Aurora's Rants

This was the answer that the employee of Cole Fox Hardware store on 70 4th Street in San Francisco gave me after I said: There is a wise saying "You get what you pay for", actually what he said was: There is another saying "American Workers shouldn't expect to earn $1,000,000.00 an hour"

As a comeback, in my mind I went like "Whatever" but I actually said in frustration, "I'm not buying anything else made in China, they can keep their junk, God! Can you buy anything made in the US anymore?, do we make anything anymore?" I then turned around and walked up the stairs from the basement to the main floor and exit the store, but as I started up the stairs, I overheard the employee tell a couple waiting for his assistance "Have you ever been to China? Do you know how it is there?" The young woman said something which I didn't make up what it was, nor did I care, I was done with Cole Fox Hardware for good, they just lost a customer.

They had three types of the product I was shoping for and all of them were made in China, so I asked the employee, do you have any one that is American made? He said no and that's what started me going on the conversation with him. Obviously, there is more to this silly, but also serious story...

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In what her supporters are lauding as a gutsy and principled move, the Republican Candidate for Governor of California, Meg Whitman, in a well attended Press Conference, unveiled her plan to conduct a through investigation on the 2010 California's Gubernatorial Campaign scandal that has become to be known as 'Maid-gate'

As expected of the 'Liberal Lame-stream Media' bias, they relentlessly hammered Ms. Whitman on various aspects of the issue and investigation, to which she addressed, again according to her supporters, with her customary honesty and straightforwardness.

Floating were shades of another gutsy and principled move by another Republican Candidate and now Governor of California, Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger ('The Gropper", "The Groppernator"), when on November 6, 2003, he announced a similar investigation, on this case, about "allegations that he has repeatedly groped or sexually harassed women over his long career as a champion bodybuilder and movie star" (The allegation was that he groped at least 16 women over the last three decades)

Fueling the 'Liberal Lame-stream Media' Biases in their questions, were the similarities between then 'Gropper-gate'' and current 'Maid-gate', was the apparent tendency to avoid responsibility by blaming the Democratic opposition "But even as Republican leaders were denouncing the account as a smear tactic planted by Democratic allies of embattled California Gov. Gray Davis, the actor issued a dramatic apology at a campaign event this morning, saying he had "behaved badly sometimes""

Among the barrage of question to which she was submitted, was the similarity in how her campaign's advisor Rob Stutzman had claimed that her maid had intercepted the SSA Communication to her RE a 'No-match' return on her Social Security", essentially accusing Nicandra Diaz Santillan of committing a Federal Crime and how Schwarzenegger, an aide, and his campaign smeared former stuntwoman Rhonda Miller and according to her suit in a Los Angeles Superior Court, she charged that the Schwarzenegger camp told reporters that she had an extensive rap sheet, an obvious falsehood as it was discovered later.

Again, according to his supporters, Ms. Whitman showed her character by graciously answering the most impertinent, and obviously, tongue-in-cheek questions, such as "Ms. Whitman, will you also stand in front of a mirror and interrogate yourself?", "Will you shine harsh lights in your face?" (A couple of reporters were seen whispering in their respective ears and with malicious smirks in their faces, probably speculating if she was going to use the 'rubber hose' technique on herself), "Are you hiring a PI and by any chance is the same one that Governor Schwarzenegger hired and whose name was never disclosed, but rumor has it that his initials are OJ?" (Not addressed either, but obviously in the Lame-stream Media Corps's mind, was the fact that the real 'Gropper' is still at large')

With a straight face, Ms. Whitman said that in her reflections, she was brutally honest to herself in her answers and jokingly quipped that while the mirror is a useful tool, the 'shinning of harsh lights on her face' would defeat it's main purpose, which is to show the truthness (sic) reflected in the eyes.

Queried further on whether or not she was going to look into the fact that she had not personally taken charge on this issue as it surfaced in 2003, as was her responsibility as 'the employer', Ms. Whitman declared that she would look into it, notwithstanding the fact that her husband, as an equal partner in their marriage, had taken action by assigning the task to clear this matter where it properly belonged, which is in the hands of their employee whose responsibility was to clear this matter.

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