[An Nahar] Doctors in China kept a man's severed hand alive for a month by attaching it to his leg, before restoring it to its usual position, a report said Tuesday.
The 25-year-old, identified by his nickname Xiao Wei, had his right hand sawn off by a drilling machine at work last month in Changde, in the central province of Hunan, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald said.
The damage was too severe to re-attach the hand immediately, so surgeons in the thriving provincial capital Changsha grafted it onto his lower leg, just above his Achilles tendon, to keep it alive while the healing process began.
Severed limbs can be saved if their blood supply is restored within several hours of their amputation, depending on the circumstances.
Earlier this month, doctors removed the hand and successfully reattached it to Xiao Wei's arm in a nine-hour operation, said the newspaper.
He will have to go through several further operations and rehabilitation therapy to restore the limb's function, it added.
"It's just like building a house," the paper quoted Tang Juyu, Xiao Wei's primary doctor, as saying. "Currently the main body is established. There will have to be interior decorations in the future."
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[MYFOXPHOENIX] MESA, Ariz. - The deadline for Walmart's layaway plan had passed. If you hadn't paid off the layaway, you lose your deposit. The items that you'd been paying on go back in stock -- unless, by chance there is a Christmas angel.
It was emotional day at the Walmart on the U.S. 60 in Mesa Sunday -- a lot of tears from customers, Walmart associates, any one who witnessed what some are dubbing a Christmas layaway angel.
She appeared quietly at this store in the layaway department two days after the layaway payment deadline -- an older lady with $5,000 and a surprising request.
Store manager Rita Barreras and others in the layaway department were brought to tears by the older woman's request.
"Wants to pay off $5,000 worth of layaways," said Barreras.
Barreras and other employees immediately got to work going through layaway paperwork alphabetically. They called people with the news.
"I said but your layaway is paid off and there goes the tears.. they just start crying with joy and I'm glad I was a part of it," she said.
Barreras figures 30 layaway orders were paid off, most of them included bikes and toys. Barreras asked the woman why pay off the layaway for strangers?
"When she was younger, she remembers her mom not being able to pay off their layaways for them for Christmas, so she always kept that in her mind.. so that's something she did every year."
The joy she spread not just to the families who got their orders paid off, but to everyone who heard the story of the woman now referred to as the layaway angel.
"We need more good stories like this, absolutely and thank you anonymous lady, I think that's wonderful," said Marcia Reily of Mesa.
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Had my toll paid the other day by the car in front of me. Damnedest thing. Just when you think you have the measure of mankind, they go and pull something like that.
The left really are a buncha fascists. Can't square your arguments with the data? Can't argue your agenda? There's a solution: Silence the opposition!
Read the comments. You get the uneasy feeling that just a little nudge and we have these folks happily arguing for gun confiscation.
F*cking scary, if you ask me.
From TFA:
...The answer was found in the form of proactive moderation. About a year ago, we moderators became increasingly stringent with deniers. When a potentially controversial submission was posted, a warning would be issued stating the rules for comments (most importantly that your comment isnt a conspiracy theory) and advising that further violations of the rules could result in the commenter being banned from the forum.
As expected, several users reacted strongly to this. As a site, reddit is passionately dedicated to free speech, Only for one side though
so we expected considerable blowback. But the widespread outrage we feared never materialized, and the atmosphere greatly improved.
We discovered that the disruptive faction that bombarded climate change posts was actually substantially smaller than it had seemed. Just a small handful of people ran all of the most offensive accounts. What looked like a substantial group of objective skeptics to the outside observer was actually just a few bitter and biased posters with more opinions then evidence. Sounds like the climate change crowd Negating the ability of this misguided group to post to the forum quickly resulted in a change in the culture within the comments. Where once there were personal insults and bitter accusations, there is now discussion of the relevant aspects of the research. Instead of (almost comically) paranoid and delusional conspiracy theories, we have knowledgeable users explaining complicated concepts to non-scientists who are simply interested in understanding the research. Amazing, that. Stop opposition and now you have one side talking about climate change...
While we wont claim /r/science is perfect, users seem happy with the changes made. You mean approved users
Read it all. Global warming advocates are the worst of the worst when it comes to free speech.
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There are many sites where comments questioning global warming are routinely deleted. Slashdot is one. Then they get on their soapbox about how the right is anti-science.
