tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71951763806809954082014-10-18T20:42:56.219-07:00AMERICA FIRSTJim Fridasnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-50111443122437056742014-10-18T20:42:00.004-07:002014-10-18T20:42:56.228-07:00HERO'S WANTED! COSTUMES OPTIONAL!<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>THE GREAT AMERICAN HERO PROJECT!</em></strong></span><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></em></strong><br /><strong><em>So what is the Great American Hero Project? It is a program that lets the American public see the people the animals as well that have saved the lives of other people. Many hero's are never heard from even after they save the life of other people.</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>As an assistant producer on Veterans Voices I have had many creations for television only our studio in Martinez California is not equipped to produce re-creations and so what to do? I have been in touch with other production companies in the hopes that I may find one that would see the value of a reality show that is total reality!!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>In February of 2014 a man on his way to work near Oakland California around 4 am in the morning saw a home on fire, stopped his car rushed into the burning home and save the man his wife and three children and the family pet, what a hero!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>In New York a man had a stroke on the subway platform fell onto the tracks with a train on the way only seconds from killing him when out of no where a man on the other side of the platform jumps onto the tracks and pulls the man to safety!'</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>On another day a woman with three children and a baby in the stroller had entered into the subway when a gust of wind from the opening nearby pushed the stroller onto the tracks when a train was entering the platform another good Samaritan jumped onto the tracks and grabbed the baby and jumped back onto the platform only seconds before the baby would have been killed!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>So what makes an every day hero minus costume?? Only god knows, however not all rescues end in a happy ending like the above, some end in the tragic loss of life of the hero, for example a man saved a child from being run over by a truck then was hit by the truck after saving the child!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Another serious tragedy was an 8 year olf boy who saved his siblings lives in an early morning fir then rushed back into the burning inferno to save his crippled grandfather and both he and his grandfather died in the fire!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Tragedies abound but what makes a person do the unthinkable? An 8 year old boy wired to save his siblings! Why did he sacrifice his life to save others? Only Jesus and Jehovah know that answer!</em></strong><br /><strong><em>********************************************************************************</em></strong><br />Copyright © 2013 [JAMES THOMAS FRIDAS]. All Rights ReservedJim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-73870361366713643222014-09-12T18:53:00.001-07:002014-09-12T18:53:41.805-07:00MEXICO IS ANGRY<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>YES MEXICO IS ANGRY!</em></strong></span><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Make sure you read this article and pass it on to all your friends so they can see the truth in what is happening!</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">M</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">ake certain you read, at the bottom of this page, the part that says it will take 30 more seconds to read.! This is what needs to be done, in my opinion! Please forward to all you know and ask them to forward to all they know. Maybe, together, we can make this happen!<br /><br />The shoe is on the other foot and the Mexicans from the State of Sonora, Mexico do not like it.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv6443327579MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Nine state legislators from the Mexican State of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona 's new employer crackdown on illegal s from Mexico . It seems that many Mexican illegal s are returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off. A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to state that Arizona 's new 'Employer Sanctions Law' will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said that Sonora, - Arizona's southern neighbor - made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools that it will face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns from the USA without jobs or money.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Arizona law, which took effect Jan. 1, punishes Arizona employers who knowingly hire individuals without valid legal documents to work in the United States . Penalties include suspension of, or loss of, their business license. The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on THEIR state government instead of ours.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">'How can Arizona pass a law like this?' asked Mexican Rep Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales . 'There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona ,' she said, speaking in Spanish. 'Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and who were sending money to their families return to their hometowns in Sonora without jobs,' she said 'We are one family, socially and economically,' she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona .</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Wrong! The United States is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico , and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico 's citizens.<br />It's time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to stop feeding parasitically off the United States and to start taking care of its/their own needs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Too bad that other states within the USA don't pass a law just like that passed by Arizona . Maybe that's the answer, since our own Congress will do nothing.!<br /><br />*New Immigration Laws*</span><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Be sure to read to the bottom or you will miss the message...<br /><br />1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.<br />2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.<br />3. All government business will be conducted in our language.<br />4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.<br />5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.<br />6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or any other government assistance programs. Any who are a burden will be deported.