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    American Falls is a city in Power County, Idaho, United States. The population was 4,111 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Power County. It is part of the 'Pocatello, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2004, William Thomas Middle School in American Falls was awarded the National Principal of Secondary Schools Award. American Falls High School is a secondary school in American Falls. American Falls was also the first town in the United States to be entirely moved from one place to another. This was done to facilitate construction of the nearby American Falls Dam. The old townsite sits at the bottom of the reservoir created by the dam. American Falls is located at 42°46′52″N, 112°51′20″W (42.781121, -112.855694). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,111 people, 1,429 households, and 1,063 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,674.5 people per square mile (1,030.7/km²). There were 1,557 housing units at an average density of 1,012.9/sq mi (390.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 81.56% White, 0.15% African American,

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    Is this news article related to illegals? Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash?
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    Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/flag_incid ent;_ylt=ArAdq0MuGcrxgTh0WvzfpPus0NUE TWIN FALLS, Idaho - A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage. ADVERTISEMENT click here Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he took the flag Monday because "white kids" might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it. Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, "Give me the flag." "I said, 'What's the problem?'" Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. "He said, 'The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can." Camelo said that Straatman told him the flag would be returned at the end of the school day, but that Straatman taunted him instead. "I asked, 'Where is my flag?'" Camelo said. "He said, 'What, the U.S. flag?' I said, 'No, the one for Mexico.' But he wouldn't give it to me." Camelo said he then took the undamaged flag out of the garbage. He said he's been contacted by the American Civil Liberties Union and is considering a lawsuit against Straatman. Camelo and others brought Mexican flags to the south-central Idaho school to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the May 5 recognition of Mexico's victory over the French army on that day in 1862. About a third of the student body is Hispanic. Straatman denied saying the words Camelo attributed to him, and said the student may have misunderstood him because of his poor English skills. He said he took the flag from Camelo after Camelo had been waving it in the school gym, and denied withholding it later. "I had to confiscate it so it wouldn't escalate any problems in class," Straatman told The Times-News. "We're worried about that stuff all the time. We always have kids saying stuff to each other, and we have a lot of fights between kids." Scott Rogers, superintendent of the Minidoka County Joint School District, said an investigation has been started. He said he could not comment specifically about personnel decisions. "We believe in nondiscriminatory practices and cultural sensitivity," he said. "We train for that and talk about that. If there is a teacher making derogatory comments we don't approve of that. We also don't approve of a student disrupting the classroom." Rogers said he was at the school early Wednesday and that the school was quiet. He said he noticed a few students wearing clothing in the colors of the Mexican flag — red, white and green — in protest of Monday's incident. Since this happened in the town next to where I live, I'll check tomorrow my local paper's website has a link on this story.At the moment this is nothing about this story yet. www.southidahopress.com

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    This is America....Not Mexico......American law and rules apply....Not Mexican.....We don't need you (Mexicans) here for cheap labor or anything else....Especially anything that reduces the American way of life. Oh yeah they are here to do the jobs Americans won't do!!! Bull !!! Their availability allows lawbreaking employers to screw their own country by working illegals and abusing them with fear and intimidation. They would have the Constituion and Bill of Rights if they were legalized citizens but then Big Brother would have to pay them fairly wouldn't they...

    Is this what the American "Commander-in-Chief" advocates?
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    U.S. Snipers Accused of 'Baiting' Iraqis By PAULINE JELINEK and ROBERT BURNS – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then kill whoever picked up the items, according to the defense attorney for a soldier accused of planting evidence on an Iraqi he killed. Gary Myers, an attorney for Sgt. Evan Vela, said his client had acted "pursuant to orders." "We believe that our client has done nothing more than he was instructed to do by superiors," Myers said in a telephone interview. Myers and Vela's father, Curtis Carnahan of Idaho Falls, Idaho, said in separate interviews that sworn statements and testimony in the cases of two other accused Ranger snipers indicate that the Army has a classified program that encourages snipers to "bait" potential targets and then kill whoever takes the bait. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1w0jKfeip0qU8GM70R5toW_ Id7Q ******************************** I asked a question about this yesterday, but since one of the rightwing fascists reported it and had it removed - I have no option but to post on the subject again. When will the rightwing fascists learn that you cannot silence the truth? To the first responder: THEN YOU ARE THE SAME AS ISLAM EXTREMISTS. To Glen: Sorry, not buying. Curiosity is as human as a sense of humor is. I bend over to pick up stuff all the time. It's completely criminal and unacceptable. To Glen: Sorry, not buying. Curiosity is as human as a sense of humor is. I bend over to pick up stuff all the time. It's completely criminal and unacceptable. To "don't tase me" -- Sorry, "war time" does not in any way justify the murder of innocent people. To Glen: By definition, "curiosity" would dictate that a person would pick up something that they didn't know what it was. As in a "detonator cord." How in God's name would I know what a detonator cord was? And I actually *did* think of this: if a person did recognize one of these objects and they KNEW what it was, do you really think they'd pick it up? Lying in the street? In a city buzzing with American military? I don't. To "jasonsluck" - Sweetie, whether or not I recognize something is completely irrelevant. And for YOU to say "everybody over there" recognizes such and such is wholly subjective. Who are YOU to speak for what anybody else recognizes? I will give you that everybody over there recognizes pieces of legs and arms and fragments of skulls and brains splattered all over the place, but there is no evidence that the average citizen "recognizes" firearms or ordinance. The POINT is baiting. The POINT is planting evidence. The POINT is snipers picking off Iraqi citizens who have done NOTHING. What the hell has happened to us. Sorry. I firmly believe that any person who would pick up something like that did it out of idle curiosity. NO ONE who knew what it was, would have picked it up with military swarming all over the place. ************************ EDIT: I've never heard of "To Catch a Predator. I'm not really a couch-potato-live-my-lie-in-front-of-the-television kind of gal. And sorry, again, but everything you just said is YOUR OPINION. You cannot say authoritatively what they know or don't know. What about people like me? I wouldn't know a military/ordinance thingy from a hole in the ground. It's just not my thing. Some types of people (like me) just have avoided that sort of gadget/mentality their entire lives. It's preposterous for you to think that a "whole country" knows about "war stuff." Also, you're WRONG about the "it's been going on for decades" thing. Maybe you're thinking about AFGHANISTAN, not Iraq. Because BEFORE bush one and bush two, Iraq was a very civilized, well-educated place full of doctors, engineers, architects, centuries-old culture of museums and history. Sounds very much like you didn't know that. BUSH RUINED THE COUNTRY. To Washington Irving: Thanks very much for a glimpse of sanity.

