I kind of want to go rub it in Varrus' faceFollow

You've completely lost it. 100%.

Maybe if the restaurant gets USDC inspected fish.

With this order of logic:

1. I pay federal taxes
2. Federal taxes go toward tax breaks for oil companies
3. I am therefoe invested in said oil companies
4. Those oil companies owe me dividends.

You can't lose what you don't possess to begin with. It's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that "self-funded" in the context of this discussion means not funded by federal or state taxes. To explore any other definition is an exercise in irrelevance, A.K.A. Gbaji.

Whoever came up with the concept of furlough days needs to be shot. Seriously. I hate those things.

I've been on the BadgerCarePlus list for like 10 months. My badger doesnt seem to be doing to well and any help I could get, you know. But now I know someone on the inside Mwahahaha, cough not really. Grats on your job though. Im on half that stuff you listed.

Really wish I could find a job, My wife just got hired starting June 13th at Charter (Where I used to work) and I've been filling out applications left and right, and turning in resumes with reckless abandon, even for jobs I'm not 'qualified' for because I'm getting desperate besides I'm a quick learner I could probably pick up all aspects of the jobs in a week or 2.

No. Actually I went to some restaurant called Casa De Pico. I actually commented that my decision to get the fish tacos is because I hadn't bought any from Rubio's in quite a while. Rubio's used to have specials where you'd get a burrito (or whatever) + a fish taco, beans, and chips. Somewhere along the line, they changed their specials to be the burrito + beans, chips, and a drink. Which sucks. Because of that (and me not eating fast food very often anymore) I haven't had a fish taco from Rubio's in quite some time.

Which is too bad. They're freaking delicious!

Edited, May 27th 2011 2:21pm by gbaji

If you live in Madison, the ESC is hiring people. Just go to HP's website and search for jobs. They're currently hiring for Customer Solutions Rep II. I hate to be the bearer of bad news on the wait list, but everyone that applied after October 9, 2009 at 4:30PM has been wait listed. The state had permission from the federal government between July 2010 and March of this year to allow people with certain types of cancer and serious heart conditions to bypass the wait list, but that stopped March 19. The program is currently approximately 15,000 people over the cap so everyone is still waiting that has applied since that day. I wouldn't hold your breath.

Edited, May 27th 2011 4:47pm by Paskil

That's the one I was at. My sister apparently knows the owner (but not well enough to get a discount, so wth?). We had a big ol family lunch thing a couple weekends ago. It was pretty good food.



May have to check that out sometime.

Of course I did. I wrote it, right?



There's no federal law against driving without proper vehicle registration either. So they're both not against the law, right? I asked a very specific question in my earlier post. Can you honestly say that no where in the US, at no level of government is there any requirement placed on any restaurant, market, grocer, etc which may use the applicable inspection seal (PUFI I'm assuming?) when granting a license to said business authorizing them to sell the product(s) in question?

I suppose it's possible, but that just seems unlikely. Our legal system is designed such that the US government sets up standards and then the states and municipalities pass laws determining to what degree someone or some business must meet those standards.


Um... But honestly, all of this is moot. If I buy some fish and that fish was sold to me by a packing company which paid for the inspections, then I paid a portion of the salary of the people who did the inspections. I'm still not sure how one thinks they're not in any way beholden to the customers who purchase whatever good or service they provide. You always are.

Anyone who doesn't like fish tacos should be banished from Allaland! They are the yum. :)

I think the point, gbaji, is that they are not being double charged for the inspection on the seafood. Since none of their tax dollars go to fund the inspections, the only impact they have on the fish inspection is actually in the buying of the fish.

I.e. the only people who are paying for fish inspections are fish buyers. Not people who are non-piscatarian.

Compare this to, oh I dunno, the National Park System. Those are all federally funded, by tax dollars, and there are all these beautiful parks out there that you and I are paying for that we'll probably never get to see. I've been to two in my whole lifetime so far. I want to increase that number, but when I go to visit the parks, I'll also probably have to pay a parking fee or some ****. Double billed, man.

The inspection is rolled into the cost of business this doesn't mean you are paying a portion of the salary of the inspectors. The cost of the inspections compared to the volume of product check split across all sales would come out to such a small amount for YOUR purchase referring to the taco's it wouldn't even be payable in currency without rounding up to the nearest penny and even then a single penny is still likely 50x more than your share. Obviously the higher the volume you buy the more of that fee you are technically paying off but it is still a cost of the business you are buying from not a cost to you.