The People Spoke

What a great thing happened this week in the Senate. The people spoke and the Senators had no choice but to listen. The people did not want was what congress had come up with for immigration reform.

This incident goes to show how powerful the voice of the people is. It told the people the importance of writing your Congressman/woman and Senators. If you are upset with what congress is doing, you must call or write your legislator.

Have you written your legislator to tell hem how you feel about making the 2002 tax cuts permanent? I have young kids and those tax cuts equals $3,000 a year to me. What else is important to you?

By the way, the Senators were not happy about this mass of calls, e-mails and letters. They are blaming Talk Radio, and they are right. Talk Radio did stir up a lot of the people, but it is the job of the legislators to listen to the people too. In response to the Amnesty bill failure by the Senators having to listen to the people. There are Senators that are trying to write legislation that would kill Talk Radio. When this happens, it will be time again for the American people to tell their senators what to do again.

Corporate Hiring Practices?

What is up with companies today expecting new employees to relocate their family, yet expecting the new employee to travel 70% (out of town 7+ nights in 10 working days) and up? Where would it make sense for the new employee to up root their family and never be there. How does it make sense to the company to pay for the relocation expense and never have them in their office?

What is 70% plus travel? Try thinking of it this way; there are 5 working days in a week of seven days. If the employee is out of town over night seven working days in two weeks, that is 70% travel.

Traveling expenses on average traveling to one city in North America, flying out Monday morning and flying home Friday night, hotel, airfare, rental car, meals and misc. expenses; it averages about $1,500 a week. This is base on an average town and not a "big city". Big cities can be considered, Los Angles, New York, Toronto, Chicago, etc. This is based on my experienced of traveling 150,000 plus qualifying miles a year for the last three years and 200 plus nights in hotels per year. Call me a road warrior.

So you need me in the office, fly me there on the way to another meeting or on my way home. It costs a lot less than paying the relocation expense. My experience of 80% plus travel, I'm only in the office maybe 14 days a year. My experience of planned travel to the office has cost on average of about $700 per stop. Compare $9,800 for travel to the office versus $40,000 plus for relocation expense, what a cost save!

Next time you decide you need to hire a person for heavy travel that would have to relocate. Consider getting them a very good laptop, PDA mobile phone with unlimited minutes and extra batteries, and a corporate credit card. Have the travel into the office when you need them there for a meeting and get out and do what you need them to do for your company the rest of the time. It's cheaper for your company and easier on your new employee.

How is it easier on your new employee? First they do not have to go through the stress of selling their house. They don't have to go through the stress of buying a new house and moving. Their family is not up-rooted from where they are already settled. They are already going to be gone from their family a lot, but why put their family where they have little family or friends? You see, your company saves money, and your new employee is happier. In the end it can be a true win, win.

In the end it should be the new employees choice.

Iran Protests Potential Further Sanctions

The Israelis handled this "negotiation" right with Iraq in the 1980’s; they bombed the reactors under construction. A squadron of Stealth fighters dropping on all of the sites simultaneously would be very effective. Iran is delaying through negations while they continue to build. In effect Iran is thumbing its nose against the world.

The United States is losing the war on terror because we are unwilling to do what it takes to win. The United States is sitting on its hands while terror state nations; continue to build up an arsenal while we try to negotiate. The United States is trying to appease the world with negotiations with terror state nations that flat out say they want to kill all of the Americans (Iran).

Other than Vietnam, no other country has ever beaten the United States in war. We lost in Vietnam because we lost the will to fight. Vietnamese Generals have repeatedly publicly stated one more year of B-52 carpet-bombing would have had Vietnam at the bargaining table begging for peace. We lost the war because we quit. We need to put on our pants and go kick these terrorists off of this plant and let them meet Allah.

As a nation we are not taking the war on terror very seriously. I really believe we will not take it seriously again until we get attacked again to the level of 9-11. Our government also needs to stop denying that these little attacks are people that went wacko and call them for what they are. I am referencing the Muslim that went it to the mall and just started to shoot people.

