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It's rare that the couple would be in the same room during the early evening hours of the work week. Had this been any other Wednesday, Doug would still be in his lab in the physiology building at Colorado State University, studying the impact a special protein has on the brains of diabetic rats and theorizing on what that could mean for humans. Doug has spent his whole career studying this single molecule, and he believes he's finally close to a major medical breakthrough: a cure for Alzheimer's Disease. A small bioscience company in Sacramento, California, is growing Doug's protein in rice plants, and if they succeed, the only major obstacle to clinical trials will be the tens of millions of dollars Doug must raise from grants and investors. Needless to say, evenings spent at home with his wife are rare. Not that Wendy would be there if he did arrive in time for dinner. Her work with Bas Bleu, the 49-seat salon theater she started in 1992, keeps her just as busy, especially now that she has to raise $1.5 million by December in order to buy the 100-year-old warehouse the company has already moved into.
When Wendy has a few moments to steal herself away from the party, she is quick to explain just what a thespian like herself has in common with a molecular biologist, aside from their schedules and the fact that she's managed to spark in him a love for Samuel Beckett's plays. "I'm only as good as my last role," she says. "He's as good as his last experiment. We both survive on grants, and we always have our hand out, fundraising."
Doug laughs in agreement, then pauses before slowly and carefully articulating his thoughts on the subject. "We're both involved in a certain amount of risk-taking," he adds. "And in theater, as in science, you have to be willing to put yourself out there and to take risks. Without taking risks and without courting the possibility of failure, you can't really hope to make significant advances. You can do safe science or you can do risky science, and it's in risky science where you can make large jumps -- and theater is like that as well."
As Wendy returns to her guests, Doug continues to ponder this notion of risk. He and Wendy aren't afraid of taking dangerous leaps with their careers or their livelihood, because they aren't afraid of being poor, he says. Been there. Done that.
Douglas Ishii was born in a stable.
His parents, William Takeo Ishii and Fusaye Hatanaka, were born in the United States, though they both returned to Japan with their families when they were still children. Doug's mother, Fusaye, came back to the U.S. when she was twelve to live with her grandmother, and his father, William, came back to go to medical school. The two met in San Francisco and married in 1939. They had their first child in 1941, before Pearl Harbor was bombed, and Fusaye was pregnant again in 1942, when 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast were evacuated from their homes. The family was ordered to sell everything and go to their assigned assembly center, bringing only what they could carry. When William spoke out against the government for incarcerating American citizens who had committed no crime, he was jailed, leaving his twenty-year-old wife to take their one-year-old son and report to the Santa Anita racetrack, where horse stalls had been converted to living quarters. Shortly after they arrived -- carrying just two suitcases, one filled with diapers and one with baby food -- Fusaye gave birth to Doug.
From the racetrack, Fusaye and her sons were moved to what the U.S. government called a "detention center." "But we knew what they were," Doug says. The concentration camp was surrounded by barbed wire and guards armed with machine guns. The barracks, hastily erected in the desert, had sand and snow coming in through the planks. Mess halls and latrines were shared; the only privacy came from the blankets that families put up between the individual quarters. Doug's family was held like this for four and a half years.
When the war was over, the government gave them $25 and a bus ticket, and they used it to get to a housing project in San Francisco. William had contracted tuberculosis in jail and was unable to join his family. That left Fusaye to support the children by cleaning and cooking in wealthy homes. Books were Doug's escape from his bleak, violent neighborhood. He would go to the Bayview branch of the San Francisco Public Library and read six books every two weeks, everything from science fiction to Dostoyevsky. The reading and studying paid off: After high school, he attended the University of California at Berkeley. State schools in California did not charge tuition at the time, so he was able to go for just $76 a semester in incidental fees. (That policy changed after Ronald Reagan became governor in 1967.) Doug started out studying philosophy and creative writing, but he quickly found himself drawn to science and chose a biochemistry major.


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Betty Britt, 60, Chicago Ridge
What is your prized possession?
"My family. My husband, Earl, and I have six children — four girls and two boys — and five grandchildren. We have a big, close family. They all come over for Thanksgiving. The house is getting smaller."
What are your hobbies?
"I like to sew and read. I used to sew more. I do more quilting now. It's creative. I like to read mysteries mostly."
What book are you reading now?
"I'm reading 'Swimming Lessons.' It's not a mystery. It's about a group of women who watch for turtles to come in and lay their eggs. Then the women watch over them. It's fiction, but the author really gets involved in it. It's good."
What do you like about Chicago Ridge?
"I've been here a long time, 36 years. It's a community where you get to know people. I know a lot of people in the village and what they do. It's friendly."
Which person from history do you want to meet?
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Schooled by legendary coaches W.S. "Big Man" Merwyn, and Mary "Somebody Needs a Spanking Here And It's Probably Me" Gaitskill, Sam Ligon stepped into his first head coaching job leading Team America in the world's most significant literary competitions, including "Whose Advance is Bigger," "Which Prize Did You Win Again?" and "Slow Burn: A Competitive Articulation of Crippling Writer's Envy." Coach Ligon marked his literary basketball debut propelling the Brooklyn Nihilists to a 22-11—who cares, followed by an incredible tenure as winningest dog dream starlight of the Portland Surrealists, before landing in the gutter with the Spokane Dirty Realists, where everybody loses. Current Motto: We can and have beaten the school of the blind. And we'll beat you. In addition to coaching the Dirty Realists, Ligon is the author of Drift and Swerve, a collection of stories, and Safe in Heaven Dead, a novel. His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University and is the editor of Willow Springs.


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Storefront Ten Eyck is delighted to present Inhabiting Ten Eyck, a site-specific exhibition curated by Karin Bravin. The show features the work of fourteen artists whose works will spread into the gallery's corners, crevices and rafters. This show marks the one-year anniversary of Storefront Ten Eyck, a gallery that has put roots down in the thriving artist community of East Williamsburg/Bushwick. The works were created in response to the existing architecture, and each inhabits the space differently, moving beyond the frame to climb walls, reach the ceiling and take residence. The artists in the show include: Lisa Beck, Devon Dikeou, Nathan Dilworth, Dave Eppley, Julie Evans, Ivelisse Jimenez, Beth Krebs, Rita MacDonald, Matt Miller, Elizabeth Riley, Julie Schenkelberg, Peter Soriano, Rachel Mica Weiss, and Etty Yaniv.
