A little travelin’ music that’s done some travelin’
Bluegrass, in its purest form and in various mutations, seems to be seeping its way into a lot of popular music these days. I think it’s great, both because I love the music itself and because it helps to ensure that an important strain of American culture and the instruments and players that helped create it survive for at least another generation or two.
In fact, listening to Mumford and Sons, I think its preservation is pretty much guaranteed, given that these boys are from London. No, not London, Kentucky. The one in England, with the queen and the prince about to marry his princess and all that.
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Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:08 pm
“If you look at the places where most of them reside, they represent everything from left-leaning to right-leaning states.”
SoCo, you need new glasses. CA, NY, MA, DC, WA, OR. Those are NOT left leaning to right leaning states. They are as blue as blue can be. Have you ever looked at an electoral map?
And TaxCheat, I find that none of them are “willing” to pay more taxes. I find 45 urging the government to force 375,000 taxpayers to pay more. “Willing” would be if they have all cut a check for more than their existing tax bill to the U.S. Treasury.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:08 pm
First on the 5th!
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
3:15 pm
Poor Dave R. I personally cannot help but feel sorry for him.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
3:18 pm
No, RW. Preaching liberalism in Georgia is all the futility I can handle
Kind of like barking at the moon, which reminds me. We’re only one day away from the Full Beaver Moon.
@@
November 20th, 2010
3:19 pm
What’s stopping those 40 millionaires from sending the government more than the amount they’re taxed?
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
3:25 pm
What’s stopping those 40 millionaires from sending the government more than the amount they’re taxed?
The planned expiration of the Bush/Republican temporary tax cuts. Perhaps that can be resolved soon.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:26 pm
“I personally cannot help but feel sorry for him.”
As if I truly care . . .
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:28 pm
Despite the TaxCheat’s comment, @@, NOTHING is stopping them from sending any more money into the U.S. Treasury.
Their idea of equality only extends to what their peers are paying, not what they are “willing” to pay.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
3:30 pm
SoCo,
I might take that group’s letter a little more seriously if they weren’t so dishonest in the “things you should know” section. Anytime somebody spouts off those marginal tax rates without also giving you the effective tax rates it’s a deliberate effort to mislead.
Jay
November 20th, 2010
3:42 pm
I don’t know, RW. As I posted the other day, the effective tax rate for the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers — roughly those with annual incomes of 6 million or above — averaged 22 percent. And of course, most of that income — in some cases all of it — isn’t subject to payroll taxes.
I don’t know about you, but MY effective tax rate — payroll taxes included — is higher than that.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
3:49 pm
SoCo, you need new glasses. CA, NY, MA, DC, WA, OR. Those are NOT left leaning to right leaning states. They are as blue as blue can be. Have you ever looked at an electoral map?
No sir, you need to be complete in your assertion. You listed 5 states and DC, when there are 12 states and DC represented on that list. NY and CA make up the majority of that list, but you forgot OH, PA, WY, TX, and UT. That’s why I said, ” If you look at the places where most of them reside, they represent everything from left-leaning to right-leaning states.” The list is not all left leaning states, nor is it all right-leaning states. It’s a mixture of the two. And if you check the latest electoral map, it’s almost all red, as many of your conservative colleagues like to point out.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
3:52 pm
Jay B,
Then it would serve them better to post the effective tax rates, but you and I both know it wouldn’t look as drastic as those 68%, 91% and 70% numbers that they use to compare with the 35% number.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
3:53 pm
RW
I can understand your point. For someone like me, I wouldn’t know my effective tax rate from a hole in the ground.
Maybe it’s a ploy… Maybe it’s something to start a conversation… I just see it as a message different from what you hear from people who seem to know what the top 2% want or think. I’m not sure if those on the list would be top 2%, 5% or 10%, but I find it interesting.
Jay
November 20th, 2010
3:56 pm
Well, you’d have to compare today’s effective rates to the earlier effective tax rates, and I’m not sure what those were or how to find them. But looking at the tax tables, I don’t think they’re as low as you might suspect.