<br />7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">minimum wage.<br />8. If foreigners come here and buy land, their options will be restricted.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.<br />9. Foreigners may have NO protests; NO demonstrations, NO waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, NO bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.<br />10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted and, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.<br /><br />Too strict.? The above laws are the current immigration laws of MEXICO.!<br />If it's good for American's to obey Mexican laws, then it's good visa versa.!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">If you agree, please pass it on. An idea whose time has come: Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come. Have each person contact a minimum of twenty people on their address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise.<br /><br /><br />You are one of my 20. If you don't have twenty, pass it on to whatever number you can.!</span><br /><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living."</span></span>Jim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-86243354358420454532014-05-29T16:07:00.004-07:002014-09-20T17:06:07.249-07:00THIS IS WAR!!!! by Jim Fridas<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>OIL COMPANIES ARE THE ENEMY!!</i></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><b><i>You must see the car of today today that the oil companies are keeping off the road with the blessings of the dummies in our government, its time to declare war on the oil companies and now, when you see this please pass it on to all your email list!!</i></b><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>If you have any contacts in the congress or the Senate maybe your state house send them a copy of this and lets put some heat on the policrats to allow this car in America!!!</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>OIL COMPANIES ARE DANGEROUS </i></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>The oil companies are doing their damdest to keep this 300 mpg car off the roads of America and I am going to make them eat SH_T, care to join me!!!<br /><br />When you see below how this is going to change the oil companies and pass it on to all your friends!!!<br /><br /><br />*******************************************************************************<br /><br /><br />THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL CAR!!! READ TO THE BOTTOM.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://thespiritscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/volkswagon-644x372.jpg" dfsrc="http://thespiritscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/volkswagon-644x372.jpg" height="372" id="_x0000_i1025" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" width="644" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h1><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volkswagen’s New 300 MPG Car Not Allowed In America Because It Is Too Efficient</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></h1><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 25, 2014 Steven Bancarz 22 Comments</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><br /><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">You won’t find the 300 MPG Volkswagen XL1 in an American showroom, in fact it has even been denied a tour of America because it is too efficient for the American public to be made widely aware of, and oil profits are too high in America with the status quo in place. No tour has been allowed for this car because the myth that 50 mpg is virtually impossible to obtain from even a stripped down econobox is too profitable to let go of, and when it comes to corporate oil profits, ignorance is bliss.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years ago I had calculated that it should be possible to get a small car to exceed 100 mpg by putting parallel direct to cylinder water injectors side by side with the fuel injectors, and using the exhaust manifold to preheat the water </span></div></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">so it would enter the cylinders as dry steam, thus providing added expansion (which drives the engine) while allowing the combustion process to proceed without reducing it’s efficiency. But I was obviously wrong with my calculations, because they were in fact over 2x conservative. The 100 mpg carburetor was indeed a reality, and the Volkswagen XL1 proves it with only straightforward nothing special technology we have had since the 1970?s.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though the XL1 can be plugged in to deliver a 40 mile all electric drive, it does not need to be plugged in EVER to achieve 300 mpg. And it does not cheat in any way to achieve the rating, it weighs over 1,700 pounds, has normal tires, and delivers a very good driving experience with a governed top speed of 99 mph. The XL1 could reach a top speed in excess of 110 mph absent governor and turns in a 0-60 time of 11.5 seconds which is by no means leisurly for a car designed for efficiency. The XL1 in no way cheats on performance to hit it’s rating. It is simply the </span></div></div><br /><br /><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">car we should have always had, and have had taken from us in the name of oil profits.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though the XL1 can hit 300 mpg under ideal driving conditions, it’s combined mileage is usually a little over 200 mpg, and if you do city driving only that will drop to a minimum of 180 mpg under the worst driving conditions. But I’d be happy with that no doubt.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does that kind of fuel economy really mean?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></h3><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the XL1 was equipped with an 18 gallon fuel tank, and you did all highwaydriving, you could fill it up with an oil change and when the next change was due you could change the oil and keep driving without filling up for and additional 2,400 miles. But it comes with a much smaller fuel tank, because if it could go that long on a single tank chances are the fuel would foul before it got used. The tank is only 2.6 gallons to prevent fuel age related problems from happening. So fill ups are cheap.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of the publications which speak about the XL1 did so when it was a concept car predicted to get right around 250 MPG. But in 2014, after extensive testing of cars now produced, test drivers report economy above 300 mpg under the correct driving conditions, which would be close to sea level, a flat straight road with no stops, and reasonable speeds.</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To get rid of miles/imperial/U.S. gallon confusion, in the metric system the XL1 is rated to deliver 100 kilometers per litre. Translated for the U.S., that means approximately 65 miles per quart.