This year, more than 600 taxi drivers were implicated in a giant taxi scam in which drivers overcharged passengers more than $1.1 million by flipping switches on their meters that kicked in higher rates. In the wake of the scandal, the Taxi and Limousine Company scrambled to portray the incident as a series of isolated incidents and mistakes by a select number of drivers. But according to one of those taxi scammers, these were no Lee Harvey Oswalds: it really was all a giant evil conspiracy!
According to driver Joseph Kastner, a group of drivers would meet together at cabby conferences in garages around the city and plot their nefarious schemes. "I met a series of drivers who decided to rob the public. They were actually having meetings at my old garage," Kastner, 49, told the TLC during a Sept. 30 administrative court hearing. Kastner is one of those accused drivers; he is charged with allegedly cheated 3,925 passengers out of $7,756, the sixth highest amount for an individual driver. Kastner claims that he wanted to become a whistleblower, alleging that the scams were much bigger than let on previously, and that he had stuff on the TLC as well, but no one took his offer: "I tried to tell them over and over again at the hearing. They didn't listen to a word I said. They just don't want to hear it," he told the Post.
So is Kastner trying to escape his fate by alleging a citywide conspiracy, making up stories to look better, or is there really an underground network of thieving taxi drivers plotting to steal unwitting customer's money? TLC obviously didn't take his claims seriously, but the Post sides with Kastner, saying that other cabbies and industry insiders confirm his story, and bad hacks pull other stunts such as charging drivers to put on the heat, pressing the "extra" button on tolls and bridges, and posing as livery drivers at airports and charging more than double the flat fee of $45 to Manhattan. Whether or not the conspiracy is as widespread as Kastner would have you believe, the best thing you can do is consult the Passenger Bill of Rights, and always be vigilant of extra charges of any kind.
People aren't going to like this post, but oh well. White people went to war with white people and slavery was abolished as a result. To be sure, black people fought and died in the fight but when it comes down to it, just as is true today, black people could not have accomplished what was without white people. This statement isn'tt to disparage black people, it is to champion white and black people working together absent race being some kind of artificial barrier to that happening. I despise the term "black community". To me, such a thing is self segregationist and racist in nature. I am sick to death of race being a line drawn between us by those who seek to divide and conquer.
We are Americans. It's the American community. No hyphens. This author writes about PEOPLE. I see no "African-American" label. That is a great thing.
Part of the fraud, part of the corruption, is this in and of itself – National Black Farmers Association. Kinda like the NAACP, UNCF and the CBC,huh? Heck, lets add Mecha and La Raza while we are at it. I am sick to death of race based groups getting a pass as if they are not race based groups. They should no more get a pass than the KKK should. Race based is race based. Period.
This separatism is the very thing that affords what this was originally about in the first place. It's what sees ugly events transpire. No amount of corrupt lawsuits will make it right. Only actions going forward will make it right. Yes, this author is 100% correct that a can of worms is being opened and that it has to be opened. But he ain't correct because he is black. He's right because he's right.
Eric Holder got it wrong. A great many of us aren't afraid to talk about race. Here we have Jimmy Dismuke and myself, both white and black men, saying the exact same thing. Color is irrelevant to substance, but you know what? Jimmy saying this is garnering thanks, I opine for the wrong reason, showing what part of the problem is. He's being thanked because he is saying what he is while being black. This saddens me. I often feel this way reading Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell. It feels as if it's "worth more" when they say these things. And I literally HATE feeling that way. I'm sick of feeling that way and that being acceptable public discourse. I'm sick of being held responsible for something I had nothing to do with – slavery and segregation – just because of my skin color. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG and I am done with being punished as if I did. In this way, I, as a white man, understand discrimination far better than most black people, or other so called "minorities" will give me credit for. I am tired of being called a racist for saying the same things a black man says and is then thanked for saying. SICK OF IT.
It's said that there must be an uprising within a section of society, among that section itself, that has long rested on the victimization laurels because it has been led to believe endless generations are owed by all future generations. It appears that tide is rising. More and more black people are standing stand up to call that exactly what it is – bullshit. John Stossel did a bake sale deal where blacks and hispanics got special pricing – lower than for whites- and to see black women cry foul made me smile from ear to ear. Someone with no political stake in anything, just an average everyday American out and about shopping, rejected that racist garbage even when she herself could have directly benefited from it. That is AWESOME. The problem there is that I should even notice, much less care, that the woman was black! My goodness, that is soooooo screwed up. Just like feeling thankful that a black man wrote this piece. Just like Walter and Thomas.
When it comes down to it, Americans of all colors have to stand together and say firmly with serious resolve that NO MORE will ANY laws be obliged that offer one treatment to one person and a different treatment to another with skin color being the line of separation. We ALL have to reject that racist division and embrace true Equality. We have to accept that the same set of rules, and the same set of rights, apply equally to all of us. That goes for everything from gerrymandered voting districts to college scholarships.