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
3:56 pm
You, sir, need to understand the meaning of the term “where most of them reside”. Most of the PEOPLE on that site (36 out of 45 listed) reside in NY, CA, DC, WA, OR and MA. All true blue states. Every one of them. No exceptions.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:00 pm
Dave
Well pardon me… If you look at the ENTIRE list, they represent Left-leaning to Right-leaning states. Does that make you feel better???
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:02 pm
You could almost say most of them reside in CA as there are 19 out of 45. You could say most of the reside in CA and NY as they make up 30 out of 45…
Dave R.
November 20th, 2010
4:05 pm
Either way, your implied “balance” between left and right-leaning states just isn’t there. Careful; you could be an opinion columnist with that kind of glossing over of facts.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
4:05 pm
Here’s the info for 1979 through 2006.
You’ll see that the effective overall rate barely changed even though there was some shifting to the higher brackets.
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
4:09 pm
I don’t think they’re as low as you might suspect.
Jay B,
I’m not the one saying the numbers would be real low, that was you 3:42. What I’m saying is that I find it very hard to believe the effective rates would be anywhere as drastically different over time as posting the marginal rates makes them look.
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
4:18 pm
I prefer to pay what tax I am required to pay. I don’t know why anyone would suggest that people do otherwise. Why should they.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:19 pm
Dave
Can you point to where I said balanced? I was merely stating that there was not a monopoly of one side or the other. If it were not for my current job, I’d love to be an opinion writer/columnist. I see nothing wrong with their profession.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
4:51 pm
Dave
Reread your 4:05. There was meant to be no “implied balance” in my statement. I was trying to say that the states represented both sides of the political spectrum. For all I know, they could all be Liberal, or they could all be Conservative. If you took my statement to mean that I was implying balance, that was not my intentions.
Pogo
November 20th, 2010
5:05 pm
Tax increases would be a whole lot easier to accept if those that think that tax rates must be raised would also acknowledge that very painful spending cuts must occur. But there is never even discussion of this. Just raising taxes will not save this country and our way of life even if we modify our way of life to a much more modest level. Quite frankly we plain don’t have the tax base to support our wants anymore. The real tax base for supporting this country comes from the middle class and the middle class is dying. The trifecta of “Sacred Cows” (Medicare, SSN and Defense) must be addressed and they must be cut. The Obama Healthcare bill only increased the deficit spending and did nothing to alleviate the spending from medicare (except to make his cronies in the insurance industry richer). From my own personnal experience, we have a severe problem when a person can come into an emergency room with a medicaid card (state provided) who wants her son’s finger looked at because he is having trouble playing an electronic game (even while he is playing the game in the waiting room and his mother is talking on an I-Phone). We have lost control of the programs that we are spending trillions on and we must reign them in or we are finished. The government has proven again and again that it is not an efffective administrative organization. It is an excellent creator of programs but it cannot handle them once they are in existance and waste and abuse is rampant. If you want to see evidence of abuse of programs, go to the grocery and observe what people with foodstamps buy. It will make you sick.
@@
November 20th, 2010
5:34 pm
EV…rebody has an opinion.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 20th, 2010
5:47 pm
First saw this guy on “Top Gear”, on the BBC, which is about the best thing going, on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoPNC3ebYQ
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
6:07 pm
Tax increases would be a whole lot easier to accept if those that think that tax rates must be raised would also acknowledge that very painful spending cuts must occur. But there is never even discussion of this.
I agree with you on that. I don’t think any of the regulars here have said they wanted taxes to go up and not have any cuts in spending. I think there’s a consensus that it will take both of those to happen for us to gain solid fiscal footing. I’m just tired of the back and forth and wish congress would act now. Had they acted years ago along that path, our debt probably wouldn’t be nearly as high as it is now.
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
6:11 pm
Paulo977 @ 2:11
Glad you enjoyed the clip, Paulo. I suspected you might!
Every now and then, an exquisite “fairy tale” lifts the spirit. And, like all fairy tales, contains elemental truths.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 20th, 2010
6:48 pm
SoCo
Back in the early 70’s, Herman Talmadge used to tell us that deficits would ruin us. That was before all that money appeared in his overcoat, though.