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><br /><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">I rememer how I laughed at the Smart Fortwo, because even a full size 4 doorChevy Impala significantly beat the “Smart’s” fuel economy, and with the Impala you would get a whole car. The Volkswagen XL1 is clearly the two seater the Smart should have been if it really was what the name implies, and the XL1 is in contrast, a car I’d be proud to be seen in.</span></div></div><br /><h3><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><img alt="2014-VW-Golf-Variant-Jetta-SportWagen" src="http://cdn2.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-VW-Golf-Variant-Jetta-SportWagen-300x162.jpg" dfsrc="http://cdn2.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-VW-Golf-Variant-Jetta-SportWagen-300x162.jpg" height="162" id="_x0000_i1026" width="300" /></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will NOT see the Xl1 in America,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></h3><br /><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even it’s far less efficient 85 mpg non hyrid full size station wagon counterpart – the Jetta TDI blue motion wagon (Img<b>Carscoops.com)</b>,<i> which is made in America</i> is banned from American roads. And I would like to ask why? </span></div></div><br /><br /><br /><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">What excuse is there for banning highly efficient cars from American roads?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">One excuse is that “they don’t meet American crash test standards”, but the real truth is that the Fed simply refused to ever crash test them because of what they are, in Europe even the XL1 is considered to be a very safe car in crashes, and the Jetta station wagon is obviously even safer and you CAN buy the non TDI versions of the exact same car in America. The only thing different is the engine, WHAT GIVES?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><br /><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer is obvious. <b>Simply for the sake of raking in huge profits from $4 a gallon gas, getting guzzled at 10X the rate it should be, the corporations have via campaign contributions and other types of pay outs succeeded in getting the FED to legislate the best cars off the road for irrelevant trumped up reasons. <i>The XL1 will not meet American emission standards NOT because it is not clean enough, it will not meet them simply because inefficient parts that are mandated by the EPA are not part of the XL1?s power train. </i></b>We will never see truly clean running and efficient cars in America, because the FED has mandated that American cars be intentionally stifled by horribly fuel wasting parts that add to the cost of the vehicle and do absolutely NO GOOD, how much more efficient and clean can you get than 300 mpg? The exhaust from the Xl1 </span></div></div><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">absolutely NO GOOD, how much more efficient and clean can you get than 300 mpg? The exhaust from the Xl1 has to, by simple math and the laws of physics, run at the theoretical threshold of emissions perfection.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><h3><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">All is not rosy for Europe however</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></h3><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xl1 is SO MUCH the car that the oil companies do not want that there will only be 2,000 made. And no production line was set up for them, they are all hand made. And irrelevant “lightweight” parts are added to the frame, consisting of carbon fiber and other exotic materials to add to the mystique. <b>But the materials and production limits are a load of BUNK, the car STILL weighs over 1,700 pounds, if it weighed just 100 pounds more everything exotic could be removed, because “exotic materials” are not doing much anyway, they are just marketing.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cost is not the issue either</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Even after being hand made with “exotic” materials in an intentionally limited edition, the Xl1 still only costs $60,000. There is a lot more of a market for this car than 2,000 units at that price, have no doubt, this car is being held back on purpose. If it can be hand made for that little, automated assembly lines could do it for half. <b>And if a 1,700 plus pound Xl1 can get 300 mpg, a 3,400 pound Chevy Truck should be able to deliver at least 150 MPG, the Xl1 lays the mileage scam bare, with every hybrid that gets 40 mpg and every truck off the line that gets 20, Americans are getting the shaft and they do not even realize it.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was first infatuated and impressed with the 85mpg Vokswagen TDI Blue Motion wagon and wished I could get one in America (when I was still there), and then the 300 mpg Xl1 came along, what a rude awakening and slap in the face for the American car buyer.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Car & Driver Magazine:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span><br /></div></div></div><h1><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">2014 Volkswagen XL1</span></em><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></h1><br /><h2><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">Feather Weight: With its ostrich-winged doors, Volkswagen's new mileage champ, the XL1, is the Veyron of hybrids.</span></em></h2><br />*********************************************************************************Jim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-67427698671596689152014-04-07T16:09:00.000-07:002014-05-24T20:48:35.425-07:00MINIMUM WAGE & THE BEAT GOES ON<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> ON CORE PLEASE!</i></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><b><i> article by: James Thomas Fridas</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i> MAY 25, 2014 dateline Antioch California</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Its Sunday morning so its the Sunday morning ho hum DE dumb kinda morning! All I can say is more coffee please!! So in between writing and reading I have a cup of Joe, or as we said in the service a cup of mud!!! The conversation is around the falsely stated minimum wage for all those that are to stupid to get an education and get a real job!</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>The minimum wage is a farce developed by the left to make us all feel bad about the plight of the poor who the left could care less except during an election to make us all want to touchy feely good! The fact is that the left found a way to build the tax coffers by raising the minimum wage.