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Jophiel wrote:
The City of Chicago has 280 full size plows, 30 small plows (4x4 pickups) for narrow streets & alleys and quick-hitches to convert another 200 garbage trucks into snow plows in case they need it.
Ever since Mayor Bilandic fumbled the city response to the major snow storm of 1979 and was voted out of office for it, the city's apparently been paranoid about being unprepared for the white stuff.
Ever since Mayor Bilandic fumbled the city response to the major snow storm of 1979 and was voted out of office for it, the city's apparently been paranoid about being unprepared for the white stuff.
Canadian mayors are always prepared for the white stuff.
Just as Planned.
I've expressed concern to my boss about going to Montana in December since I'm from Georgia and have the instinct to burrow indoors at the first snowflake. She has agreed and will still be sending me to Montana, but suggested a hotel within walking distance of the office.
I'm not sure that's going to be any better.
I'm not sure that's going to be any better.
someproteinguy wrote:
We just play pinball.
2 friction-less bodies are moving along a plane...
Just as Planned.
Catwho wrote:
I've expressed concern to my boss about going to Montana in December since I'm from Georgia and have the instinct to burrow indoors at the first snowflake.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
My instinct is to wind down the window and stick my head out.
lolgaxe wrote:
Catwho wrote:
I've expressed concern to my boss about going to Montana in December since I'm from Georgia and have the instinct to burrow indoors at the first snowflake.
The crashing occurs because they are trying to burrow their heads into the steering wheel and it doesn't work.
Get a good pair of pack boots and enjoy the snow. As long as you're not trying to drive a vehicle from one spot to another snowstorms are total fun.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
My county is somewhere in the middle-lands it appears. Everyone wants to work at Harris and make a decent living. For everyone else, you can work retail and make $8.00 per hour, or work fast food and make $8.00 per hour, or work in the assembly plant across the street from Harris and make $8 per hour. OR! You can get a job at any number of the dozens of call centers in the area and make $8 per hour! If you're really lucky, you can get a job with the Pepsi distribution center and make like $9 per hour.
All of these "entry level" positions enable you to work your way up over a span of about 20-30 years, where you might someday make as much as a whopping $13 per hour. Some real opportunity going on here if you live from your car and can get away with not paying insurance on it.
Oh, and when did Belkira move to Florida?
All of these "entry level" positions enable you to work your way up over a span of about 20-30 years, where you might someday make as much as a whopping $13 per hour. Some real opportunity going on here if you live from your car and can get away with not paying insurance on it.
Oh, and when did Belkira move to Florida?
Galkaman wrote:
Kuwoobie will die crushed under the burden of his mediocrity.
Kuwoobie wrote:
Oh, and when did Belkira move to Florida?
October 4th. :) Howdy, neighbor.
Belkira wrote:
Kuwoobie wrote:
Oh, and when did Belkira move to Florida?
October 4th. :) Howdy, neighbor.
Just curious, but what part? We are on the space coast aka Brevard County.
Galkaman wrote:
Kuwoobie will die crushed under the burden of his mediocrity.
Kuwoobie wrote:
Belkira wrote:
Kuwoobie wrote:
Oh, and when did Belkira move to Florida?
October 4th. :) Howdy, neighbor.
Just curious, but what part? We are on the space coast aka Brevard County.
Volusia County. So we really ARE neighbors.
Belkira wrote:
Kuwoobie wrote:
Belkira wrote:
Kuwoobie wrote:
Oh, and when did Belkira move to Florida?
October 4th. :) Howdy, neighbor.
Just curious, but what part? We are on the space coast aka Brevard County.
Volusia County. So we really ARE neighbors.
Wow! We sure are. What in the wide world of sports possessed you to move to such an awful place? Don't you know that the people here rape dogs and cats and horses-- like all the time? I think there is something beneath the earth here, but not too far. It won't be long before you hear its whispers.
Galkaman wrote:
Kuwoobie will die crushed under the burden of his mediocrity.
Kuwoobie wrote:
It won't be long before you hear its whispers.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Kuwoobie wrote:
I think there is something beneath the earth here, but not too far. It won't be long before you hear its whispers.
I thought FL's subsurface issues were due to nothing beneath the earth - giant holes that open up and suck you down into the deep, dark squishy places from which no human has ever returned.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Kuwoobie wrote:
My county is somewhere in the middle-lands it appears. Everyone wants to work at Harris and make a decent living. For everyone else, you can work retail and make $8.00 per hour, or work fast food and make $8.00 per hour, or work in the assembly plant across the street from Harris and make $8 per hour. OR! You can get a job at any number of the dozens of call centers in the area and make $8 per hour! If you're really lucky, you can get a job with the Pepsi distribution center and make like $9 per hour.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
Kuwoobie wrote:
Wow! We sure are. What in the wide world of sports possessed you to move to such an awful place? Don't you know that the people here rape dogs and cats and horses-- like all the time? I think there is something beneath the earth here, but not too far. It won't be long before you hear its whispers.
Husband got a job here, I missed my family and we couldn't afford the airfare to go home and visit. Win, win.
And I get to be an unemployed bum for the first few months as I finished up school, await my final grade, and look for a job.
lolgaxe wrote:
Catwho wrote:
I've expressed concern to my boss about going to Montana in December since I'm from Georgia and have the instinct to burrow indoors at the first snowflake.
It's because they're on their way to the grocery store to stock up.
gbaji wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
gbaji wrote:
stuff.
This effect is somewhat self correcting in a democracy though, isn't it? Increasingly so the more wealth is concentrated. The more the wealth is focused in a smaller number of hands, the fewer actual votes those hands have and the more they have to spend to try to influence an increasingly massive majority. I don't think that private wealth is a problem in this regard.
I'm far more concerned about public power and influence allowing a minority to control the majority. And this is far more likely to happen as a result of using government power to "correct" for wealth inequalities by taxing a minority of wealthy people and spreading that money around to the remaining majority (using the money of the rich to buy the votes from everyone else). The wealthy can choose to spend their own money influencing people's opinions (and thus potentially their votes). But that's their choice, and the degree to which they can do this is somewhat balanced by their relative wealth versus base popularity of what they want to do. But when the government can seize their money and use it to buy votes, then you've created a power structure that can much more easily be abused.
Sigh, when democracy becomes an oligarchy, it slowly stops being self-correcting. I am adding this link just in case you still want to argue it is not an oligarchy.
Your soul was made of fists.
Jar the Sam
Jar the Sam
Citigroup writes legislation too.
A bill to repeal a portion of the Frank-Dodd Act....
A bill to repeal a portion of the Frank-Dodd Act....
Quote:
...70 of the 85 lines in the final House bill reflected Citigroup's recommendations. In fact, as The Times reports, two paragraphs were copied almost word for word — except lawmakers had changed two words to make them plural.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Because.
You can write the bill or you can get drunk, but the pay is exactly the same.
Edited, Nov 12th 2013 10:55am by someproteinguy
You can write the bill or you can get drunk, but the pay is exactly the same.
Edited, Nov 12th 2013 10:55am by someproteinguy
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