Mercury Marine, 10 foot Poles and TEXTing

Here is a new one - some one from King Abdulaziz City For Science And Technology Saudi Arabia is reading the blog.!

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I was at a meeting the other night and the topic of Fond du Lac came up and I was surprised to hear comments from people saying they were boycotting everything Fond du Lac. The reason was that they gave in to Mercury Marines strong arming business tactics.

I had heard what was happening but was not really listening to the specifics so I decided to look into this a little and WOW - talk about a company that likes to bully people. On a very basic side every man woman and child in Fond du Lac (and the county?) has to pay In Mercury Marine $33,000 so they will not go to a different city.

They pressured workers to accept large concessions and then got tax payers to dish out an extra $53 MILLION so they would not leave the State AND, the company has not paid one dime in state tax's since 2000, even though it has successfully sheltered a billion dollars in profits.

They basically blackmailed its employees and taxpayers by threatening to leave the state. Of course CEO Dustan McCoy has received $10 million but I'm sure he was worth every penny.

One comment I found was from an ex-Mercury dealer who said "I can vouch for the fact that Mercury Marine uses stronghanded business tactics and are not interested in dealer or customer support."

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Before I became infamous with Blackjack and the internet I was a sports tout. I was even a partner in a 1-900 service and had ad's that ran in Collage and Pro Football Weekly. We would pick winners in the NFL and if people were smart enough to spent $50 to hear our picks they would have won a lot of money. I was good. In fact I have to think I was the best tout money could buy at the time (seriously).

Problem was I was honest in an industry that was dishonest! I would say I will win 60% of the time against the spread. Now if you are a REAL handicapper you will know that that is close to impossible. Many say it IS impossible. But if you are a tout you will advertise you will win 75% of the time you or get next week free. OH BOY! Of course their actual records were tweaked and falsified.

Of the hundreds of pay services I will guarantee that 95% are winning 50% of the time. The ones you really hear about are some of the worst! The funny thing is MOST 1-900 services win LESS then 50% of the time but will tell you they are 80% winners.

So I would plug along year after year after year winning my consistent 60% but who cares because there are so many GOOD handicappers.

The problem was my system always picked the VERY unpopular games. The games people HATED to play. So they would spend $50, get the picks, play the games they liked and then call and ask for their money back because they lost money.

I would say LOST? How could you lose?? They would say they played 3 of the 6 games and only won 1 of them. I would say what about the other 3 games games and they would say they could not possibly play because who in their right mind would play them." I would say - THOSE games WON, you would have won 4 and lost 2!!! Not good enough I guess.

So anyway - this comes up because I have one of my Triple "A" 10 Star Game of the Decade Drop Dead Gonna Win Bet the Farm games this week.

Pittsburgh will cover the 4 points they are giving Minnesota! (remember I won last weeks anti Minnesota game . . . by 1/2 point). In my lifetime the Triple "A" 10 Star Game of the Decade Drop Dead Gonna Win Bet the Farm game has a record of 48 - 14 and is 1-0 this year.

Just thought I would tell ya!
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I found out that the Hiney Flu bug (also called the H1N1) can only travel 10 feet in the air so I have devised a way to not catch the flu.

If I'm ever in a meeting I will whip out my 10 foot pole to keep people away. I will instruct them not to touch my pole as this would just contaminate it. I was thinking I could just walk around with my 10 foot pole out but people might stare so maybe I'll just keep it pointing straight up out of the way until someone gets a little too close.

I was thinking I had come up with a great idea but - - - it had already been done. During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 these guys had figured it out already!

Here they are all getting ready to go to the local dance.

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So the law makers have oppressed us yet again by passing bill 27-5 saying we can no longer TEXT while driving. What other rights are they going to take away! What next!!!

These laws are STILL on the books!

Did you know there is a law in Alabama that says " It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle." I see this all the time in Wisconsin driving to work!!!

In Arkansas "No person shall sound the horn on a vehicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 P.M" Well yea - daa!!!!

In Utah "It is illegal to have sex in a moving ambulance." AND "No one may have sex in the back of an ambulance if it is responding to an emergency call." I guess there were problems ????

In Tennessee "It's illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians. " I ain't saying nuttin.

Have a Wednesday!

Rod