The drunkest city distinction officially goes to Milwaukee according to a report by Forbes.com. Forbes states that Milwaukee is "America's Drunkest City" on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked according to their drinking habits.
Forbes indicated on Tuesday that it used numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank cities in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism, reports the AP.
Minneapolis-St. Paul was ranked second overall; followed by Columbus, Ohio; Boston; Austin, Texas; Chicago; Cleveland; Pittsburgh and then Philadelphia and Providence, R.I., in a tie for ninth.
Milwaukee officials contend that the city has come a long way in doing away with its beer-guzzling image.
Dave Fantle, a spokesman for the group, says Milwaukeeans have plenty of other things they can do to entertain themselves without drinking alcohol, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Fantle noted a new convention center and baseball park had been built and the Milwaukee Art Museum expanded in recent years.
"We've gone from Brew City to new city," Fantle claimed.
Forbes.com's Top Drinking Cities
1. Milwaukee
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul
3. Columbus, Ohio
4. Boston
5. Austin, Texas
6. Chicago
7. Cleveland
8 Pittsburgh
9. Philadelphia
9. Providence, R.I. (tied)
11. St. Louis
12. San Antonio
13. Seattle
14. Las Vegas
15. Denver/Boulder
16. Cincinnati
16. Kansas City (tied)
18. Houston
19. Portland, Ore.
20. San Francisco-Oakland
20. Washington-Baltimore (tied)
22. Phoenix
23. Los Angeles
24. New Orleans
24. Tampa (tied)
26. Norfolk
27. Dallas-Fort Worth
28. Atlanta
28. Detroit (tied)
30. Indianapolis
31. Orlando
32. New York
33. Miami
34. Charlotte, N.C.
35. Nashville
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All the time I've been on Rantburg I've been a good little boy, but this is the last straw and my inner proofreader must come out: What. What is America's Drunkest City.
Okay. I feel better now.
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Who, as in a collective of people. What, as in an object. Either can be used. It's debatable.
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I believe this is true. I spent a couple years in Milwaukee. Those people are serious. Standard round is double shot followed by beer chaser. And they don't water the booze. It's tough just to stay on the bar stool. I told them they ought to provide seat belts.
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I'm kind of surprised Alaska doesn't make the list anywhere. I'd have thought with 6 months of darkness there would be a lot of drinking going on. Maybe not the fun kind of drinking but still.
Another thing to remember about his kind of list is it often shows which are the most boring areas as well. Nothing to do but drink PBR in the basement and get drunk is hardly something to be proud of.
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Grammar fight! Grammar fight! We haven't had one of those in ages!! ;-)
What is America's Drunkest City The answer to that is obvious: drunk. Who is for people. I vote for which, with Grunter and mcsegeek1. MSWord was written by a bunch of programmers, and it isn't fair to expect the darlings to grasp the finer points of grammar. (No, that does not mean I think all programmers are barely functionally literate, but grammar is historical in many of its aspects rather than formally logical, which contradiction may lead to exploding programmer heads -- a situation preferably to be avoided.)
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TW, well, I do many things, programming is one of them. Of course, well defined structure and internal logic are paramount, else the stuff does not work. ;-)
But, since one often has to translate real world idiosyncracies into programese, our professional deformation is not that severe. ;-)
In my case, English is my nth tongue, I had to make rules, when I started to learn it, to make some logical sense. Mind you, I still butcher it readily, especially when colloquial usage is concerned and sometimes tend to translate sayings from my mother tongue into English. Several of them caught up, though, as I had a friend that was a president of an actors and screenwriters guild. It was fun to watch a tv show and hear these utterances, to my delight, knowing I've contributed to the enhancement of my adopted lingo.
Back to the grammar. Yes, it is which. The reason is that a choice of the cities is presented with the question.
The rule I devised was:
· Which system are you going to run today (from your 5)?
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Here's an opportunity for Amtrak. String together 10-16 tavern-lounge cars with an additional smoker on the old Milwaukee Road Chicago-Milwaukee-Minneapolis route (#1, #2, #6)as the "Happy Hour Hiawatha" and keep em' pouring. Amtrak loses money on food service, but this calls for (( simplifying)) the menu. Add a corkage fee for all liquor brought on board in paper bags. And on the weekends, bring back the Milwaukee-Madison "Varsity" on the weekends as the Badger Party Barge. Problem is, when this is tried in Europe (trains+alcohol), soccer games break out.
