Sources have advised me that Duke will not be hiring local for permanent positions with the possible exceptions of gate guards and janitors.
All personnel will be engineers and will be brought in from colleges at a reduced salary. The salary reduction will come from the graduates who are not in the top 10% of their gradating classes. Duke supposedly will hire them on long term fixed salary contracts that is made possible because of the stiff competition for engineering jobs in the lower 60% to 90% grade percentage of each college graduation class.

John R. Stanczak

This is info and a picture of the Hawf Family Band that consist of Alex mandolin, Rachel fiddle and guitar, Dylan fiddle and guitar, Tonia bass and Doug guitar and banjo who will play for our contra dance this coming July 9th at the Old Town Players Theatre, 5th and Broadway in Vincennes.

They are willing to play for us for what we might donate by passing the hat. So lets all come out to hear and dance to their music and make them feel welcome. Doug was a part of the Bales of Hay Band that we liked so well.

They will play from 7:15 or so till we close at 9:30 pm.
 
Prior to our contra dance that night we will hold a 50s and 60s record party fro 6 to 7 pm. Listen to music that you loved, we know some of your favorite music will be played.
 
The second dance in July will be on July 30th.

Ron Ackman

With the National Debt surpassing $13 trillion, House Democrats announced this week that they would not vote on a budget resolution for 2011. This means there will be no spending limit in next year's twelve spending authorization bills. Rampant runaway spending has become the norm in the halls of Washington under Democratic leadership. While Americans across Indiana and the rest of the country continue to tighten their belts and reign in the spending in their personal budgets, Democrats in Washington continue to spend money they simply do not have. Washington cannot continue to operate this way. This November we need to elect leaders who are ready to make the tough choices and will work to stop the spending.

President Obama has a problem that he didn't foresee when he decided to run for President of the United States of America because of his inexperience at actual management.

The president has never been in the position of actually deciding on a plan of action that does not relate entirely to it being somebody else's fault that he can chase after to pay him for his efforts. In other words President Obama has spent his entire adult life running here and there in a continuous effort to make the “man” pay for whatever injustice that he and his group has decided is an injustice and as president he has found a problem there is no “man” to chase after because he is the “man”.

He has spent most of his time as president trying to keep everybody believing that former President Bush is the “man” along with

A text of President Obama's remarks on Tuesday on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as released by the White House:
 
Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al Qaeda wherever it exists. And tonight, I've returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with you about the battle we're waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens.
On April 20th, an explosion ripped through BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about 40 miles off the coast of

There's and old sea story in the Navy about a ship's Captain who inspected his sailors, and afterward told the Chief Boatswain that his men smelled bad.
 
The  captain suggested perhaps it would help if the sailors would change  underwear occasionally.

The Chief responded, "Aye, aye sir, I'll see to it immediately!"

The Chief went straight to

A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought

If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
 
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is homosexual, he

Peter Heck - Guest Columnist – 6/14/2010
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In Federalist #2, Founder John Jay addressed the dangers of foreign force and influence.  In the course of the essay, he celebrated, "With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same

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