Random thoughts of a blithering fool.
I think the Toyota Tundra is the vehicle that will Fianancially kill America once and for all. The large pickup is the only product that is keeping the big three alive. If Toyota takes even a small percentage of that it will be the end of them.
Y know what the real problem is in this though? The fact that we pay auto workers entirely too much money to do what they do. Does anyone reading this believe that the guy that puts the knobs on the stereos at GM deserves to get paid 65 dollars an hour? I don't. I read somewhere that GM paid more than 50 million dollars last year in Viagra claims. That's nuts. People tell me that if the big three made a better product they would stop buying foriegn cars. I say how can the big three afford to make a better car? If they made a better car they wouldn't make any money at all. I say they fire the whole union and start over. Maybe they should go private and tell the stockholders and the unions to piss off. Then maybe they could afford to make a better car again.
What happened to the American Male. When did everyone turn into such homo's, and why didn't I notice when it happened? Do we really live in a world where a guy like Sanjaya is a sex symbol? Everyday I talk to people about sitting down with me to discuss the posibilty of enlisting in the Army, and you know what I get? "My girlfriend won't let me". What kind of pussified answer is that? I wonder where we would be today if during WWII recruiters heard crap like that. I tell ya those were MEN. Men who gladly jumped up at the chance to defend freedom wherever it needed defending. It didn't matter that the war was "over there" they went. The country and the world called and they answered. What the hell happened to MEN since then? I tell ya I look around and I have a hard time finding Men these days. I look around my son's boyscout troop at some of the other dads there and I don't think half these guys could change a tire let alone save the world from oppression.
Heroes! Does anyone other than me think that is the coolest TV show in the last 10 years? (Besides Family Guy) I haven't seen a show in years that I actually look forward to watching weekly.
My son is an archery genius!! Took him on an archery weekend camping trip, and he took like it a fish to water or however that cliche goes. The instructer there told me that he had some of the best raw talent she'd seen in a while. I think I finally found his sport (and could it get any manlier).
I think it would be funny if Paris Hilton got shived in jail. Does anyone agree? I can't think of anyone in the whole world is more anoying on this planet. I can't tink of anyone is more useless on this planet either (well that's a lie).
5 comments:
Would you ever buy a Tundra?
No! I would never buy a Tundra. I try very very hard to only buy home made products. Both my cars, my motorcycle, and almost everything in my house are American made. Some things you just can't get. I mean have you ever tried to buy an American made stereo? They are like 5 times the price.
The Tundra is actually domestically made. It's built in San Antonio, Texas and southern Indiana.
"I wonder where we would be today if during WWII recruiters heard crap like that."
They never did, because draft boards nicely got rid of the necessity to motivate recruits to join. You recruiters these days have it harder than probably anyone else before: an enormous mission, an unpopular war, and an all volunteer force which eliminates the group that would sign up to avoid conscription so they could have some choice.
"Men who gladly jumped up at the chance to defend freedom wherever it needed defending. It didn't matter that the war was "over there" they went. The country and the world called and they answered."
Not really. You should check out some histories of the draft. A good one is The Draft: 1940-1973 by George Q. Flynn. A whole lot of people tried to get deferments even during World War II, especially farm workers. At one point, something like half of the United States male military age population was either medically DQ'd or had a deferment of one sort or another. And before the war, it's not like they weren't hearing stuff you mentioned. Accessions were low prior to when the conscription was started in 1940. Even after it began, many people tried to either duck service or did it just get it over with. Hell, a classic case is Major Winters of E/2/506 of Band of Brothers fame. He enlisted in 1941 just to get the year of service over with so he could start his business career without worry of suddenly getting conscripted.
A lot of people were drafted, and many either were drafted or enlisted to avoid getting drafted. Sure, the rates of volunteerism were higher, but it was nothing really heroic by itself. They were just ordinary people, doing what they had to do.
re:wwII enlistment/draft. Many, many men emlisted because they felt the need/desire to serve our country and fight a horrific enemy - Nazism. My dad, now 91, was one of those men. He could have stayed out, since my mom was quite ill, but he finally told her he thought he should go, like his 3 older brothers before him. Not everyone tried to just get it over with, or to dodge it. I'm so proud of my dad! lil mom
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