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Studio to rent in London zone 2 #WJE
Size23 m²
Floor No.2
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Towels
- Pets allowed
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|High Street Harlesden, NW10 4SY London, United Kingdom
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|Property ID
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|A few hours
|Calendar updated
This is a PRIVATE FLAT with its own kitchen and en-suite bathroom. NOT SHARED WITH OTHERS.
- Floor : 2nd Floor
- Self-contained fully equipped kitchen with Fridge/Freezer, Microwave, Cooker/Oven, Vacuum Cleaner, Cutlery and Kitchenware.
- Private bathroom with a soap and a roll of toilet paper
- Double bed
- Fresh Bed Linen and Towels on ARRIVAL.
- Furniture: wardrobe, chairs, chest of drawers, dining table/coffee table TV,
- Central heating
ADDITIONAL ITEMS (on request):
- Iron and ironing board
- Hairdryer
- Additional set of keys
- Adapters
- Washing machine liquids and detergents
- Children accessories
- Parking and storage spaces
- Wheelchair access
- Airport transfers
- Underground : Willesden Junction, zone 2, Bakerloo Line, 5 min walk;
- Local buses
You can't beat the Jubilee line and the buses out of Willesden Junction travel in every direction around or across London.
- Food Supermarkets walking distance
- Local Food&Wine groceries shops walking distance
- Local Kebab & Burgers walking distance
- Pharmacy walking distance
- Various Pubs and Restaurants walking distance
- Local High Street (various shopping) walking distance
- Self-service Laundry just next door.
House rulesDear Guest, once you make a reservation, you will have a property address and our arrival contact number . In order to receive the keys, you are required to go to the flat on the check in day with a prior 1 hour notice call to our arrival number.
• Check in time: from 2pm – 8pm.
• Late check in: After 8pm. Additional fee: £20.00. This fee is automatically added to the total bill, which you must pay in full on arrival.
• Early check in: before 2pm. Additional Fee: £20.00 Subject to availability. This fee is automatically added to the total bill, which you must pay in full on arrival.
• Checkout time: before 11 am.
• Smoking IS NOT permitted in the apartments or in any other area of the property.
• You can come with your pet. Additional fee: £30.00. Please inform us about it before the booking is confirmed.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|€ 437
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|€ 1702
|Check-in After
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out Before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
We arrived on Friday, the landlord has let pass us per se, it was not worth the trouble to stop us, so were marching from a short walk quite a long unnecessary back & forth.
The studio itself was OK, the cleanliness left to be desired really left.
The Abflussstopel was contaminated in such a way and full of hair (it terrified us very)
The shower faucet did seem as if he was from 1920, water was sporadic, the sink was for children and also of the Alibert viiiiiiel hung too high, and everywhere small hairs :(
The bed well ... every move you could feel the spring expressed so strongly out that we had to put towels under it ...
It was all in one a stay we do not recommend ..
The location 1A, when it would be cleaner then we would have had no complaints, we are also not MONKS / whiners .. but a little comfort and cleanliness you would expect but then ....
London was wiedermaaal mega superhot :))) happy again.
Thanks A & M
Wir kamen am Freitag an, der Vermieter hat uns an sich vorbeilaufen lassen, fand es nicht der mühe wert uns aufzuhalten, so wurden aus einem kurzen Fussweg ein ziemlich langer unnötiger hin&her marsch.
Das Studio an sich war OK, die Sauberkeit lässt echt zu wünschen übrig.
Der Abflussstopel war derart verunreinigt und voll mit Haaren (es grauste uns sehr)
Der Duschhahn machte den Anschein als wäre er aus dem Jahr 1920, Wasser kam sporadisch, das Waschbecken war für Kinder und ebenso der Alibert der viiiiiiel zu hoch hing und überall kleine Haare :(
Das Bett naja...jede Bewegung konnte man spüren, die Feder drückten sich so stark raus das wir Handtücher darunter legen mussten...
Es war alles in einem ein Aufenthalt den wir nicht empfehlen..
Die Lage 1A, wenn es sauberer wäre dann hätten wir keinerlei Beanstandung gehabt, wir sind auch keine MONKS/Nörgler.. aber ein bisschen Komfort & Sauberkeit erwartet man dann doch....
London war wiedermaaal mega mega geil :))) Gerne wieder.
Danke A&M
Apartment as photos. A little dirty.
Appartamento come da foto. Un po sporco.
Confort très sommaire (le sommier est hors d'âge et le canapé trop petit pour espérer s'y allonger ), ustensiles de cuisine en quantité limitée (heureusement que nous n'étions que 2 !), odeurs d'egouts dans la sdb ( un conseil : boucher le lavabo et l'écoulement de la douche pour s'en débarrasser ) environnement parfois bruyant la nuit; sans surprise pour un logement peu cher à moins d'une heure en bus des quartiers touristiques et sur la route de plusieurs magasins d'alimentation d'un bon rapport qualite-prix ...cela ne nous a pas empêché de passer un très bon séjour dans cette belle capitale, en partant tôt le matin pour rester toute la journée en ville et ne rentrer que le soir.
Reviews for this host's other properties
We had a very nice stay at the apartment. We got the keys when we arrived, and Irene and her colleague were very sweet.
A nice flat near shoping street . The overground is near and you can find everything around .
Location is excelent , the flat is clean and nice . I recomend this property for holiday in London !
The Appartment was as shown on the photos, nice and clean. It's easy to find and surrounded by several good shops, pubs, etc.
Check in and out were easy and without any problems.
The bathroom was pretty small, but there were many towels. The Bed is comfortable, the Sofa is ok for a few days.
Good: The location is great, minutes from two tube stations, Hyde Park, and shops and restaurants for anything you need and is quiet by London standards. The flat is equipped with washer, stove, microwave, and a good kettle and a small television. We also felt secure there and there was lots of hot water. We were met by staff -very friendly and got us some extra pillows and a quilt. What was there was a little skimpy.
