Comment Baptists are already writing this week's sermon (Score 2) 69
After all, when you're fighting a losing battle, even a hand up from science is a welcome blessing.
Oh, and there's a learning curve. Most people are like water... path of least resistance.
Seattle's water is all going into the ocean. How about using the ocean to transport all that water to southern California instead of building a pipeline? All you have to do is remove a little bit of salt it picked up along the way! I'm guessing 30B bucks would build quite a few desalination plants.
How about taking the fresh river water as it is about to dump into the Pacific, and pipe it through the ocean in poly blend pipes that are easy to install and repair... a leak would do no damage, there would be no trouble obtaining land rights, and Southern Cal could tax the almond growers (et al) to pay their Northern brothers for water they don't even use.
Win, win, winner.
We make pledges and promises to better ourselves because we recognize at times, we are our own worst enemy... but we regularly fail at self betterment.
Unfortunately, it's not difficult at all to win a debate with one's self over whether you deserve that pastry, beverage or morning free of exercise.
Yet we are just creating more and more by bullshit like this. Usually it's just for women's benefit, but in this case there's also discrimination against gals too.
Why can't we just end this bullshit and let children grow up to do want they want to do?
Because. This is the sort of shite people with an activist streak get caught up in any more,
leaving important worries like electing good people to govern us languishing on the back burner.
Can they start them much higher though?
Probably not, with many municipalities being forever cash-strapped by poor local political decisions. A brief internet search shows the income average/mean split as approximately $47k/$52K per annum.
They already start higher than educators and fire fighters where I am. They can move up the ranks, and then side to side in the private industry making some pretty comfortable money.
An even less well researched internet factoid has median annual US household income at just under $52K, so yes... comfortable. Still, IMHO, that is a compensation poorly matched with being shot at, running into burning buildings, or teaching in an average high school.
Much like the American educational system, salary considerations and other incentives for employment minimize the likelihood that law enforcement will attract the sort of candidates we might prefer in the vocation as a society.
My two cents: law enforcement and education are often thankless jobs, and my hat is off to the many, many folks who give their best in these positions I wouldn't care to work.
"Look, I can set the temperature on my thermostat from here!" or "Watch this Bubba... I can turn on the Spa heater an hour before getting home!"
We're so accustomed to the exchange of freedom for security that now we're trading it for convenience.
prior to that, it's anonymous law.
Who the heck nicknamed them ISIS, with the same spelling as a god from an entirely different (paegan) religion?! I guess the reporters must have been to stupid to call them Dese or some other phonetically similar name...
Ahem...We are the same people who brought you the month-day-year format of star-date reckoning, and, the homogenous distance "football fields".
it's going to be a matter of time before a plain old stupid terrorist attack is carried out using a drone.
There are those who would argue this has already happened. Just depends on who you ask.
I purchased a used telly once, taking over payments for a friend who had it on installments from the furniture place. It had a remote control included, which I promptly threw away. The logic I recall using was, Jesus Chraist, how exhausting an activity is television viewing that one might need to avoid standing up to change the channel?
If we can convince the folks bent on destruction for entertainment to sit on their hind ends and remotely attack us...Shit, we've got them!
Now? If the remote's batteries are weak, I might get up and post on
Proper f*cked.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