Rita MacDonald, Dave Eppley and Peter Soriano use the walls as their canvas, creating large-scale installations with paint, plaster, industrial tape and spray paint respectively. Lisa Beck's freestanding constructions will bisect and reflect the gallery. Julie Schenkelberg's combination of vintage domestic and discarded materials will inhabit a small room within the space. Julie Evans' project blurs the line between window and wall. Corners serve as perfect hosts for Etty Yaniv, Beth Krebs and Ivelisse Jimenez's thought-provoking installations. Matt Miller will create an outdoor work for the front of the gallery. Floor-to-ceiling works by Rachel Mica Weiss and Nathan Dilworth activate the entire space, and participatory works by Devon Dikeou and Elizabeth Riley round out the exhibition.
About the curator:
Karin Bravin is a curator with a strong interest in site-specific, public, and installational art projects. In 2006 she curated and produced eleven installations in Riverside Park. The projects were sited in unexpected places: under tunnels, on baseball backstops, in the Hudson River, and along the meandering paths. In 2009 she became consultant for the Downtown Alliance, where she selected and oversaw the production of ten art projects on construction barriers in lower Manhattan; In the Fall of 2012 she curated 19 site -specific works at Lehman College for a show entitled Space Invaders. Bravin is looking forward to curating for an upcoming issue of Zing Magazine.
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I recently bought a NOS Shimano Deore XT, CS-M737, 8 speed cassette, 11-28T. I never used it. I only installed it onto my rear wheel, before I decided to upgrade to 9 speed. I'm about to resell it
Does anyone know if the gray plastic spacer is important? Can the potential buyer get a new one no problem? I don't remember where it should go on the cassette. When I took it out of the bag again to snap pics of it, the gray plastic spacer & 2 silver metal spacers were sitting underneath the big cog. I assume that's how it was installed onto the freehub. Is it possible that gray plastic spacer & 2 silver metal spacers came from my rear wheel's freehub when I removed the cassette? (pics at bottom)
this link is the seller I bought from, but I can't tell if his pic shows the gray plastic spacer & 2 silver metal spacers behind the big cog
this link is from a different seller & there's no gray plastic spacer behind the big cog
Thank you
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Do they tell you that all bubble envies are Parcels thus $1.17 if 1 OZ or less?
Please post here, and include the statements made by the employees and your experiences. Please also include the street address, city and zip of the PO. I have drafted a letter which I will mail the postmaster/mistress at that location. I will include any statements their employees have made and relate your experiences. It states also that a copy of the letter will be being mailed to the Postmaster General himself. If they (the offending PO) reply to me, I will also include that in the mass mailing to the Postmaster General. I had hoped to get something together long ago for the PmG, but life has gotten in the way, and I for sure want to have enough evidence (fuel) to get his attention. This has been a huge problem involving a large theft spanning 20 months so far. Please help by posting here. I see folks make mention here and there about being overcharged, but have not kept track of them all. Sue...who refuses to get upset enough to start twitchin...notice...only one Bold word, and no CAPS, or red |
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- Posted by love2gardennc z7b NC (My Page) on Fri, Jan 30, 09 at 17:48
I had to mail a package from a PO that I do not normally deal with. The clerk who had a name tag that stated that she was in training told me that it would be $1.17 to mail my package but when she went to print the meter stamp it was only .83 which she mentioned. I was in a hurry and so did not try to teach her, I was just happy that I didn't have to pay. BTW, my post office in Fallston, NC has never over charged me, they are 'AWESOME'. |
- Posted by alwaysagarden CA 9b (My Page) on Tue, Feb 3, 09 at 21:01
Sue, I just did a trade with a newbie and she didn't put the correct amount of postage on her bubble envy so I took care of the charge. What was weird is that this trade had just a couple small light seed packets in it and was the very small bubble envy. I usually only need .83 cents for something like this but just like love2gardennc I was charged $1.17. hmmmm. I've never had a problem with my post office overcharging me either. I guess theres always a first time. Cindy |
I've never had a problem with my post office overcharging me either. I guess theres always a first time. Cindy, it is not necessarily your PO. It could be any number places. If it is not too inconvenient, why not take them in and debate the issue with your PO. Then next time, you can maybe just let them know that you will not accept being overcharged. I have gotten them with postage due also, but it has always been a mistake where someone somewhere did not know what they were doing. Love2g, Sue |
- Posted by west_texas_peg 7b West Cen TX (My Page) on Fri, Feb 6, 09 at 13:34
My husband was ready to strangle one of our local postal clerks last week! He went to the window with one seed swap envelope and some bills he was paying. The clerk weighed the Sprint envelope and ran it through the slot 'to be sure' it was not overweight or too thick! Mind you all the envelope contained was a check and stub from the bill; he could easily tell it was not overweight or too thick. The clerks single out our mail whether it's a bubble or not! He mailed something in the city where he works recently and that clerk did not overcharge. Peggy |
Please help me get this straight. If I request a free seed offer, I put .83 cents on the bubble envelope to mail to the donor's address. Then I enclose three stamps and a label addressed to me (plus my list and note to thank them) for the return unless of course I am getting large seeds. I am dealing with a rural mail carrier; I want to put on enough but not more than necessary. I would hate for the person on the other end to get a postage due on it. |
I put .83 cents on the bubble envelope to mail to the donor's address. Yes, a bubble envelope containing a note/list, an address label, and some stamps should always be 83 cents to mail out. Then I enclose three stamps and a label addressed to me (plus my list and note to thank them) for the return unless of course I am getting large seeds. I am dealing with a rural mail carrier I would hate for the person on the other end to get a postage due on it. I mailed out 2 envelopes of seeds, using my handy dandy postal scale. They were returned to me requesting additional postage. I had put on enough for a 1 OZ BE at Large Envelope rate. The additional postage needed was in the amount that I knew they were charging for 2 OZ. I delayed mailing them until I could get into the PO and inquire about the additional postage that was requested. In weighing them, it was found that my postage was correct and that the request for additional postage was in error. The worker said he would check into the matter as maybe there was a scale that was not weighing properly. Sue |
Thanks for clearing that up. I am not normally a seed trader. I got into it a few years ago, but my old computer and dial up made GW not fun. Now I read about plants and want things described. I am trying to do germination tests on some of my saved seeds before I would send them to someone in trade. I'm not a newbie but a rusty. |
I went to the post office to mail bubble envelopes with two stamps on each. Postal worker said those are small parcels, and I need to pay over a dollar for each. I said those are large envelopes, and I have mailed the same before with no problem. She said I was wrong, and I have to pay. I asked her to double-check with her supervisor. She said she does not have to ask anyone, because she KNOWS she is correct, and she is absolutely certain those are parcels, but since I am requesting - she will ask someone. After asking two other postal workers, they confirmed those are large envelopes, and I did not have to pay extra. She was not very happy - I guess making a mistake made her uncomfortable. ~Natalie |
