pot belly and short gets Vietnam police moved from job as traffic police.
Pot belly & short Vietnam traffic police are moved to office jobs
Short, pot-bellied policemen will be banned from traffic duty in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi and given office jobs in a bid to improve the force’s public image, police said Wednesday. See complete story:Â Â politically incorrect police
Police with pot-bellies, or who are too small, will be moved to office work to avoid their coming into contact with the public.
Vietnam’s traffic police — which were voted the “most corrupt” institution in the communist country according to a recent World Bank-funded survey — have long been dogged by a poor public image.
In 2011, authorities banned traffic police from wearing sunglasses on duty and warned them not to hide behind trees in order to ambush motorists and extract fines.
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The worker’s paradise is corrupt and insensitive to the  weight challenged.
Outgoing CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asked Cosby if race relations have improved since Obama became president, and the star of The Cosby Show brought up the recent State of the Union speech.
“To see people sitting down and then they there are others standing and cheering …. I think that we have people sitting there who are as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation.â€
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 Da Bill. The opposition party always sits when the others cheer.
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 Washington Postpublished a story by Carol D. Leonnig and Ernesto Londoño that was treated by the mainstream media as if it refuted the Daily Caller’s original story about allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) had cavorted with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
Leonnig and Londoño reported that a woman who said she had appeared in a video making the allegations against Menendez now recanted her story . But Leonnig and Londoño failed to report the source for their new information was a cousin of Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Menendez donor implicated in the scandal.
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A lawyer who didn’t disclose this would be in jail. Â
James A. Jackson , Esq. Â jaj48@aol.com
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Copenhagen Consensus Center, published an article about the Philippines’ decision, after 12 years, to allow genetically modified (GM) rice — “golden rice” — to be grown and consumed in that country.
The reason for the delay was environmentalist opposition to GM rice; and the reason for the change in Philippine policy was that 4.4 million Filipino children suffer from vitamin A deficiency. That deficiency, Lomborg writes, “according to the World Health Organization, causes 250,000 to 500,000 children to go blind each year. Of these, half die within a year.”
Three Florida high school students disarmed another student who was armed with a loaded pistol while riding home on a school bus. The school district then promptly suspended all three students for being involved in an “incident” with a weapon.
One of the suspended students asked, “How are they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?”
Authorities confirmed to WFTX the weapon was indeed loaded, and the arrest report stated the suspect, identified by WVZN-TV as Quadryle Davis, was “pointing the gun directly” at the other student and “threatening to shoot him.”
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This is an extension of the bully beating the weak kid and the principal yelling,”All right you two-stop it”
A study last year found that HALF of 18 to 24-year-olds did not know that Nelson led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. A similar proportion were unaware the Romans built Hadrian’s Wall.
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What’s a Roman daddy?
Hadrian’s Wall, built by Romans, not known by British youth
By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. – Suit was filed Oct 15, 2012
When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a$600 bank loan, assembling  miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s living rooms, but we had faith  that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God’s word.
From there,Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers,with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobbytogether, as a family.
We’re Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I’ve always said that the first two goals of our business are
(1) to run our businessin harmony
 with God’s laws, and
(2) to focus on people more than money.
And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close early so our
 employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God’s grace that Hobby Lobby has endured,and he has blessed us and our employees.
We’ve not only added jobs in a weak economy, we’ve raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.
But now, our government threatens to change all of that.
A new government health care mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance.
Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause abortions, which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one.
If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines.
Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy.
Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages four years running.
Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs.
It’s not right. I know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it’s the same for everybody. But that’s not true.
The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won’t exempt them for reasons of religious belief.
So, Hobby Lobby and my family are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more
important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit.
My family has lived the American dream.
We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees,but the government is going to make that much more difficult.
The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that’s a choice no American and no American business should have to make.  The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of companies but will not except Christian organizations including the Catholic church.
Since you will not see this covered in any of the liberal media, pass this on to all your contacts.
Sincerely,
David Green,
CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Each child IS special & needs to know why. Tell the stories of the Catholic Saints.Jesus born of Mary
Yes, all children are special. And each child needs to hear why they are special.
Imagine: A mom has four children. Different ages and different dads for some. Mom loves all of them.
Two children were born in February on the same day. One is a girl and the other a boy and they are different ages. They share the same birth date.   Another child, the youngest, was born just before Christmas. And one is a Feb. child.
Each child wants to be special — and loved in a special way.
