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This may well be covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act, which _requires_ that emnployers make "reasonable accomodations" for employees with handicaps. I can say with some degree of assurance that giving you an "automatic" truck will be considered "reasonable". There's almost...

Newt caved in to the enviro-leftists about four years back, and I'll never trust him again even if he attempts to regain his genuine conservative status now that it's popular. He supported action on global warming, etc. apparently because he thought it'd help him in the polls. (Anyone who's...

...and now said information has arrived. Cut-and-paste follows. "Viewing will be at wilson st pierre in pendleton indiana on tuesday from 3 til 8 and funeral on wed at 11 at st ambrose church in anderson. Thanks Dawn"

I requested info on the funeral arrangements last night, still don't have it. If/when I do, will post immediately.

I just received an e-mail from the family of Royce Hagan, ex-GM-worker-turned-expediter for a few years, and author of many posts here. Sadly, this letter informed me that Royce passed away early this morning in the hospital after a long struggle with many ills. I only got to know Royce...

Amen. It's why I've devoted my life, knowing full well that it was almost certainly a losing cause, to eliminating all of the above. (If you want unemployment insurance, buy it on the private market. Don't make _me_ buy it too!) Every time I hear some Leftie claim that this _must_ be about...

If you check closely, you'll find that Europe's bank problems are roughly 2.5 times as severe as those in the US, on a per-unit basis. Ambrose Evans Pritchard, a noted London commentator, has been repeatedly pointing this out for over a year now, but our press seems highly reluctant to pick up...

It's their country. But no socialist nation can in my opinion be free, due to the need for these controls. And, also in my opinion, these same controls preclude long-term economic success as well by increasingly interfering with the supply/demand/growth cycle. So, while I respect their choice...

Pretty much, yes, though I prefer the term "Libertarian" since the term "Liberal" was co-opted by the Left to mean big-government supporter, etc. Don't expect to see me much, though. I joined this forum to look over van expediting, and upon doing so have pretty much decided it's not for me...

We are in uncharted territory, economically-speaking. No one's ever tried stimulus/quantitative easing at anything like the scale lately attempted. Reputable economists are all over the map as to what's going to happen next-- you hear everything from "a deflationary spiral and derpression...

Sessession is illegal under the Constitution... Actually, lawyers debate the issue all the time. It's not in least bit settled law, in part because the Constitution says nothing either way. As events transpired, however, it wasn't exactly the courts that settled the issue. So, there's...

Cheri, it's not a very entertaining book to read, I fear-- I had to slog through long parts of it that had little or nothing to do with influenza in order to learn what I wanted to know. (The subject interested me because my grandfather's brother was killed by the 1918 flu, and it also affected...

I read a book about a year or two back on the Great Flu, before the big current scare. According to it, one Alaskan town-dweller who got the flu relatively late and saw what was happening to his neighbors took his rifle to bed with him when he began to grow ill. When rescuers found him a week or...

A 150 or so cc scooter wouldn't take much room at all. If you had a receiver hitch, perhaps you could carry a minimal receiver-carrier rack flat against the wall most o the time and only put it on the receiver when the truck is totally full? A Genuine Rattler-- only 110 cc but runs like a 150...

They also have to pay for all the research and development on drugs that never make it to market. Which outnumber the successful ones by a _huge_ margin. If the pharma companies were raking it in like those figures suggest, it'd show in their stock prices/earnings reports, which are...

I love Limbaugh. And am a Libertarian, more than anything else. Listen almost every day.

Near as I can tell, he apologized to them for us believing that democracy and our way of life is superior to the way they live and govern themselves. It's not something that can be quoted in a line or two, but IMO was clearly the tone of his speech as a whole. Many of his other speeches follow...

So, Schneider's building up a pile of debt to stay in business and be ready and rarin' to go when the competition is gone. This ploy makes perfect sense if one is predicting hyperinflation. Borrow the money now, then pay it back later when it's worth nothing. Just a thought...

The Kindle _rocks_. I read 77 books on mine last year, all of them at very low prices. Probably paid for the reader right there.

This article highlights national health care at it's very finest. A guy died in Japan from injuries due to a traffic accident after fourteen hospitals rejected him due to lack of beds, doctors, or equipment. And this isn't even close to the national record! It's even more pathetic than the stuff...