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2005-07-07 Thread Deanna Schneider
1045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:47 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > > I personally think that is a silly statement.

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2005-07-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
5527 > > > -Original Message- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:14 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > Importance: Low > > When I first moved up here my commute was

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2005-07-06 Thread Dana
I was really impressed with Mexico when I was there. Veracruz especially. On 7/6/05, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have friends from Panama. They're living in MN right now, but if > they move back we'll have to crash in on them. > > On 7/6/05, Erika L Walker-Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTE

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2005-07-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
We have friends from Panama. They're living in MN right now, but if they move back we'll have to crash in on them. On 7/6/05, Erika L Walker-Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One word: Panama ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading

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2005-07-06 Thread SStewart
- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:14 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low When I first moved up here my commute was from Manassas to Crofton in Anne Arundel county. Going the opposite way d

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2005-07-06 Thread Dana
well... I base my statement on conversations with a friend who has a biracial daughter and lives there, and on the fact that a gas station once refused to sell me gas there because I was in the "wrong" part of town. I have no idea if this qualified as inner-city Cincy -- I was on my way to the Aqua

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2005-07-06 Thread Adam Haskell
All that racial hostility? I haven't noticd that in Cincy at all. If anything I have seen more interracial marraiges/relationships here than anywhere I have been. Now downtown inner city might be slightly different, but most hostility there is more gang realted than race related. My biggest gripe i

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2005-07-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
When I first moved up here my commute was from Manassas to Crofton in Anne Arundel county. Going the opposite way during commuting hours would have taken about twice as long - easily 2 hours one way per day. Have you considered Woodbridge or Dale City in the southern part of Prince William county.

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2005-07-06 Thread SStewart
-5527 -Original Message- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:59 am To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low Yes. I lived in PG County for a while and there are some ok areas, but the schools really do suck so I

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2005-07-06 Thread Dana
right. When I was job-shopping looking to get out of DC, I was offered a job in Richmond CA for five or six thousand more. Trouble was, as far as I could tell I'd be communting at least a hundred miles one way to make that work...I declined. I make less money in Albuquerque but I also need less. P

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2005-07-06 Thread Dana
ECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 09:58 am > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article > Importance: Low > > > From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The DC area is nuts, and Northern Virginia is the worst. I > > have a three be

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2005-07-06 Thread Jerry Johnson
Hey, a if a couple more chip in, we have enough for an hour of development time offshore! On 7/6/05, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > Jerry Johnson > > Technologist > > > Plus my 2, makes 4 :) ~| Discover

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2005-07-06 Thread Adam Haskell
TED] > > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:47 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > > I personally think that is a silly statement. > > I could make

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2005-07-06 Thread G
>I probably could have stated my case more elegantly as well. It just > always gets my goat when people tell me I "have to" to do something or > I am "stupid". > > My point is that there are a LOT of programming jobs that have nothing > to do with .net or Java. Yes there are, good ones too, that p

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2005-07-06 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> I'm sure you're right, I made a bad choice on the > language, and that's really beside the point. The > point is, as a web programmer, there are two > 800-pound gorilla technologies that lord over the > rest of the technologies. You ought to be able to > tame one of them. I've never liked gorill

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2005-07-06 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
One word: Panama ##| -Original Message- ##| From: Kevin Graeme ##| ##| We were actually looking at Argentina. But the government, fascists, ##| communists, and generally not nice people kind of ruled it out. ~| Purcha

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2005-07-06 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:06 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article > > "And your statements are really, really ridiculous. Find an HTML job and >

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2005-07-06 Thread Jerry Johnson
I probably could have stated my case more elegantly as well. It just always gets my goat when people tell me I "have to" to do something or I am "stupid". My point is that there are a LOT of programming jobs that have nothing to do with .net or Java. And the skill sets are not as available as they

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2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Small
l Web Developer American City Business Journals 704-973-1045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:06 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article "And your statements are really, re

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2005-07-06 Thread SStewart
"And your statements are really, really ridiculous. Find an HTML job and get paid $10/hr, if you're lucky. Yeah, somebody's got it good making $50,000/year doing nothing but COBOL, but I but you can't get that job, no matter how good you are at it." There are tons of legacy COBOL positions in

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2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Small
ican City Business Journals 704-973-1045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:47 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article I personally think that is a silly statement. I cou

