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Let’s see, $285 Billion dollars or THREE TIMES the budget cuts by The Orange Man and his minions….shall we dive into the cesspool that was the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld crooked contractor spending spress, and get some of MY (read taxpayer) money back?
to commit fraud against the government than to rob a 7-11.
If you rob a 7-11, you’ll go to jail. If you defraud the government, you’ll get off easy in return for telling them how you did it.
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just keep in mind that a number of Government officials colluded to make that happen.
and most probably realized personal financial benefits for looking the other way.
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…and it’s time we started doing that NOW. It can be a Federal trial for the companies and their legal counsel, and it can be Courts Martial for the military people who let it all happen. No problemo…
B-X, I’ve been a contractor as well. There’s a dif between some tiny Virginia company overcharging for post-production work, and building showers that electrocute grunts trying to clean off the crud of a patrol.
for those of us who like space:
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did a German make that ?
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Democratic Assembly (in their orange shirts)about to do their constituents business.
Devastating facts on the results of GOP policies on America. Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal.
Their ranking on ACT/SAT scores:
South Carolina – 50th
North Carolina – 49th
Georgia – 48th
Texas – 47th
Virginia – 44th
Wisconsin is currently ranked #2.
Is it really a mystery why people are fighting this?
And isn’t the love that the people show their legislators satisfying?
WI is #2 on ACT/SAT scores.
Walker wants to be re-elected and run for higher office.
If WI drops to #12 or even #22, but he gets tagged as a union buster, he gets re-elected or elected to higher office.
Support rally for Wisconsin and other public workers throughout the nation.
Hope its well attended and peaceful. Remarkable how the cheeseheads have managed all the protests peacefully.
…a Polytrauma Vet going to school at DU has been asked about his injuries, but it’s always been posed this way “Wow – were you in a car crash?
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I have a buddy in the Army training for his first deployment, and it’s like he’s a universe away already even though he’s just stationed in Kansas. He has been ROTC for many years and has come to look at the Army as his world, and everything else is kind of this foggy outside area that he visits for R&R once in a while if he has the time.
I’m not qualified to speak from experience here, but based on observation I have to wonder if the training intended to make these young men and women psychologically capable of handling multiple deployments is in fact isolating them from civilian society before and after deployment.
..and focus on the fact that so few people have family members deployed. So many people re-enlist, so fewer people go in. Also, no draft, so no students need to worry about ending up in ACUs and on the front lines in AFPAK.
We’re creating a Praetorian Society – a military, well-armed and decently rewarded, camped outside the city walls and away from the citizens. On occasion, we start the conversation about them in movies or TV, but for the most part they’re invisible.
I was reading a history of the Bausch and Lomb optical company that was linked from the Classic Telescopes forum on an astronomy web site when I came across this:
Can you imagine any company doing that in this day and age?
Nor any of the other major Rochester employers of that day in their current guises.
The philanthropic “code” by which many corporate execs and even robber barons of the day lived is mostly dead, with Bill Gates being the major exception.
Biggest cuts were to the largest salaries and we got through with almost everyone. And my & the CEO’s salary were the last to get moved back up to 100% as we came out. Companies still do this, just not all of them.
getting together with other companies and starting your own unemployment fund.
Indiana House Democrats have joined their Wisconsin Senate counterparts in exile to prevent a quorum for vote on Indiana’s own union-busting bill.
Most of them are apparently going to Illinois, but some may be headed to Kentucky, which is closer for some of the state’s House members.
Oh, and for you conservative types who might want to be writing about the inherent badness of Democrats for doing this… They’re in good company: Abraham Lincoln apparently jumped out of a window(!) in the state Senate building to prevent a quorum while he was still a state legislator.
A real Republican wouldn’t be caught dead saying the following:
No, I’m not kidding. According to ThinkProgress and others with access to the pro-labor protesters in Wisconsin, Internet access to certain sites and in certain places is being cut off in order to hinder the protesters’ ability to organize.
Apparently the filter software on the public access WiFi within the Capitol building has been altered to blacklist defendwisconsin.org, the site where protesters are organizing their food distribution and providing updates on the protests. Also, one room within the Capitol has been set aside for the Teachers Assistants Association (which is coordinating the food and cleanup efforts), and that room has now reportedly and mysteriously lost access to the public WiFi.
You know you’re getting desperate when…
It’s like Cairo has moved to Madison!
Or did Cantor say it, too?
It was Ryan. But that doesn’t mean Eric Cantor wasn’t also right about something!
It’s just that some speech is freer than other speech…
Just try to get Sarah Palin to give a speech for free sometime!
The words are free. #wortheverypenny
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I’m glad Pitfall for the Atari 2600 was included, but mad as hell that Resident Evil was shut out of the later rounds….VOTE NOW!
They’ve got C64 games, but no Apple ][ games or classic Mac games? Bummer.
First (and probably most influential) 3D dungeon crawl: Wizardry! (1981), not listed.
Ultima II, probably the first serious world exploration game (1982), not listed.
And let’s not forget another missing category: arcade games. Dragon’s Lair and the other Laser Disc games were leaps and bounds ahead of their counterparts in video quality (if not necessarily in gameplay).
It’s on the lower right-hand side as a hyperlink. I vented my frustration about the exclusion of both the “Resident Evil” and “Dino Crisis” series…
I did forget considerations of coin-operated arcade games. Then “Pole Position” and “Tempest” need to be included…
..get my vote. But, in my youth we just had pinball, foosball and air hockey–and we liked it. Even if it was a 5 mile walk up-hill in 2 feet of snow to get to the arcade.
You fancy-schmancy youngsters and your new-fangled games.
We had a stick, a lump of coal, a bale of hay, a burlap sack and an onion — and I can tell you, “high score” really meant something in the village.
Risk, Aquire, Monopoly, Clue.
/gets of RedGreen’s lawn before he gets a load of rock salt in the behind
graphics.
Keep in mind it was created 20 years ago and was groundbreaking for the graphics at the time. And some of it’s features, like a map without edges, is still ahead of most anyting else out there.
Oh yeah, and I created it 🙂
A guy can dream … http://www.enemynations.com
He plays WoW professionally now.
What a nerd.
But I actually feel proud I created a game that compelling. Tell your friend I said hi.
And he makes more than either of us now, so no need to feel bad. ;-P
Having learned from experience, I feel I should warn you that de-fuzzing tennis balls can be brutal on doggie teeth. Wears ’em down early. If she has her puppy teeth still it’s probably nothing to worry about but once she gets her adult teeth if she’s still doing it you might want to get her plain rubber balls instead.
My pooch has some prematurely worn teeth from that habit 🙁
She’s my first dog so I’m clueless.
It was a Martha Stewart ball (dumb for so many reasons); I now have doubts about its strength.
She’s mostly a Kong dog at this point and completely obsessed with getting whatever out. One soft toy left, Duck. Anyway, now she has a plain rubber (tennis) ball. 🙂 She doesn’t think it’s fun to chew on now, but fetches fine.
Ms. Puppy needs one. They are pretty awesome for chewing because they’re textured, and they’re tough enough for most dogs to be unable to hurt their teeth on ’em.
My daughter’s puppy swallowed one – whole. $3,000.00 later it was removed from his stomach (in 2 equal halves) and he’s got a really cool scar.
I miss picking on LB!
Posting tomorrow’s calendar before today’s hearings are finished.
And no way to bring up old calendars.