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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

THE WAY I SEE IT

Wading Through the Primordial Goo and Sinking Fast!

There are times when the columnist just needs to let off a little steam. Caution: This is one of those times!

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. ~ George Carlin   I think I’m morphing into a curmudgeon. Perhaps not a curmudgeon of the dyed-in-the-wool, full-fledged, card carrying variety, but at the very least; a highly cynical, overly-critical 63-year-old angry, white male who’s just about had it with everyone and everything!  I’ve just said some extremely harsh things about myself. If anyone else had said these things about me I’d likely have attacked them. Not physically; I don’t do that anymore, but at the very least I would have retaliated by unleashing a fiery verbal barrage on them, unlike anything they had ever witnessed.  I’m exaggerating a bit here.  I’m not really highly cynical – just basically cynical…

ELAINE NORDBERG ROCK

7:56 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

These 'workers' have no sense of responsibility to the job/customers or pride in what they do. They've been taught for years that 'good enough IS good enough' and that suits them fine! Can't be ordering our Pizza's from overseas; I guess that means more jobs for the illegals! More Americans wanting to sit on their ass and take free $ for doing nothing! We better learn another language fast …   more ›

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