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American crewmen sporting hardhats shaped as Stetsons and decorated in the stars and stripes--how 'bout them cowboys! Good to know we have some proactive departments.
Wildlife documentary makers are infringing animals' rights to privacy by filming their most private and intimate moments, according to a new study.
Footage of animals giving birth in their burrows or mating crosses an ethical line that film-makers should respect, according to Brett Mills, a lecturer in film studies at the University of East Anglia.(Of Climate-gate fame)
As Mexicans decry the Arizona immigration law and launch boycotts of Arizona, Amnesty International released a scathing new report urging Mexicans to look in the mirror.
Invisible Victims: Migrants on the Move in Mexico' details the abuse faced by Central American migrants, who cross the southern border between Guatemala and Mexico, usually en route to the US.
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They have migrants? I didn't notice a great rush across in the other direction. Maybe I missed something. Going down there for the shooting sports. Or maybe to take the vapors? Good paying jobs?
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They have migrants? I didn't notice a great rush across in the other direction.
I believe the issue is migrants from countries further south heading north for the gold-paved streets of the U.S., JohnQC. However, Mexico views the American jobs market as theirs, and are not at all willing to share, which is why such a large proportion of the illegals is Mexican.
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But Mexicans tend to be a bit racists so if you look closely you'll see a large portion of the illegals are Mexicans on indian stock, those that have the hardest time getting a job in Mexico. You can tell because the skin is darker and they tend to be shorter than those of a more solid Spanish background.
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They have a lot of Central American illegals passing through from shitholes like El Salvador . And for the last few years, I've noticed a lot of Argentines hanging around. The Argentines have an especially shitty attitude, they walk right to the front of the line at the register and other annoying stuff like that. Mexicans, to their credit, complain loudly about that sort of thing. Nobody wants to get shot over having to wait another 20 seconds to pay for their candy bar though.
China has opened the world's largest underground nuclear weapons plant to the public. According to the official China Daily on Tuesday, China opened the plant dubbed the "816 project" in a mountain in Chongqing's Fuling district to tourists recently. It lies in the world's largest man-made cave, which is 20 km deep.
A 79.6 m-high nine-story building was built in the cave with a total floor area of some 13,000 sq. m. A reactor in the plant produced weapons-grade plutonium 239. The entire facility consists of 18 caves, 130 roads, tunnels, mine shafts, and weapons and food storage. It is designed to withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake or a nuclear attack.
Construction began with approval by then premier Zhou Enlai in 1967. A total of about 60,000 workers were mobilized during the eight-year construction, which cost 740 million yuan.
China decided to build this nuclear facility when relations with the Soviet Union turned sour in the 1960s, but it shut down amid changes in the international situation in 1984. In 2002, Beijing declassified the facility and now the Chongqing city government has opened it to the public.
But the plant is still under strict control, with soldiers standing guard at the entrance. Tourists are allowed to enter only with permits, the daily reported.
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20 KM deep????!!!! That is over 60,000 feet deep! That is where earthquakes are born. I am a bit skeptical of the depth, also the heat of the earth down there would be damned hot! For example, gold mine shafts in the Rand in South Africa are 13,000 ft deep, and have to be air conditioned because of the heat of the rocks.
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After seeing various examples of Chinese quality control, I doubt I'd be too crazy about touring one of their nuclear weapons plants. You'd probably come out glowing like a cheap Mao wristwatch.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House is set to vote Thursday on a bill that would let the people of Puerto Rico decide if the island should become America's 51st state.
The bill would set up a pair of votes to help determine what changes, if any, people in Puerto Rico would like to make to their government.
Puerto Rico currently has "commonwealth status." Those who live there are U.S. citizens, but do not pay federal income taxes, and do not have a voting member of Congress.
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Beck did a good job explaining what was going on with the statehood. It boiled down to 2 senators and 6 representatives firmly in the progressive party.
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The people of PR voted a few years back and their message was clear, they don't want to pay taxes, they want our money, soforget statehood and all that baggage, its better to be a welfare state...
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So maybe Barry can count; he said 57 states. Let's see there's Guam. St. Johns, VI., Washington, D.C. No matter some are territories; others commonwealths. We don need noo stinkin U.S. Constitution.
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PR also allows tons of federal tax breaks for companies that do business there, especially pharmaceuticals. Those would go away, as would the jobs, with statehood. Never. gonna. happen.
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That is why the vote is NOT whether or not PR wants to be a state, but the Dem-controlled congress voting on whether the status quo should be continued. They will take this as a democratic mandate to wrest power and control from the people once again. Beck did a great job of explaining it, urging everyone to contact their congresscritters before it was too late.
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Personally I think we should pass a law that says that a place can only be a territory for one century. After that fish or cut bait. Either you are ready to become a state or you never will be and should go it alone. I think all of our territories have past the centennial mark at this point. I welcome them all, or some, or none. But to remain an infant forever is pathetic.
