Posted on 09/26/2003 4:31:40 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Remember the Trade Center!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Out of France comes yet another anti-American outrage. Remember our deck of cards outlining the most-wanted in Iraq? Well, a Frenchman has come up with a card deck that outlines "the 52 most dangerous American officials." Sec'y Rumsfeld is the ace of spades, President Bush the King of Diamonds. The translation for President Bush's card: "Head of a baseball club and director of Salem bin Laden's oil company (brother of Osama). Designated President of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court before the vote count showed that he lost the elections." [sic]. The plan is to translate the cards from the French into 10 languages and distribute internationally. They are already available on the Internet.
Congress has overwhelmingly (412-8 in the House and 95-0 in the Senate) approved legislation specifically authorizing the FTC to create a "do not call" list. Meanwhile, a second Federal judge, this one in Denver, has ruled the "do not call" list out of bounds for the FTC, this time on First Amendment grounds. The FTC has already appealed the case to the Tenth Circuit.
The Feds want the indictment against Moussaoui - the alleged 20th hijacker - dismissed by the judge hearing the case. That's stated correctly. They also want a stay from the judge, allowing the whole matter to be appealed to the Fourth Circuit. There, the Government hopes for a reversal of the trial judge's ruling that Moussaoui has the right to question three captives in Guantanamo Bay.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
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Bit..John wins. It's a cross between an Arabian and Pinto.
BTW....your meal...makes me wish we were neighbors. I seem to be in a rut. I've lost all my low carb imagination. I think what is happening is that I'm bbq'd out and I want some hearty soup or stew....fall type foods.
I'm glad you are around this afternoon. You will have some freep-mail in a minute.
/john
As an English major (truth in advertising: I did not graduate but got 3 years towards my degree) who's two children both majored in English, I had to chuckle at the crack about English majors.
With my English studies, I became a devoted housewife (a term of which I am extremely proud!) and mother and finally got an associate degree in accounting .... and am now a janitor .... :-)
Daughter, like me, didn't graduate (but it took her 4 years to get her 3 years' worth of credit .... I got mine in 2 1/2) has been either a wife and mother or a very competent administrative assistant with quite a flair for computer applications.
Son graduated with honors in creative writing .... and has worked as a copy editor at a newspaper, as a web site designer, and as a computer guru for a company that does business nationwide.
English studies can lead to quite a diversity of 'careers' ..... :-)
Actually, it is the college experience that is most valuable .... and the college degree will open many doors.
Oh, hubby majored in math with a minor in physics ..... and spent over 25 years in management in the textile industry and has now moved up to janitor ...... LOL!
Jemian ~~~ love the pictures you posted! That koala is just tooooo cute!
At least it was other children commenting on your looks ..... my mother always told me I was the ugliest baby she ever saw and I hadn't improved much ..... *sigh*
I do know that I will be glad to get off this dialup that I have to disconnect every 50 minutes so I don't get charged $6 an hour.
We are finding ourselves in a relatively mild dilemma at work. We have hired a young girl, just out of high school, to help out around the office 3 days a week. She is to answer the phone, do some filing, tend to laundry (we have a washer and dryer for doing mops and the towels we use in cleaning), and whatever other chores might come up. She has enrolled at our local community college and needs the money. She has our blessing to read, do homework, or whatever when we don't have something specific for her to do except wait for the phone to ring.
We are finding ourselves more appalled each day at her incompetence. I cringe when the phone rings because we have found out that her phone manners are atrocious. Today hubby overheard her telling a job applicant "well, that sucks!" when the lady mentioned that she had lost her full-time job. She can't file ..... she doesn't even do the laundry properly ...... those mops take a LOT of rinsing and she doesn't catch on. I have pulled more than one load out of the dryer and washed them some more.
She simply doesn't know how to think .... and I blame the school system more than I do this sweet young girl.
Our problem .... her mother is our very best supervisor and we don't know how she will react if we let her daughter go. But we think we're going to have to. She's just too unprofessional on the phone .... based on the things we have heard her say (for example, "who is this?" rather than "may I ask who is calling?") we don't even want to think about the things we may not have heard. She really needs the helping hand with the finances. I guess in ways we are too tender-hearted to be good business people ..... *sigh*
Gentle correction and instruction don't seem to help. We even have a video on proper phone behavior and viewing it didn't improve her telephone behavior one bit.
We've about decided that we simply must let her go but it's bothering both of us to do it. And it really disturbs me that someone could get a high school diploma and know so very few basic things about living in the adult world. It's really scary.
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I told her they should sound like the news announcers on TV. For some reason, that did the trick. She was unable to understand the difference between formal and informal English, due to our esteemed and expensive suburban school system. Once she caught on, she did quite well and made excellent grades on her college papers.
Maybe that would help with your high-schooler. Tell her she doesn't sound "mature" in her phone manners, and point out to her how Diane Sawyer (yeah, I know) or someone on the local news sounds.
It's worth a try, anyway.
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