Your Questions About Recycling

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No. If I want to watch a circus I’ll go to a circus. But I do remember the billboard for the Tories that said : “Labour isn’t Working”. What they failed to mention was, that our labour didn’t work at all under them, because they failed to help create the jobs to help our labour get back to work. In fact they destroyed the manufacturing base and turned us and our labour into a nation of pen pushing service sector idiots with falsely grand titles. Such as ‘Recycling Engineers’ when they really meant bin men. So what’s new?

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Jerry Brown cleaned up Oakland a lot and reduced crime and it was less than 10 years ago so it wasnt very long ago. Now he is the Attorney General. You wouldn’t find a person with more government experience. Pensions for state workers was not in the purvue of Jerry Brown as the mayor of Oakland and at that time their pensions were not very big and were not invested in the market. They did not lose jobs either during the time he was mayor. What taxes are you referring to that went up? Arnold raised our sales tax to 9 1/2 per cent. In the 1970s under Brown, it was around 4%. What is your source of this erroneous information?

You must be a Republican trying to bamboozle voters, but your facts are wrong. I suspect you invented them. What Jerry Brown did when he was Governor in the 1970s are not the same policies that he has now. We are in a totally different society, different economy and our state is twice as big almost. Jerry Brown is very conservative financially and very smart about everything.

He is very concered about the environment. In the 1970s, most people were not worried about energy and conservation of resources except Brown who was ahead of his time. We began recycling and he promoted reducing toxic waste and air pollution. At that time, Republicans made fun of him for these ideas. Since he is currently active in politics, I have no doubt he will handle our problems. He is quite different now enforcing the law than he was in the 1970s when he approved Rose Bird for Chief Justice. She was disliked because she opposed the death penalty. The State of California was not in debt in the 1970s and as mayor of Oakland, he trimmed the budget.

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Given the size of my country and the type of job I have, I’ve opted not to own a car. I recycle. I own many computers but I have been consolidating functions so I have done away with some and the rest are on strict hard-on/off timers, in fact, all electronics are blocked from pesky sleep modes by on/off timer clocks. I don’t buy products that are wasteful with packaging materials. I am putting double glass in all my windows so I don’t have to waste energy heating my home. I am researching what it will take to go off-grid completely (e.g. Solar/wind or comparable) but the technology isn’t quite up to par yet.

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Take the test on the day they assign. The AT-SAT is sort of like a traveling road show. They appear in your city for a few days with a list of people to take the day each day they’re in town then its off to the next location. If you don’t want the day you’re assigned you MIGHT be able to get another test date, but unless you’re willing to wait 6 months until the next one is offered in your area you might be taking a trip cross country to squeez in.

You will not have to go to Oklahoma right away…in fact you’ll be wondering if they forgot about you or if you got selected (my wait from at sat to Oklahoma was around 10 months I believe and I know of people who waited 3 years…don’t quit your day job). What happens is the areas you applied for get a pile of applicants and their scores. They meet every few months and haggle over people. IF you get picked they wait until they have an open class (if not you’ll be informed and asked to reapply). You’ll then be asked to show up for processing and you should for this be given a few dates and locations. You will get processed and offered a job at one location and if everything goes well (and you take the position you wait about another 2 to 5 months before getting a call asking you if you can be in Oklahoma city on XYZ day. If you say no I don’t want the job, I don’t know about public applicants but I don’t think they get recycled. Its either take the job or go through the application process again.

If you get to the hey we have a job for you come get processed stage, thats the point I’d make sure my loose ends were locked and ready by, so don’t sweat it, you’ve got plenty of time.

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Would you have liked ice ice baby in 2010.

I understand your point but, with all that said about rick ross, wayne, and countless others.
You gotta use common sense.who the hell listens to ice ice baby, matter fact the last time i heard ice ice baby was in step brothers.

Although the market for music has shift. And artist are dealing with a new generation of listeners (teenagers). Because so, mainstream caters more with beats and hooks. Lyricism aint as appealing to teenagers.

It would be a good thing if vanilla ice waited 20 years to release the song, cause we would have never heard it. Like it would be hidden from existance.

As fraudulent as most rappers are about their background, don’t get it twisted. Cause the people you compare to vanilla ice have nothing in common.

Rick ross was a correctional officer, but the fact he tried to deny it. Made him look bad. Correctional officers aren’t federal, correctional officers is a second chance job/career option for early offenders or youth felons. And the perfect cover for people to slang in prison. Rick ross is from dade county, he don’t need no proof that he was a drug dealer. Only respected people out of miami make it big.

Honestly the dude running with people who are responsible for trick daddies brothers death, the dude who know doubt is respected in miami. Dude may be a idiot, but evidence only point at him being a co, which actually supports his drug dealing background. (co’s smuggle, sell drugz to inmates.) rick ross isn’t fake, he’s just retarded. But you can’t compare his music to the quality of vanilla ice.

