On January 11, 2007, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) posted on Islamist websites a 20-page book titled "The Desire of the Souls for the Women of Paradise." The book, by Abu Usama Al-'Iraqi, consists mostly of excerpts from medieval Islamic sources. The text focuses on the behavior and physical characteristics of the virgins who await those who enter Paradise, with emphasis on the contrast between them and earthly women. For example, it is said that the virgins of Paradise are free of all the physical and mental impurities that characterize earthly women (e.g., menstrual blood and other bodily discharges, unclean speech, and inappropriate glances at men other than their husbands). I'll bet they don't get all pissy about not picking up your socks from the floor, either. Or watching football. And I'll bet they don't always want to talk about your "relationship," either. *sigh* Ahh, Paradise.
The book ends with the following message to the reader: "...Intelligent people do not forgo [the prospect] of the brides of Paradise for the sake of false beauty in this world. They do not prefer forbidden lust, which dooms one to Hell, over genuine desire in Paradise." They do not prefer . . .lust. Oh. I think I dated one of 'em.
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Fornication. The highest goal of islam. Their "pure virgins" free of womanly fluids and glances at others are likely small boys. Islam - where the best women is a man.
Donald Trump has called Barbara Walters a liar and Rosie O'Donnell a loser. On Wednesday, they both fired back. "Well, he's at it again," said O'Donnell, referring to a letter written to her by Trump and reported Tuesday by the media. The letter said Walters had told him that working with O'Donnell on ABC's "The View" is like "living in hell."
"That poor, pathetic man," said Walters, drawing whoops of approval from her TV audience.
O'Donnell high-fived Walters and co-hosts Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. "You know, he just can't - he just can't let go, but we're moving on," Walters said. You look kinda tired, Donald. Wouldja like me to hold your wallet for you?
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I believe that Rosie just showed off her new strap-on. I believe she calls it her, lessee.. oh yeah, Barbara Walters...
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So why is Fred's bandwidth being polluted with this bile?
It could be better spent discussing, oh I don't know, the breeding habits of the African Swallow.
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Donald should buy whatever network Rosie is on, and fire her. He's certainly rich enough. I'm sure that would be the last laugh...
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badanov I believe that Rosie just showed off her new strap-on. I believe she calls it her, lessee.. oh yeah, Barbara Walters...
Jebus bad, now I can see that big fat Ugly Dom, Rosie with a huge strap-on getting ready to mount Barbra Walters...
That's horribly cruel and should be criminal badanov;...plz lord My eyes remove them.. and TW forgot to fill the Rantburg Emergency Medical Stocks, baawwwww NO bleach, steel wool or razor blades again.... i'll have to use my spork then, the one Santa left me on Christmas!
/heh, I clicked this article [never ending pile 0'pleasure] by accident.
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there, there, Shipman dear. Let me just lay this cologne-soaked handkerchief on your forehead -- it was the much preferred method in Little Women, as I'm sure you know. RD, we've professional medic types to take care of the first aid kit -- Barbara Skolaut and, I think, Chuck Simmons. Here, let me lay another cologne-soaked handkerchief over the ruins of your eyes; it may sting a bit, but the nice smell will distract you from your screams.
A key political alliance on Wednesday announced a series of fresh street protests to demand national elections be postponed, as tens of thousands of troops fanned out across the country ahead of the January 22 polls.
Sheikh Hasina, leader of a 19-party alliance, told a huge rally in the heart of the nations capital that it would start non-stop demonstrations around the presidential palace on January 14 and enforce a nationwide blockade on January 17-18 to force its demands. If the government fails to meet our demands by then (January 18), well enforce a non-stop general strike from January 21, Hasina, a former prime minister, told thousands of supporters amid cheers in downtown Dhaka, walking distance from the presidential palace. We are determined not to allow a one-sided election in the country, said Hasina, adding that the boycott of the election is aimed to preserve democracy and the peoples right to vote.
