Time To Act on Immigration Reform!!!

Recently a criminal illegal murdered two girls in a DUI accident see here.
Now, reports of the way illegal immigrants have to live when they get here is coming out in the open.

Authorities found at least 80 suspected illegal immigrants in a house west of Phoenix and arrested two suspected smugglers, a police official said.
Authorities shot tear gas into the house, forcing one of the suspected smugglers out. They found the other suspect hiding in the attic, said Peoria police spokesman Mike Tellef.
He said authorities became aware of the drop house after a Michigan resident called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying one of their relatives had called because the smugglers were demanding more money.
ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice did not confirm how the agency became aware of the drop house and declined to release further information.
Tellef said none of the immigrants requested medical treatment, although some had said they hadn't eaten for at least a day.
"We're very fortunate that nobody got hurt," he said. "We're lucky that we're not running into 100-degree temperatures yet."
The one-story home is located in a middle-class neighborhood, he said.
The immigrants were in the custody of ICE.
Tellef said the drop house is the second the department has found this week. On Monday, he said 30 suspected illegal immigrants and four suspected smugglers were found in a Peoria home.
On Thursday in Phoenix, police found 60 suspected illegal immigrants packed in a home after responding to a call about shots being fired. No one was hurt, and the immigrants were turned over to ICE.

I am all for hard working immigrants to come here to America. To live well and prosper. Abide by our laws. Nobody! Nobody, denies this. But, what is happening is this politicaly correct world we live in, people are getting lost in the dark. These people are being exploited for CHEAP LABOR and live in horrible onditions!This is what turning a blind eye to illegal immigrations does!!!

How is this racist when conservatives says we need to change our immigration laws to make sure we need people to come hear LEGALLY? In post-9/11 we need to know who, what, where people are going and doing in ourcountry. But, not only that people are not getting paid fairly and are afraid to tell aurthorities of horrible working conditions and so on!

If you are really compassionate for these people, in coming here and making it in America for themselves and their families, then get them to come legally! That way they do not get lost and abused by companies and criminals!

We have a huge problem with this border issue and immigration. And it is not getting any
better!

Talk about a severe OVERREACTION!

(CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.

The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.

"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.

Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.

Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.

For writing on the desk?
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
Is there also a three strikes rule for this?
What charges were brought against her? Vandalism?
You know what kind of backlog the system would have if they did this crap all the time? I remember back in the day when they would just make you clean EVERY SINGLE DESK IN THE CLASS. It sucked. And I been there and done that. But to get arrested for it? This principle needs to get his/her head examined. And the arresting officers should have not arrested these kids either. This is hardly a serious enough offense to have them arrest kids for it.

So this war was for BIG US OIL huh?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil, the first contracts with major oil firms from Iraq's new government are likely to go not to U.S. companies, but rather to companies from China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

While Iraqi lawmakers struggle to pass an agreement on exactly who will award the contracts and how the revenue will be shared, experts say a draft version that passed the cabinet earlier this year will likely uphold agreements previously signed by those countries under Saddam Hussein's government.

"The Chinese could announce something within the next few months" if all goes well with the oil law, said James Placke, a senior associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates who specializes in the Middle East.

The Asian firms are at an advantage for several reasons.

First, less constrained by Western sanctions during the Hussein regime, they've been operating in Iraq and know the country's oilfields, said Falah Aljibury, an energy analyst who has advised several Iraqi oil ministers as well as other OPEC nations.

Aljibury said the first contracts likely awarded will be to the Chinese in the south central part of Iraq, the Vietnamese in the south, the Indians along the Kuwaiti border, and the Indonesians in the western desert.

Kinda throws a wrench in those anti-war protesters no?

Bill O'Reilly vs Geraldo Rivera on ILLEGAL immigration

Watch the video.

O'Reilly and Rivera are going at it about the recent case in Virginia beach about an illegal immigrant named Alfredo Ramos whom was driving while drunk and slammed his vehicle into a car that had 2 teens Alison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16. They were at a traffic light when Ramos slammed into them pinning the two in the car and killing them both.

Couple things I wanted to mention about this case.
BOTH O'Reilly and Rivera are right in what they are saying.
O'Reilly is right in that the immigration policy and local authorities policy on illegal immigrants is very broken. Letting this man continue to stay here after being arrested the first two times and not processing him properly and running proper background checks on him is horrible. He could have had warrants for his arrest for murder and would have been left on the street because they did not check things properly.

Rivera is right in that this case should NOT be made into only and illegal immigration debate or issue. Granted the man was here illegally and and was allowed to stay in the country even after being arrested for drunk driving before by local authorities. BUT drunk driving is NOT something that is only synonymous with illegal immigrants. Its a problem with all races, religions, ages, and immigration statuses.

However the Governor of Virginia is also at some fault here for having two bills in the General Assembly of Virginia that would have "expand the powers of state and local law enforcement officers to include immigration."

Not pass.

The Governors position was this:

Kevin Hall, a spokesman for the governor, said Wednesday that Virginia has not entered into an agreement with the federal government - as some other states have - because immigration is a federal responsibility and because the Virginia State Police are plenty busy already. Besides, the feds have demonstrated that they "don't care" all that much about enforcing the law in every case.

That sounds like cop out to me.
So you don't enforce the law because someone else isn't doing it?
Sounds a bit foolish to me.

Hell the Attorney General PLEADED with the governor to change the laws but he did not

The attorney general sent a letter to the governor in January, pleading with Kaine to do just that. In a news release, McDonnell said there is " a strong correlation between illegal immigrants and crime... the inability of law enforcement to enforce immigration laws threatens law-abiding citizens. "

O'Reilly's blame solely on the mayor and the judge of Virgina Beach are very unwarranted. He should have also pointed the finger at Governor Tim Kaine. Which SURPRISE - SURPRISE is a Democrat. NO shocker at all.

While the illegal immigration debate and issue is something that is hotly contended. Lets not blur the lines with blame on the issue or use single incidents like this to highlight immigration statuses of people.

Should Ramos have been deported absolutely.
But his drunk driving is NOT something that only illegal immigrants share.

Guiliani on Abortions

VOTERS CARE MORE ABOUT SECURITY STANCE THAN ABORTION VIEWS, SAYS GIULIANI: Republican for president Rudy Giuliani is betting S.C. primary voters are more interested in his national security credentials than his moderate views on abortion. The former New York City mayor was in South Carolina Thursday, a day after he announced on national television he supports limited federal funding for abortion, a concept that is anathema to many Republican voters. Giuliani, who is leading the 2008 GOP pack in most national polls and is second in South Carolina surveys, told The State he realizes his views on abortion will be an issue here. "On social issues, there are some differences, but the differences aren't as great as some of the people who oppose me exaggerated," he said before heading to the State House, where he picked up the endorsement of State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel and two influential Republican activists. The State: Giuliani downplays abortion issue in S.C.

Hardcore conservative are being RIDICULOUS with this one issue bullshit. Abortion no matter WHAT they want will NEVER EVER EVER be changed by a sitting president. Only way that will change is with Supreme Court appointments. And even then it will be hotly contended issue for that next appointment because the next appointment could tip the scales one way or the other.

And I personally don't give a crap about a mans relationships. I didn't care about Clinton getting head (only Hilary should), and I sure as hell never cared about Giuliani's marriages. If you do care about those sorts of things you need to reexamine your core beliefs on if you want to vote on 1 issue only. One issue only voters are a damn shame to this great democracy of ours.

