Logic & Sanity

Hooray for improved nutrition!

Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup sizes in China because improved nutrition means women are busting previous chest measurements.

The Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology said the average chest size of Chinese women had increased by nearly 1cm in the past decade.

Measurements were taken from nearly 3,000 women over six years.

In response, some underwear companies have created sub-brands specialising in larger bra sizes.

"It is so different from the past when most young women would wear A- or B-cup bras," Triumph brand saleswoman Zhang Jing told the Shanghai Daily.

That's right, girls. Eat your broccoli!

Time to do away with the unions

Many of the transit workers keeping vigil outside the city jail where union boss Roger Toussaint is locked up aren't demonstrating simply to show their love - they're being paid to protest.

The Transport Workers Union has at least a dozen workers earning up to $24 an hour to man their protest line, which they have dubbed "Camp Roger," around the clock outside The Tombs prison on Centre Street.

That's right! The Transit Worker's Union is paying its members to protest. And how telling is this:

One worker called the job a sweet assignment.

"It's much better than working on the tracks. It's beautiful out here today," said the union member, who was asked a few weeks ago to be available to show up in support of Toussaint.

Instead of waving signs and chanting, the "protesters" were seen spending most of their time sitting in chairs and reading newspapers. In true union fashion, they even left the lines for an hour to take their lunch break.

Stupid lawyer tricks

Last saturday, a drunk driver hit and killed a young woman on the West Side highway:

The car hit Martinez so hard, it severed her legs from her torso, prosecutors said.

A half-empty bottle of liquor was found inside Mustasaev's totaled car. But by the time Mustasaev was arrested Saturday night, too much time had elapsed to test him for blood-alcohol content, sources said.

Get yourself ready for this one:

Mustasaev's lawyer complained about the high bail, calling him a Muslim refugee whose family fled religious persecution in Russia.

Hmm.

UPDATE

Here's another photo of the perp:

Klitchko vs Byrd 2

Byrd is way slicker then Klitchko, but Klitchko is 6" taller, and has a reach advantage of 7". This is a recipe for a loooooong boring fight, unless Wladimir decides to get aggresive, which he hasn't done in years.

Sobe LifeWater

Am I the only one addicted to this?

Crazy Iranians

From The New Republic (via The Corner)

During the Iran-Iraq War, the Ayatollah Khomeini imported 500,000 small plastic keys from Taiwan. The trinkets were meant to be inspirational. After Iraq invaded in September 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran's forces were no match for Saddam Hussein's professional, well-armed military. To compensate for their disadvantage, Khomeini sent Iranian children, some as young as twelve years old, to the front lines. There, they marched in formation across minefields toward the enemy, clearing a path with their bodies. Before every mission, one of the Taiwanese keys would be hung around each child's neck. It was supposed to open the gates to paradise for them.

Great! Now lets let them develop nukes just cause we hate Bush.

Ayatollah Ali Kharson

Separated at birth? ;)

Iran's turbaned supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also accused the United States of seeking to place the entire region under Israeli control.

"The plots by the American government against Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon aimed at governing the Middle East with the control of the Zionist regime will not succeed," Khamenei said.

Mullahs got those pesky Jews and their American cohorts all figured out!

Look what the cat dragged in...

Was checking my logs and look what I find:

Domain Name (Unknown)
IP Address 217.172.99.# (Ministry Of Foreign Affairs of Iran)
ISP Parscyberian Consultants
Location
Continent : Asia
Country : Iran, Islamic Republic of (Facts)
State/Region : Chahar Mahall va Bakhtiari
City : Irancheh
Lat/Long : 32.0922, 51.0289 (Map)
Language unknown
Operating System Unknown Unknown
Browser Netscape 3.01
Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)

Those guys are so backward... Netscape 3???

Roger Toussaint pleads insanity

"I have already told New Yorkers that we regretted having to take this course of action. But understand, your honor, we didn't know go on strike because we wanted to,? Toussaint told the judge. “No one in their right mind goes on strike. Even legal strikes come at enormous risk for our members, so as a matter of policy and common sense a strike for us is always a last resort."

Nice try, but Roger Toussaint, Transport Workers Union Local 100's president was sentenced to 10 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Immigration woes

Build the damn wall on the border already! Others are doing it. As for illegal kick them out - others* are doing it. Scratch that. Round up the illegals, make them build the wall and then ship em out.

* Mexico has caught and sent home some 240,000 illegal immigrants in the past year, The Washington Times reported Sunday.

UPDATE

Looks like there's stuff going on locally as well:

"Immigrants want freedom," said Jimmy Cheng, a Fukienese community leader in Chinatown, where a contingent of Asian nationals will march from Chatham Square to City Hall.

Freedom from following the law? Great citizens they'll make!

"We cannot concentrate in class with all this horrible legislation going on in Congress," said Carlos Perez, 21, an undocumented immigrant who is a business major at Baruch College. "We really cannot take this anymore."

So? Vote to get the legislation changed! What? You can't? Why? Oh, you are illegal... Not a smart move getting your name in the paper then, huh?

"The immigration debate is changing every minute," said Gouri Sadhwani, executive director of La Fuente's New York Civic Participation Project. "Enough is enough - immigrants want to be treated like human beings."

...and human beings are expected to follow the rule of law.