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Greg S.

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Chris Matthews MSNBC: 'I Forgot Obama Was Black for an Hour' (BV Black Spin)

Jan 29th 2010 9:30AM Railing against self-righteous political commentators is one thing. Suggesting that his readers vote against politicians who are like this, however, is something that Dr. Watkins is obviously not ready to do. Even though it is pretty clear that politicians play the race card all the time so that they can continue receiving support from Black voters as well as White voters who care about black causes without the inconvenience of actually having to DO ANYTHING for the Black community.

Chris Matthews MSNBC: 'I Forgot Obama Was Black for an Hour' (BV Black Spin)

Jan 29th 2010 1:02AM Yeah, leave it to White Liberals who think their $%&@ doesn't stink to lay the biggest turds of all. And why shouldn't they when they can continue receiving support from Black voters and from White voters who care about Black causes simply by playing the race card and without actually doing anything for the Black community?

McDonald's may win in court over teen's charity name, but losing big in court of public opinion (WalletPop)

Jan 27th 2010 8:16AM Personally, I can't comprehend why McClusky would want to cheapen the image of her fundraising concerts by risking making people think they're assocoated with McDonald's by putting a Mc in front of Fest, but it's probably been a part of her family's name a lot longer than it has been a part of the name of McDonald's, which was founded. after all, by someone named Ray Kroc. Even so, I do not buy the premise of the article that McClusky is doomed to lose in court. In general, legal protection can apply only to the category of goods listed on the application form when one applies to register a trademark, For example, if someone wanted to get a resistered trademark on Sony toothpaste, there is nothing the Japanese consumer electronics company that goes by that name could do about it via the legal route, unless it was already selling Sony toothpaste in interstate commerce, and had itself applied for trademark protection on that brand name ahead of anybody else. In spite of the sharp linitations that our country's laws have very deliberately placed on trademark protection, companies that are run by immature, tantrum-prone executives of low moral character will frequenty use their deep pockets to bully smaller companies and sole proprietorships out of using certain brand names that these corporate drama queens do not like for whatever reasons. The only time it works is when the threat of legal action is enough to intimidate the victim out of using his own brand name before the matter ever makes it to a courtroom. Since McClusky is showing no signs of being a wimp in this regard, I have no doubts that the right thing is going to happen here. In short, McDonalds is going to have its @$$ handed to it by a federal judge or jury. My only regret is that I will be unable to buoycott McDonald's over this as I have not set foot into one of their mad cow distribution centres in upwards of seven years. McDonald's can rot in Hell for all I care!

Teen's charity name draws the McIre of McDonald's (WalletPop)

Jan 25th 2010 2:09PM One notable thing about the way the laws in our country are set up is that trademarks protect a company's name or a brand name only within the cetegories of goods that the company lists on the application form when it applies to have its trademark registered. For example, the Sony registered trademark applies only to consumer electronics. If an unrelated company requests a trademark for Sony Toothpaste, there is nothing that the electronics company can do about it. Not legally, anyway. And Sony cannot legally get a registered trademark on the words "Sony Toothpaste" to keep some other company from doing so unless Sony actually sells toothpaste under the Sony brand name in interstate commerce. In other words, trademark protection is only for brand names that are actually and actively in use in interstate commerce, not for brand names that someone is trying to keep someone else from using. I'm sure that McDonald's excellent legal department is even better acquainted with the subtlties of these laws than I as a small business person could ever hope to be, and yet they are, in my humble opinion, making trouble for this young lady just because their deep pockets make things so that they can.

The Drama Behind Dennis Hopper's Divorce (PopEater)

Jan 25th 2010 7:07AM Well, if even the lawyers are conceding that Dennis is very medicated and mostly sleeping through meetings with them, it sounds like they are trying to do the right thing and see to it that this case goes nowhere. Normally, attorneys avoid making public statements that could have the effect of sobotaging their own case. Given that they are talking like this well in advance of the matter hitting the courtroom, I would have to guess that they are being drawn into this against their will, and they are not willing to push for what whoever is behind it wants on behalf of a man who may not be able to make such a fateful decision for himself at this time.

Can Dryel, Woolite and a Steam Cleaner Beat a Dry Cleaner? -- Savings Experiment (WalletPop)

Jan 22nd 2010 9:23PM Dry cleaning your clothes can cost you more than just a ton of money. Like your life! Dry cleaning fluid is insanely toxic and a known carcinogen! Fortunately, there are now dry cleaning establishments that use a new carbon dioxide process that kills microbes but is non-toxic. Still, you could get by without this service even. Wearing woolen and silk garments is more common in Europe than here, and yet dry cleaning is not available in most countries, while in some countries few people have ever even HEARD of dry cleaning. The real issue is the low quality of U.S. garments, most of which are actually Chineses garments. A lot of our suits are put together with glue and will literally fall apart if they are washed in real water. The fabrics themselves are often blends that likewise will separate if wet, but sometimes this happens on its own even without having the clothes cleaned, professionbally or otherwise. We Americans need to serve our clothiers notice that we are no longer interested in their garbage garments and will no longer make our clothes carcinogenic for life to make up for the shortcomings of their third-world fabrication techniques!

