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Fly121108 – Cars, Money, and Union Busting (678) 368-4935

Flyswatter — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:08:34 +0000

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On today’s show I talk about Rev. Charles Ellis of Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple who had a service with three vehicles representing the Big Three automakers, asking for God’s help to turn the companies fortunes around. I also talk about the results of the sit-in strike by laid-off workers in the shuttered factory of Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors, which resulted in the loans by Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, allowing the workers sixty days of severance pay and give them their accrued vacations.

I play a rap song by Elohim Marino – “Money is God” from the album Truth.

Next I talk about the vote on the Big Three automakers’ request for a $14 billion short-term bailout and how the Republicans are admitting to using it as a way of devastating the United Auto Workers labor union. Breaking news that didn’t make it on the podcast–the bailout failed. It’s more important to bust a union than prevent a depression, apparently.

Next I play Josh Charles song “Love, Work and Money” from the album Josh Charles.

Music from this podcast came from Podshow Podsafe Music Network.

NaPodPoMo 28 – That Scrooginess is killing your mother!

Flyswatter — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:28:53 +0000

I hate Christmas. I hate everything about it, especially the pressure to tap your bank account out to try to convince people that you love them by how financially wrecked you have become. And my mother is a Christmas person, which is why we don’t see eye-to-eye. Well that, and the whole religion thing.

I hate the time pressure, the pressure to be all happy, the pressure to be original, the pressure to spend spend spend. I hate feeling obligated and hate that others feel obligated on my behalf, because I really don’t want anything. I love my friends and family and would rather see them at another time–any time I see people I love, it’s a festival. I don’t need a calendar date.

I’m sad. I love my mother. And I just don’t love Christmas.

NaPodPoMo 21 – Snotty handkerchief day!

Flyswatter — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:17:12 +0000

Clifford has been sick so I’ve been taking care of him, making him tea, and doing a lot of laundry. Not much else is happening.

The podcast became an affiliate for Georgia Podcast Network today, and I’ve been chatting with a couple of bloggers. I’m really pleased about that.

Also I tried to get an emission inspection for my mother-in-law’s car so we could sell it, but we had to buy a new battery and it didn’t have time to clear the computer, so the car failed. We have to drive it until the new battery registers because the car can’t be sold until it passes emission, but unfortunately, we can’t legally drive the car, so we’re kind of up shit creek there. It’s a real catch-22.

There are financial woes for both me and my oldest daughter, and I hope they can be resolved.