Thats just retarded, he may not be lyrical but he’s not garbage.

Wayne isn’t a fake blood, he’s just a horrible representation of bloodz. Especially given the rumors he went from NO to NYC to join UNB. Wayne overall is a fake person. But to many people take that as a reason to attack him as an artist. Honestly how can you compare vanilla ice to anything in rap today. He’s basically had no musical effect on rap. The only thing rap inherited was a bad outlook on white rapper. Which the girl who posted early should understand. Eminem is an underground legend. And the greatest white rapper. What other famous white rapper you heard of cept beastie boys.

Now understand, that rap is music. With music comes imagination. And fantasy. So it’s easy to see why rappers rap about being kingpins, hoes, and money. And rap with it’s aggresive traits. Rap about the harsh, gritty, and dark things. Rap in alot of ways reflect it’s time period in rap. As most artist are regular citizens given mics.

But now adays, the only new struggle we have is the recession and getting jobs, everything that affecting us has been touched on in rapped a thousand times. So it’s like recycled material times 1000 max. But vanilla ice actually didn’t really rap about that.

But the funny thing is, vanilla ice doesn’t rap about or come near the things the average rapper has to mention on a average verse. Vanilla ice didn’t really have subject matters, just misguided flow and go raps. So in comparison.

Vanilla ice would be even more irrelevant than ever. Never heard vanilla ice rap about selling crack.

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Fact Democrats out number Republicans by a ratio of 3:1. Republicans within the last week have managed to recycle the Karl Rove Text Book play of manipulation and lies. Be that as it may; victims of Bush’s long eight years have extremely long memories. Those who have been the instrument of manipulation for war in Iraq and Afghanistan know the score. Family and friends of those lost or suffered at the weakness and failures of Katrina remember. Families displaced due to the housing foreclosures remember. Men and women without jobs due to outsourcing, will cast their votes not in favor of the Republicans. The list grows daily, with the reminder of McCain’s recycled Bush manipulations.

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Boy, that’s a good question! I’ll try to answer it intelligently for ya.

Back when I worked in a gun shop we were always encouraged to push the Kimber line. Why? Because the owner made a heck of a lot more money on the Kimbers than he did on the Glocks.

There’s the other side to that coin though: When the gun counter is more than 50 feet long, there’s sure to be a lot of overpriced low quality pistols in there too.

In comparison to what else is around in 1911 patterns, I’ve got ‘a tell you there’s a huge difference between Kimber and other manufactures like Rock Island or High Standard. In spite of the fact that some people might not think so, there is, indeed, a lot more: fit, finish, and tighter tolerances in a typical Kimber pistol than what’s found in numerous other 1911’s.

In fact, Kimber’s retired pistol production manager is one of my closest acquaintances. Whenever I need advice or something repaired I’ll go over to see Chuck. Ya got ‘a remember that there’s really no comparison between the different grades of steel, or the forgings that are used. Cheap is cheap; and expensive is expensive.

There were occasions in the gun shop when the salesmen would get together (There were usually 6 of us; so, at the time, this was no small operation.) and joke about Kimber overdoing things with their incredibly tight mechanical tolerances. Tight chambers, tight slide to frame fit. And very good barrel lockups.

Is a $600.00 price difference worth it? I don’t know if it is to you; but, let me be brutally frank: My ugly crappy Glock EDC piece has over $500.00 worth of custom work and parts into it; and my Series 70 Mark IV Colts had well over $1,000.00 each invested into them; and all this in order to install most of the features one of today’s Kimber include as standard!

Me? After being a Christian, first, I’m a pistolero. It’s what I like; it’s what I’m good at; and it’s what I do. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t want to be found dead with a piece-of-junk Filipino pistol on my body!

I’ve sold a lot of people a lot of guns. Customers tend to buy what they like and what they can afford. Some are more discriminating than others. Some have a greater need (or interest) than others. Some just plain shoot more than others, too.

When everything’s said and done, I can’t answer that question for you; I don’t think anybody on this board can. At a certain point every salesman has to take a step back and allow the customer to make up his own mind. Some customers choose correctly, and some don’t. I’ll try to give some of the more important criteria; and you can decide:

1. Do you like to shoot; or is this going to be more of a home defense handgun?

2. Are you mechanically inclined? Does a better machine mean more to you than one that just gets the job done?

3. How long do you intend to own this gun?

4. Are you like me and a lot of my older acquaintances? Will you still be shooting the same high quality steel pistol when you’re past 50, and the newer more modern guns are all made out of recycled plastic and polymer based, ‘liquid steel’? (Because that’s where this is, all, going!)

5. To my mind a handgun purchase is a lot like a lifetime commitment to a good woman: You make the right choice, up front, and then you stick with the girl and take good care of her.

