Al Franken, where does he stand?

Well apparently he stands for universal health care, bringing the troops home NOW and 100% federally funded elections.

So Franken wants to further drive up the cost and expense of health care and further inflate the budget and increase the national debt while reducing the quality of our current care.

Franken also wants to plunge the middle east into another regional war that will result in more civilian deaths and more terrorists with his cut and run immediately strategy.

He also wants to 100% subsidize the politicians campaigns. I would hate to see that bill. If there is no cap on spending, they will spend everything. If there is a cap on spending, how do you determine what that cap is and how will you stop people or 527s from spending over that amount? Who qualifies for the free campaign? Anyone or just someone from one of the major parties? Look at how well politicians manage to spend our money today, imagine if they are able to spend it on their own campaigns directly.

Al Franken, just FULL of good ideas?

PETA kills animals...

and gets away with it.

More information can be found here, or any Google search.

Carter meets the real world

Guess what happens when someone without a gun tells someone with a gun:

"We're going to anyway!" Carter angrily retorted. "You don't have the power to stop me."

That someone (without the gun) is proved wrong. Oh, and just in case the irony was lost on former President Carter I would like to ensure that he understands that this sort of thing HAPPENS EVERY DAY all over the world. People with guns get to tell people without guns what they can and can not do. They also get to take what ever they want up to and including your life. That is why it is better to have at least the option to have a gun of your own. It sort of, you know levels the playing field somewhat. It gives the all kinds of physically weaker individuals a fighting chance in the "real world".

Stossel on Health Care

Fair Tax information

This is a presentation on the Fair Tax that is well worth watching.

President Fred Thompson?

Update: 10/2/09: I am more disappointed every day that he is not the nominee. Don't get me wrong, McCain is so much a better pick than Obama but Fred would have been so much a better pick than McCain...

Are all suicide bombers gay?

Maybe a gay rights group could adopt a few suicide bombers, post their martyrdom videos and celebrate their presumed gayness posthumously. I suppose people who want to become suicide bombers for other reasons could object that this will tarnish their sacrifice, but they are either bigots or, more likely, protesting a bit too much, don't you think?

HEH

Members of Khobar’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice were the victims of an attack by two Saudi females...

...two girls pepper sprayed members of the commission after they had tried to offer them advice.

And more power to them because we remember...

Five years ago Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped 15 schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building, and stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned “it is sinful to approach them”.

9/11 & HamNation

Political decisions, not business decisions

The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org’s ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.

I wonder what the shareholders think. It is not like the NTY is running a monetary surplus or anything...

25 Skills Every Man Should Know...

I think that this is a reasonable list and through luck and/or desire, I can do all 25. I was a little surprised and quite pleased to see number 19. For those that will "read it later", #19 is "clean a bolt action rifle". I am pleased for two reasons. The first is PMs refusal to bend to what must have been a lot of PC pressure to not include that one on the list (I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting). The second reason is that there is more to #19 than the simple statement would lead one to believe. To know how to clean a bolt action rifle, implies that you have actually done it. That would imply being able to take one apart and re-assemble it correctly. Again, this would imply some familiarity with the operations and workings of a bolt action rifle. If you are going to go through all of that trouble, you might as well learn how to use it properly to include learning how to shoot. If you have never gone out to an empty field and shot a 22 rifle at old tin cans, you do not know what you are missing. Being able to do that as a young adult with all of the grown up responsibilities that go along with handling a fire-arm is something that most young people do not get to experience today. They grow up watching evening TV that shows kids running around shooting pistols at each other and think that is all there is. Guns kill. Well guns don't kill, people kill, sometimes using a gun. To have the experience and ability to use a gun for harmless enjoyment while building the skills to use it well and responsibly is a good thing. Too many people do not know how to use a wrench or a gun properly.

Actions verses words

From the September 5 OpinionJournal comes the following story and comments (link above is to original story):

Brendan O'Neill of the online magazine Spiked calls our attention to an astonishing report that appeared last week in London's Times. You thought this "carbon offset" business was a scam? It turns out it's even worse, as O'Neill explains:

In [the Times article] it was revealed that the leader of the UK Conservative Party, David Cameron, offsets his carbon emissions by effectively keeping brown people in a state of bondage. Whenever he takes a flight to some foreign destination, Cameron donates to a carbon-offsetting company that encourages people in the developing world to ditch modern methods of farming in favour of using their more eco-friendly manpower to plough the land. So Cameron can fly around the world with a guilt-free conscience on the basis that, thousands of miles away, Indian villagers, bent over double, are working by hand rather than using machines that emit carbon.

Welcome to the era of eco-enslavement.

The details of this carbon-offsetting scheme are disturbing. Cameron offsets his flights by donating to Climate Care. The latest wheeze of this carbon-offsetting company is to provide "treadle pumps" to poor rural families in India so that they can get water on to their land without having to use polluting diesel power. Made from bamboo, plastic and steel, the treadle pumps work like "step machines in a gym," according to some reports, where poor family members step on the pedals for hours in order to draw up groundwater which is used to irrigate farmland. These pumps were abolished in British prisons a century ago. It seems that what was considered an unacceptable form of punishment for British criminals in the past is looked upon as a positive eco-alternative to machinery for Indian peasants today.

What might once have been referred to as "back-breaking labour" is now spun as "human energy."

What's more, this is all done so that Cameron can avoid making changes in his own lifestyle, which we are supposed to believe is destroying the planet. Global-warmism is not just some harmless enthusiasm; it can be despicable and inhuman.

This is the sort of hypocritical behavior of the high-profile, media darling tree-huggers that keeps me and others unconvinced about "man made" global warming and about how much the "true believers" really do believe. When all of these media darling global warming alarmists like Al Gore, Barbara Streisand, John Edwards and David Cameron care enough about this cause to actually change their life styles in support of it, I might start taking it more seriously. When they all start flying commercial instead of in private jets, sell their SUVs and drive nothing but hybrid or electric cars and move out of their mansions and into environmentally neutral dwellings, I promise that I will start to care. These folks have the money and influence to make a real difference with this cause, if they really believe in it. Their actions say no. You don’t make a difference by buying carbon off-sets. You make a difference by using your money to build a 100% environmentally neutral house and driving electric cars. They can certainly afford it, if they really wanted to and their actions say they don’t.

Nikon D40X

Just recently purchased a Nikon D40X for my wife, for her birthday. She already had a Cybershot and it is nice but she wanted a "real camera" and spent a lot of time researching the D40. Opted for the D40X for the extra mega pixels, 10.2 instead of 6.1. I like the fact that it is an SLR and that it has a nice sized screen on the back for menu access and picture review. It is light enough and the "package" I purchased included a set of lenses. I wound up upgrading the telephoto lens to the AV version for an extra $50. We both are getting older and are not as steady as we used to be so I am hoping this will help on those long shots.

So far it is working out nice enough. It cycles fast enough to do 3 fps for 3 or 4 seconds and can go longer with faster SD cards. At max resolution I was told to expect 200 +/- pics on a 2 gig card. We'll see. That was a bit of a disappointment, that the cards for the Nikon are different from those used in the Cypershot so back to the electronics store for more. I like the weight and feel of it and just love that SLR sound it makes when you take a picture.

Update: 11/6/07

We have been using this camera for a bit now and we continue to like it. The menus can be a little complicated because there are just so many setting you can adjust and control. It supports multiple menu styles and has a programmable button that you can setup for that thing that you want to do that this is not already a button for. Most people use it for the timer but as it is programmable, you can use it for whatever you want. We got the camera from Ritz and the package I purchased included a set of 18 classes that cover the camera as well as things like photo editing and taking different types of photographs. We have only been to a couple but so far they are nicely organized and useful.

You can use the camera in full auto mode or select from about 10 different preset specialties like portrait, close up, action and full manual. The picture are very nice and we can tell the difference in quality between pictures taken with this verses the CyperShot (as you would well hope based on the higher pixel density). The battery seems to last a good long time and we did wind up getting very close to 200 photos on that memory stick. We did have a small issue getting some of the on-screen setting changed but the class we took walked us through it so no problem. The biggest complaint we have about the camera so far is that we had a real problem finding the menu setting that allowed us to adjust how long the LCD displayed the menus when you were using the camera. The default time is very short and the documentation was not clear on how to set it for a longer delay. The instructor of the class knew about this and walked everyone through setting it to a longer display time. Like I said earlier, we like this camera and so far it is a real winner with us.