#24
I don't read Microsoft instruction manuals, Zenster. I can feel the pressure building inside my cranium by page 4. And I'll bet any amount of money neither you nor I will win a grammar argument with .com, who's been programming things since shortly after the dinosaur killer hit, as far as I can tell.
twobyfour, non-native language speakers are either obvious, grammar-wise, or better at it than native speakers. Both of my parents fall into the latter category with you; my grandmother spoke English as if it were German (which made my life easier in both English and German classes.) On the other hand, Daddy's accent still sounds like he got off the boat from Latvia, the country he left over 70 years ago.;-)
Hedgehogs have finally humbled burger giant McDonald's after years of campaigning, forcing the company to redesign its killer McFlurry ice-cream containers. Up to now the opening in the container has been large enough for hedgehogs to get their heads into for a lick of the left-over dessert -- a trap they have then been unable to withdraw from, so dying of starvation in untold numbers.
But from September 1, the wide-mouthed opening in the lid of the McFlurry containers will be reduced in size, making them too small for the sugar-loving animals to get their heads into. "This is excellent, it is long overdue news," said Fay Vass, chief executive of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. "We have been in touch with McDonald's about this problem for over five years and are delighted that they have at last solved the problem."
McDonald's said in a statement the design change had resulted from pressure from the society which prompted "significant research and design testing" to develop new packaging. "The smaller aperture of the lid has been designed to prevent hedgehogs from entering the McFlurry container in the unfortunate incidence that a lid is littered and is then accessible to wildlife," it added.
#4
Excellent solution. Hedgehogs are safe and the humans can continue to drop their trash where they stand rather than walk 2 feet to a trash can. Easier to alter a container than train a human not to litter.
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This reminds me of the time I was in India and a pack of wild dogs attacked a little girl in the street and killed her. The papers were all a flame between killing the wild dogs and cleaning up the garbage in the streets the wild dogs lived on.
I thought both answers sounded good and didn't see why one should be discarded in favor of the other. Don't they have anyone in the UK willing to pick up trash to save the hedgehogs? Or is this one big plot to slaughter the foul prickly beasts and make McDonalds take the heat.
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Did Sonic Hedgehog sue McDonald's and win? I guess in this case, printing a warning label addressed to hedgehogs not to put their entire heads into the McFlurry container wouldn't work. Stupid hedgehogs anyway!
Does anyone see a correlation between the fact that Sonic is a hedgehog and also the name of a competitor? hmmmmm...burger conspiracy????
#13
The BHPS has been bitching about this in their newsletters for years (Niles and I have been members for something like ten or fifteen years). I like the BHPS because, compared to your big-time environmental groups, they seem old-fashioned, homey, and sane. They never ask you to chain yourself to a hedge, or glue McDonald's locks shut.
They did get a little shrill over the whole Uist thing, but maybe they thought a fellow wildlife organization (in that case Scottish Natural Heritage) might want to go a little easy on the wildlife.
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Next on the list is Yoplait. Their distinctive slope-sided individual portion yogurt container is the perfect fit for a skunk's head. Once donned, the animal cannot extricate itself and dies of thirst or starvation.
Confronted with repeated requests by wildlife groups, Yoplait has refused to alter their container design citing its importance in branding the product. While all the usual human responsibility for littering still applies, the callous position adopted by Yoplait really merits a boycott.
Laugh as you might at the prospect of precious piebald polecats passing on, they are a vital link in the ever-shrinking predatory chain. We are obliged to combat any and all threats to our environment, especially when it is something so simple as a container redesign.
As to litterbugs, they represent human morality nearing ebb tide.
#16
It's all true, RD. Evidently, Yoplait maker, General Foods, is redesigning the yogurt carton to have a rimless lip that will not lock onto the animal's fur.
#17
Zen
About a decade ago a skunk with a damm Yoplait Yogurt container on its head fell into one of my basement window wells.
I did not appreciate it. Nobody does skunks and I finally had to poison the smelly beast with carbon monoxide. Then many gallons of that plain label tomato juice at 3 in the morning to clean the window well and siding.
The General Foods idiot worried about their branding should be forced to live with skunk scent for a winter. Oh and we never did eay Yoplait.
Whispers about John Travoltas sexuality that have blown through Hollywood for years are getting louder now that the actor was caught kissing another man here in Canada. In photographs published in the newest issue of the National Enquirer, Travolta is seen planting a kiss on the lips of an unidentified man on the steps of his private plane at an airport in Hamilton, Ontario.
Travolta, 52, has been flying his Boeing 707 in and out of Hamilton as production gets underway in Toronto on the remake of Hairspray, in which he plays Edna Turnblad. The tabloid noted that Travolta, whose left arm is on the man's back, got up on one toe while puckering up with his pal.