@@
November 20th, 2010
7:01 pm
And, like all fairy tales, contains elemental truths.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales?
The Nazis loved the Brothers Grimm’s. Used them to teach racial purity, they did.
Southern Comfort
November 20th, 2010
7:09 pm
HD
I’m guessing his middle name was Deficit…
TaxPayer
November 20th, 2010
7:18 pm
That Glenn Beck! He’s a riot, isn’t he. I never took for a Marxist though. Til now, that is. Good show, Glenn! And those West Pointers! What were they thinking. Such shameful behavior.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 20th, 2010
7:36 pm
SoCo
It was the unexplained surplus that got him in trouble.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
7:51 pm
Mary Elizabeth…
Sorry about the wrong name earlier…have a Mary Katherine in the family!
@@
From earlier…no circumcision? How many mohels is that going to put out of work! ISH
The rest of y’all poor shmoes…just got back from a culinary trip around the world! Our International Dinner…some 400 or so folks there and everybody bringing in Mama’s kitchen’s specialties,,,talk about good eats and happy people…
@@
November 20th, 2010
8:25 pm
josef:
I don’t know, but this guy just got started.
Culinary career just didn’t cut it, so he became a mohel
Rabbi Moshe Trager was inspired to become a mohel after he witnessed an Israeli father, blade in hand, circumcising his own son. “Since that’s an actual commandment,” recalls Trager of the life-changing moment, “I thought that was the coolest thing I ever saw.”
So cool, he abandoned the restaurant career for which he had trained, apprenticed himself out to a venerated Jerusalem mohel and learned the ways of brit milah.
Fifteen years and 3,000 foreskins later, Trager, 45, has set up shop in Los Gatos, ready to perform the covenant as the Bay Area’s newest mohel.
So tell us…what did you eat at this “culinary” trip around the world…anything resembling a chewy chitlin?
(ISH)
@@
November 20th, 2010
8:31 pm
Anything that looked like THIS, josef?
Del
November 20th, 2010
8:34 pm
Doesn’t take off any inches when you’re younger. Don’t know if has anything to do when you’re old. oops, meant older.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:37 pm
@@
Not bad work if you can get it…good salary plus tips…
What did I have? No chewy chitlins! I had a taste of so many different things, I can’t recall them all. The one that stands out the most for my own taste was a side rice done by one of our Saudi parents…there was this flavor underneath that was so subtle…she didn’t know what it was called in English and said she would bring me some..I didn’t tell her how good it would go well with pork tenderloin!
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
8:38 pm
@@ 7:01 p,m,
Hi @@. Hope you are having a great weekend! “Elemental” includes evil, of course – the Robin Williams character in the movie. But – Lo and Behold – Good triumphed over Evil in the end! Same as with the Nazis, it seems!
If I may . . . Don’t analyze too much – just listen for the music all around us. It is, indeed, exquisite!
josef @ 7:51 p.m.
“A rose by any other name is still a rose” – or maybe just a thorn!
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:40 pm
@@
There was a really good purlow…so the black-eyed peas look familiar…the meat? Rule of thumb, if you can’t determine what it used to be, don’t eat it!
@@
November 20th, 2010
8:47 pm
Mary Elizabeth:
Certainly, you may.
josef:
Any hummus? That stuff is NASTY! Can’t abide the texture.
Even food has entered into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
A student campaign at Princeton is calling for a boycott of Sabra hummus because the company that manufactures it provides Israel soldiers with care packages, the Daily Princetonian reports.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:51 pm
Mary Elizabeth…
I haven’t had the chance yet to go back an really read your most thoughtful comments. Please pardon the delay. Crepes and jambalya took precedence! As a thought, though, on the theme of music, food is right there with it. This Dinner is our annual put on a show event. To see people from all around the world sharing that most basic need and put together with such love…sappy? Perhaps, but if some of our mulligrubbers hereabouts could have shared that repast! And the music! Ah! One of the groups performing was a mariachi band made up of many of our former students including a Bengali violinist!
