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Indeed.“self-pitying, endlessly aggrieved”
The culture of victimhood is alive and well on the right.
"boo-hoo, i'm a victim".
GMAFB.
Indeed.“self-pitying, endlessly aggrieved”
The culture of victimhood is alive and well on the right.
"boo-hoo, i'm a victim".
GMAFB.
LOLThough it’s not that that confusing when you remember rich people are just as idiotic about politics as anyone else, despite what our news media always insists.
Good aricle, and you are right. It is far better than TP's take, and more informative.
sounds like a liam nelson speech
Siegel is just another s bag Gecko Man
Outrageous fortune
And so when he wasn't in the Magic Kingdom, Philippart scouted land. He settled on a site in Osceola County near Disney World called Lake Davenport Village where, he recalls, a salesman promised a subdivision to include a beach house and tennis courts. Philippart bought the pitch; three months later, he paid $8,995 cash for a 1.25-acre lot. The seller was Central Florida Investments, whose motto was "A company that can be trusted."
But 20 years later, there is no subdivision, no beach house and no tennis courts. There is not even dirt-road access to Philippart's lot. Moreover, the land remains zoned for "agricultural-conservation" use, meaning that he couldn't build a house there on fewer than five acres even if he wanted to.
Worse for Philippart, his investment did not beat inflation. Today, the Osceola County property appraiser values his land at $6,750 -- or $2,245 less than Philippart paid for it. Now a widower at 80, Philippart "would like to sell the lot so I can give the money to my daughters before I die." But he can't find a buyer.
But there's another side to the story. An examination of subdivisions that Siegel owned and sold during the 1970s and 1980s found land that is still undeveloped -- and some that is not even suitable for development, according to environmental regulators, county planning officials and private appraisers.
How did Siegel sell it at up to 600 percent markup?
By touting its proximity to Disney World, mostly. And by offering buyers easy terms: Most of Siegel's land customers financed their parcels over 10 years, paying him sometimes less than $100 a month. Siegel also cut roads through some of his land and promised to "improve" it. He even launched a boat into Lake Davenport.
When some buyers eventually began to doubt the promises they were given and sued, Siegel made heavy use of the statute of limitations. Even when federal regulators told him to offer some of his customers their money back in 1975, Siegel refused to pay. Several investors went to court and got at least part of their money back. But in dozens of cases, buyers of Siegel's property lost both their money and their land.
The celebrated story of Siegel's rise to riches overlooks those who say they were trampled in his climb. It is a cautionary tale for would-be investors, an illustration of the old maxim that the buyer beware.
http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/featur...ry.asp?id=1599
Behind Siegel's great fortune is the great crime of scamming buyers with worthless swampland.
Brother, that's a pretty nefty trick to get your droppings to smell like that. Asking someone to do something and threatening are two different things. Nobody is going to lose their jobs over this. He may lose some business and IMO there is a good chance some of his employees will vote the other way just out of spite. You should leave sex,politics and religion out of the work place but it is a free country. God bless
But Manny is God.
Just ask him!
God bless
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me."
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him."
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told."
so-called "Christians" love to cherry pick the OT and exclude all the insanity, blood-thirsty vengefulness, and ethnic cleansing.
Since the OT was aimed at pre-literate, child-like, ignorant tribal/rural peoples, it is still appropriate for USA's "Christians" today.
Another CEO Threatens To Fire Employees If Obama Wins
Many of you have been with ASG for over 5, 10, 15, and even 20 years. As you know, together, we have been able to keep ASG an independent company while still growing our revenues and customers. But I can tell you, if the US re-elects President Obama, our chances of staying independent are slim to none. I am already heavily involved in considering options that make our independence go away, and with that all of our lives would change forever. I believe that a new President and administration would give US citizens and the world the renewed confidence and optimism we all need to get the global economies started again, and give ASG a chance to stay independent. If we fail as a nation to make the right choice on November 6th, and we lose our independence as a company, I don’t want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will most likely come. [...]
