[Arab News] PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory at Panda Security, has been warning for a quite a while now about the fake offers of romance that plague the Internet. You mean beautiful Russian women aren't yearning to start a new life with aging fat men in other countries?
Emails arrive from beautiful women, mostly from Russia, contacting men in order to start a relationship. "My name is Irina. I saw your profile on the internet and find you fascinating. I'd love to come and haul your ashes..."
These women are willing to travel anywhere to share their "love," but unfortunately they don't have quite enough money for the trip.
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"People need to use some common sense," warned Corrons.
[Ennahar] The public prosecutor at the court of El Harrouche, east of Skikda, ordered the detention of (B. A.A.), a sexagenarian from Teleghma in the province of Mila and his niece (B. K.), aged 20 prosecuted for adultery with incest.
The accused, who is imam of a mosque in the region Teleghma, was arrested a few days ago following a complaint lodged by the father of the girl, resident in the municipality of Zerdaza in the province of Skikda, after his daughter had given birth to an illegal child.
The public prosecutor then ordered the opening of an investigation and it appeared that the accused used to visit his niece on whom he regularly practiced Roukia (exorcism).
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the accused used to visit his niece on whom he regularly practiced Roukia (exorcism)
Oh, so that's what they're calling it these days.
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At what point does the niece get stoned to death?
Geraldine Doyle of Lansing, whose face became the inspiration behind the iconic World War II image of "Rosie the Riveter," has died, according to her family.
" 'Rosie the Riveter' is the image of an independent woman who is control of her own destiny," said Gladys Beckwith, former director of the Michigan Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame. "She was a gracious, beautiful woman. Her death is the end of an era, and we need to take note of that. We need to respect what she stood for."
Doyle was 86. What she stood for was women supporting the war effort.
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Evil, wartime industrial slave riveter? Do her surviving heirs not watch teevee? She undoubtedly succomed to Mesothelioma. Someone contact a lawyer at once. [sarc off]
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The women who worked blue collar jobs during WWII were indeed fighting fascism, Secret Master. They were also discovering a kind of strength and independence that changed their lives, whether they later returned to being housewives (often because they were fired when the men came home) or retained their jobs.
40 years ago when I was a cash-strapped college dropout earning money to return by working on an electronics line, I had the fortune of catching rides to work with one such woman and her longtime female friend and housemate. They weren't lesbian ... just late middle aged women with dignity and modest means who in another generation would have been 'old maids' embedded with relatives.
The later availability of reliable hormone-based contraceptives changed the dynamic of such things a good deal, for better and for worse IMO. That should not prevent us from acknowledging the impact that the WWII Rosies had on the war effort and on society.
I hope this is wrong.
[Turkmenistan News] - US troops have been involved in a multiplicity of sexual abuse complaints according to a new report.
Statistics and testimonies from military personnel have revealed that sexual assaults recur with each new intake of soldiers.
Over 3,230 complaints were recorded in 2009 according to the US Department of Defence.
The report says there was an 11 percent increase in sexual assaults in fiscal 2009 compared to the previous year.
The report claims one in every three women complains about being sexually assaulted while serving in the US military.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has confirmed that sexual abuse happens in the US military at rates twice that of the civilian average, meaning women who join the military are more likely to be raped by a fellow American soldier than they are of being killed by enemy fire. Somehow I doubt being killed in the line of fire would be anything like a close second.
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The US Department of Veterans Affairs has confirmed that sexual abuse happens in the US military at rates twice that of the civilian average, meaning women who join the military are more likely to be raped by a fellow American soldier than they are of being killed by enemy fire.
Analyze the statement.
How do they define sexual abuse?
Notice how they converge sexual abuse with rape later in the sentence. While rape is sexual abuse, all classifications of sexual abuse are not rape.
How many women have been killed by enemy fire by year in the last five years?
What is the writer trying to imply by construction and implication without providing hard numbers?