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
8:54 pm
@@
Hummus? Yep. Brought by a Lebanese Jew! I’m not very fond of it myself…but in the spirit of sharing, I had some…now her baklava? THAT I could do justice to!
Del
November 20th, 2010
8:57 pm
It seems that the only ones on the blog tonight are josef, @@, and Mary Elizabeth…far and away beyond my intellectual capabilities. Guess I’ll have to check out since the dumb crowd has taken the night off. I’m out…Taps
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
9:00 pm
DEL
Say what? It’s groceries, Man!
But, g’night anyway!
@@
November 20th, 2010
9:07 pm
Del:
…far and away beyond my intellectual capabilities.
Speaking only for myself, you’re wrong about ^^^ that.
Sleep well, Del.
@@
November 20th, 2010
9:08 pm
I am, however, a poet.
schnirt
G’nite.
josef nix
November 20th, 2010
9:14 pm
g’night all…got a dirty kitchen with my name on it,,,
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
9:17 pm
Josef @ 8:51
“The Little One?” -heh? I will NEVER tell you my god awful nickname! It worked when I was a cute toddler with golden locks, but I lost it ASPS!
Yes, food is right there with music. Too bad I can’t enjoy food like I used to, unless I cared to weigh 200 lbs. Nevertheless, I remember it well! No problem with music though – thank God!
I want to recommend two movies to you – what is it with movies between us?
Anyway, one is a sleeper – a little avant garde – made in 1996 and starring Isabella Rossellini and Stanley Tucci called “Big Night.” The gist of the movie is that Louis Primer is coming to a dinner in a restaurant – to spur on business – and so an elaborate meal, of many courses, is cooked for him. The preparation itself was an act of love – not for Primer – but for the food itself and what it could be created to be – and I am sure for the communion possibilities with others through the food. (My dear Frenchborn husband exhibited a love in cooking when he sometimes created a dish at home. It was in his blood, I do believe.)
The other film is a recent Italian film starring Tilda Swinton, called “Lo sono l’amore” or “I am love.” Swinton’s character, long repressed, falls in love with the food dishes a man she is falling in love with prepares. It is an exquisitely filmed movie. Very little dialogue. Mostly images and some of pure delight. Including the food.
Well, goodbye for now – I want to watch my favorite British comedy on the telly.
And Josef – Please don’t fret about answering my earlier writings to you. If I hear from you in 6 months about them – that is fine – or never is ok, too
Carpe Diem, you know! Life is getting shorter all the time. Must prioritize!
Dusty
November 20th, 2010
9:38 pm
JOSEF, sounds like a wonderful evening. Did this event have anything to do with Villa International? I have a couple of friends who are very active over there. Just wondering. You can tell me tomorrow. Good luck on the kitchen!!
RW-(the original)
November 20th, 2010
10:11 pm
got a dirty kitchen with my name on it,
You shoulda made all those folks cook in their own kitchens.
Mary Elizabeth
November 20th, 2010
10:35 pm
Del @ 8:57 p,m.
All are worthy in their own special ways. Never shortsell yourself. Best to you.
Dusty
November 20th, 2010
10:55 pm
Come on, RW
Don’t be hard on Josef. I think he’s off in the kitchen taking Pepto Bismol. Those delicious items he mentioned are probably putting on their own international affair. Yes. Right down there .in the land of tummy turnups. But…. It WAS good (in the beginning)!!
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
9:01 am
If you’re on vacation or traveling thru Savannah, it would be wise to not get into fights with their canine officers…
For example…
http://www.ajc.com/news/man-wrestles-dog-dog-748764.html
How do you wrestle with a dog and end up with a black eye???
@@
November 21st, 2010
9:09 am
My contribution to the sports discussions:
“With Wade out, Heat fall to Grizzlies on Rudy Gay buzzer-beater”
What is a Gay buzzer-beater?
schnirt
CommonSenseisn'tveryCommon
November 21st, 2010
9:11 am
Southern Comfort
I’m guessing a mean right paw LOL.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 21st, 2010
9:16 am
@@
What is a Gay buzzer-beater?
