a black man for the US Attorney General. That's cool and I can live with that. What I can't abide is a person using his/her position as a platform to stir up racial problems. IF Holder was using making a racist comment, then that is unacceptable and he should be removed from office as soon as possible.

Not a new Window(s)

Can you believe it? Vista is working on being 2 years old and Microsoft is already replacing it! Microsoft Vista has been labeled a world-class bomb. Microsoft is working to pump more money from consumers. Windows 7 is not an upgrade to repair many of Vista's issues. It is another operating system! If you want it, you have to pay for it!

I jumped on the Vista bandwagon when it came out. I will not be jumping the tracks any time soon for Windows 7. As intriguing as it looks, and it does look good, I am extremely afraid that Windows 7 is another of Microsoft's over bloated, bug ridden operating system.

My advice, stay away! If you are using Windows XP, there is no need to change. You have the best Windows version since Win98. If you are using Vista, hold off until they get the bugs worked out. At the rate Microsoft is going wait three years and get the Windows 8.

Do you like Chrome?

I just downloaded Google's new browser, Chrome. So far it is better than IE and faster than Firefox. I am not plugging Google for Google, but I know how some people like to try out new things. Chrome is new. It imported my bookmarks from Firefox without any difficulty. It might do the same for IE. It is fast, even when loading the usually slow, for me, Beliefnet pages.

Try Chrome. You might like it.

Self-identification

Years ago, I stopped being white and became a Native American. Parts of my family were standing on the Virginia shores when the first sail appeared in the James River. Now, I have dropped the 'Native' part and I identify myself as an American. There are too many roots in my family tree to start trying to identify with one cultureal background.

I was born in this country. I am who I am. I am an individual, just like Barack Obama, and I can choose my own self-identity. We are who we want to be and not what others label us as being.

What would we say if Obama self-identified as white? Funny that.

Put that cracker down!

Let's look at this...

There are about 305 million people in the US. 470 people have been sick from eating tainted peanut butter. Six people have died from eating said peanut butter. Why such a fuss? Do people not realize that so far only 0.000001% of the population have died from salmonella poisoning from peanut butter? So far, only 0.000154% had been made ill!!

Now, look at this...

On average, the CDC reports on average of 14 million cases of reported Salmonella poinsoning every year. Of those 14 million, the average number of deaths is 600.

The media is making a Mt Everest out of a little bittie 'piss' ant hill. Be cautious, but not scared!!

No freedom from Speech

I am working on what is hopefully my last year before I get my Bachelor's degree. I have to take speech. Ugh! I'm sorry, Communications 1010. It is the most over-analyzed, over-emphasized subject I have seen. If you have taken a similar course, you know what I am talking about. This class is required and that is the only reason I am taking it.

Leave GAZA

Israel, you need to leave Gaza. You will never have peace until you stop being the bully on the block.

So far from home...

The image with this post is a picture of our home as taken from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn. Doesn't it look small and insignificant? Taken in 2006 (I just stumbled on it), shows the Earth through the gaps in Saturn's rings. If you can't see it, it's in the upper right center of the picture. Yes, the little blue dot!. All the known intelligence in the universe (as far as we know) is on that little blue dot. How precious we are. How precious we ALL are!

SAVE THE PORN!

I was tickled this morning when I found out that Larry Flint was going to apply for bailout money from Congress. Why not? As Flint said, 'everyone is asking for money.' I agree. If Congress is going to bail out business that made their own beds, why not bail out businesses that are made in the bed.

No, I am not treating this lightly. Setting aside moral issues, if the porn industry truly is in need of financial help, then it should be treated equally as banks and auto makers. Fling and the producer of "Girls Gone Wild" are asking for $5billion citing the failing economy is seriously damaging their business. the porn film industry is a legitmate business in the United States with American's spening $8 billion annually. THAT is a lot of skin.

I would suggest Congress tred carefully. If they dismiss Flint due to religious preferences, then I see a Supreme Court case coming. Congress cannot, and rightfully so, refuse to help the porn industy based on morals. That can be argued as a First Amendment violation. I am sure, however, there are reasons why Congress can deny help based on other grounds.

Let's see what happens.

ET is out THERE

We all know that tens of thousands of people yearly see things in the sky they cannot explain. Thousands develop the idea that our planet is being visited by beings from other planets. Unfortunately, thousands more have theories that the world governments know about these visitors and are either keeping it a secret to protect the Earth's population or by conspiring with these visitors to take over the world.Well, as long as those conspiracy theorists leave me alone, I'm cool with their...uh...quirkiness.

Surprisingly, there is a growing number of scientists who believe that live exists elsewhere in our universe. I also would fall into this group that believe there are intelligent civilizations out there. However, I do not believe that we are being visited by alien beings. All the UFOs that are seen buzzing around are not aliens but misidentified natural occurring objects or man-made objects. The real measurable evidence is missing. Until that evidence can be supplied there is no proof, only supposition and, admittedly, we are left with a mystery.

Photographs? I have seen enough out of focus, fuzzy photographs of nocturnal lights to be an expert. These images supply such low quality that true identification of an object impossible. There is nothing to gauge distance, size or movement. Sadly, the best photos that I am seen of alien spacecraft have either been Photoshop'd or animated. (YouTube is great!)

Abductions? There has not been one eye witness to an alien abduction. No abductee has ever brought back a piece of evidence. (Those so called 'implants' are not evidentuary enough to be conclusive proof.) There are more valid explanations of the abduciton experience than the fantastic alien version.

Show me the smoking gun that proves aliens are visiting Earth. I believe in aliens, but I don't believe they are grey.

"UFO Hunters" Critical investigation?

I have found myself watching "UFO Hunters" on the History Channel or on the SciFi Channel. This is no big deal because I am always watching something about UFOs whenever it is on the television. I have grown to dislike "UFO Hunters." They set up to investigate UFO sightings with great scientific care to explain what is really going on. Unfortunately, they fall short of REAL scientific examination. They continually select what evidence they want to prove that a sighting was an alien visitation.

This bring about an interesting question. Is "UFO Hunters" really interested in the scientific pursuit of extraterrestial visitations or are they just feeding the conspiracy? There can be no real scientific investigation as long as evidence is sifted to support a desired outcome. Science is about truth. If you collect all the available evidence and come up with the incorrect solution, then you are not using the scientific method. Using the scientific method, you collect the ALL the evidence and report on what you find, not what you want to find by discounting conflicting that disproves the desired outcome. "UFO Hunters" does this week after week.

There is no critical investigation in what "UFO Hunters" does. It only serves to feed the UFO/Alien conspiracy subculture. There is money to be made by the television networks and "UFO Hunters" is a vehicle of that.