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July 10
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I called a plumber to fix my toilets. The following are the charges. To replace the flapper inside one tank, $79. To reset one toilet is $89 and house call is $90. This adds to $249 for one hour of work. Since I have America Home Shield, I paid $55 and AMC was billed $290. Total cost was $345. Where the extra charge came from, I don’t know. I can prove this. While the plumber was here, I asked him to write up a separate work order to have four faucets in the house fixed and one outside faucet. The quote was $157.50 for the outside faucet, $109 for each inside faucet. Because I am a senior, I was given 10 percent off. No, I didn’t have it done. My son came over and did all the faucets for $50 in parts. This to me is nothing but a rip-off.
Remember the “Tip a Cop” event on Monday, July 21, from 5 to 9 p.m. Sierra Vista’s Finest will be serving pizza to us cheese addicts, in hopes of generating funding for the Special Olympics we and the department supported in the past. See ya there.
The AARP safe driver course presents the newest rules of the road and the very latest helpful information for drivers of all ages. One new fact emphasized in Tuesday’s class was “Beware of vehicles with bumper stickers!” Those stickers are territorial boundary-setters meaning “Get out of my way. This is lane is mine.” Don’t ever look those drivers in the eye. Let them pass, so you can watch them and they can’t rear-end you or shoot you in the back. Never cut them off. Try to park away from them at the far end of a parking lot. The time you save by giving them the right of way will get you home alive and only a very few minutes later than you hoped.
July 11
I believe Alice Hamers was quite sincere in her letter, “America should value peace over war.” However, she seems forgetful of the horrors of 9/11. She seems forgetful of an al-Qaida bent on the destruction of the United States and Western civilization for that matter. She seems forgetful of a fanatical Iran intent on building nuclear weapons and calling for the destruction of Israel, our close ally. She seems forgetful of an Iran just waiting for the day for the U.S. to pull out troops from Iraq so that it can fill the void and control Iraq, Iraqi oil, and, thereby, the Middle East. She seems forgetful of an Iran that finances and equips Hezbollah and Hamas, two Islamic terrorist organizations which do its bidding, for eventual hegemony over Lebanon and Palestine. She seems forgetful of a China that is building up its armed forces at a herculean pace. Why?
In the recent deficit problems with our state’s budget the example was shown of how corrupt our government is in this state. Rather than raise the taxes on each citizen by approximately $200 during the next year, our governor put forth a plan to charge a few who manage to get caught by speeding devices probably about the same fee each time. Of course the reason it won’t balance the budget is that not everyone will be caught, just the unfortunate ones who happen to be where they put the cameras. A lot of that money will go to the camera companies and overhead. It would be nice if we had some honest politicians but I guess that is an oxymoron.
True Republicans with real conservative ideals do not have to hold their nose and vote for McCain. Check out bobbarr2008.com. Vote for your true principles. Be “proud” of your vote.
While driving around on the Fourth of July, looking for a great place to park to watch fireworks, I was traveling down Seventh Street. I spotted a motorcycle with its lights flashing ahead of me in the right lane. Slowing down due to the odd site, I noticed a wounded dog in front of the cycle. I soon turned around and returned to the motorcycle and dog and asked what I could do to help. He mentioned he already called the city police and was waiting for their arrival. I positioned my vehicle on other side of the dog, with my flashers on so it would be easier for oncoming traffic to veer around the wounded dog. The gentleman on the cycle was very kind to stop and help the dog from further harm and the officer who arrived was very gentle, but thorough in doing what he could till animal control arrived. Thanks to the motorcycle guy.
July 13
Herald/Review Sports Editor Matt Hickman has concocted another inane gem of journalistic nonsense. Sunday’s treatise on the disappearance of “manhood” among today’s male athletes was another one of his pointless wastes of forest products. I’m sure I’m not the only reader left clueless as to the purpose of his column. The irony here is that some fuzzy-thinking journalistic review board will recommend him for an award, probably because, if they can’t fathom what he’s writing about, he must be brilliant.
In its July 13 editorial, “Action is what is needed,” the Herald/Review states, “There is no clear picture under the Bush administration,” as to how exactly the United States would go about meeting the greenhouse gas reduction goal that was sought during the recent G-8 summit. It concludes, “Until that action occurs, calls for action at international summits are left empty and the environmental impacts that must be countered continue to grow?” Can the Herald/Review be more explicit about those so-called “environmental impacts” that continue to grow as a result of greenhouse gases? Are you unaware of the International Conference on Climate Change held in March 2008, during which scientists and researchers passed the “Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change,” which clearly states, “Global climate has always changed and always will, independent of actions of humans, and carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a necessity of life”?
Reference: New county board to oversee building code. Cochise County voters need to accomplish several things: Divide Cochise County into nine supervisory districts with a supervisor from each district being a voting member on the Board of Supervisors; contract out, for three years, with a two-year add-on for performance, all county requirements for attorneys, computers, road improvements and motor vehicles; cut the county employee compensation budget from 25 percent of the current budget to 12.5 percent of all future county budgets; encourage all county residents 21 years and older to vote.
Achmed bin Silly wrote on Jul 28, 2008 8:04 PM: