Stuff below the fold

PNoy orders the Morong 43 charges to be dropped.
Sometimes good things happen...
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Call centers, good.
cyberSex call centers that exploit young teenagers bad.

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ObamaCare's mandate unconstitutional?

duh. maybe they should have just read the dang thing before they passed it...
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PersianPardox discusses how the Tehran city council is trying to fight pollution.
And TehranLive has photos of the smog.

Sigh....I remember pollution like this in US cities before the clean air act...and Manila has the same problem...

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And CIC at strategyPage has an amusing story about no one knowing why a certain cleat was on a modern combat ship....the captain couldn't find the answer until an elderly cook came up with the answer....
(it was to tether the cow in the days before refrigerators when meat was left on the hoof until eaten).

this is only funny if you have worked with a bureaucracy that mandates things without asking why.