It is time to admit that there is no such thing as black rights, white rights, brown rights, asian rights, gay rights, muslim rights, jewish rights, christian rights, poor rights, rich rights and and and…..There are only Creator endowed rights and we all have them just the same because of our common humanity, not because some bureaucrat inked them so for some and not others. Enough is Enough.
Americans must have the courage to say it out loud, to write it, to live it. Equality means giving up the race based organizations, special rule structures and special allowances or excuses. It is time for all to see how stands for true equality and who does not. Period. Time to pick a side.
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This year, more than 600 taxi drivers were implicated in a giant taxi scam in which drivers overcharged passengers more than $1.1 million by flipping switches on their meters that kicked in higher rates. In the wake of the scandal, the Taxi and Limousine Company scrambled to portray the incident as a series of isolated incidents and mistakes by a select number of drivers. But according to one of those taxi scammers, these were no Lee Harvey Oswalds: it really was all a giant evil conspiracy!
According to driver Joseph Kastner, a group of drivers would meet together at cabby conferences in garages around the city and plot their nefarious schemes. "I met a series of drivers who decided to rob the public. They were actually having meetings at my old garage," Kastner, 49, told the TLC during a Sept. 30 administrative court hearing. Kastner is one of those accused drivers; he is charged with allegedly cheated 3,925 passengers out of $7,756, the sixth highest amount for an individual driver. Kastner claims that he wanted to become a whistleblower, alleging that the scams were much bigger than let on previously, and that he had stuff on the TLC as well, but no one took his offer: "I tried to tell them over and over again at the hearing. They didn't listen to a word I said. They just don't want to hear it," he told the Post.
So is Kastner trying to escape his fate by alleging a citywide conspiracy, making up stories to look better, or is there really an underground network of thieving taxi drivers plotting to steal unwitting customer's money? TLC obviously didn't take his claims seriously, but the Post sides with Kastner, saying that other cabbies and industry insiders confirm his story, and bad hacks pull other stunts such as charging drivers to put on the heat, pressing the "extra" button on tolls and bridges, and posing as livery drivers at airports and charging more than double the flat fee of $45 to Manhattan. Whether or not the conspiracy is as widespread as Kastner would have you believe, the best thing you can do is consult the Passenger Bill of Rights, and always be vigilant of extra charges of any kind.
People aren't going to like this post, but oh well. White people went to war with white people and slavery was abolished as a result. To be sure, black people fought and died in the fight but when it comes down to it, just as is true today, black people could not have accomplished what was without white people. This statement isn'tt to disparage black people, it is to champion white and black people working together absent race being some kind of artificial barrier to that happening. I despise the term "black community". To me, such a thing is self segregationist and racist in nature. I am sick to death of race being a line drawn between us by those who seek to divide and conquer.
We are Americans. It's the American community. No hyphens. This author writes about PEOPLE. I see no "African-American" label. That is a great thing.
Part of the fraud, part of the corruption, is this in and of itself – National Black Farmers Association. Kinda like the NAACP, UNCF and the CBC,huh? Heck, lets add Mecha and La Raza while we are at it. I am sick to death of race based groups getting a pass as if they are not race based groups. They should no more get a pass than the KKK should. Race based is race based. Period.
This separatism is the very thing that affords what this was originally about in the first place. It's what sees ugly events transpire. No amount of corrupt lawsuits will make it right. Only actions going forward will make it right. Yes, this author is 100% correct that a can of worms is being opened and that it has to be opened. But he ain't correct because he is black. He's right because he's right.
Eric Holder got it wrong. A great many of us aren't afraid to talk about race. Here we have Jimmy Dismuke and myself, both white and black men, saying the exact same thing. Color is irrelevant to substance, but you know what? Jimmy saying this is garnering thanks, I opine for the wrong reason, showing what part of the problem is. He's being thanked because he is saying what he is while being black. This saddens me. I often feel this way reading Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell. It feels as if it's "worth more" when they say these things. And I literally HATE feeling that way. I'm sick of feeling that way and that being acceptable public discourse. I'm sick of being held responsible for something I had nothing to do with – slavery and segregation – just because of my skin color. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG and I am done with being punished as if I did. In this way, I, as a white man, understand discrimination far better than most black people, or other so called "minorities" will give me credit for. I am tired of being called a racist for saying the same things a black man says and is then thanked for saying. SICK OF IT.
