It looks like Oprah's playing the race card now.
While in Paris, doing a little after hours shopping, Oprah and some friends stopped by Hermes boutique to buy a watch, minutes after the boutique closed. They saw shoppers inside but neither the sales clerk nor manager would let them in.
No S*#T! What is it that you don't understand about being CLOSED? That means no, not, nada, on coming in to shop. We're CLOSED!!
Do you expect everybody in the world to kowtow to you just because you are a celebrity and made $225 million dollars last year? Hell, go buy your own store and make it a 24/7 one stop shop.
Hermes said that a "private public relations event was being prepared inside". Maybe, maybe not, but they don't have to have an excuse. They were CLOSED.
"If it can happen to Oprah, it could happen to anyone".
I can vouch for that. I can't count the times I've been to the grocery, drug store, gas station, post office etc., minutes after they closed, and have not been let in. Yea it pissed me off, but it was my stupidity not getting there before they closed---not the sales clerk or managers fault for not letting me in after they had closed. Of course I didn't make $225 million last year and I didn't expect them to.
I've also been in stores picking up a few things when they closed, locked the doors, and had to get someone to open the door to let me out. So much for seeing shoppers inside the boutique. They were probably finishing their shopping because they got there minutes before they closed.
What Oprah needs to do is get it through her head that bad things happen and sometimes they're not racially motivated.
You want to shop? Fine.
Shop when the store is OPEN!!
Blame yourself, not everybody else.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Friday, June 24, 2005
Robin Hood in Reverse
In a party line vote the Guilford County Commissioners approved a budget giving the taxpayers a 2.44 cents per $100 valuation tax increase.
The 6 Democrats voted for and the 5 Republicans voted against.
Included in the budget:
A 41% ($6000) pay raise for the Commissioners from $14,700 to $20,700 per year.(Some may have needed more spending money for their Hawaii trip next month)
Doubled the school board's salary from $6000 to $12,000 per year.
A $250,000 dollar donation to Commissioner Skip Alstons pet project, The International Civil Rights Center & Museum. (I guess this passed to keep the "race card" factor out)
Cut 5 patrol positions for Sheriff B. J. Barnes while increasing the number of positions in the jail by 8. (Looks like we should be more concerned with getting the criminals off the street, not baby sitting them after we do)
Looks like a screwing to me.
Wish you'd have kissed me first..
The 6 Democrats voted for and the 5 Republicans voted against.
Included in the budget:
A 41% ($6000) pay raise for the Commissioners from $14,700 to $20,700 per year.(Some may have needed more spending money for their Hawaii trip next month)
Doubled the school board's salary from $6000 to $12,000 per year.
A $250,000 dollar donation to Commissioner Skip Alstons pet project, The International Civil Rights Center & Museum. (I guess this passed to keep the "race card" factor out)
Cut 5 patrol positions for Sheriff B. J. Barnes while increasing the number of positions in the jail by 8. (Looks like we should be more concerned with getting the criminals off the street, not baby sitting them after we do)
Looks like a screwing to me.
Wish you'd have kissed me first..
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
What Do You Do When There's No Help?
I have been unemployed since April 7 of this year and have been beating the bushes trying to find another job.
My printing job of the last 24 years has, like so many manufacturing jobs in North Carolina, moved overseas.
The Trade Act of 1974, amended 2002, created a program of Trade Adjustment Assistance to provide assistance to individuals who became unemployed as a result of increased foreign competition, return to suitable employment. Part of that assistance is payment of tuition, books, and fees if you enroll in approved training.
Since I have not been able to find employment in this area I decided to go back to school and try another profession. This will be an experience for me as my son who just graduated from high school will be attending also.
Maybe more of an experience for him.
If I ever get in!
I went to the unemployment office on Monday to talk to my TRA "specialist" and she told me I would have to talk to their counselor. She set me an appointment for 9:45 am on Wednesday, which was today.
She gave me an appointment card with explicit instructions to call if I couldn't keep the appointment.
I arrived at the unemployment office this morning at 9:30 (I like to be prompt), and the light in the counselors office was off. The receptionist told me to have a seat and wait.
At 10:00 am I got up and left having never seen the counselor. She never showed and I haven't had one phone call explaining why.
I wonder why their time is so valuable that you must call them if you can't make it but they don't have the decency to call you if they can't.
Maybe they consider me a second class citizen because I don't have a job. Hell, if everybody had a job what would we need the unemployment office for. I'm giving her job security. Maybe she thinks I can just come and sit and wait on her all day. I can't and I won't.
