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It's too bad Walter Cronkite didn't live to see the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing.
List of people & things to blame never ends for a true victim
I finally get it. If you're a victim 100 percent of the time and can blame everyone else for your problems then you can absolve yourself of any responsibility for your lot in life. Better yet, it is always somebody else that is making your life miserable and difficult. You have nothing to do with it. Let's see if I understand how this whole victim thing works. Somewhere in my gene pool, there is bad ...
Federal workers dodge furloughs & pain of others
General Motors is shedding workers. California is forcing state employees to take unpaid furloughs for the equivalent of 15 percent pay cuts. Small employers on Main Street are closing. Teachers are losing their jobs. Everywhere you look in the private and public sectors the pain is being spread with one high-profile exception – the federal government.
Fire district bests sheriff’s office in watermelon eating
LATHROP - The reaction from Interim Fire Chief Fred Manding of the Lathrop-Manteca Fire Protection District was swift.
Billboards: Manteca park trees
There are city owned "trees" along the Moffat Boulevard leg of the Tidewater Bikeway.
Give Manteca USD classified workers an ‘A’ for smart contract move
Manteca Unified School District's classified employees are one savvy group. When they reopened their contract earlier this year they agreed to take a 5 percent pay cut. In exchange they district agreed to no more job cuts for two years. This all happened before the real bottom started falling out of the state's budget and a $24 billion deficit developed that made the budget mess of last year seem like child's play. Now with Armageddon ...
Dad, a dump truck & hitting the cemeteries
The summer of my seventh year is the year I got to know my father and the year I lost him. The year before dad sold his share in Wyatt's Hardware – the Roseville store – leaving his brother Pershing to carry on with the family business that ended up spanning 80 years by keeping the Lincoln store open. We moved back to Lincoln where dad opted to take a job as superintendent of the ...
At my age, ACE ride is wild enough
I tried to remember my last visit to Great America. I can tell you that the Demon was one of the new rollercoaster attractions as was the Tidal Wave at the Santa Clara theme park that was still part of Marriott's. So much had changed over the years. Last week, I had the pleasure of serving as one of several chaperones for my son's eighth-grade class trip to California Great America. Our group of nearly ...
Double-edged sword in MOU for fire service?
To the extent practicable and within economic resources, the City shall endeavor to attain and maintain a minimum Engine and Ladder Company complement of three full-time employees. The Fire Department shall make every reasonable effort to ensure that other duties assigned to unit members, including but not limited to Fire Department sponsored training, special projects, or incidental duties shall be scheduled so as not to conflict with the intent of this section.
To the secular saints who mentor kids
Evelyn Seay was a saint. You would be too if you spent an entire year serving as the den mother for a Cub Scout Pack that had me as a member. One would have to have incredible patience dealing with 8-year-old boys let alone a klutz like me. Cub Scouts was much like my foray into Little League – a complete disaster. My mom who knew better simply made it a requirement if I joined ...
Death of a young hero: the full story revealed
The date: January 30, 1942 during World War 2, nearly two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
Real heroes are more like Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers was the good guy who wore the white hat. A gentleman at all times, the singing cowboy dispatched bad guys in 87 westerns by shooting the gun out of their hands. Rogers always fought fair and never killed a man. The power structure in Hollywood put guys like Rogers out to pasture years ago. They're convinced the American public wants sex, gore, and killings. Producers contend they're just being realistic. Fat chance. There ...
The importance of career days
About a month ago, I had the pleasure of serving as one of the Career Day guest speakers at French Camp School.
Today’s election is a lose-lose proposition
I'm supposed to be angry as I go to the polls today. That's what the talking heads say about the mood of California voters. Anger, though, isn't something that is crossing my mind today nor is disgust for that matter. It's more a state of sadness. I truly love California as I'm sure most of those who live here do. We all love it for a variety of reasons. Some of them are geographic-based from ...
Take a swing at helping Jowell Griggs
For several years, Jowell Griggs helped organize a local NCAA March Madness tournament pool among friends.
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Larry Page and his goog- goog- googley eyes
Get ready for the invasion of the Barneys.
‘TV will be a lot less gay’
The annual network list of canceled primetime shows cannot be pleasing to the progressives who measure shows based on their cultural and political usefulness. "TV Will Be a Lot Less Gay Next Year," the commissars complained at Slate.com. They counted 11 canceled shows that featured regular gay characters.
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