No! It’s Jesus on a Wal Mart reciept.
Or Charles Manson.
Minister for Social protection Joan Varadkar Burton (above) said that those who refuse to take up job or training opportunities would see their payments cut by up to €44 a week, because she believes school leavers, in particular, are using the dole as a “lifestyle choice”.
She estimates between 1 and 3 per cent of dole claimants are doing so because they would rather get the dole than stack shelves at Tesco.
That would mean at least ONE of the people in the queue above MAY be on the doss/playing in a band/writing for a rolling satirical news website.
And to think Joan wanted to be Minister for Finance.
If she’d had the choice, like.
Unemployed Group Respond To Burton Comments (RTE)
Burton Vows To End Dole ‘Lifestyle Choice’ (Sunday Independent)
(Photocall Ireland)
Speed Chess
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Mate before your pawns melt. Soak a perfectly good chess board for $13.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTLgeqCaYMY
They’re lovin’ it, lovin’ it, lovin’ it. They’re lovin’ it like that.
via
Ipsos MRBI poll conducted for ‘We The Citizens’.
Oh.
Thanks Paul H
Brooklyn-based sculptor Nina Levy makes body parts from oil-painted resin, clay, fiberglass, cast polyurethane and other materials. These dysmorphic family portraits created between 2004 and 2008, featuring herself and other family members including herself and her two sons, Archer, now 8 and Ansel, now 4, were included in a recent exhibition called ‘Related Forms’ at the Salamantina Gallery in New York.
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