BARNEYGOOGLE's Blog

    It still amazes me every Holiday Season that employees of retail stores are the ones that get blamed for their terrible customer service.  Well let me enlighten you.......I have been in retail for over 20 years, I have been in management for 15 years and I can tell you right now, the reason employees are jaded is because of the deplorable behavior of the customers.  Now I am not saying every customer is a azz, what I am saying is that the ones who are have tried to put the fear of GOD into employees have ruined it for others. 

     I could sit and tell horror stories all day and I would literally be here ALL DAY, but what I will say is this.  Yelling at a manager or sales person WILL NOT GET YOU WHAT YOU WANT!!!!  I was so used to being yelled at because a customer came in and said on their word they paid  $50 for an item that is on sale for $2 bucks but they don't have a receipt, yet they want their $50 bucks back I say NO AH AH. 

     Customers noawdays have a sense of entitlement, they believe that retail employees are there to serve them and give them whatever the ask for.  I can't tell you how many times people wanted to barter for a better price, speak in a different language so they can speak badly about you (STUDID AMERICANS) was the most popular words out of those mouthes. 

     As a retired (for awhile) retail employee, every person that walks thru the door I look at them like they want to steal, degrade, humilate, and make me and my people their own personal beeeeotch.  All I am saying is next time you have an issue with an employee maybe you should step back and ask if they've had a rotten day.  Maybe they will respond.  Remember you teach people how to treat you and if you are an azzhole towards retail personal, chances are the will give you what you have coming to you "BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE"  good luck out there!!!!!

Well here we go folks, by picking Rham Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, I believe that this is the first of a few BIG signals that President Obama is getting ready to make a very HARD left.  Although Emanuel is not as much of a leftist as he is partisan, I just think we are looking at the beging of the end of The United States of America or at least the one that we know.  There is an image that I have in my head everytime I close my eyes.  Berkley University, that college is the most liberal left college in America and God help us all if The United States of America turns into Berkley Univeristy.  So as I say this with my eyes closed and with this nightmarish image in my head  "Something Wiked this Way Comes",  it comes in the form of a tall, thin man that "Doesn't look like the guys on our money", and he's coming to change our way of life, he's coming to change everything that our fore fathers put into the Constituation, the declaration of independance.  The men that fought for our country before we were a country.   It's all about to change folks and all you need to do is close your eyes and picture Berkley University to know where we are going to be going.

I am making a predicition so please note what I am saying.  Our taxes are going up.  Obama or McCain WILL raise our taxes.  Whoever becomes our next president will use the excuse that because of the Bush bailout they have no choice but to raise our taxes.  I also can predict that our country will suffer if taxes are raised and I use Gov. Granholm as an example.  After taking office the first four years all she did was complain about being pigeonhold because of the previous Engler adminstration.  Then of course the next four years we were suppose to be blown away and we were when she raised our taxes and screwed us all making us the number 1 state for forclosures.  All I know is someone has to do something and I pray that our next Governor and President has the ballz to do something, something other then puting the blame elsewhere.  Stop passing the buck and step up to the plate and solve the problem!!!

The wonderful world of ad campaigns is smacking us all the face with just a little more than a month to go in the election.  While I was sitting and watching these ads, I noticed how quickly both candidates conform to the current events of the day and put the other candidate in a negative light and then they get those ads on TV quicker than a South Park episode, and if you watch South Park that is very quick.  The moment of truth came to me while watching these ads spew rhetoric and defamitory remarks towards each other at a time when we should be coming together to solve the immediate problem at hand, (THE ECONOMY).  If someone doesn't get a hold of what is going on, The Rich will stay Rich and the Middle Class will become part of the Poor.  Do either of our presidential candidates care about this?  They both seem more concerned with the next ad, the next way to attack the other.  I at least admire McCain wanting to put the debate off to go to Washington and help in this crisis, I only wish they could now get it together and solve the problem.  Hold the criminal CEOs accountable for their actions.  I remember a time when TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY was important in our society, but now it's become a race and party war and whoever comes in first will have a hell of a mess on their hands!

     Looking at our message boards there is  a lot of talk (as usual) about race, color, and lots and lots of name calling.  Here is my thought process.  I am white, people of color have called me white because thats is what I am.  I have friends who are black, thats what they are.  I don't consider myself better because of the lack of color in my skin, I don't consider them better because they have more pigment, it is just a way to discern a group of people. 

     If you consider the people who get upset because the first thing that people see is color then those are the people who want to keep a division in the races.  Tell me how hard it is to not look at the color of someones skin, we all have eyes it's hard NOT to see.  So the problem here is that there are ignorant people both black and white that take the color of skin and assign stereotypes to that color.  Then pigment turns to labels, but heres the catch there are all sorts of labels, Tall, Short, Fat, Thin, Ugly, Pretty, Hairy, Bald ETC....These are just a few descriptive words that describe someone, although some are not socially acceptable, it is what it is. 

     As I read some of these blogs I have come to realize that there really are a lot of ignorant, and impressionable people in our country.  I have seen a few fellow bloggers who want apologies and reparations for slavery.  People who feel only certain groups can use certain words.  People  out there who will defend others because of the color of their skin, religion, or gender.

     Is it just me, or do others get the fact that some blacks, NOT ALL, are the ones who put themselves in a seperate group.  Don't get me wrong there are many ignorant whites as well who are completely racist and an embarassment to my race, but blacks can be just as racist against whites, as one of our fellow bloggers pointed out that whites are Evil.