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    --only four apologists? Blue, you must have caught the wingnuts during their post-lunch drowsiness. " ...Didier said in the statement. "Basically, we would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the item against U.S. forces." --Engage? Is that politically correct sniper talk for putting a bullet through the brain of an Iraqi who may or may not be a combatant? Somehow I don't think this is going to *win hearts and minds.* "Within months of the "baiting" program's introduction, three snipers in Didier's platoon were charged with murder for allegedly using those items and others to make shootings seem legitimate, according to the Post." --Imagine that...none of the geniuses behind this program saw the potential for abuse. Yep...we're making enemies faster than we can kill them.

    American Elections Predictions?
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    Wassup you all? Who can predict for me which candidate will carry the falling states on Nov 4 and if u can, a brief reason why u think ur candidate will carry the particular state. Thanks; Hawaii Idaho South Dakota Vermont Maryland

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    Hawaii - Obama 59% - McCain 39% - Other 2% - Obamas Birthplace Idaho - McCain 51% - Obama 42% - Other 7% - Always pretty Republican South Dakota - Obama 49% - McCain 48% - Other 3% - This one will be close, but because of the poll trends I give Obama a slight lead. Vermont - Obama 50% - McCain 46% - Other 4% - Close to NH, but stll Obama. Maryland - Obama 56% - McCain 43% - Other 1% - Way to the left.

    Why is the DREAM Act unfair, irresponsible and disastrous if it is adopted?
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    Many leaders of both parties in Congress are pushing for the DREAM Act, which would grant reduced tuition and legal permanent residency to possibly millions of students who have been in the United States illegally. Why is the DREAM Act unfair, irresponsible and disastrous if it is adopted? College tuition has skyrocketed in recent years. Many Americans cannot afford college or have taken out student loans. Should the United States neglect its own citizens and subsidize the education of students who are here illegally? Proponents of the DREAM Act argue that parents of illegal students have paid taxes and that the United States should invest in them. The hard truth is that most illegal workers, due to their low-incomes, do not pay enough taxes to offset the cost of educating their children in American public grade schools. This cost can exceed $9,500 per child per year if the student receives the so-called bilingual education, not to mention the costs of other social services. Furthermore, rewarding illegal foreign nationals can only lead to higher illegal immigration. The misnamed “Immigration Reform and Control Act” of 1986 granted amnesty to 3 million illegal migrants. Presently, we have an estimated 12 to 20 million illegal migrants in the United States, without counting their children born here who are U.S. citizens. There were “1.8 million undocumented children in local school districts” across the United States, according to a report published by Business Week Online April 7, 2006. Billions of bonds in recent years have been passed to fund our schools. Is borrowing into the future a responsible solution? Open border advocates claim that money spent on the Iraq war and taxing wealthy individuals in the United States could generate plenty of resources to pay for costly services provided to foreign-born newcomers and their U.S.-born children. But the impact of exploding immigration-driven population growth is more than fiscal. If we grant amnesty to millions of illegal students, once naturalized, they could petition for their parents and siblings to immigrate to the United States. In addition, they will have children born here. Those newcomers will consume energy and water, like all other residents, thus exacerbating our energy and water shortages. We cannot ignore the political impact of the DREAM Act. Many Hispanic activists pushing for amnesty have publicly stated: “Today, we march. Tomorrow, we vote.” During last year’s massive demonstrations across the United States, many protestors were waving Mexican flags and pressuring the United States with demands identical to Mexico’s. Considering that in recent years, our national elections were very close, it is unlikely that our immigration laws will be seriously enforced in the future if millions of newly naturalized citizens promoting open borders are able to vote in our future elections. Should we allow migration to strongly influence our elections and policies? The U.S. population has quadrupled since 1900, from 76 million to 303 million. In the last 15 years alone, over 50 million people have been added to the United States mostly due to immigration-derived growth! If our population continues to grow at the rate of last decade, by 2100—within the lifetimes of today’s children’s children—the United States will have India’s current population. Do Hispanic legal residents really want the United States to become another Latin America, India or Philippines, the corrupt, overpopulated and impoverished nations that they or their ancestors left? Latin America has 37 billionaires. Why shouldn’t they and other countries work to improve life for their own citizens? Congress must realize that the United States is now the greatest debtor nation in human history, while China holds the world’s largest foreign currency reserves. We owe China $450 billion in federal debt. We also have the highest budget and trade deficits in the world. The Euro, weaker than the dollar 10 years ago, is now worth over $1.40. American students fall behind their counterparts in many countries in Asia due in part to an explosion of immigration-related enrollments: Many grade schools are overwhelmed with children speaking little to no English. Can this country remain prosperous if we have a growing semi-literate student population? Nationwide, over 75 percent of our adult cash welfare recipients are 20 to 39 years old. Some growers in Idaho and Colorado are using non-violent prisoners to replace illegal migrants. Isn’t it in the interests of Hispanic and other Americans to oppose the DREAM Act and other amnesty proposals, and to demand that our immigration laws be enforced as strictly as Mexico so that we can put all adult able-bodied welfare recipients and non-violent prison inmates to fill positions currently held by illegal migrants?

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    I call it the "Illegal Alien Nightmare Amnesty Act of 2007." It would give millions of illegal alien citizenship just for signing up for some college classes or joining the military. It would be easy to get fake documents to prove residency in the USA, so that thousands of people who should not be granted citizenship, would get it. How well did the 1986 amnesty work out? Harriot Reed, Nazi Pelosi, Clinton, and the other traitorous Dimocrats will stop at nothing to get the Hispanic vote. They don't care how many American citizens that they have to screw to gain Latino votes.

    What if we do nothing about amnesty?

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    Without the Amnesty Program, it will be difficult for the illegal aliens to get government benefits such as subsidized housing, loans under Federal programs, and get government jobs (out side of military). But I don’t think it would make any difference when it comes to paying taxes (because many work under the table), getting welfare checks, free medical, free lunches at school, participation in before and after school programs their children, and free college education for those who make it to college.