There was this short little song during the Iranian hostages crisis back when Jimmy Carter was in office, “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran. Lets bomb Iran!” The truth is that we are eventually going to have to destroy Iran in its current terrorists state, if we ever desire world peace.

Senator Reid Hates the Military

Senator Reid does not understand that bashing the Generals is the same as bashing the troops. Senator Reid has choosen this week to start bashing the Chairman of the Joint Cheif of Staff. Senator Reid has also choosen to bash General Petraeus.

At the same time Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-California), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Pace lost standing among members in March when he said homosexual acts were immoral and that the military should not condone the behavior by letting gays serve openly. Pace later apologized, including in a letter to Tauscher, for expressing what he said were his personal views. The problem is that Representive Tauscher has is she does not understand the troops do not want gays in the military at all. I would believe most troops do support General Pace's comments.

A Low Pass Apachie Fly/Drive By

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http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=139471&ESRC=dod-b.nl

No Hugs Please

Check out this link.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=3121880&ch=49799&src=news

For once the Communist News Network, for once they have this one right to pick on this school district.

Heck my daughter in first grade would be expelled for kissing boys in kindergarten and first grade. Do I think the kissing is appropriate; yes I was not happy to hear about it. I don't think I'm going to be happy when I find out she has a boyfriend when she is 20 or 30 either. Although, I think kindergarten and first grade is way to young to be kissing boys. I am curious on what is the percentage of how many people did not kiss somebody at school when they were a kid? I think most people have kiss another student at some point when they were growing up when they were kids going to school, I think it’s normal. Although, I could understand a policy against kissing in school.

As to hugs, I see nothing wrong with hugs. As for touching like this schools policy goes, I think they need to spend a little more time concentrating on teaching, than worrying about students touching each other.

The World¹s Shortest Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, a girl asked a guy, "Will you marry me?" The guy said "No" and the girl lived happily ever after and went shopping, drank martinis with friends, always had a clean house, never had to cook, had a closet full of shoes and handbags, stayed skinny, and was never farted on.

The End


How do youu tell the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale?

A fairy tale starts out, "Once upon a time...."

A sea story starts out, "Now this is a no S h i t t er!..."

Did You Write Your Congressman Today?

The Senate Voted for an Energy Bill Last Night If you don't like what congress is doing, have you written your Congressman/Congresswoman or Senators lately?

The link to write your Congressman/Congresswoman or Senators:

http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Let them know what you think.

The Senate Voted for an Energy Bill Last Night

What a screw job to manufacturing in the United States this bill is. Obama, did you forget about the Chicago Assembly Plant or Mitsubishi, in Normal IL, or Subaru too? Hillary what about the assembly plant in Buffalo NY? You need to remember that each assembly plant equates to about 10,000 jobs to the assembly plant and the suppliers surrounding them.

From what I have heard so far, there is nothing in this bill about additional drilling for oil in the United States, including Alaska. There is nothing in the bill to allow for new refineries to be built in the United States. There is nothing in the bill for more nuclear power plants. There is nothing in the bill for increasing the use of windmills for electrical power. There is nothing in the bill to increase the use of bio fuel. Nothing in this bill to reduce the farm subsidies to encourage farmers not to farm their land. Nothing in the bill to accommodate spent uranium waste. Nothing in the bill to encourage development of hydrogen fuel. Nothing in the bill in the bill to support the development of H3 power. Although, there is a brand new CAFE requirement, where there is no technology to support the development.

There is nothing in this legislation to deal with the problem until 2020, thirteen years from now. Our Senator’s did nothing to help with our energy problem for our nation. Or nation has an energy problem and has had one long before September 11th of 2001. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham at the time did very little. Yes Spencer Abraham was the former Republican Senator from the Great State of Michigan and he did very little for Michigan as a Senator too.

Ted Nugent Says It Best

Ted Nugent was being interviewed about his deer hunting by a French journalist. The journalist asked, "What do you think is the last thought in the head of a deer before you shoot him? Is it, "Are you my friend?" or is it "Are you the one who killed my brother?'" Nugent replied, "Deer aren't capable of that kind of thinking. All they care about is, "What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away? They are very much like the French."