Greed, conspiracies and Gannett

OK, let’s see if I can calmly write this:

After 12 years tending the newspaper’s digital archive, and 42 years working for the newspaper, I was laid off July 9 and my library administrator’s job eliminated at the Reno Gazette-Journal, in its continuing attempt to feed the bottomless maw of Gannett’s corporate greed.

Forty-two years of experience has been replaced by automated computer software.

A $10-an-hour, 24-hours-a-week clerk now shepherds the library.

(I wasn't the only person canned; I'm getting supplemental money plus unemployment; and I love the lady now coping with the clerk's job.)

But ... if I weren’t so busy trying not to barf up my last meal, I’d laugh.

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Speaking of greed, the health-care industry lobbyists who are fighting insurance reform have taken a page from Adolph Hitler’s book:

Bused-in thugs are spreading throughout the country, attending town-hall meetings and other democracy-supporting sessions, deliberately preventing citizens from asking questions and preventing elected officials from exchanging information with the people who elected them.

How soon will they copy the Nazi Party’s next step, which was shooting, beating, burning anybody who dared attend a political meeting?

How is it that the GOP can spend an entire election cycle screaming about the perfidy of lobbyists, then pay them handsomely to derail the democratic process?

Hypocrisy rides higher and higher.

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So, Orly Taitz, numbskull at the forefront of the “birthers” conspiracy, is an immigrant from Moldova, last Communist relic of the Soviet Union? Come on, Dobbs, Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reilly! Don’t let this Commie agent destroy the President of the United States! Don't fall for all that spew she spreads about how she hated life in her homeland and how desperate she was to get to America.

Here’s how "birthers" see it: Obama’s black. Worse than that, he’s half-black, half white. Some uppity colored man copulated with a low-down white woman and produced this mud-blood who must be put down. They can’t do an actual lynching but they can crucify him on cable.

Here’s my own conspiracy: Putin’s scheme is working! All hail Emperor Vladmir! All hail Empress Orly!

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