    Is there any truth in this article about illegal workers here in the USA?
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    The long road home Deported illegal workers face the long arm of the law http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/30/news/top_stor y/133809.txt Most of the 28 shackled, brown-skinned men deported March 13 by federal agents from the Twin Falls airport still saw giving up as out of the question. They teased fellow travelers with unusual last names: Salado - risqué - and Lechuga - lettuce. They stayed jovial at the end of a video informing them of their rights. On the grimmest of days, they tried to raise each other's spirits. There were other reasons to eagerly board the flight. Some wanted to escape the blustery chill. For others, the unmarked MD-83 jet, with U.S. Marshals and government contractors for flight attendants, offered a first-ever flight. In this crowd of strangers, a sense of comradery took hold, making the trip more endurable. Crossing a legal border Antonio Carrillo could see only two options: give up and go home or fight deportation. The majority of the deportees - 15 in all - took seats toward the back of of the 172-seat jet. They remained apart from those who were not fighting deportation. At the plane's final stop, in Phoenix, the 15 involuntary deportees would go before a judge to make one last plea to stay in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say all will certainly lose. "Most of them, they don't have a case," said Steven Branch, ICE's Salt Lake City-based director of detention and removal. His office has handles an average of 3,750 removals per year from Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Those who fight deportation and lose are sent home under a removal order. They face a felony charge if they return to the U.S. Those who chose not to fight are simply returned to Mexico. It they sneak back across the border, they face no criminal charge. Some make the round-trip more than once. "I'd rather obtain a removal order to stop the revolving door," Branch said. "Sometimes a felony return sinks in and it scares the heck out of them." The deportees' hopeful pursuit for appeals may also describe their obedient - almost passive - behavior as they are processed. Since the summer of 1998, authorities have corralled Montana and Idaho deportees in Twin Falls for shipment to their native country without ever having a serious incident. Not once have the armed ICE officers and Marshals needed to pull a trigger. The closest thing anyone recalls to an escape is a man who once tried to run, only to bounce off a locked detention cell door in Salt Lake City. International stockade Montana and Idaho mainly by local law enforcement from crimes ranging from a speeding ticket to murder. A smaller group are arrested by immigration agents. Arrests made directly by ICE or U.S. Border Patrol agents can often start with an operation targeting criminal aliens but lead to arrests of non-criminal immigrants caught in the cross-fire. Since the inception of ICE in March 2003, immigration agents have arrested and detained 3,355 immigrants in six south-central Idaho counties, according to ICE records obtained by a public information request. "It's a tough job," Branch said. "We knock on doors at 6 o'clock in the morning. The whole family is there. 'Come outside so we can arrest you away from your family.' People don't realize we don't make the laws up. We enforce the laws. Congress has passed the laws." In exceptional cases, ICEagents allow families to fly home together voluntarily on commerical flights. When the jails across Idaho and Montana fill up, usually once or twice a week. Vans haul the men to the TwinFalls County jail for the night. The next morning after breakfast at the jail, ICE agents transfer them to a federal processing office on Addison Avenue East, where they are deposited into a cubic, white-walled holding cell with a single toilet that rests an inch out of view of a surveillance camera. The group grows to only 28 today but agents have seen it swell to as many as 75 men. Women are always kept separate. After the deportees watch a 40-minute movie about their rights, they are brought one-by-one out of the room by the much smaller number of agents. Their morning breath festers in the close quarters. They are cuffed and shackled to belly chains, inspected, then returned to the cell until the bus in the back parking lot is ready to go. Once the processing is complete, they load into a white bus parked in a gated area behind the building. With the exception of screens on the windows that prevents the public from looking in, the 47-seat bus looks like a Greyhound bus. But on the inside, the front is split from the main cabin by a metal divider. The bus is wired - with monitors showing officers activity in the back and with a scrambled federal radio channel that connects the officers on board to the several vans caravaning to the airport. The vehicles wait on the tarmac for an unmarked charter jet containing only U.S. Marshals and private contractors, who will fly them to Salt Lake City to pick up a second batch of immigrants. Then to scoop up more at another regional city, and on until El Paso, Texas, and finally Phoenix, Ariz. But these flights won't go to their native countries - whether Mexico or elsewhere. Those flights, which will happen later, entail handing the immigrants off to their respective governments. Preparing a defense During this process, the men, some who cannot read, usually with meager educations, will not be afforded a lawyer. They lack awareness of immigration law, or U.S. laws altogether for that matter, which leaves them to quietly invent the odds of winning their case, and an argument for swaying a judge. What's Antonio Carrillo's case? At the ICE office on Addison Avenue East, his mind is not on the departure two hours away, or even his home in Chihuahua Parral, Mexico. It's on his girlfriend in Bozeman, Mont., who is entering her third trimester of pregnancy, and their impending wedding. He has told her not to worry: he has no legal help, but he'll take care of it. After all, he and eight of the other men today have committed no crime, beyond a traffic ticket. "She knows I'm in jail," Carrillo said, looking prim in a black pinstripe buttoned shirt. "She doesn't know what's going to happen. She doesn't know (if I lose) I can never come back." He threw his hands into the air, "Maybe I'll win." It's worse for Carrillo, 19, if he loses the hearing. It will mean he cannot simply marry his fiancee and move back because that would trigger a felony. If he voluntarily left, it would give him a blank slate to the American government. He seems unclear on this point. Still at the processing office, the bus is ready to take the men to the airport. Carrillo returns to the holding cell, where men are called out by agents wearing blue latex gloves to be searched and cuffed. Carrillo, who was happy being photographed before the cuffs went on, now declines to have his picture taken. ICE gives the men street clothes so they don't have to wear the jail garb of the county where they were arrested. It's important to him that he not be viewed as a criminal. Roots of an arrest It's also important for Luis Delacruz, of central Peru. As a convicted criminal, he has no chance of winning his appeal. But he has a plan:Make a case against racism. After joining his brother and cousins in Hailey five years ago, Delacruz, 32, had a roofing job. He bought a car and hoped to start saving money - money that might justify leaving his wife back home in Peru. But then Delacruz had too much to drink and tried to buy more. He showed his Peruvian ID to a mini-mart clerk, who reported him. Soon afterward, a Blaine County deputy arrested him for driving under the influence. To Delacruz, the cause of his deportation isn't his status as an illegal immigrant or drinking and driving. It's racism. "Why do they imagine these things about us?" he said with a sigh. "I'm leaving with what I came with. I'm not thinking about coming back. You're too far from the people you love." That's the sentiment of the case he'll make, which carries no legal weight, at the civil proceeding. He recalls leaving his wife at the airport in Peru five years ago, promising her he'd return with more money than he left with. She bawled, and even reconsidered letting him go. He's protesting his deportation, he said, because he still has debts here and feels ashamed that he won't be able to pay it back. If he wins his appeal, he says, he'll be back to pay up. Chances of that happening are slim. It's unclear what happens to the immigrants once they reach their seats inside the airplane. The charter plane, unlike the bus, looks on the inside like a typical airliner. As the Marshals finish packing plastic garbage bags containing their livelihoods - a book, an extra pair of clothes, a cowboy hat, court papers - into the undercarriage, something shuts off. The men lose their smiles. The laughter, both contrived for each other and authentic, halts. The men, all with closely cropped black hair, stare forward at the seat ahead. As Marshals retract the stairwell, the cabin permeates with only the calm hum of the engines.

