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if your local police openly admit they can't/won't protect your community, it's time to take your safety in your own hands. Good going, and shoot only after identifying it ain't a family member or neighbor
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Where do these people think they live, Washington DC?
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Farmers have an old trick that scares away coyotes. You shoot one and hang it on a fence post. When it starts to rot and stink, others avoid the area.
GERALD, Mo. Like so many rural communities in the countrys middle, this small town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine. Then, several months ago, a federal agent showed up. Or not.
Arrests began. Houses were ransacked. People, in handcuffs on their front lawns, named names. To some, like Mayor Otis Schulte, who considers the county around Gerald, population 1,171, a meth capital of the United States, the drug scourge seemed to be fading at last. Or it moved on....
Those whose homes were searched, though, grumbled about a peculiar change in what they understood mainly from television to be the law. Guess the local cops never watch TV.
They said the agent, a man some had come to know as Sergeant Bill, boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government. No, Delbert - that's only if the Dems far-left loons take over the government. Hang on, though - they're trying.
But after a reporter for the local weekly newspaper See, NYSlimes et al. - that's how it's supposed to be done. Maybe you can convince the local reporter to give y'all some lesson.
made a few calls about that claim, Geralds antidrug campaign abruptly fell apart after less than five months. Sergeant Bill, it turned out, was no federal agent, but Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed former trucking company owner, a former security guard, a former wedding minister and a former small-town cop and still an IDIOT from 23 miles down the road. (Read the rest at the link, if you can stand it.)
Lessee: The local constabulary didn't know that there are no sergeants in the FBI or any of the other fed/police agencies that I know of (though it would have been easy for them to check) and they really believed that search & seizure laws don't apply to the feds. I can't decide which applies best: 'Wotta moroon' or 'Too stupid to live really should be a valid diagnosis.' Probably both.
Oy.
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Yikes!
Something in the water must cause the dread Utter Dumbass to infect the whole population.
I'll bet the reporter drinks only corn whiskey, like any righteous God-fearing pre-Cronkite old school reporter should.
Federal officials arrested 45 employees on illegal immigration charges Monday at a well-known local painting company that has touted its work on prominent buildings such as the Maryland State House and facilities at the U.S. Naval Academy.
All 45 people were arrested because of administrative immigration violations, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said. All of them will be placed in removal proceedings, the agency said.
The business, Annapolis Painting Services, did not immediately return calls or e-mails seeking comment. The company describes itself on its Web site as "one of the largest painting contractors in the region." The Web site includes photographs of employees working at the state capitol building and includes mention of work at the Naval Academy.
The search warrants were served at the business and 15 residences believed to be owned by it at about 6 a.m., said Anne Arundel County Police Chief James Teare.
ICE, which described the arrests as part of ongoing investigations into workplaces that hire illegal immigrants, has been working on the case for 18 months, according to a statement released by the agency. Scot R. Rittenberg, assistant special agent in charge for ICE in Baltimore, said the arrests involved 11 search warrants, five seizure warrants for bank accounts, 11 seizure warrants for vehicles and 15 forfeitable properties.
The arrested workers included foreign nationals from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria and Panama, ICE said in a statement.
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I have been a staunch anti-illegal immigrant supporter and remain so. But, it just occurred to me that these employment operations probably wind up targeting the better class of illegals, the industrious ones, and that's too bad.
I'd rather concentrate on deporting the SF city council and their favored drug dealers.
These are businessmen, evil miscreants of society to the hold over Clintonistas of the Justice Department. Therefore, they're the one's to be thrown to the lions to satisfy the 'mob'.
The SF City Council are like minded fellow travelers to those Clintonistas, thus immune from DoJ prosecution for obstruction of justice and conspiracy in a real court of law.
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these employment operations probably wind up targeting the better class of illegals, the industrious ones, and that's too bad.
Does it matter??? These would be higher paid illegails and that job should go to americans...so how many citizens consider painting below them....kick'em out....
I'd rather concentrate on deporting the SF city council and their favored drug dealers.
Guess you do not have a problem in your area.....we need all of the kicked out and not just in looney sf
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Step Two: Hit Annapolis Painting Services where it hurts-in the checkbook.
If it weren't for employers that wage scavenge and hire illegals, they wouldn't be here in such great numbers.
Here's something else to think about. Unemployment is around 5.5% what would it be if 12million illegals were not available to do these jobs instead of American Citizens?
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My Company hires a great many construction workers from south of the border, and they ALl have the proper paperwork to show they're legal. Some probably are.
