HERMISTON, Ore.

The McDonald's restaurant in Hermiston, Oregon appears to be "outsaucing" customers drive-thru meals.

The restaurant on Highway 395 has outsourced one of the most important jobs at the drive-through window -- order taking.

When a customer drives through, they'll be patched through to Grand Forks, North Dakota to place the order. Why? Because the minimum wage in North Dakota is $5.15, compared to Oregon's $7.25.

Tim Nesbit is head of Oregon AFLCIO. He says this undercuts Oregon's minimum wage by more than $2 an hourA McDonald's media relations person in Illinois, where the corporate headquarters is based, never returned a phone call to the AP.

Leaked Salary List Shows Bush's Highest-Paid Staff Is Mostly Male

By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, July 13, 2004; Page A13


The president's men are doing very well. The president's women are doing slightly less well, but still not bad.

With new White House salary figures leaked to The Washington Post and an Excel spreadsheet, crack researcher Margot Williams determined that men in the Bush White House earn an average of $76,624 a year. Women earn $59,917 on average. That means Bush women earn about 78 percent of what Bush men earn.

As it happens, that's almost exactly the national average for the gap in pay between the sexes, although it's a good bit below the 88 percent for the nearly 1 million professional and administrative employees in the federal workforce.

"Speaking by telephone as the protesters gathered in the biting cold for their annual antiabortion march from the Ellipse to the Supreme Court, Bush said that although outlawing abortion remains a distant goal, it is one that seems to be moving slowly into view. "The America of our dreams, where every child is welcomed . . in life and protected in law, may still be some ways away," Bush said. "But even from the far side of the river . . . we can see its glimmerings."

FREDERICTON, New Brunswick (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Thursday he would press ahead with legislation to permit same-sex marriage,

but unhappy legislators in his Liberal Party predicted a long fight before it becomes law.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Going against the grain in courting the young cocktail crowd, beermaker Anheuser-Busch Cos. is launching a new "brew" to go head-to-head with classic mixed drinks - traditional suds spiked with caffeine, fruit flavoring, herbal guarana and ginseng.

Dear President Bush,

Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA), your point man in the House on Social Security issues, recently suggested tying Social Security benefits to the race or gender of the recipients.

I demand that you disavow this disastrous idea. There is no acceptable reason to link the amount of a Social Security benefit check to the race or gender of the person receiving it.

Tell Chairman Thomas and your other Republican allies that you will refuse to sign any bill tying Social Security benefits to race or gender.

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."--Matt. 23:27-28

"Woe unto ya', scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Right on! fo' ye is likes unto honkyd sepulchres, which indeed appear fine outward, but is widin full uh wasted men's bones, and uh all uncleanness. Even so's ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but widin ye is full uh hypocrisy and iniquity. Slap mah fro!" Matt. Man! 23:27-28

"Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin. Castro probably is. And so would Mao Zedong."--Bill O' Rielly

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 - On the heels of electoral victories barring same-sex marriage, some influential conservative Christian groups are turning their attention to a new target: the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

I believe that redefining marriage sends a message to the next generation that children do not need mothers and fathers, and alternative family forms are just as beneficial as traditional families. Furthermore, I cannot think of anything more vital
to the preservation of our society than encouraging traditional marriage in which children are raised by a mother and a father.--Rick Santorum (add a couple of "i's" and swap the "o" for an "a" and you got sanitarium ;)

"The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world", so start breeding those soldiers people, we've got some global ass to kick.

"So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.", except in Sudan.

"My most solemn duty is to protect this nation and its people from further attacks and emerging threats." So, this little party should be enough to distract you from the war, heh..woo! *ass shake*

"Liberty will come to those who love it. Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world: All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you." Unless you disagree with us, then your dust, bitch.

"By our efforts, we have lit a fire, as well -- a fire in the minds of men." (Burn ointment can help with that, oh and don't worry, I'm almost positive your hair will grow back.)

Blah, Blah, Freedom, blah, blah Liberty, blah blah

"And as hope kindles hope, millions more will find it." And you bet your ass more will find it, hell or high water, you-will-find-IT, amen.

"America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof." Buy our shit and all will be right in the world.

"Renewed in our strength -- tested, but not weary -- we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." Whether you like it or not.

Overheard at the Inaugural Lunch:
"Hey, you got your pomp in my circumstance!" "No man, you got your circumstance in my pomp, let's get Mikey, he'll eat anything."
"I gave him that whole liberty speil yanno.", "Have you tasted the pomp yet?", "that is some seriously tasty shit".

Overheard at the Inaugural Parade:
"NOT MY PRESIDENT, NOT MY WAR! NOT MY PRESIDENT, NOT MY WAR!"
"Four More Years, Four More Years!",
"Dude, I gotta piss something fierce!".

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

[the Avatar speaking with al-Zee]
"There is one hope to end this," said the Avatar.
"Enlighten me."
"This is a man-made crisis, based on superstition. If minds can be changed, the problem disappears."
"What do you mean by superstition?" al-Zee asked with a threatening tone.
Superstition is a belief in the supernatural, that something exists beyond nature. You and General Cruz believe God is not part of nature, but somehow outside it. That is, by definition superstition."
"It sounds like an insult," said al-Zee, displeased.
"That's the problem with clarity," responded the Avatar. "It often sounds insulting.

There are no exact directions. There are probably no directions at all. The only things that I am able to recommend at this moment are a sense of humour; an ability to see the ridiculous and the absurd dimensions of things; an ability to laugh about others as well as about ourselves; a sense of irony and of everything that invites parody in this world. In other words, rising above things, or looking at them from a distance; sensibility to the hidden presence of all the more dangerous types of conceit in others, as well as in ourselves; good cheer; an unostentatious certainty of the meaning of things; gratitude for the gift of life and courage to assume responsibility for it; and a vigilant mind.

—Vaclav Havel, upon receiving the 1999 Open Society Prize

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) -- A library board reversed a ban on comedian Jon Stewart's best-selling satirical book America, which it had passed because of its image of Supreme Court justices' faces superimposed on naked bodies

Q: Why does California have the most attorneys, and New Jersey have the most toxic waste dumps?
A: New Jersey got first pick

Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.

A lawyer defending Specialist Charles Graner, who is accused of being a ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, argued that piling naked prisoners in pyramids was a valid form of prisoner control.

"Don’t cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?" said Guy Womack, Sergeant Graner’s lawyer, in opening arguments to the ten-member military jury at the reservist’s court martial.

GULFPORT, Miss. -- Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)" over the satirical textbook's nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.

"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.

"We're not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public," Willits said. "If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we'd have the book."

Out of nowhere I developed this lump. I think it was a cyst or a boil, one of those words you associate with trolls, and it was right on my tailbone, like a peach pit. That’s what it felt like, anyway. I was afraid to look. At first it was just this insignificant knot, but as it grew larger it started to hurt. Sitting became difficult, and forget about lying on my back or bending over. By day five my tailbone was throbbing and I told myself, just as I had the day before, that if this kept up I was going to see a doctor. “I mean it,” I said. I even went so far as to pull out the phone book and turn my back on it, hoping that the boil would know that I meant business and go away on its own. But of course it didn’t.

congratulations. you are the kiss my ass happy
bunny. You don't care about anyone or anything.
You must be so proud

which happy bunny are you?
brought to you by Quizilla