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    They fought deportation because they have the right to do so. I don;t agree with any of what is said in this article.

    Could River Phoenix have faked his own death?
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    I know they say he died of a drug over dose I just read the biography of River Phoenix. It said that he owned hectares of South American rain forest. could he be living there today? He said it would be better to get out of acting "while he was up , not down" , and it would be the perfect way to be immortalized. Imagine him dying as an old man , I'm sure his image wouldn't be the same as it today His foundation still generates a lot of money to this day , so income would not be a problem. I just got this strange feeling about the weirdness of his whole life as if it was some elaborate plan, get rich and get out? and there is no grave as well , supposedly he was cremated at his mothers wishes. Faking an overdose for a talented actor wouldn't be that hard , if you have seen "my own private Idaho" and when he falls into a narcoleptic fit. Who knows what happened when the ambulance took him away.

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    So he is such a great actor he would be able to pulseless and not beath? Thats good

    Is this news article related to illegals at all? Over-the-counter, but still illegal?
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    Over-the-counter, but still illegal Idaho Board of Pharmacy director says Rupert store's sale of Mexican prescription drugs breaks laws By Andrea Jackson Times-News writer Idaho pharmacists said a small Rupert market that sold prescription drugs from Mexico without a prescription this week acted outside the law. Birth control and antibiotic pills were for sale Monday without prescriptions from under a glass counter at Diaz Campos Market at 507 F St. in Rupert. Acting on a tip from a doctor in Rupert, the Times-News bought a box of Terramicina Oxitetraciclina with a Pfizer brand name, for $29.99 on Monday without a prescription. The box, printed in Spanish, states the drug is from Mexico and requires a doctor's note to buy. Tetracycline, which the product may or may not contain, is an antibiotic that requires a prescription in the U.S. Selling a Mexican version of the drug at a non-pharmacy without prescriptions breaks state and federal laws in America, said Idaho Board of Pharmacy Executive Director Mark Johnston. It also could pose health risks, said Dr. Cathy Engle, a Twin Falls family practice doctor. Store owner Bonifacio Diaz Campos said through a Spanish-speaking translator Tuesday that he didn't know it was illegal to sell the drugs. He said he wasn't sure exactly where the drugs came from, and assumed they were flu medication. Campos said he will not sell the drug anymore at his store, and asked to have a list of products that are prohibited for sale in America. The Idaho Board of Pharmacy oversees licensed pharmacies, and wouldn't have jurisdiction over the Rupert store, said Johnston. "Obviously that's an illegal activity," Johnston said. "It's illegal on many levels. We will contact police." Doug Fuchs, pharmacist with Dick's Pharmacy in Twin Falls inspected the tetracycline purchased by the Times-News from Campos' store. He said pills purchased at Campos' store didn't have numbers on them - a standard for prescription medications sold in America. He also said his pharmacy would charge less money than Campos' store had for legal American tetracycline with a prescription. "It has a Pfizer imprint but it may not be a Pfizer product," said Fuchs. "We have no (oral) antibiotics sold over-the-counter in the U.S." Taking expired pills can cause liver damage. Antibiotics are prescribed by a doctor in America because of potentially harmful drug interactions and resistance, Engle said. This is the first time Fuchs, Johnston and Engle said they've heard of a local store selling prescription medication from Mexico without prescriptions in America. Rita Chappelle, spokeswoman for the federal Food and Drug Administration said her agency doesn't know how often pharmaceuticals are smuggled illegally into the country. "Whenever we find it we go after it ... The scope of the problem is they're smuggling." Lori Haley, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also said cases like this are apparently rare. "(ICE agents) don't have any information on any cases relevant to Idaho like this." ICE for three years investigated a case of Mexican prescription drug smuggling that ended in an indictment of Alejandro Herrera, 58, in April out of El Paso, Texas. He allegedly smuggled pharmaceutical drugs since 2000 from Mexico to businesses in Detroit and Chicago, according to an ICE press release. TwinFalls Police and Idaho State Police recently seized about 20 bottles of Mexican alcohol allegedly being sold illegally at two Mi Pueblo bakery markets in Twin Falls and Buhl. Charges have not been issued and police are still trying to determine exactly how the alcohol got into America, said Twin Falls Police Capt. Matt Hicks. The owner of the store, Esidro Nieto, has said he didn't know selling the alcohol was illegal. Andrea Jackson may be reached at 208-735-3380 or ajackson@magicvalley. http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/0 8/21/news/minicassia/142768.txt

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    No it isn't, the article does not say the store owner was illegal, so it does not pertain to illegal immigration. Maybe if US pharmaceutical companies were not overcharging people billions of dollars for a drug they make for pennies people would not be interested in buying drugs from over the border. People do it all the time, Canada and Mexico, and from Canada over the internet without a script, does that make it any less illegal?