</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Let me do the math for you, 1 dollar increase is taxed almost 86 cents to the dollar starting with F.I.T, then S.I.T., then S.S. and then S.D.I. then city and county taxes in some states as well as other miscellaneous taxes, so much for the raise for the lower end of society, in essence its a joke on society!</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>So now you see why I do not support raising the minimum wage which also costs jobs, a university study stated that if the minimum wage is raised this year it could cost millions of jobs, so much for touchy feely and all that bull! </i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Well now we have minimum wage and how it affects gun control, actually to me gun control is criminal in every aspect! Only now we have the plutocrats crying in their coffee that the poor need a raise, this is the joke that as Sergeant Shultz on Hogans Hero's use to say "Those Jolly Jokers"!</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Too think that Nancy Pelosi the illustrious tyrant from San Francisco who wants to be your overlord wants to dictate to you and lie to you for power as it has been discovered in an article on the Internet that she is POWER MAD! So San Francisco needs to have her retire this year and that is a fact that needs to be published to all of the nation she is out of touch with reality! One could even make the case that she is a mad woman! She was on the Internet admitted she is power mad!</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>That is what these clowns are a bunch of jolly jokers and that isn't funny in any way shape or form, so we need to make a new pitch for the poor, no taxes for those earning less than fifteen dollars an hour!! The other economic illiterate is Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, another brilliant loony loon! </i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Check this out she pays her staff $0.00 per hour and wants employers to pay $22.00 an hour! Genius that what this bimbo is! I want her to buy a burger franchise like Burger King pay her employees $22.00 an hour and see how long it takes this economic genius to go out of business! Now do you know what a moron is?</i></b><br /><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>So contact your congress critter and tell them no on increasing the minimum wage and yes on No Taxes Under $15.00 Now doesn't that feel better!!! You bet your aunt Gertie's under wear!!! It does now!! So what are you waiting for?? Christmas? Get to it contact that critter er varmint or what ever they are now a days!</i></b></span></div><b><i>*********************************************************************************</i></b><br />Copyright © 2013 [JAMES THOMAS FRIDAS]. All Rights ReservedJim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-53914746433177975552014-04-06T08:51:00.000-07:002014-05-03T07:36:27.363-07:00HUMOR FOR SENIORS! YOUNGSTERS DON'T LOOK! <span style="font-size: x-large;">THIS IS FUNNY</span><br /><br /><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 24pt;">The last line is </span></b><b><span style="color: #d24726; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 24pt;">PRICELESS. </span></b></div></div><div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 24pt;"> <b>Being </b></span><b><span style="color: #006600; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 24pt;">Green</span></b></div></div><br /><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" valign="top"><div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.</span></b></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> So they really were recycled.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.</span></b><b> </b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.</span></b></div></div></div><div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';">But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';">Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts--wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.</span></b></div></div></div><div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';">Back then, we had one TV, or radio,in the house--not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';">Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.</span></b><b> </b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We re-filled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.</span></b><b> </b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...</span></b></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="background: white;"><br /></div></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;" valign="top"><div><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">�</span></b><b><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Courier New';">We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.</span></b></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><div><br class="yiv9165013782webkit-block-placeholder" /></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span>Well, really “mature” people!</div></div>Jim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-60446819833818750472014-04-05T08:14:00.001-07:002014-04-05T08:14:51.943-07:00MINIMUM WAGE THE HOAX CONTINUES<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em> MINIMUM WAGE THE JOKES ON US<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"></span></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"> article by: James Thomas Fridas</span></em></strong></span><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em> April 5, 2014 dateline Antioch California</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Are you one of the lucky ones who needs no minimum wage? OK if not then pay attention this is a joke if ever and the joke is being played on the heart strings of the American public!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>If you look at the people who are always crying WOLF as the saying goes its those who could care less about you and me they are to busy claiming millions of dollars in PAC money each year to give a damn!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Now is election year and so the crying towel is in place for the political clowns to come out, oh did I say come out? Well OK so these clowns are coming out and that is the joke to start with.