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Chinese province ending bureaucrat sinecures
Post Date: 2011-12-06 05:45:51 by Tatarewicz
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A job as a civil servant in China used to mean a life-long position with an unbreakable "iron rice bowl" from cradle to grave. But staff members working in state administrative organs in Guangdong province will now be issued with a contract of employment instead of a lifetime guarantee, xinhuanet.com reported Tuesday. The new system will break the decades long "iron rice bowl" which used to mean a guaranteed job for life in government, and civil servants in the province will be paid according to their performance. The province has also vowed to recruit officials from the grassroots level. The new employment system will be enacted during the 12th Five- Year Plan (20 ...
Seattle welfare recipient lives in million-dollar home
Post Date: 2011-12-06 04:04:45 by Tatarewicz
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A Seattle woman who is receiving welfare assistance from Washington state also happens to live in a waterfront house on Lake Washington worth more than a million dollars. Federal agents raided the home this weekend but have not released the woman or her husband's name because they have not officially been charged with a crime. However, federal documents obtained by KING 5 News show the couple currently receives more than $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers, plus state and government disability checks and food stamps. They have been receiving the benefits since 2003. The 2,500 square-foot home, which includes gardens and a boat dock, is valued at $1.2 million. And even though ...
Exclusive News Exposed: Aliens Want Our Gold
Post Date: 2011-12-04 07:17:37 by Tatarewicz
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South Africa's first ever UFO Science and Consciousness Conference host, Michael Tellinger, sent chills down the spines of News24's audience when he told them: “There's a battle for Earth by some interesting dark forces." As it turns out, human beings aren't the only gold-thirsty beings in this universe. According to reports from South African journalists, aliens had been sighted on the prowl for the precious yellow metal, here on our home turf. "South Africa has been dubbed as the cradle of humankind and the place where all life form began, thus the reason [South Africa] was selected as the host for the UFO Science and Consciousness Conference," he ...
If Laws Change, 'Penny Hoarders' Could Cash in on Thousands of Dollars
Post Date: 2011-12-04 01:50:58 by Tatarewicz
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Joe Henry is on a first name basis with bank tellers across his hometown of Medford, Ore., scouring 15 banks a week with one thing on his mind: pennies. Henry is often seen toting around bags of pennies, some he buys, others he changes back in for cash, which seems a little strange at first. He's not a collector, he is what's known as a "penny hoarder" and he is not alone. Inside a shed next to his house, Henry has orange tubs filled with 200,000 pennies, and he spends hours sorting through roll after roll of the coins. But it's not just any and all pennies, Henry is only interested in those that are dated from 1982 and earlier because those are the coins made with ...
Germany 'more corrupt than thought'
Post Date: 2011-12-03 04:31:17 by Tatarewicz
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Though a new survey of perceptions of corruption in countries around the world rates Germany rather well – 14th out of 183 countries – anti-graft group Transparency International says country still has much work to do. The annual survey by the Berlin-based non-governmental organization placed Germany above well-developed countries like the United States, Austria and Belgium. But Christian Humborg, the managing director of Transparency’s Germany branch, pointed out that the country’s position hadn’t improved much in recent years. In 2010, Germany was ranked 15th and the year before was ranked 14th in the index. It has consistently ranked in the middle of the pack ...
Fox carcass discovery closes German restaurant
Post Date: 2011-12-03 03:30:06 by Tatarewicz
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Health inspectors have shut down a Vietnamese restaurant in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt after they found a fox carcass there, apparently ready to be eaten or served to customers. Inspectors told the regional Volksstimme newspaper that they immediately confiscated the animal from the Bao Viet restaurant in Magdeburg and sent it away for testing. “It must now be examined to see whether the animal had diseases,” Eike Hennig, the head of the local health department told the Volksstimme, adding that he had never seen such a bizarre health code violation. Officials are worried the beast may have had rabies or be infested with trichinella, a worm parasite that can invade ...
Airline food blamed in death of Miami man
Post Date: 2011-12-03 01:33:06 by Tatarewicz
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Did contaminated airline food cause a passenger's death? Airline food is notoriously unappetizing. But can it kill? That's the claim in a suit recently filed by the wife and daughter of the late Othon Cortes against American Airlines and the contractor that prepared his inflight meal. The two plaintiffs allege that Cortes died after eating a meal on a transatlantic American flight. In their lawsuit against the airline and Sky Chefs--a German company subcontracted to prepare food on American Airlines flights--the Corteses allege that the meal served on Cortes' flight between Barcelona, Spain and New York was contaminated with bacteria. The Cortes family's suit, filed in a ...
Man is accidentally shot by his own dog
Post Date: 2011-12-02 01:30:44 by Tatarewicz
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Duck Hunt gone awry Dogs are man's best friend. Except, you know, when they're shooting a gun at you. And strangely enough, that's what really happened to a hapless dog owner in Brigham City, Utah. The man in question--a 46-year-old hunting enthusiast who is not named in local news reports on the incident--got a behind-full of birdshot courtesy of his loyal canine companion when he was out duck hunting over the weekend. KSL.com reports the man and his dog were traveling in a canoe-like boat when the man stepped out into a shallow marsh to set up some decoys. His left his 12-gauge shotgun resting across the bow of the boat, according to Box Elder County Sheriff's Deputy ...
