Tomorrow...The Sex Machine Museum!!!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
I said OMFG audibly here.
...there’s obviously no OSHA…
shirrin’ up the hole
(They cut the logs right there. Not a safety goggle in sight either.)
I’ll be sure to mac a Big Mac while I’m there!
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The cans were recycled for 800 dollars, an estimated 70,000 cans: 24 beers a day for 8 years.
I didn’t know Ted and Patrick Kennedy spent much time in Ogden, Utah.
all emphasis mine—e-C
“I don’t understand why the United States must take such a repressive attitude toward us,” said Agustin Melgar, 45, who works in the same open-air market as Martinez near Chapultepec Park in the city center. “It’s insulting. We all know there’s a mutual demand: The gringos need our cheap labor, and we want better pay.”
Alrighty, thennn. Beaner.
Ruben Aguilar, a spokesman for Mexican President Vicente Fox, said Monday that a security-first policy at the border would not solve the problems created by illegal immigration. Fox has said he prefers a plan that would offer some form of legal status for all undocumented Mexicans now in the USA.
He also said he would prefer to be Presidente de MeHeeeCo for life so he could have flan for breakfast every day. “And stop calling me Zorro!”
...Oh yeah—there’s more . . . *clicky*clicky*
LLoyd
This is what Mckellen had to say about the “secret” in the Da Vinci code that Jesus was married.
Ian McKellen, an openly gay actor who plays Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code, tried to make light of the controversy.
“I’m very happy to believe that Jesus was married,” he said. ”I know the Catholic Church has problems with gay people and I thought this would be absolute proof that Jesus was not gay.”
Yeah, like gay men neeeeever get married
And yes, that is “Sir" Ian McKellen
The students at Columbia University had more than one excuse for exuberance today: First, today was their graduation ceremony, and second, the ceremony will likely be followed by some prompt employment.
“Companies have been recruiting very heavily,” one graduate told us. Other grads said they received signing bonuses and are pleased with their starting salaries. The students at Columbia are not the only ones smiling. Career counselors at colleges and universities across the country said they saw real increases in the numbers of job recruiters on campus this year.
Online job site Monster.com did an unscientific poll of its member companies and found 72 percent of them plan to hire recent graduates this spring or summer, compared with 64 percent last year.
“The baby boomers are retiring. Companies have neglected to fill their pipeline over the last few years because of cost-cutting decisions. Now they have to get with it, and they’re hiring these new grads in record numbers,” said John Challenger, at Challenger, Gray and Christmas.
Challenger, Gray and Christmas?
Well, Teddy Kennedy showed his stupidity once again today by falling for one of Mankind’s oldest logical fallacies; a fallacy so old it is stated in a dead, millennial-old language: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc ”After this, therefore because of this”.
In an argument against building a wall on the entire U.S.-Mexican border, Ted cited the rise in border-crosser deaths that occurred after California built an effective fence on it’s southern border; saying Cali’s fence caused the illegals to go through Arizona’s more arid desert and die. To show his poor reasoning (that the fence caused the deaths ergo more fences will result in more deaths) you must think of this in a turn-about fashion- what action, either by the illegals or us, would result in fewer or no deaths for border-crossers? Answer: the discontinuation of the practice. If they stop coming, or we build an effective wall, they won’t die in our deserts, period.
But, this is too much for Teddy, a Harvard grad, to understand; and it is up to me, an University of Oregon grad, to point out to him. Hey Harvard board, don’t you understand that the “value” of a University is largely measured in the performance of the people it grants degrees? Teddy is decreasing your academic worth!
Real poker!
The Cos and the Call Out
reactions to the Call Out:
“Cosby’s overemphasis on personal responsibility, not structural features, wrongly locates the source of poor black suffering—and by implication its remedy—in the lives of the poor. When you think problems are personal, you think solutions are the same.‘If only the poor were willing to work harder, act better, get better educated, stay out of jail and parent more effectively, their problems would go away.’ ”
Is this the future?
This month’s defeat of local politicians who built the equivalent of a day-care center for illegal Hispanic immigrants in a leafy Washington, D.C., suburb was a victory not just for immigration reformers but also anti-terror watchdogs.
Angry voters in Herndon, Va., swept out their bleeding-heart mayor and two of his allies on the town council and replaced them with candidates who are not expected to renew the lease of a controversial hiring site set up to help illegal aliens find work.
