I ran across a story at The Jawa Report that is a little old but I had not read before. It’s about Hershey shutting down a plant in Oakdale, California and selling off the plant and adjacent land. Apparently they employed up to 750 back in the 90’s and the final 575 will be gone…Read more
Politics
The Minimum Wage Increase…
…or How my government gave me an involuntary PAY CUT. July 24th the new Federal Minimum Wage goes from 5.15 to 5.85 an hour. At the same time we, like most companies around the united states will be raising our prices to compensate for it. As far as my employees go it indirectly effects them….Read more
America NOT Founded Upon Christianity…
I found this at DRC’s site, who in turn got it from Tammy and she is right in that it does need to be repeated and often. In a recent Journal & Courier article, an attendee of a local gathering in observance of the National Day of Prayer alleged, “Our nation was founded on biblical…Read more
Help Save Internet Radio
I saw some news reports on this and have already signed a petition as well as sent letters to my congressmen but I received this email today and felt like it was important enough to post. Even if you don’t listen to Internet radio, this is an important issue and you should head on over…Read more
Rosie Shows Why She’s a Surrender Monkey
Just checking out some of the sites this morning and over at Blue Star Chronicles I came across this post: Rosie’s Flying a Flag and Backtracking. Apparently Rosie has a new post up at her blog backpedaling from her support for all of the 9/11 conspiracy wackos. 9/11 affected me deeply, as I know it…Read more
History, Part 1
I find it interesting that the older I get, the more “history” that I see. When I was young I used to sort of envy my great-grandmother. She was born in 1883, so had seen all kinds of changes in her life. Things coming into common usage. Automobiles. Airplanes. Telephones. Televisions. Great wars. WWI, WWII,…Read more
Useless?
Not completely, but I am pretty much in a non-posting mood this morning. I stayed up too late last night. We watched the season premier for one of the few shows that I watch on TV, 24. For some reason, even though 90% of the stuff is just incredulous, I still enjoy it. Last night…Read more
Hopefully this Gentleman Will Die in Prison…
…even if it does mean more terrorist attacks. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/14/rahman.health/index.html Technorati : Al Qaeda, Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Terrorists Powered by Zoundry
The Pope’s Address
The only reason I am posting this is because I wanted to have a permanent copy of it, and this seemed like a good place for it. I read Pope Benedict’s address last week when all of the furor was just getting started and really didn’t find much that was untrue in it. Still not…Read more
Just some general web surfing bullshit
At least the US is being straightforward and honest when we didn’t sign the Kyoto treaty, unlike most of the participating countries. Thanks, LL. I also came across an almost unbelievable article about a guy who called in with a dead family member, more than once (and the KID wasn’t dead). Fucker. Mel Gibson apologizes…Read more