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NPR : Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
All Things Considered, December 14, 2006 · A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.
This is just toooo funny.
[tags] politics, immigration [/tags]
Sharita: Tell a person that doesn’t know much about GWAR a little history on the band?
Dave: Well Oderus would tell you that we’re a bunch of renegade space pirates that were marooned on earth millions of years ago for atrocities too numerous to mention, created the human race by having sex with animals and then were ultimately frozen in Antarctica for many years until the over use of hairspray by glam metal bands of the eighties burned a hole in the ozone layer and unfroze us. But I would say he’s full of shit and that we’re a bunch of crazy musicians and artists hailing from Richmond, Virginia who came up with a wacky idea. We were bored with music and what was going on and we were like if we’re going to pay to see a band what would we like to see? We would want to see giant mutant metal monsters from outer space chopping off peoples heads and playing really loud music and that’s what we created and darn it eighteen years later we are still going strong!
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Weird Al is a Genius.
Prepare to re-live middle school (for those of you in you born circa ‘85-86 or so). All in in one video. Polkafied.
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WHAT?! There’s a sequel to The Giver and nobody told me?!!!
Well, it was written in 2004 (jesus, could you have waited any longer?)
anyways, spoiler warning be damned, here it is on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_%28novel%29
Nabil Soleiman, an adviser to the ministry of religious affairs in Syria, said, “If the Holocaust ever occurred, it was a conspiracy against the Arab-Islamic world as today the Middle East is still paying the consequences.
Oh, ok. That makes sense. OH WAIT.
The number of victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp could be about 2,007,” [Australian Frederick] Toben said. ”The railroad to the camp did not have enough capacity to transfer large numbers of Jews.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236014,00.html
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“Eventually, even the peddlars of climate alarmism will have to concede that the hoopla over manmade catastrophic global warming and the proposed solutions like the costly and ineffective Kyoto Protocol, will prove to be one of the history’s most misguided concerns– joining the 1970’s coming ice age fears, overpopulation and famines scares — to name just a few.”
–Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?id=266803&party=rep
Wow. And this guy is actually an elected member of our Congress. WOW.
Fucking assholes.
OH, and the best part? The article that he’s commenting on, is (according to the title referenced by his press release) about how the impact of COWS is worse than CARS! So, like, the cows are doing it then… Without ANY help from us… who–oh yeah–BREED THEM.
Of course, I’m sure he has nothing to say about the fucking POLAR BEARS (Note: link from the WSJ, no less)
Inspired by this note from the kind folks over at SNG:
Looks like we have a few skeptics on our hands: SENATOR INHOFE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC RELEASE OF “SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO DEBUNKING GLOBAL WARMING”
Oklahoma senator James Inhofe is Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee–he just published a booklet called “Hot and Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming.” It’s in color and substantiated with lots of pretty charts and graphics and quotes from real, live scientists! Almost as good a read as State of Fear!
Get it while it’s hot: http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=266711
From the University of Wisconsin Badger Herald (even though it doesn’t say UW on the site… which is quite odd):
Study drugs: the new coffee?
With exam week on the frontier and study time mounting for University of Wisconsin students, some will be relying on more than soda and coffee to get them through long nights at the library.
One moment you’re aflame and then the next,
As behind clouds the sun will sometimes slip,
The winds have changed, set fire to the nest;
A hand grenade becomes my clever quip.
Self sabotage towards ends I can’t imagine;
Perhaps some strange and tragic feat of ego.
What of this irony that snuffs out Passion?
What God of suicidal undertow?
Now no amount of dexterous cavitations
Can slay this summoned golem of the sheets—
It must be valiant reconciliation
Whose effort may this struggling arc complete.
Wherefore this agent of absurdity—
That most interested of parties,
Me?
[18 October 2006]
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