FogBat
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My complaint is that I was just about to drift off to sleep--I mean, I was SO CLOSE, but the youtube stream ended.
That guy has some real skills. He's wasting them on religious commentary; he should do hypnosis tapes or something like that, instead.
I know that you and I aren't going to agree on some things, and I don't believe that this is an exception. Having said that, given the fact that I am quite theologically minded, I thought that his observations were highly apropos.
Now, if you don't mind, I feel that I must share with you some naivety from my younger days: When I was much younger, I wondered how people could base a science on the word "The" with regards to the-ology. Obviously, I learned later on down the line that such was not the case. I still get a bit of a chuckle when I think about it.
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My complaint is that Evangelical Christians complain when some ELSE has an agenda. Oh, the irony.
By the way, I find BOTH of their intolerance equally as repulsive.
Please clarify. There's three people I've covered thus far, including the guy who made a lucid observation on the whole matter.
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You watch pageants?
No, but I am well aware of the controversy surrounding the question. There is no denying that he had an agenda.
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I've been waiting all week to post this:
As it is, the Miss USA forum was completely the wrong time for Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. to ask that question. He clearly had an agenda, and he is absolutely prejudiced. Were it not for him hijacking the entire pageant on such a loaded and biased question, Miss California would have definitely won the pageant.
I am proud that she stood on her convictions and did not capitulate to the whims of such a hate-filled man.
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Good for you! I hope it works out. Keep on truckin'
Thanks.
BTW, when I called my home terminal on what I needed to do leading up to my final days, I was told by one of my fleet manager's assistants that if my FM had any questions, he would either Qualcomm me or call me. Nothing yet. Quite honestly, I think that speaks volumes, especially since he encouraged me to stick things out.
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I hate it when my mind draws a blank on my weekly plus/minus feature, whether it's one or the other. Hopefully, this fills the gap.
On to a genuine complaint: I came out of the house last Monday, picked up a load in Raphine, VA going to Oaks, PA and it only paid for 388 miles. Once I got there and delivered on Tuesday, dispatch told me they had no loads for me and that I needed to find the closest parking space as possible. Well, they have a policy that unless I am authorized to take any toll road, I'm not supposed to use them. However, they made an exception. So I tried to get as close to the King of Prussia rest area going westbound on the PA turnpike. The place was completely boarded up and barricaded. A sign read, "Next rest area 22 miles". So I went over to Marsh and parked it there. I wound up staying there for 45 hours until my next load was ready for pick up over in Boothwyn, PA (near Wilmington, DE). Mind you, this load was not supposed to deliver in Maryville, MO until 4.13 in the early morning hours AND it's an appointment. Which means that I would only get paid 388 miles for the week and no one in their right mind can afford to live on that - even if I am getting paid .42/mile.
I picked it up anyway and was figuring that I would be allowed to relay the load over at the drop yard in E. St. Louis, IL. Dispatch refused, saying that it was out of the way. I said that it was maybe about 10-15 miles away from I-70. No matter, they didn't want it there. I asked about Indianapolis. Nope, no dice. They told me that I would only be allowed to drop it at the terminal in Columbus - 434 miles from where I picked up. When deadhead is factored in to pick up the load (no, this is not in reference to the Grateful Dead), I only got paid 885 miles for the week.
Oh, it gets better. From the terminal, I was sent a load to pick up in Brookville, OH and deliver to Keasbey, NJ - which is near Newark. My first reaction was Oh, you've got to be KIDDING ME!!!:angry: That part of the country has been the absolute worst for outbound freight over the past few months! I pleaded with my fleet manager to get a hold of me. Finally, I just decided to suck it up and take it, knowing that this was futile to fight them over it. My fleet manager finally sends me a Qualcomm message as I get to the shipper for the Brookville load telling me that they're doing the best they can and for me to "hang in there". (Yeah, right. If I hang in there like he's telling me to do, I'm going to lose my house.) I picked it up that Friday, and had it over there by Saturday afternoon. I sat for almost 72 hours before my next load was ready. Mind you, I received notice almost 45 hours after my arrival in Keasbey that there would be a load for me, but it wouldn't be ready until 5 pm Tuesday afternoon - 27 hours later after the load offering was sent.
Here's what they don't know. I took some time on my laptop and filled out an online application for another trucking company on Monday since I wasn't going anywhere. I got a call the following day for an over the phone interview. They have a dedicated account that is not far from where I live. It just came open. I'll at least get a chance to get home at least one day every weekend. Plus, it appears that I should be getting at least 2300-2500 miles a week. Granted, I'll be taking a HUGE pay cut per miles at only .345/mile, but it's actually far better than .42/mile and maybe getting 1500-1700 miles a week WITH the obvious uncertainty where they're going to secure freight. So, I've been hired on and my last day with my current company will be either next Wednesday or Thursday.
As it is, I'd been mulling over a switch for the past 2-3 months. However, this past week, with all the sitting around and getting forced to go to points around Philly/NJ/Tri-State area was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was time for me to "pull the trigger" and get the switch done.
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How much you gonna give me for not using my tix?
Why don't you ask the Land of Oz Front Office that question? They're the ones who appear to be responsible for the nuclear meltdown these past two seasons.
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Sabres become officially eliminated from playoff contention on my birthday. :sick: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:
I don't even want to get started about the boys getting eliminated today. I am just so disgusted with not just the lack of effort throughout the course of the season, but the incompetence of the FO.
I implore every fan that still lives in Bflo to boycott every home game next season. Maybe that will serve as a wake up call to them that we will no longer put up with the half-a$$ effort put forth by the entire organization.
