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June, 2006
June 15th, 2006
If you make the Federal minimum wage, you earn $5.15 an hour — officially raised last in 1998. Working 40 hours (if your employer allows that) a week 52 weeks a year with no vacation, no holidays, and no sick days, you would earn $10, 712. (If you work those max number of days, that’s 260 days a year.)
Congress works less than 250 days over every two year period called “a session”. They are in Washington D.C. less than 3 days a week and are facing record lows in approval ratings. Yet, this week, for the seventh year in a row, lawmakers embraced a %2 “cost of living” raise that bringing their salaries to $168,500.
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Tags: Congress, minimum wage, politics
June 15th, 2006
I found this bookshelf at 50Books.com. If I could find it in something other than that lime green like maybe a wood color or even black, it would be perfect for my living room.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find it available for purchase in the U.S. 
Actually, I’m not sure where you’d purchase this design called Dryade.
Tags: bookshelves
June 15th, 2006
If I were in Guantanamo Bay, and I couldn’t get out and these guys will never get out, believe me…I might commit suicide too.
– Bill O’Reilly
Tags: Quote of the Day, Bill O'Reilly, Guantanamo Bay, suicide
June 14th, 2006
“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
– G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: Quote of the Day
June 13th, 2006
I have spent quite a bit of my time recently chasing my dog.
He thinks it’s great fun and sometimes it is as sometimes it really is a game with a real dog toy and everything. However, more and more, this game of his has been involving other things that are not dog toys…most of the time I am not amused, sometimes, it’s almost impossible not to laugh at the small puppy pug with with curly tail, proudly running about head in the air with the trophy in his mouth while I try to catch him in my living room
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Tags: none
June 13th, 2006
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
– Jack Wagner & Lily Tomlin
Tags: Quote of the Day, Lily Tomlin
June 13th, 2006
Here’s a niftly little discovery I made. I called to have my newspaper stopped while I was away and the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram have a program where you can donate your newspaper while you are on vacation to the local schools, including summer schools. Newspaper subscriptions really aren’t that expensive and really I wouldn’t be saving a whole lot by having them “credit” my account for 2 1/2 weeks. Besides I really like the idea of contributing to the education system. In fact, I may have to consider ordering a second subscription when I come back
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Tags: charity
June 13th, 2006
My mother was telling me the other day about a weird set of events that occurred one night while she was on-call for Red Cross. In the middle of the night, the Red Cross cell phone rang and she got up to answer it, but no one was there. She checked the number but it was all 9’s across the screen. She went back to bed and went to sleep.
Several hours later, the same thing occurred.
Well, the next morning, she got to thinking about it and she thought she remembered hearing about some scam where people can
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Tags: Terrorists, phone scams, Red Cross, Conspiracy Theories
June 13th, 2006
“New Graphic Site” is a mass-mail worm written in JavaScript that takes advantage of a vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail, exploiting a hole that allows scripts embedded in HTML-based e-mail messages to execute via recipients’ browsers. Arriving as an e-mail message with a subject line of “New Graphic Site,” the worm targets e-mail addresses in the yahoo.com and yahoogroups.com domains, replicates by running a script that sends copies of itself to similar addresses harvested from infected users’ Yahoo! Mail folders, and sends those harvested addresses to a collecting remote server (www.av3.net).
Symantec has rated this worm a Level 2 threat (Level 1
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Tags: computer virus warning
June 12th, 2006
Well, I can hardly believe that in two weeks this time, I’ll be in England and on a tour, possibly viewing Stonehenge from behind some gated fence. I’m really started to get excited!
What’s really nifty is that PW is going to be doing all the tours and travelling with me from Monday through Thursday that week, including my overnight stay in Bath and the bus trip down to Glastonbury Abbey! So, I’ll actually get to spend some time with her while I’m there and she’ll actually get to do some touristy things that English doesn’t want to do because, well,
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Tags: England
June 12th, 2006
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
– Ronald Reagan
Tags: Quote of the Day, Ronald Reagan
June 12th, 2006
O.K. You would not know that I got a gazillion things done plus was feeling like I was dying plus had a sick puppy over the weekend with all the movies I watched. Plus, I put the new theme in…and when I use my entertainment system, it mucks up my wireless internet so I couldn’t work on the theme while I was doing that so there. 
Anyway, here goes my movie reviews for this weekend.
June 10th, 2006
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Tags: Quote of the Day
June 9th, 2006
I think I just might be a little more in love with John Cusack…
CHICAGO John Cusack’s motivation for his latest film grew out of something he did not see — flag-draped caskets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pentagon policy bans media coverage of America’s war dead as their remains are returned. The administration of U.S. President George Bush has strongly enforced the ban, something Cusack describes as “one of the most shameful, disgraceful, cowardly political acts that I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
So the actor started looking for a project that would
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Tags: John Cusack, movies
June 9th, 2006
The other morning, I drove into the parking garage like every other morning. We share it with the hotel next door, some nearby office buildings and the general public. This means that sometimes it’s fuller than others and sometimes there’s a moron or two wandering around. That morning, there was a fully licensed one.
I wasn’t even to the top of the first ramp and there was a car that wanted to back out. I thought to myself about what a lucky break that was. I should have realized that it never is lucky.
As I watched,
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Tags: soap box, pet peeves
June 9th, 2006
So, yesterday, while everyone else was getting all hot and bothered about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death — something I took at first with a bit of cynicism since he’d already been killed about 4 or 5 other times this year — or busy calling their Congressman to learn just how dedicicated he or she is to the sanctity of marriage — I’ve kind of enjoyed reading some of the transcripts from the liberal bloggers with too much time on their hands who want to know if their Senators masterbate (I can’t believe I typed that, Mom) — I was considering
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Tags: fibromyalgia, wellness, al-Zarqawi
June 9th, 2006
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.”
– William S. Burroughs
Tags: Quote of the Day
June 7th, 2006
I found a couple of online checklists for travelers which appear to be pretty good and thought I’d share:
June 7th, 2006
So, I took one of those survey things that pigeonholes you and gives you something to paste on your website…
