GTA Complimentary Pass Policy

At its January meeting, the GTA Board made changes to the Complimentary Pass Policy for all transit services. The new policy is as follows:

GTA will issue one complimentary pass to any rider who has been charged an incorrect fare, or who has experienced poor customer service. Poor customer service includes rude or discourteous treatment from the operator, lack of air conditioning on the vehicle, or lateness of the vehicle. A late trip is defined as one resulting in the rider missing his or her connection at the depot. In order to receive a complimentary pass for poor customer service or late trips, you will need to notify your street supervisor to request a complimentary pass the day the incident or late trip occurs.

For questions about the policy, contact GTA at 336-373-7735.

This is actually great news... I'm sure if they have to give away lots of passes for missing the connection something will start to change.

Strange Times

North Carolina News

N.C. Lawmakers Propose Studying Medical Marijuana
By L.A. Williams, Correspondent
Christian Action League of North Carolina
May 30, 2008

RALEIGH — Should state lawmakers spend their time studying marijuana and should Tar Heel taxpayers foot the research bill? Joint Resolution 2405, introduced May 26 by Rep. Earl Jones (D-Guilford), would have the legislative research commission exploring the possibility of allowing this long-studied gateway drug to be used as medicine — a move many see as the first step toward legalizing all marijuana use.

“Studies have already been performed that clearly demonstrate there are other drugs available today that are equal in benefits and safer than the effects of medical marijuana,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina. How could this affect crime in your community?

It is indeed strange times we live in when me and Earl Jones are on the same side of an issue but for once the SOB has done something right.

Mariuana should be leaglised... first off its NOT A DRUG anymore than cigarettes are and if the government is going to ban pot then they should ban all forms of tobacco!

Rev. Mark Creech is paying into the governments bullshit they been sprending about pot since 1933 when they build the Federal Narcodics Farm in Lexington,KY to test different drugs to make a super soilder. There were two studies on marijuana done before the Lexington report but them reports did not give the results the government wanted so they did there own and wouldn't you know it... it was completely oppisite from the others and thats the one the US Health departmant holds up and refuses to allow any new reports.

Billions of dollars per year are spent on the "war on drugs" to keep the public from using a natural herb to lower high blood presure, hyper activity, and stress. A product that is no more harmful than tobacco or alchoal that is legal and known to have health issues. Course both slip envelopes into the right pockets in Wash. D.C.

Do the study... do it fair and honest. Remember anything that is abused can be harmful to your health... give marijuana the same consideration you give Newports & Jack Daniels.

Boarder Enforcement Good For Everyone

The following is a story out of Iowa... ICE raided a meat plant and guess what they found... yep, illegal immigrants working for a big corporation. Only seems this one wasn't happy just hiring illegals for less money, they had some nice scams on the side too.

May 15, 2008
Trish Mehaffey
gazetteonline.com
Gazette Communications

Detainees who have spoken with attorneys are providing reports of substantial violations by Agriprocessors, including wage, labor and immigration violations, according to the suit. The detainees are immediate release or for a reasonable period of time before being moved out of state to meet with counsel and have confidential communications.

The suit claims Sonia Parras Konrad, a Polk County attorney, interviewed over 50 detainees who told her Agriprocessors: procured false identification for its immigrant employees; withheld money from their paychecks for "immigration fees"; didn't allow employees to use the restroom during 10-hour shifts; didn't compensate employees for overtime; and were physically abused by supervisors.

The suit also has excerpts from an affidavit filed by David M. Hoagland, senior special agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in support of the search warrant issued on Agriprocessors. The alleged violations in the affidavit include:

— Equipment issued to perform work was substandard

— A floor supervisors duct-taped the eyes of a Guatemalan employee and then hit the employee with a meat hook

— Immigrants were paid $5 an hour and after three or four months, bumped up to $6.

The affidavit also contains numerous allegations of violations of the federal racketeering laws including:

— Employee's taxes were deducted and deposited into bank accounts belonging to an unknown person or people.

— An employee transported immigrant employees across state lines to Minnesota to get false state identification cards

— Checks were issued to certain immigrants with an unknown person's name on it and the check would be cashed at another portion of the plant

— A Department of Transportation investigator provided information that a supervisor at the company used an intricate and unlawful scheme to purchase and register a large number of car for resale to the employees and a supervisor forced the employees to buy the cars from him or be fired.

Named in the suit is: United States Immigration Customs Enforcement; Department of Homeland Security; Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Claude Arnold, Immigration and Customs special agent in charge at Postville; Michael Chertoff, secretary of Department of Homeland Security and Michael Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States.

DC Madam Hangs Herself

So the D.C. Madam took her own life before going to fed jail... ain't that convenient.
I mean this woman had dirt on many many powerful men in D.C.
And she did say that she would be willing to name , names, and point fingers.
How convenient for these government officials and other big shots.
Kinda reminds of Vince Fosters death... that was very convenient too.

Code 3 NOT so all American after all.

