tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post8941545687909531055..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "Women in the Workplace - and at Home"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-80313115490381546972015-05-23T12:28:59.309-04:002015-05-23T12:28:59.309-04:00Ah, it's Shinto, uppercase S.
https://en.wiki...Ah, it's Shinto, uppercase S.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamidana - only a shelf due to limited household spaceMindstormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02949097462978386911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-90833958065139489422015-05-23T03:11:28.935-04:002015-05-23T03:11:28.935-04:00https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lares#Lararium - dov...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lares#Lararium - dovetails nicely with shinto, don't you think?Mindstormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02949097462978386911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-79470381917803564102015-05-22T19:26:03.093-04:002015-05-22T19:26:03.093-04:00Why of course!Why of course!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-22258393296852090222015-05-22T16:46:01.124-04:002015-05-22T16:46:01.124-04:00Aw c'mon, Rusty! Is that any way to talk to yo...Aw c'mon, Rusty! Is that any way to talk to your redeemer? Of course you know I'm Canadian - have you forgotten my 'I won't hire packies and wogs' threads on the Canoe and Canadian Politics and Issues forums? I was true to it too - back when I was hiring I hired white men - and the vibrants, queers, and other diverse and divisive applicants be damned! Did you leap to my defence on those forums when I posted 'I Won't Ride In Cabs Driven By Smelly Packies'? Hell, I was a neo-reactionary being attacked by social justice warriors before those terms were even invented. Remember Revie? I could make that cunnned stunt screech like a howler monkey! HAR HAR HAR!<br /><br />I did well because I am a visionary and can think critically. Consider Bob, for example - there is TONS of money left in the business! Guys like me won't be driven round by stinking packies and mudflaps in yellow cabs with hookers and druggies. We take the big Crown Vic and Lincoln town cars driven by properly subservient and deferential clippers and wogs! We will even pay a premium for a clean cut white cab driver. Fact is I would pick my clientele under those conditions, and to hell with the whores, the niggers and riff raff that take yellow cabs.<br /><br />I tried to retire a couple times but I am a sales and businessman. I love talking and listening to customers and if you can do that - and react - earning good money is a piece of cake.<br /><br />I'm beginning to think I should reactivate my own blog...I trust you will give me a place of honour on your blogroll Bob? :)Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-57436840356761880252015-05-22T15:23:16.925-04:002015-05-22T15:23:16.925-04:00Regarding the Lennon quote.
I think Aspiration a...Regarding the Lennon quote. <br /><br />I think Aspiration and Desperation are closer to the mark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-19897791549557962922015-05-22T12:22:36.315-04:002015-05-22T12:22:36.315-04:00"Glen never had to deal with any of this shit..."Glen never had to deal with any of this shit, so his "I've got mine, you just can't cut it" schtick rings hollow. Aren't you a fucking Canadian, anyway, Glen? Go shovel the fucking snow off your driveway."<br /><br /><br />Amen Rusty!!! Amen!!!Quartermainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-43758477426753692452015-05-22T12:11:57.367-04:002015-05-22T12:11:57.367-04:00Just speaking personally, I was working a skilled ...Just speaking personally, I was working a skilled trade until a couple of years ago. I slipped a back disc and instantly became an economically useless man. I'm totally unemployable to any shop or corporation, yet I still make a living (almost by accident at first) as a gray market mechanic/ car trader. Not as much as I did but more than I would folding sweaters or working the fryer at burger king, not that I'm physically capable of doing either of those jobs anyway. I'm working on an engineering degree which I'm going to finish because I have the time and the money to do so, but would I be any happier crunching numbers in a basement cubicle than I am doing what I'm doing now? Life and work continue even outside of respectable employment and the official economy. That's been a surprise to me, and I expect it would be to a lot of other people as well. <br /> Rusty Shacklefordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-36340881164968512462015-05-22T11:11:30.441-04:002015-05-22T11:11:30.441-04:00Americans are undercut by 3rd world immigrants in ...Americans are undercut by 3rd world immigrants in the trades, outsourcing in the services, offshoring in manufacturing, H1B in the professions and automation everywhere. Before they can even get into the colleges their grandfathers built, they must run a gauntlet between affirmative action minorities and Asians who've been gaming placement tests since Confucius. Functioning, happy communities like Ferguson are willfully destroyed by government policies like forced busing of inner city students into their schools and section 8 rental vouchers. Glen never had to deal with any of this shit, so his "I've got mine, you just can't cut it" schtick rings hollow. Aren't you a fucking Canadian, anyway, Glen? Go shovel the fucking snow off your driveway. <br /><br />Which isn't really even the main point here. It isn't that success is impossible. There are probably Horatio Alger stories in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. It's a question of what are we doing that's making things harder or easier for people. Right now, if the US government and the large corporations were trying to fuck over the average American, they couldn't be doing a better job. If the government and corporate interests are no longer of any use to normal Americans, it would seem to be time for normal Americans to stop being useful or at least to redefine usefulness in a way that serves them.Rusty Shacklfordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-89858588003201288452015-05-22T08:06:29.163-04:002015-05-22T08:06:29.163-04:00The 60's were a little too good to you, Bob. T...The 60's were a little too good to you, Bob. The Good Life isn't something that The State denies you, nor does it just 'happen' to some people and not to others.<br /><br />You build it. You do that through sacrifice, hard work and commitment. The kids that did good in school tend to do well after school too. The kids that float through, barely passing, accomplishing nothing - don't live any better than those that work.<br /><br />The Machine State works for you, not the other way around. You work hard at school, you work hard when you get out and start a family. Work hard for 25 years and the next thing ya know you own your own home with two new cars in the driveway. I have tons of spare time now which I spend on the motorcycle and fiddling with RC aircraft. I have two hoople-headed dogs. Life is good.<br /><br />You sound like my gay hipster daughter. She blathers about mindless "consumer whores", shadow govts, and the tyranny of the corporations and she has absolutely nothing to show for it. She lives in a dump with 8 kidult room mates, she doesn't drive or even own a car - and has nothing but contempt for her parents and the way they live. She hangs with the cretins like the Occutards Of Wall Street. She has nothing, refuses to work for anything and she's mad about it! It used to drive me crazy but now I just laugh.<br /><br />For me its been a good life - the secret is that to get anything out, you have to put something in.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.com