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Christie Rhae:
The last order of chicks I received had zip ties all the way around. There was no way any chicks were getting in or out. In fact it was a bit of a challenge getting that darn lid off. lol I just wanted to look at the chicks as fast as I could.
greeneggsandham:
--- Quote from: Mike Gilbert ---Is it just me, or has this country really gone to the dogs?
Just recently in the news we had an I.C.E. supervisor, a government bureaucrat, helping to embezzle over a half million $ in unsubstantiated travel expenses. Then there was the GSA spending $800,000 of taxpayer money on a lavish Las Vegas bash and bragging about it. Every time you turn around there is another murder/suicide, another child missing, another young woman raped and murdered, another body found buried in someone\'s back yard. A month ago an innocent young woman was shot to death by two young men with criminal records just 20 miles from here in an attempted robbery. A month or so before that another young woman was strangled over a drug debt in the same town. Has anyone been following the J. Edwards trial? This is our brave, new, secular world folks. Open your eyes to what is happening in this country. It\'s what happens when honesty, respect for life, and the accountability that comes with belief in a Higher Being and an afterlife are thrown out of our public institutions. We can thank the liberal atheists and agnostics that dominate our higher public education and our legal system for this. The end can\'t come too soon to suit me.
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Not just you. I have been noticing things going to the dogs for fifteen years or more. I voice my displeasure in the voting booth, but anymore, except for a few social issues, it\'s hard to tell the two parties apart. This year, we may not even have that distinction.
Beth C:
--- Quote ---I voice my displeasure in the voting booth, but anymore, except for a few social issues, it\'s hard to tell the two parties apart. This year, we may not even have that distinction.
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Seriously. Anyone else irritated with the way everyone from the left-wing media to the republican establishment has been telling us from the beginning (even before the first primary) who the nominee was going to be? We\'ve been hammered with the message that it was inevitable and pointless to vote otherwise. Not that I ever got the chance to, since our primary isn\'t until next week - fat lot of good it will do at this point! So in the fall I\'ll do what I always do - vote against the guy I like the least. It would be nice to vote FOR someone once in a while...
OldChurchEggery:
I do see a lot of complaints about the Post Office on this forum and others. Does anyone try to contact the Post Office or work the way up the chain of management there to get anything changed? How about getting in touch with your state delegate about the quality of local postal service? The consensus I get is that a lot of you are jaded about the way things are, but I guess part of being young and optimistic is that I think things can still work for the better.
Our delegate in the Virginia House is very responsive to local concerns and is quite approachable, especially compared to our Congressional Rep. He even wrote my parents a letter of congratulations when my wedding announcement ran in a paper with a readership of about 2,000 people. I wrote to him last year when the State Pollination Board was on the chopping block and even though he wasn\'t able to keep it from being cut from the governor\'s version of the budget, he did write a letter back. More likely his staff did, but all the same, it wasn\'t just a form letter. In college I took a number of courses on political efficacy and the general trend is that the bigger the scale of the election, the less effect people feel an individual vote has. So, focus your effort on the local level and you might be in for a pleasant surprise. It\'s probably no surprise, though, that my favorite Biblical verse comes from Proverbs: \"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.\"
Mike Gilbert:
The Bible also teaches that mankind is fallen. In fact that is one of its\' central teachings. If a postal worker or delivery person really wants to steal chicks out of a shipping box there is nothing a politician or any bureaucracy can do about it. There is nothing wrong with the postal system; it has many great people working for it. But all it takes is a few bad apples to ruin a reputation. Thus my earlier rant. When people\'s appetites are not controlled from within, it is very difficult to effectively control them from without. That, in a nutshell, explains the value of true religion to the efficacy of any society. Our overflowing prisons are sufficient evidence of that.
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