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Notice the old (yellow) journalistic technique practiced here? Simply alternate statements of "complaints" to statements that insinuate conclusive acts. And as long as it gets traction in the lefty pubs and blogs they've accomplished their goal.
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As I remember, unsolicited propositions of 'Hey Captain, let's go get a beer...' counted. In my experience even suggestions of favoritism as in gender preference/discrimination ('I want a girl Nurse...') could be remarked upon. When reported, these events get rolled into the numbers.
But I think we're missing Lotp's point by playing with the words.
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Conflation of terms. They freely mix "complaints", "abuse", "assault" and "rape", although each of these has a very specific legal usage and differs greatly from the other.
This is not to discount that there may be a problem, it it to highlight the slanted and propagandistic construction of the article. This will play into the "US Military is composed of Criminals" theme that they had in an Islamicist propaganda movie in that region a while back. Its propaganda.
[Ennahar] Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has made a cabinet reshuffle marked by the replacement of the Communications Minister Osama Romdhani after social unrest in the region of Sidi Bouzid, said Wednesday Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi.
This government reshuffle occurs in the wake of social unrest that rocked Tunisia in recent days after an attempted suicide of a young street vendor of fruit and vegetables in the region of Sidi Bouzid (West Central).
Mr. Romdhani was replaced by Samir Abid, Minister of Youth and Sport, whose position has been entrusted to Abdelhamid Slama. It was unclear Wednesday whether Mr. Romdhani would be called to other duties in the government.
As part of this redesign, Kamel Omran was appointed minister of religious affairs, replacing Boubaker El Akhzouri and Slimane Wrak was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of European affairs.
Earlier in the day, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP, legal opposition) called for the resignation of the Ministers of Interior and Communication, responsible, according to them, for the deterioration of the situation following social unrest Sidi Bouzid.
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[Pak Daily Times] Ivory Coast interior minister Emile Guirieoulou alleged in a presser that US nationals were involved in a plot to overthrow Laurent Gbagbo. Gbagbo's interior minister, Emile Guirieoulou, alleged that 10 Americans who flew in, purportedly to investigate grenade damage to the US embassy, were involved in a plot to overthrow the embattled leader, reported the guardian newspaper.
Guirieoulou told a presser: "This plane was supposed to disembark some persons presented as American experts tasked to evaluate damages caused to the American embassy after a rocket attack during the opposition demonstration.
"The plane has asked and been granted permission to land in Abidjan. Surprisingly, the plane, which arrived from Algiers, finally landed in [Ivory Coast's northern capital of] Bouake and later left. We have good reasons to think that the 10 Americans who disembarked are mercenaries."
The United States dismissed the allegation as 'absurd' claim, saying it had not sent any mercenaries to Ivory Coast to oust President Laurent Gbagbo.
Rumours of outside intervention have been circulating in the Ivorian press. The Gbagbo-owned Notre Voie newspaper reported: "To impose [opposition leader Alassane] Ouattara on Ivorians, mercenaries have been recruited to transform Abidjan into a battlefield," adding that German and French operatives have been hired "to assassinate Ivorian authorities including President Laurent Gbagbo". The paper also alleged that the US embassy in Abidjan is harbouring "some 50 war-trained American GIs"
Is that anything like the standard Marine guard that every U.S. embassy has?
whose mission is to organise "an attack against the Ivorian president".
Mark Toner, a front man for the US state department, described the charges as 'absurd' and 'ridiculous', the Voice of America reported.
The US has joined the UN, EU and African Union in calling for Gbagbo to stand down after presidential elections on 28 November, but he has refused to accept defeat by Ouattara.
Amid widespread reports of human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... abuses, almost 20,000 people, mostly women and kiddies, have decamped Ivory Coast for neighbouring Liberia, according to the UN refugee agency.
State-controlled TV has indicated that several million African nationals living in Ivory Coast might be at risk if threats from African countries of military intervention against Gbagbo continue. West African leaders are considering their next move after Gbagbo rebuffed their ultimatum to step down or face removal by force.
