| Maybe at Denny's...But Unacceptable Anywhere Else!
A Texas Roadhouse restaurant cook could face 3 1/2 years in jail along with a hefty fine of 10,000 dollars after he allegedly put his own pubic hair in the middle of a medium rare steak. The prankster chef, Ryan Kropp, was upset when one of the restaurant's customers complained about the way his steak was cooked. As revenge, witnesses say he cut a slit in the steak and inserted his long-and-curlies. Next time you think about sending your food back, consider what happens behind the scenes. .
Don’t panic Captain Mainwaring, don’t panic…
Bernard wants a property crash which is more than a little unusual considering the negative impacts this would have on a large part of NZ's population. Does Bernard stand to benefit from such an event? I guess this blog was posted before todays Labour govt's shared equity proposal which is sure to place a rocket under the currently cooling house market. The reduction in Auckland residential property prices/volume of sales is a mere blip for the simple reason that it's projected 2020 population is circa 2 million. It is a truth that 'they aren't making any more land'. Other (mainly rural) parts of NZ will not fare so well. It is widely accepted that residential property is a sticky market i.e. people are reluctant to sell for less than they paid, and in an environment of strong wage growth only a modest proportion of home owners will find themselves in a position where they have to sell (unless of course the divorce and death rates Bernard refers to skyrocket!?).
Players' gift for captain
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MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them
Seriously, when I need to use a power drill and my only other option is to drive to the store and buy a brand-new drill and plug in its charger and wait, the inconvenience of dragging 200 feet of extension cord across the yard is a piece of cake. I predict a bright future for this awesome innovation. 176. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches I have been able to run linux on older machines without a hitch. My laptop is a p1 166mhz system. it easily runs debian linux. I even run a web based accounting system from it. Thank you Linux Torvalds. 175. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them RE: Post#146, Flies dance operas to you wisdom. Linux is far easier to install than windoze, easier to use, and way more secure.(I used M$ too many years) and believe it or not the main reason computers were designed was not for some social retards gaming needs.
Traveler Alert: New Rules for Paying
Not too long ago, charging your way through a vacation abroad was the way to go. That's because credit cards have more favorable exchange rates and fees than banks and exchange bureaus. But new markups have made the charge-it strategy trickier.Many credit-card issuers have tripled the charges for foreign billings. They've been quietly adding new fees for the past few years--so quietly that consumers have sued Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, saying the markups were not properly disclosed. (Card issuers are now starting to break out the extra charges on statements.) .
How about some jobs for the girls?
Please, let us focus on supporting the summit, and getting the best possible value out of it for Australia. Peter Gray, Lower Plenty Women deserve a fair go WHERE were you, Julia Gillard, when the members of the steering committee of the Australia 2020 Summit were being chosen? Only one woman and 10 men? Are there really no other women who could contribute to the work of the committee? One can only wonder how the 1000 leading Australians who will attempt to provide responses to "the long-term challenges confronting Australia's future" will be chosen. It is particularly galling to see such an unbalanced committee at a time when women are being more and more recognised for their achievements in so many areas. Julia, so many women have applauded your achievements, and justly so.
Do toes know your story?
If the palms tell a story about our future, then the toes reveal something about where we've been. That's according to Chicagoan Gabrielle Loomis, a life coach who has added toe reading to her toolbox. "Your toes are repositories for the emotional journey you're on, from birth to now," says Loomis, a certified toe reader in Chicago. .
The venerable history of protectionism
President Bill Clinton fought hard to win approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Despite some of his campaign rhetoric, Barack Obama is careful to express qualified support for free trade, even when stumping in the industrial Midwest. Moreover, many American conservatives have opposed free trade. Jesse Helms, the most outspoken conservative in the Senate for three decades, was no free trader. Neither was Alexander Hamilton, who could be considered the founder of American conservatism. For almost 100 years after the Civil War, the Republican Party (led by men like Lincoln and McKinley) was overtly protectionist. Theodore Roosevelt, a hero of John McCain's, wrote that "pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber." The first significant Republican free trader was President Dwight Eisenhower.
Jon 'Jonny Fairplay' Dalton first castaway cut from 'Survivor ...
I'd say I have pretty keen powers of observation, and from what I can tell Amanda and Ozzy have this rapport with one another already," said Eliza. "And ever since we got here, Parvati hasn't been able to take her hands or her eyes off of James. She is definitely going to have him wrapped around her finger. So I think there could be romance bubbling between Parvati and James, and Amanda and Ozzy, and so that makes all four of them very dangerous." Airai's lack of experience immediately reared its head as they didn't complete their shelter's construction by the end of the day, and they were punished for it by the Survivor gods, who brought torrential rain that night. The next morning, Eliza approached Amy, Yau, and Jonathan, and the four agreed to form a "tight alliance." With a four-on-four battle quickly forming, Fairplay and Cirie were on the outs, and Jonathan suggested Fairplay as his alliance's fifth. Parvati was the first to get to Fairplay though, and she roped him into her alliance with Ozzy, Amanda and James. The five agreed that if Malakal lost the first Immunity Challenge, Eliza would be the first to go.
May 2006
(The Euston group formally launched on May 26 in London. Several members have also written op-eds -- see here -- as part of the roll out. Norman Geras, a government professor at the University of Manchester, has been particularly insightful, including this piece in the Guardian: Within the large "middle" sector of left-liberal opinion opposed to the war there has been, from the start, a differentiating subdivision - between those who opposed the war without being in denial about the considerations on the other side of the argument, and those who precisely have been in denial about them. This latter group extends well beyond the far left. The signs of denial are abundant in the recent public life of the western democracies: in the banners and slogans for that Saturday on February 15 2003, from which one would never have known that Saddam's Iraq was a foul tyranny; in the numbers of those on the left unwilling to allow, many indeed unable to comprehend, why others of us supported a regime-change war; in a constant stream of comment in liberal daily papers and weeklies of the left; in the excommunications issued and more recent calls for apology or recantation; and, most seriously, in the perceptible lack of interest in initiatives of solidarity with the forces in Iraq battling for a democratic transformation of their country, part of a wider lack of enthusiasm for the success of this enterprise given its origins in a war led by George Bush.) Posted on April 17, 2006: Though it hasn't garnered much media attention, there has been an interesting fight brewing within the political Left.
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