Jim

In California, you have to do four things in a specific order if you want a name other than your own for the business. 1. Go to your county seat and file a fictitious business name request. This will be the name you do business as like "SuperCool Jewelry" When you file, they will let you do a computer search to see if anyone else is using the name. 2. Go to the local newspaper and run a classified ad in the legal section identifying yourself and your fictitious business name. It's all explained on the paperwork the county gives you. You just take it to the newspaper and pay for the ad. 3. Take proof of the filed and run ficticious name request to your local bank and open a checking account in that name. 4. Contact the State Board of Equalization to get a resale certificate. Note that the bank won't open an account without the ficticious name paperwork and the state won't give you a resale certificate without the bank info. So it has to be done in order. You will also need a city or county business license, but I don't think it's required in order to get the resale certificate. If you just want to do business in your name, you can skip steps 1-3 and just get a resale certificate using your personal checking account. This is what I did about 12 years ago. I doubt that it's changed much. Just wait until you want to become a corporation

Some sort of karmic payback for AOS?

Freud said.... Freud, It is within the realm of possibilities that someone might be a "plant", purposely put here by TWI to test and possibly try to modify Craig's image. Mind you, I'm not accusing you of being a plant, just that it is within the realm of what TWI might do. I found your posts pretty much neutral and non-judgemental.

I would hope that they would have enough understanding of the first amendment that they wouldn't bother. As long as statements are either *true* or are said with *lack of malace*, they are protected. Disclaimer - "I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice"

Help him out of Christian or brotherly love? Don't think I'm that good of a Christian. Have a cup of coffee with him and listen to his story? Sure, out of curiosity. Let him sleep on my couch. Um, no.

Better. I had over 15% more money than when I did.

It would be very interesting to know what the social traditions were in Paul's time. Whether a man in a leadership position was expected to offer apoligies or make restitution for wronging people. Whether Paul was held accountable for what his unbeliever self did. The Bible really doesn't tell us much about what *must* have been a very tense social situation. Personally, I have problems understanding the whole picture and I can't see any answers. Back to modern times, it seems to me that there wasn't a place for apology anywhere in the TWI structure. VPW, Craig and clergy tended to blame any failing on lack of believing, the advisary or failing to "renew your mind". No need to apologize there. For Joe and Suzie believer, there was confrontation and threats to get your act together or else. No need to apologize there either. Now I know lots of sweet-hearted believers that would apologize if they had hurt someone, but no TWI doctrine that might have mandated it. Keep in mind that the 50's through the 80's were an era of no corporate or government admission of wrongdoing. That something was done wrong just wasn't admitted. I think that TWI in general and VPW in specific followed that philosophy wholeheartedly.

Onion, Yeah, I knew a couple of guys who "volunteered" It was usually a case of getting a girl "in trouble" and avoiding a statuory rape charge. It saved the girl and her parents the embarassment of a trial and got the troublemaker out of town.

Freud, I have little to add. Your words certainly have a ring of truth to them and are the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. Please stick around.

Coolwaters said: You said, and I quote, "known violent offenders" My post addressed the subject of forcing "known violent offenders" into the military for punishment/training. I posted what I felt was a reasoned argument (prefaced with an apology) as to why I thought that was a bad idea. Now you play the misunderstood victim. This is why I stopped responding to your posts for a long time. Well, now I've learned.

You've touched on a subject that brings up some strong feelings in me so I apologize in advance if I hurt any feelings. The US is founded on the principle of citizen soldiers. Despite the fact that we currently have an all-volunteer military, we've had the draft several times in our history. Even today, the vast number of recruits are there for only one term, expecting to learn a trade, learn discipline and take on adult levels of responsiblity. To imply that the military should be used as the US's social rubbish bin for criminals and undesirables shows (IMHO) either a lack of understanding or a callous indifference of what our military is and should be. You wouldn't propose to make these violent offenders into cops, would you? Well, it seems that the US military ends up being the world's cops and the conduct of it's military is on view to all the world to see. Setting aside the social issue, being in the military means depending on your buddy, whether it's to watch your back in combat, haul your foot out of a burning compartment on a ship or maintain your aircraft properly in the Air Force. And the person you depend on is often a 18 or 19 year old just out of high school. It isn't a place for criminally violent, no more than being on your local police force would be.