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NEWS KERALA > RADICAL ISLAMIST SECT CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR NIGERIA CHURCH ATTACKS.
[Iran Press TV] Leaders of West African nations have ruled out the use of force to remove Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo following the nation's disputed elections.
"We're going to rely on former President Gbagbo's gentlemanly sense of fairness, instead." Of course, if former President Gbagbo had a gentlemanly sense of fairness, they wouldn't be in this pickle, but really that's a minor detail.
"This initial mediation has helped to establish a bridge towards dialogue between the two camps, and we are no longer talking of military intervention by ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States) which seems, thankfully, to have been set aside for the moment," AFP quoted Cape Verde's foreign affairs secretary Jorge Borges as saying.
The 15-member ECOWAS has threatened force if Gbagbo does not cede power in favor of his rival Allasane Ouattara.
Borges said diplomacy was being given a chance however, and that negotiations would continue without a military threat looming over the process.
The presidents of Benin, Sierra Leone and Cape Verde have travelled to Abidjan as representatives of the ECOWAS hoping Gbagbo would agree to hand over the power to Ouattara.
Gbagbo has threatened to cut diplomatic ties with any country recognizing his rival, warning that any attempt to overthrow him could trigger another civil war in the region.
According to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, about 20,000 Ivorians have decamped to Liberia, fearing the political deadlock in the country might lead to a civil war.
Both Gbagbo and Ouattara claimed victory in the November 28 run-off presidential election.
In a sign of escalating tensions, a crowd attacked a UN convoy in Abidjan on Tuesday, injuring a peacekeeper.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society says over 170 people have died and scores of others have been tortured in the post-election violence in the country.
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Ok, what is it that the Ivory Coast has that the usual suspects want? It sure as hell isn't a functioning government.
[Iran Press TV] West African defense chiefs have met in Nigeria to draw up a possible military strategy against Ivory Coast, as the incumbent Ivorian president refuses to step down.
"The meeting of chiefs of defense of ... ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) member nations started yesterday in Abuja and it is expected to end today," AFP quoted ECOWAS director for political affairs and external relations, Abdel-Fatau Musah, as saying on Wednesday.
Nigeria's defense ministry front man, colonel Mohammed Yerimah, has said that the African armed forces chiefs are discussing "the military planning and the logistics" of any final operation.
The meeting comes as West African mediators declared that they have failed to persuade Gbagbo to step down.
West African leaders from Benin, Sierra Leone and Cape Verde, returned from Ivory Coast on Wednesday. They announced that their meeting with Gbagbo had yielded no result.
Gbagbo has already warned that any attempt to overthrow him could trigger another civil war in the country.
Both Gbagbo and Ouattara claimed victory in the November 28 runoff presidential election.
However, The infamous However... most members of the international community have recognized Ouattara as the winner.
According to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, about 20,000 Ivorians have decamped to eastern Liberia, fearing the political deadlock in the country might lead to a civil war.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society has said that over 170 people have been killed in the violence that followed the last month presidential election.
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All this "commitment" from the "UN". How could something be wrong?
A beauty competition for goats began on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, as part of an auction bringing together traders and herders in the holy Muslim city of Mecca.
Auction supervisor Fawzi al-Subhi said that over 170 animals are competing for the coveted title 'most beautiful goat.' He expects the winner to be sold for at least 18,000 dollars.
According to al-Shams newspaper, the four-legged contestants are purebred Hijazi goats, a distinct breed named after the province in which Mecca is located.
Pastoralists and their flocks still roam the Hijaz region and other parts of the oil-rich Arabian kingdom.
The purpose of the competition is to raise awareness about the breed, said al-Subhi.
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Goats ARE beautiful. Beautiful to see romp and climb things and useful for giving milk which makes great soaps and skin lotions. Beauty in a bottle from beauty in a goat.
