Yeah, it makes me mad. You know what really irritates me? I was in the grocery store the other day and they put everything in bags. Even things that have their own bags or handles. A gallon jug of milk? It’s got a handle!! The clerk puts it in a bag. By itself. Big bundle of carrots in a nice thick bag. Clerk puts it in a bag – by itself.
It’s ridiculous. It’s the little things I guess. My wife insists that I have at least some degree of OCD. Perhaps she’s right…
March 16, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I can answer the milk in a bag question. When I use to work at a grocery store 95% of the people wanted their milk in a bag. Sack of potatoes in a bag. 12 packs of sodas in a bag. I guess its just easier to bag it because if you don’t the customer wants it in one. As for me, if its got a handle, I skip the bag 🙂
March 17, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Whenever I purchase milk at the store, the clerk asks if I want it in a bag or not.
What is going on with AIG pales to the waste of the Federal Government. Obama was going to end pork as we know it. Though, I guess we just need to wait until the next budget and or bail out for that to happen. Obama asks us to accept just a little pork(billions) this time, yet gets “outraged” over millions. Congress votes themselves raises in the middle of the night, not based on merit but greed. Yet, Congress gets their anger up over what AIG is doing. At least for the Dems and Obama it is all produced outrage and anger to further push their socialist agenda on the Country.
Meanwhile, all of the hot air from the White house keeps the attention away from the real issues. Obama has insulted at least three Foreign leaders over the last couple of weeks, has been pushed around by Iran, China and Russia. He still has not plan for mortgages. He is pushing a health care plan onto military veterans that is an insult.
But, lets get mad at AIG.
March 17, 2009 at 8:49 pm
There is an abundance of waste throughout our society. I imagine Rome progressed down a path not un-similar to that upon which we find ourselves walking.
March 17, 2009 at 9:11 pm
David,
Agree. Now, if Obama and the Congress did not pass one bill full of pork, and were not about to pass the largest budget in the history of the Nation, and were willing to share in the “sacrifice”, then I would not have much of a problem with them being mad at AIG.
However, as I said all of this overheated hate is just a farce and smoke screen.
Our border with Mexico is about to disappear. Phoenix is ranked second in the World for kidnapping(thanks to Mexican drug gangs), we have Mexican drug gangs invading our Nation, we have millions of illegals in the Country, and more coming everyday.
How does Obama react? He sends more ATF agents to the border to look out for gun runners who are taking guns from our Nation into Mexico. Again, if Obama had the priorities right, I would not mind having some attention paid to the gun running, but the number one problem with the border is not gun running.
March 18, 2009 at 8:47 am
Hi Andy, I ask clerks not to bag items I can easily carry and use cloth bags when I can. Most stores have places to recycle plastic bags. And I seek serenity in working toward solutions. Railing about elected leaders instead of taking an active role just increases blood pressure.
I channel my suspected OCD into picking up litter daily with a grab-it stick and the plastic grocery bags I don’t recycle. Now, if I start bringing it home and saving it, I’m in big trouble! My husband already threatens to tell people who mention seeing me pulling beer cans, Big Gulps and rotting Pulse newspapers out of gutters, “oh, she’s on Work Release.”
March 18, 2009 at 11:04 am
Sorry Andy, I won’t forget A.I.G. The R’s, D’s, and I’s are all
rightfully grabbing pitch forks. This isn’t one of those many gray
issues in governing — this is a great, clear wrong.
– “What President Obama should have have said to the blood sucking
bums at A.I.G., many of them foreigners who were working at the
louche London unit, was quite simple: “We stopped the checks.
They’re immoral. If you want Americas’ hard-earned cash as a
reward for burning up their jobs, homes and savings — sue me!”
Maureen Dowd (NYT 3-28-2009)
– Tonight the Manassas City Council will meet at 5:30 in the
Public Works Facility (public welcomed) to continue our work on
the budget. We start with Community Development and then on
to Family Services and Non-Profit Organizations. It looks as if
some very worthy groups, with high request for services from
our most needy and decreased donations from the private sector-both
due to the economy, may, at best, be granted no more
than they received last year from the city. Please excuse me for
wondering what even 1% of the A.I.G. bonus money could do
for SERVE, the Prince William Area Free Clinic, Healthlink, etc.,etc.
The choice our government made with A.I.G bonus payouts
was not just wrong, it was immoral.
March 18, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Fannie Mae is also planning to give bonuses to executives. Hmm, I guess we will have to see how Obama reacts to that.
Also, during his press conference today, Obama said he wanted the anger to not go away and wanted to fan the flames of that anger. I wonder if he would have such an opinion if that anger were directed at him?