Call the TSA maybe they can tell ya, LOL
Hope it doesn’t set off any alarms though
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
9:26 am
Well, that’s what the majority of the voters wanted. They should be happy.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
9:52 am
Common Sense
That’s what I was thinking. I would love to see training video of that dog.
jack bull
November 21st, 2010
9:53 am
well, i see that some of the peace loving left wing Democrats showed just how ‘peaceful’ they are with sending some type of ‘powder’ to the ABC studios in protest of Bristol Palin (who has so much power in the political world)… has anyone seen where any Tea-Partiers have done that?
and have we come up with the price of Obama’s last trip yet? i know he said he was going to be the most transparent President ever. that would fall into that whole ‘transparency’ thing wouldn’t it? i know he’d never lie to us…
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
9:59 am
But the idea of watching Republicans swear daily fealty to Jimmy Carter’s flag — this is something that people might pay to see.
Hey! A new source of revenue for Georgia. Thanks to Jim Galloway for pointing this one out.
@@
November 21st, 2010
10:27 am
The bodies of Tina Herrmann, 31, Stephanie Sprang, 41, and Kody Maynard, 11, were found Thursday afternoon in large plastic garbage bags, stuffed in a hollow tree.
If Hoffman is found guilty, they should stab him multiple times, then shove a tree up his bum.
Animal!!!!
Paulo977
November 21st, 2010
10:31 am
TaxPAyer @9:26am
Isn’t it what we voted for?..
Teachers suffer cuts etc etc etc!!! Fortunately for kids , in spite of all the abuse hurled at them, most teachers do their jobs diligently ; work after hours to ensure the kids needs are met, use their own money to provide resources in the classroom, endure conflict within themselves when requested by “unenlightened”bureaucrats to undertake anti-educational strategies…
Of course teachers need incomes to survive BUT it is my observation that what sustains them is the satisfaction they derive from being able to nurture and inspire the nation’s young!!
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
10:51 am
Paulo977,
I’ll agree that there exists both physical sustenance and mental sustenance however you can only have one of the two without the other, for very long, that is. Sacrifices will be made by some but not all. That is what the majority of the voters decided.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 21st, 2010
11:13 am
About a dozen of outgoing-Gov. Sonny Perdue’s staff, appointees and department heads have landed high-paying state jobs in recent months, and most received big raises to go with their new posts. AJC 11/21/2010
Well, maybe we could give the teachers 20 bucks or so to help them buy stuff for their students. That’s all I’m saying.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 21st, 2010
12:07 pm
Redneck Convert (R–and proud of it)@11:13 am
The sad thing is if you look at the jobs they are coming from and going to.
There doesn’t seem to be the same skillset needed in most. Sonny’s reward program is more like it.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
12:10 pm
There doesn’t seem to be the same skillset needed in most. Sonny’s reward program is more like it.
I saw that too. Although, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt as it was stated in the article that they had the necessary qualifications to perform the jobs.
Paulo977
November 21st, 2010
12:22 pm
REWARD AND PUNISHMENT …… !!! Infects the whole school system!!
jt
November 21st, 2010
1:13 pm
Ha Ha.
Let us all laugh about a citizen beat up by state-costumed thugs.
Ha Ha. That is just soooo funny.
Left paw. Ha Ha.
How dare a citizen defend himself from a snarling dog. He deserved everything he got. Thank God our brave Policeman and Police dogs subdued this threat.
We really need Snarling police dogs patrolling EVERY neighborhood.
Ha Ha . toooo funny.
jt
November 21st, 2010
1:34 pm
Toooooooooo funny. Let’s get some more.———————-Left paw. Ha Ha.—————–These animals were effective in Poland and the Carribean Islands. Also the AntiBellum south———-They fit right in whereever there is a police state or warped culture………….
“Studies have shown that law enforcement dogs are disproportionately used in inner-city communities, which might also explain the high proportion of nonwhite individuals bitten by K-9 dogs. For those interested in reading more on this, there’s an excellent review in the New York Law School Journal of Human Rights by DU Rosenthal called “When K-9s Cause Chaos” (volume 11, pp. 279-310, 1994).