I've worked for 36 years and have never, ever, been on unemployment until this year.
I think I deserve a little better than that---------------
or at least a reason as to why you can't do your job.
My printing job of the last 24 years has, like so many manufacturing jobs in North Carolina, moved overseas.
The Trade Act of 1974, amended 2002, created a program of Trade Adjustment Assistance to provide assistance to individuals who became unemployed as a result of increased foreign competition, return to suitable employment. Part of that assistance is payment of tuition, books, and fees if you enroll in approved training.
Since I have not been able to find employment in this area I decided to go back to school and try another profession. This will be an experience for me as my son who just graduated from high school will be attending also.
Maybe more of an experience for him.
If I ever get in!
I went to the unemployment office on Monday to talk to my TRA "specialist" and she told me I would have to talk to their counselor. She set me an appointment for 9:45 am on Wednesday, which was today.
She gave me an appointment card with explicit instructions to call if I couldn't keep the appointment.
I arrived at the unemployment office this morning at 9:30 (I like to be prompt), and the light in the counselors office was off. The receptionist told me to have a seat and wait.
At 10:00 am I got up and left having never seen the counselor. She never showed and I haven't had one phone call explaining why.
I wonder why their time is so valuable that you must call them if you can't make it but they don't have the decency to call you if they can't.
Maybe they consider me a second class citizen because I don't have a job. Hell, if everybody had a job what would we need the unemployment office for. I'm giving her job security. Maybe she thinks I can just come and sit and wait on her all day. I can't and I won't.
I've worked for 36 years and have never, ever, been on unemployment until this year.
I think I deserve a little better than that---------------
or at least a reason as to why you can't do your job.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Friday, June 17, 2005
Words Words
Sue's Place has a post about the quandary the editorial board at GSO101 was put in over a word in a post on the site.
Seems Gate took offense to a slang word describing a female body part.
Calvin Williams, the coordinator of the blog, edited the blog and all is well, although he did bring up some valid questions that need answering.
Like Sue, I have read f**k, a**, a**holes etc. on several blogs that I read, and have even used a**holes on mine in describing my former employer.
I do have a disclaimer saying that I may use "strong language depending on my mood". Will that keep someone underage from reading it? My posting might but I doubt a disclaimer will.
The problem I see on the horizon is that as the blogosphere, Triad Blogs, and 101 continue to grow, sooner or later you're going to have someone that is "offended" by these words too.
Whatcha' gonna do then?
Are we just going to ban things like this when 1 or 2 people complain?
I say either ban it all or let it stand.
Is F**K really that much different than P***Y???
Seems Gate took offense to a slang word describing a female body part.
Calvin Williams, the coordinator of the blog, edited the blog and all is well, although he did bring up some valid questions that need answering.
Like Sue, I have read f**k, a**, a**holes etc. on several blogs that I read, and have even used a**holes on mine in describing my former employer.
I do have a disclaimer saying that I may use "strong language depending on my mood". Will that keep someone underage from reading it? My posting might but I doubt a disclaimer will.
The problem I see on the horizon is that as the blogosphere, Triad Blogs, and 101 continue to grow, sooner or later you're going to have someone that is "offended" by these words too.
Whatcha' gonna do then?
Are we just going to ban things like this when 1 or 2 people complain?
I say either ban it all or let it stand.
Is F**K really that much different than P***Y???
Monday, June 13, 2005
Verdict In
Michael Jackson was found "not guilty" on all charges today.
In the juror interviews they kept talking about the "beyond reasonable doubt" factor and how they did not think of MJ as a celebrity.
I can't help but wonder that if it had been any other black man with the same charges, without the notoriety and celebrity status of MJ, would he have ended up with the same verdict??
In the juror interviews they kept talking about the "beyond reasonable doubt" factor and how they did not think of MJ as a celebrity.
I can't help but wonder that if it had been any other black man with the same charges, without the notoriety and celebrity status of MJ, would he have ended up with the same verdict??
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Friday, June 10, 2005
Hawaii
It looks as if the Guilford County taxpayers aren't the only ones up in arms about Commissioners taking a tax paid vacation in Hawaii.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
From Fury to Forgiveness
On June 7, Jamestown resident Zach Osborne was awarded a $5,000 scholarship from an unlikely source.
Death Row inmates from across the country have raised money through their bimonthly publication "Compassion". The publication was started in 2001, to raise money to send murdered victims' family members to college.
