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Dec 4, 2007 - 8:37AM

Sorry, Yi, but you're not a Chicago Cabdriver

Sorry, Yi, but you're not a Chicago Cabdriver, so I doubt that you'll ever see much personal benefit from the work of the CCO.

I don't think my postings here are of much importance, as most of what goes on here is you, wjw, and Don Nathan belittling others who have actually accomplished steps (no matter how big or small) down the path of organized power.

I don't think that many cabdrivers have as much free time to waste as you three apparently do. I'm justing here playing Whack-a-Mole with the three of you to make sure that your nonsense is kept in check with the truth.

I have no intention of 'giving up my taxi'. It is because I plan to drive a cab for a very long time that I am so interested in taking up the 'fight' with the City. I can't wait until all the gold-diggers and 'strangers bearing gifts' have lost interest or hope of 'cashing in' so that the real cabdriver-organizers can be free of these distractions.

Why don't you stop driving your limo so you can 'do more for others'?

Let me thank you again for all the information you have supplied me with, despite our differences of opinion.

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 4th, 2007 - 8:37 AM

Dec 4, 2007 - 10:34AM

Re: I am retired. Don't you know?

My Chicago C/L is 64803 in case you don't know.

Enjoy your show!

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Dec 4th, 2007 - 10:34 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 7:16AM

Yi Tang starts answering questions...

So Yi,

When and why did you stop driving a cab in Chicago, and what do you do now?

-Mike Foulks

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My Chicago C/L is 64803 in case you don't know.

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 7:16 AM

The Insider

Dec 5, 2007 - 10:30AM

Re: Re: I am retired. Don't you know?

Hopefully you have not retired from radical-rabble-rousing or, as some might say, trouble-making.

Your CL alone gets you into this game. (Cabbie Rule!)

You do not strike me as a gambler because you seem to be very self-assured, which is radically different from some of the bravado exhibited in some of these discussions.

You know who is bluffing and who has a good hand. Have you calculated the odds and you have the winning hand at your fingertips?

The current troublemakers and rabble rousers and radicals need all the help they can get.

Once you have driven for hire, you are forever a cab driver as if an indelible mark had been made upon your soul.

Some of them are very loud; others very quiet or they disguise themselves when they play.

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 10:30 AM

Dec 7, 2007 - 6:05PM

Re: Re: Re: I am retired. Don't you know?

the 'insider' is wolf weiss

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:05 PM

Dec 7, 2007 - 11:43PM

Re: Re: Re: Re: I am retired. Don't you know?

joseph bellow is wolf weiss

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 11:43 PM

Dec 4, 2007 - 10:00PM

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Make yourself more known

Hey Mike --- 62 year old semi-retired ex cab driver is a bully to a robust 35 year old brute like King George? You must be puffing something better than Bill Clinton did in his college days if you expect anyone to buy that load of poo. Your perception of what came down at Kabob Corner sure leaves anyone of common sensibility shaking his head.

And if you were to call me a shyster, I would hardly take it as an insult considering the source. Do you think you'd be the first? Or the last? Everyone hates lawyers --- till he needs a lawyer. Then the lawyer isn't a shyster anymore. He's even needed. Then he's the best friend you could have.

As for your personal animus toward me, the problem is yours, young man. I'll light 3/8 of a candle for you tonight, mad Mike. You have some kind of pathological problem. That kind of thing is beyond my ken. I'm just an ex cab driver and a lawyer, not a licensed psychiatrist.

No wonder the Transportation Committee wasn't bowled over by your whatever it was.

You could use allies from whatever quarter you can garner them. Haters always just generate negative karma that comes back to haunt them. And you don't have to be from any particular ethnic group to suffer the consequence of bad karma. Ask a bunch of my cab driver friends. Most of them are my friends when it comes down to counting because I'm willing to fight for them - instead of hosing them.

You think I have half a brain? I guess that's better than being a no brain.

Nighty-night.

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YGeorge's counter-'threatening' a bully like Mr. Nathan with a 'threat' to go to the proper authorities to resolve an alleged violation is comparing apples to oranges. The oranges are juicy and the apples are rotten.

I can't call Mr. Nathan a shyster because I don't think he has or is even capable of pulling the wool over anyones' eyes. (But not because he has integrity.)

I am not scared of Mr. Nathan, and I will call him a shyster when I am certain he is deserving of the title. For now, he must settle for schmuck. If that offends 3/8ths of his sensibility, let me make it clear to him right now before the Hanukkah celebration that he isn't 3/8ths schmuck because he's '3/8ths Jewish'.

He's 3/8ths schmuck 'cause he's got half-a-brain. Do the math.

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Dec 4th, 2007 - 10:00 PM

Dec 5, 2007 - 1:23AM

Mr. Donald Nathan is a Jackass Lawyer who offers free legal services but just simply meddles...

Mr. Nathan,

I've known bullies from the ages of 6 to 62, the common denominator being they go down fairly easily once you figure them out. I think I've got you figured out...let's see how quickly you go down.

It seems you bought into Prateek Sampat's 'load of poo' that 'King George' is secretly in the pay of Spain because he openly accepts advertising from just about anyone. Or perhaps the fact that Lady Reyes is a regular columnist causes you some concern? However you weigh these horsefeathers, both you and Mr. Sampat seem to be elitists who believe that cabdrivers are incapable for judging Mr. Lutfallah for themselves.

Most of us know Mr. George Lutfallah to be more of a friend to cabdrivers than an enemy, despite Mr. Donald Nathan and Mr. Prateek Sampat's hysterical, unsupported claims to the contrary.

But Mr. Sampat has proven to be even worse by supplanting Ms. Callahan's natural supporters with his oversold, secretive AFSC. Though I had my reservations about the 'Snakes In The Morning' article Mr. Lutfallah published after Mr. Sampat appeared at the 'strike' news conference to take as much credit for an action he and his boss didn't endorse, let alone support, my doubts were quickly erased after my personal dealings with Prateek.

Melissa Callahan has also stated that she doesn't want to have anything to do with the AFSC.

The TWO Project is a joke, and the cabdrivers aren't laughing.

How did I suddenly become responsible for the conduct of the Transportation Committee? The CCO has yet to hold its first regular meeting, but the TWO Project has been 'spearheading' the efforts for about a year!

What did YOU do Mr. Nathan, to try to convince the Transportation Committee that cabdrivers needed a fare increase? How many signatures did YOU collect to effect a public hearing on the matter?

Not everbody hates lawyers, but most hate shysters. If I call you a shyster in the future, it will be a statement of fact, not an insult. If you are attempting to diagnose psychological problems, you are a 'quack'.

There's two kinds of crazy: good and bad. I got the good kind in my fight for us cabdrivers and enough of the bad kind to make my 'personal animus' towards you YOUR PROBLEM.

Please list your 'cabdriver friends' by name. I'm an 'insider', so I'll know how to contact them, if they actually exist.

The only group I'm going to offend by calling you a Jackass is Jackasses. How's that for 'hayseed charm'?

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 1:23 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 5:38AM

Re: Mr. Donald Nathan is a Jackass Lawyer who offers free legal services but just simply meddles...

That's close to just perfect, Mike.

Since your attack was basically on Prateek Sampat who can respond if he chooses - likely he won't climb into the garbage can with you to do it - I see no need to answer much of it. If there's some sort of guilt by association you want to build between Sampat and me, I freely acknowledge it. I think Sampat and AFSC not to be the enemy - ask the Skokie cab drivers for openers.

My function was never to collect signatures of cab drivers for anything, nor was it to offer testimony before the Transportation Committee. If I have use to the drivers, it's certainly not in the trenches; it's in the courtroom where I have the licensure, the training and the experience.

The fact that you and the organization you have built don't want to avail yourselves of the open offer for the service is just fine. Go pay for it from someone who may well be better when you need it. I just donate time - pretty much to anyone who seeks it for a good cause - because I can afford to do it at this stage of life.

Does that cast me as a bully? Not at all. Am I willing to fight with words for those who cannot do it effectively for themselves? You bet, buddy. That's never going to stop because you or those of your "ilk" spew out hatred. Most people want my kind of jackass as a champion.

I'll wear your badge like one of distinction. Thanks for the honor you bestow.

