The Sound Guy

First, completely seal the door frame from the basement to the upper floors if it's not sealed. Snakes can climb stairs as I found to my detriment. Snake on the Stairs. There are snake repellents sold, but I'm not convinced that any of them work on 100% of the snakes. Good luck. Oh yea, post a picture of the skin, perhaps from the skin someone can tell you something about it.

There have been several threads about the minimum wage and it's relation to the "Welfare" wage. Forbes wrote an interesting article about a study done on the subject: Forbes Link As I stated in several threads, when welfare is at such high levels, it makes no sense for someone to work 40 hours a week for less money or only a few thousand more dollars than he/she can get setting on their butt at home. I know that Hawaii has a higher cost of living than many places, but $30 a hour not to work???? And anyone surprised to find good old Wash DC on the list at ne

Then the people at Walmart and McDonalds need to find those jobs where they sit and answer the phone if they are qualified and IF enough of those jobs exist. If enough people do that, then Walmart/McDonalds will be forced to go to more wages to meet their needs.

My parents had several friends who were pilots with Eastern, maybe they kept it to give to one of them. I'll never know as they can't remember why it was there from 33 years ago. I do wish we had a real competitor to Delta with a full size hub here. I hate connecting flights, esp in these days of very full flights. Get a flight cancelled and you spend a day or several days trying to find another flight with a seat on it. I spend 12 hours in Salt Lake City just a few months ago waiting for the next seat to Oakland when my flight at noon was cancelled. If you don't want to connect,

The Issue I have with that is it would be so easy to get around. My company designs and sells High Tech communications equipment. Note I don't say we make it, because we don't. We contract out to a Chinese company to actually build the stuff and have it shipped to our customers. However, the company we buy it from isn't us. You also have companies like Walmart, Dollar Tree, Target, Kmart, etc that buy clothing, Christmas Items, etc from Chinese firms that are owned by the Chinese Govt, not the US corporation. They get the benefits of the low cost of manufacturing overseas, but are no

For those workers that have the desire to work hard, there would be a lot of new manufacturing jobs that paid more. They would have options to get a higher paying job. For those who are not interested in doing anything more challenging than flipping burgers, well, "Toughisky Shoitisky" as they say in the Russian Marines. You get paid what you are worth. The problem now is that even people who CAN and WANT to work, there are not enough good manufacturing jobs available.

It would raise the price of *imported* goods, but that is what makes it profitable to the manufacture here. As more high paying jobs appear here due to the manufacturing fighting for the good workers, those who are willing to work would find good paying jobs. It would have have to phased in for sure, or prices would jump faster than the higher employment rate raises salaries. Of course, reducing the paperwork and regulations here to lower the cost of doing business would also help lower prices for the stuff made here. But the Big Bucks Business donators are making too much money bringin

We were moving some old furniture that my parents gave us many years ago and when we removed the drawers we found this flyer from August 1980 under one of them. I have no idea why they thought it was interesting enough to put in the drawer, but it's been there since the year I started college. I got a kick out of it and thought some of the others that can even remember Eastern and the old terminal might like it.

What other than low paying service positions can their be without manufacturing? Republicans and Democrats are both killing off the golden goose by sending the only type of business that *creates* value off shore. We need a five year plan to ramp up tariffs on goods manufactured in countries with lower wages than ours to level the playing field. Imported goods would be raised in price until it would be profitable for goods to be made here by Americans and their salaries remain here instead of the dollars being sent overseas where they are used to purchase food from us, driving up the co

Don't underestimate the power of ego and pride. People who normally wouldn't do stupid things may find themselves "forced" to do so in the name of not being called "soft" or "wishy washy". Drawing a line in the sand before you have fully thought out what you are going to do if the line is crossed and how to prove who crossed it are indications of a person who is not thinking before speaking. As pointed out above, leaders have often convinced themselves that they understand everything, and that other groups of people will act as they desire, just to learn to their country's sorrow that th

Yep. Since 10-15 thousands of people were killed before we started to notice, the message we are sending seems to be it's OK to kill anyone you like in your country, just don't use Chemical weapons.

Best BBQ we've found close to North Paulding is in Cobb at Zeigler's BBQ on 41. Little hole in the wall shop because they started as catered only, but good pork and great beef. Their Bunswick stew is one of the few that I really like also.

