Search results for query: *

Rain expected all day. Sipping my cuppa and watching the squirrels tussle at the feeder

Withdrawal symptoms, yep. TTYS

I hear you, Royd. On the positive side, over 200 Young Marines http://www.youngmarines.com from all over the country participated in the ceremonies last December. Unfortunately, we found out the Pearl Harbor Survivor's Veteran Group is being disbanded. It will be interesting what is done...

Thanks, Royd (it's been a while, how are you doing?)... your comments about the workforce are right on and are echoed in "Lincphin - Are you Indispensable" by Seth Godin. And before the anti-business wing chimes in about the evil business 1%, the unions, and educational industry are willing...

Any youth deaths are tragic losses, one is too many, From the CDC regarding ag-related deaths: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/childag/childagsurvproj.html Between 1995 and 2000, there was an average of 116 deaths per year to youth less than 20 years old that occurred on US farms. The rate...

Really? You don't know me from Adam or what my beliefs are. The KOS story rips the people who opposed this regulation. I was asking who was "bearing false witness" the people opposing the bill or the KOS reporting on those people. As far as my personal beliefs go, you couldn't be further...

Are you referring to the dailyKos site or those referenced in their story?

NICE JOB on the coop!

Perfect news story for today!!!!

This is the wisest post in this entire thread. Thank you! 49 people shot on the South Side of Chicago last weekend. Where is the outcry concerning that? All I can think of is Bread and Circuses....

Kim, kudos for you taking a stand. IMHO, the group punishment was appropriate. I feels it instills a sense of community and group responsibility. My kids have been punished as part of a group discipline effort, even though they had not done anything wrong. When they complained, I asked if...

It doesn't make it any less of a tragedy, it was not a coop, but stacked nesting boxes inside the coop that she and her brother were climbing on. http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2012/03/08/news/doc4f58ed169e925907909187.txt

Quote: sigh, it was also about public employees getting automatic raises each year, regardless of the financial health of the public entity paying the bills and the actual performance of the individuals. As well as individuals paying health and retirement contributions more in line with the...

Announced this morning on the local news: several districts already announcing upcoming layoffs.

The voters have spoken, what is done is done. Time will tell as to the long-term impact to the State's public-sector employees. If the current projections of revenue come to pass, there will be some interesting choices needing to be made in the next budget year. Many tax renewal issues...

I meant "New York minute"

And I'm not a millionaire either, yet I pay more of my paycheck for benefits for less than they get, plus my taxes paying for them. Sorry, no one forced them to take the jobs, they made the choice for their career. I have plenty of family in public jobs, including 4 teachers in my extended...

Two weeks ago, at a family get-together, we had to call a truce, since we have folks who are state employees, teachers, etc, and private sector employees. I remember pre-union days for public sector workers. Yes, the wages and benefits were lower, but you more or less had job security. Then...

From what I can tell from conversations in this area, if firefighters and police had been excluded under State Bill 5 (that issue 2 addresses), it would have a much better chance. Watch for layoffs soon

Late to the party as usual, from our experience "thumbs down" on the Odyssey. We have a 2001 and it's been a maintenance nightmare since we got it in 2003. I can put the back seat down and remove the middle seats to make some nice cargo space (like 4x8 sheets of plywood), but that's all I like...