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      <description><![CDATA[We camped down by you over the 4th weekend for five days, had a ball!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I wish you BOTH were back to your elegant remarks here.  It has become a wastland. DDN should kill this topic and start one about GM and another about DHL.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Moon... I agree with your experience and formidable position. I wish that you would get fired-up on this message board again. Froto is good, but you are the Master...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[What is next for Americans? So much of our work has been out-sourced,American dollar worth little world-wide,open borders,our Military in-country somewhere other than America, a lame-duck president that everyone everywhere hates. We will try to revamp with a NEW Democrat President...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hey Big Paw...Yes, you got the Base. Without the tax paying Screw-shooters,how long before it effects the budgets of State and Fed...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Up your a $ $ with Mobil Gas!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Probably some damn illegal Mexican anyhow]]></description>
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      <title>&quot;Lotteries Better Than Mutual Funds&quot; by Leon Harrison</title>
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      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio 
Friday, March 14, 2008

To: The Editor

Subject: Investing in lotteries is better than mutual funds


		    “Lotteries Better Than Mutual Funds”


	I have probably made more monetary mistakes by investing in both the Mega Millions and the Powerball lotteries. I am reluctant to inform or ask my professional Fifth @#$%&amp; Securities financial advisor about my latest $10 “Powerball” investment that I made in Liberty, Indiana, today. This morning, three friends and I decided to drive, inside my new Chevy HHR car, to Liberty for some fine dining after investing in the Powerball Lottery that is now worth at least $275 million…and growing as more Buckeyes make similar investment drives to Indiana and Kentucky, all of them with delusional dreams of getting lucky.
	Yes, before going this morning, I must honestly confess that I considered calling my Fifth @#$%&amp; Securities investment advisor, the young man with the “banking” mutual fund plan that cost and lost me $4,000 or so after six months. I mean, my motto has always been &quot;Buy high and sell low!&quot;, like ya know…which is what I did. I'm glad that these professional people handled my GM-buyout [no-interest savings-account] money, because I would have wasted that $4,000 on vacations/reenactments, booze, babes and honeys [gas money and @#$%&amp; money], more or less, I must confess. I may have even bought new carpet or a big-screen TV to go with a much-needed long-neglected home-remodeling job. 
	Well, what the hell, we all got into my new Chevy HHR car and drove about 44 miles or so [60 cents per mile at $4.30 per gallon now?] to a mini-mart gas station before lunching at the Liberty Restaurant. In any case, I have decided not to spend my riches on these spoiled white suburbanite Buckeye @#$%&amp; [or any more on these overpriced whores], but rather on Hoosier honeys who do not cost much money, much like the Hazard ones with whom one can have some reasonably-priced fun. Damn Elliot Spitzer for causing inflation throughout the nation, and those sensational sexy stories that likewise increase the price of retail-economy sexual services for the rest if not the best of us guys. In any case, investing in lotteries is cheaper and easier than Harvard, the odds being at least equal to me getting my lost $4,000 back.

Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <title>&quot;Five Old Frigidaire Friends&quot;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Leon Harrison
West Carrollton, Ohio
Friday, March 7, 2008

To: The Editor, East Kentucky Magazine

Subject: Five former Frigidaire female friends gather


 	          “Five Old Frigidaire Friends”


