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Attention: Important Information UPDATE: Federal Extensions to expire on Sunday February 26, 2010 The U.S Congress adjourned Friday without reauthorizing the four federal extensions of unemployment benefits and Extended Benefits. Each of those programs will expire this weekend. If you do not see a voucher on your claimant homepage beginning Sunday, you are likely exhausted. According to federal law, people can receive the benefits remaining on their current unemployment tier but they will not roll to the next tier of benefits. Hoosiers concerned about losing these benefits should consider a job with the U.S. Census. Thousands of Census jobs are available in Indiana paying up to $15 per hour. Hoosiers interested in applying for a census job should visit: 2010 Census Jobs Well, as of Friday, the US Congress failed to do anything with the extension program for unemployment. So, this means there are no extensions availble for anyone currently receiving unemployment. When your done, your done, no more help from them. This will effect many folks, including myself. In fact, it will begin to affect us in two weeks. I am currently a unemployed union ironworker, i have been a journeyman for 13 yrs. There is very little work available in our area , it has been dry for a while now. Even with the high levels of unemployed journeymen in the area, our local is still taking in new apprenticeship classes. You see the apprentice not only pays money to be enrolled, but is about 40% cheaper to hire as well. In two weeks, the state of Indiana will stop my unemployment, it will have came to the end of it's "tier". I will have no options for an extension, no help of any sorts. The union hall only suggest that we drive up there each morning, and hope there is a call. If the employer does not request a apprentice, then it is up for grabs, but......then if more than one man wants the job, there are usually 30 to 40 men, you have to draw cards! yup, no matter how long you been in, what experiance you have, wether you cheat to pass drug test, it doesn't matter how long you have been without work, one week or 6 months, nothing matters here, just matters what card you pull! you could of been the first one in the door for the past 6 months, with a resume that shines like gold, get a three, your sitting back down again, empty handed and driving home agian to tell the family no work, day after day.... If i take my welding skills or other structual related experiance elswhere, it is called being a rat, i will be ejected from the union and loose my benifeits as well as face fines in some cases. I have aleady lost all of my insurance, because you have to bank so many hours withina certain amunt of time, but those hours are not availble. There is work away from home, but we cannot afford for me to rent a place to start working there and mailing money home. It is usually a case of, where i have worked hard, putting in alot of hours, paying into the unemployment scheme. When work stops, we stop, draw unemployment for a while, until work picks back up and go again. This time, i can not wait no longer, now i have to find a different job, which will be another big pay cut. it is not horible, but taking a 60% paycut for something you have put the past 13yrs. into, that does suck. just figured i would rant for a while about it. seems like the system is failing me, and others. it sucks to know we are currently spending billions to help others who will never help us, but the money i personally payed into, is no longer availble for me and my family to use. thier advice, seek employment with the us census, lol, it is 15 bucks an hour they say. well it is two months away still and only last three start to finish. the pay, it is up to 15 bucks an hour, part time, al over our state.... your gas, no matter where you drive to, no matter if you are to be there but for a few hours..... not a real good opportunity, if you get with the right crew, know the right people, you can put back a small fortune, there is alot of corruption in it. if you are on the outside, trying to get in, you will be bounced around and handled like trash. okay, i am done now, btw, i have a few job interviews lined up and 17 resumes went out today....wish ol' chop luck. chop

lmao this shit is getting out of hand now

okay, this is about shit! so if you are sorta weak in the gut, dont read, walk away. I have been sick for a wek straight, head cold like symptoms that quickly turned into a bloody sore thoat. it tore my throat up with the quickness. i lost my voice for quite a while. so as it let up and turned into a sinus and lung thing, and the throat heeled some..... i was happy enough. stilll sick, still hoarse sounding... but better. any way.... the past three days i have taken some crazy craps.... pure tar black....... several times a day.... black i tell you, and it just seems so wrong, and is not going away at all... so i mentioned it in the chat room, oddly enough... and one of the fellas said, it sometimes means blood in your stool.... so i looked it up.... seems i should be worried and will look into it further, dare i say deeper, later... but , while i was learning about this.... i found a shit load of info on shit! all on one page.... figured i would share it with you. those who have questions, they have answers. oh, and the photo gallery is not what it might sound to be... thank goodness. alot about poop

cool build thread description, pics need to be posted correctly though, with the insert image thingy on the tool bar. oh, and uh, i know i am reading it wrong, but when i read the name.....acschank..... i seem to come up with ass-shank..... just a observation, lol, chop

hence my name! lol i am turning the tide some thouhg, thanks for the input chop

no, seen that mentioned, about the same level of damage that i normally create.

all this coughing i been doing...... might of found what i got going..... Gastritis, or an inflammation of the stomach lining, can cause black waste to appear. Likewise, ruptured esophageal varices, the dilated veins in the lower esophagus’ wall, can create a black bowel movement. A much more rare condition called a Mallory-Weiss tear can also lead to blackened waste. This last malady occurs when the esophagus-to-stomach connective mucous membrane tears from violent coughing, intense vomiting, or other spasms and convulsions. been reading on the MT also, definetly would be something to run through the ol pipes..... i have had some mean bbq over the years, lol chop

