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LEON'S SOAPBOX TOO BIG TO FAIL, OR TOO STUPID TO LIVE? There's only so much any one person can do to combat the rapacious and malevolent greed that is devouring this planet in the guise of various governments and mega-businesses. But for what it's worth, I'm willing to buy 100 lunches for 100 people - the first 100 people to close an account at one of the big banks and open one with a credit union. The amount of our money that these parasites devour from our pockets is literally criminal. Our government is complicit in the giga-crime ($70,000,000,000 bailout, anyone?). Just how many people can you buy off with a sliver of $70,000,000,000 anyway? Why are people starving in the streets, or barely making ends meet for years at a time, while malicious banking gnomes are syphoning entire markets of wealth into their clever little fiefdoms of ill-gotten gazillions? Some of the responsibility is ours, because we empower them by dealing with them at all. To ignore something is even more powerful than attacking it in many respects. So by digging the evil roots of the banks right out of our personal lives, we can deprive them of the means to continue, and empower local alternatives - like the neighbourhood credit union. One more thing: The mortgage (a literal contract until death) is the backbone of the banking cartels. The scam is run by illegally inventing fraudulent wealth on their books by simple ledger (now computerized) entry when providing "loans", and collecting untold zillions in real sweat equity as us suckers repay actual dollars at the risk of losing our homes or cars or businesses. It's a heck of a racket, and if you ever look around and wonder what's wrong with the world, then you should know that it's largely our continued tolerance for the lowest form of human parasite - the crooked international bankers - and their atrocious schemes (that are completely illegal in the observant muslim world, by the way, which might help you understand a lot of that more recent nonsense as well). To address this horrendous quagmire of evil consequence and ignorant complicity, I will also give $50 worth of product from the store if you switch a mortgage away from one of the big banks and over to a credit union. I'll bet you've been meaning to get around to it anyway. The nice people at the bank branch are obviously not serial liars, thieves, and murderers - but the clowns running that circus certainly are. If anyone has any other good ideas on correcting or dissolving the big banks, feel free to let me know. Meanwhile, 100 free lunches await. Just drop me an e-mail at Leon@HairyT.com to advise me of your triumphant affirmation of financial sovereignty and arrange a time and place for lunch. Alternately mail correspondence to Leon c/o Hairy Tarantula 354 Yonge St. Toronto Ont. M5B-1S5. I will post updates periodically. Let's play a different game... |
NEWS BOARD GAME PRICE WAR (HTP) What's happening in the Toronto board-game market? Why is Hairy Tarantula offering 35% discounts every Tuesday? We decided to talk to owner and operator Leon Emmett, who shared his views about the encroachment of online resellers into what has traditionally been a "brick-and-mortar" world of retail. "We've used the same mark-up we always have since we began to sell gaming in 1995 or 96, and our aim has been to basically stock everything, and to provide our customers with knowledgeable assistance navigating that enormous variety of product. Since then, our expertise has to a larger degree been replaced with an online search engine, and our mark-up has been increasingly discounted away in competing with online resellers - not the least of which is Amazon (perhaps gunning for the game store next, since they wiped many of the book shops off the map years ago. For years our service was the counterbalance to the cheap warehouse-webcart apparatus, but now it seems like fewer people can afford to support their "friendly local game shop" by paying more for something than necessary, and when enough customers balk at the difference of a measly dollar, I notice. So now all of our board games are 30% off, and on Tuesdays they're 35% off; I've been doing research and math, and this unsustainable formula is the answer." This reporter admits to frequenting the Hairy Tarantula's Yonge and Steeles location from time to time, and the thought of it closing was alarming to me in a way I had never suspected I could be alarmed. I am please to tell you that Mr. Emmett was very sage as he assured me that there were plenty of other lines of product that would support the HairyT while the choppy weather of unsustainable board game discounts blew its course. Then he began a long meandering diatribe about how most people had no cohesive pictures of reality that bore an even passing resemblance to the state of the world in truth, and how as a result the year 2012 was likely to witness two cresting waves of biblical proportion sweep across the world in what will be both horrific and miraculous days. When I tried to end our interview he blocked the door and raised his voice as he continued to urge me to repent of my sins, which included, he said, an obvious predeliction for distraction over self-improvement or assisting those less fortunate. I tried to look like I was listening in the hopes he would let me leave, but he noticed me staring at the spit on his beard in disbelief, and began yelling about the worst of my sins being the slothful approach to the truth in my reporting, and how I was damn-well nearly as bad as the black-hearted fiends who purposely tell the most outrageous lies. Now I'm just telling you what happened because I am afraid he will come to my house if he reads anything different than what I remember. |
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