In case you was to be wondrin', that feller on the far left (w/Richardson and Hellery) is the same one who is runnin' to be President of these United States, but says he don't believe in wearin' a US Flag Lapel pin. Guess he ain't to excited about standin' tall when the National Anthem is played either! Go figure.....
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
You gotta give him credit ..... he is consistant!!!!!!
In case you was to be wondrin', that feller on the far left (w/Richardson and Hellery) is the same one who is runnin' to be President of these United States, but says he don't believe in wearin' a US Flag Lapel pin. Guess he ain't to excited about standin' tall when the National Anthem is played either! Go figure.....
Who is hoodwinkin' who in this Corn Ethanol scam??????
Don't know about you folks, but seems like every time I go down to the store, any product that depends on corn has gone up again! Pork, cheese, milk, beef, and the biggie - Tortillas!Even a country boy like me could see this comin' with this foolishness over corn Ethanol!
Sooo, aside from how much we is payin' for corn related products......
So. How much does the consumer pay for a gallon of corn ethanol? Let’s sum it up.
Here are some numbers from Financial Sense Editorials.....
"Cost For A Gallon Of Corn Ethanol
Corn Ethanol Futures Market quote for January 2007 Delivery $2.49
Add cost of transporting, storing and blending corn ethanol $0.28
Added cost of making gasoline that can be blended with corn ethanol $0.09
Add cost of subsidies paid to blender $0.51
Total Direct Costs per Gallon $3.37
Added cost from waste $0.40
Added cost from damage to infrastructure and user's engine $0.06
Total Indirect Costs per Gallon $0.46
Added cost of lost energy $1.27
Added cost of food (American family of four) $1.79
Total Social Costs $3.06
Total Cost of Corn Ethanol @ 85% Blend $6.89
These numbers are estimates. We can speculate about the real cost of corn ethanol. It may cost more – or less – than $6.89 per gallon. But the real price we pay for corn ethanol is much higher than the one we see at the filling station."
Corn Ethanol Futures Market quote for January 2007 Delivery $2.49
Add cost of transporting, storing and blending corn ethanol $0.28
Added cost of making gasoline that can be blended with corn ethanol $0.09
Add cost of subsidies paid to blender $0.51
Total Direct Costs per Gallon $3.37
Added cost from waste $0.40
Added cost from damage to infrastructure and user's engine $0.06
Total Indirect Costs per Gallon $0.46
Added cost of lost energy $1.27
Added cost of food (American family of four) $1.79
Total Social Costs $3.06
Total Cost of Corn Ethanol @ 85% Blend $6.89
These numbers are estimates. We can speculate about the real cost of corn ethanol. It may cost more – or less – than $6.89 per gallon. But the real price we pay for corn ethanol is much higher than the one we see at the filling station."
Did you know it takes more energy to produce a gallon of corn ethanol than that gallon produces?
Go for it Warren...put yer money where yer mouth is....
I should pay more tax, says US billionaire Warren Buffett
(Andrew Clark, for The Guardian, Oct 31st)
The United States' second-richest man has delivered a blunt message t
o the Bush administration: he wants to pay more tax.
Warren Buffett, the famous investor known as the "Sage of Omaha", has complained that he pays a lower rate of tax than any of his staff - including his receptionist. Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52bn (£25bn), said: "The taxation system has tilted towards the rich and away from the middle class in the last 10 years. It's dramatic; I don't think it's appreciated and I think it should be addressed."
o the Bush administration: he wants to pay more tax.Warren Buffett, the famous investor known as the "Sage of Omaha", has complained that he pays a lower rate of tax than any of his staff - including his receptionist. Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52bn (£25bn), said: "The taxation system has tilted towards the rich and away from the middle class in the last 10 years. It's dramatic; I don't think it's appreciated and I think it should be addressed."
Hotdamn! I've looked and looked and I just can't find any law that says that Mr "I wanna pay more" Buffett can't send in just as many tax dollars as he wants! So whadda ya say ole' pardner, why not send in a few billion bucks of loose change.... Ease yer conscience!
The Grinch that stole Halloween in Iowa...........
Iowa, which apparently never met a tax it's elected folks didn't like, just discovered gold in them thar yeller vegetables.......
Eaters are savers, while carvers are payers, Iowa says
Iowa's new policy taxing pumpkins that will be used as decorations is squashing growers' spirits.
Ken Fuson, Register Staff Writer
The Iowa Department of Revenue, often accused of trying to squeeze blood out of turnips, is now searching for pennies in pumpkins.A new department policy this year has made Halloween jack-o'-lanterns subject to the state sales tax, and many Iowa pumpkin growers are feeling tricked.Is there room in the patch for both the Great Pumpkin and the tax man on this Halloween night?"I don't mind paying taxes, but let's get real here, people," said Bob Kautz, owner of the Buffalo Pumpkin Patch in Buffalo, Ia., about eight miles west of Davenport.Kautz was one of the few Iowa pumpkin sellers willing to talk publicly Tuesday about the new policy, which was published in the revenue department's September newsletter.
Renee Mulvey, the department's spokeswoman, said officials decided that pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed. Previously, they had been considered an edible squash and exempted from the tax.As a result, the department ruled that pumpkins are taxable if they are advertised for use as jack-o'-lanterns or decorations, or if it's understood that they will be used for that purpose.Iowans planning to eat pumpkins can still get an exemption from the sales tax, if they fill out the "Iowa Sales Tax Exemption Certificate" form. Pumpkins also are exempt if they are of the specific variety used to make pies and are advertised that way. Pumpkins purchased with food stamps also are exempt."We made the change because we wanted the sales tax law to match what we thought the predominant use was," Mulvey said. "We thought the predominant use was for decorations or jack-o'-lanterns."
Danny Carroll, who owns Carroll's Pumpkin Farm in Grinnell with his wife, Joy, said he didn't see the newsletter because "we were working day and night to get open," so he was unaware of the policy change.Carroll said he will have to pay the sales tax out of profits. "Essentially, they just reduced our income by 6 percent," he said. "It's too bad, but it's not surprising."
Guess now we know why your Momma tole' you not to play with your food!!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
L.O.S.T. should get LOST!!!!......
A stealth effort in the United States Senate is moving us toward some kind of agreement with the Law of the Sea Treaty! This Kyoto type treaty turns over all of the historical open ocean rights that we and the rest of the world have enjoyed to........THE UNITED NATIONS!Yessir... that same organization that played such a large role in the Iraqi Oil scams! The same lash up that has it's employees rapin' and extorting poor folks down in Africa! And I ain't even gonna mention that it's the same organization that just voted LIBYA A SEAT ON THE SIXTEEN MEMBER SECURITY COUNCIL! Yep that one!
This Law of the Seat Treaty will give the U.N. TAXING AUTHORITY. Let me repeat that in case it buzzed by yore head - the U.N. will be able to levy taxes on countries - can you say the USA?
I'm gon
na plug a couple of articles below that are pretty well written! Take a minute and check 'em out.... call your Senator and ask how he/she stands on this treaty and why? No time to sit on your hands Buckaroos!
na plug a couple of articles below that are pretty well written! Take a minute and check 'em out.... call your Senator and ask how he/she stands on this treaty and why? No time to sit on your hands Buckaroos!That "One World Gov'mint" just keeps on rollin' towards us folks!
If this don't make you pull that red hankie square out...
...... you've already passed on!
Follow along with the words!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Trinity Tigers devour Millsaps on last bite!!!!
In one unbelievable last play Saturday, the Texas Trinity Tigers did the unbelievable and not only ran out the clock, they won the ball game too! You got to see it to believe it Buckaroos! Just click right here and start countin'!!
A Whole New Meaning to "Hook 'em Horns!"....
"Allen Beckett, 53, was charged with assault in Oklahoma City because, in June, he had allegedly become enraged at a patron who had entered Henry Hudson's Pub wearing a University of Texas T-shirt. Eventually, the two men brawled, during which time Beckett grabbed the man's crotch and would not let go until he tore the scrotum, requiring more than 60 stitches." [Daily Oklahoman, 8-23-07]Guess they got a strong dress code in the Henry Hudson Pub in Oklahoma City!!!
Edwards calls hisself "most electable"....
Poor little Johnny Edwards, he gained his wealth by taking from the rich and giving to his own self. Now wants taxpayers to 'sacrifice' even more. Here's a guy that decided not to run for a second term 'cause he was told by his own folks he couldn't win and yet he's got the chutzpah to go out on the stump and say:
Edwards billed himself as a "rare combination": The most progressive of the major candidates as well as "the most electable." He pointed to the fact that he was elected to the Senate from a "red state" and that he comes from a rural area, two factors that he said prove his electability.
Did I miss something or did he not even carry his own state when he was on the ticket for Veep?
I tell you what Pilgrims, with Hellary's promise of $5000 to every baby (illegal or not), $1000 into everybodys 401K program, Obama's promises, and now Johnny (the Breck Girl) Edwards' promises of free college, free housing ... this place is gonna get plumb expensive for the rest of us. I ain't even gonna talk about Charley Rangels "Mother of all Tax Hikes" that he is now proposing even before the election.....
Hellary wins another poll.... truly scary......
(AP reports) Once again, Hillary Rodham Clinton leads in a poll. This time, she was top choice when people were asked which major 2008 presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume.Asked about costume choices, 37 percent in an Associated Press-Ipsos survey this month chose New York Sen. Clinton, the front-runner among Democratic presidential contenders. Fourteen percent selected former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads Republicans in national polls.
Shazam!! I been savin' this pic for two weeks, jest know'n something would happen to give me a chance to toss it in this mix! Life is good! Happy Halloween children!
Sunday, October 28, 2007
About those "call centre's" in far off countries.....
Had a friend up San Angelo way get to feelin' poorly the last few months. When he got really depressed, he 
took it on hisself to call one of those 1-800 "LifeLines".
took it on hisself to call one of those 1-800 "LifeLines".Turned out the service had been outsourced and he was talking to a call taker in a call centre in Pakistan - and when he told the gal that answered that he was not only depressed, but that he was feelin' plumb suicidal --
She got her manager on the line, all excited kinda, and they wanted to know if he knew how to drive a truck or fly an airplane.........
Trust me on this one!
Help, Sombody Help this country of ours .....QUICK!!
Feds Strike ID Deal Over NY LicensesNew York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (left) speaks at a news conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Saturday in Washington. Homeland Security officials struck a deal with New York to create new driver's licenses that will be more secure for U.S. citizens but also still allow undocumented aliens to get state licenses. Associated Press photo by Kevin WolfI tell you what.... Them folks back on East coast have got to be drinkin' too much of them Frenchified bottled waters! They're startin' to sound like them San Francisco sissies! What the hell is so hard to understand about the term "ILLEGAL ALIEN"? How can a government agency, New York in this case, issue a dadgummed government identification document to someone who is breaking federal laws just BY STANDING IN FRONT OF THEM!
Followin' this line of thought, I reckon if John Gotti, the Mafia dude, had escaped from his federal hotel before he died, as long as he made it over the fence ---- he'd be home safe, and able to get a drivers license in his home state - New York!
And if that don't knock your hat in the creek, 'splain to me how come the Secretary of Homeland Security is a noddin' and a smilin' and agreeing to it all?? Ain't it time to ask him to turn in his badge and sixgun??????
You just can't make up stuff better'n this..............
...Ain't politics grand? Meet Jesse Jackson's New Staff Member: Mel Reynolds
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate...won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.
His new job? Ready for this? YOUTH COUNSELOR !!
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
Find this hard to believe? Check out Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/reynolds.asp
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Y'all have heard me rant and rave about voter fraud......
Well lookee here in my own home state of Texas.... !(Remember to hit that little left arrow to come back here and not that little red "x"!)
Ain't that the damnedest thing you ever did see. Who said; "
You get the government you pay for!", we damn sure paid for more than this...........! I don't care what state you are from, you should by God demand to see the voting record of that tax stealing rascal you are paying to represent you! Shazaam!!
You get the government you pay for!", we damn sure paid for more than this...........! I don't care what state you are from, you should by God demand to see the voting record of that tax stealing rascal you are paying to represent you! Shazaam!!Yeah, that's my hard working State Senator Van De Putte in the Good Humor Uniform, hard at work! Last time she voted for something that I agreed with, Ted Kennedy skipped Happy Hour! Not!
Bless her chubby little heart.......
Navy Welcomes USS William J Clinton to the fleet....
Pictured above: The USS William Jefferson Clinton (CVS1) set sail today from its home port of Vancouver , BC. The ship is the first of its kind in the Navy and is a standing legacy to President Bill Clinton 'for his foresight in military budget cuts' and his conduct while president. The ship is constructed nearly entirely from recycled aluminum and is completely solar powered with a top speed of 5 knots. It boasts an arsenal comprised of one (unarmed) F14 Tomcat, which, although it cannot be launched or captured on the 100 foot flight deck, forms a very menacing presence. As a standing order there are no firearms allowed on board. The 20 person crew is completely diversified, including members of all races, creeds, sex, and sexual orientation.
This crew, like the crew aboard the USS Jimmy Carter, is specially trained to avoid conflicts and appease any and all enemies of the United States at all costs!An onboard Type One DNC Universal Translator can send out messages of apology in any language to anyone who may find America offensive. The number of apologies are limitless and though some may sound hollow and disingenuous, the Navy advises that all apologies will sound very sincere. The ship's purpose is not defined so much as a unit of national defense, but instead in times of conflict the USS Clinton has orders to seek refuge in Canada .
The ship may be positioned near the Democratic National Party Headquarters for photo-ops and can be used extensively for social experimentation and whatever other worthless jobs the ex-commander-in-chief and his wife can think of.
It is largely rumored that the ship will also be the set for the upcoming season of MTV's The Real World. The ship was renamed and commissioned 'USS William J Clinton' when someone realized the 'USS Blowfish' was already taken
Ole Pecozbill ain't sayin' a word, just reportin' the news as come out!!
Senate passed a seven year Internet Tax moritorium....
Hot Damn! The Congress is actually doin' somethin' !!
Senate's Internet tax legislation makes changes to the House bill that are intended to protect e-mail messages and instant messaging from usage taxes
By Grant Gross, IDG News ServiceOctober 26, 2007
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that would extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes for seven years, giving supporters hope that an extension will be signed into law before the current moratorium expires Nov. 1.
The Senate late Thursday passed the seven-year extension on a voice vote. The moratorium would extend the ban on Internet-only taxes, such as access and "bit" taxes on information as it travels through a taxing jurisdiction. The Senate passed an amended version of a House of Representatives bill, the awkwardly named Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act.
The House passed a four-year Internet tax moratorium earlier this month. The two chambers will have to reconcile the two versions of the moratorium before sending the legislation to U.S. President George Bush to be signed.
The Senate's seven-year extension represented a compromise between a group of senators, many of whom opposed an extension in the past, who wanted a four-year ban, and a second group that wanted a permanent ban.
Makes ya plumb proud to know that Congress can actually do sompin! Course it ain't a done deal yet. Ain't it strange we got to have a Federal law to keep our local taxin' dudes out of our face and out of our pockets......
Senate's Internet tax legislation makes changes to the House bill that are intended to protect e-mail messages and instant messaging from usage taxes
By Grant Gross, IDG News ServiceOctober 26, 2007
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that would extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes for seven years, giving supporters hope that an extension will be signed into law before the current moratorium expires Nov. 1.
The Senate late Thursday passed the seven-year extension on a voice vote. The moratorium would extend the ban on Internet-only taxes, such as access and "bit" taxes on information as it travels through a taxing jurisdiction. The Senate passed an amended version of a House of Representatives bill, the awkwardly named Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act.
The House passed a four-year Internet tax moratorium earlier this month. The two chambers will have to reconcile the two versions of the moratorium before sending the legislation to U.S. President George Bush to be signed.
The Senate's seven-year extension represented a compromise between a group of senators, many of whom opposed an extension in the past, who wanted a four-year ban, and a second group that wanted a permanent ban.
Makes ya plumb proud to know that Congress can actually do sompin! Course it ain't a done deal yet. Ain't it strange we got to have a Federal law to keep our local taxin' dudes out of our face and out of our pockets......
When is alarming................NOT !!!
Ole' Pecoz came across this report in yesterdays London Daily Mail......
Human race will 'split into two different species'
By Niall Firth
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, in
telligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.
100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.
The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, in
telligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.
The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.
Well now, I get plumb alarmed when a drunk driver is weavin' down the road, and a little alarmed when a new Congress convenes. I even get alarmed when my car don't start on the first try ---- but I'll be damned if I can get excited about the possibility of a human subspecies 100,000 years from now! I don't even buy green bananas.... (sorry 'bout that old chestnut)
Kind of makes a guy wonder who pays for these reports, why this theorist couldn't come up with some theory that might help the folks on this planet in this century, why they wasted ink and newspaper space? Also kinda wonder, who is gonna keep notes and grade this fella on his predictions in the year A.D. 102,007?
For those of you who are younger'n I am and are worried about the year 102,007, here is the link to the article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965
Friday, October 26, 2007
Atlanta's water shortage is a case of woulda - shoulda....
....coulda started solving this problem years ago when it was recognised!
Atlanta's Growing Thirst Creates Water War
By DOUGLAS JEHL
It has all the elements of a classic regional water war, pitting developers against environmentalists and state against state. Yet this battle is gripping not the parched Southwest, but the normally verdant Southeast, in a sign of future clashes around the country over an increasingly limited supply of fre
sh water.
By DOUGLAS JEHL
It has all the elements of a classic regional water war, pitting developers against environmentalists and state against state. Yet this battle is gripping not the parched Southwest, but the normally verdant Southeast, in a sign of future clashes around the country over an increasingly limited supply of fre
sh water.Atlanta and its swelling suburbs, still ballooning with growth, rely for nearly all their water on the Chattahoochee River, a relative trickle of a waterway that is the smallest to supply so large an American city.
Until now, that dependence has not been a problem. Even in the last 10 years, as greater Atlanta's population soared nearly 40 percent, the withdrawals from the Chattahoochee have kept pace, with more than 400 million gallons now sucked from the river and a reservoir every day, helping to keep countless suburban lawns green.
But for the first time, Atlanta is being forced to admit that the current pattern cannot be sustained. That theme is at the heart of a dispute among Georgia, Alabama and Florida about dividing water rights for the next half-century, and it has left Atlanta to ponder what to do when its share of the Chattahoochee runs out.
With a June 17 deadline approaching for the governors of the three states to reach a deal, the dispute pits the growing thirst of Atlanta against the needs of downstream regions, including Apalachicola Bay, a pristine estuary on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida.
The decisions at hand may be the toughest on water that the Southeast has yet had to make, marking an end to an era in which abundant, cheap and barely regulated water has been seen as a kind of natural right in a region blessed by 50 inches of rain a year.
''In the past, water barely even entered into our calculations,'' said J. T. Williams, chairman of Killearn Inc., whose developments have added thousands of golf-course and clubhouse-community houses to the Atlanta area in recent years, with thousands more under way. But now, Mr. Williams said, ''It's getting a little nervous for people in the development industry.''
Georgia officials insist that they do not expect Atlanta to reach a real day of water reckoning until 2030, when they have projected that demands on the Chattahoochee will reach a maximum sustainable limit. But a recent draft report by the Army Corps of Engineers suggests that in some months, the Chattahoochee may already be being tapped near capacity, a warning particularly alarming to Atlanta because its history and geology have left it with few good water alternatives.