While the kiss could be nothing but a friendly peck (Travolta is, after all, half Italian) the pictures are fueling longtime speculation about the stars sexual orientation. Travolta waited until he was 37 to get married and become a father. Shortly after the Enquirer published claims by porn star Paul Barresi who alleged he had a two-year affair with the actor Travolta married actress and fellow Church of Scientology follower Kelly Preston. The couple has two children: Jett, 14, and Ella Bleu, 6.
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great...... is it scientology that makes em gay? Or do gays flock to scientology, huh, Tom? Do thetans suck or what?
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I always thought that Barberino and Horshak looked a little too cozy.
#6
What I don't understand is why he'd have his own Boeing 707.
I guess he's a big fan of old airliners and, well, he's got the money.
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So waiting to get married until you are in your mid to late 30's is "evidence" you're gay? Practically my entire family must be bent, then. (And here we were thinking that we were just able to pick up hotties in bars far longer than the average..... ;) )
#8
well, if you wait til your 30's to marry a guy, I'd say it's a good guess you're gay....oh yeah, and if you like show tunes, Judy Garland, Bette Midler.....
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Frank: well, if you wait til your 30's to marry a guy, I'd say it's a good guess you're gay....oh yeah, and if you like show tunes, Judy Garland, Bette Midler.....
..or discover that there is a cause and effect relationship between gay-bath-houses and developing ass sores.
..or wondering why all your friends are so emotional concerned about color coordination.
#10
obviously, I meant if you're a guy, and you wait til your 30's to marry a guy, I'd say it's a good guess you're gay....oh yeah, and if you like show tunes, Judy Garland, Bette Midler.....
PIMF
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I have nuthing against gayz and never will
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What I don't understand is why he'd have his own Boeing 707. If I had a private plane I think it would be a bit smaller.
He's got smaller too. This guy has a bunch of planes. I think he's got some deal with Qantas that probably pays for the thing. Here are some pics of it:
Also check out this guys house. The ultimate pilot pad:
#17
Travolta almost gave up acting and became a commercial airline pilot when his career took a nose dive after Saturday Night Fever part 2. I believe he's rated to fly everything up to and including 747's. He's owned a customized 707 for years.
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Only if Mr. Travolta is monopole homosexual, flash91. Nothing in this tale indicates he isn't more or less bisexual with a stronger leaning to one or the other direction.
The abducted tourists in Niger left yesterday at around 1 pm the Algerian territory in the borders centre Taleb el Aribi in El Ouadi wilaya (province) heading to Italy via Tunisia after crossing 1100 kilometres by road. The tourists namely 21 Italians, a Brazilian lady as well as a German tourist reached Janet. Reliable sources said that an Italian tourist is still hold hostage by the Nigerian armed group, who kidnapped them in the Nigerian- Chadian borders.
The kidnappers said they want 'to set up an independent State in Niger', so the abduction occurred to draw global opinion...
The kidnappers said they want to set up an independent State in Niger, so the abduction occurred to draw the global opinion as well as its international organisations attention to the Saharan Revolutionary Armed Forces Front claims. The same sources further mentioned that the tourists have been released and thrown in the Sahara is a matter of fact of security coordination difficulties between the neighbouring States sharing together a huge part of the Great Sahara, this is the reason why these regions remained sheltered, as referred to by these states still unable to control drugs, weapons, and cigarettes smugglers and recently become a safe-haven to many political oriented armed groups, as well as other armed criminal bands. Note recalling that many tourists have been repeatedly victims of illegal activities.
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If they want an independent state it's perhaps not the best way to establish international relations.
Japans Prince Akishino has confided to a friend that his wife Princess Kiko will have a boy, who would be the first male heir born into the royal family in four decades, a magazine reported Thursday. The Shukan Bunshun quoted an unidentified friend who said the prince told him the tightly guarded news three months ago.
If the baby is a boy, it would be the first male born to the imperial family since Akishino himself in 1965...
A close friend asked Prince Akishino, After having two daughters, Princesses Mako and Kako, would the next baby be a boy? the weekly said. Prince Akishino smiled and clearly responded: Yes, it seems that way, the magazine said.
The 39-year-old Princess Kiko is expected to give birth by Caesarean section next week. Japan has been holding its breath for months, with much of the public holding high hopes for a boy to maintain the male-only succession of the worlds oldest monarchy. The palace is yet to announce the gender of the fetus, only saying it is developing healthily. If the baby is a boy, it would be the first male born to the imperial family since Akishino himself in 1965.
