Math proves ethanol is a scam...
In MN we've only had E10 or E85 for years. Gas mileage dropped when the switch was made. Now our RINO (Republican In Name Only) Governor wants to mandate E20. Tim Pawlenty is advocating E20 for his farmer friends and is trying to get the Federal Government to allow states to use E20 blended fuels. This can and will affect all states if this guy gets his way.
Why are you unemployed
Take a look in the employment section of the newspaper. It's not exactly blank. Look at the job sites on the Internet. There are jobs waiting for someone willing to actually show up and work. Someone who speaks fluently and treats people with respect.
Our State and National Employment rate is very high. Very few people are not working. When Clinton was running for reelection in 1996 we had a National unemployment rate of around 5.6% and he and the media gleefully declared we were at full employment as a Nation. The month after Clinton left office the unemployment rate started climbing. Why? It had nothing to do with President Bush's policies. The economy was two quarters into a recession. Now we have about the same level of unemployment and the same people in the news media are now claiming that unemployment is out of control and we're in a crisis.
There are jobs to be had. There is no excuse for being unemployed for a long period of time. We provide free education through grade 12 and if you're poor you get free college. If you're smart and get good grades in high school you may get a scholarship. If you're very athletic you may get a scholarship. If you really have to you can sit in the library and educate yourself or use the internet. Our county provides many ways for a person to get the education needed to get a decent job. We even have job retraining programs to train people in new skills so they can change careers if unemployed. All you have to do is participate.
As a Nation and State we go to great lengths to provide at no cost everything a person needs to get the education needed to obtain a job. Yet, people refuse to do what is needed. They expect someone to just hand them a 40k+/year job without having any training or experience. The truth is many of these people are in the position they are in because of the bad choices they made. They may be addicted to drugs or alcohol. Others refuse to accept the facts and retrain for a new career. Others refuse to work entry level jobs because they think they should be paid more to start out. It does not work that way. You work your way up the pay scale. Whatever your excuse is it just that an excuse to make you feel better about the bad choices you made by blaming someone else. Others just refuse to work. What am I supposed to do about that? Keep handing them more of my money? Heck NO! I refuse to keep doing that. At some point we have to say enough is enough. You've been given all the resources to help yourself succeed and you chose to do nothing. So you're on your own. Anytime that you're ready to try again and actually do what is needed feel free to come back and participate in the education and training process. I'm more than willing to help someone that is going to work at helping themselves and get themselves self sufficient. I refuse to keep helping someone that refuses to work. That folks IS compassion. It is also tough love. That is what we should be doing as a Nation and State.
BTW: None of the above applies to those that are physically or mentally unable to take care of themselves (and I do not mean drug and alcohol addiction). I do recognize that some people are born with various conditions that require them to be taken care of by someone else or the Government for their entire life. Others may have suffered injury at no fault of their own. I have no issue with doing that.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/30/europe/german.php
It is safe once more to take a drag at Berlin's corner bars, legally speaking if not for your health.
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe announced Wednesday that it had found regional smoking bans in the German states of Berlin and Baden-Württemberg to be unconstitutional.
The court ruled that by allowing large establishments to maintain separate smoking areas, the bans discriminated against small, one-room locales, such as the "Eckkneipen," or corner pub, as local bars are known here.
As a result, patrons in bars smaller than 75 square meters, or 800 square feet, in the two states could immediately light up for a smoke.
After the ruling, which had been highly anticipated and was broadcast live on German television, representatives from several other German states issued statements saying they would examine their own laws and adapt them to comply with the ruling.
The decision was a rare victory for smokers in what had seemed like an inexorable march toward a complete end to smoking in bars in Europe, with bans already in place in Italy, the United Kingdom, France and beyond.
But that success also may be short-lived. Anti-smoking forces also claimed victory, lauding the highest court's ruling for supporting the legality of a more complete ban.
"Indeed, lawmakers would not be prevented from imposing a strict smoking ban, without exceptions" in bars and restaurants, the court said in a statement Wednesday. The court gave lawmakers until Dec. 31, 2009, to rewrite the laws.
Most German states instituted smoking bans at the beginning of the year, but with a variety of different exceptions, like beer tents in Bavaria, home to Oktoberfest. Newspapers in eastern regions carried stories at the start of the year about smokers fleeing for their evening drinks to Polish pubs, where smoking was still permitted.
But in the eyes of many residents here, the smoking ban had turned into a David and Goliath narrative for local business owners, pitting bigger bars capable of supporting separate smoking rooms against the smaller ones that could not.
"I think it's super, because it gives the little bars a chance to survive against the larger ones," said Nelli Böhm, a university student who was in favor of the ruling, despite the fact that she is a nonsmoker.
Enforcement in the capital was lax at best, leading to spats between smokers and nonsmokers, as locales ran the gamut from condoning the habit to tolerating it to, in rare cases, encouraging civil disobedience.
A small bar known as Doors, in the gentrified but still bohemian neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg, was one of three establishments that successfully challenged the ban.
"Smokers should also have a chance to commit their sins indoors," said Steffen Mensching, a writer and former smoker who said he had visited Doors on occasion and supported the fight to overturn of the ban. "If cigarettes are so bad, the government should forbid them entirely instead of making money by taxing them."
Republished at the request ALIPAC.
This is just more proof that the illegal aliens are here to what most Americian refuse to do.
Wil
BREAKING NEWS!
We just picked up this story out of western North Carolina!
You can count on the biased NC media to censor this one, so we are releasing it to the nation.
According to these witnesses and reported by ABC 13 News, 36 year old Olivar Roblero, an illegal alien tried to abduct and rape a nine year old NC girl after offering the mother $20 to have his way with the child.
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This has been floating around the internet lately. I have no clue who really wrote this and it is most likely one of the many hoax emails floating around the net. However, read each statement and see how many are in agreement with your views. I can say I agree with every word.
WilGeno
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Letter from one 'Angry Woman' I don't know who wrote it but they should have signed it. Some powerful words. This woman should run for president. Written by a housewife from New Jersey and sounds like it! This is one ticked off lady.
'Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was 'desecrated' when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet?...Well, I don't. I don't care at all.
I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
