Wednesday, July 01, 2009

The Whistle Blower Equivalence

The other side of the equation to free market enterprise and self-regulation is not the sole reliance on regulation by agency or governmental bureau, but robust, legally enforceable, generous 'whistle blower' rewards and protections. This is the self-serving equivalency of the personal gain incentive versus corporate, share holder, greed incentives. Both sides of the equation then appear equal.

Corporate entity, step out of line? Someone in YOUR organization, who knows the rules of the game, will be finely rewarded to show the error of your ways. Sleazy? Sure. But, apparently, that is how the game is played. You, corporate America, lobbied and made the rules. Now, live by them.

Sorry if this solution seems like a simplistic solution and rather morally sleazy...but hey, right or left, corporate America, this is the standard you live by and promote as solutions across the board to almost every issue, but only, if the solution is to YOUR benefit.

Live by the gun, die by the gun. You know, it's the 'eye for an eye' thingy.

Thanks,
GHD & RHN

Friday, June 26, 2009

Saint Peter Tracks Dick Cheney

Cheney's being tracked at the Pearly Gates, (St. Peter looks familiar, remember, 'One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest', the movie?  

                                    

GHD & RHN

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Mahmoud Goes To Russia

Ahmadinejad goes to the Security Summit...comes back a changed man.

A SILENT SLIDESHOW CARTOON STRIP BY G.H. DIEL





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Joan Walsh of Salon.com causes Bill O'Reilly to loose his air time.

GHD & RHN


Monday, June 15, 2009

Are Manufacturing Jobs Lost In America...Forever?

LINK: 

Does America Need To Make Things? TechCrunch Sarah Lacy on June 14, 2009

Well, we still are making things, just not the same things in the same way we used to. So we end up with 1000 smaller automobile manufacturing companies instead of a big three. The scene today has become diversification of manufacturing instead of monopolization. As, IMHO, indeed it should considering the advances in technology and productivity.

Of course there will be painful losses as the national workforce shifts around, because, after all, we are talking about people here, not widgets--WE, people, have different needs than machines and manufacturing!

In the final analysis once the transition stabilizes, employing not ONLY people, but more productive-technological-enhanced-better-educated people, and their availability balances out with available jobs in EVERY sector--via supply and demand, our sense of 'manufacturing' will stabilize. But, different types of businesses AND manufacturing. For a market for jobs not like it was...but much, much, much, bigger.

Let's say we open a large manufacturing facility in China. Underwritten by US investment, with some US management, but most of the employees are Chinese, the product: widgets are sold globally, the Chinese employees receive the wages, the product is produced efficiently and at low cost, and the profit...comes home to the US. The fact is there is an enormous amount of manufacturing in the US, just not the traditional heavy, smoke stack industries that drove the economy since the industrial revolution. 

We, the United States, have an enormous technological base at this time, but this is closing as other nations seek the same modern industrial technology and employment compensation structure we already have in place. Make no doubt, that gap will close. I speculate that part of the current economic collapse is due to adjustment down of economic, manufacturing, the working knowledge/experience base, and technology factors, compared to the way the production and distribution of goods and services in-place since the WWI had developed, and now. The structure, expectations and processes had grown to a 'bloated' stage, and now is the natural reduction of that artificial state, a 'cancer' might be an accurate metaphor, the operation cannot be avoided. The transitions will be painful, but it must take place in order for for a new, more effective, efficient and profitable stasis to develop.

I know of absolutely no one...who wanted manufacturing to go some place else. The migration occurred because you cannot artificially economically sustain any industry. Tariffs are not the industry. The real bug in the bonnet comes when a business sector is so large that IT drives a good portion of the economy, or that with lacking sensible regulation starts 'hijacking', robbing the economy. To wit: automobile, coal and financial in the headlines now.

Unfortunately, due in no small part to modern almost instant communication and transportation and global expectations, those American workers and industries who did not anticipate change, were left behind. If you want a snapshot of the 'so-called' turning of 'our' back on manufacturing, return to small town and city development councils twenty years ago across the country. The mantra was: we MUST get more manufacturing jobs, facility reuse, develop industrial parks! They wanted it, it did not work out because they could only artificially support it financially. You cannot rob Peter to pay Paul, if Peter is broke, and Paul can't pay back.

So what do we have now? A retrained work force still the envy of the all the developed nations! And the cycle starts once again.