Lost in all the controvery, however, is the more disturbing fact that the site—a covered building featuring picnic tables and bathrooms—was founded by a Muslim charity with ties to suspected Saudi-backed terror front groups. Its town operating permit won’t expire until the fall of 2007, allowing the group not only time to aid and abet hundreds more illegal immigrants, but possibly recruit them.
Hmmm… W? Are you listening?
On any given day, Hispanic day-workers can be seen loitering in convenience store parking lots up and down Route 7 (known by authorities as the “Wahhabi corridor") hoping to get picked up for odd jobs. Some of those jobs have included facilitating Muslim terrorists. Hispanic illegals at a 7-11 in Falls Church turned a quick buck by helping the 9-11 hijackers obtain fake IDs.
More recently, at another 7-11 farther north in Herndon, Hispanic day workers created such a nuisance—urinating behind bushes and ogling women—that city officials decided to do something about it. But instead of doing the obvious thing—calling immigration authorities to round them up—they agreed to furnish them with their own potties, and let them congregate at a property once used, believe it or not, by the city’s police.
Stepping in last year to run the government-sanctioned site was an obscure group by the name, Project Hope and Harmony, which landed (in partnership with nonprofit Reston Interfaith) the $200,000 contract. The man behind the project is Muslim activist Mukit Hossain.
But he’s not just any activist. Born in Bangladesh, Hossain also runs a shadowy Muslim charity in Herndon which recently had its accounts closed by Wachovia bank due to suspicious activity related to possible money-laundering.
Oh, my… Now if Wachovia nixed the accounts, I sure hope the feds are looking deeper into this.
In another chilling trend, investigators say Saudi agents are setting up half-way houses in the area for paroled Hispanic and black converts to Islam. Several such houses have been identified in Fairfax County, Va., say local authorities working with the National Counterterrorism Center. They fear the prison converts may be further radicalized by their Wahhabi handlers as they transition back into society.
Does Jose Padilla (aka Osama bin Lopez) come to mind? Preying on the disaffected is the forte of Jihadist recruiters. Most of the splodeydope foot soldiers come from those ranks in Moslem nations.
Cracking own on this combination of illegal aliens and radical Moslems will raise a big-time stink with the PC crowd: Racial and religious profiling and all.
Looks like reason number 295,318 to seal the border and send the whole lot of illegal invaders back to points south.
(Sorry I stole your sombrero and cigar, Claire.)
a tenuous, ethereal, illusory grasp, OTOH...
*Still Dodging Immigration’s Truths Robert Samuelson
There is much muddle to our immigration debate. The central problem is not illegal immigration. It is undesirably high levels of poor and low-skilled immigrants, whether legal or illegal, most of whom are Hispanic. Immigrants are not all the same. An engineer making $75,000 annually contributes more to the American economy and society than a $20,000 laborer. On average, the engineer will assimilate more easily.
... a respected immigration scholar—said this of low-skilled immigrants:
“Their presence in the labor market increases competition for low-skilled jobs, reducing the earnings of low-skilled native-born workers… Because of their low earnings, low-skilled immigrants also tend to pay less in taxes than they receive in public benefits, such as income transfers (e.g., the earned income tax credit, food stamps), public schooling for their children, and publicly provided medical services. Thus while the presence of low-skilled immigrant workers may raise the profits of their employers, they tend to have a negative effect on the well-being of the low-skilled native-born population, and on the native economy as a whole.”
Hardly anyone is discussing these issues candidly. It is politically inexpedient to do so. We can be a lawful society and a welcoming society simultaneously, to use the president’s phrase, but we cannot be a welcoming society for limitless numbers of Latin America’s poor without seriously compromising our own future—and, indeed, the future of many of the Latinos already here. Yet, that is precisely what the president and many senators (Democratic and Republican) support by endorsing large “guest worker” programs and an expansion of today’s system of legal visas. In practice these proposals would result in substantial increases of low-skilled immigrants.
How fast can they assimilate? We cannot know, but we can consult history. It is sobering. In 1972 Hispanics were 5 percent of the U.S. population and their median household income was 74 percent of that of non-Hispanic white households. In 2004 Hispanics were 14 percent of the population, and their median household income was 70 percent of the level of non-Hispanic whites. These numbers suggest that rapid immigration of low-skilled workers and rapid assimilation are at odds. Some immigrant families make huge advances, but many don’t and newcomers represent a constant drag.
