Government Mess!

Government mess---this helps explain the problem

Not only are they working for us as 'government servants', but they are walking among us and reproducing!!!!

A Washington , DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of why our country is in trouble!

1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window.

2. I got a call from a candidate's staffer, who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the

passport information, then she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts,"

Without trying to make her look stupid, I calmly explained, "Cape Cod is in Massachusetts, Capetown is in Africa," Her response -

click.

3. A senior Vermont Congressman called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in

Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that's not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the

state. He replied, "Don't lie to me, I looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state!"



4. I got a call from a lawmaker's wife who asked, "Is it possible to see England from Canada" I said, "No." She said, "But they look so

close on the map."

5. An aide for a cabinet member once called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. When I pulled up the reservation, I noticed

he had only a 1-hour layover in Dallas. When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, "I heard Dallas was a big airport,

and we will need a car to drive between gates to save time."

6. An Illinois Congresswoman called last week. She needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:30 am

and got to Chicago at 8:33 am. I explained that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois, but she couldn't understand the concept of

time zones. Finally, I told her the plane went fast, and she bought that.

7. A New York lawmaker called and asked, "Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage

belongs to whom" I said, "No, why do you ask" She replied, "Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage

that said (FAT), and I'm overweight. I think that's very rude!" After putting her on hold for a minute while I looked into it (I was

laughing) I came back and explained the city code for Fresno, CA is (FAT), and the airline was just putting a destination tag on her

luggage.

8. A Senator's aide called to inquire about a trip package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be

cheaper to fly to California , and then take the train to Hawaii"

9. I just got off the phone with a freshman Congressman who asked, " How do I know which plane to get on"
I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, "I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these planes have numbers

on them."

10. A lady Senator called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-Cola, Florida. Do I have to get on one of those little computer planes" I

asked if she meant fly to Pensacola, Fl. on commuter plane. She said, "Yeah, whatever, smarty!"

11. A senior Senator called and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy discussion

about passports, I reminded him that he needed a visa.
"Oh, no I don't. I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those."
I double checked and sure enough, his stay required a visa. When I told him this he said, "Look, I've been to China four times and

every time they have accepted my American Express!"

12. A New Mexico Congresswoman called to make reservations, "I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York."
I was at a loss for words. Finally, I said, "Are you sure that's the name of the town"
"Yes, what flights do you have" replied the lady.
After some searching, I came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Rhino

anywhere."
The lady retorted, "Oh, don't be silly! Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!"
So I scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, "You don't mean Buffalo, do you"
The reply "Whatever! I knew it was a big animal".

Now you know why Government is in the shape that it's in

Mother of The Matrix

Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

The Matrix is something I live in. I have always known it was real. I just did not know that the mother of The Matrix is Sophia Stewart. You never hear anything about her. Until now. She won her lawsuit against all the people who stole her idea and called it their own! She won her copyright in fringement case.

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, The Third Eye, copyrighted in 1981. In the mid eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers. These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been often used during preparation of the motion pictures. The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success.

Why have we not heard about this? Her? Here is why in her own words:

The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, Dreamworks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow... many, many more!... They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years... Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series.

While I have purchased all the movies in the series, I will now watch them with a new eye. An eye proud that the truth has finally come out. Sophia, you bask in your winnings of 2.5 billion dollars. You deserve every penny....and more! You REALLY know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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Bear Hunting

The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sight-seeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a "Save the Whales" hat, and a "To Hell with Bush" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly.

As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a .44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.

As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic Environmental activists but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."

As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was that guy?"

"It was the Pope," another replied. "He's in direct contact with heaven and has access to all wisdom." "Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he sure doesn't know anything about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and snatch another one?"

Politics|Bush|Humor

Moses

Recently, while going through an airport during one of his many trips, President Bush encountered a man with long gray hair, wearing a white robe and sandals, and holding a staff.

President Bush went up to the man and said, "Has anyone told you that you look like Moses?" The man didn't answer He just kept staring straight ahead. The president said, "Moses!" in a loud voice. The man just stared ahead, never acknowledging the president.

The president pulled a Secret Service agent aside and, pointing to the robed man, asked him, "Am I crazy or does that man not look like Moses to you?" The Secret Service agent looked at the man and agreed.

"Well," said the president, "every time I say his name, he ignores me and stares straight ahead, refusing to speak. Watch!" Again the president yelled, "Moses!" and again the man ignored him.

The Secret Service agent went up to the man in the white robe and whispered, "You look just like Moses. Are you Moses?"

The man leaned over and whispered back, "Yes, I am Moses. However, the last time I talked to a bush, I spent 40 years wandering in the desert and ended up leading my people to the only spot in the entire Middle East where there is no oil!"

Politics|Bush|Humor

My 9-11 Memories

Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

That day I was at work, just like any other day. I was sitting at my desk working at my computer. The big boss secretary-- Linda, came walking over very quickly to me and said that a plane had just flown into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. She is a jokester anyway so I did not believe her. She was always saying all sorts of crazy things! What she was saying was just too fantastic and crazy. Just too unbelieveable. She said she was just in the breakroom and saw it on the tv so she ran to tell me. Yeah! Right!
"Linda, get out of here, you crazy girl!"