I am asking you to give us one more chance to stay independent by voting in a new President and administration on November 6th. Even then, we still might not be able to remain independent, but it will at least give us a chance. If we don’t, that chance goes away.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...ployees-obama/
big, wealthy businessmen are such patriots, and respecters of the Cons ution, and The American People.
Koch Sends Pro-Romney Mailing to 45,000 Employees While Stifling Workplace Political Speech
The packet arrived in the mailboxes of all 45,000 Georgia Pacific employees earlier this month. The cover letter, by Koch Industries President and Chief Operating Officer Dave Robertson, read:
While we are typically told before each Presidential election that it is important and historic, I believe the upcoming election will determine what kind of America future generations will inherit.
If we elect candidates who want to spend hundreds of billions in borrowed money on costly new subsidies for a few favored cronies, put unprecedented regulatory burdens on businesses, prevent or delay important new construction projects, and excessively hinder free trade, then many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills.
Enclosed with the letter was a flyer listing Koch-endorsed candidates, beginning with Romney. Robertson’s letter explained: “At the request of many employees, we have also provided a list of candidates in your state that have been supported by Koch companies or by KOCHPAC, our employee political action committee.”
The Koch’s in-house campaigning for the GOP is part of a larger trend of corporations exercising new freedoms under Citizens United. The Supreme Court decision overturned previous FEC laws prohibiting employers from expressing electoral opinions directly to their employees.
they have also capitalized on weak labor laws to limit the political speech of those employees.
In September, a number of unionized employees at Georgia Pacific’s Toledo, Ore. plant posed for a photo in front of their union hall with Democratic state Senate candidate Arnie Roblan. When the Koch Industries voter information packet arrived in the workers’ mailboxes a few weeks later, they saw that Roblan was not on the list of Koch-endorsed candidates in Oregon.
It was then, says Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW) Vice President Greg Pallesen, that he started receiving some of the strangest phone calls from workers he’s fielded in his 30-plus years of union involvement. The unionized workers in the photo were worried that they might be fired from their jobs if the image got out on the Internet, because in the backdrop of the photo, the Georgia Pacific plant could be seen.
Their fear comes not only from the mailing, but also from a new Georgia Pacific social media policy implemented earlier this year that warns, “Even if your social media conduct is outside of the workplace and/or non-work related, it must not reflect negatively on GP’s reputation, its products, or its brands.” Given the policy, the workers were scared to appear next to a candidate the Kochs do not support with the plant in the background.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/...romney_mailing
David Siegel = Boss
look at his wife Jackie ...
SpursTalk sure becomes like a houseful of gossiping women during election season, hasn't it?
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can't build my dream house because Obama tanked the real estate market in 2008 before he was elected
There's some serious architectural work there.David Siegel = Boss
look at his wife Jackie ...
I wouldn't be scared for my job. If some Republican somewhere fired someone for voting Democrat, or vice versa, that has $$$$ lawsuit and instant book deal written all over it.
Of course, it is the whiny victim types that tend to be attracted to upper echelon Republican-dom like the dude in the OP, or the Koch brothers, that would be the kind of vindictive -head that would pull the trigger.
"If some Republican somewhere fired someone for voting Democrat"
why is that illegal? under what law? People get fired all the time for getting sick or pregnant (USA being the only industrial country with no pregnancy leave at all).
The OP is a flaming pussy. Simple as that.
It's called the Family and Medical Leave Act and it protects against firing for extended illness or pregnancy.
"The FMLA en les eligible employees of covered employers ..."
what's a "covered employer"?
Employers Covered by the FMLAThe FMLA generally covers employers with 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks per year in the current or preceding calendar year.
Since 10Ks of employers have less that 50 employees, that leaves Ms of employees liable for being fired for only getting sick or pregnant.
This post isn't serious, is it?
How in the did his company have record profitibily last year? O has been president for 4 years now. When are his socialist redistribution policies going to take effect and start tanking this economy and utterly transforming this nation like we all know that he wants to?
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