...economist Chiswick rightly argued that we should ... give preferences to skilled immigrants. We should be smart about the future; right now, we’re not.
...People who don’t think there will be conflicts between older beneficiaries and younger taxpayers—Hispanic or not—are deluding themselves. People who imagine there won’t be more conflicts between growing numbers of poor Latinos and poor African Americans for jobs and political power are also deluding themselves.
[emph. mine—e-C]
How is it that so many can not see/ignore these grass-is-green-sky-is-blue potentials?
oh, yeah:
“If you just try to build a wall 30 feet high and 2,000 miles long, it will be insufficient. People will go up over it, around it, in order to get a job in this country,” Frist said on CBS The Early Show.
...not if ya electrify it, Meester Beeeel. ...talk about a ‘failure of imagination.’ yeesh.
Meanwhile, immigration advocates poured into Washington by the thousands to lobby lawmakers and hold a late afternoon rally within site of the Capitol and the White House.
The Senate bill authorizes additional spending on border security, a guest worker program, an eventual opportunity at citizenship for most of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country, and tougher enforcement of laws prohibiting hiring of illegal workers. Senate passage appears likely by Memorial Day.
nevermiiind…
My new Political Party: T’row Da Bums OUT! ALL of ‘em!
*WaPo Reg: washpost9@mailinator.com
PW: washpost
Capts. Andy Whitbread, Owen Osborne and James Holland had a plan: Go to Boca Grande Pass where the hammerhead sharks are so big they feed on man-size tarpon, and catch one for a world record.
On Wednesday, on their first attempt, they likely did just that.
Whitbread, 20, tossed his bait—a live 12- to 15-pound crevalle jack*—into a bloody “frenzy” of sharks feeding on a tarpon in the world famous fishing hole. Two hours and three minutes later, they gaffed a great hammerhead that could top the 80-pound-class record by 130 pounds—a 13-foot, 4-inch, 750-pounder.
* A jack of that size is no joke. One of the hardest fighting fish that swim. Catch 3 or 4 jacks that size on light tackle and you’re ready to call it a day; they’ll wear you out. (Raz0r can likely attest to that.)
As Philadelphians cope with another police slaying, news comes that a suburb of Paris has named a street for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
Hundreds of supporters of Abu-Jamal attended a ceremony on April 29 to dedicate the Rue Mumia-Abu Jamal in the city of St.-Denis.
“In France, they see him as a towering figure,” said Suzanne Ross, cochair of the Free Mumia Coalition of New York City, who was part of the ceremony.
Ross said the street is in the town’s Human Rights district, which includes Nelson Mandela Stadium.
CraigC
While mulling over the Mumia nonsense I remembered when the Philly PD used a helo to bomb a house full of Mumia supporting militant nuts that belonged to the group MOVE.
Some see it as a tragedy and abuse of power. I think it was an effective way to deal with a terrorist group like MOVE.
Some PHD in psychobabble was interviewed by O’Reilly, and she was decrying hazing by somesororitysoccer gals, expressing her ‘outrage’ at the fact the girls were having the plebes doing naughty things like posing in underwear, a challenge to see what girl could kiss another...yada...yada...yada!She went further to explain her ‘position’ that such pranks would cause ‘psychological’ damage, etc., ad nauseum.
The purpose of my post is this...who here has gone through some initiation/hazing, and what was the reason, and did it hurt you ‘forever?’ Like some psychobabble bullshitters think it does.
Since I started this discussion, I’ll be the first to start.
May 17, 2006: The threat by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez selling 21 of Venezuela’s F-16 fighters to Iran, has gained press attention. However, this is a threat that is largely empty in terms of potential harm to the United States.
That said, Chavez’s threat to sell them to Iran is meant to generate headlines, and to symbolically hurt the United States. But this move, while it would violate various export agreements, really will not hurt the United States militarily, even if Iran were to get all 21 of these F-16s. The planes would be going from a country with very limited logistical support ability for the F-16 (Venezuela) to one with practically no ability to support F-16A operations at all.
In other words, if Chavez is able to sell the planes to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime in Iran, he will have sold 21 planes which will rapidly become a world-class maintenance and logistical headache for their new owners.
Caveat emptor, Mahmoud!
