Posts by Larry

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Words to Live By - What are Yours?

by pettygrudger in

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in trying to deal with the everyday realities of our existence, we usually pick "catch phrases" or principles with which we use to try & guide our life, growth & development.

in my case, the #1 thing that i try to live by is to take what is mine & own it.

yep, i didn't have the best circumstances growing up, and had some pretty crappy things that happened to me as a child.

Larry

Wow - Budda really said that - cool

Here's a few:

Life is not a spectator sport.

It is what it is.

Question everything.

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if any one has been a regular such as i have in the silent lambs site you will have noticed it has changed for the worse..as of last week i decided to withdraw from my membership...the site was designed by bill to vent, explain and devulge abuse that we have witnessed or experienced..as in my case as a former m.s i had seen two coverups in my hall...the parents to afraid to go to the police and the elders screaming jehovah will leave them if they tell on the org is the crime i had to bare with..so i spoke up and left the org...silent lambs was for that reason...now.

it has mutated to a cheap lowlevel site for apologist and non witness who want to argue on unrelated topics..to top it off bill has given the site to an editor who is so silly and more involved than the participants why bother anymore....to bill..you lost your way...

Larry

True, the Silent Lamb movement is bigger than Bill, and Bill will be the first to admit it. I think Bill is a great guy, a 'pioneer' in his effort against the BORG's policy on Child Molestation. Regardless of what happens to the Silent Lamb movement it has already succeeded on many levels and will continue to do so.

My condolences to the victims, and may Silent Lambs and other networks conitnue to help you on your road to recovery.

Peace - Larry :)

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~Show us your PC wallpaper~

by FlyingHighNow in

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here's mine: (it's set on a red background).

Larry

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~Show us your PC wallpaper~

by FlyingHighNow in

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here's mine: (it's set on a red background).

Larry

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Man charged for not tipping enough

by Larry in

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at first i thought it was a jdub :).

http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1095189250118990.xml&storylist=simetro.

man charged for not tipping enough has charges dropped9/14/2004, 3:09 p.m. et the associated press .

Larry

At first I thought it was a Jdub :)

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http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1095189250118990.xml&storylist=simetro

Man Charged For Not Tipping Enough Has Charges Dropped

9/14/2004, 3:09 p.m. ET The Associated Press

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) ? Charges against a downstate man arrested in an upstate restaurant for not leaving a big enough tip have been dropped.

Warren County District Attorney Kate Hogan said that after researching the case against 41-year-old Humberto Taveras, she determined the Queens man cannot be forced to pay a gratuity.

Taveras, 41, was charged Sept. 5 with misdemeanor theft of services after he and his fellow diners argued with managers at Soprano's Italian and American Grill over the legality of requiring an 18 percent tip for large parties.

Taveras had said he wasn't completely satisfied with the Adirondack restaurant's food and left a tip of under 10 percent, adding no one in his party was told of a mandatory 18 percent gratuity for parties of six or more people.

Hogan said had the 18 percent gratuity been called a surcharge or service charge, Taveras would have had a legal obligation to pay the tip.

"I'm happy to have it behind me, but the whole situation shouldn't have happened to begin with," Taveras told The Post-Star of Glens Falls.

"I'm glad someone came to their senses up there," added Taveras, who faced up to a year in jail. "Now I can tell my kids `Daddy's not a crook.'"

Restaurant owner Joe Soprano had said he did not pursue charges because of the money, but because Taveras' group was obnoxious.

"We did what we thought was right," Soprano said after hearing of Hogan's decision on Monday.

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How many on this board vote?

by Netty in

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i cant bring myself to get into voting.

i am registered, but when its time to vote, i just really never fell the urge to get there and get it done.

my husband is very political, and is always talking politics and about the importance of voting.

Larry

Registered Independent - Voted ever since leaving the BORG in '98.

Voting does help the community - The community that doesn't vote is the community that gets less services.

Someone has to occupy that political seat, and for the most part you have a say as to who gets it.

I ran into an ex-jdub on the train the other day, and he told me that all the while he was a Jdub he voted. He is from Nigeria, and he cherishes his opportunity to vote.

Apathy towards voting = 4 more years for Bush. Not that I'm a Kerry fan, but I want to war to stop. However, whether Bush or Kerry wins the war will continue :-(

Cheney's recent comments were tacky "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."

Nader is the only candidate that is really speaking towards the issues, but I can't afford to vote for him, b/c I want Bush out -Which is not really saying much for democracy.

Interesting thing about voting is that when I was a Jdub I didn't vote and hated politics due to ignorance and mind control. Now that I'm out of the BORG and see how politics really works, I hate it even more. But the difference is I see the importance of voting.

Voting does make a difference. Don't forget about the primaries, next Tuesday - Sept. 14. Local elections are just as important.