She urged state officials and security forces not to pitch themselves against the freedom and democracy-loving people by siding with the corrupt and dishonest politicians.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP- Jan 11, 11:06 AM EST) -- The president declared a state of emergency Thursday following weeks of violent protests and threats by a political alliance to disrupt Bangladesh's general elections, his press secretary said.
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...and, surprisingly, someone has decided to cut and run.
DHAKA (AFP) - The United Nations has said it was withdrawing assistance to Bangladesh's controversial upcoming national election and warned it was "concerned" over the future of the country's democracy.
"The United Nations is deeply concerned by the deteriorating situation in the country and urges all parties to refrain from the use of violence," a statement from the world body said Thursday.
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Amazing feats...don't fail me now.
But does Kimmie have a golden statue of himself that rotates with the sun like Wayne Newton did in Turkalurkastan?
No. He doesn't.
Loser.
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That's nothing. In Cahtahland every year the government gives each and every one of the citizens, man woman and child alike, a handful of solid gold peanuts to throw into a live volcano in tribute to their smiling founder.
Just what the Security Council needs to be more effective: more members with differing agendas.
BERLIN - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday he wanted to relaunch Tokyos bid to win a permanent seat on the UN Security Council along with key partners, after talks in Germany.
Abe told reporters in Berlin after a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel that Tokyo was vetting new ideas to reform the Security Council after an initiative with key partners failed nearly two years ago.
Japan is considering a new proposal to succeed the G4 proposal, he said. At the appropriate time, wed like to propose it to win broader support. He did not provide further details.
In 2005, a joint attempt by the so-called G4 -- Brazil, Germany, India and Japan -- to obtain permanent seats on the council fell apart due to opposition from China, which has demanded that Japan make greater amends for the abuses it committed before and during World War II.
The 53-member African bloc at the UN also rebuffed an offer from the G4 to join them in a push to boost the Security Councils membership from 15 to 25, with six new permanent seats without veto power and four new non-permanent seats.
Merkel said Germany still had a keen interest in making the UN Security Council more representative and transparent. We are interested in a fundamental reform of the UN Security Council, we have already worked hard to improve the representation of our countries on the council, she said.
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If they succeed, then there will be two Western Countries in UNSC.
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The US should push hard for Japan to have a seat as a way to punish China for not cooperating with North Korea. It also makes a strong statement that Nukes are not the key, economics are.
It's not as if the UN Security Council can be made any worse, we might as well get political capital out of it and let the Chinese and French shoot themselves in the feet trying to stop it and preserve their bit of power.
An extraordinary row, involving major European and US industries, is blowing up over the European Commission's determination to make it illegal, in three years' time, for any products made in or imported into the EU to carry any reference to non-metric measures. Not only will this cost industries on both sides of the Atlantic billions of dollars and euros, but it is in direct breach of US federal law.
The Commission is so set on stamping out the hated non-metric system that, as of January 1, 2010, it is imposing a total ban on what it calls "supplementary indications" ie any mention of inches, pounds or other non-metric units in advertising, labelling, catalogues, manuals and the like.
What will become illegal, under directive 80/181, is the current freedom of choice whereby both systems can be used to assist understanding; as, for instance, where a supermarket or market stall puts "lbs" as well as kilograms; or where car tyres are identified in a mix of inches and millimetres and their pressures can still be legally measured either in bars or in pounds per square inch. (It will hardly promote safety when most British drivers haven't a clue how much air to put in their tyres and it becomes illegal for the pump to indicate the "psi" equivalent.)
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I am not joking with I say the imposition of metric in Canada was the canary in the coal-mine of stupid that has long since crippled out ability to stand up to the on-coming caliphate. We have lost so much of our history and tradition it is practically impossible to know what we are defending let alone why.
God curse these bastards and all their works. And fuck the French.
This is a deliberate attempt by the EUSSR to harm the American (and British) economies for absolutely no reason. There is no positive to be gained by decreasing the amount of information available to a customer.
We should consider passing a law that ALL imports into the US have to be labelled with both systems as the very least answer.