Tricky: It is a basement flat and the stairs down are a bit steep. The overall appearance is a little tired but this is mostly cosmetic. It is a basement flat in an older building and it can be a little dank especially in the bathroom (probably similar with every other basement on the block). There is a window the opens to a back courtyard which clears that up fairly quick. The electric top up was tricky as we were told to take the dongle to the post office, Spar store, or news agent to add money. Well none of those worked and we were directed several blocks away to a shop we didn't find. Fortunately we didn't use much electricity so it wasn't a problem.
Do Different: Owners should take a few minutes to do a sheet explaining things for visitors such as exactly where to top up the power, light switches in the entrance hall, and basic instructions for the washer dryer. Add small night light and some clothes hooks in the hall, and bathroom and a few more hangers. Beaching the tiled bathroom and adding a can of air freshener would also go a long way.
We would probably stay again. Next time we will ask for a spare key.
The flat (nr 6) was perfect for a short break in London.We were three People and had enough space as it was bigger than we expected.Underground stations on your doorstep therefore easy to get around the City.In the flat was everything you Need so for London Prices ok.Good restaurants and Pubs also nearby.You must pay extra for the electric(why ???) but i supose thats how it is.
Would i stay here again when visiting London.......YES
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Some loggers came in on one of our places, and fell a tree full of honey Bees. I decided to help these cute little Bees out and built them a nice hive and put it on some blocks and set it up next to where there old hive is.
After seeting up the hive, I added some honey and a trail of Lemon extract as a drawing influence, what are the chances of them moving in, and most of all, do any of you have ideas other than these of drawing bees to a new hive???

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I suppose it varies but I have a drilled 2x6 per Dave's instructions and the first tube is mudded over at the opening.
About how many larva are in there?
I suppose it varies but I have a drilled 2x6 per Dave's instructions and the first tube is mudded over at the opening.
About how many larva are in there?
It definitely varies based on a whole lot of factors.
Anywhere between 3 and 7 would be my guess.
I've found you get far fewer eggs per tube when you use plastic straws, and more eggs when you use paper tubes or natural products like reeds.
Last edited by Seattleite; 05-22-2011 at 09:39 PM.
Like you said it varies from bee to bee and from season to season. Forage availability and weather are large factors. With my own mason bees I've seen as few as 5 cocoons and as many as 13 cocoons per 6 inch straw.
I would agree hard to say for sure until you open it in the fall. I find sometimes the female MUDs the end shut without the tube being a full as it could be. But from my experience if it is full you get 1 bee for about every 1/2" of tube, with the last 1/2" always being empty. So in a 6" tube if full you should have 11 bees give or take a couple.
Last year I had 4 or 5 in a tube. I had more than a couple of tubes that were only half full though. Didn't find out about them until I tore the unit apart to clean the cocoons.
"My wife always wanted girls. Just not thousands and thousands of them......"
Cool, thanks for the replies : - )
I now have 4 mudded over tubes and about 4 to 6 bees coming and going while I'm on the deck (garden).
My experience is an average of 3 females and 4 males per 6 inch tube. Now if you go slightly smaller say 5/16 inch you will get smaller bees and more per tube. Another way to vary tube size is with the number of wraps of paper you use. I think the tubes with the extra space not filled are when momma is about to expire and seals the tube before she goes feet in the air.
Dave - PM me if you are interested in natural beekeeping in Hancock County Maine.


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|Students Make Valuable Connections through Summer Internships
|A summer internship that utilized her classroom knowledge in a swap differences project led to a job offer from Morgan Stanley for Gabriela Gonzalez.
A summer internship that utilized her classroom knowledge in a swap differences project led to a job offer from Morgan Stanley for Gabriela Gonzalez '11.
"The best lesson learned was that applying my philosophy of treating each day like a new day throughout the internship and always asking questions are key for making your internship a very powerful experience in your career, and can lead you to receiving an offer from the firm," said Gonzalez. A double major in accounting and business administration with a finance concentration, she worked in New York City last summer.
Sean Fabiano's summer internship continues through his senior year at the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce. He's organized events like a trade show in June, the annual golf tournament in August, and an auction in October.
"This internship taught me some important things about management and communication,'' said Fabiano '11, a double major in business administration management and marketing. "It takes the efforts of a lot of people to make an event happen. I learned how to properly communicate with business professionals and to efficiently organize tasks in order to get results in time."
Education continues year-round at the School of Business. Summer internships allow students to apply classroom learning in real-world situations, develop skills vital to their future careers, and add accomplishments to their resumes.
"The connections – and even the experience of making the connections – have been the best part of this internship," said Fabiano. "Almost every week I have an opportunity to network with professionals and showcase myself. Some of these people are just as eager to find a potential employee as I am to find a potential employer."
The successful intern will quickly learn to communicate effectively with business professionals, agrees Iuliana Dudi '11, a major in finance and international business, and economics, who served a finance internship at Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York City.
"The most memorable day was the day I presented my investment proposals for addition to the discretionary portfolios," said Dudi. "It was a summer's work, and the success of the project was very important to me. After a day, I found out that two out of four investment proposals were added to the portfolios."
Dudi's assignments included performing equity security valuation and client portfolio analysis to improve diversification and asset allocation strategies. She conducted forecasts of clients' wealth outlook, updated their account holdings, and prepared documentation needed for client meetings on portfolio performance and mutual fund performance updates.
As an intern, she interacted with clients and professionals – including John Olson '76, in whose office she worked – and refined her analysis skills, particularly in equity security valuation and portfolio management techniques.
"The best lesson this internship taught me is it is essential to know how to work smart and communicate efficiently," she said. "I consider that organized working habits and the ability to communicate well are essential to professional success."
Gonzalez worked as an intern for financial control group-debt controllers and participated in the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Career Prep Program as one of 12 students selected internationally for the accounting/finance program. Her best experience was completing an internal swap market value analysis and swap differences project between the treasury and business units, a project used for the second quarter balance sheet. She relied on the swaps knowledge she'd gained in a Financial Accounting Theory and Reporting class.
"It was exciting to actually make a contribution to my team with a project where my school and work knowledge overlap. It was a great feeling since it was challenging as well," said Gonzalez.