FTW then bro...... too bad you are not close by..... looking toward to geting some ink in the near future. first thing first, gotta get the ol' pooper back to firing correctly i guess, lol. bloody shoulders > bloody butt holes , lol ttul..... gotta grab some z's before job hunt tomorrow. chop

none of the pink stuff in a long time. i will look into the health store for "MT" , sorta working on zeroing in on what it is from.... i hate looking up medical stuff...... they are like ... "does your knee ache? "............... it does now, "do you feel anxious?" ..........yes, i think i do "has your ears been burning?"......... by gollly, they are now!!!! "is your throat dry?" ............omg!!!!!! it is dry!!!! AHHHH!!!!!! i get every sympton they suggest.... hell i am two weeks late on my mynstrual by the time i have read two pages of stuff.....lmao chop

I agree with everyone. I bet the guy that is going to receive those is not going to be too happy about those 35 degree angles there. hehe. I am interested in the "b" stock pricing shizzzon, just shoot me a pm, lol. i can hide those well enough,

throw a pic of it with the lights on in the for sale section.... some folks will pay the shipping. chop

lols seriously though.... bundle packages...kits, whatever....ftw.... i would be interseted in running a full set from front to back of shizzzon industries complete eletrical upgrade hardware...... complete with decals!

the battery buss bar set and the multi insert set , at a standard, If this is considered standard, size........ this should be a packged bundle..... or even add the fused block into the picture as well.... a complete set, from front to back, a beginners dream , all custom, top notch, shipped in one package! now, with that said, you will have to have a catchy name, we the consumers demand it.... and i personally think that there should be several stewey decals thrown in there as well. chop

Did that fellar come through on that enclosure? ^^^

So while some people may end up screwed in the short term, it does not appear this is a permanent change to unemployment benefits. it is good to read that...... and any hope is better than none. i have never veiwed it in this light in the past.... not until now. now i can not, will not, have the same outlook on it no more. like i said, it has worked fine for over 13 years and was not by no means new then..... this is the first time it has gotten all wierd in my lifetime any how.... so now, now i am scared to wait, unalarmed, without worry of something failing. Trust me, I will be looking into it as the story progresses, yet in the mean time, i will try to find something that is somewhere in between.... it will be a pay cut for sure... but perhaps a lot better than not knowing... I am rather simple minded, not a big baller by no means, pay my bills, go out for dinner here and there... i am good. work as a pizza guy for a couple of years, see what comes of the rest impious, where did you find the read at bro, i would like to look at it ..... chop

just gotta keep my head up and keep going forward, thats all. highschool diploma, top 10% of my class..... 4 yrs of college, all four on the deans list @ 4.0 gpa 4 yrs of apprenticeship Journeyman Ironworker Certified welder ............................ being unemployed= priceless...... literally. lol don't worry though, i got a game plan in motion with the whole family in play.... Poppa Chop....... Momma Chop...... Paul and Samantha can run a few of these clever scams........ and the kids, well if they want to eat, then they gotta work too! no labor laws apply when it is crunch time....... Kids, take thes bricks ......... and build this highway for the man, and when your done, i got another one for you! FTL !!!

lol, i was going to say that, but... i read it as he was talking to me, (one), about there is more than three, (+1, me = 4) but, * mikey is in a new house , no internet access, he lives in the sticks and shoots at birds for entertainment at the moment....lol * mike just stated a new shop and is swamped in starting it off proper...... * steve is , as i said, suffering from DA, so we have to make him a new account. * jordan, david, paul, and pete....no internet, i guess!!! wow. * samantha, always busy...lol, better you than me. * Sander,,no idea. lost that car and has the blues? * well, thats enough excuses for a minute....jeesh!

found one Mdizzle done for bear..... this one was a while ago, lol 77' cougar

this is the first build on the Dakota...... i will start a new one next week or so..... learned quite a bit on doing the build, so it was a good experiance. Dakota build #1

Here is one i started on with a neighbor, then he sorta disappeared. it was fun though Caprice 3 X 12"s in trunk

not sure what to say...... the added power will be intense! chop

i gotta post this one up for steve, rattlebox317, he seems to have gotten a case of the DA and forgotten his password to his account, as well as to his e-mail, lol, wow, really steve? ha ha rattlebox317's build log

funny you say that, according to my sig and recent memeory, i too thought there indeed was more than 3....... i believe, (while i am finding excuses), that there seems to be a plataue on members builds..... this is not what this is for, ( as a reminder) , it is for us all to say hello and what we have done thus far, as well as, what is up next. i will do a little persuading.... chop

ha ha, lol.... this cat comes out of the wood work to comment on the Honda, lol we were cruising the strip one night and he was having me take pics of any hondas on the strip and send them to him since he could not be there. he might be a little shady, lol chop

wow, every time i tell myself that my next install will be a slow, well thought out, build, i get anxouis and cut corners. it really helps me keep my mind open to what the end result will be when i see installs like this. it shows that you are looking at every inch of the car..... i can only imagine how big of a differance it will be. very good work here. gives me inspiration, which is what a good build log should do. chop now, get to work!!!! lol