Martin Luther King III: Working to Realize the Dream (Blackvoices Main)

Jan 18th 2010 10:36AM This article shows that self-appointed "leaders" of various stripes are pretty out of touch with the ordinary citizens they presume to speak for, including even members of their own race. Triple evils of racism, poverty, and militarism? Mr. King III does not seem to have noticed that we have a Black President, that the overwhelming majority of U.S. Blacks are honest-to-goodness hard-working, tax-paying denizens of the Middle Class, or that our Military acknowledged that it's morally wrong to tolerate racism long before the rest of our society did. As for Gates, I don't think King was there to see what happened, and neither was Obama, (although the President already made up his mind that the officer was "stupid"). The patrol car's dashboard-mounted video recorder, however, was present throughout the entire incident, and the tape clearly shows Gates screaming like an animal and behaving like a mad dog generally. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think a White guy who went berzerk because an officer demanded to see his I.D. would have been arrested for disorderly conduct just as quickly as Gates. In case you hadn't noticed, cops don't like a$$holes very much, no matter what colour they are!

Shinya Aoki's Post-Fight Behavior After Breaking Hirota's Arm Crosses Line (MMA Fighting)

Jan 2nd 2010 5:13AM As far as I am concerned, this so-called "sport" is about as entertaining as watching the goings on at a third-world slughterhouse or watching all the cars drive around in circles and occasionally get into fatal wrecks at a NASCAR track.

Palin vs. Schwarzenegger: A Battle for the Heart of the GOP (Politics Daily)

Dec 19th 2009 6:16PM Why is a lunatic-left foreigner like Arnie battling for anything when, thank gawd, he is clearly ineligible to run for Prez?

Why One Veterinarian Quit, Disgusted With a Profession He Once Revered (Pawnation OLD)

Dec 10th 2009 5:04AM I'm not surprised that the vet who wrote this horrid book is from England. He seems to think that death is the answer for many things because it's a lot cheaper to die than to treat many problems. This is a common thread you see throughout British society including their human healthcare system. Not so long ago, there was something on the internet news services about a group of doctors who were criticizing the British health care system for killing patients by not treating them in order to save money. If a panel of doctors decide that a patient has less than a certain number of months to live anyway, and I forget the exact number but I think it might have been six months, then the government will not pay to treat that patient anymore. The problem that the group of critics pointed out is that sometimes the panel of doctors is wrong about a patient being doomed anyway. A bigger problem for me, and one that the British doctors who complained about this practice didn't even think of, is that it isn't any government's business to decide who shall live and who shall die in the first place. It seems to me that England's (and soon Obama's) death panels are trying to play god and trying to put a value on human life, and the disgruntled vet who wrote this book has this same mentality about pets. Natural selection isn't a good way to decide which pets should die, either. If that were valid, then there would be no reason to become a vet or treat animals for any condition that the animal is susceptible to because of its evolution as a species, period. It all reminds me of my first dog's vet when I was a child. No matter what kind of question I had for him about the health conditions my dog was starting to have, his standard answer was, "Oh, you don;t have to worry. Dogs don't live long enough for that to become problemmatic." Well, if you're going to let everything run its course and kid yourself that the animals will in all cases die of something else first, I wonder why he ever wanted to grow up to be a vet at all? And just for te record, my first dog made it to seventeen years of age, so for the last four or five years of his life, many of these conditions did indeed become problemmatic. This vet had a large agricultural practice too, and allowed it to cloud his thinking in his pet practice. He would subject his medical decisions for pets to the same ruthless cost-benefit analysis that normally would apply to animals bred exclusively to slaughter for food or utilitarian uses. Example: in those days, not many unprotected pets caught heartworm, so he never suggested getting the dog on heartworm preventative medicines. As a result, I didn't even know such products existed. When I found out about them, and asked about them, his response was, "Oh, yes, that might be a good option." Option now. Yikes! Rabies is a rarer disease than heartworm. I wonder why he didn't approve of saving money by skipping that too. Oh, yes, because it was the law, and also because it was the only service that he was providing, and it was enough to make him, according to his brother-in-law, a millionaire. With the exception of the very poor, most people don't want the very cheapest vet bills they possibly can have. They want to spend enough to prevent as many diseases as they can, and to keep the pet alive and as comfortable as possible, within reason and within what the owner can afford. Suffice to say, this man is no longer my vet now that I am caring for seven dogs, and I would say to some of those who have posted these veritable horror stories on here to switch vets too.