GHD

Saturday, June 13, 2009

The Factor! Interviews Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh of Salon.com causes Bill O'Reilly to loose his air...time.

A SILENT SLIDESHOW CARTOON STRIP BY G.H. DIEL

                               


GHD & RHN

Thursday, June 11, 2009

At Some Point The Hate Screamers Will Bite Themselves

At some point the vile opinions broadcast by the right wing 'hate talkers' will come back and bite them...big time. 

At some point they WILL cross the line, congress will ACT, (if for no reason then self-defense), the FCC WILL step in, there WILL be law suits, reputations WILL be shredded, and people WILL loose their jobs. At the seemingly passive 'hate talker' supportive corporate media headquarters, New Corp, FOX, you know who you are, hear my complaint, Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, et al.

I've been visiting this planet long enough to see the backlash strike before, (lest we forget the infamous commie hater Joe McCarthy's scummy legacy).

Good luck, loathsome hate screamers, guys AND gals! Truly you have proven yourselves agile enough to bend down and grab your ankles. Now twist a bit more and you should be able to easily bite yourselves in your asses, (you're making yourself an easier target every time you open your mouth). 

GHD

LINKS:

Can right-wing hate talk lead to murder? Joan Walsh, Salon.Com

Monday, June 08, 2009

Death Defying Pundits?

Fair and balanced news...not always. Sometimes it's torture.
We're still waiting for these brave souls to submit to experimental torture, after all, they torture us every day.
Update June 8, 2009



The news wire stretched way too thin.

Visit all of G. H. Diel's & R. Nigl's cartoons and blogs at


                                 

GHD & RHN

Monday, May 25, 2009

Go Ahead, Make Our Day.

Hear this Iran and North Korea. Remember the cold wars? 

Here's the deal. We'll relieve you of all those sanctions, restrictions and annoying UN controls. However, you want nukes and the ability to develop the means to deliver them? Fine. 

An essential point you should understand is this: Step out of line once and you can be guaranteed you will be obliterated. Period. 

Sell to terroists? BOOM. Nuke neighbors? BOOM. Your people, your government, your land. Gone. Forever. Go ahead. Make our day.  Think about it.

Welcome to the club, boys, (are you listening Pakistan?)

The friendly folks in the USA, and the other nuclear powers.

Bye, for now.

Just a thought. 

GHD & RHN

Update re. Reddit.com comments.

The scenario I am suggesting is this: as a nation, you really don't want to be part of the nuclear franchise. This makes you a VERY BIG TARGET, there are already many powers out there ahead of you. Rethink. Nuclear explosions are unlike any other, they tear apart the atomic structure of EVERYTHING, (if you believe in souls, that, included). 

In other words, achieving nuclear weapon technology in light of the advanced nuclear technology of others, is a non-argument and an irrational global position, for those powers who understand this, and for those who do not, in other words: got nuke aspirations for weapons? Yeah, argue until you are blue in the face. But, really, DON'T GO THERE, there's a long line ahead of you, and they have much, much bigger arguments.

LINKS:

Monday, April 27, 2009

Not Bad News

In fact, GM's demise, is not bad news. They, GM, have been doing business wrong, so wrong, for as long as I remember, and I used to work for them. It's a long sad, blind, story I'd be happy to tell, (don't worry, it's not a big deal story, small time, on my part - I was a production worker). But, GM has been fooling/screwing buyers into believing if you glue on a bit of chrome here, a bit of chrome there, glitter really, you can sell American consumers anything. Just tell them it's what polls show they want, then back it up with advertising that aligns. When their products rust away or stop working...duh, what's wrong with the business plan: they raked in the profits after all. Trouble is, due to the ignorance of the American consumer, I mean, the U.S. buying public, their plan has succeeded, until now. Now, reality catches up with ignorance.

Don't complain about the automotive industry's screw up. They became big enough to drive a good portion of the economy. Blame the U.S. consumers...you, and me. I say, wake up buyers of shit, good riddance. GM, and all those guys - the financial sector included, business sectors with minimal controls - drove the economy, in big part, and the politics that go along with it, always at our own expense, to the brink.

They, these predatory business models, are not too big to fail, and maybe now after our complicity, have succeeded, in part, but in the end, have failed.

Just desserts is what I am thinking, for all concerned.

