Sanctuary Policies Claim Another Promising Youth
Last summer, three Newark, New Jersey students were gunned down in cold blood by a gang member who had been released from police custody, even though he was charged with another serious felony and was in the country illegally. Sanctuary policies in Newark and in Essex County barred authorities from inquiring about the murderer’s immigration status and allowed him to have the opportunity to snuff out three promising young lives.
This outrageous example sadly, has been lost on the political leaders of Los Angeles — a declared sanctuary city with a policy, known as Special Order 40, that prevents police from inquiring about immigration status. On March 2, another teen, 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., paid for that policy with his life.
Jamiel, a high school football star in Los Angeles, was brutally murdered near his home. The suspect in his killing is Pedro Espinosa, an identified gang member who a day earlier had been released from police custody despite facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon. One other important fact about Espinosa: he is an illegal alien who could have been remanded to federal custody had the Los Angeles Police Department been allowed to inquire about immigration status.
In early April, Jamiel’s family and members of his community came before the Los Angeles City Council, imploring them to protect law-abiding citizens and residents by repealing Special Order 40. Especially poignant was the testimony of Jamiel’s mother, Anita Shaw, an Army sergeant who was serving in Iraq at the time of her son’s murder. “I was sacrificing my life for a better United States, and it’s not safe for my son,” she told the council.
The Council’s response to the Shaw family’s pleas was that this is simply not the time to consider this matter. Councilman Bill Rosendahl rose to opine that what is really needed is a forum to better explain to the public why Special Order 40 was initially implemented 30 years ago. Councilman Richard Alarcon implied that the real outrage about Jamiel’s murder is that it is being used to promote the repeal of Special Order 40.
While the Los Angeles City Council failed to find the murder of an innocent teenager an appropriate reason to reconsider city policies that protect illegal alien criminals, the council and mayor did manage to find time to voice their opposition to federal efforts to deal with illegal immigration. Shortly after Jamiel’s murder, the council held a hearing and approved a resolution by an 11-1 vote opposing the federal SAVE Act, which would step up enforcement against employers who hire illegal aliens.
On March 28, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa penned a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, urging him to end raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on companies employing illegal aliens in Los Angeles. In his letter, Mayor Villaraigosa expressed deep concern about the inconvenience of these raids to employers in Los Angeles and the uncertainty they have created for illegal aliens and their families.
Mayor Villaraigosa has not yet weighed in on the city’s obligation to help remove illegal alien criminals, like Espinosa, from its streets and as yet there has been no similar letter urging the federal government to do its job to protect the lives of innocent Americans like Jamiel Shaw.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Al Sharpton as tax state and Federal deadbeat ?
Al Sharpton as tax state and Federal deadbeat ?
why do we let him near the federal budget/spending, if he cant control his own personal finaces?
Sharpton's own debts include $365,558 owed in New York City income tax and $931,397 in unpaid federal income tax, according to a lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service last spring. His for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owes the state another $175,962 in delinquent taxes.
As for Sharpton's personal tax debt, King said Sharpton has started paying it off but contends that faulty record-keeping by the National Action Network led the government to overestimate his tax liability.
Tax headaches are nothing new for Sharpton. The 53-year-old minister has been assailed over his career for running up big tax debts and failing to abide by rules governing his charities and election committees. He is perpetually being sued for failing to pay his bills.
In December, Sharpton revealed that as many as 10 of his associates had received grand jury subpoenas. A person familiar with the investigation told the AP that the FBI and IRS are probing whether Sharpton or his organization committed tax crimes or violations related to his 2004 presidential campaign, during which he was forced to return public matching funds for breaking fundraising rules.
why do we let him near the federal budget/spending, if he cant control his own personal finaces?
Sharpton's own debts include $365,558 owed in New York City income tax and $931,397 in unpaid federal income tax, according to a lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service last spring. His for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owes the state another $175,962 in delinquent taxes.
As for Sharpton's personal tax debt, King said Sharpton has started paying it off but contends that faulty record-keeping by the National Action Network led the government to overestimate his tax liability.
Tax headaches are nothing new for Sharpton. The 53-year-old minister has been assailed over his career for running up big tax debts and failing to abide by rules governing his charities and election committees. He is perpetually being sued for failing to pay his bills.
In December, Sharpton revealed that as many as 10 of his associates had received grand jury subpoenas. A person familiar with the investigation told the AP that the FBI and IRS are probing whether Sharpton or his organization committed tax crimes or violations related to his 2004 presidential campaign, during which he was forced to return public matching funds for breaking fundraising rules.
Senator Mccain losing his bearings? says Obama
Senator Mccain losing his bearings? says Obama
well if the 72 year plus shoe 72 year plus fits...............
well if the 72 year plus shoe 72 year plus fits...............
IT'S ALL OVER, SEN. CLINTON
IT'S ALL OVER, SEN. CLINTON
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on May 7, 2008.
She lost hard in North Carolina, and barely held on to win Indiana. Hillary Clinton just doesn't have enough straws left to clutch. The best (or worst) she can hope to do the rest of the way is bloody Barack Obama enough to make him lose in the fall, allowing her to come back in 2012.
In fact, Obama basically clinched the nomination with his string of 11 straight primary and caucus wins in February, many by wipe-out margins - giving him a lead in elected delegates that Clinton couldn't hope to close, especially given the nutty proportional-representation rules that govern the Democratic Party.
Do the math. Last night's results leave him with a lead among elected delegates of 150 or so, and among all delegates of around 130.
Only a handful of states are left to vote, with a combined total of about 230 delegates. She'll probably win West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico - and lose Oregon, North Dakota, and Montana. She most likely could pick up a net 10 delegates, leaving him with a lead of at least 130 (110, counting in superdelegates).
If Hillary manages to get Florida and Michigan seated (which she won't), she'll net another 47 delegates. So Obama, worst case, will have a lead of at least 60 delegates. Most likely, it'll be more than 100.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Chairman Howard Dean have all made it clear that they expect superdelegates to decide who to support within (in Reid's words) "days, not weeks" after the last ballots are cast on June 3.
In that environment, Obama - who'll be only about 100 delegates short of a majority - will be an irresistible choice. Few superdelegates will want to risk civil war by overruling the verdict of the voters - and almost all will want to climb aboard the victory bandwagon so as not to get shut out of the White House for four (or eight) years.
In the past few months, Obama has closed Clinton's lead among superdelegates from 60 to 20. The trend will accelerate after popular voting ends; he'll probably pass the 2,025 threshold in the first two weeks of June.
Clinton may stay in, hoping to can seat Florida and Michigan. But she won't win there, either.
The Credentials Committee, which will make the key report, consists of three votes for each state or territory. The remaining contests will leave him with, at worst, a 10-state lead. Howard Dean names 25 committee members, but she can't prosper unless he stacks them all for her - and, if anything, he'll go the other way.
Having lost there, her only option would be to appeal to the convention floor - where neither of the contested delegations can vote on their own credentials, virtually assuring an Obama victory on the credentials fight and the nomination.
Clinton may well fight all the way - she's stubborn and dedicated. More, she's also farsighted and devious: She could hope to so bloody Obama that he can't beat John McCain. If McCain wins, she could get the Democratic nomination in 2012 - and, with McCain closing in on 76 and after 12 years of GOP rule, win.
But one thing is clear: Obama has this nomination sewed up.
Go to DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on May 7, 2008.
She lost hard in North Carolina, and barely held on to win Indiana. Hillary Clinton just doesn't have enough straws left to clutch. The best (or worst) she can hope to do the rest of the way is bloody Barack Obama enough to make him lose in the fall, allowing her to come back in 2012.
In fact, Obama basically clinched the nomination with his string of 11 straight primary and caucus wins in February, many by wipe-out margins - giving him a lead in elected delegates that Clinton couldn't hope to close, especially given the nutty proportional-representation rules that govern the Democratic Party.
Do the math. Last night's results leave him with a lead among elected delegates of 150 or so, and among all delegates of around 130.
Only a handful of states are left to vote, with a combined total of about 230 delegates. She'll probably win West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico - and lose Oregon, North Dakota, and Montana. She most likely could pick up a net 10 delegates, leaving him with a lead of at least 130 (110, counting in superdelegates).
If Hillary manages to get Florida and Michigan seated (which she won't), she'll net another 47 delegates. So Obama, worst case, will have a lead of at least 60 delegates. Most likely, it'll be more than 100.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Chairman Howard Dean have all made it clear that they expect superdelegates to decide who to support within (in Reid's words) "days, not weeks" after the last ballots are cast on June 3.
In that environment, Obama - who'll be only about 100 delegates short of a majority - will be an irresistible choice. Few superdelegates will want to risk civil war by overruling the verdict of the voters - and almost all will want to climb aboard the victory bandwagon so as not to get shut out of the White House for four (or eight) years.
In the past few months, Obama has closed Clinton's lead among superdelegates from 60 to 20. The trend will accelerate after popular voting ends; he'll probably pass the 2,025 threshold in the first two weeks of June.
Clinton may stay in, hoping to can seat Florida and Michigan. But she won't win there, either.
The Credentials Committee, which will make the key report, consists of three votes for each state or territory. The remaining contests will leave him with, at worst, a 10-state lead. Howard Dean names 25 committee members, but she can't prosper unless he stacks them all for her - and, if anything, he'll go the other way.
Having lost there, her only option would be to appeal to the convention floor - where neither of the contested delegations can vote on their own credentials, virtually assuring an Obama victory on the credentials fight and the nomination.
Clinton may well fight all the way - she's stubborn and dedicated. More, she's also farsighted and devious: She could hope to so bloody Obama that he can't beat John McCain. If McCain wins, she could get the Democratic nomination in 2012 - and, with McCain closing in on 76 and after 12 years of GOP rule, win.
But one thing is clear: Obama has this nomination sewed up.
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HILLARY WON'T ADOPT THE HUCKABEE OPTION
HILLARY WON'T ADOPT THE HUCKABEE OPTION
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on May 7, 2008.
OK, so Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is staying in the presidential race despite losing among elected delegates, facing a slimming lead among superdelegates, losing the popular vote and behind by 2-to-1 in the number of states carried. She slogs on, hoping against hope for a sudden turnaround in the race.
Apart from the psychological reasons for her stubbornness, is there a more subtle political calculation going on?
Is she continuing her race so as to have a platform from which to continue to bash Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the hopes of so damaging him that he can’t win the general election? Is she doing this to keep her options alive for the 2012 presidential race?
Hillary is obviously entitled to keep running until Obama has secured the votes necessary for the nomination, and it is certainly understandable that she would want to run until the last popular vote is counted. But must she run a negative, slash-and-burn campaign? Must she use her time on the platform and on television to belittle, mock, deride and try to destroy the man who will eventually be the candidate of her own party?
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) felt similarly justified in staying in the race for the Republican nomination until Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reached the majority threshold required for nomination. He contested the Texas primary vigorously, even though his earlier losses in South Carolina and Florida made it most unlikely that he could win the nomination. But he chose to run a positive campaign. He didn’t knock McCain. He just articulated the case for his own candidacy.
But Hillary won’t avail herself of that option because it does not serve her long-term fallback position: a shot at the nomination in 2012. If Obama is elected this year, he will seek reelection in 2012 and Hillary would have to face taking on an incumbent in a primary in her own party if she wanted to run, a daunting task. But if McCain wins, the nomination in 2012 will be open. And it might be worth having. McCain will be 76 years old and the Republican Party will have been in power for 12 years. Not since FDR and Truman has a party lasted that long in power. When the Republicans tried to do so, in 1992, they fell flat on their face.
Hillary is using white, blue-collar fears of Barack Obama to try to stop him from getting nominated or elected.
She is playing on his “elitism” by hammering him on blue-collar issues and is mincing no words in painting him as a stranger to blue-collar white America.
Hillary is attracting the votes of cops, firefighters, construction workers, union members. Are they in love with Hillary? They can’t stand her. But they are terrified of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and the various influences to which Obama seems to be subject. By playing on those fears, Hillary is undermining Obama’s ability to get elected.
This is not a byproduct of her continued candidacy — it is the goal. She, the consummate realist, must know that she has no practical shot at the nomination herself after her numbing loss in North Carolina and her paper-thin margin in Indiana. But she welcomes the opportunity an ongoing candidacy offers to bash Obama and to drive a wedge between him and the voters he must have to beat McCain.
The question is how long Democratic primary voters and the party leadership let her go on hitting their ultimate nominee. Will they bring Hillary up short and speak out about the harm she is doing to their party’s prospects by way of her refusal to recognize reality?
Hillary doesn’t have to pull out. She is entitled to run in the remaining states. But she should curtail her negative campaign and adopt the Huckabee strategy: Maximize your own vote share, but don’t beat up the party’s nominee. Unless, of course, that is her goal all along.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on May 7, 2008.
OK, so Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is staying in the presidential race despite losing among elected delegates, facing a slimming lead among superdelegates, losing the popular vote and behind by 2-to-1 in the number of states carried. She slogs on, hoping against hope for a sudden turnaround in the race.
Apart from the psychological reasons for her stubbornness, is there a more subtle political calculation going on?
Is she continuing her race so as to have a platform from which to continue to bash Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the hopes of so damaging him that he can’t win the general election? Is she doing this to keep her options alive for the 2012 presidential race?
Hillary is obviously entitled to keep running until Obama has secured the votes necessary for the nomination, and it is certainly understandable that she would want to run until the last popular vote is counted. But must she run a negative, slash-and-burn campaign? Must she use her time on the platform and on television to belittle, mock, deride and try to destroy the man who will eventually be the candidate of her own party?
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) felt similarly justified in staying in the race for the Republican nomination until Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reached the majority threshold required for nomination. He contested the Texas primary vigorously, even though his earlier losses in South Carolina and Florida made it most unlikely that he could win the nomination. But he chose to run a positive campaign. He didn’t knock McCain. He just articulated the case for his own candidacy.
But Hillary won’t avail herself of that option because it does not serve her long-term fallback position: a shot at the nomination in 2012. If Obama is elected this year, he will seek reelection in 2012 and Hillary would have to face taking on an incumbent in a primary in her own party if she wanted to run, a daunting task. But if McCain wins, the nomination in 2012 will be open. And it might be worth having. McCain will be 76 years old and the Republican Party will have been in power for 12 years. Not since FDR and Truman has a party lasted that long in power. When the Republicans tried to do so, in 1992, they fell flat on their face.
Hillary is using white, blue-collar fears of Barack Obama to try to stop him from getting nominated or elected.
She is playing on his “elitism” by hammering him on blue-collar issues and is mincing no words in painting him as a stranger to blue-collar white America.
Hillary is attracting the votes of cops, firefighters, construction workers, union members. Are they in love with Hillary? They can’t stand her. But they are terrified of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and the various influences to which Obama seems to be subject. By playing on those fears, Hillary is undermining Obama’s ability to get elected.
This is not a byproduct of her continued candidacy — it is the goal. She, the consummate realist, must know that she has no practical shot at the nomination herself after her numbing loss in North Carolina and her paper-thin margin in Indiana. But she welcomes the opportunity an ongoing candidacy offers to bash Obama and to drive a wedge between him and the voters he must have to beat McCain.
The question is how long Democratic primary voters and the party leadership let her go on hitting their ultimate nominee. Will they bring Hillary up short and speak out about the harm she is doing to their party’s prospects by way of her refusal to recognize reality?
Hillary doesn’t have to pull out. She is entitled to run in the remaining states. But she should curtail her negative campaign and adopt the Huckabee strategy: Maximize your own vote share, but don’t beat up the party’s nominee. Unless, of course, that is her goal all along.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The Bush-McCain Challenge—a fun new online game from moveon.org
sent to MoveOn members
On Friday, we launched The Bush-McCain Challenge—a fun new online game. The reaction has been AMAZING. 300,000 people have already played, and most of them aren't even MoveOn members!
The Challenge is simple—you just have to tell the difference between Bush and McCain. It's trickier (and more fun) than you'd think!
