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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Workers of the World, WTF?

We just do as we are told:

http://rense.com/general86/rat.htm

Here's the scheme: Rattner is demanding the bankruptcy court simply wipe away the money GM owes workers for their retirement health insurance. Cash in the insurance fund would be replace by GM stock. The percentage may be 17% of GM's stock - or 25%. Whatever, 17% or 25% is worth, well ... just try paying for your dialysis with 50 shares of bankrupt auto stock.

Honest, I didn't write this one, only wish I did:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/apr/28/alcoholics-anonymous-12-step-religion

Too often, meetings were infused with a rigidity, repetition and joylessness that I contrasted unfavourably with the fun-loving, flexible and empowering ambience I began to discover in Buddhism. Though they are by no means perfect, I was relieved to find that Buddhist communities take basic goodness rather than original sin as a fundamental starting point, and consider identity to be fluid rather than fixed.