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I hardly ever read Slashdot anymore - used to be an avid reader/commenter. Its getting way to progressive and more political than about techie stuff anymore. Used to be a pretty good site for techie stuff. Used to be.
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What i've found amusing is that if someone starts on about GW, I simply tell them "I'm sorry, I'm not a member of their religion." They get the funniest look on their face and then start spluttering. And if they try and make claims about 'science' or what they think is science, you just continue, "Please stop preaching your religion to me."
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so Reddit is off-limits forever, A&E over censoring Phil Robertson, let's get it going....pretty soon my DVR will be empty and so will their pockets
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[READINGEAGLE] A private firm with a federal contract - and backed up by city police - forced motorists off Laurel Street and into a private parking lot Friday to question them about their driving habits and ask for a swab of their mouth.
"I feel this incident is a gross abuse of power on many levels," Reading resident Ricardo Nieves, one of those stopped, told City Council Monday.
He said federal and local tax dollars were being used to stop innocent people without probable cause, and allow a private company to hire uniformed police to force citizens to listen to their questions.
He said he wasn't told what the swab was for, but added, "Clearly it was for DNA."
The checkpoint was among several being carried out in Pennsylvania by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, hired by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
City Police Chief William M. Heim said the two federal agencies are trying to see what can be done about crashes and injuries, and the swabs were not to get DNA samples but to test for the presence of prescription drugs.
The checkpoint was supposed to be voluntary, but Nieves said he had to refuse several times over a five-minute period before the woman taking the survey let him go.
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Your driving habits please. Oh yes, of course. Your walking habits then please.
[Al Ahram] South Sudan has tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! former Finance Minister Kosti Manibe and nine others in connection with a "foiled coup", a government website said on Tuesday, as sporadic fighting in capital Juba entered the second day.
Vice President Riek Machar, whom the government website calls the coup "leader", was still being sought along with four other men.
"Those who are still on the lam will be apprehended," Information Minister Micheal Makuei said, according to a South Sudan government website.
Pagan Amum, chief negotiator during the recent oil shutdown dispute with Sudan, was one of the men sought for questioning.
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[Al Ahram] Fierce battles raged on Tuesday in South Sudan's capital Juba, witnesses said, as troops loyal to the president fought rival soldiers accused of staging a coup in the world's youngest nation.
The continued gunfire, including the sporadic firing of heavy weapons, resumed in the early hours of Tuesday as terrified residents barricaded themselves in their homes or attempted to flee the city.
South Sudan's Under-Secretary for Health Makur Korion said on local radio that at least 26 people had so far been killed in the violence. At least 130 more are reported to have been maimed.
"We can still hear sporadic shooting from various locations. The situation is very tense," Emma Jane Drew of the British aid agency Oxfam told AFP by telephone from Juba.
"It's continued shooting. Shooting could be heard all through the night. We don't know who is fighting who."
Drew said her team was unable to leave their compound because of the fighting, which began late on Sunday.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has accused troops loyal to his arch-rival, former vice president Riek Machar who was sacked from the government in July, of attempting a coup.
On Monday, Kiir said his troops were "in full control of the security situation in Juba", and imposed an overnight curfew on the city -- only for the fighting to resume again.
The independent radio station Tamazuj said festivities were taking place around compounds belonging to Machar or his loyalists.
UN radio said at least 7,000 civilians had taken refuge at UN offices. An AFP news hound said residents living in areas close to military bases were using any lull in the fighting to flee for safer areas, although many said they were too afraid to move.
"We are afraid of going outside," said Juba resident Jane Kiden.
"We had wanted to go out and buy food from the market, but how can you go with the shooting? I am staying at home with my children."
There were also unconfirmed reports of troops conducting violent house-to-house searches.
"We have heard unconfirmed reports of house-to-house military checks of civilians including the use of brutality and violence, though this is unconfirmed," Oxfam's Drew said, raising concerns of an ethnic dimension to the fighting.
"It is a very strong possibility. We have certainly received reports of that, but we're locked in the compound, relying on word of mouth," she said.
Oil-rich but impoverished South Sudan won its independence in 2011 after its people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to split from the north and form a new nation.
But the country has struggled with ethnic violence and corruption, and political tensions have worsened in recent weeks between rival factions within the ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
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[MAGHAREBIA] Moroccan security services tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! 21 members of a trans-border organised crime network, MAP reported on Monday (December 16th). According to the general directorate of national security (DGSN), the group was active in Taza, Benslimane and Casablanca. The suspects face charges of kidnapping, torture and murder. They include European citizens of Maghreb origin already wanted by their adopted countries.
