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Hillary-ous.
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Of course she'll be successful. Where there are powerful men, there will always be attractive women. Some things never change.
I just wish I could have sat next to her on Southwest...
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That is just their way. We don't like it, but, what should we be doing to change that? Another war with a supposed "ally"? Things like that need to change on their own with limited outside influences, or else we look like the big bad westerners sticking our noses where they don't belong, no matter what good intentions we might have.
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Sorry for your Jeep loss!
My pickup was stolen from in front of my apartment a few years back. It was gone for a few days until I got a call about 0530 on a rainy Saturday saying the cops found it. They found it, and then lost it, then found it again. A cruiser was chasing my truck when my truck drove into a field, up a berm (about 6-8 feet tall), and over. Needless to say, the cruiser wasn't going to go over that! They found it about an hour later in a trailer park by a river, scaring the hell out of an old lady as she came out to get her morning paper finding a half dozen cops at her door step. My old Nissan 4X4 took the hill like a champ!
The best part was: the whole chase was captured on the cop's dashcam. I have the video: better than anything on Real TV or Cops, I swear.
So, when we see a high speed pursuit and the guy in the newsroom or copter says, "why do they run, they don't get away!", I always reply with a loud "Bulls*it, they don't!". And I have the tape to prove it!
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I totally agree. My mom (bless her heart
) used to try to talk about all that stuff when I was a kid, and my stomach would be in KNOTS! Sure, there are lots of things that point to the 2nd coming, but I believe that the rapture happens before any of the scary stuff with the antichrist anyway. I'm not worried in the least.
ETA: Not that I have any intentions of ever getting a chip in me!
Like a thief in the night...
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I am surprised that FDA approved this during the Bush presidency...I figured he and the religious right would have a frickin cow.
I believe chips like these should be used in every convicted child molester and rapist. Patch it up with GPS so we can have a handle on them at all times.
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Robes of White.
Think more clothing of today (or the future). I highly doubt (call me Thomas) he'd actually wear robes. But, I guess that depends on how literal you take the Bible. Hence the differences in the different religions and denominations!
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YEs this is right, but I believe that the Anti-Christ will come in disguise, and we wont know who or "what" it is!!
Yes, a disguise, but a very temporary one. We are a incredibly cynical world (I am a bona fide cynic), and I don't believe the anti-christ would stand a chance in this era. The future is MUCH more likely, I'd say.
If you believe all the interpretations of the last book of the NT, that is.
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Please. Every generation since John first dreamed then wrote Revelation thinks they are the last one.
Everyone sees Revelation differently, but doesn't the "mark of the beast" come during the reign of the anti-christ? I don't see any leaders in this world as "magnificent" as the anti-christ is supposed to be.
Just my two pennies.
Edited to remove the "s" from Revelations. REMOVE THE STICK, PEOPLE! It was an extra letter! To-ma-to, to-ma(a)-to.
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I think that just backfired! You didn't help yourself a bit!
Sweet. I think I just won the primaries!
Step one: Lure them with humor
Step two: Win Election.
Step three: Save the Cheerleader!
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Thats a good kid right there.
Now, if someone would be kind enough to extend a job offer to this veteran!
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The key to preventing all these troubles:
1) Boys, wrap it up each and every time.
2) Girls, keep those pens out of the ink well unless you are protected. FYI, the rhythm method does not work.
3) Don't get married. Odds are 50/50 that you'll end up complaining (or being complained about) in forums like these. Might as well play roulette and put it all on black. If you do get married, I've got one phrase for you "prenuptial agreement". If he/she doesn't want to sign it, that is a bad sign. It is just like driving without insurance because "I won't be in an accident, that won't happen to me", when you know damn well that accidents happen every minute of every day, and yes, Virginia, you could be in a collision.
Bottom line, no matter how hot and bothered you are now with your significant other, things change because people do. Such is life. The only destiny you control is your own.
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Have you tried the dept of labor in Cartersville,
They have a lot of industry there, Many of which hire almost exclusively through that office.
Since you are Qualified for human resource, there may be more opportunities is that and upper management,
You may not make as much as Atlanta, but you also would not have the commute.
No, but I've been going through the kind folks at the GA DOL on Big Shanty in Kennesaw. I've gotten to know the men working in the veterans section; they are very nice folks, but I'm afraid they don't have the best positions to offer vets.
I'll give Cartersville a shot. Maybe they'll have something!
Thanks!
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Good Luck. My Dad, too, went to Lockheed right out of AF. He had been in Intelligence and went to work in computer systems at Lockheed (years ago). Have you thought about DFACS?