EKM Buckeye Bureau
West Carrollton, Ohio
Friday, March 7, 2008

	At 3:34 p.m. cold wind blows falling snow, outside the big picture window of the Buckeye Bureau, adding it to the thick clean blanket of white that covers bushes, lawns, roofs and streets, beneath a gray overcast sky and bare tree branches around these 1956 ranches. It will be warm and green outside, at least in Kentucky, by the time that you get to read this. This morning, I drove my new Chevy HHR EKM car down to the BP for my Dayton Daily Snooze, USA TODAY, banana, fruit cup and caffeine. Sean Hannity is ranting on my stereo. Fear not, my friends, I do not mind being snowed in, since I am retired and can no longer be fired. I have time to write and no [honest] excuse not to. Therefore, I shall not whine about the pressure of these recent bimonthly East Kentucky Magazine deadlines.
	Speaking of which, this great Jan./Feb. 2008 issue of East Kentucky Magazine was delivered today! I was relieved to see that I have only to autograph each magazine on page 24, at the end of my “07 Leatherwood Reenactment” story. Yesterday, Fireman Fred had another one of his little editor letters printed by and inside the Dayton Daily Snooze. He autographed a zoomed-up clipping copy for me inside the Moron City Awful House. I told Fred that it took me at least two hundred words to just get warmed up for my real/EKM writing…as you can attest to. Fred also asserts that, much like your humble EKMBBC, he does not care for fleeting fame or seeing his name printed with his little letters that could be better…as could his editors.
	To further delay, procrastinate, and waste even more of my writing time, I have been reading and researching with my newspapers, including this latest Hazard Herald and EKM, and responding to this internet message-board cyber-chatter that does not matter. My public expects so much and expects me to be and stay in touch with the outside world …if not outside ladies and girls. Well, I went outside into the global cold and took some snow pictures, after taking pictures of a few birds that were feeding at my birdfeeder, sneakily shooting from inside through an open window. One cardinal was red, the feathers of the other birds being duller darker colors. 
	Considering these blizzard-warning radio reports, I am glad that I can remain inside this warm house, even without a warm spouse, from which I do not have to roam. When I once again consider that this will be read by some of our troops, who are currently serving in Afghanistan and in Iraq, I must zip my lip and remember not to babble or prattle about my minor personal problems or civilian hardships. As of yesterday [Thursday morning], 3,966 U.S. military members had either died or been killed in Iraq.
	Last Tuesday [March 4], thanks to The Queen, uh…my mother, Bill Cunningham and other voting folks [including racist sexist Democrats], Hillary Clinton won the Ohio Democrat primary election; thereby remaining in the [white liberal flower-child] race against Barack Obama and his [racist sexist] supporters as a presidential candidate. Because I drove Mom to the polls, I guess that I, in effect, got Hillary Clinton another vote! No doubt, this made my dead Republican dad mad.
	Now, I look at this old Dora Dehart GAR group photo: wondering who those posing long-dead Civil War veterans were. Surely, Sam, Ford or W.C. (Cam) Campbell could not be my late granny’s (Callie Campbell-Allen’s) father, uncles, kin or friends! According to old oral [unreliable] family lore, Callie’s father, Sam, was supposedly a Confederate POW who had been captured at Cynthiana; and had then accepted a parole on condition that he was to go west and fight Indians as a galvanized Yankee. If any of her Allen or Campbell kin fought for Abe Lincoln and the Republicans, they must have kept it a secret, or moved and stayed away from Rowdy, especially after the war between the states/war of northern aggression. Nobody alive remembers them now…who, what, where, when, why and how. Every October, these ancient ancestors may cheer for or boo Pvt./Sgt./Lt./Capt. Harrison [a Buckeye] at Leatherwood. Snow still falls and Sean Hannity still chatters. Take a break and relax. I’ll be back.

Saturday morning, March 8, 2008

	There is at least a foot of snow on the ground and more coming down, causing problems for drivers, people bitchin’ about winter and blizzard conditions on local roads and on interstate highways. My public is lucky that I am snowed in, my friends. Hungry birds have returned to my front-yard tree and bird feeder. Thank God and the Chinese for coffee makers and microwave ovens, enabling bachelors to survive without restaurants and wives. When I look outside I am once again reminded of the Blizzard of ’78; when Charlie Battery of the [Piqua] Ohio Nasty Guard was activated to help and shelter stranded civilians and local citizens. No talk-radio shows today. A variety of CDs play on my stereo. I shall let the Buckeye Bureau’s new Chevy HHR LT car remain safe and dry inside my attached garage.

