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Sunday, April 29, 2007

The “Five Day Weekend” Party

I love America…

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Rob
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I can’t quite get if they’re serious or not.  It has to be a joke.

His comparing America with Germany in the opening video on the site is enough by itself to show how ludicrous this is.  Of course Americans work more than Germans.  Have you seen that country’s unemployment rate recently?  And how much they pay in taxes to support the welfare state they’ve created for themselves?


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob on April 29, 2007 at 08:36 pm

And how much they pay in taxes to support the welfare state they’ve created for themselves?

Well considering that this group is from Asheville NC, they probably consider that a good thing…


[Feet make good soup!]

Marty on April 30, 2007 at 04:43 am

I wonder if he’d settle for 4…


I think Rob hates me… I mean, just look at the pic he took of me!

Sphagnum on April 30, 2007 at 05:21 am

My dad’s semi-retired.  I kid him about his 5 day weekends all the time.

BTW What’s to stop that loser from taking a job where he works 2 days a week?  If he’s willing to accept the consequences.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on April 30, 2007 at 06:03 am

Leap Day should be a holiday for anyone paid on a yearly salary.  We work an extra day a year, for no extra money.

Hourly or commissioned workers make an extra day’s pay for an extra day worked, but us white collar guys are getting ripped off.

Who’s with me?  Politics is tha art of the possible, and these guys are asking for the moon.

All I want is leap-day.  An extra day of vacation on those years would suffice, but a parade would be nice too smile


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Marty on April 30, 2007 at 03:31 pm

So I went to their rally today, and it was a pretty nifty affair actually.

They’ve got a painted up tour-bus, free stickers shirts and BBQ chicken, and even a performance by Renelvis, our locally beloved little phillipino Elvis impersonator.

I asked their likeable and well-spoken spokesman, Roy “Who is paying for all of this?”

The Asheboro NC Convention & Visitors Bureau, apparently.

Which, when you think about it, isn’t such a bad place to spend a five day weekend…


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Marty on May 1, 2007 at 07:53 pm
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I think it’s Asheville, not Asheboro, folks who started this fire...which is actually even a cooler place than Asheboro for a five day weend.
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Simba McDonald on May 6, 2007 at 10:33 am

Doh.  I’m an idiot.  Asheville—home of hippies and hillbillies, and NC’s only refuge for hardcore lefties.

Asheboro—the small town with the big zoo.

I can’t believe I made the mistake.  Thanks Simba!

Hakuna Matata!


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Marty on May 6, 2007 at 08:39 pm
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