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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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Toppers bedrijven: bonussen van 4000 keer modaal
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De vijf grootverdieners van het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven hebben vorig jaar voor 131,8 miljoen euro aan bonussen ontvangen.
Dat is evenveel als 4000 Nederlanders bruto in een jaar verdienen, uitgaande van een modaal salaris.
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De oud-topmannen Jan Bennink van Numico en Rijkman Groenink van ABN Amro ontvingen vorig jaar samen ruim 100 miljoen euro.
De overige drie van de top vijf zijn Jeroen van de Veer (Shell), Gary Pruitt (chemisch distributeur Univar) en Zach Miles (uitzender Vedior).
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Number Of Acceptable Things Candidates Can Say Now Down To Four
Saturday, May 10th, 2008[Quote:]
After Sen. Barack Obama’s comments last week about what he typically eats for dinner were criticized by Sen. Hillary Clinton as being offensive to both herself and the American voters, the number of acceptable phrases presidential candidates can now say are officially down to four. “At the beginning of 2007 there were 38 things candidates could mention in public that wouldn’t be considered damaging to their campaigns, but now they are mostly limited to ‘Thank you all for coming,’ and ‘God bless America,’” ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos said on Sunday’s episode of This Week.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008So here is what happened on Tuesday. Hillary Clinton barely won my home state of Indiana. And she lost in the State of North Carolina. But here is the good news. She has a substantial lead in the state of denial.
– Letterman
Colbert Dissects Oil Companies ‘Gas Dollar’ Ads
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Californians Would Switch Clinton Vote For Obama
Saturday, May 10th, 2008[Quote:]
California voters would change their February primary vote for Hillary Clinton to a vote for Barack Obama if the vote were held again, according to an exclusive poll commissioned by CBS 5.
While voters in the California Democratic Presidential Primary backed Clinton by a 10-point margin, a new SurveyUSA poll shows that if given the chance to vote again, Californians would choose Barack Obama by a 6-point margin, 49%-43%.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance
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IN November, I was found guilty of “racial harassment” for reading a public-library book on a university campus.
The book was Todd Tucker’s “Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan”; I was reading it on break from my campus job as a janitor. The same book is in the university library.
Tucker recounts events of 1924, when the loathsome Klan was a dominant force in Indiana - until it went to South Bend to taunt the Irish Catholic students at the University of Notre Dame.
When the KKK tried to rally, the students confronted them. They stole Klan robes and destroyed their crosses, driving the KKK out of town in a downpour.
I read the historic encounter and imagined myself with these brave Irish Catholics, as they street-fought the Klan. (I’m part-Irish, and was raised Catholic.)
But that didn’t stop the Affirmative Action Office of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from branding me as a detestable Klansman.
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After months of stonewalling, the university withdrew the charge, thanks to pressure from the press, the American Civil Liberties Union and a group called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE.
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Abolitionist Charles Sumner said, “Prejudice is the child of ignorance. It is sure to prevail where people do not know each other.” The people at the Affirmative Action Office were so myopically intent on finding a Klansman, they failed to see a natural ally standing before them.
Felix is starting to show his age…
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