	I look at this group picture of five old Frigidaire female friends, former coworkers who retired 30 or so years ago, widows who have outlived their husbands and men friends. Since that Tuesday dinner, Mom and I have delivered and snail-mailed five of these 5X7 pictures to her friends. Garnett had to miss this dinner because she is living in Florida…also missing all of this cold Ohio snow.

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008

	That Tuesday afternoon, your Duke of Hazard drove The Queen Mother [Ma, Taulbee done it again!] and Marie to Kettering and to Dorothy Poffenberger’s house, he being the de facto chauffeur of the LeSaybro’ limousine. Mom loves it when I refer to her motor vehicle as a “Byyoook.” My refrigerator and clothes washer [currently in use] were not made in Moraine because Dayton Frigidaire facilities had finally closed in 1979. Dorothy, 96, was having and hosting her farewell dinner party with her four old Frigidaire friends, who ranged in age between 86 and 96 years old.
	Later, Mom told me that, thirty or so years ago, there used to be about eighty of these Frigidaire retirees, including men friends, when they first started driving themselves and each other to their dinners. Back then, they did not need their children, grandchildren, nephews or nieces to do the driving for them. They used to gather at and inside local restaurants, where we can still see similar retiree and veteran reunions…with fewer and fewer people attending as time goes by.
	Dorothy is moving to California, to move in beside her sixty-something-year-old daughter who is retired, thus leaving the house that she bought with her late spouse back in 1951. In 1951, I was one year old when Janet [Ann of the Carney Clan] was born, the first if not the worst of my two sisters. Kettering was a brand-new post-WWII suburb, covering corn fields with streets, plats and plazas, spreading away from Dayton to become a typical one-story city without a traditional downtown center of activity. 
	Since the roads and streets were clear if not dry, your EKM Buckeye Bureau Chief had no trouble driving and arriving at 808 Buttercup Drive on time, having once again studied and sketched a map beforehand. All of these ladies have to or need to use canes. Dorothy’s white-haired nephew, Michael, let us in through the opened garage door and started spreading salt on the icy driveway and sidewalk. He was living with Dorothy. Jim arrived with his mother, Mardell, likewise helping her inside. Finally, Hazel arrived and came inside with her daughter, Barbara, and son-in-law, Dale. We had all seen each other before at similar dinners, cookouts and local events, including the annual Mountain Days music festival out at Eastwood Park. 	Your BBC started doing his journalist job by walking around while talking and taking digital images, these mature attendees either being or getting used to this without much bitchin, uh…protesting or posing. Soon, with some digital deleting, your BBC was taking casual more natural pictures, those gabbing gossipin, uh…womenfolk soon forgetting about the young’uns [whose ages ranged between 50ish and 60ish] who were conversing and discussing stuff. Mama also likes it when I add “…ish” to words. Let’s do lunch. Take a break. Blowing snow is still falling outside.

Saturday, March 8, 2008, 2:07 p.m.

	John Boy Bolyard (an old Frigidaire-veteran DMAX-retiree friend) called me from Florida, talking on his cell phone while walking along a beach and looking at women who were showing skin to men, asking me about the weather in Ohio. Last year, he, Hamm, Robbie and I had gathered at a restaurant in Huber Heights to eat, gab and gossi, uh… discuss persons not present for the very first time. With their late-middle-aged morality and memories, they forgot some of those folks whom we used to work for and with during our careers at Frigidaire, the Moron Engine Plant, and finally at the DMAX factory, about which the rest of them @#$%&amp; like a bunch of old women. We posed for pictures inside and out; I gave and sent them copies that they shall save if not display for a few decades as they gradually fade. When will my old friends and I meet and mingle again? Could this have been the last time?
	I have been taking pictures of bundled-up people outside, shooting, shoveling and pushing snow from nearby driveways. Today, people have their big opportunity to pay for all of those big pickup trucks, with snow blades on the front, and snow blowers. One young man was pushing snow with his little ATV and a small attached snow plow. This takes if not wastes lot of gasoline and wear and tear out there, for those folks who have to care and dare. No doubt, Hummer and SUV drivers sneer at and remember these clean green Earth lovers and others who mocked them but need them, their vehicles and their snow plows now. Take a break. I’ve got to empty my clothes dryer and put in another load of laundry. Oh, why couldn’t I get snowed in with a friendly female whor, uh…who enjoys doing boring chores for the mankind who does not whine. Anyway, by the time that you read this, it will be springtime.      

