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I'm back after a fall hiatus. Let's go 2011!!

Solution Symmetry by O.J. Caldon

Solution, though elusive, I think is to encourage the study of math and the study of spelling of one's own name. After conferring with my neighbors - who are well-to-do in the center of Cambridge and who are a bit older than me, whom has not completed a master's degree yet - the aforementioned observation, I supposed that city administrations ought to encourage their communities to review math like algebra or arithmetic. A fellow state citizen recommended the lost generations practice spelling names, such as Megan Van De Geisen. (Did I spell that correctly? My computer doesn't have a horizontal half-space.)

So, this criteria for those who were in fourth grade in the year 2000 and including those who were in college at age 26 but who are now at least 28. If this, then rest of us must keep up unconditionally or the youth will be better than us.

Problem Population

Problem these days is that for the 8 years of George W. Bush's presidency the youth graduating high school at age 18 drifted w/o college. That means that as of the year 2000 we the American people endured a young adult - youth - population of college looking years which graced through American commerce, buying according to it's new credit, good credit (startup $1000, pay late, lttle bit, please, please a little more??) all that was needed to keep up with mom & pop who pay rent &/or mortgage. They got $10.00 to $14.00 "minimum" wage jobs doing security or fast food or non-entry point jobs, showing up late, or not at all, putting in the minimum. They get off work & always on the cellphone. They're addicted to it. They use it so much it has a static electricity magnet from the sticky fingers to the negative side of the head. Those who made it to college for whatever reason took no scholarships but got school loans - manual instant electronic application with 2 handwritten personal references (non-confirmed, unchecked) - paying at least $45,000 over the course of 4 years (8 year presidency term). That's just the loan; that's not additional independent school loan; that's not additional independent school loan plus Pell grant + any misc. grant or same-day cross lender Bank unchecked funnel . Then, credit-card credit; plus a petty penny from mom or dad when car gas price go up (forgot about that one?). Now we're out of school, no job profession will have us - next goodest thing - medicine - it pays the most. If I don't get medicine, well, there's always the Law. "Thank God I have a laptop. I'll just use my friend's cellphone if needed." Problem nowadays is that academic honesty was not enforced in schools for 8 years. Nor were students pushed to make A's. Those that were honest went to Iraq, I guess.

Failing America's Faithful by Mikky Snow

Book Review

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's book "Failing America's Faithful" appears to have been sent to press without having been proof-read more than once. Why? First of all, there is a typo on the book-jacket front. [Well, "typo" isn't really the right word, if I don't change the word "typo" it's because I didn't have a chance to look this review over before continuing.] [The typo: two words need to be inter-changed in the subtitle.] These two words are: "God" and "Politics." Now watch folks as I give the subtitle: "How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way." The ending? Hmm,...was Townsend educated in the South or something? The Confederacy was big on polar opposite vocabulary to that of the North. I know because I've been around that area. Anyway, I'll leave the mathematics to you. You do the math. Now. See what I'm talking about? Should go "Politics with God" for many different reasons. Man, I just spent one hour typing out this book review yet I didn't have time to finish three whole points. Maybe better luck next book review.

Bullock Cop Goes Postalby K Mak

At 7:00am this morning, I walked into the Central Square U.S. Post Office in Cambridge, Massachussetts. The service desk where the postal clerks usually are was closed. Damn. It occurred to me that if I really needed anything, I could always try at the customer service window at the far left of the post office intake area.


So I walked around a little inside. Observed, I did, the shipping products section like I always do, looking for something new. Two boys looking. I spotted some loose labels. Bruce Sterling. After seeing that the price for two was $.69 each, I checked how much money I had on me. I had only planned to buy a stamp. Fortunately, I had enough money with me to purchase more than what I had intended in the first place.


I used a label. When I was finished addressing it, I found that there was nowhere to pay for it. I buzzed the customer service representative, a woman with, boy on the right looking, with short blond hair but she never looked at me from behind the glass;

rather, she glancedat me then turned to the side and walked away behind the glass window.It was 7:15am.
I had about fifteen minutes until the main clerk counter opened. So, I then sorted through my papers I had with me and jotted down some stories I thought I would like to work on today [the story list will follow this article].

At last the clerk counter opened [it was 7:30] and about 8 people poured through the main door. I kept letting each one get ahead of me even though I had been third or fourth in line. Something was making me uncomfortable about them and the postal clerk was looking at me weird.

Then the heat came on but I couldn't tell because I prefer AC.

I huffed and puffed and went over to the customer service window at the left side of the room.

There, from behind a desk a guy wearing a blue pin-striped, short-sleeve shirt hanging out over dark pants said I could pick up my mail at that post office location via a 30 day service called General Delivery.

It's a postal service for those doing business in an area temporarily. Many people use the service when moving to a new area and are apartment hunting. That postal clerk was not wearing a name tag, but neither was the black lady standing to his right, I think.

So this clerk tells me, "You need to talk to my supervisor," and reaches for a button on the phone. I tell him, "I don't need to speak to your supervisor, you're doing the job fine. Then he said, then I said, and round and round we went talking until I agreed with him and out pops his supervisor, Fran. His name was Michael.