Our goal is to get 1 million people to play. Can you try it, then send this email to your friends?
Start the Bush-McCain Challenge by clicking here:
http://www.Bush-McCainChallenge.com/?id=12589-3006548-QPp4Gm
www.mccainalert.com
On Friday, we launched The Bush-McCain Challenge—a fun new online game. The reaction has been AMAZING. 300,000 people have already played, and most of them aren't even MoveOn members!
The Challenge is simple—you just have to tell the difference between Bush and McCain. It's trickier (and more fun) than you'd think!
Our goal is to get 1 million people to play. Can you try it, then send this email to your friends?
Start the Bush-McCain Challenge by clicking here:
http://www.Bush-McCainChallenge.com/?id=12589-3006548-QPp4Gm
www.mccainalert.com
The Bush-McCain Challenge—a fun new online game
sent to MoveOn members,
On Friday, we launched The Bush-McCain Challenge—a fun new online game. The reaction has been AMAZING. 300,000 people have already played, and most of them aren't even MoveOn members!
The Challenge is simple—you just have to tell the difference between Bush and McCain. It's trickier (and more fun) than you'd think!
Our goal is to get 1 million people to play. Can you try it, then send this email to your friends?
Start the Bush-McCain Challenge by clicking here:
http://www.Bush-McCainChallenge.com/?id=12589-3006548-QPp4Gm
On Friday, we launched The Bush-McCain Challenge—a fun new online game. The reaction has been AMAZING. 300,000 people have already played, and most of them aren't even MoveOn members!
The Challenge is simple—you just have to tell the difference between Bush and McCain. It's trickier (and more fun) than you'd think!
Our goal is to get 1 million people to play. Can you try it, then send this email to your friends?
Start the Bush-McCain Challenge by clicking here:
http://www.Bush-McCainChallenge.com/?id=12589-3006548-QPp4Gm
McCain re-announces "comprehensive" (amnesty) platform
McCain re-announces "comprehensive" (amnesty) platform
Breaking News--McCain again calls for "comprehensive" amnesty plan.
Go here for details and see below: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=6823&RID=16048556
Yesterday, John McCain re-introduced the word "comprehensive"back into his position on illegal immigration. After spending months telling conservatives that he had "heard"them on illegal immigration, what lesson did John McCain reallylearn? In his own words:
"The lesson I learned from it is we've got to have comprehensive immigration reform." --John McCain, 5/5/08 Of course, those are code words for "amnesty." McCain made the statementduring his day-long push to cater to the Latino vote. McCain also: --said we need to treat illegals in a "humane and compassionate fashion" (more codespeak for "amnesty is coming") --stated that the "tenor of the debate" on immigration has "harmed our image" (i.e. grassroots conservatives like you and me are the bad guys, not the illegal aliens) --announced that he will be speaking at the La Raza annual meeting in July Go here for my full analysis, as well as an excerpt from last night・s Lou Dobbs show:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=6824&RID=16048556
+ + Action Item: Call McCain and tell him you object
Clearly, McCain is testing the waters by using "comprehensive"in his campaign address. Unless McCain gets feedback fromcitizens across the nation objecting to his clear move backto his original amnesty position, we can expect to hear moreamnesty talk from the G.O.P. standard-bearer in the coming months.
Action: Call McCain and let him know you object to his re-introduction of a "comprehensive" (amnesty) into his campaign position on immigration. McCain's D.C. Senate office: 202-224-2235 McCain for President phone number: 703-418-2008 Thanks so much for the stand you are taking!
Breaking News--McCain again calls for "comprehensive" amnesty plan.
Go here for details and see below: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=6823&RID=16048556
Yesterday, John McCain re-introduced the word "comprehensive"back into his position on illegal immigration. After spending months telling conservatives that he had "heard"them on illegal immigration, what lesson did John McCain reallylearn? In his own words:
"The lesson I learned from it is we've got to have comprehensive immigration reform." --John McCain, 5/5/08 Of course, those are code words for "amnesty." McCain made the statementduring his day-long push to cater to the Latino vote. McCain also: --said we need to treat illegals in a "humane and compassionate fashion" (more codespeak for "amnesty is coming") --stated that the "tenor of the debate" on immigration has "harmed our image" (i.e. grassroots conservatives like you and me are the bad guys, not the illegal aliens) --announced that he will be speaking at the La Raza annual meeting in July Go here for my full analysis, as well as an excerpt from last night・s Lou Dobbs show:
http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=6824&RID=16048556
+ + Action Item: Call McCain and tell him you object
Clearly, McCain is testing the waters by using "comprehensive"in his campaign address. Unless McCain gets feedback fromcitizens across the nation objecting to his clear move backto his original amnesty position, we can expect to hear moreamnesty talk from the G.O.P. standard-bearer in the coming months.
Action: Call McCain and let him know you object to his re-introduction of a "comprehensive" (amnesty) into his campaign position on immigration. McCain's D.C. Senate office: 202-224-2235 McCain for President phone number: 703-418-2008 Thanks so much for the stand you are taking!
Saturday, May 03, 2008
anchor babies reported by CBS Katie Couric
anchor babies scam reported by CBS Katie Couric
anyone see this news items where illegals sneak in to have thioer babies for free and then more freebies given as "anchor baby"
foreigners abusing the 14th Amendment by coming here to have their babies
anyone see this news items where illegals sneak in to have thioer babies for free and then more freebies given as "anchor baby"
foreigners abusing the 14th Amendment by coming here to have their babies
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Mccain wearing a Navy baseball cap? if the Navy could do it over........
Mccain wearing a Navy baseball cap? if the Navy could do it over........
would the Navy take back Senator Mccain as a Navy pilot ,
if they knew what they know now?
He trashed 5 jets and was captured by the enemy.
what this piss, he's out there now selling himself as a hero.
but daddy was an Admiral.
would the Navy take back Senator Mccain as a Navy pilot ,
if they knew what they know now?
He trashed 5 jets and was captured by the enemy.
what this piss, he's out there now selling himself as a hero.
but daddy was an Admiral.
Mccain using the old lady's private jet?
Mccain using the old lady's private jet?
I think his current wife, Cindy, got busted for stealing drugs in 1999 in Phoenix.
I think his current wife, Cindy, got busted for stealing drugs in 1999 in Phoenix.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Boeing drops technology ball again in securing the border fence?
Boeing drops the technology ball in securing the border fence?
Boeing seems to be making millions on DHS contracts to secure the border, now it looks like a joke.
Boeing wont' talk, refers all questions to DHS.
Boeing seems to be making millions on DHS contracts to secure the border, now it looks like a joke.
Boeing wont' talk, refers all questions to DHS.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
bummer Hillary wins a black and blue PHILADELPHIA victory
PHILADELPHIA
Hillary Rodham Clinton wins a black and blue PHILADELPHIA primary victory Tuesday night.
"Some counted me out and said to drop out," the former first lady told supporters cheering her triumph in a state where she was outspent by more than two-to-one. "But the American people don't quit. And they deserve a president who doesn't quit, either."
"Because of you, the tide is turning."
Hillary Rodham Clinton wins a black and blue PHILADELPHIA primary victory Tuesday night.
"Some counted me out and said to drop out," the former first lady told supporters cheering her triumph in a state where she was outspent by more than two-to-one. "But the American people don't quit. And they deserve a president who doesn't quit, either."
"Because of you, the tide is turning."
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Senator John McCain doesn't have an effective plan
Senator John McCain doesn't have an effective plan to turn around the faltering U.S. economy Howard Dean said Saturday.
Senator John McCain remarks about the economy this week, I heard more of the same Republican policies that george Bushhas brought us for the last eight years," Dean said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.
Among those policies, Dean said, are "privatizing Social Security, denying our children health care, adding $8 trillion in new deficits, no plan to turn our economy around or help people keep their homes."
Despite the nation's current economic woes, including rising unemployment, lower wages and record gas prices, Senator McCain believes we are better off," Dean said.
Senator John McCain remarks about the economy this week, I heard more of the same Republican policies that george Bushhas brought us for the last eight years," Dean said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.
Among those policies, Dean said, are "privatizing Social Security, denying our children health care, adding $8 trillion in new deficits, no plan to turn our economy around or help people keep their homes."
Despite the nation's current economic woes, including rising unemployment, lower wages and record gas prices, Senator McCain believes we are better off," Dean said.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
are your tax dollar paying for that polygamist sect in ELDORADO, Texas?
are your tax dollar paying for that polygamist sect in ELDORADO, Texas?
Who really paid for that 1,700-acre ranch with that massive temple/ church, all those homes the school, even a dairy, and community gardens ?
looks like a puppymill for children
for food stamps and other state and federal funds.
Who really paid for that 1,700-acre ranch with that massive temple/ church, all those homes the school, even a dairy, and community gardens ?
looks like a puppymill for children
for food stamps and other state and federal funds.
ICE finally makes a serious raid on illegal aliens and employers
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement conducted raids yesterday on 12 businesses in nine states. The biggest targets were Pilgrim’s Pride chicken plants in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida. ICE made more than 280 arrests, including more than 60 on criminal charges of identity theft. Illegal aliens were also arrested for immigration violations at Mexican restaurants and a doughnut factory. In many cases, they were working 72 hours per week and receiving slave wages.
see more at loudobbs.com
see more at loudobbs.com
oh no Hillary Clinton drags out her family's vaginas
oh no Hillary Clinton drags out her family's vaginas in a desperate move to get some female votes.
Shes brings her mother and daughter on stage in Penn.
will this alienate the men ?
www.mccainalert.com
Shes brings her mother and daughter on stage in Penn.
will this alienate the men ?
www.mccainalert.com
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
will David Letterman make $$$ as a Manhattan farmer ?
will TV's David Letterman make $$$ as a Manhattan farmer ?
Farm Bill being worked on now............
in the Farm Bill that your favorite congress is working on, TV personality David Letterman could make mega bucks for not growing fram products.
www.mccainalert.com
Farm Bill being worked on now............
in the Farm Bill that your favorite congress is working on, TV personality David Letterman could make mega bucks for not growing fram products.
www.mccainalert.com
Mccain looking for a black vagina for as a running mate VP?
Mccain looking for a black vagina for as a running mate VP?
senator john Mccain looking for a black vagina for as a running mate VP?
The rumor mill has it that senator John Mccain is
trying to appeal to the black and female voter.
His demographics show him to be weak in this voting group.
www.mccainalert.com
senator john Mccain looking for a black vagina for as a running mate VP?
The rumor mill has it that senator John Mccain is
trying to appeal to the black and female voter.
His demographics show him to be weak in this voting group.
www.mccainalert.com
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Mr
My Friends,
Last week, I embarked on a "Service to America" tour visiting various places that have had great importance in my life. I have always considered service to our country the greatest duty and highest honor, and I continue to encourage others to answer her call, as I believe it is everyone's duty to serve a cause greater than oneself.
Like so many American men and women today, I answered our nation's call to duty early in my life. From the time I entered the U.S. Naval Academy at the age of 17, through the years I spent in Vietnam, and during my tenure in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, I have been blessed with the opportunity to serve our nation.
I am convinced that every challenge I have confronted during my years of serving our country and its ideals has made me better able to lead and ready to serve as President from Day One. And I humbly ask you to join my campaign for President of the United States today, so that I may be so fortunate as to serve our country a little while longer.
I have had the honor to share my five decades of service to America with many great men and women. Most inspiring of all was Ronald Reagan. Today, I am as sure as I was when I first entered public life as a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution that the principles of the Republican Party are always in the best interests of the American people - and I've fought relentlessly in Washington for conservative change to cut taxes, put an end to wasteful spending, and strengthen our military.
On issue after issue, never in recent memory has there been such a stark difference in the direction the candidates want to lead America. I intend to win the war in Iraq and bring our troops home with honor in that victory. Senators Clinton and Obama want to surrender and withdraw our armed forces. When I'm your President, I will continue my fight to end wasteful spending and restore fiscal responsibility to Washington. My Democratic opponents will raise your taxes. In these challenging economic times, the last thing we need is a Democratic president raising our taxes as both Senators Clinton and Obama will do.
When I'm your President, I will promote market-based solutions and consumer choice in order to provide families with affordable and quality health care. Senators Clinton and Obama will offer a big government solution to health care coverage.
As your Republican candidate for President, I have an enormous sense of responsibility and duty. That's why I am not in the habit of making promises to my country that I do not intend to keep.
Therefore, I come to you offering leadership, experience, judgment - and real solutions based on my commitment to the conservative agenda - for that is what separates me from my Democrat opponents. And these are the qualities that I firmly believe have prepared me to guide our nation forward.
But I cannot win this election alone - I need your help.
I stand before you ready to continue my service to our great nation - and prepared to uphold the conservative values that millions of Americans hold dear. I hope you will join me in this fight by following this link to make a campaign contribution of any amount you can afford - up to the legal limit of $2,300.
Thank you,
John McCain
P.S. I have never forgotten what it means to be an American. Even during the toughest of times, when I was a POW in Vietnam, what sustained me during those five and a half years of captivity was my faith in God. Faith in country. Faith in my fellow prisoners. And I'll never forget that day, 35 years ago, when I and many other very happy prisoners of war were returned to freedom.
My friends, we are so fortunate to live in the greatest nation on earth. I am running for President of the United States because I believe in the greatness of this nation as a beacon of goodwill throughout the world. Please consider making a generous contribution to my presidential campaign of $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or $2,300 today. Thank you.
Last week, I embarked on a "Service to America" tour visiting various places that have had great importance in my life. I have always considered service to our country the greatest duty and highest honor, and I continue to encourage others to answer her call, as I believe it is everyone's duty to serve a cause greater than oneself.
Like so many American men and women today, I answered our nation's call to duty early in my life. From the time I entered the U.S. Naval Academy at the age of 17, through the years I spent in Vietnam, and during my tenure in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, I have been blessed with the opportunity to serve our nation.
I am convinced that every challenge I have confronted during my years of serving our country and its ideals has made me better able to lead and ready to serve as President from Day One. And I humbly ask you to join my campaign for President of the United States today, so that I may be so fortunate as to serve our country a little while longer.
I have had the honor to share my five decades of service to America with many great men and women. Most inspiring of all was Ronald Reagan. Today, I am as sure as I was when I first entered public life as a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution that the principles of the Republican Party are always in the best interests of the American people - and I've fought relentlessly in Washington for conservative change to cut taxes, put an end to wasteful spending, and strengthen our military.
On issue after issue, never in recent memory has there been such a stark difference in the direction the candidates want to lead America. I intend to win the war in Iraq and bring our troops home with honor in that victory. Senators Clinton and Obama want to surrender and withdraw our armed forces. When I'm your President, I will continue my fight to end wasteful spending and restore fiscal responsibility to Washington. My Democratic opponents will raise your taxes. In these challenging economic times, the last thing we need is a Democratic president raising our taxes as both Senators Clinton and Obama will do.
When I'm your President, I will promote market-based solutions and consumer choice in order to provide families with affordable and quality health care. Senators Clinton and Obama will offer a big government solution to health care coverage.
As your Republican candidate for President, I have an enormous sense of responsibility and duty. That's why I am not in the habit of making promises to my country that I do not intend to keep.
Therefore, I come to you offering leadership, experience, judgment - and real solutions based on my commitment to the conservative agenda - for that is what separates me from my Democrat opponents. And these are the qualities that I firmly believe have prepared me to guide our nation forward.
But I cannot win this election alone - I need your help.
I stand before you ready to continue my service to our great nation - and prepared to uphold the conservative values that millions of Americans hold dear. I hope you will join me in this fight by following this link to make a campaign contribution of any amount you can afford - up to the legal limit of $2,300.
Thank you,
John McCain
P.S. I have never forgotten what it means to be an American. Even during the toughest of times, when I was a POW in Vietnam, what sustained me during those five and a half years of captivity was my faith in God. Faith in country. Faith in my fellow prisoners. And I'll never forget that day, 35 years ago, when I and many other very happy prisoners of war were returned to freedom.