I Wonder About Dogs
Post Date: 2011-12-01 13:37:19 by Turtle
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I have a pug, which of course can't win a fight against a Chihuahua. I was sitting in my van yesterday with my pug, smoking a cigar, when some whacko walked up and asked me for a light. Before I could even respond to tell him to get lost, Wilson hurled himself across my lap, snarling, and attempted to attack this guy. I've always thought dogs are good judges of character, and he obviously did not like this lowlife, since he tried to kill him. Without a word, the guy walked away. Maybe I should get a 250-pound bull mastiff. That would be fun.
Anthony Weiner’s New Moustache Not Making Him Any Less Creepy
Post Date: 2011-12-01 10:23:10 by Eric Stratton
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Anthony Weiner’s New Moustache Not Making Him Any Less Creepy Former congressman Anthony Weiner resigned in disgrace earlier this year for sending pictures of his erect dong to various strangers on Twitter. Now, months later, attempting to rebuild his life with his pregnant wife, State Department aide Huma Abedin, he has settled on the exact worst strategy to look like a normal guy who would never even consider sending dick pics to women: growing a wispy moustache. (We understand that it's probably for "Movember," the prostate cancer-awareness event. Even so.) Poster Comment:I'm sure he's got a nice, comfy serf-provided pension to live off of in these tough ...
Kidnapper sues former hostages, for breaking promise
Post Date: 2011-12-01 05:55:49 by Tatarewicz
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Can there be no trust between a kidnapper and his hostages? A man who held a Kansas couple hostage in their home while fleeing from authorities is suing them, claiming they broke an oral contract made when he promised them money in exchange for hiding him from police. The couple has asked a judge to dismiss the suit. Jesse Dimmick of suburban Denver is serving an 11-year sentence after bursting into Jared and Lindsay Rowley's Topeka-area home in September 2009. He was wanted for questioning in the beating death of a Colorado man and a chase had begun in in Geary County. The Topeka Capital-Journal (bit.ly/skb0Rl ) reported that Dimmick filed a breach of ...
Woman “imprisoned” on Scientology cruise ship for 12 years
Post Date: 2011-12-01 05:11:24 by Tatarewicz
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UPDATE: The Village Voice has an extended interview with Valeska Paris, which you can read here. For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation. But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship "Freewinds" for more than a decade. During her stay on the vessel, she alleges, she was forced into hard labor and never allowed to leave the ship without an escort. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC News) Lateline program, Paris claims that Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige sent her to the ship when she was 18 in order to prevent her family from pulling ...
Horses could once again be slaughtered for meat in US
Post Date: 2011-12-01 04:48:34 by Tatarewicz
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Cheri White Owl, founder of Horse Feathers Equine Rescue, is pictured with a horse recently dumped at her sanctuary in Guthrie, Okla., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Slaughterhouses could be ready to kill horses within a month if the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides funding for meat inspectors, days after Congress quietly opened the door to the practice by lifting a 5-year-old ban on spending federal money on such inspections. TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. Slaughter ...
Former “sheriff of the year" now in jail named after him
Post Date: 2011-12-01 02:39:43 by Tatarewicz
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Every civil servant wants to experience his or her legacy firsthand--but not the way that onetime Arapahoe Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. has. Sullivan, a nationally renowned law enforcement leader, was arrested on drug charges and is now being detained in the Denver area jail that bears his name. Sullivan, who in 2001 was named the National Sheriff Association's "Sheriff of the Year," was arrested on suspicion of trafficking methamphetamines. Local news station CBS4 began an investigation of Sullivan last month on a tip that he had agreed to meet a male informant, providing drugs in exchange for sex. He was subsequently arrested by the South Metro Drug Task Force and is ...
Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden in donated suit
Post Date: 2011-11-29 23:58:12 by Tatarewicz
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There's a cynical old saying that "no good deed goes unpunished." That adage has proved true for an elderly Illinois man who accidentally gave away his entire life savings when making a clothing donation to his local Goodwill. The 80-year-old man, who didn't trust banks, had kept his life savings of $13,000 sewn inside the lining of one of his suits. He is currently appealing for the money's return so that he can care for his wife, who has Stage 4 cancer. Goodwill spokeswoman Dana Engelbert said the charity has searched the Moline store where the man made his donation but could not find the suit in question. "We're sorting through the donations that came in ...
Injection with cement and tire sealent by fake plastic surgeon produces horrific facial damage
Post Date: 2011-11-29 22:32:26 by Tatarewicz
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An alleged victim of 'fake doctor' Oneal Ron Morris has come forward to show the horrific state of her face after it was injected with a toxic mixture of cement and tyre sealant. Rajee Narinesingh, 48, from Miami, Florida, says her face was ruined by Morris, who had just been released from custody after she was accused of administering the potentially lethal shots to another victim. Ms Narinesingh, who, like Morris, 30, was born a man, but lives as a woman, said she suffered acutely lumpy cheeks, misshapen chin and ballooning upper lip after the back room beauty treatment. Back room beauty treatment: Rajee Narinesingh, 48, from Miami, Florida, says her face was destroyed after ...