Update: 1/14/08

We continue to have fun with this camera. We have taken a class or two and expect to take some more. The first class was on the basic D40X (using it, menu access, configuration changes, changing lenses and what all of the buttons and options are for). Was very useful if only for showing us where to go to check the default menu timeout (make it longer). I really like the 10 MPix of this camera. It allows even a "fair" shot to be zoomed and cropped a lot, to improve it. I also really like it being all digital. We have an HP all-in-one as well as a dedicated HP photo printer (4 X 6) and create many of our own prints. We got the camera at Ritz and that is where the classes are given. They have a lot of nice services there along with the cameras and accessories. We took our own Christmas photo and turned it into a card at Ritz. They are knowledgeable and know their stuff. I would like a better telephoto lens for this camera and will most likely pick one up this year.

Smoke signals on the horizon

Many on the left like to talk about how we live in a fascist state and that all of our personal liberties are being destroyed. Based on their examples, they have little to no clue what a fascist state is. It is when the government uses its power to restrict and punish citizens for performing perfectly legal activities. An example of this type of behavior is; State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Senate Concurrent Resolution 21. (JCX-43-07). This resolution will add additional taxes to tobacco and most notably cigars. Specifically a cigar tax of 53.13% PER cigar up to a maximum of $10. Cigars are sold by the box or individually and individual cigars range in price from less than a dollars (for something that you would not really want to smoke) to mid-range $3 to $5 per cigar to high end smokes that top out at $20 to $25. Under this law, a $5 cigar will cost about $7.50. A $10 smoke goes to $15 and a $20 goes to $30.

Last I checked, smoking is still a legal activity in this country. The government and society as a whole, don't want you to engage in this activity but it is still legal. So instead of being “adult” about it and out-right banning the growing, manufacturing, sale and consumption of tobacco products, the government (at nearly every level) instead chooses to tax it for your own good. The government’s financial reward is then used to help offset tax shortfalls elsewhere. Smokers are treated as a bottomless pit of money that the government can hit up any time it needs a little extra cash. Why should you care you ask, you don’t smoke and it is a filthy, disgusting habit that affects the smoker and those around him (or her) and should be stopped anyway. Maybe but until the government gets off of its fat, lazy *ss and outright outlaws it, it is still a legal activity that any American adult is free to engage in. Another reason you should care is that today the government is going after tobacco partially because it is a risky activity that they feel “safe” attacking. What is next, after the tobacco train stops running? Firearms and bullet taxes? Higher alcohol taxes? Risky sports taxes? SUVs? Gambling winnings? The list of “bad” or “evil” targets is as great as the vices of man and there is always someone somewhere that will disapprove of some activity and want to “punish” it by tax or law “for your own good”. I only smoke an occasional cigar so I have no direct dog in this fight but I am getting just plain fed up with the nanny state chipping away at what was once considered adult responsibility and self determination.

37 million people live in official poverty

In the richest country in the world, this is a shame…though, it does depend on what your definition of “official” poverty is, doesn’t it? In America today, if you are “officially” poor, the odds are you exist as follows:

• 46 percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
• 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
• Only six percent of poor households are overcrowded; two thirds have more than two rooms per person.
• The typical poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
• Nearly three quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
• 97 percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
• 78 percent have a VCR or DVD player.
• 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
• 89 percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

As a group, America’s poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and, in most cases, is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100-percent above recommended levels. Most poor children today are, in fact, super-nourished and grow up to be, on average, one inch taller and ten pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II.

There are indeed “poor” people in America, those that go hungry and those that have nothing. This is not the norm for American poor though. Most poor Americans are not “dust bowl, migrant worker poor” and are instead “can’t afford the new X Box” poor. Big difference, though most government agencies and class warfare politicians don’t want you to know that.

Oh how the mighty have fallen

It is also true that The New York Times is not a crusading newspaper. It is impressed with the responsibility of what it prints. It is conservative and independent, and so far as possible -- consistent with honest journalism -- attempts to aid and support those who are charged with the responsibility of government. There are many newspapers conducted along different lines, some of them vicious, ill-natured, and destructive of character and reputation, and for mere purposes of sensation they frequently terrorize well qualified and well meaning men to the point where they are discouraged from accepting invitations to give their ability, genius, and experience to the administration of public affairs."

Those words were in a letter written in 1931 by Adolph Ochs, the publisher of The New York Times.

This came from a Power Line post with William Latz. That those words quoted above were once said by the publisher of the old gray lady is both exceedingly funny (in light of recent NYT events) and at the same time exceedingly sad. Sad that the "paper of record" has become a caricature of a news paper, has sold its integrity and reputation for cheap partisan shots and has done all that it can to soil the profession of journalism. It is though the paper has spent the last 30 years doing all that it could to invalidate that once proud quote.

Texas, U.S.A

Statement by Robert Black, spokesman for Texas Governor Rick Perry, concerning the European Union’s appeal that Texas enact a moratorium on the death penalty:
August 21, 2007

"230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we respect our friends in Europe, welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas."

That was a lot more polite than I would have expected...

Making all news bad news

This is getting ridiculous. If this were happening under a democratic president, the story would be about the economic boom and the low unemployment and how it was so good for the area workers (which it is) but because there is a republican in charge, we get a story on how it is so, so sad for the business owners because they will have to start raising salaries (which it may be) but that is business. When the economy is good, more jobs are created, unemployment goes down and salaries go up. That is over all, a good thing but not when you have a wide spread BDS infection like the one that has hit the media for the last 3+ years.

Good for me but not for the

Well, isn't this a pickle? It seems that some electronic voting machines may allow votes to be recovered and matched back to names. This is a problem because as noted in the article:

Making a secret ballot less secret, of course, could permit vote selling and allow interest groups or family members to exert undue pressure on Ohio residents to vote a certain way.

So people are justifiably worried about undue pressure being exerted on residents to vote a certain way. That is indeed a valid issue. In fact this concern is valid in more than just the voting for politicians. It is also valid in voting for whether to unionize or not. So why is congress moving to do away with the requirement of secret votes for unionization? One could rightfully surmise that union voting is even more of a high pressure event than general elections. These are your co-workers, not just distant politicians. Oh I forgot, unions support democrats much more than republicans and union membership as well as the number of unions is down, that is why.

New York being a bully?

I used to live on Long Island and liked it well enough but have not been back to the big apple in many years and have not had much desire to return. Things like this don't help change my mind...

Popular Mechanics Investigates 9/11 Myths: FAQs

A conspiracy theory never dies, the names, dates and events just change to protect the theorists.

The Media Mob By James Lewis

Worth a read.

Bias, what bias?

It is this kind of thing that has people thinking that there is a leftest bias in the media, even if there is not (though anyone with even a few years of school can see that there is). The news article makes the congressman's party affiliation part of the lead when he is a Republican but when the story is corrected to read that he is really a Democrat, the party affiliation moves from the lead to the second paragraph. Why does it matter? Well first off, if it did not matter, why not just update his party and leave everything else alone? Instead the affiliation is moved to the second paragraph because most people that won't finish the story, stop at the first paragraph. If they didn't, there would either be no reason to move it or it would have been moved farther down (or not mentioned at all). But the news is not bias, that is just the vast right wing conspiracy talking...

Big media doing what amateur bloggers can't

cause they are professionals and have a big staff of fact checkers and all that...

There are some weirdly talented people out there...

A very talented performance "artist"...

Funny yet true

This rates a double HEH.

If you don't like the outcome, change it...

At that moment, Rep. Mike McNulty ( D-N.Y.), who was in the Speaker's chair, gavelled out the vote, thinking that it was a tie and the motion had failed. But he had miscounted — the motion had actually passed. The Democrats were only able to change this by cheating and changing more votes after the gavel.

And I thought they were different and were going to change the atmosphere of corruption in Washington, I am so disillusioned...

Update (9/6/07): Glad to see that this has not been completely swept under the rug. Republicans have named a panel to investigate this issue. Not that you will hear about it in the MSM...

Don't forget your daily Stossel

His articles and book "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know is Wrong." should be required reading by everyone, especially politicians!

Georgia to Require Voter ID in September

Well thank goodness! About time! You need a frigging ID card to cash a check or to buy beer, what is so wrong about requiring proper ID to vote? Unless your problem is you don't want to ensure that only people that should be voting, vote. It should be required in EVERY state.

Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

This is the second article in two days that I have read about Che and it is pretty refreshing to see the truth about this man being promoted instead of the usual false accolades. The other article. more satire really is here but still truthful. Too many "kids" that sport the Che shirts either don't really know anything about the man or don't care (cause it is a fashion statement, dude). Either way, they are showing themselves to be the "useful idiots" that they are.