My goodness...how sad, but how great that is that there is now one more clerk that knows how to charge correctly. This Maxine cartoon is especially for her! Sue |
Don't mean to hijack, but forums are acting up and can't post a new thread. Has anyone dissected the new rate increase yet as far as what our non-machinable rates should be for various weights? |
Hi mmqc! Under the What's New on GW it says this... Has anyone dissected the new rate increase yet as far as what our non-machinable rates should be for various weights? If I remember correctly, last year it was not even published anywhere before the actual day of the raise...maybe a day or two before. I remember asking at a PO just days before the 2008 increase and was told by the clerk that even she was not told exactly what all the increases would be. I guess they just want to get the word out, but don't want people paying the higher rates in error (think? sheesh!) because of potential customer overpaying and then complaining.....like that would ever do any good. Sue...quitting b4 the twitchin' starts. |
Found it over in the 'news' section of google, and an article from consumer reports. Sorry for the interruption; and now back to your regularly scheduled rantings... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Postal Notice 123 Effective May 11, 2009
Thanks mmqc! It looks like it is a flat 5˘ extra on both Large Envy rates and on parcels. Sorry for the interruption; and now back to your regularly scheduled rantings... Sue |
- Posted by windy_wind none (My Page) on Wed, Dec 19, 12 at 21:36
After reading this thread, I started watching if my post over charge me, and I am disgusted that they do!! Those people at post office are scum!!! They do it on purpose, they over charge my parcel EVERY TIME !! I thought post office are honest, boy am I so wrong!! |
Oh,gosh I'm so mad right now Overcharged here many times:(,paying over $2.07( I think )for a very small buble envi and I really meant small (7x4 maybe),there is this person in special that hates her job and is always rude anyways my last 2 trades decided to put only 2 forever stamps on it and drop it in my mail box and they got to their place:) so doing that from now on... |
OMG,I hate when people do this and I just did: post on a threat that is zilllions years old.Oops sorry about that:-P |
Not only did the postman walk all over my Iris and kill them the postal clerk charges over $2.00 for every bubble envelope I send. Stamps are high enough without being overcharged. Gunnysack |
I have a choice of two post offices and it really depends on who is working the desk. Here is a question about first class postage. I am planning on using a regular letter envelope with a small bubble wrap sheet for my seeds. Do you think that one sheet of bw instead of two will keep the seeds from crushing? I am trying to keep the thickness below 1/4 inch and use only one stamp. If I write 'hand cancel' on the envelope will I need to add more postage? |
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Lou, all I can say is.... WOW!!! No, wait... make that... AMAZING!!! Wait... oh, let's just say that there isn't just one word to capture how great it was to hear you chat with Mr. Sherman. I would like to reiterate what others have said and thank both of you for this incredible interview. His stories were great to listen to and I also liked that he touched on Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang (I knew a little background on it, including the music, but didn't know that Walt had been approached about it). Even tho it's not a Disney movie, it's no wonder why it has a "Disney touch" to it!
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(M) SpongeBob SquarePants is right. - Being Liberal
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[david bourton] - We've had very low taxes on the richest in society for near 40 years now. I'm sure the trickle is coming folks, just wait a bit longer! ;)
[kevin o'leary] - If you cut taxes to the point that it opens up a big deficit, then it undermines the economy, and the currency, and has the opposite effect. Cutting taxes on the rich at a time of war is ludicrous. However, the idea that more money in the market doesn't bolster the economy is ludicrous. Tax cuts targeted toward the middle class are certainly more effective, but cutting taxes on any class, as long as they are properly balanced against spending, are good for growth. It was a bad idea in the 2000s, because taxes were cut while spending also increased. Conservatives stopped believing in math. That was the real problem.
[jeff kato] - The irony of those committing class warfare and distributing the wealth to themselves crying about libs doing the same to them. When libs just want the rich to stop pillaging the rest of us.
[michael abracham] - 30 years of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations have shown that it does not trickle down the the middle and lower income classes. All it does is concentrate more and more wealth in the pocketbooks of the wealthy, who already owned the majority of wealth in the USA before the tax cuts were even started under Ronald Reagan.
[david villegas] - Delusion!!! Not imagination!
[chris goodman] - How can any of you say trickle down works. We have the lowest tax rates ever seen and it isn't trickling down. Companies are making their biggest profits ever, the stock market is at an all-time high, and still no jobs. How about we raise the capital gains tax just 2%? I know that will never happen.
[deborah rosen] - Oh, something is trickling down, all right. But it isn't money.
[howard bradbury] - Did anyone else read that in his voice?
[sean gillhoolley] - During really difficult times peasants have been known to pick out undigested grains from the horse manure. I believe that is an excellent analogy to Trickle Down Economics.
[dan korn] - Spongebob would definitely approve. His house is underwater.
[joshua hiatt] - When the rich also run the money supply and have a main goal of getting richer, it screws us all. They just let people work hard and purchase things, then devalue there savings and homes. People can't keep up, they are forced to give things up at less than value. The rich r the only ones left w money so they but everything up. Suddenly things have value again and a new group can work there lives away to purchase the assets from the rich at inflated value. Until they start the cycle again. They just take more n more, leaving less n less. And if their lil scheme blows up, their bought n paid for gvt officials bail them out w the tax money corporations don't have to pay
[bill ledeboer] - if you want to try and argue this point
[troy mathis] - Let me be more specific for your super powered intellect. Couch dweller: someone who does not work, who sets on the couch or a chair, maybe even a love seat or lays in bed all day watching tv or browsing the internet while doing one of the following; eating chips purchased with food stamps, smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol purchased with welfare money (I mean unemployment money), or staring at the television in a zombie state brought on by a media brainwashing in a dreamy liberal utopia. If you people were as smart as you claim you would have enough sense to look at history and see what socialism Leeds too. But instead you buy the lie that's being fed too you and spit it back out as gospel truth. We're all going to see just how correct we are in a very short time and the real fools will have mud on their face. Wake up....seriously
[troy mathis] - Somebody has to CREATE jobs! It sure isn't going to be you socialist couch dwellers.
[kevin o'leary] - Couldn't agree more Thomas. That's why I wrote that middle class tax cuts are much more effective overall. The give and take is alot better on here than on those conservative pages. Those guys are so intractable that you'd think that they have a,mindset that is governed by a system of pseudologic that states that the earth is 6000yrs old...