Also, I'm not sure that targeting the troops would do any good anyway. In his army, I pretty sure that refusing to do what you are told would mean you are shot on the spot. Firing the weapon as ordered, at least you have the chance you will be somewhere else when the UN attack comes in. 100% chance of death vs 50% chance of death. I think I know which they will choose.

I'm talking about worker demand. As long as there are many people that need work, wages will stay low. Only when companies have to fight to get workers will they willingly raise wages to get those workers. Otherwise the workers go somewhere else as their are plenty of jobs. I think we agree it's a problem, however, your solution isn't a solution. It's a bandage that will have us right back in the same position within a year because prices will jump. Buying power is not based on the number of dollars, it's based on what those dollars will buy. The only solution to the issue is g

I understand a dog's nature to protect what he considers 'his' yard and expect him/them to come to the edge of the yard when I walk by to "warn" me off. However, coming out of the yard into the street (or worse yet, coming in to my yard) to attack me would cross the line. Understand that when you keep going while he's barking, the dog thinks he's won and is chasing you off. I doubt the behavior will get better without action and as you've seen may get worse. Get some pepper spray first, then mace if the attacks continue. Firearms would be my last resort (and not an option for those

I'm not convinced that the official govt was behind the strike yet. He had to know what an outcry would be raised. Then add that the rebels are Muslim extremists that have proven to believe that any innocents killed in their battles are acceptable deaths since they become martyrs to the cause. Nope not convinced at all. Besides I've not heard where we would even know what troops launched it. Besides I'm not sure that the rebels wouldn't be a cure that's worse than the disease: (From the NY Times) Rebels execute 7 captured Syrian Solders.

Heck no. It takes me a while to find some usually, but I won't buy *anything* for my pet that was made in China. If they are so screwed up that poisonous baby formula can get made on purpose, I'm not letting anyone I love eat anything from there. 2008 Baby formula issues

Total non-answer of the question. Do you want prices for everyone to go up or not? Because if you force a wage increase with no corresponding increase in employee output, prices will have to go up and then the extra cash floating around will cause additional price increases due to demand and we will be back to them having the same buying power as before. The employee's value will never change, it's only as much as the job is worth. Prices will adjust to same buying power if it's a low level job. Mojo gets it. The ONLY way that wages go up for everyone is for there to be full employm

You are complaining that the government is causing price increases in one post, then you are complaining in another that the the government isn't stepping in to make all fast food and Walmart products twice as expensive by forcing large labor cost increases on them. Make up your mind, do you want high prices or not? 'Cause if the cost of labor goes up, all prices will go up with it.

Ouch. Sounds like what I got shafted with last year. Suddenly my house value goes up 17%. Riiiiigght. Guy down the street had his go up 19% last year.

Seems to me if the taxpayers are paying everything it takes for feed and shelter them without working then we need to cut back on the welfare and give *THE WORKERS* incentive to find a full time job. From your information, the govt is giving them incentive to work part time by giving them too much money where it's better for them NOT to work. It's not the companies job to make sure it's people work the right job for their situation. It's personal responsibility. Something that many of the "working Poor" are sadly lacking. Someone find a solution to that and we'll be getting somewhere.

Yes McDonald's is a large corporation. However, that means they have a huge number of employees also. Roughly 1.7 million according to the article I found. Assuming at least half are part time workers at 20 hours / week , that's 1.7 million worker * 30 hours a week average = 51 million paid hours a week or 663 million paid hours a quarter. Adding $2.00 an hour to their pay scale would cost the company 1.365 Billion dollars a quarter or 5.463 billion a year. You are not going to find $5 billion a year by cutting a few perks, much less the $19 billion it would cost them to add $7.0

LOL. I doubt that mere facts are going to get in the way of the gun control lobby.

I think he did it himself. After 10+ years of pumping up his ego being the captor over his prisoners, totally in control, fooling everyone around, the change to being the prisoner with no control and everyone looking down on him was no doubt a heavy shock to what little mental balance he had to begin with and would likely make him despondent. However, if any of the guards had daughters, I doubt they were in a hurry to cut him down either.

At least you will only be behind for four months or so at that point. We refinanced last year just before the big tax bill was received and they used the old tax amount for the escrow. Now the payment is going up $50 for the taxes and $50 a month in "Shortage" even thought the account never actually went below zero, but we went under the federal minimum of 2 months escrow. I had the $50 for taxes already budgeted, but now have to come up with the "shortage" $50 for 12 months. I've got to go see if we can cancel the escrow and pay the dang bills myself. Let the money sit in *my* acco