My friends, we are so fortunate to live in the greatest nation on earth. I am running for President of the United States because I believe in the greatness of this nation as a beacon of goodwill throughout the world. Please consider making a generous contribution to my presidential campaign of $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or $2,300 today. Thank you.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Condi Must Go campaign
It's been only 24 hours since we started our Condi Must Go campaign and thanks to you it's taken off. Already 22,793 of you signed our petition for Secretary of State Rice to resign for approving torture, and the media has turned its eye towards Condi. Now, we need to turn up the heat.
Next week, the eyes of the world will be on Pennsylvania as the Democratic and Republican primaries approach and the candidates debate. This is our chance to bring our campaign to the attention of the political establishment. Next week we will launch an advertising campaign in Pennsylvania with one simple message-- Condi Rice must resign as Secretary of State. But, we need your help.
Contribute $35 right to turn up the heat:
http://www.truemajority.org/CondiAd
Next week, the eyes of the world will be on Pennsylvania as the Democratic and Republican primaries approach and the candidates debate. This is our chance to bring our campaign to the attention of the political establishment. Next week we will launch an advertising campaign in Pennsylvania with one simple message-- Condi Rice must resign as Secretary of State. But, we need your help.
Contribute $35 right to turn up the heat:
http://www.truemajority.org/CondiAd
OVERSTAYING ITS WELCOME
OVERSTAYING ITS WELCOME
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program to track arrival and departure of foreign visitors has been mired in technical problems, cost overruns and delays ever since it was a gleam in Congress’ eye more than a decade ago. We wrote about the aimless program in 2005, and unsurprisingly not too much has changed except that we now have spent more than $2.2 billion on it.
The original plan for U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) was to use stuff like digital facial recognition, voice recognition and retinal scans to track foreign nationals arriving at and departing the nation’s airports, seaports and land points of entry. This would allow DHS to detain persons of interest at the border and detect visa overstays. Rather than use this new gadgetry, however, the agency settled on good old-fashioned fingerprint scans. Hooray.
But the fingerprint scans have had problems. Originally, DHS was only going to use thumb prints, which didn’t meet the FBI’s 10-digit identity and accuracy standards. Eventually, common sense prevailed and now fingerprints will be scanned from all 10 digits. The system will also connect with the FBI database and nine other informational programs tracking foreign nationals coming to this country. The first 10-digit scanner was deployed at Dulles Airport late last year and is supposed to deploy to all points of entry by the end of 2008.
But a new report by the Government Accountability Office has found that while the entry identification capability is present and improving at roughly 300 points of entry across the country, the back end – tracking the exits of those foreign visitors – is virtually nonexistent. As the GAO writes, “Despite long-standing legislative requirements and a sizeable investment of time and resources, DHS has yet to clearly define the second major component of its strategic solution – exit.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program to track arrival and departure of foreign visitors has been mired in technical problems, cost overruns and delays ever since it was a gleam in Congress’ eye more than a decade ago. We wrote about the aimless program in 2005, and unsurprisingly not too much has changed except that we now have spent more than $2.2 billion on it.
The original plan for U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) was to use stuff like digital facial recognition, voice recognition and retinal scans to track foreign nationals arriving at and departing the nation’s airports, seaports and land points of entry. This would allow DHS to detain persons of interest at the border and detect visa overstays. Rather than use this new gadgetry, however, the agency settled on good old-fashioned fingerprint scans. Hooray.
But the fingerprint scans have had problems. Originally, DHS was only going to use thumb prints, which didn’t meet the FBI’s 10-digit identity and accuracy standards. Eventually, common sense prevailed and now fingerprints will be scanned from all 10 digits. The system will also connect with the FBI database and nine other informational programs tracking foreign nationals coming to this country. The first 10-digit scanner was deployed at Dulles Airport late last year and is supposed to deploy to all points of entry by the end of 2008.
But a new report by the Government Accountability Office has found that while the entry identification capability is present and improving at roughly 300 points of entry across the country, the back end – tracking the exits of those foreign visitors – is virtually nonexistent. As the GAO writes, “Despite long-standing legislative requirements and a sizeable investment of time and resources, DHS has yet to clearly define the second major component of its strategic solution – exit.”
just say "no" to Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's hometown, San Francisco, just launched an $83,000 PR media campaign that will actively encourage waves of illegal aliens to sneak across the border.
The massive media blitz will include television and radio ads, billboards and bus signs, and brochures distributed at police stations and hospitals.
The simple and sinister purpose... to assure illegal aliens that they will have safe access to ALL city services -- no questions asked, no IDs checked... services that are supported by the tax dollars of hard-working Americans and legal immigrants all over the country.
Or to put it in the words of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom:
"We're inviting people to come out of the shadows and take advantage of services."
Of course, these ads -- written in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Russian -- really say, in effect:
Come one, come all. And when you sneak across the border, make your way to San Francisco because hard-working American citizens and legal immigrants will pick up your bills from cradle to grave!
Don't worry about working, we'll give you welfare. Don't worry about hospital bills, hard-working American taxpayers have got that covered for you.
Don't worry about educating your children; you won't have to pay a dime and we'll even instruct them in YOUR language so there's no need to worry about something as silly as assimilating.
And if hard-working taxpayers don't like it... TOUGH... They don't have a thing to say about it because we can act with impunity!
What else would you expect from the nation's most in-your-face sanctuary city?
But more importantly, how long will it take for other sanctuary cities across the country to follow San Francisco's example!
It doesn't have to be this way. YOU CAN SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Urge Congress to pass the Clear Act of 2007, which will CUT OFF FEDERAL FUNDS to so-called sanctuary cities!
The massive media blitz will include television and radio ads, billboards and bus signs, and brochures distributed at police stations and hospitals.
The simple and sinister purpose... to assure illegal aliens that they will have safe access to ALL city services -- no questions asked, no IDs checked... services that are supported by the tax dollars of hard-working Americans and legal immigrants all over the country.
Or to put it in the words of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom:
"We're inviting people to come out of the shadows and take advantage of services."
Of course, these ads -- written in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Russian -- really say, in effect:
Come one, come all. And when you sneak across the border, make your way to San Francisco because hard-working American citizens and legal immigrants will pick up your bills from cradle to grave!
Don't worry about working, we'll give you welfare. Don't worry about hospital bills, hard-working American taxpayers have got that covered for you.
Don't worry about educating your children; you won't have to pay a dime and we'll even instruct them in YOUR language so there's no need to worry about something as silly as assimilating.
And if hard-working taxpayers don't like it... TOUGH... They don't have a thing to say about it because we can act with impunity!
What else would you expect from the nation's most in-your-face sanctuary city?
But more importantly, how long will it take for other sanctuary cities across the country to follow San Francisco's example!
It doesn't have to be this way. YOU CAN SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Urge Congress to pass the Clear Act of 2007, which will CUT OFF FEDERAL FUNDS to so-called sanctuary cities!
HILLARY'S NAFTA PRETENSIONS
HILLARY'S NAFTA PRETENSIONS
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on FOXNews.com on April 11, 2008.
Forget about her claim to have dodged sniper’s bullets in Bosnia, or that she was named after Sir Edmund Hilary, or that she met a woman who was denied health care and died.
All of these Hillary Clinton fibs and exaggerations are basically harmless. But her current attempts to lie about her record and to pretend that she always opposed free trade agreements and disagreed with Bill on NAFTA is a serious distortion of her record as she searches for blue collar support in Pennsylvania.
Hillary was a strong supporter of NAFTA. Her official schedule reveals that she attended meetings designed to promote its passage and her memoir, Living History betrays no hint of any opposition to her husband’s key legislative accomplishment of his first two years in office — the ratification of NAFTA.
Hillary and I spoke frequently through all of 1993 and 1994 and together we plotted to help NAFTA ratification. She was deeply involved in the decision to enlist past presidents in supporting the bill and followed the vote count with heightening anxiety as it appeared closer and closer.
That she could totally reinvent her record, turn it around 180 degrees, and expect us to fall for it, shows her arrogance and her continuing belief that she can sell us on anything, no matter how obviously false.
Trade was no side issue in the Clinton administration; it was central to his key worldview — that he had to lead America to compete successfully in the new global economy. His refusal to submit to protectionism or to legislation to reduce layoffs — his commitment to the free market — was a singular badge of courage in his presidency. For Hillary to indicate now so fundamental a disagreement with a policy so integral to her husbands’ presidency is transparently phony.
And when Hillary entered the Senate, before she started to run for president, she was a reliable vote for free trade, supporting a host of bi-lateral agreements negotiated by her husband and by the Bush Administration. She even took the lead in urging the admission of China to the World Trade Organization, the key counter-protectionist step of the past two decades.
Hillary spoke at a meeting to promote NAFTA in November of 1993. Participants told ABC News that Hilary was “100 percent pro-NAFTA” and expressed “not a hint of waffling” on the deal. In 1996, she said that NAFTA was giving Americans a chance to compete. “That’s what a free and fair trade agreement like NAFTA is all about. I think NAFTA is proving its worth.”
And in 2002, the AP reports that she told the Democratic Leadership Council praising Bill’s economic policies: “The economic recovery plan stands first and foremost as a testament to both good ideas and political courage. National service. The Brady Bill. Family leave. NAFTA. Investment in science and technology. All of these came our of some very fundamental ideas bout what would work. The results speak for themselves.”
Does she really believe that we are about to forget history and buy that Hillary was opposed to NAFTA all along?
NAFTA has worked very well. It has improved Mexico and the United States. Without it, we would be burdened by millions of more immigrants from Mexico. It was one of the stellar achievements of the Clinton administration. For Hillary to try to sell us on a revised history speaks to her confidence that she can make us believe anything.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on FOXNews.com on April 11, 2008.
Forget about her claim to have dodged sniper’s bullets in Bosnia, or that she was named after Sir Edmund Hilary, or that she met a woman who was denied health care and died.
All of these Hillary Clinton fibs and exaggerations are basically harmless. But her current attempts to lie about her record and to pretend that she always opposed free trade agreements and disagreed with Bill on NAFTA is a serious distortion of her record as she searches for blue collar support in Pennsylvania.
Hillary was a strong supporter of NAFTA. Her official schedule reveals that she attended meetings designed to promote its passage and her memoir, Living History betrays no hint of any opposition to her husband’s key legislative accomplishment of his first two years in office — the ratification of NAFTA.
Hillary and I spoke frequently through all of 1993 and 1994 and together we plotted to help NAFTA ratification. She was deeply involved in the decision to enlist past presidents in supporting the bill and followed the vote count with heightening anxiety as it appeared closer and closer.
That she could totally reinvent her record, turn it around 180 degrees, and expect us to fall for it, shows her arrogance and her continuing belief that she can sell us on anything, no matter how obviously false.
Trade was no side issue in the Clinton administration; it was central to his key worldview — that he had to lead America to compete successfully in the new global economy. His refusal to submit to protectionism or to legislation to reduce layoffs — his commitment to the free market — was a singular badge of courage in his presidency. For Hillary to indicate now so fundamental a disagreement with a policy so integral to her husbands’ presidency is transparently phony.
And when Hillary entered the Senate, before she started to run for president, she was a reliable vote for free trade, supporting a host of bi-lateral agreements negotiated by her husband and by the Bush Administration. She even took the lead in urging the admission of China to the World Trade Organization, the key counter-protectionist step of the past two decades.
Hillary spoke at a meeting to promote NAFTA in November of 1993. Participants told ABC News that Hilary was “100 percent pro-NAFTA” and expressed “not a hint of waffling” on the deal. In 1996, she said that NAFTA was giving Americans a chance to compete. “That’s what a free and fair trade agreement like NAFTA is all about. I think NAFTA is proving its worth.”
And in 2002, the AP reports that she told the Democratic Leadership Council praising Bill’s economic policies: “The economic recovery plan stands first and foremost as a testament to both good ideas and political courage. National service. The Brady Bill. Family leave. NAFTA. Investment in science and technology. All of these came our of some very fundamental ideas bout what would work. The results speak for themselves.”
Does she really believe that we are about to forget history and buy that Hillary was opposed to NAFTA all along?
NAFTA has worked very well. It has improved Mexico and the United States. Without it, we would be burdened by millions of more immigrants from Mexico. It was one of the stellar achievements of the Clinton administration. For Hillary to try to sell us on a revised history speaks to her confidence that she can make us believe anything.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
Mr
they get bitter.......... or are americans pissed ?
Obama said the small towns are bitter.
they get bitter.......... or are americans pissed ?
popular opinion polls record lows fro President Bush and all of congress.
I feel thae the american voter is pissed at all politicans. They just see them as self serving politicans, who are selling out the individual voter for the dollars of
business interests.
time will tell
Monday, April 07, 2008
"none of the above" ballot idea from Jesse Ventura
"none of the above" ballot idea from Jesse Ventura
this ideal has potential.
if the voter doesn't like either of the 2 current parties they would
now have an option.
this ideal has potential.
if the voter doesn't like either of the 2 current parties they would
now have an option.
PRESIDENT BUSH SELECTIVE PARDONS
Congressional Record: April 2, 2008 (House)
Page H1944
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr02ap08-128]
PRESIDENT BUSH INSULTS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH HIS SELECTIVE PARDONS
AND COMMUTATIONS
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, on March 25, President Bush pardoned 15
people and granted one commutation to crimes that ranged from
falsifying records, conspiracy, bank embezzlement, dealing in firearms,
distributing marijuana, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud,
heroin importation, selling migratory bird parts in violation of the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act, aiding and abetting the escape of a
prisoner, distributing more than 50 grams of crack cocaine, and a
variety of other crimes.
This brings to about 157 the number of pardons and/or commutations
that President Bush has distributed in his administration in his term
in office. And although that number is fewer than other presidents, it
in fact is reflective of something that I consider to be a serious
problem, and that is this, that although the President has been
compassionate or for whatever reason chosen to commute or pardon 157
people up to this point in time, he leaves two Border Patrol agents in
jail today because I believe of the misbehavior of the U.S. Attorney in
that particular district. And this is unconscionable.
This House actually voted last session unanimously to in fact deny
funding to the Department of Justice to continue to hold Border Patrol
agents Ramos and Compean in the Federal prison where they have been
incarcerated now for well over a year. And their terms are for 11 and
12 years. This is because they have been sentenced because of the
testimony of a known drug smuggler by the name of Osvaldo Aldrete-
Davila, who was given immunity from prosecution by U.S. Attorney
Sutton.
The SUV that Aldrete was driving was found to contain 743 pounds of
marijuana. The jury in the Ramos-Compean trial was never told of
Aldrete's criminal background. They were led to believe that Aldrete
was a one-time smuggler trying to make money to help a sick relative.
In fact, he was a professional drug smuggler, and his history was known
to the DEA and to Johnny Sutton, who was the prosecuting attorney, at
the time of the trial, but this history was kept from the jury.
It has been revealed in documents since the trial that U.S. Attorney
Johnny Sutton deliberately delayed the arrest of Aldrete for a
subsequent drug smuggling incident that occurred while Aldrete was
under the grant of immunity but before the trial date. All of this
information, of course, was withheld because it would have revealed
Aldrete as a professional smuggler, not an innocent victim of the
Border Patrol agents. This is a flagrant abuse of prosecutorial
discretion.
These mistakes were compounded by asking for a mandatory 10-year
sentence for Ramos and Compean for the use of a firearm in the
commission of a ``crime.'' The law was never intended to apply to law
officers who use their weapons in the performance of their jobs.
The key question at the trial was whether the drug smuggler Aldrete
had a weapon and had pointed it at one of the Border Patrol agents. Mr.
Aldrete denied having such a weapon. It was his word against the
testimony of the Border Patrol agents, so the credibility of each
witness was critical to the jury's evaluation of the incident, yet the
jury was kept in the dark about Aldrete's other arrests and his history
as a drug smuggler.
The mistakes made by Ramos and Compean in trying to apprehend Mr.
