All of the district's estimated 13,880 workers had to pick up paychecks or direct-deposit slips in person by June 12 as a first step in determining if anyone who is not on the payroll is collecting pay. The audit turned up 257 names that will be subject to an investigation into illegal ghost employees, officials said Tuesday. Ok, but are those ghosts more productive than the "real" employees?
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The audit turned up 257 names that will be subject to an investigation into illegal ghost employees, officials said Tuesday.
Translation: They're illegal because their union dues and donations to ACORN and Monica Conyers' legal-defense fund weren't paid up to date. The other 9,372 ghost employees are completely in the clear.
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Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at the Cobra nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band's tour manager. They were at the club following a Sunday night video awards show.
Molina turned himself in and has been charged with assaulting Hilton, Toronto Police Constable Tony Vella said. Molina is due in court Aug. 5.
Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, complained about the incident on the microblogging site Twitter. He tweeted at 4 a.m.: "I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke."
Hilton, who is a dumbass openly gay, said in interview with The Associated Press that he called will.i.am a "faggot," a gay slur, inside the club after the musician told the blogger not to write about his band on his Web site. "He was like 'You need to respect me.' He was in my face. He was obviously trying to intimidate me and scare me," Hilton said. "I was like 'I don't need to respect you. I don't respect you and I did say this, and I knew that it would be the worst thing I could possibly say to him because he was acting the way he was. I said 'You know what, I don't respect you and you're gay and stop being such a faggot.'" And I was, like, I toadally can't respect a dipshit was uses "like" as punctation and goes around calling people "faggots" and doesn't expect an occasional bust in the mush. Wotta maroon. Don't forget the part where he twittered his friends to call the police. What, the '9' and '1' buttons on your cell phone are broken?
Hilton, who was at the club with Lady Gaga, said he then left the club and was punched from behind. The pop stars and the blogger were among celebrities in Toronto for the MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday night.
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"Won't someone tell me the number to 911? I mean, like, really, I am bleeding."
Una Maroon
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Dunno much about their music but I think I'm gonna have to buy a Black Eyed Peas CD.
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I think this is a case of red-on-red: will.i.am is the guy who did all those Obama worship videos last fall.
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Dunno much about their music ...
OK, here's some lyrics to "My Humps" by the "Blacked Eyed Peas".
What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)
A chic sheath dress in a bold color -- that is the unmistakable Michelle Obama look, one she has made her own as first lady of the United States, according to two new books celebrating Obama's fashion sense. As usual, it's about selling new books. And sucking up to power ...
Her image is everywhere you look I try not to these days: Last week, Obama was given a Board of Directors' Special Tribute Award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which noted her "meteoric rise as a fashion icon." Slurp.
Last month, she was in Paris, where she once again shone next to super-chic French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. In the same dress, almost. Did they discuss it? Pic at link.
But she especially stands out these days in bookstores, striking a pose on Michelle Style: Celebrating the First Lady of Fashion by Mandi Norwood (William Morrow, $19.99 ) and on Michelle Obama: First Lady of Fashion and Style by Susan Swimmer (Black Dog & Leventhal, $9.95). There's even a Michelle Obama 2010 wall calendar featuring 20 color pictures of her ($15.99 at Amazon.com). Doesn't take much time for these 'authors' to write their best-seller.
Both book authors are veteran fashion editors, and both say Mrs. O is an original and at the same time a woman with whom anyone can identify. Both books are packed with color photos and sketches of Obama's fashion choices over the past year or outfits famous designers have imagined for her. Both analyze what Obama is doing and how she's doing it -- and what effect she's having. Ms. Wife to the white courtesy phone, please. Trailing Wife to the white phone, please.
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I hear the next venue Michelle is set to conquer is the WWF. She already has the belt.
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And each of those books is available at Amazon, on the sidebar to the right ---->
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I typically avoid commenting on physical appearances, both good and bad, because it's just too easy. But in this case I'm going to make an exception.
I'm willing to acknowledge that Michelle Obama is an objectively attractive woman. And while she's not really my type, her thighs look to be nearing the stature and girth of Her Thighness, HRC.
Must be something in the water at 1600 Pennslyvania Ave.
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WHoa, first the two FIRST LADIES then MODELS > D *** NG IT, CATFIGHTS EVERYWHERE + ONLY ONE PIC OF MICHELLE AND CARLA, W-T-H KIND OF QUALITY PAPARAZZI ARE WE TURNING OUT THESE DAYS!
