Mr. Wonderful Talks Politics

My $4,000 Kinetico^® "no maintenance" water softening system works flawlessly except in a few nagging instances. One is when you let the potassium rocks get too low, and in a futile effort to soften water without its fuel, it drains a never ending waterfall through the system and straight into the sewers at the very pricey City of Phoenix summer water rates. The other instance is when the 1/2" diameter plastic tubes inside the units rupture as they age (they don't warn you about this inevitability - after all it is billed as a "no maintenance" unit) and spew red Mars-dust inside your abode's water pipes. This dust typically makes its presence known via your washing machine (which is the closest appliance to the Kinetico^® softening unit) emiting various tell-tale clues. Clues such as the rinse cycle not filling the tub with water. And, evidence such as the interior washing machine cold water valve becoming jammed with the red dust-muck whence it then stays open, and even with the washing machine turned off, drip by drip eventually fills the tub to overflowing. This isn't all bad, as after the first time it occurs (about five years ago in my sad case) you quickly realize what is happening and take corrective measures. (However, my first time the turned off washer did not fill to overflowing.) The day before yesterday afternoon, not knowing . . . continue

8/20/2002: First Time Teenagers Shocked by Net !
Each summer we get a new load of teenagers going out and getting real jobs the first time in their sheltered lives. Of course, with greedy, imbecilic businesses hiring more and more lower paid illegal aliens, there are less and less jobs for USA born, English speaking, red blooded American kids. In any case, unlike the illegals, who are generally paid in cash (don't believe it when you hear, "Those illegals pay taxes, blah, blah, blah ..." bullshit) American teens receive actual paychecks displaying a "gross" amount and a "net" amount. The smaller "net" figure comes about after the employer, under threat of imprisonment, deducts such items as Federal Income Tax (which is at least 18% of your check) FICA (basically, Social Security taxes, 7.65%, of which the employer kicks in an identical 7.65% - remember: Every dollar your employer pays in taxes is one less dollar you could earn) Medicare, 1.45% (of which the employer again kicks in an identical 1.45% paid to you know who) state income taxes and finally any deductions for any employer offered benefits such as health, dental, or life insurance. I halt my usual ranting and raving and frothing at the mouth about how politicians will take every dollar every taxpayer makes if we would let them mode, to don a Cheshire Cat smile when a teenager comes to me with bewilderment in his or her eyes, waving their shriveled paystub and moaning, "What happened to all my money?" Of course, they are saying this to a man who once . . . continue

8/8/2002: Rifle in Wallet Grounds WWII Texan Veteran !
I'm so friggin' mad again, I could spit blood across the 101! We read at the August 3rd, 2002, ct.now web site about a Texas citizen, eighty year old, retired Fred Hubbell. Mr. Hubbell, a World War II veteran (nowadays he would be termed a 'Hero' even if all he did was sweep runways in Ohio during the 1940s) who was finger-printed, had a mug shot taken, read his Miranda rights and held for twenty minutes the other day at Connecticut's Bradley International Airport. What was his crime? (At this point I am just shaking my head, shaking my head, I cannot CANNOT believe this actually happened.) Eighty year old Mr. Fred Hubbell's 'crime', was that during his second full-body pat-down in anticipation of boarding an AM flight back to the Republic of Texas, he had the temerity to comment, while brilliant TSA storm troopers were searching his wallet for a credit card micro-bomb, "What do you expect to find in there, a rifle?" Oh boy. Oh boy Fred, you ought to know better than to attempt a joke with the very low I.Q. crowd that security jobs seem to attract. They don't get it. Of course, head of the moron federal task force, Dana Cosgrove, who believes that all U.S. citizens are also morons, explained that although Mr. Hubbell uttered thirteen words, the only word in her perception that the other passengers inside the waiting room could have possibly heard was "rifle." And that since she wanted to be sure that the other passengers were 100% comfortable, she had native-born American citizen and World War Two veteran, octogenarian Fred Hubbell arrested and interrogated. He now has a record. As President George Bush once said, "Read my lips:" Ancient, American-born World War II veterans did not crash into the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. Twenty to forty year old Middle Eastern born Islamic radicals did! Why do members of the TSA continue to search and detain individuals such as Mr. Hubbell, such as, Congressional Medal winning Joe Foss, and former Vice President Al Gore? With limited resources, facing an enemy who IS NOT PLAYING THE PC GAME, an enemy who is out to kill Americans and cripple our lifestyle, these airport imbeciles insist on being random and fair and impartial when deciding who is searched and who isn't. (However, put yourself in their bovine mind-set. Who would you rather search? A middle-Eastern man, say aged twenty to forty caressing a strangely heavy and oily looking copy of the Koran while balancing on ten inch high KISS-style leather boots or a helpless old man or a helpless ex-Vice President?) People, this airport situation is a microcosm of Hitler's SS Troops patrolling World War II Europe, halting 'suspicious' citizens and demanding to see their travel papers and arresting those whose paper's weren't in order. Within airport boundaries, we have already lost our Constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and far from the shimmering concrete and asphalt runways we have lost other freedoms. Like the freedom to publish what I really think should be done with ego-centric, power-hungry retards who continue to harass and intimidate tired, worn out, shriveled-upped, stooped, little old men. Little old men who, six decades ago, put their lives in harm's way to insure these same freedoms that our government is now denying.

