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Stop grumbling
Enough of your incessant whining about campaign signs. It is obvious to anyone with half a brain that there is no way a candidate can know where every single yard sign has ended up. If you have not noticed, most signs are taken down expeditiously with some stragglers left here and there.
Rather than whine for a month, how about doing some productive research and letting us know if we, as residents of this county, can dispose of the odds and ends that are left without getting in trouble? I would gladly grab what leftover signs I come across and dispose of them, if I knew I would not receive a call from the authorities concerning why I was stealing.
Novel idea, is it not? Find a productive solution instead of sitting in front of your computer grumbling all day. You like to pat people of action on the back in your paper, but sit on your duffs and complain yourselves. Two thumbs down.
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Home cooking classes are in demand as people pinch pennies and eat out less often.
With tough economic times pinching our budgets, more folks eat at home and realize they need more skills and ideas to keep putting meals on the table. So they call on caterers, private chefs and even talented friends with the same request: Please, please teach me.
As a result, classes for home cooking are growing in the central San Joaquin Valley.
The trend is well established in the Fresno area, where caterer and cooking teacher Shirley Sprinkle shows students how to use supermarket rotisserie chicken in quick versions of pot pie, enchiladas and other dishes. Private chef and caterer Wendy Carroll helps students organize their pantries. Southern-food maven Jeanne Logan shows novice cooks the essential kitchen tools, so they know what to buy.
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Gays' unfair advantage
I see that President Obama has stated he wants to change the law to allow gays and lesbians to service openly with one another in the military.
This can raise a new issue that no one has been addressing, and as a military veteran, I feel this is a major problem.
Serving in the military can be a lonely experience. Being away from loved ones and family members is very trying. Letting gays and lesbians serve openly means they can have their loved ones serve alongside them, in boot camp or beyond. They will be able to have their loved ones with them on deployments, they can shower together, eat together and even sleep together. They will also have the company of one another when the going gets rough.
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Gays in military
In response to Gordon Pearigen’s Oct. 25 letter stating that allowing homosexuals to serve in the military openly would give them an unfair advantage over heterosexuals: He states, “Letting gays and lesbians serve openly means they can have their loved ones serve alongside them.”
Naively, Mr. Pearigen is assuming is that being gay is magnetic and that should two gay people serve in the same unit, they will automatically be drawn to one another. Yet heterosexuals have served side by side in coed units for years.
Even if a gay couple enlisted together, they are at an extreme disadvantage in the military. Married couples are allowed to go base to base with one another, whereas gay couples are not. On deployments, the military splits up married couples and units, making your point about serving side by side moot.
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More Fresno jokes?
Jan. 19, page A1: Fresno is tops in fast food. Jan. 20, page C1: Fresno is tops in stripper poles.
I can just hear Jay Leno now: "Fresno, home of the fat strippers!" We should all be soooo proud!
Mike DeLuca
10. Ship them to K-Fed. His meal ticket cut off his American Express card.
9. Serve creamed "turkey on a shingle" for inmates released because of jail overcrowding.
8. Have a mashed potatoes sculpture contest to benefit Fresno Art Museum's sculpture garden.
7. Serve leftover coffee to drunks at DUI checkpoints.
6. Make turkey/broccoli quiche for Valley's real men.
5. Use leftover cranberry jelly for Popsicles and see if the kids notice.
4. Green bean casserole leftovers can cover your yellowing winter law.
3. Fresno Falcons can use leftover rolls as practice pucks.
2. Ziplock them and serve for Christmas dinner.
1. Form into Jell-O mosaic to decorate trail along mayor's river walk.
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