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WTF? Banning reference to other units of measure? Why should they care?
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...it is imposing a total ban on what it calls "supplementary indications" ie any mention of inches, pounds or other non-metric units in advertising, labelling, catalogues, manuals and the like.
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francophone English ban extended to units of measure...very similar to Islam's intolerance of other religions: the knee-jerk reaction of a weak system built on subjugation and tyranny
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So all new dimensions for electronic components and sockects?
What if INTEL and AMD don't agree? Does that mean no chips for the EUniks?
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I'm sure part of the reason is that there's very little space left on the label after every line of text is offered in all the key languages of the EU, which used to mean English, French, Italian, German, Greek, Dutch, although I think not the three Scandanavian languages. Since expansion, they've had to add Polish, Hungarian and Czech. Much is in symbols, but the font size was barely legible to my young eyes even in the good old days.
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Well, when the flood comes, Ima gonna still build me ark in cubits, according to the original prints, and the EUniks can tie off on Notre Dame's steeple.
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Once more, Belgium tries to tell the whole world how to live. How about a nice ARCLIGHT strike down through Brussels, you idiots? Maybe even a BIG nuke, so you can measure the effect in (thousands of) kilotonnes. Belgium's the chihuahua tail on a St. Bernard, trying to run the whole show. When are the real people of Europe going to get tired of this crap, or are there no real people left?
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AP sent me this once and I just have to post it.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. And bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses!
Now, the twist to the story . . . .
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.
The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel.
The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.
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Jimmah made a fatal error when after "meeting" with a group of senior Rabbis in Phoenix, where they spent much time yelling at him for being totally wrong and anti-Semitic, he came out and lied like a dog about their agreeing with each other and "praying together."
So they put the word out that anybody who talks to Jimmah better record it, or they will have no idea what Jimmah is going to say about the meeting.
This scares the hell out of academics, because it could be an instant career ender, if Jimmah decides to ruin them in front of the press--for Jimmah's benefit.
Jimmah has made himself into the Titanic, rapidly descending into the drink, and only a fool wants to tie his boat to something like that.
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When I saw this headline I figured someone was making a mountain out of a molehill. But then I saw it on LGF -- fourteen resignations! Yikes! And they wrote him a snippy letter, too.
WALTHAM, Mass. - Former President Carter will visit Brandeis University to discuss his book on Palestine but won't debate academic Alan Dershowitz as originally proposed, a Carter spokeswoman and university officials said. Carter will speak for about 15 minutes and then answer questions for 45 minutes during the visit, tentatively scheduled for Jan. 23.
The university said the event would be private and limited to "members of the university community," but Dershowitz said he will attend and question Carter. "I will be the first person to have my hand up to ask him a question," he said. "I guarantee that they won't stop me from attending."
People resigning listed :
Alan Abrams, Steve Berman, Michael Coles, Jon Golden, Doug Hertz, Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Liane Levetan, Jeff Levy, Leon Novak, Ambassador William B. Schwartz Jr., William B. Schwartz III, Steve Selig, Cathey Steinberg, and Gail Solomon.
Most if not all those resigning appear to have Jewish surnames. This goes under the title; Jimmuh Crackpeanuts is biting the hands that feed him...
This, along with the front lawn mausoleum story from yesterday, makes me wonder how we survived four years with this idiot as president. And to all the numbskulls who voted for him over Ford in 1976 solely because of the Nixon pardon? Look what YOU IDIOTS got us into. A few voters in Mississippi, Ohio, and Hawaii changing to Ford would have been all we needed to avoid this bastard.
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I wouldn't have thought Novak, Schwartz, Kaufman, Hertz or Steinberg were particularly Jewish. Of course, I'm not terribly good at recognizing Jewish names, although I'd bet on one Slav and the rest German.
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on Fox, they said they all were, in fact, Jewish. I'm sure Jimmy and his Arab friends will be able to rationalize it that way....
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FG, they may or may not all be Jewish, but if this type of pushback carries forward into '08, then Dems everywhere should be worried.