It's said that there must be an uprising within a section of society, among that section itself, that has long rested on the victimization laurels because it has been led to believe endless generations are owed by all future generations. It appears that tide is rising. More and more black people are standing stand up to call that exactly what it is – bullshit. John Stossel did a bake sale deal where blacks and hispanics got special pricing – lower than for whites- and to see black women cry foul made me smile from ear to ear. Someone with no political stake in anything, just an average everyday American out and about shopping, rejected that racist garbage even when she herself could have directly benefited from it. That is AWESOME. The problem there is that I should even notice, much less care, that the woman was black! My goodness, that is soooooo screwed up. Just like feeling thankful that a black man wrote this piece. Just like Walter and Thomas.
When it comes down to it, Americans of all colors have to stand together and say firmly with serious resolve that NO MORE will ANY laws be obliged that offer one treatment to one person and a different treatment to another with skin color being the line of separation. We ALL have to reject that racist division and embrace true Equality. We have to accept that the same set of rules, and the same set of rights, apply equally to all of us. That goes for everything from gerrymandered voting districts to college scholarships.
It is time to admit that there is no such thing as black rights, white rights, brown rights, asian rights, gay rights, muslim rights, jewish rights, christian rights, poor rights, rich rights and and and…..There are only Creator endowed rights and we all have them just the same because of our common humanity, not because some bureaucrat inked them so for some and not others. Enough is Enough.
Americans must have the courage to say it out loud, to write it, to live it. Equality means giving up the race based organizations, special rule structures and special allowances or excuses. It is time for all to see how stands for true equality and who does not. Period. Time to pick a side.
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Domain Name Wire » <b>News</b> » Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch <b>...</b>
Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
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Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
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Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
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Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
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This year, more than 600 taxi drivers were implicated in a giant taxi scam in which drivers overcharged passengers more than $1.1 million by flipping switches on their meters that kicked in higher rates. In the wake of the scandal, the Taxi and Limousine Company scrambled to portray the incident as a series of isolated incidents and mistakes by a select number of drivers. But according to one of those taxi scammers, these were no Lee Harvey Oswalds: it really was all a giant evil conspiracy!
According to driver Joseph Kastner, a group of drivers would meet together at cabby conferences in garages around the city and plot their nefarious schemes. "I met a series of drivers who decided to rob the public. They were actually having meetings at my old garage," Kastner, 49, told the TLC during a Sept. 30 administrative court hearing. Kastner is one of those accused drivers; he is charged with allegedly cheated 3,925 passengers out of $7,756, the sixth highest amount for an individual driver. Kastner claims that he wanted to become a whistleblower, alleging that the scams were much bigger than let on previously, and that he had stuff on the TLC as well, but no one took his offer: "I tried to tell them over and over again at the hearing. They didn't listen to a word I said. They just don't want to hear it," he told the Post.
So is Kastner trying to escape his fate by alleging a citywide conspiracy, making up stories to look better, or is there really an underground network of thieving taxi drivers plotting to steal unwitting customer's money? TLC obviously didn't take his claims seriously, but the Post sides with Kastner, saying that other cabbies and industry insiders confirm his story, and bad hacks pull other stunts such as charging drivers to put on the heat, pressing the "extra" button on tolls and bridges, and posing as livery drivers at airports and charging more than double the flat fee of $45 to Manhattan. Whether or not the conspiracy is as widespread as Kastner would have you believe, the best thing you can do is consult the Passenger Bill of Rights, and always be vigilant of extra charges of any kind.
People aren't going to like this post, but oh well. White people went to war with white people and slavery was abolished as a result. To be sure, black people fought and died in the fight but when it comes down to it, just as is true today, black people could not have accomplished what was without white people. This statement isn'tt to disparage black people, it is to champion white and black people working together absent race being some kind of artificial barrier to that happening. I despise the term "black community". To me, such a thing is self segregationist and racist in nature. I am sick to death of race being a line drawn between us by those who seek to divide and conquer.
We are Americans. It's the American community. No hyphens. This author writes about PEOPLE. I see no "African-American" label. That is a great thing.
Part of the fraud, part of the corruption, is this in and of itself – National Black Farmers Association. Kinda like the NAACP, UNCF and the CBC,huh? Heck, lets add Mecha and La Raza while we are at it. I am sick to death of race based groups getting a pass as if they are not race based groups. They should no more get a pass than the KKK should. Race based is race based. Period.
This separatism is the very thing that affords what this was originally about in the first place. It's what sees ugly events transpire. No amount of corrupt lawsuits will make it right. Only actions going forward will make it right. Yes, this author is 100% correct that a can of worms is being opened and that it has to be opened. But he ain't correct because he is black. He's right because he's right.
