Posted on March 17, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
Was it a sick prank or a more sinister racist attack against African-Americans?
The answer to that is unknown until the culprit is found.
It is hard to believe that they have yet to identify whoever carried this out given that all supermarkets have CCTV but does the incident warrant world news status?
Report from the Daily Telegraph:
Wal-Mart [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I have resisted making a comment on this topic until more information was available.
I can’t hold back any longer, this is a bloody disgrace.
This evening I rang a consultant that I know to get his views on what is going on. This guy studied hard but given his social views doesn’t have a private practice. [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
Picture this, you are walking down the egg aisle in your local supermarket and you stop to decide on which brand to buy. Do you purchase supermarket own brand, a well known brand or spend a bit more and buy free range.
So you spend the extra bit and go home to fry up your free [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I hate being ripped off.
Whenever it happens to me I get angry really angry but then I shrug my shoulders and get on with it putting the experience down as a hard lesson.
But in Wales 84 year old Peter McShane took the law into his own hands and left a hoax bomb device in his [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I can’t really understand taxi drivers. They are self employed and did well in the good times with fare increases yet now that there is a downturn they are protesting.
It’s not as if the Taxi Regulator has reduced the cost of using a taxi – although one reason for the drop off in demand is [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
The banks don’t get reality do they?
If 60,000 mortgage holders are struggling with the existing cost of servicing their loans how many more will struggle if the cost of borrowing is increased?
The reality is significantly more but what is really sad is that the banks don’t give a toss. There used to be a bit [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
Retailers all around Ireland are closing up. Some are doing so voluntarily, others are just simply going out of business.
The problem that exists is that unlike the house market the commercial property sector has as much transparency as smoke and mirrors.
Rents struck are never quite what they seem with rent free periods and other incentives [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I remember when I travelled by Ryanair after a 10 year boycott of the no frills airline.
My boycott related to my distaste of uncomfortable travel when for only a few quid more I could travel Aer Lingus which offered a full service airline, frills and all for really not that much more than the discount [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I remember the first time I saw a DeLorean, they are just the business when it comes to motoring, cool really cool.
The street presence that they behold is more than a Ferrari, a Porsche and a Lotus together because the DeLorean is crude, mean and a stainless steel machine.
The Northern Ireland Industrial Development – whatever [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I have a friend who last night learned that he has to urgently travel overseas this weekend. To disclose the reasons would be breaking a confidence and I don’t do that.
So he booked his flights and went to check his passport – it’s a week out of date.
He rang me to say he would be [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I don’t have a problem with breastfeeding in public. I don’t have a problem with feeding a child from a bottle in public either. I see no difference.
It must be a big deal for first time mums to breastfeed, in fact it must be very difficult for mums to do it in public. So much [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
This is a good one.
I’m a night walker. Every night I switch on auto pilot before I go to sleep and hey presto I walk up the next morning. The fact that I have used the toilet during the night is very evident for all to see. Take for instance the night my wife put [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
It would appear that as we crossed the divide of the 20th Century into the 21st the human race became dependent on the quick fix.
Many years ago if you suffered from high blood pressure you cut down on fatty foods, alcohol and started to excercise. Nowadays you just pop a pill.
The Internet is littered with [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
So a motorist fights back and slashes the tyres of the cars parked in the DLVA staff car park in Swansea. But we should remember that the staff aren’t government “fat cats” but rather low paid workers who really hurt at having to pay for new tyres. So why punish them?
The Daily Telegraph reports:
Motorist with [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
I’m not sure whether or not to give it a go. The TV ad with the rat climbing out of the mans mouth is enough to put me off but is this just a scare tactic to stop consumers from buying products from a bigger market where there is more competition.
According to Irish Health.com one [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
The Irish Banks need to realise that the people are angry. Mortgage holders are being punished for the sins of others but due to their own circumstances such as negative equity they have been placed in a difficult position.
Banks would rather have mortgage holders fall into arrears rather than deal with the costs of running [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2010 by www.thedogsinthestreet.net
The motor industry worldwide is going through a bad time. For years consumers high on credit and cheap money bought cars in the greatest consumerism since the 1960’s. Car companies produced new models every few years and car buyers just kept on buying.
Then came the downturn and it became unfashionable to drive a new car. [...]
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