He was also asked what he was going to do with the $100,00.00 dollars his campaign received from AIG during the campaign. He did not answer the question and in fact acted as if he had not heard it.
So there we have it folks. Change indeed.
March 20, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Ya know Andy…IF the bags make you THAT MAD…Bring your own, reusable, bags and you won’t have this issue anymore and life will be good.
And if this is REALLY an issue with you…”it isn’t healthy. Maybe you should think about coming down to the mental health center and speaking with someone!” M’Lynn Eatenton, “Steel Magnolias”
March 20, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I’m always open to the suggestion that it’s just me….:)
March 20, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Why are City of Manassas teachers allowed to use the City of Manassas Email system for their own personal financial benefit outside of bona fide City of Manassas school work? This is one way to save money.
http://www.highlandsports.org/index.cfm?action=main.teamcoaches&id=2660
March 20, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Peggy Noonan, a former key Reagan speech writer and, until today,
a favorite of mine wrote in today’s Wall Street Journal
“Lincoln was rawboned, prone to the blues and freakishly tall.”
FREAKISHLY? Arrrgh! As someone two inches taller than Abe’s 6-4,
now I’M suddenly “prone to the blues”. Geesh, how do you work
around that “F” word? And she even added he had giant size
14 feet – my size! Should I demand an apology for heightism?
Where is CNN? Fox? – I demand my talk show indignation moment!
No wait, not in the middle of March Madness – the height of the
year for the vertically gifted. Catch you after the games.
March 21, 2009 at 7:26 am
@Steve,
For his time, he was. He wouldn’t be now, heck, he’d barely make point guard it seems.
March 21, 2009 at 10:27 am
“A town represents a reciprocity of moral and material interest,
but it is in the truest sense that Manassas is a town of homes, churches,
schools, commerce, manufacture and industry. It is an ideal place
in which to live – the moral atmosphere is wholesome, the climate
is helpful, earnest, honest work is rewarded, there is enough to share
with all who come.
There is not a town in the United States that offers greater opportunity
and better advantage to the homeseeker and investor. Here one can
earn a comfortable living, surrounded by uplifting influences …
Investments in Manassas bring a safe, conservative return – there
are no inflated values, neither are there booms to burst into ruin.
As a consequence Manassas is prosperous and progressive and its
citizens enterprising and aggresive along sound, sustantial lines.
They are building for the future, not alone today.”
The Manassas Democrat (April 20,1911)
March 21, 2009 at 10:46 am
“Substantial” – the 98 year old newspaper had it right. I copied it wrong.
March 21, 2009 at 11:02 am
THE TOWN OF MANASSAS
Allurements And Advantages of the Battlefield City Varied
– Population 1,217
– Two strong banks
– Nine churches – no saloons
– An active Business League
– Seven fraternal organizations
– Daily candy output, five tons
– Twenty-one passenger trains daily
– Daily milk shipments, fifty gallons
– Industries: candy, stave mill, brickyard, quarries, dairying
– Thirty-miles from Washington. Within one hour’s ride of the Capital
– Twelve mails are received and dispatched daily
– One hundred thousand railroad ties are shipped annually
– Site of Eastern College, Manassas Agricultural High School, the
best Graded School system in Virginia and the Manassas
Industrial School for Colored Youth
The Manassas Democrat ( April 20,1911)
March 23, 2009 at 8:58 am
Too bad we can’t say the same about our City today. Obviously not all is bad with our City, but many of the changes since 1911 have not been good.
Hmm, that one hour commute does not sound too bad. I wonder what “rush hour” was like back then?
March 23, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Imagine “rush hour” revolved around the train station – highways
in 1911 often being merely dirt paths (President Taft’s auto
caravan was delayed coming from DC later that year by having to
ford numerous creeks – he was a Peace Jubilee speaker at
the Courthouse in Manassas). In 1911 they had more passenger trains,
freights waited for them and not vice versa, and the only normally
scheduled stop between Manassas and Union Station was Alexandria.
March 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm
– Great day to be outside. Checked out the progress on Battle Street
and they were busy with replacing sidewalks (no doubt cuts down
on customer traffic when folks aren’t able to come in your door).
Hopefully the weather will hold and they can finish much of that
crucial part in the next few days. A pain now, but imagine
the large majority will be pleased when it is finished. That is the way
it has always gone on projects like this – the Harris Pavillion, the
Candy Factory, the Railroad Walk, the Parking Garage, etc.
– Regular council meeting tonight. As always, citizen comment
time at 7:30. Come down and join us.
March 25, 2009 at 3:14 pm
How times have changed, and have not changed. People still take the train into DC.
October 10, 2009 at 4:45 am
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October 12, 2009 at 8:47 am
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