“Increasing attention has been paid to the sharp increase in suicides this year at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory which manufactures iPods, iPads, and iPhones. It also fills orders from a broad list of clientele including Dell, HP, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.”
My guess is that the Chinese are going to take to Unions like a dog to a bone in the near future.
We saved your country for Pete’s sake. Kids can fly kites. Girls can go to school. Men can shave. Are your brains so broken that you have no memory. Geez, you would be speaking Russian if it were not for the hundred of millions, perhaps billions of dollars worth munitions we gave you to fight the USSR.
“President Obama has sent a letter to Afghanistan counterpart Hamid Karzai apologizing for a recent incident of Quran burning at a U.S. airbase there.
“I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident,” Obama wrote in the letter delivered to Karzai today, and released by the Afghanistan government. “I extend to you and the Afghan people my sincere apologies.”
“The error was inadvertent,” the letter added. “I assure you that we will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible.”
The burning incident triggered anti-U.S. riots that have killed at least 14 people, including two American soldiers.” http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/obama-apologizes-to-karzai-for-koran-burning/1#.T0Zom_GMY4M
We accidentally burn a Koran and they deliberately kill two American’s. Where is our apology? How is paper more important than human life.
Obama…stand up for America for once!
Democrats only believe money generates jobs when that money is in the hands of the poor. The won’t acknowledge that that same money creates jobs when in the hands of the rich (the owners of the money).
Frustrating
The police don’t need culture training. I’ve seen the Haka dozens of times. If someone blocked my exit and did it in my face I would do the same. It’s equivalent to saying, “In my culture flipping people off and shouting obscenities at them is historic.”
In our culture you don’t stick your tongue out at officers. You don’t clinch your fists at officers. You don’t give them a look like you are going to crush their skull. You don’t block exits. When police tell you to move–YOU MOVE. These idiots are the one’s needing the culture training.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52947896-78/police-officers-dance-group.html.csp#disqus_thread
Roosevelt Police Department documents detail an apparent cultural misunderstanding that led officers to deploy pepper spray and use a baton on spectators performing a Polynesian dance at a high school football game.
The documents, including witness and police affidavits, were released to The Salt Lake Tribune in response to an open records request after the Oct. 20 incident involving a group of spectators attempting to perform the Haka, a traditional war dance and chant, to honor Union High School football players after a heartbreaking loss to rival Uintah.
Police ultimately determined both sides were partially to blame as the situation could have been avoided had both officers and spectators made different decisions that night, records show.
Records state the two officers assigned to work security at the game, Luke Stradinger and Wade Butterfield, were already braced for trouble because in the past the rivalry had resulted in fights. Police and other witnesses reported hearing some spectators in the Polynesian group shouting obscenities at the departing referees, displaying poor sportsmanship or making inappropriate comments toward Uintah High School cheerleaders trying to leave the stadium after the game, records show.
School officials were concerned enough about the atmosphere that they opted to keep football players on the field until some of the crowd cleared out, witness statements show. Police had already cleared the exit once and ordered people off the field when a group of Tongan dancers and supporters appeared, suddenly blocking the only exit, one witness affidavit shows. Police said a video recording at one point captures one dancer expressing concern that they might get in trouble with police. Then a woman encourages everyone to start.
Stradinger can be heard on the same video telling everyone to make a hole so that the players could leave, but the video shows the dancers ignored the order. Witnesses statements from those standing amid the group indicate some acknowledged they heard the order, but others said they didn’t hear it or that police didn’t give them enough time to respond.
Some statements indicate the group was starting the dance so those that heard the order apparently chose to disregard it because they felt they weren’t doing anything wrong. Records show as the dance got under way, officers started to worry. They had never seen anything like it and had no prior warning the Haka, which involves some aggressive movements, was going to occur.
After Ohio voted with the government unions two weeks ago, I thought all hope was lost. Host is still lost but this is good news.
Poll: Voters want court to kill Obama health care law
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/11/poll-voters-want-court-to-kill-obama-health-care-law/1
A new poll shows that most voters want the Supreme Court to overturn President Obama’s health care law, with opposition and support falling largely along party lines.
Overall, voters oppose the law by 48-40%, according to the Quinnipiac University survey. Democrats support the Obama health care effort by 70-19%, while Republicans oppose it by 86-8%.
The Quinnipiac survey found independent voters opposed to the law by 45-38%.
Of course, voters won’t decide the fate of the health care in the Supreme Court — that’s up to the justices themselves, and they are expected to make a ruling by late June.
Whatever the court’s ruling, health care figures to be a major factor in next year’s election; the Republican presidential candidates have vowed to repeal what they call “Obamacare.”
The health care numbers are included in a Quinnpiac Poll that also says “economic sanctions to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons aren’t effective, American voters say 60-33%, and 50% of voters say the U.S. should take military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program if sanctions don’t work.”
“China claims the entire South China Sea and says any dispute should be handled on a bilateral basis only.” China is just being the big bully on the block.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
I don’t know the accuracy of the quote but this is what I transcribed.
Your World Cavuto of FOXNEWS
November 8, 2011
Home Depot Co-Founder: A Lot of Uncertainty in the GOP Field
“We bought a thousand ships a year during WWII and we had a thousand people in the Bureau of Ships. In the 1980’s we bought 17.2 ships a year and we had 4,000 people in the Bureau of Ships. Today we buy 9.2 ships a year and we have 25,000 people in the Bureau of Ships. Before the stimulus package we had on person in the Department of Transportation making $170,000 or more. Right after the stimulus package was passed we have 1149 people in the Department of Transportation getting paid more than $170,000.”
Ken Langone quoting Mitt Romney
You can watch it at: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-world-cavuto/index.html#/v/1265175969001/langone-biggest-threat-to-democracy-is-unemployment/?playlist_id=86929 It’s the 7:16 minute video.
