Visitors

Visitors

Last night I installed a tracking service on the Blog, it does not collect any personal information, rather it collects information about where our visitors live, what screen resolution they use, what operating system they run and the page that refered them to the Blog.

I welcome and wish a Merry Christmas to our visitors from:

Canada
Chile
Republic Of Korea
Ireland

Seattle, Bronx, Kent, Brooklyn, Woodbridge, Eugene, Dulles, Medford, Pensacola, Los Altos, Fort Worth, Saint Louis...

and Newport.

Hold On There Men

Hold On There Men !!

ARTICLE ABOUT LONGVIEW HILLS

MONDAY – It Rained
TUESDAY – It Rained Again
WEDNESDAY - Yep Still Raining!
THURSDAY - YOU GUESSED IT RAIN STILL!

winds What was the highest wind on Tuesday?

Rain How many inches this last 4 days?

Trash Cans How many cans were lost?

Shingles I kept all mine how about you?

Down Spouts and Gutters Any lost or maybe found?

Anything else going on? Lets hear it!!!!

Internet Explorer Alert

Internet Explorer Alert

The U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

On the heels of last week's sophisticated malware attack that targeted a known IE flaw, US-CERT updated an earlier advisory to recommend the use of alternative browsers because of "significant vulnerabilities" in technologies embedded in IE.

Full Alert Text Click Here or On The Left US-CERT Alert

Williams Peace Plan

Robin Williams Plan for Peace
Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan... what we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan... (Hard to argue with this logic!)
"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace.
So, here's one plan:

1. The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega, Milosovich and the rest of those 'good ole boys.' We will never "interfere" again.

2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there.We would station our troops at all US borders. No more will anyone sneak through holes in the fence.

3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported to France immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France should welcome them.

4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers who won't speak English.

5. No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, or they get a "D" and it's back home baby!.Never to Return.

6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise.This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up their storage sites would be enough.)

8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place.! We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
Now, ain't that a winner of a plan."The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses

' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?"


I ran across this over a year ago and it still seems fitting today, what do you think ?

IBM Sells Out U.S. Jobs

Well It's Official

IBM sells PC business for $1.25B.
China's Lenovo to become world's No. 3 manufacturer;
Big Blue Sells Out American Jobs.

I wonder if there is anything we will be able to buy that says
"Made In America"

There goes another 2,300 "American" jobs !!!

Email IBM Click Here

December 7

President Roosevelt calling December 7, "a date which will live in infamy..."

Job cut plans accelerate

Job cut plans accelerate



Hit by rising health care and energy costs, employers announced more than 100,000 job cuts in November, capping the first three-month stretch above that level since early 2002, an outplacement firm said Tuesday. Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. said companies announced 104,530 job cuts in November, up 5.1 percent from a year earlier and 2.6 percent from October.

The September through November totals mark the first time that announced job cuts have topped 100,000 for three or more straight months since January to April of 2002, the firm said. U.S. employers have announced 930,690 job cuts this year.

But if December cuts reach 69,310, it will mark the fourth straight year with 1 million cuts announced by U. S. employers, Challenger added. Challenger said the economy's biggest worry is that a "large number of lower-middle class and middle-class Americans struggling to make it paycheck-to-paycheck will be short of discretionary income during the holiday shopping season." In addition to job cuts, the pace of job creation has been sluggish during the current expansion. The number of jobs created since the last recession ended in November 2001 has been the slowest of any economic recovery in the United States since World War II.

"We've fallen far short of prior economic expansions," said JPMorgan Fleming's Chan. "We're about 5-1/2 million (jobs) short of where would be today if this were a typical expansion."

IBM To Sell Out To China

IBM plans to exit PC business

International Business Machines Corp. has put its personal computing business up for sale in a deal that could be worth as much as $2 billion. Lenovo Group Ltd., China's top PC manufacturer, and at least one other company are said to be in talks with IBM. In its first disclosure that a deal may be imminent, Lenovo said it was in acquisition talks with a major technology company, without identifying the firm. The move to dispose of its PC business, which IBM started two and a half decades ago, is part of a long-standing effort by IBM to reduce its exposure to the market. It already relies on contract manufacturing partners, including a joint venture with China's Great Wall Technology, to produce all of its PCs. The deal would propel Lenovo from eighth place among PC manufacturers to the No. 3 position, combining its own 2.2 percent share with the 5.5 percent held by IBM. IBM's PC business employs roughly 10,000 people, including about 2,300 in the United States -- mostly product designers, marketers and sales specialists -- and some 7,700 overseas, a company spokesman said.

The latter includes more than 4,000 manufacturing workers in China employed by IBM's joint venture with Great Wall Technology in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Most IBM ThinkPads are built through this joint venture.

Well I guess that would mean all 10,000 jobs are lost to China !!
First WalMArt now IBM
Merry Christmas
To The Already 7,700 lost jobs.

Email IBM Click Here

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