Zach's scholarship was the seventh awarded so far. It will be used to help the 19 yr. old rising sophomore pursue a Criminal Justice Degree at East Carolina University.
Zach's 4 yr. old sister, Natalie, was raped and murdered in April 1992 when Zach was 6 yrs. old.
Jeff Kandies, his mother's then-boyfriend, was arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime. He was sentenced to death and is now on Death Row at Central Prison in Raleigh.
"Kandies is moving closer to an execution date," said Matt Stiegler, an attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham. He has no more legal challenges in the state court and one pending with the U.S. Supreme Court.
"He's one of only a handful of prisoners for whom an execution date could be imminent," Stiegler said.
Zach submitted an essay on the effect Natalies murder had on his family, his life, how he came to forgive Jeff, and how the experience will make him a better law enforcement officer.
"I think it will motivate me more to solve cases or to put more effort in them," Osborne said. "It will motivate me to try to prevent events like what happened to my family from happening to others."
At the time of the tragedy the family was worried about what effect the murder would have on Zach. He's had his problems and his "demons" to fight. He rose above them, "exorcised" them and has grown into a fine, respectable, responsible young man, who is intent on helping others.
He has forgiven Jeff Kandies.
Being a family member, and one who helped carry Natalie to her final resting place----------------I wish I could.
Death Row inmates from across the country have raised money through their bimonthly publication "Compassion". The publication was started in 2001, to raise money to send murdered victims' family members to college.
Zach's scholarship was the seventh awarded so far. It will be used to help the 19 yr. old rising sophomore pursue a Criminal Justice Degree at East Carolina University.
Zach's 4 yr. old sister, Natalie, was raped and murdered in April 1992 when Zach was 6 yrs. old.
Jeff Kandies, his mother's then-boyfriend, was arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime. He was sentenced to death and is now on Death Row at Central Prison in Raleigh.
"Kandies is moving closer to an execution date," said Matt Stiegler, an attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham. He has no more legal challenges in the state court and one pending with the U.S. Supreme Court.
"He's one of only a handful of prisoners for whom an execution date could be imminent," Stiegler said.
Zach submitted an essay on the effect Natalies murder had on his family, his life, how he came to forgive Jeff, and how the experience will make him a better law enforcement officer.
"I think it will motivate me more to solve cases or to put more effort in them," Osborne said. "It will motivate me to try to prevent events like what happened to my family from happening to others."
At the time of the tragedy the family was worried about what effect the murder would have on Zach. He's had his problems and his "demons" to fight. He rose above them, "exorcised" them and has grown into a fine, respectable, responsible young man, who is intent on helping others.
He has forgiven Jeff Kandies.
Being a family member, and one who helped carry Natalie to her final resting place----------------I wish I could.
Monday, June 06, 2005
More Fodder For Our "Non-Blogging" Greensboro and County Politicians
in this article.
"Blogs can boost your career".
"A strategy for career enhancement".
"Shows you are up to date on latest ideas and news"
"Having an on-line presence is an important part of managing your career".
Will they be anyone joining, other than the ones already blogging, to indulge us with their views and ideas and let us know where they stand on the issues, and in turn find out what we think?--------------
or will it be not so easy to "backtrack" on something you have already stated in print?---------------
or do you think its just none of our business where you stand on anything?
"Blogs can boost your career".
"A strategy for career enhancement".
"Shows you are up to date on latest ideas and news"
"Having an on-line presence is an important part of managing your career".
Will they be anyone joining, other than the ones already blogging, to indulge us with their views and ideas and let us know where they stand on the issues, and in turn find out what we think?--------------
or will it be not so easy to "backtrack" on something you have already stated in print?---------------
or do you think its just none of our business where you stand on anything?
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Friday, June 03, 2005
Twin Oaks Sold
The deal is 95% complete and the par three golf course will be turned into condos and townhouses.
If you like par three night golf, you'll have to October.
If you like par three night golf, you'll have to October.
Alabama Teen Missing
On a trip to Aruba, from Mountain Brook High School in Alabama with 124 seniors and 40 chaperones, the 18 yr. old has been missing for 5 days. Searchers are still looking for her.
Maybe it's just me, but the end of the article is no place to be advertising Luxury Aruba Vacations, Aruba Accomodations, and the Aruba Ocean Club.
Maybe it's just me, but the end of the article is no place to be advertising Luxury Aruba Vacations, Aruba Accomodations, and the Aruba Ocean Club.
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