I've tried at DFACS too. Most of those jobs are listed through thejobsite.org, and most of those require a masters degree. Some are for bachelors, but I haven't received any responses from any agency that specializes in human services. I take that back, I was offered a chance to interview for the boy scouts, but like I mentioned before, I have a hard time wanting to travel into Atlanta (actually Cobb Galleria area...I know it is technically Atlanta, but it feels more like Marietta to me.) for a $13 hour job.
$13 in Paulding or Douglas is one thing, Cobb or Fulton is another.
But, the next thing that comes up, I'll take it and take my chances. Thanks for the help.
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Recent article on Yahoo! (AP)
Veterans make up 1 in 4 homeless in US
By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.
The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.
The Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. 2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans.
In comparison, the VA says that 20 years ago, the estimated number of veterans who were homeless on any given night was 250,000.
Some advocates say such an early presence of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan at shelters does not bode well for the future. It took roughly a decade for the lives of Vietnam veterans to unravel to the point that they started showing up among the homeless. Advocates worry that intense and repeated deployments leave newer veterans particularly vulnerable.
"We're going to be having a tsunami of them eventually because the mental health toll from this war is enormous," said Daniel Tooth, director of veterans affairs for Lancaster County, Pa.
While services to homeless veterans have improved in the past 20 years, advocates say more financial resources still are needed. With the spotlight on the plight of Iraq veterans, they hope more will be done to prevent homelessness and provide affordable housing to the younger veterans while there's a window of opportunity.
"When the Vietnam War ended, that was part of the problem. The war was over, it was off TV, nobody wanted to hear about it," said John Keaveney, a Vietnam veteran and a founder of New Directions in Los Angeles, which provides substance abuse help, job training and shelter to veterans.
"I think they'll be forgotten," Keaveney said of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. "People get tired of it. It's not glitzy that these are young, honorable, patriotic Americans. They'll just be veterans, and that happens after every war."
Keaveney said it's difficult for his group to persuade some homeless Iraq veterans to stay for treatment and help because they don't relate to the older veterans. Those who stayed have had success — one is now a stock broker and another is applying to be a police officer, he said.
"They see guys that are their father's age and they don't understand, they don't know, that in a couple of years they'll be looking like them," he said.
After being discharged from the military, Jason Kelley, 23, of Tomahawk, Wis., who served in Iraq with the Wisconsin National Guard, took a bus to Los Angeles looking for better job prospects and a new life.
Kelley said he couldn't find a job because he didn't have an apartment, and he couldn't get an apartment because he didn't have a job. He stayed in a $300-a-week motel until his money ran out, then moved into a shelter run by the group U.S. VETS in Inglewood, Calif. He's since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, he said.
"The only training I have is infantry training and there's not really a need for that in the civilian world," Kelley said in a phone interview. He has enrolled in college and hopes to move out of the shelter soon.
The Iraq vets seeking help with homelessness are more likely to be women, less likely to have substance abuse problems, but more likely to have mental illness — mostly related to post-traumatic stress, said Pete Dougherty, director of homeless veterans programs at the VA.
Overall, 45 percent of participants in the VA's homeless programs have a diagnosable mental illness and more than three out of four have a substance abuse problem, while 35 percent have both, Dougherty said.
Historically, a number of fighters in U.S. wars have become homeless. In the post-Civil War era, homeless veterans sang old Army songs to dramatize their need for work and became known as "tramps," which had meant to march into war, said Todd DePastino, a historian at Penn State University's Beaver campus who wrote a book on the history of homelessness.
After World War I, thousands of veterans — many of them homeless — camped in the nation's capital seeking bonus money. Their camps were destroyed by the government, creating a public relations disaster for President Herbert Hoover.
The end of the Vietnam War coincided with a time of economic restructuring, and many of the same people who fought in Vietnam were also those most affected by the loss of manufacturing jobs, DePastino said.
Their entrance to the streets was traumatic and, as they aged, their problems became more chronic, recalled Sister Mary Scullion, who has worked with the homeless for 30 years and co-founded of the group Project H.O.M.E. in Philadelphia.
"It takes more to address the needs because they are multiple needs that have been unattended," Scullion said. "Life on the street is brutal and I know many, many homeless veterans who have died from Vietnam."
The VA started targeting homelessness in 1987, 12 years after the fall of Saigon. Today, the VA has, either on its own or through partnerships, more than 15,000 residential rehabilitative, transitional and permanent beds for homeless veterans nationwide. It spends about $265 million annually on homeless-specific programs and about $1.5 billion for all health care costs for homeless veterans.
Because of these types of programs and because two years of free medical care is being offered to all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Dougherty said they hope many veterans from recent wars who are in need can be identified early.
"Clearly, I don't think that's going to totally solve the problem, but I also don't think we're simply going to wait for 10 years until they show up," Dougherty said. "We're out there now trying to get everybody we can to get those kinds of services today, so we avoid this kind of problem in the future."
In all of 2006, the Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that 495,400 veterans were homeless at some point during the year.
