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Post by Sysop3 on Mar 6, 2019 19:32:19 GMT -5
2 days later and life rolls on. R. Kelly has finally been arrested for something or other, one of my heroes, Alex Trebec is fighting pancreatic cancer, there is only one Blockbuster Cinema left in the U. S. and Gates of Babylon.com is settled in a new domain. That means we'll be here at least another year.
Hope your Mardi Gras was a good un.
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Post by beth on Mar 7, 2019 4:02:32 GMT -5
The weathermen tell us we can expect a couple more days of winter cold; then spring will come peaking back around over the weekend. Hope they are right.
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Post by mouse on Mar 7, 2019 4:04:16 GMT -5
Mouse, I think elected officials are that way all over the world. They claim to be our servants til they get the job. Then they butter their own bread. It would be great to think there's a better system but if so I don't know what it would be. there is a better system... honesty and loyalty and doing the job they are payed to do and the booting out of those who do not work with the rules … never mind some of ours are getting and hopfully will get their cumuppence with deselection and via the vote nect time round
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Post by mouse on Mar 7, 2019 4:10:12 GMT -5
horribly wet and cold son2 has just left and daughter comes home tomorrow
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Post by annaj26 on Mar 7, 2019 13:46:10 GMT -5
We have sun AND snow, but the snow should be moving out and more sun for the weekend.
Thanks to whoever got the domain changed out (beth and fret).
Mouse, maybe your daughter will bring the sunshine back for you when she gets home.
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Post by Sysop3 on Mar 7, 2019 20:11:03 GMT -5
Mouse, I think elected officials are that way all over the world. They claim to be our servants til they get the job. Then they butter their own bread. It would be great to think there's a better system but if so I don't know what it would be. there is a better system... honesty and loyalty and doing the job they are payed to do and the booting out of those who do not work with the rules … never mind some of ours are getting and hopfully will get their cumuppence with deselection and via the vote nect time round The better system is what most of us always hope for, but we don't see it in practice very oten.
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Post by men an tol on Mar 8, 2019 0:29:36 GMT -5
there is a better system... honesty and loyalty and doing the job they are payed to do and the booting out of those who do not work with the rules … never mind some of ours are getting and hopfully will get their cumuppence with deselection and via the vote nect time round The better system is what most of us always hope for, but we don't see it in practice very oten. The best part of our political system is a well informed active voter base. Our voters are better informed than ever in the past. Do those voters work to become informed? It is easy to say we need more informed voters, and that is true. However, that informed voter is only created by the voters their selves. When those elected are defined as informed by those elected, most often they are referring to people who have responded to the those elected. That is, informed but only by one side. An actual informed voted is one who works to keep themselves informed.
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Post by mouse on Mar 8, 2019 3:19:05 GMT -5
no use hopeing for a better system far better to demand a better system and have the elected open to scrutiny in all things and the electors should have the option of removing those public employes who do not do their job properly and or work against the interests of those who elected them via some process quicker than de selection especially those who are elected on one ticket and who then cross the floor to an opposition party
if in private business you were helping your self to funds and you got sacked for theft.. the same should happen in political life especially in milking the expences system or payments via organisations.. we have a duty to expect and demand honesty and integrity one of the things so disliked about the EU is the open corruption cronyism and family placements and fingers in the pie of public self interests and I know when/if we get free then things will be expected to alter..
and once more is very cold damp morning .. very grey and uninviting
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Post by mouse on Mar 9, 2019 3:12:36 GMT -5
lordy this morning is darker and even more gloomy and misty too....the flowering almond is out and colour pushing through all over...lovely daughter came home. happy to be back and me happy to see her.... and not just because son 2 had managed to block the kitchen sink errruuuughghghgh…. and it took ages to unblock.... still all is flowing nicely now suddenly its raining
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Post by annaj26 on Mar 9, 2019 9:21:37 GMT -5
Have a nice weekend, mouse. We have sun and the temps are forecast to go up into the high 50s F, today. A neighbor's gas furnace caught fire early this morning, but no real damage. The firetruck pulled in and had everything under control almost before neighbors knew what was going on. They are insured so a new furnace will be installed this afternoon.
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Post by beth on Mar 9, 2019 11:12:46 GMT -5
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Post by Jessiealan on Mar 9, 2019 20:50:35 GMT -5
Warm weather forecast for the weekend has turned off nippy, about 10 degrees F lower than predicted.
We attended a grandson's ballgame this evening. I am glad to say they won this one as they have not had a very good season.
May everyone have a good weekend.
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Post by Sysop3 on Mar 10, 2019 1:21:32 GMT -5
All my clocks change the time automatically except the one on the wall. Off to change that and go to bed. Have a good Sunday.
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Post by mouse on Mar 10, 2019 4:41:34 GMT -5
a really cold and very wet morning it snowed a little during the night and quite a lot is expected over today and tomorrow.. it may pass us by .. all things crossed
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Post by Dex on Mar 10, 2019 10:02:07 GMT -5
All my clocks change the time automatically except the one on the wall. Off to change that and go to bed. Have a good Sunday. My sleep hours got screwed up as is usual in the spring. I got about 5 hours last night. Sunny with some rainy spots this morning.
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