Luau anyone?

Annan Makes Plea for Troops in Haiti. He needs help to bail his sorry butt out, since his Blue Hats are failing miserably at keeping the peace in Haiti:

Annan told Rice that the Haitians "respect the U.S. military," according to a senior U.N. diplomat familiar with the closed-door meeting.

Could that be because our troops do not go about raping the same people that they are there to protect? Shockingly this is the same US military that has been painted as Human Rights violators’ equivalent to that of the days of Russian gulag, but when the United Nations needs a military or money to take care of the situation, they come crawling back to the hand that feeds them! I would just smack the pig on the snout and tell to go home. Scratch that thought, how about a Luau instead?

Yes, I am aware that the US is responsible in many ways for the current situation in Haiti, but the UN wanted to take care of it so let them. Even the Demies should agree with me on this one, since their motto for the past 40 years has been “when things get ugly, cut bait and run!” Sound familiar?

Bounty hunters needed.

If would appear that one former hostage who was held captive in Iraq, has decided that his captors should pay.

From Hostage-Taker to President

The newly “elected” president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was a key figure in the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran; here’s a photograph of Ahmadinejad holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage: AP Photo shows Iran’s new President as 1979 US hostage-taker. (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.)

UPDATE at 6/29/05 8:21:15 am:

Here’s another photo of Ahmadinejad with the same hostage:

Shock jock gets shocked

Tim Shaw a DJ in the UK was chatting on air with model Jodie Marsh and stated that he'd be willing to leave his wife and two kids for her. Well oops… the wife was listening so she decided it was time for the Lotus Esprit Turbo sports car to go so, she had a little auction on Ebay that lasted exactly five minutes and three seconds. The car, estimated to be worth $45,000, sold for 50 pence (90 cents). And who says you can not find deals on EBay anymore!

Glory Days

How many of you remember the junior high dances growing up? That is correct I stated junior high and not middle school, but then again that is a subject for another day. During my numerous dances at junior high, I seemed to have missed out on the dirty dancing with the school staff!

Virgins or beer?

It amazes me that the Islamic radicals have the intestinal fortitude to blow themselves up yet, lack the same spirit to pass up the temptation of the devils brew.

Quagmire: Kennedy or Iraq?

Question: How many times in a month can one silly, irrelevant Senator use the word quagmire in public?

Answer: A lot, especially when CNN is still on the air to give him a public forum. On Late Edition, Kennedy, the one Senator who ought to know what a quagmire really is, since he's the one who drove Mary Jo and the car into one himself, appeared and didn't let up from the insanity he spewed a few days ago. Here's a sample, as quoted in this Washington Times story:

"Iraq is absolutely consistent with Vietnam. They don't like to hear about it, the administration doesn't like to hear about it. Every time that you mention it, they attack those that mention it. But there has to be a political resolution. There has to be a military presence, but a political resolution to this problem ultimately. It cannot be just solved militarily."

Memo to Senator Kennedy. A political resolution is taking place. It's called the three main tribes of Iraq getting together and hammering out a constitution. What a moron.

How one Senator feel it to be his personal mission to belittle the efforts and obvious results of hundreds of thousands of coalition forces, is beyond me.

Bono fide

U2 frontman BONO was horrified during a visit to Ethiopia, when he saw local women pelting a breast-feeding aid worker with stones.

The American woman was oblivious of the offence she was causing, and had to escape the angry onslaught from female Muslims who had no qualms about injuring her or her baby.
Bono recalls, "I remember one vision of the people who are with WORLD VISION, which is an American aid agency.

"One of the women was breast-feeding a child on the horse. She was so comfortable. She didn't mean to be insensitive.

And pelting a mother and child with stones is not insensitive? What is it with folks such as Sean Penn and Bono that they can excuse the most terrible behavior exhibited by the people of other cultures? Is their enlightened elitism blinding them to basic ethics? I don't care if it's accepted in that culture. Stoning is just plain wrong. It's unethical and Bono should realize this instead of blaming the "insenstive" breastfeeding American Aid Worker.
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Pot or Kettle?

When Dean rambles on about the Republican Party, you know who you are you evil white Christians, he trying to separate the political parties with his interpretation of good versus evil.

So when Karl Rove makes a few interpretations of his own, the lefties are appalled! Is this really an interpretation or someone just stating the facts of how each party has approached terrorism prior to and after the 9/11 attacks?

"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."

Was this not approach of the Bill Clinton, the Democratic icon, remember the president's reaction to the bombing of the WTC seemed almost disengaged. He warned Americans against "overreacting" and, in an interview on MTV, described the bombing as the work of someone who "did something really stupid." From the start, Clinton approached the investigation as a law-enforcement issue.

And for the therapy portion, the principal tenant of the 9/11 memorial is the International Freedom Center, a far-left group headed by the ACLU, radical Columbia University professors, and ... George Soros. This group of proven anti-American loons has 300,000 square feet dedicated to human rights failures, with apparently very little focus on the 9/11 atrocities.

So in my feeble mind he does have a point!

Get with the melting pot program

Two-thirds of Americans believe immigrants should integrate into the U.S. culture, according to a new poll.

The Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 17 percent believe immigrants should maintain the culture of their home country while 67 percent believe newcomers should "adopt America's culture, language, and heritage."


Seventy-nine percent say immigrants should be required to learn English before they are allowed to become citizens. Just 14 percent disagree.

Rasmussen said similar attitudes were found in a February survey showing overwhelming opposition to letting illegal aliens obtain drivers licenses or receive government benefits such as Medicaid.

The now poll also found that 64 percent of Americans believe U.S. schools should teach all students in English. Twenty-nine percent believe some schools should offer courses in different languages.

Broken down by political affiliation, the poll found more Republicans favored cultural integration than Democrats.

Eighty-four percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Democrats say that learning English should be required before citizenship is offered.

Seventy-eight percent of Republicans and 63 percent of Democrats believe that immigrants should adopt U.S. culture.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44931

Trustworthy? Or just covering you 6 Senator?

I hope no one has fallen for the so called apology by Sen. Dick Durbin. Does he retract his comparison of our soldiers to mass murdering Nazis and Communists? The answer is "no."

His apology comes just hours prior to the Rasmussen Reports that show 70% of the American public says Gitmo prisoners are treated well. The radical left’s campaign to demonize the War on Terror, the US military, and Guantanamo Bay is backfiring. Badly.

Not so fun Monday!

From the pages of a fellow brother Marine:

Semper Fidelis

Two days ago, a friend and colleague was killed in action in Iraq. Captain John Maloney was a leader of Marines. Moreover, he was just plain good people. I present that as the highest compliment I can possibly to give to anyone of my acquaintance.

John, along with several of the Marines in his company, was murdered by a cowardly, scum-sucking terrorist who set up an IED (improvised explosive device) to ambush John and his men.

John deserved better.

Captain John Maloney was a Marine's Marine. I served with him when we were both but lowly, non-commissioned officers, and I enjoyed the privilege of serving both under and beside him. He was a leader in every sense of the word. When you did well, he complimented you on your abilities and made you feel good about who and what you were. When you screwed up, he was equally fervent--yet fair--in his correction. The Marine Corps and the United States of America lost a very good man this year.

The only reference I could find on the net in relation to John was this article, (ironically, on my birthday) about his company lending medical assistance to a local Iraqi hospital. Knowing John, he would have been proud to know this was his most prominent and public memorial.

When next you hoist a drink to your lips, do me a personal favor and give thanks to John Maloney and the men like him, who have given their lives to preserve the freedoms of both you and your fellow human beings.

Vaya con Dios, John. It's your turn to guard the pearly gates.

Semper Fidelis.

Fun on Friday

This month Pac Man turns 25, feel old do ya? Ok time to be honest here, how many still remember the pattern?

Next subject for the day of fun.