But for the first time, Atlanta is being forced to admit that the current pattern cannot be sustained. That theme is at the heart of a dispute among Georgia, Alabama and Florida about dividing water rights for the next half-century, and it has left Atlanta to ponder what to do when its share of the Chattahoochee runs out.
With a June 17 deadline approaching for the governors of the three states to reach a deal, the dispute pits the growing thirst of Atlanta against the needs of downstream regions, including Apalachicola Bay, a pristine estuary on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida.
The decisions at hand may be the toughest on water that the Southeast has yet had to make, marking an end to an era in which abundant, cheap and barely regulated water has been seen as a kind of natural right in a region blessed by 50 inches of rain a year.
''In the past, water barely even entered into our calculations,'' said J. T. Williams, chairman of Killearn Inc., whose developments have added thousands of golf-course and clubhouse-community houses to the Atlanta area in recent years, with thousands more under way. But now, Mr. Williams said, ''It's getting a little nervous for people in the development industry.''
Georgia officials insist that they do not expect Atlanta to reach a real day of water reckoning until 2030, when they have projected that demands on the Chattahoochee will reach a maximum sustainable limit. But a recent draft report by the Army Corps of Engineers suggests that in some months, the Chattahoochee may already be being tapped near capacity, a warning particularly alarming to Atlanta because its history and geology have left it with few good water alternatives.
You probably reckon that article was published this week, don't you? Wrong! It was printed in the New York Times May 27, 2002! Over five years ago! Ain't it a damn shame that politicians don't want to face infrastructure problems that they can't put a brass plaque on with their names inscribed.... "Let the next guy in office worry about it!"
(See also Ole Pecoz's posting in here; "Infrastructure? Where is the Glory?" July 21, '07)
Do something different for Holloween this year.....
Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one!
Why not t
reat your loved one to a special Halloween night out this year. Lizzie Borden's home, just outside Boston, is now a Bed & Breakfast open to the public. But check those suitcases and make sure your traveling partner didn't pack an axe!!
reat your loved one to a special Halloween night out this year. Lizzie Borden's home, just outside Boston, is now a Bed & Breakfast open to the public. But check those suitcases and make sure your traveling partner didn't pack an axe!! Here's a link: http://www.lizzie-borden.com/Default.aspx
Ain't it great when a Congressman stands up on his hind legs.....
and calls a spade - a spade! And calls a liberal Senator who abets criminal activity, as in illegally entering the country, a law breaker! From USA Daily:
Tancredo accuses Senator Durban of “aiding and abetting illegal aliens"
Maple Brown
10/24/2007
Maple Brown
10/24/2007
Presidential candidate and Colorado Congressman Tom Tanc
redo blasted Senator Dick Durbin for what Tancredo says is “aiding and abetting illegal aliens” at his press conference yesterday on the DREAM Act. Tancredo turned in Senator Durban’s event yesterday to immigration authorities for hosting the event in conjunction with discussion of the DREAM Act where illegal aliens were reported to be attending.
redo blasted Senator Dick Durbin for what Tancredo says is “aiding and abetting illegal aliens” at his press conference yesterday on the DREAM Act. Tancredo turned in Senator Durban’s event yesterday to immigration authorities for hosting the event in conjunction with discussion of the DREAM Act where illegal aliens were reported to be attending.Tancredo said yesterday, “I call on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to detain any illegal aliens at this press conference. Just because these illegal aliens are being used for political gain doesn’t mean they get immunity from the law.”“If we can’t enforce our laws inside the building where American laws are made, where can we enforce them?”Today Tom Tancredo stepped up the rhetoric “Dick Durbin, by his own admission, brought in students who benefit from the DREAM Act for political gain,” said Tancredo. “Dick can split all the hairs he wants, but we all know the DREAM Act is designed to do one thing: benefit illegal aliens.”
“Of course, I don’t expect Dick Durbin to be able to tell the difference between legal residents and illegal aliens – after all, this is a man who has already demonstrated that he can’t differentiate between American servicemen and the genocidal foot soldiers of the Khmer Rouge,” Tancredo said.Tancredo was referring to the comments Durbin made on the Senate floor in 2005. The Senator said:"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings,"
Tancredo then extended an invitation to tutor Durban on the difference between American soldiers and Nazi’s, and Soviets along with legal residents and illegal aliens.Tancredo alerted the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency yesterday regarding Durbin’s 3:00 PM meeting. No charges have been brought against Durban or anyone associated with the event.
Shucks, why ain't I surprised by that last sentence!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Didn't your Momma ever tell you.....
..not to let folks catch you pick'n your nose??
Well here's a good reason why! The whole world is watchin'!
America dodged another bullet from the "DREAM" team....
.... of Turban Durbin and Dingey Harry yesterday in the Senate. Thanks in large part to eight Democrat Senators who have had their eyes opened by their constituents. And sadly, with no thanks to my own Texas Senator Hutchinson --- who is leaving the Senate after this term and has started listening to a different drummer then us Voting Texans. Keep your powder dry Pardners, they'll be back and back and back again!
Mean while, here is my pick for best parody of the whole dream, shamnesty folderall!
These illegal ole boys and gals didn't get the memo......
from Turban Durbin and Dingey Harry Reid that says; "Play Nice! We are 'DREAMing' of making y'all legal - doncha know!
Six illegal immigrants arrested at Qualcomm
San Diego:
Six undocumented Mexican immigrants were arrested today by U.S. Border Patro
l agents at Qualcomm Stadium, after a report that they were stealing food and water meant for evacuees, according to spokesman Damon Foreman. San Diego police responded to a call about alleged theft from the evacuation center and encountered six people in a van who didn't speak English and didn't have California driver's licenses, Foreman said. The police officers called the Border Patrol, who arrived at the stadium and made the arrests, he said. Foreman said the immigrants admitted they were Mexican citizens and that they were stealing.
Border Patrol agents are not looking for illegal immigrants at the center but will continue responding to police calls for assistance.
"We are not in any means at Qualcomm for enforcement capacity," he said. "We are not there to take advantage of a situation."Foreman said the agents have been helping in the evacuation and rescue effort in addition to carrying out their main duties. "We are dedicated to our primary mission to securing our borders," he said.
-- Anna Gorman (LA Times)
San Diego:
Six undocumented Mexican immigrants were arrested today by U.S. Border Patro
l agents at Qualcomm Stadium, after a report that they were stealing food and water meant for evacuees, according to spokesman Damon Foreman. San Diego police responded to a call about alleged theft from the evacuation center and encountered six people in a van who didn't speak English and didn't have California driver's licenses, Foreman said. The police officers called the Border Patrol, who arrived at the stadium and made the arrests, he said. Foreman said the immigrants admitted they were Mexican citizens and that they were stealing.Border Patrol agents are not looking for illegal immigrants at the center but will continue responding to police calls for assistance.
"We are not in any means at Qualcomm for enforcement capacity," he said. "We are not there to take advantage of a situation."Foreman said the agents have been helping in the evacuation and rescue effort in addition to carrying out their main duties. "We are dedicated to our primary mission to securing our borders," he said.
-- Anna Gorman (LA Times)
Some editor is gonna get his hand slapped, he let that word "illegal" slip by in the headline even though he corrected it to "undocumented" in the first line.Tsk Tsk!
Her pot runneth over...........
Woman charged with swearing at toilet
A Pennsylvania woman is facing a jail sentence after she was arrested for shouting profanities at an overflowing toilet. 
Dawn Herb was inside her own home in West Scranton when her neighbour, a police officer, heard her swearing through an open window.
He asked her to "keep it down" and, when that did not work, called police colleagues who came out and charged her with disorderly conduct.
Ms Herb is now facing up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300.00, reports The Times-Tribune.
She said: "It doesn't make any sense. I was in my house. It's not like I was outside or drunk. A cop can charge you with disorderly conduct for disrespecting them?"
Although she doesn't recall exactly what she said, she admitted she was frustrated with her overflowing toilet and let a few choice words fly.
"The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling for my daughter to get the mop," she said.
Mary Catherine Roper, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Ms Herb would have a strong case in court.
"You can't prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet," she said.
"We bring one of these cases a year and sue some police departments because they do not remember that they are not the language police."
Dawn Herb was inside her own home in West Scranton when her neighbour, a police officer, heard her swearing through an open window.
He asked her to "keep it down" and, when that did not work, called police colleagues who came out and charged her with disorderly conduct.
Ms Herb is now facing up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300.00, reports The Times-Tribune.
She said: "It doesn't make any sense. I was in my house. It's not like I was outside or drunk. A cop can charge you with disorderly conduct for disrespecting them?"
Although she doesn't recall exactly what she said, she admitted she was frustrated with her overflowing toilet and let a few choice words fly.
"The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling for my daughter to get the mop," she said.
Mary Catherine Roper, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Ms Herb would have a strong case in court.
"You can't prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet," she said.
"We bring one of these cases a year and sue some police departments because they do not remember that they are not the language police."
If the daughter was dancin' away to the sound of her boom box ir iPod, I imagine there were a few "%$&#@%" 's left over for her as well!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
It's been floating around the Internet for a while....
...but dangnabbit, I just love it so much I got to print it one more time!
A grade school teacher in upstate New York, aske
d her class how many of them are 'Hillary fans'.Not really knowing what a Hillary fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except one boy.The teacher asked Johnny why he has decided to be different.Johnny says, "I'm not a Hillary fan."
d her class how many of them are 'Hillary fans'.Not really knowing what a Hillary fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except one boy.The teacher asked Johnny why he has decided to be different.Johnny says, "I'm not a Hillary fan."The teacher says, "Why aren't you a Hillary fan?"Johnny says, "I'm a George Bush fan."The teacher asks why he's a George Bush fan.The boy says, "Well, my mom's a George Bush fan and my dad's a George Bush fan, so I'm a George Bush fan!"
The teacher asks, "If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot , what would that make you?" So Johnny replies, "That would make me a Hillary fan."
They die in uniform so these folks can protest....
What other country in the world has had so many brave young men and women volunteer and make that ultimate sacrifice so that the least of us, can protest their very existence? N.Y. State Senate Sticks it to Spitzer!!!
Them Yankee's still got a little fire in their britches after all! After their ultra-liberal Dem Governor Spitzer guaranteed a NY State Driver's License to every illegal alien in the state, the State Senate "Socked it to 'im!"
SENATE OKAYS BILL STOPPING DRIVERS’ LICENSES FOR ILLEGALS
Monday, October 22, 2007
The New York State Senate has passed legislation that would stop Governor Spitz
er’s plan to issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens by requiring a social security number or proof of authorized presence in the United States to obtain a New York State drivers' license or non-driver identification card."The public is united that the governor is wrong on his plan to give drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants," said Senator James L. Seward. "It was done in secret without consulting the legislature or the county clerks who have to administer the program, and it sends a terrible message about the rule of law in America. This is about our security, and closing a loophole created by the governor.""I have never seen such strong and united opposition to a proposal by the governor," Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno said. "Governor Spitzer’s plan to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens has incensed New Yorkers in every part of the State and every political party because they see the threat it would pose to public safety and security.
Monday, October 22, 2007
The New York State Senate has passed legislation that would stop Governor Spitz
er’s plan to issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens by requiring a social security number or proof of authorized presence in the United States to obtain a New York State drivers' license or non-driver identification card."The public is united that the governor is wrong on his plan to give drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants," said Senator James L. Seward. "It was done in secret without consulting the legislature or the county clerks who have to administer the program, and it sends a terrible message about the rule of law in America. This is about our security, and closing a loophole created by the governor.""I have never seen such strong and united opposition to a proposal by the governor," Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno said. "Governor Spitzer’s plan to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens has incensed New Yorkers in every part of the State and every political party because they see the threat it would pose to public safety and security. The governor insists on moving forward with this plan, but today the senate will act on legislation to stop it. I urge the assembly to pass this bill to send a clear message to the governor that he should drop this plan."The legislation (S.6484) approved by the senate would require applicants for drivers' licenses or non-driver identification cards to submit social security numbers. When a social security number cannot be provided, the applicant must demonstrate he is ineligible to get a number and provide satisfactory proof that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.
This ain't but one battle in a long war to keep this great Country ours... so I hope all you folks will stand guard and keep an eye on that NY Assembly and the rest of the country to prevent these treasonous acts made in the name of "goodness"!
Time to pick up those phones. Folks!!!
Ole Pecoz urges each of you to support Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), John Sununu (R-N.H.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in their drive to enact a permanent ban on Internet taxes. You know your elected folks at the State and Local levels are plumb droolin' to impose taxes on your Internet communications... It's too deep a well not to dip their wicks in!!!
Last week, the House passed a bill that would extend the existing moratorium on Internet taxes until 2011, and the Senate is scheduled to take up legislation this week. Sens. McCain, Sununu, and Wyden are pushing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to allow a vote on making the ban on Internet taxes permanent. This is a vote that deserves to go forward.
Congress wisely decided some years ago that Internet access and commerce should not be encumbered with multiple state and local taxes. Due in no small part to this decision, the Internet and e-commerce have thrived. Today, approximately 70 percent of the U.S. population uses the Internet, and it has become a vital engine for economic growth.
While extending the Internet tax moratorium is better than letting it lapse, it leaves the door open for eventual taxation and creates a climate of uncertainty for individuals and businesses that rely on the Internet. Enacting a permanent ban will provide much-needed consumer and business confidence and help keep our economy robust and strong.
I urge you to support any effort to make the Internet tax ban permanent. But when you call your Senators -- mention S-156 in particular -- that bill makes the moratorium permanent so we ain't got to go through this every four years!
Last week, the House passed a bill that would extend the existing moratorium on Internet taxes until 2011, and the Senate is scheduled to take up legislation this week. Sens. McCain, Sununu, and Wyden are pushing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to allow a vote on making the ban on Internet taxes permanent. This is a vote that deserves to go forward.
Congress wisely decided some years ago that Internet access and commerce should not be encumbered with multiple state and local taxes. Due in no small part to this decision, the Internet and e-commerce have thrived. Today, approximately 70 percent of the U.S. population uses the Internet, and it has become a vital engine for economic growth.
While extending the Internet tax moratorium is better than letting it lapse, it leaves the door open for eventual taxation and creates a climate of uncertainty for individuals and businesses that rely on the Internet. Enacting a permanent ban will provide much-needed consumer and business confidence and help keep our economy robust and strong.
I urge you to support any effort to make the Internet tax ban permanent. But when you call your Senators -- mention S-156 in particular -- that bill makes the moratorium permanent so we ain't got to go through this every four years!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
You know you've been watching too much television when......
.....you shoot your own self just to prove a point!!!A 55-year-old man in Fall River County, S.D., was killed in August when he accidentally shot himself in the stomach. According to police, he was attempting to show friends that a key point in a recent CSI television show was wrong (that is, according to the script, a victim could not physically have managed to shoot herself in the stomach). [Dakota Radio Group (Pierre)-AP, 8-6-07]
Maybe girls are built different??? On the other hand, do ya reckon maybe Darwin still has a hand in cleansing the gene pool among us human folk??
There are still grown-ups with a sense of humor in politics...
Witness what just happened in Souix City, Iowa.
Ain't it great! Most cities would have declared themselves "victims" and demand a new name, reparations, a new airport, an apology, and shown a starving baby that was traumatized and refused to suckle! Good on Ya Guys!
AP has reported:
"After fight, airport embraces SUX code
Mon Oct 22, 7:34 AM ET
City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport's unflattering three-letter identifier — SUX — and instead have made it the centerpiece of the airport's new marketing campaign.
The code, used by pilots and airports worldwide and printed on tickets and luggage tags, will be used on T-shirts and caps sporting the airport's new slogan, "FLY SUX." It also forms the address of the airport's redesigned Web site — http://www.flysux.com.
Sioux City officials petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to change the code in 1988 and 2002. At one point, the FAA offered the city five alternatives — GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY — but airport trustees turned them down.
Airport board member Dave Bernstein proposed embracing the identifier.
"Let's make the best of it," Bernstein said. "I think we have the opportunity to turn it into a positive."
He noted that many airports, including some of the busiest, have forgettable three-letter codes.
"I've got buddies that I went to college with in different cities that can't even remember their own birthdays, but they all know the Sioux City designator — SUX," he said.
Mayor Craig Berenstein, who in 2002 described SUX as an "embarrassment" to the city, said he views the new slogan as a "cute little way" to make light of the situation."
Mon Oct 22, 7:34 AM ET
City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport's unflattering three-letter identifier — SUX — and instead have made it the centerpiece of the airport's new marketing campaign.
The code, used by pilots and airports worldwide and printed on tickets and luggage tags, will be used on T-shirts and caps sporting the airport's new slogan, "FLY SUX." It also forms the address of the airport's redesigned Web site — http://www.flysux.com.
Sioux City officials petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to change the code in 1988 and 2002. At one point, the FAA offered the city five alternatives — GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY — but airport trustees turned them down.
Airport board member Dave Bernstein proposed embracing the identifier.
"Let's make the best of it," Bernstein said. "I think we have the opportunity to turn it into a positive."
He noted that many airports, including some of the busiest, have forgettable three-letter codes.
"I've got buddies that I went to college with in different cities that can't even remember their own birthdays, but they all know the Sioux City designator — SUX," he said.
Mayor Craig Berenstein, who in 2002 described SUX as an "embarrassment" to the city, said he views the new slogan as a "cute little way" to make light of the situation."
Ain't it great! Most cities would have declared themselves "victims" and demand a new name, reparations, a new airport, an apology, and shown a starving baby that was traumatized and refused to suckle! Good on Ya Guys!Not to mention this saves "GAY" for use by San Francisco Airport........
Alfred Hitchcok predicted this might happen....
From the Boston Globe:
"Turkeys take to cities, towns
By Keith O'Brien,
BROOKLINE - On a recent afternoon, Kettly Jean-Felix parked her car on Beacon Street in Brookline, fed the parking meter, wheeled around to go to the optician and came face to face with a wild turkey.
The turkey eyed Jean-Felix. Jean-Felix eyed the turkey. It gobbled. She gasped. Then the turkey proceeded to follow the Dorchester woman over the Green Line train tracks, across the street, through traffic, and all the way down the block, pecking at her backside as she went.
"This is so scary," Jean-Felix said, finally taking refuge inside Cambridge Eye Doctors in Brookline's bustling Washington Square. "I cannot explain it."
Notify the neighbors: The turkeys are spreading through suburbia. Wild turkeys, once eliminated in Massachusetts, are flourishing from Plymouth to Concord and - to the surprise of some wildlife officials - making forays into densely populated suburban and urban areas, including parts of Boston, Cambridge and, most recently, Brookline.
Some Brookline residents have welcomed the birds, happy to see wildlife strolling amid the nannies with $300 strollers and Trader Joe's shoppers. But many others worry what the keen-eyed, sometimes ornery birds might do, prompting as many as a dozen calls to the police department every day.
"Some people are getting very upset," said Brookline police animal control officer Pierre Verrier. "One of the biggest things is, they're afraid. They don't want the turkeys to get hurt. And the other thing is, they're afraid of the turkeys around their children. They don't know what they'll do."
