Read It And Weep

[Half Moon]

Also entropy (everything eventually falls apart).

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[Stephanie B]

WB Yeats is/was a P-F member?

[blues]

Once you realize that work is trading your time for their money, you get over the whole job satisfaction thing. Do the best work you can and drive on.

A COLA'd pension is the best revenge.

[Borderland]

I noticed the SSA in the report. A relative worked there for a few years after he returned from Afghanistan. He thought it was pretty F'd up and only lasted long enough to find another better job with the fed.

Lots of people retire early from LE jobs if they can. I can certainly understand that these days. How are they going to replace those people?

[feudist]

I noticed the SSA in the report. A relative worked there for a few years after he returned from Afghanistan. He thought it was pretty F'd up and only lasted long enough to find another better job with the fed.

Lots of people retire early from LE jobs if they can. I can certainly understand that these days. How are they going to replace those people?

Dunno about the Federales, but at the local level one of our Deputy Chiefs spoke to this a few years back.
"Anybody can write a ticket.
Why, yes. Yes they can.

[CraigS]

I have no actual knowledge of any of what has been written here but the title sure seems appropriate. To me a lot of it can be summed up by saying that more and more it is obvious that we regular civilians need to be able to take care of ourselves and our family.

[Chuck Whitlock]

Once you realize that work is trading your time for their money, you get over the whole job satisfaction thing. Do the best work you can and drive on.

Yeah, but it sure helps if part of that time isn't spent beating your head against a wall.

[MDFA]

Yeah, but it sure helps if part of that time isn't spent beating your head against a wall.

Why do I beat my head against the wall? Cause it feels so good when I stop!!!

[awp_101]

Yeah, but it sure helps if part of that time isn't spent beating your head against a wall.

[Hambo]

Yeah, but it sure helps if part of that time isn't spent beating your head against a wall.

My reply is based on wisdom I did not yet possess while working. I thought I could effect change, and thought I had a few times, but at best it was temporary. You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. (Dorothy Parker)