Besides destroying the Republican brand for a generation – thankyouthankyouthankyou -- it looks like George did something else that I’d have thought was impossible.
He and his posse have so thoroughly fucked up the US economy that the junk mail slimebags that have invaded my physical mail box for years have been forced to severely cut back.
Here’s the MSNBC article, which I read with glee. It looks like these guys are really hurtin', and can't figure a way forward.
Every now and then, I actually open one of the credit card solicitations, just to see if any of them have deigned to offer something other than a crude attempt at theft. Nope. At best, teaser rates of 8 percent, automatically escalating to 23 percent if you didn’t twitch your nose just right when paying them. A credit line of $250, with $150+ of that immediately charged to ‘setup fees’ and ‘processing fees’ and ‘one-time fees’ and ‘maintenance fees’, to be followed by laughably high ‘yearly membership fees’.
Capitol One, who sent me much more of this crap than any other vendor, has been repeatedly outed for just randomly adding ‘we’re-fucking-you-because-we-can fees’, and then daring customers to sue to try to get them removed. Of course, if you don’t pay that fee, your credit record gets slammed. This link is just a small sample of CO’s creative money-making ideas.
I honestly can’t imagine anyone buying into these con-game cards unless they’re so desperately stupid that they’d believe in silly stuff like creationism or that Sarah Palin is a foreign affairs and energy expert. So -- maybe they should just target registered Republicans in the future.
Seal is out with a new album of soul oldies. This song and vid totally blew me away. I’ve always thought of the Sam Cooke version as being definitive, but Seal’s version competes. Among many others, Otis Redding covered it and did not suck, either.
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Seal was a serous Obama activist. The sub-text here ain’t so sub.
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Addendum: I also really like Seal’s ‘Amazing‘. It feels like a much slicker cousin to Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy‘, which still gets stuck in my head occasionally.
November 9th, 2008 by 
Rory Harper
Besides destroying the Republican brand for a generation – thankyouthankyouthankyou -- it looks like George did something else that I’d have thought was impossible.
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