Peace - Larry :)

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Why the Watchtower is Similar to Communism

by metatron in

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under soviet communism, the nation was ruled by a small group of elderly men, the politboro.

in the watchtower, the organization is ruled by a small group of elderly men, the governing body.

under communism, young people are encouraged to join the "red pioneers".

Larry

Wow - What an insight comparison - This thread is useful.

Thanks to all who contributed - Larry :)

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'Neath The Tower Of Fear: Video

by Corvin in

i put this little video together to get my mind of recent events.

it sort of expresses my disenchantment and awakening since leaving the organization.

i hope you enjoy it.

Larry

Wow - That was a good witness :)

I recognize the speaker, but where did you get the soundtrack?

Excellent work - Larry :)

144,000 & Employment

by Larry in

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saw this in the nyt - the number rung a bell :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/business/04econ.html?th

144,000 jobs were added in august, a bit of an uptick

Larry

Saw this in the NYT - The number rung a bell :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/business/04econ.html?th

144,000 Jobs Were Added in August, a Bit of an Uptick

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 - The pace of job creation picked up modestly in August and the unemployment rate edged down, the Labor Department said on Friday in a report that offered some political relief to the White House but only tepid signs of a rebound in employment.

The nation added 144,000 jobs in August, twice as many as in July but just barely enough to keep pace with increases in the adult population. The unemployment rate declined to 5.4 percent from 5.5 percent in July, with new jobs being created in most sectors of the economy.

The report, coming less than 12 hours after President Bush outlined his goals for an ownership society to the Republican National Convention, provided evidence that employment will continue to grow in the months before the November election, but much more slowly than administration officials had hoped just a few months ago.

Investors were relieved that the numbers were roughly in line with Wall Street forecasts, but analysts were far from ecstatic.

Even with the new jobs created last month, economists said that employment had grown more slowly since the end of the recession of 2001 than during any previous recovery in the last half century.

The nation still has about one million fewer jobs now than it did when Mr. Bush took office in January 2001, and it needs to generate about 150,000 jobs a month just to keep pace with population growth.

"We're all sort of breathing a sigh of relief, but we're not out of the woods just yet,'' said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at DRI/Global Insight. "This is just barely enough to keep the recovery going.''

The good news for the economy and for Mr. Bush was that the pace of job creation and hourly wages was much healthier in August than in July.

In addition, the Labor Department raised its estimates for job and wage growth in July, reporting that employment rose by 73,000 jobs rather than the original figure of 32,000.

Mr. Bush, at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Friday morning, said the new report showed that the economy was "strong and getting stronger" and declared that "our growing economy is spreading prosperity and opportunity and nothing will hold us back."

Senator John F. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, responded that Mr. Bush's overall record on employment remains the worst of any president since Herbert Hoover.

"President Bush is now certain to be the first president since the Great Depression to face re-election without creating a single job,'' Mr. Kerry said in a statement. "If you believe lost jobs mean that America is heading in the right direction, you should support George Bush and his policies of failure.''

In practice, no president has more than an indirect effect on unemployment. Companies reduced payrolls as the economy slid into a recession in early 2001, just as Mr. Bush was taking office, and they kept cutting long after the recession officially ended in November 2001.

Economists cite several reasons, most of them outside the president's control, behind the reluctance of companies to hire even when business is expanding. One factor, they said, is that many companies are still dealing with the overhiring that they pursued in the waning frenzy of the economic boom, much as they are still working their way through their overspending on technology.

Hiring has also been restrained by sharp increases in productivity, the amount of output that companies can squeeze out of each worker, and by intense competition from manufacturers in low-wage countries, especially China.

Employers have also become nervous about rapid increases in health insurance benefits, which have raised employment costs even though wages have been climbing slowly or not at all.

That said, President Bush has opened himself to criticism by insisting that his tax cuts would accelerate growth and create millions of additional jobs.

In a chart prepared by the White House Council of Economic Advisers in February 2003, the administration predicted that nonfarm payroll employment would climb by more than five million people by the end of 2004 - an average monthly gain of about 300,000 jobs - and that the tax cuts would specifically be responsible for more than one million of those new jobs.

The administration's forecast has fallen well short: since last August, when employment finally began to rise, the nation has added 1.7 million jobs, or an average of fewer than 150,000 a month.

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the final chapter, part nine, the journey home.*

by zev in

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the final chapter, part nine, the journey home.

part 8 was posted on 21-apr-02 and since then allot has happened.

i moved in with my parents on december 8th, 2001. my whole family was glad to have me back in their lives.

Larry

Zev - Thanks for sharing your experiences. Also, I want to thank you again for sending that 'Silent Lamb' CD containing the photos of that historical march on the BORG.

Peace - Larry :)