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TED, I'll tell you the thinking of the 21 people who drafted the charter, and I'll tell you my opinion about it, but the nature of the board is different now so you guys on the committee should do whatever feels right for the present time. 1. You can't avoid rangers making mistakes. We're human and ...

Oh, thanks for clarifying that, Lali.

Nin, :hug: Your feelings are shared by lots of people! My biological mom died when she was 39 years old, and when I hit my 39th birthday it was quite a hurdle. My adopted mom died just a year and a half ago, and some nights I still startle awake from the edge of sleep remembering an event from her f...

Unfortunately, we were judged by the Rodney King incident. Yes, I know! And it's a grossly unfair comparison. Freddy, this went over my head when you posted it earlier, but I wanted to ask about it now: If you get a below standard you lose your shift preference and get whatever is left open, usuall...

I agree that this is kind of a weird situation, because there haven't been enough people around to go through lengthy formal procedures. SF and CG were temp banned for a week under the extraordinary powers provision. Right, but they didn't need to invoke Extraordinary Powers in order to do this. Tem...

Are you guys eager to do this? If you are, then ... forge ahead! But it's not necessary under the Charter. The temporary ban on sf and CG was put into effect this week, based on a prior ruling made on September 11, correct? And that ruling was the result of a negotiation between sf, CG and the range...

Freddy, I would say that the same is true in evaluating unions. You don't want all police departments judged by the treatment of Rodney King. A balanced view should be accorded to unions as well. Just for a look at the irony of turnaround ... I belong to the National Writer's Union which is UAW affi...

Not to get involved in a pissing contest here, but I'd like to toss in the fact that this is an observation I made about 15 years ago while researching post-colonial economic activities. And the small number floated here - @ 4300 - is the same number I came up with when thinking about what expansion...

Cool. Thanks, Lali.

Sorry to hold up the de-stickying of this thread.

This is not a request for a change but a request for an explanation. In a couple other current threads people are talking about an "Ignore buttion," and I thought they were speaking euphemistically ... like, exercise self-control and ignore it. But the last couple posts referring to the ad...

That might be an unexpected side benefit of the Republican Party splitting in half. When it goes (and it will) the money will be on one side and religion will be on the other. But they will have a mutual interest in proportional representation, just as the Libertarians and Greens and Constitutionali...

Proportional representation is important for another reason, and that is the fact that winner-take-all effectively prevents third parties from gaining any ground in elections. If I had to put my finger on why there is no momentum for a shift away from the EC winner-take-all model, it would be the de...

I belong to a union and it serves me very well. Slush funds, of course, are an invitation to corruption whether they are created by the pension fund of a union, the retained earnings of a corporation, or the social security payments we make to the federal government. An astute analysis, I think, wou...

What am I missing here? When you click on The Plan in big letters, you get Pickins being interviewed. When you click on The Plan in small letters below the interviews, you get a one-page description of the problem, and a solution for 20% of our energy use at a cost of $2.2 trillion, and no details a...

Dana Garvey, omg! :rofl: Holby, thanks for posting that. That made my morning. Garvey said on the Jay Leno show that he was bringing Church Lady back, but I never guessed this direction!! Just btw, I think Sauronfinger's post on HoF about the Republican split has really nailed it, and Liddy's post a...

Hey, that is how you pronounce my name! In Old Norwegian it means, "I am out of the office."

Srsly ... Jen-you-suh, from the Lithuanian word for "knot."

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Why thank you, Liddy. We've missed you too. You've been around more often than I have, but you and Estel have also been scarcer of later. Real life gets us in the end. Just by the way, this might interest you: John Vogel, founder of Vanguard Mutual Fund, has a new book out, entitled Enough . I heard...

Aha! That's part of the sig. Good joke, CG!

Hi to you too, *E*!

Jewel, maybe she should try Bitter? Sweet is a fairly common last name.

CG .... look at the edit note at the bottom of your post .... or maybe we need to have Jude look at it.

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