| Revisiting The Illegal Immigration Issue | | 2008-08-28 11:35:00 | | With the Republican hopes of victory pretty much hanging on the success of John McCain, I believe it's time to revisit the issue of illegal immigration. I bring this up as McCain was a co-sponsor of the 2007 Immigration Reform Act. Or better known as the Amnesty Bill. Fortunately, enough people found out what the bill was really about, and it was defeated.After it's embarrassing defeat, McCain was later noted as having said something along the lines of having learned his lesson, or having heard the people's voice. Something of that nature. But I'm not sure I believe that. Hence, the reason for a "revisiting" of the issue. Oh, I'm pretty sure I'll still be voting for him (McCain) come this November, even though I don't believe he was the best choice out of the pack we had to pick from. But I think it should be said, and declared quite loudly in fact, that he will be roasted alive if he even thinks about another Amnesty program.As I'm sure many of you have already seen, NumbersUSA Pres. | | By: Hoopy Frood Dude | | |
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| Is An Illegal Immigrant's Life Less Important Than the Football Players Who Murdered Him? | | 2008-08-18 20:48:19 | | KILLING LUIS RAMIREZ There are still anti-immigration conservatives who are blaming Luis Ramirez for being here in the US illegally. That's the real reason he was murdered. He forced a handful of innocent high school football heroes to kill him because he was an illegal immigrant. It's like the rape case of Cheryl Araujo. She was asking for it. "...On March 6, 1983, after putting her two daughters to sleep following the older daughter's third birthday party, Araujo left her home to buy cigarettes. The store she usually purchased from was closed, so she stopped at Big Dan's ... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
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| TAXPAYERS’ HELP NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN ILLEGAL EMAIL SCHEMES | | 2008-08-08 03:47:12 | | DENVER - The United States Attorney’s office, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and the Internal Revenue Service today released the following warning regarding Internet and email schemes involving the Economic Stimulus Payments.
Wide-spread email schemes, known as “phishing,” that claim to come from the IRS have become increasingly common. These emails appear to [...] | | By: Lifelock Identity theft protection | | |
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| YTB Lawsuit issued by California for Illegal Pyramid scheme | | 2008-08-07 09:46:00 | | If you follow any news source that has to do with the Travel Industry I'm sure you've heard that YTB YourTravelBiz.com was just slapped with a lawsuit. The impact of the YTB lawsuit in California could be huge. We welcome any YTB travel agents in California or any other state to contact Global Travel International apart. If you are a YTB Travel agent looking for a solid company that first and foremost allows you to make money on travel commissions, then please contact us. One of our conversion managers can discuss your business and goals, as well as discuss what sets Global Travel International. We offer referral bonuses, can help you with a smooth transition and offer customized plans for you and your agent portfolio. Below is basic information about the lawsuit brought upon YTB (YourTravelBiz.com). “YourTravelBiz.com operates a gigantic pyramid scheme that is immensely profitable to a few individuals on top and a complete rip-off for most everyone else,” Attorney General Brown ch | | By: Start a Travel Business - Global Travel | | |
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| Car Tail Lights: Are the Aftermarket Lights Illegal? | | 2008-08-04 00:00:00 | | A vehicle can be constructed to one’s own taste from front to back. A combination of design along with a new set of wheels will make it distinct from others. But the entire car doesn’t have to be recreated in order to have a new look.
Deciding what type of tail light is best [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| Number of illegal immigrants declines by 1 million, study finds | | 2008-07-30 14:41:20 | | By CLAY ZEIGLER / The Dallas Morning News
The number of illegal immigrants in the United States may have dropped by more than 1 million over the last year, according to a report issued Wednesday.
The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington said it estimates that the number of illegal immigrants nationally was 11.2 million in May, [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
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| Cell Phone Jammers Illegal, But Not Hard To Find | | 2008-07-27 00:55:28 | | Thinking of buying a cell phone jammer? Think again, not only are cell phone jammers banned by the FCC they have to potential to pose national security threats. Although very illegal many web site still cell the cell phone jammers. One was even found on Amazon.com! | | By: Mobile Tech | | |
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| Illegal cigarettes to be fined $500 for the first time | | 2008-07-14 13:16:19 | | First time offenders caught with duty-unpaid cigarettes anywhere on the island will be fined $500 per packet from Tuesday.
In a press statement issued on Monday, Singapore Customs said the composition sum, which was initially implemented in hotspots such as Geylang and Yew Tee in Oct 2007, will now be extended throughout the island.
Elsewhere, first-time offenders [...] | | By: Singapore News | | |
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| Are You Guilty Of Illegal Sex In USA? | | 2008-07-11 06:14:34 | | America is a country of many freedoms and at the same time, ridiculous legal limitations of the citizens` sex lives.
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Oral sex is illegal in 18 states, including Arizona.
