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John Carson wrote: I think the evidence is pretty clear that keeping families together generally gives the best outcomes, but some families are so bad that separation is necessary. The problem however is that the bureaucracy ultimately only has a vested interest in its own existence, not the families existence. Give such bureaucraies enough power and they will be splitting families up over any excuse merely to justify their own existence. Families with problems are a community issue and should be handled locally by the community itself with the government getting ivnovled as only a last resort if actual laws are being broken. So, unless getting old has become against the law, this should not have happened. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Fair enough. But that notion should be shared by you also; IMO. :laugh: This statement is false

Dalek Dave wrote: I have seen bin lorries put normal and recycle rubbish in the same wagon! How's that work? The way it works here it the truck has two compartments, one for garbage and one for recycling. Green waste recycling is handled separately. "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

I knew that it did lead to the phasing out of CFCs. Maybe it wasn't the best example, since they did get a win there. And obviously fewer CFCs is a good thing. Broken clock and all that. Point taken. Visit BoneSoft.com for code generation tools (XML & XSD -> C#, VB, etc...) and some free developer tools as well.

Pierre Leclercq wrote: Well I'd like to see those ads!! In 2006 over 300 complaints were made against employers posting H1B-only employment ads. The Department of Justice announced May 1, 2008, that it has fined iGate Mastech, a Pittsburgh computer consulting company, $45,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations that it had discriminated against U.S. workers in its hiring practices, actively seeking to hire H-1B visa holders only. If, on the other hand, you are looking for H1B-only jobs that pay six figures, I doubt they exist. Pierre Leclercq wrote: Didn't that occur to them, lawyers do a real job for H1B applicants, by taking care of the paperwork, and helping navigate the rules and regulations, so they won't breach status and remain legal? I think the one who needs a clue is you. Watch the video. The lawyer in question is explaining how to avoid hiring Americans. Pierre Leclercq wrote: This article is simplistic and misleading. I can't believe someone with the skills to qualify for an H1B visa would fall for such low material. You have no idea. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

Hope it's not Dallas, Debbie already did that, and sloppy seconds suck.

Dalek Dave wrote: I was of the opinion that Tom Baker Was the greatest Doctor of them all He is.

Very good. me, me, me

Maybe they could take into account the environment. For example, this is a problem to cut off the power during severe winter conditions, but the guy who does not pay his bills will have to live in the dark and without air conditioning in the summer? You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

BoneSoft wrote: I can't imagine why anybody would question something like immediate provisions for marial law, with the capacity to intern millions all over the country. From all I've seen and read, these camps aren't soup kitchens, they are designed to keep people in against their will. Well you didn't read it in the bill you linked to. The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure-- (1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster; (2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders; (3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and (4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. and Minimum Requirements- A site designated as a national emergency center shall be-- (1) capable of meeting for an extended period of time the housing, health, transportation, education, public works, humanitarian and other transition needs of a large number of individuals affected by an emergency or major disaster; (2) environmentally safe and shall not pose a health risk to individuals who may use the center; (3) capable of being scaled up or down to accommodate major disaster preparedness and response drills, operations, and procedures; (4) capable of housing existing permanent structures necessary to meet training and first responders coordination requirements during nondisaster periods; (5) capable of hosting the infrastructure necessary to rapidly adjust to temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance needs; (6) required to consist of a complete operations command center, including 2 state-of-the art command and control centers that will comprise a 24/7 operations watch center as follows: (A) one of the command and control centers shall be in full ready mode; and (B) the other shall be used daily for training; and (7) easily accessible at all times and be able to facilitate handicapped and medical facilities, including during an emergency or major disaster. John Carson

easy there tiger heres anther expert quote for you http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=1a5e6e32-802a-23ad-40ed-ecd53cd3d320[^] Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of James Hansen, NASA’s vocal man-made global warming fear soothsayer, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.” Theon joins the rapidly growing ranks of international scientists abandoning the promotion of man-made global warming fears. “I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made,” Theon wrote to the Minority Office at the Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15, 2009. cheerypips Bryce p.s. i notice you didn't address my point. Please do if you feel like it. MCP --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. -- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor Our kids books :The Snot Goblin, and Book 2 - the Snotgoblin and Fluff

I was wondering if they controlled for the use of lubricants such as wD-40 or PAM or something. Not that I have any experience with that myself, of course. Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

Yep, from what I'm seeing now it looks like a giant liberal goody bag called stimulus so the public won't question it. One example[^] I just ran accross. Visit BoneSoft.com for code generation tools (XML & XSD -> C#, VB, etc...) and some free developer tools as well.

I used to care more for English before I llived abroad and learnt French and Dutch. Now, I see it for what it is. A mess. Funny, flexible, emotive, and slangy, but a mess, and undeserving of rules. It was born in the gutter, and lives in the gutter. Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription