RE: You don't know what it's like....

When music was great.

RE: DECLINE OF UNIONS IN AMERICA

I worked at another union factory also in Queens NY called Welbilt Stoves. My brother got me the job. $1.06 an hour. Do the math, that works out to $42.40 a week. After you're there a while, and you're lucky, you might get to do what they call "Piece Work" meaning you get paid by the piece instead of by the hour. The problem with this scheme though is the number of pieces per hour you have to produce in order to make the higher rate is virtually unattainable unless you work yourself to death. Another way they trick you when it looks like you might be reaching the high dollar rate is they slow down the conveyor belt on the assembly line. Or they drag their feet supplying you with critical parts. I quit that job after about a month when it dawned on me that the union was working more for the company than for the employees. super

RE: DECLINE OF UNIONS IN AMERICA

It sure would be nice if we could have an intelligent discussion about the economy or the job market or anything about life in general, without including the swamp creature in the WH. I guess it just isn't possible for Republicans to discuss anything without bringing Trump into the picture.dunno

RE: The Pressure to Impeach Trump grows every day.

And the trump trolls think he'll be re-elected by a landslide. Now that's what I call Trump Derangement Syndrome. Can someone run for president when he's under investigation for multiple crimes?

A blast from the past

FB is scary. I had a FB acct a while back, totally fake, name, age, location. I did it just to see what all the BS was about. I made the mistake of interacting with one person and before I knew it I was getting swamped with a hundred suggested connections to other people. I started deleting them 1 by 1 but i couldn't keep up with it so I had my son delete the acct for me.

RE: NEWBORN DEATHS

@ Ken Would you mind providing some sources for such a wild and ridiculous claim?.

RE: Should I write about the story of Adam and Eve?

By all means tame, write the story of Adam & Eve, it couldn't be any worse than the farce from the bible.

RE: My wife

Have you ever been married dude? If not, you may want to talk to a few of us who have.

RE: "D DAY"..("75 YEARS ON")

RE: "D DAY"..("75 YEARS ON")

My brother bobby would have been over there celebrating the anniversary but he passed away in 2010. He was one of the paratroopers who jumped behind enemy lines prior to the D Day landing. He joined the Army on Dec 8 1941 a day after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Ha said the line to join up went around the block.

RE: Color me.....suspicious lol

Yeah, you were captivated by her literary skills. laugh

RE: 20 year anniversary since the release of the second most popular pop song in history

Spanish Harlem, a neighborhood in NYC that out of towners never get to see. laugh They're too busy looking at the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State bldg.

RE: If you ride a HARLEY-DAVIDSON motorcycle...

I've had 5 motorcycles in my life, none of them were Harleys.
1 Suzuki X6 Hustler 250 my first bike
1 Suzuki 380 Triple I rode from NJ to FL & back on that one.
1 Suzuki 550 GS bought brand new in 78 Getting married ended that chapter
1 Kawasaki 400
1 Suzuki 1000 That bike was just too tall for me.

I had intended to look at Harleys new sport bikes because they looked more like what a motorcycle is supposed to be, a fun machine you can lay over and ride on twisty roads instead of just going straight down the interstate with your feet pointing forward.

If you look on CL for motorcycles for sale 95% of them will be Harley Davidson.

RE: The food was THAT bad !

When I lived in Queens in the 60's, this was one of my favorite places to go for a wild night out. It had the very misleading name "The Country Club" which probably attracted many out of town tourists who thought they were going to a normal sane place to dine and catch a little entertainment. Boy were they mistaken!

RE: "GET USED TO IT"

A lot of Brits are in Spain. My guess is they go there to get away from the dreary weather in the UK. Kind of how Canadians and Snowbird Yankees flock to Florida.

RE: America Sends 130,000 Tons Of US Diplomacy To The Middle East

Hey Ample, where do you suggest we put all this oil? confused

RE: Tick...Tock...Tick...Tock...

jlv, it says in your profile you're an investor. What type of investor are you, stocks, bonds, commodities, Forex, Day trader, buy & hold, or just let the broker manage your portfolio? Got any tips or horror stories?

RE: Change of Socks For The Feet

Dollar Tree has a great deal on socks. I just bought 2 pr of socks for a dollar, how can you beat that?

RE: been thinking

I could teach you to drive stick shift in 15 minutes without leaving the driveway.

RE: Nose in the phones

We had a phone when I was a kid. It was one of those kind you see in old B/W movies with the rotary dial available in any color you want as long as it was black. I still remember our number RE4-7089. The RE stood for Regent. Back then all the exchanges were names and if you gave someone your phone number they probably knew where you lived. Regent was the Yorkville upper east side neighborhood of Manhattan.

I have a smart phone but the only time I remove it from the house is to charge it from the cigarette lighter in my car. I literally hate the thing. The only reason I have it is to get online ie Hotspot. Only 1 person on earth has my number for the smartphone and that's my son. I have a flip phone for calls.

RE: Trump on trial

RE: Nine Things That Are Now More Popular than Pitiful CNN

I'm surprised Lawton OK even has TV.dunno

RE: Barack Milhous Hussein Benito Obama

Hey Rain, in auto racing parlance, Biff just put you back on the trailer.rolling on the floor laughing

RE: United States Produces Very Little Of The World's Plastic Waste Yet Seems To Always Get The Blame

That's it I'm bringing my own used plastic bags when I go food shopping.

RE: Tax

DR, here is a national gastax map as you can see CA is not alone.


Also it was when Republican president Gerald Ford was in office CA adopted much higher CAFE standards as a way to clean up the polluted air and smog which CA was infamous for. That was a good thing. Now your hero, "Crazy Trumpet", is trying to roll back fuel economy standards nationwide because he is in bed with big oil.
his logic runs something like this:
Kill fuel economy, sell more oil, make more money.

RE: Al Gore Commemorates Earth Day By Using Private Jet To Write 'Save The Planet' In The Sky

"The Babylon Bee is Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire."

Jimnastic often posts satire from the "Borowitz Report" but he always identify's it as such. Maybe you should take a lesson from the other side of the isle? Aren't you the guys who constantly belly ache about Fake News?confused

RE: Thanks to CS

I am totally impressed. It sounds like you guys are doing everything right.thumbs up

RE: Thanks to CS

It looks like an overhead welding job, good luck! Do you know what material the skeg is made of? Is the skeg welded to the hull? Is that where the break is? Sorry to be asking so many questions but this topic is right up my ally.

RE: Thanks to CS

If you can take a picture of the completed weld. I'd like to critique this welder. BTW, which part of the underside had to be welded? I'm guessing the rudder.

RE: A Closer look at yesterday

Hey swamie, do you think you can stay on the topic of the blog? hijack

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