As such, Brookline police issued a statement last month, telling residents what they should - or should not - do if they meet a wild turkey in town. The basic advice: stay away from the turkeys. But still, people keep calling police headquarters to report the strangest sight: Turkeys in downtown Brookline."
By Keith O'Brien,
BROOKLINE - On a recent afternoon, Kettly Jean-Felix parked her car on Beacon Street in Brookline, fed the parking meter, wheeled around to go to the optician and came face to face with a wild turkey.
The turkey eyed Jean-Felix. Jean-Felix eyed the turkey. It gobbled. She gasped. Then the turkey proceeded to follow the Dorchester woman over the Green Line train tracks, across the street, through traffic, and all the way down the block, pecking at her backside as she went.
"This is so scary," Jean-Felix said, finally taking refuge inside Cambridge Eye Doctors in Brookline's bustling Washington Square. "I cannot explain it."
Notify the neighbors: The turkeys are spreading through suburbia. Wild turkeys, once eliminated in Massachusetts, are flourishing from Plymouth to Concord and - to the surprise of some wildlife officials - making forays into densely populated suburban and urban areas, including parts of Boston, Cambridge and, most recently, Brookline.
Some Brookline residents have welcomed the birds, happy to see wildlife strolling amid the nannies with $300 strollers and Trader Joe's shoppers. But many others worry what the keen-eyed, sometimes ornery birds might do, prompting as many as a dozen calls to the police department every day.
"Some people are getting very upset," said Brookline police animal control officer Pierre Verrier. "One of the biggest things is, they're afraid. They don't want the turkeys to get hurt. And the other thing is, they're afraid of the turkeys around their children. They don't know what they'll do."
As such, Brookline police issued a statement last month, telling residents what they should - or should not - do if they meet a wild turkey in town. The basic advice: stay away from the turkeys. But still, people keep calling police headquarters to report the strangest sight: Turkeys in downtown Brookline."
Apparently, wildlife folks have been working hard to increase the population of wild turkeys for the last twenty years in Massachusetts. They never predicted that they would adopt to urban living... these Toms stand four feet high and weigh twenty pounds.....
Don't know why they're surprised, seems like there has been some big old turkeys wandering the streets of Boston and Nantucket for years..... gobble - gobble!
Now there is more than 20, ooo of the turkeys -- no, not Kennedy politicians drinking Wild Turkey and chasin' women, real wild turkeys chasin' women!!
Fighter Pilot hand-eye coordination test?????
Ole Pecoz ain't gonna swear to it but I heard a rumor that this is actually used somewhere along the line...Subject: Test for pilots
The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.
If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal.
It's been said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots.
They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes.
Delta Airlines uses it too! Give it a try, but be careful...it is addictive!!
Click on Air Force Test
Two minutes --- my a**!!!!!!!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Oct 22-26 - Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.....
Put Islamo-Fascism into the college curriculum
Six years after 9/11 we are engaged in a global conflict in which we cann
ot name the enemy who has attacked us. The President has described the war we are in as a “war on terror.” But terror is only a tactic used by many. Our enemies are Islamo-fascists. They are religious fanatics who, as the President has said, “are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism.” Yet even the President cannot use the word “Islamo-fascist” because civil rights groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) complain that that is “Islamo-phobic.” CAIR is itself an arm of the Islamo-fascist movement, having been created by the Muslim Brotherhood – the fountain-head of al-Qaeda and the jihad against us – and the terrorist 
Palestinian organization, Hamas.
What would World War II have been like if every time we described our enemies as “Nazis,” a German civil rights group complained that we were “Germanophobes” and our leaders caved to their demands? Yet that is precisely the situation we presently face. We cannot name the enemy and we cannot study him.
Six years after 9/11, not a single Middle Eastern Studies Department in the United States offers a course on Islamo-Fascism or Islam and Fascism, although the founders of the modern jihad Hassan al-Banna and Sayd Qutb were both admirers of Hitler as are the current rulers of Iran. Yet without studying the movement that threatens us, we cannot possibly be equipped to defend ourselves adequately.
ot name the enemy who has attacked us. The President has described the war we are in as a “war on terror.” But terror is only a tactic used by many. Our enemies are Islamo-fascists. They are religious fanatics who, as the President has said, “are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism.” Yet even the President cannot use the word “Islamo-fascist” because civil rights groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) complain that that is “Islamo-phobic.” CAIR is itself an arm of the Islamo-fascist movement, having been created by the Muslim Brotherhood – the fountain-head of al-Qaeda and the jihad against us – and the terrorist 
Palestinian organization, Hamas.What would World War II have been like if every time we described our enemies as “Nazis,” a German civil rights group complained that we were “Germanophobes” and our leaders caved to their demands? Yet that is precisely the situation we presently face. We cannot name the enemy and we cannot study him.
Six years after 9/11, not a single Middle Eastern Studies Department in the United States offers a course on Islamo-Fascism or Islam and Fascism, although the founders of the modern jihad Hassan al-Banna and Sayd Qutb were both admirers of Hitler as are the current rulers of Iran. Yet without studying the movement that threatens us, we cannot possibly be equipped to defend ourselves adequately.
I can't make this stuff up.....
Just like Duke University didn't have enough problems with it's human relations problems, now they are getting all the conservationists and tree huggers on their case... Forrest Gump wouldn't do this......
Fake turf watered as supplies dry up
Hockey fields need soaking, officials say; Duke coach: We conserve at home
Anne Blythe, Staff Writer
Hockey fields need soaking, officials say; Duke coach: We conserve at home
Anne Blythe, Staff Writer
It's not even real grass.
But in the midst of what may be the worst drought ever in North Carolina, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are watering the synthetic turfs used by their field hockey teams.
The International Hockey Federation insists.
The universities are not breaking any rules. But like clockwork, as residents in Durham and Chapel Hill see their plants and lawns wither, the sprinklers go on at the UNC-CH Francis E. Henry Stadium and at Duke's Williams Field.
Brad Schnurr, a Chapel Hill contractor who does work in Durham, saw the sprinklers go on one afternoon recently at Duke and drove around the block to make sure he
was not seeing things.
"Sprinklers aren't even the right term, they're like fire hoses," Schnurr said. "I was like, 'What is that? What is that?' I couldn't believe it."
The International Hockey Federation requires the college teams to saturate the synthetic turfs before each practice and all games.
It's not just the way the ball bounces, athletics officials say, although field hockey balls do bounce better on saturated fields. When the turf is wet, coaches add, field hockey players have better grip on the surface and report fewer injuries.
Beth Bozman, Duke's field hockey coach, said she understood why passers-by could get all worked up over sprinklers going full blast amid conservation pleas.
But in the midst of what may be the worst drought ever in North Carolina, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are watering the synthetic turfs used by their field hockey teams.
The International Hockey Federation insists.
The universities are not breaking any rules. But like clockwork, as residents in Durham and Chapel Hill see their plants and lawns wither, the sprinklers go on at the UNC-CH Francis E. Henry Stadium and at Duke's Williams Field.
Brad Schnurr, a Chapel Hill contractor who does work in Durham, saw the sprinklers go on one afternoon recently at Duke and drove around the block to make sure he
was not seeing things. "Sprinklers aren't even the right term, they're like fire hoses," Schnurr said. "I was like, 'What is that? What is that?' I couldn't believe it."
The International Hockey Federation requires the college teams to saturate the synthetic turfs before each practice and all games.
It's not just the way the ball bounces, athletics officials say, although field hockey balls do bounce better on saturated fields. When the turf is wet, coaches add, field hockey players have better grip on the surface and report fewer injuries.
Beth Bozman, Duke's field hockey coach, said she understood why passers-by could get all worked up over sprinklers going full blast amid conservation pleas.
For the rest of the story:http://www.newsobserver.com/weather/drought/v-print/story/742218.html
You college football fans will understand.....
There ain't much that James Carville, the "Ragin' Cajun", former punter for Bubba Clinton, has said that I agree with...! However his quote in Sports Illustrated last week is sure one that I can sign on to!!! 
'The BCS (Bowl Championship Series) is like the Electoral College -- a convoluted way to pick a winner. The Electoral College was a bad idea thought up by great men trying to do a noble thing. The BCS is a stupid idea thought up by intellectual midgets trying to protect greedy college presidents."
On second thought, I only agree with that part of the comment related to the BCS. The Electoral College system has worked pretty well for a plan devised by rookie statesmen in a new country two and a half centuries ago.......
Excuse me, but am I the only one to notice.....
.... that the big story of the weekend, a 36 year old, conservative Republican of color won the Governor's seat in the State of Louisiana in a walk (the first time since Reconstruction) and it was buried in the back pages of every liberal paper , and barely mentioned in the news reports of main stream media!! What does this tell us about these so called news outlets?
Do you reckon that if he was a liberal Democrat, of color - the story placement might have been different?
Do you reckon that if he was a liberal Democrat, of color - the story placement might have been different?
A truly definitive definition ....
On his blog, Captain's Quarters, Ed Morrissey nailed the difference between conservatives and liberals. Regarding the infamous letter that Dingy Harry Reid and 40 Demo senators sent to Rush Limbaugh's CEO, and that Rush auctioned off for $2.1 million and then matched with his own money, I am not going to change a word:
Harry Reid And The Senate 41 Demonstrate The Difference Between Liberals And Conservatives
"Sometimes a comment gets to the heart of a matter so clearly that I find it irresistible for its own post. Yesterday, in the Harry Reid/Rush Limbaugh thread, CapQ commenter PackerBronco observed that the entire story arc of the letter and its auction showed a clear difference between liberals and conservatives:
The conservative thinks of a free-market way of raising private funds to aid a worthwhile causes and backs his commitment with his own money.
The liberal asks other people to donate funds, doesn't donate any of his own money, and tries to take credit for the generosity of others.
Now granted, the Republicans in Congress in 2001-2006 managed to look a lot like the latter than the former, but we're hoping they learned their lesson after the last election. In terms of actual governing policy, as we have seen in this Congress, liberals don't ask for money -- they tax for money, and try to take credit for personal compassion while the bill gets paid by others. We've certainly seen that dynamic often enough, including on Thursday, when Democrats valiantly attempted to take money from the poor and working-class who mostly make up the ranks of cigarette smokers and give the money to middle-class families as health-insurance subsidies.
In the meantime, Senator Reid still hasn't announced any contribution of his own to the Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Fund, despite trying to take credit for Rush Limbaugh's fundraising efforts and Rush's own personal contribution. Neither have any of his 40 co-signers. It appears PackerBronco has analyzed it quite correctly.
Posted by Ed Morrissey on October 20, 2007 7:43 AM "
If you missed Dingy Harry Reid's performance (speech?) on the floor of the Senate Friday morning, you missed the most unbelievable display of cheap chutzpah of the year.....! The man gives new meaning to "no class".........!
(Note - you can link to Captain'sQuarters over there in my favorite links)
Harry Reid And The Senate 41 Demonstrate The Difference Between Liberals And Conservatives
"Sometimes a comment gets to the heart of a matter so clearly that I find it irresistible for its own post. Yesterday, in the Harry Reid/Rush Limbaugh thread, CapQ commenter PackerBronco observed that the entire story arc of the letter and its auction showed a clear difference between liberals and conservatives:
The conservative thinks of a free-market way of raising private funds to aid a worthwhile causes and backs his commitment with his own money.
The liberal asks other people to donate funds, doesn't donate any of his own money, and tries to take credit for the generosity of others.
Now granted, the Republicans in Congress in 2001-2006 managed to look a lot like the latter than the former, but we're hoping they learned their lesson after the last election. In terms of actual governing policy, as we have seen in this Congress, liberals don't ask for money -- they tax for money, and try to take credit for personal compassion while the bill gets paid by others. We've certainly seen that dynamic often enough, including on Thursday, when Democrats valiantly attempted to take money from the poor and working-class who mostly make up the ranks of cigarette smokers and give the money to middle-class families as health-insurance subsidies.
In the meantime, Senator Reid still hasn't announced any contribution of his own to the Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Fund, despite trying to take credit for Rush Limbaugh's fundraising efforts and Rush's own personal contribution. Neither have any of his 40 co-signers. It appears PackerBronco has analyzed it quite correctly.
Posted by Ed Morrissey on October 20, 2007 7:43 AM "
If you missed Dingy Harry Reid's performance (speech?) on the floor of the Senate Friday morning, you missed the most unbelievable display of cheap chutzpah of the year.....! The man gives new meaning to "no class".........!
(Note - you can link to Captain'sQuarters over there in my favorite links)
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Help find a good home for this doggie.....
Dog For Sale: OR free to good home. Answers to the name of Dolly.
Excellent guard dog.Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, as there are no more illegal aliens, thieves, murderers, rapists or molesters left in the neighborhood for him to eat.
Most of them knew him as ' holy sh*t!! ' or 'Carramba!!'
Your help will be appreciated.
If Washington won't lead, maybe it ought to get the hell out of the way.......
States in rebellion
October 21, 2007 Ernest Istook -
October 21, 2007 Ernest Istook -
Once again, the states are rebelling against Washington. Fed up with dithering in D.C., states are proving enforcement works. Enforcement not only can prevent illegal immigration, but actually reverse it. Illegal immigrants by the tens of thousands are leaving states that have adopted tough new laws — Colorado, Georgia, Arizona and now Oklahoma.
Local efforts are being launched too quickly to count, involving more than 100 communities so far. When denied jobs or public benefits, many illegals return to Mexico. Others move within the United States to areas with local amnesty policies. That migration may spark a new outcry from citizens in amnesty cities. Left-leaning groups are on the move, too, flocking to the courts in efforts to block state and local enforcement.
Only Congress is standing still — except for back-sliding efforts to push more back-door amnesty. Details of state and local laws vary, but the impact is consistent. Typically, they deny public benefits to illegal immigrants and try to make sure employers don't hire them. Oklahoma's law kicks in soon — Nov. 1 — and Hispanic leaders claim 25,000 illegals have already departed the Sooner State. Businesses that catered to them say their sales are down 20 percent. They're backing a lawsuit challenging the new crackdown. But the crackdown is a gain for taxpayers. Estimates show illegal immigrants cost Oklahoma taxpayers $200 million a year, mostly for education and health care.
Arizona's new employer sanctions don't start until Jan. 1. A half-million undocumented people supposedly await the outcome of court challenges, but the Arizona Republic still reports the outmigration already tops 100 per day. Due to Georgia's new law, businesses with an illegal alien customer base have seen sales drop as much as 40 percent. And money wired from Georgia to Mexico and Central America declined. Similar sales drops are reported elsewhere.
For the full Washington Times article, go to: http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071021/COMMENTARY/110210024/1012/COMMENTARY
Now if only the New Orleans voters had been as smart as the rest of Louisiana's and ousted their mayor...
Jindal Wins Louisiana Governor's Race
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation's youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents.
Jindal, the Republican 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, had 53
percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff.
"My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American dream. And guess what happened. They found the American Dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana," he said to cheers and applause at his victory party.
(AP) Louisiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, his wife Supriya and son Shaan Robert,...Full Image"I'm asking all of our supporters to get behind our new governor," Georges said in a concession speech.
The Oxford-educated Jindal had lost the governor's race four years ago to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. He won a congressional seat in conservative suburban New Orleans a year later but was widely believed to have his eye on the governor's mansion.
Blanco opted not to run for re-election after she was widely blamed for the state's slow response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
"My administration has begun readying for this change and we look forward to helping with a smooth transition," she said in a prepared statement. "I want to thank the people of Louisiana for the past four years, though there is still much work to do in my last few months as your governor."
When he takes office in January, Jindal will become the nation's youngest governor in office. He pledged to fight corruption and rid the state of those "feeding at the public trough," revisiting a campaign theme.
"They can either go quietly or they can go loudly, but either way, they will go," he said, adding that he would call the Legislature into special session to address ethics reform.
Political analysts said Jindal built up support as a sort of "buyer's remorse" from people who voted for Blanco last time and had second thoughts about that decision. Blanco was widely criticized for the state's response to Hurricane Katrina and she announced months ago that she would not seek re-election.
"I think the Jindal camp, almost explicitly, (wanted) to cast it this way: If you were able to revote, who would you vote for?" said Pearson Cross, a University of Louisiana at Lafayette political scientist.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation's youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents.
Jindal, the Republican 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, had 53
percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's election outright and avoid a Nov. 17 runoff."My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American dream. And guess what happened. They found the American Dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana," he said to cheers and applause at his victory party.
(AP) Louisiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal, his wife Supriya and son Shaan Robert,...Full Image"I'm asking all of our supporters to get behind our new governor," Georges said in a concession speech.
The Oxford-educated Jindal had lost the governor's race four years ago to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. He won a congressional seat in conservative suburban New Orleans a year later but was widely believed to have his eye on the governor's mansion.
Blanco opted not to run for re-election after she was widely blamed for the state's slow response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
"My administration has begun readying for this change and we look forward to helping with a smooth transition," she said in a prepared statement. "I want to thank the people of Louisiana for the past four years, though there is still much work to do in my last few months as your governor."
When he takes office in January, Jindal will become the nation's youngest governor in office. He pledged to fight corruption and rid the state of those "feeding at the public trough," revisiting a campaign theme.
"They can either go quietly or they can go loudly, but either way, they will go," he said, adding that he would call the Legislature into special session to address ethics reform.
Political analysts said Jindal built up support as a sort of "buyer's remorse" from people who voted for Blanco last time and had second thoughts about that decision. Blanco was widely criticized for the state's response to Hurricane Katrina and she announced months ago that she would not seek re-election.
"I think the Jindal camp, almost explicitly, (wanted) to cast it this way: If you were able to revote, who would you vote for?" said Pearson Cross, a University of Louisiana at Lafayette political scientist.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
First read the article and then contemplate the question that follows.....
California: Jurors award $80k to quadriplegic man “hung” by cops
Source: AP News;
“Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him. Cornell Greathouse sued the city
and four police officers for assault, battery, false arrest, false imprisonment, excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and negligence. A Superior Court jury decided Wednesday the officers weren’t culpable, but they ruled Pasadena must pay $78,939.12 for failing to train officers on how to deal with a quadriplegic. Officers responding a 2005 disturbance call encountered Greathouse and, according to the suit, they pulled him out of wheelchair and hung him over a 4-foot concrete wall in order to search him.” (10/18/07)
and four police officers for assault, battery, false arrest, false imprisonment, excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and negligence. A Superior Court jury decided Wednesday the officers weren’t culpable, but they ruled Pasadena must pay $78,939.12 for failing to train officers on how to deal with a quadriplegic. Officers responding a 2005 disturbance call encountered Greathouse and, according to the suit, they pulled him out of wheelchair and hung him over a 4-foot concrete wall in order to search him.” (10/18/07)Okay Buckaroos, here is the question: How would you like to be the low level police trainer in the back room when the Chief walks in and says: "I want you to write a three hour lesson plan to be taught at the Police Academy. The topic of which is - "How to search a drunk, belligerent quadriplegic (who got that way when shot by a gangbanger in a nightclub) when arresting him - without giving him grounds to sue the City!" "Oh, and have it on my desk by tomorrow afternoon!"
Sounds like a good time to volunteer to go back out on street patrol to me!
Daring to make war on France..........