In return if you did, in fact, manage to get yourself both the right woman and the right gun, then, neither one will ever let you down. I’ll tell you something else, too: In recent years I’ve been clearing out my gun safe.

People have been paying me top dollar for the guns that I’ve shown them. ‘Why?’ Because I never bought any, ‘junk’. I bought good guns; and I took very good care of them. Consequently I’ve been paid as much as 5 times more than I originally paid for some of them; and more than double on a few others.

To my mind this means that every time you buy a gun you make an investment; AND don’t forget that I’ve had the free use of these firearms for more than a quarter of a century! In, even, 10 years from now nobody is going to give you what you paid for some Filipino piece-of-junk.

My best advice is to be sure you buy the right gun – Either something you can, ‘toss away’ without giving a damn when you’re through with it; or something else that someone is going to want when the time comes for you to be through with it. OK!

The Expert answers:

Because his own advisers commented, starting in July of this year, that Obama’s plans would have to be reorganized and changed if he took office.

Even Leon Panetta, one of the Clintons chief advisors said so, and I quote:

“I accept that all candidates throw out a lot of proposals when they’re campaigning,” Panetta said in an interview. “You have to assume that’s all part of a campaign strategy to appeal to a lot of different constituencies that are out there. But once he enters the Oval Office, he’s going to have to make some hard decisions.”

Note that Obama has not made a “promise” but proposals.

Its cruel to offer up false hope to people. And here are some more reasons:

A. Obama is not a terrorist in the sense of the word. He is accused of associating with a terrorist (Ayers) and has said he will sit down with “friend and foe alike” as in terrorist-sponsoring nations, without pre-condition. In other words he will recognize terrorists as legitimate governments. Do you realllllyyyyy want that?

B. No experience. Yes, well Jimmy Carter was a darkhorse just like Obama is (and I don’t mean that racially). Carter sprung up out of Georgia. He proved to be an abysmal failure. A 1 term mental midget. We spent four agonizing years in this country after he tried the same stuff that Obama’s proposing now! As a matter of fact, some of Obama’s advisors are all recycled out of Carter’s and Clinton’s administrations.

C. Socialist. No question about it. He was a member of an international-based socialist political group when he ran for the Illinois State Senate when Clinton was in office.

He wants to double US aid to foreign countries over the next year as part of his “war on poverty” in the 3rd world. How do you think he’s going to do that? Sending industries to those countries so that they can start producing goods to sell to us. So he will be exploiting the 3rd world while exporting industry, jobs and American dollars to them.

Why? He wants to “buy” influence.

Yet in the same breath, he wants to increase taxes on industries that export jobs. Huh? Oh yeah, like Clinton. Well back in the Wild Bill days, certain industries were encouraged to ship jobs overseas to China and India, and they didn’t get hit with those freaky-deaky taxes.

So Obama wants to pick n choose. Oh and what will happen next?

Special visas for foreign workers to come here and work in our industries to compete with American workers and who will work for less pay than Americans.

Yeah. I don’t like Obama and the more I read his plans the more it makes me want to puke.

So I do plan on voting against Obama.

C.

The Expert answers:

Hello,
It seems like you are very involved in finding new and better ways to help out the world, but be good for the environment, and to make those old inventions (ie: cars) better for the environment too.

Know that you have put such a broad topic out there, and there are so many things you could do. It will be hard to tackle it all, but with your program, you are making a difference.

First, activities need to be something a teen would want to do. Get creative in your plans. Suggest things that help the planet, but allow them to socialize and have fun too.

The following are a list of ideas:
1. Go to the park, plant trees, pick up trash, and see if there are recycle cans anywhere. If there aren’t, look into buying some.
2. Collect cans to donate the the recycling center for more money.
3. You could host friendly competitions for bragging rights and stuff by seeing which teams (groups of students) could do something like receive the most cans for the recycling center or something.
4. Find ways to spread the word about Going- Green; go to different events (farmer’s market, schools, fairs, etc) and have a booth or something. Make it interesting and involve lots of facts, and go beyond the regular recycling, saving water, saving electricity. People are aware of that, and it’s your job to inform them of the stuff they don’t know; it’s true that there are small differences that can be made, but bigger things are possible to achieve, and there are still a lot of small things we can do too. Be creative.
5. Hold contests for things like, have people compete to come up with the best ideas to Go Green, and how they can spread the news the most effectively. Or you could have speech and essay competitions featuring topics that need to be discussed because they are problems we are dealing with. Maybe, the winner could get something, like a certificate or a medal, and/or a cash prize like $100.
6. Start a carpooling plan, so that kids going to the same school can all save gas while getting to school. Also encourage kids to walk home and/or ride a bike. Where I live, because of budget cuts we lost our school buses, but they could take the public bus, or if you still have it, the school bus.
7. Think of those topics that really haven’t been dealt with yet in our society, and be creative; come up with the solutions to help us out.

I really hope this helps you a lot, and good job with all of your work!!!