Don't forget the document forgers.
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"The search warrants were served at the business and 15 residences believed to be owned by it".
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Deport the illegal aliens. Jail their employers. If enough of these employers have to do jail time they will all get the message and the problem will be solved.
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Dan, it is right to clamp down on them, agreed. It's just too bad that the ones that are the least offensive are targeted first. Kinda like cleaning up. You've got to get all the dirt, but, I'd rather concentrate on the real slime first.
The employers should really get hit ala AU.
Oh yeah, anyone who proclaims their city a sanctuary should be deported to Harrare.
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Ok, so last Fall we hired a local painter, small operation, owner American born/bred & a helper or two.
A very large sum of money and many months later we finally fired them. It got to the point where we never knew who would show up or when. Or what the guy's emotional state would be and/or if he was on meds that day.
Parts of our house are still not put back together again, as we try to find a time to go through the whole messy bit of screening another company and finding time to supervise them.
Give me some industrious workers who show up on time and do a quality job, cleaning up after themselves. At this point I don't care if they're green 3-sexed aliens from Mars. I just want the damned job finished reliably.
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And no, there doesn't seem to be a queue of American workers ready to bid on the job for the next few months. Money's not the sticking point. It's having skilled, reliable people who give a damn and expect to work for their pay.
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You're just in the wrong market. There's plenty of folks like that near me. And they're not all Amish. Many are rednecks. Not living in a major metropolitan area is great.
An insurance study has once again found that Sioux Falls has the safest drivers in the nation, marking the third straight year that South Dakota's largest city has topped the list. Officials in Sioux Falls again attributed the ranking to strong traffic engineering and driver education programs. Might it have something to do with the scarcity of Orcs?
Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the chance that drivers in 193 of the nation's most populated cities would be involved in an accident.
Following Sioux Falls were Fort Collins, Colo.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Sterling Heights, Mich.; Warren, Mich.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Lexington, Ky.; and Detroit.
Motorists in Washington, D.C., were most at risk, according to the study, averaging an accident once every 5.4 years.
Drivers in Detroit, ranked 11th in population, are likely to experience a crash once every 12.4 years, the best among cities with between 500,000 and 1 million people. Phoenix ranks the highest for safety among cities with more than 1 million people with a collision likely once every 9.8 years.
Massachusetts' cities were not included as the company does not write policies in the state.
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I have to wonder how wide "Washington, DC" extends in terms of their definition. I got creamed at the corner waiting for a left arrow just a month ago. Thankfully I didn't see it coming and was therefore more relaxed at impact than otherwise.
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DC is best travel in a cheap rental car with full insurance.
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Most of my time spent driving in DC was trying to figure out how to get onto the street I needed to be on. I stopped and asked directions from an old man on a corner once and he told me "you can't get there from here". Frustration and confusion must make a considerable impact on their traffic stats.
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I've always contended that DC roads may very well be the most confusing and difficult to navigate in any major metro area. I wouldn't be surprised if that has more than a little something to do with it.
I came to DC from the NYC area and as anyone who has driven into and out of (as well as around and inside) Manhattan knows, it's no cakewalk. So I thought I had a pretty good driving resume. That was until I moved to DC and it took me a good 2-3 years, probably more, to get comfortable knowing my way around the District. Too many traffic circles and squares, plus a plethora of streets that turn one-way during rush-hour, not to mention all the tourist buses and tourists in rental cars that don't know there way around along with all the monuments and museums that they are all trying to get to. It's a mess.
As a little play on words, I've taken to referring to the tourists in DC in the same way that Bush pronounces "terrorists," like "turrists." Silly, I know, but my girlfriend gets a kick out of it.
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Beltway sucks. Fricken Kamikazes in sedans were a menace what I was at Ft Meade long time ago. I can imagine its gotten ever worse from Glen Burnie on in in the past decade.
I do remember Diplo tags were to be avoided - those guys drove like they just didn't care.
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I'm probably the only person in the world who thinks it's not hard to navigate in DC (notice I didn't say "drive" - at least not on a weekday when the place is filled with idiots).
Most people make the mistake of trying to drive someplace using the "spokes" of the wheel, then get turned around and headed the wrong way at the first traffic circle they come to. I finally figured out the best thing to do is take the long way: figure out what cross-street I need to end up on; drive up a north/south street until I reach the cross-street, then turn left or right as needed and head to my destination. Unless any of those streets pass through a circle; then I move over one street before heading north/south and/or turn onto a higher or lower cross-street than the one I need until I'm past the circle. Once I figured that out, it was a piece of cake.
