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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Regional Director For American Income Life


OMG...I have an email from....(shiver)....the Regional Director for American Income Life, a Torchmark Company.

Thats right eat you hearts out you little small filthy working class people.

A genuine, heartfelt, bona fide offer for a outstanding individual like me.

Lets look at their website.

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The server at www.tmkrms.com is taking too long to respond.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

WTF?

When I check their privacy policy I get the same thing.........http://www.tmkrms.com/privacypolicy.asp

Well how could that be they state in my email they are a top Forbes 400 company that truly believes in honesty, integrity and trust.

Something must be wrong?

Well I chose to opt out as they put it or unsubscribe..it prompts open a web page and says:

Opt Out Form
Although opt-out should be immediate, please allow 2 to 3 business days for opt-out to complete.

Well I posted it here folks so lets all count the days, this is my forth contact from them by the way to sell their insurance.

If they put this much effect into outside sales instead of trying to hire me they wouldn't need me in the first place.

Forth time in I think a week...sheesh they write me more than any friends I have...my friends don't email me because they know I hate that superfluous email shit.

If its important they call me.

Of course the great site ripoffreport.com has tons of comments about American Income Life.

Best friggin site ever.



Welcome to Detroit

Madonna's Snapper No Longer Drawing Concert Goers.




RICHMOND, Va. — Governor Tim Kaine said Madonna’s allusion in a concert video to Republican John McCain alongside Adolf Hitler is “stupid.”

But Kaine said Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama has no duty to comment on what a pop star is saying about political figures in her new “Sticky and Sweet” concert tour.

In his monthly call-in show on Washington’s WTOP radio, Kaine said he was unaware of the video montage. Played as part of the concert, the montage grouped McCain’s picture alongside those of Hitler and Zimbabwe’s dictator, Robert Mugabe.

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Yawn....that's about all I can say about Madonna...she was what should have been a blip on the music radar of the 80's but has through sexual innuendo and comments declaring bravado managed to keep her aged albeit financially lucrative career sledging along like a dog sled on dirt.

You know why she has this montage in her concert?

Here I'll tell you the secret...450 articles on Google.com and growing.

Madonna is the precursor to Brittany Spears, Pink, Hannah Montana, etc. etc. etc....thats all we really have from Madonna as some kind of legacy, her ability to take a lack of singing talent...add in some dancing and prancing.....wear a bra and no shirt...and voila.....SUPERSTAR!

Yawn

PS...great pics huh? Isn't she yummy and people are probably paying a few hundy a piece to watch that jump around a stage.




Welcome to Detroit

How Many Lap Dances Does That Work Out To?


Delphi's emergence from bankruptcy is uncertain

Nearly three years after Delphi Corp. filed for bankruptcy, its prospects for emerging soon remain deeply uncertain as the Troy-based auto parts supplier faces growing pressure from investors and the government.

Delphi remains mired in Chapter 11 bankruptcy because it cannot raise the money it needs to operate outside court protection from creditors. The company is seeking court approval to borrow an additional $300 million from General Motors Corp., but investors are objecting to Delphi's continued reliance on its former parent when GM is facing deep financial trouble of its own. A court hearing on the loan that was scheduled for today has been postponed until next month.

For now, it turns to GM, which has loaned Delphi $650 million and is prepared to add $300 million. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain has set a Sept. 23 hearing on the loan, which has been criticized by one of Delphi's largest investors.

That loan is "a Band-Aid (albeit an enormously expensive and porous Band-Aid)," Highland Capital Management LP said in a court filing last week. Highland said Delphi is losing "staggering sums of money" at an "alarming rate," noting that it burned through $960 million in cash in the first six months of the year.

There also are significant questions about Delphi's ability to meet its pension fund obligations. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which insures the nation's pension plans, is urging Delphi and GM to shift some of that burden to GM.

Source

Delphi rocked the auto industry when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Oct. 8, 2005. Since then, it has lost $11.8 billion, closed 21 of its 29 U.S. factories and cut its hourly work force by nearly 50 percent, and its salaried work force by almost 40 percent.

The supplier has spent $3 billion to offer buyouts and early retirements to thousands of hourly workers. This month, it reported a $551 million second-quarter loss and said it would cut 600 more salaried workers, mostly in Indiana.

Delphi is tight-lipped about its progress in bankruptcy. Spokesman Lindsey Williams said the company continues to talk with GM, its unions, government agencies and others about resolving the pension funding problem.

"We do not provide commentary regarding ongoing negotiations," he said. Williams also said Miller planned to remain with Delphi through the bankruptcy.

Despite the delays and continuing problems, Delphi executives say the company will emerge from bankruptcy, but as a much smaller, more profitable company.

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Again...leaving the same people in charge who got the company in the sad state it's in now in the first place.

How is it EVER legally and morally justifiable that a company can promise retirement benefits then renege at a later more convenient time?

