A WOMAN injured when she was butted in the bottom by a 70kg ram has been awarded almost $1.3 million in compensation. Ivene Denise Bryan was going into her office at the Arid Zone Research Institute in Alice Springs in June 1994 when the ram attacked. The ram tossed Mrs Bryan 2.5m and she landed face-down. The ram then stood over her for 30 minutes while she called for help. The ram had escaped from an adjoining fenced area managed by the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, which had hired Ms Bryan to feed animals at the institute. In the Northern Territory Supreme Court today, Ms Bryan was awarded $1,278,000 in compensation.
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SPOD, seems to me that's what the court ultimately did to them. She just benefitted from it. Heck, I'd let that ram toss me 5m for half of what she got.
A Parma, Ohio, man is facing charges after he impersonated a police officer, and was caught by a real police officer he tried to pull over. Micahel Gustafson, 50, faces a five-count grand jury indictment stemming from the Dec. 17 incident. According to police, Gustafson put a blinking blue police light on his dashboard at around 2:30 a.m. He then shined a high-beam flashlight at a woman in a car at the intersection of East 110th Street and St. Clair, in Cleveland. Gustafson reportedly told the woman he was a police officer, and that he stopped her for driving erratically. However, the woman turned out to be a Cleveland police detective, and she quickly called for backup. Police found Gustafson was carrying a gun and had a stolen police radio in his car. A search of his home also revealed more police and law enforcement paraphernalia. Gustafson faces five counts, including impersonating a police officer and carrying a concealed weapon.
#6
eeks. She's lucky she didn't end up raped, tortured and buried in a shallow grave. I'd be looking to connect the dots between this guys whereabouts and other missing women.
#8
No darwin award. Just stupid. Darwin award folks are almost always dead, since the essence of the award is that they have contributed to the advancement of the species by getting themselves killed off in monumentally stupid ways. An occasional exception may be made if their genitalia have been destroyed.
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Miami Beach city officials reportedly told a 10-year-old girl who wanted to sell cookies and drinks in her front yard to raise money for tsunami victims that she could not hold the fundraiser because they could not grant her an occupational license. Carolyn Lipsick feels especially terrible for the children who can't find their parents after a tsunami claimed 140,000 lives in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other areas in South Asia. "I feel bad for them," said Carolyn Lipsick, 10, of the people affected by December's devastating tsunami. "Some children have no clothes, no food, no water and no shoes and most important, that I want to help them, they can't find their parents."
When Lipsick's fourth-grade teacher at Lehrman Community Day School told students to think of an act of kindness for the victims, Lipsick went to her computer, did some research and decided she could help by selling her mother's cookies, muffins and drinks in her front yard. "I could raise money and help the children. And eventually it would be really good," Lipsick said.
But Lipsick's mother, Desiree Lipsick, said the city of Miami Beach told her occupational licenses could not be granted for such yard sales. "I called the city of Miami Beach and they said, 'Absolutely not. We cannot issue you a license to have a lemonade stand, a coffee stand, a fruit stand -- any kind of stand,'" Desiree said. "I felt like I was going to get all mad and steamy because sometimes that happens to me," Carolyn said.
The Lipsicks didn't know that they would have been able to sell food if they got a permit for a garage sale, but apparently no one informed them of that possibility. Instead, the mother and daughter contacted the Local 10 Problem Solvers. Within hours, the Problem Solvers learned the Miami Beach Jewish Community Center offered to help by allowing a fundraiser in its Pine Tree Drive parking lot. is itn to early fer nominate sumone jackass of the year still?
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All that oppression, and then it's the Jooooos who are going to allow money to be raised for mooselimbs? This has got to be the story of the day.
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F*cking socialists with their f*cking licenses and permits. "Honey, if we wanted you to raise money for tsunami victims, we would have just raised your daddy's taxes."
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Man i must have violated many laws whenb I was a kid. We had car washes, sold lemonade, and raked leaves all without a city permit of tax license! The Mother has to be a Liberal, a Conservative would have just held the sale and deal with city later.
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Flag your calendars for next Hurricane season: Miami needs to file (with all necessary fees paid in American funds of course) for a permit to request aid for the blue hair communities decimated.....then all $$ collected should be deducted from whatever FEMA money comes in.