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#15 - They're Jewish, and it took them until now to figure out what an antisemetic, dictator-ass-kissing loser vermin Jimmuh is? When the rest of us have known it for YEARS?
Guess Jimmuh likes to surround himself with associates who are as dim and clueless as he is.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government should join the state of Massachusetts in enacting universal health coverage, said Sen. Edward Kennedy, the new chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over numerous health issues. Kennedy's home state is the first to require everyone to have health insurance, just as drivers must have automobile coverage.
And it's driven up the cost of insurance due to all the included mandates.
Kennedy has his own version of what universal health coverage would look like. He wants to extend Medicare to all. In his first hearing Wednesday as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Massachusetts Democrat called on 10 witnesses from all over the country to talk about how to make health care more affordable.
"Insurance coverage is down. Costs are up. And America is heading to the bottom of the league of major nations in important measures of the quality of care," Kennedy said.
Costs are up everywhere. Ask the Brits and Canadians ...
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Government-financed health care = rationing. When Sen. Kennedy renounces the use of his congressional health plan and agrees to use only the services Medicare allows for him to consume (he's eligible), I might be persuaded he's doing more than posing.
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Very bad idea. Socialism doesn't work, there already is a safety net in place and it will become the ultimate black hole for American tax payers because in the interests of "fairness" I'm certain they'll want to cover the illegals as well. If it comes to pass I want to be on the plan the leeches in congress are on, because regardless of what they say, it will be better than anyone else's.
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..Well, frankly he can ask for NHC all he wants, He uses the Congressional health care system and will for the rest of his life - he'd impress me a LOT more if he said that as soon as it was approved, he would be switching over to it exclusively.
Not, of course, like that would happen.
Mike
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If you've been keeping up with the wild yowling of Teddy (the toad) Kennedy, you'd know this is nothing new. He's been pushing universal health care at least since 1992. He was a major instigator of Bill & Hill's "health care task force". The man needs a brain-case flush - it's getting awful rusty up there.
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Better to have a citizens dividend (like the oil trust except for property) and let people buy their own insurance.
I'd agree with ya, ZPiB, except that any "trust fund" the Donks would create for this would be like Social Security & Medicare. Everyone pays in, and we have "excesses." Problem is there's no "lock" on those excess funds and the Congresscritters spend it like mad NOW and stuff the Treasury full of IOUs. I'd rather keep my own money and let the private sector handle my insurance.
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You know, we've been lucky that no one has seen fit to shoot this fat, stupid, venal old bastard as were his brothers. If all of the male Kennedy spawn had been offed we would never, ever hear the end of LLL nutballs howling that the Kennedys would have saved America.
As it is, every time one of those idiot NewCamelot sycophants sits down to a keyboard, they've got the mental image of the real-life cowardly murderer to contend with as a counterbalance to their idealized conception of the Kennedy greatness. "Waitress sandwich," anyone?
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Socialized medicine is one of the two brass rings (the other being total disarmament of private citizens) that the left knows it must grasp to convert the U.S. to Euro-style socialism.
Therefore, it must be resisted at all costs.
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Two sectors of the economy are dominated by the government, education and health care. Two sectors of the economy are totally screwed up. Guess which two.
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Medicine is already socialized, i.e. you are not paying for out of your pocket. Whether Blue Cross, Medicare, Tricare or any other entity but the end user pays for it, there is no incentive for the user to hold down cost, instead an incentive to demand the impossible as long as everyone else is paying for what you receive.
I think a better funding scheme is for each person to have the option control their own medical money, like an IRA account. Then they can buy the insurance appropriate to their needs or none at all. Until their consumer is directly responsible for the costs there will be no incentive to control costs.
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Costs efficiencies/accounting will inevitably lead to Diagnostic, Treatment, Physician, and Medicinal/Presriptions, etc. standardizations, where Nurses will do what certified Physicians =Surgeons used to do. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR POL ELITES WILL ALWAYS HAVE $$$ PRIVATE CARE IN SWITZERLAND, VIENNA, ETC. WHILE THE REST OF US WON'T.