Internships provide multiple opportunities for willing students.
JingRu Wang '11 interned with the United Nations Association-National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) in Washington, D.C., as the finance and development program assistant, rotating from organizing events to evaluating financial projects to performing accounting procedures. She's an accounting and business administration double major with a finance concentration and a math minor. She assisted the executive director with the UNA-NCA Embassy Program, drafting business letters and representing the UNA-NCA in collaboration efforts with representatives from various embassies.
Lincoln Financial and WWWEnterprise Inc., both Rochester-area firms, provided internships for Caitlyn Reinecker '11, a business administration management major with a marketing concentration.
Her responsibilities at Lincoln Financial included market research for advertising and developing a name, logo, and other marketing material for a new elder care financial plan her boss, Andrew Comins '74, was starting. At WWWEnterprise, an Internet skin care specialist, she established relationships with five beauty manufacturers to attract their business and concentrated on strategic research and implementation of web marketing and web advertising.
At each company, she admits, she lacked some necessary skills when she began. She realized how importance self-reliance is. She learned how to develop logos and promotional material at Lincoln Financial.
"I had the determination to teach myself through my frustration and now am very proud of the end result and what I have accomplished," said Reinecker. "I really enjoyed the challenges I experienced and that I was able to work through them. It showed me I can teach myself anything and accomplish the end result I envisioned."
During her interview for WWWEnterprise, she was concerned about her lack of familiarity with topics like search engine optimization and Google Adwords. However, impressed by her candor and determination, owner Terry Clark hired her, let her shadow him, and gave her more complex assignments as her knowledge increased.
Her internships taught Reinecker how to develop self-confidence by being willing to learn and refusing to be deterred. She offers three pieces of advice:
• "You can teach yourself how to do anything; you can seek out the information you need from a multitude of sources.
• "Never settle for something you are not proud of and always push yourself to achieve what you think is quality work, because that work is reflected back onto you.
• "Spend time trying to figure out something you do not understand. You will be able to achieve so much more out of life if you learn even the littlest bit from the unknown.''


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In 2010, Jon Hamm did not mess around on his longtime love Jennifer Westfeldt, he came to Vancouver to hang out at the Olympics and get his hockey fix, worked on a girl power futuristic action movie (Sucker Punch), played against type in The Town, and humbly went about his way…
My own personal anecdote – I was introduced to Jon Hamm (by Michael Buble, yes please roll your eyes because this is SO obnoxious, I hear you) at the Olympics at a party. There's me, a stranger, thrust before him by Michael, who introduces me as "this is Lainey, she blogs and she loves you", and Jon Hamm couldn't have been more natural and at ease with his reaction, understanding the weirdness of the situation. I could have been a crazy horny stalker.
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A beaming Katy Perry was spotted sporting a new ring on her left ring finger after a Valentine's Day dinner with on-again beau John Mayer, sparking rumors that the pair may be engaged.
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Hi everyone.
My wife and I have been making mead for the last 8 years or so and this year we decided to try raising bees so maybe we won't be buying honey some day.
We have two hives at our house and one at her Dad's. He keeps a fantastic vegetable garden and hoping the beed will boost it.
So far so good, packages installed last weekend. We checked that our queens are all out and are laying eggs on Wed.
Also finding how relaxing it is to watch the coming and going of the bees. Helps me to tune in the little details of nature.
Anyway - thanks for having this nice site to learn more about apiculture.
PS -Holmes, NY (Dutchess County) area


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Twelve-hundred-acre (485-hectare) Balboa Park (www.balboapark.org), located just northeast of downtown, is San Diego's pride. Established in 1868 and largely developed for two expositions—the 1915-16 Panama-California and the 1935-36 California Pacific International—it remains a thriving component of the city, with museums, gardens, unique shopping, and the San Diego Zoo at its heart.
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Ahead, the graceful, ornately tiled (2) California Building and Bell Tower (1350 El Prado) at the end of the bridge was designed by Bertram Goodhue, an authority on Spanish Colonial style and principal architect for the first Exposition. Swiftly becoming an iconic marketing hook for the city, the structure stood in as Kane's mansion in Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane. The California Building houses the anthropological San Diego Museum of Man (www.museumofman.org), exhibiting Egyptian mummies and artifacts and Mayan and Native American heritage.
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Immediately after passing the Timken you'll spot a lily pond, and just behind is one of the world's largest wood lath structures, (8) the Botanical Building (1550 El Prado). Continue east along the north side of El Prado, now a pedestrian mall en route to a fountain at its east end. To the left of the fountain lies the (9) San Diego Natural History Museum (1788 El Prado; www.sdnhm.org), designed by architect William Templeton Johnson in 1933 just before the second Expo. Its monumental facade and entrance is surprisingly at odds with the dreamy character of the other buildings along El Prado (mostly built for the first Expo). Opposite the museum is the (10) Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (1875 El Prado; www.rhfleet.org), constructed in 1972 and featuring science exhibits popular with kids and an Imax Dome Theater.
Return to El Prado, heading west to the Plaza de Panorama, passing the (11) Casa del Balboa (1649 El Prado) on your left. Here lies the Museum of San Diego History (www.sandiegohistory.org), the Museum of Photographic Arts (www.mopa.org) and, in the basement, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum (www.sdmrm.org), America's largest such museum. At the end is the (12) House of Hospitality (1549 El Prado) and Prado Restaurant, the park's only full-service dining room. Preeminent local sculptor Donal Hord crafted the delicate fountain in the courtyard, "Woman of Tehuantepec."
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South of the Organ Pavilion a mesa was developed for the second Expo, with architecture overseen by Richard Requa, who traveled extensively to research the pueblos and native landscapes of the American Southwest as inspiration. Requa designed the cottages of the (14) House of Pacific Relations (2191 Pan American Place; www.sdhpr.org), a series of 17 humble, charming bungalows dedicated to the culture and traditions of 28 countries; open on Sundays.