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 5:38 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 5:50AM

We're feeding into Big George's game

Hey Mike - did it ever cross your mind that George and his techno-geeks maneuver postings so as to foment aregument on his stupid web page?

I'll bet most folks who read these postings - probably no more than count angels on the head of a pin - have figured that one out long ago.

It only feeds into George's grand design - his business plan - to go on with this nonsense. It soaks up time to answer stupidity. And I don't have time to waste any more than you do really.

You want the last word? Have it. I think I'd rather represent people who need it - organizations that aren't formed for those who are just mean spirited.

If there's a reason your testimony was so ineffective before the Transportation Committee, it had nothing to do with begging. You didn't beg, I'm sure. It was more likely the result of recognition of your want of political muscle and lack of preparation with arguments that had foundation. It was because good politicians recognize mean spirit and respond to it in kind.

That may be why you represent 52 while over the years I've represented over 20,000 - the great majority of them satisfied and appreciative even though the victories have been modest most of the time. At least we've achieved victories.

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 5:50 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 6:50AM

The Last Word (for now) between Mr. Nathan and Mr. Foulks

Mr. Nathan,

Thank you for offering me the last word. I'll accept and honor the gift by replying up in a way which I hope does not compel you to respond.

The CCO is an organization formed for its members and officers to do the following:

A) Communicate effectively with each other.
B) Discuss relevant issues and decide to make declarations, requests, demands, and to take action together.
C) Serve as an authority to collect and distribute information.
D) Provide a central office to correspond with other groups and individuals, both public and private.
E) Anything else appropriate or necessary to promote the interests of the CCO.

There is no written or unwritten distinction regarding one's spirit, mean or otherwise, as you suggest.

I do not believe my testimony before the Transportation Committee was 'so ineffective'. If you believe that testimony alone would have had different results, then you were free to testify yourself. I doubt that anything you could have said would have helped much, but we'll never know, because you never testified.

Despite public reports suggesting otherwise, I did not beg. I gave fair warning. Perhaps this is why they decided not to vote, rather than simply voting 'No.'. I'll not take certain credit for an unprovable speculation.

The argument is quite simple: the cost of gasoline has dramatically increased since the last fare increase, resulting in not only increased costs for the operators of taxicabs, but a general increase in all costs of living. This has resulted in cabdrivers working much longer than the usually long hours, which will not be tolerated much longer.

The political reality is much more complex, and I see no need to explain it to you, even if I could justify the time. I do not trust you.

I am not aware of any democratic cabdriver organization which has the 20,000 members which you have claimed to represent. If you are referring to all your clients over the years, let me point out that you are comparing apples to oranges. Also, you are almost twice my age, and the CCO has yet to hold its first regular meeting to discuss how we might increase our membership towards 13,500.

I consider any progress we make a step towards victory. If you are sincere with your encouragement, I sincerely thank you.

If you want to know what I, Mike Foulks, need from Don Nathan, it's for you to refrain from posting public criticism of me or the CCO in a manner which could be interpreted as other than constructive. I am not afraid of the truth, but I can be damaged by lies. It is time-consuming to continually correct you and others.

I will gladly respond to you by private e-mail, but not if you are playing games in an apparent effort to curry favor with one individual or group at the expense of another.

I have no need for your 'free legal services'. Thanks for the offer.

Please send me hard copies of anything that you think this or any other member of the Chicago Cabdriver Organization should have.

-MIKE FOULKS, President, Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO)

P.S. Send stuff to P.O. Box 166057, Chicago, IL, 60616

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 6:50 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 7:11AM

Re: The Last Word (for now) between Mr. Nathan and Mr. Foulks

Mike - your offer is accepted.

My unequivocal encouragement is given is good faith whether you want it or not. That you choose not to avail yourself of services for want of trust is probably for the best. I don't need your trust.

For the benefit of the thousands I've represented over the years usually with success, the only thing I ever needed was the truth - put into its best light. That meant I needed the trust of those thousands of clients. It wasn't ever violated or I would have been disciplined sooner or later.

Your want of trust hardly hurts. The offer to go to bat for your organization as needed still stands in spite of your choice to turn it aside.

Suit yourself.

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 7:11 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 9:19AM

Re: The Last Word to the NOisy & Disrespectful

Dear Hopeless and Helpless In Chicago:

If you want to know what I, THE ANALYST, need from foulks, it is for it to stop name-calling and bad-mouthing people such as Nathan, Sampat, Weiss and organizations such as CPTDA, TWOP and anyone it perceives to be its enemy in a manner which can be construed as destructive.

But, because of its well-demonstrated lack of self-control and a growing reputation for shooting off its mouth when it should keep it shut, it is commonly believed that foulks is incapable of doing so.

This type of behavior has been branded “Storm Trooper Tactics” and “Brown Shirt Behavior” because it is not just reminiscent of the thugs who bvrought, their leader to power, but because it is the very same thinking and policies that “authorized” such behavior.

This type of behavior has been branded “Storm Trooper Tactics” and “Brown Shirt Behavior” not just in this mental ************ chamber, but everywhere and anywhere there are dangerous dunces and reactionary retards who attempt to rise to leadership by fear, intimidation, unsupportable accusations of malfeasance – all false, misleading, and inaccurate – all wrongly attributed to the targets of the so-called “Taxi Fascisti: “Storm Troopers” and “Brown Shirts”.

Historically, this thinking can be traced back to the infamous Joseph Goebbels who professed that “IF YOU TELL A LIE BIG ENOUGH AND KEEP REPEATING IT, PEOPLE WILL EVENTUALLY COME TO BELIEVE IT. THE LIE CAN BE MAINTAINED ONLY FOR SUCH TIME AS (ONE) CAN SHIELD THE PEOPLE FROM THE … CONSEQUENCES OF THE LIE. IT THUS BECOMES VITALLY IMPORTANT … TO USE ALL OF (THE LIE’S) POWERS TO REPRESS DISSENT, FOR THE TRUTH IS THE MORTAL ENEMY OF THE LIE, AND THUS BY EXTENSION, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY....”

This and similar lines in Hitler's “Mein Kampf” are often misquoted or paraphrased as: "The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."

Of course, when things went sour for them, when life and limb were being bombed and blasted out from under Joe and his beloved Adolf, Joey murdered his children and his wife and then killed himself. Same for Adolf.

Also, someone posted on this pathetic excuse for a RHETOTICAL OUTHOUSE, "Empty Barrels make The Most Noise."

Some observers believe that foulks will never win over enough drivers to establish a real power base, especially not by hate mongering, name calling and badmouthing others. That dire prediction comes from City Hall INSIDERS.

Said one noteworthy undisclosed source who shall remain nameless “El Presidente” will soon be history, just another blip on the screen, then flew of half-cocked into some dreamland he calls CCO.

NO, that is not just theory nor is it I, THE ANALYST, bad mouthing or criticizing.

That is the plain, unadorned, simply reality -- something foulks does not seem to be able to recognize, or adamantly refuse to acknowledge because “the real” does fit into its scheme of things on its march to imagined fame and glory.

As long as foulks, et al, are locked into this kind of thinking, rhetoric and behavior, they shall remain “Hopeless and Helpless In Chicago.”

THE ANALYST

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 9:19 AM

Dec 5, 2007 - 9:43AM

Re: Re: The Last Word to the NOisy & Disrespectful _CORRECTION

Previous post comes from an email with permission to quote.

Here are the quote marks: ""

I am not one to put words in anyone's mouth or claim authorship for such brillliance, especially not THE ANALYST'S.

Sorry, Big A!

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 9:43 AM

Dec 1, 2007 - 6:49PM

Good day, Mr. Donald Nathan!

I shall try to be brief Mr. Nathan...

Your lack of awareness of my 'attack' on you being public, that is, by blog and not e-mail shows your carelessness.

I was never your client. Feel free to express anything that ocurred between us, but be mindful of the truth. I am quite aware of the definition of 'extralegal', are you?

I am not a hothead. The truth is my most powerful weapon...I have others. As for my 'hayseed charm', I picked that up in Wyoming from Gerry Spence. The best part is that it is only one of my many veneers.

I won't worry about your opinion of me because your opinions of others are known errors of judgement. Have you ever been homeless, Mr. Nathan? I have. I think that and 10 years of driving a taxi in Chicago qualifies me as a 'person of the street' better than you.

