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Please do not release your bladder here, Owasm.

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It's fun to switch channels and have people finish each others' sentences.

Drop me a e-mail if you are so we can coordinate further.

Truck drivers exaggerate, they'll tell you they're making so much money that they plan on buying Rhode Island one moment than will claim they're so broke that they've been living on a steady diet of dried raimen noodles for the past year, sometimes all in one sentence.

But since you asked this truckdriver... it ain't doing as bad as the media and politicians say. I'd say we bottomed out but not don't expect that we'll completely rebound for sometime.

People typically judge the economy by their own employment or available job openings. However, as the news reminds us constantly, this is the last indicator.

It wasn't my city water line, which is on the other side of my front lawn, and my meter wasn't moving. It wasn't the sewer: that's closer and the water didn't smell bad. It's not the "dual water" connection: there is none on my side of the street and I'm not hooked up to it.

Today the city guys were here to look at it. (I was out: my father came down and watched things.) Seems there's a whole other city water connection line on that side of the driveway, and that was what was leaking. The city guys had it dug up and fixed quickly enough. (There's a bare spot on my lawn, and it'll probably sink down some, but I'd rather have that than a gusher.)

But why was a separate line there? I've got two guesses. (1) When the house was being built (not by me: I bought it off the rack) they put the line there, then someone decided it wasn't needed and they put another line where it belonged. Or (2) there were two lots here originally, both with city water hookup lines...then the lots were subdivided, two lots into three lots, and the line got forgotten in the shuffle.

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My biggest concern is the growing national debt, which is creating inflation by devaluating the dollar and the overall decrease in personal credit ratings due to housing issues and long-term unemployment.

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I am one-hundred percent behind you on this. I know Kathleen hates it when we talk politics so I will try to keep things short.

No one is taking thsi seriously. It gets backhanded attention by every politician.

Yes, the deficit is a concern, but (war on terroism, health care, social security, gold tiles in the congressional bathrooms) is a problem for every American...

Every decision made in government and dollar allocated for it should answer this question, is it so important to doom the next generation with national bankruptcy?

The national debt will be resolved the same way it gets resolved in third world nations; runaway inflation. I'm talking double, and sometimes, triple digit kind.

Waits so I wasted $10,000 on ammunition and guns for nothing?

I was really hoping that the bottom would fall out and the world would fall into WW V. Yes World War 4, how you may ask, well the 100 year war between all European countries a few hundred years ago was WW I, the Napolic wars were WW II, what we call WW I and WW II was really WW III and WW IV.
Take it from someone who has lived 3000 years of human history, I know what I am talking about, or maybe its just the sleeping pills mixed with pain killers at 0130 Mountain time that is making me talk this way..

Not like "I can't stand to be in their presence" creepy, but definitely a little creepy.

Maybe it was "The Shining" that did it to me.

i sleep only a few hors a week and i dont like it.

So the CIA is trying to make lots of coppies of themselves? i knew it. the Govt is trying to brain wash all of us.

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I am looking forward to creative unemployment. I do not plan to work again (after a short 20 day gig in Sept.) until 2010.

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