Anyway, then I went back over to the postal clerk counter, paid for the labels and bought a stamp. Mr. Kendall, the clerk, gave me a purple heart stamp.

Coming stories in the next few days, weeks, and months include:
U.S. Dept. of Education
Student Loan Revampment
Food Prices
Minimum Wage
Human Genome
MIT Tech newspaper/MIT Police Dept.
Social Security

Stay tuned folks!!!!!!!!! :P

Titty Ditty trying to steal my story

>From "Ms." Oct. 1987.

(In response to those who complain that feminism doesn't take
homemaking seriously enough as work):

"Six months ago I too was a self-described "happy homemaker" I baked
bread, grew roses, played with my toddler. Then I woke one morning and
found my husband ( and our car, our stereo, our checkbook, etc.) gone.
I was COMPLETELY surprised; I had assumed he was as happy as I was!

"I had to immediately find a job (which pays a third what his does);
arrange for day care: try to scrape together enough money for food,
mortgage, and utilities.

"Housewife is NOT a valid career option because you have no control
over your own life. If you lose your husband you can't go down to the
employment agency and apply for another one!"

Lenona.

At 7:00am this morning, I walked into the Central Square U.S. Post Office. The service desk where the postal clerks usually are was closed. Damn. It occurred to me that if I really needed anything, I could always try at the customer service window at the far left of the post office intake area.

So I walked around a little inside. Observed, I did, the shipping products section like I always do, looking for something new. Two boys looking. I spotted some loose labels. Bruce Sterling. After seeing that the price for two was $.69 each, I checked how much money I had on me. I had only planned to buy a stamp. Fortunately, I had enough money with me to purchase more than what I had intended in the first place.

I used a label. When I was finished addressing it, I found that there was nowhere to pay for it. I buzzed the customer service representative, a woman with, boy on the right looking, with short blond hair but she never looked at me from behind the glass;

rather, she glancedat me then turned to the side and walked away behind the glass window.It was 7:15am.
I had about fifteen minutes until the main clerk counter opened. So,

Individuals with Dis Fareby Mikky D. Hoffman

U.S. Code Online via GPO Access states new laws in effect as of January 3, 2007. Title 42, Chapter 126, Subchapter III documents that discrimination in specified public transportation services provided by private entities, such as the Metropolitan Boston Trans... (MBTA), is prohibitted. Required purchase of photo I.D., or identity, cards for inviduals with disabilities as a means of identifying them and their disabilities is illegal. According to U.S. Code Online, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/, general rule:

"No individual shall be discagainst on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of specified public transportation services provided by a private entity that is primarily engaged in the business of transporting people and whose operations affect commerce."

In the city of Boston, Massachusetts, persons with disabilities are forced to use turnstyle entry points to the subway labeled "reduced Fare" in large letters. Senior citizens and students with reduced fares also use these gate points. Sometimes, public transportation customers are requested to present this I.D. card to MBTA train and bus operators.

Title 42--The Public Health and Welfare of the U.S. Code Online states that:

"the imposition or application by an entity described in the general rule of this section of eligibility criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a disability or any class of individuals with disabilities from fully enjoying the specified public transportation services provided by the entity, unless such criteria can be shown to be necessary for the provision of the services being offered."

One subway rider who did not appear to be disabled said, "I was forced to pay reduced fare with an I.D., or identity, card even though I was able to pay full fare without one."

These I.D., or identity, cards can be tracked anywhere in the MBTA transportation system. Application for an I.D. card requires the applicant to disclose medical information and income documentation in order to obtain this service benefit. The individual card may sometimes serve as legal proof of identity for business transactions.

Email public record 6/3/2010

Email Public Record 6/3/10
by Diana Vieson

Sandra Albano, Executive Assistant to the City Counsel of Cambridge, reported to a Cambridge resident that email in the United States - i.e. person to person - is public record as of today, June 3, 2010. Thus, said a female City Clerk representative, passwords are not necessarily neccessary but may be used. Albano made her statement in response to an inquiry into whether volunteer positions are available for the city of Cambridge councilmembers. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the seat of Academic power in the United States and is a strongly valued authority source around the globe

Steve Jobs rocks!

Date from Hell

When most people think of getting something to eat on, say, a first date, they usually think of going to a safe joint like a pizza place or a cafe. Following this train of thought it might seem that a place like McDonalds would be okay, right?

Well, I considered what a date at a place like the Cheesecake Factory might be like, menu-wise, and transferred the menu choices to a less pricey McDonalds palate. It would go something like this:

Drinks and Appetizers:
2 medium cokes $4.00
2 Ceasar salads $10.00
(no such thing as McSoup) - $0.00

Entrees:
1 Big Mac (guy) - $3.00
1 6-piece chicken McNuggets - $3.00
1 Quarter pounder (gal) - $3.00
1 Fish filet $4.00
2 large fries - $4.00
2 Coke refills (?) - $3.00

Dessert & Coffee:
2 Apple pie - $1.00
2 Strawberry shake - $4.00
2 McCappacinoes - $6.00
2 McCoffee refills - $2.00

This comes to a rough grand total of:
$50.00, if you want to be cheapo.

I dunno. I'm sick of figuring.
Where's an extension cord?