Had a fellow come up to me today and ask me if I thought the economy was getting better. He looked relived when I answered no, that I actually thought is was getting worse.
He had just been given his final paycheck and shown the door by the company he had worked for for several years - they had decided he was too experienced and qualified to be kept on and that his 'salary' was too high, so they brought in a younger less experienced person for less money to do his job - he was the janitor and made $7.50 an hour.
The new 'girl' - she is an African-American Female - is being paid $6.50 an hour ... he is an African-American male - he is about forty ... she is twenty-two. She has four kids - the youngest four years old.
He was at work everyday, on time and never out sick - she called in to say she couldn't start on her first day because her child was kicked out of school and she had to stay home with him ... they said OK?!
This is just wrong!
So do you think the economy is getting better?!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Andromeda Strain
They say today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact - and here's one right out of the books!
Way back in 1970 there was a book and then a movie entitled "The ANDROMEDA STRAIN" that was about a mysterious illness that plagued mankind after a meteorite crashed into the earth.
Well, today scientists and medical sleuths are in southern Peru trying to figure out and find the source of an outbreak of an unknown illness in the area ... and you guessed it - there was a meteorite to crash into the earth locally there just prior to the outbreak of the illness.
Are the two linked? No one is saying so and no one is saying no. But, one must remember science fiction today, science fact tomorrow?!
And They're Off
The annual nude run at the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark was run the other day on a rare sunny and dry day for the race in it's history. It was almost a let down after the tradition of mud covered runners crossing the finish line. If you ever make it to Denmark at festival time make sure to get there.Mystery Solved!
The Mrs., did get her Pic-Line removed yesterday so no more IV Antibiotics. YES!
Also we did confirm it was the Mercer Staph infection of thirty years ago that was the cause of her recent hospital stay ... it had NOT been eradicated thirty years ago like they thought they had.
That explains a whole hell of a lot of her health issues the past thirty years, recurring bronchitis, pneumonia, bladder infections, the thick blood which caused the pulmonary embolisms, fluid retention beyond normal for any female and a host of other maladies over the past three decades.
I just might own a hospital before long!
Also we did confirm it was the Mercer Staph infection of thirty years ago that was the cause of her recent hospital stay ... it had NOT been eradicated thirty years ago like they thought they had.
That explains a whole hell of a lot of her health issues the past thirty years, recurring bronchitis, pneumonia, bladder infections, the thick blood which caused the pulmonary embolisms, fluid retention beyond normal for any female and a host of other maladies over the past three decades.
I just might own a hospital before long!
Daily Word
Today's Daily Word is:
Snam (se' - nam) n - To snatch or rob.
[Mostly used to describe the kind of theft which consists of picking up anything lying about and making off with it rapidly]
19th century English slang from John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887.
[Mostly used to describe the kind of theft which consists of picking up anything lying about and making off with it rapidly]
19th century English slang from John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887.
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