Haven't done much driving in DC in a number of years, but I doubt they've moved the streets. ;-p
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My first time driving in DC, my wife and I got lost going to dinner. My wife, who didn't drive at the time, claimed she knew DC "like the back of her hand" from having visited several times with her parents. Of course, she would tell me "you need to turn left here" when I was in the right hand lane of a 6 lane road.
Eventually, I stopped at a stop sign, put the car in park, and insisted I was going to wait until a cop arrested me and put me in jail - at least that way I would have something to eat, and a place to sleep.
To this day, I don't know how we got home to Rockville.
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Boston road layouts based on 17th centruy cow paths so you need the mind of a 17th century cow to drive them.
And Boston drivers prove that every time I'm there.
Only place I've ever been not in the third world where people TRIPLE park at times (double parking is routine in Boston to pop into a store to get a drink, food or smokes)
A last drink proved one too many for a 78-year-old Swede who fell asleep while trying to row home - from Denmark. Reports say the man had been drinking in the Danish town of Helsingor but found he did not have enough money for the ferry home to Sweden.
Instead of waiting until morning, he stole a dinghy and tried to row the 5km (three miles) across the Oresund Strait to Helsingborg, police said. But he fell asleep half way and drifted until he was rescued by the coastguard.
The man, who has not been named, was found still asleep in the bottom of the boat, and towed back across the strait - a busy shipping lane - to Denmark. He was put on the next ferry home after he had sobered up, writes the Danish news service Ritzau.
Police said the owner of the dinghy had decided not to press charges, Reuters reports.
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I blame AJAX in "TROY".
D *** NG IT, THATS MIGHTY AJAX + HIS HAMMER!
Alas, iff I remember my ILLIAD lore correctly, or one of them, AJAX too [like ACHILLES]was done in by a sexy wily Trojan babe, + angry herd of Sheep ???
FRENCH bomb disposal experts were called out yesterday to check a World War II U.S. tank discovered buried under a street at Chartres, 90 km southwest of Paris.
A mechanical digger was brought in to clear away the earth around the tank so the experts could ensure the tank posed no danger, a witness said.
The M5 light tank, which was discovered by council workers, was from the 31st Tank Battalion, part of the 1944 D-Day invasion force that recaptured France from the Nazis.
Residents said this particular tank, the first of the invasion force to enter Chartres, had been on reconnaissance when it either ran out of fuel or its tracks broke down.
At the time of France's liberation, it was pushed in a hole and buried.
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Any of you who read the "Haunted Tank" comic books as kids would know this tank (Sgt Rock also ran in the same comic book series).
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A friend of mines father was in an armored recon unit in an M5 in WWII. I remember the really cool pictures he had. He said the only reason he lived through it was that the thing could do 40 MPH. The procedure was find what you were looking for and get the hell out. The hope was they didn't find you first because all you had was 2" of armor and a 37mm main gun to fight it out with.
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Thought it was the wrong model tank: "The Haunted Tank" is a comic book feature that appeared in the DC Comics anthology war title G.I. Combat from 1961 through 1987. It was created by writer and editor Robert Kanigher and artist Russ Heath in G.I. Combat #87 (May 1961). The feature centers on the ghost of 19th-century Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, who is sent by the spirit of Alexander the Great to act as a guardian over his two namesakes, Lieutenant Jeb Stuart (named in the early stories as Jeb Stuart Smith, but eventually just shortened to Jeb Stuart) and the Light Tank M3 Stuart that Jeb commands.
The Light Tank M3 was an American light tank of World War II in use with British and Commonwealth forces prior to the entry of the USA into the European theatre. The name General Stuart or Stuart given by the British comes from the American Civil War General J.E.B. Stuart and was used for both the M3 and M5 Light Tank; in British service it also had the unofficial nickname of Honey. To the United States Army the tanks were officially known only as Light Tank M3 and Light Tank M5. I>
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...You think that's cool - on Guam, under the old B-52 ramps at Anderson AFB, are buried several dozen brand new WWII aircraft, still in their crates. The problem is their EXACT location is still unknown. Wonder if Joe has been looking for them...?
Mike
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A catfish met an unpleasant fate in Germany when it tried to eat a football floating in the river. Police patrolling the Main River say it's the weirdest case they've seen in 30 years.
