July 31, 2009
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Greetings, Quotaholics: My sister is 6 years older than me. When she was a teenager I remember her and her friends talking about “reputation” a lot. Back then everyone was concerned about their reputation. Even the Everly Brothers sang about it in their song “Wake Up Little Susie”. When the teens in the song discovered they had fallen asleep on the couch they sang “Our reputation is shot”. By the time I was a teenager the ideal of reputation had changed some. To have been involved in sex was no longer the stigma that it had been during my sister’s youth, but the dual standard was alive and well. Guys wanted to date a tramp but marry a virgin. These days it seems that teen sex is pretty much a fact of life. I don’t think most teens aspire to marry a virgin. As a matter of fact many people now work in the sex industry. From strippers to porn stars to prostitutes I would guess more people have a bad reputation these days than ever before. But what happens to these people later in life? Many get out of the trade and go on to marry and have families. And for some their past life comes back to haunt them. We have heard of teachers who lost their jobs when their past was reveled. A former Miss America was fired when nude pictures of her surfaced. Many Hollywood stars have had photos or films from their past resurface after they rose to stardom. But what if a local politician was found to be married to a porn star? Well if he were in Florida apparently he gets fired. According to an article in the New York Daily News, the Fort Myers Beach town council met in an emergency meeting and voted 5-0 to fire town manager Scott Janke "without cause" after it was learned that he was married to a former porn star who goes by the stage name Jazella Moore. “(Mayor) Kiker acknowledged that Janke had violated no rules or laws and added that he had done a good job for the island town that had about 6,500 people, according to the 2000 Census. But the mayor was concerned whether Janke could remain effective and not distract the community from the business of the town along the state’s west coast.” “‘At no time did we make a judgment call on the activities of Mr. Janke or his wife,’ Kiker told The Associated Press. ‘It’s a matter of how effective he becomes after this situation. How much disruption there is.’” “‘Our heads are held high,’ Scott Janke said. ‘We have nothing to be embarrassed about. We’ve done nothing wrong.’” Now a quick Google search for Jazella Moore turned up many links to photos and videos readily available on the internet. Once the secret was out it would be very easy for anyone to locate these. But does that constitute a distraction for the community? Does it affect Mr. Janke’s ability to do his job? Do you think it’s right to fire someone because of what their spouse was involved in prior to their marriage? With so many people involved in sex related work these days, is it fair to assign them to a lower status for the rest of their lives? What about some young kid who foolishly gets caught up in something like this? Do they have any chance later in life? Or do you think the city acted properly in firing Mr. Janke? Does his choice of a wife reflect upon his ability to do his job? Would his serving as city manager tarnish the reputation of the city? Do you believe that people in the sex industry are lower class and don’t deserve to mix with “proper” people? What would you think if you found out that a friend or coworker was involved in something like this when they were younger? Nothing in my closet 
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| Visit to the Cemetery A man placed some
flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back
toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling
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“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.” “Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” “Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” - all from Milton Friedman, born on this day in 1912 |
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So I got home, tired and weary. I grabbed a beer and turned on my
monitor. I leave my computer running all the time because I Fold.
Our Team is doing pretty
good, but we could use some more help. That is, if you’re interested
in What was interesting to me is that Microsoft decided to reboot my computer with the Vista updates. At 3:00 a.m., it gave me the option of waiting until later, or letting them take care of it. I had five minutes to decide before Bill rebooted. I was asleep, so Bill rebooted. I found that out at around 4:30 p.m. today. My version of Folding doesn’t work unless I’m logged in. But what really got me was when I logged in. I was informed there was a Windows Vista update available. “This could take some time.” it warned. My computer is faster than my car, so I figured, what the hell. I downloaded the 300+ MB that Microsoft wanted me to download and then it asked me if I wanted to install the update. Again, I was warned that “this could take some time”. So that went merrily along for a while, then it said it was done and it wanted to reboot. I figured what the hell, be done with it. So I clicked OK. I got a message saying it was installing updates. Umm, I thought you already installed them? Then I rebooted, and it installed more updates and wanted to reboot again. I said OK again, and it was busy installing updates until it finally stopped and rebooted to finish installing the updates. By the time I could write (some 3 hours later), I didn’t feel like it, and I probably couldn’t even get my piece in on time if I tried. Blame Bill Gates. Tell him I liked Unix just fine. Sorry to disappoint. Tim a’Musing |