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The Japanese Royal Family is of course the Royal Family thanks to its descent from Amaterasu, the sun... god?
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Does this mean the first born daughter can quit empress training, or does she have to carry on as the back-up in case something happens to her baby brother before his own heir is born?
Challenging one of the great taboos of French politics, a new book has laid bare the love life of the country's amorous leaders. Sexus Politicus, published on Thursday, reveals decades of philandering, adultery and seduction at the heart of the French state, with politicians of all colours apparently sharing the same passion for extra-marital sex. According to the book, President Jacques Chirac and his predecessors Francois Mitterrand and Valery Giscard D'Estaing have juggled the fate of France, their families and a bevy of lovers with great ease, helped partly by an acquiescent media.
"All these politicians present themselves as clean-living individuals, but at the same time almost all French male politicians are compulsive womanisers," said Christophe Dubois, who co-authored the book with Christophe Deloire. "This is an area that no one has explored before. It was a taboo. We've broken this taboo with the complicity of the politicians," he told Reuters, explaining how many of the book's targets willingly discussed their amorous exploits.
Sexus Politicus revisits old tales of how Mitterrand, an infamous ladies' man, slept with the same women as some close aides, his driver and, on one occasion, Chirac. The current French president also comes across as a veritable Casanova, disappearing on midnight rendez-vous and using state funds to take a mistress on foreign trips. "Do you know where my husband is tonight?" the book quotes Chirac's long-suffering wife Bernadette as asking his chauffeur on the night Princess Diana died in a Paris road accident. "There was a type of competition between Chirac and Mitterrand to see who could have more lovers. I don't know who took the podium but it was a close thing," said Dubois.
One ex-minister is spotted at a swingers club, one discarded mistress tries to commit suicide, another is cruelly dumped by a politician expected to contest the 2007 presidential election. Allegations of such bedroom antics would shred political careers in many other countries, but in France, the elite are to some extent shielded by libel laws that hinder reporters from prying into private lives. The book's authors say they double checked its contents with those involved or have written proof, such as court documents.
If history is anything to go by, France's politicians have little to fear about the revelations, given the traditional Gallic indifference to sex scandals, with the French not only forgiving dalliances at the top, but also expecting them. However, all that may change if Socialist presidential front runner Segolene Royal should win the 2007 election. Royal may have to live by very different rules. "What is tolerated for men would never be tolerated for women politicians. They would immediately be discredited if they went around having affairs," said Dubois.
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One of shiraq's nicknames back in the olden days was "two (or five, can't remember exactly) minutes, shower included", as a reference to his sex drive and his numerous "mistresses".
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The new arrivals raised the total so far this year to more than 19,000 nearly four times the figure for last year. In August alone more migrants have arrived than in all of 2005, the government said.
The trend is your friend, as in wake up and realize why this happening and why you are not stopping it.
How would the greenies react to the invasion of an eco-system be a foreign sub-type that was pushing the existing, native type to the brink of extinction?
DENVER - Hurricane forecaster William Gray's team downgraded its expectations for the 2006 Atlantic storm season Friday, calling for a slightly below-average year, with only five hurricanes instead of the seven previously forecast. Two of the hurricanes will be intense, according the team, based at Colorado State University. It was the second time they had downgraded their forecast in a month.
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Journalists the world over cried in their beer at the news.
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Time to get the torches and pitchforks out for the Chicken Little crowd. You like yours extra crispy?
#3
As easy as it is to make fun of the forecasters, I bet they learn a lot from this season to tweak their forecasting going forward - science in action. Unlike the aforementioned Chicken Littles and journalists.
#4
Climate Change. And if it suddenly increases, it'll be because of Climate Change. And if it decreases again? Climate Change.
Where's my federal grant?
#5
It's 53 degrees at 8:30PM here in Colorado Springs - rather cool even for this time of year. The wind is also blowing 20kts. Hasn't been any rain to speak of, so the entire low temp meme is powered by a strong Canadian cold front. The low is supposed to be 45 - almost cool enough to turn on the furnace. It HAS snowed on the 1st of September, but not often. I don't see any snow tonight, but I do predict a colder and wetter winter than we've seen over the last six or seven years. Algore is furious and threatening to sue!
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Of course there is. When I look into mirror, the pronounced brow is the telltale. No occipical ridge, though, beside two large bumps in the back of my skull.
Neanderthals had larger cranial capacity than todays's sapiens sapiens. In fact, the Cromagnon had a bigger head too, albeit smaller than the Neanderthal.