8/4/2002: " No! " to Lie Detector Tests say Intelligence Committee Members
I'm so friggin' mad I could spit blood across the street! While the demigods lounging on Capitol Hill routinely toss down proclamations that mandate we poor mortals living on the flats below the Mount endure demeaning and disgusting lie detector sessions AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT, when it comes to their own turn to be strapped in and listen to the dance of the needles scratching and searching their way across the graph-paper of 'truth', they rush the exits. The main function at my pitiful job as a security officer is to wave at residents as they drive past my post on their way home after a hard day at work. Or at the club. Or at Scottsdale Fashion Square. Or from a vacation in Europe. Or to meet the Robb & Stucky furniture truck at their winter home. For this fought after and security-minded position, I had to suffer through the humiliation of a Congressionally approved lie detector test. From the August 2nd, 2002, Wall Street Journal, I quote Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee explaining, "I don't know who among us would take a lie-detector test. First of all, they're not even admissible in court and second of all, the leadership (of both parties) have told us not to do that." Bastards. Here, your Mr. Wonderful, to merely procure the privilege of a regular hourly wage (with no health coverage, no pension and at 1/6th of what these Holy Ones are paid - not counting the $900,000 or so they rack up each year in 'office expenses') and the honor of being basically an outdoor Wal*Mart greeter in the century plus temperatures of the Sonoran Desert, had to, by Congressional allowance, pass a drug test, pass a background check and pass a polygraph. Sen. Shelby and his fellow committee members, who hold knowledge of the most important secrets this nation has and who one or more have been proven to be leaking this incredibly sensitive information to the press (for purely political gain) refuse to take an FBI administered polygraph. Of course for them, it's voluntary, so they can do that. However, this senatorial spurnage could have some positive outcomes. For one, it exposes these politicians (who would take every dollar you and I and our kids earn, if we let them) as of the opinion that they, guarded by layers $300 an hour lawyers, are too important, too busy, and much too sophisticated to be exposed to the rigors of a polygraph exam like us taxed-to-death, weak, untrustworthy and ignorant groundlings slash voters. And two, maybe, just maybe, the polygraph test, which is nothing more than a circus trick used to coerce individuals to reveal intimate personal secrets to be used against them at a future date by their employer, will be tossed onto the garbage heap of exposed fakes numbering the spoon-bending Uri Geller, dowsing rods and Ouija boards.

7/29/2002: Anti-gun Zealots cause Shootdown !
I can see the headline now. "Terrorist's overpower unarmed crew, F-16's shoot down United Flight 288 !" The anti-gun whacko's in the Senate (aka: pacifist-liberal morons who just know that if they were there, they could have talked Hitler out of his plans to conquer the world) are busy shooting down proposals that would allow commercial airline pilots to carry firearms into their workplace. Think about this. Once you are on an airliner your life is literally in the hands of one man or one woman (on her period) in the cabin of that airplane. Recall the EgyptAir Flight 990 of October 31st, 1999, where the pilot splashed the airliner into the Atlantic at six hundred miles an hour into the ocean all the while praising Allah? That took just one man. Any day, any pilot could do the same thing. We test them and we trust them not to. But the District of Columbia anti-gun nuts, who are protected every working day by an armed security force of hundreds, blinded by their irrational fear of firearms, want is for the pilots of commercial airliners to be totally at the risk of anyone who should happen to secrete any type of lethal weapon on board. (Remember, thousands died on September 11th, 2001, because one man had a box cutter with an exposed blade length of less than 3/4 inches.) Rather than allowing the crew to arm themselves, they would rather we take the not too unrealistic chance that terrorists could gain control of the jet. And what do we all know will happen the next time a terrorist is behind the stick of an airliner? That airliner, full of human beings, during the midst of an "All you can drink for free binge and prayer meeting" will be wiped from the sky by an American piloted F-16 fighter jet.