What a sad, sad thread. I've raised exactly one kid and trained exactly one dog. We never physically punished the girl until she was 2 or 3 and then only 4 or 5 times. We didn't need to. Now I've seen kids that probably needed way more than that, but not ours. BTW, the girl didn't have much of a clue as to what a good kid she was and what good parents we were until she worked in a toy store for a year. As to the dog, we never hit him as a puppy. He was a working terrier and was expected to hunt and patrol by himself. We were warned that we could loose his trust forever by striking him. A loud scolding was enough to get an intense reaction from him. As he got older and quite a bit more stubborn, a little tap on his butt was occasionally needed to get him going in the right direction, but I wouldn't call that hitting him. I really don't understand the instant response thing about training dogs. To me, one of the great pleasures of having a dog is walking with him and watching him respond to the things that I can't hear or smell. That sorta implies that the dog can think for himself.

Notebooks - Every Sunday, check the bestbuy.com newpaper ad for your area. At least once a month they sell a Toshiba Satelite notebook for around $500. Get it. You'll find the performance is pretty poor. Next go to newegg.com and order another 512meg of ram for it and install it yourself. Now the notebook will rock, performancewise and you can't do it any cheaper. I've purchased a total of 4 notebooks this way. One for my daughter, one for the house and 2 for my business. The oldest one is almost 3 years old and the youngest is about 3 months. They are all working perfectly.

You can try this, it worked for me. The instant he shows aggressive behavior to his "guests", grab him and force him on his back and shout "no" loudly. This establishes you as the alpha dog and not him and tells him his behaviour is not acceptable. Note that you have to do it *right away*. Dogs have virtually no long-term memory when it comes to behaviour-punishment training. If you wait longer than a few seconds it will probably do more harm than good.

How do I pre-order the DVD?

How do they book the liabilities that will come due at the Bema?

Sorry, I didn't see Southern Comfort. What would that be?

I didn't do the poll because I don't think the conditions apply here in the US. First of all, if we're going to even consider the basic premise, it should apply to both male and female. But even after that, it seems unlikely that a person who decides to be a stay-at-home mom/dad, fulll-time student, etc would have the money to pay back the loan. Here in California, you can get a splendid education with very minimal debt. 2 years of community college for very, very low tuition, directly transferrable to a state college with very reasonable tuition. I know, my daughter is doing it and I'm paying the bill. She will get her teaching certificate in the process of getting her BS and intends to teach high school or JC while working on her advanced degrees.

Not this one?

I'd just lay hands on it....

The whole love/hate relationship that TWI had with the private sector was kinda weird. I think it started with VP making some sort of remark in PFAL about having been picked for an executive position at A.B. Dick, a pretty big company back then. Loy seemed to want to make a big deal of being the equivilent of a CEO in a Fortune 500 company. The grassroots reality of the situation is this. It's way easier to manage an organization when A) you don't have to pay prevailing wages, B) you don't have to pay corporate income tax and C) you can convince your workers that they are really working for God and not you. And conversely, if they are doing a poor job, they are shortchanging God. But alas, no scam lasts forever.

Sorry for your loss, Johnny. Reading over the notes on CG's meeting, I can't help but wonder why the BOT would have given him a pulpit and a microphone. By this time they must have known he was the biggest loose canon in the ministry. Did they really think there would be profit to him addressing the clergy? Were they so afraid of him that they didn't think they had a choice?

Great story. In a chance encounter I met a mechanic that was bitten by a brown recluse then ignored it. The ending involved medivac, couple of weeks in the hospital and then crutches. Real bad news.