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Re: Marriage For my wife and I, remarrying and a long marriage are a great benefit to health, both physical and mental. Eleven days ago, we got "remarried" - for the 22nd time in 22 years in 22 different states. (This year we shared our vows with a skunk, opossum, some deer, and a bob cat and bulldog who wrestled at our feet.) Finding a way to constantly renew your relationship is a tool that anyone can use. (By the way, in all of our time together, our only "disagreement" is over whose name goes first — we alternate each year on our wedding certificate.) - T.I.M. What a load of bunkum that study is!! My dad’s folks were married fifty years, my grandfather lived to the ripe old age of 84 and his wife died at about 72, and his parents were the same. My mom’s folks divorced and both lived to their 70’s with my grandfather remarrying. My parents divorced, my dad lived to be 65 and my mom is still going strong at 73, and she still works since she has no income. Both remarried, my stepdad died at about 59 and my stepmother is 80-something. I’ve been married 31 years and we both have bad health from years of being poor and unable to take care of ourselves from the economic situation that was usually going on. My five siblings have all been divorced and remarried multiple times and most of them are in pretty good health, though it does seem to be the ones who have found long term partners and no or few children. I think it’s children, worrying about them, feeding them right, taking care of them that takes a toll on people’s health in relationships, since most of us still sacrifice a great deal for our children. It’s so deeply ingrained in us as a species that we can’t help it. I didn’t say all of us, mind, just most of us. Marriage and economic status have a far bigger factor on a person’s health, to me they are intertwined as they both seem to affect one another. - Ruth in WA Patti, my mom and dad were divorced when I was young. They both remarried, although my mom is now a widow. My dad was 82 when he died and my mom is currently 81. My dads parents were married for over 60 years and lived to be 87 and 102. Both my grandparents, on my dads side, were in good health up to the end, but my father was pretty ill the last few years of his life. My mother suffers from several health problems including diabetes, but at 81 she has had a longer life than her parents or sisters all of whom remained married for life. So I think there is more to this than if you only married once. Of course as the saying goes "Married men don’t really live longer. It only seems like it". - Mike Re: Cliff’s Moths The attraction of light for moths is quite straightforward. They navigate by the moon. Seeing an artificial light, they try to keep a constant bearing on it, which produces a circular flight path. Presumably, evolution will get this sorted out if civilization persists. The first heat-seeking missile ignored a convenient drone target and headed straight for the sun. Moths have a higher wing loading than butterflies, and so are less affected by wind, although the erratic flight of a butterfly may also be the result of a brain that stopped growing when marginally effective at navigation, but still retained random elements for evasive action and search functions. I was amazed to see a moth with a 4" wingspan once, which was readily identified by a west coast naturalist, but I can’t find her answer now. In daytime, I usually only see small moths that I disturb. - Bob of the North My paternal grandmother was 102 when she passed away, my father called me, up north at the cabin we rented for the Minnesota fishing opener, to give me the news. As he was telling me a Luna moth landed right under the bright deck light. Odd thing is this moth was my grandmothers favorite. It was like she paid me one last visit to say goodbye. Laura in Minneapolis Re: Patriotism We too often put Patriotism and Rights together when they are very different things. When I was a kid, my father taught us that the Constitution of the United States gave us the RIGHT to do just about anything we want, as long as it doesn’t interfere with someone else’s right to do what they want to do. He was speaking about neighbors and how we all interacted on our own property. We kept our noise in our yard, as well as our toys, but we had a neighbor who had no idea how to put her car in reverse and back out of her driveway, so she simply drove straight ahead and made our backyard into a semi-circular driveway to get to the street. After she had driven through my mom’s laundry hanging on clotheslines, Dad put up a fence. She drove through it. The next fence was much stronger. Steel posts! After that, her husband would turn her car around and back it into their own driveway so the lady could drive straight out. One evening he forgot. We watched her do the funniest thing I’ve ever seen anyone do with a car. In an attempt to turn it around in her own yard, she got it stuck sideways inside their double garage. It took a tow truck to get the car out. I wish people realized how their actions impose on the rights of other people to NOT hear someone else’s music choice booming across the back yard or blaring from car stereos, to be able to sleep when someone a block away decides to shoot off fireworks illegally an hour after you go to bed, to stop at a corner behind the stop-here-line and hold your breathe when someone talking on a cell phone sweeps around the corner and almost takes your bumper off. (and then she had the gall to give ME a glare and the finger! as though I had been in the wrong!) and stuff like that. I think I’ve figured out why people do that - they don’t know how to use their brake to slow their car down before making a left turn, or they’re so focused on the phone conversation it never occurs to them to slow before turning. Wonder what those folks would do if they had to use both feet to drive (as in clutch-brake-gas pedals). Nancy L in Ohio Re: Tip of the Day Personally–I’d use some other oil than Canola, like a light Olive oil. Canola was used for food, but was more useful as a machine lubricant since it mixed with water without dissolving. It has compounds that have an unpleasant taste and can give you an upset stomach. Many restaurants use it in their fryers now because it’s cheaper than other oils and supposedly healthier. We can always tell which ones because eating the fries will make my husband and son sick. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola_oil - Ruth in WA User Submission From Tim (Not Tim’s Tales Tim) "My dad used to put it another way: Never put another man in a corner where the only way out is over you." - Joe Biden in the Wall Street Journal |
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