These things happen with some regularity. Check out this story of a Mexican guy pretending to be Michael Neumann in order to fleece unsuspecting investors. Michael Neumann is a mild-mannered university professor. He might have some investments, but he certainly doesn't have investors!
Or check out this sordid tale. Truth be told, we haven't had any dealings with the Wisconsin side of the family for generations, and now I understand why.
But I must admit I was shocked to see this story about my nephew Adam. Last I heard, he'd moved to the city and was doing OK for himself...
OK?!
47 billions is OK alright! And how curious that the ungrateful little shit totally forgot his dear uncle while he was amassing this fortune!
But alas, things that appear too good to be true generally turn out, in the fullness of time, to be too good to be true
Showing posts with label Michael Neumann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Neumann. Show all posts
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Monday, March 12, 2018
Great to know your pacemaker has a ten year warranty...
I was down in Guelph today visiting with my dear father, who is 85 and just had a pacemaker installed. He was pleased to inform me that the pacemaker comes with a ten year warranty.
Let's think about this. Your pacemaker has a ten year warranty, but it quits after two years...
What are you gonna do?
Well, most likely you're gonna do nothing because if your pacemaker fails you're most likely gonna be dead! Shit, they might as well give it a fifty year warranty... who's coming back to claim the warranty after their pacemaker stops?
But it was a lovely visit. He's looking great. Getting a pacemaker used to be a big deal but today you're in and out in a few hours.
Nice opportunity to catch up on the family news. Nephew Sam has found a college course the curriculum of which runs from whitewater rafting to mountaineering.
I know! That used to be shit you did for fun in your spare time!
Now it's a college program? If they'd had that in my day I might have stuck around a bit longer.
And his brother Parker has been accepted at Trent.
I don't mind Trent at all. My daughter spent a couple of years there. In fact, I once delivered her from her Mom's house in Guelph to her dorm at Trent in a minute under two hours. Considering that mere mortals more often than not require over two hours just to traverse the City of Toronto West to East I found that a remarkable accomplishment.
I think they've still got Michael Neumann on staff. I've never met Michael but we've exchanged emails over political stuff. Here's why he should have the undying respect of anyone who cares about truth and justice.
That alone is a good reason to choose Trent.
After getting caught up on family news I had lunch with my dear son Jake. Sometimes I worry about him. He's a bit of a character. Takes after his old man a bit too much for my liking, although he's at least a hundred times more talented than me.
So he finally gives up the straight skinny on what really happened when his band got the slot at the Hillside Festival.
I was there. I knew what happened.
But it was nice to hear it from him.
Four dorkshit wannabee rockstars get a chance to play Hillside!
On hearing this great news they immediately proceed to halve their practice time and double their party time!
Ketamine, MDA, acid, and of course lots of pot and beer for the next two months... they're rock stars now, don't you know?!
Ya, I know. I saw the show. At the time I thought you idiots just blew the chance of a lifetime.
Good to hear Jake concur.
He did offer a post-script, though. He'd set up a web-site for future bookings. By the time he got around to checking it two months later the five bookings they'd garnered as a result of their Hillside show were all in the past.
Lesson for aspiring rock stars; keep your wits about you.
Let's think about this. Your pacemaker has a ten year warranty, but it quits after two years...
What are you gonna do?
Well, most likely you're gonna do nothing because if your pacemaker fails you're most likely gonna be dead! Shit, they might as well give it a fifty year warranty... who's coming back to claim the warranty after their pacemaker stops?
But it was a lovely visit. He's looking great. Getting a pacemaker used to be a big deal but today you're in and out in a few hours.
Nice opportunity to catch up on the family news. Nephew Sam has found a college course the curriculum of which runs from whitewater rafting to mountaineering.
I know! That used to be shit you did for fun in your spare time!
Now it's a college program? If they'd had that in my day I might have stuck around a bit longer.
And his brother Parker has been accepted at Trent.
I don't mind Trent at all. My daughter spent a couple of years there. In fact, I once delivered her from her Mom's house in Guelph to her dorm at Trent in a minute under two hours. Considering that mere mortals more often than not require over two hours just to traverse the City of Toronto West to East I found that a remarkable accomplishment.