Sri Lankan conservationist Kithsiri Kannangara wipes a tear as he stands over a patch of sand and broken wire mesh, the only surviving incubation pit of his hatchery for endangered sea turtles. Twelve days after giant tsunami waves destroyed the hatchery, washing away 20,000 eggs, seven rare green turtles and $500,000 worth of research equipment, Kannangara is still trying to come to terms with the loss. The 40-year-old turtle researcher combed a nearby thicket in search of a large leatherback turtle, one of his most prized possessions. His whole life revolved around sea turtles and hatchlings. His hard work was washed away by the devastating tsunami on Dec. 26, which battered Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores, killing more than 30,000 people. "I tried hard to save the eggs, but it was impossible, they were to hatch that day," said Kannangara, holding a couple of spoiled eggs in his hand, each the size of a ping-pong ball. Kannangara has spent a lifetime protecting these gentle creatures from villagers and poachers. "Only one out of 1,000 hatchlings survive anyway and for 20,000 eggs to be completely destroyed is an absolute crime," he added. "I demand to be recompensated by the US gov't because it's their fault because (insert excuse here...Bush didn't sign Kyoto, the US causes global warming, Bush hates kittens, puppies, ducks, and now Sri Lankan sea turtles!, etc.)."
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Everybody has their "thingy" - their raison d'être - and as well all know, all thingys are precious.
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Save all the eggs next year, and the population will be well on its way back to normal. Same thing happened last year with the Monarch butterflies, whose population rebounded back to normal a year after being devastated by cold, rainy weather at the their Mexican wintering site. Same thing happens with ocean fish populations as soon as part of their coastal breeding territories are made into no-fishing zones. Darwin's theory of evolution is based on the fact that individuals give birth to many more than the environment can support. So if the environmental niche has been emptied, up to all viable offspring will survive to adulthood.
The first settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were fleeing religious persecution. Another great wave of immigration came after the potato famine of the 19th century prompted tens of thousands to immigrate from Ireland. After that, through the 1950s, it was jobs - manufacturing everything from shoes to machinery - that lured laborers here from all over the world. Now, it seems, the Bay State has lost some of its old allure. According to the latest census estimates, Massachusetts was the only state in the country to lose population from July 2003 to July 2004. Kerry, Kennedy, Left-wing Liberal Politics and High Taxes
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the only state in the country to lose population from July 2003 to July 2004.
Maybe Ted drove em home?
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I don't think that I can take seeing that "salute" one more time. If he had been in the Army when I was, and saluted like that, he'd still be doing push-ups.
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CS: A friend from New Hampshire put it this way, "They shit their own nest, now they've crossed the border to do the same to mine".
I think folks from Massachusetts want contradictory things - high social spending combined with low taxes. Having failed to achieve this in their home state, they have now moved to New Hampshire to repeat their experiment. What we have here is a fundamental inability to connect the dots - they probably think the government, not taxpayers, actually pays for social spending.
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I had a conversation with a colleague from California who spent some time in Texas before coming to NYC. He decried the lack of public amenities in Texas - well-stocked libraries, et al. I pointed out that this lack of amenities was in exchange for low taxes. He replied that he would have been willing to pay higher taxes for those amenities. In a later conversation, he revealed that he was a non-resident of NYC for tax purposes, even though he lived in NYC, because he thought NYC taxes - at 4% of all income - were unconscionable. Can you spell hypocrisy?
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ZF: In a later conversation, he revealed that he was a non-resident of NYC for tax purposes, even though he lived in NYC, because he thought NYC taxes - at 4% of all income - were unconscionable.
I should note that these city taxes are on top of the 6% state tax, meaning that city residents pay 10% of their income from all sources to NY City and State.
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But just look at what you get for all those taxes! What a value! What a deal! Why, it boggles! And, as a bonus, you can sleep well knowing that people who can't tie their own shoes had good, solid, well-paying, secure (almost tenured) employment... including the relatives of those who instituted the body of regulations that required these paltry donations to soothe your savage breast... A few visual examples to help you sleep tonight: Pay Attention Radar Tester Dept of Redundant Legislation Dept Sharp Edges (my favorite) And a compilation
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I think folks from Massachusetts want contradictory things - high social spending combined with low taxes.
Same problem shows up with Californians who move to Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, and Nevada. And tack in the old "there ought to be a law for/against that" attitude as well.
