I aint going to India. EVER. If for some reason I do go, I damn sure aint eating there.

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It pays to use a toilet in southern India, as residents are earning close to a dollar a month by using public urinals, a scheme launched by authorities to promote hygiene and research in rural areas.

Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu state, where authorities have succeeded in keeping street corners clean with the new scheme, The Times of India newspaper said on Sunday.

"In fact, many of us started using toilets for urination only after the ecosan (ecological sanitation) toilets were constructed in the area," said S. Rajasekaran, a truck cleaner.

The urine was also being collected and tested for its efficacy as a crop fertilizer, an official of the state's agricultural university added.

People relieving themselves in the open is a common sight in India's rural towns and villages, as basic sanitation still eludes millions.

(Reporting by Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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   So let me get this right.  The government is paying people. To use a toilet? The government has to give the rwesidents money not to pee on the street?  WTF?  This is the country that all our support jobs are being outsourced to?  These people are the benefactors of several of my friends being out of work?  People that arent even smart enough to find a tree or dig a hole to do their bussiness in?The sanitation worker, himself says HE only started using toilets when they built them recently.  What the hell happended to the money they were getting from us?  I know Dell, SBC, Toshiba, and several other companies shut down and started hosting tech support there. Are you telling me that we lost jobs in America and they didnt atleast build decent sanitation?  WTF did they spend the money on? Elephant slippers? Replacement dots for the women? WHAT?

   I want to knowm how exactly the goverment knows who peed when and where?  How do you get your money? Is there some form to fll out? Do you measurwe it before you finish?  What if you go more than average? Does some guy give you an extra 30 cets because you had a special time and had to pee more often? What about pregnant women? they always have to pee.  Do they earn double because they are pee'ing for two?  How the hell does this work?  

 Its just one more thing that makes me glad to live in America.

George Carlin dies at 71

 By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.

Known for his edgy, provocative material developed over 50 years, the bald, bearded Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television." A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin's routine were indecent, and that the government's broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.

The Grammy-winning Carlin remained an active presence on the comedy circuit. Carlin was scheduled to receive the John F. Kennedy Center's prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in November and his publicist said Carlin performed in Las Vegas this month.

His comedic sensibility revolved around a central theme: humanity is a cursed, doomed species.

"I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas," he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.

Carlin told Playboy in 2005 that he looked forward to an afterlife where he could watch the decline of civilization on a "heavenly CNN."

"The world is a big theater-in-the round as far as I'm concerned, and I'd love to watch it spin itself into oblivion," he said. "Tune in and watch the human adventure."

AWARDS

Carlin wrote three best-selling books, won four Grammy Awards, recorded 22 comedy albums, headlined 14 HBO television specials, and hosted hundreds of variety shows. One was the first episode of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975, when he was high on cocaine.

Drug addiction plagued him for much of his life, beginning with marijuana experimentation as a teen, graduating to cocaine in the 1970s, and then to prescription painkillers and wine. During the cocaine years, Carlin ignored his finances and ended up owing about $3 million in back taxes. In 2004, he entered a Los Angeles rehab clinic for his alcohol and Vicodin abuse.

George Dennis Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, in New York City, where he was raised with an older brother by their single mother. He fondly recalled that the nuns at his school tolerated his early comedic inclinations.

After a brief, troubled stint in the U.S. Air Force, he started honing his comic act, developing such characters as Al Sleet, a "hippie-dippie weatherman."

Carlin told Playboy that his sensibilities developed in the 1950s, "when comedy stopped being safe ... (and) became about saying no to authority." He cited such influences as Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory and Bob Newhart.

He also dabbled in movies and television, recently voicing a hippie Volkswagen bus named Fillmore in the Pixar cartoon "Cars."

Carlin is survived by his second wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; and brother Patrick. His first wife, Brenda, died of cancer in 1997. News of his death was first reported by the television show "Entertainment Tonight."

This is the HPD Ghost Car’.   Pretty slick isnt it.  A stark white Dodge Hemi Charger.  A sleek muscle car with power to spare.  A sophisticated police car for today’s, sophisticated cop. Just look at it.  No more bulky dome light to get in the way and cause air resistance.  No not  for this beauty. The Emergency lights are built into the grill and body. The stenciling is outstanding also. Although it is hard to tell here, the identifiers are stenciled in a polerized grey.  This renders them almost ‘invisible’ at an angle of greater than 30 degrees. Thats right. 30 degrees.
Criminals and speeders wont be spotting this baby until its right up on them. The roads going to feel a lot safer with these around. Cause, they’re patroling Houstons freeways already.  That white car sitting in the break down lane, looking like they got a flat? Its  a Ghost Car.  That white Dodge tailgating you?  Its  a Ghost Car. That white car thats been following you for three miles and making you really nervous, its  a Ghost Car.