Displaying 18,661 To 18,690 Of 19,504 Comments The sad fact is that for corporations today, there is only one thing that matters, the upcoming quarterly numbers. As we’ve witnessed, the future doesn’t matter to corporations, the banks knew they were driving the economy off a cliff but all they cared about was making as much as they could each quarter before the crash. That’s why corporate capitalism is and IMO, always will be a ticking time bomb of financial diasters. They see it as their benefit to kill the golden goose if it means they can get one more morsel of gold today. » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 3:28 pm Oh goody! More site traffic! » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 3:23 pm GaBu/GaBulldog10 is a Republican who as you can see above is registered as a member at The Planet and has never been treated with disrespect here. You can conclude for yourself if his attacks are justified or based on anything legit. » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 3:19 pm That’s really quite an honor, to think this site represents that much of a threat to some. We must be doing something right! As for the types at HuffPo who would complain about a site that has not done nor posted anything negative about Progressives, it would likely be one of two types at HuffPo: a. Trolls/Republicans b. Arianna Groupies/HuffPo Groupies/High School Clique Types As for those who have had conflicts with members of this site and choose to attack the site for that reason, I would respond by saying that Progressives are supposed to reject the mindset of guilt-by-association. There will always be conflicts where more than one person gathers, we’ve had them here. But like constructive adults, we address them, resolve them, forgive and forget and move on. It’s not life and death, it’s just one anonymous person saying something anonymously about another anonymous person that is soon wiped away from everyone else’s consciousness by the turn of a page or the click of a HuffPo moderator. PlanetPOV is open to everyone who prefers the adult table for conversation. No one is excluded, attacked, superior, or “the cool kids”, we’re a community of peers that exhibit respect and, if I may compliment the membership, intellect and wit. I invite Tanya1111, LadyNaga and even GaBu to spend time here at The Planet and I guarantee that they will see what I’m saying about respect here is true for all members seeking to give and receive it. » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 3:15 pm Political correctness, sexism, and the assault on civility Thanks for sharing this, Nellie! Great and insightful piece! » Posted By AdLib On November 18, 2009 @ 1:59 pm Polling Justice: 6 in 10 Americans Disagree with Adhering to U.S. Rule of Law I reposted it and somehow my gravatar stuck on it!!! You win the lifetime supply of Rice-a-Roni, it is indeed Sam Lowry from Brazil! » Posted By AdLib On November 18, 2009 @ 6:57 pm A warm welcome to The Planet, monicaangela! » Posted By AdLib On November 18, 2009 @ 6:53 pm So we believe CNN polls now? Wording can make the outcome of a poll be whatever you want it to be. I don’t believe the CNN poll. 0 😉 » Posted By AdLib On November 18, 2009 @ 6:47 pm CNN should have also asked in the poll WHY they preferred a military trial over a criminal trial, then at least their lynch mob mentality would have been honestly expressed. They want a trial to be as fast and unfair as possible, a criminal trial would be too fair for them. To them I ask, if he’s so guilty that you want him tried and executed ASAP, why can’t he be tried fairly and publicly so everyone around the world can see that? Maybe CNN could do another poll: “Would you prefer trying and executing KSM ASAP in a secret military trial even if it caused some around the world to call it a sham and make him appear as an innocent martyr to some who may in turn want to come to America and commit an act of terror to get even?” Hmm…wonder how many “die-hards” would still choose military trials then? » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 9:21 am I remember back around 2003 they took a poll of high school students across America and the majority opposed anyone speaking out against The President…Bush, that is. If many Americans aren’t ignorant, why is it so easy to sway public opinion? People who come to conclusions based on knowledge, critical thinking and reason can’t be convinced to vote for McCain/Palin instead of Obama/Biden because of a new commercial or sound byte. But many Americans can be. What Bush did was inoculate many to advertising for a period of time…by making their lives hell. Ads can’t convince you to stay the course when the course has made you lose your job and your home. But when the pain recedes, these folks who have been brought up by American society to be open to being “sold”, could turn around in the future and elect someone else who clearly is going to make their lives worse. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 10:52 pm Don’t! NO!!! …much about history… He does sound quite different though, can’t imagine a decent human being coming from that DNA but however they groom him, he won’t be Rupert. » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 12:02 pm Murdoch is 78, one should safely be able to say that, even though someone just as ruthless could take over, he should no longer be in a position to screw the world in 5 – 10 years. » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 11:11 am “A Rupert ate my baby!” » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 11:07 am LOL! Actually, Murdoch seems more like a Hanna Barbera character, like the evil old man who wags his finger at those “meddling kids” in Scooby Doo. Only Murdoch is more one-dimensionally evil. » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 9:10 am Three Prominent Conservatives Warn of “Scaremongering” in Gitmo Closing KQ strikes again, scoops HP on what should be a top story! Props KQ!!! » Posted By AdLib On November 17, 2009 @ 11:12 am SHANNYN MOORE: Palin’s Oily Lies Drip from the Pages of Going Rogue… I’m sure you’re well aware that Idaho is the most Republican state in the nation. Why, I’m not too sure but while every other part of the nation moved away from Bush and The GOP towards Obama and the Dems, Idaho stayed planted as potatoes in the GOP camp. Do you know historically why the state is so Republican? I’m curious. » Posted By AdLib On November 18, 2009 @ 12:00 pm As frightening as the concept of Palin as president is, so is the concept of 2012 being the end of the world. But both are imaginary and not worth the energy worrying about. Palin has no crossover potential with moderates, independents, minority voters, younger voters and on and on. Her image is cemented in the minds of voters and that’s not a good thing. She’s crying “Death Panels” while the majority of the nation calls out, “Public Option”. She is melded to the Teabagger movement which alienates her from anyone who graduated high school or isn’t mandated to attend Anger Management classes. So, though the prospect would be horrible, the possibility of ever having to seriously deal with it is infinitesimal. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 10:20 pm Was Ziegler also the one who claimed that during Palin’s debate with Biden, it was like she was winking at him personally and he saw starbursts coming from Palin’s eyes? That repressed sexuality of Republicans sure surfaces in some bizarre ways. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 3:42 pm Your Satisfaction is our Greatest Annoyance What’s unfortunate is that in these situations corporations force us into, we have a choice of being kind and being jerked around or being curt and being jerked around less. I empathize with the low paid people who are pushed into acting as tools for corporations. At the same time, I don’t want to be pulled into their game. So, I am more curt with the type of situations you describe, I give specific instructions at the beginning of the conversation as to what exactly I want them to do and what I do not want them to do (they have their prompts for trying to avoid serving you and initially assuming you are to blame for a problem…I don’t allow them to go through their checklist when I know what I want). In the end, as I allude to in my post, both sides of the Customer Service call are forced into this situation and into their roles by corporate greed and indifference. The bad side for the consumer is that their purchase which results in needing customer service is financing their own frustration. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 10:13 am I doubt it, just as we saw with the economic crash, these types only focus on what they can grab and stick in their pocket today. If they’re chopping down the tree their house is built on, it doesn’t matter if they can get more money for the lumber. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 10:01 am There should be much more of employee-owning of companies, it seems like a no-brainer that those experienced in a field who are not blind with greed could become very successful when competing against a corp that has to factor in its greed into its prices. As for your first point, that’s exactly why customer service has become so bad. Instead of having well paid professionals who have good people skills, you hire low paid “workers” who are only trained not to get upset and just repeat, “I’m sorry for the inconvenience” like robots, so of course customer service is now shit. It’s like newspapers firing journalists instead of their ad sales people. they just think, “They don’t bring in revenue, they’re expendable.” There is no recognition that the work of journalists for a paper or satisfying customer service translate into loyal customers and revenue. That’s why I think there are real opportunities for employee-owned companies to swoop in and out-serve and underbid big companies. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 9:59 am You think that’s bad, I have to go through the same thing to schedule a play date for my 6 year old daughter. I have to call her 800 number because she won’t allow me to schedule with her in person, speak to someone in India and then wait for email confirmation. It’s not easy being a parent nowadays. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 9:44 am In the latter case, it is the irony of ignorance, of one is too ignorant to recognize logic then logic looks the same as foolishness. In the case of the type of people you refer to initially, I know the type and would suggest that they are drunk with a cocktail of selfishness/self-importance, entitlement and a splash of ignorance. The crass American, bullying their way to get what they want because as they’ve had enforced through society, they deserve everything they want. The sad thing about your story is that it illustrates in areas like education, people can have leverage to undermine the mission and principles of the service but when it comes to corporate run social services that are vital, people have no leverage while the service is undermined by itself. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 9:41 am So Joe in Kansas was neither, just a lie to patronize her. That’s awful, at 87 being forced to have to fax appointment requests because an HMO can’t be bothered with allowing clients to schedule with their own doctors. There are certainly much more horrific stories about how people are treated by their HMOs but this one seems to make a black and white case for how the greed of insurance companies has come between patients and their doctors…literally. » Posted By AdLib On November 16, 2009 @ 9:23 am In this corporate/government hybrid America we have, I am less confident that any venture to colonize the moon would be devoid of corporate involvement. And how corporations would drool at the prospect of owning exclusive rights of various kinds…to the moon. And how would other countries like China and Russia respond? The only way to do this successfully would be as a global alliance, even then, they could just carve up ownership. Human beings can be their own worst enemies sometimes. » Posted By AdLib On November 14, 2009 @ 8:02 pm Very cool! That is the thing about the advance of science, the whole moon program in the 60’s – 70’s for example, the net results are advancements that are exported in many other ways into society that advances it and the lives of others. With that in mind, I guess it’s not long before Pepsi and Coke open up bottling plants there and promote a new line of Lunar bottled water they can charge $20 for, “Luna Water, It’s outta this world!” One small step for man, one giant marketing opportunity for corporation kind. » Posted By AdLib On November 14, 2009 @ 2:15 pm FINALLY.. once again a Nation of LAWS & NOT of “men”. Of course I agree that opinions should be openly given but my problem with Webb is more my problem with conservative Dems in general. They often speak out to the benefit of Pres. Obama’s Republican opponents. Webb, has been pretty good on the issues, he has agreed to breaking a filibuster but will not commit to voting for health care reform. I’m just a bit tired of half-measure Dems. I feel better that Biden is VP, a conservative Dem would have been a mistake IMHO. Night, sleep well HITO! » Posted By AdLib On November 14, 2009 @ 10:26 pm If terrorism was an act of war, the U.S. would be reduced to being officially at war with a single person, if another McVeigh committed an act of terrorism. How ridiculous is that? Webb is justifying the U.S. to declare war on one, two or three people? It’s just plain crazy. » Posted By AdLib On November 14, 2009 @ 9:55 pm So with that flawed logic, Timothy McVeigh should not have been prosecuted in criminal court for his bombing of the Oklahoma City bombing since he had declared war on the U.S. Government. Can’t wait for Webb to come out against the wrongful conviction and execution of McVeigh. Remember all those folk cheering Webb for Obama’s VP? Lesson learned I hope. » Posted By AdLib On November 14, 2009 @ 7:29 pm I’ll sign that petition! » Posted By AdLib On November 14, 2009 @ 2:07 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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