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Exactly. And it's why this court case is about Constitutional free speech and not about fraud. The law was passed with with well-worn liberal "feel good" intentions to protect the feelings of a select group of people, despite there already being laws on the books which deal with fraud. The law...

The Nina, the Pickle and the Santa Maria were Christopher Columbus' 1492 ships. The Mayflower was the Pilgrims' 1620 ride. If April shower bring Mayflowers, then what do Mayflowers bring? Pilgrims! :D

Because, duh, they're related. Captain Kirk stole a cloaking device from the Romulans. We kill bin Laden and capture his computers, and now, suddenly, we have an invisibility cloak. That not a coincidence, it is future history repeating itself. A wacka wacka. Or, another way to go... Hey, we...

It may have stopped for you when the Great Recession took hold, but it didn't stop for this Sprinter driver. The questions were certainly more frequent five years ago when Sprinters were truly a unique North American novelty, especially those questions from other truck drivers, but because the...

And an excellent rant it was, too. :D

The lying and the fraud are two separate issues. The Constitution protects the lie, but it doesn't necessarily protect what you do with the lie, like when you use the lie to defraud. It's no different than claiming to have an advanced degree from Harvard when you don't have one. You can claim...

There was a problem with a transmission line from Arizona to Southern California that caused both major connections to the region to go out. The Arizona Public Service said one of its employees was carrying out a procedure at a substation northeast of Yuma that caused the problem. He was...

Well, Panther graded my HAZMAT test and e-mailed it back to me. Said he was sorry to see me go, but he updated my file with the test results just in case I wanted to come back to Panther. That was nice of him.

I think I was too subtle. :D I was sitting at the J in Oak Grove (A.K.A. Hopkinsville) and they wanted me to move to Hopkinsville, which is about 8 miles north of the J. I told him I was already there, at the J 8 miles south of Hopkinsville, but that if he paid me enough I'd move up to the...

Sarcasm. :D I hought it was a great show. :)

He's trying to put all this into the lap of the Republicans, while at the same time saying it's not political. Yeah, right. In any case, for these types of political events, I generally stick with C-SPAN or something else other than the networks which feel they must tell everyone what to think...

It all seemed a bit staged and orchestrated.

Got my transmission fluid changed Tuesday and renewed my CDL Wednesday, then came back in service a little after noon. Drove over to Oak Grove, KY to the J. A few hours later I get a call from Dispatch wanting to know if I'd like to move to........ Hopkinsville.

I've got a Microfridge where the fridge plugs into the microwave, and then the microwave plugs into the inverter. When the microwave is activated, the fridge is automatically shut down until about one minute after the microwave is finished. It's designed to never pull more than 10 amps AC due to...

Well, yeah, but the rage itself was based on an assumption, too. Which is the very reason those with knee-jerk reactions of rage based on limited information and assumptions over something that's not outrageous tend to get marginalized. The rage people feel may indeed be real, and it may be...

The Offbeat Tourist Attractions is a fun POI, too. :)

The guy who handles the 3-year HAZMAT training thinks I'm still there. I was informed in an e-mail today that if I didn't complete my training thingy by the 13th that I'd be marked for no-HAZMAT. :D I renew my CDL and HAZMAT in the morning. I think I'll go ahead and complete the training test...

Why are you bringing my name into this discussion, much less discussing the contents of a PM? I've got one post in this thread, and it was in response to OVM.

By and large, it doesn't exist insofar as pay discrimination is concerned. The equal pay laws more or less prevent it. Male and female workers side by side are generally paid the same, taking into account things like service time, education and other factors. Women tend to be in lower paying...

This one jumped out at me from the article: "And those who pick male-dominated fields earn less than men too: female truck drivers, for instance, earn just 76.5% of the weekly pay of their male counterparts." That's an awfully broad, unqualified matter-of-fact statement about something in...