A giant catfish died trying to eat a soccer ball and was found floating in a river with the ball wedged in its large snout, police in Germany said.
The two-meter long fish was found on Monday in a sluice in the Main River with its teeth sunk into the blue and white plastic ball. "The catfish had evidently bitten into the ball and suffocated," Bavarian police said in a statement. "Whether the fish was swept up in the current excitement about football in the wake of the EURO 2008 championship could not be ascertained."
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So I take it this means we're not talking about pics of Male Soccer Players wearing should-be-outlawed-for-Men ultra-skimpy groin thongs and dubious-intentioned paddings underneath???
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So I take it this means we're not talking about pics of Male Soccer Players wearing should-be-outlawed-for-Men ultra-skimpy groin thongs and dubious-intentioned paddings underneath???
A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman's hat advertising a Scottish police force's new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims.
Tayside Police's new non-emergency phone number has prompted complaints from members of the Islamic community.
The choice of image on the Tayside Police cards - a black dog sitting in a police officer's hat - has now been raised with Chief Constable John Vine.
The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert.
Dundee councillor Mohammed Asif said: 'My concern was that it's not welcomed by all communities, with the dog on the cards.
'It was probably a waste of resources going to these communities.
'They (the police) should have understood. Since then, the police have explained that it was an oversight on their part, and that if they'd seen it was going to cause upset they wouldn't have done it.'
Councillor Asif, who is a member of the Tayside Joint Police Board, said that the force had a diversity adviser and was generally very aware of such issues... It is so easy to get their goat, I'm surprised that wits haven't started tacking up pig pictures all over the place.
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They can take my dogs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
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britain needs to say fuck'em....you can leave if a little puppy bothers you...this is the wests fault for buying into the shit that non-muslims are dirty...by succumbing to these demands we encourage more...this is all spelled out clearly by the muslim brotherhood...
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BTW - I consider pigs ritually unclean - but got no problems with pics of cute little pigs, I mean that helps, right? "you aren't going to eat Charlotte's friend, are you?"
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It seems obvious that much use could be made in Britain of modifiers for the word "Muslim", such as "Muslim dogs" and "Muslim pigs".
Not just as a casual invective, but as a pointed one. For example, typical Muslims are just "Muslims", but when a Muslim family murders their daughter in an "honor killing", then it is *proper* to refer to that entire family as "Muslim dogs".
Importantly, there should be a distinction between which animal is used. That is because the word "pig" is used to describe an amoral person. So an Imam who preached violence and treason against non-Muslims would be a "Muslim pig". That is, they are a moral relativist, amoral. And thus, a pig.
A "Muslim dog", on the other hand would be someone who behaved like a vicious pack animal, doing things like "honor" killings, rape, female circumcision, and were otherwise xenophobic, racist, sexist, unmannerly and crudely impolite.
The purpose of this all is to create a British "social sanction", emphasizing bad behavior practiced by Muslims and retained from their foreign cultures. To explain that *some* of the this Muslims do things are improper, and that they need to modify their behavior to become part of civilized society.
It tends to break up their monolithic conformity. For example, "You are Muslims, but *he* is a Muslim pig. So you are better than he".
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It's actually jihad. Cultural, civilizational jihad. The more brits (and french, and germans,...) will bend backward, the more they will push. It's not even masterminded, it's ingrained. They're not migrants, they're colonists; colonists on the dole, but colonists nonetheless.
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The point of using a EOD robot when standing next to the car is...
I wouldn't get in a paintball fight rolling up on segways nevermind this. Great theatre though.
I'm a whiz at minesweeper I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed,
my fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze...
...They see me roll on, my Segway!
I know in my heart they think I'm
maoist n' nerdy!
Ya can never trust them giraffes...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage. C'mon, pigs! Pick up the pace, dammit!
Lookit dis potbelly! I ain't in the shape I used ta be!
Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5:30 a.m. breakout. Well...you're so friggin smart giraffes, now whadda we do?
The animals were back at the circus later Monday after being rounded up by police and circus workers with the assistance of dogs. Should've let them in on the plan...
Aben says neighbors fed some of the animals which he said was a bad idea but they were tame and nobody was hurt. Says Aben: 'You have to imagine somebody rubbing his eyes first thing in the morning and saying, 'Am I seeing things or is that 15 camels walking past?'' In Amsterdam? Yes, I can...
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Hehe - I take it the Zebras' dastardly plan of fool-proof anti-human camouflageey didn't pan out???