Herman Cain Is 'Reassessing' His Candidacy
Post Date: 2011-11-29 12:00:45 by Jethro Tull
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"In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is 'reassessing' whether to remain in the race," reports National Review's Robert Costa. Costa added that Cain told his staff in a conference call that he’ll make his final decision 'over the next several days.'" The report is being confirmed by ABC's Jonathan Karl who tweeted, "Mark Block tells [Amy Walter, ABC's Political News Director] the NRO report is true. Cain told staff today he is "reassessing" whether to stay in the race." Poster Comment:
ow to Discover and Achieve Your Life Goals
Post Date: 2011-11-29 03:47:34 by Tatarewicz
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Many doctors know there is something missing from their lives; or they have a nagging feeling that they are not achieving a goal that would bring satisfaction. Doctors often have dreams of things they would love to achieve; yet somehow those dreams never become reality. However, those dreams or goals could become reality with foresight and planning. If you make a habit of setting goals that will create the enviable position of balance in your life. Setting goals is so powerful and positive, yet so simple. This habit, this way of living, can and will have an incredibly profound impact on your personal and professional success. To achieve your goals, you need to start the goal achievement ...
Funny Thing Happened just now....
Post Date: 2011-11-26 15:40:40 by HOUNDDAWG
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Saturday, 11/26 @ 3:05 PM (UTC-05 ROMEO TIME ZONE) While watching the documentary entitled "OCEANS" I became curious after seeing the Marine Iguanas happily swimming off the coast of one of the Galapagos Islands. So, after preliminary research I went to GOOGLE MAPS and pulled up the image of Española Island, which is home to the frisky critters starring in the documentary. But, when I tried to zoom in to a meaningful level in order to look the island over it was washed out in white, as if completely covered by a single, thin cloud. At a certain zoom level I could see green and some tiny rock formations, but it wouldn't let me zoom in enough to see the secret antennas ...
Gigantic baby ‘Jihad’ born in Berlin
Post Date: 2011-11-26 03:42:55 by Tatarewicz
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Doctors were left astounded after a gigantic baby set a new record for Germany’s heaviest-ever naturally born newborn Friday. The boy was named Jihad. The 6-kilogramme (13-pound) boy was born at Berlin’s Charité hospital to a 40-year-old, 240-kilogramme (528-pound) woman who also had gestational diabetes and most likely a metabolic disorder, according to doctors. Women suffering from untreated gestational diabetes – when a pregnant woman who doesn’t previously suffer from diabetes has excessively high blood sugar – tend to produce particularly overweight babies. Such newborns are often delivered via caesarean section because they can suffer from oxygen ...
Kitten and Roomba Vacuum
Post Date: 2011-11-25 14:20:46 by Lod
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Polish perogy recipe
Post Date: 2011-11-25 03:00:56 by Tatarewicz
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annab ♀ PIEROGI RECIPE (WITH POTATO AND CHEESE) Ingredients (serves 4-6) 3 lbs potatoes 2 lbs farmer cheese 1 med. onion 3 lbs flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1 gal water for boiling 2 cups lukewarm water for dough some bacon or sour cream Filling Peal and boil potatoes until cooked, drain water, make mashed potatoes, and cool down. In the meantime, finely chop the onion and fry with oil until golden, cool down. In a sizeable bowl, combine mashed potatoes, farmer cheese, onion, salt and pepper to taste. Mix all ingredients well until evenly creamy. Dough Pour flour on molding board, make a cone with a hole in the center, pour lukewarm water in the hole and knead ...
Prayer Request
Post Date: 2011-11-23 23:38:10 by Lod
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To those who pray - I ask you to put Mrs.L on your list. She is (hopefully) recovering from a resection of a lung malignancy. Things are looking good, but any good thoughts and prayers would be appreciated. Thank you, Jim
One Job Turtle Does
Post Date: 2011-11-23 13:19:24 by Turtle
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I've have two businesses but I also do home health care about 15 hours a week. It is a most interesing job. One guy suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning when a teenager. I thought you either got well or died. Guess what? Sometimes you live and have severe brain damage. He can talk and mostly make sense but is basically a quadrapeglic. He can move but is so weak he is either in bed or a wheelchair. He's been like this for 35 years. It not only ruined his life but also his parents. Sometimes it's better just to die. Some things are worse than death.
UNIVERSAL SIGN SAYS IT ALL
Post Date: 2011-11-22 05:58:45 by HOUNDDAWG
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Anyone for a quick dip in an estuary home of the world's largest reptiles? Poster Comment:Not mee, thanks. These critters were still "sunbathing in various retreats" in The Mekong Delta when our boys were running PBRs through there, in search of the elusive and evil "commie bastard". Back then the belief was that "Inside every 21 foot saltwater crocodile is a fluffy kitten trying to get out." (heh heh) Risky Business...
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