• 17Sep 08

  AIG and Advertising

  For those of you living in the US, you all know that it is just not the same here in the USA as it was a decade ago. We had a balanced budget, we were not in the middle of a war or 2 if you count Afghanistan and Iraq separate. People could walk into the bank and take out a high risk loan for a new house, life was good. Now the economy is the toilet, Mortgage firms are in the hole, insurance companies are even doing down the tubes too. So the government is stepping in and helping some of the firms get through these touph times and keeping them from going belly up.

  Until today, I was in favor of helping these guys out, but that has changed very quickly. Do to business of my own, I had to upgrade my cell phone to a Samsung Instinct, make getting e-mail and getting things for work done while I am on the go at times. So i log on to the web this morning and what do I see. AIG, advertising right on the front page of the default Sprint page that pops up. So I for a second I think, why have I heard AIG's name recently? Was it a commercial on TV, no. Was it an ad on the local new page I read every morning, no. Oh that's right now I remember, you S.O.B.s just got bailed out from going belly up by the government. Now why did this AIG ad on my mobile phone's internet tick me off so much?

  Oh yeah, because what do you need to put up advertisements, MONEY! That's right, so you are telling me that you don't have money and you need government help, yet you are spending money on advertisements? Now some will say, well ads do generate new business, revenues and gross profit, yes people i know, I am a communications major and this is one of my focuses. Keep in mind though, AIG first is all, an insurance company and a big one. People know the name, and also there is something called Publicity and whether it's good publicity or bad publicity it is still publicity and that itself generates REVENUE and PROFITS! You morons are already on front page news about being SAVED by the government. This is both good and bad publicity! Sure it's bad in the fact that you were going belly up, but this is news that the government has your back, THATS GOOD NEWS, which Good Publicity is FREE ADVERTISING! You morons are all over the nightly news and internet and you are throwing money away into Advertising on my mobile phone, You have to be kidding me, and you wonder why you are having money issues!?!?!!?!?!

  Insurance companies = Epic Failure? You be the judge of that, it's YOUR money do what you want with it, give it to these bozos and they will put out another commercial.

  
  • Posted Sep 17, 2008 7:08 am GMT
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• 11Sep 08

  Nut Jobs/Crazies, where is Natural Selection!?!?!

  So I came across a blog today and well the stuff I read, makes you wonder why the heck a person like this is not sitting in jail. With the fact that in today's day and age there are over 6 billion people on the planet, the number of nut jobs, whack jobs, and plain old crazies are more prevalent, face the fact the more people you have, the more crazies you get.

  So I came across a blog where a person was ranting and raving about how they were playing Xbox Live and someone came into a game room and start mouthing off, acting like a gangster and all the filth one can spew from their mouth. Now as long as it's not your first time playing on XBL, I think all of us can safely say, we have run into a foul mouthed, moron on more than one occasion.

  Most people take the high road and either ignore the person or mute them. Sometimes, I even like to toss back a few key words of trash talk, I think we all have done it at least once. Naturally does telling them to "shut up" or the "go **** yourself" ever work, no. It just fuels their fire and gives them the reaction they want. Well you have to read a few of these blog comments to fully understand the point I want to make here:

  "out of nowhere he comes out and says shut the * up **** and just play. Now at this time I was not on my meds and we went from there. Bottom line is after a few minutes I was tired of his mouth and exited the match. I then did a little bit of research and found out that this so called thu lived in Miami and I was actually able to find out where and name. Dont ask im just saying I can find out when I want. Anyways I get a harrassing message. I turn around and say you know what you just messed with the wrong dude. You dont know what youve done."

  So I think at one point and time, anyone who has over heard a XBL trash talk fight have heard things like this from time to time. The "you don't know who you are messing with" line is always classic and is taken with a grain of salt, and that's where it usually ends or continues more just trash talk, well this individual went about handling it differently and its borderline stalker on what he/she did next:

  "Anyways I booked the flight told him I was coming and he can bring his stupid possey, in my head I was honestly going to jail. I was not on my meds and my past was really shining. Then I get a message saying that he was sorry. I was like what the hell. I invited to private chat, this all happened the day before I flew out. The person I was talking to in private chat ended up being someone else. I was like who the hell are you. The dude said im the punks father and apologize for all of this. I responded what are you talking about. Turns out that it was infact a stupid teenage kid who was 14 acting out on xbox live."