Jacques Chirac, The French President, is sitting in his office when his telephone rings.
"Hallo, Mr. Chirac!" a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy Dow
n at the Harp Pub in County Clare, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!"
"Well, Paddy," Chirac replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
"Right now," says Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, me Cousin Sean, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire darts team from the pub. That makes eight!"
Chirac paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100,000 men in my army waiting to move on my command."
"Begoora!" says Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back."
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy calls again. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be Paddy?" Chirac asks.
"Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."
Chirac sighs amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armored personnel carriers. Also, I have increased my army to 150,000 since we last spoke."
"Saints preserve us!" says Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."
Sure enough, Paddy rings back a few days later. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We have modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Bar have joined us as well!"
The new President, Zarkozy was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that since I was elected, I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes. My military bases are surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since you last called, I have increased my army to 200,000!"
"Jesus, Mary,
and Joseph!" says Paddy, "I will have to ring you back."
Sure enough, Paddy calls again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr. Zarkozy! I am sorry to inform you that we have had to call off the war."
"Really? I am sorry to hear that," says Zarkozy. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," says Paddy, "we had a long chat over a few pints of Guinness, and decided there is no fookin' way we can feed 200,000 prisoners
"Hallo, Mr. Chirac!" a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy Dow
n at the Harp Pub in County Clare, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!""Well, Paddy," Chirac replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army?"
"Right now," says Paddy, after a moment's calculation, "there is myself, me Cousin Sean, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire darts team from the pub. That makes eight!"
Chirac paused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100,000 men in my army waiting to move on my command."
"Begoora!" says Paddy. "I'll have to ring you back."
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy calls again. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!"
"And what equipment would that be Paddy?" Chirac asks.
"Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy's farm tractor."
Chirac sighs amused. "I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armored personnel carriers. Also, I have increased my army to 150,000 since we last spoke."
"Saints preserve us!" says Paddy. "I'll have to get back to you."
Sure enough, Paddy rings back a few days later. "Mr. Chirac, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We have modified Jackie McLaughlin's ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Bar have joined us as well!"
The new President, Zarkozy was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I must tell you, Paddy, that since I was elected, I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes. My military bases are surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since you last called, I have increased my army to 200,000!"
"Jesus, Mary,
and Joseph!" says Paddy, "I will have to ring you back."Sure enough, Paddy calls again the next day. "Top o' the mornin', Mr. Zarkozy! I am sorry to inform you that we have had to call off the war."
"Really? I am sorry to hear that," says Zarkozy. "Why the sudden change of heart?"
"Well," says Paddy, "we had a long chat over a few pints of Guinness, and decided there is no fookin' way we can feed 200,000 prisoners
Don't know how all them middle eastern cabbies can live in D.C with all that pork floating around......
Any of y'all remember all those promises of "transparency in government" and the end of "pork spending" made by the Dems last year when they were trying to wrest control of the House and Senate?
Shucks --- I wonder what happened?
Here piggie, piggie! Billions in fed trough Millions earmarked for La Raza radicals, Charlie Rangel library, more 2008 pork
October 19, 20071:33 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. (Bloomberg News)WASHINGTON – It looks like Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is going to get his wish – $2 million in taxpayer funding for a library commemorating his 37 years in the House of Representatives.
The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public service will serve as a repository for his "papers," and the congressman will have his own office in the Harlem complex. The facility has already attracted some $25 million in funding from private sources.
Rangel suggests the project will someday be "as important as the Carter and Clinton libraries."
That's just one of hundreds of so-called "earmarks," pet projects of members of the House and Senate, costing taxpayers billions set for approval in the 2008 budget.
The pork-barrel spending planned for next year includes $3.5 million for La Raza, sometimes described as a radical hate group which advocates a takeover of parts of the U.S. Southwest by Mexico.
A plan by Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, both Democrats from New York, to spend $1 million on a Woodstock museum was shot down this week to the astonishment of its backers.
But plenty of other pork is still on the plate:
$1 million for the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, requested by Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both Democrats from Arkansas;
$200,000 for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, requested by Rep. Shelley Berkley of Nevada;
$3.74 million for research into the Formosan Subterranean Termite, requested by Reps. Rodney Alexander and Richard Baker of Louisiana;
AFL-CIO Working for America Institute, requested by Sen. Tom Harkin;
$750,000 for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, requested by Clinton, Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid;
$3.76 million for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, requested by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison;
$1 million for the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, requested by Sen. Thad Cochrane, Republican of Mississippi;
$150,000 for rodent control on the Aleutian Islands, requested by Ted Stevens of Alaska;
$250,000 to build the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in Washington, requested by Rep. Doc Hastings.
$470,000 to study the Asian Long-Horned Beetle, requested by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois;
$244,077 for bee research in Weslaco, Texas, requested by Rep. Chet Edwards;
$213,386 to study the Oliver Fruit Fly in Montpelier, France, requested by Mike Thompson of California;
$1.7 million for the Centers for Disease Control to fund a Hollywood liaison to advise doctor dramas;
$5.1 million for "audio and visual integration" in the CDC's new Thomas R. Harkin communications and visitor center – and, yes, that is Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is sick of this kind of spending. He was responsible for leading the successful fight against the Woodstock Museum.
Not onl
y did he question the propriety and constitutionality of spending taxpayer money on building a commemorative facility to the 1969 rock music festival, but he pointed out the project had all the "earmarks" of a political quid pro quo.
The museum is being funded by billionaire Alan Gerry and his foundation, which has investment income of $24 million a year. Gerry donated $229,000 to political campaigns, with much of it going to support Clinton and Schumer, the senators carrying water for his pet project.
Coburn has offered an amendment calling on the Senate to place a temporary moratorium on transportation pork until all structurally deficient bridges are repaired. His measure was defeated 82-14.
"If this legislation passes, thousands of government grants will be distributed based on political, lobbying and/or campaign donations, rather than on merit," says Brian M. Riedl, author of the report.
He also points out it was the incoming Democratic leadership, particularly in the House, that promised to clean up pork-barrel spending.
Earlier this year, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., announced his intention to keep secret the pork projects in spending bills until after the bills had passed the House, Riedl says. Public pressure forced him to back down.
October 19, 20071:33 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. (Bloomberg News)WASHINGTON – It looks like Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is going to get his wish – $2 million in taxpayer funding for a library commemorating his 37 years in the House of Representatives.
The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public service will serve as a repository for his "papers," and the congressman will have his own office in the Harlem complex. The facility has already attracted some $25 million in funding from private sources.
Rangel suggests the project will someday be "as important as the Carter and Clinton libraries."
That's just one of hundreds of so-called "earmarks," pet projects of members of the House and Senate, costing taxpayers billions set for approval in the 2008 budget.
The pork-barrel spending planned for next year includes $3.5 million for La Raza, sometimes described as a radical hate group which advocates a takeover of parts of the U.S. Southwest by Mexico.
A plan by Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, both Democrats from New York, to spend $1 million on a Woodstock museum was shot down this week to the astonishment of its backers.
But plenty of other pork is still on the plate:
$1 million for the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, requested by Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both Democrats from Arkansas;
$200,000 for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, requested by Rep. Shelley Berkley of Nevada;
$3.74 million for research into the Formosan Subterranean Termite, requested by Reps. Rodney Alexander and Richard Baker of Louisiana;
AFL-CIO Working for America Institute, requested by Sen. Tom Harkin;
$750,000 for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, requested by Clinton, Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid;
$3.76 million for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, requested by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison;
$1 million for the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, requested by Sen. Thad Cochrane, Republican of Mississippi;
$150,000 for rodent control on the Aleutian Islands, requested by Ted Stevens of Alaska;
$250,000 to build the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in Washington, requested by Rep. Doc Hastings.
$470,000 to study the Asian Long-Horned Beetle, requested by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois;
$244,077 for bee research in Weslaco, Texas, requested by Rep. Chet Edwards;
$213,386 to study the Oliver Fruit Fly in Montpelier, France, requested by Mike Thompson of California;
$1.7 million for the Centers for Disease Control to fund a Hollywood liaison to advise doctor dramas;
$5.1 million for "audio and visual integration" in the CDC's new Thomas R. Harkin communications and visitor center – and, yes, that is Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is sick of this kind of spending. He was responsible for leading the successful fight against the Woodstock Museum.
Not onl
y did he question the propriety and constitutionality of spending taxpayer money on building a commemorative facility to the 1969 rock music festival, but he pointed out the project had all the "earmarks" of a political quid pro quo.The museum is being funded by billionaire Alan Gerry and his foundation, which has investment income of $24 million a year. Gerry donated $229,000 to political campaigns, with much of it going to support Clinton and Schumer, the senators carrying water for his pet project.
Coburn has offered an amendment calling on the Senate to place a temporary moratorium on transportation pork until all structurally deficient bridges are repaired. His measure was defeated 82-14.
"If this legislation passes, thousands of government grants will be distributed based on political, lobbying and/or campaign donations, rather than on merit," says Brian M. Riedl, author of the report.
He also points out it was the incoming Democratic leadership, particularly in the House, that promised to clean up pork-barrel spending.
Earlier this year, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., announced his intention to keep secret the pork projects in spending bills until after the bills had passed the House, Riedl says. Public pressure forced him to back down.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Maybe it's time to reel in the sicko's ........?
Time to retire some of the sicko's in Congress? Can you folks believe that even a Left Coast Liberal career- I said career - congressman of these here United States said this on the floor of the House today...?
BTW: Stark has been heard from before: Rep. Pete Stark (D): "I commend MoveOn for their ad and for speaking truth to power"
Apparently thorazine isn't yet speaking truth to early-onset dementia:
"I commend MoveOn for their ad and for speaking truth to power," said Stark. "Up is not down, the earth is not flat, and the surge is not working. General Petreaus betrayed his own reputation by standing with George Bush in opposition to the timely withdrawal of all of our brave men and women from Iraq. I thank MoveOn for their patriotic ad and call on Petreaus to help Bush end a war the President should have never started."
During a debate on children's health care Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark accused Repu
blicans of sending troops to Iraq to "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
Condemnations rolled in .....
blicans of sending troops to Iraq to "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."Condemnations rolled in .....
Pelosi issued a statement Friday evening rapping Stark, who is in his 18th term representing the liberal East Bay. He's California's longest-serving House members.
"While members of Congress are passionate about their views, what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate and distracted from the seriousness of the subject at hand—providing health care for America's children," Pelosi said.
Stark's comment came as the House failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of legislation to expand the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program.
"You don't have money to fund the war or children," Stark accused Republicans. "But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
After numerous Republicans called on him to apologize, Stark said it was they who should be apologizing, for failing to provide the votes to override Bush's veto.
Asked for a White House response Friday, spokesman Tony Fratto said: "I see absolutely no reason to dignify those remarks with a comment."
"While members of Congress are passionate about their views, what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate and distracted from the seriousness of the subject at hand—providing health care for America's children," Pelosi said.
Stark's comment came as the House failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of legislation to expand the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program.
"You don't have money to fund the war or children," Stark accused Republicans. "But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
After numerous Republicans called on him to apologize, Stark said it was they who should be apologizing, for failing to provide the votes to override Bush's veto.
Asked for a White House response Friday, spokesman Tony Fratto said: "I see absolutely no reason to dignify those remarks with a comment."
Buckaroo's -- I don't know about you - but I'm gettin' plumb tired of this anti-American horse puckey com'n from folks we pay to work for us in congress. If folks in the many U.S. Districts can't elect an American wanting the best for our country and our troops --- maybe it's time we resettled and re-registered to redistrict the districts!!!!
Here's a capsule of this great American!
On Monday, March 12, the Secular Coalition for America announced that Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) is the first openly nontheistic congressperson in history.
Apparently thorazine isn't yet speaking truth to early-onset dementia:
"I commend MoveOn for their ad and for speaking truth to power," said Stark. "Up is not down, the earth is not flat, and the surge is not working. General Petreaus betrayed his own reputation by standing with George Bush in opposition to the timely withdrawal of all of our brave men and women from Iraq. I thank MoveOn for their patriotic ad and call on Petreaus to help Bush end a war the President should have never started."
By the way, after all the complaints about New York city Democrats voting in New York and Florida during the national election---- how many prosecutions have your heard about???
Maybe we could just put a fan in front of Tubby Teddy!...
The Grand Poobah of the NIMBY Tribe on Nantucket wins again! Big Surprise in a state he inherited from his daddy - the rum runner..... from Reuters;
Cape Cod Commission denies Cape Wind application
Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:34am EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Cape Cod Commission in Massachusetts Thursday denied Cape Wind's application to bury electric cables needed to connect its proposed 420-megawatt offshore wind farm in the Nantucket Sound to the state power grid.
Cape Wind said in a release that it would challenge the Commission decision. The Cape Cod Commission is a local organization created by the state in 1990 to manage growth and protect Cape Cod's natural resources.
Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life.
The project's supporters, who include other environmental groups, meanwhile claim it would provide renewable energy, improve air quality, lower electricity costs and increase the reliability of the power grid.
Although the wind farm would be located in federal waters, the transmission lines connecting the project to the grid crosses land controlled by state and local authorities.
The Comm
ission said it did not have enough information to make a decision. Local papers said Cape Wind could offer to provide more information to the Commission or appeal to the state to override the local authorities, or both.
"The Commission's denial based, not on the merits but, on claims that Cape Wind provided insufficient information does not square with the record," Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind, said in a release.
Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:34am EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Cape Cod Commission in Massachusetts Thursday denied Cape Wind's application to bury electric cables needed to connect its proposed 420-megawatt offshore wind farm in the Nantucket Sound to the state power grid.
Cape Wind said in a release that it would challenge the Commission decision. The Cape Cod Commission is a local organization created by the state in 1990 to manage growth and protect Cape Cod's natural resources.
Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life.
The project's supporters, who include other environmental groups, meanwhile claim it would provide renewable energy, improve air quality, lower electricity costs and increase the reliability of the power grid.
Although the wind farm would be located in federal waters, the transmission lines connecting the project to the grid crosses land controlled by state and local authorities.
The Comm
ission said it did not have enough information to make a decision. Local papers said Cape Wind could offer to provide more information to the Commission or appeal to the state to override the local authorities, or both."The Commission's denial based, not on the merits but, on claims that Cape Wind provided insufficient information does not square with the record," Jim Gordon, president of Cape Wind, said in a release.
"And don't you drill for oil up in ANWAR either... but get us off of foreign oil's teats....!" Who said that??????
TENJOOBERRYMUDS...........
Ole Pecoz didn't understand this until I read the whole thing but sure got it by the time I finished.
TENJOOBERRYMUDS
This is something we are all encountering when we have to make calls for information or service, whether it be the mail order house or the healthcare provider or the computer company or the clerk on a hotel.
We just have to be patient and try to understand what they are telling us and keep a smile on our face.
By the time you read through this YOU WILL UNDERSTAND TENJOOBERRYMUDS...
In order to continue getting-by in America (our home land), we all need to learn the NEW English language! Practice by reading the following conversation until you are able to understand the term
"TENJOOBERRYMUDS".
With a little patience, you' ll be able to fit right in with the growing trend!!!
Now, here goes...
The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service:
Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
RS: " Rye... Roon sirbees...morrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen???"
G: "Uh..... Yes, I'd like to order bacon and eggs."
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: ".....What??"
RS: "Ow July den?!?... pryed, boyud, poochd?"
G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry... scrambled, please."
RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Creasp?"
G: "Crisp will be fine."
RS: "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"
G: "What?"
RS: "An toes. July Sahn toes?"
G: "I... don't think so"
RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes???"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."
RS: "Toes! Toes!..Why Joo dunt uan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
G: "Oh, English muffin!!! I've got it! You were saying 'toast'... Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bodder?"
G: "No, just put the bodder on the side."
RS: "Wad?!?"
G: "I mean butter... just put the butter on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Excuse me?"
RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"
G: "Yes. Coffee, please... and that's everything."
RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, creasp baykem, Anglish moppin, we bodder on sigh and copy.. rye??"
G: "Whatever you say."
RS: "Tenjooberrymuds."
>G: "You're welcome."
TENJOOBERRYMUDS
This is something we are all encountering when we have to make calls for information or service, whether it be the mail order house or the healthcare provider or the computer company or the clerk on a hotel.
We just have to be patient and try to understand what they are telling us and keep a smile on our face.
By the time you read through this YOU WILL UNDERSTAND TENJOOBERRYMUDS...
In order to continue getting-by in America (our home land), we all need to learn the NEW English language! Practice by reading the following conversation until you are able to understand the term
"TENJOOBERRYMUDS".
With a little patience, you' ll be able to fit right in with the growing trend!!!
Now, here goes...
The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service:
Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
RS: " Rye... Roon sirbees...morrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen???"
G: "Uh..... Yes, I'd like to order bacon and eggs."
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: ".....What??"
RS: "Ow July den?!?... pryed, boyud, poochd?"
G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry... scrambled, please."
RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Creasp?"
G: "Crisp will be fine."
RS: "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"
G: "What?"
RS: "An toes. July Sahn toes?"
G: "I... don't think so"
RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes???"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."
RS: "Toes! Toes!..Why Joo dunt uan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"
G: "Oh, English muffin!!! I've got it! You were saying 'toast'... Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bodder?"
G: "No, just put the bodder on the side."
RS: "Wad?!?"
G: "I mean butter... just put the butter on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Excuse me?"
RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"
G: "Yes. Coffee, please... and that's everything."
RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, creasp baykem, Anglish moppin, we bodder on sigh and copy.. rye??"
G: "Whatever you say."
RS: "Tenjooberrymuds."
>G: "You're welcome."
Is this a great country or what?
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Take that Mr Steingrubber....!
End Of An Era: Torre Turns Down Yankees
Shocking Decision Rattles Organization, Pinstriped Faithful
Shocking Decision Rattles Organization, Pinstriped Faithful
New York Yankees manager Joe Torre rejected a contract offer to return in 2008, CBS 2 HD has learned, a decision that will likely send shockwaves through a large majority of the Yankees fan base who have voiced their desire to keep the beloved manager for another season.
Torre was offered a one-year contract believed to be worth $5 million with an option for 2009
Ain't it great to see a real man stand up on his hind legs and say. "I ain't gonna stand here with my hat in my hand for another year!!!!"
A toast to the hardest working Congress in history... !
I owe an apology to all of our hardworking representatives in the House and Senate! They work a heck of a lot harder than I give them credit for:On the other hand.... as bad as they screw things up working 15 hours a week, imagine the damage they could do if they worked all the time!!!
What is it about them "Penn" genes that make them so durn dumb?
Just when Ole Pecoz promised hisself that he wouldn't mention Hellery fer a while, this article appears in the Atlantic Constitution Journal, ... and I thought that Sean Penn was the dimmest bulb on the Penn porch.....
Clinton Pollster Predicts Defection Of GOP Women
By Scott Shepard Thursday, October 18, 2007, 09:53 AM
By Scott Shepard Thursday, October 18, 2007, 09:53 AM
Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, predicted Thursday that nearly a quarter of Republican women would defect from the GOP if the New York senator is the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. 
At a breakfast with political reporters, Penn said his internal polling shows Clinton would win over some 24 percent of Republican women in the 2008 general election because of the “emotional” appeal of electing the country’s first woman president.
Penn said the trend is as evident in the South, a region Democratic presidential candidates have had trouble winning in recent elections, as in all other regions of the country.
Penn said the trend indicates that Clinton would be a stronger Democratic presidential candidate in the South than either Al Gore was in 2000 or John Kerry was in 2004.
At a breakfast with political reporters, Penn said his internal polling shows Clinton would win over some 24 percent of Republican women in the 2008 general election because of the “emotional” appeal of electing the country’s first woman president.
Penn said the trend is as evident in the South, a region Democratic presidential candidates have had trouble winning in recent elections, as in all other regions of the country.
Penn said the trend indicates that Clinton would be a stronger Democratic presidential candidate in the South than either Al Gore was in 2000 or John Kerry was in 2004.
Ole' Pecoz don't live in the woods, and women in this country don't live on the farm, barefoot and pregnant, to be brought into town on a turnip truck and dumped at the voting place! Not only is there no way that bright, hardworking, intelligent Republican women are gonna vote for this scheming, foul mouthed, Bubba enabler! But I suspect a whole slew of intelligent, hardworking Democrat women are gonna take a pass on her and sit on their hands or vote for someone else even if they have to close their eyes. I'm sure they'd all like to see the white male stereotype for President changed to include a lady or six, but this sure ain't the one they're gonna hang their chads on!
Good thing they point out that this Penn boy is a hired hand of Hellery, lest he be locked up in a rubber room for folks with wild ideas.
I woke up in a cold sweat at 4 A.M. this morning.....
I heard that the U.S. Budget that the President and the Congress is workin' on for 2008 is in the neighborhood of $3 Trillion American Dollars. Pardner's I don't even know that neighborhood! I ran to my keyboard to see what it looks like: $3,000,000,000,000!!
Then I got to thinkin' about all these new things bein' proposed by presidential wannabe's. Five thousand dollars for each new born baby - $1000 to each citizen's gov'mint run 401K's. Free health care for kids of folks makin' $80,000 a year... Whee Doggies! It hurt my head jest to think about it. But then I remembered, these politicians stood up on their hind legs in front of the cameras and said that they; "will tax the rich people" to pay for all these programs. Well, hell I felt better already. Bein' an "OAPie" (thats Old Age Pensioner) I shore ain't rich so it ain't no skin off my hide. Started back to my rack when the thought hit me... I ain't pay'n my share now of that $3 Trillion - who's payin' my share. Let's see, $3 Trillion divided by a 150 million working wage earners in this country ... that's $20,000 that each of us are supposed to be pay'n! Hot damn! I sure ain't payin' $20K a year, so who is paying my share?
Well - I looked her up and guess what, them rich folks are already paying my share and a whole bunch of other folks' as well.
Then I got to thinkin' about all these new things bein' proposed by presidential wannabe's. Five thousand dollars for each new born baby - $1000 to each citizen's gov'mint run 401K's. Free health care for kids of folks makin' $80,000 a year... Whee Doggies! It hurt my head jest to think about it. But then I remembered, these politicians stood up on their hind legs in front of the cameras and said that they; "will tax the rich people" to pay for all these programs. Well, hell I felt better already. Bein' an "OAPie" (thats Old Age Pensioner) I shore ain't rich so it ain't no skin off my hide. Started back to my rack when the thought hit me... I ain't pay'n my share now of that $3 Trillion - who's payin' my share. Let's see, $3 Trillion divided by a 150 million working wage earners in this country ... that's $20,000 that each of us are supposed to be pay'n! Hot damn! I sure ain't payin' $20K a year, so who is paying my share?
Well - I looked her up and guess what, them rich folks are already paying my share and a whole bunch of other folks' as well.
I don't know how well you can make out this Gov'mint chart... but if you look close, any ole cowboy can see that the top 5% of wage earners are already payin' over half the cost of our country's expenses -- the top 10% are payin' 2/3rd of that $3 Trillion and just half of the wage earners in this country are paying the freight for 96% of Federal Gov'mint spending!
Where in tarnation are these wannabe's gonna find folks who got more to squeeze out. More important - how many of them limousine, lear-jet folks gonna get the hell out of Dodge and either find a tax haven or move to one? If my ranch owner has his entire fortune tied up in this lash-up, and the gov'mint is gonna take any profits he might wrangle out of his 24/7 work, he might just as well sell out and clip Munie coupons! He'd be better off, but where am I gonna bunk?
Maybe y'all ought to think about that when you hear the professional hucksters make promises that either they can't keep - or if they do, they'll ruin the country!
Check back in a couple of days, and I'll tell you about this $52 Million ($52,000,000) off ramp they're building near my abode......
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The original Homeland Security Committee........
Ask the American Indians what happens when you don't control immigration.
NFL Network wants it all.....and will go in the back door to get it..........
Those of you Pilgrims, that subscribe to Time-Warner-Cable like Ole' Pecoz does, has got to feel plumb whip-sawed back and forth in the attack negotiations going back and forth between TWC and the NFL Network. Full page ad's in newspapers -- mailers --- press releases. Gets plumb tiring don't it!As I understand it, the billionaire owners of the NFL teams don't reckon that the proceeds of million$ of logo wear sales, $100 ticket prices, $8 beers, $6 hot dogs, billions of TV revenue, billions of advertising revenue are enough. They now want a buck per month for every house in the country that TWC serves. To this end, their new own network is gonna broadcast eight games this year.... TWC doesn't pony up the millions of dollars, they don't get to air those eight games.
Speak'n plainly, although I enjoy watching a football game every now and then, I don't want to pay another buck a month, 12 months a year including the off season, to watch a couple of those games.
As soon as
I saw that ole Jerry (The Hatchet) Jones, Arkansas carpet bagger that he is, was gonna ramrod this lash-up, I knew we were in for trouble. What really burns my britches is that these same conservatives that been whuppin' up on liberals all these years for running to the courts to get what they can't get in the ballot box - these same guys are now runnin' to the governors and state legislators to try to get them to lean on TWC! Ain't that a crock full of turn-around bovine B.S.! Anybody got a tin nickel they'd like to bet that if the NFL wins this tightwad's tug-o-war, that in a year or so, they're not gonna maintain monopolistic hold over all the big games, play-offs and Superbowl's..... you betcher Stetson, son! ! Then see what they're gonna charge you per game - make that $12 per year look like chump change.....
When you see all this fallderall, read the small print before you believe what you see!
Do we know how to win wars anymore?????????
Pardners, every now and then I come across an article or column that is sooo good I don't reckon I ought to extract from it, add to it, or rephrase it. J.R. Dunn wrote such an article in the American Thinker! I shore hope you'll take 4 minutes of your life and read it.... it explains a lot of the B.S that's going on in the country today and it's a good 'un!Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Time to Lighten up.....................!
This link is just for pure de do fun! When I get tired of this ole' world I go to it and smile! Why don't you? Turn up your sound...............
http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoaftv9e.html
While Al Gorbot spends his mega-buck Nobel money heating that mansion this winter....
Many others will be reading Bjorn Lomborg's new book "Cool It: A Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming". This is his second book, the first caused serious debate and this one should cause even more. I won't bore y'all with the numbers and the studies, although I'll give you a link to a good review of the book in a minute.
Suffice it to say that the author puts the lie to many of Gorebot's claims. Polar bea
r numbers are rising world wide, not becoming extinct. From some 5000 in the '60's to over 25,000 today. That if we followed Kyoto's rules to the letter, we would save .06 bears per year while 49 bears are shot every year.
r numbers are rising world wide, not becoming extinct. From some 5000 in the '60's to over 25,000 today. That if we followed Kyoto's rules to the letter, we would save .06 bears per year while 49 bears are shot every year. On a dollar and cents basis, a group of economists (including 4 Nobelists) conclude the following: One dollar spent fighting HIV?AIDS produced $40 in social benefits. One dollar spent fighting malnutrition yields $30 in social benefits. Other efforts like establishing world wide free trade would net a $15 benefit for a one dollar investment. Cutting CO2 emissions, by contrast, yields between 2 and 25 cents per dollar invested....
How interesting..... no wonder this feller hollering from the rooftops doesn't feel any need to give up those Lear Jets and Limousines.... he has access to all this information as well. He has been challenged to formal debates by experts all around the world with big bucks awaiting his cause.... don't hold your breath until he says "Yes" the first time!
So when you hear about kids coming home crying because we're killing all the pretty white polar bears or we are going to end up in a vast swamp... point your fingers and your blame at the true cause of most of the worlds hot air -- Albert (spoiled rich kid without a job) Gore, Hell, even his hometown Tennesseans didn't vote for him back in '80 'cause they knew him. If they had, Florida wouldn't have even mattered.
Now about that link I promised..... here's one, there's more to be found - go get 'em!
My My.... how soon voters forget.......
Yesterday, Oct 16, 2007; "Oil hits record, tops $86"
Last year when asking the American voters to turn Congress over to the Democrats: DEMOCRATIC PROMISE #19: Eliminate Reliance on Foreign OilPromise: “To free America from dependence on foreign oil, we will achieve energy independence for America by 2020 by eliminating reliance on oil from the Middle East and other unstable regions of the world.” – Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) “A New Direction for America,” Page 6
Broken Promise: During the first six months of the Democrat-controlled Congress, no energy independence legislation has been passed by the House, much less sent to the President’s desk. But 228 Democrats voted to impose more than $6.5 billion in new taxes on small and independent American energy producers, which will lead to less domestic supply, higher prices for consumers, and an increase in America’s dependence on foreign sources. – Roll Call Vote #40, January 18, 2007
Last year when asking the American voters to turn Congress over to the Democrats: DEMOCRATIC PROMISE #19: Eliminate Reliance on Foreign OilPromise: “To free America from dependence on foreign oil, we will achieve energy independence for America by 2020 by eliminating reliance on oil from the Middle East and other unstable regions of the world.” – Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) “A New Direction for America,” Page 6
Broken Promise: During the first six months of the Democrat-controlled Congress, no energy independence legislation has been passed by the House, much less sent to the President’s desk. But 228 Democrats voted to impose more than $6.5 billion in new taxes on small and independent American energy producers, which will lead to less domestic supply, higher prices for consumers, and an increase in America’s dependence on foreign sources. – Roll Call Vote #40, January 18, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Sister, Sister --- watch where you quench that thirst...!
Sisters Mary Catherine, Maria Theresa, Katherine Marie, Rose Frances, & Mary Kathleen left the Convent on a trip to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and were sight-seeing on a Tuesday just this last July. It was hot and humid in town and their traditional garb was making them so uncomfortable, they decided to stop in at Patty McGuire's Pub for a cold soft drink. Patty had recently added special legs to his bar stools,which were the talk of the fashionable Eastside neighborhood.
All 5 Nuns sat up at the bar and were enjoying their Cokes when Monsignor Riley and Father McGinty entered the bar through the front door They, too, came for a cold drink,although rumor has it that it wasn't of the 'soft" k
ind, and they were shocked and almost fainted at what they saw!
ind, and they were shocked and almost fainted at what they saw!Ain't no saloon stools like that down here in my neck of the woods! Horses rumps maybe, but nothin' like these Yankee inventions......
Heard from your Senator lately...................?
This Ole' world just keeps on spinning don't it? Are we all gettin' dizzy......?
'Wide Stance' Finds Its Way Into Lexicon
By REBECCA BOONE, AP
BOISE, Idaho (Oct. 10) - Among the most famous excuses ever given for questionable behavior, "I have a wide stance" must fall somewhere between the schoolchild's favorite "the dog ate my homework" and President Clinton's "I didn't in
hale." But Sen. Larry Craig 's contention - made just after his arrest in a restroom sex sting - has permeated the public consciousness, showing up as more than just the punch line to late-night talk show jokes.
By REBECCA BOONE, AP
BOISE, Idaho (Oct. 10) - Among the most famous excuses ever given for questionable behavior, "I have a wide stance" must fall somewhere between the schoolchild's favorite "the dog ate my homework" and President Clinton's "I didn't in
hale." But Sen. Larry Craig 's contention - made just after his arrest in a restroom sex sting - has permeated the public consciousness, showing up as more than just the punch line to late-night talk show jokes. The online Urban Dictionary defines "wide stance" as a euphemism for a closeted homosexual. David Kurtz of the blog "Talking Points Memo" called Craig's wide stance claim "The Best Legal Defense of 2007."
And Beau Jarvis, who writes about wine, travel and food on the blog "Basic Juice," notes that the phrase has become less than innocent and proposes "cleansing" it by using it to describe a well-balanced wine. Craig uttered the now-famous phrase after an undercover police officer at the Minneapolis airport arrested him on June 11, according to police reports.
Hot Damn! It's gonna get to the point where a guy is gonna be 'fraid to knock on the panel and ask his 'neighbor' for help if there ain't any paper on the roll in his stall.......
Open mouth.... insert NASCAR foot!!!.....
One of these days, those Limousine Liberals will understand that Limousines and SUVs are not the only automotive means of transportation.... but not yet! From the Atlanta Journal"
Washington — Being around NASCAR fans requires no inoculation.
That was the word Thursday from Republican officials after they learned that a congressional committee's Democratic staffers had advised aides to get vaccinated for hepatitis and other diseases before visiting NASCAR events in Concord, N.C., and Talladega, Ala......
"Democrats should know that there is no preventive measure yet designed to ward off the blue-collar values and patriotism that NASCAR fans represent," said Linda Daves, the chairwoman of the North Carolina Republican Party. "If they aren't careful, they just might catch some of it."
Republican Rep. Tim Walberg, whose district includes the Michigan International Speedway, said Democrats must not understand the term "rubbin' is racing."
"To suggest that vaccines are needed to attend NASCAR races is insulting to millions of hardworking Americans who love their country and the s
mell of burnt rubber," he said.
The brouhaha began when the House Committee on Homeland Security decided to study public health preparedness at mass gatherings. They advised aides to get immunized for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza before going to the UAW-Ford 500 in Talladega last weekend and the Bank of America 500 this weekend northeast of Charlotte, N.C.
The committee is examining whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is coordinating with state, local and private law-enforcement and health care responders to prepare for possible mass emergencies.
Rep. Robin Hayes, the North Carolina Republican whose district includes the Lowe's Motor Speedway, complained in a letter to the committee's chairman about staff members feeling the need to get vaccinated before visiting his hometown.
Hayes and Thompson exchanged words in a CNN interview. Thompson told Hayes he "ought to be ashamed" of himself for using an effort to protect workers for a "few minutes of fame."
Hayes encouraged people to come to Concord, noting, "We got our shots when we were born."
Unlike a sporting event such as the Super Bowl, which draws about 70,000 people for a few hours, major stock-car races can draw 200,000 to 300,000 fans or more, many of whom camp on-site for several days. Also, NASCAR is privately owned, and directly employs some of the security officials who are in place on race weekends.
That was the word Thursday from Republican officials after they learned that a congressional committee's Democratic staffers had advised aides to get vaccinated for hepatitis and other diseases before visiting NASCAR events in Concord, N.C., and Talladega, Ala......
"Democrats should know that there is no preventive measure yet designed to ward off the blue-collar values and patriotism that NASCAR fans represent," said Linda Daves, the chairwoman of the North Carolina Republican Party. "If they aren't careful, they just might catch some of it."
Republican Rep. Tim Walberg, whose district includes the Michigan International Speedway, said Democrats must not understand the term "rubbin' is racing."
"To suggest that vaccines are needed to attend NASCAR races is insulting to millions of hardworking Americans who love their country and the s
mell of burnt rubber," he said.The brouhaha began when the House Committee on Homeland Security decided to study public health preparedness at mass gatherings. They advised aides to get immunized for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza before going to the UAW-Ford 500 in Talladega last weekend and the Bank of America 500 this weekend northeast of Charlotte, N.C.
The committee is examining whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is coordinating with state, local and private law-enforcement and health care responders to prepare for possible mass emergencies.
Rep. Robin Hayes, the North Carolina Republican whose district includes the Lowe's Motor Speedway, complained in a letter to the committee's chairman about staff members feeling the need to get vaccinated before visiting his hometown.
Hayes and Thompson exchanged words in a CNN interview. Thompson told Hayes he "ought to be ashamed" of himself for using an effort to protect workers for a "few minutes of fame."
Hayes encouraged people to come to Concord, noting, "We got our shots when we were born."
Unlike a sporting event such as the Super Bowl, which draws about 70,000 people for a few hours, major stock-car races can draw 200,000 to 300,000 fans or more, many of whom camp on-site for several days. Also, NASCAR is privately owned, and directly employs some of the security officials who are in place on race weekends.
It do get hard some times to share these stories with a straight face... I don't just lay it on the Dem's, hell - 99% of those inside the beltway pencil necked electees and staffers can't even remember where main street in their home town is. Do you reckon that Bubba and Hellary will go back to Little Rock when her run is over? Bob & Libby Dole back to Kansas? I don't reckon.... But with all the bad things folks are sayin' about Dubya, I'll bet you a dollar to a Buffalo nickel that he and his marvelous bride Laura - will be back in Texas and into blue jeans, faster'n you can say Talladega Raceway when his term is up!
Gore gets the cold shoulder...............
How refreshing is this!!!!!!!!!!!
From the Sydney Morning News
Steve Lytte October 14, 2007
ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.
His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.
"We're brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."
At his first appearance since the award was announced in Oslo, Mr Gore said: "We have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing."
Mr Gore shared the Nobel prize with the United Nations climate panel for their work in helping to galvanise international action against global warming.
But Dr Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicised, said a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures - related to the amount of salt in ocean water - was responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place.
However, he said, that same cycle meant a period of cooling would begin soon and last for several years.
"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was," Dr Gray said.
During his speech to a crowd of about 300 that included meteorology students and a host of professional meteorologists, Dr Gray also said those who had linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years were in error.
He cited statistics showing there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949, in a period of cooler global temperatures, compared to 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth warmed.
"The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," Dr Gray said.
He said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science.
"It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."
ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.
His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.
"We're brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."
At his first appearance since the award was announced in Oslo, Mr Gore said: "We have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing."
Mr Gore shared the Nobel prize with the United Nations climate panel for their work in helping to galvanise international action against global warming.
But Dr Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicised, said a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures - related to the amount of salt in ocean water - was responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place.
However, he said, that same cycle meant a period of cooling would begin soon and last for several years.
"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was," Dr Gray said.
During his speech to a crowd of about 300 that included meteorology students and a host of professional meteorologists, Dr Gray also said those who had linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years were in error.
He cited statistics showing there were 101 hurricanes from 1900 to 1949, in a period of cooler global temperatures, compared to 83 from 1957 to 2006 when the earth warmed.
"The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," Dr Gray said.
He said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science.
"It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."
Now if we could just get a few politicians to stand up and be counted! Forget about them Hollywoodies and other Lear Jet Liberals, just a few elected politicians to stand up and speak out on this inanity! (no I didn't forget the "s" in that word)
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Ain't time passin' a cleansin' thing?..................
With all of the hand wringin' and whining goin' on in this country about lack of control of our borders, how Illegals are ruining the country, and the crisis in the Social Security Program.... it seems a short step back to 2006 (that's just last year y'all) when fifty of our United States Senators voted down an amendment which would have excluded illegals from collecting from our Social Security Fund.
