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Woman on Social Security Forced to Live In Car With Dogs
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Move Over, Rover!
A 67-year-old California loan processor was laid off before retirement and now can't afford to pay rent on the $8.00 per hour job and social security income she receives from the Federal Government. The rents in the Santa Barbara area are entirely to expensive for her to afford, consequently she and other homeless women drive their cars into a gated parking lot every night to sleep in their cars.
How can we as Americans condone this? This woman is not a welfare junkie. She was a hard working loan officer whose company cheated her out of her retirement. And with the price of gasoline rising, she soon won't even be able to drive her car to her part-time job. This is the shame of every man, woman and child in this country. Cats treat their elders better than this.
I say, Barbara, you come to Mouskin, Texas where rent is affordable and the people are friendly and helpful. We don't even mind if you bring the dogs!
Bees Chase Man Off Mountain
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Hey, mind your own beeswax!
A swarm of bees attacked a hiker on South Mountain Trail near Phoenix, Arizona chasing him off the trail and into a 2oo-foot-deep ravine Monday witnesses said. Rescue personnel were required to don bee suits in order to save the injured hiker. No one was sure what made the bees swarm this particular man, although it was thought that he disturbed their area somehow. Local police thought he might have pulled out a comb. Other hikers say that although the man was running and waving his shirt, he was covered with a blanket of bees.
The temperature there reached a high of 100 degrees yesterday, a factor that may have made the bees restless. The hiker, 30, was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.
Blind Americans Complain Paper Money is Unfair
Give it to them in quarters!
An appeals court in New York has ruled that it is unlawful for the US Treasury to print bills which are not discernable by denomination to blind Americans. What? Hey, we don't have pockets, either, but do you see us in the courts demanding for Velcro on our fivers? NO. But the blind in this case are asking for a major change in currecy design, a change that could cost billions of dollars. They suggest pressing braille into each bill, making them different sizes or adding a foil strip that can be felt. I say, that's a load of crap. The problem is already solved. You just have to use your head.
Every bill we print in this country has a magnetic strip with the denomination encoded on it. All we need to do is provide magnetic readers for the blind. Run it across the bill, you know which bill it is. Simple. One design- easy. Mass manufacturing- cheap. And what's wrong with simple, cheap and easy? (unless you're talking about your daughter-in-law)
Once again the court systems in this country have put the responsibility for taking care of