Yeah I know they were da bomb on my ass too...but I was working a lot back then and always on my feet and always walking around....so therefor I justified the heck out of it....LOL BUT to put a bomb in a Starbucks for the sheer purpose of trying to run the place out so local coffee shops can prosper...why...that is just stupid....someone could have been seriously hurt or even killed.....now I know the story doesn't say that that is what has happened here, but then again it does say that this has happened before only on a smaller scale for that purpose. Sad world we live in.......
Explosive Device Defused at San Francisco Starbucks
SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 10) - Police defused an explosive device found in the bathroom of a Starbucks on Monday. No one was injured.
Authorities were called around 1:15 p.m., after an employee reported finding something suspicious in the store's bathroom. About 100 people were evacuated from the store and apartments above it, and the street was closed to traffic, said Sgt. Neville Gittens.
"This was a good device. If it had exploded, it would have caused injuries or damage," said Gittens, who would not describe its size.
Once the device was disabled at about 2:10 p.m., police allowed people back into the apartment building and reopened the street. The store, located at a busy city intersection, remained closed Monday evening while authorities investigated.
Seattle-based Starbucks declined to provide further details.
In 2003, police said the windows of 17 Starbucks stores were clouded with glue and some of the door locks were jammed. Vandals also posted phony notices purporting to be from Starbucks management announcing the company's intention to abandon some of their San Francisco stores to make room for more locally owned coffee houses.
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OK listen I grew up in Texas....one of the biggest migrant states in the US....I have seen first hand how these people come in illegally and take over jobs and homes and eventually towns....they are no better or worse that pests...yes I did call them pests. Listen I watched a company that my grandmother had worked for for years fire every one in the place, and hire all these illegals, then have the BALLS to call back some of the old "white"(not being racists they were all white) workers to come back and train all these mexicans to do their old jobs! LMAO...needless to say NOT ONE person went back. WHY would you go back for 6 weeks and train someone you can't even carry on a conversation with to do your old job? I have watched the store back home that cashes all the laborers checks, and 90% of the guys that come in there are mexicans, when I was a kid it was totally different. I have been in that same store cashing a check and tried to speak with someone who was working there, and had them and two other mexicans start speaking spanish and laughing right in my face....I have a million and one stories like that...NOW do not get me wrong IF you are in this country and you have done it the right way like a lot of others I do know, then hell yeah by all means, you jumped though all the hoops and did it all right you have the right to be here...BUT what pisses me off is the ones that as soon as you yell immigartion they scatter.....and I have seen that too..and they aren't the guilty ones in the deal..it is the people who will hire illegals to do the job so that they can have cheap labor and do not have to provide insurance and such to them.
BUT what gets me about this article is their own goverment instead of being embarassed that their own people are risking life and limb to get the hell out, they get pissed at us for trying to keep them out.....I am amazed at that. Personally if I were the leader of the country instead of being an ass about the US not wanting them here, I would want to be cleaning up my country and getting the bad out so the good could run the show...but then again that is just me!
Mexico Demands U.S. Allow More Immigration
By MARK STEVENSONAssociated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY
Diplomats from Mexico and Central America on Monday demanded guest worker programs and the legalization of undocumented migrants in the United States, while criticizing a U.S. proposal for tougher border enforcement.
Meeting in Mexico's capital, the regional officials pledged to do more to fight migrant trafficking, but indirectly condemned a U.S. bill that would make illegal entry a felony and extend border walls.
"Migrants, regardless of their migratory status, should not be treated like criminals," they said.
The countries represented at the meeting _ including Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize and Panama _ created a working group to design a regional policy to avoid migrant abuse and to follow the course of the legislation.
"There has to be an integrated reform that includes a temporary worker program, but also the regularization of those people who are already living in receptor countries," Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said.
Derbez has called the measure _ which passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month but still must go before the Senate _ "stupid and underhanded," but was somewhat more restrained on Monday, saying "it's not the Mexican government's position to tell the U.S. Senate what to do."
The U.S. proposal has caused widespread resentment in Mexico, where some have accused President Vicente Fox's administration of not being assertive enough in opposing it. Fox has called the bill shameful.
Mexicans working in the United States are a huge source of revenue for Mexico, sending home more than $16 billion in remittances in 2004, Mexico's second largest source of foreign currency after oil exports according to the country's central bank.
Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, defended the administration's record on Monday, telling reporters that migration has declined in recent years, though official figures show it remains at historically high levels.
Aguilar also said migrants "don't emigrate because they lack work, but rather for a series of other reasons, cultural reasons or better living conditions."