[joshua hiatt] - The southern Democrats which wanted the status quo and who later wanted a return to slavery and wanted to maintain Jim crow laws were the very definition of conservative - traditionalist - reactionary. U look it up sucka
[amelia paz] - It's called delusional.
[amanda honeywell] - Nah, that's not imagination - it's delusion.
[michael matalucci] - And $85 billion/month of QE? What's that?
But don't worry. Obama is going to nominate someone even more dovish than the Bernank. Her name is Janet "Never Met a Negative Interest Rate for the Banks That I didn't Like" Yellen.
Fed Funds Rate to -2%!!!!!! Pay the banks to borrow money. What could possibly go wrong?
[jason hole] - How about not allowing for our tax money to fund these corporations to begin with.
[kevin o'leary] - John, are you implying that people will stop trying to become wealthy because they are taxed at 50% of income? I doubt that smart people will stop striving to become CEOs, starting successful businesses and becoming surgeons anytime soon Come on dude...
[kevin o'leary] - The tax rate on capital gains was recently raised to %25 correct? A hedge find manager making a million a year gets taxed at the federal level at about 40%. Add in state taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes, and that number is at 50% of income. So even if an investment doubles, they still pay 25%. And when they profit on their investment, they are free to invest in another company, increasing economic growth. At least I recognize that someone like me, who pays 12-15k a year in taxes, is contributing less to society than someone like Bill Gates, who contributes millions upon millions.
[maurice lee lamar] - Ronald Reagen had a very vidid imagination. First he was a Democrat, black balled by the union, then he was a Republican. Married then unmarried then married. Could not make a move without his wife, cranking Nancy, check with an occult. That my friends is trickle down theory.
[joshua hiatt] - Comparing progressives and liberals of today w the southern Democrats is like saying conservatives identify w Tories n wish they were under British rule
[joshua hiatt] - No, just everyone's fair share to help the least of us in need. When most of us have so much comfort and a few of us gather more than we could ever use, we shouldn't have those among us w nothing. In the richest nation in the world, none should starve on the streets or we r not a nation at all. Just a bunch of greedy individuals lacking in compassion
[joshua hiatt] - Yes there were deeply religious people on the 19th century that also embraced progressive social ideas.
[joshua hiatt] - So your telling me it was not a prigressive idea to free slaves, give equal rights, give sufferage to minorities and women, etc etc etc? U must b kidding me Ignacio
[joshua hiatt] - Faith was on both sides of the fight. That means nothing. In the south, they went to kkk meetings after church. Hell, even Nazis in the 30s would have told u they were good Christians. That don't mean shit
[john blaze] - Paychecks for CEO's are one thing. But the second part of that sentence, "subsidies for large corporations", really needs to be talked about more. For all the complaining that people do about the size of government and the amount of taxes they owe, I wonder how much of that anger would go away if more people simply saw evidence in their everyday lives of their tax dollars benefiting society directly, rather than being spent on huge subsidies for major corporations. Frankly, we need to get an overall higher return in investment on every dollar of taxes we pay, rather than, say, 30% of ever dollar going straight to the DOD and military contractors.
[don brunson] - When you believe that corporations pay taxes, that's called "gullible". Customers pay all corporate taxes.
[manuel tamargo] - It goes nowhere if the CEO gets it all, or his cronies on the Board of Directors.
[andrew layton] - When you believe in Keynesian economics it's called "delusion."
[teresa moon tate] - Um actually it's called delusion.
[chuck edmonds] - Both sides guilty
[mary lou briggs] - Democrats were against Civil Rights! Look it Up!
[raymond tex guerra] - Because raising taxes on large companies will make them lower prices on goods and services and make them higher more people at greater wages. That's called "Magic!"
[zac coleman] - Ignacio J. Couce, are you an idiot? Religious people were in both sides if the argument, including Bible passages specifically stating that it's ok to have slaves... The progressive religious people wanted change, the conservative religious people did not. Religion was neutral in the matter. Our do you think all the conservative anti civil rights and anti abolitionists were atheists?
[marcia alig] - Reagan's biggest lie.
[thomas cotnoir] - 1000 middle class families contribute more to the economy than one rich family that is "worth as much" as those thousand families, yatchs and mansions included. 20 luxury cars vs 1000 moderate cars 1000 moderate homes vs 2 mansions etc.
[jeremiah patlan] - Or it's called bullshit, but you know, tomato/tomato.
[davis verbrick] - Yea because raising taxes on companies makes them hire so many more people, and regulating the shit out of them makes the job market so much bigger. Give me a break spongebob... talk about imagination
[christopher hammer] - Caution Adult Language used: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s11e10-imaginationland
[kevin o'leary] - John Kennedy cut taxes from 70 down to 50% on top earners, and it dramatically increased growth.
[kevin o'leary] - Tax cuts bolster investment and growth. The more money there is in the market, the better it is for everyone.
[joshua hiatt] - Democrats were, but not liberals or progressives. CONSERVATIVE southern Democrats were mary
[joshua hiatt] - I was going to respond, but I would mostly b repeating zac
[joshua hiatt] - And did someone tell u socialism is accomplished through sitting on couches?
[joshua hiatt] - Do u have no couch at home Troy?
[joshua hiatt] - In the 18th century, private property was a liberal idea
[joshua hiatt] - The ideologies of abolitionists and civil rights activists was clearly progressive and more in line with the liberals of today. The southern Democrats n kkk filth of the early twentieth proclaimed Jesus the whole time and I guarantee they would b voting Republican, not Democrat if they were alive todayBeing Liberal: (M) SpongeBob SquarePants is right. - 50th Comments
[joshua hiatt] - Rush is the propagandists mouthpiece if the GOP, not its leader
[joshua hiatt] - Right Virginia and Reagan is there false idol
[joshua hiatt] - Ignacio, the Republican and Democratic parties r far different from the parties of the 19th n early 20th centuries. A more accurate discription would b that liberals pushed for emancipation and civil rights and are fought tooth n nail b conservatives kicking n screaming the whole time and to this day. I hate when conservative Republicans somehow try to claim they brought about civil-rights while condemning progressives in the next breath
[joshua hiatt] - Unfortunately, their could b a few sitting on them
[joshua hiatt] - And their working well. U can't find a single terrorist hiding in a state department toilet
[joshua hiatt] - Hey, those r anti terror toilets! Lol
[jim tabor] - I was thinking clinical psychosis....but imagination works I guess....
[jasette martinez] - Haha. The piss down theory
[louis m. perez] - It's called delusional.
