tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882510.post1019007581218380102..comments2023-12-24T16:36:01.860-08:00Comments on Over the Hump!: Or Not!Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10091933429533102339noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882510.post-68918632754135663972010-08-16T08:56:09.654-07:002010-08-16T08:56:09.654-07:00Do you really need a dehydrator? Just put the stu...Do you really need a dehydrator? Just put the stuff outside, 109 in the sun and no humidity should work on that stuff pretty fast.JoeinVegashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05613274657685121948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882510.post-48068261693287650082010-08-14T11:18:14.043-07:002010-08-14T11:18:14.043-07:00well, two points, now.
First, I do get windy, whet...well, two points, now.<br />First, I do get windy, whether by tongue or type, it's a terrible habit of mine.<br />I keep meaning to attend <br />ON-and-ON-ANON, <br />but I don't know where they are located. <br />The thing is, my friend Lee is such a good guy...he greatly loves comments from real people (hates the spammers and such) and I feel bad if you bounded off without commenting just because I got too wordy.<br /><br />Second point, another great way for "heat" and yet leaving it remain a delicacy for a simpler tongue?<br />If you start with a slab of meat, after an initial marinade is added, roll the meat in course pepper, and let that sit for a day or two. After slicing/dehydrating you'll find it carries an exquisite "bite" without burning the tongue of softer, more delicate folk you share it with.<br />Like, say your 25th anniversary wife.<br />(congratulations)bonemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10484125049735629611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882510.post-73401941411293128322010-08-13T19:21:21.934-07:002010-08-13T19:21:21.934-07:00Sounds like a very nice dinner. Happy Birthday to ...Sounds like a very nice dinner. Happy Birthday to your wife!<br /><br />I must disagree with you on the pension thing. No pension is given to the workers for free whether it is private or public sector. Workers negotiate wages and conditions and regularly trade one off for the other. No company or government has ever handed out anything on a silver platter to the workers. <br /><br />A raise is negotiated, lets say 10% over three years. Now the workers have the choice of taking it all as cash or using some or all of it to "buy" benefits or conditions. They may collectively decide to take half as cash and put the rest into a pension plan, medical plan, longer vacation or whatever the heck they decide. The fact of the matter is that once the increase has been negotiated it becomes the workers money to spend as they please. If the workers give up years of raises to buy a pension and medical plan, then that plan belongs to the workers who paid for it with their own money. It does not belong to the employer, private or public.<br /><br />What is happening now is the government or private employer is taking back conditions and benefits that were paid for by the workers through reduces wage increases. It is not the bosses money in those plans, it is the workers.<br /><br />This is like you working to buy a Chevy and then two years later GM comes to your house and takes back the engine. It is no longer their engine, you paid for it, you had an agreement. Same as your pension. It is a future benefit paid for in advance by the worker and agreed to by the employer.<br /><br />It is not only in the USA. My wife worked for the Provincial Government here in BC. She gave up thousands in wage increases to buy a good pension plan with medical and dental for life (or so she thought). It did not come cheap but that was what the workers wanted. She retired and all was well for a while. Then there was a change of government and the conservatives took over and started chipping away at the plan she (and others) had paid for with decades of hard earned money. First they canceled the lousy $2000 death benefit. Gone. The year after that we came home to a letter telling her they had arbitrarily canceled the dental plan and raised the deductible on the medical plan. The premium she was paying however did not go down.<br /><br />This is nothing but theft.<br /><br />Thanks for letting me vent!Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17634815881045387152noreply@blogger.com