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2005-07-06 Thread Charlie Griefer
i don't think it's particularly silly. the more tools you have in the toolbox, the better equipped you are to hammer in the screw :) I'd also probably disagree with at least a couple of the statements below. At the very least, the one that says one could make a 'good living' doing nothing but HT

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2005-07-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
Small > Web Developer > American City Business Journals > 704-973-1045 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:58 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Here's a depressin

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2005-07-06 Thread Jerry Johnson
I personally think that is a silly statement. I could make a good living right now doing nothing but COBAL. I could make a good living right now doing nothing but Foxpro. I could make a good living right now doing nothing but Actionscript. I could make a good living right now doing nothing but emb

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2005-07-06 Thread Adam Haskell
I am lokoing at houses in 120-140s in Cincinnati Ohio 2-3 bedrooms 1-2 baths, some with basements partially finished. All of these well within an hours car ride (in heavy traffic) to Downtown Cincy (about 20-30 miles).Since I tend to work early morning and leave early or really late my trip is ussu

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2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Small
Small Web Developer American City Business Journals 704-973-1045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:12 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article But what does the average CF

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2005-07-06 Thread SStewart
Services, Ltd. (ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 -Original Message- From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:09 am To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little art

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2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Small
RE: Here's a depressing little article > From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The DC area is nuts, and Northern Virginia is the worst. I > have a three bedroom 30 year old two level condo (piggyback > end unit) that's about three miles from the subway and 395 >

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2005-07-06 Thread SStewart
ect: RE: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low > From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The DC area is nuts, and Northern Virginia is the worst. I > have a three bedroom 30 year old two level condo (piggyback > end unit) that's about three miles from

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2005-07-06 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
> From: SStewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The DC area is nuts, and Northern Virginia is the worst. I > have a three bedroom 30 year old two level condo (piggyback > end unit) that's about three miles from the subway and 395 > and the Capitol Beltway. I bough a year and a half ago for > $217

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2005-07-06 Thread SStewart
3) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 09:33 am To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low Here's an example of the "good life" that we drive p

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2005-07-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
Here's an example of the "good life" that we drive past every day on the way in to work. http://madcityhomes.com/listing.asp?id=596 It's in a desireable neighborhood, but keep in mind that I can drive from one end of Madison to the other in half an hour. Also keep in mind that the median income in

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2005-07-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 04:10 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > Importance: Low > > Yes, and I've seen the butt ugly traffic backups down I-66 and route > 28. Not a pretty site. > > larry > >

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2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ketsdever
ecent lifestyle then its worth it. -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:02 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article No worries. Men can have healthy, motile sperm well into senility. Or at least 70s. -K

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2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
hand > am 43. > > -Original Message- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:08 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > > the key is your wife's age. Children over 35 are possible, but th

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2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ketsdever
7;s a depressing little article the key is your wife's age. Children over 35 are possible, but the risks increase. By the way, I am sure my income is very low compared to many on the list, and we live pretty well. On the other hand, I had to get out of DC -- in order to get a house with enough bedroo

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2005-07-05 Thread Dana
the key is your wife's age. Children over 35 are possible, but the risks increase. By the way, I am sure my income is very low compared to many on the list, and we live pretty well. On the other hand, I had to get out of DC -- in order to get a house with enough bedrooms, we had to move Martinsbur

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2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ketsdever
Sure it is. Just not for anything us men have to say. altho, they've been saying it for a while now. i guess if you just keep repeating something over and over you're bound to be right eventually * *disclaimer: to married men, this will not hold true during discussions with your wives. --

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2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ketsdever
I waited until I was nearly 40 before having children my daughter (Kaitlyn) is now 4 and my wife is due any day now with our second and last child (another girl). I love my wife and daughter very much but would highly recommend having your first child before 35. I'll be in my late 50's when Kait

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2005-07-05 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:42 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article > > My wife insisted we buy a house about 6 years ago. I wanted to wait > another

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2005-07-05 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:31 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > > > Larry wrote: > > I'm surprised that anyone has children > > in

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2005-07-05 Thread Charlie Griefer
On 7/5/05, Ken Ketsdever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife insisted we buy a house about 6 years ago. I wanted to wait > another year or two and put some more money together first. Had we > waited we would have been priced out of the market. The 3 bedroom 1 > bath house we paid $106,000 for i

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2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ketsdever
is no way we could buy our house today. -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:18 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article > -Original Message- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAI

