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HA HA that was a good one. Irish old gentleman sitting at the bar sipping his mug of bear seemingly oblivious to the world around him. A black man burst in and exclaims "bout time!. letting black folk in this place". The old gentleman puts his beer down and calmly said, " there was a time they wouldn't let a good Irish Catholic in this here tavern. Then later on, old blue (a patron dog laying in the corner) over there was allowed in this here tavern. Yes, everything comes to him who waits". Then he just proceeds to sip his beer. The whole place burst out laughing and the dark complected chap.
[NBC40.net] NORTH WILDWOOD - A disabled U.S. Army veteran, who served our country for 19 years, says he was kicked off the North Wildwood boardwalk last night, simply for having his service dog by his side. North Wildwood? .... Alabama? No. Georgia? No. Texas? No. Virginia then? No. Ok, I give up, where is it then? Oh, THERE.
Jared Goering served 1 tour in Iraq, 2 in Afganistan, and spent 19 years as an active member of the Army. Jared said, "I served from 1993 to 2012." He then told NBC40 he couldn't sleep Thursday night because he felt so disrespected by a North Wildwood police officer.
Goering said. "Just like any veteran with disabilities with a service dog, to come back and be harassed and shown no respect, it upset me - it really bothered me. I was up most of the night thinking about it. Upsets me as well.
A North Wildwood police officer issued Jared and his wife a summons because of the dog. Should be a former policeman, and a man in search of a new line of work.
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New Jersey!! I am not surprised. I have had only terrible times in that place. Especially the police whether local or state. As a serviceman driving through the state with out-of-state plates, I was always stopped for alledgedly having minor problems with my car or I was holding up traffic (?) not speeding.
A Forbes article about Mexican politics, and how President Pena may get his Pemex reform through the legislature with the help of opposition parties, and his ass protecting Pacto por Mexico.
A socialist wanting to move Pemex towards the private sector? The deuce you say!
From TFA:
Though largely off the radar north of the Rio Grande, last month's local elections in Mexico provide an opportunity to read the political tea leaves south of the border. As the first elections in President Enrique Peña Nieto's term, the local polls in thirteen states and the gubernatorial contest in Baja California provide a partial picture of the electorate's view of Peña Nieto's first seven months in office.
The results were a mild rebuke of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which won approximately 55% of the posts contested, but suffered a net loss of 42 mayoralties--leaving a total of five million fewer citizens under PRI governments. However, the party is ahead in ten state assemblies, which will ease the eventual approval of constitutional changes considered in the upcoming energy reform. The results also highlighted the weakness of the major opposition parties following the 2012 presidential elections, given that they could only score important victories by running in coalition.
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So, Define "Privatization", do you mean The state "Privately owns it all?" or do you mean "Private people own it all, or will the "Private" people, simply not exist and the government IS the "Private" People?
Or perhaps the "Private" people simply are the people in government? (What a coincidence)
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The initial plan was to follow Brazil's Petrobras model, where the state owned 60 percent of Pemex's shares and the rest would be publicly traded. That idea, which is running into opposition, would require revising the Mexican constitution.
The problem is that Pemex needs investment. Pemex's production has declined (it's dropped from 5th largest to 7th largest petroleum supplier in the world) and it has issues with corruption, high costs of employment and all the other inefficiencies of a state-owned corporation. Pemex has outsourced a good part of its technical work, but even that's running into a lot of problems, especially from the farther-Left.
The U.S. Air Force said that a well-known drag queen group was invited to perform on base during a Diversity Day celebration because drag is a symbol of gay pride and unity. But the performance sparked outrage among some airmen who called the drag show totally offensive and inappropriate. Some were outraged? Did you get their names ?
Jewels and the Brunchettes performed to a small crowd at the Los Angeles Air Force Base on Aug. 8, the military confirmed. Might be an even smaller crowd next year.
The Air Force said in a statement to Fox News that Diversity Day featured eight cultural groups and was meant to foster equality and diversity in the workplace. Any protestations from the US Naval Academy mascot ?
Photographs provided to Fox News show an individual wearing a giant wig and sporting form-fitting dresses performing to a sparse crowd underneath the American flag.
Drag acts to this day represent the struggle for freedom and equality of the LGBT community, while at the same time providing a deep-rooted historical form of entertainment for the LGBT culture, said Peggy Hodge, a spokesperson for the Office of Public Affairs. Bugger! I missed it. Perhaps next year.
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"Los Angeles AFB: Home of the Space and Missile Systems Center, and the 61st Air Base Group. Other tenant units include AFOSI Detachment 110 and the 369th Recruiting Squadron."
Doubt the display would have gone over as well at, say, Incirlik....
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ANYTHING the Military says is suspect, there's too much Official Nonsense and damn few brains.
Goes with the culture.
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Twas me unnerstandin, havin groan up in the SF Fey Area, y'see, that a large percentage of drag kweens are actually straight fellas who like to play dress-up.
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Used to be, to drag meant to line up 2 cars, drop a hankie ( or sumpin) and drop the clutch and se what she'll do in the quarter mile....
now, not so much.
Media Research Center boss Brent Bozell thinks that Bezos will change the WaPo character if he decides to turn a buck or two. We shall see.
From TFA:
But for Bezos, they're getting out the marching band for a victory lap. Post media blogger Erik Wemple said Amazon's breakout will look like a weak first act if the liberal media is saved: "Should Bezos succeed in even tweaking this sector's vicious cycle, his contributions to retailing and e-commerce may well look like modest achievements."
The first question now is whether Bezos bought the Post to be an instant power player inside D.C. (that's what D.C. assumes without blinking) or to make money. Is the Post a nostalgic plaything for Woodward and Bernstein worshipers, or is it possible he'll betray journalists and take it in a more tabloidish direction, like The Huffington Post?
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.