Besides racial concerns, the main area in which law enforcement’s use of K-9 dogs has been subject to scrutiny is allegations of excessive and unreasonable use of force. A review of the literature reveals only one suspect killed by a K-9 dog. In this case the courts concluded that because the K-9 dog was used appropriately, the incident did not constitute excessive, unreasonable, or deadly use of force.” Remember, if you are a black man getting mauled by a K-9, DO NOT fight back. You will be charged with resisting arrest or even assault upon a police officer.
@@
November 21st, 2010
3:27 pm
Police in Tallahassee, Fla., are desperately trying to unravel the horrible mystery of who killed a mother and her three young children in their home.
Autopsies were being performed today on the woman, her 6-year-old twin daughters and her 3-year-old son, who were found Saturday morning after a neighbor called the police.
“There are obvious signs of violence” in the house,…
When the person or persons, who committed this heinous act are found guilt….kill ‘em.
It’s obvious that the mother’s appeals for her children weren’t heard, so he/they aren’t entitled to one either.
@@
November 21st, 2010
3:40 pm
“Newsweek” done muthed up. Insulted Hindus.
http://www.coverjunkie.com/uploads/1289931572.jpg
GOD OF ALL THINGS
WHY THE MODERN PRESIDENCY MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR ONE PERSON TO HANDLE
Others have managed. Why not Obama?
RW-(the original)
November 21st, 2010
3:55 pm
WHY THE MODERN PRESIDENCY MAY BE TOO MUCH FOR ONE PERSON TO HANDLE
@@,
That’s what they used to say when Jimmy Carter was President too. I see a pattern.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
4:16 pm
jt
I’m guessing that your reading skills were acting up in the part of the story that said:
Matthew Tennyson Bosque, 30, was charged with obstruction, driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident Thursday night, after Savannah police with a K-9 dog chased him from a crash scene to an attic in a nearby house
Nevermind the accident that he caused while driving under the influence. Nevermind running from the police after causing the accident while under the influence. Have you stopped to think that maybe if the guy had not broken the law in the first place, he wouldn’t have had to deal with “state-costumed thugs”. It’s never about the law breaker, is it? For you, it’s always the fault of the men/women in uniform. I hope it wasn’t anyone in your family or circle of friends involved in the accident. I also hope you’re never the victim of such an incident.
Dusty
November 21st, 2010
4:25 pm
I’m thinking about those state employees getting new jobs with a raise. Would you take a new job without a raise? Well, this is not the time to ask THAT question but it was customary at one time. Besides, how have these people taken on new jobs when the governor elect is now considering what and with whom he wants to govern? He hasn’t even been sworn in.
I think Perdue was giving farewell raises. Surely some of these people will not be part of Deal”s administration. If I were to get a $ raise and then get removed (fired) in a month or two, I would not think much of that “reward”. .
Could it be that DEMOCRATS are giving Perdue his final whacks while setting up Deal for a beating? Of course not!! Never!! Wouldn’! happen!! Yeah…uh huh…Not the AJC!! oooooooooo
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
4:42 pm
Could it be that DEMOCRATS are giving Perdue his final whacks while setting up Deal for a beating? Of course not!! Never!! Wouldn’! happen!!
It is the outgoing Republicans giving one last finger to the voters that put them in office. They’re saying loud and clear that they’re not the ones that will be doing the sacrificing. But the majority of the voters are good with that and that’s the way it is. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Common Sense isn't very Common
November 21st, 2010
5:13 pm
It’s sad when the majority of state employees have not had raises in a while that some of the raises amounted to a years salary for some other state employees.
RW-(the original)
November 21st, 2010
5:55 pm
Far be it from me to defend bloated government and bloated government salaries, but there’s a throwaway sentence in the middle of that “raise” story that warrants a better look.
Perdue officials said many of those who took the new jobs are making less than their predecessors
That might well mean this whole thing is a net savings to the tax payers, but I guess reporting fully on that part of the story wouldn’t serve the same purpose as portraying moves to different positions as raises.
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 21st, 2010
6:14 pm
Would you take a new job without a raise?
