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 Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You.mp3

Six Year old boy rides strange Moscow cloud to father's laboratory in the Bavarian Alps.

Little Eddie Munster climbed aboard his father's cloud sent to bring him back to his laboratory in the Bavarian Alps for a second operation. Eddie was born part vampire and part undead Frankenstein Monster. His father who is all Monster has been trying to infuse Eddie with human stem cells in an effort to check and in some cases reverse his natural tendensies and developemnet towards Monsterism.  Little Eddie was surprised by all the fuss and said to our, on the scene reporter, Gene Z., "Man, all this excitment makes me want to bite a neck." Little Eddie was taken into protective custody after he fell through the strange cloud over Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski's forest reserve in Krzemionki.

LIttle Eddie Munster

Professor Munster.

Rachel slaps em down but like an evil "Rocky" they stagger to their feet expecting the other side to throw the fight,

Not a big surprise or even a small one but I've given up on the human race. Oh, individuals are fine for a while until they get under your skin but groups are so bound by "group think" that they negate their own purposes and then have to make personal concessions so that they can live within their group hypocrisy.

A big, for instance, jumps right out at me; all those supposed grass roots organizations that the conservatives or whatever they are like to tout as sprouting from the ground up.

The theory being; people are so tired of the status quo, or so afraid to change the status quo, they will unite around either some charismatic leader or political idea being purposed by less than charismatic followers. Surely, get enough people in a room, vocal and irrepressible, and the ones that haven't made up their minds, or are even opposed to the propositions being put forth, will feel a certain pressure to join the throng. The rest like drawing little Hitler moustaches.

We have millions of empty drums pounding themselves in an effort to express their frustration at the expense of the other 98% of their brain. Here's a perfect example that I watched unfold last night. This man, Tim Philips, is not one iota short of having the chutzpa of a holocaust denier.

Summation: We are grass roots even though we start from the top down and use the American people to fight for rich people's interests at the expense of their own, and "Yes, we can fool all the people all the time."

The following is Doman Auto Sales' response to the complaint I filed against them with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office and Bureau of Consumer Protection. I had to retype their response and my reply because I couldn't get the consistency that I desired through the scanning software.The whole story was relayed in a previous blog that somehow got lost in the chronosynclastic infundibulum of the Internet.

DOMAN AUTO & MARINE SALES, INC.

Dear A. David Etzi,

We have read the above complaint and would like to thank you for the opportunity to preserve goodwill for our business.

We sold Mr. Zizis the vehicle as shown on our sales contract over several days. Mr. Zizis inspected and test drove the vehicle. We believe he took the car to a mechanic to have it looked over before purchase. He noted several things wrong with the vehicle, cosmetic ( dents and interior condition ) and mechanical ( engine oil seepage ) including the air conditioner and made an offer. His offer on the vehicle, which was listed for $2750.00, was $2000.000 plus costs and we were to repair the air conditioning only ( at our expense ). In our opinion, Mr. Zizis knew exactly what he was purchasing. We maintained full disclosure of the vehicle and terms of the sale. You will note that on the contract there are items circled and underlined for emphasis. In addition, the vehicle had current state safety inspection and did not exhibit any of the conditions Mr. Zizis quotes at the time of the sale. We agreed to his offer and repaired the air conditioning. The following day Mr. Zizis returned, test drove and inspected the vehicle again. Finding it satisfactory, he purchased as shown on the sales contract. Mr. Zizis did purchase a service contract and elected not to have the components he refers to be covered components. He declined the additional coverage even though it was available to him.