Aldrete should have been handled as a violation of agency rules, the
failure to write and file a report of an incident involving Aldrete,
and punished by a 5-day suspension, not by criminal prosecution. For
that reason alone, this conduct rises to the level of reprehensible,
the conduct I believe of the U.S. Attorney in this case and of the
President of the United States.
To compound the injustice in this case, it is widely known that the
U.S. Attorney is a friend of the President, going back to his days as
Governor. But Bush's refusal to issue a pardon or a commutation amounts
to a coverup I believe of this misconduct in this trial.
Ramos and Compean have appealed their conviction to the U.S. Circuit
Court and a decision on that appeal is due shortly. At the very least
they deserve a new trial. President Bush has it within his power to end
this injustice now by issuing a pardon or a commutation. I sincerely
hope that he takes that responsibility seriously and offers this to Mr.
Ramos and Mr. Compean, who are languishing in prison for literally no
good reason.
Page H1944
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr02ap08-128]
PRESIDENT BUSH INSULTS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH HIS SELECTIVE PARDONS
AND COMMUTATIONS
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. TANCREDO. Mr. Speaker, on March 25, President Bush pardoned 15
people and granted one commutation to crimes that ranged from
falsifying records, conspiracy, bank embezzlement, dealing in firearms,
distributing marijuana, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud,
heroin importation, selling migratory bird parts in violation of the
Migratory Bird Treaty Act, aiding and abetting the escape of a
prisoner, distributing more than 50 grams of crack cocaine, and a
variety of other crimes.
This brings to about 157 the number of pardons and/or commutations
that President Bush has distributed in his administration in his term
in office. And although that number is fewer than other presidents, it
in fact is reflective of something that I consider to be a serious
problem, and that is this, that although the President has been
compassionate or for whatever reason chosen to commute or pardon 157
people up to this point in time, he leaves two Border Patrol agents in
jail today because I believe of the misbehavior of the U.S. Attorney in
that particular district. And this is unconscionable.
This House actually voted last session unanimously to in fact deny
funding to the Department of Justice to continue to hold Border Patrol
agents Ramos and Compean in the Federal prison where they have been
incarcerated now for well over a year. And their terms are for 11 and
12 years. This is because they have been sentenced because of the
testimony of a known drug smuggler by the name of Osvaldo Aldrete-
Davila, who was given immunity from prosecution by U.S. Attorney
Sutton.
The SUV that Aldrete was driving was found to contain 743 pounds of
marijuana. The jury in the Ramos-Compean trial was never told of
Aldrete's criminal background. They were led to believe that Aldrete
was a one-time smuggler trying to make money to help a sick relative.
In fact, he was a professional drug smuggler, and his history was known
to the DEA and to Johnny Sutton, who was the prosecuting attorney, at
the time of the trial, but this history was kept from the jury.
It has been revealed in documents since the trial that U.S. Attorney
Johnny Sutton deliberately delayed the arrest of Aldrete for a
subsequent drug smuggling incident that occurred while Aldrete was
under the grant of immunity but before the trial date. All of this
information, of course, was withheld because it would have revealed
Aldrete as a professional smuggler, not an innocent victim of the
Border Patrol agents. This is a flagrant abuse of prosecutorial
discretion.
These mistakes were compounded by asking for a mandatory 10-year
sentence for Ramos and Compean for the use of a firearm in the
commission of a ``crime.'' The law was never intended to apply to law
officers who use their weapons in the performance of their jobs.
The key question at the trial was whether the drug smuggler Aldrete
had a weapon and had pointed it at one of the Border Patrol agents. Mr.
Aldrete denied having such a weapon. It was his word against the
testimony of the Border Patrol agents, so the credibility of each
witness was critical to the jury's evaluation of the incident, yet the
jury was kept in the dark about Aldrete's other arrests and his history
as a drug smuggler.
The mistakes made by Ramos and Compean in trying to apprehend Mr.
Aldrete should have been handled as a violation of agency rules, the
failure to write and file a report of an incident involving Aldrete,
and punished by a 5-day suspension, not by criminal prosecution. For
that reason alone, this conduct rises to the level of reprehensible,
the conduct I believe of the U.S. Attorney in this case and of the
President of the United States.
To compound the injustice in this case, it is widely known that the
U.S. Attorney is a friend of the President, going back to his days as
Governor. But Bush's refusal to issue a pardon or a commutation amounts
to a coverup I believe of this misconduct in this trial.
Ramos and Compean have appealed their conviction to the U.S. Circuit
Court and a decision on that appeal is due shortly. At the very least
they deserve a new trial. President Bush has it within his power to end
this injustice now by issuing a pardon or a commutation. I sincerely
hope that he takes that responsibility seriously and offers this to Mr.
Ramos and Mr. Compean, who are languishing in prison for literally no
good reason.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
REMEMBER JOHN McCAIN?
REMEMBER JOHN McCAIN?
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on FOXNews.com on April 4, 2008.
He’s the guy who was running for president before all the national attention shifted to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Now, McCain seems to be only an afterthought, at best, or an anachronism, at worst. He has got to get back into the game, otherwise he will never be in contention.
Forget that he leads in the polls. That means nothing. His lead is only the consequence of the division among Democrats. Supporters of Hillary are quite incapable of uttering the “O” word to a pollster and Obama backers won’t admit that they’d ever back Hillary. But once the they settle on a nominee — provided there is no super delegate larceny involved — Democrats will be Democrats and McCain’s lead will vanish. He has got to use this period, when he is not under attack, to flesh out his image and begin his campaign.
To do that, he can’t wait on the sidelines and only put out carefully controlled stories — like his biographical tour which he has just begun. He has to wade into the midst of current controversy, carve out his message, demonstrate his relevance, and make the headlines he needs to become a center of attention and interest.
What should be his message? Populism. Many will urge that he fortify his base. But with Republican Party identification at an all time low, there isn’t enough base out there to win. He needs to attract swing voters. Not by going to the left of the Democrats, but by transcending their liberalism by attacking the forces of privilege their party is bent on protecting.
Here are a few choice targets:
• McCain should go after those who have caused the subprime crisis and demand justice. He should press for recapture of the fees and commissions they made by making loans they knew were no good. He should demand that their licenses be ended, their institutions closed, and their ill gotten gains confiscated.
• He should attack credit card companies for their abuse of consumers through usurious interest rates, high penalty fees imposed at the drop of a hat, and interchange fees that add to the cost of everything we buy.
• McCain should take up the case against Congressional perks, building on his efforts to curtail earmarks, cracking down on Congressional ethics, and taking aim at the day to day practices (as opposed to the speeches) of his two fellow senators who are running for office.
• He should go after regulators who don’t regulate, beginning with those who let unsafe toys into the U.S. He should condemn the FAA for its weaknesses. He should go after the Fed and other regulators for their laxity in the face of the emerging credit crisis.
• McCain should blast China for its abuse of Tibet. While governments are cowed into silence, McCain should speak out for human liberty and against the repressive tactics of Beijing even as China wants us to celebrate their Olympic games.
Strong, vigorous, populist advocacy can bring the spotlight back to McCain, draw attention to the integrity and strength which has always made him a unique public figure.
As he sought the GOP nomination, this muckraking McCain had to be bottled up inside a national security conservative façade. But no matter how deeply McCain believes in national security, it is his populism that has earned him the plaudits that got him to where he is today.
It’s time for the bleached out McCain to exit and for the hearty, embattled, opponent of falsity and privilege to take center stage. And, to show the Democrats how to do it.
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By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on FOXNews.com on April 4, 2008.
He’s the guy who was running for president before all the national attention shifted to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Now, McCain seems to be only an afterthought, at best, or an anachronism, at worst. He has got to get back into the game, otherwise he will never be in contention.
Forget that he leads in the polls. That means nothing. His lead is only the consequence of the division among Democrats. Supporters of Hillary are quite incapable of uttering the “O” word to a pollster and Obama backers won’t admit that they’d ever back Hillary. But once the they settle on a nominee — provided there is no super delegate larceny involved — Democrats will be Democrats and McCain’s lead will vanish. He has got to use this period, when he is not under attack, to flesh out his image and begin his campaign.
To do that, he can’t wait on the sidelines and only put out carefully controlled stories — like his biographical tour which he has just begun. He has to wade into the midst of current controversy, carve out his message, demonstrate his relevance, and make the headlines he needs to become a center of attention and interest.
What should be his message? Populism. Many will urge that he fortify his base. But with Republican Party identification at an all time low, there isn’t enough base out there to win. He needs to attract swing voters. Not by going to the left of the Democrats, but by transcending their liberalism by attacking the forces of privilege their party is bent on protecting.
Here are a few choice targets:
• McCain should go after those who have caused the subprime crisis and demand justice. He should press for recapture of the fees and commissions they made by making loans they knew were no good. He should demand that their licenses be ended, their institutions closed, and their ill gotten gains confiscated.
• He should attack credit card companies for their abuse of consumers through usurious interest rates, high penalty fees imposed at the drop of a hat, and interchange fees that add to the cost of everything we buy.
• McCain should take up the case against Congressional perks, building on his efforts to curtail earmarks, cracking down on Congressional ethics, and taking aim at the day to day practices (as opposed to the speeches) of his two fellow senators who are running for office.
• He should go after regulators who don’t regulate, beginning with those who let unsafe toys into the U.S. He should condemn the FAA for its weaknesses. He should go after the Fed and other regulators for their laxity in the face of the emerging credit crisis.
• McCain should blast China for its abuse of Tibet. While governments are cowed into silence, McCain should speak out for human liberty and against the repressive tactics of Beijing even as China wants us to celebrate their Olympic games.
Strong, vigorous, populist advocacy can bring the spotlight back to McCain, draw attention to the integrity and strength which has always made him a unique public figure.
As he sought the GOP nomination, this muckraking McCain had to be bottled up inside a national security conservative façade. But no matter how deeply McCain believes in national security, it is his populism that has earned him the plaudits that got him to where he is today.
It’s time for the bleached out McCain to exit and for the hearty, embattled, opponent of falsity and privilege to take center stage. And, to show the Democrats how to do it.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
Help Bring the SAVE Act to the House Floor!
Help Bring the SAVE Act to the House Floor!
Call Your Representatives Now!
For over five months, House Leaders have ignored the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088), an important piece of enforcement-only legislation introduced by Congressman Heath Shuler (D-NC). Even though the legislation has 149 co-sponsors from both parties, House Leaders refuse to give it a hearing in the Judiciary Committee!
The reason the SAVE Act has such wide support in Congress is because it both provides more resources to secure the border and contains critical interior enforcement measures. These include:
Mandating that all employers use the E-Verify electronic employment verification program mandatory within 4 years of enactment (SAVE Act §201);
Requiring employers who receive no-match letters to inform employees that they must correct the no-match within 10 days or be terminated. (SAVE Act §202(a)); and
Prohibiting employers from deducting wages paid to illegal aliens. (SAVE Act §211).
To learn more about the SAVE Act, click here.
Now, a growing group of Representatives who support enforcement of our immigration laws are trying to force a vote on the SAVE Act by using a discharge petition filed by Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA). Under House rules, if a discharge petition receives at least 218 signatures, the bill will bypass the normal committee process and go directly to the floor.
Currently the SAVE Act discharge petition has 185 signatures—meaning only 33 more are needed to bring the bill to the floor! To see if your Representative has signed the discharge petition, click here.
Please call your Representatives now and urge them to bring the SAVE Act to the floor immediately!!!!
If your Representative has signed the discharge petition, please thank him/her and let them know you will be watching its progress.
If your Representative has not signed the discharge petition, tell him/her you want enforcement first and that Congress must pass, fund, and implement enforcement legislation before entertaining guest worker amnesty legislation that rewards special interest groups.
Call Your Representatives Now!
For over five months, House Leaders have ignored the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088), an important piece of enforcement-only legislation introduced by Congressman Heath Shuler (D-NC). Even though the legislation has 149 co-sponsors from both parties, House Leaders refuse to give it a hearing in the Judiciary Committee!
The reason the SAVE Act has such wide support in Congress is because it both provides more resources to secure the border and contains critical interior enforcement measures. These include:
Mandating that all employers use the E-Verify electronic employment verification program mandatory within 4 years of enactment (SAVE Act §201);
Requiring employers who receive no-match letters to inform employees that they must correct the no-match within 10 days or be terminated. (SAVE Act §202(a)); and
Prohibiting employers from deducting wages paid to illegal aliens. (SAVE Act §211).
To learn more about the SAVE Act, click here.
Now, a growing group of Representatives who support enforcement of our immigration laws are trying to force a vote on the SAVE Act by using a discharge petition filed by Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA). Under House rules, if a discharge petition receives at least 218 signatures, the bill will bypass the normal committee process and go directly to the floor.
Currently the SAVE Act discharge petition has 185 signatures—meaning only 33 more are needed to bring the bill to the floor! To see if your Representative has signed the discharge petition, click here.
Please call your Representatives now and urge them to bring the SAVE Act to the floor immediately!!!!
If your Representative has signed the discharge petition, please thank him/her and let them know you will be watching its progress.
If your Representative has not signed the discharge petition, tell him/her you want enforcement first and that Congress must pass, fund, and implement enforcement legislation before entertaining guest worker amnesty legislation that rewards special interest groups.
San Francisco launches outreach for illegals
San Francisco launches outreach for illegals
From: Grassfire.org (alert@grassfire.net)
From the Desk of:Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is launching an $83,000outreach campaign designed to attract illegal aliens. Using television, radio, posters and brochuresin five different languages, Newsom says, "We'regoing to spend resources, time and energy to doPSA's, to do campaign outreach into community clinics,into public schools, into our police stations tolet people know what a sanctuary city is all about... Newsom says illegal aliens answering his call need not feardeportation. "We are doing the right thing," he said. ed, this arrogant thumbing of the nose by SF Cityofficials to the established laws of our land and the blatantdisrespect for those citizens who will be required to footthe bill for these illegals is reprehensible, and demandsa strong reaction! That's why I'm asking ALL members of our Grassfire team to takea few minutes to contact Mayor Gavin Newsom and City SupervisorTom Ammiano.
Action Item--Contact SF City Leadership Mayor Gavin Newsomphone: 415-554-6141Email: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org Tom Ammiano, City Supervisorphone: 415-554-5144Email: tom.ammiano@sfgov.org Please contact both of these city leaders and express youroutrage over their public outreach effort welcoming illegal aliens. Let them know that their plan is a "ringing dinner bell" thatwill attract even more illegals--increasing the burden forthose living in San Francisco legally! Urge them to do the right thing by enforcing our laws.
++Action Item #2--Alert your friends Forward this message to 30-40 friends and familymembers urging them to follow your lead bycalling city officials as well. Also encourage them to sign our national petitionto secure our borders by clicking here: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=5796&PID=16048556 Thank you for taking immediate action. Steve ++Help Grassfire Secure the Border: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=5793&CID=242&RID=16048556 + + + + + + +
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From: Grassfire.org (alert@grassfire.net)
From the Desk of:Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is launching an $83,000outreach campaign designed to attract illegal aliens. Using television, radio, posters and brochuresin five different languages, Newsom says, "We'regoing to spend resources, time and energy to doPSA's, to do campaign outreach into community clinics,into public schools, into our police stations tolet people know what a sanctuary city is all about... Newsom says illegal aliens answering his call need not feardeportation. "We are doing the right thing," he said. ed, this arrogant thumbing of the nose by SF Cityofficials to the established laws of our land and the blatantdisrespect for those citizens who will be required to footthe bill for these illegals is reprehensible, and demandsa strong reaction! That's why I'm asking ALL members of our Grassfire team to takea few minutes to contact Mayor Gavin Newsom and City SupervisorTom Ammiano.
Action Item--Contact SF City Leadership Mayor Gavin Newsomphone: 415-554-6141Email: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org Tom Ammiano, City Supervisorphone: 415-554-5144Email: tom.ammiano@sfgov.org Please contact both of these city leaders and express youroutrage over their public outreach effort welcoming illegal aliens. Let them know that their plan is a "ringing dinner bell" thatwill attract even more illegals--increasing the burden forthose living in San Francisco legally! Urge them to do the right thing by enforcing our laws.