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I would normally refrain about this, but since the Obama-worshiping press, fashion media sycophants, and assorted Dem remoras insist on calling her faaaabulous(!), let me just say - I've seen more graceful T-rex animations, the Klingon forehead, bite-a-wall overbite and all around bitter entitlement attitude make me wanna puke. Classy? Non! Graceful? Non! Tasteful? Non! Bitter Klingon wid da wide load? Oui!
As a fashion maven in my Levi's jeans, steel-toed Timberlands, and polo shirt/hawaiian shirt rotation, my word is good
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she's heinous, patrick ewing in a skirt - case closed.
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Misread that at first as the Waxjob-Malarky Bill...
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The article is an interesting read,worth the time to read.
Could Plimer's book, Heaven and Earth, Global Warming: The Missing Science, (due out 1 July) be one reason that Pelosi is trying to get the "Cap and Tax" bill out of the House ASAP?
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Ian Plimer is an a very powerful speaker on the subject- if anyone wants an example, go to Sydneyminingclub.org and find his November 08 talk at the Past Events section. This is where I send anyone who goes all green on me.
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There's a good chance the Australian government will call an election over it and lose when they should win (2 terms is the norm for Australian governments).
Politicians across the globe will then run from climate change seeing it as an electoral liability.
This could well be the real climate tipping point when politicians see it as a vote loser.
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"The Sun tends to brushed aside as the most impotant driver of climate change" > Becuz since the CLINTON 90's CAPT. JEAN-LUC PICARD has failed utterly to dev the STAR/SUN-DESTROYING "NEXUS" SUPER-MISSLE that would force the Milyuhn-Earths-sized Sun to surrender like France to tiny Earth + the future OWG-NWO!
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"The Sun tends to brushed aside as the most impotant driver of climate change" > Becuz since the CLINTON 90's CAPT. JEAN-LUC PICARD has failed utterly to dev the STAR/SUN-DESTROYING "NEXUS" SUPER-MISSLE that would force the Milyuhn-Earths-sized Sun to surrender like France to tiny Earth + the future OWG-NWO!
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And in other news....Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, check square-shaped watermelons. The cooperative will ship 600 of the watermelons, with a price tag of about 14,000 yen each. The melons are grown this way by being put into cubes of translucent plastic while still on the vine. The idea is to make it easier for them to fit into refrigerators.
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We have now entered the official "end game" for the United States Government. They are broke. Bankrupt. They have no hope of ever repaying their debts. Countries around the world know this and are starting to dump U.S. debt and U.S. currency because it will all become worthless very soon.
There's no stopping it. There's no avoiding it. There's no way to patch things up to make this go away.
The United States of America has been bankrupted by its own government. That government bears sole responsibility for the economic collapse that is coming. When the collapse happens, the American people - the most heavily armed population on Earth - will probably take up arms and overthrow the government by force. In our view, forcible overthrow is a fate the U.S. Government richly deserves.
National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09) is scheduled for July 27 through July 31, 2009. NLE 09 will be the first major exercise conducted by the United States government that will focus exclusively on terrorism prevention and protection, as opposed to incident response and recovery.
NLE 09 is a White House directed, Congressionally- mandated exercise that includes the participation of all appropriate federal department and agency senior officials, their deputies, staff and key operational elements. In addition, broad regional participation of state, tribal, local, and private sector is anticipated. This year the United States welcomes the participation of Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom in NLE 09.
Two Muslim inmates held in a special unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute say they aren't allowed to pray in groups as often as their religion commands and have asked a federal judge to ease worship limits imposed by the Bureau of Prisons. The prison in western Indiana houses several high-security inmates, including American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh, who is serving a 20-year sentence for aiding Afghanistan's now-defunct Taliban government.
The June 16 lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana challenges limits on Islamic worship in the prison's restrictive Communications Management Unit, where about 30 of the 40 inmates are Muslim. Muslims are required to pray five times a day, but the lawsuit, filed on behalf of inmates Enaam Arnaout and Randall T. Royer, says inmates in the CMU are allowed to pray as a group just one hour a week. The ACLU claims that violates a federal law barring the government from restricting religious activities without showing a compelling need. The lawsuit echoes a 2007 complaint from convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid that he was denied access to group prayer at the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo.