Yeah I see your eyeballs snappin' up there to read that agin! You read it right! When the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 was being discussed on the Senate Floor, Senator John Ensign of Nevada offered up amendment which would ensure that immigrants wouldn't be able to take advantage of our dwindling Social Security pot of gold as a result of their illegal behavior.
The amendment was tabled (read killed, assassinated, dispensed with, buried, beheaded) by a vote of 50 to 49.
Thus the bill was passed without this needed amendment. Now You ain't got to believe ole' Pecoz, 'cause he's been known to spin a yarn here and there --- but I know you'll believe Snopes, the killer of false legends on this here Internet! When you look at this list of Senators - all you see are those who voted "Yea" - kill the Bill. All the missing names voted Nay - to keep the Amendment . More of that pointy toed lawyer crap that makes you think up is down and yes is no...
How did your Senator vote? Fortunately both my Texas Senators done good!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/socialsecurity.asp
If your Senator is on this list, be sure to send him my best wishes next November at election time, y'hear?
Yeah I see your eyeballs snappin' up there to read that agin! You read it right! When the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 was being discussed on the Senate Floor, Senator John Ensign of Nevada offered up amendment which would ensure that immigrants wouldn't be able to take advantage of our dwindling Social Security pot of gold as a result of their illegal behavior.
The amendment was tabled (read killed, assassinated, dispensed with, buried, beheaded) by a vote of 50 to 49.
Thus the bill was passed without this needed amendment. Now You ain't got to believe ole' Pecoz, 'cause he's been known to spin a yarn here and there --- but I know you'll believe Snopes, the killer of false legends on this here Internet! When you look at this list of Senators - all you see are those who voted "Yea" - kill the Bill. All the missing names voted Nay - to keep the Amendment . More of that pointy toed lawyer crap that makes you think up is down and yes is no...
How did your Senator vote? Fortunately both my Texas Senators done good!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/socialsecurity.asp
If your Senator is on this list, be sure to send him my best wishes next November at election time, y'hear?
Saturday, October 13, 2007
An Ideal Home for Lindsay, Britney, Paris and Sharon???
Town in grip of undies shortage
By staff writers
October 11, 2007
FORGET the pub with no beer: it's the town with no knickers in New Zealand's Inglewood.
A year ago, the only clothing shop in town which sold women's knickers stopped stocking these essential items.
The local priest, Gary Husband (soon dubbed the knicker vicar), organised volu
nteers to do a weekly run to New Plymouth and now his prayers for a bus service have been answered. A weekly bus run will start on November 1, run by Taranaki Regional Council operations and Land Transport New Zealand. Council's operations director Rob Phillips says the Tranzit Coachlines trips will be subsidised for a year "to ensure people were really serious about buying those new knickers - and anything else that might take their fancy". Mr Husband heard about the knicker crisis from his parishioners, decided to practise what he preached and so organised the volunteer knicker-runs. Mr Phillips said the council had been aware of the need for a public bus service and the crisis, which made international headlines, emphasised that need.
By staff writers
October 11, 2007
FORGET the pub with no beer: it's the town with no knickers in New Zealand's Inglewood.
A year ago, the only clothing shop in town which sold women's knickers stopped stocking these essential items.
The local priest, Gary Husband (soon dubbed the knicker vicar), organised volu
nteers to do a weekly run to New Plymouth and now his prayers for a bus service have been answered. A weekly bus run will start on November 1, run by Taranaki Regional Council operations and Land Transport New Zealand. Council's operations director Rob Phillips says the Tranzit Coachlines trips will be subsidised for a year "to ensure people were really serious about buying those new knickers - and anything else that might take their fancy". Mr Husband heard about the knicker crisis from his parishioners, decided to practise what he preached and so organised the volunteer knicker-runs. Mr Phillips said the council had been aware of the need for a public bus service and the crisis, which made international headlines, emphasised that need. And y'all thought you had troubles......! Everybody has their own little pesterer's biting 'em in the butt!
Duke Lacrosse Coach bites back.......
"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - The former Duke University men's lacrosse coach who resigned last year amid allegations that three of his players raped a stripper has sued the university. 
Mike Pressler's lawsuit apparently stems from a financial settlement the school reached earlier this year with him, although school officials did not give details Friday. The players were later cleared of the charges.
The Herald-Sun of Durham reported Friday on its Web site that his lawsuit alleges the university broke the terms of the confidential settlement when university senior vice president John Burness made disparaging comments about him.
The newspaper reported that the lawsuit asks the state court to void the settlement and hold a trial on Pressler's claim of wrongful termination."
Mike Pressler's lawsuit apparently stems from a financial settlement the school reached earlier this year with him, although school officials did not give details Friday. The players were later cleared of the charges.
The Herald-Sun of Durham reported Friday on its Web site that his lawsuit alleges the university broke the terms of the confidential settlement when university senior vice president John Burness made disparaging comments about him.
The newspaper reported that the lawsuit asks the state court to void the settlement and hold a trial on Pressler's claim of wrongful termination."
Well now, I ain't big on hiring pointy toed lawyers to solve our problems but I sure can feel that Coach's pain. I also got to wonder why those 70+ liberal fellow Duke professors haven't been taken to the woodshed. They not only published a letter castigating the boys and the coach before they knew the facts... they had the gall to publish a second letter after the facts were known say'n; "Even if weren't true -- it coulda been!"
Kinda sounds like ole Dan Rather's approach to reporting the news accurately don't it?
Cleaning Up Hellary's Family Tree.......
A professional genealogical researcher discovered that Hellary
Rodham Clinton's great-great grandfather, Remus Rodham, a fellow lacking in character, was hanged in Montana in 1889 for horse stealing and train robbery.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing o
n the
gallows. On the back of the picture is this inscription: "Remus
Rodham: horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1883,
escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889."
The researcher e-mailed Hillary's campaign staff for comments.
Her professional image adjusters cropped Remus' picture, scanned it, enlarged it, and cropped it so that all that's seen is a head shot.
The accompanying biographical sketch read as follows:
"Remus Rodham was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory.
His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable
equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad.
Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to
service at a government facility, finally taking leave to resume
his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a
vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective
Agency.
In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function
held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing
collapsed."
And that, folks, is how it's done. Would Ole' Pecoz lie to you?
Rodham Clinton's great-great grandfather, Remus Rodham, a fellow lacking in character, was hanged in Montana in 1889 for horse stealing and train robbery.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing o
n thegallows. On the back of the picture is this inscription: "Remus
Rodham: horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1883,
escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889."
The researcher e-mailed Hillary's campaign staff for comments.
Her professional image adjusters cropped Remus' picture, scanned it, enlarged it, and cropped it so that all that's seen is a head shot.
The accompanying biographical sketch read as follows:
"Remus Rodham was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory.
His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable
equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad.
Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to
service at a government facility, finally taking leave to resume
his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a
vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective
Agency.
In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function
held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing
collapsed."
And that, folks, is how it's done. Would Ole' Pecoz lie to you?
Friday, October 12, 2007
A day at the office.................
From: Marine Corps News
Recon Marines destroy terrorist cell
FALLUJAH, Iraq (Oct. 7, 2007) -- Marine infantrymen have a knack for understating the spectacular. When scout snipers with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 6, destroyed a group of insurgents emplacing roadside bombs, the sniper team leader summed it up simply.“We took the shot, the guys dropped, that’s all she wrote,” said 22-year-old Williamston, Mich., native, Sgt. Kenneth D. Russell, a team leader with 3rd platoon, Company C, 1st Recon Battalion.The attack on the terrorist cell was motivated by an interest in self-defense.
Recon Marines destroy terrorist cell
FALLUJAH, Iraq (Oct. 7, 2007) -- Marine infantrymen have a knack for understating the spectacular. When scout snipers with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 6, destroyed a group of insurgents emplacing roadside bombs, the sniper team leader summed it up simply.“We took the shot, the guys dropped, that’s all she wrote,” said 22-year-old Williamston, Mich., native, Sgt. Kenneth D. Russell, a team leader with 3rd platoon, Company C, 1st Recon Battalion.The attack on the terrorist cell was motivated by an interest in self-defense.
After a long string of improvised explosive devices killed or injured c
oalition servicemembers and destroyed vehicles, the recon team was dispatched to see what they could do to remedy the situation.
oalition servicemembers and destroyed vehicles, the recon team was dispatched to see what they could do to remedy the situation.When Russell and his team finally got the call to go ahead, it was nighttime. They were on patrol, conducting sniper operations and watching for any suspicious activity along the route that had been targeted by terrorists.“We got intelligence from talking to other people in the area, and the area we ended up going to was a bad place,” said Russell. “(Insurgents) were driving back and forth. We took the intelligence and ended up moving further into the area and within an hour of being there, (bad things) started happening.”The team came upon an empty house. Russell thought it would be a good place to stop and take a look around. Twenty-year-old Gambrills, Md., native, Cpl. Andrew D. Myers, the radio operator, and 21-year-old from Dickson, Tenn., Cpl. Jeffrey D. Baker, the squad automatic weapon gunner, went to check it out and did a quick search of the house.
Upon entering, the scene put up red flags for the Marines. First, it was too empty. They knew people lived there, but the domicile looked almost abandoned. Second, livestock was roaming the property unattended.“People don’t normally leave their farm animals behind, so we got a real funny feeling about it,” Russell said.Russell decided the team would set up in the house for the time being. Baker and Myers went to the roof to provide security. Russell and his counterpart, Sgt. Alexander P. MacDonald, a 34-year-old Gladstone, Ore., native, moved on in search of any other houses in the proximity that prove to be a better prospect for surveillance.
When they found no better places for a sniper hide, the two team leaders made their way back to the roof with the others. On the walk back, MacDonald spotted a peculiar wire leading into the courtyard. Tracing it with his eyes, he said he saw it tra
iling off, out of the courtyard, across the road and onto the opposite side, where it disappeared into a grove of reeds in the ditch. Such a wire is a good indicator of IEDs intended for manual detonation by a terrorist. When they inspected the area around where the wire led, their suspicions were confirmed: A huge hole had been dug, large enough to hide a small automobile.Russell and MacDonald went up to the roof to notify the two others of the discovery.
iling off, out of the courtyard, across the road and onto the opposite side, where it disappeared into a grove of reeds in the ditch. Such a wire is a good indicator of IEDs intended for manual detonation by a terrorist. When they inspected the area around where the wire led, their suspicions were confirmed: A huge hole had been dug, large enough to hide a small automobile.Russell and MacDonald went up to the roof to notify the two others of the discovery. The unspoken understanding of warriors used to fighting alongside one another allowed them to come to a consensus without uttering a peep.“We don’t have to say anything to one another, we just kind of know what each of us is thinking,” Russell said about his team, which has been together for 18 months.Russell and MacDonald went back out again to clip the command wires and eliminate the threat the IED posed to the situation. They returned to the house to wait, essentially baiting a trap with the terrorists’ own deadly tools.“That IED was meant for a foot patrol to come through there. It just so happened that night we went out there, there was supposed to be a foot patrol going through there,” Russell said.
An hour and a half later, their patience paid off. Through the thermal goggles they wore, they had noticed movement in the tree line and the reeds 150-175 meters away. They observed two men carrying weapons working with command wire and other materials. Hostile intent had been confirmed. MacDonald grabbed his sniper rifle. Russell took up his own and spotted for MacDonald. The two proceeded to zero in on their target. They waited for the clear shot. Once they had the clear shot MacDonald took control. In a matter of moments, the fight was over, without the enemy firing a single shot.
Once the target was eliminated, the team secured and stayed clandestine and waited for others to arrive to form security and check the scene. They found a spool of command wire and a battery pack among other materials on the bodies. “This wasn’t the first time we had been in this situation,” Russell assured. “I don’t think any of us were nervous. We like the adrenaline rush, and that is pretty much what it is out there.”
Ole' Pecoz's biggest worry today was remembering to pick up a "Quick Pick Lotto Ticket" and gassin' up the car. How was your day at the office?
Super Max Prison -- converts more folks than Evangelists...
MASTERMIND OF FIRST TWIN TOWERS ATTACK CLAIMS HE HAS CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY
"Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive "Supermax" prison where he is being held. Pelley also reports that some 900 force feedings were performed on other al-Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Colorado top-security federal prison. "
I continue to be amazed at how many evil doers of many faiths and no faiths 'come to Jesus' when the gavel comes down sending them to supermax federal prisons.. Maybe all these TV Evangelists ought to take note and start preaching from a judge's bench instead of a pulpit!
Oh well Yousef still has 100 years left on his sentence to build on these new found beliefs!
Do you reckon......?
About that Nobel award.................
Y'all probably were expecting me to opine on Al Gorbot's prize today ... Well, Ole' Pecoz has decided to take a pass and not dignify it with a comment.....
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Amy Carter...... where are you when we need you?
Y'all remember when Jimmie Carter was President of these United States for four very, very, very long years? Do y'all remember his
sayin' that he went to his 10 year old daughter Amy for advice on handling the problem of nuclear proliferation in the world?
sayin' that he went to his 10 year old daughter Amy for advice on handling the problem of nuclear proliferation in the world? Maybe it's time he went back to her now for more advice! Politically, she has her adult feet firmly planted ten leagues to the left of her daddy, but her advice with regard to speaking out publicly would sure help him now.
She was once asked by a reporter; "Do you have any message you would like to share with the children of America?" Her answer was; "No!"
Now, if only her daddy would follow her lead and do the same thing. Forgetting that politics stops at the ocean's edge, particularly in time of war, this personification of the "Peter Principle" ("In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence") travels to the middle East to disparage his successor, President Bush and our relationship with Israel. He flies first class to South Africa and bad mouths both the President and the Vice President.
Now he grants, or hustles, an interview with the BBC (British Broadcasting System) heard 'round the whole damn world and flat accuses President Bush as authorizing torture of prisoners . He then goes on to disp
arage Vice President Dick Cheney, as "a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military."
arage Vice President Dick Cheney, as "a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military."Now I don't know about you Buckaroos, but back when Ole' Pecozbill used to teach salesmanship, Rule #1 was that you can't build up your product by tearing down the others. You got to sell your product on it's own merits.
Apparently Jimma' never learned this lesson and still believes he can rewrite history and rehabilitate the reputation of his failed presidency by whining to anybody who will listen in a vain attempt to make President Bush's look worse.
How sorry is that?????????
Poor little ol' rich boy...............
Y'all really have to feel sorry for "The Donald" lately. Here he is jest trying to make the world a better place, create peace in the world and end hunger in all his ex-wives households... and folks are giving him grief.
The two latest breaking stories concern the protests in Soho in New York City over some high rise condominiums that he wants to build...
.... and the second comes from Aberdeen, Scotland where he wants to tear up 2000 acres and build a couple of golf courses and a huge hotel. Seems like one small Scottish fisherman/farmer and his Mum, who's family has been on the little 23 acre farm for generations, doesn't want to sell. So, "Bigfoot" Don has cut off his easement to the beach where he and his ancestors have fished for years, and is otherwise harassing him.
Too early to see how these two stories will end, although if the past is prologue, Ole' Pecoz is sure the Donald will get his way.
I promise to keep you posted................
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
How strange is this? Give me a hand... or an arm... or a leg...
I can't help but wonder who is crazier - the serial murderer, Louisiana Law, or the lawyers and judge in this case!
BATON ROUGE, La. - A man accused of murdering and dismembering a woman should not face the death penalty because taking the victim's body parts was not "robbery," his attorney argued.
Sean Vincent Gillis, accused of killing eight women between 1994 and 2004, faces first-degree murder charges in the February 2004 death of Donna Bennett Johnston. He pleaded
guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder last week in another of the deaths.
Under state law, Gillis can be convicted of first-degree murder — which could bring the death penalty — only if prosecutors prove an "aggravating circumstance." In a hearing Thursday, lawyers sparred over the prosecution argument that the death of Johnston met that definition because it occurred along with two other crimes, kidnapping and armed robbery.
Sean Vincent Gillis, accused of killing eight women between 1994 and 2004, faces first-degree murder charges in the February 2004 death of Donna Bennett Johnston. He pleaded
guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree murder last week in another of the deaths.Under state law, Gillis can be convicted of first-degree murder — which could bring the death penalty — only if prosecutors prove an "aggravating circumstance." In a hearing Thursday, lawyers sparred over the prosecution argument that the death of Johnston met that definition because it occurred along with two other crimes, kidnapping and armed robbery.
The items taken in the robbery, prosecutors said, were a belt, blanket, earring backing, and one of Johnston's arms and a tattoo from one of her legs.
But it isn't robbery to take body parts because they don't have any monetary value, defense attorney Steven Lemoine told state District Judge Bonnie Jackson. As for the other items, he said, they were just "left over" from the homicide.
"There is no market for the (body parts) Mr. Gillis is accused of taking," he said.
But prosecutor Prem Burns said the case is unique: Most robbers want jewelry or money, but Gillis wanted body parts.
"He has to kill the victim first in order to take them," Burns argued. "These are things that have value to this defendant." Jurors should answer the questions raised by Lemoine, she said.
Man allegedly confessed to 8 killingsThe defense said there are also problems with the kidnapping charge. The prosecution says she was tricked into going with him thinking he would pay her for sex. The defense says there is no way to know whether Johnston was held against her will for any amount of time.
A couple walking a dog found Johnston's body in a field on Feb. 27, 2004. Jackson did not immediately rule on the defense motion to throw out the first-degree murder charge in Johnston's death
First-degree murder can be punished either by life in prison or death by injection. Gillis already faces an automatic life sentence after pleading guilty last week in Port Allen to second-degree murder in the death of Joyce Williams, whose dismembered body was found in 2000.
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But it isn't robbery to take body parts because they don't have any monetary value, defense attorney Steven Lemoine told state District Judge Bonnie Jackson. As for the other items, he said, they were just "left over" from the homicide.
"There is no market for the (body parts) Mr. Gillis is accused of taking," he said.
But prosecutor Prem Burns said the case is unique: Most robbers want jewelry or money, but Gillis wanted body parts.
"He has to kill the victim first in order to take them," Burns argued. "These are things that have value to this defendant." Jurors should answer the questions raised by Lemoine, she said.
Man allegedly confessed to 8 killingsThe defense said there are also problems with the kidnapping charge. The prosecution says she was tricked into going with him thinking he would pay her for sex. The defense says there is no way to know whether Johnston was held against her will for any amount of time.
A couple walking a dog found Johnston's body in a field on Feb. 27, 2004. Jackson did not immediately rule on the defense motion to throw out the first-degree murder charge in Johnston's death
First-degree murder can be punished either by life in prison or death by injection. Gillis already faces an automatic life sentence after pleading guilty last week in Port Allen to second-degree murder in the death of Joyce Williams, whose dismembered body was found in 2000.
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NABJ; "Thumbs down to Imus's return!"
Your humble host was surprised this week (not really) to hear that the National Association of Black Journalists (NAJB) sent a public letter to a privately owned broadcast company telling them not to rehire that dastardly entertainer, Don Imus. Now folks, I ain't never thought ole' Imus was the brightest bulb on the porch, or the funniest, but he is an entertainer -- nothing more! WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Black Journalists urges Citadel Broadcasting chief executive Farid Suleman and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to halt negotiations to return former radio personality Don Imus to the radio and television broadcast airwaves.
