An Alturas man wielding a weed trimmer who threatened his 68-year-old neighbor was shot twice Thursday and now faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
Bruce asked Wilkerson to stop, but Wilkerson said he would hit Bruce with the weed trimmer and lifted it toward his face, Detective Michael Carver reported. Bruce pointed a .25-caliber pistol and shot Wilkerson, who was standing sideways at the time, in the upper back and buttocks.
When Carver talked to other residents in the neighborhood, he learned Wilkerson had a history of not getting along with his neighbors.
"It was learned ... that Mr. Wilkerson routinely threatens and provokes his neighbors," Carver wrote in his report. "Mr. Wilkerson did use a deadly weapon to threaten the victim (Bruce) and the victim did have a well-founded fear of being injured or killed. The victim's actions were in self-defense."
Bruce's lawyer, David Carmichael, said he was pleased with the finding.
It wasn't until Wilkerson's "bizarre behavior" recently that Bruce began carrying his pistol with him, Carmichael said. "(Bruce) was in a heightened state of awareness when this guy was around."
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Because the Crisis isn't big enough yet to force through Obumble's Crap-and-Tax.
I have no doubt that Obama is holding any aid hostage until Crap&Tax passes just like he's refusing to fulfill his primary obligation (Defend the U.S.) until Amnesty (Some call it immigration reform but it has nothing to with immigation) is passed.
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Personally, Im not ready to buy into the exploit the crisis theories on the cleanup effort quite yet. Thats not to say Obama hasnt tried to politically capitalize on the leak itself. (The oval office speech confirmed that.) But as with Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf Spill reinforces the notion that bloated governments struggle to effectively function in the best of times and typically falter when there is calamity. Layers of regulations, no matter of how altruistic, usually result in webs of bureaucracies. With that said, as more of this gridlock continues it will further expose President Obama to be as inept as he is politically ambitious. Thats not good for him considering so many already view him to have been aloof from the get go. His skills as a politician and community organizer served him well during the campaign but, so far, they dont seem applicable to true leadership.
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Well, Congress is showing true leadership. There is a bill pending to amend maritime laws to allow pain & suffering claims. The bill updates maritime laws that have been on the books since the mid-1800s and early 1920s. Those laws had restricted the amount of money families could obtain as compensation for lost wages and funeral expenses.
The trial lawyers will at least clean up if this passes.
#5
This govt has almost as many true believer environmentalists as it has true believer communists.For them the worst possible outcome is a rapid thorough cleanup with minimum environmental damage.The best result is a huge disaster.That would guarantee draconic environmental rules, bring economic and population growth to a halt and their disciples to the top.
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draconic environmental rules These may be easy to enact, but not so easy to endure. Recall the government's ban on offshore drilling, one such draconic rule, caused the immediate unemployment of tens of thousands of workers. There is only so much more unemployment & collateral economic damage people will put up with.
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bloated governments ... typically falter when there is calamity
I think that's true of all governments, bloated or not. Calamities are necessarily beyond the short term ability of organizations to cope with. Coping methods have to be created, and some organizations are better at that than others.
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Personally, I'm not ready to buy into the "exploit the crisis" theories on the cleanup effort quite yet.
The constant hassling of everyone attempting to make a difference, coupled with the intentional feather-bedding of the onshore cleanup crews changed my mind. It's either intentional or we're deep into the Founders complaints about "swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance".
(Arizonans should recognize this one:
"He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."
And if he gets his way on the ICC:
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation")
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There was a time when we had people in government with management experience (and HORRORS! private sector experience). That's how we put a man on the moon. Now all we have is blowhards, parasites, kleptocrats, and "community organizers". No one who can say "let's get this done", and manage and track tasks to make it happen. People who can cut through red tape rather than create more of it. At least this powerfully demonstrates that Obama's assertion about government solving all our problems is a lie.
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Some Artics on the Net ascribe that the oil field underneath the DEEPWATER HORIZON RIG so so POROUS = FULL OF [natural?]LEAKS that even iff BP successfully capped the original, it may result only in the oil gush dievrting its flows + forcibly breaking thur one or more alternate leak spot(s), VEE "PATH(S) OF LEAST RESISTANCE"???
