Which is the rooster? Which is the hen? It’s hard to tell ’em apart today.
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Which is the rooster? Which is the hen? It’s hard to tell ’em apart today.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Jesus, from the land of Prosperidad (Prosperity), is mad.
He turned down welfare from Our Enemy, the State.
There oughtta be a law.
“We have a loyal and solid client base, but the crisis has left us demotivated and we’d rather not mortgage our future with a state-backed loan … considering how bad the situation is.”
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“Insight: Europe’s north is bustling, its south closing down”
“At German car parts maker ixetic GmbH, Dragan Knezevic is struggling to keep up: His job as foreman is to make sure there are no hold ups in assembly of the parts needed to keep Audis, VWs, Toyotas and the like on the road.
“We are going full speed over all three shifts. Early, late and night shift,” he says at the bustling plant in Bad Homburg, outside Frankfurt.
They are so busy that temporary workers have had to be found.
Some 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) south, Jesus Cirilo has a very different kind of stress. In the Madrid neighborhood of Prosperidad (Prosperity) – a district that completely belies its name – he has just given up his family’s long-held butchers stall at the open-air market after a quarter of a century.
“My father has run this stall as a self-employed businessman for at least 24 years but times are hard,” he said.
“We have a loyal and solid client base, but the crisis has left us demotivated and we’d rather not mortgage our future with a state-backed loan … considering how bad the situation is.””
Reuters: urlm.in/krha
From the I’m not making this up file. A group in Vancouver is contemplating opening a free booze lounge for alcoholics. Apparently they’ve landed a 52,000 grant from someone or some organization.
Here’s the story:
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Illicit+Drinkers+seek+free+alcohol+lounge+Vancouver+Downtown+Eastside/5975057/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
A free booze lounge for alcoholics? We had those in my time. They were called “frat houses”.