Neanderthal avrg. ~ 1750 ccm
Cromagnon avrg. ~ 1600 ccm
Modern Human avrg. ~ 1450 ccm
Our heads are shrinking.
But don't be alarmed. Anatole France had 1311 ccm, while some barely functioning idiot had 2034 ccm.
Apparently, what matters is how you use what you've got.
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First off, I didn't know that Anatole France, or Homo Sapiens, were really considered all that bright, so it still looks to me like there's a brain size/intelligence correlation going on. Although you do have to start throwing your theories out when it comes to the femaliens.
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Jimmy Durante might have had a little. Look at a picture. And I understand "Inka Dinka Doo" and "I ain't got no bananas today" might have been old Neanderthal tunes.
Try the veal, I'll be here all week.
At least it LOOKS LIKE 'Non-WoT', though one hopes at least some of the dead were Islamist thugs, to make this unfortunate incident have some value and meaning.
Toll in Iran plane fire up to 80
An Iranian passenger plane caught fire after its tyre burst on landing at an airport in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad today, killing at least 80 people, state television and officials said.
State television said 147 people were on board and put the death toll at 80. A civil aviation official said 148 people were on the state-owned Iranairtour plane but did not give a death toll.
Television pictures showed a broken-up plane, parts of its fuselage charred, lying on the side of the runway.
Firefighters were shown trying to extinguish the fire in the smouldering wreck.
An Iranairtour official confirmed the incident involved one of its planes but gave no details.
The plane, a Russian-built Tupolev, caught fire at 1.45pm (2015 AEST). State television said the plane slipped off the side of the runway when a tyre burst on landing, and subsequently caught fire. The landings are always the hardest part.
State television said the plane was travelling from Bandar Abbas, a port city in the south of the country.
Air safety experts say Iran has a poor safety record with a string of crashes in recent decades, many involving Russian-made aircraft.
US sanctions on the Islamic state have prevented it from buying new aircraft or spares from the West, forcing it to supplement its aging fleet of Boeing and Airbus planes with aircraft from the former Soviet Union. Trade sanctions have likewise forced Iran to purchase much of its nuclear technology from Russia - perhaps surplus repair parts from Chernobyl?
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Actually, Doc, I hear some Special Ops guys disguised as Mullahs shot out the tire. Oh, darn, I let out the secret and now Ahmanutjob is going to kill all the Mullahs to make sure he gets the Spec Ops guys.
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A single blow-out kills almost 100 people? What are they airing-up the landing gear tires with, gasoline vapor? Did the captain opt for an autopilot landing because it was time to pray?
Marchers had to duck into fast-food restaurants for water when they first took to Chicago's streets in support of illegal immigrants five months ago. At the next two marches, family-owned grocery stores offered free bottled water from trucks emblazoned with their names.
This time, as demonstrators march from Chinatown to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's (R-Ill.) Batavia office this weekend, they will have Miller Brewing Co., as a sponsor. The brewer has paid more than $30,000 for a planning convention, materials and newspaper ads publicizing the event.
The support of a major corporation for a controversial political cause shows how fierce the competition has become to woo the growing market of Latino consumers.
For Miller, the march offered a special chance to catch up. This spring the brewer drew the ire of pro-immigrant forces over contributions to U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who sponsored legislation that would crack down on illegal immigrants. That prompted a short-lived boycott by some Latino groups.
Now, march advertisements feature not just the organizing committee's trademark blue globe but Miller's logo and a Spanish translation of its "Live Responsibly" slogan, a company effort to build goodwill among Latinos.
But this march is no Cinco de Mayo parade. The politically charged event will promote a controversial plan to end deportations and offer legal status for all 11 million to 12 million undocumented immigrants. That creates potential pitfalls for any businesses lending support, experts say.
At the same time business sponsorships have forced activists to confront whispers that they are commercializing their movement when they accept much-needed donations.
"We would love to have 20 corporate logos. It doesn't mean we are selling the movement out," said Jorge Mujica, a member of the March 10 Committee. "The principles and demands remain the same. They are helping out this movement and we are happy with that."
Labor unions remain the movement's backbone with four major unions bringing at least 600 marchers on buses from throughout Chicago. Religious groups have been key too. Some marchers will bed down in churches and a mosque.
But businesses have become vital to this weekend's Immigrant Workers Justice Walk, which will cover 45 miles to Hastert's district office. Hundreds of marchers plan to cover the entire span from Friday through Monday, and organizers need food and water for them.
Sometimes political and commercial messages are mingled.
At a July march, Chicago-based food producer V&V Supremo printed signs with its logo that urged "Moratorium Now, Legalization Yes."
