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Couple believe good can come out of Corralitos farming accident

Couple believe good can come out of Corralitos farming accident
CORRALITOS – It’s going to take another six weeks before the bandages wrapped around the stump of Ken Kimes’ right arm and the splint that encircles his left hand are removed, but until then, his wife says, she can do anything she wants with him.

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Do You Really Believe That A Good Education Will Stop Profit Hungry Corporations From Outsourcing Your Job ?

Maybe you’ve noticed that America’s call-center jobs are largely being outsourced to India. Well, you say, I’m more skilled than that, so I can’t worry about it. Then you note that our accounting jobs, legal research, and architectural drafting work is being taken to India, too – but, hey, you do sophisticated stuff, so you can’t sweat those losses. Lately though, you’ve also seen that our country’s high-tech computer jobs are being shipped to India – and uh-oh, that’s getting close to what you do. Still, you say, I’m a professional, by gollies, so I’m okay.

Well… good luck. The latest surge of jobs heading to India might well include yours. Such outfits as Citigroup, Boeing, and Eli Lilly are now moving out the work of white-collar elites – including investment banking, aircraft design, and the clinical testing of drugs. “High-end outsourcing” is the new wave, and it’s pulling away the professional work of well-educated Americans who’ve been enjoying six-figure salaries.

Do you people believe that people that work at a Call Center for cell phones are Intelligent or otherwise?

I am just curious of everyone’s opinions… I am currently being trained for Sidekick Technical Troubleshooting for Tmobile and I used to work for the T-mobile Prepaid Department and AT&T Sales… the software is difficult to learn and SURPRISINGLY people make it .. even myself!

How many liberals actually believe the liberal media?

Rush Limbaugh has never done anything but honor our armed forces.

So let’s make sure we have this straight.

There really was a news story, generated by the mainstream media of all people, about phony soldiers — poseurs who falsely claim to have put their lives on the line in our country’s armed forces, at least some of whom engage the pretense precisely to libel real heroes as terrorists and marauders.
Rush Limbaugh, one of this nation’s single-most ardent supporters of the military, was briefed on the news story by his staff and was, unsurprisingly, offended by it.

Rush alluded to the said phony soldiers during his hugely successful daily radio broadcast, prompted by what he reasonably believed was a caller’s reference to it.

As a result, he is being castigated for dishonoring authentic troops in a trumped up controversy generated by Media Matters — a left-wing propaganda machine with pockets lined by left-wing activists. The charge is being led by top Democrats who, when not busy defending other top Democrats for smearing our troops as “reminiscent of Genghis Khan,” terrorists, murderers, and comparable to “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings,” fall mute when the vanguard of their hard-left base, MoveOn.org (abetted by the New York Times), describes the general heroically leading our forces in Iraq a traitor.

And this is a story?

Rush is, of course, the maestro of the most popular, most entertaining talk-radio show in America. He has an audience of millions, including people who vigorously disagree with his politics.

Why do they listen? Because “talent on loan from God” — for all its insight, passion, and biting satire — has a hallmark notably absent from the other side’s one-note polemics: unfailing civility.

On a typical excursion into broadcast excellence, there will be a liberal or two who call in to engage. These are often the finest moments of the program. The reason is good will.

There is no snarky “get off my phone!” Rush, instead, engages in a rare form of dialogue once known in Washington as civil discourse.

To be sure, there’s no mistaking where the host is coming from as he makes his points and endeavors to sway. But neither is there bitterness. The listener, and even the caller, can’t help but come away charmed — maybe not convinced, but entertained and enlightened by the exchange, rather than dismayed by the seeming hopelessness of what divides us.

Which is all a long-winded way of observing how preposterous is the slander at the center of this phony storm.

Those tirelessly manipulating Rush’s words into something they weren’t contend that by “phony soldiers” he was referring to those who’ve served honorably and now conscientiously object to the war. For anyone who actually listens to the program, that is simply a ludicrous interpretation.

Even if you take the position that Rush’s remark was ambiguous — I think that’s a strained construction, but let’s assume it for argument’s sake — the logical step when confronted by ambiguity is to place words in a broader context. How do they fit, not just in the surrounding circumstances of the conversation but in the full body of the man’s work?

In context, Rush was talking about the actual phony soldiers — those who pretend to serve. But in the body of his work, it is inconceivable that he was libeling honorable service men and women who disagree with him.

Let’s leave aside the indisputable track record of his program, where Rush daily demonstrates he is as zealous and consistent a proponent of our armed forces as there is. Let’s put aside radio promotions like his “Adopt a Soldier” initiative that encourage public support for our troops while making his features more accessible to the countless troops who want them. Let’s even ignore for the moment his visits overseas to those in combat and stateside to those wounded in combat.

We are talking about someone who raises and contributes out of his own pocket millions of dollars to provide scholarships for the children of Marines and other personnel killed in action.

There has never been an ideological test for that support. The Marines and their families needn’t agree with Rush’s politics to qualify. Instead, it is and it has always been an expression of heartfelt gratitude for service.

What Rush Limbaugh has ceaselessly honored is military service — love of country, not ideological purity.

Agree or disagree with his politics, it is shameful to suggest otherwise.

Do Americans really believe they started the whole “tea party” Idea as a grassroots organization?

ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.

On the same day as Santelli’s rant, February 19, another site called Officialchicagoteaparty.com went live. This site was registered to Eric Odom, who turned out to be a veteran Republican new media operative specializing in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns. Last summer, Odom organized a twitter-led campaign centered around DontGo.com to pressure Congress and Nancy Pelosi to pass the offshore oil drilling bill, something that would greatly benefit Koch Industries, a major player in oil and gas. Now, six months later, Odom’s DontGo movement was resurrected to play a central role in promoting the “tea party” movement.

seems something sinister is abreast

http://www.jossip.com/ed-koch-is-rick-santellis-puppet-master-exclaims-playboy-20090303/

I am not against the tea party because I want higher taxes, that really sounds silly. but i am not going to be used to further the agenda of some rich guy.
anybody notice how us so called “Libs” don’t insult or call names when we post?
I don’t think it will get out of hand bret, the folks behind this need to have a working society in order to make more money, chaos is not an option.

What is the name of a TV show that aired I believe on USA network or TNT network?

It was about a man who grew up in a place called The Center. I think they ran experiments and stuff on him. He eventually escaped from them and continued to be on the run into his adulthood. That was all my sister and I can remember. We are betting on who can find the name first. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!