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Had my 1973 Datsun Pickup truck stolen in 1975 from in front of house. I always leaved the keys in ignition. Found 5 days later about 30 miles away in major city. Keys still in it. Gas tank empty. Parked in front of a fire hydrant. 5 parking tickets for parking in front of a fire hydrant. Money and highway tokens still in glove box. Put some petrol in it and drove home. Thankfully, they were honest crooks !

“Clinton’s program includes an increase in the minimum wage, expanded child-care subsidies, universal preschool, mandatory paid leave, and legislation to make it easier to sue employers for sex discrimination. These are policies that deliver concrete benefits to large groups of voters and signal that she is on the side of women, families, poor people, and employees.†LINK

Pick any US large city any state. Read up on what percentage of school children in city qualify for free or reduced school lunch. Now it could be argued that there are a bunch of cheaters etc. I have no idea what forms or proof are needed to apply for free or reduced school lunch. A little background. The US school lunch program began during/after WWII when so many drafted were too malnourished to be inducted into the US armed forces. Could be wrong as I read this on the "internet".

“On September 11 of this year, the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean reached its annual minimum. 2015’s minimum was the fourth-smallest ever recorded, and it nearly tied with the third-smallest on record. Which makes a certain amount of sense: In the satellite era, the ten worst years for Arctic sea ice have been the last ten.†LINK

“China is bringing home some serious American bacon. Shareholders of Smithfield Foods approved a plan to sell the world's largest pork producer and processor to a Chinese company. “ LINK

“Three other solar farms had previously been accepted by the town council, with one of them now putting solar panels up.†LINK This was a zoning issue. The "zoning people" are going hog wild all over the country. First they all pass strict zoning laws. Then when an applicant requests a variance - the nut cases come out of the wood work. Have the same issues with windmills. No one wants them. Disturbs their "view". Even if they can't see them from their home or business.

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They advise to use headphones. http://youtu.be/3gWvE4O9hzU

I stayed at the Thang Long Hotel. A smaller budget hotel near city center. A smaller old French hotel. Tourist friendly. Helpful staff. It took my less then 10 minutes after entering room to obtain some sanuk. Thang Long Hotel 52 Cau Go Street | Hoan Kiem District - Old Quarter, Hanoi, Vietnam 04 3824 5712 A side note. Flight. Upon landing in Hanoi - there were cows roaming the runway.

Quite a few thought provoking ones. Very interesting.

There is no racism left in the good old US of A ! Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Friday released audio of controversial comments made by Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting that some African-Americans might be better off at "less-advanced"universities, language that has caused a national uproar and spurred condemnation from elected officials including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Rep. John Lewis. LINK

Just playing into the hands of Mr. Donald Trump !

Opps ! “If you check out JebBush.com, you''ll land on a Donald Trump site. The mix-up happened because Bush's team appeared not to have registered his name as a domain name, the website Gizmodo reported. LINK

“The body of Matthew Riggins, of Palm Bay, was found Nov. 23 in a Barefoot Bay lake. During the late evening or early morning hours of Nov. 12 to Nov. 13, Riggins told his girlfriend that he was going to Barefoot Bay to commit burglaries with another person, deputies said.†LINK "Due to trauma observed on the body, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper was called and an 11-foot alligator was trapped and euthanized, deputies said. A forensic examination of the alligator found remains consistent with the injuries to Riggins inside the alligator’s stomach, according to the Sheriff's Office."

“But the tight security raises questions about Bahauddin Zakariya University itself and the potential for extremism being promoted in higher education in Pakistan more broadly.†LINK

Lovely pictures. When did the tracked trolley stop running? Some of the old timers here must remember it.

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Gotta just love 'em. http://youtu.be/QnVgLSEbUyA

viewed the video above. I remember when the German Beer Garden was a canvas tent. My how times have changed. Sitting at any of the bars inside - when it rained - one could possibly get a tad wet (from the rain).

I just love popping bubble wrap. Specially the big ones.

It's all the Brits fault. “This Article reviews the British gun control program that precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gunpowder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gunpowder; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events that changed a situation of political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment. Furious at the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, Parliament in 1774 passed the Coercive Acts. The particular provisions of the Coercive Acts were offensive to Americans, but it was the possibility that the British might deploy the army to enforce them that primed many colonists for armed resistance. The Patriots of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, resolved: “That in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by the strength of arms, our cause we leave to heaven and our rifles.†A South Carolina newspaper essay, reprinted in Virginia, urged that any law that had to be enforced by the military was necessarily illegitimate. The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, had forbidden town meetings from taking place more than once a year. When he dispatched the Redcoats to break up an illegal town meeting in Salem, 3000 armed Americans appeared in response, and the British retreated. Gage’s aide John Andrews explained that everyone in the area aged 16 years or older owned a gun and plenty of gunpowder. Military rule would be difficult to impose on an armed populace. Gage had only 2,000 troops in Boston. There were thousands of armed men in Boston alone, and more in the surrounding area. One response to the problem was to deprive the Americans of gunpowder.†LINK

Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. "The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, enacted on June 26, 1934, currently codified as amended as I.R.C. ch. 53, is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes a statutory excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those firearms. The Act was passed shortly after the repeal of Prohibition. The NFA is also referred to as Title II of the Federal firearms laws. The Gun Control Act of 1968 ("GCA") is Title I." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act Fully automatic is prohibited.

Well, I've stopped watching the tele, stopped listening to music and talk radio. Now, it is just numbers. http://youtu.be/zmuAJsq5rmE Can anyone here grasp the enormity of this find?

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