Daily Archives: April 26, 2006

On Behalf of NC, I Apologize

For what, you say? For this asshat: Family members of those killed on United Flight 93 are urging a North Carolina congressman to lift his hold on funding for a memorial planned for the Pennsylvania site where the plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly a dozen family members are scheduled to meet with their […]

WTW: More Subpoenas In McKinney Case

I reckon them prosecuter critters are just being careful, getting all the facts, laying it out for the Grand Jury (unlike in the Tom Delay and Duke Lacrosse cases). From Yahoo News: More House aides have been served with subpoenas to testify in the grand jury investigation of an incident last month where Rep. Cynthia […]

WTW: Illegal Families Torn Apart

And, I just have to say: “This is our problem why……?” Deportation split Julie Santos’ family in 2001, forcing her husband, an illegal immigrant, to return to Mexico while she and their two U.S.-born children remained in her hometown of Chicago. George Santos had worked and paid taxes in the USA for 15 years but […]

WTW: Web Surfing At Work Same As Reading A Magazine

  As long as the mag isn’t Playboy or Penthouse (from WRAL) A ruling in New York should come as a relief to people who have a habit of checking out the Internet at work. A judge has ruled that use of the Internet is no more goofing off on the job than reading a […]

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