My 3 "favorite" things

I hate being a one trick pony… so I went from just blogging on NFRC to railing on China. Now to make it a hat trick on subjects I obsess about, I add the whole lawsuit stuff that’s going on with the primary manufacturers. Its funny I have heard from folks who have been approached to file a suit or join in or so on. The whole thing is shady. Its so blatant its disgusting really. But the kicker is this… say that the primaries fight this to the end and win, and they will if it goes that far, then who do they go back on? Who can they go after to re-coup their legal costs? No one. Oh wait… no… yeah, see after they fight this absolutely insane and unnecessary fight (again with no evidence in North America mind you) then it’s a lock that our prices will go up to help defray the damage. So basically, lawyers will make lots of money and we’ll be left holding a higher price as a thank you.

And by the way, the lawyers on this will make the money- not the “stand in” people they got to place the suits- if you think that the folks that these lawyers found to be the trigger are gonna make money, then I have some great oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you. Believe me, no matter how this process goes, the lawyers are the ones walking away with big checks… and so even if you despise everything about our industry and you think these suits are justified, at the end of the day you’ll gain nothing but the satisfaction of knowing that several lawyers can now buy that 2^nd home in Vail.

Elsewhere…

-- Hmmm let’s see if a communist Chinese lawyer who loves the NFRC ever sees me in person I am guessing I am in big trouble. Oh well…

-- Again I wonder… if there are lawyers that can sue about the above, why aren’t there lawyers suing over the insane gas prices? Seriously… I mean Exxon and BP and so on make tons and tons of money… and yet they get away with this stuff. At least congress is trying to get on them… but like in the past, they’ll rebuff it. Hell as a business man gas prices makes me madder then most things these days…

-- When I read on USGNN about the falling glass in NY, I thought for sure it would another heat soak/communist China issue.. but it looked to be a rough install… regardless the stories of cheap glass from China causing problems continue to be out there… the only thing that keeps them for really hitting mainstream is the fact people are so embarrassed they move heaven and earth to not admit anything… and that includes the architects who knowingly sign off on communist products but then run as fast as they can when the trouble hits…

Now to lighten the mood.. let’s go to the LINKS

-- Click here to read about a very dumb guy. If you don’t want to click… its about a guy who buys a $12,000 engagement ring and then comes up with probably the dumbest way to try and incorporate it into his proposal. Amazing.

-- Interesting one here.. the top 10 jobs that are “going away”…. And no, “marketing guy who annoys with a mediocre blog” is not on the list… but radio/TV announcer is actually…

-- This one is about a guy who gets robbed, but is able to get his stuff back by doing some serious cyber sleuthing… and he also gets help from people all over the world thanks to the power of the web.

Last… I hold to my North Carolina pick to win it all… sorry E… and now that baseball has started, time for my fearless predictions… in the NL… I like the Mets, Cubs, Dodgers and D backs… with the Dodgers winning… while in the AL… the Yankees, Red Sox, Indians (oww even typing that hurt my fingers) and Angels with the Yanks going… setting up a Joe Torre vs his old team in the World Series and the Yankees taking it… closing old Yankee Stadium with a flourish…

Video of the week.. this tennis player… about 30 seconds in takes his frustrations out.. on himself!!!