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| A Modern Liberal Response to Illegal Immigration | | 2008-07-01 08:00:00 | | Today we examine a typical modern liberal response to illegal immigration. This particular response is from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) when written about the illegal immigration problem facing our country. After thanking the writer for sharing their concerns regarding the impact of illegal immigration on our economy and acknowledging that "the high number of undocumented immigrants contributes to the strains on our schools, medical facilities, and prisons," several arguments are asserted. Let's take them in order. 1. Illegal immigrants "contribute significantly to our economy."Our Response: California’s budget shortage might approximate the cost of illegal immigration to the state. In 2007, Philip J. Romero updated his earlier study for the Governor’s office estimating that illegal aliens in California now receive somewhere between $9.6 and $38.2 billion more in state services than they pay in state taxes. If the issue of illegal immigration were resolved correctly, it | | By: The Paleo Conservatist | | |
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| Illegal share issuance to face tougher penalties | | 2008-06-30 21:35:13 | | The Vietnamese equity market will be monitored more closely as the government said it would tighten new public companies share sales.
Prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung said in Instruction 20/2008/CT-TTg issued on June 23, that public companies must register with agencies for new public share sales or private share...
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| New immigration laws worry illegal aliens in Europe | | 2008-06-21 20:05:08 | | After some delay because of differing positions among the 27-member countries, the European Union (EU) has finally set up stricter immigration laws which guide the handling and expulsion of...
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| Dong Advances as Central Bank Cracks Down on Illegal Trading | | 2008-06-09 23:36:00 | | Viet Nam's dong rose after the central bank said it would crack down on illegal trading of U.S. dollars to prevent a decline of the local currency. The dong advanced 0.02% to 16,286.50 per dollar as of 10:00 a.m. in Hanoi, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The State Bank of Viet Nam set a reference rate of 16,139 a dollar, compared with 16,132 yesterday, according to its Web site. The | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| Two Trading Accounts with different brokerage firms. Is it legal or illegal? | | 2008-05-28 01:26:00 | | Most of the time people have doubt on the subject. They might have two account and keen to know the legal possibilities on the same. This article providing the available best answer to this doubt.Having two trading accounts with different brokerage firm is not illegal. Decision on opening multiple account is entirely to you. Nothing can prevent you on that. The only problem after opening multiple trading account, you have to pay the fixed annual maintenance charge to the broker. TO avoid this, get the benefit from the competitions in this field. Most of the brokerage firm allow its customers to open an account by paying only the opening charge and thereafter any charges applicable only when you buy and sell shares only. There will not be any annual maintenance charges. If you want multiple trading account, go and search this facility with available brokers in your area and open account with the best one.Opening multiple trading account is not only legal but also, a requirement too. A w | | By: the ultimate value investing wisdom | | |
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| Do Illegal Aliens Have Rights? | | 2008-05-27 12:16:05 | | Illegal Immigrants shouldn't have rights.. but unfortunately... they have!The keyword here is ILLEGAL. They're here illegaly, meaning they disobey the law of the land in order to gain personal wealth.Yes.. I know what you're gonna say.. "Illegal immigrants have rights, they're just looking for a better life, they're very hard working"Well guess what, that doesn't give them the right to cross the | | By: Making money online - The ultimate guide | | |
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| Human Rights Cartoon (86): Illegal Immigration | | 2008-05-26 14:41:00 | | (copyright http://www.coxandforkum.com/)
The concept of “illegal alien” is meaningless. A person can never be illegal, only certain acts can be. I suspect that the use of this concept betrays certain prejudices and perhaps even racism.
Of course, people settling in a country without this country’s permission act illegally and commit a crime. I wouldn’t go as far [...] | | By: PAP Blog | | |
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| Third Court of Appeals tells CPS that its kidnapping of the FLDS children was illegal | | 2008-05-24 18:25:33 | | The Texas Third Court of Appeals issues a writ of mandamus to Child Protective Services (CPS) that its kidnapping of the FLDS children was illegal and CPS has ten days to return the children. CPS won't let go, files an appeal with the Texas Supreme court, and then indicates it will ignore the Third Court of Appeals' writ to return the children within 10 days. Maybe because each kid taken could represent income of ~$400,000 to CPS?
Hopefully, the Third Court of Appeals will continue to do its job properly, and issues contempt of court fines to CPS officials after the ten day deadline is up. We could be so lucky if that also includes jail time!
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| Craig Davidson on his Brush With Illegal Steroids | | 2008-05-19 14:13:29 | | Craig Davidson, a Canadian novelist, attempted to live the life of the main character of his first novel by injecting himself with illegal steroids over a period of 16 weeks.
The results were quite dramatic to say the least.
