10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You

[handmade34]

good reading

#8. Stop buying bottled water, factory-farmed beef and new cars, especially hybrids...


http://www.alternet.org/story/144679/10_ways_to_screw_over_the_corporate_jackals_who%27ve_been_screwing_you

[SpiralHawk]

1. Cut the cable. Starve the BEAST.

You will save money,
you will Starve the Republicon-corporate media BEAST,
and you will save your mind from doubleplusungood propaganda.

[ananda]

2. I like this one.

Get your money out of Chase and other big predatory banks.

Add: join a credit union.

[chandler2]

3. Hear, hear! Be vocal, act LOCAL. nt

[handmade34]

14. excellent suggestion

[alfredo]

15. I've been in a credit union since the early eighties. I've saved

a bundle of money in fees and other nickel dime petty bullshit banks pull on customers.

[izquierdista]

4. Naughty, naughty

The last paragraph recommends leaving your party. The mods around here will put their fingers in their ears and go "la-la-la-la-la" while they hit the delete key.

[FSogol]

5. Ok up to #10. n/t

[nichomachus]

6. Think twice about cutting your landline

Unless you have some other reliable way to reach 9-11. Cell phones won't do it well enough.

With most landline -- and even cable phone -- systems, the second 9-11 picks up your call, they know where you are. With cell phones, that doesn't happen.

So, if you can't speak for some reason, you're too confused to give your proper address -- or the phone is ripped out of your hand while you're making the call -- the police will still respond, because with a landline or Internet phone they know where you are. That won't happen with a cell phone.

Recently, a friend was threatened by some violent ex-cons. He was living in fear, afraid that they would break into his house. I took him to the police station and they made a note in his phone record about what the situation was. The officer said that the minute he dialed 9-11 from his land line, all that information, including the names of the ex-cons, would show up on the screen -- and he would get an expedited response, even if he was unable to talk.

The officer said it was best to call on the land line, because the info wouldn't show up if he used his cell.

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[tonysam]

7. Most of the recommendations are frankly stupid

There are a lot of us who prefer CDs to downloads, especially of entire albums and works of a recording artist, and many of us collect DVDs of movies and television shows.

It'll be a cold day in hell I give up either.

[onenote]

8. some of the dumbest shit I've read here in a long time -- which is saying something

Cut your cable? Sure. And use the Internet? Do you think that the folks who are paid to provide Internet connectivity aren't "corporate jackals"? THey're the same companies that operate the cable and satellite companies.

Take your money out of the bank and put it "on the sidelines"? SUre, the best thing one can do with one's money is have it sit under a mattress somewhere. Not.

I liked this one--stop buying CDs and DVDs and have "some entity send whatever you want to watch wirelessly to your phone, computer and TV." And who are you paying for your phone service? Oh right...a corporate jackal.

[90-percent]

9. I like

I like #10 the best.

-90%

[NNN0LHI]

10. # 10 Vote for Nader or some other dimwit who has no chance of being elected

And enjoy the next Republican administration.

The person who wrote this is a jack off.

Don

[rucky]

13. Sucks not having choices, huh?

[Cirque du So-What]

12. Sage advice

9. Do not watch whiny bitches. Especially so you can tell us how whiny they are; trust us, we already know. Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and other compromised gossips ranting about everything from Tiger Woods to Barack Hussein Obama are a waste of everyone's time, except of course the people who pay them to spout their nonsense. And those who watch it to confirm their already mindless prejudices and political objectives.

Those unhinged jackasses are exactly what the hardy souls at Media Matters are for. If you ignore them, they really will go away, at least for you. Which is what matters, in the end. Is there really room in your busy mind for their doltish nattering? When you read a story about how Bill O'Reilly cut some poor sap's mike, you're learning too much about something you already know too much about. Much better to occupy your time with solutions to the proliferating problems that are coming your way, from probable economic misery to promised environmental devastation. Don't worry, if something legally actionable happens, you'll hear about it. Until then, spend your time reading and ranting about more important matters. Like your sex life.

Ain't that the Gawd's own truth? Tomorrow morning, how many threads will have a title like, 'OMG! Can you believe what Mika just said to Morning Schmoe?!?' I take pride in the fact that I'd have trouble picking out Scab-ro in a line-up. I can't believe so many here hang on every last word emanating from this pack of assholes. In the grand scheme of things, they are of no consequence, and neither are the bloated sacks of protoplasm who sit & watch them every day. The future belongs to the doers - not the watchers.

[villager]

16. this was interesting: 10. Start or join a third party.

10. Start or join a third party. "You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left?" the self-destructive man in Richard Linklater's animated mind-wiper Waking Life asked. Sure, he doused himself in gasoline and set himself afire, after dryly joking "Let my own lack of a voice be heard." But still. Beyond the propaganda of fear promoted by the Bush administration or the hope promised by the Obama administration, what has become exquisitely clear is that our country is actually run by a single party comprised of political animals assembling on the fence. And they will do whatever they can to stay in power, regardless of whether or not it is madness.

"As someone who voted to repeal Glass-Steagall, maybe that was a mistake," Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer said of the law that kept investment and lending banks separate, a dissolution that has led directly to our current econopocalypse. The Glass-Steagall Act's repeal happened under the watch of President Bill Clinton, whose administration worked together with Republicans and Wall Street criminals to torpedo financial regulation. Sure, the guy who wanted to succeed him, Al Gore, is a climate-change visionary. But his running mate? Right, the same fence-hopping Joe Lieberman who just eviscerated health care reform's public option. With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

The two-party system you have today is already a three-party system. It houses a well-meaning minority, middle-way sellouts and batshit loonies. Someone needs to babysit all those kids. Why not you? Let the fence-squatters have their pity parties. Eventually, they will be whittled down to their core essence, which is nothing more than compromise stained by self-possession. Worried about leaving your party? Don't be.