    Is there any truth with this newspaper editorial and Immigration ?
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    Immigration policy is 'udderly' unworkable By Birch Faber and Brad Hash The Idaho Dairymen's Association recently launched a new effort to promote immigration reform, the Times-News reported Feb. 21. "Immigration reform is important to the economy of Idaho and the United States," an association official told the newspaper. "Our goal is to protect the borders but also to promote responsible immigration reform." This effort by the dairymen is one more example of how states, communities and industries throughout the Rocky Mountain West are forced by economic necessity to assert leadership in the nation's dysfunctional immigration system. The failure of the federal government to create a realistic pathway to permanent residence - or even to develop a functional guest worker system - has left many Western businesses struggling to adequately staff their operations. The dairymen's association in December hired a prominent immigration lawyer and formed a business coalition to "push for stable immigration policy on a national level." It was just a month earlier that Border Patrol agents arrested more than 100 illegal immigrants in the Twin Falls area. Many businesses, especially those in agriculture and the booming construction sector, rely heavily on immigrant labor. Among those laborers are 20,000 to 35,000 undocumented workers in Idaho, according to estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center. Illegal immigration is a serious problem. But it's just one symptom of the real malady - an immigration policy that doesn't serve our nation's needs and threatens to undermine prosperity in the West. Idaho's dairymen are not alone in their desire for reform. For example, ranchers in Colorado who depend on seasonal guest workers are shorthanded because permits for would-be employees are frequently delayed, denied or unavailable due to unrealistically small annual quotas. In order to combat the labor scarcity, Colorado lawmakers have proposed the creation of an office in Mexico to recruit guest workers, a policy that would challenge the federal leadership our immigration law anticipates. Arizona is also coping with a severe labor shortage and is considering its own temporary worker program. These efforts are examples of states forced to patch problems that the federal government fails to resolve. Job growth throughout most of the Rockies has for years exceeded the ability to fill them with American-born workers. Our region's economic prosperity rides on the availability of workers. Federal law, however, makes lawful immigration virtually impossible for many of the workers we need. The United States allows a mere 10,000 people with "essential skills" to obtain work visas yearly - a tiny fraction needed to fill the jobs waiting for people with those skills. Legitimate businesses run great risks as they attempt to operate on the receiving end of failed immigration policy. Existing immigration law also makes no provision for most of the undocumented workers in our region to obtain work visas. They're here illegally because there's no legal way for them to take the opportunities our economy offers. As willing workers are increasingly denied access to vacant U.S. jobs, significant losses for businesses are mounting throughout the Rocky Mountain region. The current system forces industries and states to pursue stop-gap remedies. But the solution isn't to add special exemptions for particular industries like agriculture - we've already done too much of that and the results have contributed to the present quagmire. The solution is to comprehensively fix our broken system of immigration so that the best way to immigrate to America is to do so legally and so employers can count on legal immigrants to fill jobs for which there are no native-born workers. Birch Faber and Brad Hash are research assistants for Western Progress, a Missoula, Mont., nonpartisan policy institute focused on the Rocky Mountain West. http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/05/opinion/rea der_comments/132183.txt

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    It's totally false. Employers who pay low wages and offer no benefits have always had trouble filling those jobs. If they need workers the best way to get them is to pay better wages and offer benefits.

    Strange Sex Laws In the USA?
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    No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth. Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you—or holding you in his arms. Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown—if they're nude. In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. The beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds. The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude, nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts. An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer. A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts. In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job—for men only—called a corset inspector.) In Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male." It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate. A law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing. Lovers in Liberty Comer, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while frolicking behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, the couple can face a jail term. Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio—the thinking is that a man might see the reflection of something he shouldn't. Maryland prohibits the selling of condoms through vending machines in gas stations and stores—with one major exception. Prophylactics may be dispensed by a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises." In Texas, no one other than a "registered pharmacist" may sell condoms or other kinds of contraceptives "on the streets or other public places." No, not even physicians. Anyone who tries to make a few extra bucks doing this will be severely prosecuted for the dire act of "unlawfully practicing medicine." Kentucky and Idaho limit condom sales to medical practitioners and licensed pharmacists, but their license to sell the items may not be hung on a wall where it can be seen by customers. Maine licenses condom sellers and the license must always be on public display. Nevada, with 35 legal bordellos, has no condom problem. The use of condoms in Nevada brothels is compulsory. Both Indiana and Ohio have laws that prohibit male skating instructors from having sexual relations with their female students. This misdeed, called "the seduction of female students," is prosecuted as a felony. This statute applies only to male teachers. It seems female skating instructors may have sex with male students.

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    in mount airy, north carolina males have to nut in their wives everytime they have sexual relations because they are trying to increase the population

    Do you ever have a good laugh at some of the things you find on the web?
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    Strange U.S. Sex Laws -- In Bakersfield, California, anyone having intercourse with Satan must use a condom. (An asbestos one we presume.) -- In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day. -- In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish. (Apparently it's OK for woman.) -- No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth. -- Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you -- or holding you in his arms. -- Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown -- if they're nude. -- In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds! -- The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts. -- An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer! -- A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts. -- In Romboch, Virg inia, it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with the lights on. -- In Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male." -- It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate. -- A law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing. (Ouch! These pasties hurt!) -- Anywhere in the U.S., it's illegal to use any live endangered species, excepting insects, in public or private sexual displays, shows or exhibits depicting cross-species sex. (Insectophiles apparently were successful in their lobbying efforts.) -- Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term. -- In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in. -- Women aren't allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio - a man might see the reflection of something "he oughtn't!" -- No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanour and "her name is to be published in the local newspaper." The man isn't charged nor is his name revealed. -- It is illegal for any member of the Nevada Legislature to conduct official business wearing a penis costume while the legislature is in session.

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    Regarding the last one, I wonder if the Carson City, NV novelty costume shop "Costumes 'R US, Perfect Fit For Any Occasion" knows about this law. Apparently it is okay to wear one before or after business is officially finished.

    what do you think of these weird US laws?
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    No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth. Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you-or holding you in his arms. Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown-if they're nude. (Apparently, if you wear socks, you're safe from the law!) During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains. In Cleveland, Ohio women are not allowed to wear patent-leather shoes. Clinton, Oklahoma has a law against masturbating while watching two people having sex in a car. It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate. [Hmmm... okay, there's one place with a law that makes sense... -psl] In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot off a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm. In Detroit, couples are not allowed to make love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's own property. A law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have sex on city streets. In Florida it is illegal for single, divorced, or widowed women to parachute on Sunday afternoons. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth. The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts. Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing. A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts. An excerpt from brilliant Kentucky state legislation. "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club". The following important amendment however is to be considered here: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it apply to male horses." In Kingsville, Texas there is a law against two pigs having sex on the city's airport property. Any couple making out inside a vehicle, and accidentally sounding the horn during their lustful act, may be taken to jail according to a Liberty Corner, New Jersey law. In Los Angeles, California, a man is legally entitled to beat his wife with a leather belt or strap, but the belt can't be wider than 2 inches, unless he has his wife's consent to beat her with a wider strap. Consent should be given prior to the event, as is carefully stipulated. [Not to be confused with the myth about "rule of thumb"'s origin -psl] In Maryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "The privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male." In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission. In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal. An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer! In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job-for men only-called a corset inspector.) In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day. In Oxford, Ohio, it's illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture. In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds! A Tremonton, Utah law states that no woman is allowed to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance. In addition to normal charges, the woman's name will be published in the local newspaper. The man does not receive any punishment. Utah state legislation outlaws all sex with anyone but your spouse. Next to that adultery, oral and anal sex, masturbation are considered sodomy and can lead to imprisonment. Sex with an animal - unless performed for profit - however is NOT considered sodomy. Polygamy - provided only the missionary position has been applied - is only a misdemeanor. moonspot- prove to me that they are untrue. every country has strange laws. in england, if you are pregnant it is legal to urinate in public but only in a policemans hat. It is examples not only of old laws never being changed but laws created simply to keep local lawyers occupied. the websites that you have included are just basic 'codes', they don't include all the laws. stop being lazy. find better sources.