I vote on men and women based on principle. Not based on one single issue. I look at the whole package. Weigh the positives and the negatives. There are things that I do not agree with Giuliani on. But the reality is that he IS the best conservative candidate out there.

I DO NOT trust Romney at all. He also has flipped on issue multiple times. He was Governor of Massachusetts and has done some HORRIBLE things with that state. Just ask fellow Bostonians, Such as our own YR Its STILL the most taxed state in the nation. Had those major issues internally with the big dig and still is VERY liberal. He was voted in by appeasing to the liberals in the state.

I know that is what politics was all about. Appeasing to people. But I want someone that is real. Not someone that waivers on their positions to score political points and somehow gain the trust of the people through false prophecy. At least with Giuliani what you see is what you get. And his positions are the same today as they were yesterday or when he was mayor. He believes in fiscal conservatism (something DESPERATELY lacking today), believes in security, believes in tough sentences on criminal, believes is less government.

Romney has flipped simply for appeasement. Examples:

-Now firmly pro-life, despite 2002 tolerance for abortion. (Dec 2006)
-Opposes Roe v Wade, but won't tamper with abortion laws. (Dec 2006)
(that is an oxymoron, there are no abortion laws)
-Vetoed emergency contraception for rape victims. (Jul 2005)
(that is insanity!)
-Endorsed legalization of RU-486. (Mar 2002)
(like I said he waivers back and forth, RU-486 is an abortion pill)

On Gay marriage
-Opposed gay marriage but played fair and upheld law. (Apr 2006)
(you want fairness let them have civil unions)


Is it too early to be talking about this? I sure as hell think so. There is still more than a year and a half before the presidential elections. I am sure more on both candidates will come out. I just hope conservatives stop looking at 1 damn issue to decide who they vote for.

Laser TV coming...

GREAT. I barely have my 55 inch DLP WEGA for a little over a year and BANG! Something new.

Plasma was king until LCD got bigger and better. And just when you thought you could settle down in front of a huge LCD screen and enjoy some high-def peace of mind comes LaserTV. Developed by Novalux, LaserTV has this little calling card: it costs 50% less to produce, has double the color range, and uses 75% less power.

Technology has always been about faster and cheaper, and flat panel TVs have gone on nearly a death spiral of low pricing thanks to cheap manufacturing plants in Mexico and Asia and the ever-increasing leaps in component technology. Circuit City in fact just announced that it was cutting its higher-paid workforce due to razor-slim margins in big ticket electronics.

What Does This Mean?

So here is where LaserTV fits, in the big picture (so to speak.) LaserTV is a projection technology, so if you like micro-thin flat panels, this is not for you. The technology replaces the spinning UHP lamp in the back of projection DLP and LCD TVs with laser-beaming hardware. The lasers are faster and use less power, and they create a picture that side by side, has blown away the best plasma, projection and LCDs sets currently on the market.

Well I guess that means prices will drop for next year and I can get that LCD on the ceiling like I wanted. :LOL:



Well without the large laser in the room of course.

Iranian Propaganda Panda

Boy did Iran receive a nice fluffy panda of propaganda with their recently released hostages!!I have been holding my 2 cents on the Iranian kidnapping of the 15 British sailors and marines out of respect for their families and friends and the utterly horrible situation they may have been in. Now that they are free. I would like to write about somethings I noticed and thankfully a few other former military friends of mine have noticed as well.

First, was my observation of how the sailors acted while obviously aware of being filmed. They appeared to be no signs of distress. Now knowing of previous Iranian hostages being taken through "mock executions" among other forms of torture and harsh interrogations I wanted to give these sailors the benefit of the doubt they may have been coerced to "act normal." But I saw nothing that put in my mind anything that the sailors put up any fight or act of defiance. And the three letters! My Lord the sucking up to Iran and slap in the face to the British and US!!! That's why I give you a little something from my training from SERE (Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion) School. Basically a mock POW camp to train Navy Sailors and Marines. Other forms of vital training and instruction was how to survive on your own in the battlefield if you are alone i.e., shot down or somehow separated from your unit somehow, no matter what the situation and... resistance to interrogation.

Code of Conduct

I - I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.

II - I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist.

III - If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and to aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.

IV - If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me and will back them up in every way.

V - When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, service number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its allies or harmful to their cause.

VI - I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the
principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.

In other words, never give your captors anything they could use as a propaganda tool. If you can't avoid it defy it by any means. Act like a robot, rain man, talk like a duck, blink like a maniac, only use your middle finger! ANYTHING!!! As I said before, there is no telling what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was doing behind the camera to the other sailors and I hope after their debreifing in Britian something like that comes out but, dang did they look comfortable "confessing" to the Iranian people!

Secondly, didn't the sailors have guns and friggin British warship nearby!!! News sources are saying the captain of the British ship that sent the boarding team first had to get PERMISSION! WTF blow the dingys out the friggin water!!!

Now some news sources are saying that Britain paid for the release of the hostages by swapping prisoners!!! Story Here

"The stand-off over the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran looks to be moving towards a de facto prisoner exchange, despite denials by Britain and Iran that a swap was intended."

Britain and it's Navy seriously got a slap in the face by this and Achthenutjob looks like a genius in Iran right now.

The War on Terror is over???

Not exactly. Only in the mind of left wing democrats it is.

No more GWOT, House committee decrees

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Apr 4, 2007 16:11:56 EDT

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.

This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.

A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”

The “global war on terror,” a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the “long war,” which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years.

Committee staff members are told in the memo to use specific references to specific operations instead of the Bush administration’s catch phrases. The memo, written by Staff Director Erin Conaton, provides examples of acceptable phrases, such as “the war in Iraq,” the “war in Afghanistan, “operations in the Horn of Africa” or “ongoing military operations throughout the world.”

“There was no political intent in doing this,” said a Democratic aide who asked not to be identified. “We were just trying to avoid catch phrases.”

Josh Holly, a spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, the committee’s former chairman and now its senior Republican, said Republicans “were not consulted” about the change.

There you have it folks.
Global War on terror is over.
Appeasement is a very sad thing for a nation.
And eventually leads to its demise if not corrected.
France during WW2 is a perfect example.

What is next folks?
We still have 2 more years of finding out.
Think now. Its only been 3 months since Democrats took over and already they are Neutering our military on every front. This is what in military talk is FLANKING YOUR ENEMY. There is no other way of viewing this.

Energy Savings in Cuba?

Of all the Latin American nations that Mr. Puig could go to learn about renewable energy. First coming to mind is Brazil. This clown picks Cuba?

Cuba and Dominican Republic discuss environment and energy saving

Havana.- As part of his first visit to Cuba, Dominican environment minister Max Puig has been holding discussions on energy saving and plans to reduce the effects of climate change.

During a meeting with the Cuban science, technology and environment minister, Puig expressed an interest in Cuba’s experiences of using renewable energy and the country’s energy saving program, according to local media.

Puig described Cuban environmental protection experiences as “worthy” and said that the initiatives would be “very useful”.

“We are interested in making the most of them”, he said.

The Dominican minister said he was particularly interested in pollution reduction measures, biodiversity, species reproduction, river basin management and energy saving.