He not only increased his body weight by 35 lb in less than four months, but also was able to transform his body into a shape, which most men would workout for years in the gym to possess. Unfortunately, for Craig, the steroids had devastating side-effects on his health. He described his harrowing ordeal in an article in the Observer.
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Then one morning I was showering, I looked down at my shampoo-foamed hands, and saw dozens of red strands between my fingers. Soon they were everywhere: on my pillow, between my teeth, falling into the pages of books while I read. I became hyper-aware of the way wind felt through my hair: colder on the top of my skull, where there was less protection. And not just my head: the hairs on my arms and legs, even | | By: JazJaz | | |
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| SARAWAK: Illegal land transfers probed | | 2008-05-15 00:19:00 | | malaysiatoday - THE Land Development Ministry, with the help of the state attorney-general, is investigating the illegal transfers of four lots of native land from Iban farmers to non-natives in Meradong Land Scheme B in Sarikei Division, its Minister Datuk Seri Dr James Masing said.
The titles to the four lots were issued to Ugon Rimau, Simba Dinggon, Ajai Baka and Imah @ Jembat Inggam, who are | | By: No2umnO | | |
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| Say No To Illegal SEO Techniques | | 2008-05-14 23:39:39 | | Search engine optimization spamming, substantially increases the possibilities that a website or page will appear at the top of results on search engines for a certain keyword.
Businesses that use illegal SEO techniques to control, raise and improve their search engine positions, are denying or removing the rights of ethical websites to be heard and seen. [...] | | By: Semaphore - Software Development Articles, IT News | | |
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| Two Stories About Illegal Migrants & The People Who Deal With Them | | 2008-05-12 23:27:13 | | GOOD BP - BAD ICETwo stories are going to be presented for your edification. One will detail the absurd waste of taxpayer dollars disrupting the lives of up to 700 families. The other is an exemplary example of the Border Patrol at its best.ICE REIGN OF TERROR CONTINUESDoes anyone know how long this reign of terror conducted by ICE will continue. Not only content to raid the largest Kosher packing plant in the nation, but they are also making absurd claims that Meth is being made on the property. The raid will probably disrupt the supply of ... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
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| 53 illegal immigrants held against will in Phoenix | | 2008-05-12 10:08:59 | | PHOENIX (AP) — Fifty-three illegal immigrants were held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said.
The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man. The rest were men, Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders said.
Authorities began investigating Saturday after getting [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
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| Gov't lost track of 41,000 illegal immigrants | | 2008-05-06 14:44:00 | | The federal government has lost track of 41,000 illegal immigrants who should be deported, Transport Canada's move to overhaul aviation safety is falling short and 24 Sussex Dr., home to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is falling apart.
Those are the highlights of Auditor-General Sheila Fraser spring report released today in Ottawa.
Fraser's findings on air safety are sure to stoke criticisms of | | By: News Alert | | |
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| NAFTA to blame for rise in illegal immigration | | 2008-05-01 14:48:06 | | Remember those activity books we had when we were kids where you'd have to connect the dots for the picture to take shape? If we connected the dots named NAFTA, illegal immigration, globalization, recession, job loss, environmental degradation and corporate greed, what would the picture look like? We're living in that picture but we have barely begun to connect the forces affecting us.In 1995 2.5 million Mexicans were in the country illegally; by 2006, another 8 million had crossed the border. A major part of the blame has to go to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Why? Because more and more Mexicans can no longer make a living in Mexico!NAFTA, by permitting heavily-subsidized US corn and other agri-business products to compete with small Mexican farmers, has driven the Mexican farmer off the land due to low-priced imports of US corn and other agricultural products. Some 2 million Mexicans have been forced out of agriculture, and many of those that remain are living in des | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
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| When Narcissists Attack - Part I - Illegal Vultures | | 2008-04-28 22:57:00 | | JUDICIAL WATCH GOES AFTER BIG MACI’m not a fan of Judicial Watch. I think it is a crock. As if to prove my point, that my theory that certain conservatives are going to do all they can to ruin the man, Judicial Watch pops up and files a FEC Complaint against John McCain.“…“Recent news reports suggest that Sen. John McCain and John McCain for President may have accepted an in-kind contribution from foreign nationals Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon. Nathaniel Rothschild of Great Britain in contravention of federal election laws,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote ... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
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| Future Risks of Posting Videos of Illegal Activities Online | | 2008-04-27 06:13:56 | | The police department would want to have a talk with you soon & suspension from school or college is looming. It’s not the only two things that will worry posters of illegal videos. On a longer term note, the implications could come from future employers. One can remove videos from the online video sites but many people would have already seen it & some folks may have made copies of it too.Worse, the copies could be redistributed online. It presents the chance that one’s future employer may somehow see the video that has illegal content. It could result in one losing one’s job & be a deterrent for future employers to hire a person too! So forget about documenting an underage drinking party & other illegal activities. Think of the one’s in the video & yourself. It could be that their future is at stake! | | By: movie special | | |
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| Two Immediate Effects of Posting Videos of Illegal Activities Online | | 2008-04-27 05:35:34 | | Perhaps many police departments do not look onto the internet for pictures or videos of people committing crimes. Nonetheless, the police may accidentally find online videos or pictures of people participating in illegal activities. Think again before you think of documenting the use of drugs, underage drinking, vandalism, & etc because you would be committing a crime.One might not be arrested for it but such videos will arouse suspicions & be watched by the local authorities. For high school students or college students, such videos that could be created by them could result with them being suspended. Being watched by the police & suspended from the educational institutions are two things that could happen in the immediate term after posting a video or videos of illegal activities. | | By: movie special | | |
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| Random drug searches illegal | | 2008-04-25 13:03:00 | | Canada's top court says both a random high-school search and one at a Calgary bus terminal were unlawful, calling them breaches of privacy.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-3 that neither search was based on a reasonable prior suspicion of a criminal act.