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

	It’s sunny and 40ish outside now, melting the snow that remains upon lawns and rooftops, at 11:35 a.m. My very first HHR-car fill-up was $44.50, gasoline now costing $3.27 per gallon at the W.C. BP station. Early this morning, the space shuttle Endeavour took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on the way to deliver a Japanese lab section to the International Space Station.
Governor Elliot Spitzer (D-NY) aka “Client 9” got caught arranging at least one $4,300 date with a friendly female that could make him resign if not go to jail. Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline will reduce reenactors’ range and limit their participation and performances to local events. 

Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 19, 2008

	Even at the age of 96, Dorothy Poffenberger still enjoys cooking. She has for most of her life. Her nephew, Michael, and Frieda had done a lot of work and had wisely brought in a big bucket of KFC chicken. There was plenty to eat. As soon as I started talking with Frieda, 80, I heard her German accent and we started chatting about Germany and some of the places that both of us had been to and remembered.
	Born in 1928, Frieda was no doubt old enough to remember Hitler and the bombing of Munich during World War Two. In 1944, she was about 16 years old when her older brother left to fight the Soviets on the Eastern Front. He survived for one week before being killed. When the war ended, in May 1945, Frieda and her remaining family were living in a bombed-out house that was surrounded by rubble.
	In 1948, when Frieda was 20, she met her late husband, Dorothy’s nephew, a WWII Army Air Corps veteran, at the Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, that I had likewise toured in 1986. They ice skated and fell in love, the young German lady and her handsome young airman. He transferred to the new US Air Force in 1947. While they were going together, other Germans called her an “Ami whore”. Three million German men had been killed during the big war, and the Soviets had held many thousands of them as prisoners in Siberia until the mid 1950s, getting their revenge for the 20 million Soviets who had been killed.
	In December 1951, Frieda and about one thousand other European post-war brides and wives left Europe aboard the troopship USS General H.W. Bucner. The women occupied the top decks, separated from the husbands and other men who occupied the lower ones, sharing no friendly, familiar or familial fraternization for fun with anyone. Frieda had to share a cabin with a French woman who hated her. The Atlantic crossing took ten days. They endured or celebrated Christmas Eve at sea. 
	Frieda and her husband had a typical Air Force family, stationed, serving and traveling all over the world, including Alaska, West Germany and Wright-Patterson Air Force base. Around such bases and service towns, one can see and hear similar stories and the evident aftereffects and results of our wars and the American Empire. Our Afghanistan and Iraq veterans are or will be joining millions of our military retirees and veterans with their own “dependent” spouses and children; including their descendents who have married, mated and multi-culturally mingled during the decades. That Tuesday afternoon, 57 years after Frieda’s emigration from Germany, it was funny to listen to her talking about her kids, all of them now in their 40s and 50s. Should I revisit Prum Post and Olzheim?

