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On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:35:25 -0500, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

NPR - no way - it is firmly slanted left, maybe not as left as the
'national' media, but the slant is there. I prefer other sources.
Cheryl, the "liberal" media is only as liberal as its conservative
corporate owners will allow.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:31:00 -0600, Dianne Lewandowski
wrote:

Try sustaining yourself on a 60 x 140 foot lot (or
thereabouts). That's no different than a metropolitan area . . . just
lots smaller.
I'd love to see a metropolitan lot that big! Although I'd hate to see
the price tag on it.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On 06 Feb 2004 01:13:35 GMT, wd (Caryn) wrote:

Schools aren't just decaying because of budget problems....they are decaying
because there aren't as many real teachers anymore. There are people who went
to college to become "educators." I used to take in typing for students to
help make ends meet, and the most illiterate papers came from those getting
education degrees. I was very depressed by this.
One of the professors in the college of education I attended while in
my mid-30s (so in the mid-'80s) told us that over 90% of the teaching
profession comes from the bottom 10% academically of their high
school's graduating class. Most of those women go to college for "emm
are ess" degrees.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On 07 Feb 2004 02:35:33 GMT, S (Karen C -
California) wrote:

That's more densely populated than California at 217.2 (our population is
clustered in half a dozen cities and the rest of the state is truly "rural",
including counties with more square miles than people)
Probably more accurately described as "four major metropolitan areas"
than as "half a dozen cities," as the LA area contains a good bit more
than half a dozen cities.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On 08 Feb 2004 21:58:47 GMT, S (Karen C -
California) wrote:

With no friends or relatives in Redding, I was always hearing about jobs after
"my wife's cousin Essie's best friend's daughter" already had them locked up.
The gal who typeset the job ads for the paper got her friends in to interview
Friday afternoon even before the ad was published; by the time I called at 8 AM
Monday, it was no longer available. The best qualification you could have for
any job was not experience, it was being the mayor's daughter, or the fire
chief's niece. No connections, no job.
Being a non-Mormon in Utah is even worse.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 17:19:19 -0600, Dianne Lewandowski
wrote:

Dukkum wrote:

Wouldn't you at least think some sort of thank you would be in order. Does she
think gifts are her due for giving birth?

Far too much of the time, these days, thank yous are not part of the
equation, unfortunately. And yes, many have the attitude that "gifts
are due".

Sad, isn't it? I embroidered a Schwalm piece for our neighbor's wedding
awhile ago. Placed it on a large Framecraft porcelain jar. I got a
thank you. It said: "Thank you for the gift."

We see them fairly often. Not one word about it. Probably stuck in the
back of a closet somewhere. That's ok. But the "thank you" left a
lot to be desired. g

Dianne
My great niece recently emailed a thank you for their wedding gift, a
Stoney Creek sampler I'd stitched for them. This was an *extra* thank
you, when she emailed me to tell me about the mom of her piano
students having seen it and commented favorably upon it. I'm
convinced I'm very fortunate in at least some of my relatives and
friends (a friend has thanked me more than once for the birth sampler
I stitched for her miracle baby).

That said, there are a great many others I would never consider giving
a stitched gift to!
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On 08 Feb 2004 02:12:13 GMT, S (Karen C -
California) wrote:

I'll put money on it that there's no mall
between Barstow and Needles (150 miles). Frankly, I'm not so sure there's even
a gas station between Barstow and Needles. (And if there is, it's probably
five bucks a gallon.)
Nope, no malls. I'm not sure there's even a mall in Barstow, though
there's a center full of outlet stores. There are two or three gas
stations in Ludlow. And a lot of ravens. And some gas stations on
the eastern end of Barstow, around Yermo.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

On 2/8/04 10:54 PM, in article ,
"Darla" wrote:

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:35:25 -0500, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

NPR - no way - it is firmly slanted left, maybe not as left as the
'national' media, but the slant is there. I prefer other sources.
Cheryl, the "liberal" media is only as liberal as its conservative
corporate owners will allow.
Darla
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

Funny - I see most of the owners as spouting liberal speech and practicing
something else. They advocate spending knowing that the laws protect their
ass(et)s.
Cheryl

Try sustaining yourself on a 60 x 140 foot lot (or
thereabouts). That's no different than a metropolitan area . . . just
lots smaller.
I'd love to see a metropolitan lot that big! Although I'd hate to see
the price tag on it.

While house hunting before our move here, we looked at 14 houses in two days.
DH's job was moving us, and their policy was to pay for ONE house hunting trip
only, so we made the most of that one trip.

Anyway, we looked at a couple houses on .09 acres. I don't know what that
added up to in terms of squarefootage, but the yards are tiny.

I did see several of houses in these neighborhoods with container gardens on
their porches and decks tho. One of the houses we were shown had two of those
greenhouse type windows in the kitchen, which the current owner had full of
herbs and tomato plants.

Yes, it would be difficult to "sustain" yourself on that, but it did supplement
their diet.

Caryn
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From: Darla hescom

...... Probably more accurately described as "four major metropolitan areas"
than as "half a dozen cities," as the LA area contains a good bit more
than half a dozen cities.

OK -- from South to North there is San Diego, Los Angeles then San Francisco
"megalopolii"(is that a real word??). What's the fourth one? Do you separate
out the Orange County, etc. area from Los Angeles as the fourth area or maybe
it's the Sacramento or San Jose, etc. areas. Having grown up in CA, I am
familiar with where everything is located and I know the major cities (the ones
you can fly into and out of easily) but I am no longer familiar with a lot of
the demographics. Not arguing with you -- just curious to know more
specifically what & where that fourth are is :-). CiaoMeow ^;;^
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