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Polls are open late after most get off from work. State DMVs close long before 7PM. As far as the laughable excuses, the judges have so far disagreed and are not laughing.

Right. We don't know if any of that is accurate or not, but I can guarantee you if the family's lawyers got anything like this through depositions, records, or interviews, and it came out during a liability trial, it would be a public relations nightmare. Or it could have just innuendo to get Disney to settle. No one knows. So this is a non-story.

Actually, that is not been proven, at least not to any significant degree. The cases where the Voter ID Laws were struck down produced no evidence of any voting irregularities, e.g., TX. This is not to say it doesn't happen and I'm sure there is always that outlier instance everyone points to, but a few instances is not statistically relevant. Don't forget that for many of the elderly, they don't even have birth certificates because they were born at home. And many of the poor live in large numbers in a location where there may be several adults but those bills are in only one per

Criminal wrong doing that leads to a death is a far different thing than civil liability of a foreseen hazard. Or it could be that Disney didn't want the bad press of a drawn out court case so it was cheaper to settle. Or it could be that Disney wasn't adhering to their operating procedures for maintenance and failed to comply with state and federal safety guidelines for drivers or other things. Had something like that came out in a civil case, it would have been a PR nightmare. Fact is, we don't know. It is a settled case. We don't know one way or the other so speculating is poin

Or it may be that the family's charges had some merit and Disney's negligence, shared some of the blame. Design, bus maintenance and adherence to rest break standards for drivers are foreseen hazards. Come on. There is a whole lot of assumptions going on here. We don't know all the information but we cannot assume Disney was not to blame for part of it. That is how our legal system works and it it's a shared process among all the parties.

But their weather is similar to Maine and that means fairly cool summers, comparatively. Last time I was in Maine, they didn't have the AC units on until after 4th of July, and even then most of the natives didn't use them.

I don't have a problem with the group praying before the game at all. Live and let live. But remember that atheists group have every right to begin blowing horns and yelling and whatever else while everyone else is praying. Their right too. This post above is about as uninformed as ever has been posted.

Note I said northern Europe. Paris is along the central line. It is warm in July and August there. Northern Europe is fine, usually. On that, we agree. (Careful, lest you be labeled a liberal, socialist commie for agreeing with me.) But it does go along with the finding of the study, e.g., that there has not been shown any significant benefit of "organic." Now, the peace of mind factor is certainly there, but once people understand there is little difference, the same peace of mind factor is in the regular stuff for far less money. It is all in the packaging and how people respond to i

That is not "green" but the way European hotels have always been. I've only been in one northern European hotel that had air conditioning, and that was a very large resort. Fact is, AC is generally not needed because the temps rarely require it. As for ice machines, that has nothing to do with "cheap" or "green" but because European culture just doesn't normally use ice anyway. Not sure about the sheets because I've never experienced that.

The "pesticide" argument is really bogus since even organic farms use pesticides, but they use in the amounts that meet the "organic" label. Or they use other pesticides that are not as potent but are still pesticides no matter how what it is called. And to say the fruit doesn't get affected because the pesticide is on the skin? High school biology says otherwise. Only eaten banana peels twice. Once in Asia and they were awful. I tried them again at a small bistro in the South of France about 5 years ago and they were just as awful then as previously in Asia.

Huh? I don't recall GMO's either but it does discuss your statement where you said, Most people arent buying organic for the higher nutritional value, they're buying it for what hasn't been added to it. It did go into the various reasons why people buy organic. It also gave the other perspectives on those reasons. it never said that buying organic was stupid, only that many of the cited reasons people give are not holding up to the current study. It also concluded that the altruistic reasons are perfectly fine and perfectly a personal preference. There was a follow up piece this morning

That's one of the things the piece discussed. You ought to listen to the podcast. Really good. It is only 5 minutes 43 seconds. My link

Geez Louise. Organic is not a "liberal cause." Plenty of conservatives buy organic products too. Everything is not about politics.

A new study has said there are no demonstrated health benefits to buying organic products. That is not the same as saying there are no health benefits since this will still be studied over decades, but that right now there are none identified. There are altrusitic reasons to buy organic (environmental, et.al.) but basically the new study from Stanford says that the loose definitions and standards for what qualifies as "organic" is mostly a marketing tactic that plays on our emotions. My link

Wow. That's pretty good. One of my counterparts in AL told me a few weeks ago that she just hired 3 Spanish translators and a Vietnamese translator. All had to have college degrees, of course, and pass the certification tests, but their starting pay was only $28 an hour. Not great, but not a bad starting salary for someone just out of college.

That is a different perspective than I have. I disagree, but this is something that is subjective, not objective. I just prefer the more New England style landscape where signage is well regulated to be kept to a minimum and government - while supporting business - is not focused on businesses but on people, and doesn't even give the hint that it is in bed with businesses. Just my observations.

I'm just against the entire idea. The county should not involve itself in selling advertising space because it gives the appearance that businesses are the main concern, not governing for the people. And it is just tacky. Landscape Litter.

It's all about business and advertising and money. It's landscape litter. Why not just allow homeowners to place 20' billboards in the their yards and the county get 10% of the cost? There comes a point where we have to stand up to the corporate interests and money, while we do what is right for the community as a whole.

I see no one bothered to actually read the article in question. It had nothing to do with being politically correct as much as it had to do with not being crass or rude in the words we use, especially when dealing with diverse people group who may not see the phrase the same as we intended it to be conveyed. The article may have used some poor examples, but the context was to simply be mindful of how we say things. Amazing thing is that people are manufacturing a political statement out of something like this. My link

I disagree. Vouchers will gut public education and create a defacto system that segregates students based on income and race, leaving a permanent lower class. The whole reason public education was begun was to get away from the very idea that the charter/voucher system is bringing back, all under the guise of a "free market" mantra. It is the very opposite as there is nothing free about it: It is enslavement to class and it is being promulgated in a thinly veiled class warfare line of reasoning. Exactly.

Bringing in BMW and the European influence greatly helped. But so did Michelin, General Electric, and others. My link

Greenville, SC, has changed a lot since the revival that began around 1995. The town is more artsy, young, and the downtown area is more European-like. The many educational campuses have joined with the businesses and the progressive political leaders to make Greenville a truly wonderful town. The long range plans are quite ambitious, with green-features in all city planning. Just watch. In 20 years, Greenville will be what is competing with Atlanta for jobs and talent.

Yep. And I've found the SC peaches to be much sweeter than the GA peaches. May be just our tastes, but the whole family agrees.

Too funny!

What a wonderful weekend! Left last Friday morning and got back home today after we decided to make our annual trek to SC a little later than normal this year. Saw a minor league baseball game Friday night and then drove to Simpsonville for the Sate Fair on Saturday. And on Sunday evening, we had dinner at Devereaux's and OMG it was good. We had the Chef's Tasting Menu and was really impressed. My link Good thing we stayed across the street at the Westin because I was so stuffed, I doubt if I could have walked far. We go each year to get several baskets of peaches that I then cut up a