HOT! Thats all I can say. It has been hot, and it appears it is going to stay that way. Even the dog’s don’t want to go outside, well all except Newton who doesn’t even seem to care if it is hot or cold, except he can’t handle the heat and comes in snorting and panting after a few minutes. But he likes to go out and chase the bee’s.
I will have to have surgery on my knee and I could be down and out for 6 to 10 weeks but I really doubt I will be down that long. I plan on being back to work in a week or two at the most. The government doesn’t give much sick time and having only worked for the government for 5 years I don’t earn that much vacation time so I will need to return quickly or I will be sitting home without any money coming in.
I sure would like to know how presidents get to take so much vacation time. Military members get 30 days a fiscal year, government workers start out getting 4 hours every two weeks and then move up to 6 hours every two weeks after 6 years and then 8 hours every two weeks after 15 years but I know Bush took way more than 30 days a fiscal year and he couldn’t have earned enough hours to take as much time as he took only being presidnet for 8 years and Obama has taken a good bit of time off too.
WHY DO THEY GET SO MUCH TIME OFF? I guess it is the same with members of Congress. We got the 4th of July off, Congress was off for two weeks. They say it is so they can go home and communicate with the people in their districts, but I never once saw my congressman over those two week he was off for the 4th. Bunch of bullshit if you ask me. they should get paid by the hour and have a time card.
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5 years ago a three-story, 145-foot yacht named Summerwind dropped anchor off the coast of Belize. As the yacht was preparing to drop its anchor, people around it were yelling and waving their arms screaming not to drop anchor there. The yacht’s owner, not on board at the time, now says it never happened.
That’s right, Billionaire Jeff Greene, candidate for the U.S. Senate says it never happened. In fact his campain says it is all a lie and a plot by political rivals.
Greene bought Summerwind in 2003, registering it in the Marshall Islands, a well-known tax haven. The yacht has traveled across the world, hosting Greene, family members and celebrities including Lindsay Lohan. He took it to Nantucket, Mass., last weekend to crash a meeting of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee where only his Democratic rival, Kendrick Meek, had been invited to speak.
Meanwhile back in Belize, Green and the Summerwind’s captain are wanted people facing fines up to 1.87 million dollars.
1.87 million dollars, chicken feed for a billionaire.
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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5582
Deaths by Conflict
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 4398
Operation Enduring Freedom: 1184
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21 year old Marine Cpl. Dave M. Santos
July 24th, 2010 at 22:27
I agree they all get too much time off and their benifits health insurance etc should be the same as ours
If they had the same social security benifits that the
rest of the citizens have they wouldn’t be pilfering what is really ours. And if they had to have the same
health insurance that they deceided we should have things would be a little different.