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2013-02-08 Government

Obama crony wins contract to give phones to jobless

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Posted by Fred 2013-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Will they have built-in reminders to go and vote Democrat?

Posted by Bulldog 2013-02-08 02:08|| 2013-02-08 02:08|| Front Page Top

#2 They're not actually phones, they're hand-held voting machines.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-02-08 02:17|| 2013-02-08 02:17|| Front Page Top

#3 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72400
1996: The Israeli secret service finds that a cell phone can be used for things other than chatting with friends. It also makes a pretty nifty little bomb for disposing of an enemy, which is what happens to Yahya Ayyash on Jan. 5, 1996 when he tries talking on a booby-trapped phone apparently provided by Israel's Shabak.
Ayyash might have appreciated the irony: He was the chief bomb-maker for Hamas, and was linked to the killings of more than 70 Israelis, many of them civilians.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-02-08 08:14|| 2013-02-08 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow - now high-end android phones are a right?

I take it this includes free unlimited data service as well. I work my ass off and I don't even have that.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-02-08 08:19|| 2013-02-08 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Saves a lot of valuable time CF. Enables one to call ahead to the Kroger or Publics meat section and order those favorite steak cuts. Think of the job search time wasted, waiting on special cuts....fumbling with real cash at the check-out, then the long slug to the handicapped parking slot.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-02-08 08:25|| 2013-02-08 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 So, like guns in Fast and Furious(tm), we can trace these back from cellphones taken in gang/drug busts? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-02-08 08:39|| 2013-02-08 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Wow - now high-end android phones are a right?

It's in the revision and re-write of the Declaration of Independence.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-02-08 08:51|| 2013-02-08 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Rights are restrictions on the power of the state.

A transfer of wealth can never be a right.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-02-08 08:57|| 2013-02-08 08:57|| Front Page Top

#9 ..yes, its something that's earned, like sticking a gun in someone's gut and demanding their wallet, or voting for politicians who'll do it for you.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-02-08 11:40|| 2013-02-08 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Find out who the carriers are. Boycott time...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-02-08 16:08|| 2013-02-08 16:08|| Front Page Top

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