++Action Item #2--Alert your friends Forward this message to 30-40 friends and familymembers urging them to follow your lead bycalling city officials as well. Also encourage them to sign our national petitionto secure our borders by clicking here: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=5796&PID=16048556 Thank you for taking immediate action. Steve ++Help Grassfire Secure the Border: http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=5793&CID=242&RID=16048556 + + + + + + +
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10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10
John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:
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Thank you for all you do.
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10
John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:
http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/?id=12407-3006548-q2Trs2&t=232
Thank you for all you do.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
heads up: If dems get a look at senator John Mccain record as a pilot...
heads up: If dems get a look at senator John Mccain record as a pilot...
I think Mccain could crash and burn the whole Republican party this November.
He gets a lot of passes because he was a pow, but his nickname from fellow naval flyers was "crash".
He did trash 5 planes in total, but daddy was a admiral.
www.mccainalert.com
I think Mccain could crash and burn the whole Republican party this November.
He gets a lot of passes because he was a pow, but his nickname from fellow naval flyers was "crash".
He did trash 5 planes in total, but daddy was a admiral.
www.mccainalert.com
Thursday, April 03, 2008
John "crash" McCain returns to Jacksonville,please keep him away from the planes!
John "crash" McCain returns to Jacksonville,please keep him away from the planes!
I think Mccain crashed his 1st plane off of Florida, this was the 1st of 5 planes lost.
I think Dems will focus on his military performance or lack of it. should be some interesting 527 tv ads based upon Mccain military career.
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I think Mccain crashed his 1st plane off of Florida, this was the 1st of 5 planes lost.
I think Dems will focus on his military performance or lack of it. should be some interesting 527 tv ads based upon Mccain military career.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Homeland Security Releases Revised "No-Match" Rules
Homeland Security Releases Revised "No-Match" Rules
On Friday, March 21, the Department Homeland Security (DHS) released revised rules for employers who receive "no-match" letters from the Social Security Administration (SSA). Homeland Security issued the revised rules in response to a federal court injunction that stopped an earlier version from taking effect. No-match letters are notices sent by the SSA to employers, warning them that an employee's name and social security number do not match the Administration's records.
In August 2007, DHS first promulgated no-match letters requiring that employers who receive them take affirmative steps to have the employee resolve the no-match or terminate the employee. The rule was barely in place when several organizations, including the ACLU, the AFL-CIO, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, challenged them and persuaded the federal district court in San Francisco to issue an injunction, barring the rules from taking effect. That federal court decision determined that Homeland Security has the authority to require employers to ensure that listed employees are not illegal aliens, but held that the agency had made several technical errors in promulgating the rule. These three errors identified by the court were that Homeland Security:
Failed to adequately explain its change of position on "no-match" letters;
Established anti-discrimination standards outside of its authority; and
Failed to review and determine the impact of the new regulations on small businesses.
After this ruling, DHS announced it would comply with the court injunction, but also intended to revise the regulations to meet the court's objections.
On Friday, March 21, the Department Homeland Security (DHS) released revised rules for employers who receive "no-match" letters from the Social Security Administration (SSA). Homeland Security issued the revised rules in response to a federal court injunction that stopped an earlier version from taking effect. No-match letters are notices sent by the SSA to employers, warning them that an employee's name and social security number do not match the Administration's records.
In August 2007, DHS first promulgated no-match letters requiring that employers who receive them take affirmative steps to have the employee resolve the no-match or terminate the employee. The rule was barely in place when several organizations, including the ACLU, the AFL-CIO, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, challenged them and persuaded the federal district court in San Francisco to issue an injunction, barring the rules from taking effect. That federal court decision determined that Homeland Security has the authority to require employers to ensure that listed employees are not illegal aliens, but held that the agency had made several technical errors in promulgating the rule. These three errors identified by the court were that Homeland Security:
Failed to adequately explain its change of position on "no-match" letters;
Established anti-discrimination standards outside of its authority; and
Failed to review and determine the impact of the new regulations on small businesses.
After this ruling, DHS announced it would comply with the court injunction, but also intended to revise the regulations to meet the court's objections.
Dan Stein on Immigration Enforcement Methods
Dan Stein on Immigration Enforcement Methods
Dan Stein Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Immigration Enforcement Methods
The modest increase in interior immigration enforcement over the past 18 months has led to the expected protests from the illegal alien advocacy network. Alleging isolated instances in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been heavy-handed in its enforcement efforts, these groups are seeking to limit interior enforcement. The lack of any meaningful form of interior immigration enforcement contributed mightily to the growth of America’s illegal population, as people knew that once they entered the country, little or no effort would be made to find them and remove them.
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law, on February 13, FAIR’s president, Dan Stein, urged Congress to take corrective action when and if ICE does not follow proper procedure. However, he stressed the importance of maintaining a vigorous interior enforcement effort. FAIR has long argued that border security the first line of defense against illegal immigration cannot be the only line of defense. Stein rejected the idea that the remedy for the alleged isolated excesses by ICE should be curtailment of serious interior enforcement efforts.
Speaking on behalf of FAIR, Stein encouraged the subcommittee to continue to add detention facilities for illegal aliens apprehended by ICE and ending the so-called “catch and release” policy. Lacking adequate detention facilities to hold illegal aliens they have already apprehended, ICE has been forced to turn people loose with an order to appear for a hearing at some future date. An audit by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that over a three-year period ending in 2006, 280,987 deportable aliens were released due to lack of detention beds, and that some 600,000 aliens who had been ordered deported had absconded.
Stein also called upon “Congress and the national political leadership of this nation to demonstrate the political will to dramatically increase the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws in a manner consistent with credible deterrence.” Increasing the likelihood of apprehension and detention would deter many potential illegal immigrants from making the expensive and often dangerous journey to the U.S., Stein told the subcommittee.
Dan Stein Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Immigration Enforcement Methods
The modest increase in interior immigration enforcement over the past 18 months has led to the expected protests from the illegal alien advocacy network. Alleging isolated instances in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been heavy-handed in its enforcement efforts, these groups are seeking to limit interior enforcement. The lack of any meaningful form of interior immigration enforcement contributed mightily to the growth of America’s illegal population, as people knew that once they entered the country, little or no effort would be made to find them and remove them.
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law, on February 13, FAIR’s president, Dan Stein, urged Congress to take corrective action when and if ICE does not follow proper procedure. However, he stressed the importance of maintaining a vigorous interior enforcement effort. FAIR has long argued that border security the first line of defense against illegal immigration cannot be the only line of defense. Stein rejected the idea that the remedy for the alleged isolated excesses by ICE should be curtailment of serious interior enforcement efforts.
Speaking on behalf of FAIR, Stein encouraged the subcommittee to continue to add detention facilities for illegal aliens apprehended by ICE and ending the so-called “catch and release” policy. Lacking adequate detention facilities to hold illegal aliens they have already apprehended, ICE has been forced to turn people loose with an order to appear for a hearing at some future date. An audit by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that over a three-year period ending in 2006, 280,987 deportable aliens were released due to lack of detention beds, and that some 600,000 aliens who had been ordered deported had absconded.
Stein also called upon “Congress and the national political leadership of this nation to demonstrate the political will to dramatically increase the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws in a manner consistent with credible deterrence.” Increasing the likelihood of apprehension and detention would deter many potential illegal immigrants from making the expensive and often dangerous journey to the U.S., Stein told the subcommittee.
Al GORE ROLE REMAINS A MYSTERY TO ALL BUT AL
GORE ROLE REMAINS A MYSTERY TO ALL BUT AL
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Even as the rest of the Democratic Party around him takes sides in the epic struggle of Clinton vs. Obama, Al Gore remains inscrutable, silent, above the battle.
His gigantic but unspoken presence is raising rumors and fueling speculation. Joe Klein, writing in Time Magazine, even suggested a scenario where a deadlocked convention turns its lonely eyes to Al.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson comes out for Obama, and so do Ted Kennedy and Bill Bradley. Govs. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania and Jon Corzine of New Jersey back Hillary. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while avoiding an endorsement, speaks out to ask superdelegates to respect the will of the voters.
But barely a peep from Big Al, except to say, "I think it's going to resolve itself. We'll see."
What's his game?
A source close to him confirms that he does not plan to make any endorsement until after the primaries are over on June 3. And then? All they'll say is "stay tuned."
For what? Our guess is that Al is keeping his powder dry to lead the superdelegates in accepting the will of the voters. Perhaps in concert with a Gang of Five that might include former president Jimmy Carter, Pelosi, Party Chairman Howard Dean and former candidate John Edwards, Gore may act as the elder statesman in the party, stepping in after all the voters have spoken, asking the Clintons to accept the will of the people and give way.
He might quell the credentials battles, giving Florida and Michigan some representation in return for a recognition that Obama should be the nominee.
He could be the one who brings closure to what could be an open-ended summer bloodbath.
What about the chances that Al would go the other way and urge a Hillary nomination?
Seeing himself as the victim of one stolen election, we don't think Gore will be anxious to switch sides and help the Clintons steal this one.
He knows that all hell would break lose if the nomination goes to Hillary after the voters give Obama a lead of over 100 votes among elected delegates, and he realizes that the Democratic Party might never recover from the resulting bitterness.
But if Al acts as the honest broker, he can have a great influence and earn the everlasting gratitude of his party for leading the way in avoiding a civil war.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Even as the rest of the Democratic Party around him takes sides in the epic struggle of Clinton vs. Obama, Al Gore remains inscrutable, silent, above the battle.
His gigantic but unspoken presence is raising rumors and fueling speculation. Joe Klein, writing in Time Magazine, even suggested a scenario where a deadlocked convention turns its lonely eyes to Al.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson comes out for Obama, and so do Ted Kennedy and Bill Bradley. Govs. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania and Jon Corzine of New Jersey back Hillary. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while avoiding an endorsement, speaks out to ask superdelegates to respect the will of the voters.
But barely a peep from Big Al, except to say, "I think it's going to resolve itself. We'll see."
What's his game?
A source close to him confirms that he does not plan to make any endorsement until after the primaries are over on June 3. And then? All they'll say is "stay tuned."
For what? Our guess is that Al is keeping his powder dry to lead the superdelegates in accepting the will of the voters. Perhaps in concert with a Gang of Five that might include former president Jimmy Carter, Pelosi, Party Chairman Howard Dean and former candidate John Edwards, Gore may act as the elder statesman in the party, stepping in after all the voters have spoken, asking the Clintons to accept the will of the people and give way.
He might quell the credentials battles, giving Florida and Michigan some representation in return for a recognition that Obama should be the nominee.
He could be the one who brings closure to what could be an open-ended summer bloodbath.
What about the chances that Al would go the other way and urge a Hillary nomination?
Seeing himself as the victim of one stolen election, we don't think Gore will be anxious to switch sides and help the Clintons steal this one.
He knows that all hell would break lose if the nomination goes to Hillary after the voters give Obama a lead of over 100 votes among elected delegates, and he realizes that the Democratic Party might never recover from the resulting bitterness.
But if Al acts as the honest broker, he can have a great influence and earn the everlasting gratitude of his party for leading the way in avoiding a civil war.
Go To DickMorris.com to read all of Dick's columns!
GAO Finds Real Holes in the Virtual Fence
GAO Finds Real Holes in the Virtual Fence
Ever since Congress and the Bush administration agreed to construct hundreds of miles of security fencing along our southern border, immigration enforcement opponents have worked diligently to ensure that it gets built as slowly as possible, if at all. Earlier this year, we reported about provisions in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill that will hamper further construction. There has also been talk from some congressional leaders of substituting “virtual fencing” for the actual fencing called for in the 2006 legislation.
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that virtual fencing may be virtually useless in our efforts to stop real illegal aliens and, potentially, real terrorists who attempt to enter our country. Moreover, the GAO concluded that $20.6 million spent to construct virtual fencing along the Arizona border has turned out to be an actual waste of taxpayer money. Because of problems with the first 28-mile segment, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that completion of the first phase of the technological initiative to secure the border will be delayed from late 2008 until 2011.
The Boeing Corporation was contracted in 2006 to implement a series of nine security towers equipped with night vision cameras, radar and sensors, along with a variety of communications systems and software to monitor activities along large stretches of the border. The technology was supposed to have been in place by June 2007, but the software system failed to distribute the information gathered by the detection devices. In December, Boeing submitted plans to CBP that were supposed to fix these problems. CBP accepted these “fixes” and began training personnel on the system’s use on February 22, just five days before the GAO reported that the virtual fence did not work.
In response, the CBP conceded that they do not expect the virtual fence to substantially improve the Border Patrol’s ability to capture illegal border crossers. Rather — in the virtual reality that exists only inside the Beltway — the value of the failed project is expected to be a lesson learned. The GAO was a little more blunt about the lessons learned. The virtual fence “was never what [the Border Patrol] wanted, it never will be. They’re going to have to replace all the equipment,” Richard Stana, GAO’s director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues told Congress.
In his testimony before Congress in March, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued that the GAO’s conclusions about the virtual fence were overstated. Chertoff assured Congress and the public that Boeing would be absorbing the costs associated with the system’s defects.
FAIR has supported the use of technology that has been proven to work to help monitor activities in more remote areas of the border. However, we have long contended that technology should complement, not replace, actual fencing and manpower. Real fencing, where it is in place along our borders, has proven to be highly effective in controlling illegal entries. But even when technology works as it is supposed to, it is useless without adequate manpower and equipment to apprehend illegal border crossers when they are detected.
Ever since Congress and the Bush administration agreed to construct hundreds of miles of security fencing along our southern border, immigration enforcement opponents have worked diligently to ensure that it gets built as slowly as possible, if at all. Earlier this year, we reported about provisions in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill that will hamper further construction. There has also been talk from some congressional leaders of substituting “virtual fencing” for the actual fencing called for in the 2006 legislation.
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that virtual fencing may be virtually useless in our efforts to stop real illegal aliens and, potentially, real terrorists who attempt to enter our country. Moreover, the GAO concluded that $20.6 million spent to construct virtual fencing along the Arizona border has turned out to be an actual waste of taxpayer money. Because of problems with the first 28-mile segment, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that completion of the first phase of the technological initiative to secure the border will be delayed from late 2008 until 2011.
The Boeing Corporation was contracted in 2006 to implement a series of nine security towers equipped with night vision cameras, radar and sensors, along with a variety of communications systems and software to monitor activities along large stretches of the border. The technology was supposed to have been in place by June 2007, but the software system failed to distribute the information gathered by the detection devices. In December, Boeing submitted plans to CBP that were supposed to fix these problems. CBP accepted these “fixes” and began training personnel on the system’s use on February 22, just five days before the GAO reported that the virtual fence did not work.
In response, the CBP conceded that they do not expect the virtual fence to substantially improve the Border Patrol’s ability to capture illegal border crossers. Rather — in the virtual reality that exists only inside the Beltway — the value of the failed project is expected to be a lesson learned. The GAO was a little more blunt about the lessons learned. The virtual fence “was never what [the Border Patrol] wanted, it never will be. They’re going to have to replace all the equipment,” Richard Stana, GAO’s director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues told Congress.
In his testimony before Congress in March, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued that the GAO’s conclusions about the virtual fence were overstated. Chertoff assured Congress and the public that Boeing would be absorbing the costs associated with the system’s defects.
FAIR has supported the use of technology that has been proven to work to help monitor activities in more remote areas of the border. However, we have long contended that technology should complement, not replace, actual fencing and manpower. Real fencing, where it is in place along our borders, has proven to be highly effective in controlling illegal entries. But even when technology works as it is supposed to, it is useless without adequate manpower and equipment to apprehend illegal border crossers when they are detected.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Chelsea: if you to get a "head" in the world of politics, its helps
Chelsea: if you want to get a "head" in the world of politics, its helps answering the questions.
Hillary is got Chelsea working the public...