That is what I said to her. She said that she was not joking. "A plane just flew into the WTC tower."

I really looked at her and saw that she was serious. She again said that a plane had flown into one of the towers in New York. I got up and went to the breakroom and the tv was on. Linda did not follow me. She was busy telling others the same thing she told me.

There was noone in the break room but me at that time. I saw the first tower in ruins, smoke, fire, the news channels had cut into every morning tv show. I was in total shock and disbelief. More and more employees came into the breakroom and we all watched in silence. We all saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower. We all just stood around looking. We did not know what to say or what to do. Some left the breakroom to call their family members who were at home.

I did that. My parents are retired and I called them and told them to turn the tv on. I told them America was under attack. They were still in bed. I went back to the break room and the staff was no longer just standing around the tv. Most had taken seats and just about all the tables were filled up. We had seating for about 60.

The morning as far as work goes was a wash. All who could fit into that breakroom spent the next 2 hours watching that little tv. Some of the employees who were transplanted yankees from New York cried. One woman in particular cried her eyes out in the breakroom. She was heartbroken. She is a drama queen anyway and is way over the top in everything, so many employees were rolling their eyes at all her carrying on that morning.

I was numb. I was not in New York, but something inside me knew that things would not be the same. How could that happen? We were living in the greatest country in the world and the fleas of the world were biting us. Biting us hard.

At noon or so, the big boss said that we must go back to our desk and get some work done. The woman who was crying so hysterically was sent home. Her boss told me she was useless and would get no work out of her that day. I went home and watched the evening news, the late night news and news late into the wee hours of the morning.

On the evening news there was in interview with the person/owner of the rental car company who said that he rented them cars but no bells and whistles went off. I recall him saying that everything seemed ok and that they were insured with ______ insurance company. That was my employer. We insured their cars. Our corporate/marketing people must have heard that because, that was the first and the last time our company name was mentioned. The next times I heard or saw the interview it always ended just before the rental agent got to the part they were insured with.

Well. I had to verify that. Did we really insured them? Everyone has to have car insurance so they had to be insured with someone. I had written down all those long unpronouncable names filled with too many vowels and consonants. Mohamed Atta. Waleed M. Alshehri and all the others.... I wrote them all down. All of the ones who lived in Florida, I looked up in our computer system the next day. There they all were. We did have them as clients.

I asked around if anyone else had heard that news clip I saw with the rental car company. Many did but they only saw the first part of the interview and not the whole clip. I mentioned the interview to the big bosses and that I had looked them up in the computer and sure enough, there they were. About an hour later we got a very important email (flagged that way) from home office that no employees were to do any sort of investigation on their own into computer files regarding these clients. In addition the memo also stated that our company was doing everything possible to cooperate with the FBI. My boss made it a special point to come to my desk to be sure that I did not go into any of those computer files again.

I never did go back to those files again. We have corporate police that monitor our computers anyway given the business that we are in. I am sure that if I had, my computer id would be appearing on some list somewhere. That was the end of that. We never got anymore emails as to what was happening with corporate and the FBI.

We had an office that was located in the WTC so we did loose employees that terrible morning. I also have a part time job with another company 2 weekends a month. That company lost 2 employees as well. They were on one of the planes. Those two employees were on vacation and were going to visit another employee in another state who worked at another branch office.

While I was not there in New York, I felt exposed and in a way less free than before. We now had to be careful when traveling and the thoughts of "terrorism" are woven within the everyday fibers of my life.

My heart goes out to all the families who lost loved ones. They are truly the innocent victims of that day. Some of them became heroes in their own right by preventing planes from reaching other targets. I know those families will never be the same. I will not be either. Today I still feel exposed. I feel I need to look over my shoulder. Innocent looking people are not really so innocent.

Something that contributes to my feeling of unrest was something a friend of mine told me. He worked part time at the same company I do. He is a bigwig in the military...secret missions to Iraq, Afghanistan...the whole nine yards. We have a military facility where he works and he said that there are Al Qaeda prisoners in our sleepy little town. That was an eye opening statement. What? Does that now make our city a good looking target? That was very alarming to me. He said that of course he could say very little, but that they were here under lock and key. A lock and key complete with lasers and grids that could kill a roach or a deer with pinpoint accuracy if it made the mistake of wandering into the grid area.

He also gave me his view on the siutation. I asked him if this would all be over soon. He said no.. he said it will most likely NEVER be over.

It would never be over because we are not really fighting the people, but the religious belief and that will never die. He says he felt we would be fighting that war for at least 10 years. We will never be able to get our troops out of there. I think he was right. I do not see how we can get out of there. If we just say..okay we are going home now, chaos will follow. Chaos over there and chaos over here as we become a target again. The price of freedom is not free. I feel like I am paying a price everyday. Not as big a price as those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 or those fighting for freedom everyday. But still a price.

If you have a post about September 11, please put your link here so that others may share in the rememberance of that day and the effect it has had on all of us.

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Yipee! I'm Rich!

Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

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