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Dave
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Posted: Fri Feb 10th, 2006 07:29 pm |
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Nag, Nag, Nag... See where it get's when you're riding the bus in Philly?
Bus Driver Accused Of Throwing Woman Into Traffic
POSTED: 9:38 am PST February 10, 2006
PHILADELPHIA -- A Philadelphia bus driver has been charged with assaulting a passenger.
Police said the driver tossed a female passenger into traffic after she yelled at him for missing her stop.
Authorities said Mario Edney, 53, grabbed a 52-year-old woman by the hair, slamming her head into a pole, opened the door and tossed her off the bus into traffic. Edney maintains a detour along his route forced him to skip the woman's stop.
The passenger suffered a broken shoulder and needed surgery. Edney's attorney would not comment on what provoked the alleged altercation.
"These allegations are outrageous. A lot of details have not come out," said Jed Melnick, Edney's attorney.
Edney's family appeared at Thursday's arraignment and would not comment. Bail was set at $2,000.
Edney was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangering another person and terroristic threats. Edney has worked for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for nine years.
"Mario is kind and good man, loved by family and community, anyone that knows him," Melnick said.
SEPTA has temporarily banned Edney from driving a bus pending the outcome of the investigation.
"Often operators are in vulnerable spots with people getting on and off bus and words are exchanged. They are not authorized to use force, but we don't know whether that is the case here," said Richard Maloney, a spokesman for SEPTA.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/6907710/detail.html
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Feb 10th, 2006 07:20 pm |
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| LOL... Seattle would be nice. I have an older sister and BIL that live about an hour north (Oak Harbor)
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zippo
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Posted: Fri Feb 10th, 2006 07:11 pm |
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| Breaktime at Boeing field (Dave wants a Transfer to Seattle) Attachment: airport.jpg (Downloaded 114 times)
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Feb 10th, 2006 03:03 am |
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weasle wrote:
dave , if you have a oppertunity to work in your field , take it . its getting to be survival of the fittest in the econemy we have now a days . hell when i was in fla , bs with a guy , told me he would give me 18 bucks a hour to work part time as a millright . said been their done that and when i retired they paid me 22 bucks a hour, to do that shit . LOL guess what im sayin is ya gotta do , what your good at for the best price ya can get.
Weasle, I agree...
If I can get hired there and make close to the money I'm makin' here, I could live pretty damn good. Get a nice old house there with some land and pay cash for it with the equity I have in this place.
Even had a long talk with the OL about the looks of things at work and in Long Beach last night. Future is limited. Worst case, I have another 18-24 months. So, she's willin' to pack up for a cold(er) weather state. She ain't too big on the idea. But, she understands what's happening right now...
Southern Califonia and the Aircraft Industry are parting ways. It was a great ride while it lasted...
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weasle
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Posted: Fri Feb 10th, 2006 01:01 am |
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| dave , if you have a oppertunity to work in your field , take it . its getting to be survival of the fittest in the econemy we have now a days . hell when i was in fla , bs with a guy , told me he would give me 18 bucks a hour to work part time as a millright . said been their done that and when i retired they paid me 22 bucks a hour, to do that shit . LOL guess what im sayin is ya gotta do , what your good at for the best price ya can get.
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 07:39 pm |
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Got this off another board.....Talk about ass holes.....
Army blasted over soldier’s body armor
Sympathizers raise nearly $6,000 to repay Army for missing item
By Eric Eyre
Staff writer
West Virginia’s two U.S. senators asked top military leaders Tuesday to explain why 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV had to reimburse the U.S. Army $700 last week for body armor and other gear damaged after he was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
More than 200 people —from West Virginia and across the country — donated more than $5,700 to Rebrook after reading about his body armor payment to the Army.
Rebrook, 25, who was medically discharged from an army base in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, said he wouldn’t keep the donations. He’s passing along the money to charity and a Louisiana woman who lost her home in Hurricane Katrina. He said the woman’s son helped save his life in Iraq.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday, demanding that the Army refund Rebrook’s money immediately.