This is the kind of thing that makes retirees pick up a gun and go balistic and I can't blame them one bit.

I can resolve this though.

A) Make all executive operating officers of companies of this scale legally and criminally accountable for failure to honor contracts and keeping the company financially resolute. (This is justified by the enormous pay scales which already exist, they just get paid to fail currently.)

B) Fire them via court order and have the court post the positions for people actually qualified whom may not be in the "old boy network".

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Steve Miller is just as tough on UAW president Ron Gettelfinger. Since the opportunities for retribution are frequent and one-sided, auto executives almost never criticize union leaders in public. But Miller is fearless, at least in print. He butted heads with Gettelfinger over Delphi, and found the union boss stubborn, inflexible, and occasionally nasty. After Miller put together what he thought was a reasonable compensation package to keep Delphi executives from departing the bankrupt company, Gettelfinger denounced it as "obscene" and "outrageous," and then attacked Miller personally for disrespecting workers and destroying the middle class.

Miller won the public relations battle by declaring he would cut his own salary to $1 a year. But the war continued. "Gettelfinger's disdain was not confined to me," Miller writes . "He simply couldn't get along with anyone," referring to Delphi's executives as "pigs at the trough." During the last half year of negotiations, Gettelfinger refused to meet personally with anyone from Delphi. Miller concludes: "Gettelfinger was a big disappointment. An industry in crisis needs leaders who can rise above the tactics of intimidation that may have worked decades earlier."

A sadly-shrunken Delphi is due to emerge from bankruptcy in March with a fraction of the union workers it once enjoyed. Miller, now executive chairman, is looking forward to the retirement at his Oregon home that he has been postponing for years He may not get a chance to enjoy it. With the economy now in a tailspin, his skills as "the Turnaround Kid" may drag him off the sidelines once again.

Source

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The Turnaround Kid just made tool of the day.

I like the $1 a year thing...good PR...means nothing.....but it is good PR...These guys get Class A stock options and contracts like you would not believe...did you think he was going to have to cut coupons while making a dollar a year....please...most of these guys don't even pay for their own gas for their company cars...or planes...or boats....or helicopters....

How do you pay for the gas for your helicopter?



Welcome to Detroit, get paid millions to fail then retire to Boca Raton.

You Mean You Want Me To Sell Things For You? Gee Thanks


YEEESSSS !!!!

ANOTHER job offer this morning from Algomod Technologies Corporation via email.

My second, they must want me so bad...I can't blame them...I am a hunka hunka burning IT knowledge.

And my skills listed on my resume must have SO much in common with whatever it is they are selling.

On the other hand I am gaining invaluable knowledge on how to spot these spam offers and where they are coming from.

Here are three hints on how to get your email name sold all over the frigging world for free....free being you won't get any money for your email but that other people can and will.

Monster.com

Jobserve.com
Careerbuilder.com

Oh sure...I probably had to check some box or radio button saying I was ok with them selling my email as they saw fit...but to tell you the truth I expected some sort of ethical behavior on their part that they wouldn't supply it to less than reputable agents...I know naive.

So in keeping with my method of attaching naughty keywords to every article about these spam job offers I give you......
Poon, Boob, Swallow, Mouth, Upskirt, Asian, BBW, Backdoor, Jugs, Huge, Cheerleader, Flash.



Welcome to Detroit

Granholm Due To Act....Maybe...Sort Of...We'll See



Gov. may decide on ouster hearing today

Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to announce today whether she'll proceed with hearings next week that could remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office, amid continued speculation that a plea deal could still be in the works for the embattled mayor.

Granholm is expected to announce her intentions after reading final legal arguments submitted Monday by attorneys for Kilpatrick and the City Council.

In the briefs, council attorney William Goodman argued Granholm would "set a dangerous precedent" if she fails to act or delays hearings. The mayor's general counsel, Sharon McPhail, accused the council of engaging in a disingenuous power grab.

Source

"The Detroit City Council has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars paying for an attorney to conduct a political witch hunt against the Mayor," McPhail wrote, a reference to Goodman, who has a contract for up to $260,000.

"(The mayor) respectfully requests that the Honorable Jennifer Granholm decline to join the lynch mob: That she stand up for the rule of law and dismiss this factually inadequate and politically motivated petition."


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I don't know what dirt the mayor has on McPhail but she certainly has changed her tune on Kwami.

Get in the way back machine again Mr. Peabody, this is going be a fun one.

Source

"....She didn't mention that she was one of the mayor's biggest critics when she served on the council, once calling him a "thug" and claiming he tried to electrocute her."

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Yeah....Cuckoo....Cuckoo

Sharon McPhail is either A) as nutty as they come or B) The mayor has dirt on her he has threatened to use...seriously what else could it be to cause the crap to flow from her mouth like an artisan spring from the anus.

Maybe Kwami has magical powers over women and that's how he got Christine Beatty's knee a-knockin.




Welcome to Detroit, The circus is coming to town.