March 26, 2008
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"My one regret in life is that I’m not somebody else." - Woody Allen |
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Enclosed is my 1999 tax return & payment. Please take note of the attached article from USA Today newspaper. In the article, you will see that the Pentagon is paying $171.50 for hammers and NASA has paid $600.00 for a toilet seat. Please find enclosed four toilet seats (value $2400) and six hammers (value $1029). This brings my total payment to $3429.00. Please note the overpayment of $22.00 and apply it to the "Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. Might I suggest you the send the above mentioned fund a 1.5 inch screw." (See attached article… HUD paid $22.00 for a 1.5 inch Phillips head screw.) It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year. Sincerely, A satisfied taxpayer |
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"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!" - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (1879-1919) |
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." - Guy de Maupassant, French naturalist writer of short stories and novels (1850-1893) |
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"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period … was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." – Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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On this day in history, March 26, 1934: The United Kingdom implements a driving test that must be passed in order to obtain a driving license. France and Germany were among the first countries to demand that drivers be licensed after proving capable of handling a car. The two countries required this proof of skill level when traffic fatalities rose, as early as 1903. On August 1, 1910, North America’s first licensing law, which affected only chauffeurs, went into effect in New York state. By July 1913, New Jersey required all drivers to be licensed. The European Union has given the 300 million drivers in the EU one credit card-style license with a photo or possibly a microchip included. This one card replaced the 110 different plastic or paper cards that were previously issued by various countries throughout Europe. They have raised the eligibility age to 17 or 18 as well, unless a license is for a moped or a small motorcycle (engine size under 125 cc). "American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age." - Marshall McLuhan "Must we accept that the only alternatives are to either incrementally improve our current patchwork of identification documents, drivers licenses, Social Security cards and the like, or alternatively, move to some centralized federal data bases that aggregate all sorts of privacy-sensitive information." - Mike Castle "There’s more information on your driver’s license than on the census short form." - Kenneth Prewitt |
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Windows NT crashed. |
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| Once again, the computer gods have conspired against me and I’m unable
to submit a piece. Luckily, our good friend Gyppo was able to step
up to the plate and save the day. Thanks, Gyppo! Tim In Memory of Rodney. Things happen to me. And sometimes I go out and happen to things ;-)
But this tale definitely belongs in the first group. I was delivering mail on New Year’s Eve, whizzing around on ‘Rodney”
- the red bicycle. We Posties tend to get very set in our working
routine, always leaning the bike against the same tree, post, parked
car, slow-moving elderly citizen, sleeping Bull Mastiff, or whatever.
On this occasion my usual place was blocked by a new shrub in a large
pot, so I leaned Rodney against the customer’s garage door. I walked the 20 or so feet to the door and pressed the bell because I
needed to collect a signature. As I waited a strange noise caught
my attention and I looked around. (Why is there never anyone there
with a video camera to catch these ‘things happening to Gyppo’ moments?) Rodney was stood on his nose, back wheel reaching skywards, postal pouch
tipping from the basket! Just like a horse kicking up its hind legs. The noise was the electric ‘up and over’ door opening, and instead of
just tipping Rodney gently to one side the corner of the door has
become hooked under the saddle… As I watched - too surprised to even attempt a rescue - the front wheel
also left the ground and Rodney began to swing slowly, like a carcass
on a butcher’s hook. As the door reached the top of its travel it
jolted, as such doors often do, and Rodney was flung off to one side
like a rat being flung by a terrier. With a crunch he landed and bounced, and I saw a startled young lad stood
just inside the garage door, finger still on the ‘OPEN’ button, looking
at the bicycle which must have appeared to fall from the sky. He then
spotted me, probably looking equally bewildered. “Are *you* okay?”, he asked. Seeming to think I’d been flung from the
bike when it ‘dropped in from above’. He took some convincing. The only obvious damage to Rodney was a scuffed
patch on the saddle. I ask you, what are the odds against this string of events happening? I told you, things just happen to me… Unless I get there and happen
to them first ;-) Gyppo |