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San Francisco has banned all non-essential travel for city workers. And the city's board of supervisors has taken the first step toward an economic boycott, banning all contracts, purchasing and conferences with Arizona.
Will Cuba, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, and Zimbabwe join California in economic boycott and show of solidarity?
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Boycott San Francisco! It is a nest of dangerous foaming-at-the-mouth delusional nutcases. If I had a choice to go to Arizona or San Francisco, I'd go to Arizona in a New York minute.
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Given the financial difficulties throughout California for the foreseeable future, anything San Francisco and its cohorts do to reduce spending is A Good Thing, even spending that normally situated communities would consider essential.
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All Arizona has to do is for every illegal they capture stick them on a greyhound with a one-way ticket to San Fran. After a few weeks CA will have a similar law on the books.
A little political miscalculation here?
Five states -- New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida -- are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census. Win-win for NY, CA, and FL.
The five were average or below average in mailing back 10-question census forms when compared to other states, trailing by as many as 5 percentage points, according to the final census mail-in tally released Wednesday.
Based on recent population trends, New York, California and Texas had been estimated to fall just above the cutoff for the last House seats when they are redistributed next year. Waiting behind them in hopes of picking up additional seats are Arizona and Florida, which are already expected to gain one seat apiece.
Responses from these states also raise a red flag because of their higher shares of residents who are Latinos. The Census Bureau has said one of its main concerns is whether tensions over immigration will discourage Latinos, and particularly illegal immigrants, from participating in the government count. That issue returned to the forefront after Arizona passed a tough immigration enforcement bill.
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Meanwhile, several couties here in WA state reported numerous instances of citizens receiving duplicate forms; we did, but being a good guy, i tossed the second in the wood stove. no reason to bolster the numbers for this terminally blue state.....
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Or you could say census mail results could be good news for 45 states that do not harbor Illegal immigrants. These states are on the verge of having congressional seats returned to them that were stolen by illegal aliens. Who knows, photo IDs could be required for voting next.
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Odd. The local newspaper reported a week or two ago that Hawaii had one of the the lowest return rates - about 60% I think. How odd that the Democratic State of Hawaii isn't listed as being in jeopardy of losing a seat....
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In CA I'm sure you'd have to print them in Spanish, Vietnamese, Swahili and every other language known to man if you wanted to get many back.
The 5% extra could easily be made up of illegals, parole violators, wanted felons, unregistered sex offenders and other valuable members of society.
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Of course, the whole exercise was to gerrymander districts.
I have no form.
Blessings be, they are incompetent. Ergo the numbers will be strange.
I have doubt to whether this should "count" in the Library of Congress. Even the PDA's they use do not work. Missing information, roads, and communities.
"aww pee"
Was it Solomon or David that had counsel with God about census? Whats all that about?
Aliens (non-U.S. citizens) who come here legally are immigrants. Those here illegally are illegal aliens.
I will not give illegals the respect of the word "immigrant."
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I'm from California and I think I received the census form on April 15th. I was shocked because I thought I had been spared. I just mailed it yesterday.
You just don't see kids doing that anymore. Was the quickest way to make money as a kid and good exercise at 2X the minimum wage or more. Perhaps Obama will implement forced yard work for kids as part of nationalized health care.
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When Bobby is 32 and still living at home looking for work in the Great Recession, mom and dad are going to tell Bobby to start looking for his own beer money. At least Bobby's work will be 'off the books' as well, but won't be remitted outside the border [unless he's buying Heineken].
Nor delivering newspapers. That's because the grown-ups took those jobs, whether legals or illegals. Those kids who don't babysit or referee soccer games are pretty much out of luck these days. Even McDonalds, et al has been preferentially hiring adults instead of teenagers. I've read statistics that put teenager unemployment as 25-50%... and youngsters like the trailing daughters don't even look, to give the ones who really need the money a better chance.
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You don't want to hire kids to mow your lawn - when they hurt themselves they will sue you out of your house. You have to hire a 'professional'.
Newspaper routes? Who wants to let their kids out on the streets alone, in the dark - even if the kids were willing and able?
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#10 Yes, sounds like they'll be moving. But I notice that none of them seem to be planning to move back to...Mexico.
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The states bordering Arizona are in for some large scale "new" immigrant problems.
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Fortunately for New Mexico it only ranks above Louisiana and Mississippi in per capita income and subsequently social services are equally marginal. If they wanted to live in that kind of environment, they could have stayed home. Now, transiting to Colorado and the Denver metro area is the usual behavior of those who've cut trail before.
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They may transit to Colorado and Denver, but unemployment and anti-immigrant sentiment is up there, too. Many of the traditional "good" jobs for unskilled labor have gone to a high influx of legal refugees, read Somalians, who get social services stipends, food stamps, rent, and medical care. They also get used cars, often old taxicabs, and cell phones, but funded by taxpayer dollars. Muslim refugees also get an extra break to pray, causing a lot of resentment and fights between the Hispanics and the Muslims working at Swift and other meat processing jobs. Fights between Mexican and Somalian/Sudanese students in Grand Island, NE in early February brought armed officers to the high school and caused quite a scare. Never heard about it? It made the front page of the local paper but no one else seemed to pick up on it. Friends of a relative passed it on or we wouldn't have heard about it. PC and Beltway Blindness has plagued Fly-Over country for sometime.
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West, north, or east. Ain't none of 'em heading south though.
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It's not just gardening (illegals pushed a lot of Japanese Americans out of that field) but lishments couldn't survive on the new improved lower wages) and construction (lots of poor whites and black couldn't survive on the fresh new wages there either).
So those Americans with nolonger needed skills move to unemployment and we pay that additional cost as a society.
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Illegals need not worry. Just as Rush Limbaugh said today. In this country there are many places that still donkt require documents from anyone to work or even to be POTUS.
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But a buttload of "Activist" groups from enviroweenies to Native Americans are threatening to take the descision to court.
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Like I said before, we're missing out on several free megawatts of energy. Just attach a generator to Ted's body. Between a Republican taking his seat and the Obummer administration looking the other way on this, Ted has to be spinning close to 3600 rpm.
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I don't care if they build them or not. But it's absolutely delicious to watch the "smart set" squirm and stammer and blubber and go all NIMBY over them because they're screwing up their views or getting in the way of their sailboats, which they'll never ever admit to.
Teddy would've been all for them if you tossed in a few floating saloons out there.
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And, if you count the sailing time for the commercial vessels that transported some evacuees to camps on Guam, the operation lasted a lot longer than a couple of days.
Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday. Meatballs? How gauche. Everyone knows that curry stew is the best way to serve endangered monkey.
The pair poached dozens of rare Javan langurs, also known as silver-leaf monkeys, from Baluran National Park in the east of Java island, according to a statement released by Indonesia-based animal protection group ProFauna.
"Police found 30 kilograms (65 pounds) meat estimated to come from 20 - 25 individuals, two rifles and a live langur," the statement said. They found meat from two rifles and a live langur? Sheesh, must be pretty soft gunmetal and one tough langur.
"The couple admitted that they had known what they did was against the law and they hunted the monkeys for their meat because beef and chicken were more expensive than the protected monkeys."
Meatball soup, known locally as bakso, is a popular dish in Indonesia.
The statement said police were now broadening their investigation to include checks on vendors suspected of selling the monkey meatballs, while ProFauna was in talks with the national park caretakers to prevent further poaching. Maybe they'll escape to Oz and throw another chimp on the barbie....
Indonesian law states that perpetrators of wildlife crimes face a maximum five year prison term and a fine of 5 million rupiah ($555), but the law is not always strictly enforced. During the southeast Asian unpleasantness, a friend and I were strolling through a local ville when we noticed a rather enticing spicy smell coming from a roadside stand. We asked the elderly Vietnamese proprietor what it was. He informed us in his severely fractured English that it was his special monkey stew.
He saw the horrified looks on our faces and said, "No, no. Is ok, is VC monkey!" He even offered us a discount to try it but we declined.
We told some of the other GIs about it later. One of them said, "Oh, yeah. I tried that. Pretty good eatin' as long as one of the hands doesn't come up in your spoon."
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I'll have your fish and chimps with a cup of the bakso for a starter. A glass of that Waterkloof Merlot as well. Koffee and your famous banana fritters for dessert please.
At least one soldier has been killed and at least 10 people have been wounded in violent clashes between Thai protesters and soldiers in Bangkok.
The authorities have warned they are running out of patience with the thousands of red-shirt anti-government protesters.
Concerns about the rising level of violence in the country have prompted the British Foreign Office to advise against all but essential travel to Thailand. BBC Video at the link.
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Women with suntans are violating Islamic law and will be arrested in Iran, the capital city's police chief was reported by The Daily Telegraph as saying Wednesday.
"The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehavior by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values," Brigadier Hossien Sajedinia said.
"In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins," he continued. "We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them."
The warning follows recent comments made by a hard-line Iranian cleric, who claimed women dressed in revealing clothing were disturbing young men and causing earthquakes.
A preacher has also told the residents of Iran's capital Tehran to leave the city.
"Go on the streets and repent for your sins. A holy torment is upon us. Leave town," said Ayatollah Aziz Khoshvaqt during a recent sermon in northern Tehran.
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How can you tell whether or not the women have suntans? Thought they all did. Oh, I get it--business as usual; punish the women just because they are women. Where's all the bleeding heart human rights organizations who are so ready to go to Arizona? Where's Al Sharpton?
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.
Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday.
Women with suntans are violating Islamic law and will be arrested in Iran, the capital city's police chief was reported by The Daily Telegraph as saying Wednesday.