I campaigned enough to win the election, not 'all those weeks' as you suggest. If you believe I only have support from 40 drivers, you again are operating on faulty intelligence. 40 drivers ELECTED me.

How many drivers' signatures do you think I collected for the fare increase petition? How many drivers' signatures which gave AUPD a vote of confidence do you think I collected at Midway? The answer is you don't have a clue, because you're an uninformed or misinformed 'outsider'. (Thank God.)

I'll run in any open-ballot election with any group of cabdrivers and come home with flying colors.

I don't know much about Ms. Desai, but I'm certainly not going to rely on you for facts or a respected opinion. Maybe you could tell us how Ms. Desai buys her groceries or pays her rent if she doesn't drive a cab for a living? How exactly is she paid? Please forgive us if we double-check!

I don't have to 'suppose' any of my motives. My interest is a little more personal than yours...I drive a taxi for a living. What is your interest in defaming cabdrivers who are organizing themselves?

I intend to get any legal service I need from lawyers, and not just those who might also drive a taxi.

Your sarcasm indicates that you believe cabdrivers are a talentless lot. Consider yourself unmasked.

I'm nobody's boss, but if you accuse me of 'taking' anything from anybody, you'll be hearing 'Mr. Foulks' over and over again in a courtroom and you'll be saying it out of fear or respect before I finish with you in the street.

For the record, Bob Thomas acted 100 times more unwisely than that reporter/newspaper and I sincerely hope that his career as a judge has reached its plateau on the Illinois Supreme Court.

If I must be a 'stooge', I want to be Mo. I'll settle for Shemp. By the way, you're 3/8ths schmuck.

Print it.

-MIKE FOULKS

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It had not occurred to me that you made your attack on me in public: on a blog, no less. Having done so, you have waived the right to attorney-client privilege you had and that I would certainly have respected. Your choice was improvident, Mr. Foulks.

I will dredge up my private reply and publish it under the circumstances.

Hotheads burn out like firecrackers. Those who wield truth always prevail in the long run. You, sir, strike me as self-absorbed once you get past that surface hayseed charm. Most of us people of the street recognize that foible immediately. That's why all those weeks of dedicated campaigning brought out only 40 "insiders" to annoint you - instead of hundreds who would have given Melissa Callahan a vote of their confidence.

Keep in mind that Bhairavi Desai has NEVER driven a cab a day in her life. By your logic, she has no right to lead 10,000+ drivers to bring Manhattan's ruling class and billionaire mayor to the bargaining table. Do you really think she wants to "control" the taxi industry in New York? No more so than anyone of the so-called "outsiders" do here in Chicago. What she wants is what we want - social justice and common decency for drivers who struggle through every blessed day of their lives to support themselves and their families.

Why do you suppose "Insiders" like you and Mr. Lutfallah want to control the taxi industry here in Chicago? Easy answer - DUH - It's MONEY. He who holds the strings makes the money: the ad revenues from the fleet owners; the lawyers soliciting business; and on and on and on. For you, it's the potential of dues revenue I suppose - maybe it's just an ego trip, but I doubt it.

Were I to have the choice, I would gladly have given of my time to your organization. But having laid down the gauntlet and thrown your fealty to the side of Mr. Lutfallah and his ruling class, you have shown your true colors. Go get your free legal services from all those talented lawyers driving Chicago cabs, Mr. Boss Man. They're the only "insiders" with the right to stand at your side. And if you take from the Lutfallah legal advertisers, your followers are going to hear about it and unmask you soon enough.

Enough said. Call the next witness.

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 6:49 PM

Dec 1, 2007 - 8:28PM

Re: Good day, Mr. Donald Nathan!

Your comments do merit a response. You are certainly not "talentless".

First of all, Moe and Shemp were both 100% schmuck by your standards. At least your aspiration is to be what you evidently hold in contempt. Your stripes are showing. Words will never hurt me, but they do define what you are. Too bad for you. It won't curry support among cabbies to be a bigot against any race or culture, much less of what I am.

As for Mr. Chief Justice Thomas, he won a just verdict from a newspaper that defamed him. He didn't win because he was unwise as you characterize him. But rather he won because 12 strangers on the Jury recognized the facts for what they were. In my own opinion, he should never have settled.

Just rest assured that your respect is hardly something Justice Thomas needs particularly. Evidently you feel that Kane County rag didn't defame him. But that Jury sure did. Guess that says something about your judgment - although I'm not sure how that pertains to much of anything that affects the taxi industry.

As for what you do with your personal organization and its coffers, I know nothing, accuse you of nothing and care even the less. I can't imagine that you have the conflicts of interest that cripple Mr. Lutfallah as a critic of the industry or as a champion of the drivers. In the 21st Century, a politician has to be an ascetic or a billionaire - look at Bhairavi Desai and her counterpart, Mayor Bloomberg. Maybe you're of the ascetic class. I don't know, and I don't care.

But if you can do some good for your fellow drivers, I wish you well - nothing but success. As for what you do in the street or the courtroom, as long as your effort is directed at achieving social justice, you have my complete support whether you want it or reject it. Your flailing at me is misdirected. I'm not the enemy no matter how you try to paint me.

Only an imbecile would say I disrespect cab drivers. Having been one myself for seven years, I know they are both talented and instinctively wise. They have to be to survive on some pretty mean streets and still bring home the bacon. Point out whatever it is that got stuck in your craw. Let's clear the air sir.

As for how Bhairavi Desai survives, I have no idea and care even the less. She can speak for herself, although I doubt she owes you any explanations as to how she underwrites her grocery bills. A person doesn't have to drive a cab for a living to be a leader of cab drivers. Double-check that one.

And why would that even be a concern for you? At least she brings thousands of drivers voices with her when she goes to the TLC. Her victories far outweigh her defeats, and she begs for nothing.

Your efforts here are more than admirable. The start you've made is of the kind that screams out for sincere congrats - my sincere hope is that you can build an organization that is going to command respect at City Hall where it counts. The more voices you have behind you, the more likely it is that you will be heard. And I have no desire to undercut your effort at doing just that. If you're working with truth and not just profiteering, you have my complete respect and support.

Finally, you have no idea what my background is. Homeless? Gerry Spence? Whatever you say. My mentors weren't so famous. They were moral and decent Chicagoans who were willing to be fearless champions of the downtrodden. Most of the drivers I've represented over the decades would have only that to say of me too.

And I always had a roof over my head because I was willing to serve my country before I started driving a cab - unlike a lot of other useless kids in my generation. Some people would say that makes me a war criminal. Do you stand shoulder to shoulder with those bellowing bullies? I suspect not - you strike me as being a long cut above them. That's why it took me my surprise that you would deify such people.

Finally, I am pleased that you come forth with a clear statement that you have never been a client of mine. As a non-client, I owe you no duty. You have no privilege to assert. And the word is spelled J U D G M E N T. If you use some of it, you'll come to understand who you can count on and who is just out there to use you.

Roll the presses.

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 8:28 PM

Dec 3, 2007 - 5:48AM

Thanks again, Mr. Donald Nathan (3/8ths schmuck)!

Mr. Nathan,

Thank you for recognizing that I have a talent, or some talent, despite the fact that I choose to drive a cab for a living. I am apparently an anomaly in your eyes, considering the fact that you implied that if one has other skills besides driving a cab, they must be substandard. You can be right and wrong like the rest of us; I judge on how a man learns to correct himself.

First of all, Larry and Curly were the schmucks, but they were naturally talented. Most fans of The Three Stooges would agree with me that Moe and Shemp were the sophisticates, numbskull.

What is it exactly that you think I aspire to that you can show I hold in contempt? ???

The only stripes I have are those of a tiger. The truth hurts liars and careless gossips. My actions have defined me handsomely, which allows me to be more candid with my thoughts.

Which race or culture am I bigoted against?

Read me more carefully, Mr. Nathan. I did not defend Mr. Thomas's detractors. His injudicious response to them has, in my opinion, ended his rise as a judge.

Each and every officer of the courts needs as much respect as can be reasonably had from each and every citizen and non-citizen who rely on both the real and apparent fairness of the judicial branch.

I never stated my opinion as to whether or not Justice Thomas was defamed. You again lose my respect for again attempting to attribute to me a position I do not hold. You then base your ridicule on this falsehood, and wonder why I am even discussing a subject which you yourself raised.