* "I dunno, Chief, I see a long slow line of 4-legged Pigs wid Black "Z"'s in front of 'em. Its either a Stealth Terror Weapon or the Pigs have learned to distort the Time-Space Continuum - better send in the Army on this one"!
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Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot. And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all... The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't. The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper...
--Zazu, The Lion King
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'You have to imagine somebody rubbing his eyes first thing in the morning and saying, 'Am I seeing things or is that 15 camels walking past?'
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit doing 'shrooms."
They may have to issue a 'Turd Alert' for the sailing competition.
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition. Red Tide in the Yellow Sea, simple, rename it the Orange Sea and carry on.
Local officials have initiated an all-out effort to clean up the algae by mid-July. Media reports estimate that as many as 20,000 people have either volunteered or been ordered to participate in the operation, while 1,000 boats are scooping algae out of the Yellow Sea. The official news agency, Xinhua, reported that algae currently covered a third of the coastal waters designated for the Olympic races.
Water quality has been a concern for the sailing events, given that many coastal Chinese cities dump untreated sewage into the sea. At the same time, rivers and tributaries emptying into coastal waters are often contaminated with high levels of nitrates from agricultural and industrial runoff. These nitrates contribute to the red tides of algae that often bloom along sections of China's coastline. Lots of Sewer Trout spawning, eh!
But officials in Qingdao said pollution and poor water quality did not have a 'substantial link' to the current outbreak, according to Xinhua. Instead, scientists blamed the bloom on increased rainfall and warmer waters in the Yellow Sea. Algae are now blooming over more than 12,900 square kilometers, or 5,000 square miles, of the sea, according to Xinhua. Here we go, Global Warming/Climate Change.
'We will make all our efforts to finish this job,' said a CBS/NBC/ABC propaganda official in Qingdao. 'Now, forces from the entire province have become involved.' He said ships and boats had been sent from two other coastal cities, Rizhao and Yantai, to help haul away the algae. Declare the algae an aphrodisiac and it will be gone over night.
Yuan Zhiping, an official with the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Committee, said Sunday that the government would attempt to block algae from floating into the Olympic sailing area by installing a fenced perimeter in the sea that is more than 50 kilometers, or 30 miles, long. 'I believe we will make sure the Olympics sailing area is clean by July 15 through our efforts, and make sure the Olympics sailing goes smoothly,' Yuan said, according to the Shandong News Web site. Everyone living within a thousand miles of the site will be required to take KaoPectate three times a day during the Olympics.
Photographs in the Chinese media showed rickety wooden boats overflowing with green mounds of algae collected from the sea. One photo showed a young boy crouched on a beach beside piles of the leafy glop as a dump truck carried off a large load of algae. State media reported that 100,000 tons of the algae had already been taken out of the water. Much of it was being transported to farms as feed for pigs and other animals, according to news reports.
Residents of Qingdao have been anticipating the city's Olympic moment for several years. One local newspaper reported that 11,000 college students had volunteered for cleanup duty during the weekend. Several companies organized teams of employees to help.
The massive algae outbreak comes as some sailing teams are already in Qingdao preparing for the Olympics. They were able to walk the course for the first time in Olympic history.
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Beijing has reportedly placed any and all water sources intended for the Olympics under PLA control/oversight, + is construx two or more desalination plants specifically for the Olypics.
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No surprise there. Six months ago, the glorious announcement was made that all sewer water dumped into the rivers will now be treated at the brand-new sewage treatment plant! It'll take some years for the whole city to get onto the new system, though, they need to build more. But some of the sewage isn't dumped directly into the river any more. Wow!
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Much of it was being transported to farms as feed for pigs and other animals, according to news reports.
Oh yeah, forgot to say, that'a a total lie. Anyone who bothered to investigate would surely find a bunch of pig farmers saying, "What, algae? Never heard of it" and a big black eye for the government. Of course, censorship makes sure this will never happen.
The son of former US President Ronald Reagan has called for a memorial to his father near Berlins landmark Brandenburg Gate.
Michael Reagan, the 63-year-old adopted son of the late American leader, said during a visit to the German capital on Monday night that his fathers determination during the Cold War in the 1980s deserved to be recognized with a large statue, bust or even a plaque. Just a reminder: LINK
Ronald Reagan, who died in 2004, came to West Berlin in 1987 to demand the communists end the division of the city. Addressing then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in front of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, Reagan uttered the now famous phrase: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Reagan said his fathers contributions to the freedom of Germans should be honoured in a prominent place in Berlin, ideally near the Brandenburg Gate. But the exact location is still an open question that must be determined together with the Berliners, he said.