Jimenez Market, an area chain, had its sign on display as workers passed out more than 5,000 bottles of water and other supplies worth nearly $17,000. Co-owner Jose Perez acknowledged it is good publicity but stressed that "we are supporting our people. Without them, our business would go downhill."
This weekend, the Los Comales restaurant plans to donate 500 tortas, Mexican sandwiches filled with steak, ham and other toppings. The Laredo Bakery is donating bread while other restaurants are donating water, fruit and other supplies, organizers said.
Those businesses are natural allies--"part of the same brotherhood," as one marketer put it.
But the presence of Miller at a welcoming reception the day before the Aug. 12-13 planning convention raised eyebrows.
The convention brought together labor unions, anti-war groups, immigrant service organizations and even socialist political candidates.
Hours before bashing NAFTA and U.S. foreign policy, participants at the Aug. 11 reception mingled with the Miller Girls, the company's public relations ambassadors, amid a display of Miller logos.
That Miller was involved in the first place is one measure of the growing power of immigrants. After the boycott announcement, the company approached march organizers to try to find common ground, and agreed to back the march organizers' efforts.
Miller is also bankrolling informational ads in Voces Migrantes, or Migrant Voices, a community newspaper in Chicago, and has promised scholarships for area Latinos.
Mathew Romero, the company's local market development manager, said Miller felt it was important to speak out against Sensenbrenner's legislation, though his campaign was one of many the company supported.
Romero noted that company founder Frederick Miller was a German immigrant and many current executives are foreign nationals. Miller is now part of London-based SABMiller.
Romero said he wasn't worried that some opponents of illegal immigration would be upset at the company's support of "the free movement of people, labor, goods and services."
"As long as you are stacking facts against facts, they are free to make their own decisions. We will stand by our positions," he said.
George San Jose, president of the San Jose Group, a Chicago-based marketing company specializing in the Hispanic market, said he understands why companies chase Hispanic purchasing power, which tops $700 billion annually in the U.S. Brewers, he said, have been especially aggressive.
But San Jose would advise clients that there are better ways.
"A company sponsoring one of the two sides of the immigration debate is no different than a company sponsoring groups for or against abortion [rights]. It's one of those heated political debates that companies should stay clear of," he said.
At the request of march organizers, media executive Robert Armband sent e-mails to thousands of business contacts, asking if they would consider helping the March 10 Committee.
"It certainly is an opportunity to reach the masses, but it might not be the right vehicle to come out as a sponsor," said Armband, publisher and chief executive of La Raza, a Chicago newspaper.
March organizers say they have not made any full-fledged sales pitches to major corporations and are having internal discussions about whether they should make a real push. That can be a tough decision, according to march organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said he represents those in the movement--maybe half the total, he thinks -- who don't even consider themselves capitalists. Many have been involved with labor campaigns targeting specific companies.
March organizers shot down a suggestion that they approach Coca-Cola, for example, because of what they perceive as the company's labor abuses in the developing world, a cause celebre among liberal activists.
Although immigrant activists see legalization as an issue of social justice, Gonzalez said corporations might back the idea as a way to protect their bottom line. Whatever the motivations, Gonzalez said he would cooperate with almost any company willing to back the cause.
"That's the nature of politics. You form coalitions based on mutual self-interest," Gonzalez said. "So will we work with corporations? We will work with anyone who will work with us."
Dont'ya just love it when American corporations drop the whole Idea of 'American' and just go whoring for a buck? I'm boycotting Miller...
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Easy for me. I drank my first bottle of Miller in 1984 and boycotting ever since, as I decided they make a piss poor beer. (Same applies to Coors, Bud, Molson and a plethora of other brewers).
Carling Black Label
Castle Lager
Castle Lite
Castle Mlk Stout
Chibuku Shake-Shake
Ciucas
Clausen
Club
Club Especial
Club Premium Lager
Club Shandy
Cristal
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Cusqueña Light
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Debowe Mocne (Oak Strong)
Del Altiplano
Dog In The Fog
Dorada
Dorada Especial
Dorada - Peru
Dorada Pilsen
Dorada Sin (Low Alcohol)
Dreher Classic
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Gambrinus
Gambrinus Dia with lower sugar content
Gambrinus Premium
Golden Light
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Haywards 2000 H2K
Haywards 5000
Henry Weinhard's Amber Light
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This stuff bugs me.
Movement?
Demands ?
When did sneaking in become a prerequisite for citizenship or voting rights.
Who are these people to make demands ?
