Vick Fumbles A Career

Hey, Michael Vick! Could you possibly be this stupid? The whole dog thing! What the hell kind of mentality do you have? Only in America could a sicko like Vick be signed to a 10-year, $130 million contract in December 2004. He has been paid about $44 million, including $37 million in guaranteed bonuses, and is due to earn a base salary of $6 million this season.

If he plays.

Butt Tax = Fewer Packs

Picture this, I live in Ilinois and I work in Indiana. I smoke. My brand of cigarettes used to cost $.15 a pack more in Illinois than they did in Indiana. That was until July 1, 2007. The Indiana cigarette tax went up by $.44 a pack. This makes my brand of cigarettes $.29 a pack cheaper in Illinois than in Indiana. Good for me. I buy my smokes, now, in Illinois. I buy 500 packs a year. 500 X $.44 = $220.00. That's the amount of money that Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels thought he could take from me, beyond the tax that the state has been taking from me for years. The tax has gone from 15.5 cents per pack to 99.5 cents in just five years. Indiana just wasn't happy enough with what they were already sucking out of us smokers! Now, from me, they lose what they had been getting plus any increase they were dreaming of!

There's a lesson to be learned form this, Mitch. That lesson is: "Sometimes half a loaf of bread is better than no bread at all!"

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Mazda = NO CLASS

Watching a Mazda Network TV commercial, last night I see them talking about their brand new SUV. They compare it favorably to Nissan's Murano. This, in itself, is silly - but it gets better...or worse... Then, they show the Mazda SUV pull up to a stoplight, beside a Nissan Murano. Both cars are apparently on demo rides - customers are behind the wheels of the Mazda and the Nissan with salesmen sitting in the passenger seats. The Mazda salesman leans out of his window and gives his business card to the customer who is driving the Murano. The Nissan salesman immediately grabs the business card, in desperation, and throws it out of his passenger side window. This is supposed to be funny.
FUNNY? No. It shows a lack of professionalism on the part of the Mazda salesman. I would never buy a product (are you reading, Mazda?) form a salesman who lowers himself to those tactics! For a sales person to intentionally interupt another sales person while selling is an absolute violation of basic decent behavior. It shows lack of manners, too. If this is funny, what does it say about us? What does it say about Mazda??

Here's the solution:
Stop running the ad.
Fire the ad agency who wrote and produced the ad.
Fire the Mazda "suit" who approved the ad.

While you're at it, fire the guy who hired him.

Oh, and by the way, in the commercial, the Mazda salesman was more handsome and fit than the Nissan salesman. In the real world, this is never the case!