As a retired contractor I have dealt with union plumbers most of my life. When I retired (2007) a journeyman made about $35/hour with $18/hour in benefits (Health & Welfare). That comes to about $110,000.00/year, but most took the winter off and collected unemployment about $600.00/week. Not bad for 5 year apprenticeship. JUST SAYIN' John

Just happened to me Upgrading my AsRock motherboard UEFI firmware stalled at "Processing Crashless..." How ironic is that Anyway a phone call to AsrockAmerica, they requested I email a copy of invoice which I got from NewEgg. Two days latter new bios chip in the mail And Bobs your uncle. Very pleased with the response. John PS it was on a Linux system and no one even chirped once about not supporting Linux.

Actually I have inferred that the Garden of Eden was in a coal mine in my back yard here in Coal Township, PA

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time. Baretta When a pothead gets busted his picture is published immediately, innocent or guilty It's time we are all held to the same standards. There should not be special justice for the politically connected, the well off or so called pillars of the community.

[QUOTE]Has there ever been a bill so universally rejected by the public in a consultation?[/QUOTE] ObamaCare

Really I think a nice round number like 150GM that's 'giga meters' that would be much nicer and easy to remember

Reason being the Android apps were better than their Apple counterparts.

What did Amazon say about Obama? Someone did not like it.

Several million of us were sprayed with the stuff and are suffering a slow agonizing death from this crap and the US/VA is doing nothing about it. Charity begins at home, F the Vietnamese. We had no choice we were forced to attend that 'war'. john

This reminds me of the greenhouse built in my area which would use 'waste steam' to power and heat the production of tomatoes. There was mucho federal dollars flying around for 'stimulus' back then just as now. Providing you had the right political connections. The unit was first built by a Dutch conglomerate with all kinds of federal and state grant monies. Bankrupt within 3 years. This greenhouse has since been reinitialized at least 3 or 4 times with federal grant dollars and has fallen into bankruptcy as soon as the grant monies are spent. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF. Will we ever learn. The local construction company I worked for at the time only lost about 50 large. Some local business's lost much more. No grant dollars for the local economy. It was not political hay back then and it isn't now. John

I wonder if Twitter would have the same response if it were a TeaParty activist?

This is just another end run for O'Bama care. IE an way for insurance company to no longer pay for medically necessary prescription drugs. Just as always the working stiff gets stiffed again.

Obama is president now. right?

Just so's I have this right, this arrest was by the 'torture free' O'Bama administration.

I would like to find a $100 US netbook! john