[laura bickel] - 'Trickle down economics'. I swear, someone, somewhere some spin-master took the phrase 'shit rolls downhill' and ran with it. So us peons are supposed to sit here like baby birds with our mouths open waiting for the 'good shit' to come raining down?
[jason melchiore] - Lol when you think that imposing more costs like minimum wage, obamacare, and corporate taxes will keep business that we still have here in the US.
That is imagination
[barry gumbert] - SpongeBob and the GOP are both thinking INSIDE the box
[ralph tucker] - We've been cutting back money for social programs for over 30 years now,and its still not enough for the Republicans. The people they don't want to feel no pain are the rich of course.
[brandon winfield] - It's a called a fuckin pyramid scheme. Rich get richer and poor stay poor.
[michael brandy baldwin] - Incomes for the wealthiest Americans have seen exolosive increase. Stock market has replaced all its losses and then some, but the middle class continues to shrink and the amount of people in and under the poverty level continue to grow. Of all those recieiving benefits less than % 12 are unemployed but make so little the qualify for aid.
When is the trickle down gonna trickle down?
[jon blake] - Yes. It's also called bullshit.
[barry bilicki] - Ray they should pay all taxes to the goverment not hide profits like GE did a couple of years ago 0% profits in USA but 95billion from overseas
[senaida balberan] - all the way distributed in harvatek Bingo store........
[jim brasher] - Reagan tried to kill unions then he was nearly killed.
[richard kent] - When you believe you pay taxes but recieve deductions for children, mortgages and business expenses that equal more than you paid in....
That is also imagination.
[phillip walz] - I'm sick of being trickled on by the wealthy.
[hall jesse] - More like fantasy!
[kevin o'leary] - Nobody who works for a living should live in poverty. Minimum wage should be double what it currently is. Nobody should be asked to live on $8 per hour. But let's face it, unemployment is at 4% for people with specialized credentials, and at 20%+ for high school dropouts. This all boils down to education.
[laura leigh o'neal hall] - I would rather not be a member of that "nation".
[brent hooton] - That's especially awesome if you imagine SpongeBob's voice!
[steven kosoy] - They didn't get rich by letting it trickle down.
[jeann topper] - Nobody ever takes a hit except the middle class
[lee ann astore] - It is called BULLS--T!!!!!
[neal barnes] - When u give the rich buisness man a choice 0f paying more tax or get an investment tax credit for buying equipment or building a new factory that creates new jobs. paying good wages lets the middle class buy things like new cars , go out to dinner, take vacations, that also creates jobs, not tax cuts for the rich ,trickle down economics is a pyramid scam.
[stan clarke] - Good night Yvonne x
[rob hankins sr.] - Biggest con ever..
[azuki d azalea] - if the government taxed say natural ethrogens to save the planet we would have cash left for good causes that the only way id disagree
[wes elkins] - Nah, it's not imagination, it's just delusional. If you believe in trickle down economics, you also believe in the tooth fairy, unicorns and tinkerbelle.
[kevin o'leary] - Oh, so you prefer that that money be spent on a government program, where a large % of that money goes to overhead? This goes to the root of an ideology that believes that people only have money if the government permits them to keep it. Our country was founded on self determination. People who have done well need to contribute to society, but when you stop recognizing that they own what they have, and they are free to earn whatever they can, you start on a slippery slope to where people own nothing, and all possessions exist only at the discretion of the government.
[sean mankos] - All depends on the company. The manufacturer I work for is very good about passing their profits on to the employees.
[virginia rawak bruce] - it's become a quasi-religious belief.
[michelle stewart garschagen] - Oh, no..don't drag poor Spongebob into this mess.
[william matthew watkins] - When you believe the welfare state is a viable alternative its called imagination.
[kevin o'leary] - Sean, if it was LBJ then I stand corrected, but I could have sworn that it was passed in 61 or 62, but I might be wrong. In either case (just like civil rights legislation), it was a continuation of policy by JFK.
[charles hodges] - First you folks follow the lead of fictional news shows, and now you're agreeing with cartoon sponges?!?! Really?!!!? No wonder you dummies are destroying this country!!
[pat cincotta] - Use anything you have to make a political statement, as long as it is the right one!
[kevin o'leary] - John I agree, and that is where we are currently. Sales taxes, state taxes, and federal taxes puts the effective rates for the rich at about 50% now. Obama has found the correct rates, same as Bill Clinton did. Money invested by the rich in anything, yachts included, is a good thing. I think that for some liberals, it is more about "fairness", and less about economics and reality. Every decision in goverent should be made based on pragmatic logic.
[daniel s hicks] - some people still think the earth is flat cause a republican official said so .....
[angie ward carothers] - Every time I see this picture I can here him saying it...Imaaaaaaaginaaaaaation....Since I have seen the show a zillion times I can't hear the word "imagination" without hearing it the way Spongebob says it.
[caleb thomson] - That's just too good.
[nancy bradley] - yes , good word for it
[christopher evans] - I was going to say delusional... but Julie beat me to it.
[louis rubio] - What if we just cut out the middle man and gave the money right to me;)
[star fish] - More like denial, or better still delusion
[aricka sundstrom] - Kevin O'leary, tax cuts for the richest & fire corporations actually stagnates the economy, where have you been?Being Liberal: (M) SpongeBob SquarePants is right. - 100th Comments
[eddie lee] - Love it. Republicans live in a bubble. They are clueless and have almost destroyed this great Constitutional Republic. They cannot handle the fact that this nation is rapidly changing. They are hysterical today. The ACA exchanges roll out tomorrow and it hasn't been repealed or defunded. They really believed Fox News, Ted Cruz, the Heritage Foundation, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh. That's not imaginary. They've been brainwashed to the point that they now suffer from mass psychosis!
[bryan jarzyniecki] - The theory of trickle down would be nice if the people at the top werent greedy if bonus income did trickle down but alas the fat fuck at the top keeps it all
[gail weaver] - Seriously. How many of you read that in SpongeBob's voice?
[jonathan brown] - We need a flat tax.
[chris matheny] - more like it's called a drug induced hallucination
[john gabert] - Hmmm. Is SpongeBob talking about the solar power or wind farm industries?
[jigg saww] - it's called being fucken delusional
[james kessler] - i'd more call it "Magical unicorn thinking"
[glenn mansfield] - That's the second stupidest thing I've ever heard.
[ignacio j. couce] - Right, because no one has ever benefitted from the computers, Internet, MRIs, DNA sequencing, smart phones, or anything else that the capital from those tax cuts and credits made possible. (Only the government, or a liberal, would call a company keeping more of the money it earned, "a subsidy.")