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Hillary is got Chelsea working the public...
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Robert D. Novak on Mccain
McCain's Payroll Prize By Robert D. Novak
A major strategist in John McCain's campaign was asked privately this week whether his candidate might propose cutting the payroll tax. "Yes," came the reply. "No problem. Not a big deal." He was wrong on both scores. Cutting the payroll tax, which funds Social Security, is not easy but offers a rich economic prize in this lean Republican year.
Republicans have been wary of touching the Social Security third rail of politics, ever since a re-elected President George W. Bush abandoned his reform under withering Democratic fire. Moreover, Republicans talk about offsetting payroll tax revenue loss by cutting future Social Security benefits, which contains seeds of electoral catastrophe.
Neither McCain nor his advisers seem to realize the value of the political prize that they can grasp. The regressive payroll tax oppresses most Americans, especially young men and women, and burdens small businesses that must match the tax that their employees pay. With dogma-bound Democrats unable to remedy this, the GOP has an opportunity to reach out beyond top-bracket taxpayers, big business and high finance.
About 41 percent of Americans have no income tax liability or do not file a return. But every wage-earner is hit by the payroll tax, amounting to more than they pay in income taxes for 86 percent of them. Young people are stunned when they find out how much is withheld from their first paycheck, labeled FICA. As they marry, have children and earn more money, they hate the 6.2 percent taken out of their first $97,500. In 1990, then-Sen. Robert Kasten, R-Wis., wrote, "These excessive taxes have struck at the heart of the American family."
A major strategist in John McCain's campaign was asked privately this week whether his candidate might propose cutting the payroll tax. "Yes," came the reply. "No problem. Not a big deal." He was wrong on both scores. Cutting the payroll tax, which funds Social Security, is not easy but offers a rich economic prize in this lean Republican year.
Republicans have been wary of touching the Social Security third rail of politics, ever since a re-elected President George W. Bush abandoned his reform under withering Democratic fire. Moreover, Republicans talk about offsetting payroll tax revenue loss by cutting future Social Security benefits, which contains seeds of electoral catastrophe.
Neither McCain nor his advisers seem to realize the value of the political prize that they can grasp. The regressive payroll tax oppresses most Americans, especially young men and women, and burdens small businesses that must match the tax that their employees pay. With dogma-bound Democrats unable to remedy this, the GOP has an opportunity to reach out beyond top-bracket taxpayers, big business and high finance.
About 41 percent of Americans have no income tax liability or do not file a return. But every wage-earner is hit by the payroll tax, amounting to more than they pay in income taxes for 86 percent of them. Young people are stunned when they find out how much is withheld from their first paycheck, labeled FICA. As they marry, have children and earn more money, they hate the 6.2 percent taken out of their first $97,500. In 1990, then-Sen. Robert Kasten, R-Wis., wrote, "These excessive taxes have struck at the heart of the American family."
Jesse Ventura Running for President?
Jesse Ventura Running for President?
reat ideal vs a wimp and a vagina ?
Jesse Ventura could be a sleeper ?
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reat ideal vs a wimp and a vagina ?
Jesse Ventura could be a sleeper ?
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Penn's Catholic Vote Critical
Catholic Vote Critical for Dems in Pa.
Understanding Pennsylvania's rich Catholic tradition and responding to it is an article of faith for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama as the April 22 primary looms in the still unsettled and intense Democratic presidential race.
It's a way of life -- and of thinking -- well-known to the people of Scranton, a working-class city nestled in northeast Pennsylvania where earlier generations worked in the factories, mills and coal mines -- and kneeled in prayer in Catholic church pews on Sunday morning.
Understanding Pennsylvania's rich Catholic tradition and responding to it is an article of faith for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama as the April 22 primary looms in the still unsettled and intense Democratic presidential race.
It's a way of life -- and of thinking -- well-known to the people of Scranton, a working-class city nestled in northeast Pennsylvania where earlier generations worked in the factories, mills and coal mines -- and kneeled in prayer in Catholic church pews on Sunday morning.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
HILLARY'S LIST OF LIES
HILLARY'S LIST OF LIES
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on March 25, 2008.
The USA Today/Gallup survey clearly explains why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is losing. Asked whether the candidates were “honest and trustworthy,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won with 67 percent, with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) right behind him at 63. Hillary scored only 44 percent, the lowest rating for any candidate for any attribute in the poll.
Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here's her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won't Confess To
• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
Why has McCain jumped out to a nine-point lead over Obama and a seven-point lead over Hillary in the latest Rasmussen poll? OK, Obama has had the Rev. Wright mess on his hands. And Hillary has come in for her share of negatives, like the Richardson endorsement of Obama and the denouement of her latest lie — that she endured sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia. But why has McCain gained so much in so short a period of time? Most polls had the general election tied two weeks ago.
McCain's virtues require a contrast in order to stand out. His strength, integrity, solidity and dependability all are essentially passive virtues, which shine only by contrast with others. Now that Obama and Hillary are offering images that are much weaker, less honest, and less solid and dependable, good old John McCain looks that much better as he tours Iraq and Israel while the Democrats rip one another apart.
It took Nixon for us to appreciate Jimmy Carter's simple honesty. It took Clinton and Monica for us to value George W. Bush's personal character. And it takes the unseemly battle among the Democrats for us to give John McCain his due.
When Obama faces McCain in the general election (not if but when) the legacy of the Wright scandal will not be to question Obama's patriotism or love of America. It will be to ask if he has the right stuff (pardon the pun).
The largest gap between McCain and Obama in the most recent USA Today/Gallup Poll was on the trait of leadership. Asked if each man was a “strong, decisive leader,” 69 percent felt that the description fit McCain while only 56 percent thought it would apply to Obama. (61 percent said it of Hillary.) Obama has looked weak handling the Rev. Wright controversy. His labored explanation of why he attacks the sin but loves the sinner comes across as elegant but, at the same time, feeble. Obama's reluctance to trade punches with his opponents makes us wonder if he could trade them with bin Laden or Ahmadinejad. We have no doubt that McCain would gladly come to blows and would represent us well, but about Obama we are not so sure.
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on March 25, 2008.
The USA Today/Gallup survey clearly explains why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is losing. Asked whether the candidates were “honest and trustworthy,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won with 67 percent, with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) right behind him at 63. Hillary scored only 44 percent, the lowest rating for any candidate for any attribute in the poll.
Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here's her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won't Confess To
• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
Why has McCain jumped out to a nine-point lead over Obama and a seven-point lead over Hillary in the latest Rasmussen poll? OK, Obama has had the Rev. Wright mess on his hands. And Hillary has come in for her share of negatives, like the Richardson endorsement of Obama and the denouement of her latest lie — that she endured sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia. But why has McCain gained so much in so short a period of time? Most polls had the general election tied two weeks ago.
McCain's virtues require a contrast in order to stand out. His strength, integrity, solidity and dependability all are essentially passive virtues, which shine only by contrast with others. Now that Obama and Hillary are offering images that are much weaker, less honest, and less solid and dependable, good old John McCain looks that much better as he tours Iraq and Israel while the Democrats rip one another apart.
It took Nixon for us to appreciate Jimmy Carter's simple honesty. It took Clinton and Monica for us to value George W. Bush's personal character. And it takes the unseemly battle among the Democrats for us to give John McCain his due.
When Obama faces McCain in the general election (not if but when) the legacy of the Wright scandal will not be to question Obama's patriotism or love of America. It will be to ask if he has the right stuff (pardon the pun).
The largest gap between McCain and Obama in the most recent USA Today/Gallup Poll was on the trait of leadership. Asked if each man was a “strong, decisive leader,” 69 percent felt that the description fit McCain while only 56 percent thought it would apply to Obama. (61 percent said it of Hillary.) Obama has looked weak handling the Rev. Wright controversy. His labored explanation of why he attacks the sin but loves the sinner comes across as elegant but, at the same time, feeble. Obama's reluctance to trade punches with his opponents makes us wonder if he could trade them with bin Laden or Ahmadinejad. We have no doubt that McCain would gladly come to blows and would represent us well, but about Obama we are not so sure.
McCain: Collaborate More With Allies
McCain: Collaborate More With Allies
Republican John McCain on Wednesday called anew for the United States to work more collegially with democratic allies and live up to its duties as a world leader, drawing a sharp contrast to the past eight years under President Bush.
''Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed,'' the likely presidential nominee said in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. ''We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies,'' McCain added.
Coming days after his trip to the Middle East and Europe, McCain's speech was intended to signal to leaders abroad -- and voters at home -- that he would end an era of what critics have called Bush's cowboy diplomacy. McCain never mentioned Bush's name, though he evoked former Democratic Presidents Truman and Kennedy.
Republican John McCain on Wednesday called anew for the United States to work more collegially with democratic allies and live up to its duties as a world leader, drawing a sharp contrast to the past eight years under President Bush.
''Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed,'' the likely presidential nominee said in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. ''We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies,'' McCain added.
Coming days after his trip to the Middle East and Europe, McCain's speech was intended to signal to leaders abroad -- and voters at home -- that he would end an era of what critics have called Bush's cowboy diplomacy. McCain never mentioned Bush's name, though he evoked former Democratic Presidents Truman and Kennedy.
overdosed on all the Clinton bullshit ?
overdosed on all the Clinton bullshit ?
I feel that the public may have overdosed on all the Hillary and Bill bullshit.
everything from
I never had sexual relations...........
I was under sniper fire...........
it's non of your business from Chelsa( while out pimping her mother)
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I feel that the public may have overdosed on all the Hillary and Bill bullshit.
everything from
I never had sexual relations...........
I was under sniper fire...........
it's non of your business from Chelsa( while out pimping her mother)
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Senator John Mccain wants to legalize hookers?
John Mccain wants to legalize hookers?
Mccain wants to legalize hookers?
is Mccain suggesting legalization of prostitution ?
did you hear the voice on the new Mccain TV spots?
it's the voice of the pimp in the HBO's Deadwood series.
Powers Boothe is the actor who played role on pimp/inn keeper
business man in the Deadwood series
sounds pretty scary to me........
yet another presidential race.
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Senator John Mccain wants to legalize hookers?
Mccain wants to legalize hookers?
is Mccain suggesting legalization of prostitution ?
did you hear the voice on the new Mccain TV spots?
it's the voice of the pimp in the HBO's Deadwood series.
Powers Boothe is the actor who played role on pimp/inn keeper
business man in the Deadwood series
sounds pretty scary to me........
yet another presidential race.
see more thoughts on senator John Mccain
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Monica Lewinsky to vote this November ?
Monica Lewinsky to vote this November ?
I can see the network coverage of Monica ariving and walking to the voteing booth.
How about the same site that Bill Clinton and Hillary will vote at ?
Maybe the Obama people can pick up the tab for Monica ?
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Bush said: "Small business owners are dreamers and doers.r
President Bush Says Tax Rebates Will Make Economy 'Stronger Than Ever Before'
President Bush says the sagging economy will "come out stronger than ever before" with the help of rebates from the recently enacted economic stimulus package.
Speaking at the ColorCraft printing company in Sterling, Va: Bush made his comments after touring the plant
He said that beginning in the second week of May, "a lot of folks are going to be getting a sizable check. I'm looking forward to that day and I know they are as well."
The president said his administration had taken "decisive action" by getting money for taxpayers and businesses, which are to receive tax incentives to invest. He said that will create new jobs.
Bush said: "Small business owners are dreamers and doers. We want to watch them and help them expand."
President Bush says the sagging economy will "come out stronger than ever before" with the help of rebates from the recently enacted economic stimulus package.
Speaking at the ColorCraft printing company in Sterling, Va: Bush made his comments after touring the plant
He said that beginning in the second week of May, "a lot of folks are going to be getting a sizable check. I'm looking forward to that day and I know they are as well."
The president said his administration had taken "decisive action" by getting money for taxpayers and businesses, which are to receive tax incentives to invest. He said that will create new jobs.
Bush said: "Small business owners are dreamers and doers. We want to watch them and help them expand."
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Hillary Clinton mis - spoke or old fashion bullshit ?
Hillary Clinton mis - spoke or old fashion bullshit ? how often does she get sniper fire?
puffing herself up???????????
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puffing herself up???????????
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Hillary Clinton caught in her own bullshit again
Hillary Clinton caught in her own bullshit again........oh...hogwash....
Hillary recalls her trip to Bosnia
"I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton recounted.
Clinton has declared on the campaign trail
that a welcoming ceremony for the March 1996 arrival was canceled,
and she had to run from the airplane into an airport building for safety.
Felllow travelers included the comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow and daughter Chelsea
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Hillary recalls her trip to Bosnia
"I remember landing under sniper fire," Clinton recounted.
Clinton has declared on the campaign trail
that a welcoming ceremony for the March 1996 arrival was canceled,
and she had to run from the airplane into an airport building for safety.
Felllow travelers included the comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow and daughter Chelsea
see more photos at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59567
Friday, March 21, 2008
Obama's 'typical white' remark offends all crackers ?
Obama's 'typical white' remark offends all crackers ?
Barack Obama's use of the phrase "typical white person" on a local radio station yesterday wound up making waves from Huffington Post to YouTube to Larry King Live.
King, with Obama as a guest, asked: "Do you think all this might hurt your campaign?"
In the speech, the Democratic candidate spoke of his white grandmother "who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
On WIP, Obama said: "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
Obama's 'typical white' remark on WIP offended some
Barack Obama's use of the phrase "typical white person" on a local radio station yesterday wound up making waves from Huffington Post to YouTube to Larry King Live.
King, with Obama as a guest, asked: "Do you think all this might hurt your campaign?"
In the speech, the Democratic candidate spoke of his white grandmother "who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
On WIP, Obama said: "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Mccain stumbles as a foreign policy expert, or is he senile ?
Mccain stumbles as a foreign policy expert, or is he senile ?
Obama, references Mccain's "half century" of service to his country,
Senator McCain confused Sunni and Shi'ite, Iran and al-Qa'eda" on
his current presidential campaign in Iraq today.
"Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war
in Iraq has done more to embolden America's enemies than any strategic
choice that we have made in decades."
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Obama, references Mccain's "half century" of service to his country,
Senator McCain confused Sunni and Shi'ite, Iran and al-Qa'eda" on
his current presidential campaign in Iraq today.
"Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war
in Iraq has done more to embolden America's enemies than any strategic
choice that we have made in decades."
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American Public Rejects Tax Rebates for Illegal Aliens
American Public Rejects Tax Rebates for Illegal Aliens
With the economy apparently headed toward recession and elections looming, the House of Representatives acted swiftly in late January to approve President Bush’s economic stimulus package. The crown jewel of the package is a tax rebate that the White House and congressional leaders hope Americans will spend and stimulate economic expansion.
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Use of E-Verify Law Upheld by Arizona Judge
Just one week after a federal judge in Missouri upheld the right of local governments to suspend or revoke the business licenses of employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, the decision was supported by a second federal judge.
Immigration Reform Law Institute Wins Precedent-Setting Decision
While Congress continues to defy the public’s demands for enactment and enforcement of sensible immigration reform, progress continues to be made at the state and local levels.
With the economy apparently headed toward recession and elections looming, the House of Representatives acted swiftly in late January to approve President Bush’s economic stimulus package. The crown jewel of the package is a tax rebate that the White House and congressional leaders hope Americans will spend and stimulate economic expansion.
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Use of E-Verify Law Upheld by Arizona Judge
Just one week after a federal judge in Missouri upheld the right of local governments to suspend or revoke the business licenses of employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, the decision was supported by a second federal judge.
Immigration Reform Law Institute Wins Precedent-Setting Decision
While Congress continues to defy the public’s demands for enactment and enforcement of sensible immigration reform, progress continues to be made at the state and local levels.
PASTOR WRIGHT: THIS TOO SHALL PASS
PASTOR WRIGHT: THIS TOO SHALL PASS
By DICK MORRIS
Will the Gospel According to Jeremiah Wright sink the Obama candidacy? Not very likely.
