Earlier this week The Baker Report recommended peace keeping forces be removed from Iraq. Meanwhile speculation reigned that President Bush would wait to make a definitive time table not only to try to show his confidence in the new formed Iraqi government but also to shift blame from himself and his administration should things go wrong. The UK based Telegraph has this interesting article depicting the two sides in the region, the Sunni-Muslims and the Shia. Making this worse is this chilling quote from Mohsen Rezai, the secretary general of Iranian Expediency Council.
"America destroyed all our enemies in the region. It destroyed the Taliban. It destroyed Saddam Hussein… The Americans got so stuck in the soil of Iraq and Afghanistan that if they manage to drag themselves back to Washington in one piece, they should thank God. America presents us with an opportunity rather than a threat — not because it intended to, but because it miscalculated. They made many mistakes".
But who are we to listen to the actual people that are about to fight over Iraq when we have Bill O’Reilly who knows for a fact that, "[T]he American media is not helping anyone by oversimplifying the situation and rooting for the USA to lose in Iraq."
But Bill O'Reilly isn't the world's only xenophobe. Regardless, here is an excellent website depicting actual English translations that made it into Hong Kong movies. I think I like number 21 the most but number 11 is tempting.
Ah, it is Christmas time. A time to spend time with loved ones; a time to burn through savings accounts like money is of no consequence. But relax, dear reader, it doesn’t make a difference anyhow when two percent of the population has half of the worlds wealth and
“net assets [that’s not savings dear readers] of $2,200 per adult would put a household in the top half of the world wealth distribution.”
Furthering the Christmas spirit an area boy in South Carolina is arrested for opening up his Christmas present early. According to local sources this “Way ups parents street cred across the nation.”
But if you work for Wal-Mart doesn’t Christmas come all year round? After Wal-Mart passed new regulations where it largely cut down it’s full time work force to part time and working for lower wages they pass this morale booster! I honestly wonder what the t-shirt looks like for working there for 20 years.
Last and certainly not least… the trailer for Who Killed the Electric Car…
3 comments:
You mean I can work for 20 years for Walmart and get a nice polo shirt ... for FREE?? Where do I sign up?
Also I worked Kohls and would like to point out that I got a much better discount: 15% on softlines and 10% on hardlines (the discount was also upped twice a year during employee shopping days to 20% and 25%). And that I could stack this discount on top of sales prices and store issued coupons (which sometimes were up to an extra 30%). Seriously, only 10% Walmart? 10%???!!!??
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Several of my friends and I oftened contended that Kohls was the ultimate guy store. Not only was everything always discounted when you would go through the store the odds on favorite was that it would be further discounted upon your arrival at the register.
I don't know if you were able to read the full article, 10, but I think that you do get patches for your 20 year shirt for every five years that you work over it.
I don't know if that would really be a benchmark of pride or if that would only be another major source for depression
You know if they started that earlier, say 10 or 5 years you got a polo, maybe that'd be nice. But seriously 20 years? I would like to point out that at my current employer recognizes employees after 5 years, and we have many employees that are above 30 years of employment. Scary, that longevity.
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