Are you aware of how easy it is to deconstruct your illogic, especially in printed form?

I do not have a 'personal organization'. If you're referring to the CCO, it has neither a Treasurer nor a Treasury.

You have failed to give proper credit to Mr. Lutfallah for reporting the facts and for clearly assigning his byline onto pieces that might have a more personal editorial slant. I followed up on Mr. Lutfallah's critcism of Mr. Sampat with a proper amount of skepticism and I reached similar conclusions rather quickly from my own experiences with the 'TWO Project'. Mr. Lutfallah did a great service to me and other cabdrivers and organizers with his accurate and honest reporting.

Prateek Sampat can not seem to own up to his mistakes, especially the one he made with this infamous flyer which misstated others' positions on the issues. How stupid do you and him think we cabdrivers are? Do you think we'll forget or forgive these infractions?

I do not share such a simple notion of what a '21st Century politician has to be'. Bhairavi Desai is not Mayor Bloomberg's counterpart. I am neither an ascetic nor a billionaire, and I never hope to be either.

I have done good for my fellow drivers and will continue to do good for them as well as 'outsiders'. Thank you for wishing us success, but the line for the well-wishers is getting too long. You are more of an obstacle than an enemy; why don't you just get out of the way and let us 'insiders' naturally mingle? We'll come see you if that's what we decide to do.

You have disrespected cabdrivers generally and specifically, and you have cooperated with those who have done likewise. Nobody who I asked about you had anything favorable to say, yet I reserved my judgement until I personally experienced more of 'Don Nathan'.

I don't deify people, nor do I demonize them. I stand shoulder to shoulder with those willing to demand an end to the Occupation of Irag. I'm no Quaker though, rest assured.

I think many, including you, have attributed qualities and quantities to Ms. Desai which she does not possess. I do not operate on assumption or presumption whenever avoidable. If you are trotting out the mythology of Ms. Desai as a positive, why shouldn't we learn the entire fable verse by verse?

Let me again state: "Chicago is NOT New York, THANK GOD!"

I have never asserted attorney-client privilege, but you clearly alleged that I had it, in fact, you threatened that I somehow released you from it and implied that whatever you knew could come out and be hurtful to me. The ARDC could find against lawyers in cases like this, couldn't they?

In any event, the court of public opinion finds you disgusting. You might plea yourself out on just being an unnecessary distraction and stay out of our business.

Your uselessness is best cited by your correction of an obvious typo and your transposed opinion of the facts. I can count on Mr. Lutfallah.......you, Mr. Donald Nathan, are just out there to use cabdrivers.

Shout it from the moutaintops. I mean, mountaintops.

-MIKE FOULKS

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Dec 3rd, 2007 - 5:48 AM

Dec 3, 2007 - 1:07PM

Re: Thanks again, full of sound and fury

Just think how much GOOD you could accomplish by training your energy, thoughts, words and deeds into or-gain-izing the drivers, instead of spending yourself on this pitifully empty quarrel.

I hope you have more than "fear of outsiders and meddlers" to bring together the taxi worker community.

Very high burn-out rate. That scam never works very well or very long.

"...a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. "

Hey! How about a Holiday Truce? Act nice. Don't fight.

People will like you and maybe even stop making fun of you and deriding you and your comrads.

Do you read any of these posts? Don't you get it yet?

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Dec 3rd, 2007 - 1:07 PM

Dec 3, 2007 - 4:31PM

Re: Re: Thanks again, full of sound and fury

Wolf --- The young man is running his head into a wall as far as I can tell - it's a bit like a bull in the ring after the Picadors have riled him up. The harm he does to his cause, and that of all people of good will, is unfortunate - hate is always recognized for what it is; most sensible people disrespect haters.

My sincere hope is that he might wake up to what he is doing to shoot his organization in its collective foot. Before he hopelessly trashes his future credibility before the Transportation Committee, he should think before shooting off his mouth spewing venom that hurts no one.

Judging from his continued rantings, these comments are likely to fall on deaf ears. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, and he won't carry this on the further; that he will recognize the need to battle with enemies rather than allies.

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Dec 3rd, 2007 - 4:31 PM

John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Dec 4, 2007 - 6:33AM

Sometimes the bull wins...

Sometimes the bull wins, but I'd rather be an honored bull than a despised bull-****ter. You're nothing but a rodeo clown trying to protect those who can't last 8 seconds with me.

I don't hate ignorant people, I hate ignorance itself. I am respected for that. This issue doesn't turn on credibility, Mr. Nathan, it turns on power. If my venom is ineffective, I'll slowly and simply constrict my prey and swallow it whole.

You are no ally to cabdrivers, especially me.

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 4th, 2007 - 6:33 AM

Dec 1, 2007 - 9:30PM

Re: Good day, All You Need Is Love

All You Need Is Love

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 9:30 PM

Dec 7, 2007 - 6:06PM

Re: Re: Good day, All You Need Is Love

wolf weiss up to his old trix again

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:06 PM

Tabanidae the Tormenter

Dec 1, 2007 - 10:24PM

Re: Good day, Mr. Scmuck

From Yiddish "shmok," p e n i s, foreskin, fool, probably from Polish "smok," serpent, tail.

The word also means a stupid or idiotic person.

Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term and an insult.

Schmuck, has a range of meaning depending on context:
a s s, fool, idiot, imbecile, jack a s s, mooncalf, moron, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simple, simpleton, softhead, tomfool. Informal dope, gander, goose, cretin, ding-dong, dip, goof, jerk, nerd, schmo, turkey.

In its most innocuous use, a schmuck is a person who does a stupid thing, in which case “dumb schmuck” is the appropriate expression.

A schmuck's behavior ranges from pesky and inconsiderate, to obnoxious and manipulative.

A schmuck's personality type ranges from jerk to b a s t a r d.

Schmucky behavior also falls within a range of intentionality.

Some schmucks carefully plan their bad behavior, some only a little, and some not at all.

For example, the b a s t a r d may spend considerable time planning his bad deeds.

In contrast, the dumb schmuck and the pesky behave badly without any forethought.

46:20

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 10:24 PM

Jeremiah Johnson

Dec 1, 2007 - 10:32PM

Re: Re: Good day, Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 10:32 PM

Dec 7, 2007 - 6:07PM

Re: Re: Re: Good day, Jeremiah 46:20

wolf weisss againnnnnn

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:07 PM

Dec 1, 2007 - 10:42PM

Re: Re: Good day, Mr. Scmuck

Actually, being called a Schmuck can be the highest form of compliment a person can pay - depending on who is calling you a Schmuck. Yiddish is that sort of language. But being called 3/8 schmuck is so obtuse, there's no way to respond to it other than to point out the intent of the utterer - it's almost rhetorical and certainly comical.

Perhaps he's pitched in his cards with the fascisti.

That kind of insult doesn't play well with most in the taxi industry in this town. To insult someone based on his ethnic background in Chicago, you have to be a purebred imbecile - maybe a pitbull type of imbecile. He hadn't struck me that way before. But the older I get, the more often I get surprised at the level some people can stoop to reach.

Whatever.

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 10:42 PM

Dec 1, 2007 - 10:50PM

Re: Re: Re: George can defense himself... Please let him speak freely!

Is George a member of the CCO, or he is so defensless as a taxi driver?

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Dec 1st, 2007 - 10:50 PM

Dec 3, 2007 - 5:55AM

Re: Re: Re: Re: George can defense himself... Please let him speak freely!

George Lutfallah is not a Registered-Member of the CCO.

-Mike Foulks, President, Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO)

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Dec 2, 2007 - 8:30PM

Re: Re: Every Dog Has its Day!

There should be a team of lawyers standing by for any of your actions in mind. e.g.:

AMENDED COMPLAINT

Plaintiffs Shaw Suburban Media Group, Inc. and Bill Page, by their attorneys, for their
complaint against defendants, Chief Justice Robert R. Thomas, Justice Charles E. Freeman,
Justice Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Justice Thomas L. Kilbride, Justice Rita B. Garman, Justice Lloyd
A. Karmeier, Justice Anne M. Burke, Justice Thomas E. Hoffman, Justice Sheila M. O’Brien,
Justice Robert Cahill, and Judge Donald J. O’Brien, Jr., allege as follows:

Case No. 07-CV-03289

Steven P. Mandell
Stephen J. Rosenfeld
Steven L. Baron
Brendan J. Healey
MANDELL MENKES LLC
333 West Wacker Drive, Suite 300
Chicago, Illinois 60606
312-251-1000

Bruce W. Sanford (admitted pro hac vice)
Lee T. Ellis, Jr. (admitted pro hac vice)
Bruce D. Brown (admitted pro hac vice)
Laurie A. Babinski (admitted pro hac vice)
BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP
1050 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-861-1500

A taxi driver can run for the Mayor too!