  This person actually booked an flight to kick the crap out of a 14 year old kid(not that he knew, but does it really make it that much better), but with the "not taking my meds" part, i swear this guy/gal is probably unstable enough to actually commit a crime. Plain and simple, booking a flight and saying you are coming for someone is AGAINST THE LAW. Plain and simple. The fact that this person let a moron on XBL get under their skin enough to book a flight to another part of the country to fight them, scream PSYCHO, and needs to be committed. People like this are a danger to themselves and a danger to society.

  I have had my share of fights with an idiot on XBL, did I ever book a flight or plan a trip to kick their @$$? NO! That's just CRAZY TALK and will end you up in jail. So what it comes down to, don't play games with Psychos and if they threaten to show up at your house and mean it, call the cops and do everyone else a favor and have them locked up, but also...don't be an idiot and pick on the crazies, it's just not good. Picking on crazy people is like seeing the sign "Don't Feed the Bears". You feed them, and they will never leave you alone.

  

  • Posted Sep 11, 2008 8:01 am GMT
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• 5Sep 08

  Palin, Change?

  So it's that time of season, the conventions are over and the Democrats and Republicans have their hopeful President and VP choices. So ever since Sarah Palin has taken stage as the GOP Vice President, there has been nothing but Buzz through the media. Conservative News organizations like Fox (Mr. Bill O'Reilly) are criticizing "Left Wing" media groups for attacking Palin's inexperience, pregnant daughter, "Hickish" life and more.

  EDIT FROM MODERATOR: IMAGE REMOVED DUE TO CENSOR BYPASS

  Now Bill O'Reillly has come out saying that the pregnant daughter should not be an issue, nor is it an issue. This coming from the man who criticized Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy and even said, "Blame should be put on the parents". It's amazing how opinions change in less than a year, or when you are just a right wing machine and you wouldn't dare say anything bad about a fellow GOP member.

  See O'Reilly being Hypocritical!

  Also what is interesting about these Right Wing media groups is they sat there months ago bashing and picking on Hillary Clinton when she was running for the Democratic ticket. Some even had the audacity to say things about how Hillary is complaining that people are picking on her, and then said in retaliation, what is she going to do if the Big Boys in the Middle East, Russia, or Asia pick on her? Should Hillary call them out for picking on her which doesn't help her case and back into a corner like she does from time to time? Well why is it not OK for Hillary to get upset about being bullied, but when the other media groups get up and pick on Sarah Palin, her friends at Fox say people are being sexist and unfair with Sarah Palin. Yet these are the same thing Bill O'Reilly and friends did to Clinton, talk about double standard.

  Republicans want to talk about Obama being a junior senator and not having experience. Let's look at Palin, she has been a Governor of Alaska (population 600k, that is less than even New Hampshire - 1 million) for only 2 years, not even a full term. Sure she was Mayor of the 4th largest city in Alaska...that doesn't say a lot with a population of 7k.

  Palin and McCain on Change!?!?!

  So how does Palin and McCain represent change? I mean they are republican. As Peter Griffin (cartoon character) once said, "Hey Louis, look. I am the icon of republicans. A fat white guy, on top of an elephant who fears change." How do they even say they want change. Palin is Pro-Life and a bible thumper who has referenced on numerous occasions that something is being done because that is what god wants. Check this little tid bit out:

  In June 2008, Palin spoke at her former church. On the topic of Iraq, she asked that people pray for the soldiers and that "there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." In regards to a proposed natural-gas pipeline she said, "I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built."

  Change?!?!?! Sounds like the change she wants is back in the days of the Crusades!

  Change on oil, no way...she wants to go into the Alaskan refuge to find oil, yet at the same time she also supports new offshore drilling, so what is going to be? Offshore or go after what organizations like Greenpeace keep trying to preserve.

  Palin has strongly promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). She has opposed federal listing of the polar bear as an endangered species warning that it would adversely affect energy development in Alaska. Palin does not believe that global warming is human-caused.

  Change, sure they may want some change, but its not for the better. Thanks for reading and remember, research your politicians!

  • Posted Sep 5, 2008 10:37 am GMT
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