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Don't they have a similar contest for camels?
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday night jugged an alleged member of a gang that abducts and maims children, and then forces them into begging on streets or prostitution, just to take away the money from them. Broke up a child prostitution ring? The RAB just justified everything they've been doing to Purba Banglar commies this past decade ...
Shariful Islam alias Korban was jugged from Uttara of the capital.
Earlier, he was accused in a case in connection with chopping off a young boy's penis
Surely that was unnecessary, even for so black-hearted a badman as .this.
on September 6 in Kamrangirchar, but was not jugged, as he was absconding.
At a media briefing yesterday, held at the Rab headquarters in Uttara, Rab Legal and Media Wing Director Commander M Sohail
The Rab must be growing by leaps and bounds as an organization, if they need to add a marketing director.
said the gang led by one Omar Faruk of the city's Kamrangirchar is involved in kidnapping and maiming children of low income group families, then they use those children to earn money through making them beg on city streets.
"The gang members also abduct and rape maidens of tender years in Kamrangirchar area, then they use the girls for prostitution to earn money," Sohail added.
Detained Korban, who was produced at the media briefing, said the gang kidnapped many children. A hand of one such child named Sharif was chopped off, and then he was used for begging. Sharif, who is only 15 years old, came from Khulna to the city in 2004.
In another incident, the gang kept an eight-year old child from Jessore stuffed in a large aluminium pot for six months, to cripple the boy, and then used him for begging. Can we please leave Korban on a spot in a banana grove in some unnamed upazaila somewhere, with a round of bullet behind each ear and a shutter gun temporarily planted on his body?
The gang also kidnapped a number of girls, who they used for forced sex trade, said Korban.
Rab Intelligence Wing Director Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, who led the arrest, told The Daily Star last night that they jugged Korban following a news report aired by a private television channel in association with two human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... organisations -- Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation, and Black Truth Productions Centre.
Ziaul Ahsan said gang leader Faruk, and members Korban, Ramjan, Russel, and Saddam chopped off the penis of seven-year old boy Neyamul, son of a rickshaw-puller Umed Ali of Ashrafabad in Kamrangirchar. Rab is trying to arrest the other members of the gang as well, he added saying, Korban, Ramjan, and Russel are brothers.
Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation Chairman Elina Khan told The Daily Star yesterday that when Neyamul's father tried to file a case with Kamrangirchar Police Station after his son's maiming, police watered down the case by recording that the incident had been a result of a feud among peers, all of whom are neighbours. Which is why B-desh needs the RAB ...
"As police were helping the criminals instead of the victim's family, we filed a separate case with a court, and following the second case, Rab jugged a gang member," Elina said.
Kamrangirchar Police Station Officer-in-charge (OC) Md Shafiqul Islam however rebutted Elina's allegations, and also differed with the statement of Rab officials.
"According to our investigation, two other children -- Imran and Russel -- had cut the penis of Neyamul," the OC said adding, "All three children are neighbours, and the incident took place following a feud among them."
Asked about Korban's involvement in the gang of child abductors, the OC said, "We are not aware of such allegation against Korban and his peers. Rab would be able to give you more authentic information as they jugged Korban. If he is handed over to us, we will verify the allegation."
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Been going on forever. They put the kids out in the morning like they're vending machines or something. Collect them at night,with the take.
See Slumdog Millionaire.
See, India is the home of unbelievable spirituality and wonderfulness and stuff.
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They shouldn't have arrested this guy. Instead, he should have fought back like all the rest.
But since he has been arrested, he should probably be stuffed in the same aluminum pot until he is crippled himself. And then some more just for good measure. Then put back out on the street to fend for himself. With a few large, strategically placed tattoos explaining his contribution to humanity.
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We have condensing boilers in the US, but the intake/exhaust through the wall has a coaxial configuration: The combustion air comes in through the outer part of the coaxial pipe, and the exhaust goes out the center, so that combustion air is preheated by the exhaust. This also protects a combustable wall. When you have blowing snow, additional precautions have to be taken for blockage of combustion air port.