I don't know what Robert Redford's excuse is.

HEH, Community Based Reality

More accurate might be members of the Community-Based-Reality. The other way around just plain isn't accurate.

Posted by: TMSG Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 05:30 PM

Sorry but I like that turn of phrase. It does seem more accurate to me too.

Indoctrinate U

See the trailer, look for the movie...

I am actually taking some collage courses now and this sort of thing is happening in the most insidious of ways. Classes I have taken on business make sure to push "green business" and the science class I am currently taking makes sure to mention man-made global warming and climate change in the most forced of contexts. What ever happened to just teaching the subject and the facts? Why does every course and every subject have to be politicized?

Even friendlier nuclear power

This is the only nuclear-energy releasing process in the whole world that releases fusion energy and three helium atoms -- and no neutrons. This reaction is completely radiation free.

This could be "a very good thing". Just the ticket and about just the right time, if it all works out. I wonder what argument the environmentalists will use to try and get this stopped. Probably something to do with the construction site would be my bet. Some endangered creature or habitat or some such.

To "kid" or not to "kid"...

I often find stories like this amusing. The media are quick enough to consider someone a "kid" when it suits their purposes. Kids killed because of alcohol. Our kids killed in Iraq. Kids killed in shooting. All the while ignoring the fact that these "kids" are 18 and able to make a very many of their own decisions. The flip side is a real "kid" of 12 or 13 or 15 is expected to be old enough and mature enough to make a decision about having an abortion on her own.

The problem with wanting to change the world...

is that sometimes you succeed!

Soon after the program collapsed, mosquito control lost access to its crucial tool, DDT. The problem was overuse—not by malaria fighters but by farmers, especially cotton growers, trying to protect their crops. The spray was so cheap that many times the necessary doses were sometimes applied. The insecticide accumulated in the soil and tainted watercourses. Though nontoxic to humans, DDT harmed peregrine falcons, sea lions, and salmon. In 1962 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, documenting this abuse and painting so damning a picture that the chemical was eventually outlawed by most of the world for agricultural use. Exceptions were made for malaria control, but DDT became nearly impossible to procure. "The ban on DDT," says Gwadz of the National Institutes of Health, "may have killed 20 million children."

Breaking news: Pot calls kettle black!

I just love this part:

Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, who is representing the Plame and her husband Ambassador Joe Wilson in a civil suit against Libby and other top Bush administration officials, slammed the decision on behalf of the Wilsons.

“First, President Bush said any person who leaked would no longer work in his administration. Nonetheless, Scooter Libby didn’t leave office until he was indicted and Karl Rove works in the White House even today,” Sloan said in a statement sent to RAW STORY. “More recently, the vice president ignored an executive order protecting classified information, claiming he isn’t really part of the executive branch. Clearly, this is an administration that believes leaking classified information for political ends is justified and that the law is what applies to other people.”

Melanie Sloan and the Wilson should be ashamed but of course they won't be. This entire fiasco was caused by the Wilsons to start with. Their manipulations and lies. Then this investigation into the non-leak whereas Fitzgerald knew from the get-go who released Plame's name to the press but he soldiered on anyway until he was able to get someone for something. No matter what. Then a DC (what do you expect) jury actually convicted Libby of the crime of perjury for mis-remembering something that happened 4 years earlier. The circus just never ends.

Sounds like a good idea to me, recall Senator Martinez

We here at recallmel.com have a very simple & defined mission, to effect a legal recall petition drive with the ultimate goal of a special election to remove Senator Mel Martinez from office. It is our belief that our home America is crumbling at the foundation and this proposed legislation is a dangerous & misguided tragedy that has the potential to bring the US down. When our elected leaders betray their campaign promises and display reckless disregard for our interest, it is our duty to do everything possible to take away the power they so desperately crave. Please give us your support by Signing the Petition today and getting everyone you know to help our cause!

Bill of No Rights

This counter argument to the ever creeping liberalism and ever growing list of so called "rights" was spot on when I first read it in the mid-90s and still nails it on the head today. The only "real" right this country gives you is the right to fail. You win or loose on your own in this country. That is the price of personal responsibility. The ability to make right and wrong decisions.

Well now, this is cool

Picture of the International Space Station and shuttle taken by high school astronomers.