Star Trek has set many futuristic inventions into motion. What? You do not believe me? Well then, remember a little thing called a floppy disk? That is correct, ole’ ye full of doubt, it held information of the individual crew members on the star ship Enterprise. (side note, Jeff will probably give the exact episodes). So what is next you ask, there are some primitive examples of replicators under development. Imagine being able to come home a replicate food on the spot! And just to think 50 years ago TV dinners were the greatest. Of course some of us younger generation (late 30’s early 40’s) thought that Top Ramen was the answer to all of our nutrimental needs!

I personally wish they would hurry up with transporters! Just imagine all of the roads without the congestion and the freedom of the road. But then again some tree huggin hippie would want all the asphalt ripped up to save a salamander! Need to send them off to Parris Island and see how many sand fleas that they would kill in the course of the three month vacation!

Thanks for reading and have a good weekend!

N. Korea Helping Iran's Manhattan Project

North Korea to help Iran dig secret missile bunkers. (Hat tip: GeoPoliticalReview.)

Iran is secretly negotiating with North Korea to build a network of underground bunkers to conceal its clandestine nuclear weapons project.

A team of construction experts has arrived in Teheran to conduct a survey of Iranian requirements. It included a senior North Korean specialist in underground construction who helped to design the bunkers that contain Pyongyang’s illegal weapons programme.

Current talks centre on whether the North Koreans will undertake the work for the Iranians, or act as advisers to Iranian construction companies.

The North Koreans specialise in the equipment and technology used in the construction of underground complexes. In the past, the Communist dictatorship has supplied tunnel-digging equipment for military purposes to Iraq, Syria and Libya.

The legal department of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which is undertaking the project, recently summoned the managers of dozens of construction companies to discuss possible contracts. ...

The Iranians have tried to build their own underground facilities but these were quickly discovered by IAEA inspectors. Now Teheran wants help to build a large new network of tunnels and caves at a secret location in central Iran.

According to Western intelligence reports, the first stage of the proposed project would involve the construction of 10,000 square metres of underground bunkers. Each bunker would be divided into spaces of 1,000-2,500 square metres, big enough to house the equipment needed to produce weapons grade uranium.

Well you don't say!

Education Policy Expert: Illegal Immigration, Bilingual Ed Factor Into Rising English Illiteracy

Cotecna E-Mail Memo Shows Connection To Kofi Annan

For months, Kofi Annan has denied any connection between the UN Oil-for-Food contractor and himself through his son Kojo. The Secretary-General has gone so far as to state that he never met with Cotecna on OFF business and only had the most general of information from his son. However, Cotecna has found an e-mail that indicates their executives did indeed meet with Kofi, making his earlier denials look more and more suspicious:

A memo written by someone who was then an executive of a major contractor in the United Nations oil-for-food program states that he briefly discussed the company's effort to win the contract in late 1998 with Secretary General Kofi Annan and his "entourage" and that the executive was told that "we could count on their support."

The secretary general's son, Kojo Annan, was employed by Cotecna Inspection Services, a Swiss contractor based in Geneva, and the nature of that relationship is among the issues being investigated by a panel appointed by the United Nations and several Congressional committees.

Kofi Annan has said several times that he did not discuss the contract with his son and was not involved in Cotecna's selection. A United Nations panel headed by Paul A. Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, concluded in March that Mr. Annan had not influenced the awarding of the $10 million dollar-a-year contract to the company. ...

The memo, written on Dec. 4, 1998, by Michael R. Wilson, then a Cotecna vice president who was Kojo Annan's friend and a family friend of the secretary general, describes a meeting that took place during the 20th summit meeting of Francophone leaders in Paris in late November 1998.

"We had brief discussions with the SG and his entourage," the memo states. "Their collective advise was that we should respond as best as we could to the Q & A session of the 1-12-98 and that we could count on their support."