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Having lived in Manhattan, the Bay Area and now, Dallas, what's obvious about the coastal cities is that for anyone who's not a millionaire and not childless, those cities are completely out of reach. It doesn't matter how wonderful the libraries are or how great the museums-- and SF's libraries, museums and other cultural institutions are second-rate-- if only the rich and the rent-control scam artists can live there.
A further observation: it's no wonder that Kerry's support is highest among the very poor, the very rich, and childless yuppies. These are precisely the groups that most fervently support heavy government intervention in the form of housing subsidies (for the poor and the rent-control scammers) and environmental restrictions that reduce supply and boost property values in the top-tier residential real estate markets.
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Unless and until the Dems figure out that the urban coastal areas are in permanent demographic decline-- not least because of structural barriers that favor existing property owners and make it difficult for normal, moderate-income families to live there-- they'll be a purely local party that cannot win presidential elections.
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Hey! I resent that. If childless yuppies fall into that group, then it has more to do with them being young and stupid (haven't had kids yet) or, by virtue of being childless, being able to afford living comfortably in the blue states where they become brainwashed by the prevailing wisdom.
The reason that real estate rates are high in places like California and New York is because of supply and demand. More people means you can get a higher rent.
I do agree with you though, that Dem's get their support among the very poor and very rich. But I believe it is because the very rich see the problems in the world and think "someone" else should do something. They feel bad as they walk over the bums sleeping in the doorways outside their favorite restaraunts and thus wash their guilt away by voting for those who claim to care about the poor. This allows them to delude themselves that they care without actually having to do anything, like work for a soup kitchen or spend their own money. It allows for the mental cop-out that it would all be ok if ...only John Kerry was elected. I'm not to blame, because I voted for John Kerry and he claims to care, so I care too. Never mind that John Kerry couldn't fix it either. If only....then...
The poor vote Democrate because they, like the Indians, are thrown useless trinkets in exchange for their cooperation - and they don't grasp that they are being taken for a very cheap ride.
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Yup - no offense, but real estate in the Bay Area at least is artificially high because of all the restrictions upon supply. Whether this is primarily due to the environmentalists or the homeowners I don't know, but if you drive from Los Altos to San Francisco on Hwy 280 you'll notice that most of the land-- which is gorgeous, rolling hills resembling Tuscany-- is off-limits to development. And if you drive along the coast, you see the same thing, along with, where land is developed for residential purposes, nothing but simgle-family housing along with a few townhouses. Any normal market would have piled dozens of high-rise apratments along the beach and dozens more tract houses along 280.
But this is California, remember, and the ethos here is less one of protecting the land than of pulling up the ladder and protecting the real estate appreciation rate. Scratch an environmentalist and you'll see a greedy coastal property owner.
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lex, your point is correct, but 280 is not the best example. 280, at least in the stretches you're thinking about is built practically on the San Andreas fault. It is also watershed and reservoir for the Hetch Hetchy water system. Now, Stanford is a different kettle of fish altogether. And the East Bay...
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Red, Green, what's the difference?
East Bay has the Hayward Fault. That hasn't stopped development on the deep sediment along the bay, though. Those hills do have landslide problems, but at least they don't liquify in an earthquake.
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Correct. I worked in a building in Redwood Shores and on Mondays the smell of sewer gas from having the a/c off for the weekend was unmistakable.
The Hayward fault is already heavily built upon. One of the great iropnies is that since it was fault land, it was not used for commercial or residential development It is mostly roads, the Warren Freeway, schools and hospitals. Good planning for the big one.
So all the land to the east of the east of Skyline Drive is safe parkland, though little patches are developed into high end residences for those who want a permanent undeveloped back yard.
Bay Area real estate. Got to love it.
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Show me a distorted real estate market and I'll show you a Democratic bastion.
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Hey..there's a flaw in your theory called supply and demand. As demand increases in a place like CA, and growth sprials out of control, the people who live there begin to DEMAND that a once beautiful area isn't simply turned into a parking lot without an inch of open space left.
This results in efforts to limit growth (developers never are the driving force behind this) and thus causes prices to skyrocket. But this desire to preserve open space is not as much a function of enviromentalists (who, yes, capitalize on this as well) but the collective action of the ordinary citizens protecting open space on which they can ALL work and play.
The higher prices drives people who do not yet have homes, to move to less expensive areas with lots of open space and lower costs. Then as their growth sprials out of control, they too try to get a grip on preventing their town from becoming little more than a parking lot...with homeowners...ordinary citizens...banding together to hang onto the quality of life in their communities.
