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The beast list grows; over 50 screw you; GM stomps on locals; Shatner still alive; and, Wednesday's favorite mantras
This entry was posted on 6/11/2008 12:52 AM and is filed under Wednesday's Favorite Mantras.
Republican/Democrat Wisconsin unemployment wall of shame
At some point the two miserable political parties that run the United States need to own up to the masterpiece they have created - the new American economy. For my purposes I keep track of Wisconsin. There is really nothing to add to the following list of shame except that the Republicans and Democrats duly own it outright; and, one little caveat - the beast-list grows:
John Erickson's Chevrolet of Verona closed - 25 people done BKT Enterprises Inc.of Waukesha to close - 54 people out General Motors of Janesville to close plant - lose of 2600 jobs
WH Transportation Company of Wausau to cut 340 workers Conn-Selmer to close Elkhorn plant - 70 jobs lost ThyssenKrupp/Krause/DrauzNothelfer/Gilman of Janesville off to Michigan with 160 jobs
Schuler's of Janesville locked up by IRS - 35 jobs done
Archdiocese of Milwaukee to cut 37 jobs Lear of Janesville to actually lay off 336 GM of Janesville to lay off 200 Sub Zero of Madison to lay off 235 United Industries of Beloit to lay off 109 Famous Footwear to leave Madison with 270 jobs Midwest of Milwaukee furloughs 109 Chromalax of Rock County to close - 110 jobs lost Harley of Milwaukee to cut 730 jobs Sitel of Madison to lay off 105 Logistics Services of Janesville to lay off 132 Simmons of Janesville to lay off 71 Lear Corp of Janesville to lay off 275 Hanley of Sun Prairie to close - 40 jobs lost GM of Janesville to cut 756 jobs NewPage Corp of Niagra and Kimberly to cut 444 jobs Phillips Lighting Electronics - Advanced Transformer to close Boscobel plant and 188 jobs Montreal-based Domtar mill to close Port Edwards paper mill and 500 jobs
Pay no attention to those Wisconsin 1970s behind the curtain - redux
Good mother of God in heaven! I was just looking through one of my memory sticks for some information regarding a presentation I will be giving about Iraq at the Madison, Wisconsin Library branch in Meadowridge. I have a file with over 1000 cover letters for jobs I have applied for in the last couple years. Few of them even acknowledged they got my application.
Tough luck for a 53 year old male who has 40 years of work experience and three recent college degrees. Gasoline price is through the roof; housing collapses; the Iraq war drags on in its sixth year; thousands of people have been laid off in our region of Southern Wisconsin; and, vehicle sales are in the toilet. And, as far as I can ever remember in my life-time, the last thing anyone wants to see is a 50 year old male coming through the job interview door.
I have done what the experts have suggested us old unwanted citizens do - start your own enterprise. OK, I have put together three media projects in Viet Nam; two media projects in Iraq; and, a third Iraq project in the works. People have been complimentary, yet going to a war zone is not what it is cracked up to be. Oh yes, those same experts where the ones who claimed returning to college to retool as an old guy is a slam dunk. No further questions your honor.
Destroying-life-as-we-know-it-in-these-United-States-for-no-apparent-good-reason
The war in Iraq languishes on; the dollar collapses; gas prices have us working stiffs deciding between filling our car tanks and buying necessities; and, Washington apparently continues to be run by two-party paradigm lunatics. But don't worry; in the nanny-state America that has become the real-time world of Orwell, oh look, the crazy bastard handlers of the "play house" have foisted their corporate logic upon us.
Cool Dadio has a source that says the General Motors decision to throw John Erickson's Chevrolet of Verona under the bus has had far more reaching community pain than just business maneuvering (See above list of shame). General Motors decided to put more emphasis in a couple other dealers in the region. Result - empty building in Verona - 25 people out the door. But, people in small towns and even big ones like to know their mechanics. More than General Motors vehicles were repaired in that now defunct complex. Loyalties to the American business ethic have been damaged yet again. Nice going GM. Good lord I am glad for such sagely and benevolent experts like GM that lure us all to their lair and then so banally crush us and our spirits.
Stupid pop culture, media-complex, distraction-from-reality story
I see the mainstream pundits are still up to their old tricks more than ever while I was gone to Iraq. So, I am thinking, each day I should continue to jot down the stupidest news story that is foist upon us by the big-media-complex as a distraction from the reality that has become America. So here we go - welcome to today's "Stupid Pop Culture, Media-complex, Distraction-from-reality Story."
I found an article that indicates William Shatner is still alive. Now there is some real god damned news.
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Army Specialist Eugene A. Uhl III, 21, of Amherst was killed when two 101st Airborne Division UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collided over Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday, November 15, 2003. Uhl was with Battery C, the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Uhl was his family's only son, the youngest of four children, and the Journal Sentinel quoted his mother as saying he would have been the last male family member likely to pass on the Uhl name. He was scheduled to be married in June of 2004. Uhl had been stationed in Iraq region since February of 2003. He entered the regular Army in June 2002 after first joining the Army National Guard in 1999. This was the same crash that killed Army Sgt. Warren S. Hansen, 36 who was last week's Daily Dadio honored Wisconsin military service person. Specialist Eugine Uhl III was Wisconsin's seventh military service person to die in Iraq.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
84,099 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,301 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,085 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
505 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
312 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
306 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
30,143 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1,992 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
90 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
10 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
127 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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