RHN

Thursday, April 23, 2009

'In Peace, One' - Google, The Tower Of Babel, Reversed

Here are many translations of the English phrase, 'In Peace, One.' The grammar as transliterations is not the way you might say it in your native language, but you get the idea.


In peace, one.
In pacis , unus.
平和では、 1 。
在和平, 1 。
Në të paqes, një të tillë.
В мир, един.
En pau, un.
在和平, 1 。
U miru, jedan.
V klidu, jedna.
I fred, en.
In vrede, een.
Rahu, üks.
Sa kapayapaan, isa.
Rauhassa, yksi.
Dans la paix, un.
En tempos de paz, un.
In Frieden, ein.
Στην ειρήνη, ένα.
שלום, אחד
शांति में, एक..
A béke, egy.
Dalam perdamaian, satu.
In pace, uno.
평화 있음, 한.
Tā miera, vienu.
Taikos, viena.
Fil-paċi, wieħed.
W pokoju, jeden.
Em tempos de paz, um.
În pace, o.
В мире, одна.
У миру, један.
V kľude, jedna.
V miru, en.
En paz, uno.
ในสันติภาพหนึ่ง.
Barış, bir.
У світі, одна.
Trong hòa bình, một trong những.

GHD & RHN

N.B.
And here's something you also may be interested in, 'America's Stonehenge'

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Unknown No More.

The actress is  Kirsti Stubø, from the Hungarian film: Opium - Diary of a Madwoman

Kirsti Stubo


GHD & RHN

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The White House Dog

                                


GHD & RHN

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Karl Rove: Obama White House Has Rove-Like ‘Ethical Problems’ Bull Shit!

Okay, Rove figured out formally what other Republican's are doing by their generally nasty intuitive reactions. It looks like the Republican's are going down, way down in future elections, (you can only live in a state of denial so long before reality catches up to you). 

Rove knows if he identifies Democrats to have the same huge moral flaws that they themselves have shown over the past few decades - even if those accusations are false, in other words, lies - then, when the Dems prosecute the Repubs for ANYTHING, Rove, and other operatives offering the same brand of stinking fertilizer, will simply say, "See, they are guilty, even more than us!" 

But, I think the Obama administration is onto this crap-flinging technique now and blocks the Rove-like shit every step of the way. Bill Clinton did this so well, and the oposition hates him with a fever. The net result of Karl Rove's 'cleverness? Repubs will get, really, really pissed off, and do enormously stupid political things. Backfire time for Rovians*.

GHD & RHN


LINKS:
*1.Rovian
adjective. describing something exhibiting or employing fraudulent spin. Deft use of misleading information, double speak, or double logic for the purposes of manipulating policy and the general public.
In a typical Rovian maneuver, incorrect information was purposely provided to the reporter so as to discredit the entire story when it came out.
The Urban Dictionary

Friday, March 06, 2009

Obama Meets Limbaugh - The Elevator

                               


This is a variation on the old 'proverb', joke, whatever: 'Man who farts in church, must sit in own pew.' Except here, we use an elevator instead of a traditional church. You know, modernized religion. After all, an elevator is kinda like a church, a meeting place we're forced into, it's tall, it goes up to the heavens - the top floor - and down to the lobby, that's where most of us get off.

Sigh,

GHD & RHN

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Karl Rove Attends A Barbecue

                            


Barbecues are great, unless you're the main course.

LINK: The original report was an interview with Fox News which can be found HERE.

GHD & RHN

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Bank Of America - On Hold

Ken Lewis Calls Treasury
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Don't you just hate those computerized voice message lists - you know, the kind bank's use - that go on and on, then dump you at the end? They never seem to have the choice you want.

GHD & RHN

Monday, March 02, 2009

Rush Blows

                             


A little puffery at CPAC.

GHD & RHN

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Sistah Michele Bachmann Rap - Notes From CPAC


Michael Steele, you be da man, you be da man ...umm, shouldn't that be you ARE DA man?
Sistah Sooo White.

GHD & RHN

NOTE: A profound apology to Nasir Jones, Paul Mitchell, Sixto Rodriguez


Friday, February 27, 2009

Bank of America Contrite - Yeah, Right

Barney Frank Questions Bank of America CEO, Kenneth Lewis



GHD & RHN

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Larry King Alive! Interviews ...Bernie Madoff!

                                

A family man. Bernie Madoff? Who would have thought.
 
GHD & RHN

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