April 4, 2008 Latest News WHITE GLOVE TREATMENT This is a very common phrase and it connotes the “ultimate” in handling many situations. There is a feeling of honor when receiving a white glove salute, upon entering a military installation and a feeling of ultimate respect of a white glove salute while raising the colors. At a fallen Fire Fighter’s funeral the white gloved comrades offer their final respects with a white glove salute. All of you military men are fully aware of a white glove inspection and the repercussions of not passing one, even if the inspecting officer carried a few cigarette butts in his pocket to plant at the inspection site. White glove service in a restaurant will ensure the best in food and more important in service. The white glove treatment elevates the situation I was very pleased to see the white glove treatment when touring the manufacturing facility in China recently. In a controlled environment and a sealed room with monitored air flow I noticed immediately all of the workers with white gloves. The workers on the production line handled the Fairfax models with gloved hands. As the smallest details are added near the end of the line it is important that finger prints do not mar the finish on the models. As the product is secured to the display base it is important not to smudge the high gloss paint job, finger the clear display cover or get prints on the shiny base that displays these jewels! Thus the white glove treatment is employed just to ensure the cleanest and most pristine fire apparatus replica is delivered to your doorstep. Many of the details are added to the Code 3 rigs by hand which takes patience, talent and a steady hand. The decoration starts with the Pad Print process; applying the striping and larger details after the base paint is applied. But all of the minute details are literally hand applied. Lights, light frames pump color detail are done with a paint brush or pen to best replicate the real decoration of a specific Department. It is necessary to hold the casting or the completed truck to add the details, thus the white gloves to keep prints off the model. Nothing but the best of treatment for our collectors, the White Glove treatment. Now it is time for all of you to rummage through Grandma’s dresser and find some old white gloves to carefully unpack the fine model when your shipment arrives! And, now a great new model is on its way. For those of you that don't know Code 3 they make fine model fire trucks for collectors. The profuse to honor American heroes and often speak of American pride. So you can imagine my shock to learn they build their models in CHINA! Just read above and look at the pictures. Is it just me or does it seem a bit wrong to be professing America pride while selling their models for good American dollars (more than they worth IMO) but yet hire CHINA (look out for the lead) to make them.

18 wheel wetbacks

Senator thrashes Bush's Mexican truck hat dance
Posted on Thursday, March 13 @ 13:42:12 CDT
Topic: NAFTA CAFTA FTAA WASHINGTON -- A combative Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters was accused in a Senate hearing yesterday of defying a congressional vote to halt the Bush administration's controversial project allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on U.S. roads.

"I regret supporting your nomination to be secretary of transportation," Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., told Peters. "Your legal counsel is giving you bad advice that unfortunately you have willingly accepted."

Dorgan charged the Department of Transportation was "hell-bent on proceeding with this pilot program" regardless of safety concerns the agency's inspector general continues to document.

"You believe you have found a loophole, but you are making a very big mistake," Dorgan warned Peters.

Topics: NAFTA, Secretary of Transporation Mary Peters, Senate hearing, Bush administration, Mexican trucks, Sen. Byron Dorgan, safety concerns, loophole, Sen. Arlen Specter, Rep. Jim Oberstar, Rep. Peter DeFazio, General Accountability Office, investigation needed, DOT, Antideficienty Act violated, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Teamsters, Supreme Court, WND, Senate voted to prohibit funds for DOT, D.J. Gribbin, Sen. John McCain, cross-border Mexican truck demonstration project, Calvin L. Scovel III, safety checks, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

March 12, 2008
Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily.com
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This really burns my ass! Congress tells that wetback loving SOB in the White House NO Mexican trucks crossing the boarder... yet that sneaky two-faced
fucker still goes ahead with helping them come across.
With all the corruption in the Mexican government how can we know if them trucks meet our FHWA standards, how the hell are we going to know if theres anything illegal hidden in them trucks?
How the hell are we even to know if that Mexican driver is even up to par to drive on the American interstate.

This will be a good way for illegals already here to sneak untaxed money back home when a friend or relative truck driver stops by just slip him the bag on money to take home to the family.

This is just the tip of the iceberg... once these trucks state flooding across are the Mexican trucks going to do to shipping what Mexican workers have down the wages in this country? Aren't American trucking companies facing enough problems with the cost of everything shooting for the moon?

Now still the time to put the spotlight on this and all other immigration issues.
With the elections coming up, we need to keep voicing our dis-approval of NAFTA (which needs to be shit canned) we need to protect or boards from illegal entry on foot and 18 wheels!

Truth & Reconciliation Bullshit

Once again Rev Johnson is stirring up some bullshit with the Truth & Reconciliation Commission him and some other sub-level holy men formed.
This time... someone in the Greensboro Police Dept. told him that the white cops destroyed fifty boxes of files relating to the big Klan shooting back in '79 (click on title for full story).
Of course the Commission won't name the source.
Rev Johnson is calling for an investigation into this ...
WELL I"M CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION TOO!

I want someone to investigate the link between the T&RC, GSO PD, and the local drug dealers here in Greensboro. We know the SIMS PAC (another civil rights front for the dopers) is linked cause they paid for the lawyers for one of the biggest dealers in this city, and cause they got together with the black cops to get rid of a good police chief that was cleaning out the bad cops.

I'm betting their source in department is one of the cop/dope dealers trying to draw off the heat.
Lets investigate this T&RC to see if any of these preachers/civil rights leaders take money from the drug dealers ...
Why since chief Bellemy took office are the dope dealers still doing open business without the cops doing shit about it, why is the city manger (Mitch Johnson) bending over backwards to stop any efforts to clean up the police dept. or allow the elected city leaders to learn why things went the way they did in the Hinson investigation .