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Post by kmc on Jan 5, 2007 19:43:03 GMT -5
OH, IT'S LIKE SHIN WAS TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE BUTTSECKSING!
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Post by strat-0 on Jan 5, 2007 20:30:33 GMT -5
Shades of the French Revolutution only without the Enlightenment. Torment them before you execute them. Hey, he had it coming, but the Iraqi government did themselves no favors in the way they carried it out. He did get one in on them about them not acting in a manly way, though. They didn't even offer him a last smoke. Tsk, tsk.
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Post by Galactus on Jan 11, 2007 9:51:19 GMT -5
'100 hours': House passes minimum wage increase
POSTED: 10:29 p.m. EST, January 10, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade.
The vote was 315-116, with 82 Republicans joining Democrats to pass it.
"You should not be relegated to poverty if you work hard and play by the rules," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland. (Watch how the lowest earners will get their raises Video)
The bill was the second measure passed since Democrats took control of the House, ending more than a decade of Republican rule. (Interactive: House Democrats' '100 Hour' agenda)
The measure, which now goes to the Senate, would raise the federal wage floor by $2.10 from its current $5.15 an hour in three steps over 26 months. (Interactive: Minimum wage laws by state)
The last increase was in 1997, when President Clinton successfully prodded the GOP-controlled Congress to enact the increase. Republicans declined to approve another raise for the six years in which they held majorities in the House and Senate and President Bush was in the White House.
Organized labor and other supporters pitched the bill as badly needed assistance for the working poor.
Business groups and other critics said it could lead to higher prices for goods and services, force small companies to pink-slip existing workers or hire fewer new ones, and crimp profits.
The White House issued a statement saying it opposed the bill because it "fails to provide relief to small businesses."
Senate Democratic leaders have already signaled they will accept changes designed to shield small businesses from adverse consequences of higher labor costs.
"This bill increases costs for mom-and-pop businesses," said Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, contending the legislation doesn't do anything to help offset that burden. (Watch what a business owner and worker think about a minimum wage hike Video)
Many businesses want the pot sweetened, perhaps by faster depreciation or other tax breaks or letting small businesses band together to buy health insurance for their workers.
The bill would raise the wage floor in three steps. It would go to $5.85 an hour 60 days after signed into law by the president, to $6.55 a year later and to $7.25 a year after that.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Post by luke on Jan 11, 2007 11:38:17 GMT -5
Fuck, I'll never be able to afford Burger King again.
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Post by Proud on Jan 11, 2007 14:51:49 GMT -5
You'd be surprised how much good... and not just edible... food you can find in the typical dumpster or garbage can. How do you think so many hobos survive?
Well, enough Republicans vouched for the increase... but the Senate's pretty much 50-50, unless somebody rolls Tim Johnson onto the floor.
Where's Cheney when you need him
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Post by sisyphus on Jan 11, 2007 15:41:59 GMT -5
this is good: "Many businesses want the pot sweetened, perhaps by faster depreciation or other tax breaks or letting small businesses band together to buy health insurance for their workers."
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Jan 11, 2007 16:21:08 GMT -5
I do like the idea of letting small buisnesses making a coalition so that the people they employ have access to healthcare and retirement. I am not, however, for corporations getting away with not paying taxes. If I have to pay those bloodsuckers so do they.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 11, 2007 17:10:53 GMT -5
Q: Did anyone here post the TOP 25 CENSORED STORIES OF 2006 -?
If so, I shan't bother.
Otherwise. . . . . . . . . . . it's important stuff.
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Post by Galactus on Jan 17, 2007 11:22:28 GMT -5
Huzzah to a new beginning!
Black people 'should get over' slavery? Comment stuns lawmakers in Virginia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
01/17/2007
RICHMOND, Va. — A state legislator said black people "should get over" slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize "for killing Christ," drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.
Delegate Frank D. Hargrove, who is white and Christian, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state's behalf to the descendants of slaves.
In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove, 79, said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that "our black citizens should get over it."
The newspaper also quoted him as saying, "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?"
Black lawmakers swiftly denounced Hargrove's comments.
"When somebody tells me I should just get over slavery, I can only express my emotion by projecting that I am appalled, absolutely appalled," said Delegate Dwight C. Jones, head of the Legislative Black Caucus.
Delegate David L. Englin also criticized Hargrove's remarks, recalling that his grandparents were driven from their homes in Poland "by people who believed that as Jews, we killed Christ."
When Hargrove rose to speak, he told Englin he didn't care about Englin's religion. "I think your skin was a little too thin," Hargrove said as lawmakers gasped and groaned.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 17, 2007 12:00:03 GMT -5
Quite frankly I don't feel like apologizing for killing Christ just yet. Maybe one day, but for now I just sort of feel as though I had nothing to do with it. Things may change though.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 17, 2007 12:00:54 GMT -5
I like how that reporter felt it necessary to tell us that that guy is white and Christian. Based on his comments I think we could have guessed that (and no, that's not a slur on Christians--there just aren't too many non-Christians saying that Jews should apologize for killing Christ. I know that this guy doesn't represent very many people with comments like that).
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Post by Galactus on Jan 17, 2007 12:04:49 GMT -5
Under his logic shouldn't Christians just "get over" that whole killing Jesus thing anyway?
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 17, 2007 12:05:05 GMT -5
Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy? by John Stokes A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms. The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as "junk DNA", were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is “Off-world” in origin. The apparent “extraterrestrial junk genes” merely “enjoy the ride” with hard working active genes, passed from generation to generation. After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently “junk Human DNA” was created by some kind of “extraterrestrial programmer”. The alien chunks within Human DNA, Professor Chang further observes, “have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.” Professor Chang further stipulates that "Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them. Perhaps, after programming, our creators grow us the same way we grow bacteria in Petri dishes. We can’t know their motives - whether it was a scientific experiment, or a way of preparing new planets for colonization, or is it long time ongoing business of seedling life in the universe.” Professor Chang further indicates that “If we think about it in our human terms, the apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” were most probably working on “one big code” consisting of several projects, and the projects should have produced various life forms for various planets. They have been also trying various solutions. They wrote “the big code“, executed it, did not like some function, changed them or added new one, executed again, made more improvements, tried again and again.” Professor Chang’s team of researchers furthermore concludes that, “The apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” may have been ordered to cut all their idealistic plans for the future when they concentrated on the “Earth project” to meet the pressing deadline. Very likely in an apparent rush, the “extraterrestrial programmers” may have cut down drastically on big code and delivered basic program intended for Earth.“ Professor Chang is only one of many scientists and other researchers who have discovered extraterrestrial origins to Humanity. Professor Chang and his research colleagues show that apparent “extraterrestrial programming” gaps in DNA sequencing precipitated by a hypothesized rush to create human life on Earth presented humankind with illogical growth of mass of cells we know as cancer." Professor Chang further indicates that “What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code.” Mr. Chang then affirms that the “First fact is, the complete ‘program’ was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in ‘the game‘.”“Soon or later”, Professor Chang says “we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is.” To read the rest of the article, click below:www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/01/08/01288.html
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 17, 2007 12:08:43 GMT -5
Under his logic shouldn't Christians just "get over" that whole killing Jesus thing anyway? Hey, you're right. That happened way longer ago than slavery. Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA I'm skeptical. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 17, 2007 12:13:28 GMT -5
Of course you are. You're only human.
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