Wacka
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Here is more from the book they are talking about (which by the way is #2 on Amazon):
Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and her husband received the Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers union. But the $25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a non-union shop.
Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress.
She and her husband own a large stake in an exclusive California hotel with more than 250 employees – none of them union.
The Pelosis also are partners in a restaurant chain with 900 employees – also a non-union shop.
How about Ralph Nader, who claims unions are essential to protect workers' rights – but when an editor of one of his publications tried to form a union, the editor was fired.
Self-described socialist Noam Chomsky has described the Pentagon as "the most vile institution on the face of the earth" and lashed out against tax havens and trusts that benefit only the rich. But Chomsky has been paid millions of dollars by the Pentagon over the last 40 years and has used a law firm to set up his irrevocable trust to shield his assets from the IRS.
Air America radio host Al Franken calls conservatives "racists because they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action." Yet fewer than 1 percent of the people he has hired over the last 15 years have been African-American.
Ted Kennedy has fought for the estate tax and has spoken out against tax shelters, but he repeatedly benefits from an intricate web of trusts and private foundations shielding most of his family's fortune from the IRS. One such Kennedy family trust wasn't even set up in the United States – but in Fiji.
Barbra Streisand talks about the necessity of unions to protect a living wage, but she prefers to do her filming and post-production work in Canada so she can pay less than American union wages.
Bill and Hillary Clinton speak in favor of the estate tax. Yet in the year 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it. The Clintons have set up a contract trust allowing them to reduce the amount of inheritance tax their estate will pay when they die.
Billionaire George Soros says the wealthy should pay higher, more progressive tax rates, but he holds the bulk of his money in tax-free overseas accounts in Curacao, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
I also know of the antics of Diane Fienstein (D- CA). She was instrumental in expanding the size of Death Valley National Park very greatly (under environmental grounds). This shut down a mine for iridium, an expensive metal neded for use in fighter planes, etc. This shut down most of the US production. We have to obtain it from overseas now. Who is an executive in the company with the biggest stake in mining iridium?-- That's right, her husband.
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One time I was at UB's Amherst Campus waiting for a bus when these two deer came running out from the dorms in the back of the campus. They split up and one started running along on the sidewalk near the library. This deer kept hoisting itself into the library glass as it ran along until it knocked itself dead. The only other person at the bus stop was Asian with little or no English skills. All we could do was look at each other with WTF looks. Ten minutes later a truck pulled up and they scooped up the dead deer like it was routine.
Saw it's reflection and it probably was mating season (fall). Probably thought it was fighting with another male?
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Please do not delete as you usually do my Mac posts.
If you are having lots of problems with security, think about a Mac.
There are no malware programs. There is no need for adaware, etc. I haven't had any antivirus prohgram on my mac at all for years. Safari and Firefox have built in pop-up blockers. The spam filter in Mail.app is good and there are several free addon filter programs. About 12-20 spams a day get through the ISP filter and they all go to my junk folder. OSX has a built in firewall.
I have to shake my head at all the posts about cleaning your PC. Why waste your time. i never have to do any of that.
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On the program "Dirty Jobs" on Discovery, they showed how they get horse semen and impregnate mares. Probably some thing similar. They get the male to mount a dummy and the the person had to basically put a condom on the horse to collect it.
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Don't use gasoline, use propane. Propane will give a nice even heat, compared to the demon charcoal.
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Suck it up and fly you pussies!
I'm afraid of heights and have trouble cleaning gutters, but I always try to get a window seat when I fly. Love to see the scenery and figure out where I am. I've been scared out of my wits driving and as a passenger in a car, but never in a plane.
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Not a single kid showed up yesterday in my apartment complex
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A movie doesn't have to have great special effects (which The Birds did for its time). One of the scariest things I ever saw was a made for TV movie in the 70s with Karen Black called Trilogy of Terrror. The part with the voodo doll gave me the willies.
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Publishers and photographers all say that color printing is much more reliable on a Mac. ColorSync faithfully reproduces colors much better than Windows does. For the amateur, iPhoto recognizes almost all cameras efffortlessly. Plug it into the computer and i Photo pops up asking if you want to download the photos.
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Kelly,
When did Rove use his mind control ray on you?
You are actully calm and reasonable today. -
The post office has been really good lately. I order my medicine online and get it shipped via the regular PO rates. I ordered the pills labout 5PM Thursday PDT and got them in the mail Saturday. I'm in CA and they are in Texas. My mother in Buffalo sent a letter certified mail and it arrived in two days.
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People get cancer. Looks to me like the parents can't handle this and are out for the $.
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Rove is too busy running his hurricane making machine to get involved in the scandal!
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And when there was a personal foul on the pats, an old woman in the stands is shown superimposed over the action.
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All he has to do is say "I don't remember" to every question asked him. It worked for Hillary with the Rose Law Firm records.
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Three weks ago in the East SF Bay area it was $2.95, today it is $2.65. That's cheaper than before Katrina
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My Mac mini went from China to Anchorage to Indianpolis to Oakland. Got it 3 days after it was shipped.
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What I'm saying is that all of the muslim countries in the middle east (this includes the PLO- the people the arabs don't even want) are just as bad as Iran, they just haven't come out as clearly as them.
I'm saying that the PLO has basically all the same rights as member countries in the UN except for a vote in the general assembly. The UN is a worthless organization, since they kicked Taiwan out and then voted in Communist China, giving them Taiwan's security council seat.
) because I want to play with photography - I now know someone else here to bother with questions
French Rioters Burn Handicapped Woman
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You mean the Winnie Mandela special- Necklacing.