Puig said that the Dominican Republic is dependent on fuel imports, particularly petroleum, which exceeds US$2bn a year.

“We’re benefiting from the solidarity and support of our sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, but we also have to change our energy production and consumption patterns”, said the Dominican minister.

Puig is due to sign an agreement setting out concrete proposals for cooperation between the two island nations on Wednesday. He returns to the DR the following day.

So lets go step by step here on this thinking.

-So how is Cuba saving 2 billion a year in Petroleum costs?
CHAVEZ! The man give MILLIONS of barrels to Cuba because big daddy Castro is the brain child of his "revolucion" and his new march towards Dictatorship. After all Castro wrote the book on how to DUPE a nation into giving him absolute and total control. Just promise them the WORLD and find an enemy in the US.

-Renewable energy usage.
THAT is called rolling blackouts and in some cases just "se fue la luz" fovever.

-Energy savings program
Thats easy. Just don't rebuild ANYTHING and let buildings fall apart and use the rubble for landscaping.

Lord knows what kind of cooperation is possible between the two nations.

Wait for it to make its way to the US...

The first set of Carbon Neutrality taxes has reared its ugly head already.
But on the oddest of things.

BBQ!

BRUSSELS, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - The government of Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia, which has a population of about 4 million, has approved a tax on barbequing, local media reported.

Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbequing. Beginning June 2007, residents of Wallonia will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session.

The local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new tax legislation from helicopters, whose thermal sensors will detect burning grills.

Scientists believe CO2 emissions are a major cause of global warming.

Yes ladies and gentleman.
You want to BBQ in Belgium you need to pay a CO2 tax.
Awesome! Wait for it to hit the US in the future. Picture that. No more firing up the BBQ for summer time because you have to pay a tax to EAT!

Tax on breathing to come next.

Real News from Iraq

I often am asked when in debates or when in forums about what positive news can possibly be coming from Iraq. Hell I rather they ask what about REAL news. Not the constant negative drum beat that the MSM media portrays daily.

I posted some link on the side of GREAT sites from bloggers that are posting and showing videos and commentary on their daily lives in Iraq. Their reactions to actions by the US and within their own governments.

Its real news not the BS you are lead to believe is the only news in Iraq.

Alive in Baghdad

Hometown Baghdad

Iraq the Model

Baghdad Burning

I encourage everyone to read these sites. Watch their video particularly the first one. It shows the mixed feelings by many Iraqis but shows one thing above all. REAL NEWS AND VIEWS!

UK Teachers not teaching about the Holocaust!?

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.

The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

And the bullshit continues....

The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.

The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'.

It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.

"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."

A third school found itself 'strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict-and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination'.

The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."

But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said: "History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."

The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'.

Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils.

So indoctrinating these youths at a young age with talks of Holocaust denial is ok. But to teach them the TRUTH is not.
WOW! And they say that religious extremism doesn't exist. And folks like Rosie O'Donnel call CHRISTIANITY a larger threat. HA!

I don't know why liberals can't let it go but...

its going to be reviewed yet once again.

HBO is revisiting one of the most dramatic events in U.S. election history with "Recount," a film about the 2000 turmoil in Florida to be directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack.

Paula Weinstein is executive producing the HBO Films project, which is targeted to premiere in spring 2008.

Written by actor Danny Strong, Spring Creek Prods.' "Recount" chronicles the weeks after the 2000 presidential election and goes behind the scenes of the recounts in Florida to explore the human drama of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary event that would decide the leadership of the country.

"It's a very compelling piece that takes a well-known event and deconstructs it from the point of view of the people involved," HBO Films president Colin Callender said.

While "Recount" takes on one of the most controversial and politically charged episodes in recent history, the telefilm has no political agenda, Callender said.

Riiiight no political agenda.
Sydney Pollack, a man that agrees with Abraham Polonsky whom has said that the Castro regime was EXCELLENT. Seriously now. NO political agenda. Then on top of that it is going to be released in 2008. I wonder what political event is happening in 2008? Ohhh yeah that crazy thing called PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
I will probably watch it. Always good to kill some time.

Was this the big one I spoke about 2 weeks ago?

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 8.0
# Date-Time Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 20:39:56 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
# Monday, April 2, 2007 at 7:39:56 AM
= local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 8.453°S, 156.957°E
Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region SOLOMON ISLANDS
Distances 45 km (30 miles) SSE of Gizo, New Georgia Islands, Solomon Isl.
205 km (125 miles) S of Chirovanga, Choiseul, Solomon Islands
345 km (215 miles) WNW of HONIARA, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
2145 km (1330 miles) NNE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.3 km (5.8 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst=152, Nph=152, Dmin=345.9 km, Rmss=1.18 sec, Gp= 43°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID us2007aqbk

Two Weeks ago I posted about the strange chain of events from volcano eruptions in areas around the world.
This may have been the final release of pressure that I spoke about.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) - Tsunami waves churned by an undersea earthquake crashed ashore in the Solomon Islands on Monday, wiping away entire villages and triggering alerts from Australia to Hawaii, officials said. At least 13 people were killed, and the prime minister warned that the toll would likely grow.

In the South Pacific nation's west, where the devastation appeared centered, there were reports of people being swept away as waves plowed up to a half-mile inland. The magnitude-8 quake that created the tsunami was followed by more than two dozen aftershocks, including at least four of magnitude-6 or stronger.

"It was just a noise like an underground explosion," said Dorothy Parkinson, a resident of Gizo, where a wall of water swept through the streets. "The wave came almost instantaneously. Everything that was standing is flattened."

Some residents described a wave up to 16 feet tall.

More here

Say a prayer for all those that have died please.

Cool, now the EPA regulates how you breathe.

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must consider greenhouse gases as pollutants, in a blow to the White House.

"Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's capacious definition of 'air pollutant' we hold that EPA has the statutory authority to regulate the emission of such gases from new motor vehicles," the court ruled.

Led by Massachusetts, a dozen states along with several US cities and environmental groups went to the courts to determine whether the agency had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide emissions.

"The harms associated with climate change are serious and well recognized," said judge John Paul Stevens as the ruling was carried by five votes in favor to four against.

The Republican administration of US President George W. Bush has fiercely opposed any imposition of binding greenhouse limits on the nation's industry.

Environmentalists have alleged that since Bush came to office in 2001 his administration has ignored and tried to hide looming evidence of global warming and the key role of human activity in climate change.

As the issue has come to the fore in the US, the White House earlier this year issued a rare open letter defending Bush's record on climate change, rejecting criticisms that he has only recently awakened to the problem.

Monday's ruling was immediately hailed by environmental campaigners which has been fighting for greater regulations in a nation which accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.

"It is a watershed moment in the fight against global warming," said Josh Dorner, spokesman for the Sierra Club environmental group.

"This is a total repudiation of the refusal of the Bush administration to use the authority he has to meet the challenge posed by global warming.

It also "sends a clear signal to the market that the future lies not in dirty, outdated technology of yesterday, but in clean energy solutions of tomorrow like wind, solar," he added.

Now the EPA can regulate how often you can breathe out. After all CO2 is what you excrete as long as you are alive and breathing.

But for all you that want to be carbon neutral follow these easy steps:

Take a big breathe and HOLD IT.....
Keep Holding......
........
Still there?
Keep Holding......
Turning Purple Yet?
Hold it...Hold it...
Feeling dizzy?
Hold it...