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Dec 2nd, 2007 - 8:30 PM

Dec 7, 2007 - 6:07PM

Re: Re: Good day, Mr. Scmuck

pooooor wolfy....

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:07 PM

The Analyst

Dec 2, 2007 - 11:32PM

Re: Good day, Mr. Helter-Skelter!

Wow. MIKE FOULKS, you're all over the place in the post responding to Mr. Nathan. Here is a map of your meandering murmurings and mindless musings:

1. The subject was “ATTACK” not” CARELESSNESS.”

2. DIGRESSION about some CLIENT RELATIONSHIP.

3. PERMISSION granted to convey something regarding an unspecified event.

4. ADMISSION of awareness of a word that means NOT REGULATED OR SANCTIONED BY LAW.

5. A WARNING to be cautious with respect to REALITY.

6. REFUTATION of being a TROUBLEMAKER.

7. CLAIM of capability to wield ACTUALITY and other unspecified ARMS.

8. CONFESSION that the writer imitates an attorney who is known for his western apparel.

9. ACKNOWLEDGMENT that the writer’s behavior is a FAÇADE, that is, one of his many unspecified FALSEHOODS.

10. CLAIMS to be able to identify BOO-BOOS in EVALUATIONS made by others.

11. ASSERTION that the writer’s life EXPEREINCE is a basis for his PREDOMINANT POSITION in an IMAGINARY socio-cultural hierarchy.

12. A LOGICAL FALLACY that the writer won the election because he took part in election campaign, not because of the duration of the campaign.

13. Another A LOGICAL FALLACY - suggestion that the writer is privy to a belief and this belief is based on incorrect evidence.

14. Statement of partial ELECTION RESULTS.

15. TRICK SPOT QUIZ regarding statistical information that has never been made public.

16. NAME CALLING based ALLEGED IGNORANCE of undisclosed statistical information that has never been made public.

17. INAPPROPRIATE use of Deity.

18. EGOTISTICAL BOASTING about imagined popularity among taxicab drivers, based on less than 10% of the popularity contest voters and a statistically insignificant percent of the taxicab driver population.

19. ADMISSION OF IGNORANCE of one of the most renouned taxi worker organizers in the world and leader of a world-wide movement of taxi worker rights organizers.

20. DISPLAY OF LAZINESS or INEPTITUDE in the performance of simple research functions.

21. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of current means of income.

22. DIVERTSION from the issue of MOTIVES to a FALSE issue of a mental process.

23. A question based on a FALSE CONCLUDSION that the other party has taking actions in order to vilify certain drivers.

24. A REVELATION that the writer may seek legal counsel from actual attorneys instead of taxicab drivers.

25. Another FALSE CONCLUSION that a biting wit or use of irony, or mockery is evidence that the other party believes that taxicab drivers lack capacity to perform unspecified acts.

26. BAD-MOUTHING via a FALSE ASSERTION that the other party’s true identity has been revealed, when it was not hidden in the first place.

27. THREAT to take legal action for unspecified reasons or cause.

28. BRAVADO BOASTING and IMPLIED THREAT of physical harm.

29. FALSE QUOTE from an imaginary record.

30. Unsound OPINION that has no basis in the facts or MATTERS OF LAW.

31. VILIFICATION of the Howard brothers by tactless and irrelevant association.

32. CLOSING with NAME CALLING.

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Dec 2nd, 2007 - 11:32 PM

T.H.E. A. .N. A. L Y .S. T.

Dec 3, 2007 - 6:08AM

Re: Re: Good day, Mr. Helter-Skelter!

Well, at least you're keeping score, but in the future it would be nice if you included the original message so others could judge for themselves. Or, you could post your identity 'cause 'The Analyst' carries no weight of credibility. (Not yet, anyhow.)

Mr. Nathan is all over the place...I'm just following and confronting him until he finds himself in a dark alley.

I hope this is EDU-TAINING!

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 3, 2007 - 8:14AM

Re: Re: Re: Good day, Mr.. STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT

Oh ye of little faith!
Art though the High and Exalted Grand Poobah of those who shall be annointed to go forth in the Cloak of Credibility?
It fiteth thee not.
Perhaps thou judgeth too much and thinketh too little.

Thy total score: 0.
Logical argument: 0.
Rhetorical argument: 0.
Content to Context Ration: .00001.
Fluffery and Puffery Index: -32.
Self-serving Trash Talk Score: 100%.

Threaten not, lest others findeth thy own self stripped of thy baleful boasting and thy braggart's barking.
Beg not for what is not thine.
Call not others what thou art.
Look not into mirrors lest thou see thy worst enemy.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Boast not about thy STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT "vote" lest others see how STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANTLY small thou art.
For it is thy own mouth that runneth over that shall reveal to all that thou art naught but INSIGNIFICANTLY SMALL of mind.

Thy true-believer (12) Apostles:
Saint Presumption
Saint Assumption
Saint Conjecture
Saint Supposition
Saint Presupposition
Saint Guess
Saint Cheek
Saint Audacity
Saint Nerve
Saint Gall
Saint Impudence
Saint Effrontery

(The aNaLySt)

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Dec 3rd, 2007 - 8:14 AM

Dec 4, 2007 - 4:47AM

The Significant Statistic: 52 Cabdrivers under one banner, more to come...

Ye have little faith.

I claim no more and no less than what I have. This discerns me from the 'pretenders' before me. Poke fun with your own imagination, but clear your head before you open your eyes.

Maybe you were expecting Jesus? I'm not Jesus. I'm just a guy.

My scorecard reads: CCO...52+!

How many do we need to be 'SIGNIFICANT' exactly, and what would that 'SIGNIFICANCE' be?

How was I 'bragging'?

My initial judgement of the 'Analyst'...he thinks too much about insignificant things.

-Mike Foulks

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5 Lessons‏ to CCO

Dec 4, 2007 - 9:38AM

'Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when no

Five lessons to make you think about the way we treat people.

1 - First Important Lesson - Cleaning Lady.

During my second month of college, our professor
gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student
and had breezed through the questions until I read
the last one:

'What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?'

Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the
cleaning woman several times. She was tall,
dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name?

I handed in my paper, leaving the last question
blank. Just before class ended, one student asked if
the last question would count toward our quiz grade.

'Absolutely,' said the professor. 'In your careers,
you will meet many people. All are significant. They
deserve your attention and care, even if all you do
is smile and say 'hello.'

I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her
name was Dorothy.

2. - Second Important Lesson - Pickup in the Rain

One night, at 11:3 0 p.m., an older African American
woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway
trying to endure a lashing rainstorm. Her car had
broken down and she desperately needed a ride.
Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car.
A young white man stopped to help her, generally
unheard of in those conflict-filled 60s.. The man
took her to safety, helped her get assistance and
put her into a taxicab.

She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his
address and thanked him. Seven days went by and a
knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a
giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A
special note was attached..

It read:
'Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway
the other night. The rain drenched not only my
clothes, but also my spirits. Then you came along.
Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying
husband's bedside just before he passed away... God
bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving
others.'

Sincerely, Mrs. Nat King Cole.

3 - Third Important Lesson - Always remember those who serve.

In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less,
a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and
sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.

'How much is an ice cream sundae?' he asked.

'Fifty cents,' replied the waitress.

The little boy pulled is hand out of his pocket and
studied the coins in it.

'Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?' he inquired.

By now more people were waiting for a table and the
waitress was growing impatient.

'Thirty-five cents,' she brusquely replied.

The little boy again counted his coins.

'I'll have the plain ice cream,' he said.

The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on
the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice
cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress
came back, she began to cry as she wiped down the
table. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish,
were two nickels and five pennies..

You see, he couldn't have the sundae, because he had
to have enough left to leave her a tip.

4 - Fourth Important Lesson. - The obstacle in Our Path.