	Frieda served dinner to these five Frigidaire friends in the dining room, using the nice china and gold-plated cutlery that was very old and rarely used. Despite his royal and reenactor rank and photo-journalist status, your BBC had to stay out of the way and eat with the other young’uns, from little fold-up tables, in the family room. That way, they could talk about us without us hearing them. There was plenty of good food, a lot of it even healthy, with pop, coffee, cake and pie…unlike at this spouseless house. Take plenty of digital images at these events because you are not wasting film and do not have to ration them. You can save them on CDs or hard drives, for editing and for printing later, seeing some of these places and people maybe for the last time. Each of these Frigidaire ladies, including Garnett, later received one 5X7 print.
	I walked around Dorothy’s house and looked at her typical old-lady stuff, treasured little knickknacks, mementos and souvenirs that she had bought and been given throughout the past 80 or more years. Her house was clean and neat, her furniture, paintings, pictures and stuffed animals had been arranged and displayed to her taste, just like my mother’s and those of other widowed grandmothers. 
Everything goes with a story, even when it ends up sold at a garage sale, a flea market or a thrift shop for a quarter. Dorothy had to leave most of this stuff behind. She is taking her cat with her. It hid and shyly stayed out of sight during her farewell dinner party. 
	These five old Frigidaire friends were no doubt swapping stories from way back when, remembering friends who could no longer attend or be with them again. I know that some of those days and nights inside those old factories had been hard, bad and sad, with regrets and thoughts and dreams of quitting and just walking out. Some of them did, as had some of my coworkers and friends. Those old wood-block and concrete floors had been soaked with blood, sweat, tears and vomit. Some people had fell over and died inside those walls and upon those floors, the assembly lines [tracks] and production not stopping for them. Still, they had outside lives with children, husbands and wives, spouses and houses with pets. Each of these five elderly ladies had at least six-decades-worth of remembrances to share there, both before and after the big war and at Frigidaire. Us young’uns did not rush them because we all knew that this could be the last time that they and we might see and be with each other. 
	These five old Frigidaire friends almost cried, misty eyed, after they got up from the table with their canes, to walk around and say their final goodbyes, but also joking, laughing and smiling while hugging and kissing each other, before getting their kids and putting on their hats and coats again. Inside the kitchen, there was much promising and planning to gather with our friends again, maybe for lunch or dinner at a restaurant or for a cookout at somebody’s house. After our final goodbyes, we carefully walked outside, entered our vehicles and drove away from 808 Buttercup Drive. Warmer weather will make everything better. Again, I look at this 4X6 group photo of these five old Frigidaire friends with that added date, Tuesday, February 19, 2008. 


EKMBBC Leon Harrison, G.C.M.

EKM Buckeye Bureau
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <title>I hope that we can't get or buy enough cheap Chinese stuff! Chatter, chatter, chatter...those old factories don't matter.</title>
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      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Washington has repeatedly expressed concern that China is pouring money into expanding its forces. Beijing increased its military budget by nearly 18 percent to about $45 billion last year, the largest annual hike in more than a decade, and U.S. officials believe actual spending is greater.]]></description>
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      <title>WARNING: GM retirees! Smart professional investment sharks are circling and sniffing those big blue-collar big-dollar buy-outs!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WARNING: Beware GM retirees! Smart professional investment sharks are circling and sniffing those big blue-collar big-dollar buy-outs!
Posted by: Old Cold Warrior
Date: February 23, 2008 06:45PM


Leon Harrison 
West Carrollton, Ohio 
Saturday, February 23, 2008 

To: The Editor 

Subject: Investment professionals sniff out GM buy-outs 



“WARNING: Investment professionals sniffing out those big GM buy-outs.” 


WARNING: A 5th 3rd bright boy called me, last June, telling me that I ought to invest in a mutual fund because my GM buy-out savings were not making much money. Well, with regrets, I now @#$%&amp; and holler because it took him/5th 3rd “Securities” six months to lose me $6,000. This seemed like a scary trend to me. It seems that, as usual, the big boys and their in-crowd friends sold out as soon as I got in, my investment dropping like a rock. 
You see, these investment professionals sell products, hustling and lying to get you buying, but never calling you to tell you to sell/bail out now. I would advise all of these recent GM retirees to wait at least a year into the Obama administration before investing in anything, at least until the stock and housing markets hit the bottom of the graph valley, and the big boys and their favored in-crowd friends start buying it all up again; to restart another profitable trend, making it all go up and up and up again, to roll it all over and start the cycle all over. Wait until at least a year after Obama is sworn in with his capitalist-hating communist and social-engineering friends. 

