Urine purchasers paid the tax. Map of central Imperial Rome showing the Cloaca Maxima running under the Forum. Vespasian is credited with the Latin saying Pecunia non olet meaning "Money doesn't smell." It's said to have been his reply to his son's complaint about the unpleasant nature...
“When the congressional debate over immigration began in 1924, the quota system was so well-established that no one questioned whether to maintain it, but rather discussed how to adjust it. Though there were advocates for raising quotas and allowing more people to enter, the champions of restri...
(Thanks to thePost-Chronicle) My President is blackmyMaybachtoo and I’ll be goddamned if mydiamondsain’t blue. My money’s light green and myPorscheis light grey. I’m going to DC anybody Feel Meh! My president is black in fact he’s half white, so even in a racist mind he’s...
When we pay some money for something, we ourselves are entering into a partnership with the truth (or the lack thereof) of that particular GOOD by investing or putting our heart into it by way of purchasing it. In other words, “we live with the decisions we make and how our heart fee...
Along with doling out large sums of money for the Army and the clerics, they have been instrumental in toppling unwanted governments and bringing their favourites to power. All of this was being done in cooperation with US Imperialism. But since the US-Saudi alliance has begun to crack, it...
Following the civil wars in 922, the new king of Egypt, with his weak position, wanted a victory to solve most of his issues, including prestige and money, as the treaty with the Romans put him under economic pressure, not to mention the taxes he had to pay towards the Amazigh em...
7 attack sue UNRWA for allegedly laundering money for Hamas Flickr Slide show: .An OPEN LETTER from Nobel Prize winning contemporary German writer, HertaMuller, maybe be too much for the ‘educated elites” to accept, to admit the necessity of this shocking wake-up call to the West – (to...
“I feel good to help my father, I also enjoy the drive, it is easy to drive motorcycle rickshaw and earn some money for the family,” she said. “I make Rs150 ($1.70) from three trips a day,” she said as she parked the rickshaw and ran into her home. Posted in Uncategorized ...
Behind the real Blogress of 2009, the second favorite was Pamela “Atlas Shrieks” Geller. If we give her 2,000 votes, perhaps Bruce and Dan will dish out to her the same fate they dished out to poor Ms. Shaidle. Sovotefor Pam as often as you can. Do it for justice. Do it for...
Yoav: Socialism, now, there’s hesitancy to talk about that because – not only in Israel but throughout the US as well and throughout many countries in Europe – socialism started to become a bad word instead of being something which is honorable. For many years money was the king, and...