Eric Holder got it wrong. A great many of us aren't afraid to talk about race. Here we have Jimmy Dismuke and myself, both white and black men, saying the exact same thing. Color is irrelevant to substance, but you know what? Jimmy saying this is garnering thanks, I opine for the wrong reason, showing what part of the problem is. He's being thanked because he is saying what he is while being black. This saddens me. I often feel this way reading Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell. It feels as if it's "worth more" when they say these things. And I literally HATE feeling that way. I'm sick of feeling that way and that being acceptable public discourse. I'm sick of being held responsible for something I had nothing to do with – slavery and segregation – just because of my skin color. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG and I am done with being punished as if I did. In this way, I, as a white man, understand discrimination far better than most black people, or other so called "minorities" will give me credit for. I am tired of being called a racist for saying the same things a black man says and is then thanked for saying. SICK OF IT.
It's said that there must be an uprising within a section of society, among that section itself, that has long rested on the victimization laurels because it has been led to believe endless generations are owed by all future generations. It appears that tide is rising. More and more black people are standing stand up to call that exactly what it is – bullshit. John Stossel did a bake sale deal where blacks and hispanics got special pricing – lower than for whites- and to see black women cry foul made me smile from ear to ear. Someone with no political stake in anything, just an average everyday American out and about shopping, rejected that racist garbage even when she herself could have directly benefited from it. That is AWESOME. The problem there is that I should even notice, much less care, that the woman was black! My goodness, that is soooooo screwed up. Just like feeling thankful that a black man wrote this piece. Just like Walter and Thomas.
When it comes down to it, Americans of all colors have to stand together and say firmly with serious resolve that NO MORE will ANY laws be obliged that offer one treatment to one person and a different treatment to another with skin color being the line of separation. We ALL have to reject that racist division and embrace true Equality. We have to accept that the same set of rules, and the same set of rights, apply equally to all of us. That goes for everything from gerrymandered voting districts to college scholarships.
It is time to admit that there is no such thing as black rights, white rights, brown rights, asian rights, gay rights, muslim rights, jewish rights, christian rights, poor rights, rich rights and and and…..There are only Creator endowed rights and we all have them just the same because of our common humanity, not because some bureaucrat inked them so for some and not others. Enough is Enough.
Americans must have the courage to say it out loud, to write it, to live it. Equality means giving up the race based organizations, special rule structures and special allowances or excuses. It is time for all to see how stands for true equality and who does not. Period. Time to pick a side.
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Domain Name Wire » <b>News</b> » Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch <b>...</b>
Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
Movie <b>News</b> Quick Hits: Emma Stone's 'Spider-Man' Look, Annie Nods <b>...</b>
Posted Dec 6th 2010 3:05PM. Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical. Email This. -- Emma Stone debuted her Spider-Man look for the first time at Trevor Live in Hollywood over the weekend. ...
Lujiazui Breakfast: <b>News</b> & Views About China Stocks (Dec. 6 <b>...</b>
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Domain Name Wire » <b>News</b> » Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch <b>...</b>
Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
Movie <b>News</b> Quick Hits: Emma Stone's 'Spider-Man' Look, Annie Nods <b>...</b>
Posted Dec 6th 2010 3:05PM. Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical. Email This. -- Emma Stone debuted her Spider-Man look for the first time at Trevor Live in Hollywood over the weekend. ...
Lujiazui Breakfast: <b>News</b> & Views About China Stocks (Dec. 6 <b>...</b>
Investors and traders in China's main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today: With expectations about inflation and monetary policy becoming clearer, investors are taking cues from overseas ...
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Domain Name Wire » <b>News</b> » Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch <b>...</b>
Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
Movie <b>News</b> Quick Hits: Emma Stone's 'Spider-Man' Look, Annie Nods <b>...</b>
Posted Dec 6th 2010 3:05PM. Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical. Email This. -- Emma Stone debuted her Spider-Man look for the first time at Trevor Live in Hollywood over the weekend. ...
Lujiazui Breakfast: <b>News</b> & Views About China Stocks (Dec. 6 <b>...</b>
Investors and traders in China's main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today: With expectations about inflation and monetary policy becoming clearer, investors are taking cues from overseas ...
bench craft company rip off
Domain Name Wire » <b>News</b> » Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch <b>...</b>
Owner tried to "extort" Twitter. As Robin Wauters wrote today, Twitter has filed a UDRP against the owner of TwitterSearch.com. With so many domain names out there including "twitter" in them, why has the company singled out this one?
Movie <b>News</b> Quick Hits: Emma Stone's 'Spider-Man' Look, Annie Nods <b>...</b>
Posted Dec 6th 2010 3:05PM. Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical. Email This. -- Emma Stone debuted her Spider-Man look for the first time at Trevor Live in Hollywood over the weekend. ...
Lujiazui Breakfast: <b>News</b> & Views About China Stocks (Dec. 6 <b>...</b>
Investors and traders in China's main financial district are talking about the following before the start of trade today: With expectations about inflation and monetary policy becoming clearer, investors are taking cues from overseas ...
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