“I was outraged this morning when I read the story about what happened to Eddie,” said Rockefeller, who nominated Rebrook for admission to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., when Rebrook attended George Washington High School in Charleston. “I’m heartbroken that he can’t continue his career, and I’m shocked that he has been treated this way by our military.”
At a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., asked why Rebrook was forced to pay for body armor damaged when he was wounded in Iraq.
“How can it be that the Army is charging wounded soldiers for replacing damaged body armor? Is this standard practice?” Byrd asked during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense’s 2007 budget.
Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army’s chief of staff, attended the hearing.
“That is a very unusual story,” Schoomaker responded. “I have no idea why we would ever do something like that. We have issued body armor, the very best that exists in the world. Every soldier has it.
“We certainly have procedures that account for battle loss, and I just find it a highly unusual story. But we’ll certainly follow up and correct it if there’s any truth to it.”
“First Cavalry Division leadership is going to do everything to ensure this issue is brought to a conclusion that is both in line with procedures that apply to all its soldiers and in the best interest of our veterans who have served so proudly and honorably in Iraq,” Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, the division's spokesman at Fort Hood, told the Killeen Daily Herald for today’s edition.
Bleichwehl said soldiers are not held financially responsible for any equipment lost, damaged or destroyed in combat.
Rebrook said he borrowed $700 from his buddies to pay back the U.S. Army for the destroyed body armor and gear. He plans to pay them back out of his own pocket.
A Charleston radio station, WKWS-FM 96.1, raised $700 for Rebrook in less than an hour Tuesday morning. One woman hand-delivered a check for $350 to the radio station Tuesday.
“We read the story on the air, and the phones started ringing,” said the station’s Mike Fitzgerald.
The bulk of money for Rebrook was raised Tuesday after the soldier’s story was posted on americablog.com, a popular liberal political blog.
Donations ranged from $1 to $400, said John Aravosis, who runs the Internet blog. More than 187 people gave money. About 200 people posted to the blog.
“Everybody thinks liberals hate soldiers,” Aravosis said. “But the majority of people get that it’s not right to abuse our troops.”
Rebrook’s right arm was shattered in an explosion while he was standing in the turret of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle in January 2005. Field medics removed his body armor, and it was later incinerated, Rebrook said. A Black Hawk helicopter airlifted him to a combat support hospital in Baghdad.
Rebrook, who graduated with honors from West Point, said he was never given any records that documented the body armor loss.
When he turned in his gear last week, Rebrook said he was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks. The bill included a $570 charge for his Kevlar vest and gear destroyed in battle, and $130 for other lost items.
Rebrook said he was asked to provide statements from witnesses that he lost his body armor in battle.
He said he thought he could write a memo, explaining that the body armor was stripped from him after he was injured. But that wasn’t sufficient, he learned last week.
“I understand what they were saying, but from my perspective it was a hard pill to swallow,” Rebrook said Tuesday.
Despite the “bureaucratic snafu,” as Rebrook calls it, he holds no grudges. “I love the Army,” Rebrook said. “I love my soldiers. I loved being in it.”
Dozens of Charleston Gazette readers called the newspaper and sent e-mails, criticizing the Army and praising Rebrook for his service in Iraq. Some readers offered to pay Rebrook for the entire cost of his body armor.
“It’s a disgrace to humanity for our military to do that to a young boy who graduated from West Point,” said William Crouch of St. Albans. “I’m so mad now I can’t stand it.”
U.S. To Repay Soldier Billed For Body Armor
POSTED: 7:02 am PST February 9, 2006
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A former soldier injured in Iraq is getting a refund after being forced to pay for his missing body armor vest, which medics destroyed because it was soaked with his blood, officials said Wednesday.
First Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV, 25, had to leave the Army with a shrapnel injury to his arm. But before he could be discharged last week, he says he had to scrounge up cash from his buddies to pay $632 for the body armor and other gear he had lost.
Rebrook, who graduated from West Point with honors, said he was billed because a supply officer failed to document that the vest was destroyed as a biohazard. He said a battalion commander refused to sign a waiver for the vest, saying Rebrook would have to supply witness statements to verify the vest was taken from him and burned.