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The extent of leakage outside of the well casing under the Deep Horizon rig is unknown until the intercept well starts pumping. Some oil men have predicted the leak will not end until the undersea reservoir has basically been drained, however long that may take, and however many wells will have to be drilled to drain it/control the leak. Estimates on the size of the leaking reserve are, after all, just estimates.
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Adm. Thad Allen: OK all right. Whats going to happen is theyre going to slowly close the well bore 10 or 15 feet at a time for the next 600 feet or so when they get to the and this will be slow and laborious because theyre going to stop every 10 to 15 feet and make sure they know exactly where that well bore is at.
When they finally make the decision to go in this could be a two stage process but you have a pipe in the well bore and then you have the area the well bore between the pipe and the outside of the well bore, which they would call the (annualist).
annulus
That is basically a ring of area out there. They will intercept the well bore and start pumping mud in and the mud at first will probably go up the well bore to a point where it stops. Thats the reason having the capping device would be of some assistance at this point.
And then the column would slowly fill with mud down the well bore to the reservoir and at that point the total weight of the mud in the well bore will overcome the pressure at the reservoir and create a static situation where there are no hydrocarbons coming up. It would then allow cement to be pumped in and basically plug the well.
This could happen in two stages because it may be necessary to pump mud into the (annualist), which is the area between the pipe and the well bore perimeter, and then actually drill into the pipe itself and repeat that process inside the pipe. Talking to the folks at BP and the scientists that are overseeing this, this could happen very quickly or it could take several days depending on the actual status of the well.
If youll remember, Ive stated earlier that we dont know the status of the well bore right below the wellhead itself down about 1 or 2,000 feet. We dont know if there are integrity problems with that. That might require a large amount of mud to be pumped in because some that might go out into the strata of the formation around it.
I think the general I think the general estimates that Ive heard it could be as quick as two or as many as five to get this done depending on the condition of the well bore.
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We need to drill baby drill! HAHA, bites Obama in the ass. I love it, the only answer to the problem is to drill as many wells as we can and pump the oil out to reduce the pressure. We should call this Palen field!!!
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Gotta nuke that baby so that GAIEA = EARTH can have its own massive MAN-CREATED RAMJET ENGINE on one side of the planet.
AIRPLANE > POINT_COUNTERPOINT > D *** NG IT, WE BUILT THAT OIL NUKE FAIR AND SQUARE - I SAY, LETS NUKE THE GUSH + BLOW A HOLE IN THE SKY JUST BECUZ WE CAN!
* TOPIX > [Armenia vs. Azerbaijan]RUSSIA'S RESPONSES ARE [usually] 150 YEARS LATE: AFRD GROUP SPOKESMAN.
Replace RUSSIA wid Politicians = Govt-critters, HYPER PCORRECTNESS, OWG + POLITIX-AS-USUAL, ETC. to find out why the future OWG-NWO SUDDENLY RAN LOW OR OUT OF ENERGY, or in the altern blew a massive sky hole on one side of the Planet.
SILLY MORIARITY THOUGHT OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM DIDN'T HAVE ANY MAJOR ISSUES!
COMET APOPHIS + MOON BOOMS > the OWG-NWO has 19-26 Years to review + "perfect", doublecheck + quadruple check, its MATH,MODELS, + ANTI-SPACE ROCK FIREPOWER, ETC.
D *** NG IT, CLEARLY 19-26 YEARS IS NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR GOVT-CRITTERS + "24"s KIEFER SUTHERLAND!
The former husband of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman has spoken of his suspicions that she was being "conditioned" by shadowy contacts during their marriage.
The flame-haired 28-year-old is one of 11 people accused by the United States of working as secret agents for Russia's intelligence service, the SVR.
Alex Chapman, 30, from Bournemouth, Dorset, was married to the Russian, maiden name Kushchenko, for four years before they divorced in 2006.
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Aw, damn. Looks like she wanted to have an "exciting" life. Probably the consequences were a bit... unintended.
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The former husband of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman has spoken of his suspicions that she was being "conditioned" by shadowy contacts during their marriage.
I used to suspect the same, but I found out after talking to my friends that it's normal.
Even Professor Henry Higgins rarely lost for words would be dumbfounded. New research shows that the cockney dialect he battled so hard to beat out of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady will disappear from London's streets within a generation.
