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QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 12, 2006 -> 11:11 PM) We know their coming. Funny thing is the GOP keeps talking about this stuff, it never happens, but by then people think it happens. Nice technique of divisivness. Notice that no Dem has even really talked about the accident, it seems like a non-issue to me. Accidents happen, it is a shame. The only ones talking about making it a political issue are Taa Daa, the GOPerheads around hear. Wouldn't the world be a betterplace if we didn't make paper tigers and make up stuff about each other? But if this is talked about, let's see how long until someone mentions Bill Clinton, y'all always do.

Couple other issues to consider, when starting your career, having some alumni to assists can sometimes be a huge help, plus many people tend to settle around the University they attended. You may wish to consider where you would like to live after graduation, and look for Universities in that area.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Feb 12, 2006 -> 06:39 PM) I must say, everyone here in Austin is a little on edge. Now, if I hear a car backfire on IH-35, I'm screaming, "EVERYONE GET DOWN, CHENEY'S IN TOWN!!!!" LMAO

ection 1. White Room - Cream vs. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan vs. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix vs. When the Levee Breaks- Led Zeppelin Section 2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen vs. Baba O'Reilly - The Who Pinball Wizard - The Who vs. Street Fighting Man - The Rolling Stones A Day in the Life - The Beatles vs. Dream On - Aerosmith

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 8, 2006 -> 09:39 AM) I don't have one iota of sympathy for him. He could have been a great baseball player. Instead, he settled on being a slugger with selfish attitude. I don't really care what happens to him this year. In baseball or not ... he's not worth my attention. His homerun race didn't even register a blimp on my radar. I always thought those two were on something. Now I'm convinced. He'll probably wind up in the HoF, but I wish they had a special place for guys like him. I don't take pleasure in watching him crash and burn, but I'm with YASNY, I have no sympathy at all. Sosa.rum.cork.juice He'll play somewhere, hit 12 or 13 home runs and retire. He's got too big an ego not to go for 600, no matter how many ABs it takes. If he retires, some team will sign him at the deadline, hoping for some punch in a lineup.

Isn't it funny how the GOP fans immediately start talking about cheap shots. LOL. I wonder how long it will take until they blame this on Bill Clinton, announce it would have happened more often if Bush had not been President, laugh at giving the guy a Purple Heart like Kerry, and announce Chaney as a hero for saving the guy's life

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 08:29 PM) From what I have seen, the problem is Wal-mart considering a "full-time" shift to be 28 hours a week, not 40, and their health care packages for their "full-time" employees are too expensive for someone working 28 hours a week. Then Wal-Mart encourages these people to go on welfare if they won't get Wal-Mart's medical package. If there is a program that a person qualifies for and someone encourages them to sign up of it, is it the requirements that are wrong, or the person who encourages them? Colleges and Universities have entire depapartments to help students find money for college which then is paid to the University. Are they wrong? There are programs for the working poor, why shouldn't employers publize those programs? Using your example, and I'm not certain this is accurate, but couldn't WalMart call 28 hours part time and offer no benefits? Would that be better? I think giving people the choice is better, don't you?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 06:57 PM) In the SunTimes earlier this week, there was a little blurb in the Business section about WalMart and Target. It seems that both had plans for a distribution wharehouse in the area, both were going to get tax breaks, and as part of that, they had to submit a formal plan for the payrolls of their respective facilities. It turns out that the average pay for the people in the Walmart place was going to be just under $30,000, while the average pay for the Target place was UNDER $20,000. I wonder which place would be worse for workers, and the state? Comparing average salaries would be valid if their organizations were going to be identical. Plus average salaries aren't the whole picture. In an area with high unemployment, 2,000 jobs at $20,000 is probably better than 300 jobs at $30,000. It is all in the mix. The point with average salaries, Walmart may have executives on site, while Target may have them in a separate facility and didn't count them in their totals. But on the surface, I agree with your conclusion, WalMart would be the better choice if you can't get both. You mentioned tax incentives, realize that means your tax dollars are being spent to compete with someone elses tax dollars in getting them to move. Just like the Economic Development agencies down here are competing to get your employers to move here. It's a twisted little game they are playing. McAllen Economic Development would love to have one of your local employers come here and set up shop in Reynosa, Mexico with a support facility on the US side. We want to take your jobs.

Does anyone have experience in taking slides and getting them to some digital format? I am looking through pictures from Laguna Station Boy Scout High Adventure Sea Base* and figuring out how to use them in a promotional piece I want to produce. *sorry, just trying to move up the search engines. The question is real.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 12, 2006 -> 07:53 AM) Okay. I can agree with that to an extent. Still, the pictures of 150 school buses sitting in 6 feet of water when they should have been put into use evacuating 'the faces of New Orleans' are basically ignored and forgotten. Exactly. Those buses may be the poster shot for this disaster. If I had to select one imagine, that would be it. Like Bush in the rubble. BTW, should there be a sliding scale of accountability based on capability? What I'm thinking is the local fire chief for Oyster Cove, LA would be responsible for the evacuation of his town and probably has the credentials and training to maybe do that. The Disaster Chief or whatever for a larger Parish in LA should have better training and skills for a bigger job. If we are discussing shouldering blame, it would seem that the better trained, better paid, and better equiped should be grabbing more of the blame than the "little guys".