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a
roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if
anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the
king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by
and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the
King for not keeping the roads clear, but none did
anything about getting the stone out of the way.

Then a peasant came along carrying a load of
vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the
peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the
stone to the side of the road. After much pushing
and straining, he finally succeeded. After the
peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed
a purse lying in the road where the boulder had
been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note
from the King indicating that the gold was for the
person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The
peasant learned what many of us never understand!

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

5 - Fifth Important Lesson - Giving When it Counts...

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at a
hospital, I got to know a little girl named Liz who
was suffering from a rare & serious disease. Her only
chance of recovery appeared to be a blood
transfusion from her 5-year old brother, who had
miraculously survived the same disease and had
developed the antibodies needed to combat the
illness.. The doctor explained the situation to her
little brother, and asked the little boy if he would
be willing to give his blood to his sister.

I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a
deep breath and saying, 'Yes I'll do it if it will
save her.' As the transfusion progressed, he lay in
bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did,
seeing the color returning to her cheek. Then his
face grew pale and his smile faded.

He looked up at the doctor and asked with a
trembling voice, 'Will I start to die right away'.

Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the
doctor; he thought he was going to have to give his
sister all of his blood in order to save her.

Now you have 2 choices.

1. Delete this email, or
2. Forward it to people you care about.
I hope that you will choose No. 2

'Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody's watching.'

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Dec 4, 2007 - 11:32AM

Re: 'Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do whe

This posting is exquisite. I hope a few read it who need their spirits elevated out of the gutter.

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Dec 4th, 2007 - 11:32 AM

Treblani Etsnie

Dec 5, 2007 - 10:38PM

Re: The Significant Statistic: 52 Cabdrivers under one banner, more to come...

52 out of 10,000 = .0052 or a hair above 1 tenth of one percent.

That, sir, is as statistically insignificant as a half a grain of sand is to a beach.

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Dec 5th, 2007 - 10:38 PM

The Mad Scientist

Dec 6, 2007 - 7:51AM

Re: Re: The Significant Statistic: Bad Math - 52 Cabdrivers = ½ percent

Treblani is not a math wiz. Get a calculator because you may be miscalculating yourself out a lot of tip money.

Wrong math: .0052 or a hair above 1 tenth of one percent.

Right math: .0052 or a hair above ½ (one half)of one percent.

"Statistically insignificant" is relative. If you needed plutonium for some reason, for example, the material would not be very pure or useful, a far cry from yellow cake (level of purity).

On the other hand, ½ percent of potassium nitrate in an explosive mix of carbon and sulfur is extremely significant:

Historically, nitre-beds were prepared by mixing manure with either mortar or wood ashes, common earth and organic materials such as straw to give porosity to a compost pile typically 1.5 meters high by 2 meters wide by 5 metres long.

The heap was usually under a cover from the rain, kept moist with urine, turned often to accelerate the decomposition and leached with water after approximately one year.

The liquid containing various nitrates was then converted with wood ashes to potassium nitrates, crystallized and refined for use in gunpowder.

Ka-Boom!

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Dec 6th, 2007 - 7:51 AM

Dec 7, 2007 - 7:42AM

Thanks for correcting the math and...

Mr. Mad Scientist,

Thanks for correcting Treblani's math.

Can I safely believe, considering your work, that a few ounces of plutonium has a potential kinetic energy far greater than a heap of gunpowder?

I have a theory...the anticipated escalation in the price of gasoline is directly proportional to the probable participation of cabdrivers in CCO (in the absence of a fare increase, of course).

Could you explain 'critical mass' to the masses (and the asses), Doctor?

-Mike Foulks

P.S. Nucleus would be a great word-of-the-day!

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Dec 7, 2007 - 6:13PM

Re: Re: Re: The Significant Statistic: Bad Math - 52 Cabdrivers = ½ percent

here's wolf responding to his own previous post. go figure. he's mad i tell you, mad.

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:13 PM

Dec 7, 2007 - 7:30AM

And your point is...?

Mr. Etsnie,

Your math is wrong, but I am more interested in what your point is.

Are you implying that I am using the 52 cabdrivers who are currently Registered-Members of the CCO to be significant enough to represent all of the ~10,000 cabdrivers?

Because I'm certainly not, and I never have. And I will never claim to represent more or less than the Registered-Members (R-Ms) of the CCO.

Are you laboring under the misconception that the 52 cabdrivers represent the entire potential membership of the CCO, that what we have now is all we can get?

Because that is also an error.

Are you comparing the 51 drivers who made the choice to vote for any two cabdrivers to represent them in a large cabdriver organization with the several hundred that signed a 'vote of confidence' for the five, no four names supposedly constituting the AUPD?

Because those are apples and oranges.

And the feeble-minded lawyer Don Nathan who believes that these same hundreds of drivers would have 'turned out' to vote for Melissa Callahan is deluding himself. We cabdrivers know how notoriously low turnout for anything is.

Is anyone trying to have their cake and eat it too?

I am not in 'competition' with Melissa Callahan, and I never will be. Two cabdrivers wrote her name in and she has a Cabdriver-Representative (C-R) position in the Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO), and whether she chooses to participate in the CCO or not is entirely her decision.

I hope she participates in the CCO and contiues her work with the AUPD.

I again encourage anyone who likes her or what she is doing to do more than just talk. Join the AUPD and ask them about what YOU CAN DO to help the movement.

Or join the CCO. Or the MLTDA. Or the Taxi Brotherhood. Or the CPTDA (if you can find them...they're like the A-Team).

Until further notice, I will be at Kabob Corner, 760 W. Halsted, from 3pm to 7pm on Mondays and Tuesdays registering cabdrivers. To join the CCO, bring your licenses/tickets and a lease or proof that you own a medallion for photocopying. There is no membership fee.

If you want to become a Cabdriver-Representative (C-R), you can come speak with me about my appointing you to one of the empty positions.

The next regular CCO Election is scheduled for the third Wednesday in May 2008. I hope to have a great multiple of 51 voting then.

I will certainly have a lot more than 51 R-Ms long before the next CCO election.

What will you have?

I hope: a better attitude, or at least, a better calculator.

Most importantly...a fare increase!

-Mike Foulks, President, Chicago Cabdriver Organization (CCO)

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52 out of 10,000 = .0052 or a hair above 1 tenth of one percent.

That, sir, is as statistically insignificant as a half a grain of sand is to a beach.

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Dec 7, 2007 - 6:12PM

Re: Re: The Significant Statistic: 52 Cabdrivers under one banner, more to come...

this is wolf too. i am coming to the conclusion this person is deranged. STAY AWAY FROM HIM!!

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:12 PM

Dec 7, 2007 - 6:09PM

Re: Re: Re: Re: Good day, Mr.. STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT

poor wolfy,, trying so desperately to act like he knows someting...

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 6:09 PM

The Analyst

Dec 3, 2007 - 11:22AM

Re: Re: Re: Good day, Mr. The Analyst Reveals What You Need To Know

THE ANALYST'S RULES:

THE ANALYST does not answer impertinent questions or requests from others who have proved beyond any doubt their abject inability to judge for themselves.

THE ANALYST knows the FUTURE and it is not about being "NICE."

THE ANALYST has no worldly concern of gain or loss, especially not of woolly thinking opines of the confused and vague who spit out their muddleheaded ideas as they occur in their addled little brains.

THE ANALYST may sit on you to demonstrate The Analyst's weight, if necessary.

THE ANALYST is (The Analyst's) identity.

Only the deluded and demented do not know THE ANALYST.

THE ANALYST knows little puppy dog's excuses for soiling itself.

THE ANALYST recommends little puppy dog stay out of alleys lest it get its widdle head bit off.

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The Informant

Dec 3, 2007 - 11:32AM

Re: Re: Re: Re: Good day, Mr. The Analyst Reveals What You Need To Know

So you wanna know who or what The Analyst is.

