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With the UofI trustees I would first vote for any females in an obvious student party. Then I would start splitting. Birch Society here, Communist there. I just know at some point in the future I'm going to be asked if I ever voted for a Commie or Socialist and I must have at least once. I was picturing a Board meeting riot

Exactly. The push down here among the churces is the so called "Liveable Wage". They are lobbying large employers to set a minimum wage at the poverty level which is a couple dollars above minimum wage. Which is an interesting comment on the minimum wage. Should it be almost 25% below the poverty level?

I pass two voting places to get to mine. Another tip. Get a sample ballot and study everything that is on it. You may be surprised at the offices or referendums you will be asked to vote on. Be prepared. In Illinois, I always enjoyed voting on the UofI trustees. Hell, I'd vote the yellow banana ticket, a couple Birch society types, right wing nut jobs and liberal nut cases. I figured, why the hell am I voting for UofI trustees? I may as well make it entertaining.

Then it takes away voting for it. The Dems like to use it as a campaign issue (Look what we are doing for the poor !) and the GOP already thinks it is too high. So both parties would like some control over it.

So if a business owners personal tax bite is going to increase by $10,000 per year, instead of increasing sales, the let someone go. They tell one of their kids they can't go to college. Interesting, so if $10,000 per kid stops parents from sending their kids to college then someone who makes $90,000 cannot afford to send any of their kids to school. $130,000 4 kids go $120,000 3 kids go $110,000 2 kids go $100,000 1 kid goes $90,000 sorry kids, here's a job in the coal mine If that designer isn't going to increase your business and make you a profit, hiring him is just a charity effort on your part. So charitible gifts go down. Any thought on that guy taking advantage of the tax breaks to locate there? In order to give himself a raise to cover his projected loss in take home pay of $10,000, he will have to fire workers. How many companies have "extra" employees around? With all the hurdles to starting a business, I find it interesting that the guy is going to cave in because his personal taxes go up.

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npr story Obama is a big celebrity in Kenyan. A brewery has named a beer in his honor, The Senator.

One of the keys to successful interviews is checking out the companies you would be working for. Before you even go on the interview, find out everything you can. This is one area that blogs may pan out. Don't believe everything, but you should be able to find out a little something about the business on the net. You may also wish to start at the top and work your way back. Pick your dream job, something you would want to be doing when you are an old man of 45 , find out whose doing that job, and pick up the phone and call the person. You would be amazed how willing old people are to share what they learned the hard way. Pick there brains about entry level positions. Find out who is regarded as excellent trainers. I remember a few friends who went into insurance sales. They all went to the big life insurance companies for training. They knew they would be quiting and starting their own firms, but they received excellent support and training while starting out. You have a lot of time, effort, and money invested in yourself. Take the time to really plan your career. Have a 5, 10, and 25 year plan layed out. You will instantly vault yourself past 98% of your competition.

Pahds, that's all hat and no cattle to y'all . . .

I was listening to a three hour GOP campaign speech disguised as a talk show. The Democratic major of Youngstown was speaking out how Kerry's Tax plan would destroy their local economy. I am trying to connect the dots here. What he outlined was Youngstown was in dire times and these brave business startups arrived in part to aggressive tax plans that Youngstown was offering. These zones, dubbed brownfields, offered tax breaks and other incentives for business to move to. Fast forward a number of years and he claims to know all of these owners, and they all are earning over $200,000 in personal income. He claims if their personal federal income tax increased, it would destroy all those jobs and future growth. We've heard this before. Tax the business owner and you lose jobs. Here's what I don't understand. If one of those owners was paying $60,000 in annual taxes and now he is going to pay $70,000 in personal taxes, exactly what does he do that eliminates jobs? Does he close down his company? Does he fire 15 workers? Does he stop the $2,000,000 expansion? Connect the dots, what does the business owner whose take home income drops from $140,000 annual to $130,000 do to cripple the economy?

Couple of Food Stops #1 on the list is Texas BBQ Rudy's in Brownsville #2 is tacos nortenos at Taqeria el Zarape or El Pato bistek with onions and cilantro with plenty of salsa #3 Whataburger. Best fast food buger in the world. #4 If you go to the island either Blackbeards or Sea Ranch for dinner. I prefer Blackbeards but Sea Ranch has the bigger reputation and is one of America's Top 50. #5 Party at Louie's Backyard fun club on the island.

And the Delay machine is kicking in Texas. The GOP took a Congressman with 26 years experience, and the only Jewish person among the Texas contingent, and sliced his district 4 ways to assure more GOP house seats. All this two years after the same GOP approved the Texas map. Slime political maneuver.

Fox satire? Do you mean the Simpsons? I'm lost.

With all the lies the military tells, it's hard for them to tell the truth. For PR purposes they toss medals on undeserving soldiers and try and peddle them as heroes or something. Shameful but typical from right wing wacko jobs.

No we wouldn't, we understand satire. We have to put up with the hate speech, mocking, and lies from the hours and hours of GOP talk shows everyday. I am constantly bombarded with GOP cheerleaders talking about how liberals do not care about America, are indiots, environmental wackos leftist wack jobs, etc. Yet I support their right to speech. And of course they claim it's the left that is trying to divide America. I believe most republicans do not have a problem with a do as I say, not as I do mentality. That same mentality bothers most Dems. I find it very hypocritical to complain about a newspaper article when we spend millions of dollars and send CIA agents into other countries to affect their elections.

They have sunk to our level

Do some research from Bloomington on industries you would like to get into. Take a long term view of your career. Find an industry with excellent growth potential and contact the Human Resource Departments in that industry. Before heading to Chicago, have a list of 25-30 companies you would like to interview with and work the phones and email to schedule interviews. Get as much of the prelim work done before getting to Chicago. Do not worry if they have advertised openings or not. You will be gaining intervewing skills and learning about the industries. You already have a marketing job. You need to market yourself. Create a branded package, with resume of course, 5 or 6 cover letters depending on the industry and position, if appropriate a video. Perhaps any samples of college work you did.

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Great! South Padre Island has some nice clubs and the weather is still great for the beach. I haven't spent as much time in Matamoros as I have in Progresso and Reynosa, two other border towns just up the river.

I do not have one I read regularly. I do from time to time catch a few from people I know or from a couple experts I'm interested it. Start one for yourself, if someone reads it great, if not, who cares? I am shocked when I would receive comments on mine.

Sickening. Writing about it. They should be more like us, just send in the CIA to do the job. Can you say Castro?

Now let's see how much SPAM we get for entering that little survey

Sorry, you cannot sell yourself. The US Government owns you for a little while longer.