Have you hit the keayboard with your head from passing out?

NOW you are carbon neutral.

How Modern Liberals Think

Dude hits the nail on the head.

Folding @ Home

I have been hearing about this thing for some time now and recently saw it on my PS3 so it really got my attention.

I decided to do a little research on this program.
Turns out its legit and its very helpful and takes damn near no effort from people. It puts your computer to work for a good cause and I think EVERYONE should take part in this.

This is from the Sanford University Website

Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

What have we done so far? We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, Results section, or go directly to our press and papers page.

Want to learn more? Click on the links on the left for downloads or more information. You can also download our Executive Summary, which is a PDF suitable for distribution. Also, you can learn more by watching recent seminars (Stanford BMI ; Xerox PARC). One can also help by donating funds to the project, via Stanford University.

Basically what you do is this.

Download the program: Folding @ Home Program
(Find your operating system. Most likely Microsoft XP)

Run the Program and install it.

"Next" your way through everything.

After the installation you will see this screen:



In the User Name area put your name or whatever name you'd like to put.

And under Team number put 45435

That is the team number that was created on another forum.

After you press okay, it'll look like the screen disappears. Just go to your taskbar, and you'll see a red flower thingy. Double click that, and a really cool screen will come up. That's the proteins being downloaded and processed.

You're on your way to helping solve diseases!

Its for a good cause. And wont effect your computers speed in anyway. It runs on the absolute minimum priority setting in your CPU memory. And other programs that need more memory to run are not effected.

I am running Adobe Photoshop - Excel - Fire Fox - Windowws Media Player - Outlook and an accounting program and everything is running just as before. No difference.

What this program BASICALLY does is take protein and FOLD it. It creates it into another combination that Sanford students then use for studying and finding diseases.

Further explanation can be found here: http://folding.stanford.edu/science.html

Please join up.

Breeding the Future Jihadists of Tomorrow

Palestinian TV is showing a music video in which a four-year-old girl sings the praises of her suicide bomber mother and vows to follow in her footsteps.

The little girl grasps a stick of dynamite from a drawer in her mother's dressing-table and says: "I will follow Mummy".

The shocking footage is being aired repeatedly on Al-Aqsa TV, the official station of the new Palestinian unity government headed by prime minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, which seeks the destruction of Israel.

The video is shown between programmes without any accompanying commentary.

It shows a child actress playing four-year-old Duha Riyashi singing to her mother, Reem, as she prepares for a suicide bombing.

Reem Riyashi, a 22-year-old mother of two from Gaza, blew herself up at the entrance to a joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial zone in January 2004, killing four Israelis.

She was the first mother to join the grim death-roll of suicide bombers and the first woman despatched on such a mission by Hamas.

In the two minute video the young child sings as her mother prepares the bomb next to her dressing-table in the bedroom.

She sings: "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me? A toy or a present for me?"

Later, she sees the news of her mother's suicide on television and realizes her mother was carrying a bomb.

At first, the child cries for her mummy, begging her to come and put her and her brother to bed.

But then she sings: "Instead of me you carried a bomb in your hands / Only now, I know what was more precious than us / May your steps be blessed".

At the end of the video, Duha opens the dressing-table drawer to find a stick of explosives like the ones used in suicide bomb belts.

Grasping the deadly material, she vows to copy her mother:

"My love will not be words / I will follow Mummy in her steps," she sings.

Days before her death, Riyashi posed for the camera holding an AK-47 assault rifle in one arm and in the other her year-old son whose tiny fingers are grasping a bomb.

Her two young children were interviewed on Al-Aqsa TV earlier this month Duha was encouraged to recite a poem called "Mama Reem". "Reem, you are a fire bomb, Your children and submachine gun are your motto," chanted the little girl.

Now they are training children with Music video's.
Parents used to just have to worry about bad lyrics and curse words.
But this! Is an all new low.

An all new low for terrorists.

Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing: general

Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.

The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon's Joint Staff.

"Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back," Barbero said.

The general said it was the first time he had seen a report of insurgents using children in suicide bombings. But he said Al-Qaeda in Iraq is changing tactics in response to the tighter controls around the city.

A US defense official said the incident occurred on Sunday in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, a mixed neighborhood adjacent to Sadr City, which is predominantly Shiite.

After going through the checkpoint, the vehicle parked next to a market across the street from a school, said the official, who asked not to be identified.

"And the two adults were seen to get out of the vehicle, and run from the vehicle, and then followed by the detonation of the vehicle," the official said.

"It killed the two children inside as well as three other civilians in the vicinity. So, a total of five killed, seven injured," the official said.

Officials here said they did not know who the children were or their relationship to the two adults who fled the scene. They had no information about their ages or genders.

"The brutality and the ruthlessness of this enemy hasn't changed," said Barbero, deputy director of regional operations of the Joint Staff. "They are just interested in slaughtering Iraqi civilians, to be very honest."

WTF? These children were part of the Jihad?
Part of the insurgency how? MY GOD! Children!

And here I am having arguments with people on the tactics used to interrogate these bastards, when they don't even value the lives of the most innocent of them all. CHILDREN!

We should just tickle them instead!
Dick Durbin Style!



That will show'em.

Spending plan hypocrisy?

A key House panel Wednesday began debating a Democratic budget plan to boost spending for domestic programs while assuming that a variety of popular tax cuts expire at the end of the decade.

The House Budget Committee took up the $2.9 trillion plan, which envisions big increases for homeland security, veterans health care and aid to local schools. A late-night vote was expected.

The House budget plan, like a companion version before the full Senate, promises a federal surplus in five years -- if President Bush's tax cuts indeed disappear and, as a result, more revenue flows into the federal treasury.

So now democrats want to increase pork spending. Something they stated they wanted to correct as part of their campaigns.

Here we are not what 5 months later following their win and BAM. Pork spending.

But that is not the only hypocrisy in all of this.

Republicans blasted the Democratic budget for its hefty spending increases and its assumption that lower taxes on income, married couples, inheritances and investments will expire at the end of 2010 as current law states.

"The best way to balance the budget is to control spending, not raise taxes," said top panel Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

I don't know what Mr. Ryan is on or what planet he was on the last 6 years. But Republicans were spending like drunken sailors. Now they want to somehow reign it all in? WHERE WAS THE LEADERSHIP ON PORK SPENDING WHEN YOU HAD CONTROL.

Please Mr Ryan. Spare me the BULLSHIT.
And that goes for all republicans. Don't go off now making it seem like spending is a Democrat problem. When there was plenty of opportunities when you all were in power to correct things. But you failed. And were removed.

Billy has it all wrong...

Not Clinton; Gates.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said on Tuesday the United States should reform its immigration laws and give more flexibility to higher-skilled foreign workers.

Speaking at a conference in Mexico, the birthplace of millions of immigrants to the United States, Gates said reforms "would be helpful so we are predictable, so we are clear."

Its not high skilled workers coming into the country illegally. Its low skilled workers with no skills at all. What does he somehow think that adding more low skilled workers will make legal citizens more highly skilled?

I think Bill Gates is upset he needs to pay his programmers six figures when he can bring in an Indian for 1/3 that cost.

Either that or his 10,000 Acre Land needs more workers to do landscaping. I don't know which is his top priority yet.

That is it?

Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. sentenced Rebecca Arnold of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, to probation and a three-year suspended sentence after they pleaded no contest to a felony child neglect charge.

The judge said he wanted to spare the young girl, now 11, from testifying, according to Michael Healey, a spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch.

During an investigation by the state child welfare authorities, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had sex "all the time" in front of the child and that "we don't believe in hiding anything." He told an investigator that they did not force the girl to watch.

The allegations surfaced in December 2004 after the girl went to live with her father in North Adams, Massachusetts, after spending the summer with her mother in Woonsocket.

A teacher called a child abuse hotline to report that the girl said her mother and her boyfriend had sex in front of her. Woonsocket police arrested the couple February 2005.

Probation?
Why the HELL are they not a Sex offenders list?
What the hell is wrong with this judge. The pleaded guilty. Hit them with the book. Both sides if possible.

Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'

One of those news articles that are way to good to just bookmark and file away under another Global Warming Debunking stack.

Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who has analyzed this topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from University of Guelph, Canada.

It is generally assumed that the atmosphere and the oceans have grown warmer during the recent 50 years. The reason for this point of view is an upward trend in the curve of measurements of the so-called 'global temperature'. This is the temperature obtained by collecting measurements of air temperatures at a large number of measuring stations around the Globe, weighing them according to the area they represent, and then calculating the yearly average according to the usual method of adding all values and dividing by the number of points.

Average without meaning

"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth", Bjarne Andresen says, an an expert of thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate".

He explains that while it is possible to treat temperature statistically locally, it is meaningless to talk about a a global temperature for Earth. The Globe consists of a huge number of components which one cannot just add up and average. That would correspond to calculating the average phone number in the phone book. That is meaningless. Or talking about economics, it does make sense to compare the currency exchange rate of two countries, whereas there is no point in talking about an average 'global exchange rate'.

If temperature decreases at one point and it increases at another, the average will remain the same as before, but it will give rise to an entirely different thermodynamics and thus a different climate. If, for example, it is 10 degrees at one point and 40 degrees at another, the average is 25 degrees. But if instead there is 25 degrees both places, the average is still 25 degrees. These two cases would give rise to two entirely different types of climate, because in the former case one would have pressure differences and strong winds, while in the latter there would be no wind.

Many averages

A further problem with the extensive use of 'the global temperature' is that there are many ways of calculating average temperatures.

Example 1: Take two equally large glasses of water. The water in one glass is 0 degrees, in the other it is 100 degrees. Adding these two numbers and dividing by two yields an average temperature of 50 degrees. That is called the arithmetic average.

Example 2: Take the same two glasses of water at 0 degrees and 100 degrees, respectively. Now multiply those two numbers and take the square root, and you will arrive at an average temperature of 46 degrees. This is called the geometric average. (The calculation is done in degrees Kelvin which are then converted back to degrees Celsius.)

The difference of 4 degrees is the energy which drives all the thermodynamic processes which create storms, thunder, sea currents, etc.

Claims of disaster?

These are but two examples of ways to calculate averages. They are all equally correct, but one needs a solid physical reason to choose one above another. Depending on the averaging method used, the same set of measured data can simultaneously show an upward trend and a downward trend in average temperature. Thus claims of disaster may be a consequence of which averaging method has been used, the researchers point out.

What Bjarne Andresen and his coworkers emphasize is that physical arguments are needed to decide whether one averaging method or another is needed to calculate an average which is relevant to describe the state of Earth.

Reference: C. Essex, R. McKitrick, B. Andresen: Does a Global Temperature Exist?; J. Non-Equil. Thermod. vol. 32, p. 1-27 (2007).

I thought the Increased Security was a bad thing?

All the talk about the troop surge putting more soldiers in harms way doesn't seem to be playing out the way the MSM media or the Democrats/Liberals wanted it to turn out. Seems as though that with INCREASED security, there is a DECREASE in attacks. Funny how that works right?

MIL-IRAQ-US SOLDIERS
Baghdad security crackdown seriously curbs killings of US soldiers

BAGHDAD, March 14 (KUNA) -- The rate of killings of US troops in Iraq has been on the decline, down by 60 percent, since the launch of the new security measures in Baghdad, according to statistics revealed by the Multi-National Force -Iraq Combined Press Information Centre.

Only 17 members of the US military in Iraq have been killed since February 14 till March 13, compared to 42 from January 13 to February 13; the rate was on the decline during the first month of the security crackdown, compared to a month before.

Two of the 17 soldiers died at US Baghdad camps of non-combat causes.

The remarkable decrease in killings among the US troops came at a time when more of these troops were deployed in the Iraqi capital, especially in districts previously regarded as extremely hazardous for them such as Al-Sadr City, Al-Azamiyah, and Al-Doura.

Meanwhile, US attacks on insurgent strongholds north of Baghdad curbed attacks against helicopters. Before the new security plan, many such craft were downed leaving 20 soldiers dead.

The US army in Iraq had earlier said that sectarian fighting and violence in Baghdad had dropped sharply, by about 80 percent, since the launch of the plan.

The statistics excluded US troops killed in other governorates such as Al-Anbar, Diyala, and Salahiddin.

As to the latest human losses, the US army announced Wednesday that two American soldiers had been killed, one in southern Baghdad and the other northeast of the capital.(end) ahh.
msa
KUNA 141130 Mar 07NNNN

Similar to the crime DROP in NYC with Rudy.
Increased patrols and police officers lead to a DECREASE in violent crimes. What a crazy concept huh?

I found this rather funny considering there haven't been as many reports on the usual suspects CNN, NBC, New York Times, LA times etc of troop deaths.

You get tallied daily on troops killed by insurgents and terrorists but where was the tally on the 2000 days without a terrorist attack on US soil? Nowhere.

Now Global Warming is Causing ROACH MIGRATION?

Climate change blamed for cockroach migration

Climate change is being blamed for a changing of the guard among Sydney's cockroach population.

Researchers say the most common sub-species in city households was the german cockroach, until it disappeared about seven years ago.

Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum says the Australian house cockroach, methana marginalus, which likes warmer climates, has begun moving in.

"It's most likely to be the...warmer climate," he said.

"They certainly have appeared for many many years just on little spot occurrences where somebody will find this funny little cockroach that's probably come in on their suitcase from a trip up to Queensland.

"Quite likely these ones have also arrived down the same way but they are now breeding."

COME ON!
Anyone really taking this crap seriously?
Roach Migrations? Maybe the reason the Roaches left was because they were all KILLED! Damn.

Israeli Palestinian Conflict.....

Some Powerful video's that I wanted to make sure I post up for all to see.
Many of these videos get lost on You Tube.

First one is very powerful from a girl that can be no more then 16 I think.


Dr. Walid Pharis


Children talking about the GREATNESS that is Shahada.
Which is Suicide Bombing.
The oddest thing is that it comes from two females. Seeing as in Islam a women does not get the 72 virgins I fail to see the passion and the method for the indoctrination.


In Palestine and Lebanon teaching children to HATE Jews. Not Zionists. JEWS. Teaching them that they are pigs etc. That their job is to throw down their toys and pick up weapons.



Firing from Qana.


Even in Argentina the Jews are bombed


During the war with Israel this last summer in 2006. Hezbullah was accused of using UN Ambulances to transport fighters. Hezbullah denied that. But it seems that they were lying of that as well. There was global anger towards Israel when CNN and other outlets showed the bombing of a UN Ambulance. It seems from this video that is was justified.



