Bluecollar

I got the same XM unit as cmattson about a year ago. Had wanted to get satellite radio for a while, and the MLB games are what sold me. You get to hear the home team broadcast of every game. Just the MLB channels alone are way more than worth what I pay for a baseball junkie like myself. With the XM subscription you can also listen to all the music channels plus a few others online, about 80 some channels. Unfortunately they can't put the MLB, news, or talk stations online. If you have a broadband connection at home this option is nice when you are on the computer.

It was not that long ago, about 25 years, that our society got fed up with the problem of drinking and driving and toughened the laws up on that. I think as the baby boomers group ages and likely slows down in relation to the younger drivers we could possibly see a push to tighten up the laws governing traffic offenses and driver licenses. Politicians latch onto popular issues that they know will please a large voting bloc like the boomers. I hope so at least. It is a fact that the same person who just held the door for you at the store will run your ass off the road a minute later. Most of my gripes have already been aired so I won't retread them. I would like to talk about what I do to try and deal with the stress all those aholes on my road create. I have around a 115 mile roundtrip commute to the GM Tech Center everyday so I am in my car a minimum of 2 hrs and 20 minutes every working day. The biggest stress reliver for me has been the XM radio my wife bought me for Christmas in 05. Amazing the difference it has made in my commute. I am a big baseball fan and the 24/7 MLB (ch 175) channel gets the majority of my time, but when I tire of that the variety of music, talk, and news channels is overwhelming. I don't keep track, but I know that more than once this past year I went a whole week or more without giving someone the one finger sal

Why would a person be a fool to take advantage of a benefit negotiated for them by their union with the company they work for. I do not see the need to research the benefit worldwide before using it. Do you not file for a tax refund because they are not allowed in other countries? Would it not be more accurate to label as fools the GM negotiators who agreed to this benefit in the first place? Of course that would suggest that the upper management at GM at that time did not know what they were doing. Maybe if Roger Smith hadn't expanded GM into the south with the intent of breaking the union the corporation would not have been so bloated with assembly plants. Believe me I do not live in UAW fantasy land. I live in Michigan where you would have to be blind not to see the manufacturing jobs disapearing steadily over the last decade. I have wondered for a long time just who the hell is driving the bus at GM. It seems the driver has no clue where he is headed or how to get there.