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22703. betty jo - 10/17/2007 5:57:14 PM What a putz. 22704. judithathome - 10/17/2007 7:55:00 PM Yeah, I had just awakened...yes, I sleep in so sue me...and I was staggering around the kitchen looking for coffee and flipped on the radio which is always on NPR. I nearly went back to bed.
But it was comic relief, really...Magoseph called me while I was cracking up over that "1980s" comment. I wish now I could have seen the look of incredulity on the reporter's face as Bush grumbled off his bizarre answer...as though it hadn't happened to him personally in the 80s so he had no opinion whatsoever on it.
I wish the guy (was it David Gregory by any chance?) had asked him about the American Civil War...I can see it now: "Sir, I realize you weren't alive then but surely you've seen Ken Burn's excellent re-creation of....."
Hahahaha! 22705. arkymalarky - 10/17/2007 11:24:39 PM Nothing wrong with sleeping in. I do it every chance I get. And Dad the Early Bird sleeps late now that he's retired.
I didn't even read about his conference, but I was trying to make a living when he gave it today. 22706. wonkers2 - 10/18/2007 12:25:57 AM Re Bush: wrt Turkey and Iran and Cheney/Bush, we're in danger of things becoming even more un-glued. I wonder what's holding the stock market up. I find it hard to be optimistic. 22707. Magoseph - 10/18/2007 2:42:42 AM I wonder what's holding the stock market up.
I think the stock market has been going up, at least not down, because the economics of the world are no longer dictated by the United States. We, for the first time, have a true world economy. What happens in the US is still quite important, but definitely local. Investors find it just as easy to be long a Chinese or Russian stock and short the US dollar. It’s definitely a different game today.
22708. wonkers2 - 10/18/2007 6:08:09 PM All true. 22709. jexster - 10/19/2007 5:34:33 PM She's denied it before Cap'n but I suggest you get your de-pressed Michigan butt over to Mago
Oil 90 bucks a bbl.
She's rich as Croesus 22710. judithathome - 10/19/2007 6:11:54 PM I am so pissed: I thought the US Postal Service was supposed to deliver your mail to your house? Well, OURS has said they will not pick up mail OR deliver it until our village gets done with the road work they are involved in...resurfacing and putting in new curbs. There is always one lane open but the PO claims it is impossible for them to get to the individual streets.
However, WE are supposed to be able to drive through this "impossible" situation every single day to get to the Post Office. 22711. arkymalarky - 10/19/2007 7:45:22 PM Snow, rain, sleet, hail, but not road work, eh? Pretty sorry. 22712. wabbit - 10/19/2007 8:47:09 PM I lived on a poorly maintained dirt road for several years, and the PO wouldn't deliver to any of us. They do now that the road is paved.
I've seen your situation come up occasionally, JaH. Mail boxes are on one side of the street that is all torn up. The little Jeeps just can't keep going around the construction equipment and workers. It's short term. 22713. arkymalarky - 10/20/2007 3:37:09 AM I guess since I live on a rural mail route I can't relate. They deliver mail where there's no electricity or phones. One mailman does all our zip code. Before all the increased regulations, all you had to do was put a name on it if it was within the code and it got there. 22714. judithathome - 10/20/2007 8:51:20 PM Wabs, our street is so old we all have mailboxes on the porches still! That's what infuriates me...they have to WALK the street even when no roadwork is going on. 22715. judithathome - 10/20/2007 8:53:10 PM We're going to a PLAY this afternoon...I am so excited to be getting out of the house. We're even going out to eat afterward.
The play is Snake In The Grass by Alan Ayckborne and no, it's not about Texas politics! 22716. jexster - 10/21/2007 10:56:10 PM Have a mess o brisket for me!
Mago...I forgot..Your message broke up. What link is it you wanted me to send you???? 22717. alistairConnor - 10/21/2007 11:08:52 PM they have to WALK the street even when no roadwork is going on.
Ah so it's actually a bureaucratic rule (no service during road works) perversely applied because it shortens someone's working day...
Our rural mailman serves about 1000 residents, and delivers to the door, whatever the weather. He is well known to everyone and couldn't get away with a stunt like that. 22718. arkymalarky - 10/22/2007 1:54:44 AM Our rural mailman serves about 1000 residents, and delivers to the door, whatever the weather. He is well known to everyone and couldn't get away with a stunt like that.
Rural culture's just pretty much universal. We'd be calling ours on the phone. 22719. arkymalarky - 10/22/2007 1:55:16 AM And Judith, make sure you look for your mail, but it will be UPS. I'm sending you a package tomorrow. 22720. jexster - 10/22/2007 2:05:27 AM Ziggy fcuked up his package. Be careful Judith 22721. judithathome - 10/22/2007 2:50:57 AM Arky, if you can, hold off for a couple of days...we got a message yesterday that all access to our homes will be shut down from 8am until 5pm on Monday and Tuesday...everyone has to leave before 8 and can't come back until after 5.
I don't expect these assholes to finish the work in 2 days so... 22722. arkymalarky - 10/22/2007 3:02:51 AM Oooh, I will, but it will be more like a week. I'm off tomorrow and won't get back there before Friday at the earliest. But if I send it out Monday afternoon it shouldn't get there before Wednesday or Thursday at the earliest. I'll ask them when I go over there tomorrow if they can make sure it doesn't get there before Friday.
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