Just south a large parking area known as the (15) Pan American Plaza is flanked by—from right to left—the Palace of Education (2150 Pan American Road West), with a 1935 mural, "The Progress of Man" by Belle Baranceanu (proclaimed by Eleanor Roosevelt as "one of the best she'd ever seen"); the Palisades Building (2130 Pan American Road West), home to the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater (www.balboaparkpuppets.com); the San Diego Automotive Museum (2080 Pan American Plaza; www.sdautomuseum.org), with rotating exhibits of historic and unique vehicles; the Ford Building (2001 Pan American Plaza), an excellent example of Streamline Moderne architecture that now holds the San Diego Aerospace Museum (www.sandiegoairandspace.org) (located almost directly in the flight path for Lindbergh Field!); the Starlight Bowl (2005 Pan American Plaza); and the Municipal Gym (2111 Pan American Plaza).
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Jeffrey that was a wonderful round of Body Tetris! Thanks for suprising me with The Messed up Squirrel.
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The Minskoff is part of an office building that was built on the site of the demolished Astor Hotel at one of the lowest points in Broadway history. Past productions include Pippin (1977), The Tap Dance Kid (1984), Sunset Boulevard (1994) and The Scarlet Pimpfromhell (1997). The 2,100-seat Nokia Theatre is a concert venue that was the Astor Plaza movie theatre until 2004. The Minskoff is above street level and the Nokia is below street level.


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Public employee benefits - beyond reasonable
Original post made by Joe, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Nov 27, 2012
According to an August report by the Illinois Policy Institute, a free market think tank, health care costs jumped by 29 percent in fiscal year 2012. Between 2003 and 2011, the city's average annual cost per employee rose from $58,299 to $96,082. The upshot: Chicago is paying around $700 million more annually for 20 percent fewer employees.
The city has blamed the uncontrollable growth on wage and benefit increases required by collective bargaining agreements with labor unions, which represent 89 percent of city employees. The city's budget gap now stands at $369 million, and according to the report. Chicago must find a way to increase its pension contributions from $476 million to $1.2 billion a year by 2015.
From Reason magazine, December, 2012.
Comments (46)
a resident of Birdland
on Nov 27, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Those comments understate everything that is wrong the state of Illinois. They just recently enacted a massive tax hike on both business and the middle class to help fund a failing public employee union pension system that has been abused to no end. The states lergest employer is leaving to a more fertile business friendly state which will only exacorbate their problems. The implosion of illinois is on the horizon not only because of their out-of-control pension system, but because their goverment is corrupt. The only thing the CA government has over Illinois is the corruption of state government started much later, we have better weather and the Pacific Ocean, and we have Silicon Valley & Hollywood.
Other than that we share the same fiscal calamitity and disjointed political mess.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 28, 2012 at 12:07 am
Yes, our union benefit costs in CA almost match the salaries.....and, no surprise, much of the medical costs are due to nurses 'unions', who regularly do walk-off days.
There is no escaping the assults from the unions.
a resident of Birdland
on Nov 28, 2012 at 2:08 am
That is about the time a portion of the prop 30 revenue will begin to expire while at the same time we will see significant increases in both current/retiree medical costs which are, for the most part, NOT pre-funded; therefore deferred. On top of those additional costs, while the prop 30 funds wind down, we have state employee contracts that have been back-loaded (going back several years because the Governor and company thought we'd be out of the recession by now and nobody would care), and of course rapidly rising pension costs because CalPERS is guaranteeing a 7.5% investment return on the assets they do have (actually taxpayers are doing that) while also charging taxpayers 7.5% interest on the assets (unfunded Liability) they don't have (that would be 7.5% interest on the 40% unfunded liability which increases the debt burden at a very rapid rate (although city staff & council seem to ignore it)).
To make matters worse the teachers union is asking the state legislature to approve a doubling of the taxpayer burden by 2016. The problem with the teachers union & CalSTRS (their retirement plan administrator) is that this doubling of the taxpayer burden is only designed to bring the funding level to about 80% (the lowest threshold of what is considered acceptable) over a period of FIFTY YEARS! IN OTHER WORDS THEY WILL ATTEMPT TO DEFER EVEN MORE DEBT FOR AS LONG AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!
Some people might say, well, if they spread the payments over 50 years it probably won't affect me but for 30 years. That would be missing the point completely. The point is they will be spreading-out payments "for past service" because they have structured compensation & benefits they can't afford in the first place. This new scheme being devised by the CTA & CalSTRS will only ensure that the CA educational system will ALWAYS be playing catch-up; looking for new sources of revenue.
While taxpayers are guaranteeing these unachievable rates of returns that the teachers unions own consultants are saying aren't realistic their retirement system (CalSTRS) ROI is about ZERO percent over the past 17 months. That adds 10's of billions to taxpayer debt that will manifest itself in the form of a declining educational system in CA or increased taxes well beyond the expiration of prop 30.
What is assured is that those TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS won't find their way into the classroom. Expect the claims of the PUSD, CalSTRS, and the CTA to be to the contrary. While I would consider their objection to my statements a blatant lie they can claim technical correctness based on those Tens of Billions going toward pension payments for teachers that work in the classroom. That doesn't change the fact that the Tens of Billions of additional dollars do NOT provide more hours of instruction, more teacher training, more teachers, or anything other than the current programs and shortened school year due to furlough days.
a resident of Birdland
on Nov 28, 2012 at 7:50 am
Unions beware! I will fight you from land, water and in the air. I'll fight you while I take out the garbage. I'll fight you in my fantasies. I'll fight you with endless repetition of stereotype until your eyes explode in wonder at my inability to say anything without translating it into hatred of unions. I ride a hobby horse of antiunionism day and night. My existence is impoverished, but I have faith in my hatred. Sqwuak sqwuak.
p.s. A tsunami is coming.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Nov 28, 2012 at 1:58 pm
As I have stated more than once.....The old I got mine screw everybody else attitude that plagues our society.The real entitlement problems are the unions and public employees who seem to think they are entitled to medical benefits and pensions that they barely contribute anything to to pay for.
