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Andrea Says: No country should pass a law forcing employees to join a union. Unions can be counter-productive. Yes we can have laws like those of "The Americans with Disabilities Act." 

However, it would protect employees thus forcing the employer to not go below a humanitarian standard necessary to foster (encourage) and maintain civilization. With the current global financial crisis we cannot afford the expense of unions counteracting the impending progress.

Employees would have to take special care to live within their means. Yes everybody wants to own your own house. My mother always said, "you have to creep before you walk; easy come; easy go." Don't fret over what the Jones' have.

You don't know how they got what they have. Not everyone has a rich relative to leave you a fortune. Admire what the hypothetical Jones' have. However, don't you dare covet what they have! My Mom -Violet aka Ruby- has a favorite quote. It goes like this. "I am not going to hang my hat higher than I can reach it." That simply means that she is not going to buy something that she can't afford.

A friend of mine named Sheila Warner has a sister named Shirley. One of Shirley's favorite quotes is as follows:-

    "It is not where you live but how you live that really matters."

No matter where you live please put an emphasis on being a good neighbour. You might not be able to do anything to help your neighbour. However, you can decide not to hurt your neighbour who has never even hurt you.

People hurt people due to envy and jealousy. Believing a false witness who might be their friend or family. In taking up for their friend or family some people will hurt an innocent person. God is watching you.

The Bible says, " Do not shed innocent blood!" When you hurt someone's feelings with mockery you have figuratively shed innocent blood.

BBC: One of the biggest teachers' unions in England and Wales is demanding a pay rise of 10% or at least £3,000, whichever is greater.  

 

BBC: Prime Minister Gordon Brown of England vows to make sure every young person will do 50 hours of voluntary work by the time they are 19.

 

 

BBC: A man who murdered a Welsh couple in the Canary Islands is jailed for 39 years and ordered to pay their son £270,000 compensation.

BBC: A Scottish Muslim convert has reportedly been arrested in Pakistan as a terror suspect. Dundee-born James McLintock, who has changed his name to Yaqub Mohammed, is thought to have been picked up in Peshawar, near the Afghan border.

BBC: A teenager is remanded in custody charged with possessing a hatchet and trying to damage a police car.

 

 

BBC: Two teenagers questioned over a burglary at a pensioner's house in Omagh are rearrested in connection with his murder.

 

 

BBC: A pensioner dies in hospital after being rescued from a fire at a house in south Belfast on Easter Sunday evening.  

BBC: More than 100 people have been arrested in Nottingham, England over a suspected plan to target a power station.  

Police said 114 men and women were arrested in Sneinton Dale on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass and criminal damage.

Officers said they believed those arrested were planning to protest at nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.  

BBC: Gordon Brown has written personal letters to those mentioned in controversial e-mails sent by his ex-adviser Damian McBride.

Mr McBride quit his post at Number 10 after his unfounded claims about Tory leader David Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne became known.

No 10 says Mr McBride's e-mails were "juvenile" exchanges between friends

 

 

BBC: The UN Security Council condemns North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket, and says it will tighten sanctions.

BBC: Four French survivors of a rescue operation by French troops on a yacht off Somalia have been welcomed home by the Defence Minister Herve Morin. 

Florent Lemacon, was killed during the rescue effort 

 

BBC: At least 21 people have been killed in a fire at a hostel for homeless people in north-western Poland, officials say.

The Mosquito has a wingspan of 33 centimetres

BBC: The Israeli military is equipping its forces with a new range of spy drones small enough to fit in a soldier's backpack, the army said on Thursday.  

BBC: Russia has signed a deal to buy Israeli unmanned spy planes to help the country improve its own drones, reports say.

Performance of Russia's drones was criticised during the Georgia conflict

 

BBC: Four Lebanese soldiers are killed in an attack on an army patrol, according to media reports.

BBC: Obama family 'picks first puppy'

The promised US presidential pooch has been picked, US media reports say.

The soon-to-be "first puppy" is a six-month-old black-and-white Portuguese water dog that the Obama girls have named Bo, the Washington Post reports.

The girls - Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7 - were promised a puppy by their father, US President Barack Obama, as a reward for coping with the election campaign.

The water dog, which does not shed hair, is said to be less aggravating for Malia who suffers from allergies.

Senator Teddy Kennedy, in England you may say Sir Teddy,  a fan of the water dog, is said to have given one to the Obamas

BBC: Paraguay leader admits love-child
Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo admits he is the father of a child who was conceived when he was still a Roman Catholic bishop.  

 

 

 

Hello, I'm Justin Webb and I'm the BBC's North America editor.

Reflecting on delay

Justin Webb | 04:21 UK time, Sunday, 12 April 2009

 

Arriving back in the US I see my colleagues on the trip have been keeping eveyone up to date on our difficulties leaving Turkey (Suzanne has to explain that Turkish Delight is a local delicacy! - CNN readers plainly not as travelled as Christiane Amanpour).
But none that I have seen has broached the topic of why we endured a further delay even after the captain's chair was fixed. The issue - seriously - was that the chair had not been properly certified, so we were kept on the ground for three hours while senior administration figures at first gripped their FTs and dreamed of being on Air Force One and then took control of the situation as diplomats are meant to and called everyone they had ever known who knew anything about Turkey to get us out. It was quite a scene: "We have xxxxxxx on board and I know he will be personally grateful to whoever clears up this mess" among the lines I heard; a nice mixture of carrot and (implied) stick. Some discussion about whether all of it was a plot by the French to punish the Obama team for being so keen on getting Turkey into the EU when their airports are still run with, shall we say, the inflexibility of the closed market.

 

BBC: The US president is to lift some restrictions that will allow Cuban-Americans to travel more freely to Cuba, White House sources say.

 

BBC: Shares in US carmaker General Motors fall sharply after reports that the US government wants it to start bankruptcy proceedings.

 

BBC: US captain rescued from pirates

US Navy snipers made a split-second decision to shoot dead three Somali pirates holding a cargo ship captain hostage on a lifeboat, officials say.