TG, honestly, I like you and I know that sometimes it probably seems like I don't. But i do. So i want you to know that i honestly do not like having to challenge your logic in almost every post you write. But geez, girl..... when your desire to make both sides equal is so firmly entrenched in your world view that you can't see something as obvious as the fact that the Left hates America, It's time you face up to the fact that your viewpoint is flawed. They flat out TELL YOU they hate the country.

The state unemployment systems back end runs on COBOL, but the bottleneck is the GUI front end systems and phone systems so people can get access to apply. Those are not COBOL. The actual programming to change payment amounts and conditions is pretty simple. IBM responded to the states whining about the lack of COBOL programmers by starting a place tro register and make yourself available. Myself and a lot of people I know registered and not one was contacted. The COBOL jobs you see on DICE are still the same old low dollar stuff, mostly serving as the liason between American companies and Indian programmers.

@Axtremus said in Tax Base: @Horace said in Tax Base: @Axtremus said in Tax Base: Go ahead and clarify your point (if you have one), I shall attempt to address that point directly. Hey wait a second. When Rainman and I ask you to address points directly, you never do. Why do you give preferential treatment to Jolly? This is an outrage. Sometimes Jolly needs my help more than you guys do. This is one of those times. Bwhahahahaha! Take away your keyboard, lad, and you are a drag on society. Do you have any other useful skills?

@Doctor-Phibes said in Phibes! I had to look up Enrico Pallazzo: Doesn't everybody remember Enrico? If I do tomorrow does that count?

I'm shocked that Goodyear would have the appearance of not telling the whole story.

Be a smarty

@Jolly @Copper Your ODS is showing. (Love you guys anyways!! )

Pain

Mobs are in

Nice

@Mik said in Forced Reform: Good piece. Lots going on. I have held the belief that the return to the classroom has been window dressing and that we will soon see mass school closings again. But the fiction of reopening had to be played out in order for the closings to be accepted. Maybe. The charter schools operate under a little different set of rules. They haven't been sending entire classrooms home. They monitor the class closely after a case, but they carry on. Believe it or not, they have not had a big outbreak, even though the state has been pretty hot.

It’s like a mash up of Huckleberry Finn and Forest Gump.

I'm sure they will show him lots of love in prison.

When Chicago closed down, D1 (who lives in the Rogers Park area) commented how many more police sirens she was hearing. Her neighborhood is pretty safe, but she found that she also heard gunfire not infrequently.