The Analyst generally is a term for an individual or tool of whom or which the primary function is a deep examination of a specific, limited area and may mean:

* Accounting analyst, in business an individual who examines the financial statements of public companies.
* Business analyst, in business an employee who examines the needs and concerns of clients and stakeholders to determine where potential problems and opportunities lie, known also as a Business Systems Analyst.
* Color analyst, in sports broadcasting an individual who, as against a play-by-play announcer, provides analysis and commentary.
* Cost analyst, in business an employee who analyzes business operations to determine which courses of action are most efficacious.
* Financial analyst, in economics and finance an individual who analyzes securities and business equity.
* Industry analyst, in business and finance an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends.
* Patent analyst, in the field of intellectual property an individual who performs patent and non-patent literature searches to determine the patentability of an invention.
* Psychoanalyst, in psychotherapy a practitioner who acts to elucidate connections in a patient's unconscious or subconscious mind.
* Public analyst, in the United Kingdom a duly qualified chemist appointed by a local authority.
* Systems Analyst or Information Analyst in computer science is an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for development of new software.
* Web metrics Analyst, in webometrics an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web.
* An analyst in mathematics is an individual who focuses in the area of mathematical analysis.

THE ANALYST is all of the above and more.

The Analyst, subtitled A DISCOURSE Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician, is a book published by George Berkeley in 1734. The "infidel mathematician" is believed to have been Edmond Halley or Sir Isaac Newton. In the latter case, no reply would have been possible, as Newton died in 1727.

The Analyst was a direct attack on the foundations and principles of the calculus, specifically on Newton's notion of fluxions and on Leibniz's notion of infinitesimal change. Berkeley sought to defend religion by showing that the calculus, which grounded religion's new rival, natural philosophy (the predecessor of today's physics), led to paradox and absurdity.

Most frequently quoted passage:

And what are these Fluxions? The Velocities of evanescent Increments? And what are these same evanescent Increments? They are neither finite Quantities nor Quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the Ghosts of departed Quantities?

A more modern paraphrase:

What are these "instantaneous" rates of change? The ratios of vanishing increments? And what are these "vanishing" Increments? They are neither finite quantities nor "infinitesimal" quantities, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities?

Nothing much came of Berkeley's criticisms in the 18th century, if only because Berkeley was neither mathematician nor natural philosopher. But beginning around 1830, first in the hands of Augustin Cauchy, later in those of Bernhard Riemann, and Karl Weierstrass, the derivative and integral were redefined using a rigorously defined new concept, that of limit. But only in 1966, with the publication of Abraham Robinson's book Non-standard Analysis, was the object of Berkeley's strongest ridicule, Leibniz's intuitive notion of the infinitesimal, made fully rigorous, thus showing another way of overcoming the difficulties which Berkeley pointed out in Newton's approach.

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Dec 3rd, 2007 - 11:32 AM

Dec 7, 2007 - 6:22PM

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the informant is wolf respondinng to a question about the analyst who is wolf too

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Dec 7, 2007 - 6:14PM

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the analyst is a wolf with all howl and no bite. not even clever.

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Dec 3, 2007 - 1:21PM

Re: Re: Re: Good day, Mr. Mr. Nathan is all over the place...I

So you're just a free-floating electron being bumped and bashed about by the woof and warp of the universe, buffeted to and fro by outside forces beyond your ken or control....

You're just reactin' to the action? what a lame excuse for an excuse. Sounds like lack of free will problem to me.

And hwo do expect will believe that? People who do not believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny will find it hard to swallow your story.

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Dec 4, 2007 - 6:16AM

Pulling on wjw's beard (or tail). Or feathers?

Children who still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny probably have enough life experience to conclude that you're just a creepy guy (who likes to use big words to either confuse or belittle them) in a costume called 'CPTDA'. It resembles a chicken-suit to me, and if you ever speak your words aloud, all I might hear is 'cluck-cluck-cluck'.

I am part of the dark matter which exists outside of this blog and your imagination which is gelling into a permanent, democratic, cabdriver organization. Too bad for you and your ilk, the 'blowhards'.

That object hurtling directly towards you is a meteor called the CCO, and it's large enough to destroy your little world. Too bad you're too underdeveloped and myopic to see it and get on board.

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 7, 2007 - 11:56PM

Re: Pulling on wjw's beard (or tail). Or feathers?

wolf weiss is mike foulks

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Dec 7th, 2007 - 11:56 PM

Dec 3, 2007 - 1:39PM

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Mr. Foulks:

You sure are a tough guy - I'm easily double your age. You pick your enemies the same way Mussolini did. Don't forget - the Ethiopians almost beat him.

At this point in life, the only alley where I'd join you in a fight is in a civil action. The courts are designed to keep blood from running in the streets, and I prefer civilized fisticuffs where I have the clear advantage. I hung up my stars and bars forty years ago and haven't done a security job since my wife made me retire from such activities over thirty years ago.

Gee willikers, by my guess, you couldn't be much more than 30 given your recitation of your illustrious history licking the boots of Gerry Spence while sleeping under forspacious skies of Wyoming without a roof over your head.

But alas, there's nothing for us to litigate. You dislike me, and I don't give a diddly **** about you one way or the other. That's sure not enough to ground a cause of action. You have done me no civil wrong other than to say in print some things that only a low-life might say. I have said little of any substance about you other than for the fact that your veneers don't impress me or many others who have attended the University of Four Wheels.

Bottom line - you can go back to whatever makes you happy with my full respect and encouragement as long as you do it with the goal of making life better for my brothers and sisters behind the wheel. You can hate my 3/8 or whatever anyone as small as you would; it makes me no diffference what ethnic group you dislike. But I'll bet a few other drivers from various minorities will see through your bravado and recognize you for what you are - it won't win you support to be a hater of any ethnic group in a town like Chicago, not even 3/8.

When you try to insult a man for his ethnicity in Chicago, it just gets you dirty doing it.

I don't need capital letters for that messaage.

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Well, at least you're keeping score, but in the future it would be nice if you included the original message so others could judge for themselves. Or, you could post your identity 'cause 'The Analyst' carries no weight of credibility. (Not yet, anyhow.)

Mr. Nathan is all over the place...I'm just following and confronting him until he finds himself in a dark alley.

I hope this is EDU-TAINING!

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 4, 2007 - 8:03AM

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Mr. Nathan,

There are good guys, bad guys, and tough guys. I can be any of the three.

You don't look 72 years old to me.

My declared enemies are those who neglect or abuse cabdrivers. Don't join them.

You don't want to fight me in a civil action any more than you can sustain the amount of pain I can gently apply to your body which can cause you to agree to anything. The courts can be a cause of blood running in the streets.

I put no value on your legal analysis, and urge others to do the same. Even 'low-life's like me are entitled to free expression. I'm not here to impress you or the other alumni of the UFW.

I don't need you permission to do anything, regardless of my intentions. I don't hate you, but I must admit that I have prejudices against every ethnic group, including my own. At least I don't pretend not to have them (or are in denial like so many).

I am also not afraid to discuss them or the basis for the hate or prejudice, so that all may understand it. You seem to be a Jew (3/8ths) who is quick to label others as Jew-haters, (or Nazis, or fascists, brownshirts, etc.) however you choose to apply it. Your sole basis for this defamation is my use of the word schmuck. If you want to relate the 3/8ths part, then let me upgrade you to 5/8ths schmuck and you can leave your Jewish ancestry out of it. I never meant to insult your ethnicity. It is your intelligence I intended to insult. Too bad you're too stupid to get it. Do you get it now, moron?

You are also not clever enough to play the Jew-hater card. Wasn't it you who used the word 'shibboleth' in an e-mail? I guess that establishes who introduced their Jewishness (3/8ths) as somehow relevant.

I can't use the word 'schmuck' without being a bigot?

Your insinuation that I've now committed some trangression that 'a few other drivers from various minorities will see through' again reflects your ignorance as to the political reality inside the 'cabdriver community'. I'm the minority, however you describe me, unless you describe me as a thoughtful, caring brother. You are a long-lost great-uncle who should stay as lost as you are now among us.

Telling lies about me to cabdrivers I may or may not know will at best bring a smirk to their face and at worst a punch in your nose. I recommend you call me names from the relative safety in front of your keyboard, but I sincerely ask you to stick to the truth. Better yet...

SHOO, FLY!

-Mike Foulks

P.S. Happy Hanukkah

P.P.S. Why don't you help FAMM bring their loved ones home for the Holidays a little sooner than scheduled? Try not to **** that up.

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Dec 4, 2007 - 11:16AM

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I'm not 72, I'm 86. Eating Kim Chee every day keeps me looking a bit the younger. Seriously, though, I'm more than a quarter of a century your senior.