I think they've still got Michael Neumann on staff. I've never met Michael but we've exchanged emails over political stuff. Here's why he should have the undying respect of anyone who cares about truth and justice.
That alone is a good reason to choose Trent.
After getting caught up on family news I had lunch with my dear son Jake. Sometimes I worry about him. He's a bit of a character. Takes after his old man a bit too much for my liking, although he's at least a hundred times more talented than me.
So he finally gives up the straight skinny on what really happened when his band got the slot at the Hillside Festival.
I was there. I knew what happened.
But it was nice to hear it from him.
Four dorkshit wannabee rockstars get a chance to play Hillside!
On hearing this great news they immediately proceed to halve their practice time and double their party time!
Ketamine, MDA, acid, and of course lots of pot and beer for the next two months... they're rock stars now, don't you know?!
Ya, I know. I saw the show. At the time I thought you idiots just blew the chance of a lifetime.
Good to hear Jake concur.
He did offer a post-script, though. He'd set up a web-site for future bookings. By the time he got around to checking it two months later the five bookings they'd garnered as a result of their Hillside show were all in the past.
Lesson for aspiring rock stars; keep your wits about you.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Canada sliding eyes-wide-open towards fascism
Definitions of "fascism" could easily fill a library. The great Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci alone spilt tanker-loads of ink on the project of defining fascism.
In the interest of defining our terms we'll jury-rig an abridged definition right here and now; Fascism is what you're left with when the military-industrial complex of a nation-state dominates the levers of policy-making. There you go; short and sweet.
There is no more a perfect example of a fascist state in today's world than the state of Israel. But wait, is that not the "only democracy in the Middle East?" Sure, but that's got nothing to do with anything. Hitler was democratically elected too.
In Israel, the "security" of the state trumps all other considerations. Never more so than with the new more-rightist-than-ever Likud coalition government.
The security of the state is paramount. Anyone who questions Likud policies is a traitor. All criticism of the government is anti-Semitism. All government policy is designed to further marginalize the Palestinians, thereby guaranteeing instability in perpetuity. Instability equals insecurity, therefore we need a massively over-funded military machine, which is massively profitable for the usual war-profiteers, who are then able to fund their war-mongering Knesset pets to create more insecurity and more military spending ad infinitum.
Under the Harper gang Canada has been jockeying to become the single most slavishly devoted cheer-leader of the fascist Likud regime. And with considerable success!
What occupation?
What illegal settlements?
What apartheid?
What war crimes in Gaza?
The Alliance Church crowd around Big Steve is wilfully blind to everything that is so obvious to most of the world, and was obvious even to previous Canadian governments, both Liberal and Conservative.
Instead, we get FM Baird's embarrassing Toady Tour of Israel.
Big Steve's speech to the half-empty Knesset.
Our prime minister accepting a "World Statesman of the Year" award from an extremist Israeli lobby.
And on it goes, and now it has come to this.
Canada intends to use its hate-crime laws and the odious police-state Bill C-51 to criminalize criticism of Likud policy, no matter how racist and genocidal.
If you criticize the policies of the fascist mob that holds the reins in the Knesset, you are guilty of hate speech.
You are an anti-Semite.
Nevermind that the most cogent critics of that fascist mob have always been Jews. Chomsky. Finkelstein. Uri Avnery. Canada's own Michael Neumann.
Within hours of the CBC story appearing, the Washington Post, hardly an anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli platform, had an opinion piece up slamming the Harperite position and labelling it "very troubling."
And while I don't like to toot my own horn, we had the same story right here months ago.
How does this rabid cheer-leading for the most overtly fascist state in the Western world impact the popularity of the Harper gang?
Harper is leading in the polls a mere five months before the next federal election.
Eyes wide open...
In the interest of defining our terms we'll jury-rig an abridged definition right here and now; Fascism is what you're left with when the military-industrial complex of a nation-state dominates the levers of policy-making. There you go; short and sweet.
There is no more a perfect example of a fascist state in today's world than the state of Israel. But wait, is that not the "only democracy in the Middle East?" Sure, but that's got nothing to do with anything. Hitler was democratically elected too.
In Israel, the "security" of the state trumps all other considerations. Never more so than with the new more-rightist-than-ever Likud coalition government.