The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade. The vote was 315-116, with more than 80 Republicans joining Democrats to pass it. ``You should not be relegated to poverty if you work hard and play by the rules,'' said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
The bill was the second measure passed since Democrats took control of the House, ending more than a decade of Republican rule. The measure, which now goes to the Senate, would raise the federal wage floor by $2.10 from its current $5.15 an hour in three steps over 26 months.
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Well, maybe it will make the US an even more appealing option, but I wouldn't be surprised if some people get laid off because of it, and it makes jobs more attractive to legals. Perhaps the net effect is that it might actually reduce illegals? Just thinkin' out loud.
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Gorb, economics is not an exact science (IMO, it's not a science at all), but raising minimum wage always results in more unregistered employment. Which in USA means more illegal emigrants.
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More illegals = more Dem voters = more illegals
Who said there's no such thing as perpetual motion?
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I guess I'm thinking legally. I suppose there will be plenty of illegals willing to work for $1/hr if they would get nothing in their home country. Sigh.
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It's not so much the illegals themselves are more enthusiastic, but rather the employers have a great incentive to take the risk of using illegal workers. If an illegal makes $3/hour and a legal worker makes $7, that's worth taking a chance of fines and a shutdown.
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Many illegals in the midwest are working in construction, I have heard scuttlebutt about $15 an hour, no overtime for concrete workers. I assume welders and ironworkers would make more than that. When I left the pile drivers union in 2002 the scale was 24.42 an hour, and they were cutting into our action back then. A contractor will go apeshit over $1 an hour, just think how happy they would be to save $9 + no benefits. So they arent just working at Denny's for minimum wage, they are soaking up as much of the good work as they can get their hands on.
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This has no direct effect: fewer than 1% of all workers make the minimum wage, and most of them are kids in high school/college in their first job or part-time job. And many of those kids are from middle-class or better families.
The real reason to hike the minimum wage is that most unions have in their contracts a clause that hikes the wages for their members whenever the minimum wage goes up. The Dems are simply taking care of their union supporters.
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Where in the Constitution does Congress get the power to control our wages?
The Commerce Clause.
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Steve White is correct. This is Payback to the Unions.
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"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
I don't see fascist control of wages and salaries listed there.
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Raise the minimum wage? Bah, these people are economic wankers. When I'm elected, not only will I double the minimum wage, but I will implement price controls and halve the price of everything. You'll see an economic explosion like never before. Vote for me!
Oh yeah, and free prescription drugs for everyone. Especially old people and pets.
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Tommy needs a fence white washed. He has $60 to do the job himself or to get it done with. He has 2 friends, Manuel and Johnny. He needs it to be done in 24 hours, but there's at least 48 man-hours worth of work involved.
Manuel wants to do the job. He says he can do it for $5 an hour. He has 3 friends named Raul, Martine, and Juan. He says he can get his 3 friends to help him to do the job. He will pay for their help out of the money that Tommy is going to pay him. Working together the 4 of them can get the job done in 12 hours time at a cost to Tommy of $60.
Johnny also wants to do the job. He wants $30 an hour and will use the money to rent a machine which will get the job done in 2 hours at a cost to Tommy of $60.
The problem is, Manuel and his crew are illegals. There is maybe a 1% chance that Tommy will face a government fine of about $2500 each for hiring 4 illegal workers (if he gets slapped with the fine).
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Yah, gromgoru & Shipman, but you see the point (actually, Shipman made it better) and I didn;t even have to use realistic circumstances.
Now, if the employer had a much higher chance of being caught and being stuck with the fines, he might think a lot harder before hiring those illegals.
The problem IMO isn't the illegals although they are part of the problem. It's the employer who's willing to cut a few corners to get cheap labor done any way he can.