As its traditional speakers emigrate to Essex and Hertfordshire, the 650-year-old accent is dying off in London, to be replaced by multicultural London English, heavily influenced by West Indian patois, Bangladeshi and remnants of old cockney. The dialect won't die off altogether. It will survive in the descendants of those Home Counties émigrés. You can hear it happening today: teenagers in Essex speak like Henry Cooper and Barbara Windsor; in Lambeth, they are more likely to sound like Ali G.
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Fears that the US recovery is losing steam were reinforced on Thursday as a stream of new data on the health of the economy, from manufacturing to housing to the labour market, came in below expectations.
Growth in the manufacturing sector appears to be slowing and one indicator showed the first possible signs of damage to US exporters from the European sovereign debt crisis.
The Institute for Supply Managements overall manufacturing index fell from 59.7 in May to 56.2 in June, a much larger drop than predicted by economists, who were looking for a reading of 59.
Although any reading above 50 indicates an expansion in manufacturing activity, this is now the second consecutive monthly drop. Some components of the survey were particularly discouraging, with the employment and new orders gauges dropping.
Meanwhile, new export orders, which had been consistently above 60 in recent months, fell back to 56, which could be an early sign that the drop in the value of the euro and weaker European demand will hurt US producers.
No solace for observers of the US economy came from data on the troubled housing market. The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales, a measure of activity in home purchases that have been agreed but not completed, tumbled by 30 per cent in May, much worse than the 12.5 per cent drop predicted by economists. A decline was widely predicted but the extent has brought renewed fears of a housing double-dip.
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Of course it's "faltering," because the recovery was nothing more than another liquidity-fueled mirage. Our government has transferred trillions from savers, who earn next to zip on their accounts, to the banks, who are now sitting on massive reserves and have no intention of increasing lending. In addition, millions of households that used to have negative worth have finally started to move into saving mode.
Banks aren't lending. Consumers aren't spending-- except on their addictions such as crap food, alcohol, cigarettes, pr0n, gaming/gambling, and shiny new toys made in China by Apple and their ilk.
When an economy that was based primarily on millions of households buying $hit they didn't need with money they didn't have shifts to one based on bread and circuses, you have to take a lasting hit.
The economy is simply re-setting at a lower level. This will take at least another year. When US households finally have, in aggregate, a 9-month cushion against loss of income due to unemployment or reduced pay, THEN we will see people spending again on more than candy, nicotine and iPhones.
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banks, who are now sitting on massive reserves and have no intention of increasing lending.
That's because alot of these banks are really bankrupt. They need the money to write off their bad debts a little bit at a time. Maybe no one will notice.
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I agree the economy is resetting to a lower level. It will take far longer than a year due to the extent of the changes. Consumer used to be 70% of the economy, but if the consumers save a prudent amount of what income they have, there will be very little available for discretionary spending, and much of the economy based on that will simply disappear. A great many of those currently unemployed will not be able to find even minimum wage jobs.
Suspicions that a U.S. submarine may have accidentally sunk a French fishing boat, killing five sailors, will be investigated by magistrates, a French appeal court ruled on Friday.
The Bugaled Breizh sank mysteriously in the English Channel on January 15, 2004, a day before NATO forces started military exercises in the area.
A first court ruling had ruled out any military involvement in the incident.
However, the sailors' families appealed in light of a research report which concluded that the ship may have been pulled under by a U.S. submarine patrolling the area.
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This sort of thing does happen. It's not like submariners can look out the window. The last time one of our submarines nailed a surface vessel unintentionally, it raised quite a hubbub with Japan.
#3
"the ship may have been pulled under by a U.S. submarine patrolling the area."
Or it may have been hit by an asteroid or zapped by a UFO. I wouldn't be surprised if these people are looking for someone who can pay.
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Recycled "agent of influence" propaganda.
This particular conspiracy theory, that US submarines were responsible for many, if not most, sinkings in European waters, was a cause du jour in left-wing media circles in the 1980s. There were demonstrations, lawsuits, and dubious investigations by pro-Soviet legislators and academics. In this country, top drawer leftist outlets like Omni magazine and Mother Jones both had breathlessly horrified (though fact-free) articles on the claim. The result, not surprisingly, was a major movement to shut down the Faslane sub base because of the alleged sinkings.
To find the ultimate media/political source, we need only ask ourselves who has a major incentive to sabotage NATO operations, as the Kremlin and its hired agents did during this meme's earlier incarnation.
57. Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received concerning incidents involving fishing boats and submarines. Mr. Archie Hamilton : Letters continue to be received from fishermen's organisations and from other interested groups and individuals about a number of incidents in which submarines are alleged to have been involved.
And in recent years, the issue of submarine collisions has become a cause in the British Isles. Members of both the British and Irish parliaments are demanding to know what role submarines may have played in the "mysterious" disappearances,sinkings and close snaggings of several dozen fishing boats in the Irish Sea, resulting in the loss of more than 100 lives since 1980.
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I thought the subs 'listened' for prop noise & such from traffic around them. Wouldn't they know if there was a fishing boat close enough to snag them?
#7
seine and drift nets drift far from the boat. You could know you're well clear of the boat, and catch a net
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I thought the subs 'listened' for prop noise & such from traffic around them. Wouldn't they know if there was a fishing boat close enough to snag them?
Depends. If the fishing boat had its engines off and was just sitting there for a break, lunch, afternoon nap, afternoon wank, etc., they would have sounded like a bunch of water and not been detected.
#9
ION WMF > JAPANESE MEDIA: CHINA TAKES UP A CONFRONTATIONAL POSTURE IN THE YELOW SEA/SEA OF JAPAN.
* SAME > GERMAN MEDIAS: CHINESE LR MISSLES CAN ACCURATELY TARGET US BASES IN GUAM, JAPAN, + SOUTH KOREA. THE USA MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RELIABLY INTERVENE OR PROTECT ITS REGIONAL ALLIES UNLESS THE CHINESE MISSLE THREAT IS MINIMIZED OR ELIMINATED.
and
* TOPIX/WAFF > US RETHINKS MARINE CORPS SHIFT TO GUAM/ WANTS TO KEEP COMMAND UNIT IN OKINAWA. US DOD is reconsidering changing the composition or type of USMC units which will move to Guam to offset those which will remain on Oki.
Shouldn't be a surprise - MIL AXIOM teaches its best to stay close AMAP ALAP to where the Action is or could be, + JAPAN WILL NEED ITS OWN NUKES + US GMD-TMD ONCE THE US DOES FORMALLY REDUX ITS MIL PRESENCE. Both Japan + SOKOR want US GMD-TMD which repor will not be emplaced until 2018 or after.
* SAME > INDONESIAN MUSLIMS TOLD TO PREPARE FOR [coming]RELIGIOUS WAR. Prob another VIOLENT one at that.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Heated debates swept Saudi religious circles as one cleric ruled that music was not un-Islamic while another supported adult breastfeeding and mixed-gender prayers. Adult breast feeding?
You remember, there was a fatwa issued in Egypt on the subject. Men and women who are family members may spend time together, unchaperoned, such as workplace colleagues. The only way completely unrelated people can become related, other than by marriage or adoption, is by wet-nursing. Hence a fatwa allowing the wet-nursing of an adult male by his female colleague. Hard lines on both if the woman is not capable of nursing, of course.
Religious scholars, judges and clerics from both the hardline and progressive camps in Saudi Arabia argued last weeks about setting the rules that should govern the conservative kingdom in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence. There's not a lot of room in Islam for common sense...
Much of the debate has focused on a fatwa issued by Adel al-Kalbani, a cleric from Riyadh, noting that Islam does not forbid music or singing.
Kalbani, the first black imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, is distinguished by his resonant voice and the soulful intensity of his Qur'anic recitation. "There is no clear text or ruling in Islam that singing and music are prohibited," Kalbani said.
All kinds of music, with the exception of folk music and in very specific occasions, are banned in Saudi Arabia. Conservatives argue that music and singing are forbidden in Islam and that this not only applies to public performances, but even inside homes.
Kalbani defended his position by saying that the kind of music he endorses is absolutely devoid of any indecency that might violate Islamic laws. "I am talking about decent singing, which contains decent words, and supports morality," he told the online newspaper Sabq.org.
Kalbani said he is willing to discuss the issue, yet complained that some people do not accept to engage in debates in the first place.
Breastfeeding and prayer combination
Another two fatwas that sparked anger among hardliners were issued by Sheikh Abdul Mohsen al-Obeikan, a top advisor in the court of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
In the first fatwa, Obeikan said an adult man is considered a woman's son if she breastfeeds him. So, if gender mixing is to be allowed in Islam women should breastfeed men to create a family-like environment and minimize chances of unauthorized sexual relations.
