Jim Howard

Jim Howard

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14 years ago @ Howard's Notebook - Nude full frontal phot... · 0 replies · +1 points

The photos you are talking about are NOT photoshop photos. They are PR photos taken for the Broadway play "Equus." There has been some discussion that the PR photos were not expected to be put on the Internet! It must have been some PR firm that knows nothing about the Internet!
I suspect that Radcliffe is wanted the photos out of himself or he would not have posed for them. I think he is pretty smart and knows that he wants to end the idea of him being a kid. Those photos were the way to do it.
There is also a report out that he asked to have fully nude waxwork made of him. He is reported to have asked the experts at Madame Tussauds to do it and that he is willing to pay the full cost of the nude. The fully nude wax work would cost him 150K pounds but he can afford it because when he turned 18 he got 20 million pounds.
The report is that the waxwork of him will be something that Radcliffe wants for "private display" but I think it is more PR from him. He know that photos and videos of it will get out and I think that is what he wants. He sounds like he is going to do great in life. He is a real self promoter.

15 years ago @ Personal Money Store F... - Medical loss ratio rul... · 0 replies · +1 points

Wow I had on idea this was in "Obamacare" The White House and the Democrats need to get information like this out to the public.
So no wonder the new GOP House is going to try and come in and kill our new national health care plan.

15 years ago @ HNB: Fort Worth TX - Truck Chase to Love Field · 0 replies · +1 points

I think that was a police department truck that had the road spikes that they put out. Not sure if they use it for undercover or if it is just one that they keep spikes in ...I just wonder why they would not have the spikes in most all of their cars.
It is just a guess on the spikes in the truck.

15 years ago @ HNB: Fort Worth TX - 14,500 Teachers Jobs S... · 0 replies · +1 points

When I see the word "union" I replace it with the word "worker".. So what I see you saying is the bailout is going to workers.
Unions support causes that their members want them to support. So some of the the worker's money goes to help good causes.
Major corporations, the NRA and others use their stockholders or members money to support causes that they want to support.
It is the way American works...I wish, myself, that we paid for elections with public money and did not allow unions, corporations and other groups to use money to control government.
Now.. I can not understand how the right can hate unions so much. Most everything we have that is good in the United States today is because of unions. If there had been no unions ... Today we would be working six days a week from sun up to sun down. Our little children would be working with us. We would not get time and a half for over time. Hell, we would not get over time. We would not have safety and health rules. We would not have retirement plans. Many of us would be living in company towns and buying everything from a company store. The corporations would pit races and religions against each other. Not only would you not get an increase in pay.. no cost of living increase..from time to time the corporation would increase your work load and cut your pay.
Anyone that does not see that unions, in the past, were a God send... if you and they can not see it then you do not know history.
God bless the labor leaders of the past.. the current unions..now days.. some have started to be more like corporations.. Many have lost that old time religion.
I worked for 11 years at a small hospital...I was the only employee at the hospital that liked unions.. All the other employees would say how bad unions were.. things over the years got bad for the employees and then the hospital was sold to a for profit major medical corporation and the nurses contacted a labor union and joined the union. Others in other departments wanted to join a union.
I was a member in the past of Boilermakers union and the UAW. Both great unions.

15 years ago @ Connecticut News, Weat... - Nine killed when gunma... · 1 reply · +2 points

I agree with your comments. We do not know the details yet but top management and first line supervisors need to be on top of things like this.. How as this guy acting? What was he saying to people?
I worked 30 years hospital security but before that I worked for 10 years as a welder. When I was a welder one company had hundreds of employees and the Director of Personnel knew all of our names when he saw us.
One hospital I worked at we, security, ran police checks on new employees. A new employee was hired in with out a police check. Turns out a management officer's wife worked with some ex-con group and got the hospital to hire him and try and help him. He killed about five or six people before the police got him. He killed a couple on his lunch break from the hospital. He walked over two blocks and killed them. He held up business and never left anyone alive.
The same hospital had a guy that worked in plant operations. He acted crazy and would fly off the handle at times. He asked permission to bring his gun into the hospital because he did not want to leave it in his car! The Director of Security was going to give him permission because he did not want to upset the guy. I told the boss NO WAY and he refused him permission.
Someone else commented on this...but mental health service are very important.
I know this will upset people because people are crazy on this subject but some gun control is needed.
Was this guy a gun nut? Did he talk about guns? Did he have a bumper sticker on his car? Had he been approved for a concealed weapons permit. I think for a concealed weapons permit that a background check needs to be done - NOT an instant computer check.

16 years ago @ Howard's Notebook - Birther Army Lt. Col. ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The more I think about this the more I have to agree with you. It is pure racism on his part.
I respect everyone that has served in the military and I think we need to respect their service.
This guy, a doctor, has served the nation for 18 years. He could have made more money as a doctor not in the military. Even with him being a racist I still think I would not go with a dishonorable discharge. That is a hard burden to carry.
But if I was his commanding officer I would give him some orders. If he failed to obey any of them I would order him again and again..Explaining what was going to happen.. So unless he changed his mind he would have everything come down on top of him. I guess it is up to him to decide.
When I was a hospital security office and supervisor I had an entire shift that had racism taking place. I talked to the supervisor of that shift. I talked to each man on the shift and told them that I would not allow racism. One man decided he was not going to listen to me. The next time he pulled some racist crap I told the department supervisor I wanted him fired. He said NO. I went to the Personnel department and they said it would have to wait because their director was a meeting out of town. I told the acting department head NO it was not going to wait and I went to the assist CEO of the hospital and told him. After I told what happened he said the guy was fired. My department head would not do the firing so I had to fire they Chuck. Chuck and his wife had been to my house for dinner in the past. But there was nothing else for me to do but fire him. I had warned him and ordered him not to talk the way he did and act the way he did.
So I would do the same if I was in the military.
I wonder how long it will be before we find out what happens to this guy?

16 years ago @ Howard's Notebook - Wal-Mart 'appalled' at... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for reminding me. You know my position... That it is always the Republicans fault. No matter what.. fire, flood or you name it ... I blame the Republicans.
I forgot this time... I will make up for it next time.
My back hurts today.. It is the Republicans fault.

16 years ago @ Howard's Notebook - Sex Chair? · 0 replies · +1 points

Wow that makes sense I think. I had no idea why anyone would have such a chair but that might be the reason. I agree with Cassandra however about not wanting to sit in it after someone else. IF it felt good I could see having one of them at home.

16 years ago @ Howard's Notebook - Alabama shooting survivor · 0 replies · +1 points

After I posted this post and after I made the video on YouTube. I read a statement and I think it was by the husband of the woman that did the shooting and he said that well people like his wife that had a PHD "ran hot and cold" and that you had to cut them some slack or understand that.
THANK GOD I did not read that statement before I wrote the post because I would still be POUNDING on the keyboard. Thank God I did not read it before I made the video or I would be on the video breaking things and screaming like Beck from Fox "news." Hell I might be crying the way he does. It would have made me crazy like he is.

16 years ago @ Howard's Notebook - No Power for 20 Hours ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes that was part of my problem here. I had no information. I did not even have a working radio. I will correct that soon.
I did not read my post but I may have not been clear. All the people here have fireplaces in these apartments. I saw a few taking in wood but never saw any smoke coming out of any place.
I will also make sure I have some firewood on hand. But Darlene said this is the first time in five years that this place has lost power.