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| Re:
Pedophile? In reference to this morning’s article from Mike……..stupidity never goes out of style, whereas common sense isn’t as common as you think. As you stated, where were the parents when all of this was happening? Where was their concern then? I don’t feel a young man’s life should be ruined when both parties were consenting young teens. I feel the parents should be held accountable rather then the teenagers. I’ve said for years that our judicial system needs a good enema……clean things out……….if this young man is prosecuted for this so called crime and goes to jail for that length of time, it’ll just reaffirm my thinking. - Helene Government ought to stay out of peoples’ sex lives unless a real crime, such as rape or child abuse is involved. Girls and boys are equally responsible for their activities, and, although I can appreciate that boys are hot to trot, and girls are hot to fall in love, it is the parents, not the gov’ment who ought to intervene. - Lucille Interesting story. How did it come to the attention of the authorities, in order for the poor kid to be arrested? I was, at first, assuming it was her parents, thinking to myself, They weren’t "watching". Then I thought, Well, maybe it’s the school she attends? It’s pure speculation on my part. Mike asked: "Should Yang be charged with assault?" No. "Should he be charged with any crime?" No. "Should the parents of the girl be charged with some crime for not supervising her activities?" No. Though, shame on them for not "watching" what was going on. "Should the parents of Kou be charged for not supervising him?" No. Though they, too, share some of what they’ll now have to live with. I don’t know the cast of characters involved. I don’t know their personalities. I don’t know what lead to this disclosure. But, one thing I do know is: There is going to be an awful lot of pain coming for Kou and his family. Unfortunately, in our society, today, once authorities learn of such behavior, they have no choice but to prosecute. And, there goes a young man’s future. No matter what happens - whether he agrees to a plea bargain, goes to trial, found guilty, not guilty - the fact that he was charged will always remain in some data base somewhere and never be electronically expunged. Even if he’s found not guilty and gets a court order to have his charges expunged, the Courts cannot guarantee it will be. He will have to live with this mark on his record until he dies. And that puts into jeopardy any hope of his securing certain positions in the work force. Not to mention he may have to register as a sex offender if he pleads or is found guilty. That poor kid’s life is now over and so are his dreams for the future. Shame on the adult/s who initiated all this. Common sense is not so common, anymore. What a society America has now become. - Ernie I fail to see how imprisoning Kou Yang for any length of time, especially for decades, will help anything. I assume it is the maternal grandparents who have instigated the suit because someone must have signed the grievance. What do they intend to tell their granddaughter when she asks where her Daddy went? “Well, honey, we had him put in prison. We were inattentive parents and thought it would be best if your father’s life was ruined and didn’t mind ruining yours as well because we are, overall, complete idiots.” That would be accurate at any rate. Putting the young father in jail will not turn back the clock. Their daughter will still be a mother. Their granddaughter will still be a darling baby, albeit fatherless. What purpose will this serve? I have no idea when we became so frightened by sex. I remember the sexual revolution and how the birth control pill was going to make everything everywhere a veritable Eden on Earth. Instead, today we have more people more concerned about more sexual issues than ever before. The Nanny State is driving me insane. Teens have been having illicit sex for quite some time. I am a grandparent of three and my own paternal grandparents “had to get married” after a buggy ride ended up like so many car rides do today. Sex is nothing new. There is a world of difference between a couple kids experimenting with sex and some predator stalking and abusing an underage child. I would like to know how many politicians, judges, lawyers, and police officers were virgins until the age of 21. Well, not really. Please don’t tell me, that’s a rhetorical question. I would like every adult who takes up court time with this type of nonsense to have to serve time for any and all indiscretions in their own teenaged years. Or else to make sure that the law is changed to prosecute the harmful while leaving those innocent of criminal activity outside the prisons. – Patti, just plain sad with the idiots in power. I’ve gotta ask. Why isn’t the girl facing charges? Didn’t she have sex with a minor, too? - Bruce Reader Submission A council in Port Stephens Australia has taken the extraordinary step of stacking two empty shipping containers on a clifftop to spoil water views for householders suspected of illegally cutting down trees. Council put them there - with a crane, at a cost of more than $10,000 - to punish those responsible for cutting down 20 trees. - Best, Bob of the North  |
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