Leon Harrison 
West Carrollton, Ohio]]></description>
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      <title>WARNING: Investment professionals sniffing out those big GM buy-outs! Wait at least one year, until after Obama is sworn in as president.</title>
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      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[WARNING: Investment professionals sniffing out those big GM buy-outs. Wait at least one year until after Obama is sworn in!
Posted by: Old Cold Warrior
Date: February 23, 2008 02:05PM


WARNING: A 5th 3rd bright boy called me last June, telling me that I ought ot invest in a mutual fund because my savings were not making much money. Well, with regrets, I now @#$%&amp; and holler because it took him six months to lose me $6,000, as the big boys sold out as soon as I got in, my investment dropping like a rock. You see, these investment professionals sell products, lying to get you buying, but never calling you to tell you to bail out now. I would advise all these recent GM retirees to wait at least a year into the Obama administration before investing in anything, until the stock market hits bottom and the big boys and their favorite friends start buying again, at the bottom of the graph valley, making it go up and up and up again, to roll over and start it all over. Wait until at least a year after Obama is sworn in with this capitalist-hating communist friends.]]></description>
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      <title>Re: ...and the janitor will be a temporary part-time subcontract employee who works real cheap.</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,40531,52081#msg-52081</link>
      <author>X-Machinist L.L. 225</author>
      <description><![CDATA[That is the way it is at just about every factory anymore dude.  Just can't be paid $25.00/hr plus bennies to empty the trash.  Used to that was OK but not anymore.]]></description>
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      <title>Yes, I am @#$%&amp;.</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,51750,51750#msg-51750</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Paul D., 
 
And Mexicans will do it cheaper than you and me! I just cashed-out a 5th 3rd 
Bank &quot;Securities&quot; mutual-fund portfolio. Nah, I', not @#$%&amp;, I would have just 
wasted that lost $6,000 [in sixth months] on home remodeling, a big-screen TV or 
a couple of reenacting vacations. I just invested $5 in the Mega Millions 
drawing. Somehow, those gambling folks don't seem to be so silly or stupid 
anymore. Yes, my motto is buy high and sell low! The big boys cash out and the 
chumps and hicks that they trick get stuck and are out of luck. The young bright 
boy started talking, over the phone, about &quot;long term&quot;...me being 57 years old. 
How low could it go? These investment professionals are always selling products, 
but never call you on the phone at home and tell you to dump it and bail out 
now. My savings wasn't making enough money, you see, so that is why he called me 
with this great investment...not FDIC insured with risks that could lose your 
principle. They have no principles. They slobber and circle like sharks, 
sniffing out those big GM buy-outs like blood in the water. 
 
Leon 
 
P.S. Yes, I am @#$%&amp;.]]></description>
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      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,40531,51138#msg-51138</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Janitors are subcontracted at the DMAX factory, though employees have to clean up their areas and the machines.]]></description>
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      <title>Beware you GM retirees who take those big &quot;buy-outs&quot;!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,50917,50917#msg-50917</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Beware you GM retirees who take those big &quot;buy-outs&quot;!
Posted by: Old Cold Warrior
Date: February 16, 2008 02:52PM