The first case stems from the sudden arrival in 2002 of police and a canine team at St. Patrick's high school in Sarnia, Ont.
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| Bulldozers to head to illegal highway structures next month | | 2008-04-21 05:53:00 | | The Transport Ministry will begin clearing illegal structures along National Highway 1 on May 1.
The VND14 trillion, about US$875 million, campaign would eliminate encroaching buildings to re-establish traffic safety, said Viet Nam Roads Administration deputy director Ngo Quang Dao on Thursday
Four sections, Ha Noi-Ninh Binh; Vinh-Hue; Da Nang-Nha Trang and Ninh Thuan to south of HCM City, | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| Virginia Announces Process for Refunding Illegal NVTA Taxes | | 2008-04-13 23:00:00 | | Following February's Virginia Supreme Court ruling invalidating seven taxes collected by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, Governor Tim Kaine has signed a bill setting up a refund process for those who paid the illegal taxes. The refund process will be different for each type of tax: Grantors Tax on Home Sales = .40 cents/$100 valueSettlement agents will send refund checks to taxpayers. Contact your settlement agent, who will receive the money from the NVTA. Regional Registration "Fee" = $10 annuallyInitial Vehicle Registration "Fee" = 1% of valueThese two taxes (unlike fees, the money collected would be used for purposes unrelated to providing a service) will be refunded by the DMV directly to the taxpayer, using the most recent address on file. Any of the above taxes not claimed or returned by September 30, 2008 will become "unclaimed property" and follow the refund process below. Motor Vehicle Rental Tax = 2% of renta | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Cameron slaps down Boris over illegal immigrant amnesty remark | | 2008-04-07 05:17:44 | | David Cameron has weighed in to the London Mayoral contest by effectively trying to silence Boris Johnson, the Conservative contender, on matters of immigration. Johnson said that he thought it would benefit the capital if illegal migrants were offered a one-off pardon. Cameron thinks this would just let others think they can come into the country illegally leading to demands for further amnesties.Both sides have a point. The truth is, though, that we don't have total control over immigration now that the EU gets its 90 cents worth of nose-poking into the issue. Immigrants are required for our economy, because a lot of people won't work in the places and for the pay that the migrants are prepared to. The government is going some way to relieving the problem of unabated, unregulated immigration.However, the Conservatives need to get to grips on this too. All the while that the government of the day knows little of the numbers here, then it feeds into the electoral success box of the BNP | | By: A View from Middle England by Arden Forester | | |
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| 3 more charged in illegal sexual enhancement drug trade | | 2008-04-03 16:02:03 | | 3 more men were charged in court on Thursday with peddling illegal sexual enhancement drugs after the authorities cracked down on the trade in February.
All three - Lee Teck Boo, Ong Nguk and Teo See Bong - were accused of selling Power 1 Walnut pills, which have caused at least 20 men to be hospitalised.
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| South Aceh police arrest five illegal logging suspects | | 2008-03-19 03:46:39 | | South Aceh police arrest five illegal logging suspects
Tapaktuan, S Aceh - South Aceh police arrested five people suspected of having engaged in illegal logging in Samadua sub district on Wednesday.
“Police and forest rangers arrested the suspects and seized a quantity of logs and chainsaws from them,” South Aceh Police Chief Adj Sr Comm Cahyo Budisiswanto [...] | | By: Indonesia First | | |
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| illegal inmigrants arrested for leaving | | 2008-03-09 11:39:00 | | Three illegal immigrants have been found stowed away on a lorry in Dover which was heading for France. They are now going to cost the tax payer money due to being processed and it is not definite that they will be forced to leave.Via God Help Britain | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Are you smarter than an illegal immigrant? | | 2008-03-05 17:02:20 | | The folks at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services have devised a new citizenship test for those few illegal immigrants who, for some unknown reason, are actually trying to become lawful citizens. The new questions, the USCIS claims, are calculated to better measure how well newbies understand what it means to be an American rather than how well they can memorize answers. Of course, most libertarians are convinced that most natural born citizens don't know what it really means to be an American either.
