The Fruit Jar of the Gods
A lively commentary on all things political, environmental and life-sustaining, emanating from Fresno and beaming out to infinity and beyond.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Stick Another Yellow Ribbon Up Your SUV
This is an awesome little ditty about Bush's ongoing conflagration in the middle east.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8
Sunday, December 17, 2006
My Irony Award of the Year Goes To.......
Company Building US Border Fence Snared for Hiring Illegal Immigrants The Associated PressThursday 14 December 2006
San Diego - A Southern California fence-building company and two executives pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and agreed to pay a combined penalty of $5 million (€3.79 million). The executives could also go to prison.
The penalty is one of the biggest fines ever imposed in an immigration case, and the case represents a rare instance in which prosecutors brought criminal charges over the hiring of illegal immigrants.
Golden State Fence Co. will pay $4.7 million (€3.56 million). Mel Kay, 64, the company's founder, chairman and president, will forfeit $200,000, (€151,600) and Michael McLaughlin, 42, a manager in the company's Oceanside, California, office, will pay $100,000 (€75,800).
The two men admitted hiring at least 10 illegal immigrants.
Among the company's projects was also the construction of part of a 14-mile (22.5-kilometer) border fence in San Diego in the late 1990s.