You need to go back over who it was raising the ethnicity card, Mike. It sure wasn't me. The word "shibboleth" is an English word. English borrows from scores of other languages - it uses the best of so many that it has become something of a lingua franca throughout the civilized world.

Actually, "shibboleth" derives from The Bible: Judges 12:6, not that anyone cares necessarily.

"Schmuck" is now an English word as well. But men of good will don't refer to others as full or part schmuck unless they are trying to instigate a fight or foment hatred. No doubt your intention was to do both. It won't win you support or gain you friends who respect you to do that. It just marks you as trash.

My expectation is that you are capable of rising above that level. For the good of the unity of the taxi industry, you might think better of continuing a campaign of personal enmity.

It occurs to me while typing out these thoughts that virtually no one is going to bother reading them. Your rantings and my responses make no more noise than leaves falling from the trees.

The one thing for sure is that the more you insult me based on my ethnicity, the more you are going to attract the haters among the 13,500 drivers in Chicago - God knows there is a big share of them out there. Perhaps that's what you want to accomplish with your CCO. But men and women of good will and common decency - the overwhelming majority - will see right through a veneer of venom for what it is. They'll avoid you and, for that reason the CCO, like Bubonic Plague.

Too bad - your organization concept is an excellent one. That you would undermine it with ethnic hatred of any sort directly or indirectly is a pity. Your CCO ends up being the loser.

Think about it, young man.

Donald Nathan

PS: What's the psycho-babble about others being in denial about racial or ethnic hatred? Most of us mutts are in no position to flick anyone off on that basis. That probably includes you in spite of your evident enjoyment of ethnic insults.

PPS: Hitler put to death anyone with as little as 1/32 Jewish blood. What difference does it make if your enmity is baeed on 1/32, 3/8, 5/8 or whatever?

Happy holidays to you, whatever they are.

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Mr. Nathan,

There are good guys, bad guys, and tough guys. I can be any of the three.

You don't look 72 years old to me.

My declared enemies are those who neglect or abuse cabdrivers. Don't join them.

You don't want to fight me in a civil action any more than you can sustain the amount of pain I can gently apply to your body which can cause you to agree to anything. The courts can be a cause of blood running in the streets.

I put no value on your legal analysis, and urge others to do the same. Even 'low-life's like me are entitled to free expression. I'm not here to impress you or the other alumni of the UFW.

I don't need you permission to do anything, regardless of my intentions. I don't hate you, but I must admit that I have prejudices against every ethnic group, including my own. At least I don't pretend not to have them (or are in denial like so many).

I am also not afraid to discuss them or the basis for the hate or prejudice, so that all may understand it. You seem to be a Jew (3/8ths) who is quick to label others as Jew-haters, (or Nazis, or fascists, brownshirts, etc.) however you choose to apply it. Your sole basis for this defamation is my use of the word schmuck. If you want to relate the 3/8ths part, then let me upgrade you to 5/8ths schmuck and you can leave your Jewish ancestry out of it. I never meant to insult your ethnicity. It is your intelligence I intended to insult. Too bad you're too stupid to get it. Do you get it now, moron?

You are also not clever enough to play the Jew-hater card. Wasn't it you who used the word 'shibboleth' in an e-mail? I guess that establishes who introduced their Jewishness (3/8ths) as somehow relevant.

I can't use the word 'schmuck' without being a bigot?

Your insinuation that I've now committed some trangression that 'a few other drivers from various minorities will see through' again reflects your ignorance as to the political reality inside the 'cabdriver community'. I'm the minority, however you describe me, unless you describe me as a thoughtful, caring brother. You are a long-lost great-uncle who should stay as lost as you are now among us.

Telling lies about me to cabdrivers I may or may not know will at best bring a smirk to their face and at worst a punch in your nose. I recommend you call me names from the relative safety in front of your keyboard, but I sincerely ask you to stick to the truth. Better yet...

-Mike Foulks

P.S. Happy Hanukkah

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Dec 5, 2007 - 1:51AM

Short and sweet, Mr. Nathan, thanks, but no thanks.

Mr. Nathan,

How would I know that you are 3/8ths Jewish if you didn't insist on making that known to me? I certainly don't care one way or the other.

You are undermining the CCO by claiming I have 'ethnic hatred', probably because your flattery was meant to ingratiate, but my integrity and intelligence disallows me to even consider associating with you.

Just to be clear...this would be the same if you were 0% or 100% Jewish. Keep on suggesting that I hate any particular group at your own risk. I am not above breaking your bones, no matter your age.

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 5, 2007 - 7:22AM

Re: Short and sweet, Mr. Nathan, thanks, but no thanks.

Hissssssssssss - Woof, Woof. I am not cowed by threats of physical violence you might direct at me.

Like all civilized people, I prefer vehemence to violence. If you are making a direct physical threat, it is only going to come back to haunt you.

It's like I said about bad karma - it comes back to bite you on the bottom.

Take a lesson from Yi Tang - read some of Thich Nhat Hanh. It might help when next you give testimony.

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Dec 4, 2007 - 12:36PM

A Prayer to Mike Foulks and everyone of CCO

In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket.

Their father was gone.

The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two.

Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared.

Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds.

He did man! age to l eave $15 a week to buy groceries.

Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either.

If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that time, I certainly knew nothing about it.

I scrubbed the kids until they looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job.

The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town.

No luck.

The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince who ever would listen that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job.

Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in t hat ha! d been c onverted to a truck stop.

It was called the Big Wheel.

An old lady named Granny owned the place and she peeked out of the window from time to time at all those kids.

She needed someone on the graveyard shift, 11 at night until seven in the morning.

She paid 65 cents an hour, and I could start that night.

I raced home and called the teenager down the street that baby-sat for people.

I bargained with her to come and sleep on my sofa for a dollar a night.

She could arrive with her pajamas on and the kids would already be asleep

This seemed like a good arrangement to her, so we made a deal.

That night when the little ones and I knelt to say our prayers, we all thanked God for finding Mommy a job. And so I started at the Big Wheel.

When I got home in the mornings I woke the baby-sitter up and sent her home with one dollar of my tip money-- fully half of what I averaged every night.

As the weeks went by, heating bills added a strain to my meager wage.

The tires on the old Chevy had the consistency of penny balloons and began to leak. I had to fill them with air on the way to work and again every morning before I could go home.

One bleak fall morning, I dragged myself to the car to go home and found four tires in the back seat. New tires!

There was no note, no nothing, just those beautiful brand new tires.

Had angels taken up residence in Indiana ? I wondered.

I made a deal with the local service station.

In exchange for his mounting the new tires, I would clean up his office.

I remember it took me a lot longer to scrub his floor than it did for him to do the tires.

I was now working six nights instead of five and it still wasn't enough.

Christmas was coming and I knew there would be no money for toys for the kids.

I found a can of red paint and started repairing and painting some old toys. Then I hid them in the basement so there would be something for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning.

Clothes were a worry too. I was sewing patches on top of patches on the boys pants and soon they would be too far gone to repair.

On Christmas Eve the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe.

A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels in the pinball machine.

The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up.

When it was time for me to go home at seven o'clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and sizes.

I quickly opened the driver's side door, ! crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat.

Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box.

Inside was whole case of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10!

I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans.

Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes. There was candy and nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes.
There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour. There was whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items.

And there were five toy trucks and one beautiful little doll.

As I drove back through empty streets as the sun slowly rose on the most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude.

And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning.

Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop....

THE POWER OF PRAYER. I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer:

1. "Yes!"
2. "Not yet."
3. "I have something better in mind."

God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar.

You maybe going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that you cannot imagine.

My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless,
and I picked you.

Please pass this to at least four people you want to be blessed and a copy back to me.

This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards

Let's continue to pray for one another. Here is the prayer:....

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and email buddies reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.
Amen.

I know I picked more than four, so can you

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Thanks for keeping us in your prayers, Yi Tang.

Yi,

Thanks for keeping us in your prayers. If there are those out there who do not fear the wrath of God for their misdeeds, then they can fear me, especially when their misdeeds directly affect me and my fellow cabdrivers.

I am not going to rely solely on divine intervention to improve our lot.

-Mike Foulks

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Dec 7, 2007 - 6:08PM

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piss poor analyst wolf weiss. are we sure he's a cabdriver? when does he have time to drive a cab?

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