But moms know that each child IS special and loved in a special way. And each child needs to know why each IS special.
How to convey to each that each child IS special and loved in a special way? Tell the children the stories of the Christian Saints.
The youngest child born just before Christmas is a Christ-child. And thus, tell that child and all four children, the story of Jesus born of Mary and Joseph in the town of Bethlehem after traveling a long way with Mary on a donkey.
It was not easy for Mary. Mary was a teenager around age 15 living in a small village. Everybody in the village could see that Mary was pregnant and that she was not married when she got pregnant. And think of Joseph. Instead of sending Mary back to her family as she was pregnant, Joseph listened to the angels. And so Joseph put Mary on a donkey and headed out into the darkness to go to a small town far, far away. Joseph trusted what the angels told him to do.
Tell all the children about the Three  Wise Men who came bringing gifts for Jesus. And tell the children that’s why we give gifts to each other on Christ-Mass Day. And share gifts with the children. Especially if you cannot be there on Christmas. Do it early so they know you care.
The two born in February have a special Saint. Tell the February children about Saint Valentine who is remembered on February 14. There are several Saint Valentines. Today we give Valentines to those we love. There is a Saint Valentine church in Rome, Italy that the children can visit. Tell the children born in Feb. close to Valentine’s Day that they are children of Love who are to Grow to Love others. Tell them their special saint is Saint Valentine. And that’s one reasonwhy they are special. And make a Valentine for each of the children — red paper, saying the words only a mom can say about love for that special Valentine child.
This particular mom also has a child who has a birthday around the middle of Sept. Â Check out the Saints for that day. For example, Sept. 21 is about Saint Mathew.
And Sept 14 is about the power of the Cross. Perhaps giving that Special Child born on Sept. 14 a small cross might be one way to show how that child is special – to mom and to Jesus. The symbol of the cross has long been a symbol of Jesus and God’s Love for all of us.
Learn about the Saints of old that pertain to specific days. And learn about those Saints that can help us NOW in our day!  And remember that we are all Saints Becoming.
Saints are not perfect. Saints are those who follow Jesus born of Mary. Mary listened to the angels and believed God’s promises.  So those four children can also choose to be Saints for today. With guidance from their mom as she seeks to know Jesus.
For each child give them a special gift by connecting them to Saints of Old so that the children of today become Saints of today. This is one way to teach that each child IS special to mom and to Jesus, Son of Mary and Joseph.
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At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury’s time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.
Saint Valentine’s Day
The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine’s Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer’sParliament of Foules we read:
For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.
For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers’ tokens. Both the French and English literatures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. Perhaps the earliest to be found is in the 34th and 35th Ballades of the bilingual poet, John Gower, written in French; but Lydgate and Clauvowe supply other examples. Those who chose each other under these circumstances seem to have been called by each other their Valentines. In the Paston Letters, Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernize the spelling), addressing the favoured suitor:
Dirt and find more dirt — that is Obama’s typical way of dealing with opponents and/ or bring others into line. And now — to take care of Bengazi — we have the CIA director resigning.
Typical Obama tactics:Â Â Find ‘dirt’ and keep piling it on?
So did Obama cover up of Bengazi and murders of Ambassador Stephens and others? Looks like yes.
Check the record: Obama won his first two political races because opponents resigned due to “dirt” Obama used against them.   Getting dirt on opponents is Obama’s typical tactic.
We know that Obama spent the last year to get and publicize  “dirt’  on Romney.
So, did Obama know that Petraeus had an affair some time ago  — and wait until after the election to publicize that dirt on Petraeus so that he had to resign? That fits the picture of how Obama typically operates: use ‘dirt’ to get the results you want.
For sure, Obama wants to hide the details why Ambassador Stevens — who asked for better security — was murdered.
Is Social Security a Ponzi? Krugman’s view 15 yrs ago and now.
Krugman says now:
” It’s true that Social Security is mainly a system in which each generation pays for the previous generation’s retirement, in the expectation that it will receive the same treatment from the next generation. So there’s nothing Ponziesque at all.
Fifteen (15) years ago, Krugman said:
Social Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out depends on what you put in. So it does not look like a re-distributionist scheme. In practice it has turned out to be strongly re- distributionist, but only because of its Ponzi game aspect, in which each generation takes more out than it put in. Well, the Ponzi game will soon be over….
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Why does anyone bother reading this guy. He feels no compunction about making definitive claims in opposition to themselves depending on the party in power.