Senate Blocks Immigration Bill

Update (6/29/07): Let us NOT forget who voted for this trash! This includes both Martinez (R) and Nelson (D) of Florida! Remember this when it is voting time at home!

Amnesty is dead for now? One can only hope.

Again, this was a poorly written bill that did nothing to actually fix the problem of countless numbers of illegal aliens coming into and staying in America.

Free speech update

FREE SPEECH UPDATE:

Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin got his long overdue comeuppance in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The court ruled the senator is not above criticism before an election, no matter what law Feingold may author.

And three justices even reminded him that Wisconsin is not Morocco. . . . A key provision of this "reform" is a restriction on political ads just before an election.

Oh, not on the ads of the politicians. Senators can run all the TV ads their fat-cat supporters are willing to buy.

No, the politicians restricted what ads the citizenry may run on TV before an election.

This "campaign reform" is like a drunk "curing" his alcoholism by telling his wife she cannot imbibe.

I hope that there's a lot of publicity in this vein, as I fear we're about to see another bipartisan effort by the inhabitants of Incumbistan to shut down criticism.

Glenn Reynolds is so right. This needs to get a lot of publicity (but sadly, most likely will not). This is just more of the "do as I say and not as I do" mentality that is so prevalent in DC today.

Orlando Centennial sure has their priorities in order...

Update (6/29/07): The Centennial ran yet another front page, above the fold story on Disney today. This one to talk about how the 4 teens that were "banned for life" from Disney really are not anymore. They did run a post immigration bill story that was actually on the front page too but this ran below the fold and was a column wide. Great priorities! A week old Disney story still front and center and the defeat of a poorly conceived and written bill gets below the fold mention.

I noticed the front page of the Orlando Centennial today and they were running yet another story on Disney and the Disney crack down on disruptive behavior. This headline was concerning if the new crackdown unfairly targeted black teens. This is the second or third front page article I have seen this week on this topic. I wish the paper had put this much effort into fairly covering the immigration bill working its way through congress as they have to this story. That would have been an important use of the paper, doing in-depth analysis of BOTH the pros and cons of this legislation that though is a national bill, will have local ramifications for generations to come. But no, that would be asking too much of the MSM. They would rather show flattering pictures of poor “undocumented” workers marching to protect “their” rights instead of highlighting the facts around illegal immigration and the costs both to our society and economy.

Yet another reason I prefer the web for any real news on important stories.

Sad, just sad (via Instapundit)

RAMMING THE IMMIGRATION BILL THROUGH FASTER THAN ADVERTISED?

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may be using an 'unprecedented combination of legislative procedures' to push through the controversial Kennedy Immigration Bill - today!"

He couldn't do that if the Republican leadership was determined to stop him. But it's not.

He is so right. The republican leadership has let down their base yet again. Just how long do they think they can do this and not face any consequences? Most likely up until the next election.

Immigration bill news here

It looks like the closure vote passed. I can not figure out what congress is thinking on this one. It is a bad bill done poorly. It is NOT good for America or Americans. It is too light on screening and enforcement and makes a mockery of existing laws and safeguards. There is nothing in this bill to "solve" our immigration ills and does nothing to prevent us from having to go through this all again in another dozen years. This is already a repeat of the late 80s.

iPhone service plan details

The phone looks cool but I have heard that the hype exceeds what is delivered. I hope that is wrong. It looks to have a lot of nice functionality, integrated well. Is it a full featured PDA though? I have a Palm phone now and was considering a MS Mobile 5 as an upgrade. Is the iPhone good enough to stand in for Mobile 5?

A wooden mirror

This is very interesting. It would be even more so to see if this could be done with smaller, multi-faced wooden tiles where the extra faces are progressively darker. This would improve both the density and registration of the resulting image. In affect improving both the fineness of the image and the number of gray (or brown) shades in the resulting image.

The PC drum beats on

What is permissible for thee but not for me.

Enough already...

I do not understand what Kennedy and Pres. Bush are thinking here. A majority of the public want our current immigration laws enforced. We want our borders protected and we want the pandering to illegal aliens to stop and THEY JUST DON'T GET IT!

Have you called congress to tell them enough? I have.

Iran, just move along, nothing to see here...

Terry Tate Office Linebacker

This rates a double HEH, even after all this time.