I am tired of hearing about SS and MEDICARE as entitlements.I believe the govt has taken money out of every one of my paychecks for 40 years to fund what they will be paying me.My "pension" is my sep IRA which I 100% funded.
It is time to tell people that their little game is over and they have to come back to earth with the rest of us.Do not tell me you cannot cut their benefits that they did not pay for.
I am also tired of the almost reverant attitude toward firefighters.You work in Pleasanton or San Ramon and your job is about as dangerous as an accountant.It is so tough that they all have second jobs because they have so much free time.It is crazy.This is not NYC or SF.I respect firefighters but not so much that they retire at 50 with lifetime benefits that are ridiculous when they worked what was actually a cushy job in the burbs.
I get a kick out of the public employees who think they deserve their benefits because they say they are underpaid.That of course is totally false.I have a relative who worked 20 hours a week at Cal State and had full medical and the absolute best plan you can.
It is tooo bad that politics prevents doing what should be done to cut these existing and future plans.
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 28, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Hoops is right. I think we should pay all our public servants a fair day's wage, on a par with what I have paid my lawncare crew of undocumented workers over the years. Heck, my stoop laborers never expected any pensions. And if they got sick, they either went to ER or I gave them 10% toward a ticket back to Mexico.
And Professional Basketball players. Just because they're born tall and can play on the hardcourt doesn't give them the right to make more money than I do. And they get a lifelong pension? How unfair!
I mean, c'mon. How about these overpriced professors who slum around in grad school getting their fancy doctoral degrees, and then work at Cal State for a whopping $80 thousand a year? So they're smart? Big deal! So am I! I never paid my stoop laborers that much, so why should some professor expect such? Yes, I realize professors make upwards of $200 thousand a year at Stanford and Harvard and places like that. But why should Cal State professors think they're worth more than me or my 'stoopers'?
C'mon people. Let's do away with the me-me-me attitude and start thinking about the world from another viewpoint, like my own.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 28, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
"Hoops is right." That is the only thing you said that is correct.
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 28, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Well argued, as usual. You must spend more time writing in your registered user name than actually thinking about topics. Go plop somewhere else, please.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 28, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Rod/Ted/Whatever, Your sarcasm gains you neither respect nor does it make any credible points. Equating public employees to lawn care workers--is that actually happening? Basketball players are paid by private entities willing to pay those salaries. If you play well, you draw crowds, you bring in revenue, you get your cut. And if you don't like their bigger than big salaries, don't patronize them with your dollars.
Professors (well, you can certainly try to be the Chancellor of UC Berkeley at $400,000+), teachers, police, fire--I would gladly pay them more. And let them pay/collect from social security or invest in their own 401k/403b plans. And retire under the same circumstances as the rest of taxpayers.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Nov 28, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Rod,,,Nobody is saying that public employees should not be paid a fair and decent wage.The problem is when you add the pensions and benefits their wages are not fair and decent but often out of line.I would have no problem with the pensions either if they contributed the appropriate amount to fund them.If you are working for the city of whatever and making a good salary you should not be able to retire in your mid fifties and have society pay for your outlandish pension.It is a joke how the system has been abused and manipulated.I have no problem paying more taxes to help support people in the military who risked their lives for me and you.I do have a problem seeing my community bankrupt because white collar workers and firefighters are overcompensated.The police are a different story.They are in danger everyday just doing their basic jobs.
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 28, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Equating public employees to lawn care workers? Yes, there is no recognized, agreed upon standard for what counts as a fair salary-cum-pension (i.e., salary) beyond what you right wingers pull out of your lily white behinds. "Let's do like in the private sector." "I never got such a pension in MY days in the private sector." "I funded my OWN IRA." "Let's follow the business model (but not the one that laid me off)."
As per usual, you've offered no argument but only a litany of beliefs/prejudices. A good public employee helps lift the standing of the community in many different respects. Most more than earn their salaries (and perhaps even more so than do most professional hoopsters). If you don't like the salaries cum pensions they get, go away. Go far away to the gossip-mongering, witchhunting land that most turns you on. I would think Alabama would fit you well. Lots of entitlement seekers, and lots of uneducated bumpkins who'd likely swallow your witch's brew along with the cornstill liquor they chug while picking their toes up in the hay loft.
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 28, 2012 at 5:06 pm
You really must come to grips with how ridiculous you sound. Please try to refrain from placing your arbitrary standards and measures on the rest of us.
I think it is unfair and outlandish and indecent that lawn care employers don't get prison terms for failing to carefully inspect the papers of the people who work for them.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 28, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
"A good public employee helps lift the standing of the community in many different respects. Most more than earn their salaries" Agreed--I've said the best teachers should be able to earn more than a principal, for example.
"If you don't like the salaries cum pensions they get, go away." This is the start of where your comments are unproductive. If all those who disagreed with pensions departed California (I would hardly pick Alabama), then you'd only have each other (public employees) to tax. Pretty sure that would be unsuccessful.
a resident of Livermore
on Nov 28, 2012 at 6:31 pm
I totally enjoy receiving benefits so that I can have a civilized life!
I don't have to wake up early! I don't have much breakfast and lunch is my favorite meal. I totally enjoy taking walks and visiting my ole buds. What can I say...HOORAY!!!
One of my favorite meals is leg of lamb even though I eat more fish and vegetables that meat of any kind.
I'll never completely understand why some folks think that it's not cool to receive retirement benefits? My main concern is that I'm retired and I love it. Keep working your butts off so that I can continue to enjoy the life to which I am accustomed! tee hee...
I think it's waaaaaaay cool to have time off and naps in the afternoon when I sleepy!!!
a resident of Birdland
on Nov 28, 2012 at 9:32 pm
I sleepy too, Cholo. I am a daytime chickadee, not a nighty owl. But I must comment on one of our birdie brained birds of a feather. To wit, or not. Kathleen.