Because a grown man and an unrelated woman... never mind.
The issue of adult breastfeeding, loosely based on a story from the early Islamic era, has infuriated both conservatives and liberals alike and was also condemned by women rights activists. The fatwa was also seen as a way of getting around the ban on mixing of unrelated men and women.
Obeikan, who is known for promoting a milder approach to religion, also angered conservatives when he said that noon and afternoon prayers can be combined together at times of scathing heat. Temperature in the kingdom exceeds 50 degrees Celsius in the summer.
Conservatives argued that combining prayers could only be done under very specific circumstances such as travelling and insisted that they were against issuing such a general rule that applies to everyone.
Conservatives slam fatwas
As the religious debate reached the internet and several media outlets and as the fatwas of Kablani and Obeikan were seen to cause confusion amongst Saudis, conservative clerics decided to contain the chaos.
Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais slammed in his Friday sermon what he described as "fraudulent" fatwas and compared those who issue them to vendors who sell fake goods. These fatwas, he added, undermine the security of the country.
Meanwhile, Saudi's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al al-Sheikh, warned the originators of such fatwas that serious measures could be taken against them.
"Those who offer abnormal fatwas which have no support from the Quran should be halted," he said on al-Majd television Sunday.
Al al-Sheikh added that the issuers of those fatwas are not qualified and compared allowing them to promote those ideas to allowing fake doctors to treat patients.
The controversy highlighted the necessity of unifying sources of fatwa in the kingdom. The government is in favor of establishing one single body that would be in charge of issuing religious edicts under the supervision of the Senior Scholars Council.
The "chaos"
Hamad al-Qadi, member of the Saudi Shura Council, called the fatwa fight "chaos" and said that the entire Muslim world looks to Saudi Arabia as far as Islamic laws are concerned.
"The Islamic world follows whatever comes out of our country and its scholars concerning Islam," he said, according to al-Hayat newspaper.
Journalist Dawood al-Shirian said fatwas are not a source of entertainment, but constitute a power the defines an entire society.
"Fatwas create conservatism or promote moderation," he wrote in al-Hayat newspaper. "They are the real power."
Another fatwa battle ensued earlier this year when Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi, head of the Mecca branch of the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, shocked conservatives by endorsing the mingling of the sexes. Ghamdi was dismissed then reinstated.
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Northrop Grumman will retrofit two of the high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAVs, one aircraft pumping fuel into the other in flight through a hose-and-drogue refueling system. The aerial refueling engagement will be completely autonomous.
Demonstrating the refueling of one UAV by another is a historic milestone, said Carl Johnson, vice president, Advanced Concepts for Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. It adds aerial refueling to the list of capabilities that can be accomplished autonomously by Global Hawks; it opens the door to greatly expanded operational utility for UAVs; and, as a side benefit, it promises to increase the safety and reliability of aerial refueling between manned aircraft by reducing pilot workload.
There are several revolutionary aspects to the KQ-X program. Not only will the aerial refueling be autonomous, but since Global Hawks are HALE UAVs, it will also take place at a much higher altitude than has been previously demonstrated with manned aircraft. It will also be the first time that HALE UAVs have flown in formation.
The importance of aerial refueling is clear in the way military aviation depends on it today, said Jim McCormick, the DARPA program manager for KQ-X. This demonstration will go a long way towards making those same advantages a reality for the next generation of unmanned aircraft.
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Area , education , clean water , stable societies , religion , parenting are some of the myriad of other factors that need to be taken in to account .
I think India would be a good case model to look at . 30 years ago it was in the same state as a lot of Africa .
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Does welfare state parasites and big business rent seekers have the same effect on society?
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Poor sanitation and poor nutrition go together in stunting physical and mental growth. Rewarding excellence in education leads to better sanitation and better nutrition, which partly explains Oscar's statement about India's progress.
The areas shown in red on the map have little or no decent infrastructure, including schools. Local religions and practices determine whether the local education and infrastructure are worth anything. Of all the evils in the world, the tribalism of Africa and militant Islam create the worst physical, mental, and spiritual sinkholes in the world. These belief systems are fatalistic and do not reward effort, excellence, experimentation, and exploration.
perhaps a smaller sample size needed BP , perhaps try Detroit
Urban poor don't get adequate nutrition because: 1. lack of funds; 2: many of the urban poor don't know how to plan meals or how to shop for good quality food; 3 Inferior schools (you've heard me rant on this subject before) don't teach students how to read anything, including food labels. 4: Incompetent role models create worse poverty, dirtier environment.
