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I agree, conbinibento.
Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
Happy Valentine's Day, villagehiker and wife!
Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
Making breakfast in bed for my wife this morning. In two weeks we will have been…
Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
The vast majority of emissions don't occur over European airspace. What does it matter? Compare it…
Posted in: Aviation industry warns of trade war over EU carbon tax
This is all wrong, everything is so messed up, the government should be concerned with holding…
Posted in: Gov't OKs further Y690 bil for TEPCO, but wants say in running utility
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A bucket of water from the top of a doorway onto a friend could be funny (and eventually seen as such by the surprised party). 45 litres of water from a 30m high balcony onto strangers not likely to ever be seen as such.
Posted in: Two men arrested for pouring water from apartment balcony onto people below
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The murderers justified the killing of Domino pizza deliverymen because they were "colloborating with the enemy". That says it all about what moronic, psycopathic these IRA thugs are....
Posted in: N Ireland riots after police arrest 3 over killings
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OK...the tax increases won't happen until the economy is recovering. Gosh, what could derail an economic recovery?
Posted in: Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy meets fierce opposition
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Suzu1
Has Jeff Beck always looked like Alice Cooper?
Posted in: Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton
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Suzu1
Unfortunate name for sure, which is why it was renamed Canola Oil.
Posted in: Hamarikyu garden
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Suzu1
I support Obama on this.
Posted in: Suspected U.S. missile kills 27 in Pakistan
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Suzu1
Nessie - You are way too generous in your comparison.
Posted in: Joaquin Phoenix's Letterman appearance is instant classic
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Bushfire survivors have criticised the Federal Government for demanding families who lost everything produce identification before they receive financial help. Journalist and survivor Gary Hughes wrote an open letter to Mr Rudd attacking Centrelink officials' unreasonable demands. Hughes, who escaped with his wife as flames swallowed their St Andrews home on Saturday, asked Mr Rudd to cut red tape. "Survivors unable to produce identification were told they needed at the very least a copy of a bank statement to prove who they were," he wrote. "Come back with a bank statement", they were told, and their applications for emergency relief would be processed. "Kevin, how are people who most likely have also lost their cars supposed to get ot their bank and back? Catch a bus? Beg a lift on a passing fire truck? And if these already deeply traumatised people managed to get to their bank, get a copy of their statement and get back to the relief centre, they were told it would take at least two days to get the money."
Posted in: New arson attacks, looting reported in Australian wildfire area; death toll nears 200
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smithinjapan - It has been confirmed that several of the fires were deliberately set by arsonists. The S.A. Premier has described the arsonists as "terrorists".
One suspected arsonist was stopped by a witness who made a citizen's arrest after noticing the man acting suspiciously at Mount Penang Parklands, on the Central Coast. The Killarney Vale man, 31, was charged with lighting a blaze near Gosford that burned 175ha of bush. In the Blue Mountains, a teenager was also charged for setting a fire that burnt a small area of bushland behind a community hall in Francis Rd, Faulconbridge. The 15-year-old boy was charged with setting fire to property and possessing explosive devices. The Victorian Country Fire Authority had confirmed many of the fires ton the weekend were deliberately lit. CFA deputy chief Steve Warrington said firefighters battling a blaze at Churchill were being hampered by at least one firebug, re-igniting areas after fire crews had been through to extinguish the fire.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25026642-5001021,00.html
Posted in: Australian fire zone declared a crime scene; death toll 130
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Suzu1
Oh yeah, cereal is a real menace. Get a grip!
Posted in: USA Swimming suspends Phelps for 3 months; Kellogg drops him
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Suzu1
Phelps was an idiot to put himself in this situation. But at the same time whoever took and sold the photo is a pretty big wanker.
Posted in: USA Swimming suspends Phelps for 3 months; Kellogg drops him
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The LAPD had to keep details of their suspicion regarding Miura's involvement in Shiraishi's murder. Otherwise Miura would have changed his behavior to avoid being held accountable (and never taken his final ill-fated trip to Saipan).
Posted in: LA police detail evidence against Miura in girlfriend's murder
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A little bit about the pilot, Chesley B. Sullenburger III:
Flew F-4s for the U.S. Air Force from 1973 to 1980. Flight Leader and Training Officer with experience in Europe, Pacific and at Nellis AFB, serving as Blue Force Mission Commander in Red Flag Exercises. Sullenburger spent years as an Air Line Pilots Association Local Air Safety Chairman, national technical committee member and accident investigator -- where he participated in several NTSB investigations of major aircraft accidents.
Sullenburger's resume here:
http://www.aolcdn.com/tmzdocuments/sullenbergerprofile.pdf
Posted in: U.S. Airways plane goes down into Hudson River after being hit by birds
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Suzu1
How more strict can its gun laws be? Handguns are banned in Chicago. These gangbangers just won't follow the rules.
Posted in: 5 people shot after Chicago high school basketball game
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It is so frustrating that these gangbangers don't comply with Chicago's strict gun control laws.
Posted in: 5 people shot after Chicago high school basketball game
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Suzu1
Hamas had been using the school as a launching pad for missles. It wants innocents killed to support its psychotic goals. The bodies of two Hamas jihadis were found at the school along with a missile launcher with anti-tank missiles. In May Reuters ran an article pointing out that the headmaster of the school was a Hamas militant:
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL05686115
The media is now accepting all of Hamas' propaganda without question. On CNN last night we were told that although Hamas won't allow international media access, we should accept the casualty figures provided by a Norwegian doctor working at Gaza Hospital. What they didn't bother to report was that this widely quoted doctor, Mads Gilbert, is a radical member of Norway's Marxist Red Party who expressed support for 9/11 and is deeply anti-Semitic.
Posted in: Gaza truce proposed after Israeli shell kills 30 near U.N. school
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Suzu1
This proposed system would replace the gas tax for those cars with the GPS device - they would not be double billed. The pumps at the gas station would have to be programmed to add a gas tax to those vehicles without the device. I am against the proposal since the gas tax is an efficient method that costs the state little to administer and this mileage scheme would take away the incentive people have now for more fuel efficient vehicles. It will also result in another state bureaucracy when Oregon is already falling into a budget crisis.
As far as an earlier poster claiming that Portland has no suburbs, that is so untrue - there is Beaverton, Gresham, Milwaukie, Gladstone, Clackamas, Lake Oswego, Wilsonville, Hillsboro, Tigard, Tualatin, Vancouver, Camas and other bedroom communities that send their citizens into Portland everyday. Public transportation accounts for a very small percentage of those commuters. Even the much heralded MAX light rail system carries less than 1% of the daily commuters in Portland.
Posted in: Oregon looks at taxing mileage instead of gasoline
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Suzu1
While Japan, America, Europe and a few others have flourished in recent decades, the widening gap in wealth between the G8 and everyone else continues to grow.
Mr. Soller has apparently never been to India, China, Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia.
Posted in: Japanese recession: A time for panic or change?
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Likeitis - You are correct in your assessment that you are not up on the case.
The original probable cause affidavit is here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0508071ftdix1.html
Posted in: 5 convicted of plotting to kill U.S. soldierrs at Fort Dix
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Suzu1
Enjoy it while it lasts. The Japanese government will likely stage an intervention in the currency markets over the holidays while trading is thin.
Posted in: Japanese consumers enjoy benefits of strong yen