And do they remember you as a bridge builder? However- just screw up once-its all they ever remember. Under the category of taking a good deal and screwing it up, a Cathay Pacific pilot recently won that honor (?). Now when I think of being having a good gig-being a
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The Canadian Skippy provides some great insight into the rhetoric of NAFTA and the US election and contrasts it with the reality of the treaty-namely that the US would take it in the shorts worse than Ohio has taken it in the shorts due to NAFTA. The whole article can
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It is women’s history month. So perhaps the one and only blessing of being here in N.C. is that I am spared the inevitable AFN commercials-reminding me of how much of a rapist I am as a man, how sexual harrassment is all in the women’s point of view, and
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To give up smoking dope and sniffing glue…….. We held my sister’s memorial service on Friday. We also got the cheery news that my mother had been admitted to the hospital for a “stroke like event”-she could not get her right arm to move. My father wanted us to finish our
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It has been a busy couple of days. It is 5:30 am and I should be sleeping-but I cannot. I’ ve been on the bed dozing in and out but never getting truly to sleep. I’m not sure why since I have been in the room since 7:30 PM last evening.
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Boy, I’m tired. Got down here to Tampa after a rather bumpy ride on Southwest Airlines. I have not flown on them for a long while. Today I remembered why. Fortunately the flight was only about half full and it was direct. To go on one of the airlines I
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Made it ok into North Carolina. Well I did anyway-sitting up waiting for my bag to be delivered to me. Thanks to the Chicago weather my direct flight to RDU from ORD was canceled. So…….. When a baggage clerk who takes your bags after clearing customs tellls you not to
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Nothing to do but blog…………. Could not get out today-I’m confirmed on a flight tomorrow. Incheon-Chicago-Raleigh Durham. Next morning fly to Tampa, Florida with my sister. She suggested that we split a room down there to save money-I told her I’m pretty set in my ways and with this I’ll
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It pours. My next to youngest sister was found dead in her apartment yesterday. Accordingly, I will be returning to the United States to assist my family in all arrangements and help my older sister get some things resolved. Blogging may be light. Damn.
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Reporter- “What would you say if I told you…that Murrow was on the Soviet payroll in 32? Murrow’s been a Communist sympathizer since the 30’s.Member of the International Workers,sponsored educational trips to Moscow… ..and on the Soviet payroll in 1932. It’s all there.” Joe Bersheba-“You wanna know why that’s not possible? Why you’ll lose
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