If you ever watch a Walmart ad on TV don't believe them. At least don't believe the looks of the people in the ads. White middle class looking individuals who live in attractive neighborhoods and suburbs.I visit the parking lot of a Walmart store in my hometown and most of the people I see entering the store(at 10:00pm)are far from healthy looking young white suburbanites.They are generally minorities .Walking through a trash heap with more shopping carts left in the parking lot then the local Acme has for its entire store see young Hispanics and Blacks carrying little babies. I think that no Walmart or any kind of store should be open on a Sunday night at 10:00pm(they close at 11:00pm)for any kind of shopping.I figure that many shoppers in the store are up to no good and that the parking lot remindes me of what the USA will look like in less than 50 years.I hope that someone with authority will see that this store closes at 9:00pm so that people will be home at night with their children in bed instreadf of shopping.
Ger
My Parish,St Elizabeth s turned 100 yesterday with a big to do at the Chase Center in Wilmington.
The parish was founded in 1908 by Father Temple and the Diocese of Wilmington.Congrats and Happy Birthday my beloved.
Thats a space craft.Well at least it looks like one.You see its a Russian Soyuz that basically crashed landed somewhere in Russia a while back.
Thank God Russia is such a big place because it landed several miles off course.Basically the capsules guidance went down and it sent the capsule
straight down to Earth like a bullet and not guided like it was supposed to be.With luck the parachute opened(or deployed) and no body was killed.
The story got out because the South Korean woman on board let it out that she went hysterical during the landing and the experienced Russian and American pilots saved them.The reason why this is big news is that the Russians basically intended to keep the entire incident under wraps because
that Soyuz might(will) be the only way ISS occupants will be able to get back to Earth until we(USA) manage to come up with a new way to get Astronauts down because the Space Shuttle is being retired soon.Good Luck!
ger
Hi I just embedded my first ,well, embed. Its Amber McArthur who I have admired for a long time.She is speaking on Net Neutrality.Thats the ability to put or get anything on the net without the worry of interference from others. Amber is speaking about problems in Canada but she could be speaking about problems here in the US also. I noticed that the embed is tucked in close to the lower half of my screen so I cannot really see it. Only half of it I should say.I guess I need a bigger screen to see it.I will try other computers that I have access to to check them out.Later ger
After about a week of checking I have attempted to notice who is still posting and who is not.My feeling is that any poster who got into the girls forum ruckus has been blacklisted. If I see any of these posters still posting on depreps I will be very upset.I continue to look at the rules for dismissal I for the life of me I cannot see anything that could cause a blacklisting of my ID. I intend to get in touch with rivals.com to discuss the situation with depreps very soon.Later on this subject.
Last week I found out that I have been banned from my favorite site,depreps. Its a local Delaware high school sports site.The administration can ban any poster form the site at any time but I was shocked to get banned. The site has rules and regulations but nearly everyone on the site occasionally breaks the rules now and then. The bad thing is that I have no idea what rule I broke to get banned and I was not warned that anymore such rule breaking would get me banned.Even the most blatant rule breakers get warned on depreps. Depreps was set up for posters to support high school sports in Delaware and state their opinions about high school sports in Delaware. Needless to say this can lead to many hotly contested threads which is good for Delaware sports.My feeling is that depreps give people from Delaware a voice which is something that was lacking in our state. This voice has been slowly eroded by the administrators and posters on the site.One of the forums,girls sports,has been ruined,mostly because the administrators allowed posters that I called "cheerleaders" to remain on the site. These "cheerleaders" rarely posted news and positive posts on the site but saw everything that their school did was good and everything that other schools did was bad.Needless to say other school fans took offense to these postings and responded to them.Iwanted to post about girls sports,mostly basketball,but I defended my school and its fans whenever I saw that it was being spat upon verbally by these "cheerleaders".Another forum on the site has been run like an iron fist and has been turned into a bulletin board with no opinion allowed. Basically its been neutered. Oviously one depreps manager likes it that way and occasionally he put his iron boot down on other posters in other forums.I assume that his influence resulted in my being banned from the site.Another thing is the amazing sensitivity to complaints on the site.A complainer is someone who reacts to the lack of the sites overall lack of sophistication and inability to do things most sites take for granted. Rivals wants it simple and depreps complies. I had been desinated a "complainer' by the site administrator because I had the audacity to point out that the site was behind the times in letting posters do things that most sites allow them to do without problem.Its almost impossible to add a signature or photo to your posts on depreps. Later about this one.
I just saw "The Transformers" rental from Netflix.
The problem that I had with the film is that the action is sooooofast and furious that it is not easy in the final battle
to tell what is a good guy.It just moves to fast.
Yo!
There is a battle going on between these guys...
fate was sealed with me when the guy who owns Grottinos( the stepped on) picked the sign that you see that looks very familar with the big guys sign. You know green and white and red.Now the little guy says that he does not have the money to change the sign or the name but he somehow had the money to have a sign created that looks like the
Grotto Pizza sign. Isn't that interesting.
My feeling is that the little guy knew exactly what he was doing when he thought up the name Grottino.My feeling is that the little guy tried to fool people into entering his shop thinking that they were entering a small version of Grottos.
Think that I am wrong?
Wim
Things started bad Sunday night with the news the the company I work for bought Bear Sterns. Employees in the banking business probably face more layoff notices and threats then anyone that I know of.An additional 14,000 employees added to our company will not help things for the lowly credit card employees that I work with who are probably the lowest paid bank people that their are.With the company pushing electronic payments and the current new customers more computer savvy we seem to be in the the sights of company slashers.
With the new credit crisis ballooning( I say "new" because bankers seem to cause new problems every ten years or so) Monday started with my fear of seeing 401ks being wiped out left and right.We seem to be holding on however.
Tuesday has started well on the Market with a 200 point lift off.
later...
I am trying to paint it but you have to find a place to paint the model were the fumes of the paint will not sicken people,like me.More later...