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| Yountville cracks down on illegal inns - Napa Valley Register | | 2008-02-21 21:22:09 | | Yountville cracks down on illegal innsNapa Valley Register, CA - 5 minutes agoBy JILLIAN JONES The town of Yountville is cracking down on the use of illegal vacation rentals - a problem that town officials say is on the rise. …
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| Do you have an illegal licence plate? | | 2008-02-21 14:35:46 | | Giving a car a Continental touch with a number plate that resembles those used in the European Union might be all the rage, but it is, in fact, illegal. At least two number plate manufacturers have been importing the moulds for these plates directly from Europe, fonts and all, at the cost of up to [...] | | By: Singapore News | | |
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| New York Governor Seeks to Tax Illegal Drugs | | 2008-02-18 00:00:00 | | The Washington Post yesterday covered New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to tax illegal substances: Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D), struggling to close a $4.4 billion budget gap, has proposed making drug dealers pay tax on their stashes of illegal drugs. The new tax would apply to cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and could be paid with pre-bought "tax stamps" affixed to the bags of dope.[...]Taxing illicit drugs gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s, when prosecutors and law enforcement authorities were pushing for mandatory sentences and other measures to signal a crackdown on drugs and drug use."It was a way of getting tougher on criminals," said Joseph D. Henchman, tax counsel for the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based educational group. "It kind of boggles my mind. If you want to get tougher on drug dealers, increase the penalties.""It's just weird to put an excise tax on an illegal substance," Henchman said. "When you t | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Valentine celebrations illegal | | 2008-02-15 01:34:27 | | Jakarta, Feb 14 : Indonesia’s highest Islamic council has declared Valentine’s Day celebrations illegal, while a ban was issued by authorities in West Sumatra province on observing a holiday in hotels and restaurants, local media reports said Thursday.
Meanwhile, West Sumatra’s Bukittinggi municipal administration banned residents from celebrating Valentine’s Day on grounds that such celebrations were [...] | | By: Indonesia First | | |
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| BU students report real estate agents' illegal entry | | 2008-02-02 17:38:00 | | Boston University College of Communication junior Lucia Jazayeri said a real estate agent once tried to show her apartment after 9 p.m., let himself in without knocking, but then realized he was in the wrong apartment.Jazayeri said real estate agents have come unannounced to her apartment on two other occasions and only one agent has emailed her beforehand.
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| Illegal metro party in Budapest | | 2008-01-20 20:10:00 | | A flash mob-like action took place on subway-line 3 in Budapest on Saturday where a whole wagon was totally occupied for a few stops. The participans calling themselves the 4th republic were organising the event through e-mails and gathered almost 200 people hungry for a cool "metro party". The action was ceased when the driver stopped the veichle and called security and the police. Click for video and more.According to the police: "(..) raging young people occupied a subway wagon which was forced to wait for 13 minutes (...) no damage or personal injuries were done." The action seemed to scare the hell out of the authorities because they arrived with a relatively huge force on the scene although in other countries these events are quite common.And maybe if the Budapest Mass Transportation Company would have watch the film Kontroll they might have not been scared like hell:picture made by visualterror | | By: The blog of Hungary | | |
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| Illegal Immigrants Discovered Aboard International Space Station | | 2008-01-03 15:39:00 | | CWT-Houston. Cats With Thumbs Texas Bureau has learned from a confidential source at the NASA Johnson Space Center that five illegal immigrants were discovered aboard the United States Space Shuttle Discovery soon after it docked with the International Space Station on October 25, 2007. The three Ukrainian and two Romanian nationals were found inside a Shuttle Discovery cargo pod used to transport supplies from the earth to the space station. All five stowaways had obtained and were wearing NASA standard issue pressure suits; CWT's inside source reported all five were in "good health and jolly spirits" when they were escorted from their hideaway.According to internal documents obtained by CWT from NASA, all five men were employed without work authorization or visas by a company under contract with the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida to maintain the grounds and landscaping near the shuttle launch gantry. A CWT contact inside NASA personnel revealed, " the landscap | | By: Cats With Thumbs | | |
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| Weird auto-related laws: Solo sheep-hauling illegal; drivers can shoot whales | | 2007-12-29 05:12:35 | | Filed under: Etc., Safety, Driving
Photo courtesy Elektra Noelani Fisher.
We here at Autoblog observe every most traffic laws. We use our turn signals when changing lanes, we drive the speed limit and we never, ever drive in Alabama while blindfolded. And we always fire our guns when approaching stop signs in Lenior County, Tennessee. And in [...] | | By: Car O Focus | | |
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| Illegal immigrants leaving Arizona | | 2007-12-22 20:55:31 | | PHOENIX (AP) — Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home countries or trying their luck in other states.
