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Author Message BEDSPREAD Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:00 ampost started 11 months ago and still going
Disassociated And Depressed-
CLEARFIELD, Pa. —
A bus veered off a highway and crashed in central Pennsylvania early Sunday, killing two people and injuring 31 others, authorities said. The bus was traveling eastbound on Interstate 80 with 35 people on board when it crashed six miles west of Clearfield at about 3:30 a.m., state police said. "It appears that the bus, and we don't know why, did leave the roadway, and came back on, and the bus did eventually wind up on its side," state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marla Fannin said. Fannin said two people died and the others had various injuries. Thirty-one people, ranging in age from a toddler to a 50-year-old, were taken to Clearfield Hospital, nurse manager Monica Smith said. Doctors treated lung and abdominal injuries, along with various abrasions and lacerations, she said. Seven people were transferred to a hospital in Altoona, where one was listed in serious condition and six were in guarded condition, nursing supervisor Ann Langenbacher said. Investigators were having difficulty piecing together what happened because most of the passengers were Asian and did not speak English, state Trooper Terry Jordan said. The name of the company that operated the bus was not immediately known. A nine-mile stretch of the eastbound portion of the highway in Clearfield County was closed, but the bus was being towed away by midmorning and authorities expected the highway to reopen shortly. Clearfield is about 120 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.The Disorientated Express We will never hear (I doubt) as to whether this was a tour bus or the importartion of illegals.
The only beneficiaries of these famed hardworking immigrants — unlike you lazy Americans — are the wealthy, who want the cheap labor while making the rest of us chip in for the immigrants' schooling, food and health care.
Let's find out if it's true that Americans won't stoop to any of the jobs illegals do. I don't think it is. Years ago I worked in a florist shop removing the thorns from roses. It was painful work and I was happy to do it, and I am very American. I was a badly paid waitress in the Holiday Inn on Route 3 in New Jersey. The young will do a great deal, and not only the young. The dislike for Americans evinced by the Americans-won't-do-hard-work crowd is, simply, astonishing, and shameful. It says more about the soft and ignorant lives they lived in Kennebunkport and Greenwich than it does about the American people.
The Disassociated And/Or Depressed-
MEXICO CITY —
The severed head of a town councilman was dumped outside the offices of a newspaper in Mexico's Gulf state of Tabasco in what the paper's publishers said was an attempt to intimidate reporters. The head, left outside Tabasco Hoy's offices in Villahermosa, was wrapped in newspaper inside a cooler and left by a man who stepped out of a sport utility vehicle early Saturday, the paper said on its Web site. Police and soldiers said the head belonged to Terencio Sastre, a councilman from the nearby municipality of El Cedro, whose body was found on the side of a road Friday. "It has all the characteristics of an act of intimidation and an attempt to silence the freedom of information that the publishers exercise," Tabasco Hoy said in a statement. It sent a letter to President Felipe Calderon and other officials, urging them to guarantee the staff's safety. The newspaper did not discuss who was behind the killing. Mexican drug gangs often decapitate rivals as a means of intimidation and are blamed for killing dozens of Mexican journalists in recent years. In January, Tabasco Hoy reporter Rodolfo Rincon disappeared and has not been seen since. Shortly before his disappearance, Rincon wrote an article on drug gangs that identified houses where narcotics were sold. Mexico has become the world's second-most dangerous place for journalists after Iraq with seven journalists killed across the country since October. A Mexican TV reporter and cameraman disappeared earlier this month in the northern city of Monterrey. Many journalists hold back from reporting on drug gangs. On Thursday, the newspaper Cambio Sonora in the northwestern city of Hermosillo announced it was shutting down temporarily after assailants tossed a hand grenade from a passing car at its offices.Maybe this is why Bush is kissing their collective asses... He's afraid they will come for him next? :roll:
Immigration Reform Bill Threatens Small Business Contrary to your view that employers like "construction contractors who rely heavily on unskilled workers generally support" the Senate immigration bill ("Business Divided as Debate Opens on Immigration," page one, May 22), we find that the housing sector and contractor community generally oppose the deal because it would do irreparable harm to small businesses. Specifically, the nation's home builders view the bill as counterproductive because it contains onerous provisions regarding employer liability and responsibility for subcontractors; the law could be used to unfairly prosecute an employer who unknowingly hires an illegal alien; general contractors could be held responsible for the legal status of employees hired by subcontractors;Most so called honest businessmen know the low bids they are getting are do to the fact the subcontractors are using illegal labor and now they want to claim they shouldn't be held responsable. It goes from wal-mart and cleaning services all the way down to Joe's Landscaping placing low bids on taking care of a condo complex and everyone wants to act stupid and claim they didn't know or shouldn't be held responsable. Everyone knows these labor services are just fronts and a layer of protection so people can hire illegal labor without the risk,they let somebody more willing to take the risk do it just like what goes on in trucking with ompanies getting rid of their private fleets so they can protect themselves from liability while placing unreasonable demands on their supplier of transportation. Outsourcing liability to people with no assets and than claim they aren't responsable for the actions of the people they hired.