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  1. Turtle

    Roadside Assistance

    This past year I moved up to the AAA Premier (Premier Benefits). It's like $118 I think. It offers the same as the AAA Plus, with the additional coverages of a 200 mile tow plus three tows at 100 miles each (instead of four tows of 100 miles), and you get Trip Interruption expense reimbursement...
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    What gives?

    We have two nursing homes and two assisted living facilities in the town where I live. The nursing homes provide 24-hour medical care with real, actual nurses and everything, and the two assisted living facilities do not provide any medical care beyond that of calling 911, and everyone is well...
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    Blueparrott B250-xt not charging?

    Sometimes if you rotate the charge plug in the headset it'll start charging. Mine does that sometimes. I think mine has a short in the plug somewhere. Make sure the other end is fully inserted in the 12v socket, too.
  4. Turtle

    What gives?

    Family: Woman denied CPR wanted no intervention By TRACIE CONE, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Relatives of an 87-year-old woman who died after a nurse at her retirement home refused a 911 dispatcher's pleas to perform CPR expressed satisfaction with the care she received...
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    What gives?

    I can understand a policy where emergency medical treatment wouldn't be provided at a facility where there are no medically trained staff to handle medical emergencies, but it doesn't take a lot of medical training to learn CPR. Even Boy Scouts know CPR.
  6. Turtle

    What gives?

    The statement released by the facility pretty much says it all... "In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community, our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel...
  7. Turtle

    Refusing to cooperate with Border Patrol

    Actually it's not. The topic is that of refusing to cooperate with the Border Patrol with regard to freedom of movement within the United States, as well as the other First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. "Mexican" and "southern border" are assumptions, although certainly not unreasonable or...
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    Refusing to cooperate with Border Patrol

    Our vigilance? No. The Border Patrol's vigilance? Yes. The Border Patrol has been forced to extend the scope of their vigilance solely due to their own incompetence. Don't let them across in the first place. There are an estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens here in the United States. There are...
  9. Turtle

    Carrier cutting rates

    That's true, but they wouldn't be as likely to choose the raise if it also meant having to work less hours and bringing home less money overall, which is the choice presented in the thread.
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    Carrier cutting rates

    Actually you do. As someone who hired and managed hourly workers for a long time, one of the most common things I heard was, "I need more hours." And it didn't matter whether they were working 20 hours a week or 40, more hours meant more money. As for running more miles for less money, it is...
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    Just getting nuts

    School officials sent home a letter saying, in part: “One of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures.” So sad. This young kid's life is already over. This will follow him around for the rest of his life. School officials determined the pastry gun was a threat because he said...
  12. Turtle

    FMCSA Says "Fung You" to Unsafe Bus Company

    It means, 'Be afraid. Be very afraid. You'll do what we say and you'll like it." [/COLOR]Exactly. True enough, this is a bus company that should be put out of business, but the FMCSA's press release didn't give the context of the shutdown, so the only context of their statements is that of...
  13. Turtle

    Another Tragedy on I-65 in KY

    You can't tell from that picture, but it was definitely a tractor-trailer. The accidents happened at MM 83, just a couple of miles north of Exit 81 where the Petro and Pilot are. When I got there, going southbound, I got off at Exit 96 up in Etown and came down 31W, parallel to I-65 and...
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    I seem to have opened a can of worms

    Yeah, I know. Whether it's true or not.
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    Refusing to cooperate with Border Patrol

    I've been stopped at those same checkpoints many, may times, never once having crossed the border. All I was doing was minding my own business and traveling freely in the interior of the country, as I have a right to do. While I understand the desire and even the need for such checkpoints, I...
  16. Turtle

    Refusing to cooperate with Border Patrol

    The other "big deal" is that none of those stops in the video were actually at the border.
  17. Turtle

    When Canada was invited to join the United States

    Well, British troops and militia forces, supported by a large number of Native Americans led by Techumseh, a Shawnee Chief from present-day Chillicothe, OH and later Indiana. As most Canadians know, Tecumseh was instrumental in the capture of Fort Detroit and the surrender of the city, and the...
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    Refusing to cooperate with Border Patrol

    Using analogous examples from history, as viewed through the eyes of current times, is invariably a straw man argument.
  19. Turtle

    Lil Poopy: Father Of 9-Year-Old Rapper Probed

    I'm uncomfortable with poopy and probed in the same headline.
  20. Turtle

    Hard to believe

    Not that I mind fishing, but it's very difficult to go to a restaurant and have fresh fried crappie. Crappie, if you've never had it, is a wonderful, magical thing. The old saying is true, the only thing better than a mess of fresh fried crappie is another mess of fresh fried crappie. :D There...
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