HERE IS SOME MORE TO BLOW YOUR MIND...."GOVERNMENTS IN ACTION"


GOVERNMENT IN ACTION
Recent European Unity Feuds: Farmers in Sweden are still upset, according to a report by the country's Bureau of Statistics in June, at their inability to sell straight cucumbers in Europe; EU regulations require prime cukes to bend 1 cm for every 20 cm's in length. And Belgium and France were victorious in October in a European Parliament vote to require that chocolate be made only with cocoa butter and not with substitute vegetable fats; a British Parliament member complained that British chocolate has always been made with little or no cocoa butter.

In September, an official government wristwatch with the face of the prime minister of Malaysia went on sale at the main parliament building in Kuala Lumpur, retailing for about $470. And in June, in an announcement on the first year of operation, the state of Louisiana reported selling 100,000 of its own Royal brand condoms. State health officials claim that it is more economical to make their own than to subsidize higher-priced, brand-named condoms for high-disease-risk clients.

According to Chicago Sun-Times reports in June and November, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services since 1995 has doled out $22.5 million in cash and gifts to the most dysfunctional 1,370 families on their rolls, including almost $75,000 to one mother of six. DCFS's "wraparound plans" are designed to simulate middle-class environments so that children can be raised by a natural parent, but critics call the program a jackpot for precisely the worst parents in the city, in that many have been charged with abusing and neglecting their kids. Among the goods included in a typical wraparound plan are: electronic gear and "entertainment center," YMCA membership, and aikido, basketball, and drama classes.

U. S. Rep. Sam Farr of California introduced a bill this year to end a loophole in the federal Unemployment Tax Act that made it possible for a Santa Cruz, Calif., voting monitor, who was a retired county worker, to grind out one grueling day at the polls in November, claim the next day that he was "laid off," and thereby collect about $12,000 in benefits over a two-year period.

According to an Associated Press dispatch in May, scientists at the Department of Agriculture's meat science research lab in Beltsville, Md., have developed an explosion system to tenderize meat by sending supersonic shock waves through it. The shock waves literally rip the muscle tissue apart on a microscopic scale, without any loss of taste. One researcher said the process could be used commercially within a year.
HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS IF NOT WELL WHAT CAN I SAY
HAVE A GREAT DAY ANYWAY
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MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN AND THE BACK ALLEY GANG

HERE ARE SOME STORIES FROM THE NEWSPAPERS
AND THEY ARE TRUE

Where's Barry Scheck When You Need Him?
Malvin Marshall, 27, was finally released from jail in
North Charleston, S.C., on October 29
after being locked up for 6 weeks because a POLICE FIELD TEST
had found that he had heroin in his pocket.
The state lab had finally gotten around to analyzing the substance, which was determined to be VITAMIN PILLS
that had gone through a wash cycle while in his pants pocket.
Said a police lieutenant,
"The field test [is] not foolproof."
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The New York Daily News reported in November
that 71-year-old twin sisters
Ynette Sapp and Olvette Mahan
had just gotten plastic surgery (mole and wrinkles removed)
on their faces purely so they would continue to look exactly alike. Said the doctor, the situation is not that unusual;
for example, another identical pair was scheduled the next day.
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MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN AND THE BACK ALLEY GANG

I know I know, I said I was finished
with "true stories" But this one was so great maybe it
might work here Read about...

The litter problem:

A few years ago, a city in the Netherlands had a refuse problem. A once-clean section of town had become an eyesore because people had stopped using the trashcans. There were cigarette butts, beer bottles, chocolate wrappers, newspapers, and other trash littering the streets. Obviously, the sanitation department was concerned, so they sought ways to clean up the city. One idea was to double the littering fine from 25 guilders to 50 guilders for each offense. They tried this, but it had little effect. Another approach was to increase the number of litter-agents who patrolled the area. This was more of the same, that is, another "punish the litterer" solution, and it, too, had little impact on the problem. Then somebody asked the following question: "What if our trash cans paid people money when they put their trash in? We could put an electronic sensing device on each can as well as a coin-return mechanism. Whenever a person put trash in the can, it would pay him 10 guilders." The idea, to say the least, whacked everyone's thinking. The problem had been changed from a "punish the litterer" one to one of "reward the law abider". The idea had one glaring fault, however; if the city implemented the idea, it would go bankrupt. Half of Europe would come to use the trashcans!Fortunately, the people who were listening to this idea didn't evaluate it based on its practical merits. Instead, they used it as a stepping-stone and asked themselves: "What other ways are there in which we can reward people for putting their refuse in the trash cans?" This question lead to the following solution. The sanitation department developed electronic trashcans that had a sensing unit on the top that would detect when a piece of refuse had been
deposited. This would activate a tape-recorder that would play a recording of a joke. In other words, joke-telling trash cans! Different trashcans told different kinds of jokes (some told bad puns while others told shaggy dog stories and still others told snappy one-liners) and soon developed reputations.
The jokes were changed every two weeks. As a result, people went out of their way to put their trash in the trashcans, and the town became clean once again.
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I don't know if it would work here but it is not a bad idea.
Tell me what ya think my friends
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MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN AND THE WHOLE BACK ALLEY GANG

AH YES; I HAVE TRAVELED MANY MILES ON
BUSES, PLANES, TAXIS AND CARS. i DON'T ANYMORE BUT I CAN RELATE
TO THIS PERSONS STORY LET'S GO DOWN TO
HOUSTON'S HOBBY AIRPORT AND SEE WHAT HAS HAPPEN....

During the "rush hour" at Houston's Hobby Airport,
my flight was delayed due to a mechanical problem.
Since they needed the gate for another flight,
the aircraft was backed away from the gate
while the maintenance crew worked on it.
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We were then told the new gate number,
which was some distance away. Everyone moved to the new gate,
only to find that a third gate had been designated for us.
After some further shuffling, everyone got on board,
and as we were settling in, the flight attendant made the standard announcement,....
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"We apologize for the inconvenience of this last-minute gate change. This flight is going to Washington, D.C.
If your destination is not Washington, D.C.,
then you should 'deplane' at this time."
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A very confused-looking and red-faced pilot emerged from the cockpit, carrying his bags. "Sorry," he said, "wrong plane."
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I have had delays and Layovers and very long flights
but I don't recall it being that bad
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MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN

WELL HERE I GO FINDING SOME SILLY STUFF FOR YA,
LET'S GO DOWN TO THE LOCAL FLYING SCHOOL AND
SEE WHAT IS HAPPING


HELICOPTER FLIGHT TRAINING SCHOOL AND THE BLOND

A blond went to helicopter flight training,
wanting to learn to fly that day.
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The owner agreed to send her up,
and instruct her by radio.
He showed her the start up,
and basic procedures,
and up she went.
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At 1000 feet, she radioed,.....
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"I'm doing great! I love it!
I'm really getting the hang of it!"
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The instructor watched her climb to over 3000 feet, then watched in horror as the helicopter began a dive and crashed nearby.
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He ran over and pulled her from the wreck, asking,
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"What happened?"
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She said, "I don't know!
Everything was going fine,
until I got cold and turned off that big fan."
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GEE, I'm sure glad it wasn't a JETLINER!

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MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN AND THE BACK ALLEY GANG.