Kathleen assumes that anyone who is not a public employee is against public employee pensions AND that all these anti-public types are as anti as Kathleen is. Talk about living in a bubble! This is the kind of thinking that had Romney winning in a landslide because, hecky-heck, there aren't enough school teachers and trial attorneys and black people in this country to put Obama past that magical 47% number that Romney now must forevermore own as his own. Obama put him to beddy-bye. But the folks who elected him also showed, by a margin of over 4 million votes, and approaching 4% (51 v. 47) as the votes continue to be counted, that the birdbrain righties like Kathleen and her little dwarfie-dwarf followers, are living in a bubble.
She presents no rational argument, but just a slough of erroneous assumptions, and then proceeds as if they are facts. Public employee pensions are too high (DON'T CHA KNOW EVERYONE KNOWS THAT!). Any one who isn't a public employee thinks public employee pensions are too high. Facts? Who needs them when you can simply pick out an arbitrary claim - unions are bad, public pensions are too high, people didn't vote for supplemental tax for schools because everyone is like her and disagreed with the language - and all the other nonsense she routinely gives us. Who needs anything resembling a rational argument when one assumes they are right and that all the other birdbrains agree with them? Despite her self-pontificating claims to the contrary, Kathleen is PW's exemplar case of FOX News 'reasoning'. Just assert negative stuff about teachers, cops, unionists, repeat and repeat again, and in no time at all the assertion becomes accepted by the speaker/writer as fact. You see a great example of such in her birdbrain comments above. Thankie so much, Kathleen. Never change! Cuckoo!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 28, 2012 at 9:40 pm
hoops said,
"I am tired of hearing about SS and MEDICARE as entitlements.I believe the govt has taken money out of every one of my paychecks for 40 years to fund what they will be paying me.My "pension" is my sep IRA which I 100% funded."
They are entitlements, and the biggest contributors to the federal deficit. The money the government took out of your paychecks was taxes. It went to pay for all sorts of things, from roads and bridges to national defense. It was not set aside somewhere for you like an investment account. These programs were never set up to work that way.
Web Link
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 28, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Yes, Birdbrain, because this kind of comment from Rod/Ted/you? is so helpful: "I think we should pay all our public servants a fair day's wage, on a par with what I have paid my lawncare crew of undocumented workers over the years. Heck, my stoop laborers never expected any pensions. And if they got sick, they either went to ER or I gave them 10% toward a ticket back to Mexico."
Just a hypothetical comment on my part about who might be left to pay for everything, but the backlash against pensions is growing. "A weak recovery from the longest recession since the 1930s, reducing job prospects and retirement benefits for most nongovernment workers, has churned up a backlash against the pay and benefits of public employees nationwide." Web Link As someone else pointed out, even local liberal newspapers (such as Daniel Borenstein) are leading the charge to inform the public. Web Link
I did not believe Romney would win. Those who voted for or against the various taxes had their own reasons, including me. I don't watch Fox; I prefer PBS' Newshour and radio. And I don't speak against teachers, the police, firefighters, etc. I do, and will continue to, express my opinion about union leaders though. And it's clear when it's opinion rather than fact.
Your postings are precious though, Birdbrain.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 28, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
John, deductions for social security and Medicare go to social security and Medicare, not roads, etc. (unless you mean the government's borrowing from social security).
"Payroll taxes must be withheld from an employee's paycheck. This is required by law. Employers must hand these withholdings over to various tax agencies. Payroll tax deductions include the following:
Federal income tax withholding (based on withholding tables in Publication 15)
Social Security tax withholding (6.2% up to the annual maximum)
Medicare tax withholding (1.45%)
Various local tax withholdings (such as city, county, or school district taxes, state disability or unemployment insurance)." Web Link
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Nov 28, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
How many years now have you been attacking Kathleen here in the hopes that she will "go away"? How fruitless your endeavor!
a resident of Bordeaux Estates
on Nov 29, 2012 at 8:38 am
Hypotheticals, hmmm? Posits opinionated assertions as fact; then calls them hypotheticals. Doesn't know argument; doesn't know science. Cites a bit of rhetorical flourish from a conservative newspaper's piece and uses as fact to support her assertions. Anyone surprised? A truly precious piece for collectors of tea party/libertarian mush.
Thanks for your prescient remarks Staceleen. We all treasure them all, whether you post as Stacey, Kathleen, or Staceleen.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 29, 2012 at 11:24 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Generally, if I state something as fact I post the source. A name says a lot: Kathleen is actually Kathleen; Stacey is Stacey; and Birdbrain . . . well you see the pattern.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Nov 29, 2012 at 11:24 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Yea, yea. We've heard it all before ad nauseum. You chased everyone away from giving you facts and rational arguments so that's why you get none.
You started posting here in what, 2008 or 2009? It's almost 2013 and you've stuck with the same vitriolic act to no effect. And so you'll go on like this for another how many years? I feel sorry for you.
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 29, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Why the assault on a fellow birdbrain (who seems merely to have pointed out your numerous logical contradictions and bloated opinions that disguise themselves as facts)? On my reading, he or she merely pointed out that you have no idea what an hypothesis is, which makes your truth claims, already suspect, pretty thin. And what do you do in response? In your embarrassment, you kick up a lot of dirt. Oh, and BTW, your attempts to pose as two separate people make me want to puke. Take yourself out on a date or something. Prop up a chair at your table for two, put a doll on the facing chair with either your Stacey or Kathleen name tag pinned to it, and knock yourself out. I pity you.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 29, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Rod, cute. Two people, no matter your claims to the contrary. How exactly do "bloated opinions" "disguise themselves as facts"?
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 29, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Example of bloated opinion disguised as fact: "If all those who disagreed with pensions departed California (I would hardly pick Alabama), then you'd only have each other (public employees) to tax."
Kathleen/Stacey, You really need to do a little reading. Less from right-wing blogs and more from high school science and basic critical reasoning textbooks. You seem unable to differentiate between truth claims, opinions, and hypotheticals. I continue to pity you.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 29, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Save the pity for someone who might benefit. What I said no more looks like fact than your insistence that I"m Stacey, nor did I state it as fact. I'll add IMO more often if it will help.