Mine wasn't making enough money in savings, just sitting there. So...a 4th 2nd financial adviser had me put it in a mutual fund...that has cost and lost me $6,000 during these past six months. WOW! Just think how bad I could have and would have done without the aid and advice of this 4th 2nd professional person, with his computer and online financial planning with forecasts and trends. How low can it go? I don't know. Without consulting him about our investment strategy, that is turning into a finacial tragedy, at least for me, I drove up there on the hill and put half of it back into my savings account. I will let him lose me a couple of more thousand dollars or so, before bailing out to save the rest. Then, I shall invest it with someone else. I've been burned, lesson learned. Small print hint: 4th 2nd Securities are not insured by the FDIC, investments with principal can be lost without legal recourse, of course. Are they selling products or working for and with investors?]]></description>
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      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[http://ohsnap.daytondailynews.com/media/410211]]></description>
      <category>Delphi bankruptcy</category>
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      <title>Wasn't Saint Hillary the co-president present at the NAFTA debates, that old flower-child Gore Whore, who knew more than H. Ross Perot, like ya know?</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,48171,50536#msg-50536</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Now, she has the nerve to babble to auto workers!]]></description>
      <category>Delphi bankruptcy</category>
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      <title>Re: We don' need no steenkin' factories! We got the bas and the Welfare State!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,48171,49064#msg-49064</link>
      <author>The Big Paw</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'll drink to that!  Hand me a Corona Extra with a wedge of imported Mexican-grown lime, please!]]></description>
      <category>Delphi bankruptcy</category>
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      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,48581,48581#msg-48581</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Subject:	I sit here saddened and shocked! 
Saturday afternoon, Feb. 2, 2008, 2:03 p.m. 
 
Dear Paul, 
 
I sit here shocked and saddened. I have started reading my monthly issue of 
Middle American News, which has not put me in a better, nor bitter, mood, too. I your Governor Brashear’s pain and could complain; as our local politicians are worried and bitchin' about the diminishing disappearing old blue-collar big-dollar tax base around this place...except out at the base [WPAFB] and the Dayton Welfare State. The HORROR! Our [Ohio] Governor Strickland may have to cut 3,000 state jobs in Hickland! No worry, the base is gonna create and make a 1,000 more, according to the Pentagon-PAC media whores. MAN stories with facts, figures, stories and statistics relate to this unfortunate reality; while we read and see and hear New York Times and Dayton Daily Snooze and corporate C-SPAN and DC beltway experts babble like cattle about glorious globalism and free trade and foreign aid, corporate communism once being an unheard oxy moronic term. And no local fag or hag rag will print the opinions of someone who has seen this for the past 40 years, here. I am sorry that I cannot deliver those old blue-collar tourists to you. Too many of them are supporting grown children and their grandchildren now, they and the unemployed and dumb having no disposable income, much like these recent retirees. You may print this to fill up some empty East Kentucky Magazine space, if you choose to, a bit of our literary legacy for our 
descendants and future 22nd century readers. I just read the Buckhorn Resort 
Encampment notice, printed in this latest issue of the Civil War Courier, as it arrived earlier today. I shall now get up and dispose of those brochure copies, save the colorful one that I have saved within my 2008 Reenactment binder, as a reminder. Yeah, retail sales and services, gambling and tourism, will make up for those three-million gone industrial jobs, lost under the free-trading Bushmen and their global-baloney friends and conspirators. Cheap, cheap, cheap, we gotta compete. Why whine, besides, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan don't act, look or sound good on our TV screens, if ya know what I mean. Regards, regrets and best wishes to all. Thank God and government for lotteries...which are cheaper and easier than Harvard and Yale, and they never fail. 
 
Sincerely Yours, 
 
Leon Harrison 
West Carrollton, Ohio 
 


&gt; Sent: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 4:02 pm 
&gt; Subject: I GOTTA GET ME ONE OF THESE! 
&gt; 
&gt; I'M VOTIN' FOR MONICA LEWINSKY'S EX-BOYFRIEND'S WIFE! 
&gt; I GOTTA GET ME ONE OF THESE! 
&gt; 
Capt. Harrison, 