"When that vest was removed from my bleeding body in Iraq, it was no longer my responsibility," Rebrook said Wednesday.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., questioned Gen. Peter Schoomaker, chief of staff of the Army, on Tuesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee budget hearing, and on Wednesday an Army official said Rebrook would get refunds for the $510 vest and its contents, worth about $50.
Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for the First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, said there have been at least 21 similar cases. "In all of those cases, not one soldier was held accountable for items lost in combat," he said.
Told of the refund, Rebrook said: "How kind of them."
He blamed the dispute on bureaucracy.
"It's the nature of the beast. ... I still love the Army, loved being a soldier and loved my unit. I'm not going to look back on my service with anything but pride," he said.
Rebrook was standing in the turret of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded Jan. 11, 2005, fracturing his arm and severing an artery. He said he still has movement problems and pain, despite seven operations.
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 07:08 pm |
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McCain wouldn't let go of this...
What happened wasn't right. But, McCain made sure that it killed the original contract for 100 airplanes. He's got a big plant in Mesa, AZ that lost a lot of work because of what he did...
Krieg said the Pentagon is aware a new tanker program will face sharp scrutiny because of the scandal that derailed the earlier program and led to a nine-month prison sentence for Darleen Druyun, former Air Force No. 2 civilian acquisition official, and a four-month sentence for Boeing Chief Financial Officer Michael Sears.
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 07:00 pm |
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Dave wrote: This was on the company website this morning. It could possibly put me to work in Wichita. I've already talked to the "Quality Manager" of that site. She wants me to come to work for her.
Now if someone would just shut A--Hole McCain up...
I'm not up on airplane and military politics, what is McCain yammerin' about?
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Dave
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 06:01 pm |
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This was on the company website this morning. It could possibly put me to work in Wichita. I've already talked to the "Quality Manager" of that site. She wants me to come to work for her.
Now if someone would just shut A--Hole McCain up...
Pentagon gives details on tanker bidding
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 02/09/06
author: Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg
(Copyright 2006)
WASHINGTON -- Competition for the contract to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of refueling tankers likely will open by midyear, the Pentagon's weapon-buying chief said.
Formal requests for information will be sent to The Boeing Co. and a competing team composed of European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp., Ken Krieg, the undersecretary for acquisition, said Wednesday.
"I want to move this smartly," Krieg said. "Speed bumps come up, but at the moment we don't see any."
Krieg's remarks were his first public comments on a program that's been stalled since a $23 billion deal with Boeing was canceled in late 2004 because of conflicts of interest between an Air Force official and a Boeing executive negotiating the contract and congressional concerns over cost.
A request for information is the first major phase in a contract competition, to be followed by requests for bids and then the contract award.
Krieg said he could not predict when a contract would be awarded. The Air Force fiscal 2007-11 budget plan calls for spending $250 million in fiscal 2007 and a total of $8 billion through 2011.
Tankers are used to refuel bombers, fighters and other planes in the air. Chicago-based Boeing and EADS are the only two makers of passenger aircraft large enough to be converted into tankers. EADS owns 80 percent of Airbus, Boeing's rival.
EADS, based in Paris and Munich, Germany, announced in September that it will team with Northrop Grumman, based in Los Angeles, for the competition. EADS would supply the aircraft to be outfitted in the United States. Northrop Grumman would manage the program in the United States. The team will propose a KC-30 tanker.
Krieg said the Pentagon is digesting options outlined in a 1,500-page RAND Corp. analysis of tanker-replacement alternatives that's been briefed to lawmakers in Congress.
"We are starting to act on it," Krieg said of the analysis. "It roughly says tanker recapitalization is a good thing, that we ought to seek a commercial derivative, and that there are a number of commercial airplanes out there that are suitable," including Boeing and EADS aircraft in the medium- to medium-heavy takeoff-weight class, he said
The analysis suggested candidates include "the Boeing 767 up and the equivalents" that come "into that medium-heavy range," Krieg said. The EADS aircraft "were looked at as part of the overall market mix that was available," he said.
Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., in a news release Jan. 26, said the RAND analysis concluded "it is likely that any of several existing commercial aircraft would meet that requirement including Boeing's 767, 777, 787 and 747 airplanes as well as the Airbus A- 330 and A-330."