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    LOL and yanks make fun of other people's laws

    What are high school kids in the Rocky Mountain states wearing?
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    This is some informal research for a graduate paper on regional styles of dress among American teens. If you're a high school student in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, or other Rocky Mountain state, please tell us what clothing (brand names, styles, colors, etc.) you and your friends typically wear. Are there any fashion trends that are unique to your area? Please be as specific as possible. Think about your fall wardrobe for back-to-school. Any information is helpful. We are particularly interested in boys' fashion trends, but girls also! Don't be shy! This is not market research; it's for a cultural history project. THANKS Thanks, Ariel ... interesting. New York City kids don't really wear American Eagle, although there are a FEW stores here ... they mostly wear urban, hip-hop, and sports team gear. Akademiks, Marc Ecko, and Sean John are the hot tickets here. There's also a trend of matching the sneakers with a sports team's colors and a flat-brimmed ball cap -- usually 3 colors. Wearing the jeans down low past the rump is a trend I'd like to see disappear!

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    I'm from Montana and everyone wears t-shirts and jeans pretty much year round. You don't really see much high fashion stuff around here. I've seen a few girls wearing the legging/tights that are in style but not much else. People mostly shop at Old Navy, Target, Aeropostale, and PacSun. American Eagle is super popular. Abercrombie is popular but pretty much only kids from wealthier families can buy it. As for our guys, they all pretty much wear basic t-shirts, ones with sports teams are popular. Every once in awhile they might throw on a collared or button-down shirt usually from American Eagle. Missoula and Billings are the only towns with decent malls so shopping choices are limited. So style is pretty basic and jeans are pretty much it.

    I'm a small farmer & I do food storage, have an interesting question...?
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    I'm a small farmer, in Idaho. I've very close to agriculture (unlike the average American). I also do food storage, about a years worth at any given time in my pantry. Because I'm so close to agriculture, and because I do food storage, I buy in bulk from as close to the source as possible. I buy my white flour directly from Pendelton Flour Mill, 8 miles from my house. Two years ago I could buy 50 pound bags of flour for $5. This year, they are $25-$30 per 50 pound bag of flour. This price increase is DIRECTLY related to the demand for grains (corn, wheat, barley, ect) for biofuel production. So how does this kind of a dramatic price increase, now that you know it has happened, make you feel? Worried? Don't care? No big deal? OMG the sky is falling? I should add, having read some of the answers already posted that what I pay for food is MUCH cheaper than the average American. The price I'm paying for food is of course going to trickle down in a BIG way to each and every American. Pendleton Mills produces flour for everything, from pizza dough, to bread, to cake, ect. Eventually this price increase is going to be felt in every pocketbook in America. For those who have yet to answer this question, or for those who might be checking back on it, D_Offio is my husband. He also answered this question, so his comments are rather an add on of things I would say. I've had several folks challenge me that the wheat prices are not "DIRECTLY" related to biofuel prices. Frankly, I wish I had not put that line in....it was the the main thrust of the question. The main point of the question is supose to be, "What the heck are YOU going to do, if the price of staple food items is going up this much?!?!" Now let's talk about "perception." My Mom is a realestate agent, and she talks about "perception." If customers PERCEIVE they had a good transaction when buying a house, then they DID....if they PERCEIVE they had a lousey transaction when buying a house, then they DID. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, and someone can "perceive" that everything was great, so it was. Everything can be completely smooth, with zero glitches, and if customers "perceive" that it was a bad transaction, it was. If the new media (TV), media (newspaper & magazine), the farmers who grow the wheat, the commodity traders on the Stock Market, the workers at the flour mills, and the majority of the general public PERCEIVE that wheat prices of wheat are at record highs, then that is why wheat is at record highs. Reasons for high wheat prices: Wheat is used to make biofuels China & India are hungry, have new found wealth, and can afford to buy U.S. wheat. China is trying to set up a stock-pile of wheat, just as the U.S. & Russia had during the cold war (the U.S. sold off most of their stockpile after the cold war ended. Russia continues to maintain theirs, and China is trying to build one up). Historic high oil prices, mean historic high pesticide, fertilizer, transportation, harvesting costs for the farmers. Starting in 2006, it was the first time enough wheat was NOT grown to meet world-wide demand (that means overpopulation). So yes there are a range of reasons WHY wheat is at record highs. When I posted this question, I was talking about "perception." The main point of the question is not WHY wheat (and therefor flour) have become so expensive, but rather does it conncern YOU, and what rammifications do YOU see happening? A last note on wheat prices. In 2005-2006, wheat was selling for $3.42 ($3.42 average, $3.72 was the highest) a bushel. On February 11, 2008, wheat was selling for $11.53 a bushel. That is a 337% increase in the price in three years.

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    Yeah, actually this does really worry me. I am only a Freshman in High School, but I think big. I get where you are going. If flour, a basic staple of our lives, increases in price soo much, it will effect nearly everything. It will eventually cause a chain reaction. Big as the great depression? Could be, when no one was getting payed enough to buy their necessities. As they say History repeats itself. I don't want to grow up in a world where I might have to look my starving children in the eye and explain to them why they can't eat. Something should be done. On another note, I have always loved the idea of living on a farm and really envy what you have. It has always been my dream to live on a peaceful patch of land with a horse and some chickens. Enjoy it!