Recent reports that Imus is in informal talks with Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and is finalizing contractual details with Citadel Broadcasting are unimaginable.
Imus was fired last April after the shock jock called members of the Rutgers women's basketball team 'nappy-headed ho's.'
Recent reports that Imus is in informal talks with Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and is finalizing contractual details with Citadel Broadcasting are unimaginable.
Imus was fired last April after the shock jock called members of the Rutgers women's basketball team 'nappy-headed ho's.'
Now, ya gotta wonder, why would the NAJB give a rat's patoot whether this entertainer has a job or not? It's not a role that their own constitution calls for them to play:
Constitution
Preamble:
We, the members of the National Association of Black Journalists, believing that Black journalists nationwide should bind themselves together in an effort to increase Black employment in the media, to increase the number of Blacks in management positions, to encourage and educate young Blacks interested in pursuing a journalism career, and to monitor and sensitize all media to racism, do enact and establish this Constitution for the governance of our members.
Preamble:
We, the members of the National Association of Black Journalists, believing that Black journalists nationwide should bind themselves together in an effort to increase Black employment in the media, to increase the number of Blacks in management positions, to encourage and educate young Blacks interested in pursuing a journalism career, and to monitor and sensitize all media to racism, do enact and establish this Constitution for the governance of our members.
Was Imus's comment racist.... probably? Was it mean spirited... perhaps? Was it funny.... that would be in the ear of the behearer. But I ask if the NABJ's own constitution calls on them to ferret out racism in entertainment today? Seems to me their own charter charges them with watching out for racism in journalism and in journalism management.
But let's give 'em the benefit of the doubt and believe that they are the self-appointed arbiters of racism in American entertainment today.. They've been around since 
'75, have you noticed any PR releases regarding the vulgarity, profanity, and racism spewing from the lips of"
'75, have you noticed any PR releases regarding the vulgarity, profanity, and racism spewing from the lips of"Chris Rock? Black Rappers? Richard Pryor? Eddie Murphy? This whole class of rising black stars on the Comedy Channel.
Forget "Ho's", let's talk body parts, the big "N" word, rape, murder, fornication, defecation, urination!!!
Nah, I didn't think you did! If Al Sharpton used the word publicly, in or out of context, do you reckon they'd get all tense and riotous? I don't think so. I think the bottom line here is money! As in fundraising, collecting donations, creating cash! Such phony and selective indignation is usually rooted (pun intended) in digging for bucks!! Oh, did I mention that they have a fund raising arm????? Go to their site and check down that left hand column and click when you get to that magic word: "DONATE" !
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Brit Stuff!!!!!!!!!!!
At least they know graffiti when they see it....
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An art installation at a British gallery was mistaken for graffiti and removed by city janitors.
James Cauty painted "Portslade Massif" across the window and wall of the Ink-d gallery in Brighton to advertise his upcoming exhibition.
Brighton's City Council said the removal of the writing by its graffiti team was a "genuine mistake."
But gallery director Dan Hipkin questioned that, saying the slogan had been on private property.
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An art installation at a British gallery was mistaken for graffiti and removed by city janitors.
James Cauty painted "Portslade Massif" across the window and wall of the Ink-d gallery in Brighton to advertise his upcoming exhibition.
Brighton's City Council said the removal of the writing by its graffiti team was a "genuine mistake."
But gallery director Dan Hipkin questioned that, saying the slogan had been on private property.
Here is a true Nobel Prize Nominee for Science.....
An egghead beat a speeding ticket by proving claims by British police were physically impossible.
Dr. Phillip Tann used a gadget attached to his cellphone to demonstrate that he was not driving 42 mph in a 30-mph zone, but actually just under the speed limit, at 29.177196 mph.
When his lawyers demonstrated the computer scientist's invention, the case was dropped.
"They looked flabbergasted," Tann said. "Police cameras are not 100 percent accurate, but my system is."
Dr. Phillip Tann used a gadget attached to his cellphone to demonstrate that he was not driving 42 mph in a 30-mph zone, but actually just under the speed limit, at 29.177196 mph.
When his lawyers demonstrated the computer scientist's invention, the case was dropped.
"They looked flabbergasted," Tann said. "Police cameras are not 100 percent accurate, but my system is."
Hellery hires Light Fingered (big pants) Sandy Berger.....
As REDSTATE puts it; "With news that she's got Sandy Berger advising her, I must wonder if she's taken to hiding her secrets in her pantyhose to make sure they don't wind up in his socks.
Of course, why would Hillary want to be advised by a man who illegally stole and destroyed national security secrets unless, of course, the secrets he stole were designed to hide her husband's mistakes? Quite a reward for loyal service.
Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents
from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers. “It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.”
Of course, why would Hillary want to be advised by a man who illegally stole and destroyed national security secrets unless, of course, the secrets he stole were designed to hide her husband's mistakes? Quite a reward for loyal service.
Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents
from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers. “It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.” Let me see now, this licensed attorney, former star of the Rose Law Firm in beautiful downtown Lttle Rock, demonstrates the same degree of casualness in her hiring practices as she used to do with her records management.. Maybe "Square Pants Sandy" could serve as her Secretary of State and pilfer secrets, cups, saucers and silverware from Embassies around the world. For those embassies in South America, he could share duties with Hellery's co-campaign chairman Raul Yzaquirre, former president of La Raza national committee...
Pardners, this would all be a real knee slapper if it weren't so damn serious. And she ain't even received one vote from anybody in the country yet! Imagine what this cold hearted, hard headed, profanity spewing , pants wearing, walking castrator will do if she's elected!!!!!!!!
Al Gorebot on inside track to Nobel Prize Friday......?
A quick check of the dictionary definition of "Oxymoron" results in: pointedly foolish, from Greek oxys sharp, keen + mOros foolish: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness) ; broadly : something that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness) ; broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.Thus is born the "Nobel" prize. An annual series of prizes awarded for work in science, physics, economy and peace. Funded by the bequeathed fortune of a Swede named Nobel who made that fortune by developing dynamite and the blaster caps. A giant leap forward in the munitions of the world necessary to kill the most folks with the least effort expended.
No caricatures of this oxymoron need be drawn. A list of those who have been awarded these prizes is plumb eye opening; Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Jimmie Carter, Yes!, Mahatma Ghandi (five times) No!
But back to the inside rumors that Al Gorbot is about to be named as a co-winner this Friday. Ole' Pecoz went back to the dictionary and discov
ered; OXY-"containing additional oxygen". And MORON- "a mildly mentally retarded person". I reckon that if the qualities necessary to be the winner of an award that is a caricature of an oxymoron are that he be a mildly mentally retarded person containing additional oxygen....... who can argue? Al Gorbot is the hands down favorite to win....
ered; OXY-"containing additional oxygen". And MORON- "a mildly mentally retarded person". I reckon that if the qualities necessary to be the winner of an award that is a caricature of an oxymoron are that he be a mildly mentally retarded person containing additional oxygen....... who can argue? Al Gorbot is the hands down favorite to win....Monday, October 8, 2007
20 - 38 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...?????
From the Houston Chronicle:
Oct. 4, 2007, 10:24
Immigration strategies taking shape
By JULIE MASONCopyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
In separate rooms on overlapping morning hours at the National Press Club this week, two very different groups were launching the next rounds in the simmering immigration fight.
In the Zenger Room, named for German immigrant John Peter Zenger, who helped establish free speech law, Californians for Population Stabilization release
d a study claiming there are 20 million to 38 million illegal immigrants in America, not the 12 million the federal government says.
"Immigration is in a state of anarchy," organization member James Walsh, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyer, fervently told the room. "Not chaos, anarchy."
Two doors down in the Murrow Room, named for American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the Spanish-language network Telemundo debuted a series of upbeat pub
lic service announcements urging their audience to register and vote.
News anchor Jose Diaz-Balart said Telemundo wants to leverage the passion from last year's immigration rallies into a stronger turnout among Latinos, who historically vote at disproportionately low rates.
"Hispanics in the U.S. will now have a way to channel all that frustration and do some good," Diaz-Balart said.
By JULIE MASONCopyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
In separate rooms on overlapping morning hours at the National Press Club this week, two very different groups were launching the next rounds in the simmering immigration fight.
In the Zenger Room, named for German immigrant John Peter Zenger, who helped establish free speech law, Californians for Population Stabilization release
d a study claiming there are 20 million to 38 million illegal immigrants in America, not the 12 million the federal government says."Immigration is in a state of anarchy," organization member James Walsh, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyer, fervently told the room. "Not chaos, anarchy."
Two doors down in the Murrow Room, named for American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the Spanish-language network Telemundo debuted a series of upbeat pub
lic service announcements urging their audience to register and vote.News anchor Jose Diaz-Balart said Telemundo wants to leverage the passion from last year's immigration rallies into a stronger turnout among Latinos, who historically vote at disproportionately low rates.
"Hispanics in the U.S. will now have a way to channel all that frustration and do some good," Diaz-Balart said.
So much for those "12" million illegals in the country..... oh well, what's the big deal by estimating 20 million off the mark?
President Bush VS Governor Bush.........
We used to have a Governor Bush here in Texas who knew who he was, what Texas justice was, and demanded that Texas justice be enforced.... Now we have a President Bush residing in that huge pretty White House in Washington, surrounded by pointy toed East Coast lawyers and with a new NAFTA inspired "Green/White" phone on his desk direct from the other President's desk in Mexico city. From the Fort Worth Star Telegram:
A Texas case
The Bush administration is taking the side of a Mexican national who is on Death Row in Texas in a case that examines the president's power to se
t aside a state law that conflicts with an international treaty. Jose Ernesto Medellin, convicted of the gang-rape strangulations of two Houston teenagers, was condemned without getting to seek help from his native country's consulate, despite a decades-old treaty guaranteeing such visits for people arrested outside their homeland. The Texas attorney general's office will argue that the state should be allowed to proceed with Medellin's execution because he failed to show in his original trial that his case had suffered because he did not confer with the Mexican consulate. The Bush administration will argue that states should honor the 1963 Vienna Convention -- a position that is at odds with positions Bush took as Texas governor. (Medellin v. Texas)
The Bush administration is taking the side of a Mexican national who is on Death Row in Texas in a case that examines the president's power to se
t aside a state law that conflicts with an international treaty. Jose Ernesto Medellin, convicted of the gang-rape strangulations of two Houston teenagers, was condemned without getting to seek help from his native country's consulate, despite a decades-old treaty guaranteeing such visits for people arrested outside their homeland. The Texas attorney general's office will argue that the state should be allowed to proceed with Medellin's execution because he failed to show in his original trial that his case had suffered because he did not confer with the Mexican consulate. The Bush administration will argue that states should honor the 1963 Vienna Convention -- a position that is at odds with positions Bush took as Texas governor. (Medellin v. Texas) Keep in mind here Buckaroos, the facts are not in dispute - this animal confessed to these rape/murders, received a fair trial and was convicted by a Texas jury.... at no time during the trial, or subsequent to the trial did he or his lawyers raise the question of consulate visits. Now, after all other legal avenues are exhausted --- all of a sudden, the lack of consulate advice is raised. Governor Bush would have put up with no such nonsensicals.......
It all just breaks Ole Pecozbill's heart - after 15 years of admiration for this man's integrity and consistency.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Well, Hell ---- now I AM worried about global warming....
Fashion warms to reality of climate change
Rachel WellsOctober 7, 2007
LEADING international fashion designers and industry experts say unpredictable and typically warmer weather worldwide is wreaking havoc on the industry.
It is forcing fashion houses to ditch traditional seasonal collections for transeasonal garments that may lead to a drastic overhaul of fashion show schedules and retail delivery dates.
"The whole fashion system will have to change," Beppe Modenese, founder of Milan Fashion Week, told The New York Times last week.
"The fashion system must adapt to the reality that there is no strong difference between summer and winter any more… You can't have everyone showing four times a year to present the same thing. People are not prepared to invest in these clothes that, from one season to the other, use the same fabrics at the same weight."
Mr Modenese's comments came as New York fashion retailers blamed a prolonged "Indian summer" for poor autumn sales. Who needs a woollen pea coat when it is 30 degrees-plus?
We got real reason to worry cuzzin's. Gorbot's world is likely to get so people friendly that Momma won't need to go out and buy a new winter coat every fall... What a shame! Now, I got to ask you, which of these two styles of fashion do you find most attractive?
Rachel WellsOctober 7, 2007
LEADING international fashion designers and industry experts say unpredictable and typically warmer weather worldwide is wreaking havoc on the industry.
It is forcing fashion houses to ditch traditional seasonal collections for transeasonal garments that may lead to a drastic overhaul of fashion show schedules and retail delivery dates.
"The whole fashion system will have to change," Beppe Modenese, founder of Milan Fashion Week, told The New York Times last week.
"The fashion system must adapt to the reality that there is no strong difference between summer and winter any more… You can't have everyone showing four times a year to present the same thing. People are not prepared to invest in these clothes that, from one season to the other, use the same fabrics at the same weight."
Mr Modenese's comments came as New York fashion retailers blamed a prolonged "Indian summer" for poor autumn sales. Who needs a woollen pea coat when it is 30 degrees-plus?
We got real reason to worry cuzzin's. Gorbot's world is likely to get so people friendly that Momma won't need to go out and buy a new winter coat every fall... What a shame! Now, I got to ask you, which of these two styles of fashion do you find most attractive? Words have meaning..... but not to Pelosi!
News from the Crypt...
"Pelosi prays "all the time" for Bush to change policies
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she prays for President Bush to change his policies “all the time” and specifically has prayed for him to sign SCHIP legislation that would expand health insurance for uninsured children. “First of all, I pray for President Bush all the time, and I pray especially hard that he would sign the children’s health bill because it’s so important for America’s children,” she said on Fox News Sunday. “I pray t
hat he makes the right decisions for the American people.” But she added she doesn’t pray specifically “for a political outcome.” “We just pray that God’s will be done. We pray for the children, we pray for poor people, we pray for people who need help,” she said. “And we always, always, always pray for our men and women in uniform who make our freedom to pray possible."
Pelosi also said she disagrees with her party’s major Democratic presidential nominees on whether there should be a continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq in 2013.
At last month’s Democratic presidential debate, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y), Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards all declined to pledge to remove all U.S forces from Iraq by 2013. “I think the Democrats in the House of Representatives are much more optimistic than that,” Pelosi said on Fox News Sunday. “My view would be much more optimistic than what our presidential candidates are saying.”
By Josh Kraushaar 09:45 AM
"Pelosi prays "all the time" for Bush to change policies
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she prays for President Bush to change his policies “all the time” and specifically has prayed for him to sign SCHIP legislation that would expand health insurance for uninsured children. “First of all, I pray for President Bush all the time, and I pray especially hard that he would sign the children’s health bill because it’s so important for America’s children,” she said on Fox News Sunday. “I pray t
hat he makes the right decisions for the American people.” But she added she doesn’t pray specifically “for a political outcome.” “We just pray that God’s will be done. We pray for the children, we pray for poor people, we pray for people who need help,” she said. “And we always, always, always pray for our men and women in uniform who make our freedom to pray possible."Pelosi also said she disagrees with her party’s major Democratic presidential nominees on whether there should be a continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq in 2013.
At last month’s Democratic presidential debate, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y), Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards all declined to pledge to remove all U.S forces from Iraq by 2013. “I think the Democrats in the House of Representatives are much more optimistic than that,” Pelosi said on Fox News Sunday. “My view would be much more optimistic than what our presidential candidates are saying.”
By Josh Kraushaar 09:45 AM
Ole Pecoz has only two things to say about this pickemup truck load of bovine droppin's.... This is the second or third time in a week that the San Francisco "Queen of Mean" has referred to her prayin'. I reckon she's trying to rope in some of those church goin' folks from the religious right, and herd them into her corral. That's my first thought...
My second is that if this Lear Jet Liberal from the Left Coast Senator prays for President Bush, it would be a Hellary type offering - like throwin' an ashtray and shout'n: "Jesus Christ, I wish he'd sign that bill!"
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Who said all the bully gangs were in in Los Angeles....
MORON.ORG -- GOTTA LOVE IT!(Thanx and a tip o'the stetson to the NY Post)
Alas ..... the world gets colder and colder ....
Al Gorbot might be worried about the planet getting warmer, but the rest of us ought to start worrying about the world getting colder. Because of all the sexual harassment crap (sorry, there is no better word) going on in the world, schools are now prohibiting hugs! Yes hugs! Ole' Pecoz ain't talkin' about two young'ns leaning in the corner or under a tree and swappin' spit for a half hour... I'm talkin' about two friends, meeting in the hall, or on the way in or out of school, giving each other a fond embrace -- a hug if you will.
These new rules are being announced in schools from Great Britain to Fort Worth Texas and many schools in between,
We used to have a TV weatherguy here in San Antonio (retired Air Force meteorologist) who finished each weathercast with the words; "Now go out and hug somebody.... it'll make you feel good!" Well Buckaroos, guess what --- it does! He was right and when ya' hug somebody --- ya' just feel better!
The Hollywoodies turned the cheek kisses into 'air' kisses, now the principals are turning hugs into PDA's. That's Public Displays of Affection for some of you old fashioned folks that still think a hug is just a warm hearted way to greet someone!
I think I'll end this little harangue by displaying the most famous, spontaneous hug in the history of these here United States of America! No sex, no harassment. just pure joy at being alive!
Now go out and hug somebody --- it'll make you feel good!
These new rules are being announced in schools from Great Britain to Fort Worth Texas and many schools in between,
We used to have a TV weatherguy here in San Antonio (retired Air Force meteorologist) who finished each weathercast with the words; "Now go out and hug somebody.... it'll make you feel good!" Well Buckaroos, guess what --- it does! He was right and when ya' hug somebody --- ya' just feel better!
The Hollywoodies turned the cheek kisses into 'air' kisses, now the principals are turning hugs into PDA's. That's Public Displays of Affection for some of you old fashioned folks that still think a hug is just a warm hearted way to greet someone!
I think I'll end this little harangue by displaying the most famous, spontaneous hug in the history of these here United States of America! No sex, no harassment. just pure joy at being alive!
Now go out and hug somebody --- it'll make you feel good!
Nail another reason to the front door of the voting booth...
I read in this mornin's paper that Bubba Clinton was over in England raisin' money for Hellary's race....why in England I have no idea, but it's in the paper so it must be true! I always thought it was illegal to accept foreign money for presidential campaigns... at least above board - not under the table like Bubba did from China --
Anyway - in his comments he opined that when Hellery is sworn in as President of these here United States, she is going appoint him to go out into the world and polish America's tarnished image. Well, I spilt my coffee I was coughin' so hard! That Internet word ROFLMAO came to mind. Bubba Clinton, chief image polisher!
The first President in 100 years to get impeached, and only the second in the history of this great country, and impeached for falsely swearing under oath... not for frolicking on the floor of the Oval office with a 21 year old girl child intern. The same Oval office that past Presidents wouldn't even enter without a jacket and tie on -- they held it in such esteem. The Bubba of the 'bimbo eruptions' who can't keep his pants zipped or have enough class to be discreet about it... this is the Bubba that Hellary wants to send out into the world to "polish" our image.
