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They are supposed to be working for us, not for themselves. Once they get into office that goes out the window.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Just do it...
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I think we should stock all ponds with gizzard shad and snakeheads.
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
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I love Obama. I think it would have made a much better state capital for Nebraska than Lincoln.
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The corrupt center of power in Washington should be abolished and reincarnated using the Constitution of the United States of America as it was written by the founders of our great nation. I love lamp.
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I woke up on the floor of some Japanese family's rec room, and they would NOT stop screaming. ??? I know I'm slow but I don't get it. ???
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Apparently haven't seen the movie "Anchorman"? :-)
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
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I woke up on the floor of some Japanese family's rec room, and they would NOT stop screaming. Sounds like something you may not want to take credit for on the WWW
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It's a formidable scent, stings the nostrils, I gotta be honest with you it smells like pure gasoline.
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This may be the post to close this thread.
Between 1974 and 1976 the U.S. fiscal year transitioned from July 1 to October 1, because congress could never get annual agreements completed by July 1. I don't know when it changed, but if my history is serves me right, the fiscal year in 1776 coincided with the calendar year.
All I can say is that this whole mess of preparing for the government shut down cost me a lot of time and aggravation this week, and it probably cost my private employer somewhere in the millions. It cost hundreds, maybe thousands, of our subcontractors.
Yesterday should have been my first day of vacation so we could start our trip towards the Pond Boss conference. As of 9:00 PM last night, I was still shuffling people who may not have had work this morning, or as of Monday morning. I'm still going to be dealing with this mess on Monday morning.
We had to call people back from flight testing, many other types of vital work, and from sites worldwide if the government had closed. We had to give up time slots in very difficult-to-schedule places. That vital testing will be now be put off by 6 to 12 months. We had to buy plane tickets for uncounted engineers and scientists all over the U.S., and all over the world, who were going to have to fly back for a layoff if the shut down occurred. Now we have to try and get these flights re-funded. In today's economy, that is not easy.
The 800,000 Federal workers who were to be without work was just a very tiny droplet in a bucket, compared to all of the workers who require access to U.S. government facilities or personnel in a very wide variety of U.S. and world-wide actions, including inspections, testing, repairs, etc. To call these jobs "non-essential" is not quite accurate, especially if you are in a dangerous and far outpost. If the world were a perfect and peaceful place, without disease or need of research, that may be the case. The Somali pirates won't slow down because we do. The drug cartels won't slow down because we do. The Japanese tsunami disaster isn't going to quit radiating because we can't provide monitoring and technical assistance.
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You guys had enough of this one?
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