It's not a big conspriacy of anti-captialists or environmentalists, but capitalism and democracy at play.
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Now you all can understand why I hate Carpetbaggers so much.
Carpetbagger#1,452,678: "You people are so backward. Back in Cleveland, we used to [insert socialist/nanny state legislation here].
PH: "Yes. And that's why Cleveland is the sh*thole it is today and why you moved here. If you get to missing Cleveland, Delta's ready when you are. Please try to not soil my little slice of the country before you go."
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2B, my point is that normal market forces are not operating in the uber-blue districts. Specifically, supply of new housing is artificially constrained, either because rent control diminishes the returns on new construction or because of anti-growth and/or environmental restrictions. Either way, restricted supply causes hosuing prices to be far, far higher than they normally would be. Which means those districts are attractive only to the super-rich, who tilted toward Kerry, or young rootless urban renters, nearly all of them single and/or childless, who also tend to be pro-Democrat.
Nothing against such folks-- we've all been childless at some point, and everyone has to go through his or her Grand Urban Funk Adventure phase-- but these folks and the investment banker/trial lawyer/lobbyist gazillionaires are not, shall we say, the backbone of this country. Kerry and Nancy Pelosi and Hillary's people, sure, but not a good foundation for a national party-- especially not one that claims to represent ordinary working and middle class families.
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Funny how the bizarre escalation in urban coastal real estate prices parallels, very neatly, the transformation of the Dem Party from a ward-heeler working-man's party led by self-made men like Tip O'Neill and Daniel Pat Moynihan to a gazillionaire's party led by socialites and investment bankers.
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Lex..I agree that there is a reality disconnect in the high rent districts. I think it's a combination of living in a bubble and being so totally clueless that they just can't grasp that for many folks, paying next months electric bill is cause for concern.
The mental image of a beauty queen contestant saying, "and I just want eveyone in the world to be happy, and I want world peace, and I want to find a cure for cancer" to a roaring round of applause, smiles and tears from the audience....comes to my mind as an example of the mindset.
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A WOMAN injured when she was butted in the bottom by a 70kg ram has been awarded almost $1.3 million in compensation. Ivene Denise Bryan was going into her office at the Arid Zone Research Institute in Alice Springs in June 1994 when the ram attacked. The ram tossed Mrs Bryan 2.5m and she landed face-down. The ram then stood over her for 30 minutes while she called for help. The ram had escaped from an adjoining fenced area managed by the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, which had hired Ms Bryan to feed animals at the institute. In the Northern Territory Supreme Court today, Ms Bryan was awarded $1,278,000 in compensation.
A Parma, Ohio, man is facing charges after he impersonated a police officer, and was caught by a real police officer he tried to pull over. Micahel Gustafson, 50, faces a five-count grand jury indictment stemming from the Dec. 17 incident. According to police, Gustafson put a blinking blue police light on his dashboard at around 2:30 a.m. He then shined a high-beam flashlight at a woman in a car at the intersection of East 110th Street and St. Clair, in Cleveland. Gustafson reportedly told the woman he was a police officer, and that he stopped her for driving erratically. However, the woman turned out to be a Cleveland police detective, and she quickly called for backup. Police found Gustafson was carrying a gun and had a stolen police radio in his car. A search of his home also revealed more police and law enforcement paraphernalia. Gustafson faces five counts, including impersonating a police officer and carrying a concealed weapon.
Miami Beach city officials reportedly told a 10-year-old girl who wanted to sell cookies and drinks in her front yard to raise money for tsunami victims that she could not hold the fundraiser because they could not grant her an occupational license. Carolyn Lipsick feels especially terrible for the children who can't find their parents after a tsunami claimed 140,000 lives in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other areas in South Asia. "I feel bad for them," said Carolyn Lipsick, 10, of the people affected by December's devastating tsunami. "Some children have no clothes, no food, no water and no shoes and most important, that I want to help them, they can't find their parents."
The first settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony were fleeing religious persecution. Another great wave of immigration came after the potato famine of the 19th century prompted tens of thousands to immigrate from Ireland. After that, through the 1950s, it was jobs - manufacturing everything from shoes to machinery - that lured laborers here from all over the world. Now, it seems, the Bay State has lost some of its old allure. According to the latest census estimates, Massachusetts was the only state in the country to lose population from July 2003 to July 2004.