When you have condensing combustion, you have to watch for acids forming in combustion exhaust when you condense the H20 if the exhaust is too cold. Best to keep exhaust above 250F exiting the appliance.
Same applies to heat recovery of diesel engine exhaust heat. Things get nasty at relatively low exhaust temps.
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Hope they have some of those new LED streetlamps so the mechanics can make it to the houses. I'm sure those lightweight electric vehicles are just the transportation to blast through the snow/iced roads. Now if you excuse me, I have to go shovel my roof so that my solar panals work.
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About 4-5 years ago someone came up with a computer model that accurate timed all the Ice Ages in the previous several million years. Unfortunately it also predicted that we should have been in one at that time and since everyone "knew" we were in the midst of "unprecedented global warming", the model was discarded.
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Brits are now freezing to death because the Labourites mandated "green" boilers to heat homes, whose drain pipes freeze up, shutting them down. So no house heat for tens of thousands of people during the blizzard.
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Mercutio, I could send you pictures of my cottonwoods' leaves on the ground - in September, good month and half advance of normal schedule for out here.
I did see someone was attempting to accurately predict sunspot pattern and seems to be having some success, wish I had caught the name.
[El Universal] The United States "revoked" the visa of Venezuela's ambassador to Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, said on Wednesday Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras, who provided no further details.
"Confirmed. The USA revoked the visa of Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez," wrote the deputy foreign minister in his Twitter account @ temirporras, AFP reported.
The decision came one day after President Hugo Chavez revived a diplomatic dispute with the United States and challenged Washington to "cut diplomatic relations" for the impasse related to US ambassador-designate Larry Palmer.
"If the government (of the United States) is to expel our ambassador there, let them do so! If they are to cut diplomatic relations, let them do so!" said Chavez on Tuesday. Reference was made to the White House's insistence that Caracas accepts the new US ambassador-designate Larry Palmer.
On Wednesday, State Department front man Mark Toner reiterated that the United States believes it is of national interest to have an ambassador in Caracas, given high diplomatic tension between the two countries.
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You want us to expel your ambassador? Ok, done. Anything else you want us to do, Senior Craterface? How about some targeted strikes? Maybe a few assassinations? We are always happy to help.
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No, just expels the diplomat. Both embassies remain open and functional. It will be interesting to see if Chavez wants to ante up and expel all US diplomatic personnel. We can hurt Venezuela more than he can hurt us by simply refusing to refine his sulfur filled crude.
[Iran Press TV] Venezuelan His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez has dared the United States to cut off diplomatic ties over his opposition to Washington's choice of ambassador.
In a national television broadcast on Tuesday, Chavez said he has no problem with the US wanting to cut off diplomatic relations and expelling Caracas' ambassador to Washington.
Tensions have flared up between the United States and Venezuela since August after US President Barack B.O. Obama nominated Larry Palmer as the US new ambassador to Caracas.
But Chavez has insisted that Palmer is not welcome after the diplomat leveled harsh criticism against Venezuela during his US Senate confirmation hearings months ago.
At the time, he had claimed that morale is low in Venezuela's military and also linked Chavez's government to leftist rebels in neighboring Colombian.
His comments fueled a row between Bogota and Caracas.
"We have denied recognition to this gentleman and now the United States government is threatening to retaliate. Well, they can do whatever they want, but this man is not coming," Chavez said.
The Venezuelan president further added that allowing Palmer to enter Venezuela would be an "indignity," because he has no respect for the country he is being sent to.
The US embassy in Caracas has been without an ambassador since Palmer's predecessor finished his term in July. The US Senate is yet to confirm Palmer's nomination.
Washington has warned that the fragile ties between the two countries could suffer over the dispute.
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1. Wait to seat the new assembly.
