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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 8:58:34 AM

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and all the Bretheren who serve.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 10:46:20 AM

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 11:32:16 AM

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Tithe, and condition is further downgraded, now to "Seething at the malignancy of the world"...

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 2:38:57 PM

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early a.m. tithe...

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 3:18:54 PM

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Ahhhh.....only ten hours until the weekend.......

This new 4 10-hour days plan is nice......

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 3:27:05 PM

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By the way, that same study showed that 25% of all 16 year old drivers will have a crash in their 1st year of driving. My newphew in Iowa has a permit at 14 1/2 so I am sure he will wreck the car before he gets a license.

I never understood this, just how out of it are 16 year olds? I didn't have my first accident until I was 25 (not my fault) and I didn't cause my first fender bender until I was 32. On the other hand when I was 18 a cop pulled me over and told me I had committed 6 moving violations in 3 blocks. When you're young like that it's not as much a matter of obeying the laws as it is just don't hit stuff. Reflexes and mental sharpness should compensate for poor obedience of the laws.

Well, it helps if you know/remember that teenagers are unable to assess risk. Literally. Recent studies on how the brain changes during puberty and very early adulthood show that a teen's brain literally is unable to accurately assess risk. They can't understand consequences or forsee how something could go wrong.

That is the reason cited in the study. Teens not only think they are invincable, but their brains can't process the threats that are there. Let alone the fact that they all have cell phones glued to their ears at all times (4X crash risk and 9X llikely to be fatal by the way).

So next time your teen does something stupid and says he doesn't know why he did it he may be telling the truth. Now keep in mind that these are averages. There are many 25 years olds who should not be allowed to operate an electric toothbrush let aone a car.

This same trait is why we use 18 year olds for combat. You tell them "Charge that machine gun" and they will do it. Tell a 30 year old the same thing and he will most likely ask if there is another way.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 4:22:00 PM

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Ahhhh.....only ten hours until the weekend....... This new 4 10-hour days plan is nice......

Yeah - i used to have that, but they revised my schedule from 4 x 10 hour days into 5 x 11 hour days...

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 4:27:35 PM

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BTW - congrats to fabertong for scooping up the completion of page #300, the 9000th post, AND the 9000th reply... (a hat trick!)

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 5:49:05 PM

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ALL GLORY TO THE THREAD!!!

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 5:52:44 PM

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Ahhhh.....only ten hours until the weekend....... This new 4 10-hour days plan is nice......

Man, I wish. For me it's pretty much 5 10 hour days and a meeting on Saturday and Sunday too.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:07:45 PM

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Two words you should become familiar with: I quit.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:20:49 PM

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Two words you should become familiar with: I quit.

Also worth knowing are "take this job and (fill in the blank)"

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:23:17 PM

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Ahhhh.....only ten hours until the weekend....... This new 4 10-hour days plan is nice......

Man, I wish. For me it's pretty much 5 10 hour days and a meeting on Saturday and Sunday too.

Mike, I hope the mission is THAT important. I learned early in my career to ID the bosses that are emergency junkies and stay away from them. YOu can spot one by the fact that they love to make themselves more important by elevating the urgency of everything involving them to emergency level.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:24:03 PM

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Ahhhh.....only ten hours until the weekend....... This new 4 10-hour days plan is nice......

Man, I wish. For me it's pretty much 5 10 hour days and a meeting on Saturday and Sunday too.

What are you doing now??

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:35:28 PM

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Apparently what everyone else is doing... bitching about their hours. Except me of course, 'cause today's my Friday!

Does it sound like I'm rubbing it in?

Because I am......

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:41:27 PM

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i meant, "Mike Solli, what is your current job/manner of employment?"

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 6:59:31 PM

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I work in the Ohio National Guard Joint Operations Center. I'm the logistics weenie. We deal with all mobilizing (and demobing) units (which keeps me very busy this time of year). In addition, we're the focal point for all info coming into and going out of the state. I love the job, but things are very busy now with units moving around. I don't have meetings every weekend, just when certain events occur. There are days when we just sit around here watching Fox News (which is on 24 hours a day here). It pays the bills. Two more years and I can retire if I want to.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 7:09:25 PM

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Just remember the phrase:

Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 7:16:06 PM

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Just remember the phrase:

Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

Unfortunately, i've never been able to convince most folks of the validity of that statement...

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 7:32:14 PM

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When it comes to mobilizing soldiers, poor planning on someone else's part means I'll do everything I can to fix it. Someone did that for me when it was my turn, and I'll do everything I can for those guys whose turn it is now.

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LOG! - 5/4/2006 7:32:59 PM

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Praise Log

Praise me

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RE: LOG! - 5/4/2006 7:33:53 PM

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Praise the Energizer Bunny?

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RE: LOG! - 5/4/2006 7:35:07 PM

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Thats Easter Bunny mister....

you got a problem with that?

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RE: LOG! - 5/4/2006 7:38:56 PM

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You're cousins, right?

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 7:40:57 PM

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When it comes to mobilizing soldiers, poor planning on someone else's part means I'll do everything I can to fix it. Someone did that for me when it was my turn, and I'll do everything I can for those guys whose turn it is now.

Right! i was thinking more along the lines of a surgeon who screws up (as in "Gee, I forgot to crossmatch blood for the operation), and suddenly they need the services of someone else (oh, say - the blood bank director): "Gosh, this guy is bleeding to death! Do something!!"

You better believe that it is now an emergency for someone because of poor planning by someone else!

Fortunately, no longer being hospital based, i don't face this sort of situation too often.

Your situation would be analogous, just with more people depending on you. It is now an emergency for you (people's lives riding on it) because of poor planning on someone else's part.

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RE: The Thread!!!! - 5/4/2006 7:44:30 PM

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Ok, on to some levity. Guess the ships.

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RE: LOG! - 5/4/2006 7:44:51 PM

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You're cousins, right?

com'ere.....

BAMPFFF!

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The Thread!!! - 5/4/2006 7:45:29 PM

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Thats Easter Bunny mister....

you got a problem with that?

Headline News: OHIO NATIONAL GUARD TAKES ON EASTER BUNNY!!

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RE: LOG! - 5/4/2006 7:45:42 PM

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RE: Thread - 5/4/2006 7:57:12 PM

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You must de-loggify your subject lines when you reply to TubbyBuns.......

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