Let's start with two basic facts:
(a) Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has already won the Democratic nomination. It's over. Regardless of how the remaining primaries and caucuses go, including Michigan and even Florida, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) can never catch Obama in elected delegates. His current lead of 170 pledged delegates will not be overcome no matter what happens. Even if Clinton beats him by 10 points in each of these primaries, he will still lead among elected delegates by over 100. The superdelegates will not override the will of the voters unless Obama is in jail. They will not let themselves in for a civil war by overruling a black man who is beloved by the young by going over the heads of the electorate and naming the candidate that lost the primaries as the nominee. Regardless of how damaged Obama may be by the Wright tapes, it will not provide sufficient cover or cause for them to do so.
(b) Wright's rantings are not reflective of Obama's views on anything. Why did he stay in the church? Because he's a black Chicago politician who comes from a mixed marriage and went to Columbia and Harvard. Suspected of not being black enough or sufficiently tied to the minority community, he needed the networking opportunities Wright afforded him in his church to get elected. If he had not risen to the top of Chicago black politics, we would never have heard of him. But obviously, he can't say that. So what should he say?
He needs to get out of this mess with subtlety, the kind Bill Clinton should have used to escape the Monica Lewinsky scandal — but didn't. As the controversy continues, Americans will gradually realize that Obama stuck by Wright as part of a need to get ahead. They will chalk up to pragmatism why he was so close to such a preacher. As they come to realize that Obama doesn't agree with Wright but used him to get started, they will be more forgiving.
While he lets this fact sink in, he needs to continue to distance himself from Wright by characterizing that kind of anger and animosity as a thing of a generation past. He needs to compare the progress of which whites are proud in discarding the racism of our forebears with his own pride at being a post-racial candidate. He needs, again and again, to reject what Wright says and emphasize his belief in America and the validity and morality of the American Dream.
As the controversy matures, he can increasingly depict those who fan its flames as trying to live in the past and re-fight the civil wars of race that have divided America.
All these themes were evident and articulately presented in Obama's Tuesday speech on race.
What Obama needs not to do is to resort to the kind of Clintonian fudging that animated his interview with Keith Olbermann. By saying “I wasn't there” and “I didn't know” and “I didn't hear him say it,” he will invite contempt and derision. If he were to continue in that vein, he would buy himself a controversy akin to that which drowned John Kerry in the facts and allegations of his service in Vietnam. People will surface to say, “I sat next to him, and Wright said such and such,” and Obama will be hostage to everybody's subjective memory.
But if he handles the situation with subtlety and lets what he cannot say — that it was opportunism that led him to stay in that church — sink in among the electorate, he can and will survive this battle.
And let's remember one other thing: The Democrats will increasingly realize that he will be their nominee and, in continuing this battle, they are eating their own.
By DICK MORRIS
Will the Gospel According to Jeremiah Wright sink the Obama candidacy? Not very likely.
Let's start with two basic facts:
(a) Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has already won the Democratic nomination. It's over. Regardless of how the remaining primaries and caucuses go, including Michigan and even Florida, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) can never catch Obama in elected delegates. His current lead of 170 pledged delegates will not be overcome no matter what happens. Even if Clinton beats him by 10 points in each of these primaries, he will still lead among elected delegates by over 100. The superdelegates will not override the will of the voters unless Obama is in jail. They will not let themselves in for a civil war by overruling a black man who is beloved by the young by going over the heads of the electorate and naming the candidate that lost the primaries as the nominee. Regardless of how damaged Obama may be by the Wright tapes, it will not provide sufficient cover or cause for them to do so.
(b) Wright's rantings are not reflective of Obama's views on anything. Why did he stay in the church? Because he's a black Chicago politician who comes from a mixed marriage and went to Columbia and Harvard. Suspected of not being black enough or sufficiently tied to the minority community, he needed the networking opportunities Wright afforded him in his church to get elected. If he had not risen to the top of Chicago black politics, we would never have heard of him. But obviously, he can't say that. So what should he say?
He needs to get out of this mess with subtlety, the kind Bill Clinton should have used to escape the Monica Lewinsky scandal — but didn't. As the controversy continues, Americans will gradually realize that Obama stuck by Wright as part of a need to get ahead. They will chalk up to pragmatism why he was so close to such a preacher. As they come to realize that Obama doesn't agree with Wright but used him to get started, they will be more forgiving.
While he lets this fact sink in, he needs to continue to distance himself from Wright by characterizing that kind of anger and animosity as a thing of a generation past. He needs to compare the progress of which whites are proud in discarding the racism of our forebears with his own pride at being a post-racial candidate. He needs, again and again, to reject what Wright says and emphasize his belief in America and the validity and morality of the American Dream.
As the controversy matures, he can increasingly depict those who fan its flames as trying to live in the past and re-fight the civil wars of race that have divided America.
All these themes were evident and articulately presented in Obama's Tuesday speech on race.
What Obama needs not to do is to resort to the kind of Clintonian fudging that animated his interview with Keith Olbermann. By saying “I wasn't there” and “I didn't know” and “I didn't hear him say it,” he will invite contempt and derision. If he were to continue in that vein, he would buy himself a controversy akin to that which drowned John Kerry in the facts and allegations of his service in Vietnam. People will surface to say, “I sat next to him, and Wright said such and such,” and Obama will be hostage to everybody's subjective memory.
But if he handles the situation with subtlety and lets what he cannot say — that it was opportunism that led him to stay in that church — sink in among the electorate, he can and will survive this battle.
And let's remember one other thing: The Democrats will increasingly realize that he will be their nominee and, in continuing this battle, they are eating their own.
Monday, March 17, 2008
HILLARY SENDS FERRARO AFTER THE RACE CARD
HILLARY SENDS FERRARO AFTER THE RACE CARD
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Geraldine Ferraro, a pioneer and trailblazer in American history, has done more to ruin a sterling reputation in the past few days than anybody but Eliot Spitzer. By claiming, I think falsely, that Obama would not be where he is if he were white or a woman, I think she totally overlooks the impact of his charisma, eloquence, demeanor, message, use of the Internet, focus on caucus states, and his refusal to take special interest money as factors in his sudden rise. She betrays a stunning inability to look more than skin deep for reasons for his success.
But this begs the real question: Ferraro is no racist. Her entire career speaks to the contrary. So why is she now so unable to peer into the deeper reasons for Obama's success and stopping at skin level?
The blunt fact is that Geraldine Ferraro would not make a statement like this one without at least the tacit knowledge and acquiescence of the Clintons and their campaign. Ferraro is an old pro and would know enough not to shoot off her mouth without making it part of a carefully conceived strategy to discredit Obama based on race.
As such, her comments need to be seen as a piece with the attacks on Obama's minister and his endorsement by Farrakhan. With Hillary now almost totally dependent on older voters, the race card may be the only way to produce the kinds of margins she needs in the future primaries to offset Obama's large and widening lead among elected delegates.
The fact is that Obama cannot and should not be held accountable for the ranting and raving of his minister, unless he fails to disavow these remarks. He has done all he needs to do in distancing himself from the likes of Farrakhan. And is success is due to his imaginative use of the political process to achieve what he has earned.
Obama out-organized Hillary by focusing on the small caucus states in February, by which time Hillary confidently expected the race to be over.
Obama out-messaged Hillary by refusing special interest PAC or lobbyist money, giving him a way to paint Hillary as the candidate of the Washington establishment.
Obama out-fund raised Hillary by understanding the potential of the Internet to raise quick and clean money and to permit reloading quickly.
Obama out-positioned Hillary by using her claim to experience (faux as it was) to paint her as just another cycle in the oscillation between Bushes and Clintons which has dominated our politics for two decades now.
Obama out-spoke Hillary by showing and eloquence and elegance that she cannot hope to match.
Obama out-targeted Hillary by focusing on young voters and grasping the amazing insight that in an election with a black and a woman, that age would be the decisive variable.
And now Hillary is trying, through her surrogate Ferraro, to make it appear that all Obama had to do was show up, show some skin and win.
Even for the Clintons, this is a new low.
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Geraldine Ferraro, a pioneer and trailblazer in American history, has done more to ruin a sterling reputation in the past few days than anybody but Eliot Spitzer. By claiming, I think falsely, that Obama would not be where he is if he were white or a woman, I think she totally overlooks the impact of his charisma, eloquence, demeanor, message, use of the Internet, focus on caucus states, and his refusal to take special interest money as factors in his sudden rise. She betrays a stunning inability to look more than skin deep for reasons for his success.
But this begs the real question: Ferraro is no racist. Her entire career speaks to the contrary. So why is she now so unable to peer into the deeper reasons for Obama's success and stopping at skin level?
The blunt fact is that Geraldine Ferraro would not make a statement like this one without at least the tacit knowledge and acquiescence of the Clintons and their campaign. Ferraro is an old pro and would know enough not to shoot off her mouth without making it part of a carefully conceived strategy to discredit Obama based on race.
As such, her comments need to be seen as a piece with the attacks on Obama's minister and his endorsement by Farrakhan. With Hillary now almost totally dependent on older voters, the race card may be the only way to produce the kinds of margins she needs in the future primaries to offset Obama's large and widening lead among elected delegates.
The fact is that Obama cannot and should not be held accountable for the ranting and raving of his minister, unless he fails to disavow these remarks. He has done all he needs to do in distancing himself from the likes of Farrakhan. And is success is due to his imaginative use of the political process to achieve what he has earned.
Obama out-organized Hillary by focusing on the small caucus states in February, by which time Hillary confidently expected the race to be over.
Obama out-messaged Hillary by refusing special interest PAC or lobbyist money, giving him a way to paint Hillary as the candidate of the Washington establishment.
Obama out-fund raised Hillary by understanding the potential of the Internet to raise quick and clean money and to permit reloading quickly.
Obama out-positioned Hillary by using her claim to experience (faux as it was) to paint her as just another cycle in the oscillation between Bushes and Clintons which has dominated our politics for two decades now.
Obama out-spoke Hillary by showing and eloquence and elegance that she cannot hope to match.
Obama out-targeted Hillary by focusing on young voters and grasping the amazing insight that in an election with a black and a woman, that age would be the decisive variable.
And now Hillary is trying, through her surrogate Ferraro, to make it appear that all Obama had to do was show up, show some skin and win.
Even for the Clintons, this is a new low.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Arizona city seeks moat to secure Mexico border
Arizona city seeks moat to secure Mexico border By Tim Gaynor
Most plans to gain control of the porous U.S.-Mexico border focus on some combination of fence. But this city in far west Arizona is looking to build a moat.
Faced with high-levels of crime and illegal immigration, authorities in Yuma are reaching back to a technique as old as a medieval castle to dig out a "security channel" on a crime-ridden stretch of the border and fill it with water.
"The moats that I've seen circled the castle and allowed you to protect yourself, and that's kind of what we're looking at here," said Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden, who is backing the project.
Curbing illegal immigration and securing the nearly 2,000 mile (3,200-kilometre) southwestern border are hot topics in this U.S. election year. Washington has pledged to complete 670 miles of new barriers by the close of 2008, despite resistance from landowners and environmentalists.
The proposal seeks to restore a stretch of the West's greatest waterway, the Colorado River, which has been largely sucked dry by demand from farms and sprawling subdivisions springing up across the parched southwest and in neighboring California.
The plan to revive the river, which drains from the Rocky Mountains through the Grand Canyon and runs for 23 miles (37 kilometers) along the border near Yuma, seeks to create a broad water barrier while also restoring a fragile wetland environment that once thrived in the area.
"What you are building is a moat, but it's bringing the life and the wildlife back," said Ogden, an Old West lawman with a handlebar mustache, explaining how the project differs from other plans to fix the border.
"It's innovative thinking. It doesn't take much brainpower to build a 12-foot high fence around something, but this is unique."
RECLAIMING NO-MAN'S-LAND
The project is starting with a desolate 450-acre patch of scrub and thickets known as Hunter's Hole, a once-thriving wetland on the border a few miles southwest of Yuma that has become a haven for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico and a headache for local law enforcement.
"It's in the United States, but it's become a no-man's-land, an area where bodies were dumped, where people and drugs were smuggled over the border," said Ogden, whose deputies share much of the responsibility for tackling border-related crime with federal police.
Engineers plan to dig a "security channel" up to 10-feet (3 meters) deep and 60 feet wide through the problem area, which lies a short way inside the border. The dirt removed would be used to create a levee along the outside to give U.S. Border Patrol agents an elevated patrol road overlooking the line.
The area would also be replanted with native sedges and rushes to provide habitat for threatened local species such as the Yuma Clapper Rail, a secretive marsh bird. Backers say it would also provide a space for residents of Yuma, a farming town popular with winter visitors, to walk and fish.
The organization behind the project would like to extend it the entire course of the Colorado River, which marks the U.S.-Mexico border, in what it sees as an environmental recovery program that complements the Border Patrol's task.
"It doesn't replace the Border Patrol's efforts, it supplements them. At the same time you are restoring habitat in a secure environment and creating a place to relax," said Charles Flynn, the executive director of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Corporation.
PROMOTING SECURITY AND FRIENDSHIP
Curbing illegal immigration and securing the border are issues that frequently confront both presumptive Republican Party nominee Sen. John McCain and Democratic rivals Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who are campaigning to be their party's pick for the November election.
The U.S. government has sought remedies including boosting police numbers, adding surveillance technologies, and, controversially, constructing hundreds of miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers along the international boundary, which has drawn fierce opposition from some quarters.
More than a hundred border landowners in south Texas have resisted a government bid for access to their lands to build new fencing, which they see as a meddlesome and unwelcome intrusion, while environmentalists say fences may sever key wildlife corridors for animals including the jaguar.
The planned revival of the Colorado River, where it carves through desert peppered with fertile farmland, is something of a standout.
It has won the backing of the federal Bureau of Land Management, which owns the land; the Bureau of Reclamation, which has provided a grant to drill wells and pump groundwater, and a letter of support from the Border Patrol. Also on board are Yuma City Council and local residents including the Cocopah Indian tribe, who have farmed the river's flood plains for centuries.
Perhaps more surprisingly, it has also won support across the boundary in Mexico, where plans to build border fences are eyed with suspicion. Local environmentalists there have embraced the project and plan to work in tandem to restore the wetlands on the Mexican side.
"Instead of putting up walls and promoting division, we can promote security and friendship," said Osvel Hinojosa, the director of Pro-Natura, an environmental group in northwest Mexico, of the proposal.
"Moreover, instead of damaging the environment, we can improve it."
(Additional reporting by Robin Emmott in Monterrey, Mexico)
Most plans to gain control of the porous U.S.-Mexico border focus on some combination of fence. But this city in far west Arizona is looking to build a moat.
Faced with high-levels of crime and illegal immigration, authorities in Yuma are reaching back to a technique as old as a medieval castle to dig out a "security channel" on a crime-ridden stretch of the border and fill it with water.
"The moats that I've seen circled the castle and allowed you to protect yourself, and that's kind of what we're looking at here," said Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden, who is backing the project.
Curbing illegal immigration and securing the nearly 2,000 mile (3,200-kilometre) southwestern border are hot topics in this U.S. election year. Washington has pledged to complete 670 miles of new barriers by the close of 2008, despite resistance from landowners and environmentalists.
The proposal seeks to restore a stretch of the West's greatest waterway, the Colorado River, which has been largely sucked dry by demand from farms and sprawling subdivisions springing up across the parched southwest and in neighboring California.
The plan to revive the river, which drains from the Rocky Mountains through the Grand Canyon and runs for 23 miles (37 kilometers) along the border near Yuma, seeks to create a broad water barrier while also restoring a fragile wetland environment that once thrived in the area.
"What you are building is a moat, but it's bringing the life and the wildlife back," said Ogden, an Old West lawman with a handlebar mustache, explaining how the project differs from other plans to fix the border.
"It's innovative thinking. It doesn't take much brainpower to build a 12-foot high fence around something, but this is unique."