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I could go on endlessly with stories like this. My personal favorite is always the people who look one way, see no car, then head out. But not only do they look just one way, they only look to the right. So they never even look to the side where the cars would be coming from first. They really need to pass a law that allows you to mow over people like this (and they're on the hook for the damage). The world could use a few million less idiots.
War stories?
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I go out of my way to help folks in a different department at work and they can't so much as reply to a simple email when I need something. This hasn't happened once. Not twice. Probably a good two dozen times. If not more. This group is notorious for this among us technical folks. When I bring it up, it's always something I've done wrong. Perhaps I approached it incorrectly, used the wrong tone, or wasn't persistent enough. Hell, I'm logged in doing something now because they "forgot" to tell the night shift dude to do something last night.
I don't get this. How is it my problem? Why aren't these other guys kicked for playing black hole?
I'm ultimately responsible for all of the systems. If I just ignore it and it breaks, it's my fault too!
Bah.
Sounds almost like me dealing with the Delmarva regional dispatcher at the company I work for. (Yet the poetic justice I get out of it is when I call his bluff and he realizes he effed up without completely admitting to it. :nana: )
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It has nothing to do with knowing what makes you tick, it is about listening and doing your job. I'm a dispatcher and I never miss home times unless freight conditions completely prevent you from getting home. And then I talk to you about it before you miss time off.
Well, then I probably don't work for your company (and I don't want to know who you work for either).
Seriously, you really have a lot of gall to try to tell me that I'm not doing my job - especially when my dispatcher told me and all the other drivers underneath him not to pester him while they were trying to secure freight for us. I wound up sitting for nearly 48 hours until my load became available.
You have to admit that every company does things differently - and some have more headaches than others.
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Added complaint feature: dispatchers at my trucking company don't seem to pay attention to "Time at Home" requests. In a perfect world, it should be ex-truckers who should be dispatchers because they actually know what makes us tick.
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Thanks for the response.
YW.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons are mostly crap these days, but thank God for Boomerang!
That is an extreme understatement right there. They just don't make cartoons like they used to.
Who here doesn't remember the Smurfs???
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Mind if I ask why?
Well, you mentioned it earlier, which is why I replied in kind. That was one reason.
Second, while it was nice to get reacquainted with old friends (like a pastor in Germany), I could ask practically anyone to be my friend and they wouldn't know me from Adam. Look at the number of friends that Teppo has on FB, and he probably doesn't even know 1/4 of them personally. (He is a likable guy, and I am not complaining about the number of friends he has on there. I am just using that for the sake of argument.)
Third, if I did enough digging on a friend's info tab, I could see what some of their issues were. I won't go into details, but as I was taking my friends list down to zero, I would look through every info page and see where some people stood on some things. If I didn't like what I read, they wouldn't be getting future emails from me or any notification that I was leaving. (Conversely, I noticed that there was a friend or two whom I invited who later unfriended me, and I think I can safely assume that these old friends didn't like what they read. With me being an ultraconservative of the Ron Paul variety, it doesn't surprise me in the least.)
Fourth, my wife had an account with FB for a few months. All of a sudden, out of the blue, she gets a message from someone who stalked her when she was in college back in the mid 90's. That was enough for her right there.
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A little Facebook complaint - people on your friend list who post inappropriate things on your wall, in their status updates, or other people's walls, and then it shows up in your feed.
I quit my membership with Facebook last week. I don't plan to ever join it again.
FTR, I have never had a myspace account either, and I don't ever plan to have one.
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People are going to hate me for responding, but, well, some of them hate me anyway...
Why does gold need to be the standard? Things have value because humans say the things have value. Doesn't matter if it's gold, Honus Wagner baseball cards, four-leaf clovers, model rocketships, or bottles of "fine" wine. None of those are intrinsically valuable; they only have value because we arbitrarily decide they have value. So if it's portraits of dead presidents on linen paper, instead of a metal that has no scientific application besides its ability to conduct electricity, who cares?
If you feel the need to base money on something tangible, why not grains of sand, or coffee beans, or iron nuggets, or silver, platinum, carbon, or whatever other element? Why gold?
There's really nothing that special about gold, unless you're buying jewelry. Then, it's pretty. (But so are tulips, and what happened when the economy was based on those?)
But the problem is that with paper money, an overabundance of it can result in hyperinflation. Ask the Germans in the 1920's. Ask the people of Zimbabwe today.
Paper money can be created in mass quantities, which is why any currency that has no backing whatsoever is considered to be a fiat currency. However, it is impossible to do that with gold or any other precious metal. It can only be mined.
I know that I'm not some booksmart "economist" like John Maynard Keynes ( :sick: ), John Kenneth Galbraith ( another :sick: ), or Paul Krugman. However, common sense should tell us that printing money in humongous mass quantities can lead to hyperinflation. Basic history has taught us that much.
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Dereck Roy's tv commercials with his "friends" Celino and Barnes. :sick:
Ugh!!! I hate watching that. It makes my skin crawl. I swear to God its ten times worse than veins, veins, veins!! :death:
Speaking of ambulance chasers, IIRC, why is it that half of the TV commercials in the Buffalo area come from them?
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How about in a country as wealthy as ours (still), our government can't fund cancer research to end this scourge once and for all. But the spending bill signed yesterday was chock full of billions in pork. There shouldn't have to be 3-day walks. Honestly, it's a disgrace to our nation.
:lol: Best joke of the year.
You are aware that there is not one nation that has a gold standard, right? Fiat currency is utter hogwash. You can thank Woodrow Wilson for that... :thumbdown:
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