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2005-07-05 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:23 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article > > I am from Elmira, NY and everytime I go home I think about the house and >

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2005-07-05 Thread Gruss Gott
> Larry wrote: > I'm surprised that anyone has children > in this area. > That's trick my wife and I are using. We both come from lower middle class backgrounds and so had lots of school debt and no good "fast start" advice when growing up. Being lower middle class also means you don't have man

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2005-07-05 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
> From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Whew, Elmira? I drove through there once and was, um, very, > um, sympathetic to the poeple living there. I'll just leave > it at that. It was a great place to grow up. It has gone down hill over the last 15 years or so... it doesn't help that

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2005-07-05 Thread Ray Champagne
Whew, Elmira? I drove through there once and was, um, very, um, sympathetic to the poeple living there. I'll just leave it at that. Michael T. Tangorre wrote: >>From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>That's what we did - although in our case it was because >>child care ended costing mo

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2005-07-05 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > That's what we did - although in our case it was because > child care ended costing more than my wife made. > > Still - I make more than twice what my father ever did in his > life and I'm not close to affording ANY house in the Boston > area much

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2005-07-05 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
You're lucky... There are a lot of us in the disposessed crowd. I would carve out my left testicle with my own hands and no anasthetic to have a family... a real one... the only experience I have to let me know what I'm missing is the 6-week summer-camp I attended for 7 years while I was growing u

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2005-07-05 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:23 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article > > > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Of course, wom

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2005-07-05 Thread SStewart
300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 -Original Message- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 04:10 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low Yes, and I've seen the

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2005-07-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) > 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 > Chantilly, VA 20151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > > -Original Message- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:42 pm > To: CF-Communit

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2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
I dunno. I'm inundated by families wherever I go. On 7/5/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll not get into my rant about the diminishing size of physical > community / family groups leading up to a culture composed almost > entirely of misanthropic metrosexuals. ~

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2005-07-05 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Of course, women shouldn't work at all. >> http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/07/santorum-book-exc >> erpts.html >> >> -Kevin > I think it is awesome if a parent can be at home with the > child(ren) instead > of sending them off to day care, et

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2005-07-05 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> I wish that it wasn't necessary for both members of the > household to work in order to make ends meet in the US. > That does not apply to myself, but for many people my > age it does. The family no longer has much of a choice > in whether or not both spouses work. When the husband > & wife ma

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2005-07-05 Thread SStewart
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:42 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low If you go for any of those, there are some good side roads to help you avoid the rte 28, 29, or I-66 backups. larry On 7/5/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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2005-07-05 Thread SStewart
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:42 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importance: Low If you go for any of those, there are some good side roads to help you avoid the rte 28, 29, or I-66 backups. larry On 7/5/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTE

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2005-07-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
0151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > > -Original Message- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:32 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article > Importance: Low > > I

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2005-07-05 Thread SStewart
(ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 -Original Message- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:32 pm To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Importan

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2005-07-05 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Now there's a good provocative title for an article: "Santorum: Liberalism Bad, Clergy Sex Abuse Not So Much" > Of course, women shouldn't work at all. > http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/07/santorum-book-exce > rpts.html > -Kevin > On 7/5/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's abo

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2005-07-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
ring Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) > 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 > Chantilly, VA 20151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > > -Original Message- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:23 pm >

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2005-07-05 Thread SStewart
td. (ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 -Original Message- From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:23 pm To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Here's a depressing little article Importance

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2005-07-05 Thread Matthew Small
73-1045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:13 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Here's a depressing little article Of course, women shouldn't work at all. http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/07/santorum-bo

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2005-07-05 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Of course, women shouldn't work at all. > http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/07/santorum-book-excerpts.html > > -Kevin I think it is awesome if a parent can be at home with the child(ren) instead of sending them off to day care, etc. Families

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2005-07-05 Thread Kevin Graeme
Of course, women shouldn't work at all. http://capitolbuzz.blogspot.com/2005/07/santorum-book-excerpts.html -Kevin On 7/5/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's about what it takes (monetarily) to live the "good life" > > http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/forbes/P121206.asp?GT1

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2005-07-05 Thread SStewart
It's about what it takes (monetarily) to live the "good life" http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/forbes/P121206.asp?GT1=6706 My fiancée and I both have "good" jobs and we don't come close to what it takes for DC. sas Scott A. Stewart, Web Application Developer Engineering Consulti