Many Muslims have denied that burnings of Synagogues of buildings and irrigation systems, pipes etc. This video shows otherwise following the pull out of Israelis from Gaza.



I am sure following this post. I will be called the regular names. Jew Lover, Slave, Zionist loving pig, etc etc. But this is the reality of the hatred that is being BRED on the Muslim side of the conflict. The side that many TRY to deny. But it is real.

This conflict will I think not end any time soon. Especially with a whole new breed of kids being raised and trained for war. What kind of society is this?

This is way too good to pass up....

A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.

Not that I want to laugh at someone getting frost bite but.... LMFAO!!!!

I thought everything up there was melting? Palm Trees were being planted and Polar Bears were looking for Ocean Front Property in Australia. WTF? Frost bite?

"Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.

Well no DUH!!
But what were they expecting? Summer time weather in a region of the world that averages temperatures of -60 degrees?

Then there was the cold — quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.

What ever happened to the Ozone layer melting everything up there? CO2 Gases making everything melt away. Kinda a bad thing to look for signs of global warming in a place where its so damn cold you would need electricity to stay warm.

Hopefully she fully recovers.
But something tells me that she still believes in Global Warming.

Now this one I did not see coming.....

The New York Times telling Gore to chill on the Global Warming Hype?

Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness of climate change.

But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”

Wait a minute there.
I though there was no more discussion and everyone was on the same page? New York Times going to issue an editorial on this little flub?

Mr. Gore, in an e-mail exchange about the critics, said his work made “the most important and salient points” about climate change, if not “some nuances and distinctions” scientists might want. “The degree of scientific consensus on global warming has never been stronger,” he said, adding, “I am trying to communicate the essence of it in the lay language that I understand.”

Nope not going to. Gore again with the "consensus" on global warming being real.
Even though he doesn't say a single thing in his entire "Documentary" about the 40+% of CO2 that comes from Cows, Pigs, Chickens and the process for us to eat those meats.

The same thing he was ripped a new on by PETA recently. That isn't a new phenomenon at all. Heck it seems like only a Vegan Hippie living in the mountains cleaning his ass with coconut leafs is the only Carbon friendly person on the planet.

Heck even the valentines day flowers you sent your wives was a cause of Global Warming.

Soon we will not only have to buy carbon credits but also, meat eating credits and since we give off CO2 when we breath lets up the anti and charge you all for BREATHING! Tax everything! You want blood. TAX! The plastic used to store the blood is not Carbon Friendly.

Geez. Where does it end?

Talk about Ungrateful.

All people can do is complain. It seems like its the new mantra or rather an old mantra more reported then before.

The rules at Oprah Winfrey's ultra-posh school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg are apparently so strict they make a reformatory look like a holiday resort.

That's the word from upset parents, who say the school rules make it difficult for them to keep contact with their children.

They would have aired their concerns during a satellite link-up with the chat show queen a week ago, but that was canceled at short notice by the school's management body.

Meanwhile the school seems to have made the rules even stricter. Until now, the girls could receive visitors every fortnight, but parents can now only visit them once a month.

Big deal.
There are boarding schools that are just as strict if not more so here in the US. You are given the OPPORTUNITY at a great education free of any outside influence and what do the parents do they complain!

In a report in the country’s Witness newspaper they complained that they were only allowed to visit their children once a month and one claimed they were banned from smuggling in junk food treats.

Ohh the horror. They can't eat junk food!
Damn all this whining. What is wrong with these people.
When presented with an awesome opportunity to have a quality education for a country that lacks that in SPADES they want to complain about not being able to bring their kids a Snickers bar? Oprah puts up her own money where her mouth is and does something great and this is the Thanks she gets.

That is just WRONG man. Seriously.

Its all over folks....

That is it.

An American Legacy is done.
I have not read Comic Books in YEARS. But no one in America can say they never heard of the 1940's Marvel Super Hero. Captain America. But he has been killed.

Marvel killed him off the Comic books in what seems to be some sort of post 9/11 universe in the Marvel Universe that superheros were supposed to register their powers with the Federal Govt and those that refused were arrested and hunted down. A civil war ensues within the Super Hero world. Something I think is actually coming in America.

But WTF to kill Captain America!?

It was bad enough to see the New "Superman" and see this new metro-sexual form of what was once my favorite super hero. This maroon colored outfit. Ok but when you remove the classic lines "Truth Justice and the AMERICAN WAY"! You loose the character himself.

But now liberals that have morphed into the next comic artists of the world have shot and killed Captain America. How low can you possibly go!
CAPTAIN AMERICA MAN! WTF!!!

Its all over man. America is done.

The big one comming?

Noticing a slight trend here.

CLEVELAND -- A representative from the Golden Colorado Seismic Center confirms there was some type of a small earthquake.
Preliminary reports say the magnitude was 3.6 and the location was 4 miles south of Mantua.

Viewers from Aurora, Brecksville, Brunswick, Chagrin Falls, Hudson, Macedonia, Northfield, North Royalton, Reminderville, Richfield, Silver Lake, Solon, Stow, Streetsboro, Twinsburg, Walton Hills, as well as a number of other cities felt the rumble.

There have been no reports of damage.

This is the latest in earthquakes and global activities that seem out of place perhaps? A Volcano eruption last week in Montserrat A week before that a Volcano in Columbia erupts and then an Earth Quake in the Dominican Republic this weekend. Earlier today also a Volcano in Russia erupts?

All coincidental?
I hope so. But the fact that California hasn't had a major Earth Quake is a bit concerning. Cali people, make sure you have your kits ready. But lets all hope this is not a prelude to the BIG ONE.

You know what?

They should have let that mother#$!@$ burn!

Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the United States objecting to an alleged incursion into Mexican territory by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona trying to extinguish a fire, the country's Foreign Relations Department said Tuesday.

The incursion allegedly took place on Monday, as Border Patrol agents stationed in Sonoita were trying to quash a brush fire on the U.S. side that quickly spread into Mexico, the department said.

Its bad enough that we are basically 33% of your GDP with money from the US from Illegals here that you openly support to come over. But to get pissed cause we even used OUR RESOURCES to put out a fire for you. I mean. WTF!?

We should have let the whole damn thing burn and head right on down straight to Cancun. Ungrateful bastards.

"The Foreign Relations Department has expressed to the U.S. Embassy via a diplomatic note, its rejection of the incursion," the Mexican government's news release said.

"While the department recognizes that the incursion may have been a response to an attempt to deal with an emergency, as the U.S. Embassy states, it has reiterated ... that even during emergency situations, it is required, without exception, to immediately notify the Mexican authorities."

How about the daily incursion from your side by your citizens. How about send us a daily notice on the thousands that you allow to be smuggled into this nation to support your economy? You kidding me with this Bull?

More reason for the US to make sure we ship every last illegal right back.

Sealing his own fate

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is skipping his fourth conservative gathering in two months, declining an invitation to speak at the Club for Growth’s winter meeting despite his fellow 2008 hopefuls’ commitments to appear.

McCain raised eyebrows in Republican circles and among his own supporters last month by turning down a chance to address the Conservative Political Action Conference, which bills itself as the nation’s largest conservative conference. McCain was also a no-show at the Heritage Foundation’s members’ retreat this year and at the National Review Institute’s conservative summit.