The "1-12-98" refers to a meeting Mr. Wilson and a delegation of Cotecna officials had in New York on Dec. 1, 1998, with senior United Nations officials who were considering which of three companies to select for the inspection contract that Cotecna won 10 days later.

The memo does not state that Kojo Annan was present at the discussion with the secretary general. But it continues with a description of "courtesy greetings" on behalf of Cotecna with presidents of several African countries held by a person identified as "KA" at the summit meeting. Asked for comment, a consultant for the company said it appeared that Mr. Wilson was referring to Kojo Annan in the memo.

The memo is attached to an e-mail message sent by Mr. Wilson to the company's owners and senior executives. It is dated Dec. 4, 1998, a week before Cotecna was informed that it had won the contract to inspect goods purchased by Iraq under the program, which allowed Iraq to sell some of its oil to meet needs of its civilian population despite United Nations sanctions.

So it appears that Kofi has not been honest with investigators to this point. No one with a brain believed his denials anyway, but this confirms that he has lied about his association with Cotecna and the role his son played in getting the Oil-For-Food contract. Kofi, Kojo, and Cotecna appear to have participated in a broad cover-up of the Secretary-General's role in ensuring his son's company controlled the Oil-for-Food program.

Now the question remains: why?

Since the SG and Cotecna took such pains to keep their meetings and arrangements hidden, it would follow that the relationship between Cotecna and the Annans had more than just coincidence as a product. My guess is that more money than just Kojo's $2500 per month is involved in this transaction and cover-up. Cotecna's records might show even more surprises in the coming weeks.

hat-tip Captain's Quarters

Ensign Chekhov may finally get that promotion to Admiral

As the dust settles on the latest Star Trek series, and you start to wonder what is next, along comes Fan based films. That’s right Paramount is actually allowing these fans to film a series called the New Voyages. In September they will start filming with the Koenig from the original series.

But in an article that I read recently an author had stated it was time to put a fork in Star Trek. Preposterous, I tell you. Not as long as those of us pass the legacy to our younger generation it will never die, my four year sadly (or proudly) to say will come fly around the corner when he hears any of the five themes to the Star Trek series!

Live Long and Prosperous fellow fans the Voyage continues.

Tough Medicine

To quote the left, “illegal are not a menace to our society.” It would appear that the medical field has a different view on the impact of these criminals. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Spring 2005, has an article in pdf format explaining in some detail the impact of the criminals on our health care system. We all know of the cost of health care has increased exponentially year to year and the blame has never been placed upon the criminals. The author also has “A Proposal to Prevent Medical Cataclysm” in addition to an interesting interpretation of the 14^th amendment.

Those of us who have had direct interaction with these criminals from time to time will tell you that their hygiene is something that needs attention. Example, within city limits I personally observed a half of cow being cut up on the back of tailgate in the driveway with the blood runoff washing down the street along the curbs. A first grader could tell you that this is wrong, but these criminals do not care. They still believe they are in Mexico and treat our nation as such.

To add more fuel to the fire the American Academy of Pediatrics are warning of the worst outbreak of whooping cough in 40 years.

The author of the first article says what most Americans believe; re-deploy the troops to the borders. I for one would be more than happy to once again be allowed to carry and fire automatic weapons to defend my country. Hmmmmm.....the smell of automatic fire in the morning..........

Teens unemployed in the summer time?

Illegal, (that is right I said it), aliens are taking jobs from Americans.

The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult

From the page of LGF:

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, where Allen Forkum has these comments:

Keep in mind the context here: the “Guantanamo is a gulag” ACLU and other leftists groups are involved in the memorial. How can the memorial be “respectful of the victims of September 11” if, like the ACLU, we do not “precisely define ‘freedom’”? True political freedom is not a matter of opinion. After all, didn’t Mohammed Atta and his fellow Islamic mass murderers “act in the service of freedom as they [saw] it”? Didn’t they want the Islamic world to be “free” from Western culture and “globalization”? Isn’t that the very reason they chose to attack the capitalistic World Trade Center in the great New York City? Will views sympathetic to Atta’s “point of view” be allowed on the hallowed ground where thousand were slaughtered by him? Have they already?