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[Pak Daily Times] Recently defeated M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have continued to recruit fighters in neighboring Rwanda while the Congolese army has been involved in human rights abuses and corruption, according to a confidential UN report.
"The Group has documented that M23 received continued support from Rwandan territory," the UN Group of Experts said in its final report to the Security Council's Congo sanctions committee, which was seen by Reuters on Monday. "The Group has received credible information that sanctioned M23 leaders are moving freely in Uganda and that M23 has continued to recruit in Rwanda," it said.
The independent expert panel also accused armed groups and the Congolese army of human rights abuses - including use of child soldiers, summary executions and sexual violence - and profiting from illegal mining operations in resource-rich eastern Congo.
The allegations come at a sensitive time for Congo, which is struggling to defeat armed militia in its eastern provinces. Millions of people have died from violence, disease and hunger since the 1990s in eastern Congo where myriad rebel groups have fought over gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and uranium deposits.
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[Al Ahram] Azerbaijani authorities have nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the head of an independent election monitoring group after it criticised presidential polls that secured a new term for strongman Ilham Aliyev, one of his colleagues said Tuesday.
A Baku court on Monday ordered Anar Mammadli, chairman of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDS), to spend three months in pre-trial detention in connection with an investigation into alleged tax evasion.
"We were summoned to the prosecutor's office as part of the investigation that was started in October," EMDS executive director Bashir Suleymanli told AFP.
"I was let go two hours later and then the state-appointed lawyer called to say that Anar Mammadli had been arrested," he said.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague -- in Baku on Tuesday for the signing ceremony of major deal that will see Azerbaijan export natural gas to Europe -- said he had raised the issue of Mammadli's arrest with Aliyev.
"I expressed my concern," Hague told news hounds.
US Ambassador Richard Morningstar said Washington was "deeply troubled" by the arrest and called for Mammadli's immediate release.
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[Pak Daily Times] The consortium developing a huge Azerbaijani natural gas field signed on Tuesday a final investment deal that paves the way for the first deliveries to Europe, opening up a key route beyond Russia.
The Shah Deniz II consortium signed off on the final decision worth about $28 billion (20 billion euros) of investment that triggers the start of construction of a key new pipeline route from the Caspian Sea to Europe.
Six billion cubic metres of natural gas will go to Turkey and Georgia from 2018 and the rest will go to Europe from around 2019, according to the consortium which includes Britannia's BP and Azerbaijan's SOCAR.
The move is seen as a key step towards European ambitions of reducing energy dependence on Russia.
"Today's agreement will change the energy map of Europe," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the signing ceremony in the capital Baku.
"Azerbaijani gas can now reach the market that needs it the most." British Foreign Secretary William Hague praised the agreement and thanked Aliyev for "the vital role that Azerbaijan has played in making this deal a reality."
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[An Nahar] Security forces averted an attempt by about 1,000 migrants to rush a towering, triple-layer border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish-held north African territory of Melilla, Spain's government said Tuesday.
Authorities say it was the latest bid by desperate migrants to enter the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta by scrambling over the six-meter (19-foot) border fences or crossing the Mediterranean in flimsy vessels.
The two Spanish cities of about 80,000 inhabitants are each perched on the northern coast of Morocco, forming the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's only land borders with Africa and a tempting target for hopeful migrants.
Several have died in the attempt. But hundreds have made it across and ended up in overcrowded immigrant processing centers.
In the latest incident on Monday night, about 1,000 migrants organised themselves into two parallel lines and walked up to the Moroccan side of Melilla's border fence, the Spanish government's representative for the city said in a statement.
The migrants came within a "short distance" of the fence, it said. But they were prevented from trying to storm the border by a strong Spanish security deployment and the cooperation of Moroccan forces, it said.
In a bid to ward off migrants, Spain last month began putting barbed wire and "anti-climbing" mesh at points along Melilla's 11-kilometer (seven-mile) border, drawing complaints from human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups.
On November 20, Moroccan security forces drove back another crowd of about 1,000 migrants who charged at the Melilla border fence.
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A visa programme called EB-5 offers overseas investors the opportunity to get permanent residence - a green card - in return for $1m (£614,000). In areas with high unemployment, the visas are available for a $500,000 investment.