Liberals will understand economics, when hell has nice beach weather.
[marie macdonald quick] - Who is whining about a 50% tax rate? If you do some research you can find tax rates as high as 94%, and the economy did very well and the rich remained rich. Why? Tax deductions. They had to spend it in order to get the deductions, expanding and improving their businesses. Money circulated and came back around to them, benefitting others as well. When taxes are at low rates as they are now, the rich hoard and the economy stagnates.
[ricky kissel jr] - Everyone always said Rush is the leader of the GOP, now we know where liberals get their ideas from! I think I will stick with libertarian ideas
[shonna nelson williams] - Ben Bernanke, is printing off monopoly money for us to spend our way out of debt. Meanwhile, our currency has absolutely no standard. Keep on spending!
[shonna nelson williams] - Those international socialist corporate enterprises aren't helping us. Here's an idea, let's let everyone keep their "own" money. ;-)
[susan lander] - I'd like to point out that SpongeBob Square Pants does not have square pants. They are rectangular!
[ronald beaulieu] - When you think the government is the solution to everything, that's called... STUPID :D
[ignacio j. couce] - Government will solve all our problems, if we only hand over all our money , and prerogatives to them. Now that's REAL magical thinking!
[ignacio j. couce] - Now you're inventing: "progressive religious people".
[ignacio j. couce] - Joshua Hiatt, you can try to rewrite history, as liberals often do, to suit your needs. However, facts are pesky, persistent things.
The abolitionist and civil rights movements were both primarily championed by people of faith, and driven by their religious beliefs, not by any "progressive" agenda.
[ignacio j. couce] - Joshua Hiatt, you're dead wrong. The abolitionist movement, as well as the civil rights movement, was primarily championed by religious people and classical liberals (libertarians), and had nothing to do with left-wing politics as we know them today.
[ignacio j. couce] - Liberals label "trickle down" a failure, but seem to have no clue as to how our standard of living, and all the technology around us on which it rests came about.
Without the capital formation that lower taxes created, we don't get the investment that brought us personal computers, the Web, iPods and iPhones, MRIs, DNA sequencing, etc. That's how
Fine, you can have higher taxes, and tax the rich at 90%! But then don't expect the breakthroughs, services and products that that capital would have created.
No, instead you'll get $1200 Dept. of Defense toilets.
[gloria morales mata] - I have been waiting for the "trickle down" since Regan. My nomination for the second worst president after Bush Jr.
[andy n stef nations] - ha! kinda like the thought that low cost/ nearly free healthcare wont cost anyone a dime extra and provide excellent service... yea iMaGiNaTiOn!!!
[lucas mingst] - I'd have gone with "Delusion".
[judene simmons] - You go Spongey:)
[jeannie boos fingar] - Ray if the rich don't get richer they won't give me a job at minimum wage with no health care. Bhahaha
[clark pope] - Better than trickle up poverty I guess.
[zac huse] - Then why does liberal's beloved Cosco get them?
[ashley lott] - It's more likely to trickle down than grow from the bottom up!
[vincent pendergrass] - Hey Ray, we've had low corporate tax rates since the Bush era tax cuts implemented in 2003. Where is this job generation you speak of? We should be drowning in jobs. Yet the top 1% keep getting richer
[ray yody] - The trickling comes in the form of creation of jobs. Raising taxes and cutting subsidies on big business sends firms overseas to find more big-business-friendly countries with lower taxes and a cheaper workforce.
[dennis roach] - wait a bit longer...yeah,right?
[michael reilley] - No, I think its called "Dreaming" or "Fantasy."
[keeley mills] - Thank-you Sponge-Bob.
[allen graywolf persinger] - that's the damm truth ....IMAGINATION''
[ella figgs davis] - ...It's also being delusional. Delusion a false belief. to maintain a false belief in the face of facts...........
[billy burr] - when Regan did it , it was called trickle down economics and it was working until the democratic congress stopped it. the poor were better off than at any other time in the last 50 years.
[sharon nickles] - It could also be called stupid.
[loren bell] - Hey it's SpongeBob;)
[felix murad] - love that episode :)
[scott brock] - @ Jon Bai - because 50% of a lot is still a lot. You can't tell me that it would hurt John Hammergen to be taxed 50% of his 132 million annual salary.
[daniel gardner] - Then why is the state of Illinois giving huge tax cuts to archer Daniels to stay in their state?
[jay roberts] - that's one thing you can call it.
[william yang] - Being high on LSD.
[anne griffin] - Or more like brainwashing by the media as they are big corporations. Thank God for the internet and social media.
[thomas w. baray] - I would think it would be called delusion.
[shane scissons] - The funny thing is, democrats have been believing trickle down has been working for the past 40 yes lol
[michael ramsey] - it's called getting pissed on!
[selena britnell daniel] - as real as the Tooth Fairy!!
[alex garcia] - For anyone who thinks trickle-down economics works in our Corporate-subsidized economy of today, think again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhOXCgSuncBeing Liberal: (M) SpongeBob SquarePants is right. - 150th Comments
[joel templeton] - This is for Ben, who didn't like the use of Sponge Bob...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auI6Uz3D8I
[john shepherd] - Everyone knows who trickles down but now the Tea Party wants to dump on the middle class.
[doug helms] - I'm a fan of Spongebob (and I'm retired), but I think having him used in this poster makes a good point. Hell, they use everything else! Sorry if it offends some but it doesn't bother me. (Just please don't use Squidward! :( )
[carlos quintanilla] - Lol yea you do Austin. Look at the meme again.
[laura lee daehlin] - yep hahahahahahaha
[christina rockwood] - Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?! :-P
[rick vartian] - Its called PATHETIC!
[lori durham chastain] - Why is this popping up on my timeline all day? I never liked or shared this
[octavio dela mora] - Austin Tutor, please tell us the truth....
[russell a. shupp] - Hahahaha this is perfect!
[freda jones] - My 12 year old loves sponge bob
[alberto castilleja] - True, as a business owner I want to keep all the movie. I want to pay my workers the least possible plus their just helping me build my dream. :)
[anthony grande] - I grew up lower middle class and my family got tax cuts and large refund checks from the Bush Administration. We aren't a large company.
[david gorris] - If that rich business decides to take his profit and has a vacation home built, that creates a lot of jobs... simple capitalism.
[jonathan brown] - You could completely downsize the IRS and the government would receive more money. The most successful civilizations in history have had a flat tax.
[stephen schaefgen] - Woooooowwwww! Lalalalalala....
