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They have contributed in the overthrow of an elected Government and yet continue to hold their heads high . How can they even show themselves around Fiji ? Have they no conscience nor shame ? 37 days and 9 hrs agoSuggest removalPermalink Kai Loma of Suva says… Hey Jonny D, what have you ever done for the poor people of Fiji other then sprout your rubbish? This lady did a lot in the short time she was in office. While I may not agree with what has happened, I have to applaud her for the work she did for the poor. Who else in SDL, SVT, or any other Government did work for the shoeshine and barrow boys, and the homeless on our streets in Suva. For once all these people enjoyed a Christmas like all the others in Fiji. And we have a lot of them who have been trained and now hold proper jobs.
Obama's Hispanderama
Cardinal Murphy has word of a poll showing Obama tied in ... California. Yikes. Is the Hispandering working? That would fit with the Skurnik "Two Electorates" theory--most Latino voters, like most other voters, tune in only for the last few days, and what theynow see is Obama talking about giving drivers' licenses to illegals. ... 3:55 P.M. ________________________ The Annotated Pander: Barack Obama presented himself after Iowa as the candidate who "won't just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know." But that was then. Now, if you're a Latino voter, he'll just tell you what you want to hear. He's in the middle of a desperate Hispandering initiative, which culminated in this exchange last night, which I've annotated: CUMMINGS: This is from Kim Millman (ph) from Burnsville, Minnesota.
Beef recall a "black eye," but abuses rare, Texas cattlemen say
LUBBOCK, Texas — The recall of tons of ground beef paints a "black eye" on the meat processing industry but animal treatment like that depicted at a West Coast slaughterhouse isn't typical, say Texas cattle ranchers and those who watch the market. Most believe it's unlikely the recall, the largest ever in the U.S., will impact markets for ground beef. Undercover video taken at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. of Chino, Calif., shows workers shocking, kicking and shoving debilitated cattle with forklifts, prompting the government to pull more than 71,000 tons of beef. In Texas, the nation's leading cattle producer, ranchers and officials were incensed. They also were quick to contend the incident is isolated and that the recall pertained to animal welfare, not food safety.
Fed slashes US rates in emergency action
The DOW gapped down sharply this morning, recovered, and is again falling; because the fundamentals continue to get worse, like SP4's native intellect. The discussion has moved from 'recession' to 'bear market', since there's now a complete lack of confidence in the paper that banks and other institutions hold, and banks do not even lend to each other. The Northern Rock deal in Britain is a saver for them, but the problems are far from over, with many foreclosures due for 2008, and buying power sapped by lower home values and upcoming mortgage rate increases. SP4, just shut up. You're tolerable as the daily jackass in normal times, but now you're just a leaky faucet - drip, drip, drip. Report this comment .
Oil price hits new record
WORLD oil prices hit a new record of $US101.32 ($110.48) a barrel in Asian trading today on renewed concerns over global crude supplies, dealers said. New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, closed overnight up 73 cents at an all-time high of $US100.74. The latest price spike burst Tuesday's record price of $US100.10 and record close at $US100.01. In London, Brent North Sea crude for April delivery settled 14 cents lower at $US98.42, after striking a record $US98.70 Tuesday. Prices have soared amid growing speculation OPEC, which supplies about 40 per cent of the world's oil, may cut output at its March 5 meeting in Vienna, anticipating a fall in demand at the end of the northern hemisphere winter and a US economic slowdown, analysts said. "Supply worries and comments by some OPEC members that the group might not raise output at their March meeting provided the catalyst for the sharp rally," said Barclays Capital analyst Kevin Norrish.
Cold turkey plan for Scots addicts
The very worst part of the drug culture is the culture itself, it's full of the most unsavoury pieces of humanity who generate subcultures of theft, prostitution, violence. If you can get the addicts away from that hell hole they stand some sort of a chance in getting their lives back on track.Imagine it from the point of view of the young girl who doesn't have to go into a car with someone she doesn't know to perform some sort of sex act to earn the money to buy the drug. Take that problem away, the streets become safer, petty theft and shoplifting numbers drop ... and the young girl won't have that used, dirty feeling that only goes away when she takes more of the drug.Not an easy one to fix ..... and getting harder since we have allowed the eastern block Europeans to dump the worst of their populations on our welfare state.
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