2. Send that Russian babe who shot down Zia's plane to Caracas.
3. Be shocked, shocked I tell you, that FARC has Russian SA-18s.
4. Head back to Foggy Bottom with agent XXX for a nightcap.
[Emirates 24/7] Authorities in Beijing have hiked the minimum wage in the capital by about 20 percent for the second time in six months amid soaring food costs, rising property prices and China's widening wealth gap.
The minimum monthly salary in the city will be increased to 1,160 yuan from 960 yuan on January 1, according to a statement posted on the government's website Tuesday.
In July, Beijing increased the minimum wage by 20 percent to 960 yuan.
China launched a round of minimum wage hikes this year after a spate of labour disputes and a string of employee suicides highlighted growing discontent among the country's millions of low-paid workers.
This latest increase in the nation's capital comes amid growing official and consumer anxiety over rising inflation, which topped five percent in November for the first time in more than two years.
Food costs soared nearly 12 percent year-on-year last month while property prices continued to rise, defying government efforts to cool the red-hot real estate market.
Ever-fearful of inflation's historical potential to spark unrest in China, top leaders have been pulling on a number of policy levers to rein in consumer prices and tame runaway house prices.
On Saturday, the central bank hiked interest rates for the second time in less than three months after ordering lenders to keep more money in reserve, effectively limiting the amount of funds they can lend.
Premier Wen Jiabao went on national radio at the weekend to reassure listeners that the government would be able to tackle inflation and house prices that have risen out of the reach of many ordinary Chinese.
Wen said Sunday he understood that recent price rises had "actually made life even more difficult for people on low and medium incomes".
But he stressed that thanks to government intervention, "we are fully able to control the general level of prices" and said he was confident that housing prices would come back down to a "reasonable level".
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we are fully able to control the general level of prices
That reminds me of what the Great Bernanke said in March 2007: the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained
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Unlike America where business and government collude to artificially create unlimited labor by open borders and thus use 'minimum wage' to cover the damage of their own actions, China has, relatively speaking, an unlimited labor market. I suspect someone is paying attention that such a situation would engender 'union' movements which in turn would create a competitor to the Party's power, if the pattern experienced in the West is any warning.
Remember the baby who died waiting for an ambulance?
Remember the other folks who died because they had to wait for medical assistance because the ambulances couldn't get to them?
Seems like the sanitation bosses couldn't have cared less because they are the ones who gambled with their lives.
It also explains that youtube video of some NYC sanitation workers destroying that Ford Explorer. I had my suspicions, but this proves it.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.
Miles of roads stretching from as north as Whitestone, Queens, to the south shore of Staten Island still remained treacherously unplowed last night because of the shameless job action, several sources and a city lawmaker said, which was over a raft of demotions, attrition and budget cuts. Apparently a number of sanitations workers with balls and consciouses confessed to being instructed to do this.
My response: Anyone who gave these instructions definitely has blood on their hands and ought to be charged with some offense related to their deaths. Anyone who carried out these orders ought to be fired. The folks who 'fessed up ought to be promoted as an example to the rest.
The only reason the unions are still in place during hard economic times is because governors and mayors feel there is some political advantage to keeping them around.
Economic downturns are a necessary and healthy thing in their own way. This event is a huge opportunity for any politician whose heart is in the right place.
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Public needs don't always require public employees.
The streets and sanitation jobs required in any city or village could be privatized without harm to the public.
My village (admittedly a fairly small one) has a private contractor for sanitation, and a few public employees for routine road maintenance. When the snow comes they hire additional private help.
Any major city could do this. Privatize garbage pickup. Keep a core of public employees for routine road and street maintenance, and supplement with private temp help when needed.
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OTOH, most of these guys would never find a job again as no private concern would ever consider them. Unions protect union bosses, stewards and a whole lot of laziness.
I was watching the movie titles on Sherlock Holmes the other night and it listed two people as Standby Painter and Standby Carpenter. Standby?