He said he was hoping to find German sponsors for the memorial and wanted to have it installed within the next year.
Frank Henkel, the secretary general of Berlin's conservative Christian Democrats, told daily newspaper Die Welt he supported efforts to honour the former US president. "Ronald Reagan undeniably did a lot for Germany," Henkel said. "A memorial plaque on the fence of the new American embassy would be appropriate."
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"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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Why won't either party run a guy like Reagan, look what we get to choose from instead.
As of July 1, The Netherlands becomes the latest European nation to ban smoking in restaurants, cafes and all public places. The difference in Holland, though, is you can still order marijuana and hashish at cafes and coffee shops alongside your coffee, tea or juice. But as Lauren Comiteau reports for VOA from Amsterdam, the new rules for smoking it have left a lot of coffee shop owners and patrons well, dazed and confused.
The no-smoking advertisements are everywhere, as Holland gears up to create the smoke-free environment it says all workers are entitled to. Under the new rules, smoking tobacco is out. But the ban doesn't extend to marijuana, also called cannabis, which under existing soft drug legislation, is still tolerated if not entirely legal.
Tourists purchase their cannabis at the Bulldog coffee shop - one of the country's first built in an old police station in the heart of the city. Most Europeans smoke their marijuana in cigarettes rolled with tobacco. And that's where the confusion comes in. Long-time smoker Rob says he'll never smoke the pure marijuana joints that will now be the only ones still allowed. "I don't know, smoke at home, I think. Just buy it and go home, smoke," he said.
Coffee shop owners are also confused. Although they say they will try and stop people from smoking joints that are mixed with marijuana and tobacco, it's often hard to police people as they're rolling. They say they will direct them outside, where smoking's still allowed.
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Ok , we all know smoking tobacco is bad for your health , and we all know smoking cannabis is aswell . But , are there health risks with using a vapourizer as it doesnt create smoke ?
Could one of our medical practioners enlighten me please ?
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That's what they claim Mad Eye, I've never had the occasion to try a vaporizer. Kentucky Bourbon is more than adequate to put me on the couch for 4 hours if that' what I want.
But seriously, the vaporizer crowd claims that since you don't burn the pot it doesn't put carcinogens into what you inhale. Just water vapor and THC and the various essential oils. I think medical marijuana users have been using them for a long time. Don't know much about the recreational uses of them.
#4
I've used vaporizors, VERY easy on the lungs. But bongs just are more fun to use, and the water actually does a good job of filtering bad stuff from the smoke.
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#5
I had a guy that used to scrape the resin off of his old bongs and mix it in with his weed.
Woah. Potent.
When Capt. Ivan Castro joined the Army, he set goals: to jump out of planes, kick in doors and lead soldiers into combat. He achieved them all. Then the mortar round landed five feet away, blasting away his sight.
"Once you're blind, you have to set new goals," Castro said.
He set them higher.
Not content with just staying in the Army, he is the only blind officer serving in the Special Forces - the small, elite units famed for dropping behind enemy lines on combat missions.
"I am going to push the limits," said the 40-year-old executive officer at the 7th Special Forces Group's headquarters company in Fort Bragg. "I don't want to go to Fort Bragg and show up and sit in an office. I want to work every day and have a mission."
Since the war began in Iraq, more than 100 troops have been blinded and 247 others have lost sight in one eye. Only two other blind officers serve in the active-duty Army: one a captain studying to be an instructor at West Point, the other an instructor at the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
#16
This is the future for all those lefties that think they can negotiate peace with a radical islamic state. They only understand violence and dominance. Even at the family levels.
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#17
"Yeah, she's ugly. But, hey, just put a bag over her head."
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#18
"I'll take Donkeys in Sweden for $200, Alex.'
(instead of babeinabag)
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.
A last drink proved one too many for a 78-year-old Swede who fell asleep while trying to row home - from Denmark. Reports say the man had been drinking in the Danish town of Helsingor but found he did not have enough money for the ferry home to Sweden.
As of July 1, The Netherlands becomes the latest European nation to ban smoking in restaurants, cafes and all public places. The difference in Holland, though, is you can still order marijuana and hashish at cafes and coffee shops alongside your coffee, tea or juice. But as Lauren Comiteau reports for VOA from Amsterdam, the new rules for smoking it have left a lot of coffee shop owners and patrons
well, dazed and confused.
