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  1. cheri1122

    Trucks Not Moving From Pumps

    The way I read it, you knew [or should have known] that the truck was coming up in the left lane when you decided to move over, thus forcing him to hit the brakes. You justify it by pointing out that he was speeding, but that's irrelevant, IMO. It's not your place to enforce the speed limit for...
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    The Clown in Chief

    Maybe I missed something, but the articles I read seemed to indicate that the anger wasn't over the clown, but the announcer, who asked whether people would like to see the clown/Obama chased down & run over by the bull. Then asked it several more times, louder each time, "whipping the crowd up"...
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    Need help! Thanks in advance

    No, Craig, you can't. Companies [actually, carriers] don't train drivers, they contract them to pick up & deliver freight in the driver's vehicle. Or, a fleet owner's vehicle - but rarely, a company vehicle. And even for the entriest of entry level positions, [driving a cargo van], nearly all...
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    Common Core Education... there is no wrong answer!

    Leo: did you miss entirely the part about the standards being created with the advice [for the very first time, as far as I know] of current business leaders? You know: the people who hire people? Or do you believe that students who get it entirely wrong are fine with them? This is a positive...
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    Music

    And laughing - don't forget laughing!
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    Music

    It made me feel stupid, and I figured I can do that for free [and usually without worrying about getting arrested, too]. ;)
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    Have a AWESOME picture of your truck?

    Didn't you have an absolutely amazing photo of your truck at Christmas? I remember liking it a lot, and I don't even like snow, lol.
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    Common Core Education... there is no wrong answer!

    The 'party line' has it that education is a liberal dominated field, and liberals want to control everyone, ipso facto: it's a liberal plot to control people. How they plan to do that by encouraging students to think for themselves is beyond me, but then, I still don't understand how a 'liberal'...
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    Need help! Thanks in advance

    I can't direct you to a person or phone number [too little info] but I can direct you to some help: on the 'home' page of the Newbies forum, click in the FAQ thread, then on the link in the first post. There will be a lot of answers there for you to consider. Good luck - I know it gets frustrating.
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    My father was a war protester.

    What - did you somehow miss the 14,877 times he already told us? :confused:
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    Common Core Education... there is no wrong answer!

    I have no way of knowing whether "a curriculum coordinator in Chicago" is explaining it correctly, or whether you understood it correctly, but my understanding is the goal of Common Core is teaching students how to think, rather than how to get the 'approved' answer [to pass the test] and I'm...
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    Fresh start!

    Slo-ride: wouldn't it be simpler to get a manila envelope [5x7 or 8x10] and attach it to an atlas, so it's handy for sticking them in?
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    Other drivers killing us!

    Jr: I don't know about greedy, [they won't make maximum revenue that way!] but they aren't the brightest bulbs on the string of lights, for sure. They'll be frequently having to find new drivers until they go broke.
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    Air tabs

    Gottago has them on the hood, which I didn't do because it requires determining the airflow pattern by placing something on the hood - there is [or was] a description of the process on the Airtabs website, and it looked complicated. She also has some on the west coast mirrors, fenders, and...
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    Common Core Education... there is no wrong answer!

    When I tested for entry to nursing school, they wouldn't credit my [correct] answers to the division problems unless I showed that I know how to do it with the division symbol-thingie-whatchamacallit. Which I didn't - I got the correct answers my own way, but they needed me to do it their way. I...
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    Trucks Not Moving From Pumps

    Geo: that's hilarious - wish it would work for the Parkers in the fuel lanes. ATeam: I'll tell you why many safety directors don't get bent out of shape over phone calls reporting unsafe driving: it's because John Q Public makes bogus calls when they get annoyed by a truck. I've had it happen...
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    Music

    Since you're not, try doing what Moot & I did years ago: burn CDs to trade [mail is cheap] and get exposed to some things you maybe never heard before. :D
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    Was that you? Load-1 cargomax in Toledo

    Ragman: a few years ago, somewhere around Toledo, I saw a droptop Cadillac with a vanity plate "Ragman". Was that yours? Note to Zorry: that was mean. But funny, lol. ;)
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    Common Core Education... there is no wrong answer!

    Some people stated an objection to Common Core's preponderance of nonfiction reading in the English classes. One statement that caught my attention was "You need to teach the classics [of literature] to teach kids to love reading." HA! If all I knew of literature was what we were forced to read...
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    Common Core Education... there is no wrong answer!

    Teaching kids what to think has got us where we are now - where 'educated' adults can't see the bias in what they read, and accept it as fact without questioning. Kids who are taught how to think may get the answer wrong the first time, but they will know to double check their answer [because...
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