Why bother running then Senator?
You aren't even showing up for the gatherings that would help you. Or put to light your horrible record.

You are a hero Mr. McCain. An American hero. But your stances alone wont get you elected. These actions just seal that fate. There wont have to be a campaign against you. You are doing that alone.

Iran needs to take the stick out of their @$$

An Iranian official on Sunday lashed out at the Hollywood movie "300" for insulting the Persian civilization, local Fars News Agency reported.

Javad Shamqadri, an art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the new movie of being "part of a comprehensive U.S. psychological war aimed at Iranian culture", said the report.

LOL.. That is the first I have heard of Hollywood following along with ANYTHING that the US government says. Let me guess Bush made the call to some big wigs in Hollywood and told them to make a film about the Persians?

Shamqadri was quoted as saying "following the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hollywood and cultural authorities in the U.S. initiated studies to figure out how to attack Iranian culture," adding "certainly, the recent movie is a product of such studies."

Yeap I guess he really believes this.

The Irony of all of this is that Shamqardi is also a film maker.
No doubt in my mind he is probably a Jew hating film maker. Portraying the Jews as demons and pigs.

Bottom line it is a movie. And judging from the latest numbers. A RECORD breaking movie. More based on America's thirst for blood and gore then on Iranian or Perisan hate. That is for sure.

Why would Sharptons endoresemnt matter?

This is the latest now coming in from the Obama rally.
Sharpton doesn't support him yet? Sooo WHAT? Sharpton can't even win an election in NYC for mayor in the primaries. What is the big deal with wanting his endorsement in the Presidential Elections?

And what money is going to be coming from Sharpton endorsements?
I mean lets be real here.

It seems like despite Sharptons claims of not "caring" about Obama's CLEAR lead over Hilary or more importantly even Sharptons own image nation widee. He does care.

I love how one of the people questioned answer to the question of "How do you feel about a Sharpton support of Obama?"

"I don't care. I have my own mind"

Same here man. Same here.

I thought Chavez was against Bush?

Now I have been hearing from Liberals for some time now that Chavez's opposition is NOT against the US and its system of Government or its Economic system but Bush.

Well even in his speech he says that he is AGAINST the US!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Sunday for a socialist counterattack against the American "empire," taking his campaign to upstage President Bush's Latin American tour to a packed gymnasium in a poor, indigenous Bolivian city.

"The empire is in counterattack, with the head of the empire himself leading the attack," Chavez said of the U.S. "And why? Because they realize that the popular Latin American offensive is for real."

He said now was the time for Latin America's newly socialist countries to fight back.

"We have resisted for a long time. But no one wins a battle always staying on the defensive," he said. "This is no longer a time for defense. This is a time for attack. Let loose the charging cavalry!"

More here

Gen. Tommy Franks sets the record STRAIGHT!

So there have been a LOT of BS being put out there by the left on Bush. That he fired Franks cause they differed on opinion, he and Rumsfeld bumped heads that he is a puppet etc etc.

Franks talks about this and more.

Highlights:

* President Bush was never in a rush to invade Iraq.

* Bush was always a good leader – calm, studious and deliberative – and was never steam-rolled by his top advisors, but was always his own man.

* Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is getting a bum rap.

* No administration would have allowed Iraq to continue with business-as-usual after 9/11.

* There was plenty of planning and preparation for post-invasion operations in Iraq.

* There is a definable limit to what the U.S. will tolerate as to Iran and Syria's interference in Iraq.

* The Walter Reed hospital debacle resulted from "failed leadership."


On Rumsfeld:

How about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld standing down from his post?

Gen. Franks: We need to be very careful as Americans not to confuse patriotism with political expediency. What I mean is it makes sense to me that Don Rumsfeld left the post as Secretary of Defense.

When he did, I didn't question that decision at all, but I do question those who say he was a terrible Secretary of Defense, because I did not find that to be the case. I told a lot of people Don Rumsfeld is a contrarian.

When he was the Secretary of Defense, he was very tough on himself and on everyone around him. I have also described him as a crotchety guy, and he is just tough to deal with. I have also told a great many people that Don Rumsfeld is a friend of mine. I still talk to him, and on occasion when [wife] Cathy and I are in Washington, we will go out to eat with him and [wife] Joyce.

The guy is an American patriot. He was an American patriot. He is just a touchy guy to get along with.

Read the rest here

Racism in Cuba?

Wait a minute here.
I thought according to all liberals this was abolished and the only real racist place left was the USA?
And coming from a KNOWN leftist is even more SHOCKING!

Race still matters in Cuba. As much as Fidel Castro tried to purge this country of its racist past when he proclaimed the equality of all Cubans in 1959, racism lingers beneath the facade of Cuba’s communist solidarity.

“Fidel has tried to do his best, but he can’t change what’s in a man’s heart,” Terrero said of the subtle racism that has replaced the overt bigotry outlawed by Castro.

The official position of the Cuban government is that it doesn’t tolerate racial discrimination — and there are signs it’s making a sincere effort to wipe out racial inequalities. But in Havana, you don’t have to go out of your way to find evidence of racial imbalance in this country of 11.4 million people. Two-thirds of those people are of African descent, according to the 2007 CIA World Factbook.

It’s hard to find a black doorman at one of Havana’s fashionable hotels, where tips from tourists make the job one of the highest paying in Cuba. At trendy restaurants like El Aljibe, where waiters can earn more tip money in a night than most Cubans earn in a month, black waiters are hard to find.

So the argument when I point this out to liberals is that "Its cause of the white people that go there that Castro does that" or some other ridiculous comment of the sort.

So then someone please explain this then:

There are few blacks on newscasts or talk shows on the government-run television network. And in all of the meetings I’ve had with Cuban government officials over the years, I’ve encountered few blacks in top-level positions.

During a dinner meeting I attended with him in 1999, Castro acknowledged that one of the serious shortcomings of his revolution was the belief that Cuba’s racist past could be wiped out by simple proclamation.

He said then that he realized his government had to back up its words with action. But that effort hasn’t produced enough results

Funny you don't really here that part of the coverage via liberal/slanter's. Yet here is is.

I wonder how many naysayers will come and deny this as well.

Historical view of Global warming

Brought to you by non other then..... ABC....

I know I know. I was just as shocked as you are right now.

From the Babylon of Gilgamesh to the post-Eden of Noah, every age has viewed climate change cataclysmically, as retribution for human greed and sinfulness.

In the 1970s, the fear was "global cooling." The Christian Science Monitor then declaimed, "Warning: Earth's climate is changing faster than even experts expect," while The New York Times announced, "A major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable." Sound familiar? Global warming represents the latest doom-laden "crisis," one demanding sacrifice to Gaia for our wicked fossil-fuel-driven ways.

But neither history nor science bolsters such an apocalyptic faith.

Now this part is very agreeable on all parties.

Herein lies the moral danger behind global warming hysteria. Each day, 20,000 people in the world die of waterborne diseases. Half a billion people go hungry. A child is orphaned by AIDS every seven seconds. This does not have to happen. We allow it while fretting about "saving the planet." What is wrong with us that we downplay this human misery before our eyes and focus on events that will probably not happen even a hundred years hence? We know that the greatest cause of environmental degradation is poverty; on this, we can and must act.

