A woman was fined for holding an apple while performing a maneuver in a car. Aside from the absurdity of this, it cost the government far more to prosecute her than what they obtained from the fine: A NURSERY nurse was fined £60 yesterday for holding an apple in her hand while driving around a bend after police used a spotter aircraft, a
Following up on a previous blog , Australian Schapelle Corby was convicted of drug-smuggling in Bali, and sentenced to 20 years in prison . Breaking down in tears, Ms. Corby embraced her family before Bali thugs took her to a prison cell. Ms. Corby prays for justice every day. Defense Evidence Ignored, Bali Police Coverup, Corrupt Prosecutors The
Apparently, in Bali, one can get the death penalty for importing drugs. Bali prosecutors, however, have been “merciful”, and only asked for life in prison for Schapelle Corby , an Australlian beauty therapist accused of smuggling 9lbs of marijuana into Bali. Although no-one should be imprisoned for selling, importing, exporting, or using drugs in
Apparently, Japanese car-makers are concerned about being too profitable, when American car companies are experiencing difficulty. I wonder when strategy courses in business schools will start teaching management of political perception of “fairness to
For 40 years, my father worked for the Rochester Telephone Company , almost 30 years as a foreman / manager. During that time, he was never absent due to sickness. This is not because he was never sick, but because he went to work even if he was sick. He first started working there several years after his immigration from Germany, where he’d been
I just ran accross this article by Murray Rothbard: Ludwig von Mises and Natural Law: A Comment on Professor Gonce. “Professor” Gonce’s paper, published in the prestigeous Southern Economic Journal , made several absurd assertions, all of which anyone with even a passing familiarity with Mises would recognize as such. Rothbard thoroughly debunks
Before MSNBC deletes these reader comments , I’m posting them here (MSNBC doesn’t have copyright over other’s comments). The following is an exhaustive listing of all of the comments up to the point of this posting. Despite winning MSNBC’s own polls, and winning Fox News’ listener polls, Ron Paul has been blacked out. It seems pretty clear that
According to this article on mlive.com, the Chairman of the Republican Party, fascist Saul Anuzis, is trying to have Ron Paul banned from future debates . The Republicans are quite clearly shaking in their boots — if Ron Paul is no threat, why do they need to ban him? It’s because he connects with real traditional conservatives, and those who
In Germany, 3 families face fines, frozen accounts for homeschooling their children A German family has been subject to threats from the National Socialist government of Germany, because they’re trying to homeschool their children. The family wants to raise their own children, to oversee their sex education, and protect them from the occult (hmm,
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