oh, and about the post - what is wrong with these people? i used to love toys r us. now it seems they are just dumb.

I found phone interviews convenient while I was searching but still employed, because I was able to schedule the interview over my lunch hour.

It’s just a fair way to interview job applicants who are both in town and out of town. By interviewing everyone over the phone first, it puts everyone on an even playing field.

As for how it all compares to what is going on here, it doesn’t. There is no UK equivalent of the presidential race, for instance. A General Election involves 646 constituencies each electing one person. The debate will be focussed on party lines with some local issues thrown in in each of the 646 battles. You can easily get up to 20 candidates fighting for each seat. Some mud-slinging goes on, but usually only on a local scale and usually only on truthful issues (i.e. the candidate once slept with a camel or something

Single issue voting can occur, and has done in the past. One Martin Bell stood as an independent in a constituency where he challenged both main candidates on an ‘anti-sleaze’ platform. He won. However, that single issue affected 1/646th of the Government and was therefore a point well made but fairly irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things. Single issue voting generally does not occur and never on a national scale. You get the Government you deserve, as they say, and if you vote on single issues you get what you deserve!

There is no election for the Prime Minister as you have with the President. The party with a majority of the 646 seats is asked to form a Parliament and the party leader becomes Prime Minister, just like that. That party can fire and replace the Prime Minister at any time without any public vote or involvement.

I like this as the viewpoint from “outside the box” so to speak. I guess I’m curious as to what the political climate is in Britain. I’ve spent some time watching the House of Commons on TV, and thought, WOW! This is chaos. But maybe our political/governmental climate is truly the more chaotic!

There are a few other issues that I might consider a minimum qualification for getting my vote. That is not because the other issues don’t matter. It is more like “if they can’t think straight about issue A, how can they get anything else right?”

Having said all that, if you would really like some frozen pepperoni balls then let me know offline using the “Contact us directly” link on the site - they are $10 for 15 of them (apparently 2oz each ball…Stanganelli’s). I’m not sure how we then manage the handover, but I’ve got plenty of time to act as a delivery service! (Though apparently they don’t become available until 21st November. It all seems complicated to me, but then what do i know?

Many thanks again, Steve

If the congregation can’t participate, then it gets away from being worship, and becomes more like a performance.

Feedback from yourself and others (offline) suggests that mailboxes are less prevalent than they used to be, except in rural areas, though I had never considered where we are as “rural”. It may have been at one time but the mailbox process has never changed to reflect it!