7/21/2002: Worldcom: Clinton Legacy Part 213
As Worldcom declares bankruptcy I think back to when the European newspapers thought nothing of our President, Johnny Wad Clinton, getting his knob slobbed in the White House even though the then number one terrorist on the planet, Arafat, was rewrapping his head towel for the third time as he waited in the outer office. Well, American businessmen took to heart what the European headlines blathered. They thought, "If our President, the most powerful man and the most watched man in the world can get away with violating all the mores observed by the vast majority of the public, and not get run out of town in McAuliff's Cadillac Escalade . . . Why can't I just move these four billion dollars of expenses over into the 'capital' column? Using insider information, why can't I sell my stock at the year's high right before the price falls through the floor? Why can't I just inflate $25 million worth of good will into $250 million? Why can't I count these thousands of customers signed up on free 45 day trials as new accounts?" Of course, the reason these individuals were able to get away with all this criminality was that the certified accountants who were tasked with protecting the interests of stockholders, the people who actually own these corporations, were nothing more than shills for management. They were little more than number readers and writers. They were products of a university system which awards teamwork over individual performance and honors race before native intelligence (aka: common sense.) They were witnessing our married jack-off of a President getting away with an intern half his age flogging his bishop, on company time, with no one noticing or caring. Why should they care? And those oh so cosmopolitan Europeans? Well, I read in the July 16th, 2002, Financial Times (before the bastard at Borders Books chased me off) that corruption in drought stricken Italy is so rampant, so pervasive, that due to water theft by the Mafia and others, that the government has had to call out the fearsome Italian Army to guard that nation's water reservoirs. And Tom 'Billy Jack' Ridge thought he had problems.

7/14/2002: FBI Needs More Money !
Reading in a July 9th, 2002 Wall Street Journal article ("How Outdated Filing Hampers FBI Effort to Fight Terrorism") we learn that the FBI could do a much better job of attacking anti-terrorism if only they had more tax dollars to buy new computer systems. Brace yourself for the fact that the $4,323,912,000 requested for FBI FY 2003 may not be enough. Understand that the directors of government agencies honor the same maxim that CEO's of many large stockholder held corporations do, and that maxim is, "Any challenge can be overcome by throwing money at it!" The only difference is, that often times the presidents of publicly held corporations (while bound in $100 million golden handcuffs) are 'restrained' from dumping truck loads of money on corporate challenges by their cost and profit conscience board of directors and the fear of the flight of their stockholders in search of a higher ROI. Whereas, all a particular government agency must do is to convince any 'investigative reporter' from the Major Media of the necessity of the need for additional tax dollars for that agency. They do this realizing that when any poll results are released, favoring more funding, that the DC politicians, bowing before the oracle of (often biased or ambiguous or faulty or just phony) poll results and always looking towards their next re-election, will of course appropriate more money. In regards to the FBI's budget, I'm not so sure there is no fat that can be cut. How about getting rid of the X-Files now that it's off the air? But really folks, the government, rather than ever cutting back, or even entertaining the thought of cutting back will first steal the money from you and me using their invisible and painless withholding tax. It's like Rusty screamed the other day rattling the speakers on the AM radio in my seven year old Mercury, "Just open your wallets and let them take everything." They will. They will. In this particular case, with memo's between the Phoenix FBI agent checking into foreign national Saudi's taking commercial pilot flying lessons and the nameless Portland, Oregon agent doing the same, why should the FBI propose sending Perot's EDS another 5 billion dollars when a few seven cent a minute phone conversations could accomplish the same ends? When I was on federal grand jury duty for the District of Arizona, prior to 911, can you guess what vital task anti-terrorism FBI agents were being reassigned to? Chasing down dead-beat parents for child support dollars! Those of you who are desperately looking for employment, as is the Wonderful household, know that opportunities are few and far between and it should just make you vomit to hear government agencies whining for more money when all they've got to do is to cut back on their current spending beginning with immediate layoffs and prioritization of goals. Besides, in reference to these FBI non-interactions, after a year in the 'security business' I have realized that the number one priority of any security company, either government, as in the Federal Bureau of Investigation or private, is to first point fingers and then skillfully cover their own asses.

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