The security of the state is paramount. Anyone who questions Likud policies is a traitor. All criticism of the government is anti-Semitism. All government policy is designed to further marginalize the Palestinians, thereby guaranteeing instability in perpetuity. Instability equals insecurity, therefore we need a massively over-funded military machine, which is massively profitable for the usual war-profiteers, who are then able to fund their war-mongering Knesset pets to create more insecurity and more military spending ad infinitum.
Under the Harper gang Canada has been jockeying to become the single most slavishly devoted cheer-leader of the fascist Likud regime. And with considerable success!
What occupation?
What illegal settlements?
What apartheid?
What war crimes in Gaza?
The Alliance Church crowd around Big Steve is wilfully blind to everything that is so obvious to most of the world, and was obvious even to previous Canadian governments, both Liberal and Conservative.
Instead, we get FM Baird's embarrassing Toady Tour of Israel.
Big Steve's speech to the half-empty Knesset.
Our prime minister accepting a "World Statesman of the Year" award from an extremist Israeli lobby.
And on it goes, and now it has come to this.
Canada intends to use its hate-crime laws and the odious police-state Bill C-51 to criminalize criticism of Likud policy, no matter how racist and genocidal.
If you criticize the policies of the fascist mob that holds the reins in the Knesset, you are guilty of hate speech.
You are an anti-Semite.
Nevermind that the most cogent critics of that fascist mob have always been Jews. Chomsky. Finkelstein. Uri Avnery. Canada's own Michael Neumann.
Within hours of the CBC story appearing, the Washington Post, hardly an anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli platform, had an opinion piece up slamming the Harperite position and labelling it "very troubling."
And while I don't like to toot my own horn, we had the same story right here months ago.
How does this rabid cheer-leading for the most overtly fascist state in the Western world impact the popularity of the Harper gang?
Harper is leading in the polls a mere five months before the next federal election.
Eyes wide open...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
If you want to read something critical of Israel, go to Israel
Writing about Israel that eschews the usual pro-Likud cheer-leading is mighty hard to find in North American media.
It usually takes one of two forms here. On the one hand, you've got the professorial types. Chomsky, Finkelstein, Michael Neumann, just to name a few. They are easily dismissed as pointy-headed elitists by our main-stream media.
On the other hand, there are the drooling anti-semites, just a degree or two removed from the Protocols, and they are easily and deservedly dismissed as what they are; anti-semetic.
What we never see is a rational discussion of the pros and cons of the Likud platform. That's something that is routinely called into question in Israel.
Take for example the response to a recent Haaretz article by Gili Cohen entitled Israel's air superiority in question.
The article is a lengthy paraphrase of a speech by Maj. General Ido Nehushtan, chief of the Israeli air force, in which he laments Israel's declining air superiority vis-a-vis her neighbors.
What's insightful is not so much the article, as the comments on the article. By a wide margin readers see the article as a transparent ploy to frighten the Israeli electorate and to squeeze more free stuff out of the American taxpayer.
If you expressed such a thought in America you would be dismissed as an
ant-semite.
Here is the link:http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iaf-commander-israel-s-aerial-superiority-is-in-danger-1.409889
It usually takes one of two forms here. On the one hand, you've got the professorial types. Chomsky, Finkelstein, Michael Neumann, just to name a few. They are easily dismissed as pointy-headed elitists by our main-stream media.
On the other hand, there are the drooling anti-semites, just a degree or two removed from the Protocols, and they are easily and deservedly dismissed as what they are; anti-semetic.
What we never see is a rational discussion of the pros and cons of the Likud platform. That's something that is routinely called into question in Israel.
Take for example the response to a recent Haaretz article by Gili Cohen entitled Israel's air superiority in question.
The article is a lengthy paraphrase of a speech by Maj. General Ido Nehushtan, chief of the Israeli air force, in which he laments Israel's declining air superiority vis-a-vis her neighbors.
What's insightful is not so much the article, as the comments on the article. By a wide margin readers see the article as a transparent ploy to frighten the Israeli electorate and to squeeze more free stuff out of the American taxpayer.
If you expressed such a thought in America you would be dismissed as an
ant-semite.
Here is the link:http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iaf-commander-israel-s-aerial-superiority-is-in-danger-1.409889
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