Since the FAO’s report in April 2006 tens of thousands of farmers have switched from food to fuel production to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.
Seems to me that every time the .gov gets involved in something it turns to sh*t.
Thanks to bio-fuel subsidies the price of my bagel keeps going up how much does that suck?
Apparently, now, calling someone a racist is a racist act. This is going to end well.
Instead, it left a sour note as vandals spray-painted racial slurs outside the campaign headquarters.
“I don’t even know why anyone would do this except ignorance you know, total ignorance, ” said installation technician Lonzell Johnson.
It was a sight that “Towles Phone Center” technicians never wanted to see. The phrase “a racist” was spray painted on the hood and the sides
of two of their company vans.
Also, it’s just sad when your PC graffiti jagoff’s have such atrocious spelling.
Jerome Bartens, 11, was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two. He struggled at school, couldn’t hear the TV properly and was fed up with people having to shout at him.
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Jerome’s dad Carsten, 45, said: “It was just incredible - his hearing returned to normal in an instant. He was cured as suddenly as he became deaf. I had always suspected Jerome had stuck something in his ear when he was little and that was causing the problem. But the doctors and hearing specialists said it was wax and he would probably grow out of it.
The leftist Chavez this week created a state food distributor and loosened some price controls, seeking to end months of shortages for staples like milk and eggs that have caused long lines and upset his supporters in the OPEC nation.
The below leaves me with 2 questions,
1. Can you use your CIWS on surface craft?
2. Would the remains of said surface craft change the flavour of the babagounush?
In an interview Monday, Voinovich would not address her comments, first saying she didn’t remember the incident, then demanding a copy of the recording and finally insisting that she could not talk about a student’s discipline.
The circumstances of the boy’s suspension itself raise troubling questions about student discipline, interrogation and oversight at Abraham Lincoln.
According to school officials, the boy made a statement about “brown people” to another elementary student with whom he was having a conflict. They maintain it was his second offense using the phrase.
But the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he “doesn’t cooperate with brown people.”
In the West Midlands, the owner of The Staffordshire Knot pub was fined even though he could prove himself innocent of speeding. Stephen Gittus, 39, parked his Kia outside of his establishment on the date and time that a notice he received in the mail claimed his car was hurtling through Wolverhampton at 40 MPH in a 30 MPH zone on Willenhall Road. Several witnesses confirmed that Gittus was playing darts in a crowd of thirty patrons at around 10pm on the date in question.
Last Tuesday, however, Wolverhampton Magistrates Court dropped the speeding charge but did not care that Gittus was innocent. Instead, they imposed three license demerit points and a £420 (US $840) fine on him for “failing to supply information to police” regarding the ticket. Section 172 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act requires motorists to identify the driver of a vehicle accused of speeding, even if the vehicle in question was parked at the time.
so, i’m walking to the subway last night and in front of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons (off 23rd & 6th ave) there are 5-7 people with signs promoting “Gun Owners for Ron Paul“.
In Manhattan!
Until I got home and checked the web, I wasn’t sure if this was from actual Paul-ites or from people trying to make him look unacceptable to lefties, but it looks legit.