If Tommy had more money he could go into the fence white-washing business on a much bigger scale hiring illegals who work cheap, but slow compared to what can be done by contractors using technology, but who want more money. Heck, he might even be able to go national like some meat-packing facilities we've heard of recently (and who probably will not have to end up paying those fines after all the litigation and negotiating is over with).
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday night arrested a finance secretary of a non-government organisation, Emercon, for allegedly embezzling Rs 1,150 million from the funds for rehabilitating October 8 earthquake victims. On the directives of the NAB NWFP director general, the officials conducted a raid at midnight on the house of the accused and arrested Suleman Anwar, the bureaus investigation officer, Haider Khan, told Daily Times.
The accused is a finance sectary of Emercoan, an Islamabad-based NGO, and has stolen millions of rupees from the funds for the well being of quake affectees. Anwar was pointed out by his office colleague Marghub Ali, who was arrested by the NAB in the quake funds scam, the NAB investigation officer said. NAB officials on Wednesday produced the accused in an accountability court and demanded his physical custody. Accountability court judge Arshad Qaiser accepted the NAB investigation officers appeal and granted a 15-day physical remand of the accused to the bureau.
The bureau had also arrested Marghub Ali, another representative of Emercon, on corruption charges. The same court on January 6, 2007, gave a 10-day physical remand of Marghub Ali to NAB for embezzling millions of rupees in quake funds. NAB arrested him after receiving complaints from people and quake victims that the NGOs representatives had embezzled millions of rupees in the earthquake affectees funds. Both the accused belong to the Frontier province.
NAB officials said an investigation was underway and that more arrests were expected during the next few days as the bureau had begun investigations, on the embezzlement of quake funds.
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The accused is a finance sectary of Emercoan, an Islamabad-based NGO, and has stolen millions of rupees from the funds for the well being of quake affectees.
It's the greatest crisis in world history, except for the last one. Let's do lunch!
The chief of the United Nations' effort against climate change said Monday there is widespread recognition of the seriousness of global warming but a lack of leadership has created a sense of helplessness. Especially when it comes to picking up the check for lunch-- a phenomenon described in UN circles as "alligator arms."
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, ... I don't remember voting for this guy. Do you remember voting for this guy?
... said he will ask the new U.N. secretary-general to coordinate a worldwide response and organize a conference of world leaders. OK, I'm confused. Are we having a coordination of conferences or a conference of coordinators?
"Just opening a newspaper'' shows evidence of this sea change in people's attitudes toward climate change, de Boer told The Associated Press ... which raises the question of whether Mr.de Boer actually exists
... during a visit to Paris, where he was attending a conference on illegal logging. Clearly, if one is ging to attend a conference on illegal logging, it must be in Paris.
"Everyone is calling for leadership-including me. But I think I've pinpointed the guy who can give it." "Silly reporter person, did you think I was going to say, 'The buck stops here'? I emote in your general direction."
De Boer was referring to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a South Korean diplomat who took the reins ... creating the excellent image of the UN as a horse, but stupid
... of the world body a week ago. "We are at the stage where we need a mandate ... A mandate? Is that like a resolution? If so, this could take a while.
... from the level of heads of state to get the climate change negotiations moving again,'' de Boer said. "I think the secretary-general has the power to bring that about." "But then again, maybe he doesn't. Let's discuss it over lunch. Your treat."
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Yep, D *** ng it, any each and all International = Foreign= World States must undeniably, undoubtedly, unconditionally, and unequivocally, etc. be held de facto per se accountable, just as long as its only Americans = Amerikans whom have to pay for it all, you betcha boy.
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The chief of the United Nations' effort against __________ said Monday there is widespread recognition of the seriousness of ___________ but a lack of leadership has created a sense of helplessness.
The UN. Summed up in one simple paragraph.
Sounds like Yvo can't do his job. I wonder how much Yvo makes for not doing his job?
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I wonder how much Yvo makes for not doing his job?
Not half as much as Koffi made for not doing HIS job.
I wrote an article on my weblog a week or so ago about global warming hysteria, with lots of links, if anybody's interested. He$$, even al Guardian has admitted it's all the sun's fault. Al Bore and the UN just haven't given up on the BS circuit yet.