I think all the global warming hu-bub has caused some SERIOUS disdain in liberals. Facts make them mad you know and it seems that it even makes them spew death threats to non conformists.

The latest in the cult mentality

Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.

They say the debate on global warming has been "hijacked" by a powerful alliance of politicians, scientists and environmentalists who have stifled all questioning about the true environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions.

Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.

Here is the Irony of it all.
You even have Muslim clerics getting in on the fun.
Calling it a thing of faith.

A LEADING Muslim cleric has blamed the devastating drought, climate change and pollution on Australians' lack of faith in Allah.

Radical sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Brunswick mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster.

"The fear of Allah is not there. So we have now a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland," he told a meeting this year.

"What are the people now crying for? The prophet told you hundreds of years ago, 'Look after the water'."

I been telling people for some time now, Liberals and Radical Muslim extremists have something in common.

Now it just seems that they also wish DEATH ON THE INFIDELS as well.

Keep up the fight Lou!

I really hope he wins this fight and more cities start to enact this throughout the country.

A trial opening Monday pits Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who says illegal immigrants are destroying the quality of life in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, against the ACLU and Hispanic groups who contend that the new rules are unconstitutional.

The Irony of all of this is that the "ACLU" is supposed to be the AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union. But the people they are defending are NOT LEGAL US CITIZENS!

The Hazleton changes were prompted by a number of high-profile crimes involving illegal immigrants. Two illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic were charged in May 2006 with shooting and killing a 29-year-old man, and a 14-year-old boy was arrested for firing a gun at a playground.

In court papers, Hazleton said illegal immigrants have committed at least 47 crimes since last spring, consuming much of the city's police overtime budget. Illegal immigrants were the subject of one-third of all drug arrests in 2005, and they have driven up the costs of health care and education, the city said.

47 Crimes in a city of 20,000. Think of the number of crimes that are committed in cities like LA, Houston and NYC because of illegal immigrants coming in like they own the place.

Cesar Perales, president of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, said at a news conference Sunday in Hazleton that most Latinos are in town legally, noting that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.

The ordinance turns neighbor against neighbor, Perales said, because residents who suspect someone is an illegal immigrant can report them to city officials.

LOL.. The same retarded mentality that keeps drug dealers on the streets.
Putting neighbor against neighbor. But you know what. If my neighbor is a menace to society or a problem in the neighborhood. Dudes GOT to go.

Why is this so damn difficult to get through peoples skulls?

Net Worths skyrocket?

Now how is this even possible?
I thought wages were down. People were loosing their homes.
Again back to the sky is falling complex.

WASHINGTON - The net worth of U.S. households climbed to a record high in the final quarter of last year, boosted mostly by gains on stocks, the
Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

Net worth — the difference between households' total assets, such as houses and bank accounts, and their total liabilities, such as mortgages and credit card debt, totaled $55.6 trillion in the October-to-December quarter.

That marked a 2.5 percent growth rate from the third quarter, the previous quarterly record high. Stocks gains helped fuel the increase in net worth, although real-estate gains played a role, too.

For all of last year, households' net worth rose by 7.4 percent, a slower pace than the 7.9 percent increase registered in 2005.

I love the last part of that paragraph.

"A slower pace then 7.9%"

Where was this report in 2005?
I sure has hell didn't see it.

In any case this needs to be put out there more then just the Drudge Report.
I wonder if the NY times will even report anything about this. Or will CNN?
Ehhh probably not.
Now if it was in a 7.4% fall of net worth.
THAT is front page news!

The sky is falling the Sky is falling.

So last week we have people screaming about another recession.
Things are looking bad. Heck there were some that were even talking about a supposed DEPRESSION. I love it how Greenspan says one thing and all of a sudden. The world is coming down and people are lining up to see the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Then we have this news.

US trade deficit shrinks to 59.1 billion dollars

The US trade deficit narrowed 3.8 percent in January to 59.1 billion dollars thanks to record-breaking export growth, the Commerce Department said Friday.

It was a bigger drop than expected on Wall Street, where analysts saw a deficit of 60.0 billion dollars, and marked the steepest change in the trade figure since October.

An improving trade picture could be good for first-quarter US economic growth, as a higher deficit subtracts from gross domestic product.

Total imports fell 0.5 percent to 185.8 billion dollars last month while exports jumped 1.1 percent to a new record of 126.7 billion.

US exports of capital goods grew by 1.0 billion dollars from December to January, consumer goods increased 500 million and foods, feeds and beverages went up 300 million.

Then you have that news coupled with this:

Unemployment Rate Drops to 4.5 Percent

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.5 percent in February even as big losses of construction and factory jobs restrained overall payroll growth. Wages grew briskly.

The latest snapshot, released by the Labor Department on Friday, offered a somewhat mixed picture of the employment climate.

The slight decline in the politically prominent jobless rate, from 4.6 percent in January, came as hundreds of thousand of people left the work force for various reasons.

Employers, meanwhile, added 97,000 new jobs to their payrolls in February, the fewest in two years, as bad winter weather forced construction companies to slash 62,000 jobs, the most since 1991. Factories, feeling the strain of the troubled housing and auto industries, also continued to cut jobs. They eliminated 14,000 positions last month.

On a more encouraging note, job gains in the previous two months turned out to be stronger than previously estimated. Employers added 226,000 new jobs in December, versus the 206,000 last estimated. Payrolls grew by 146,000 in January, up from a previous estimate of 111,000.

Where are the Vultures on the economy now?
The Chicken Littles screaming about the sky is falling?

Really really quiet.
Quietly reading over their scriptures for the next opportunity to wish for more negative news on the Health of the US economy.

Unemployment has been at record lows for the past 3+ years. Hovering between 5% and 4.3% and NOTHING. When you have numbers that low nation wide it is generally considered to be full employment. Here in Florida its a 3.2% unemployment rate.

Those that don't have jobs right now, don't have them because they don't want them. Point BLANK.

But this reminds me of an old cartoon I saw a few years ago.



I think this may need to be updated to now put Global Warming in 2006 and Depression in 2007.

Here is a milestone for all of you!

2000 days without another Terrorist attack on this country.

Where are the headlines of that one?

Now all the insurgents need to do is sit and wait.

In a direct challenge to President Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the deadline would be added to legislation providing nearly $100 billion the Bush administration has requested for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

She told reporters the measure would mark the first time the new Democratic-controlled Congress has established a "date certain" for the end of U.S. combat in the four-year-old war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,100 U.S. troops.

This is taking the top spot on stupid crap done by the democrats in an effort to continually undermine this war and its efforts.

This is ridiculous.

Its like being in a boxing match and telling the opposing fighter that you are going to throw a left hook next so make sure you duck under it and knock me out.

Like has been said before. Democrats are invested in the failure and loss of this war. Not in its victory.

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the proposal would bring an "orderly and responsible close" to American participation in what he called an Iraqi "civil war."

Funny isn't Darfur a civil war and the left wants us to go in there. Might I add so do I. Its called consistency! Bosnia was also a civil war. We went there with no Democrats objecting? Where was the outcry then?

So which is it?

Global Warming or Global Cooling?

The average temperature in February 2007 was 32.9 F. This was -1.8 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 34th coolest February in 113 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.

1.56 inches of precipitation fell in February. This was -0.46 inches less than the 1901-2000 average, the 16th driest such month on record. The precipitation trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.00 inches per decade.