I googled NC... very accurate...

That's good to know! I'll message him privately next weekend. :)

he is going on vacation with his wife during the next
few days;;; you might want to wait until next weekend
to try to contact him. . he's a totally trustworthy guy
and I bet that you will like him a lot!!! -- john
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This summer or next I'll probably try to get a trip down there to visit. I need to start talking with him more seriously about FIT as an option.

Venezuela has havoc, Alaska has inconvenience. Both negatives come from dependently tying commodity volatility to tax structure. Not getting your payments?

Popular TV show Alaska Bush People, Billy Brown is in trouble for his Alaska citizen status being questionable and him trying to realize an oil check.

Thanks! . and I hope that you know that Dr. Jim at
Florida Tech would love to see you study down there .......
he's a wonderful guy and the program sounds great,
though it's not cheap ... yet there are scholarships
and he can work with you on that!!! -- john
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This was, of course, the reason that made me feel a bit uncomfortable. I will do my best to keep my identity covered here, and everywhere else. I trust the majority of the Gulchers to be cautious with the information, but it is a little different to have it out on the internet.

yes, Sarah, yet we must remember that the info
which goes out, on here, is permanent and must be
considered very carefully -- the sum total of everything
which has gone out can eventually make for problems .......
I'm just looking at phone book and social site info
with beenverified, but it includes some stuff which
would make you say "Huh?" and the service is
cheap. . we do need to be careful. . it does include
your mom's age and your address, your phone #
and likely e-mail addresses, relatives' names and
deed info about your home. . all from public records.
I do not disclose much of that stuff. -- john
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I am teasing you, John. I trust you unconditionally and I know you won't take advantage of that information. And I thank you so much for helping with applying to FIT; it seems to be an option for me and I want to try. Don't feel bad about it, please.

sorry to surprise you;;; I have a new service online
called "beenverified" which could find only one
Montalbano in alaska. . I saw that it was wasilla and
thought of my friend Sarah Palin -- bought her book
and voted for her -- and so I put 2 and 2 together.......
I should have made it a private message, and I want
to apologize doubly for that. . I adore you and want to try
to help to make your future better, if I can, including
helping with Dr. Jim Brenner and FIT if that is an
option, in your view. . please do not take it negatively
in any way, Sarah. . please. -- john
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Because our tax structure is based off of it. You should see the havoc low oil prices are wreaking on our tax structure.

Damn, maybe I should be more careful with giving out information online... you're not a creepy stalker, are you, johnpe? :)

What is really disturbing is the fact that they do not come here; Meaning, it would seem they do not value their relatives, their family, mom and dad...that's the real sad part.
I do have some contact with the patients and some I've came to love....but I had to stop that because I couldn't take it, I cried with the families.

My job is to keep the building functioning and man the front desk...nothing much to guard here but I'm there to help and I do a lot of listening to families when they need to talk, many times we have deep discussions.
Because of my studies and writings they pick up on my expressions and we each learn but more important we strengthen the bond of mutuality that human beings naturally have for each other when allowed, and are free to do so.

That's sad too...that we are not allowed to or free to...express that natural mutuality everywhere. It was our natural mutuality we had for others outside family units that is testimony to our survival...which for some reason was a concern to me for as long as I can remember.

Thanks for sharing.

There are people who do the work, and then there are people who comment on it, who criticize it, and who tell people what to do. A simple example is any police department. The guys on the ground are generally conservative; the Chiefs of Police are generally liberal (and political). In my own experience as a hospice volunteer, the people who have the most patient contact and do the real hands-on work are by far NOT in that liberal, progressive class of people. Those folks are higher up in management, and never getting their hands dirty. They seem to be more concerned about resume building than patient comfort.

Carl, I meet a lot of people in hospice care, most of them will not be alive in 6 months or less. Usually, death is days away. People tend to speak their mind a lot, without reservation, when they are in this position, and I can assure you that the percentages that you are seeing are consistent with my experience as well.

They won't be voting in the next election, and for that reason exactly, politicians don't care what they have to say today.

Alaskans like high oil prices.

yes, and is your mother Judith E Montalbano? . this
is sure a small world, and I am mighty glad that you
are in it, Sarah!!! -- john
.

Must be additional data relevant to the subject. The first is clearly not true. The second is. The third might want to be "cheeseheads".

My experience would want to query "Wisconsinites are passive aggressive", or "Wisconsinites park in the left lane", but mine is an east coaster's perspective.

I think it's trying to work out things you might be asking about the state. To find out what it thinks there is http://www.googlism.com/.

Oddly, it says
"Wisconsinites are stupid"
"Wisconsinites are friendly".
"Why are Wisconsinites called Badgers?"

Same hits for Florida and Massachusetts. I think the predicate is more indicative of a good hit than the subject.

Think I'll check my closets now...thought I heard a noise. . . . . . !

Sarah Palin actually lives in my hometown, and her daughter went to my elementary school.

I was thinking of another state who's name starts with "New", but I'd probably get lynched.

Connecticut: Connecticuter- Nutmeggers but most often called: rude, snobs, mean, yellers.

But in reality, like many states I'm sure...we are quite the opposite.
We just don't put up with stupitiy...

Now Greenwich Connecticut? that's a whole different story...too close to NY Values.

What blows my mind is that I meet about 1000 people a week and converse with many and only one in 5 years was a liberal...So, my question is: Where the hell do they hide out...you only hear about them at voting time...and usually due to the way the voting went...maybe they are closet liberals.

and:::
"tennesseans are
"tennesseans are stupid
"why are tennesseans called butternuts?
"how many tennesseans are uninsured?
"why are tennesseans called volunteers?"

butternuts from having tan uniforms in the revolutionary war;;;
volunteers from having helped texas at the alamo
and new orleans during the war of 1812 against the brits.

and alaskans are wonderful -- check out Sarah Palin
or Kirsten Powers if you think "idiots." -- j
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