It appears that there is a new proposal to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants, according to an article in the Arizona Republic ( Read more... )

"[R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society."

-- John Adams

Wow - not counting company holidays, I will have four weeks of vacation next year! That's 15 days of annual vacation + 2 days left over from this year (I need to take more time off!) + 3 days of "personal holiday." (We get 7 company holidays + 3 personal holidays each year.)

Fun stuff!

I am learning much more than I ever wanted to learn about accounting ( Read more... )

If Tom Ridge really believes this, he should be immediately fired.

Anyone -- especially the Homeland Security Secretary -- who believes that Homeland Security (whatever the heck that is) would be enhanced by legalizing the illegals ... is just nuts!

So much for man-made global warming!

Seen in my web server's log file:

64.222.152.232 - - [10/Dec/2003:21:27:57 +0000] "GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 110 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"

Is that some crazy form of advertising or what?

I just test drove a 2004 Jetta GLS with the TDI PD engine -- just for the fun of it and to see how it compares to my 1.8T. The two are rated nearly identically in terms of torque (174 lb-ft for mine, 177 lb-ft for the TDI PD), but there's a big difference in horsepower (180 hp for mine, 100 hp for the TDI PD ( Read more... )

In the recent taxpayer money giveaway, one of my reps didn't vote, instead signalling his intention to vote as a pair with someone who was absent.

I wish he would have just voted NAY which would have been his position had the absent party been present!

What the heck kind of nonsense is that?

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley is praising the General Assembly for passing tax breaks for a pharmaceutical company in return for the company's promise to locate a $300M plant in Durham County. Easley was claiming that "they need our infrastructure" and made comments about the biotech research in RTP ( Read more... )