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 12, 2006 -> 07:37 AM) My point is that I'm not giving anyone a pass. But there are so many JUST pointing at Bush and not even looking at those pair of boobs in Louisana. The people in Al and MS were evacuated before the storm. New Orleans, for the most part, should have been. And I am saying I agree with you, no one should be ducking the blame, except God who gave warnings for days before cleaning house. It is probably unfair, but Bush stands on WTC rubble with a bullhorn and receives huge approval and congratulations for the response on 9/11, shouldn't he also receive the same opportunity for NO? We both know if the response was perfect, he'd be receiving the credit. All roads lead to the White House, the buck stops here, and all that. He has to shoulder the blame, but I agree, there should be a lot of shoulders to help him, and they don't seem to be stepping up. This should have been a high water mark (no pun intended) for Bush and it was fumbled away by some weak people at all levels of the government, state and local. Some were his administrations appointees. Sending two school buses to Hogsback MS is a little different from evacuating thousands of bus loads from a city, further complicating all of these responses is, we didn't forcibly evict anyone. Perhaps a mandatory get out or be arrested would have been better, but hindsight is everything.

I think there is a difference in breaking a law and not. I also think it shouldn't take a law to show us right from wrong. I think probable cause is a great thing. Carter is easily the best ex-President we have ever had. His efforts spreading democracy, building homes, and his works as an author are all outstanding. His actions speak loudly. I believe he holds the most sincere of Christian beliefs compared to the Presidents in my lifetime. I believe some other have wrapped themselves in religion to gather votes and support. As a politician, he still fumbles and misteps.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 11, 2006 -> 07:07 PM) Why are people not understand the concept of first response? Did anyone notice that 'beyond New Orleans' was handled pretty damn well in Alabama and Mississippi? Yes, handled quite well on a state and local level. While I agree that other state and local agencies dis a much better job, comparing a suburban and rural response to the levees breaking in NO is a stretch. I wouldn't give anyone a free pass, including some residents. What we should remember, if we are looking for a positive, was and still is, the tremendous response of volunteers who came and cleaned, cooked, handed out water, searched, held hands, prayed, and anything else that was needed. Those volunteer efforts continue to this day. So we have successes and failures that we can learn from. Can we really prepare for an event that is magnitudes worse than the previous? I think it may be unfair to expect it.

QUOTE(Goldmember @ Feb 11, 2006 -> 11:59 AM) http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stor...ED?OpenDocument (wtf?) was of course added by me. why in the hell would you write that in the story? It is suppose to humanize the story, help the reader to make a connection. For lack of a better word or phrase, this is a human interest story as much as a crime story and one thing the reporter should do is make than connection. This was not a good example, I think the reporter fumbled, but that's the reason. It's the difference between reading the police report and reading a newspaper account.

QUOTE(SnB @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 04:25 PM) I had to go see a play.........f***, not just a play, a musical. So i know what you're feeling. Barry Manilow.lawn seats.Popular Creek

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 01:09 PM) I still think the first response shoulds be at the local and state level. They have resources in place to do the job. You know, like all those parked school buses. How about command and control from the feds, sending state and local resources? I know that has problems but it would avoid a switch in command and control later when the s*** is really hitting the fan. It avoids turf battles, maybe.

That must have been scary for you, ankle twisted in bed sheets and you all alone I got wedged into a car once. I couldn't figure out how my knee wound up where it did. I couldn't lift it straight up and I couldn't figure out how to move much forward or back. LMAO for 5 minutes.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 12:39 PM) Bunch of lemmings. They know they are getting conned and ripped off to see an, at best, mediocre product and they still keep going. It reminds of the old movie "The Time Machine" when the sirens would go off and the people of the future would walk zombie-like to their deaths. Sox fans get pissed, and they let them know at the box office. Cub fans are idiots, I think that is by definition. But we should consider this Sox fans stay away when the product sucks True Sox fans support the team through thick and then Bandwagon jumpers only show up when the team is winning I am so confused

I guess he didn't like the rebates?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 12:17 PM) Man am I stupid. Your point was still valid. If these levees were in Bagdad, we'd probably already have Haliburton fixing them after we'd bombed the hell out of them. I do have an American me first mentality with this rebuilding. IMHO if we need to bomb someone, we needed to bomb them, we should not be paying to rebuild it, especially with all the damn oil money they have. Spend that money fixing stuff at home first. BTW, does that make me a conservative?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 11:12 AM) First of all...I don't think I've seen any estimate which says that making the NO Levees structurally sound enough to take the surge from a Cat 5 would have cost $67 billion. A couple billion yes, but not that number. Sorry, I should have been clearer, It's 67 million and that was a guess on mobilizing resources to get people out of harms way, secure the city, etc.

I am sittng here wondering how much time and money should have been spent on the possibility that NO would take a direct hit, and the levees would break, and this and that. While we have an unlimted budget to destroy and rebuild Iraq, we don't have an unlimited budget to mobilize thousands of people and tons of equipment on a worse case scenario. All that has to be balanced in the response. Can you imagine the headlines $67,000,000 spent on diaster that never came. What a waste of our tax dollars.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 09:06 AM) Disecting is great! Pointing fingers and accusing people of racism is not! FEMA was overwelmed. Something this big had never happened before. I don't fault them for be overwelmed. I agree that the racism stuff isn't useful, unless there was some proof, which there is none that I have seen. But there are two ways to discect and investigate 1. Independent 2. Let each agency investigate their own. One leads to finger pointing, option two leads to a watered down it's not my fault response. I'm not certain which is better, but I'd rather some finger pointing happen then a buddy buddy I'll cover your ass, you cover mine mentality.

How about just cuddle day . . . ?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 10, 2006 -> 08:39 AM) LOL, Im just waiting for one of Juggs patented "I talked to a Japanese father the other day, and we decided that Japanese culture is taking over..." discussions. The Mile High Club seems like a leftist nut-job thing to do, lol. I'm betting when he was in school and was told to write a 500 word essay, he was told that his had to be less than 500. Teacher A "What are you doing for spring break?" Teacher B "Reading essays" "That should take, what about a day?" "Nope all week, I have Juggs in my class"