</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Do the math, if you give these so called under paid indigent workers a dollar who gets the bulk of that dollar? Times up, the correct answer is the "Government"! That's who, so check it out as I say do the math and here it is: </em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>The feds get 36 cents, states get anywhere from 6 cents to 10 cents, then there is SDI average from state to state about 5.8 percent or 6 cents, then there is social insecurity another 28 cents, then the new tax for obamacare about 9 cents, now add that up and you have about 89 cents, OK so how does that help the so called low income worker? </em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>It does not help for any one, but if they did what Jimmy Carter did and that was to tax only over ten dollars so if you were under that you paid no tax, with inflation the rate should be anyone who earns fifteen dollars an hour or less should not have to pay tax! </em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>This way you definitely do help the low income worker and his family to survive because taxes eat up almost half or more from the low income earner so this makes a lot of sense and the plutocrats should work to that end instead of crying WOLF all the damn time!</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>Do you agree or disagree with me please comment and let me know if this makes sense to you, if you do I will be sure to add it to future articles along this line.</em></strong><br /><strong><em>********************************************************************************</em></strong><br />Copyright © 2013 [JAMES THOMAS FRIDAS]. All Rights ReservedJim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-65904073043549830042014-04-04T18:16:00.002-07:002014-04-04T18:16:10.616-07:00MADE IN AMERICA by Jim Fridas<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BUSINESS AS USUAL! </span> article by: James Thomas Fridas</i></b><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><strong><em>April 4, 2014</em></strong><br /><b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>Did you know that all computers are not made in China!? While many are such as the infamous Apple which built a city and is making the famous Apple brand in China for pennies on the dollar and selling them here in America for a kings ransom which I will never buy, we now have new makers in America!</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>Yes, isn't that exciting news? You bet it is and like Apple when Steven Jobs was building his new company in his garage these new companies are exclusive here in America! One such company is now in Orlando Florida, the name of this company is "LOTUS" not to be confused with the software by the same name.</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>Then there are others such as Union Built which is made in Ohio, WOW! In America of all places! Can you imagine that? In addition there are more, but the real news is that while many companies went abroad there are those that realize its smart to be made in America, companies like Dell and Gateway are actually now back in the states and many more in time will be as well, Apple may never come back who cares!? </i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>Another upstart is Systemax, as well as a company named "ZT", then there is another company named "Polwell", hows that for new companies in America, these are small but in time I believe that they may show up companies like Apple, and I plan on buying American made soon! </i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>I hope you are a fan of Made in America as I am because we need to let the makers of products in America that its our money and our decision, my only regret is that Curtis Mathis televisions are no longer in business when the CEO was killed on an airline the company was unable to grow as the son did not seem to have his fathers business acumen and business sense, but that is the way of the world.</i></b><br /><b><i><br /></i></b> <b><i>If you watch this area of my newsletters I will add more in time about new companies in America, so thank you for reading my newsletters! </i></b><br /><strong><em>*******************************************************************************</em></strong><br />Copyright © 2013 [JAMES THOMAS FRIDAS]. All Rights ReservedJim Fridashttps://plus.google.com/117736686602151524557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7195176380680995408.post-15819386825252353722012-11-10T16:13:00.001-08:002014-04-05T13:00:29.030-07:00MADE IN AMERICA MY DEAR!<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">HOLY TOLEDO IN OHIO! </span> article by: James Thomas Fridas</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i>Yes! Yes! In Ohio as in the state of Ohio! Incredible I know, but that is the way of life my readers the way of life! The company is named Union Built as it must be a union house and I think if you look closely the union may have financed it in order to break into the electronics industry as they have been resistant to the union, this is strictly my own impression I may be wrong but I will investigate and report back to you! I fill in more information below on Union Built! Please read!</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i>Did you know that all computers are not made in China!? While many are such as the infamous Apple which built a city and is making the famous Apple brand in China for pennies on the dollar and selling them here in America for a kings ransom which I will never buy, we now have new makers in America!</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Yes, isn't that exciting news? You bet it is and like Apple when Steven Jobs was building his new company in his garage these new companies are exclusive here in America! One such company is now in Orlando Florida, the name of this company is "LOTUS" not to be confused with the software by the same name.</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Then there are others such as Union Built which is made in Ohio, WOW! In America of all places! Can you imagine that? In addition there are more, but the real news is that while many companies went abroad there are those that realize its smart to be made in America, companies like Dell and Gateway are actually now back in the states and many more in time will be as well, Apple may never come back who cares!? </i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Another upstart is Systemax, as well as a company named "ZT", then there is another company named "Polwell", hows that for new companies in America, these are small but in time I believe that they may show up companies like Apple, and I plan on buying American made soon! </i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>I hope you are a fan of Made in America as I am because we need to let the makers of products in America that its our money and our decision, my only regret is that Curtis Mathis televisions are no longer in business when the CEO was killed on an airline the company was unable to grow as the son did not seem to have his fathers business acumen and business sense, but that is the way of the world.</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>If you watch this area of my newsletters I will add more in time about new companies in America, so thank you for reading my newsletters! 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