Dicks is known as an outspoken advocate of Boeing.
Krieg said the Pentagon is aware a new tanker program will face sharp scrutiny because of the scandal that derailed the earlier program and led to a nine-month prison sentence for Darleen Druyun, former Air Force No. 2 civilian acquisition official, and a four-month sentence for Boeing Chief Financial Officer Michael Sears.
Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst for the Teal Group, a military market forecast group, said Boeing is still the favorite. Of the expected EADS-Northrop Grumman proposal, he said, "No one wants to exclude their bids, but it doesn't mean they just won't be used to pressure the other guy's price."
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marc
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 01:09 pm |
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Got this off another board.....Talk about ass holes.....
Army blasted over soldier’s body armor
Sympathizers raise nearly $6,000 to repay Army for missing item
By Eric Eyre
Staff writer
West Virginia’s two U.S. senators asked top military leaders Tuesday to explain why 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV had to reimburse the U.S. Army $700 last week for body armor and other gear damaged after he was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
More than 200 people —from West Virginia and across the country — donated more than $5,700 to Rebrook after reading about his body armor payment to the Army.
Rebrook, 25, who was medically discharged from an army base in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, said he wouldn’t keep the donations. He’s passing along the money to charity and a Louisiana woman who lost her home in Hurricane Katrina. He said the woman’s son helped save his life in Iraq.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday, demanding that the Army refund Rebrook’s money immediately.
“I was outraged this morning when I read the story about what happened to Eddie,” said Rockefeller, who nominated Rebrook for admission to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., when Rebrook attended George Washington High School in Charleston. “I’m heartbroken that he can’t continue his career, and I’m shocked that he has been treated this way by our military.”
At a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., asked why Rebrook was forced to pay for body armor damaged when he was wounded in Iraq.
“How can it be that the Army is charging wounded soldiers for replacing damaged body armor? Is this standard practice?” Byrd asked during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense’s 2007 budget.
Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army’s chief of staff, attended the hearing.
“That is a very unusual story,” Schoomaker responded. “I have no idea why we would ever do something like that. We have issued body armor, the very best that exists in the world. Every soldier has it.
“We certainly have procedures that account for battle loss, and I just find it a highly unusual story. But we’ll certainly follow up and correct it if there’s any truth to it.”
“First Cavalry Division leadership is going to do everything to ensure this issue is brought to a conclusion that is both in line with procedures that apply to all its soldiers and in the best interest of our veterans who have served so proudly and honorably in Iraq,” Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, the division's spokesman at Fort Hood, told the Killeen Daily Herald for today’s edition.
Bleichwehl said soldiers are not held financially responsible for any equipment lost, damaged or destroyed in combat.
Rebrook said he borrowed $700 from his buddies to pay back the U.S. Army for the destroyed body armor and gear. He plans to pay them back out of his own pocket.
A Charleston radio station, WKWS-FM 96.1, raised $700 for Rebrook in less than an hour Tuesday morning. One woman hand-delivered a check for $350 to the radio station Tuesday.
“We read the story on the air, and the phones started ringing,” said the station’s Mike Fitzgerald.
The bulk of money for Rebrook was raised Tuesday after the soldier’s story was posted on americablog.com, a popular liberal political blog.
Donations ranged from $1 to $400, said John Aravosis, who runs the Internet blog. More than 187 people gave money. About 200 people posted to the blog.
“Everybody thinks liberals hate soldiers,” Aravosis said. “But the majority of people get that it’s not right to abuse our troops.”
Rebrook’s right arm was shattered in an explosion while he was standing in the turret of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle in January 2005. Field medics removed his body armor, and it was later incinerated, Rebrook said. A Black Hawk helicopter airlifted him to a combat support hospital in Baghdad.
Rebrook, who graduated with honors from West Point, said he was never given any records that documented the body armor loss.
When he turned in his gear last week, Rebrook said he was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks. The bill included a $570 charge for his Kevlar vest and gear destroyed in battle, and $130 for other lost items.
Rebrook said he was asked to provide statements from witnesses that he lost his body armor in battle.