Our new [Kentucky] Governor Democrat Stephen Brashear, has just axed our Civil War Encampment at Buckhorn Lake State Park. He has cut, cut, and is still cutting and is going to tax, tax, tax in typical Democrat Fashion. He is creating a GREAT FISCAL CRISIS as a part of his GRANDIOSE PLAN to bring Wholesale Casino Gambling to Kentucky. That old definition of the Democrat Party yet holds: The Democrat Party is like a condom: Halts Production, Supports Inflation and Gives a false sense of Security while a bunch of Pricks are being screwed. Pass the sad news on to our friends in Ohio. I shall come to Grove City unless something unexpected should develop. 
&gt; 
&gt; Paul D. 
&gt; 
&gt;]]></description>
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      <title>That's what 33,000 US troops have been defending, and it is never ending, at least until the empire collapses as the Soviet one did.</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,18646,48172#msg-48172</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I say pull out now and leave them.]]></description>
      <category>Delphi bankruptcy</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>We don' need no steenkin' factories! We got the bas and the Welfare State!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,48171,48171#msg-48171</link>
      <author>Old Cold Warrior</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We'll support them with our tax rebates! We just can't get or buy enough cheap-labor baby-maker open-border stuff!]]></description>
      <category>Delphi bankruptcy</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:31:06 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: And so it continues.... as planned.</title>
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      <author>X-Machinist L.L. 225</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes the saga continues.  Yes they probably are planning to close the Morraine Truck plant.  Why don't you think they have a contract yet.  The company don't want to really give them a contract so it can be easier to deal with the union upon shut down.  If you don't have a contract and you don't have but a few hundred employees left, they are a lot easier to deal with.

If you go the other direction the company may be wanting the union to eat crow there and bend over backwards and kiss the company's rear at the same time if they want a contract.  You have to think that this is the only IUE plant and the retiree insurance was not tied to the UAW deal.  That is the thing that might be holding them up as well.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:30:47 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>And so it continues.... as planned.</title>
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      <author>The Big Paw</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well let’s see.  Some stories in the DDN say that Moraine is closing, Some folks say ‘nonsense’ it’s staying open, Other stories indicate the SUV market is drying up, and GM has no new products scheduled or que’d up for the Moraine plant.  And now, lo and behold!!!! GM is starting to scale back the production at Moraine!!! Let’s gradually lay off these folks and trim production back to something reasonable!!! Or that’s the story anyway.  I believe this is all a strategy to gradually turn off the Moraine plant while keeping the whining to a minimum.  340 here, 200 there,,,, pretty soon the only guy left will be the janitor.  The beat goes on!!!!!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:19:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Credit crunch hurts plan to leave bankruptcy</title>
      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,39121,39708#msg-39708</link>
      <author>toolman</author>
      <description><![CDATA[What will happen to the Needmore Rd plant on june 8th?]]></description>
      <category>Delphi bankruptcy</category>
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      <author>The Big Paw</author>
      <description><![CDATA[http://www.daytondailynews.com/b/content/oh/story/business/2007/12/03/ddn120307delphiweb.html

So the ‘Credit Crunch’ is effecting Delphi’s ability to emerge from bankruptcy…What exactly does this all mean?  Anyone have a clue?  Sounds to me like ‘No Sale’ of the assets in Dayton or anywhere else until this is settled.. Therefore, no work for the Delphites if and when somebody is crazy enough to buy one of those old plants.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:28:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,34717,34998#msg-34998</link>
      <author>jumpnjack53</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There used to be a lot of discussion until DDN redesigned the web site! Now it is quieter than most churches!


Oooops! That will @#$%&amp; them off...I compared this board to a church. And we know how the DDN hates men, whites and churches!]]></description>
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      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,34717,34920#msg-34920</link>
      <author>The Big Paw</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Morning JJ!
I don’t think DDN did anything to this message board. Just nothing up till last evening to discuss about the ever-popular DELPHITES.  Channel 7 had a news report about DELPHI and what a surprise it was that it went under!  What a joke!]]></description>
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      <link>http://discussions.middletownjournal.com/read.php?77,34717,34717#msg-34717</link>
      <author>jumpnjack53</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Way to Go DDN! The voice of the left couldn't tolerate lively debate so they kill the board! Typical liberal democrats effort to stifle free speech!]]></description>
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