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That is because elementary schools are cheap to run plus you get parents to buy $100 worth of supplies per kid per year. This allows the CEO of the Charter Management Company to make a CEO level salary. A charter school in Northern Michigan was recently run into the ground by a Charter School (sic) management company.

This public charter school was paying $900,000 per year for business office services like printing paychecks.

The founder of the charter school is in jail for $600,000 in federal tax fraud.

Charter Schools are the wild west of using public tax dollars to enrich CEOs of management companies. They fail often, and spring back to life. Once the state legislature says you can charge tuition and still get free tax dollars, I plan to open an Elite Charter School and make serious cash.

That is because elementary schools are cheap to run plus you get parents to buy $100 worth of supplies per kid per year. This allows the CEO of the Charter Management Company to make a CEO level salary. A charter school in Northern Michigan was recently run into the ground by a Charter School (sic) management company.

This public charter school was paying $900,000 per year for business office services like printing paychecks.

The founder of the charter school is in jail for $600,000 in federal tax fraud.

Charter Schools are the wild west of using public tax dollars to enrich CEOs of management companies. They fail often, and spring back to life. Once the state legislature says you can charge tuition and still get free tax dollars, I plan to open an Elite Charter School and make serious cash.

Seems like Hollywood knows a thief when they see one: http://record-eagle.com/statenews/x151150327/Soldier-sues-makers-of-Hurt-Locker

You must be illiterate.

If you honestly believe this, why waist your time writing a note to tell me? In any case, your selective quoting does not have anything to do with my ability to read.

Prosecutors in Michigan were standing by the charges against three Texas men,

The guys from Dallas, whom the grandparent was talking about, are still being charged.

Sorry if my referring to two cases in the same paragraph confused you. The first sentence was, as you surmised, about the Dearborn men. The second part was about the guys from Dallas, about who the FBI says they have no case:

The FBI said Monday that it had no information to indicate that the men in custody had any ties to terrorist organizations, the Associated Press reports. Nevertheless, the local police and prosecutors seem persuaded that they've foiled a dastardly plot, and appear prepared, for now, to go through with the prosecutions.

I can see why, if you just skimmed these articles, you might think the Texas men were still being charged. However, from the first paragraph of the link provided in the GGP (entitled "Texas men will not be facing terrorism charges"):

A county prosecutor backed off terror charges he had filed against three Palestinian-American men from Texas who were found buying large numbers of cell phones.

So no, no one is being charged for terrorism in either of these cases.

Could you perhaps provide a source for your outrageous claim that you somehow know that these guys were knowingly aiding terrorists, when the FBI can't find any evidence to support even weaker claims? I'm sure they'd love to know what you know.

--MarkusQ

P.S.

By the way, the impeachment of Clinton wasn't about a blowjob, it was about perjury and witness tampering. He was disbarred in Arkansas for the offense.

In the same way that Nixon's wasn't about Watergate.

I liked Clinton, but I can't support someone who sexually harrasses women, then perjures himself and tells witnesses to do the same to cover it up.

I, on the other hand, never liked or trusted Clinton and considered is extramarital affair, perjury, and obstruction of justice to be totally consistent with his personality.

It is a tribute to G. H. W. Bush's ability to systematically undermine everything this nation stands for that he actually makes my miss Clinton and his (by comparison) petty mendacity.

What I see there is a Pakistani woman caught with a water bottle full of "possibly explosive" material. They don't know what the material was yet.

This certainly could be "a terrorist caught with explosives", the conclusion you jump to; given that it was a real possibility, evacuating the airport and investigating further as they have done was of course the appropriate course of action for the time being.

But it also seems possible this is a false alarm, similar to this morning when a bomb sniffing dog detected a suspicious container that turned out to be full of completely ordinary rags, or the day before when an "unruly passenger" was widely reported to have "Vaseline, a screw driver, matches and a note referencing al-Qaeda" and then it turned out she had nothing of the kind and was just having some kind of nervous breakdown and peeing in the plane aisles (?), or a couple days before that when three men of Arabic descent were arrested with a bunch of cell phones on suspicion they were going to blow up a bridge but then turned out only to be buying cell phones to resell in Dallas at a profit.

Again, it could be that this woman arrested in West Virginia was part of a real terrorist plot, and it could be that some unhinged lady was inspired by recent media reports about plane bombs to pour lighter fluid in a couple of water bottles and attempt to board a plane. Perhaps there really was a legitimate threat to passenger safety there. I shall be watching the news on this one with interest to find out exactly what happened.

But until we do find out exactly what happened, it seems awfully odd in this case to say "reality has intervened" when in fact what you mean is "partly speculative media reports have intervened".

Unfortunately, these are the Americans that reported that they weren't getting enough food.

I'm afraid that you're too late. Pumped-storage hydropower stations have already been cited for fish kills. I can only find indirect references; link, another link.

I'd carry a plastic bottle that I could put snow into, then put the bottle into my clothes. After it melts, then you can drink it. That's much safer.

Do not eat without melting! Eating snow and ice can reduce body temperature and will lead to more dehydration.

Melt ice or snow and boil it if possible. Don't eat crushed ice - it can injure your mouth and can also cause further dehydration.

Lundin says eating lots of snow is a common and potentially deadly mistake.

"Don't eat snow," said Mike Sheets. "Don't put it in your mouth and try to melt it if you're thirsty. You'll use up too much of your body's heat, and you need that energy for yourself."

Drink a lot of water, 8 to 12 glasses a day. But do not eat snow to satisfy your thirst. Eating snow can lower your body's core temperature, triggering deadly hypothermia.

Don't waste body heat by eating snow. Make a fire; heat water before drinking.

Do not eat snow as it tends to dehydrate the body

Do not eat snow to obtain water, it will just make you colder.

October 19, 2001

Ex-postal worker jailed for fecal fight

EMPIRE - A disgruntled United States Postal worker was jailed in lieu of $1 million bond Thursday after former co-workers told police he attacked them with three buckets of animal feces.

James Beal, of Empire, faces charges in Leelanau County of assault and malicious destruction of property and has also been indicted on federal charges in Grand Rapids. The Michigan State Police and the U.S. Postal Service are investigating.

Beal, a recently terminated employee, entered a mail sorting room at the Empire Post Office at around 10:30 a.m. Thursday and threw three buckets of feces at four workers and on the contents of the room, according to the state police.

Police responded to the post office within minutes and provided security at the post office and surveillance of Beal's residence. Beal surrendered peacefully at around 12:30 p.m. after police made telephone contact with him.

No injuries were reported and decontamination was handled by the United States Postal Hazardous Materials Team from Grand Rapids.