We find it noteworthy that no documentation for the repairs has been included with the complaint and incomprehensible the Mr. Zizis could pay $2,367.70 for a car and request we pay $2,435.32 for his maintenance. We have no way of rebutting the second hand information he quotes. However, we believe any maintenance costs the vehicle needs have been grossly exaggerated. In addition, we have no means of monitoring the use of the vehicle once it leaves our facility. We understand that maintenance repairs for consumers can be untimely. However, they can be caused or magnified by consumer use, misuse or neglect. Please note on his statement regarding a hydraulic leak, "after a day there were hydraulic leaks in the driveway. I called the dealer the following week. There are a number of questions we will never have an answer to. But, it is entirely the customer's responsibility to maintain the proper operation of the vehicle so that consequential damage does not result. This is especially true at Mr. Zizis' price point. If we were to believe Mr. Zizis that several major components in the braking system were faulty at the point of sale, we believe they would have manifested themselves over the course of the several days while he was test driving and purchasing. Again. we have no way of controlling what happens to a vehicle after it leaves our facility.

As a dealer we feel we have completed our portion of the transaction in good faith. Mr. Zizis, an experienced  car buyer, inspected, negotiated price, requested specific repairs and was fully aware the condition of the vehicle before purchasing. We stand by the terms of the sale and in Mr. Zizis' own words "I was satisfied". We also take exception to the use of innuendo in this forum.

If you have any questions or need additional information, I can be reached at the address, telephone number or email address above.

Sincerely,

Chris Pantelis, Doman Auto Sals, Inc.

 

My rebuttal, also sent to the Attorney General:

Re: Doman Auto& Marine Sales, Inc.

Dear Mr. A David Etzi,

In Doman's response to my complaint against them, the third sentence is a complete fabrication; "[We] believe he [Gene Zizis] took the car to a mechanic to have it looked at before purchase." They know full well this isn't true.

All that I noted that was wrong with the vehicle was the air conditioner wasn't working. I did not make a counter offer. Their salesman, Bob Smith, offered to fix the air conditioner and lower the price.

They say, "In their opinion Mr. Zizis knew exactly what he was purchasing." Yes this is true; I was purchasing a car, which I thought had an operational braking system. They site the underlined portions of the sale contract and the fact that it had a current state inspection sticker as if to indicate that they are relieved of ANY responsibility for selling a car with a leaking corroded brake line system.

I'm to believe, according to them, and so are you and the Bureau of Consumer Protection that a problem of such magnitude developed, in the two days that I took charge of the car, that the brake lines spontaniously corroded and ALL the brake fluid leaked our causing the brake pedal to go to the floor while being driven. I consider the absence of any kind of tangible proof that they didn't know what they were selling as sheer fabrication and an insult to my intelligence.

They mentioned that I purchased a service contract and that I chose one that didn't cover the specific components that were bad. This is completely irrelevant. Addressing the test drive, there was only one, not two as they state in their response, the one I took originally when I first saw he car on their lot. A test drive will not indicate that there's a hydraulic leak until the amount of fluid is at a critical level. They could have simply filled the master cylinder every morning to avoid any test drive braking problems.

Doman's finds it noteworthy that no documentation for the repairs has been included with the complaint. As I stated to you, I originally sent all of my records to the Harrisburg Office and I called you as soon ( today ) as I received Doman's response to ask whether or not they had forwarded the records to you. I also called Harrisburg but they were unable to tell me if they had.

Doman also calls my information second hand information while I suppose theirs is solid gold.

In the third paragraph down, towards the bottom of the page, they assert that "Any maintenance costs the vehicle needs have been grossly exaggerated." Maintenance? Replacing corroded brake lines is maintenance?

They save the disclaimer for last: "We have no means of monitoring the use of the vehicle once it leaves our facility." ( In this case, two days after it leaves their facility ). Then to add salt to the wound, "They [the maintenance costs] can be caused or magnified by consumer use, misuse or neglect." They then quote my statement, "After a day there were hydraulic fluid leaks in the driveway, I called the dealer the following week." It was Saturday when I observed the leaks.

They hammer their maintenance point calling it, "The customer's responsibility to maintain the proper operation of their vehicle so that consequential  damage does not result." I know how to maintain a vehicle.

Their final paragraph, they feel that they have completed their portion of the transaction in good faith and take exception of the use of innuendo in this forum. Well, I take exception that someone in my household could have been killed due to their flat out neglect and then when they get caught, hide behind their mumbo jumbo.

Yours truly,   Gene