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Dot Shot: Sinkhole in Guatemala City

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/dot-shot-sinkhole-in-guatemala-city/
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Sink Hole "Swallowed a Three Story Building"

After Tropical Storm Agatha hit Central America over the weekend, a gaping sinkhole in Guatemala City swallowed a three-story building. According to some reports, the hole is about 200 feet deep

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/guatemala-city-sinkhole-happen/story?id=10796311
 
Robin Williams

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Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says 'I love New York ' in Arabic.

You gotta love Robin Williams.... ....Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'

1) 'The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, ಠ▄ಠ, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave.. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.




6) The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while..


7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)


8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens..

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE. Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '
 
..Spirit Airlines pilots strike, stranding thousands

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_spirit_airlines_pilots

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –

Spirit Airlines flights were being canceled again Sunday as a pilot's strike entered its second day, shutting down the discount carrier and stranding thousands of travelers.

Spirit's CEO said no talks were scheduled with picketing

pilots, and a union leader said the pilots "will not return to the cockpit until a fair and equitable contract is negotiated."
 
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..Spirit Airlines pilots strike, stranding thousands

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_spirit_airlines_pilots

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –

Spirit Airlines flights were being canceled again Sunday as a pilot's strike entered its second day, shutting down the discount carrier and stranding thousands of travelers.

Spirit's CEO said no talks were scheduled with picketing

pilots, and a union leader said the pilots "will not return to the cockpit until a fair and equitable contract is negotiated."
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Spirit pilots end strike, flights to resume Friday

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/spirit-pilots-end-strike-flights-to-resume-friday-2010-06-17



NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Pilots at Spirit Airlines have tentatively agreed to a new labor contract and ended a five-day strike, the Air Line Pilots Association said late Wednesday. "This agreement provides increases in pay and retirement benefits, protects our work rules, and ensures our job security at Spirit. After four days on the picket line, this agreement also gets this pilot group and this airline back where it belongs-in the air," said Capt. Sean Creed, leader of the Spirit unit of ALPA. Spirit had announced earlier that its flights were canceled through Thursday because of the strike. Flights are scheduled to resume Friday. Spirit's 450 pilots halted work on Saturday. The Miramar, Fla., budget carrier represents less than 1% of the country's annual passenger traffic.
 
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