With justice and freedom for all... yeah right. Here's to Arizona!

So, they call for LEGAL immigration. Makes it fair to everyone, right? Yeah, right.


This is from FORBES magazine of all places.

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The REAL Drug Cartel

I'm glad someone else did the research. It only proves what you've probably known for a long time. There is ANOTHER drug war. This one waged by the pharmaceutical companies... against US.

Seattle is the Chicago of the new Cyber-mafia

Website magazine has reprinted what Norton says is "America's Riskiest Online Cities." Of course, Seattle is number one. That's where Starbucks has its headquarters. Now, how much information do they collect while those geeks sit there blithely Apple-ing their bank accounts while sipping their lattes.

Was it Voltaire?

I think it was he who said, "You can tell the degree of a country's civilization by looking at its prisons." Or something like that anyway.

The US has the greatest percentage of its population in jail of any country in the world. (That includes Iran and other so-called dictatorships.) Many (most?) prisons are for-profit enterprises whose job it is to squeeze the most out of the inmates while returning the least to them.

Often, if you want to complain about inhuman conditions, you have to PAY to file a grievance. Such would be impossible in a civilized country.

Yeah, let freedom ring!

Free Tap Water... $1.90 for the Cup

Here's a copy of a letter I sent to Popeye's management. Let 'em know what you think about $1.90 for a an empty cup.

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As you probably know, Popeye's has the best fast-food chicken in the country. That's why I was so happy to see a Popeye's on (327) Canal Street in Manhattan, right across from the post office. After picking up my mail, I went to Popeye's and ordered the new Chicken Bowl. Good price. Good taste. Good service too... until I asked for a cup of water.


The store wanted to charge $1.90 for the empty cup. Worse than that, the original Chicken bowl had offered soda for an extra 79¢. Popeye's wanted me to pay more than a dollar for an empty cup with nothing in it. Of course, I turned down the offer and ate my meal rather angrily. Needless to say, I won't be returning to that restaurant... and it's a pity. The food is so good!


Is this a regular policy? In all Popeye's? If so, I will reluctantly go back to the Colonel. If not, perhaps someone might speak to the manager of that branch and tell him he has lost at least one customer because of the cup charge.

Thank you, Mykel Board

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Jewish Surreality

Who needs fiction? Who needs to make stuff up? Reality always gets there first, and weirder!

Unintentionally correct dept.

I found this among my apartment plegm (stuff that just shows up in my apartment... no idea where it comes from). Seems like the guys at Coors came up with the truth by not doing their homework.