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Defrauding Americans out of Jobs

joshua@joshuakugler.com (Joshua Kugler) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:25:43 +0000

From the description of the video on Youtube:

Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers....Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.

No need to say more.

Not the pressure valve, and other news

joshua@joshuakugler.com (Joshua Kugler) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:33:51 +0000

I had mentioned previously that I thought our abundance of water in the furnace and laundry room was due to a pressure relief valve on our water heater giving way. Seems it was not the case. As I discovered later, even though I closed the water main as tightly as I thought I could, it was still slightly open, and water was still leaking out the pipe rupture just beyond the main valve. So, that mystery solved.

Remember the 1/2 inch or so of ice in the laundry room? Well, when we fired our heater back up, all that ice melted, and that water needed somewhere to go. And go it did, over the already soaked hall way carpet, right in to the office. Where we had books stacked. Oops. Thankfully, we didn't lose anything important.

We're pretty much convinced the previous owners had ferrets (the major cause of Crystal's and Jonathan's congestion). The down stairs--especially the family room, which got a fair share of wet carpet too--reeked today from all the moisture and whatever pet stuff was in the carpet. Great smell.

A bit of good news. One of the wood panels in the family room had pulled away from the wall due to all the moisture, and what should be found behind it? Clean, pristine, sheet rock. If this pattern holds for the other walls and rooms, it will greatly reduce our remodel cost. Woohoo!

An Inconvenient Home for Mr. Gore

joshua@joshuakugler.com (Joshua Kugler) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:21:33 +0000

It would seem that while "W's" home in Crawford, Texas is the model of environmental efficiency, the home of environmental campaigner Al Gore burns through natural gas like crazy, and uses some 20 times the national average when it comes to electricity. Much much more detail, if you want it. And some (probably correct) speculation about Gore's motivation for his environmental "message."

An Inconvenient Profit for Mr. Gore

joshua@joshuakugler.com (Joshua Kugler) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:32:25 +0000

From the "Do as I say, not as I do" file comes this bit out of Tennessee. The Tennessean reports that a toxic zinc mine in Tennessee enriched Mr. Gore by some $500,000. Which, I'm sure he used to make a movie about how we're destroying the environment.

How convenient.