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I think a charge of negligent homicide in some cases might be called for if it can be proven that their antics prevented medical assistance from arriving - a examination of past snowstorms might help show this.
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a public union that uses a crisis to try and extort benefits should be decertified, broken, and crushed. The leaders who pushed this should be held responsible for all the deaths and injuries due to unplowed roads and no access for emergency services - i.e.: criminal punishment and civil suits. Crush them
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OTOH, most of these guys would never find a job again as no private concern would ever consider them.
Not seeing a problem here.
Any way we could keep them from ever receiving any public assistance? They were given high-paying jobs and sweet benefits in exchange for doing a job vital to the public safety. They abandoned that duty as a "protest" and, as a result, people died.
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Any time you see this kind of abuse in the public sector, brutally crush it. screw politics, this is life or death. Someone better be going to Jail.
[Pak Daily Times] The government on Wednesday issued a policy statement on the blasphemy law while Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Shah informed the National Assembly that the government had no intention to repeal the law. "Really, looking foolish on an international scale doesn't bother us a bit."
Speaking on the floor of the House, Shah presented the policy statement of the government on amendment in the blasphemy law. "On behalf of the government as taking the minorities into confidence, I state with full responsibility that the government has no intention to cancel it (Tahafooz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat)," he said. Shah also clarified that a bill by Sherry Rehman seeking amendment in the blasphemy law was a private member bill and the government would not support any such amendment.
"It is the prime duty of the government to ensure Tahafooz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat. I also assure the minorities of the country that the law would not be used to target them," Shah said. Responding on the policy statement of the government, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl's Maulana Attaur Rehman asked Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to assure the House on the issue.
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BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq: Scores of angry people went to streets on Wednesday calling for executing a robbery gang, which killed their sons in Hilla.
The protesters are the families who lost their beloved ones by the gang, which killed and kidnapped scores of citizens and burnt their bodies in Hilla in eth past months, Aamer Khudier Hamied, a protester, who lost his brother, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Most of the bodies have not been found yet, he added, noting that families of 26 victims staged the demonstration today.
Hilla, the capital of Babel, lies 100 km south of Baghdad.
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The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. and Austal USA each a fixed-price incentive contract for the design and construction of a 10 ship block-buy, for a total of 20 littoral combat ships from fiscal 2010 through fiscal 2015.
The Navy remains committed to a 55-ship program and the LCS is needed to fill critical, urgent warfighting requirements gaps that exist today. The LCS Program is required to establish and maintain U.S. Navy dominance in the littorals and sea lanes of communication choke points around the world. The LCS Program operational requirements have been virtually unchanged since the program's inception in 2002 and the both hull forms will meet the Navy's operational warfighting requirements.
#1
So, was the navy unable to figure out if one design was better than the other? There was a implied competition between the two designs. If each gets half of the order is the economy of scale on the price maxed out?
Is any one company unable to build 20 hulls in 5 years? It seems the Navy wants these operational asap. Do the two types fill different requirements? Did the surface warfare guys get blown away by both ships or do they want avoid putting all bets on one type or contractor?
Any back story here?
#3
I suspect they are letting these contracts this way because our shipbuilding has become so thin if they don't,one yard goes belly up and to see that happen might actually imperil our safety in the looming decades.
#6
So, was the navy unable to figure out if one design was better than the other?
They were. The Austal design is better, and it lost the political contest, so if they only bought one design, Congress was going to give them the turkey from Wisconsin.
There are problems with both designs, but the Austal design has more margin for fixing them.
Politically this is the only way they get half a batch of ships that can be fixed.
#9
That does explain a lot. Let's hope the warrior admirals get enough time to rebuild the navy they inherit from the appropriation admirals before we lose the next big war at sea.
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The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. and Austal USA each a fixed-price incentive contract for the design and construction of a 10 ship block-buy, for a total of 20 littoral combat ships from fiscal 2010 through fiscal 2015.