He said he thought he could write a memo, explaining that the body armor was stripped from him after he was injured. But that wasn’t sufficient, he learned last week.
“I understand what they were saying, but from my perspective it was a hard pill to swallow,” Rebrook said Tuesday.
Despite the “bureaucratic snafu,” as Rebrook calls it, he holds no grudges. “I love the Army,” Rebrook said. “I love my soldiers. I loved being in it.”
Dozens of Charleston Gazette readers called the newspaper and sent e-mails, criticizing the Army and praising Rebrook for his service in Iraq. Some readers offered to pay Rebrook for the entire cost of his body armor.
“It’s a disgrace to humanity for our military to do that to a young boy who graduated from West Point,” said William Crouch of St. Albans. “I’m so mad now I can’t stand it.”
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 01:07 am |
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zippo wrote: Dave wrote: Kiss of life makes Boo Boo the chicken better
ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas (AP) -- This chicken had lips, just not her own.
A retired nurse saved her brother's chicken, Boo Boo, by administering mouth-to-beak resuscitation last week after the fowl was found floating face down in the family's pond.
Marian Morris said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but she was interested to see if she "still had it."
"I breathed into its beak, and its dadgum eyes popped open," Morris said. "I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm."'
She said she did not know how to find a pulse on a chicken.
Boo Boo's owners, Jackie and Becky Calhoun, put her in a large cardboard box containing a grain feeder and water. They also placed a heater nearby.
The chicken is called Boo Boo because she is easily frightened. The Calhouns thought Boo Boo was startled and flopped into the pond.
Sounds like something Babe would do for another stray!
I keep telling my wife, I am having trouble breathing please blow into my breathing tube. Strange she never seems to fall for it though.
Maybe you're not making your breathing tube accessible enough! LOL
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Babe
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Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2006 12:29 am |
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zippo wrote: Dave wrote: Kiss of life makes Boo Boo the chicken better
Sounds like something Babe would do for another stray!
I keep telling my wife, I am having trouble breathing please blow into my breathing tube. Strange she never seems to fall for it though.
Sure Zippo....now ya got me making out with chickens! LOL....thanks.....sheesh!
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zippo
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 09:34 pm |
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weasle wrote: zippo dont want to rag ya , but if you ever worked on a assembly line , especially in a auto plant , you would perhaps have a different opinion . damned hard, boring work believe me. wonder why honda , mercedes ( ect ) can make money in the us with us workers, and our own automakers cant? 100,000 sounds like a lot ,but figure you make 50,000 a year in a auto factory really dont amount to much of a retirement does it.ya know everything costs , steel is rising in cost ,energy ( ect) ya got to figure that all in when ya say no wonder cars costs so much. oh and i forgot to mention the millions in bonuses that the ceo s get for running their companys in the ground. dont want to offend ya, just tired of these auto exes , blaming everything on their employees.
I agree Weasle the execs are greedy pigs (just like most ploiticans), but the reason Toyota, Honda and the Asians make money here is their labor contracts (if they are even unionized) are NO WHERE near what the UAW has with the US car makers. My lord when you have to cut back and stil have to pay those laid off workers full pay and benies.
And I grew up on MoTown and worked in a small job shop for a bit, so I know its no ball. And most all the assembly line and factory workers make closer to 100K than 50K
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weasle
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 08:56 pm |
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| zippo dont want to rag ya , but if you ever worked on a assembly line , especially in a auto plant , you would perhaps have a different opinion . damned hard, boring work believe me. wonder why honda , mercedes ( ect ) can make money in the us with us workers, and our own automakers cant? 100,000 sounds like a lot ,but figure you make 50,000 a year in a auto factory really dont amount to much of a retirement does it.ya know everything costs , steel is rising in cost ,energy ( ect) ya got to figure that all in when ya say no wonder cars costs so much. oh and i forgot to mention the millions in bonuses that the ceo s get for running their companys in the ground. dont want to offend ya, just tired of these auto exes , blaming everything on their employees.
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zippo
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 08:13 pm |
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Dave wrote: Kiss of life makes Boo Boo the chicken better
ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas (AP) -- This chicken had lips, just not her own.