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Home renovators looking to bring life to the smallest room in their home now have the chance -- with a toilet that doubles as an aquarium.
The Fish 'n Flush is a clear two-piece toilet tank that replaces a standard toilet tank, with a see-through aquarium wrapping itself around a conventional toilet tank.
"We wanted to develop a product that had a dual purpose - to serve as a proper, fully functional toilet and also as a source of entertainment and conversation," said Devon Niccole, marketing director of California-based designer AquaOne Technologies Inc. which has just started to selling the tank.
He said the company, which specializes in water conservation equipment for home appliance, had worked with a marine biologist to design a tank that ensured the fish were not harmed when the toilet was flushed.
The aquarium toilet tank, which sells for $299, fits most toilets with the 2.2-gallon aquarium piece able to be easily removed for cleaning. The toilet tank itself holds 2.5 gallons which gives sufficient pressure for flushing.
"Some people think we're nuts but other just love it and parents are using it to help their children with potty training. One thing you can guarantee is that people will be talking about it after seeing it in your home," said Niccole.
About 750 chickens have died at a poultry farm in the town of Kiyotake, Miyazaki Prefecture, and highly pathogenic bird flu is suspected as the cause, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Thursday.
About 12,000 chickens have been raised at the farm, according to the ministry. The ministry and the Miyazaki prefectural government have isolated those chickens that are still alive as an emergency measure under the law to prevent infectious disease in livestock until the results of viral examinations are obtained.
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Denver (Home of the Bronco/Donkeys) Mayor (Hicken)Looper confidently assured the Dems that the "almost-every-10-year-blizzards" usually never show up in August, what with glowball warming and such. Stay in the nuclear free zone in Boulder, and they will all be safe, plus discounts on tin foil hats will be offered.
Smokers may be one minority in Congress with even fewer rights than newly demoted Republicans. Now they are losing one of their last, cherished prerogatives _ a smoke break in the ornate Speaker's Lobby just off the House floor.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced a ban Wednesday, effective immediately. "The days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over," Pelosi said. "Medical science has unquestionably established the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of cancer and respiratory diseases. I am a firm believer that Congress should lead by example."
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There Ya go Nancy, send'm outside with their cancer sticks!!
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Nancy's going to dictate one thing too many, and someone's going to kneecap her - just below the chin. There is plenty of evidence that smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. The "science" of secondhand smoke is tenuous at best, and sheer BS at worse - kinda like global warming.
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"Medical science has unquestionably established the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of cancer and respiratory diseases.
If you repeat a lie often enough.....
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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.
Donald Trump has called Barbara Walters a liar and Rosie O'Donnell a loser. On Wednesday, they both fired back. "Well, he's at it again," said O'Donnell, referring to a letter written to her by Trump and reported Tuesday by the media. The letter said Walters had told him that working with O'Donnell on ABC's "The View" is like "living in hell."
A key political alliance on Wednesday announced a series of fresh street protests to demand national elections be postponed, as tens of thousands of troops fanned out across the country ahead of the January 22 polls. 
An extraordinary row, involving major European and US industries, is blowing up over the European Commission's determination to make it illegal, in three years' time, for any products made in or imported into the EU to carry any reference to non-metric measures. Not only will this cost industries on both sides of the Atlantic billions of dollars and euros, but it is in direct breach of US federal law.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday night arrested a finance secretary of a non-government organisation, Emercon, for allegedly embezzling Rs 1,150 million from the funds for rehabilitating October 8 earthquake victims. On the directives of the NAB NWFP director general, the officials conducted a raid at midnight on the house of the accused and arrested Suleman Anwar, the bureaus investigation officer, Haider Khan, told Daily Times. 
Smokers may be one minority in Congress with even fewer rights than newly demoted Republicans. Now they are losing one of their last, cherished prerogatives _ a smoke break in the ornate Speaker's Lobby just off the House floor.
