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Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen said drug smugglers have resorted to riskier tactics to evade interdiction at sea including the practice of dissolving cocaine in diesel fuel.
Or connected to the discrepancy on the amount of oil spilled off South Korea? Liquid cocaine has also been found in children's juice boxes, making checking cargo containers more closely imperative.
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Two problems. One solution. Give the Moroccan rage boys gift certificates to the bistros and restaurants for lunch/dinner. At least one of the problems should be sorted out in time.
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I have begun to wonder if the cultural practice of tipping, as common in the US vs "lite tipping" common in the EU changes the interaction.
In the US the trend is for the server to be your buddy, and make sure that your $18 martini is reordered before the current one is even finished. In France, you more often than not are left alone and actually have to search the server out for a refill. "Surly and inattentive" or more respectful of your dining experience, I have not decided.
I actually have enjoyed the "take all the time you like" plan in France compared to the smiling kid with buttons on his suspenders bringing me my check automatically if I wave him off for the moment.
Sure, the French don't suffer perceived or legitimate rudeness well from any culture, but I am told they are just as surly to rude rude frenchman too.
I think French service is a bit of a sterotype that even I was guilty of before visiting France.
As far as French women... magnifique in all respects.
History Channel PS -They didn't bathe much in water becuase they thought it spread the plague...thus the perfume industry was created out of necessity...you can thank a rat for that.
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The most important part of this article is that the report takes the socialist route of blaming low wages imes below minimum wage) and poor training.
American wait staff and bartenders get paid below minimum and get no more training than is absolutely neccessary.
The French are right about having a problem, but they are clueless as to the reason.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
12/07/2007 15:32 Comments ||
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So are your cab driver, waiters, garbage men (sorry - "Engineers de Sanitation), college students, policemen, old ladies...
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The "plight of the underpaid" crosses many, many, many more occupations than food industry workers! I have been in long conversations with Europeans that the reason tipping isn't expected in Europe is because the positions are eligable for benefits, so the whole undercompensated arguement, particularly when compared to USA is apples and oranges.
I have had a German say "we view waiters as professional much like accountants and doctors. Would you leave a tip for them?"
I think it is just random whining because they don't make enough money to live in expensive cities like Paris. My Doctor says the same thing.
Heh..heh...heh...
BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- An earthquake on Friday rattled Indonesia's resort island of Bali, where thousands of people were gathering for a U.N. climate change conference. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. However, the ozone layer has been destroyed as 10000 private jets have all taken off from Bali at once...
The 5.4-magnitude tremor was centered 150 miles southwest of Bali, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. It struck around 6 miles beneath the ocean floor. The quake could be felt in Bali, where more than 10,000 people were attending a two-week conference about rising global temperatures, which scientists say could lead to severe droughts and flooding, melting ice caps and rising seas, and the extinction of animals. I wonder how many perfectly good drinks were spilled? How many h'orderve trays were destroyed? How many hookers were injured when they were knocked out of bed?
The walls and floors of massive tents set up in a sprawling complex of five-star hotels shook for around 10 seconds, but officials said they did not have any reports of injuries or damage. The quake was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami warning. Did Mr. Cheney ask for one?
Nah, he said just to "scare 'em" a little...
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REDDIT/NEWSCIENTIST > PARTICULATE BEAM MAY BE LONGEST IN HISTORY + ROILING MAGNETIC WAVES EXPLAIN SOLAR ENIGMA/MAGNETIC WAVES POWER SOLAR WINDS + SPEEDING STAR TO ESCAPE MILKY WAY GALAXY.
REDDIT > MARIAH CAREY WANTS TO SELL HER B ***BS.
All together now, wid feeling, D *** YOU, OLIVER STONE, AEROSMITH, AND TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS. After Stone's proposed new movie on MOUD may come "W" [Dubya]. Shaking fists angrily, espec about MARIAH's news. ALso WHITTAKER + RAYTHEON vv SPACEWAR.
Bangladeshs detained former prime ministers may be sent into exile as part of a deal to drop corruption charges against them, a leading newspaper said on Thursday.
A proposal to this effect has apparently been sent to Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, the Amar Desh (My Country) daily reported. Other conditions stipulate that none of their immediate family members could be involved in active politics, said the daily known for its pro-Khaleda stance.
Bangladeshs army-backed interim government, which took over in January following political violence, has put Hasina and her bitter rival Khaleda in jail pending trial for alleged graft and abuse of power when they alternated as prime minister from 1991 to 2006.
They have both denied the charges, which they say are meant to keep them from contesting elections planned for late next year.
The Amar Desh story followed reports in other media that the interim government, headed by former central bank chief Fakhruddin Ahmed, was seeking a deal with the two women to give them an honourable exit from politics and end their dynastic influence over millions of followers.
If the two leaders agree with the latest proposals, maybe (they will be) freed with general amnesty, Amar Desh said. In that case they, along with their family members, may be sent to a foreign country of their choice with a monthly allowance for their livelihood. Hasinas Awami League and Khaledas Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had no comment on the reports. We have not heard anything like this, nor do we know if there is anything cooking up, said a BNP leader who asked not to be identified.
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Make one of the conditions be that they have to be exiled with each other. The Bangla version of "The Odd Couple"...
In a report published this week by security firm SecureWorks, researchers reveal that the recent flurry of Ron Paul spam originated from a Reactor botnet controlled by a commercial spammer through a colocation facility in the US.
The researchers analyzed header elements of the spam e-mails to trace them back to zombie systems that were infected with the Srizbi trojan, an unusual piece of malware with highly advanced features. According to Symantec research, which has independently studied Srizbi, the trojan is one of the first pieces of malware found in the wild to operate fully in kernel mode with no userspace code. Srizbi bypasses firewalls and packet sniffers by directly manipulating the kernel-level TCP/IP stack. The Srizbi trojan is largely propagated by the well-known msiesettings.com site, which is paid by spammers to deploy viruses and trojans for spam botnets.
