Even our best efforts at isolationism are ignored by our shifty whore, English: in the same decade that the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in the US, effectively banning Chinese immigration into the States, "chop suey" and "tung" (as in the oil) entered the English language – from Chinese.
In the States, chopped liver is made with schmaltz, which poses a problem here: Jewish schmaltz is made from rendered chicken fat, German schmaltz from pork; I use olive oil.
Thirty-seven states chopped a total of $14.5 billion off the current year's budgets, most cutting services across the board and nearly half laying off workers, the survey says, while governors in 29 states proposed a total of $17.5 billion in new taxes and fees for next year, the most since 1979.
I was in a state of chop.
As happens every 10 years, the post-census redistricting is causing political dislocation for many incumbents as they watch state legislators chop up their districts.
Offenders facing the costly and side-effect-heavy treatment, which they must pay for, can opt out and walk free only if they let the state literally chop off their balls.
If "supporting the independent Ukrainian state" means chopping off a chunk of territory, then, yes, Russia did nicely.
This is a tube that you put food in and then shake up and down in a masturbatory motion, thereby rendering the food into the state of "chopped".
And as states have chopped away at appropriations for their universities and cut need-based grant aid for students, the Government Accountability Office has found both public and private schools are becoming increasingly reliant on what students pay in tuition for funding.
Described as "brutal" by the unions, which have called a one-day national strike for November, the bill will cut public-sector wages by 5%, increase VAT again, freeze state pensions and chop welfare payments.The opposition Social Democrats, who have enough seats to defeat the government, want fewer tax rises and more spending cuts.
But the first drift fences began to appear in the Panhandle as early as 1881, and the state has been chopped into smaller and smaller pieces ever since.