[neal tomlinson] - Maybe for the big dogs the effect is minor but, for small business it would but they fall under the definition of rich and therefor don't qualify.
[robin feusner] - Not in the REAL WORLD. out of touch with the real labor force.
[ben papsun] - Please don't use Spongebob to make a political statement...
[sandra schwab] - ha ha new delusional diagnosis to go with Truman syndrome
[anaiis salles] - It's actually getting pissed on...there is no trickle down of money, folks.
[pearl mckinley] - Ô
More like stupidity
[freddie adkins] - yEP I do believe the sponge is right
[thomas f. mccoy] - Trickle down? I think Republicania needs a T.U.R.P.S. operation.
[thomas f. mccoy] - Lewis Black calls it BULLSHIT. I tend to agree.
[frank montag] - your all Muslims and you don't even know it, hows that for imagination.
[ignacio j. couce] - Zac Coleman, idiots call others idiots.
[ignacio j. couce] - No, I'm not kidding you, Joshua Hiatt. You need to read some history - or perhaps a lot. Those ideas didn't not arise out of the Progressive movement. They arose amongst religious people inspired by their religious beliefs long before the Progressive movement began. Again, check history.
[ignacio j. couce] - Moreover, Joshua Hiatt, the two exponents of the Progressive movement in the late 19th and early 20th, T.R. and W.Wilson, were racist anti-Semites. Contrary to popular belief, being "progressive" didn't mean you weren't a racist. In fact, eugenics is the product of left-wing politics applied to science.
[ignacio j. couce] - Kevin O'leary, civil rights legislation, from Emancipation to that of the 50s and 60s, were Republican drafted and sponsored, against the intractable opposition of Democrats
[luis arellano] - American. :-)
[aaron d cantrell] - https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/954690_549405038470470_1219638100_n.jpg
[erica eleanor] - Umm... how many times are you gonna post the same image?
[jd myers] - Almost all 'trickle down theory' is purely imagination
[drasil helzer] - Ben Papsun correction: using spongebob is one of the best ways to make a political statement. Its not like we can take eithrr of them seriously
[austin tutor] - everytime this page posts "conservative believe (insert nonsense here)", its so untrue. conservatives do not believe the things this page claims. do some research!
[capo profezia] - Also known as stupidity
[ger cornejo] - It doesn't trickle down to you if your not in that business stupid. A blue collar worker doesn't make enough money to own a business in the benefactors field. That's like giving a gymnast a hockey stick and telling him to go play football
[mocka robinson] - Not even republicans support trickle down Trickle down is a phraze created by democrats along the same level republicans say democrats love welfare
[ghetto mr. rogers] - Why aren't we taking direct action to expand small job-creating businesses instead of sticking to a corrupt BS plan to invest in large, job-killing corporations? The small businesses are the real ones that need tax cuts.


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A SWOT analysis of Las Cruces Tourism was created to discover the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats to Las Cruces tourism. Las Cruces is thesecond largest cities in New Mexico, and as a city has many, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the economy. The following information will show that Las Cruces is a thriving city withplenty to offer people of all ages.
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A SWOT analysis to evaluate Las Cruces tourism was conducted. The SWOT analysis provides information on the cities Strengths,Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Table 1 shows a summary of the information gathered in the SWOT analysis.
Six strengths were identified for Las Cruces tourism. (1) Terrific Year-RoundClimate (2) Local Cuisine (3) Organ Mountains (4) White Sands National Monument (5) Located at the Intersection of 1-25 and I-10 (6) New Mexico State University.
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LasCruces is located in the South East corner of the state bordering El Paso Texas. If you are someone who enjoys year-round warm weather then Las Cruces, NM is the place for you, the temperature rarelydrops below 50 degrees. Like all cities, Las Cruces has days that can be chilly, but that is a very rare occurrence. Even in the wintery months the average temperatures are in the mid 50's. The springtemperatures average in the mid 60's. The spring time brings in very windy days but the wind only lasts only a month or two. Because Las Cruces is a dessert the temperatures tend to climb quite highduring the summer months. June, July, and August tend to be the hottest months averaging right around 95 degrees. Although this seems quite hot there are plenty of pools in Las Cruces that can chillyou down. The climate in Las Cruces is one of a kind and one that is hard to beat (Lab, 2010).
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1. Mickey Reno
Welcome to PJM, Bryan. I generally don't care for articles that turn a slip of the tongue into a gotcha headline. If you're aguring that it's a Freudian slip, you need some backing details and argument.
One of the things Romney should do in his campaign is to address this issue of how a global economy HELPS people become "middle-classed," and point out that governmental micromanagement of opportunity (ala Obama and Marxists in general) hurts both American and foreign opportunity. He should point out that Obama has it exactly backwards when he says the American economy needs a strong middle class to grow. NO! YOU CANNOT take it for granted that a middle class will be there, in order to provide a business engine or a market for goods or services. A middle class grows organically FROM a healthy economy. This means that the rules are the key, not the income of some set of people. The rules are the incentives that get people TRYING to move up and trying to succeed, and working hard and risking. The middle class is not to be assumed, or mandated and supported (ala Julia) as another victim contituency, as so many other Democratic constinuencies are. This means embracing the deregulation, embracing the profit motive and profits themselves. The government should rewarding success with lower tax rates, and it should applauding international companies that are based in the U.S. which help American consumers afford goods produced overseas, with the understanding that this will, eventually help a Chinese or Indian middle class to be able to afford more American foodstuffs or natural gas. Romney can wipe Obama on these issues, if he just has the courage to do so.
I think he really needs to dial back the China bashing crap. It didn't really work all the well for Donald Trump, and it appeals only to a small populist protectionist subgroup. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for fair tariffs, etc. But this issue is too esoteric and not a winner, IMO.
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"Welcome to PJM, Bryan."? I believe Preston help found, or founded, the Tatler. It's more like welcome, Mickey Reno.
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2. Anonymous
Altitude sickness? I don't see how that is possible. He's certainly been high enough before.
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3. Adi
Please excuse Him. The Wohn was only channeling Mitt Romney.
Everybody knows that, and saying otherwise is waacist or summting.
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4. LeighB
"Let's export more jobs!" Okie dokie, BO, you go first.
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5. Drtuddle
Bryan's being sarcastic about the Al Gore comment of why Obama sucked. But keep preaching Mr Reno
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Mickey Reno
Preaching? Where did that come from? I made one reasonable critique, which still stands.
There are tons of good reasons for despising the performance of Obama as President. And I do, as I suspect you and Mr. Preston do, as well. But an innocent slip of the tongue by Obama (which is what this was, if you watch the video) isn't one of them. That's all I'm saying.