He who ref
used custody of Osama Bin Laden, who blew up an aspirin factory in retaliation for our embassy being blown up .... this Bubba....!
used custody of Osama Bin Laden, who blew up an aspirin factory in retaliation for our embassy being blown up .... this Bubba....! I can understand why she'd want him out of the house... with no duties, there ain't no tellin' what mischief he'd get up to.....
But Lord help us..... let her find a 'Minder' for him --- don't turn him loose on the world acting on our behalf!!!
Friday, October 5, 2007
Is the North American "Amero" Dollar coming???
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Just in case you don't have enough to worry about .... rumors abound on this Internet regarding the coming North American "Amero" Dollar coin. From some reliable sources I might add! With the Canadian dollar recently being allowed to reach parity with the American Dollar , there will be some assistance lent to the peso - and then Walla! the Amero! There is even talk of it happening in less than ten years.... Okay, go back to sleep! I don't have the facts......yet, --but remember you heard it here first!
Could this be called "Media Conspiracy" ?? Or public apathy??
LOS ANGELES—Authorities say a 17-year-old day laborer has been charged with raping a Santa Monica woman.
Prosecutors say Luis Mario Lopez is being charged as an adult with nine felonies and is being held on $7 million bail.
Police say the woman was confronted by the suspect at about 10 p.m. Thursday when she arrived home.
Deputy District Attorney Lisa Houle says the woman was repeatedly attacked over a four-hour period and suffered injuries including a broken nose.
Santa Monica police say Lopez was arrested Friday in his hometown of Oxnard while driving the woman's car.
Police say the victim had previously hired Lopez to do work in her home.
Prosecutors say Luis Mario Lopez is being charged as an adult with nine felonies and is being held on $7 million bail.
Police say the woman was confronted by the suspect at about 10 p.m. Thursday when she arrived home.
Deputy District Attorney Lisa Houle says the woman was repeatedly attacked over a four-hour period and suffered injuries including a broken nose.
Santa Monica police say Lopez was arrested Friday in his hometown of Oxnard while driving the woman's car.
Police say the victim had previously hired Lopez to do work in her home.
Conspiracy? When your host first heard of this heinous crime, I Googled "17 year old day laborer, rape". In return I got over sixty hits from various news sources, both print and electronic, with the same exact words; '17-year-old-day laborer' ! Not one news source mentioned whether he was an American, a legal immigrant or an illegal immigrant! Isn't that strange? Not one reporter in the entire state of California cared enough to ask! Isn't that strange? Do the code words "day laborer" suffice in that sta
te so that the question doesn't need to be addressed?
te so that the question doesn't need to be addressed?This animal, who had been hired by the victim before and knew the house, crawled through the doggie door, ransacked the house and then when the lady got home, beat her, raped her, tied her up, and raped her again. Stole stuff from the house, stole her car, oh, and raped her at least one more time!
Wouldn't you think it would be in the publics interest to know if this was an illegal alien 'day worker', to allow them to show caution when hiring such folks? Nah, I guess not, not if the news media have agreed as a group not to use that phrase.... not if local authorities are not allowed to even ask that question... not if local politicians silently agree not to raise the question or insist that laws be enforced... not if the citizens of Santa Monica go along with this charade!!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Stuff you never even worried about.....
Lea & Perrins®Worcestershire Sauce
Worcestershire sauce was named for the town of Worcester, England, which is in the Shire (county) of Worcester. In 1835, when Lord Marcus Sandys, go
vernor of Bengal, retired to Ombersley, England, he longed for his favorite Indian sauce. He took the recipe to a drugstore on Broad Street in nearby Worcester where he commissioned the shopkeepers, John Lea and William Perrins, to mix up a batch. Lea and Perrins made a large batch, hoping to sell the excess to other customers. The pungent fishy concoction wound up in the cellar where it sat undisturbed until Lea and Perrins rediscovered it two years later when house cleaning. Upon tasting the aged sauce, Lea and Perrin bottled Worcester Sauce as a local dip.
In a famous photograph taken on September 30, 1938, of Neville Chamberlain having dinner with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier, a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce sits on the table.
Worcestershire sauce was named for the town of Worcester, England, which is in the Shire (county) of Worcester. In 1835, when Lord Marcus Sandys, go
vernor of Bengal, retired to Ombersley, England, he longed for his favorite Indian sauce. He took the recipe to a drugstore on Broad Street in nearby Worcester where he commissioned the shopkeepers, John Lea and William Perrins, to mix up a batch. Lea and Perrins made a large batch, hoping to sell the excess to other customers. The pungent fishy concoction wound up in the cellar where it sat undisturbed until Lea and Perrins rediscovered it two years later when house cleaning. Upon tasting the aged sauce, Lea and Perrin bottled Worcester Sauce as a local dip.When Lea and Perrins' salesmen convinced British passenger ships to put the sauce on their dining room tables, Worcestershire Sauce became an established steak sauce across Europe and the United States.
To this day, the ingredients in Worcestershire Sauce are stirred together and allowed to sit for two years before being bottled.
An advertisement in 1919 falsely claimed that Worcestershire Sauce was "a wonderful liquid tonic that makes your hair grow beautiful."
To this day, the ingredients in Worcestershire Sauce are stirred together and allowed to sit for two years before being bottled.
An advertisement in 1919 falsely claimed that Worcestershire Sauce was "a wonderful liquid tonic that makes your hair grow beautiful."
In a famous photograph taken on September 30, 1938, of Neville Chamberlain having dinner with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier, a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce sits on the table.Copyright © 2006 Joey Green. All rights reserved. "Lee & Perrins" is a registered trademark of Lee & Perrins.
Do you reckon one of the problems with the world today is that too many folks are meeting over a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worchestershire Sauce?
Rush vs Reid ............No contest!
Some of my good friends out there in cyberspace been wonder'n why I don't step into this food fight going on between talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh and 'Dingey' Harry Reid, Senate Majority leader..... Well, I tell ya' folks, it looks so lopsided that I just didn't figure any need to take sides or comment. Let's summarize --
Dingey Harry has 99 Senators that have to listen to him, whether they want to or not. He has Senator Tom Harkin, Geraldo Rivera and others of his ilk carrying water for him... That's about it---- Oh yeah - he has Hillary's personal attack group, Media Matters with him.
Rush Limbaugh has 20 Million intelligent, hard working, tax paying listeners each week, Supreme Court Justices, Presidents & Vice 
Presidents, former Senator Fred Thompson and others of their status in his corner. Oh, and did I mention, he has the facts on his side as well? I won't waste my time or yours listing the accomplishments of Jesse MacBeth during his brief 44 day career in the military before he became the darling of the liberal blogs and hangers on like Dingey Harry.
Presidents, former Senator Fred Thompson and others of their status in his corner. Oh, and did I mention, he has the facts on his side as well? I won't waste my time or yours listing the accomplishments of Jesse MacBeth during his brief 44 day career in the military before he became the darling of the liberal blogs and hangers on like Dingey Harry. In summary, I don't reckon Rush needs this ole' boys help. Do you?
Update on Desperate Housewives flap.....
Well Pardners, the producers of Desp'rit Housewives bent over and grabbed their ankles and offered profuse apologies to the Med Schools in the Philippines for using them in a laugh line in their little sit-com. Did the Filipino pholks show their appreciation and acknowledge the apology with a little class? THEY DID NOT! 
It's the old give and inch, take a mile thing .... now they say the apology is not enough, the Philippines Senate (or at least a few of them) are now insisting on lodging a formal complaint with the State Department or Nation Dog Watchers Association or somebody...
They're probably gonna send us a bill for rent due for when our troops hid out in the caves before being captured and death marched to Bataan before they're done! Whats worse, our Congressional Wusses will probably want us to pay it!! Gimme a break!
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Can't have that Non-violence thing getting started...
Tip o'the stetson to - Herald Trib and Cagle Cartoons
Good God Gertie, Get a Grip!!!!
We ain't got enough victims in the world, now the Phillipine Gov'mint wants an apology 'cause they felt slighted in the script of an American sit-com.
Apparently in one of their episodes, Teri Hatcher's character, Susan Mayer, questioned the medical school an attendant had attended,
saying; "can I check those diplomas because I want to make sure they're not from some med school in the Phillipines." That sounds like a throw-away laugh line to me. Substitute India, South America, Central America, Granada, or even Brooklyn..... it works the same...
saying; "can I check those diplomas because I want to make sure they're not from some med school in the Phillipines." That sounds like a throw-away laugh line to me. Substitute India, South America, Central America, Granada, or even Brooklyn..... it works the same...Well, Lord luv a Duck -- the Phillipine gov'mint has now decided that there was a "racial slur" in there somewhere and they want an apology!
Let's see now - it's only Wednesday and beside this dumbass demand, we have already:
- Dingy Harry Reid wants an apology from Rush Limbaugh for disparaging the good name of the lying little weasel that purported to be an Iraq war vet, but was drummed out of the Army after 44 days and is now the darling of the liberal left.
- The San Francisco city council passed a censor vote against broadcaster Michael Savage for remarking that student protesters who are threatening to fast to change immigration laws should be "allowed to fast'!
- The Oakland Airport doesn't want Marines returning from war near their terminal.
- Again, the San Francisco city council denied permission for the Marines to film a commercial in their "fair" city.
- Moveon.org's 4th favorite Senator, Harkin, stood in the protected well of the Senate and as much as accused Limbaugh of being on drugs -- with weasel words of course. But I ain't hearing any apology.
- That great American General (who has already had his fifteen minutes) Wesley Clark, the hero of Bosnia, demands that Rush Limbaugh be taken off Armed Forces Network because he hurts morale.
In the words of that famous international statesman and upstanding citizen of Los Angeles, Rodney King, "Why can't we all just get along?"
Frisco Bay Socialists raise their ugly heads....again!
I was mentally geared up to rant and rave and generally raise hell in this space this morning about the disgraceful actions of late in San Francisco and Oakland CA..... but in his column, Captains Journal, Herschel Smith put it so well, I think I'll just give him credit and share it here:
"Marine Artillery Does Oakland
Published September 30th, 2007 by Herschel Smith in Marine Corps
There is an uppity shopping mall in my city where all the rich people go to let the valet park their car for them and then hang out to show each other how pretentious they are. When we drive up to this mall (an infrequent occurrence to do brief business given the nature of this mall), the girly-girls see our Marine Corps stickers and paraphernalia, they whisper to their girly-man husbands (surely saying something like, “Eewww honey, make the bad people go away - they scare me”), and then they all cast cold stares our direction. My oldest son and I have a plan to deal with these people. We plan to put more Marine Corps stickers on our loud truck, back it up to the mall and rev the engine, bl
ow exhaust into the crowd, play the Marine Corps hymn over loud speakers, and blow our train air horn until all of the “good” people have been scared away.
In response to the Marine Corps being barred from filming a new commercial in San Francisco, I am drafting an amphibious assault plan to reoccupy the Socialist Republic of San Francisco for the United States. In yet another goofy display of self hatred, the Oakland airport is guilty of poor treatment of Marines.
Published September 30th, 2007 by Herschel Smith in Marine Corps
There is an uppity shopping mall in my city where all the rich people go to let the valet park their car for them and then hang out to show each other how pretentious they are. When we drive up to this mall (an infrequent occurrence to do brief business given the nature of this mall), the girly-girls see our Marine Corps stickers and paraphernalia, they whisper to their girly-man husbands (surely saying something like, “Eewww honey, make the bad people go away - they scare me”), and then they all cast cold stares our direction. My oldest son and I have a plan to deal with these people. We plan to put more Marine Corps stickers on our loud truck, back it up to the mall and rev the engine, bl
ow exhaust into the crowd, play the Marine Corps hymn over loud speakers, and blow our train air horn until all of the “good” people have been scared away.In response to the Marine Corps being barred from filming a new commercial in San Francisco, I am drafting an amphibious assault plan to reoccupy the Socialist Republic of San Francisco for the United States. In yet another goofy display of self hatred, the Oakland airport is guilty of poor treatment of Marines.
Michelle Malkin and Michael Ledeen give us the story.
In short: “On September 27th 204 Marines and soldiers who were returning from Iraq were not allowed into the passenger terminal at Oakland International Airport.Instead they had to deplane about 400 yards away from the terminal where the extra baggage trailers were located. This was the last scheduled stop for fuel and food prior to flying to Hawaii where both were based. The trip started in Kuwait on September 26th with a rigorous search of checked and carry on baggage by US Customs. All baggage was x-rayed with a ‘backscatter’ machine AND each bag was completely emptied and hand searched. After being searched, checked bags were marked and immediately placed in a secure container. Carry on bags were then x rayed again to ensure no contraband items were taken on the plane. While waiting for the bus to the airport, all personnel were in quarantined in a fenced area and were not allowed to leave.” Nevertheless, Oakland forbade them from entering its terminal. According to the Marine, a Lieutenant who served in Afghanistan with the same unit in 2006 noted that Oakland had treated troops the same way before. He “was almost arrested by the TSA for getting belligerent about them not letting the Marines into the terminal,” despite more rigorous screening prior to landing in Oakland. Both JFK airport and in Germany had no problem with the Marines entering their terminals.
The solution to this problem certainly lies with the Marine artillery. Camp Pendleton M
arines could be in Oakland in about 8 hours. Actually, I don’t want to be bad press for the Marines, so I am calling off the artillery. But the plans for an amphibious assault on San Francisco and the truck deal at the uppity mall are a go.
Marines are us. They are sons of America, produced by us, nurtured by us, and loved by us, and they now protect our very lives with theirs. Most of America knows this. When we reoccupy San Francisco and retrain them according to my plans, they will understand too.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we could get 100,000+ active, retired, and former military members to stage a massive march through the streets of San Fran? Of course, permits would be denied, but what could they do with a crowd of over 100,000? They couldn’t arrest us, could they? Isn’t San Fran a “sanctuary” city? Couldn’t we demand sanctuary?
I picture an orderly formation marching through the city singing cadences at the top of our voices. It should take place on Earth Day, or one of the other Socialist holidays, Gay pride day would be even better, and quite hilarious."
In short: “On September 27th 204 Marines and soldiers who were returning from Iraq were not allowed into the passenger terminal at Oakland International Airport.Instead they had to deplane about 400 yards away from the terminal where the extra baggage trailers were located. This was the last scheduled stop for fuel and food prior to flying to Hawaii where both were based. The trip started in Kuwait on September 26th with a rigorous search of checked and carry on baggage by US Customs. All baggage was x-rayed with a ‘backscatter’ machine AND each bag was completely emptied and hand searched. After being searched, checked bags were marked and immediately placed in a secure container. Carry on bags were then x rayed again to ensure no contraband items were taken on the plane. While waiting for the bus to the airport, all personnel were in quarantined in a fenced area and were not allowed to leave.” Nevertheless, Oakland forbade them from entering its terminal. According to the Marine, a Lieutenant who served in Afghanistan with the same unit in 2006 noted that Oakland had treated troops the same way before. He “was almost arrested by the TSA for getting belligerent about them not letting the Marines into the terminal,” despite more rigorous screening prior to landing in Oakland. Both JFK airport and in Germany had no problem with the Marines entering their terminals.
The solution to this problem certainly lies with the Marine artillery. Camp Pendleton M
arines could be in Oakland in about 8 hours. Actually, I don’t want to be bad press for the Marines, so I am calling off the artillery. But the plans for an amphibious assault on San Francisco and the truck deal at the uppity mall are a go.Marines are us. They are sons of America, produced by us, nurtured by us, and loved by us, and they now protect our very lives with theirs. Most of America knows this. When we reoccupy San Francisco and retrain them according to my plans, they will understand too.
2 Comments »
Wouldn’t it be great if we could get 100,000+ active, retired, and former military members to stage a massive march through the streets of San Fran? Of course, permits would be denied, but what could they do with a crowd of over 100,000? They couldn’t arrest us, could they? Isn’t San Fran a “sanctuary” city? Couldn’t we demand sanctuary?
I picture an orderly formation marching through the city singing cadences at the top of our voices. It should take place on Earth Day, or one of the other Socialist holidays, Gay pride day would be even better, and quite hilarious."
All kiddin' aside, Ole' Pecoz has had so many e-mails and calls from fellow veterans of the 'Nam era, that it would be impossible to list them all. They seem to be evenly divided between outrage at what happened at Oakland Airport/Frisco's refusal to allow the Marines to make a commercial and ....... fear that this phenomenon in Socialist Frisco Bay area might spread and take the country back to the ugly days of the Sixties and the Jane Fonda era.
We pray this is not the case! One retired Vet had a good question to ponder though.... if 204 marines urinated (my word) on the Oakland runway and then took a dump.... would the message get heard? We'll never know because the Marines have a hell of a lot more class than that whole left wing bigoted city has!
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
British schools blink in the face of fear.....
I reckon the only thing worse than historical revisionism by those with a ca
use -- is historical revisionism as a result of fear and cowardice ---- Shame on Great Britain, the fount of so much of our world history...
use -- is historical revisionism as a result of fear and cowardice ---- Shame on Great Britain, the fount of so much of our world history...From the British Daily Mail, Oct 2, 2007
Teachers drop the holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students wh
ose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
Teachers fear backlash over crackdown in the classroom
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.
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 challe
nge 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.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students wh
ose beliefs include Holocaust denial.Teachers fear backlash over crackdown in the classroom
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.
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 challe
nge 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.
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How dare they turn their backs on these atrocities -- think of all the British soldiers and citizens that died defending against the Nazi's; think of the hundreds of thousands of American GI's that crossed the oceans to lands in which they had no interest and gave the ultimate sacrifice to end these demonic events! How dare they scrape and bow to these Islamic Nazi's of the 21st Century!
Shame on them!!!
Monday, October 1, 2007
"Whizz Quiz" or Drug Testing on the Job........
Just like you folks. Ole' Pecoz gets an e-mail every now and then complaining that as a job holder, the sender has to submit to random drug tests (Whizz Quizz's) and then the Gov'mint taxes his earnings and gives it to welfare recipients who are not subjected to such tests. Well, I got to thinking about it and thought I'd nose around a bit. Guess what? It's true.
Here is a typical state law, this one is the law in Texas:
Summary of Law(s) and Regulation(s):TEXAS Workers' Compensation State law requires
that employers with 15 or more employees who maintain workers' compensation insurance adopt a policy designed to eliminate drug abuse in the workplace. The employer must distribute a written policy to each employee. The law does not require an employer to implement a drug testing or rehabilitation program. Tex. Labor Code Ann. §411.091 (1996). State law denies compensation benefits in cases where the injury occurred while the employee was in a state of intoxication. Tex. Labor Code Ann. §406.032 (1997).
Here is the law in Texas regarding drug testing for welfare recipients....
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That's right -- nada - zippo - zero - nil - nothing!
Ain't that a cryin' shame? Seems like the great state of Michigan wrote such a law back in '99, but the ACLU took them to court and the Sixth Court of Appeals upheld that it was unreasonable search to drug test welfare recipients. Doesn't even have to be an embarrassing urine sample, a lock of hair tests drug use even truer and for a longer period of time! Congress could change things ---- but don't count on that happening!
As a footnote, I got to add that the numbers of folks on welfare, now called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has plummeted these past few years in Texas, with time limits on eligibility and low monthly payments to those who are eligible. But it sure does seem like a burr under the saddle -- to have workers tested, and TANF recipients getting a pass. How does it work in your state?
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