    Well let me ask this question.  Do you think it was very christian to cheer when OJ got off for murder?  People cheering the fact that his ex wife and her friend were murdered, leaving their two children without a mother.  That in itself sounds pretty evil to me.

     Yes I think OJ did it, I also think Baretta killed his wife.  I think Martha Stewart and Lil Kim should have went to jail.  I think Kwame and his mamma are corrupt, but I also think most politicians in washington are corrupt.  I think that if blacks use the N word then they should not get upset when whites use it.  I think that the word b!tch should not be limited to just women.  As one of my fellow bloggers so ignorantly called me a BLEEP ASS B!TCH in his reply.  I was not upset,  but my reponse to him was NOT put on his post because he must have felt threatned by the superior post that I retorted with.

     People are way to touchy in todays world and they are so worried about being politically correct that everyone seems to be walking on eggshells.  Well not this B!TCH, I am tired of people who whine constantly about absolutely nothing and then turn around pointing fingers and making fun a someone else because they are a minority and think they can get away with it.  It's time to stop being a hypocrite, if your going to make fun of someone and call them out, then you better be ready to take a little heat yourself without crying about it!!!!

     It amazes me in todays world that there are still feminist who really think that the fight they took on for equality was the fight they should have fought.  When I was younger, I was blinded into thinking that women should be able to have it all, Job, Family, Children and lots of money.  Women in the sixties fought and burned their bras in order for the freedom of choice, the freedom to choose their own career path and to make it amoungst the men in a working world. 

     I Truly believe the women of the 60's

had good intentions with extremely bad results.  Women today DON'T have choices.  Most have to work one or more jobs to make ends meet, and to put food on the table for the children and family.  Most women DON'T have the choice to stay home and raise their children, which is why so many of our children are out of control.  Hillary Clinton once said "it takes a village to raise a child", well the village has a NO TRESSPASSING sign out front, and the parents aren't at home.

     I am very lucky so far, my husband works two jobs so that I can stay home with my son.  That is my career, to raise him to be a hardworking, trustworthy, good man.  Don't get me wrong I am all for the father staying home to raise the child as well but there should be one parent to guilde that child to become a healthy, happy and productive adult.  That is the fight that femisnist should have been fighting for.  RESPECT, the respect of being a parent who is raising a child which is THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB ON THIS PLANET.  You don't get paid for it, it is a selfless job that often doesn't merit raises or good reviews.  It is a job that leaves you tired and feeling unappreciated, but it's the MOST REWARDING job ever.

     I feel very sorry for the women who can't have the choice that I have in staying home to raise a man, I feel sorry for the women who choose to have children and then choose to cast those children aside for a career when their career should be at home raising their children.  Next time maybe the feminist of the world will take up the right fight, which is gaining the proper respect for taking on and conquering the most difficult job in the world.

    i realize that I will take heat for this post, but like I said most women don't have a choice, that choice was taken away from them and now they have NO choice and have to provide for their families.

     Well Al Gore has a wonderful reason to be green.  The man has profited over $100 million GREEN dollars on his movie, and investments in companys that sell products and services that are green. 

     It amazes me that people have been suckered into such a scam of ENVIRONMENTAL proportions that is lining the pocket of a man who takes his private plan everywhere he goes, not to mention everything that he uses in the huge mansions that he owns.

     I believe that we have to take care of our environment, but I like many other people out there believe that what is happening to our environment right now is called a weather pattern.  Remember in the 70's the scientists were screaming that we were going into another ice age and now it's all about global warming.

    I think Al Gore is happy at all of the hippies going green, because the more green people there are, the GREEN goes into his pocket!!!!  Maybe someone in society will expose his greediness for what it really is!

Ok folks is it just me or does anyone else see how hypocritical liberals are.  I just went to move on.org (a very scary website) and watched an ad  called "You can't have Alex".  It was regarding the comment McCain made about staying in Iraq for 100 years.  Now of course if you listen to the comment he made, he was refering to bases that we still have in Japan, Korea, Germany, etc.  Now the ad has a new mother with her son who is about my sons age, sitting on her lap talking about how McCain can't have her son.  My problem with this ad is that her the lbierals are showing this wonderful mother and son and yet can't understand why conservatives take issue with abortion and worse partial birth abortion.   They are so concerned with Alex but want to make sure that women have a right kill their child.  When I  miscarried 4 months before I concieved my son, I didn't lose a fetus, I lost a child.  I was only eight weeks pregnant at the time and I considered that a baby.  I mourned the loss of my child and I loved that child as soon as I knew that child was growing inside me.  So if liberals believe in abortion,  but have the audacity to put an ad on their website showing how much they car about children, my question is does anyone else see the hypocrisy, or am I the only one that is disturbed by this? 

Well I don't know about anyone else but I have been BLOWN AWAY by our wonderful Governor.  Does this makes sense to anyone else.  Democrates are known to raise taxes and Repulicans cut taxes.  Granholm raises our taxes (while we are in a one state recession), cuts school funding, (which she said that she would NEVER do), and then complains that this is not her fault but the fault of the past administration.  Then she does what Republicans are know for and that is give tax breaks to movie production companies to come and film in Michigan, yet the tax breaks benefit the state but not the people of the state, unless the movie company hires Michiganders which then does bring jobs to us.  Our economy will not recover unless we give tax breaks to businesses to create jobs and then incentives to keep these jobs in our state.  She raised all of our taxes and we are all suffering because of it.  If Obama is put into office I am afraid, he will take a page out of Granholms book and we are going to see a country who is suffering more then we already are!!!