    Here are some outrageous and real laws!!!?
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    Please do not report this as abuse. If you do not like it, please tell me and I will delete the question. # In Canada, It is illegal for a teen to walk down main street for Fort Qu'Appelle with their shoes untied. # In Canada, It is illegal to leave your horse in front of the Country Squire without hitching it securely to the hitching post. # In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. # In Norfolk, Virginia, a woman can't go out without wearing a corset. (There was a civil-service job- for men only- called a corset inspector.) # In Connecticut, You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour. # It is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor in Denver. # In Woodstock, NY it is illegal to walk your bear on the street without a leash. # In Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male." # It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate. # In California, community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water. # In Connecticut, you are not allowed to walk across a street on your hands. # In Florida, women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner. # No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth. # In Florida, a special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing. # In New York, a fine of $25 can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking "at a woman in that way." A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a "pair of horse-blinders" wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll. # An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer! # In Florida, if an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle. # It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit in Sarasota Florida. # The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts. If people are interested I have about 80 more!!

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    oh yes id love more!

    Is this and A paper????
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    im writing a report on Nevada and need to know if this is good. It will say look here for pics but there on a cologe so these are just words... Nevada The state of Nevada was claimed as the 36th state on October 31, 1864.Thats when it became an official state. Nevada’s nicknames are Sagebrush State, Battle Born State, and the most known nickname is the Silver State. The meaning of the name of our state “Nevada” is snow-capped in Spanish. Here are some facts about Nevada; the population is about 1,998,257 people. It’s the 35th largest state (2000 census). Nevada’s Capital is Carson City. The state bird is the Mountain Bluebird and the state animal is the Desert Bighorn. The state flower is Sagebrush and the state tree is Single-leaf Pinon and the Bristlecone Pine. Our state precious gemstone is the Virgin Valley Black Fire Opal. The state song is Home Means Nevada. Home means Nevada, Home means the hills. Home means the sage and the pine. Out by the Truckee’s silvery rills. Out where the sun always shines. There is the land that I love the best, fairer than all I can see. Right in the heart of the golden West, Home means Nevada to me. Our state colors or silver and blue. And the state flag has a green reef looking type of thing on it with yellow flowers. Its says Nevada under a white star. Above the white star there is a scroll saying battle born. The background color of the flag is navy blue. Our states motto is “all for our country.” Here is a picture of what our state looks like, Here is a picture of Carson city, our capital. Nevada is the home of the wild mustangs, which is one of my favorite things about the state. Nevada is bordered by Utah,Arazona,California,Oregon, and Idaho. Here is a timeline of dates that are important to Nevada. • 1821 Mexico claimed the area after a successful revolt against Spain. • 1840's Americans on the way to California traveled through the region. • 1848 Nevada was part of the area ceded by Mexico to the United States. • 1849 The first non-Indian settlement was made at Mormon Station (Genoa). • 1850 When Utah Territory was organized, almost all of present-day Nevada was included except the southern tip, which was then part of the New Mexico Territory. • 1859 The Comstock Lode of gold and silver was discovered at Virginia City, and many miners began coming from California. • 1861 Congress created Nevada Territory. In 1862 the territory was enlarged by shifting the eastern boundary. • 1863 Nevada became a state. In 1866 and 1867 more eastern land was gained from Utah Territory and the southern tip was acquired from Arizona Territory. • 1880 - 1890 As the Comstock Lode declined, the state's population fell from 62,000 to 47,000. • 1900 The discovery of silver at Tonopah, soon followed by gold strikes at Goldfield and the discovery of copper at Ely, led to a new mining boom that lasted until after World War I. Those are some very important history dates of Nevada. Here are all the cities in Nevada Alamo TownLincoln Amargosa Valley Arden Ash Springs Austin Baker Battle Mountain Beatty Beowawe Blue Diamond CDP Clark Boulder City City Bunkerville CDPClark Cal-Nev-Ari CDPClark Calie nte Carlin Carson City City CDPsmallest CDP in the state Cold Springs Crescent Valley Crystal Crystal Bay Dayton Delamar Ghost Town Denio Duckwater Dyer East Ely Elko Empi re Enterprise Town Clark Eureka Fallon Fernley G abbs Gardnervillle Town Gardnerville Ranchos Genoa Town Gerlach Glenbrook Glendale CDPCl ark Golden Valley Goldfield Goodsprings CDPClark Hawthorne Hender son CityClark Hiko Imlay Incline Village Indian Hills Indian Springs CDP Town Clark Jackpot Jarbidge Jean Jiggs Johnson Lane Kingsbury Las Vegas CityClark Lamoille Laughlin Lemmon Valley Logandale TownClark Lovelock Lund McDermitt McGill Mesquite CityClark Minden Town Moapa Town CDPClark Moapa Valley CDPClark Montello Mount Charleston CDPClark Nixon North Las Vegas CityClark Orovada Overton TownClark Owyhee Pahrum p Nye Panaca Paradise Paradise Valley Pioche Primm Clark Rachel Reno CityWashoe R ound Hill Village Round Mountain Sandy Valley CDPClark Schurz Searchlight CDPClark Silver Peak Silver City Silver Springs Sloan CDPClark Smith Spanish Springs Sparks CityWashoe Spring Creek Spring Valley CDP TownClark Stateline Summerlin South CDP TownClark Sun Valley Sunrise Manor CDP TownClark Sutcliffe Tonopah Tuscarora Ver di Virginia City Wadsworth Wellington Wells West Wendover Winnemucca Whitney CDP TownClark Winchester CDP TownClark Yerington Zephyr Cove Nevada has a lot of beautiful scenery look here. One thing you guys might know about Nevada, is Sarah Winnemucca. This is what the wikipedia says about her in the first paragraph, Sarah Winnemucca (born Thocmentony, Paiute: Shell Flower )which is now western Nevada… (ca. 1841 – October 17, 1891) was notable for being the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language. She was also known by her married name, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, under which she was published. Her book, Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, is an autobiographical account of her people during their first forty years of contact with explorers and settlers. Sarah was a person of two worlds. At the time of her birth her people had only very limited contact with Euro-Americans; however she spent much of her adult life in white society. Like many people of two worlds, she may be judged harshly in both contexts. Many Paiutes view her as a collaborator who helped the U.S. Army kill her people. Modern historians view her book as an important primary source, but one that is deliberately misleading in many instances. Despite this, Sarah has received much positive attention recently for her activism. She was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1993, and in 2005 a statue of her was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol. That says a lot about her. Sarah Winnemucca is very well known for bringing peace between Americans and Indians. Nevada is well known for her. Because she was born in what is now western Nevada. She is now in the Nevada hall of fame. Nevada is apart of the Great Basin desert. You can see many miles of beautiful mountains, sagebrush, animals, and so much more!!! Nevada has one of the lowest average rainfalls out of the fifty states: nine inches. You may have heard the poem Mountains as Islands which says the following, Mountains as Islands Each range here is like a warship standing on its own, and the Great Basin is an ocean of loose sediment with these mountain ranges standing in it as if they were members of a fleet without precedent, assembled at Guam to assault Japan. Some of the ranges are forty miles long, others a hundred, a hundred and fifty. They point generally north. The basins that separate them-ten and fifteen miles wide-will run on for fifty, a hundred, two hundred and fifty miles with lone, daisy-petalled windmills standing over sage and wild rye. …Discounting the cry of the occasional bird, the wailing of a pack of coyotes, silence-a great spatial silence- is pure in the Basin and Range. It is a soundless immensity with mountains in it. -John McPhee Basin and Range, 1980 this is a 4th grade papeer just so you know... just read my own paper and fell asleep geese this paper sucks!