The group recommends that 5,000 housing units be created per year for the next five years dedicated to the chronically homeless that would provide permanent housing linked to veterans' support systems. It also recommends funding an additional 20,000 housing vouchers exclusively for homeless veterans, and creating a program that helps bridge the gap between income and rent.
Following those recommendations would cost billions of dollars, but there is some movement in Congress to increase the amount of money dedicated to homeless veterans programs.
On a recent day in Philadelphia, case managers from Project H.O.M.E. and the VA picked up William Joyce, 60, a homeless Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair who said he'd been sleeping at a bus terminal.
"You're an honorable veteran. You're going to get some services," outreach worker Mark Salvatore told Joyce. "You need to be connected. You don't need to be out here on the streets."
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Associated Press writer Kathy Matheson contributed to this story from Philadelphia.
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On the Net: National Alliance to End Homelessness: http://www.naeh.org/
New Directions: http://www.newdirectionsinc.org/
Project Home: http://www.projecthome.org/
County of Lancaster: http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/
Veterans Affairs Department: http://www.va.gov/
U.S. Vets: http://usvetsinc.org/
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Thanks again all.
Let me clear up a few things:
I'm not retired (although I wish I was!) from the AF. I separated from active duty, and am still considering guard/reserves (want a "real" job first, just in case a "real" job can't work with the guard/reserves). I never worked with aircraft. I never flew a plane, jumped out of one, loaded one up, turned a wrench, or dropped a bomb. I worked (best translation for non-military) as family support personnel for military families and military members.
I have 2 associates degrees (one from a JC in California, and the other from the Air Force), and am working towards a degree in public administration (14 classes to go, maybe less if I can find my CLEP/DANTES results).
I've been on about 11 interviews and applied at an ungodly amount of businesses and companies. I've either been the runner-up or on the short list to be hired, or I turned down the offer due to gross incompetency (job offers switched to a lower paying position, or the company just didn't have its act together).
It must sound like I am picky. Well, I am. I have a wife with occasional concerns and a 3 year old who need good health care. I'm not going to drive to Atlanta for a $13 an hour job with these gas prices. And, I don't believe that with my experience and education (I admit, it isn't a lot, but it is better than nothing, right?), that I should accept anything less than what I was paid in the military.
Lessons learned? I needed more connections (i.e. networking) sooner. Should have completed my degree earlier. Maybe should have stayed in the AF, even if I absolutely love it here. Ah well. I'll be smarter next life, right? (I don't believe in reincarnation, btw, just making a joke.)
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Again, thanks to all for the advice and leads. I've applied for nearly every gov't job under the sun, and I've had quite a few interviews for some of those positions. I've always just missed out, and I'm not sure what is wrong. I've always considered myself a good interviewer (I've been told that I'm eloquent...I prepare for interviews, and I believe I do well), maybe a little too honest at times, but I do toe the company line.
I'm hoping to earn at least what I made in the Air Force: approx $33K (included my housing allowance). I'm pretty much willing to take anything right now that will get me close to that.
If not, I'll have to return to the Air Force or whoever will take me. I loved the military, but I wanted to get settled down with my family and let my little girl grow up in a place that I believe is a great fit for the family.
I'm running out of options and time (read: $$$).
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Thanks again, all.
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Wow, after 6 years they let you go. I'm sorry! Hope it all works out!
I wish that all of us looking for a gig could team up and start something!
Any ideas?
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Bwaa-haa-haa-haaa!!!!!
My hubby says they rule the world. My dad won't talk. I've been trying to get the scoop on masons for quite some time....to no real avail.(Oh, I hope they don't track me down!)
Did you ever see the Simpson's episode on the Masons? Ok, they called themselves the "Stonecutters"...
Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!
Hilarity endures.
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Where exactly is the nearest Masonic Lodge? I'm in Hiram.
I found out recently that I come from a long line of Masons, and I would like to know more about the history/how to get involved. I would be willing to bet they are looking for some young blood...
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Hilarious! And so true.
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Over-qualified? Yeah, for some things, maybe. I'll take practically anything in the double digits hourly, now. I was hoping to be the "sole" bread winner for the family, but it looks like we'll but my little squirt in daycare and the missus will have to get a job too!
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Thanks for all the assistance...yes, I've tried Lockheed and Delta and GA DOL, all with no success. I was "hired" at Cryolife, but they wanted me for one job at a certain salary, and it then turned into a completely different job at another lower salary, plus the interviewer didn't show up for an appointment once, so I had enough and turned them down. Very disappointing. I will try the boys and girls club, that is a great idea.
If anyone knows any recruiters or headhunters or HR dept leaders, those would be the best leads. You don't have to refer me (why would you, you don't know me! Unless you want to get to know me, I'll have to consult my wife!), just leads.
Thanks again!
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