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 29, 2012 at 3:44 pm
I'll try to spare the pity, though only if you try to crank things up a notch (e.g., looking at some helpful high school texts that might help you learn how to construct a coherent argument). You and your alterego, Stacey, tend to hold to ideas and ways of expressing them that cannot help but open themselves to ridicule.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Nov 29, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Spare the child; spoil the Rod.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Nov 29, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Rod/Birdbrain, crank *this* up a notch. You're not worth my time to have an intelligent discussion with; not because I can't but because I won't. You get the kind of response from me that you ask for. I suspect that you're quite an intelligent person whom others could learn a lot from yet over all these years it is obvious that you have no desire for an intelligent discussion either. Your calls for coherent arguments are just a rhetorical tool, not a sincere search for intelligent discussion.
So excuse me if I'd much rather fart in your general direction.
a resident of Charter Oaks
on Nov 29, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Sounds like someone has a lot of gas in them.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Nov 29, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Sorry, indigestion.
a resident of Charter Oaks
on Nov 29, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Hey, I'm new here. Not my style, but if that's the best you have to offer who am I to judge?
a resident of Mohr Park
on Nov 29, 2012 at 7:19 pm
John....I am sorry to tell you that SS and Medicare taken from your check goes to ."Surprise....SS and Medicare.You should stop listening to Rush or whover you get your info from.It is true that there have been times when,I believe, our beloved pols have raided the fund,but rarely.
Rod,I apologize for responding to you.It is obvious what your purpose is here.You should get a life.Your comments are truly beneath your intellect.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 29, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Sounds like rod and his/her alter ego, the aptly named birdbrain, have some serious issues with women. Maybe they were spanked hard by mom for talking back when they were little(r) or more likely hate themselves for lusting after mom...either way, women threaten them, hence the vitriol and personal attacks. Mommie issues are cited in many cases of serial killers and wife beaters lashing out out women that remind them of mommie dearest. So sad, so pathetic. I hope you find the help you need, rod(less).
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 29, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Kathleen said,
"John, deductions for social security ..."
Kathleen, I wish it were so, but it is not and it never has been.
"unless you mean the government's borrowing from social security"
Of course I mean the "government's borrowing from social security".
It is all IOUs. As I'm sure you know, there is no lock-box, other than a file of IOUs. Taxes collected for Security Security have all been spent by the government on everything from courts, to scientific research, to even paying Social Security benefits. The really sad thing is that some people believe, or want to believe, that Social Security money is being kept, or saved, or invested like a 401k or IRA. It does not work that way, and it never has.
The really sad thing is that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense are the biggest drivers of federal deficit spending by far, and people, mainly seniors, live in a state of denial of this fact. It is these programs that drive our deficits, not food stamps, or space exploration, or welfare, or public broadcasting. If spending cuts are to have any meaningful effect, then those programs will need to see the most significant cuts. Even if we cut everything else to zero and leave these programs untouched, we will still have a huge deficit that will only grow over time. There is really no sense in deny these facts if we are to have any hope of solving our fiscal mess. I'd be happy to provide links, but this information is readily available.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 29, 2012 at 10:01 pm
To "Hoops",
I don't generally get my information from Rush Limbaugh, and am kind of a left leaning independent, so I'm not to inclined to listen to right wing infotainment. I hope you really don't think "our beloved pols have raided the fund,but rarely." There is no "rarely" to it. The Social Security "trust fund" is all IOUs. All of it has been spent. It is politicians who go out of their way to mislead the public on this.
Web Link
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 29, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
John, The deductions made from paychecks are on the books. I know the actual money isn't at SSA, just the accounting/IOUs. Plenty to find here: Web Link
a resident of Country Fair
on Nov 29, 2012 at 10:59 pm
I'm happy to report that Staceleen is back to her face-saving ways and that her indigestion problem seems to have cleared up. Very classy girl, though.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 30, 2012 at 6:57 am
That is exactly my point. You said that deduction for Social Security and Medicare go to paying for Social Security and Medicare. They do not. You had that wrong. Those taxes are spent on whatever congress is inclined to spend them on, from foreign aid to education. It is a very important point. That the taxes are accounted separately from normal income taxes is just a marketing gimmick used by politicians.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 30, 2012 at 7:53 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
From New York Times (great graph): Web Link
"Social Security is a pay-as-you-go program financed by payroll taxes on workers and employers. When its revenues fall short of the benefits it owes in a given year, it covers payments by drawing on a $2.6 trillion fund that is accounted for separately from the federal budget and invested in government bonds. It is estimated that unless changes are made to the system, the fund will be able to pay full benefits until the surplus is exhausted in 2036, and about three quarters of benefits after that." Be sure to click on "related article" to read what goes with the graphic.
I already posted the Social Security Administration where you can read the history.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 30, 2012 at 9:02 am
So, it sounds like you are agreeing with me completely (correct me if I'm wrong), that Social Security taxes are used for any number of things, not just paying for Social Security benefits of current recipients, and that there is no lock box or trust fund, only IOUs. We also seem to agree that Social Security continues to add to the deficit (see the USA Today article above), and from your article
"When its revenues fall short of the benefits it owes in a given year, it covers payments by drawing on a $2.6 trillion fund that is accounted for separately from the federal budget and invested in government bonds."
In other words, when funds fall short, we borrow money and increase the deficit. That is borrowing money, plain and simple.
As I said above, it is sad that our federal government uses these accounting gimmicks to mislead voters into believing that Social Security taxes go to paying Social Security benefits, or that the Social Security program does not add to the deficit. It is similar to what happened in California with proposition 30 (a proposition that I voted for, despite its flaws). The money from prop 30 does not all go to education, but to the general fund, with everyone from fire fighters to prison guards getting a cut.
From your article:
"Mr. Blahous, now one of two public trustees for Social Security, said in his analysis that the payroll tax cut "would take a major step toward transforming Social Security from what it has long been — an earned benefit, funded by separate worker payroll taxes — into an income-tax based system more akin to welfare.""
