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[vicarz]

Greenspan is tearing Bush a new one in this book? I'm not so interested in the war for oil speeches, in which he mostly supports the war even if it was for oil, but the criticism for irresponsible spending is quite scathing. The press is exaggering that Greenspan is ripping on Bush - I don't interpret his comments that way. He is a republican, who is disappointed with the republicans in power (both Bush and congress) as they continue to enlarge government and engage in reckless spending.

I love love love my job. I started this AM surprised to see a message on my voice mail, surprised because I checked my messages last night. It was a doozy...I've taken the time to transcribe this one.
11:07 PM 9/16 (Sunday)
You know, you're starting to get me annoyed. I don't really give a damn about your schedule and you don't give Chris...this Chris (*edited*) number you say that...uh, to be perfectly honest, (unintelligible) ended up calling you on Sunday night. I don't really give a...I mean other people care about your schedule. You shouldn't give someone's name without a phone number saying who they are, but that's beside the...I thought about why I....I wasted a trip to a place to fax this the other day. I had to...luckily they changed the faxing so you don't have to do your own. I don't have to be embarrassed and...and think I don't know how to do it have someone do it for me. But the bottom line is I am really getting sick and tired of this whole thing and I do not, under any circumstances, want to receive any more material from you. I was humiliated and made to feel guilty about things, you tried to lay a guilt trip on me about things, and you had questions, I don't know, on that paper that said how I was towards these women. I don't know these people, would I have met them...I felt interrogated about some...some stupid bureaucrat in Minneapolis who uh...this whole Midwestern mentality that I see. I just don't want to do this anymore. I'm sick of it. I had...nothing to gain. To get a job you have to have a high score. Bottom line - they had no right to change my score. I'm annoyed. I'm angry. I'm tired of going back and forth. This is taking way too long. And don't blame me that I didn't send it in for...that I was a week late or something. That's...that's nonsense. This has been dragging on for well over a year. This has been going on since June of last year. Please don't send me any more material at all. I don't want to hear from you. I...I just...I'm getting tired of this whole nonsensical thing. This is a worthless waste of time. Ok? I'm not interested in being interrogated and made to feel like...I don't care what I said and...then you...you ask me imbecilic questions about what did I mean by this situation. It's not rocket science. You figure it out. Ok? I really don't need you to uh...continue with this nonsensical charade. I don't care how I've spoken with (unintelligible) the situation. I don't like those people in Minneapolis. I don't have to...and I will never, ever, agree under any circumstances whether it's mediation or what ... to meet in a secure building anywhere. I wouldn't care if it was my own town and I could walk there. Which doesn't exist. I will not under any circumstances whatsoever, ever, agree to meet in a secure building...type building, anywhere. If you sent me a check for $100 I wouldn't do it. You expect me to go to New York on my own and give in to this...into this irrational fears of some bureaucrat in...out in in Minneapolis. I'm really am sick of this whole charade nonsense. Making me feel...I...all those stupid questions that you sent me. I don't know why I even wasted my time bothering filling it out. I should have just put it all in the recycling ... and and ... weeks ago and we can get some recycled paper or whatever they do with it. But I don't want to receive any more of this stuff in the mail. Or don't FedEx anything to me. Don't mail anything to me. At all, please. You have the unmitigated gall to tell me how many thousands of dollars of taxpayer's money is being spent on this, and you're telling me I don't send this back on time? Whose idea...I mean...so I made a complaint. I didn't know what the hell was involved. Don't tell me about how much money you're spending and lay a guilt trip on me. You're the one that works there. Don't ... don't give me all this crap.

You see, normal lawyers don't get this stuff! Real attorneys make real money, but do they have this much fun? Do they get win rates like this, when your opponents are unintelligible blathering nutjobs from small towns across the US of A? Does enjoying this make me a bully? Once again it probably says nothing good about me to admit that I enjoy this, but at least I'm getting paid to do this while other USians have to watch "reality tv" to get this entertainment value.

I also took that career meme. The results might surprise you.
1. Shiftless drifter
2. Necrophiliac Mortician
3. Bus Driver
4. Florist
5. Non-threatening gay nellie-flame next door who has all straight friends and loves his cats, but never hits on anyone
6. Accountant
7. Dean, correspondence school
8. University of Phoenix graduate
9. Government lackey
10. Parental caretaker for non-ambulatory guardian

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[kernelpanic.livejournal.com]

I also took that career meme. The results might surprise you.
1. Shitless drifter
2. Necrophiliac Mortician
3. Bus Driver
4. Florist
5. Non-threatening gay nellie-flame next door who has all straight friends and loves his cats, but never hits on anyone
6. Accountant
7. Dean, correspondence school
8. University of Phoenix graduate
9. Government lackey
10. Parental caretaker for non-ambulatory guardian



Sounds like cast list for X-files or something.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I just read that whole voicemail. :P

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I'm so lame I listened to it over and over in sections to transcribe it. I had a reason though...to make a motion for the judge. The entertainment I shared was just a nice side-effect.

I would totally read that in someone else's LJ though. It's amusing!

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

It's strange because it's so rambling and disconnected, but there are "grown up" words in there.

[ex-dasboot.livejournal.com]

I really want to know where the myth that the GOP is the fiscally responsible party came from. I can't remember where I read it, but supposedly %70 of the US debt, throughout its entire history, came from 3 republican presidents: Regan, Bush, and Bush.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Rhetoric. They claim to be conservative, which used to mean small government that has minimal interference with personal rights. They were the party of the wealthy, who wanted to party like Paris and have no restraint on their ability to make more wealth from their wealth. The democrats wanted to spread the wealth and use government to constrain social behavior - they were the nutty right-wingers, morality party.

Over time the republicans practiced business-friendly practices, the worst of which was collecting taxes from the masses and redistributing them directly to corporations - while using the government to "regulate" industry in such a way that it prevented new market entrants. The republicans found that large government could be good for business, and have warped their fiscal policies accordingly. Fair play wants small government, but big business doesn't last long with competition.

The right wing found a home in the republican side of the aisle and they were happy to court them as a source of votes and campaign income. A strange match it might seem, but as long as they say the right-wing line it doesn't usually matter what they actually do. The headlines are denting their socially conservative angle though.

How conservative got to mean regulating behavior is kinda funny.