RECLAIMING NO-MAN'S-LAND
The project is starting with a desolate 450-acre patch of scrub and thickets known as Hunter's Hole, a once-thriving wetland on the border a few miles southwest of Yuma that has become a haven for drug smugglers and illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico and a headache for local law enforcement.
"It's in the United States, but it's become a no-man's-land, an area where bodies were dumped, where people and drugs were smuggled over the border," said Ogden, whose deputies share much of the responsibility for tackling border-related crime with federal police.
Engineers plan to dig a "security channel" up to 10-feet (3 meters) deep and 60 feet wide through the problem area, which lies a short way inside the border. The dirt removed would be used to create a levee along the outside to give U.S. Border Patrol agents an elevated patrol road overlooking the line.
The area would also be replanted with native sedges and rushes to provide habitat for threatened local species such as the Yuma Clapper Rail, a secretive marsh bird. Backers say it would also provide a space for residents of Yuma, a farming town popular with winter visitors, to walk and fish.
The organization behind the project would like to extend it the entire course of the Colorado River, which marks the U.S.-Mexico border, in what it sees as an environmental recovery program that complements the Border Patrol's task.
"It doesn't replace the Border Patrol's efforts, it supplements them. At the same time you are restoring habitat in a secure environment and creating a place to relax," said Charles Flynn, the executive director of the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Corporation.
PROMOTING SECURITY AND FRIENDSHIP
Curbing illegal immigration and securing the border are issues that frequently confront both presumptive Republican Party nominee Sen. John McCain and Democratic rivals Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who are campaigning to be their party's pick for the November election.
The U.S. government has sought remedies including boosting police numbers, adding surveillance technologies, and, controversially, constructing hundreds of miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers along the international boundary, which has drawn fierce opposition from some quarters.
More than a hundred border landowners in south Texas have resisted a government bid for access to their lands to build new fencing, which they see as a meddlesome and unwelcome intrusion, while environmentalists say fences may sever key wildlife corridors for animals including the jaguar.
The planned revival of the Colorado River, where it carves through desert peppered with fertile farmland, is something of a standout.
It has won the backing of the federal Bureau of Land Management, which owns the land; the Bureau of Reclamation, which has provided a grant to drill wells and pump groundwater, and a letter of support from the Border Patrol. Also on board are Yuma City Council and local residents including the Cocopah Indian tribe, who have farmed the river's flood plains for centuries.
Perhaps more surprisingly, it has also won support across the boundary in Mexico, where plans to build border fences are eyed with suspicion. Local environmentalists there have embraced the project and plan to work in tandem to restore the wetlands on the Mexican side.
"Instead of putting up walls and promoting division, we can promote security and friendship," said Osvel Hinojosa, the director of Pro-Natura, an environmental group in northwest Mexico, of the proposal.
"Moreover, instead of damaging the environment, we can improve it."
(Additional reporting by Robin Emmott in Monterrey, Mexico)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Ferraro leaves Clinton campaign post
Ferraro leaves Clinton campaign post
Wednesday, Geraldine Ferraro stepped down,in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that
Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black.
Wednesday, Geraldine Ferraro stepped down,in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that
Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ed Koch says Spitzer has a screw loose?
Ed Koch says Spitzer has a screw loose?
firmer ny mayor ed kock thinks there may a screw loose in Spitzer.
from an interview on CNN
firmer ny mayor ed kock thinks there may a screw loose in Spitzer.
from an interview on CNN
Admiral Fallon Steps Down, differs with Pres Bush ?
Admiral Fallon Steps Down
Admiral Fallon Steps Down differs with Pres Bush ?
Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command,
is stepping down by the end of March, because of perceived differences
on policy with the Bush administration, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
Fallon held the post for almost a year as the commander of all U.S.
forces in the Middle East, with responsibility for the wars
Admiral Fallon reached this difficult decision entirely on his own,''
Gates told a news conference at the Pentagon. Gates said it
was a ``misperception'' that Fallon differed from the administration.
Admiral Fallon Steps Down differs with Pres Bush ?
Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command,
is stepping down by the end of March, because of perceived differences
on policy with the Bush administration, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
Fallon held the post for almost a year as the commander of all U.S.
forces in the Middle East, with responsibility for the wars
Admiral Fallon reached this difficult decision entirely on his own,''
Gates told a news conference at the Pentagon. Gates said it
was a ``misperception'' that Fallon differed from the administration.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Powerball lottery rolls over to $230 millions
see the hottest/coldest Powerball lotto numbers for the
Powerball lottery
Popularity Report
Hot numbers ???
Note: Powerballs not included here
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2 B54 32 01/30/08
3 B02 31 03/01/08
4 B19 31 03/01/08
5 B35 31 01/26/08
6 B43 31 02/09/08
7 B08 30 02/23/08
8 B13 30 02/23/08
9 B16 30 03/05/08
10 B42 30 02/06/08
11 B23 29 03/05/08
12 B38 29 02/13/08
13 B40 29 01/05/08
14 B24 28 02/27/08
15 B26 28 02/02/08
16 B48 28 02/27/08
17 B55 28 03/01/08
18 B12 27 02/20/08
19 B15 26 03/05/08
20 B47 26 02/23/08
21 B50 26 12/15/07
22 B10 25 03/05/08
23 B14 25 02/02/08
24 B22 25 02/20/08
25 B27 24 01/19/08
26 B37 24 02/27/08
27 B49 24 03/08/08
28 B53 24 02/27/08
29 B03 23 02/16/08
30 B34 23 03/08/08
31 B45 23 09/19/07
32 B20 22 02/27/08
33 B28 22 01/19/08
34 B36 22 02/20/08
35 B41 22 01/30/08
36 B01 21 12/05/07
37 B04 21 02/16/08
38 B07 21 12/12/07
39 B21 21 03/01/08
40 B31 21 03/08/08
41 B32 21 02/13/08
42 B39 21 01/26/08
43 B09 20 02/20/08
44 B11 20 01/26/08
45 B18 20 01/16/08
46 B05 19 02/06/08
47 B51 19 02/13/08
48 B52 19 11/17/07
49 B17 18 03/08/08
50 B46 18 11/07/07
51 B29 17 03/08/08
52 B44 17 02/02/08
53 B06 16 11/10/07
54 B25 16 02/02/08
55 B33 14 01/05/08
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does Paul Pelosi Jr have a no show job at Countrywide?
FBI Investigating Countrywide
Sunday March 9,
FBI Begins Investigation Into Countrywide Financial Corp. for Securities Fraud
doesn't Paul Pelosi Jr., son of Nancy Pelosi have a no show job there?
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating Countrywide Financial Corp. for securities fraud, according to media reports.
The FBI is in the early stages of an inquiry into whether company officials misrepresented its financial position and the quality of its mortgage loans, The Wall Street Journal first reported Saturday, citing law enforcement officials and finance executives with knowledge of the development.
Sunday March 9,
FBI Begins Investigation Into Countrywide Financial Corp. for Securities Fraud
doesn't Paul Pelosi Jr., son of Nancy Pelosi have a no show job there?
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal authorities are investigating Countrywide Financial Corp. for securities fraud, according to media reports.
The FBI is in the early stages of an inquiry into whether company officials misrepresented its financial position and the quality of its mortgage loans, The Wall Street Journal first reported Saturday, citing law enforcement officials and finance executives with knowledge of the development.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Pres Bush explains veto of waterboarding bill
Pres Bush explains veto of waterboarding bill
President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast Saturday. "So today I vetoed it," Bush said. The bill provides guidelines for intelligence activities for the year and includes the interrogation requirement. It passed the House in December and the Senate last month.
"This is no time for Congress to abandon practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe," the president said.
JENNIFER, AP
President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast Saturday. "So today I vetoed it," Bush said. The bill provides guidelines for intelligence activities for the year and includes the interrogation requirement. It passed the House in December and the Senate last month.
"This is no time for Congress to abandon practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe," the president said.
JENNIFER, AP
Friday, March 07, 2008
is Nancy Pelosi's son, Paul Pelosi Jr, a ceo with Countrywide Mortgage ?
is Nancy Pelosi's son, Paul Pelosi Jr., a ceo with Countrywide Mortgage ?
Nancy Pelosi's son, Paul Pelosi Jr., is an mortgage executive at
Countrywide Loans in California. , also a registered lobbyist for
Countrywide Mortgage.
He also works part time for InfoUSA for $180,000 a year providing
credit background info to government agencies
wow, show me the money...............
Nancy Pelosi's son, Paul Pelosi Jr., is an mortgage executive at
Countrywide Loans in California. , also a registered lobbyist for
Countrywide Mortgage.
He also works part time for InfoUSA for $180,000 a year providing
credit background info to government agencies
wow, show me the money...............
Mccain-Kerry in November ? Mccain gets pissed
Mccain-Kerry in November ? Mccain gets pissed
Sen. John McCain flashs anger at a reporter after being asked
about John Kerry as a possible running mate.
anger management class for Mccain ?
Sen. John McCain flashs anger at a reporter after being asked
about John Kerry as a possible running mate.
anger management class for Mccain ?
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
was Perot was right about NAFTA sucking jobs away ?
Perot was right about NAFTA sucking jobs away
was Perot was right about NAFTA sucking jobs away ?
where is Perot now that we need him?
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Examines Visa Waiver Program
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Examines Visa Waiver Program
On Thursday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security about problems implementing the new visa waiver requirements Congress adopted last year. In particular, GAO testimony revealed that Homeland Security's strategy to detect visa overstayers will likely fail. (GAO Testimony, Visa Waiver Program: Limitations with Department of Homeland Security's Plan to Verify Departure of Foreign Nationals, GAO-08-458T, February 28, 2008)
The Visa Waiver Program, established in 1986, permits foreign nationals from 27 countries to enter the U.S. for up to 90 days without having to obtain a visa from a U.S. Embassy or consulate. Until recently, any country could be eligible to participate in the visa waiver program if on an annual basis less than 3 percent of nationals who applied for entry to the U.S. were denied. According to the 9/11 Commission, Mohammed Atta was able to enter the U.S. without a visa interview because he was considered a citizen of Germany, a visa waiver country, and remained in the U.S. to plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. (9/11 Commission, Staff Monograph on 9/11 and Terrorist Travel, Chapter 2) Because of this weakness, some argued that Congress should have suspended the program last year when it passed H.R. 1, the Implementing of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-53).
Instead, H.R. 1 made it possible for Homeland Security to expand the visa waiver program to admit citizens of countries that have refusal rates between 3 and 10 percent. However, before the government may consider whether a country is eligible for the visa waiver program under these new, relaxed standards, Homeland Security must:
Certify that an electronic travel authorization system is fully in place that would require foreign nationals to provide the U.S. with biographic information before boarding a flight to the U.S.;
Implement a biometric exit system at U.S. airports utilizing fingerprints and other biometric identifiers to verify the departure of foreign nationals from the U.S.; and
On Thursday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security about problems implementing the new visa waiver requirements Congress adopted last year. In particular, GAO testimony revealed that Homeland Security's strategy to detect visa overstayers will likely fail. (GAO Testimony, Visa Waiver Program: Limitations with Department of Homeland Security's Plan to Verify Departure of Foreign Nationals, GAO-08-458T, February 28, 2008)
The Visa Waiver Program, established in 1986, permits foreign nationals from 27 countries to enter the U.S. for up to 90 days without having to obtain a visa from a U.S. Embassy or consulate. Until recently, any country could be eligible to participate in the visa waiver program if on an annual basis less than 3 percent of nationals who applied for entry to the U.S. were denied. According to the 9/11 Commission, Mohammed Atta was able to enter the U.S. without a visa interview because he was considered a citizen of Germany, a visa waiver country, and remained in the U.S. to plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. (9/11 Commission, Staff Monograph on 9/11 and Terrorist Travel, Chapter 2) Because of this weakness, some argued that Congress should have suspended the program last year when it passed H.R. 1, the Implementing of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-53).
Instead, H.R. 1 made it possible for Homeland Security to expand the visa waiver program to admit citizens of countries that have refusal rates between 3 and 10 percent. However, before the government may consider whether a country is eligible for the visa waiver program under these new, relaxed standards, Homeland Security must:
Certify that an electronic travel authorization system is fully in place that would require foreign nationals to provide the U.S. with biographic information before boarding a flight to the U.S.;
Implement a biometric exit system at U.S. airports utilizing fingerprints and other biometric identifiers to verify the departure of foreign nationals from the U.S.; and
that 3am phone call and Hillary's PMS factor ?
that 3am phone call and Hillary's PMS factor ?
could be a nasty response /reply ?
has anyone charted Hillary Clinton menstrual cycle and mood behavior / mood changes
during the campaign. Looking for radical emotions, mood swings.
www.mccainalert.com
could be a nasty response /reply ?
has anyone charted Hillary Clinton menstrual cycle and mood behavior / mood changes
during the campaign. Looking for radical emotions, mood swings.
www.mccainalert.com
does Senator John Mccain have Parkinson ?
does Senator John Mccain have Parkinson ?
is the constant repeating of a phase such as "my friends"
a symptom of Parkinson ?
is the constant repeating of a phase such as "my friends"
a symptom of Parkinson ?
Monday, March 03, 2008
does Senator Mccain resemble Grandpa Munster ?
note the similiarity of noses and the beady eyes.
but grandpa was 378-year-old, Mccain is 72years old.
but grandpa was 378-year-old, Mccain is 72years old.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
does John Mccain really resembles Grandpa Munster?
does John Mccain really resembles Grandpa Munster?
credit given to Bill Maher on HBO for this mental image
credit given to Bill Maher on HBO for this mental image
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Senator Larry Craig is Seeking Interns
Attention, Parents: Larry Craig is Seeking Interns
If you've ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in Sen. Larry Craig's office, now's your chance.
The Idaho Republican has just announced he's taking applications for summer internships in his Capitol Hill office, which has been the brunt of gossip and many a colorful "wide stance" joke ever since last summer, when Craig was busted in a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport men's room sex sting.
"Interns have the chance to be an essential part of a working congressional office," Craig said in a press release issued Tuesday. "They participate in the legislative process as well as ensure that constituent services run smoothly. For those interested in politics, it is an incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our government functions while serving the people of Idaho."
Craig is giving preference to "Idaho applicants attending Idaho schools who are in their junior or senior years of college (including graduating seniors)."
The interns Craig seeks are "expected to fulfill some administrative duties such as answering phones, sorting mail and greeting constituents."
Better hurry, kids. This will likely be your last chance to be a summer intern in Senator Craig's office. Craig, who was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee this month for his bathroom conviction, says he's retiring next January when his term expires.
If you've ever wanted to be a fly on the wall in Sen. Larry Craig's office, now's your chance.
The Idaho Republican has just announced he's taking applications for summer internships in his Capitol Hill office, which has been the brunt of gossip and many a colorful "wide stance" joke ever since last summer, when Craig was busted in a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport men's room sex sting.
"Interns have the chance to be an essential part of a working congressional office," Craig said in a press release issued Tuesday. "They participate in the legislative process as well as ensure that constituent services run smoothly. For those interested in politics, it is an incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our government functions while serving the people of Idaho."
Craig is giving preference to "Idaho applicants attending Idaho schools who are in their junior or senior years of college (including graduating seniors)."
The interns Craig seeks are "expected to fulfill some administrative duties such as answering phones, sorting mail and greeting constituents."
Better hurry, kids. This will likely be your last chance to be a summer intern in Senator Craig's office. Craig, who was rebuked by the Senate Ethics Committee this month for his bathroom conviction, says he's retiring next January when his term expires.
William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82
William F. Buckley Jr. dies at 82
NEW YORK (AP) — William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.
His assistant Linda Bridges said Buckley was found dead by his cook at his home in Stamford, Conn. The cause of death was unknown, but he had been ill with emphysema, she said.
NEW YORK (AP) — William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.
His assistant Linda Bridges said Buckley was found dead by his cook at his home in Stamford, Conn. The cause of death was unknown, but he had been ill with emphysema, she said.
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