For months, immigrants have taken a wait-and-see attitude toward the state’s new employer-sanctions law, which takes effect Jan. 1. The voter-approved legislation [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
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| Republicans: next problem illegal immigration | | 2007-12-10 08:32:00 | | Republican presidential candidates stuck to their tough line against illegal immigration at a Spanish-language debate on Sunday, a stance that could spell trouble for them with Hispanic voters in next year's election. Hispanic-Americans had backed President George W. Bush's plan to grant illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship and watched in dismay as conservatives torpedoed it last summer. | | By: News Alert | | |
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| Illegal Immigration and Border Security, by US Rep. Ron Paul | | 2007-12-02 00:00:00 | | Illegal immigration is on the forefront of many Americans’ minds lately and with good reason. The Center for Immigration Studies has recently reported that our immigrant population is now 37 million, up from 27 million in 1997. 1 in 3 of these immigrants are here illegally. We have a problem that has exploded in the last 10 years with no appreciable change in border security since September 11 when we were supposed to take a hard look at the problem.
We have security issues at home and our resources are running thin. Our education system is stretched, and immigration accounts for virtually all the national increase in public school enrollment in the last 2 decades. There is a worker present in 78% of immigrant households using at least one major welfare program, according to the same study. It’s no surprise then that often times these immigrants can afford to work for lower wages. They are subsidized by our government to do so.
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| Al-Qaeda in Algeria may mobilise illegal immigrants | | 2007-11-08 13:06:00 | | The so-called Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb may adopt the strategy of recruiting illegal immigrants as it is easy to convince them in view of their difficult social situations, according to security experts. A total of 5,049 foreigners who were illegally staying in Algeria have been arrested by the National Gendarmerie services since January. Of them 3,850 have been repatriated. Most of foreign illegal immigrants come from Niger, Mali, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Hillary Clinton Involved in More Illegal Wiretapping | | 2007-10-17 04:55:08 | | Hillary Clinton was involved in illegal wiretapping, and I don’t mean this. What I am referring to now is this story in which Hillary committed domestic spying, so to speak, on Republican rivals while they talked about bringing yet another of her husband’s mistresses forward.
The explosive accusation is that, back in 1992, staffers for the Clintons [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
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| Skype, Google, Yahoo Facing Scrutiny in India over Illegal Net Telephony | | 2007-10-02 16:55:31 | | Internet Service Providers Associations of India (ISPAI) are alleging that internet companies Skype, Yahoo, Google, MSN and Net2Phone.com are eating market share of Indian companies and thats too illegaly i.e. without any licensed net telephony services. ISPs also allege that voice chat through Google, MSN and Yahoo is resulting in revenue leak for the government. | | By: India Web 2.0 | | |
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| Man is fined and asked to clean up for illegal mattress dumping | | 2007-09-21 19:58:43 | | $750 was fined from a man who dumped around 60 mattresses (60 mattresses!!!) by a roadside in Minto Heights in Campbelltown on the land down under. The town council also ordered him to clean-up what he left there. The mayor has been a staunch advocate of these illegal dumping following one that recently took place [...] | | By: Mattresszine | | |
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| Tennessee's Excise Tax on Illegal Drugs Ruled Unconstitutional | | 2007-09-07 07:00:00 | | Tennessee is one of twenty states that impose a tax on illicit drugs, at a rate of $3.50 per gram of marijuana, $50 per gram of cocaine, and $200 per gram of other controlled substances. We've previously noted that these "drug stamp taxes" or "crack taxes" became popular in the 1980's as an easy way for states to raise revenue from dealers and users who had plead guilty to drug offenses, since few pay the tax before they are arrested; convictions are not needed to levy the tax, and the burden of proof is lower. Tennessee raised $1.8 million last year from the tax.Today, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that the tax is unconstitutional, exceeding the legislature's taxing power. (Read the full opinion in the case, Waters v. Chumley, from the Tennessean.) Article II, Section 28 of the Tennessee Constitution empowers the state to impose excise taxes on "privileges," and after reviewing of statutes and past cases, the court concluded that t | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Today is National Day of Protest Against Illegal Guns | | 2007-08-28 23:26:25 | |
In 2004: Guns helped murder:
5 people in New Zealand
37 people in Sweden
56 people in Australia
73 people in England and Wales
184 people in Canada
11,344 people in the United States
TODAY IS THE 44th ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S HISTORIC MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C. TODAY WE ARE OUT THERE IN THE STREETS MARCHING AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS KILLING OUR NATION'S HUMAN BEINGS READ ABOUT THIS HEREPractice non-violence in your lives. You will be leaving your children a beautiful legacy. | | By: Marilyn's Non-Violent Planet Newspage | | |
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| The destruction of a nation - illegal immigration | | 2007-08-11 02:38:17 | | Just caught snippets from the Democratic debate in Chicago - Hillary criticizing Obama for his statement on Pakistan is the heighth of hypocrisy. It wasn’t long ago she was inquiring about ‘plan b’ - if we left Iraq, insisting she’d be told. Tell me the difference in damage to our interests as far as our [...] | | By: Forgot To Ask | | |
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| Beijing's campaign to crack down on illegal land acquisitions | | 2007-08-05 00:43:02 | | SHENZHEN - China's galloping property market has become a growing headache for the country's central government, which has been forced to increase the land supply while worrying that corrupt local-government officials will use the real-estate boom as an opportunity to hasten the depletion of the country's shrinking farmlands.