The visas have been available since the 1990s, when Europeans were the main beneficiaries. But today Chinese citizens represent a majority of the applicants.
While critics complain about foreigners "buying" their way into the US, the scheme's supporters told the BBC that the developers fund projects that create jobs in America.
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...as opposed to retaining funding welfare for illegal aliens (while gutting COLA for military retirees)? How can you have a dependent/obligated class with such a program?
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In some cases the cost is only $500k. Other countries have had great success with this kind of "investment" for visa program. The US is having trouble getting takers. The amount of visa available under this program each year has never been reached. Never.
[Pak Daily Times] India launched a series of reprisals on Tuesday against US officials, foreign ministry sources said, as outrage grows over a diplomat's arrest in New York, which New Delhi has branded "humiliating".
In an escalating row over the arrest, the government ordered a range of measures including the return of identity cards for US consular officials that speed up travel into and through India, the sources said.
"We have ordered the withdrawal of all ID cards that are issued by the Ministry of External Affairs to the officials at the US consulates across India," a senior ministry source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The government will also stop all import clearances for the US embassy including liquor, the sources said, while Indian security forces removed barricades from outside the US embassy in New Delhi.
Tow-trucks and mechanical diggers were seen taking away the heavy barriers which control traffic from the streets around the embassy.
The moves come after deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! last week while dropping her children at school, for allegedly underpaying her domestic helper who is also an Indian national and for lying on the helper's visa application form.
Anger over the incident has been mounting in the Indian press with front-page reports Tuesday claiming Khobragade had been handcuffed and "strip-searched and confined with drug addicts" after her arrest.
Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said Tuesday the government had "put in motion" measures to address the arrest, calling Khobragade's seizure "completely unacceptable".
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: The four-feet long statue of the Hindu goddess Mari Mata was not wearing any jewels, as she was usually seen along with colourful clothes. The ladies dressed in colourful saris involved in bathing the statue were also nowhere to be seen. Sankha (a conch shell) or bells before the prayers were not being played nor the Prashad served or Aarti lighted up. Instead, the statue was lying outside idle.
Around a dozen Hindu families, who always prayed to their goddess to protect them from the evil, were living under the open sky, as they became homeless.
All this happened when two weeks ago, a powerful builder or what the victim families termed "land mafia" attacked and forced them to leave their homes, as according to local Hindus, a builder is willing to construct a shopping plaza on land of the century-old Mari Mata Temple in the Soldier Bazaar No 1.
"The builder with the help of the temple's caretaker, is going to grab the temple land to construct a shopping Plaza, for which they have not only demolished a portion of the historical temple and left the families living besides the temple homeless, but also kept the century-old statue of Mara Mata, out of the temple," said Kasi Lingum, Secretary-General, Pakistain Madrasi Hindu Panchayat, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
He said the statue was lying in open air, and the families were being forced to leave the place. "Despite tall claims, Sindh government, Ministry of Minority Affairs and other authorities concerned are not helping us," said Lingum. "Unfortunately, we have no other option than to protest and will soon announce our way forward," said Lingum, demanding to provide shelter to the families until issue resolved.
It is not the first time that a Hindu temple has been demolished in Karachi; another builder demolished just a year ago, a Mari Mata temple in Doli Khata.
According to the Pakistain Hindu Sabha there were about 400 Hindu temples in the downtown areas of the city including Saddar, Doli Khata, Soldier Bazaar, Jamshed Town, Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... and Keamari among others at the time of Partition, but now, the situation is otherwise. "Now only 60 temples remain, which too are on the verge of destruction. The rest have been either demolished or occupied by other groups," said Dr Gotam of Pakistain Hindu Sabha.
"We demand the ruling PPP leadership, and the Sindh government to help us reconstruct the temple, and help the families to get their homes back," said Lingum.
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[Washington Times] The U.S. Army War College, which molds future field generals, has begun discussing whether it should remove the portraits of Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Lee and Jeff Davis Highways, Fort Bragg, Gettysburg, Confederate cemeteries, fried green tomatoes, also soon to be reviewed.
Wear a little earring in your Left ear and have a butterfly tattooed on your butt cheek. And if you were more intelligent ( like Kerry says ) you wouldn't be in the military, you would have a REAL job.
You could always be the manager of a Krispie Kreme , if you really wanted to impress your good friends Dwayne and Bruce.
America the land of the free cellphone.
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Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee were graduates, and some of the best generals West Point and the Army have ever produced. ALl this taking town of portraits smacks of stalinist purging. History is what it is, accept it as such.