That step has already been taken -- The tax cut was extended. And it is only through accounting gimmicks and borrowing that the fiction of Social Security as an "earned benefit" is maintained. What Blahous fears, I welcome. Social Security is already (like Medicare) and an "income-tax based system more akin to welfare." If we come to grips with this fact, we can begin to make progress on getting our fiscal house in order.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 30, 2012 at 9:51 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
John, Here is where we are differing. Social security funds collected were paying social security benefits (somewhere I read that in 2011 it was about 85 cents of each dollar). The remainder was invested in government bonds. Now that social security needs that bond money AND the interest it earned, the federal government will have to borrow from third parties (like China) to pay back what it owes to social security. Add to this what Blahous mentioned, the 2 percent tax cut for workers in 2011 which reduced income by $105 billion, even though the law requires that the fund be reimbursed with general revenues (restated from the NYT chart), and yes, the federal debt increases because of what it owes to social security. We can also agree that social security is now its own pocket with a hole in it as baby boomers retire and there aren't enough working people behind us to cover those collecting. Yes, we agree. It's too bad we can't find a way to move people to private retirement plans (many pits with spikes in the bottom to get there).
a resident of Mohr Park
on Nov 30, 2012 at 10:16 am
John..I apologize for my comment before.I still do not believe whatever the state of the systems are financially,that SS and Medicare are entitlements in the sense that the Republicans talk about them.They are earned benefits that I paid for my entire working life,not a gov't handout.I agree they need to make rational changes to sustain the programs.
The fix seems rather simple to me.Raise the age you can start to get benefits a couple of years and make some changes to the way they stop taking SS after you hit a little over 100k.Maybe say between the limit now up to 250k no additional SS taken out,but from 250-500k add some SS taxation at maybe half the rate of the first 100k.
The other major deal is cutting out the fraud and waste.Go after it like our future depends on it.
The last thing is if you have a net worth of x amount and do not have any need for SS or Medicare,you forfeit it and it goes back into the pot.The rich will cry they are entitled to it because they paid for it,which is true,but it is social security and its purpose is obvious.It is the right thing to do for the country.
Of course getting the bozos in DC to agree to anything is impossible.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Nov 30, 2012 at 10:29 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
They use actuaries and actually count on some number of us paying in our entire working lives and never collecting (some do get survivor benefits--don't know that it is anywhere near what someone would have paid in). Means testing is a tough sell because it is just another redistribution of wealth. I understand the premise, but I am not sure why success (rich having become a four-letter word) means you owe but can't collect (how about Pete Stark?). So let's say you win a few million from a lottery at 65 and squander it by age 70 . . . can you go back and collect based on what you paid in? Hard to get the bozos to agree when the public can't seem to find a middle ground either.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Nov 30, 2012 at 2:02 pm
I don't know of a catagory that fits creepy old Pete Stark's minor child receiving social security. Technically he's still breathing (barely), so the child is not a 'survivor'....It's these
'NON-retirement' catagories that pull the plan from it's intended purpose.
People with an all too long list of 'disabilities' at very young ages collect SS for much of a lifetime.
My father dropped dead of a heart attack at age 64 1/2, while he was doing his numbers in his plan to 'retire' in 6 months..and he had
been a sole proprietor all his life...those lifetime double $$ fed the system.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Dec 5, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
John, I was sent this information today and thought you might find the slides from 82 on (of 88) of interest (technology). The whole KPCB (Kleiner Perkins) presentation is interesting. Web Link
2012: Sorry about your loss.
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Officers told News 5 four people were arrested and two of them were wanted fugitives from other states.
Jamie Begley described it as a scene from television. "You wake up, and it's like you're in an episode of Cops all of a sudden," said Begley.
He watched as Hawkins County deputies raided the building directly across the street from his home on Marble Hall Road. "There was a lot of men down there; a lot of men. They went in the top and the bottom all at the same time, [they] busted in the doors and went on in with guns drawn," Begley described.
Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson told News 5 Gary Raymond Mirkos, Suzanne Sibley Hoffman, Mark Anthony Ramierz, and Randy James Wilson are now facing charges.
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Lawson said detectives made their move once they saw and confirmed Mirkos and Hoffman were wanted fugitives out of Mississippi and Texas. "The warning on the criminal histories was that these individuals were armed and dangerous," said Lawson.
During the investigation, officers said they found a 2006 Volvo coming and going from the shop. Officials said it had been reported stolen from Mississippi.
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Well, the GPS took me into a rather run-down trailer park, but out in the country up here in backwoods PA, that didn't phase me much.
I walked up to the screen door and knocked, and heard a voice say "C'mon in"
Entering, I saw what could only at best be called a drunken slob permanently molded into a sorry excuse for a couch.
I said, "I'm here about the dog on Craigslist, you said he was a..."
Before I could finish, he busted in with a gruff "He's in the back room." He then took a swig of beer and went back to staring at the tv.
I went in the back and saw the Shepherd laying on a bed. He looked a bit old, but good and I casually stated "So, you're the talking dog 'eh?" I figured he was one of those types that could whine out some resemblance of "I love you." Oh how wrong I was!
He replied with a clear "Yes I am."
I was floored!! He really could talk! I could only ask, "So, what's your story buddy?"
He relayed this story to me:
"Well, my mother and father met while working as rescue dogs during the 9/11 attacks, they fell in love and had me. I spent my puppy days happily playing in the swamps of my New Orleans home, that's where my Mom is from, until Hurricane Katrina hit us. I lost my whole family in that storm, but I was able to help 6 other families survive by fetching fresh water for them and directing rescuers to them. Maybe you saw me on the news? Anyway, after losing my family, I felt as if I had no place to go, so I joined the Navy and became a SEAL. I know, right, a DOG SEAL!??! Anyway, I was instrumental in designing the plans to eliminate Osama Bin Laden, and was the lead canine on the mission. After that, I retired from the Navy and have just decided to relax during my retirement."
I stumbled out of the bedroom and went straight to the living room. I had but one question to ask the resident human.
"WHY ON EARTH are you giving that dog away for free??!"
He leaned back and spoke loud enough for the dog to hear:
"Because he's nothin' but a DARNED LIAR!"