Today's Headlines

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:14 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:Haha, you sarcastic so and so

Dude! You've got an animated gif for EVERYTHING!

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:17 am

From The Washington Times:

DVD rentals costly to Postal Service

By Jim McElhatton
November 29, 2007

Rentals of DVDs from companies such as Netflix cost U.S.
taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year because U.S.
Postal Service sorting machines can't process millions of
return envelopes, government inspectors say.

The government incurs more than $20 million per year in labor
costs to hand-sort DVDs. And costs are expected to total as
much as $30 million per year by 2009.

"Because these mail pieces are not machinable, the Postal
Service pays significant additional labor costs to manually
process them," auditors wrote in a recent report issued by
Tammy L. Whitcomb, the deputy assistant inspector general
for revenue and systems.

The problem is return envelopes for some DVD rental mailings
have a "floppy edge" that can jam sorting machines and cause
"missorts," according to inspectors.

Postal inspectors want Postal Service management to revise
a manual that classifies what is "machineable" versus mail that
needs to be sorted manually. Mail that can't be sorted by machine
is charged an extra 17 cents.

But Postal Service officials haven't agreed to any price changes
as a result of the recommendations, citing the "magnitude of this
decision."

In a recent letter to Miss Whitcomb, two Postal Service vice
presidents ? Susan M. Plonkey and Michael K. Plunkett? stated
they were "greatly concerned with the possible negative impact
on affected customers if a change in mailing standards results in
a substantial price increase."

The Postal Service declined to discuss the report yesterday.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:43 am

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A storm that brought hurricane force winds and heavy rain to the Northwest, killing at least four, was en route to the Upper Midwest, which has already been hit with heavy snow and rain.

Are you north-easterners okay?

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:07 am

I'm sort-of/almost in the northeast...and NOTHING!!! It's cruel, I tells ya. Most people complaining (or dying) and we (who loooove snow) can't get a flake! Well, tonight we're to accumulate 1 to 3 inches. Watch, it'll be 1 to 3 nothing, and I'll stand in the morning with my fist in the air, giving the sky a piece of my mind (I'll have to use it sparingly, of course.)

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:09 am

You know, I'm pretty sure I meant to type north-WESTERNERS.

Oh well, it's early.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:30 am

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:37 am

...hoping the NW'ers are hunkered down and ridin' it out.

Stay strong and keep the fires burning.

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:50 am

It's 53 degrees here this morning...............................it's gonna be 30 something tomorrow morning.

Pineapple Express anyone?

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:06 am

Walkinghairball wrote:It's 53 degrees here this morning...............................it's gonna be 30 something tomorrow morning.

Pineapple Express anyone?

damn that's a heat wave!

...let's start grillin'!

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:57 pm

This pisses me off to no end:

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_338122431.html

We have a mounting deficit in this state, and more problems with bridges in disrepair than I care to count- yet the politicians ban these signs and want the tributes to soldiers taken down because it may come loose and become a hazard???

Our politicians hard at work.

I have a better idea- why don't you screwballs cut all your little projects (read "pork") out of the budget so we can abolish the state tax finally?

Didn't think so.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:13 pm

YYZ30 wrote:This pisses me off to no end:

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_338122431.html

We have a mounting deficit in this state, and more problems with bridges in disrepair than I care to count- yet the politicians ban these signs and want the tributes to soldiers taken down because it may come loose and become a hazard???

Our politicians hard at work.

I have a better idea- why don't you screwballs cut all your little projects (read "pork") out of the budget so we can abolish the state tax finally?

Didn't think so.

That's a big steamin' pile of bullshit. Got Democrats?

They do NOTHING to support the troops. NOTH-ING.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:55 pm

CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:This pisses me off to no end:

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_338122431.html

We have a mounting deficit in this state, and more problems with bridges in disrepair than I care to count- yet the politicians ban these signs and want the tributes to soldiers taken down because it may come loose and become a hazard???

Our politicians hard at work.

I have a better idea- why don't you screwballs cut all your little projects (read "pork") out of the budget so we can abolish the state tax finally?

Didn't think so.
That's a big steamin' pile of bullshit. Got Democrats?

They do NOTHING to support the troops. NOTH-ING.

Massachusetts, by definition, is a "blue" state.

Its bullshit if you ask me.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:07 pm

YYZ30 wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:This pisses me off to no end:

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_338122431.html

We have a mounting deficit in this state, and more problems with bridges in disrepair than I care to count- yet the politicians ban these signs and want the tributes to soldiers taken down because it may come loose and become a hazard???

Our politicians hard at work.

I have a better idea- why don't you screwballs cut all your little projects (read "pork") out of the budget so we can abolish the state tax finally?

Didn't think so.
That's a big steamin' pile of bullshit. Got Democrats?

They do NOTHING to support the troops. NOTH-ING.
Massachusetts, by definition, is a "blue" state.

Its bullshit if you ask me.

More like secular-progressives. (You know, the ones that wanna take Christmas from ya too?)

BACK!

**makes symbol of the Cross with fingers**

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:28 pm

CygnusX1 wrote:
More like secular-progressives. (You know, the ones that wanna take Christmas from ya too?)

They will pry Christmas out of my cold, dead hands.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:56 pm

Didn't we have a thread somewhere about sending the ACLU a Christmas card?