It’s based on an old Thai folk tale about a man who goes off to war. When he returns home all seems good at first with his wife and baby until a friend informs him that his wife died in childbirth months ago and he is living with ghosts.
The ghost of the wife is far from pleased and begins to do whatever she can to stay with her husband in the land of the living.
It isn't one or the other but electied officials are often apt to remember who contributed to their election in one way or annother.
The idea that "our" party is more clean than "their" party is just a fairy tale told to keep the masses squabbling among themselves while the polititians do their mischief. Sort of along the same line as giving something shiney to look at when you want to distract them.
The point is the Government run very little efficently or economically.
Right?
If not I can introduce you to a military contractor who was told by the buyer he'd just given a 30% discount to, "No way, we pay full price, I HAVE A BUDGET THAT I HAVE TO SPEND EVERYTHING OR I LOSE MONEY NEXT YEAR."
That 30% amounted to a fair amount of money, our money that went spinning down the tubes because of doing things the Government way.
I can take you to an office 35 miles from me that has perhaps $100,000 worth of hardwood furnishings, the chairs with fine leather upholstry, all in like new condition. All bought for the price of shipping from the O'Neil Federal Building Bostom MA. Because they had a budget where everything had to be spent. How much do you suppose they spent on the new stuff? It's been five years or so since they bought it. Odds are that's gone too.
Any idea why I have no more confidence in the Government managing money well any more than I do in a lion going Vegan?
This statement about sums up anything you are trying to say:
For people who hate government with such a passion you Republicans are trying awfully hard to be included IN it.
This isn't about health care. This is just more political hatred and venom aimed at the Repubican party.
These problems have been brewing for a very, very long time. Both parties have been in and out of power over those years. Both are equally guilty in allowing them to happen.
I was talking to a couple of friends when the subject of praying for one’s enemies came up when talking about a guys boss that had been causing problems for him.
“I’m not going to waste my time praying for that SOB” He told us.
“No, pray for him! Pray that he gets EVERYTHING HE HAS EARNED.” He was told.
The guy smiled for the first time that day, “Yeah, I like that.”
That said if it happened to me and I were in a bitter/playful mood I'd write her a very nice thank you note for her clarification and patience. Wish her the best for her future then close with a request for the contact information of her major female rival.
Unless of course if she had a passion for violence and plenty of frequent flyer miles built up.
How’d Taking of Pelham 123 compare with the original? That was always a favorite of mine.
Tons of fun older and foreign movie out there.
Dealer’s choice on the hat. I gave up mine and am slowly learning Martian so I can understand the signals they pump into my brain. So far they seem to be translations of the old Bob and Ray shows.
I told the dog when he learns to keeps his room clean he can have a pet as long as he takes care of it. Used to be legal to keep them here. Seems you needed a permit from F&G though.
Having lived in an area over run with tourists I can tell you first hand that patience with them can fade quickly.
Not all, but many view the locals and their culture as part of the price of admission. When you deal with enough of that it becomes all too easy to write any and all off at the first sign of rudeness no matter how slight that might be.
It may not be polite but it happens and is more socially acceptable than folding them up and stuffing them into a trash can.
I drove past a place where a skunk had not quite crossed the road this AM. I have to admit that if I'm not right in the thick of it I do love that smell.
When Factcheck.org checked the facts about allegations by Democrats that there was a scandal because of the "no-bid" contracts awarded to Halliburton they stated, "It is false to imply that Bush personally awarded a contract to Halliburton. The ‘no-bid contract’ in question is actually an extension of an earlier contract to support U.S. troops overseas that Halliburton won under open bidding. In fact, the notion that Halliburton benefited from any cronyism has been poo-poohed by a Harvard University professor, Steven Kelman, who was administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Clinton administration. ‘One would be hard-pressed to discover anyone with a working knowledge of how federal contracts are awarded...who doesn't regard these allegations as being somewhere between highly improbable and utterly absurd,’ Kelman wrote in the Washington Post last November." (Emphasis added.)
The Center for Public Integrity another public interest group also investigated the purported scandal of the Halliburton "no-bid" contracts. They wrote:
In Iraq, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) has been awarded five contracts worth at least $10.8 billion, including more than $5.6 billion under the U.S. Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) contract, an omnibus contract that allows the Army to call on KBR for support in all of its field operations. When the Army needs a service performed, it issues a "task order," which lays out specific work requirements under the contract…From 1992 to 1997, KBR held the first LOGCAP contract awarded by the Army, but when it was time to renew the contract, the company lost in the competitive bidding process to DynCorp after the General Accounting Office reported in February 1997 that KBR had overrun its estimated costs in the Balkans by 32 percent (some of which was attributed to an increase in the Army's demands). KBR (obtained) the third LOGCAP contract in December 2001…n November 2002 the Army Corps of Engineers tasked KBR to develop a contingency plan for extinguishing oil well fires in Iraq…n March 24, 2003, the Army Corps announced publicly that KBR had been awarded a contract to restore oil-infrastructure in Iraq, potentially worth $7 billion. The contract KBR received…would eventually include 10 distinct task orders. KBR did not come close to reaching the contract ceiling, billing just over $2.5 billion…The contract was awarded without submission for public bids or congressional notification. In their response to congressional inquiries, Army officials said they determined that extinguishing oil fires fell under the range of services provided under LOGCAP, meaning that KBR could deploy quickly and without additional security clearances.
Thanks Tom I figured there may have been a miscommunication. When over tired I don’t make myself as clear as I think I do.
Very true words on disability and Vets. Korea era man I know had a letter in the paper back after Gulf1 pointing out they had PTSD back then but no one talked about it. Likewise with many disabled in society, especially the less visible disabilities, it is often the case there should more wonder at the effort made and what is achieved.
Some friend in the disability community feel very nervous about the way the wind is blowing now. It’s not about Reps or Dems, It’s about the mindset in Medibiz and the media being transferred to the general public.
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RE: I BET NONE OF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN REALLY BORED FED UP DEPRESSED FRUSTRATED OR LONELY TELL THE TRUTH ?
Doctor said I was a psychotic, LIKE THAT WAS A BAD THING!!!!So I ask him…
“Doc, what would the good ol’ US of A be with out her psychotics today?”
He looks at me kinda blank, “Why don’t you tell me Kenny?”
So I give him a big smile, hold out my arms like I could give the whole wide world a hug and a kiss on the cheek and answer him…
“CANADA!!!!!”
“By the way doc, who’s Kenny?”