Ran across this tidbit this AM: According to Fortune Magazine, 2.1 million people work at Walmart's. The state of California has 2.3 million government employees. California's population is 36.1 million; the US population is 311 million. In other words, California has 1 government employees for each 16 people in the state; Walmart's has 1 employee for each 148 US people. Using Walmart's as an efficient factor for employees to citizens, California should downsize about 2 million of its government employees. Bet that would get the CA budget under control.
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There is concern over whether the US, possibly in conjunction with Israel, made a cyber attack on the software than controls Iran's plutonium enrichment factory. AOL/Huff Post seems to be upset if this is true.... who are these people? Go USA!
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Online headline/story: "Gay Marriage Debate Continues Across The U.S. * "There's a special status when you say `my wife,' and civil unions don't give that," said Annie Cronin-Silva, of West Warwick, RI, who married a woman in neighboring Massachusetts in 2008." -- Yeah, I agree, but only if you're that woman's husband, and no where is "husband" designated a female.
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Before any further discussions begin, since Mayor Mother Teresa Obamalinson has stated that the National Civil War Naval Museum is attracting only a fraction of the 160,000 projected annually, the Museum should publish the actual number of paid visitors (including annual members' visits) that have been there last year (do not include free admissions for busloads of children on school field trips). Let's put all the cards on the table.
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Unbelievable L-E story: "One recent case in Columbus highlighted the difficulties lawmen face in stemming preventable metal theft. Michael Joyner, a real estate attorney and Recorder’s Court judge, recalled a defendant brought before him on theft charges. The man allegedly swiped about eight of the city’s sewer grates and successfully pawned them to a local recycler, the name of which Joyner could not recall off hand. *
Investigators could not charge the recycler with receiving stolen property, Joyner said, because they could not prove he knew the grates were stolen." -- If true, we need new and better investigators! Surely there is a manufacturer's mark on the grates, and the manufacturer has records of to whom the grates were sold.
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Praise for Rep. Bishop for wanting to help our soldiers with PTSD, but why isn't he trying to help other American citizens with another type of PTSD, Permanent Tax Stress Disorder?
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I can understand why a 4:00 AM Thursday wreck that ruptured a gas line on Standing Boy Road not be in the Thursday L-E, but what is the L-E's excuse for not reporting such news in the Friday, Saturday or Sunday editions?
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L-E headliner: "New Navy destroyer arrives in Mobile " -- Ooops, my bad. Thought some DUMB&DUMBERat subcommittee member had scheduled a Town Hall meeting in Mobile.
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L-E horror story: "NEW YORK — A 4-yearold boy playing with his young brothers in a bedroom was fatally mauled by a family dog that had been feared by neighbors, police said. * Jayelin Graham suffered horrifying wounds to his head, neck and torso Friday night in the assault at his mother’s apartment in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section. * His mother told police that when she tried to intervene, the dog, a male Cane Corso mastiff, turned on her, too. * Police removed the dog from the house in a cage after the attack, along with other pets including a German shepherd. Investigators were unsure why the dog attacked. As of late Saturday afternoon, no charges had been filed.": --it's still unbelievable to me that any parent will bring a large dog that's primary use is for security/protection into a home, much less an apartment, with small children.
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Random thought: Why would anyone live with someone else who didn't want to get married to him/her? Lack of a committed status really just means that one or both people are just using the other in hopes someone better comes along.
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From the "lazy, no, pathic journalism" department: There's a picture in the L-E today with the following caption: "An unidentified Georgia player wearing Jonathon Taylor's number is tagged out at second by Florida's Josh Adams during one of Saturday's games in the SEC tournament at Regions Park in Hoover, AL." -- How hard would it have been for the photographer to ask the official scorer who the player was?
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There's a baseball tournament going on at Golden Park this weekend and next week. Why is it that the L-E cannot include this in its "Today's Events" section of the sports or include results of afternoon games?
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