Thursday, August 2, 2012
Not a blue light special
The light left of the laptop camera flashed blue again. I thought the Watchers would stop after I taped a piece of paper over the lens. Maybe they are more dedicated than I thought, or they are paid by the number of attempts to activate spy cameras, or they are shotgunning and know eventuality is on their side. MTK.
Eat more chikin
At breakfast, Priscilla said, “Was yesterday Chick-fil-A appreciation day or something?”
“Yesterday,” I said. “Wednesday. Yes, it was.”
Priscilla said she and a woman from the Jonesboro office were out for lunch and passed the Chick-fil-A.
“There was a line of people out the door for a block,” she said. “And for the drive-through lane, cars were backed up more than a block in both directions. I hope Chick-fil-A made millions and millions of dollars yesterday.”
Roger that.
“Yesterday,” I said. “Wednesday. Yes, it was.”
Priscilla said she and a woman from the Jonesboro office were out for lunch and passed the Chick-fil-A.
“There was a line of people out the door for a block,” she said. “And for the drive-through lane, cars were backed up more than a block in both directions. I hope Chick-fil-A made millions and millions of dollars yesterday.”
Roger that.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Cooking doughnuts at WalMart
From September 1996-August 1997 I cooked doughnuts at a WalMart Supercenter. For 3 ½ of those months I also taught freshman history at a nearby university and for a month also was a radio news reporter.
One night when I got to the bakery, the other man of our three-person crew said he had been threatened by a manager the night before, one of my nights off.
The incident started when one of the stocker crew came into the bakery and asked Chalmer if there were any broken doughnuts. He was going on break and wanted a snack. Sure, Chalmer said, and he pointed to a small pile of broken doughnuts. The stacker put a few pieces in a small sack and went on break.
A few minutes later, a manager person Chalmer had never seen shoved open the bakery doors and said in a loud voice, “Did you give broken doughnuts to a stocker?” Chalmer said he did. The manager person then proceeded to talk not nicely to Chalmer, saying all doughnuts had to be accounted for and Chalmer was costing the company money, and so forth. He then demanded: “Do you eat doughnuts while you’re making them?”
Chalmer said, “Sure do.”
“Well, you will stop,” the manager person said. He pointed to dark plastic fixtures in the ceiling. “We’ve got security cameras, and we’re going to be watching. If you eat another doughnut, you will be fired!” And he stormed out.
When Chalmer finished the story, I said, “So they’re watching us, are they?”
“That’s what he said.”
I got a doughnut from a display case and faced the dark plastic orb. Then, raising the middle finger of my right hand, I ate the doughnut. Strangely, not a single manager person ever said anything. There was no camera.
One night when I got to the bakery, the other man of our three-person crew said he had been threatened by a manager the night before, one of my nights off.
The incident started when one of the stocker crew came into the bakery and asked Chalmer if there were any broken doughnuts. He was going on break and wanted a snack. Sure, Chalmer said, and he pointed to a small pile of broken doughnuts. The stacker put a few pieces in a small sack and went on break.
A few minutes later, a manager person Chalmer had never seen shoved open the bakery doors and said in a loud voice, “Did you give broken doughnuts to a stocker?” Chalmer said he did. The manager person then proceeded to talk not nicely to Chalmer, saying all doughnuts had to be accounted for and Chalmer was costing the company money, and so forth. He then demanded: “Do you eat doughnuts while you’re making them?”
Chalmer said, “Sure do.”
“Well, you will stop,” the manager person said. He pointed to dark plastic fixtures in the ceiling. “We’ve got security cameras, and we’re going to be watching. If you eat another doughnut, you will be fired!” And he stormed out.
When Chalmer finished the story, I said, “So they’re watching us, are they?”
“That’s what he said.”
I got a doughnut from a display case and faced the dark plastic orb. Then, raising the middle finger of my right hand, I ate the doughnut. Strangely, not a single manager person ever said anything. There was no camera.
Privacy? That was in my grandparents’ day
"(W)ithin the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away.
"From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body -- agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you" (‘Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away,' gizmodo.com, July 10). “ – Nat Hentoff,
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff080112.php3
"From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body -- agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you" (‘Hidden Government Scanners Will Instantly Know Everything About You From 164 Feet Away,' gizmodo.com, July 10). “ – Nat Hentoff,
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff080112.php3
$5,000 a day gets you good security
Bullet-throwing security, but the world is not exactly a peaceful place.
“For $50,000 per voyage, shipping companies can hire a team of four ex-Navy SEALs to accompany their vessel on a 10-day voyage through the most dangerous waters in the world — the Gulf of Aden, Straits of Malacca and northern Indian Ocean — to thwart hijackings and hostage-taking.”
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/30/073012-news-seals-pirates-1-5/
$1,250 a day is pretty good pay. Kind of discriminatory, though, Nexus hiring only former Marines and Seals. You’d think Soldiers don’t know what an ocean is.
“For $50,000 per voyage, shipping companies can hire a team of four ex-Navy SEALs to accompany their vessel on a 10-day voyage through the most dangerous waters in the world — the Gulf of Aden, Straits of Malacca and northern Indian Ocean — to thwart hijackings and hostage-taking.”
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/30/073012-news-seals-pirates-1-5/
$1,250 a day is pretty good pay. Kind of discriminatory, though, Nexus hiring only former Marines and Seals. You’d think Soldiers don’t know what an ocean is.
Lesson in Islam
“r2.2 Slander (ghiba) means to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike, whether about his body, religion, everyday life, self, disposition, property, son, father, wife, servant, turban, garment, gait, movements, smiling, dissoluteness, frowning, cheerfulness, or anything else connected with him.” -- Sunni Sharia law manual, “Reliance of the Traveller.”
At http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20120731.html
At http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2003/01/news-feed-20120731.html
I don’t do initials like OMG and such,
but if I did, this would be AYFKM?
Romney went to Poland hoping to get more of the white racist vote.
“And I think that getting those ethnic voters excited is really what Romney has in mind here. It’s more for the folks at home — the descendents of the people that he will be speaking to — in Poland.”
Cokie Roberts on NPR.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/31/npr-host-romneys-poland-trip-is-racially-motivated/
Linked from maggiesfarm.
Of course, Romney is a racist. A Palestinian official said so after Romney said cultural differences are responsible for Israel’s high GDP and Palestinian poverty. Said Saeb Erekat, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "It is a racist statement …”
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16132832,00.html
Linked from gatesofvienna.
Romney went to Poland hoping to get more of the white racist vote.
“And I think that getting those ethnic voters excited is really what Romney has in mind here. It’s more for the folks at home — the descendents of the people that he will be speaking to — in Poland.”
Cokie Roberts on NPR.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/31/npr-host-romneys-poland-trip-is-racially-motivated/
Linked from maggiesfarm.
Of course, Romney is a racist. A Palestinian official said so after Romney said cultural differences are responsible for Israel’s high GDP and Palestinian poverty. Said Saeb Erekat, a senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "It is a racist statement …”
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16132832,00.html
Linked from gatesofvienna.
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