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mom your #1 is total hogwash. when i lost my job several years back, we became eligible for and received food stamps for 90 days. those stamps which were the minimum award feed our family for over 5 months. it did not supplement our food budget, it 100% bought all of our food for a 5 month period. the poor in the US are not malnourished because of a lack of funds. food stamps are in excess of %150 of my family's food budget and that does not include the free-bees that most of our 'poor' get in the WIC program.
you #2 can be shortened to 'many of the urban poor do not know how to plan' but that has little to do with nutrition.
wrap it up as "the urban poor have no need to learn the life skills that the rest of us depend on and will never be forced to, so will remain unable to be bothered with buying food based on value instead of ease of use."
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Thai officials have spoken out against the Chinese government's plan to build 12 hydropower dams on the Mekong river, on the grounds that the development will cause further environmental damage to the waterway.
At the Mekong River Commission gathering on Thursday in Ho Chi Minh City, Prasarn Maruekpithak, Thai representative, said, "China's four dams on the upper part of the Mekong River have already destroyed the river's ecosystem. Now this giant nation plans to build 12 dams more on the lower part."
Drought-like conditions have contributed to low water levels on the Mekong, an agricultural and economic lifeline for MRC members Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Thai groups have blamed dam construction by China, which acts an observer to the MRC, for the low water levels, and have put pressure on Bangkok to take a firm stance on the issue.
China recently brought lawmakers from the four MRC countries to Yunnan province, in a rare public diplomacy initiative designed to soothe concerns about Chinese activity on the river.
The dispute comes amid growing economic links between China and the rest of southeast Asia. Trade between China and members of the Association of South East Asian Nations now tops $100bn and is expected to grow after a free trade agreement between Beijing and Asean was made in January.
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I didnt read such kind of fantabulous stuff just about this post previously . Was it your first literary analysis essay? I guess that just you only and a writing service could perform such kind of high quality issue!
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I have worked for the state for ten years and EVERY years we have been threatened with: Layoffs, minimum wage, and public lashings. None of them have come true. The Whore-a-slature didn't even pass a budget and they one they are secretly working can only pass if two things happen in November: The voters pass Prop 25 AND they elect Jerry Brown. If that happens we are truly screwed.
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California is just one of many states that refuse to address its budget shortfalls. After all, the Feds bailed them out last year and they have now been conditioned to expect annual bailouts. They have also been conditoned to adopt the "We Are Too Big A State To Be Allowed to Fail" approach to blackmailing the body politic.
So, no state wants to be the first to pull back from the Federal trough.
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The People of the State of California do hereby resolve to amend the state constitution as follows: The state legislature shall adopt a balanced budget by July 1 of each year to be approved by the governor. Upon the legislature's failure to adopt a balanced budget or the governor's refusal to approve said budget by the July 1 deadline the governor shall dissolve the legislature and call a special election to elect a new legislature on the first Tuesday of the following November. All legislators who were members of the dissolved legislature shall be judged incompetent and prohibited from occupying any state office for the rest of their lives. After dissolving the legislature the governor shall propose a balanced budget for approval by the voters by the last Tuesday of July. If the voters refuse to approve the governor's proposed budget the governor shall be considered to have been recalled from office for incompetence and the lieutenant governor shall assume the governorship. Any recalled governor shall be prohibited from occupying any state office for the rest of his or her life. The new governor's first act shall be to call a special election for the purpose of electing a new governor on the first Tuesday of the following November. The new governor's second act shall be to propose a balanced budget to be approved by the voters on the last Tuesday of August. If the new governor's proposed budget is not approved by the voters the new governor shall be considered to have been recalled and the secretary of state shall assume the governorship...etc, etc.
You get the point. Just keep getting rid of these crooked morons until we get somebody who can do the job we elected them to do.
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When this sort of thing happens, it is good to take a refresher course in 'scrip'. All it takes is an issuer that has money, who a lot of people trust. Doesn't have to be government that issues it.
Plus, it can work side by side with money, to give the best of both worlds.
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the sad thing is that a great many of these employees now making minimum wage are still being paid well above their value.
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#11 the sad thing is that a great many of these employees now making minimum wage are still being paid well above their value.
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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
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