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Lee and Jeff Davis Highways, Fort Bragg, Gettysburg, Confederate cemeteries, fried green tomatoes, also soon to be reviewed.
I'd start by removing portraits of Union generals---the notion that whiteys bleed and died to free the blacks must be offensive to African Americans.
no sark.
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Are they going to start renaming many of the Army bases in the South that were named after Confederate generals? (Forts Bragg, Benning, A. P. Hill, Jackson to name a few.)
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Next they'll take back the Commonwealth's (VA) holiday - Lee-Jackson Day. I believe it is the Friday before MLK day.
No, I can't believe it is allowed to be a holiday either.
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Across the entire spectrum of the federal government, you can see the rot that these progressive agents have planted, or nurtured, eroding every aspect of our culture than they view as "counter-revolutionary". They have accelerated the decline of traditional American culture in ways I never imagined possible, and I think that the "tipping point" as Dennis Miller is so fond of saying, has been passed. The infiltration by active agents of the courts, schools, the press and now the sinews of basic government at so many levels will require things too drastic to contemplate I fear to restore the Republic.
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Old Spook, Lee and Jackson were graduates of West Point - this is the War College at the Carlisle Barracks. It didn't exist until after the Spanish-American War. And Lee's deliberately burned the Barracks during the Gettysburg Campaign, so YMMV.
Stupid damn PC impulse, any which way.
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(There were at least four ex-Confederate generals (all CSA cavalrymen, for some reason) leading American troops during the Spanish-American War - most notably Joe Wheeler of the Battle of San Juan Hill - which probably explains the Lee and Jackson portraits - it matched the reconciliatory spirit of the times.)
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We should all aspire to be as great an American as General Wheeler (pictured on the left, an age 62 volunteer appointed a Major General by President McKinley). That's COL Roosevelt on the Right.
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In some weird Steam Punk screw-up and we need serious people with serious horses I know just where to start looking, I'd start looking right here in R'burg.
Were the portraits put up after the Civil War? How is it we could be more offended now than right after the conflict?
Because today we celebrate the ignorant and the insane, treating their ravings as if they have merit.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. -- Lincoln
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[USATODAY] The General Motors bailout may have cost the government $10 billion, but GM CEO Dan Akerson rejects any suggestion that the company should compensate for the losses.
He says Treasury officials took the same risk assumed by anyone who purchases stock.
"I would not accept the premise that this was a bad deal," Akerson said during a question-and-answer session at the National Press Club in Washington. He also said the government's $49.5-billion aid to GM helped save billions of dollars in tax revenue and government social services.
Akerson spoke in the wake of Treasury announcement last week that it sold its last shares in GM and Akerson's decision to retire in January. The automaker's board of directors named Mary Barra, the company's first woman CEO, to succeed Akerson.
The speech also came as GM announced it is investing $1.2-billion in five U.S. plants, which Akerson said is a recognition that after 15 straight profitable quarters the automaker can't rest on its success.
"We are in a capital-intensive business that demands steady and significant investment," Akerson said, as he discussed many of the changes that had to be made to the automaker's corporate structure after exiting a "quick rinse" bankruptcy in 2009.
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GM says no because the money went to the Union.
Of course the follow-up question should be "what has the CEO and Board of Diretors of GM done since 2009 to ensure taxpayers are not on the hook for future bail outs"?
Not that they owe it, but not in hell going to pay it.
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Got to give credit to Willie Sutton -- at least he didn't say he should not pay back the money he stole because he'd pay taxes and not collect govt benefits.
Different times I suppose.
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Doesn't matter - GM the UAW is 'to big to fail'...
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Maybe its bullsh!t like this that will cause my driveway to be barren of GM products for the rest of my life. (cannot speak for friends that support the General and continue to keep buying his crap, however)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Al Ahram] South Sudan has 
[Pak Daily Times] Recently defeated M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have continued to recruit fighters in neighboring Rwanda while the Congolese army has been involved in human rights abuses and corruption, according to a confidential UN report. 
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: The four-feet long statue of the Hindu goddess Mari Mata was not wearing any jewels, as she was usually seen along with colourful clothes. The ladies dressed in colourful saris involved in bathing the statue were also nowhere to be seen. Sankha (a conch shell) or bells before the prayers were not being played nor the Prashad served or Aarti lighted up. Instead, the statue was lying outside idle.
