An $80 tooth extraction could have saved his life.
UPDATE: smijer also tackles the subject (and in classic smijer fashion, gives us a much softer landing than is typicallly found on the blogosphere).
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Monthly Archive for February, 2007
A friend just stopped by, frustrated, because today is her one day off this week and this morning she loaded up her car with recycling so that she could drop it off at the collection center while out on errands. She doesn’t have room to store a month’s worth of refuse in her home, so rather than throw it away, she has been trying to make regular trips to the dropoff center (note to those not from around here: Chattanooga has recently reduced curbside pickup from weekly to monthly). But look at what she discovered when she got to Warner Park, our city’s primary recycling dropoff center:
Days & Hours of Operation
Monday, Tuesday & Friday 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Closed Wednesday & Thursday
When did they slip that in there?!? And is the Littlefield administration still trying to pretend that this isn’t a reduction in services?
Here’s a note to Ron:
Dear Mayor Littlefield,
You’re making it harder and harder for us citizens to avoid just throwing up our hands and sending our recyclables to the landfill. We jump through your hoops and then you move the goalposts, like this is some kind of game. And wasting taxpayer dollars on a stupid $100,000 raccoon isn’t helping to counter your image as the anti-recycling mayor.
p.s. Have you made any effort to fix our 911 Call Center yet?!?
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A friend just stopped by, frustrated, because today is her one day off this week and this morning she loaded up her car with recycling so that she could drop it off at the collection center while out on errands. She doesn’t have room to store a month’s worth of refuse in her home, so rather than throw it away, she has been trying to make regular trips to the dropoff center (note to those not from around here: Chattanooga has recently reduced curbside pickup from weekly to monthly). But look at what she discovered when she got to Warner Park, our city’s primary recycling dropoff center:
Days & Hours of Operation
Monday, Tuesday & Friday 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday 1:00PM – 5:00PM
Closed Wednesday & Thursday
When did they slip that in there?!? And is the Littlefield administration still trying to pretend that this isn’t a reduction in services?
Here’s a note to Ron:
Dear Mayor Littlefield,
You’re making it harder and harder for us citizens to avoid just throwing up our hands and sending our recyclables to the landfill. We jump through your hoops and then you move the goalposts, like this is some kind of game. And wasting taxpayer dollars on a stupid $100,000 raccoon isn’t helping to counter your image as the anti-recycling mayor.
p.s. Have you made any effort to fix our 911 Call Center yet?!?
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Last night, Keith Olbermann schooled Condi Rice on some pretty basic American History facts. Condi should be humiliated by her shocking display of ignorance, but is she? If you’d prefer to read the transcript, it follows after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Use the Google!’
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According to this recent poll from USA Today/Gallup, here’s the country’s ranking of the current crop of 2008 presidential contenders:
- Sam Brownback — I think he’s the only Catholic on the list so far, and according to this poll, the least objectionable — if we’re being shallow, anyway.
- Barack Obama — I wonder if the unnamed black candidate would score as high if Al Sharpton were in the race?
- [is there a jewish candidate?] — an unnamed Jewish candidate also scores well. Perhaps it’s time to bring back a little more of that Joementum!*
- Hillary Clinton — well, we’ve fallen out of the 90s, percentage-wise, but women are only being rejected out of hand by 11% of people. That’s progress, I suppose.
- Bill Richardson — where does all this anti-hispanic stuff come from?
- Mitt Romney — and we drop down into the 70s! Almost a quarter of Americans would reject a Morman out of hand. Wow.
- Rudy Giuliani — here’s where it gets really ugly. Only two thirds of Americans would consider voting for the thrice-married Giuliani. I wonder if that number would change if they knew that one of those wives was his cousin?
- John McCain — and barely edging out the unnamed homosexual is John McCain, who is already even older than Ronald Reagan was when he was first elected (Reagan was 69).
- [a homosexual] — I don’t know why this and Jewish are on the list except maybe to provide some contrast. Dots on the spectrum of prejudice, if you will…
- And finally, landing all the way at the bottom of the list? None other than Thomas Jefferson. How do you like them apples?
Next time maybe vegetarians, trial lawyers and deranged shock jocks should be added to the questionairre, so that Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards and Michael Savage can ping my list…
*just kidding!!!
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Has anyone had positive or negative experiences with either company? Their pricing is the same. The selection appears to be deep in both places — they both carry Dziga Vertov’s The Man With the Movie Camera and Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat. Both have large selections of foreign films…
I’m at a loss.
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In anticipation of Al Gore’s appearace on the red carpet this evening, there’s an article in today’s Washington Post titled Al Gore, Rock Star.
“Look, this guy was a visionary. He was right about everything, even the stuff he was ridiculed for,” Bennett says. “He was right about the Internet, he was right about the first Gulf War, he was sure as hell right about the Iraq war. And he was right about global warming.”
Right about everything? That would make him the anti-Cheney.
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Food for thought is just about the only food I’ve had today. DH and I have both been felled by the stomach virus that’s been traveling around Chattanooga in the past week or two. No food, no energy. What’s a body to do? Well, around here, the answer is to crawl under a blanket and turn on a
West Wing marathon. We did the first season. And around about the episode “Take this Sabbath Day“, I ran across this:
Toby: The Torah doesn’t prohibit capital punishment.
Rabbi: No.
Toby: It says, ‘An eye for an eye’.
Rabbi: You know what it also says? It says a rebellious child can be brought to the city gates and stoned to death. It says homosexuality is an abomination and punishable by death. It says men can be polygamous and slavery is acceptable. For all I know, that thinking reflected the best wisdom of its time, but it’s just plain wrong by any modern standard. Society has a right to protect itself, but it doesn’t have a right to be vengeful. It has a right to punish, but it doesn’t have to kill.
That’s all I’m sayin’…
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