jax276's Blog

I am really disappointed with the direction My Fox Detroit blogs are turning. This blog is a public forum and contains posts as varied in substance and viewpoints as the people who write them.

When I first joined into My Fox the posts were varied and opposing often funny and always interesting. It seems as problems in the country grew with the plummeting economy, war, and the elections so did the depth of passion fueling opinions and the subsequent posts. All seemed as it should.

Then dissension began getting personal, with race baiting, low personal attacks, name calling, and then finally reporting, censorship and getting people banned for strong opinions.

Strong opinions are what make public forums great especially opposing strong opinions. They are the seeds sown by our right to speak freely that allow us to think and grow. If a few harsh words upset you then possibly you are to young chronologically or emotionally to be on a public news forum.

When something as meaningless as someone repeating a particular post several times is cause to report them then maybe you should skip over the repeats and dismiss it as someones adamant way of getting a point across. You don't have to agree with it, you don't even have to read it. Reporting someone is a last ditch effort to quiet that person and for the life of me I can not think of any reason to do that.

If everyone agreed on here I would have left a long time ago. Maybe it's time for a few to stop and take a look at why, as an adult, you can be so frail that a few paragraphs of an informational blog can shake you up so badly that you have to "Tell the teacher cause Johnny is picking on me."

Let's see if we can all play in the same sandbox again...   

It is interesting that the federal government provides a
single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00
and each can also get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of$2,470.00 .

This compares very well to a single pensioner who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.

Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!

Lets send this to all Americans, so we can all be ticked off
and maybe we can get the refugees cut back to
$1,012.00 and the pensioners up to $2,470 00 and enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the  Government over the last 40 or 50 years.

NASCAR NEWS...Jeff Gordon fires his entire pit crew

This announcement followed Gordon's decision to take advantage of the government's scheme to employ Harlem youngsters.

The decision to hire them was brought about by a recent documentary on how unemployed youths from Harlem were able to remove a set of wheels in less than 6 seconds without proper equipment, whereas Gordon's existing crew could only do it in 8 seconds with millions of dollars worth of high tech equipment.

It was thought to be an excellent and bold move by Gordon's management team as most races are won or lost in the pits. However Gordon got more than he bargained for.

At the crew's first practice session, not only was the inexperienced crew able to change all 4 wheels in under 6 seconds, but within 12 seconds they had changed the paint scheme, altered the Vin number, and sold the car to Dale Jr. for 10 cases of Bud, a bag of weed, and some photos of Jeff Gordon's wife in the shower.

I hope Christmas is a moment of peace for you all and turns out to be everything you had hoped this day to be. Good Luck in 2009 as well. There's no where to go but up.

Jax

It's been said that imitation is the highest form of flattery. With Earl_ E changing his avatar to my Horseman I guess I have a budding fan club. To join contact Earl at your nearest Communist meeting place or possibly the John Birch Society. 

This woman speaks to us all...

For those of you that wondered whether voting yes on stem cell research for religious reasons or whatever may be wrong need to read this article.There are no limits to where this research will take us in the relief of human suffering.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/200811
19/EU.MED.Windpipe.Transplant/
(If clicking on the link doesn't work, try copying and pasting it into your browser and hit "enter.")

Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Business Herald reports today. [A National Enquirer the paper is not. It is one of China's leading business newspapers, with a daily readership over three million.] The paper cites a senior official of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology– the state regulator of China’s auto industry– who dropped the hint that “the auto manufacturing giants in China, such as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and Dongfeng Motor Corporation, have the capability and intention to buy some assets of the two crisis-plagued American automakers.” These hints are very often followed with quick action in the Middle Kingdom. The hints were dropped just a few days after the same Chinese government gave its auto makers the go-ahead to invest abroad. And why would they do that?

Is this the type of corporation we need to bail out? I use to feel a deep loyalty to the Big Three because I am a native Detroiter and also was involved in parts for automobiles for many years. From tooling to building injection molds my life revolved around the car. How have they repayed that loyalty? By laying of workers and factory closings that has trickled down through the industry and crippled this not only this city but cities all over the country. At the same time they are asking us for help they are building and expanding in other countries. You be the judge. 

While GM, Ford and Chrysler put the squeeze on the taxpayer’s elected (and appointed) representatives, their shift of investment out of the U.S. and into other countries continues apace. This morning, for example, the Associated Press reports on the grand opening of General Motors newest $300mfactory… in St. Petersburg, Russia. “This plant is GM’s first in Russia, where demand for cheap, well-built cars has exploded amid a decade-long economic boom.” Similarly, last month GM opening it’s second factory in India and launched a new $250 million Shanghai, China R&D palace. For the life of me, I do not understand how GM executives can continue to pay themselves outrageous sums of money, shut down American factories, put development programs into the deep-freeze, toss American workers on the ash-heap, invest the company’s dwindling resources everywhere else AND demand financial bailouts from American taxpayers. Oh yeah, and don’t forget that bit about blaming American customers for un-patriotic buying decisions. Speaker Pelosi, are you paying attention? Can someone please tell her from whence cometh the Chevrolet Aveo?

I don't have the eloquence to be the author of this but it's food for thought.

Jax

By Tom Adkins