I finally got around to watching "The Iron Lady" a few weeks ago. My heart cringed when she gave the order to sink the ARA General Belgrano, which had been steaming back into an Argentine port. 'Sink it!' I realise that this was war and there are to be casualties associated with it, but it has especially bothered me about the decision to torpedo a ship which had been going back into port and outside of her self-declared exclusion zone. 323 lives all resting in an icy grave. Her death gives me no pleasure either, anymore than Galtieri's death did in 2003. Neither one deserves comparison with Hitler, despite the numerous lives they've impacted. Hitler is in a class with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Kim Jong-il, and is used far too many times in modern times to sully a reputation and give a false analogy.
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Margaret Thatcher has Died
by cantleave inwhether loved or hated her, you couldn't ignore her.. http://news.sky.com/story/1075292/margaret-thatcher-dies-after-stroke.
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Alameda County Administrator makes $423,664 a year!
by VM44 inalameda county administrator's premium pay end hearst/article/premium_article_tools_480.tpl end premium_story_header.tpl article/types/premium_story.tpl hearst/common/author_name.tpl by matier & ross.
e hearst/common/author_name.tpl article_timestamp.tpl march 25, 2013. alameda county supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county administrator susan muranishi with the wall street-like wage of $423,664 a year.. for the rest of her life.. according to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, muranishi receives:-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.. -- about $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.. -- an annual performance bonus of $24,000.. -- and an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member surplus property authority, an ad hoc committee of the board of supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.. like other county executives, muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.. muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. when retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.. that's because, according to the county auditor's office, muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000.
she also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.. "and she's worth every dime," said supervisor scott haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.. "we're lucky to have her," haggerty said.. he likens the job of running the county administration to being ceo of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.. granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit.
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She'll simply do what all other corrupt public officials do. Resign in disgrace, retire in luxury. Her former subjects will pick up the tab. They have no choice in the matter.
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Alameda County Administrator makes $423,664 a year!
by VM44 inalameda county administrator's premium pay end hearst/article/premium_article_tools_480.tpl end premium_story_header.tpl article/types/premium_story.tpl hearst/common/author_name.tpl by matier & ross.
e hearst/common/author_name.tpl article_timestamp.tpl march 25, 2013. alameda county supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county administrator susan muranishi with the wall street-like wage of $423,664 a year.. for the rest of her life.. according to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, muranishi receives:-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.. -- about $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.. -- an annual performance bonus of $24,000.. -- and an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member surplus property authority, an ad hoc committee of the board of supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.. like other county executives, muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.. muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. when retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.. that's because, according to the county auditor's office, muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000.
she also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.. "and she's worth every dime," said supervisor scott haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.. "we're lucky to have her," haggerty said.. he likens the job of running the county administration to being ceo of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.. granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit.
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'The state really needs to get their act together' Words that take on an additional meaning now. I like how she just throws out phrases like '...struggling in this difficult economy'. That evidently does not, nor ever will include her. That pension is as good as gold. Good luck trying to have that one modified short of proving fraud. If this erupts into a scandal, she can just take an early retirement and refuse to answer any questions.
The 3 AM emails anecdote sounds like it's contrived only to excuse the extraordinary salary. He probably noticed a 3 AM timestamp on a couple emails. Don't believe for a second that this woman stays up that late doing her job on a regular basis.
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Alameda County Administrator makes $423,664 a year!
by VM44 inalameda county administrator's premium pay end hearst/article/premium_article_tools_480.tpl end premium_story_header.tpl article/types/premium_story.tpl hearst/common/author_name.tpl by matier & ross.
e hearst/common/author_name.tpl article_timestamp.tpl march 25, 2013. alameda county supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county administrator susan muranishi with the wall street-like wage of $423,664 a year.. for the rest of her life.. according to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, muranishi receives:-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.. -- about $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.. -- an annual performance bonus of $24,000.. -- and an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member surplus property authority, an ad hoc committee of the board of supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.. like other county executives, muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.. muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. when retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.. that's because, according to the county auditor's office, muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000.
she also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.. "and she's worth every dime," said supervisor scott haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.. "we're lucky to have her," haggerty said.. he likens the job of running the county administration to being ceo of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.. granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit.
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She makes all that and only has an undergrad degree? Middle class taxpayers there ought to just love that.
I'll send emails out at 3, 4, or 5 in the morning if I can get that compensation package. No one gets that far up with so little without knowing someone or someone who knows someone. Politics.
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Field service is personal ministry
by Dismissing servant ina publisher in a congregation doesn't represent the watchtower organisation (due to legal reasons/insurance etc) .
they just represent themselves as individuals.
so why are publishers supposed to hand in their reports to the congregation/wts?
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There are some times I wish I can go back and use their own words against them. Since field service is not carried on the insistence of any man or organisation, I would have stopped turning in time and said that this was my personal ministry, and my time was turned in to Jehovah. If they wanted the numbers, they could check in with Him, since they are the FDS class and get direction from Him. Certainly Jehovah wouldn't mind handing over the numbers in order for them to plan on how much literature to distribute and where?
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Field service is personal ministry
by Dismissing servant ina publisher in a congregation doesn't represent the watchtower organisation (due to legal reasons/insurance etc) .
they just represent themselves as individuals.
so why are publishers supposed to hand in their reports to the congregation/wts?
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A personal ministry? Everyone who's been in it knows how hollow that sounds. Imagine if you just handed in time but never showed up at field service meetings? Would 'personal ministry' get you out of having to explain yourself in a back room? Or if you bothered to show, telling everyone you were going alone on your own 'personal ministry' business. Someone spots you in a cafe? Personal ministry, mate!
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Where's Judge Joe Rutherford when we need him? He'd be positively amused to know that a few of his former disciples have taken to pointlessly bashing Babylon The Great's embodiment on Earth, the Pope.
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When Cristina Fernandez openly split from the church and Bergoglio personally regarding gay marriage and adoption, there was no suggestion that she should be excommunicated or restricted from receiving communion. She even accused him of having a 'medieval' tone. I can't imagine anyone publicly disagreeing with the Governing Body, much less personally criticising and mocking the position of a particular GB member and not being disfellowshipped on the spot and banned from the KH.
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It's a typically Argentine political manuever and tiresome folly to connect every possible dot to the Dirty War of the 1970s-early 1980s in order to sully opponents. Verbitsky is a yellow journalist and one such person who indulges in this silly game of slander and libel. The fact that he is an admitted 'leftist guerilla' should cast doubts on his objectivity towards anything church-related. Argentines despise the terror plots of the Marxists just as much as the junta's response to it. The Church itself wasn't innocent either during this period, as is often the case in other dictatorships with high Catholic populations. But to directly connect Bergoglio to the crimes of the regime is really stretching the truth and a blatant attempt to smear the man. Menem himself pardoned the ringleaders of the junta in the early 90's, so why should we all of a sudden shift the blame onto a Jesuit priest who wasn't even connected with the government or military at the time, when it becomes convenient to do so now that he's in the spotlight? If there's blame to be proportionately distributed out for that sad period, we're in luck because we already have several culprits by name. Bergoglio is not on that list.
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Check this out - North Korean literature vs. WT literature
by sir82 inhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/12/christian_aslund_the_legacy_of_kim_documents_a_limited_view_of_north_korea.html.
look at that first photo.. don't those books look eerily like wt literature?.
the ones in the top 2 rows look exactly like the last of the hard-bound "thin" yearbooks.
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You should see their "We Are The World" video. Looks like it was produced in 1983!