SecureWorks collaborated with network administrators to analyze the traffic from some of the computers infected with Srizbi that were responsible for sending the Ron Paul spam. This allowed the researchers to discover the location from which the botnet was operated--a colocation facility in the US. The researchers collaborated with Spamhaus to get the server shut down and then obtained the source code used on the control system, a Python-based spam botnet management tool known as the Reactor Mailer. The logs present on the system prove that it was indeed the origin of the Ron Paul spam. Further research showed that other systems in the same colocation facility were also controlling various segments of the Srizbi botnet, and using it to transmit spam advertising replica watches and enlargement pills. Birds of a feather, you know.
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Russian Gangsters backing Paul? I guess that fits in with the neo-nazis backing him. Thugs, ya know.
An Indian official tasked with reviving cultural activities in schools in revolt-hit Kashmir has been pulled from the post after Muslim hardliners said his shows were promoting obscenity.
A group of firebrand Muslim women activists, the Daughters of Faith, had said cultural official Aziz Hajni would be accused of exploiting our daughters unless he was moved. Officials confirmed he had been shifted.
The cultural activities being introduced to schools in Kashmir include debates and art competitions. But school children have also been dancing to Bollywood numbers in front of politicians and visiting federal dignitories.
Asiya Andarbi, leader of the Daughters of Faith, said such activities were promoting obscenity among Muslim Kashmirs youth. We will soon start agitation and seek the closure of this cultural wing, which has become a ground for exploitation of our daughters, said Andarbi. Our daughters are forced to dance before strangers, said Andarbi, who has spent time behind bars in the past for links to militants. This is also a strategy to wean students away from Islam.
NEW DELHI - The Indian government said on Thursday it had scrapped a 600-million-dollar deal to buy 197 military helicopters from EADS arm Eurocopter after allegations of corruption in the bidding process. The government has decided to cancel the RFP (request for proposal) for 197 helicopters for the army. A fresh RFP will be issued soon, defence ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar told AFP.
A fresh tender will be issued early in the new financial year which begins in April, an official of the policymaking Defence Acquisition Committee said.
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Surely, the next bid will be corruption-free!
(what this really means is the right people didn't get their bribes)
Not available to all, that's for sure!
Be ready to wait if you want to get information from a toll-free hot line about freezing the interest rate on your subprime mortgage.
Minutes after President Bush outlined a plan to help strapped homeowners, callers were told to have patience until a counselor could answer their questions and "devote as much time to you as necessary."
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Heard a guy on the radio on the way home last night talking about his neighbor who had a subprime and was so worried about facing foreclosure because his rate was going up.
But then he heard about this and went out and bought a new truck.
Don't worry, folks. Uncle Sugar will make it all better...
The other day I kicked the tires of a theory espoused by a freelance journalist from up in Boston. He was suggesting that anybody whether blogger or citizen journalist or YouTube uploader should be considered a journalist if they do something that genuinely looks like journalism. Like this stupid question Helen?
More important than labeling, in the authors mind, was the thought that these genuine-seeming journalists should be afforded the legal protections granted to accredited media members.
Well, not that it should come as too much of a surprise, but old school White House scribe Helen Thomas isnt drinking that everybodys a journalist! kool-aid.
Check out the Huffington Post Q&A with Thomas:
Do you think technology is changing [journalism]? That a good reporter will always find a venue because there are so many media outlets now?
No, but I do think it is kind of sad when everybody who owns a laptop thinks they're a journalist and doesn't understand the ethics. We do have to have some sense of what's right and wrong in this job. Of how far we can go. We don't make accusations without absolute proof. We're not prosecutors. We don't assume.
So if there's this amateur league of journalists out there, trying to do what you do...
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So what's all this huff and puff I hear about this here computer internet thingy! In my day we didn't worry about this here wi-fi and bandwidth and all that new fangled hooey! In my day all we needed was some tree bark and enough berrys to crush together to make some ink and a sharp quilled bird feather to make a pen. In my day, if a handsome Democratic president was screwing around with a movie star or an intern or some other painted up hussy, you did what every good journalist is supposed to do. Ya covered it up!
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To be a proper journalists requires total distrust if not loathing of Republicans. The current batch of bloggers seems split on the issue.
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#2 Helen Thomas - redefining the phrase 'jumping ugly'...
Posted by Raj 2007-12-07 10:37
i spit coffee.. my last cupa ROLF!
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
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Butt-Ugly folks got a jump on Helen.
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
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the youtube cat fight between Dana Perino and her was hilarious. Perino reminded me of an elementary school marm explaining things to a slow 3rd Grader.
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As much as I deplore these rude, ad hominem attacks, I can't resist piling on and suggesting that somewhere a sasquatch is missing its mate. Which makes this an ad hominid attack, I guess.
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.
Bangladeshs detained former prime ministers may be sent into exile as part of a deal to drop corruption charges against them, a leading newspaper said on Thursday. 
The researchers analyzed header elements of the spam e-mails to trace them back to zombie systems that were infected with the Srizbi trojan, an unusual piece of malware with highly advanced features. According to Symantec research, which has independently 
An Indian official tasked with reviving cultural activities in schools in revolt-hit Kashmir has been pulled from the post after Muslim hardliners said his shows were promoting obscenity.
The other day I kicked the tires of a theory espoused by a freelance journalist from up in Boston. He was suggesting that anybody whether blogger or citizen journalist or YouTube uploader should be considered a journalist if they do something that genuinely looks like journalism. 