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    I can't read it all, but from what I skimmed it seems like you're just bulleting. Try listing in more creative ways.

    Does anyone else Think Palin is an incompetent - selected solely for political purposes and attention?!?!?
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    Look this lady was the mayor of just 7000 people...Does that not bother anyone. Ran against a nobofy to become Governor of the "Great" state of Alaska (O yeah they're known for their great national leaders).. and has spent only 2 years there...Plus we're hearing stories of her wanting to ban books from libraries, get former family members fired and the fact she doesn't have a passport and never travelled overseas.. .How do you rely on someone like this, if say the likely event McCain keels over in 3 years and this womans in charge...I mean she can deliver a good speech to 'hockey' moms in Alaska but I doubt she would hold her own in talks with Ahmadinejad...This woman has no education ( Idaho - you gotta be kiddin, what no scholarship to Ivy league??) and definetly is limited in terms of foreign policy..I doubt she could name the members of the EU - being busy being a hockey mom and all that.. C'mon USA don't just fall for the "Im your real candidate" gig...You don't necessarily want your average Joe or Josephine in the White House - it just doesn't work out usually..Prime Example: the incumbent..he was marketed as the real down to earth American compared to Gore..Well look at how Good Down 2 Earth Americans do in office..Not too good huh??

    Answer:
    She is a political ploy plain and simple theres a thousand better canidates. hmmm Only a fool couldn't see that and I am ashamed to say america has its share of fools. What kind of President will McCain make...making a fool out of you? Imagine.... Can you say President Palin?

    Downside of an Obama Ticket?
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    Obama's losses Tuesday in Texas and Ohio -- coupled with his Feb. 5 defeats in California, New York and New Jersey -- have not only shown the strategy's downside. They have also given supporters of Clinton an opening for an argument that winning over affluent, educated white voters in small Democratic enclaves, such as Boise, Idaho, and Salt Lake City, and running up the score with African Americans in the Republican South exaggerate his strengths in states that will not vote Democratic in the fall. If Obama becomes the Democratic nominee but cannot win support from working-class whites and Hispanics, they argue, then Democrats will not retake the White House in November. "If you can't win in the Southwest, if you don't win Ohio, if you don't win Pennsylvania, you've got problems in November," said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a Clinton supporter. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07 /AR2008030703318.html?hpid=topnews

    Answer:
    I'm not impressed by what Robert Menendez said. I'm Hispanic, and I voted for Obama!!!

    Do you think there is an overall fall in social-behavior-standards in this country?
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    1Talk show icon David Letterman thinks so and he brought out many examples while speaking to Dr. Phil in his latest Late Show with David Letterman! 2A candidate in the forthcoming presidential polls thinks the incumbent President George Bush is mentally ill for casually mentioning the possibility of third world war by saying ‘I have told people that if you are interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing (Iran) from having the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon’! 3The Idaho senator pleading guilty first for his misbehavior in a public toilet and then withdrawing his plea but one wonders if common sense prevails in the American judicial system which thought itfit to accept it! 4With frequent campus shooting incidents, places of education appear to be fast becoming unsafe for learning but turning into breeding grounds of terrorism!

    Answer:
    Absolutely! Out of wedlock births are commonplace and no longer looked down upon. Few people are civil anymore. "Please and Thank You" have all but disappeared. And most people are too lazy to use their turn signals! And how about cell phones? There is absolutely NO social behavior when it comes to cell phone use. We have become cruder, (listen to the language used by teens and young adults) more vulgar, (just look at how young people dress) and certainly ruder. It is so sad but so inevitable given the sorry state of our educational system.

    Is this news article related to illegals? Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash?
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    Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_re_us/flag_incid ent;_ylt=ArAdq0MuGcrxgTh0WvzfpPus0NUE TWIN FALLS, Idaho - A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage. ADVERTISEMENT click here Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he took the flag Monday because "white kids" might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he put it in a garbage can because he had no place else to keep it. Camelo said he was changing into gym clothes at Minico High School in Rupert when Straatman told him, "Give me the flag." "I said, 'What's the problem?'" Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. "He said, 'The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can." Camelo said that Straatman told him the flag would be returned at the end of the school day, but that Straatman taunted him instead. "I asked, 'Where is my flag?'" Camelo said. "He said, 'What, the U.S. flag?' I said, 'No, the one for Mexico.' But he wouldn't give it to me." Camelo said he then took the undamaged flag out of the garbage. He said he's been contacted by the American Civil Liberties Union and is considering a lawsuit against Straatman. Camelo and others brought Mexican flags to the south-central Idaho school to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the May 5 recognition of Mexico's victory over the French army on that day in 1862. About a third of the student body is Hispanic. Straatman denied saying the words Camelo attributed to him, and said the student may have misunderstood him because of his poor English skills. He said he took the flag from Camelo after Camelo had been waving it in the school gym, and denied withholding it later. "I had to confiscate it so it wouldn't escalate any problems in class," Straatman told The Times-News. "We're worried about that stuff all the time. We always have kids saying stuff to each other, and we have a lot of fights between kids." Scott Rogers, superintendent of the Minidoka County Joint School District, said an investigation has been started. He said he could not comment specifically about personnel decisions. "We believe in nondiscriminatory practices and cultural sensitivity," he said. "We train for that and talk about that. If there is a teacher making derogatory comments we don't approve of that. We also don't approve of a student disrupting the classroom." Rogers said he was at the school early Wednesday and that the school was quiet. He said he noticed a few students wearing clothing in the colors of the Mexican flag — red, white and green — in protest of Monday's incident.

    Answer:
    It is an unfortunate incident, but we have only one side of the story./


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