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| Illegal Immigration explained | | 2007-07-01 13:17:00 | | Although somewhat a parody, illegal immigration is very simply explained in this video.Illegal immigration itself is not a parody; however, but rather a dangerous break of trust between a person and a country as they illegally cross that country's national border(s).Truthfully there are many dissimilarities between ancient Rome and modern America; however, there are some similarities. For example, both are/were overrun with legal and illegal immigrants.In the case of Rome they consisted of the Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals. These people first appeared to assimilate.. working jobs the freedmen (liberti) and (cives) didn't wish to do but their numbers increased so fast they never really assimilated.Interestingly, this occurred in a time when Rome's Legions were strained fighting conflicts in distant areas, their trade deficit was growing, Attila the Hun was committing terrorist attacks, the city of Rome was on welfare with citizen | | By: The Paleo Conservatist | | |
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| Tanya Andersen file countersuit alleging illegal RIAA searches. | | 2007-06-27 16:30:11 | | If you’re unfamiliar with the case, Tanya Andersen is the single mother sued by the RIAA for having illegal downloads on her computer. She fought the RIAA for 2 years until it was dropped by the RIAA before judgement. The RIAA will usually ask for approximately $3000 to settle and most do. It’s quite a convoluted legal process that leaves the defendent in the dark as it’s usually filed in a different state. Most of the people that come here looking for Esme Denters info, won’t give a crap, although I suspect it would behoove them.
Andersong has filed suit before, seeking to regain some of the costs she incurred, but this suit alleges that the tactics used are illegal and intrusive. What’s interesting is there are two paragraphs in her 35 page complaint, alleging that the RIAA tactics are a misuse of copyright, and as such Andersen is entitled to the judgement that the RIAA forfeit its rights to said copyright. In other words, the RIAA could lose thos | | By: Project-D | | |
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| Police to Raid Illegal Scrapyards | | 2007-06-14 17:52:50 | | Unlicensed scrapyards are left with less than 10 days to comply with the law or face closure and the arrest and prosecution of their owners for running illegal businesses, says the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kenny Kapinga.
Offending scrapyard operators will also face the wrath of the Department of Sanitation and Pollution Control. The police chief [...] | | By: American Truck Buyer - All About Trucks & Trai | | |
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| CarPool Kenny eases you into HOV lane the illegal way | | 2007-06-13 10:06:26 | | Filed under: Gadgets, Etc.
We’re surprised that this gag can be retailed without disclaimers. Carpool Kenny is an inflatable head and torso that is marketed on the premise that you can cruise the carpool lane in passengerless peace, your inflatable pal offering impunity. People have tried this, and many have had their ruse detected. When you do eventually get hooked by the long arm of the law, it’s going cost a lot more than this $20 useless hunk of plastic. Think hundreds.
Your odds of getting caught are likely rather high, since police officers tend to operate on the assumption that all is not what it seems, and Kenny looks so fake that he’s just asking to get busted. Our own healthy sense of schadenfreude would kick into overdrive if we cruised by a schmuck who’s bluff got called.
Using one of these things to circumvent the rules just means you’ll bypass a jam and have to attend to being productive sooner than the rest of us left surfing for that myt | | By: Car O Focus | | |
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| Problems with the Illegal Immigrant Amnesty Bill | | 2007-05-23 01:35:10 | | I disagree with this bill for a few reasons:
-it gives amnesty to criminals
-it allows current illegals to bring over more family later
-it allows the illegals to collect welfare which they will do when they realize working for minimum wage isn’t going to support their 10 person family
-it drives down wages for hardworking Americans
What do you think? | | By: Ponder This | | |
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| Illegal immigrant law in Dallas suburb blocked | | 2007-05-22 03:38:23 | |
FARMERS BRANCH — A federal judge today halted enforcement of a voter-endorsed ordinance preventing apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants, a day before the ban was to take effect in this Dallas suburb.
