Just when you start to feel sorry for what Ricky has gone through with his own kids..
A side note: A fund has been set up for the late snowboarder Sarah Burke. The Canadian snowboarder was killed during practice in Utah. Her 9 day stay in the hospital is expected to cost up to $550,000. Had this accident occurred in her home country of Canada, it would have cost her little to nothing.
Each and everyone of us are only one major illness away from utter bankruptcy.
The world would be a better place if the poor died off anyway. They're just dragging the rest of us down. My kids got their medical treatments, so hell with yours, right Ricky?
No word yet whether this kid even had a $900 iPad he could sell off... hell I can't even find one of them $900 iPads. I think your campaign donors got tookin' for yours Ricky!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
NIZ Quickie
I'm hearing a lot of "what's earned in Allentown should stay in Allentown" (EIT) complaints. Ok let's change state law. Let Allentown suffer the consequences. Every dime of EIT earned outside of Allentown's city limits, stays outside of Allentown's revenue stream. Let's see how that works out.
In my little bit of heaven within a one block area, out of 32 homes about 15 of them (by my count) don't work in Allentown. Fair is fair. Just what if everybody plays by the same rules as Allentown?
Allentown already collects business & individual privilege taxes, gross profits taxes, emergency & municipal services tax and reality transfer taxes on those within Allentown's borders. These are supposed to pay for the costs associated with businesses located in Allentown.
Just what do these people think will happen to Allentown if the EIT's earned from outside of Allentown no longer flow into Allentown's greedy little hands? Who do you think would end up being the biggest loser?
Quit while your ahead, I say!
In my little bit of heaven within a one block area, out of 32 homes about 15 of them (by my count) don't work in Allentown. Fair is fair. Just what if everybody plays by the same rules as Allentown?
Allentown already collects business & individual privilege taxes, gross profits taxes, emergency & municipal services tax and reality transfer taxes on those within Allentown's borders. These are supposed to pay for the costs associated with businesses located in Allentown.
Just what do these people think will happen to Allentown if the EIT's earned from outside of Allentown no longer flow into Allentown's greedy little hands? Who do you think would end up being the biggest loser?
Quit while your ahead, I say!
Sinkholes
I've been checking out geological surveys regarding limestone (CAL) around the area. Major deposits appear to run all the way from Reading, across Bethlehem clear into Easton with some of the depths of limestone ranging up to 2,000 feet! Simple explanation is limestone breaks down it solidity in water. It lies underground over this entire area. It's not a new problem either...
March 08, 1994: by ROSA SALTER, The Morning Call
Hot Spot For Sinkholes DER Geologist Calls
Allentown Formation One Of Worst In State
From what I'm concluding it doesn't matter whether it be Lehigh, Northampton or Berks, all have had this problem. Face it, they are all over the place. This is creepy. We all like to think the ground beneath us is stable. It is not. You never know where or when. This problem is not exclusive to Allentown.Hot Spot For Sinkholes DER Geologist Calls
Allentown Formation One Of Worst In State
No one is immune- Omaha, Nebraska 2010
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Farm Subsidies: Bloomberg.com Says..
Monday, January 30, 2012
Farmers Making $100 Billion
Don’t Need Subsidies to Grow
Farmers Making $100 Billion
Don’t Need Subsidies to Grow
Define "Farmers"
Although corporations own or control 2% of all the farming done in this country, they account for 50% of the foods produced on them.
It is they that are sucking up at least half of these subsidies. Not the typical family owned farms.
Even the ever so uber-conservative Heritage Foundations said way back in 2002..There's class warfare being waged all right.
Urban Renewal- St Petersburg, Russia
Eviction on Millionaires' Street
Behind the baroque facades of St Petersburg residents live in
squalor as they take on predatory property developers.
The video demonstrates an extreme example of what happens to common everyday people who make up the working poor. This story repeats itself all over the world. Can it be said there an eerily common thread running throughout all nations? Some may say even in our own communities in this country.Behind the baroque facades of St Petersburg residents live in
squalor as they take on predatory property developers.
UPLOADED: January 30, 2012
Video Courtesy "Al Jazeera English"
Video Courtesy "Al Jazeera English"
God Bless the commonplace people.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sinkhole Insurance Pitfalls
We've all read about how homeowners should take out sinkhole insurance. I'm not saying this will happen to those who seek it, but I've been doing a little background research. In states where it is required of insurance companies to provide this, doesn't necessarily make it a good thing.
One example was of a couple who was required to do an expensive GeoSurvey of their property before their insurance company would accept the coverage. In another a neighbor had sinkholes and they were denied insurance completely because of it. In still one other instance a couple spent the $2,500 only to discover they had a sinkhole problems. At that point (since the state required coverage) they were denied homeowners insurance all together because of it!
I'm not saying if you can get it without these problems that you shouldn't do so, but a word of caution, be careful or you might wind up opening a can of worms.
One example was of a couple who was required to do an expensive GeoSurvey of their property before their insurance company would accept the coverage. In another a neighbor had sinkholes and they were denied insurance completely because of it. In still one other instance a couple spent the $2,500 only to discover they had a sinkhole problems. At that point (since the state required coverage) they were denied homeowners insurance all together because of it!
I'm not saying if you can get it without these problems that you shouldn't do so, but a word of caution, be careful or you might wind up opening a can of worms.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) Said...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Doesn't sound like Congress members in 2012 are prepared to be any more collaborative then they were in 2011, does it?
Allen West sounds more like a general pumping up the troops for a lead up to civil war rather then an election. We expect this kind of talk from fanatical demonstrators, not from members of our own Congress.
Get a grip, before this gets out of hand.
A Previous Republican Once Said...
"This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate,
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
~~Dwight D. Eisenhower ~~
and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
~~Dwight D. Eisenhower ~~
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Fanaticism
Jesus: "Woe to the Pharisees,
for they are like a dog lying in the manger of the cattle;
for he neither eats nor does he let the cattle eat."
~~Gospel of Thomas~~
for they are like a dog lying in the manger of the cattle;
for he neither eats nor does he let the cattle eat."
~~Gospel of Thomas~~
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