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6. LeighB
"Is the President suffering from altitude sickness?" Yes, it's called "the Peter Principle."
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Well I'm back again under another version of my screen name Huskyrider, LOL!!!
I hope the third time's a charm. A few evening ago I went to reply to a customer's thread and got the same generic gardenweb screen that I got back in 06 when I got booted off of the board then for spamming. The forum allwed me to register from home but when I went to make the reply it kicked me off to the same screen. I'm at the shop loading a machine to take to tomorrow's dig and thought I'd try posting from the shop. I'd guess it see's my IP address and a close version of the name and is not allowing me to post from home. This will doom my participation because all of my replies are from home late in the evening after work. If any of you members know of anyone at THS Gardenweb admin I can appeal to please post it. Back when I got kicked off before they were totally uncaring. I'll be quite honest with you guys, I don't just come here because it sold more pools to the membership than Ben's pool forum did. It, like his, is really a lot of fun for me.
MODERATORS, If you look at the many thousands of replies I've made under all my screen names over the years I really feel you'll see that I'm not BS'ing you or your members.
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Well I'm here at the shop briefly to unload an 18 wheeler of rebar and figured while my son is offlooading the truck I'd check the thread before we load our steel truck for tomorrow's rebar job. I did have a problem with the board not logging in "huskyridor" but it registered and logged in "huskyrideer" However, after I made the reply it wouldn't accept the reply. That's why I sent Scott the message to post for me to the OP. This is exactly the same way it went down about 5 years ago. I'm not very good with computers so if Momma's awake when I get home after work I'll have her look at the things y'all described. It's GOOD TO KNOW that they didn't do it like they did last time. They said that because members could see my e-mail address under my Bio it was spamming. That's why I've always told our new industry professionals to make sure and not Spam or post links or e-mails in their replies. Thanks to all of you for your replies and Scott thank you for forwarding the message the other evening. Now if I can just get one of my crews over to her house in the next few days I'll be back in the game over there and hopefully won't have to make them wait much longer for their concrete pool decks. See ya, |
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But after the janitors won a new contract, Anthony discovered her involvement had been more vital than she realized.
"One of the building managers said, 'We're tired of getting calls from all these nuns,'" she says.
Recognizing the importance of the relationship between unions and the church, the AFL-CIO started a special program called Seminary Summer to help clergy in training understand labor issues. This past spring, the SEIU sent Arnie Raj, a student at the Iliff School of Theology who is studying to be a United Methodist minister, to the program. When he came back to Denver in June, Raj threw himself into the Justice for Janitors campaign.
"The religious community has a different effect on the struggle," he says. "We're saying it's a moral thing, not just an economic question. The janitors aren't asking for anything outrageous. I've gone to more protests and rallies in the past year than I have in my whole life. We'd honk our horns and drive around the building. We'd bring in a hundred janitors with megaphones. It was in-your-face. They knew we weren't going away."
Raj also made visits to property managers with the other clergy. He vividly recalls one woman being particularly troubled to have a priest in her office. "As she was kicking us out, she told the priest, ''I'm a good Catholic, Father.' She didn't want him to think badly of her."
The culmination of their efforts was a June 26 downtown rally of 1,000 janitors and their supporters at 17th and Welton streets. The janitors were furious over the cleaning companies' contract proposal that called for 7 percent wage cuts for new hires and no expansion of health insurance. A strike seemed inevitable.
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The contract raises the janitors' hourly wages by $1.30 over the next five years and, most important, expands the number of full-time positions to 550, giving many families health coverage for the first time.
"We were able to achieve every objective we had," Alzaga boasts. "For the first time in the history of this union, we have family health insurance. We were able to win $16 million for health care and salaries." This, despite an office-vacancy rate of 25 percent in metro Denver.
Before the contract agreement, Mike Severns, the cleaning companies' lead negotiator, had told the media the companies couldn't afford to pay for better benefits because of the vacancies, but he now speaks favorably of the contract.
"We believe it was a fair settlement both parties can live with," he says.
As for the janitors' in-your-face tactics, Severns claims they didn't affect the negotiations. "They believe for some reason [the tactics] are effective," he says. "All they're effective at is attracting the news media. When we're in deliberations, we're not affected by those things."
The agreement calls for the new benefits to be phased in over five years, and the cleaning companies are betting that Denver's office market will improve and their business will pick up over the next few years.
"Our revenues are down, and anything like labor costs rising is a concern," says Sean Schraeder, regional manager for ABM Janitorial Services, which, with 600 employees, is one of the largest cleaning companies in Denver. "When you talk about increasing janitorial costs, you have to raise rents. The last thing people want to do is raise rents in this economy."
However, Schraeder does see advantages in the new contract.
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And when a supervisor kicked a bucket in anger next to a janitor scrubbing the floor, Daniel was able to speak out.
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The bold colors of Mexican art fill the walls, and a portrait of Che Guevara hangs over a desk. Spanish is heard almost as frequently as English, and pizza seems to arrive regularly as busy staffers work through their lunch hours setting up an immigrants'-rights conference and training sessions for janitors getting involved in local politics. Many of the organizers are just out of college, drawn to work that matches their ideals.


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Plenty of Oscar snubs yesterday, but perhaps most egregious is the Academy's woefully unenlightened cold shoulder toward Best Supporting Actor Lumière. Don't they realize that the farther they walk away from his eternal flame, the less they will be able to see? What's it like, Oscar voters, to live inside a great big gilded castle of DARKNESS? READ FULL STORY
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Would you buy Kim Kardashian's wedding gown? Of course you wouldn't. What a silly question.
There are so many reasons not to buy a replica of one of Kim Kardashian's wedding dresses. First off, why in heaven's name would you want to be compared to Kim Kardashian? Secondly, and most obviously, the dresses were as horrible as Kate Middleton's was classy. But, apparently, there's a third reason to avoid wearing a mass-market version of the Vera Wang dresses, which may still be sold at David's Bridal: They're cursed. READ FULL STORY
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Back in 2009, the Internet decided former reality show darling Jessica Simpson would be its target. Spotting an unflattering photo of the singer wearing a pair of ill-fitting jeans, Internet surfers and blogs unleashed upon Simpson, deriding her for supposedly daring to gain a smidge of weight. And though the singer still struggles with the taunts — and even used them as inspiration for her short-lived Vh1 series examining appearance, The Price of Beauty — our impatient, tabloid-hungry nation has shifted its focus. Now, the Internet is spending its time slamming pop star and The Voice mentor Christina Aguilera.
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