| MTN Milking Ghanaians Excessively
South Africa has one of the uppermost costs for mobile network operations in Africa, if not in the world. It is therefore not surprising that in less than six months after the takeover, the Ghana Government is asking Ghanaians to pay tax on talk time on the networks. MTN, being the principal mobile service provider in Ghana, is in league with the Ghana government is now positioned to milk Ghanaians for their selfish interest. I am aware that MTN was sent packing in a country within the sub-region. It is for this reason that in any country where the leadership cares about the welfare of its citizenry, they will do a diligent work by insisting on ‘value for money'. But in the case of Ghana, what matters most is the percentage the Minister, under whose orbit the operation falls, is going to get is of utmost importance.
Bush in Arkansas -- UPDATE
Just blow a kiss to your favorite Monkey Boy. It's an unfunded mandate. Bush is no stranger to unfunded mandates. NCLB is another unfunded mandate. If we can raise $12 billion per month to fight for Eron, EXXON, Mobil, Haliburton, etc in Iraq, the balance of funding needed for SCHIPS will not be difficult. .
Bill to ban teaching about homosexuality in schools killed
The bill was scuttled at the February meeting on a voice vote after critics said the bill was unnecessary, infringed on free speech rights and put the Legislature improperly in the business of dictating curriculum to schools. Campfield, R-Knoxville, had protested the voice vote authorized by the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Joe Towns, D-Memphis. House rules say that when a sponsor requests a roll call vote, that request must be honored. Towns declared at the time that Campfield had not made a proper request. He subsequently decided, after reviewing a videotape of the meeting, that Campfield had, indeed, made a proper request. Towns then agreed to bring the bill back for a second vote on Tuesday. The roll call vote was 6-4 in favor of House Education Committee Chairman Les Winningham's motion to send the bill to the Department of Education, in effect killing it.
Luntz falsely claimed Obama has no foreign policy experience
He hasn't run a government, he hasn't run a business. Doesn't that concern you?" In fact, Obama is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has traveled to numerous countries while senator, and sponsored foreign policy-related bills. During the 10 p.m. ET hour of the March 2 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ, Republican pollster Frank Luntz said to the studio audience regarding Sen. Barack Obama: "But let's face it. He doesn't have foreign policy experience. He hasn't run a government, he hasn't run a business. Doesn't that concern you?" Luntz then asked the audience, whom he had earlier described as "30 uncommitted people here, come from all different places, different backgrounds": "How many of you are concerned about that?" The cameras then panned the studio to show people with their hands up.
McCain Camp Declares Victory
Toyota claims over 40 mpg for the Estima 7-seater, so the 22 m.p.g. I originally had suggested seemed a little low. ... 3:09 P.M. link ___________________________ Monday, September 17, 2007 *GLOAT ALERT* Pinch's Folly Formally FUBAR! TimesSelect--Pinch Sulzberger's attempt to put his prized columnists behind a subscription wall on the theory that they were so much better than free bloggers that people would pay for them--is finally so doomed it's actually dead, dead, dead, as of midnight tomorrow. ... You see, it's really a success story! It "met expectations." It's just that online ad growth was so high it was more profitable to not charge readers and thereby sell more ads! I mean, who could have foreseen that (except everyone else in the industry)?...
|