U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay wrote in granting a temporary restraining order that only the federal government can determine whether a person is in the United States legally.
Instead of deferring to federal officials, Farmers Branch has created its own classification to determine which noncitizens may rent an apartment, the judge ruled, also noting that the city appeared to have borrowed from federal housing regulations to define who may lease in the suburb.
“The court recognizes that illegal immigration is a major problem in this country, and one who asserts otherwise ignores reality,” Lindsay wrote. “The court also fully understands the frustration of cities attempting to address a national problem that the federal government should handle; however, such | | By: TexasFred's | | |
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| Secret Bill Written for Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants | | 2007-05-20 00:39:00 | | The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that has been written in secret and has not even be read which provides total amnesty for 12 million (if you are to believe official figures) illegal aliens already inside the US, allows them to bring in their entire families from outside and ultimately paves the way for foreign occupation of the United States.The immigration reform bill, which has been hailed by President Bush, has been denounced by many commentators and Senators as total amnesty by stealth.It has been drafted in total secrecy with the help of liberal think tanks and Latino national interest groups such as the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which as the Washington Post reported now have virtual veto power in the immigration debate. Some of these groups are notoriously racist and have openly called for revolution . | | By: Full Time Income From Home | | |
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| Illegal House Parties Could be Next Door - KLAS-TV | | 2007-05-18 23:04:04 | |
Illegal House Parties Could be Next DoorKLAS-TV, NV - 35 minutes agoJohn Palmer operates Las Vegas Retreats, one of many web sites that market vacation rentals. "We're very conscientious; we screen people. …
Original post by nathaniel | | By: UniQuest | | |
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| Blanket Amnesty for Illegal Aliens | | 2007-05-18 16:47:20 | | Don’t be fooled by the hype - the new, joint immigration legislation is nothing more than a blanket amnesty being granted to the 12 million illegal immigrants already in this country that allows up to 8 million more to come into the country via technicalities. If this is the best that our country can [...] | | By: Joe's Journal | | |
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| 4 Plans That WON'T Fix Illegal Immigration | | 2007-05-02 00:34:00 | | While Congress debates the best way to solve illegal immigration, blogs around the Internet are trying to find ways that will work. Illegal immigration is wrong. It has to be stopped, but there are some ideas that will not work.1. End ALL immigration for five yearsEnding immigration for even five years would be disastrous for the country. They say there is a brain drain in Iraq because of the violence, but imagine how bad it would be here. Not allowing any new minds to enter the U.S. is one of worst things you could do to the economy, especially with China and India on the rise.2. Send the military to the border to stop the immigrants“Let's put soldiers on the border to stop the illegals.” Sounds like a good idea, right? It's not. The army is stretched thin. We can barely get enough soldiers to Iraq. Even sending the National Guard wouldn't be right.3. English only policies, ballots, and schoolsEnglish only policies would only alienate illegal immigrants and not encourage them t | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
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| Hot Chicks and Illegal Soap | | 2007-05-01 06:00:00 | | 8:32 pm ET Tonight, playing the role of Jaime, who was playing the role of Jane, is David Odeen, host of BTR's My Point Radio.Oy--the one time I have a drummer from a punk band on the show I gotta have a right-wing conservative as my guest co-host!See ya at 9.Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN'S RADIO HAPPY HOUR: (Live on Tuesday May 1st at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)Dr. B and guest co-host Jaime from The Girl Also Blogs will welcome Don Bolles to the Radio Happy Hour. Bolles, the drummer for the legendary punk band, The Germs, recently spent time in jail for possession of SOAP!We'll find out what's illegal about Dr Bronner’s soap and why he got pulled over in the first place. We'll also get some insight into the history of The Germs, the suicide of Darby Crash, their original lead singer, and the movie about the band that will be released this summer.Also this week, Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent stop by to talk about their new book, How To Eat Like A Ho | | By: Dr. Blogstein | | |
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| Nova Corps Refund Policy Ruled Illegal | | 2007-04-09 01:19:00 | | The Japanese Supreme Court dismissed Nova Corps appeal last Tuesday over two earlier lower court decisions regarding its refund policy for early course cancellation.The Supreme Court ruled that its method of settling by using a higher unit price than when the contract was signed is illegal and violated the Specified Commerical Transaction Law.The decision stems from proceedings brought by a former student who tried to cancel early and demanded a full refund for lessons he hadnt taken.The Supreme Court upheld the earlier decisions of the Tokyo District Court and High Court and finalized the first two rulings ordering the return of all the money demanded by the plaintiff.Briefly,when new students sign up with Nova they purchase points that they use to take classes.One point is equal to a forty minute class.If students purchase in bulk, say 600 points, the cost per lesson is reduced to around 1,500 yen while purchasing only 25points works out at 4,000 yen a lesson.However if the students | | By: porcelain-monkey | | |
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