The Indiana lawsuit is one of two the ACLU has filed in the past week concerning conditions in the CMU. Its other lawsuit claimed the unit was created in secrecy and keeps its mostly Muslim inmates in virtual isolation. A Justice Department spokesman said last week that the government followed federal rules in creating the special unit in November 2006. Designed to house prisoners who require additional security, the unit closely monitors inmates' outside contacts. Bureau of Prisons officials declined Tuesday comment on the prayer lawsuit.
Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana, questioned policies allowing prisoners out of their cells to watch television, play cards or engage in other group activities but limiting group worship to one hour on Fridays. "That means four people can sit around the table playing cards or talking about the basketball game but they can't worship," Falk said.
Lindh's attorney George Harris confirmed Tuesday that Lindh, a convert to Islam, is held in the CMU. He declined to comment on the lawsuit or say whether Lindh has had problems practicing his religion at the prison.
The lawsuit asks the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate daily prayers that were held in a multipurpose room for several months after the CMU opened. Louay Safi, director of leadership development with the Plainfield-based Islamic Society of North America, said Muslims try to pray in groups whenever possible. "Muhammad said there is a much greater reward for people who pray in congregation than those who pray individually," he said.
Arnaout, 46, a Syrian-born U.S. citizen, is serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering after admitting in 2003 that he defrauded donors to his Benevolence International Foundation by diverting some of the money to Islamic military groups in Bosnia and Chechnya. Royer, 36, a former spokesman for the Muslim American Society, is serving 20 years for his participation in what prosecutors called a "Virginia jihad network." The group used paintball games in 2000 and 2001 as military training in preparation for holy war against nations deemed hostile to Islam, prosecutors say.
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So, what about kids who want to hold a voluntary prayer meeting before or after classes in schools? Oh, wait a minute, never mind....
But, they're children. Then why do you insist they get full adult due process rights in juvie courts and equal protection against curfews? Oh, wait a minute, never mind....
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Just consider that these feloniously faithful are on an extended trip. Then the Friday hour becomes the shortened/combined Reader's Digest version. Of course there is less time for Death to Infidels! chants, but that can be done in the privacy of the cell.
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Dave UK, the ACLU are shit disturbers and their only imprimatur is, "If we can stick the majority in the eye, then that's good!"
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[Geo News] Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a lady accused of selling her 15-year-old niece in Dubai and has been moved to undisclosed place for further investigation, Geo news said on Tuesday. According to Geo Television, a lady by the name Yasmeen took her young niece Naseema to Dubai on June 10 and handed her over to some unknown persons for sexual abuse at a local hotel. Subsequently, she started screaming in fear and as a result, hotel administration inform Pakistan embassy in Dubai. Pakistan embassy arrested both of them and deported them to Pakistan where FIA arrested Yasmeen at Jinnah International Airport, T.V said. Yasmeen was said to be real paternal aunty of young Naseema, Geo T.V claimed.
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Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have successfully fired the high-power laser aboard the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft for the first time in flight.
During the test, ATL took off from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., and fired its laser while flying over White Sands Missile Range, N.M., successfully hitting a target board located on the ground. ATL, which Boeing is developing for the U.S. Air Force, is a C-130H aircraft equipped with a chemical laser, a beam control system, sensors and weapon-system consoles.
"This successful test is a major step toward bringing directed energy capability to the warfighter," said Gary Fitzmire, vice president and program director of Boeing Directed Energy Systems.
"We have demonstrated that an airborne system can fire a high-power laser in flight and deliver laser beam energy to a ground target. ATL's ultra-precision engagement capability will dramatically reduce collateral damage."
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The Star Wars version of "Spooky" is really going to be something. Maybe we can name it "Puff the Magic Dragon" again, because that's what will happen to the target. Puff!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at the Cobra nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band's tour manager. They were at the club following a Sunday night video awards show.
A chic sheath dress in a bold color -- that is the unmistakable Michelle Obama look, one she has made her own as first lady of the United States, according to two new books celebrating Obama's fashion sense.
Two Muslim inmates held in a special unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute say they aren't allowed to pray in groups as often as their religion commands and have asked a federal judge to ease worship limits imposed by the Bureau of Prisons. The prison in western Indiana houses several high-security inmates, including American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh, who is serving a 20-year sentence for aiding Afghanistan's now-defunct Taliban government.