There’ve been times when I quit a job and took another making quite a bit less, just because I hated the job I had. Admittedly, I march to the beat of a drummer that only I can hear.
Southern Comfort
November 21st, 2010
6:30 pm
There’ve been times when I quit a job and took another making quite a bit less, just because I hated the job I had. Admittedly, I march to the beat of a drummer that only I can hear.
The ONLY time I’ve started a new job without taking a pay cut is when I took my current job. It wasn’t that hard of a thing to do as TSA doesn’t pay regular screeners much of a salary to start with.
Dusty
November 21st, 2010
7:21 pm
That’s just it, HillBilly,
You don’t leave a job you like unless there is a good raise in pay for the change.. You left a job you did not like for less pay. . That’s understandable if one can afford it.
Kamchak
November 21st, 2010
7:37 pm
There’ve been times when I quit a job and took another making quite a bit less, just because I hated the job I had.
Sometimes “the devil you don’t know” is the correct choice.
Dusty
November 21st, 2010
7:43 pm
RW @ 5:55
Are you trying to upset the Demo applecart? They are just trying to give Perdue their last love pats. You know: “Perdue gave raises! Perdue gave raises!!” (Supposed to mean:…Perdue is an extravagant no-good Republcan governor!)
Then you come along and tell the world that even with raises Perdue’s people are making less than their predecessors. How about that!! Doncha know you are supposed to say something like “How sad! Barnes never did that!”
Now repent, RW. You done did big wrong to these fair minded liberals, poor thangs,,,,…
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November 21st, 2010
8:01 pm
HEY! Something for the left-wingers to celebrate.
Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, widely blamed as the chief cause of global warming, dropped from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, according to a study released Sunday. It was the first decline since the late 1990s.–USAToday
Hillbilly Deluxe
November 21st, 2010
8:20 pm
Sonny might get a little more benefit of the doubt, if not for Oakey Woods, the $100K personal tax break, etc.
TaxPayer
November 21st, 2010
9:25 pm
If someone with no experience takes over a new job that had been vacated by someone that had been in that job for say twenty years before retiring, then proclaiming that the new person is making less than the retired person is not exactly a revelation. Also, if that vacated job was proclaimed to be left vacated due to attrition and to save money for us taxpayers only to be filled by the good old boys, I don’t see that as falling in line with the Republican mantra of smaller government. Looks more like back scratching at the taxpayer’s expense to me. It also looks a little hypocritical. Or perhaps that should be a lot hypocritical given that folks like teachers have been called on over and over to bite the bullet and do without at the expense of our children’s educations. So, blah blah blah. Make more excuses for the Republicans. I’m certainly used to hearing it.
USinUK
November 22nd, 2010
6:49 am
Good morning, Jay –
Sigh No More is definitely one of the best albums I bought in 2010 – and they put on one helluva show!!
great monday morning music
Normal
November 22nd, 2010
7:11 am
Good Monday morning all y’all…
I remember…
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-assassinated
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2010
7:32 am
Mornin’.
Normal @ 7.11, some remember; some continue to advance what they believe to be the truth. See also:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1728187/North.Texas/New.Controversy.In.Dealey.Plaza
(I’ve been to the sixth floor in Dallas. I think Oswald certainly could have performed the deed from there, and likely was the only shooter. But was he part of something much bigger? Given what happened during his perp walk, we’ll never really know for certain, I guess.)
Normal
November 22nd, 2010
7:57 am
Stands,
I’ll be going to Dallas sometime after the first of the year and I’m going to check out the Plaza myself. Given that the trees have had 47 years to grow I might not be able to see much, but as an old Navy shooter, I want to check it out. I agree that Oswald could have done it, but a downhill target moving away from you is a hard target to hit and something you really couldn’t calibrate your scope for or practice shoot. Oswald was either a true Daniea Boone, or he wasn’t the only shooter.
But I will admit that with all of the theories out there, none seem to fit.
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Did you see the “Manchurian Candidate” theory about Sirhan Sirhan being brained washed to perform the assassination? Pretty good…
But again, we will never know….
Normal
November 22nd, 2010
7:58 am
Daniea…Daniels sister and a better shot…