A retired nurse saved her brother's chicken, Boo Boo, by administering mouth-to-beak resuscitation last week after the fowl was found floating face down in the family's pond.
Marian Morris said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but she was interested to see if she "still had it."
"I breathed into its beak, and its dadgum eyes popped open," Morris said. "I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm."'
She said she did not know how to find a pulse on a chicken.
Boo Boo's owners, Jackie and Becky Calhoun, put her in a large cardboard box containing a grain feeder and water. They also placed a heater nearby.
The chicken is called Boo Boo because she is easily frightened. The Calhouns thought Boo Boo was startled and flopped into the pond.
Sounds like something Babe would do for another stray!
I keep telling my wife, I am having trouble breathing please blow into my breathing tube. Strange she never seems to fall for it though.
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Dave
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 07:39 pm |
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Kiss of life makes Boo Boo the chicken better
ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas (AP) -- This chicken had lips, just not her own.
A retired nurse saved her brother's chicken, Boo Boo, by administering mouth-to-beak resuscitation last week after the fowl was found floating face down in the family's pond.
Marian Morris said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but she was interested to see if she "still had it."
"I breathed into its beak, and its dadgum eyes popped open," Morris said. "I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm."'
She said she did not know how to find a pulse on a chicken.
Boo Boo's owners, Jackie and Becky Calhoun, put her in a large cardboard box containing a grain feeder and water. They also placed a heater nearby.
The chicken is called Boo Boo because she is easily frightened. The Calhouns thought Boo Boo was startled and flopped into the pond.
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Dave
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 04:53 pm |
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Abo wrote:
Hey man. I guess that sucks for you. How long ys figure before it screws with your world? Chin up. Ride Free. Abo
Best guess? A little over a year... 2 at the most...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 04:32 pm |
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Ford's gonna spend more layin' people off than keepin' them it kinda sounds like.. LMAO!!
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zippo
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 04:21 pm |
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And we wonder why the US car makers can't compete!
February 8, 2006
Ford Motor Co. is trying to extend five existing severance and early retirement programs -- including one that offers workers who volunteer to leave the company a lump sum of $100,000 -- to workers at plants slated to close under the Way Forward restructuring plan.
The automaker announced Jan. 23 that it would close 14 plants and lay off 30,000 workers in the next six years as part of that massive turnaround effort.
UAW locals will have to approve the severance packages.
But Ford is now close to reaching an agreement with the UAW in St. Louis to offer the same severance programs that workers at other closing Ford plants have received in recent years, Ford spokeswoman Marcey Evans said. About 1,445 workers are employed at the St. Louis Assembly Plant that Ford intends to close during the first quarter of this year.
Ford already has been offering the severance programs to workers at closed plants in Edison, N.J., which closed in 2004, and in Lorain, Ohio, which closed late last year.
"They have been offered previously," Evans said of the programs. "These packages have been in place."
These are the five severance programs Ford plans to offer workers:
Under a special termination-of-employment program, workers who volunteer to leave the company and forgo all benefits except pension benefits already accrued can receive a $100,000 buyout. This program was offered to workers at the Edison site.
Under an educational opportunity program previously disclosed in the Free Press, workers with one year of service are eligible to receive up to $15,000 in college tuition for up to four years. Workers who take part in this program can receive medical benefits and half of their regular pay while enrolled in school.
Workers 55 and older who have 30 or more years of service are eligible to receive a $35,000 check and begin retirement immediately with full benefits.
Workers 55 and older with 10 or more years of service will be provided a fixed level of income for life, which varies according to each employee's service with the company.
Workers with at least 28 years of service are eligible to take a leave for two years until they reach 30 years of service, when they can retire as normal.
During their leave, the workers will receive 85% of their pay.
About 30% of the workers in Edison who were offered these five programs chose one, helping the automaker to cut significantly the number of laid-off workers it has to keep on the payroll.
Ford had about 2,000 workers at Edison, but Evans said that only about 150 workers now remain in the company's guaranteed employment numbers program. That requires the company to keep paying laid-off workers.
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Abo
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Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2006 12:21 pm |
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| Hey man. I guess that sucks for you. How long ys figure before it screws with your world? Chin up. Ride Free. Abo
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