When do WE get to make demands ?
aaaarggghhhhh
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Fortunately I live in Karl Strauss country (San Diego) and happily will forgo all Miller products henceforth. This type of marketing plan is right up there with New Coke. If they want to sell cerveza, sell cerveza. If they want to sell beer to Americans, they shouldn't be kowtowing to the cerveza market.
Hiring perked up in August as employers added 128,000 jobs, pulling down the unemployment rate to 4.7 percent, sending a Labor Day message that the economic expansion still has staying power.
The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department Friday, was a bit brighter than expected and should ease any fears that the expansion that began in late 2001 is not in danger of fizzling out.
The tally of new jobs last month was slightly stronger than the 125,000 that economists were forecasting. The nation's unemployment rate dropped down a notch from a five-month high of 4.8 percent in July. Job gains for June and July also turned out to be better than previously estimated. In June, employers boosted payrolls by 134,000 positions and in July they added another 121,000.
The report comes as the nation's work force gets ready to the Labor Day holiday and as the election season looms.
Economic conditions _ especially those where people live and work _ are likely to be on voters' minds when they go to the polls in November.
ya think? Now if we can just get the news out past the MSM filters...
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And the price of gasoline is headed down, though not quickly enough to help the Pubs on election day.
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144,579,000 people were employed. A record number.
The unemployment rate was 4.7%. For any month prior to October 1997, that would have been a record low.
The black unemployment rate was 8.8%. For every month prior to June of 1998, that would have been a record low rate.
The Hispanic unemployment rate was 5.3%. There have only been two months when the rate was lower, May 2006 and October 2000.
The number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or more remained in the range it has been in for several months. The number remains well below any of the peaks since 1968 and within the trend for the period when compared to the population increase for that period.
Xenophobia, the hidden costs of war and the nature of civil liberties in a hyper-media age all come under the microscope" in a controversial movie depicting the fictional assassination of President Bush.
So says Noah Cowan, director of the Toronto Film Festival, where the British-made movie will premier on Sept. 10.
On the festival's website, Cowan describes the movie as "easily the most dangerous and breathtakingly original film I have encountered this year."
He says the director, Gabriel Range, "is interested in addressing today's political issues."
Until now, the movie has been referred to by the Toronto Film Festival as simply "D.O.A.P.," but at a press conference in Britain Thursday, it was announced by the title "Death of a President."
Britain's Channel 4's More4 channel is reportedly hoping to sell the feature-length drama to U.S. networks. After three screenings in Toronto, it will air in Britain on Oct. 9.
At the press conference, More4 head Peter Dale called the film "a pointed political examination of what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic."
Range uses computer-generated imagery, archive footage and special effects in the film, which reportedly depicts a nation polarized by Bush administration foreign and domestic policies -- and features anti-war demonstrations.
The movie is styled as a documentary made several years hence, looking back at the assassination of Bush by an unknown sniper at a Chicago hotel in October 2007 and subsequent events.
Providing a glimpse of the "xenophobia" aspect that Range evidently explores, the synopsis refers to the hunt for the president's killer focusing on an Arab -- a Syrian-born man named Jamal Abu Zikri. The implication is that the suspicion may be misplaced.
News of the movie was circulating on numerous Internet sites and major blogs Thursday.
CBN News reporter Dale Hurd wrote in a commentary that "Death of a President" "should provide haters of Bush on the Left and in the Muslim world with 93 minutes of pure viewing pleasure."
On one movie website, a critic identified as Devin Faraci wrote that although he has not seen other movies directed by Range, "I will say that my interest is piqued. And not just because I hate Bush!"
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I look forward to the movie which depicts the CW-II decimation of anti-Americans and their institutions, in retrospective. Watering the Tree of Liberty. It'll probably run on The Gardening Channel.
Imagine the Hue & Cry that would result from a movie similar in all respects except the person assassinated was one of the elites of the Tranzi Left.
I can absolutely guarantee that the audience will burst into wild applause during the assassination scene. I know, because many of my liberal "September 10th (former) friends", as I call them five years on, are Festival hags who book their vacations around the Festival. And I know how their tiny minds work.
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Enjoy your sick, cheap, necrophiliac fantasies, you pathetic, heartless, nasty human sheep. Someone should give you a good slap.
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Another click ratched upward in the atmosphere of hate and loathing leading to a second American Civil War. This is the kind of hate distributed by Julius Streicher about the Jews in Germany. Demonize them, Hate them, Dehumanize them. Makes it ah so more easier to do the dirty deeds.
Rectal orifices like these don't understand the consequences of such events if they did happen. It's all magic and suddenly you'll be in paradise for them. Unfortunately, history has shown that's not the case and a lot, a lot of people pay the destructive consequences for their fantasies.
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Think they'll run my film in Toronto next year?
It's about a serial killer female senator from New York who kills her lesbian lovers by crushing their skulls between her massive thighs.
I'd consider it "easily the most dangerous and breathtakingly original film I will have encountered next year."
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Actually the timing on this coming out is pretty good. As all the lefties rave and carry on about it, it just pisses the rest of us off. Good incentive to get people to the polls actually.
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An American network broadcasting this film will be the final nail in mainstream media's coffin. My dislike of Bush in no way tolerates the, however "fictional", portrayal of murdering a sitting president. This is thinly veiled sedition, if it is veiled at all. Dan Rather is probably drooling at the chance to do the showing's introduction.
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I don't know how the rest of the film goes, but if it is the BDS piece people are making it out to be then an interesting response would be to make a parallel film focussing on the Cheney administration prosecution of the War on Islamofascism from a Cheney-sympathetic/successful perspective.
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To hell with a "successful perspective" film. What's really needed is an equivalent of "The Day After" showing what awaits unreformed Islam, namely, nuclear annihilation. Piggyback the program onto al-Jazeera and al-Manar's broadcast frequencies and loop it 24/7 for a week solid.
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The RINO Lefties ride on the achievements of the GOP-Right, "FASCIST > Hated Hitlerist = also well meaning but errorful Limited Communist-Totalitarianist, etc, and while while trying to destroy same while complaining the GOP-Right has no right to challenge/question their loyalty, patriotism, or benevolences.
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The stupid SOBs who long for the good old days of the 60s need to remember what it was like. It was open season on politicians of all stripes: JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, George Lincoln Rockwell (Nazi), George Wallace, just to name a few. Stupid pricks like this who fantasize about blowing away their political bete noirs will reap the whirlwind and wonder why.
Three former New Mexico State University football players--all Muslims--have sued the university and coach Hal Mumme, alleging they were dismissed from the team because of their religious beliefs. The federal lawsuit was filed this week by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Mu'Ammar Ali and brothers Anthony and Vincent Thompson. The lawsuit alleges religious discrimination and violations of the athletes' right to freely exercise their religion.
The suit said Mumme had players recite the Lord's Prayer after each practice and before each game. Ali and the Thompsons said that practice made them feel like outcasts and caused them to pray separately from the other players. The suit says the Thompsons were dismissed from the team last September, allegedly because they moved their belongings to an unapproved locker and were labeled "troublemakers."
The ACLU had filed a grievance against Mumme last year, alleging he repeatedly questioned Ali about Al Qaeda. In response, New Mexico State hired an Albuquerque law firm to investigate, and the law firm concluded the football program had not engaged in religious discrimination against the three Muslim athletes. Mumme said at a news conference in November that he apologized to his team for any unintentional actions on his part that may have offended anyone.
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I was raised Catholic and had a Catholic coach in High School. Before each game it was routine that we did the lord's prayer as well the "our lady of victory." (This was at a public school.) The catholic players made the sign of the cross, the protestants did not. No one ever bitched about it, it was such a non-issue.
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Mumme's a good man and good coach. He deals with things straight up. These were undoubtedly black Muslim athletes. I wonder if he knew their affiliation when he brought them in or did they make recent conversions ? Unfortunately, coaches at small, out-of-the-way schools like NMSU and UTEP often times bring in questionable, troublesome players because they can't attract the top rung.
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.
The drunkest city distinction officially goes to Milwaukee according to a report by Forbes.com. Forbes states that Milwaukee is "America's Drunkest City" on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked according to their drinking habits. 
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Challenging one of the great taboos of French politics, a new book has laid bare the love life of the country's amorous leaders. Sexus Politicus, published on Thursday, reveals decades of philandering, adultery and seduction at the heart of the French state, with politicians of all colours apparently sharing the same passion for extra-marital sex. According to the book, President Jacques Chirac and his predecessors Francois Mitterrand and Valery Giscard D'Estaing have juggled the fate of France, their families and a bevy of lovers with great ease, helped partly by an acquiescent media.
DENVER - Hurricane forecaster William Gray's team downgraded its expectations for the 2006 Atlantic storm season Friday, calling for a slightly below-average year, with only five hurricanes instead of the seven previously forecast. Two of the hurricanes will be intense, according the team, based at Colorado State University. It was the second time they had downgraded their forecast in a month. 
Xenophobia, the hidden costs of war and the nature of civil liberties in a hyper-media age all come under the microscope" in a controversial movie depicting the fictional assassination of President Bush.