If one iota of appeasing, multicultural, moral-equivalence, anti-freedom ideology is allowed to desecrate the 9/11 memorial, it will be a victory for the very monsters who brought down the towers. Ask yourself: would it prove our “self-confidence and humanity” if we rose “above the politics of the moment” and allowed Nazi-sympathizers to express “freedom as they see it” at Auschwitz, or even the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum? No, it would not. It would be an insult to the victims. And likewise we must not allow terrorist-sympathizers and apologists any platform at the WTC memorial.

In fact, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., should serve as a model for the WTC memorial, as a guiding principle on how to create a real tribute to the 9/11 victims that does not shy away from naming the enemy, its anti-freedom ideology, and telling the full, horrible story. It’s not a matter of scale but of content and presentation. Not only does the Holocaust Museum explain how and why Nazism came to power but also how and why the Nazis systematically murdered millions. It tells survivors’ stories and how the free state of Israel was born. It shows how life was reclaimed from a culture of death, destruction and tyranny. There are even television monitors — conscientiously shielded from children — that unblinkingly show the true horror committed against Jews and others.

Will there be such a presentation at the World Trade Center memorial? Will there be, as Burlingame put it, “a memorial that ... acknowledge[s] the yearning to return to that day”? There won’t be if we can’t even stand up, define and defend what is morally right about American freedom. That is the only way to respect the victims of 9/11, because that is why they were murdered.

Contact information for the parties involved in the International Freedom Center is in this post.

Hackers Unite

The UN in its attempt for supreme control is now battling behind the scene to take control of domain names, DNS and IP addresses. This battle is in line with their goal to tax everyone who uses the internet.

If the UN can pull this off, there is just one word for them:

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Immigrants Ask For "Illegal" Apology from Mayor

A coalition of advocacy group leaders sought an apology from Autry for using the term "illegal." They told him they believed his comments last week portrayed illegal immigrants as an economic burden (because they are). They said that image fuels hatred, especially when the contributions made by immigrants are left out (because those contributions are insignificant compared to the burden they cause on legal tax payers) . Members of the coalition asked Autry to use the word "undocumented" in the future.

Autry would not apologize when he met with the group Monday.

"I cannot apologize for standing up against abuse, exploitation," he said. "If the word 'illegal' is demeaning, I hate the word, but we do have laws."

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Republicans a White Christian Party?

Well Demie Dean is at it again. It is bad enough that the Republicans do not work for an honest living, now according to Dean we are a monolithic party and we all look and act the same. And to top those stereotypical slurs the party is just white Christians! Next he'll call Republicans a white mans country club!

Tenants for the World Trade Center Memorial

The principal tenant of the memorial is the International Freedom Center, a far-left group headed by the ACLU, radical Columbia University professors, and ... George Soros. This group of proven anti-American loons has 300,000 square feet dedicated to human rights failures, with apparently very little focus on the 9/11 atrocities. Here’s a special link to the article, good for 7 days without a subscription: The Great Ground Zero Heist.

Demies/Europe which is which?

Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar tells it like it is: Spain’s ex-PM to Israel: Ignore Europe. (Hat tip: LGF)

Israel need not pay much attention to Europe, which is using its Middle East policy to separate itself from the US, has a tendency toward appeasement and is largely pro-Palestinian, former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar told The Jerusalem Post Monday.

“Europe likes appeasement very much; this is one of the most important differences between us and the States,” Aznar said in an interview on the Bar-Ilan University campus. “Europeans don’t like any problems. They prefer appeasement.”

The strongly pro-American Aznar, who bucked public sentiment in Spain and backed US President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, served as prime minister from 1996-2004. He is currently in the country for Bar-Ilan’s jubilee celebration, at which he will receive an honorary doctorate on Tuesday.

Aznar said Europe had no chance of independently impacting on the situation in the Middle East and would be wise to work closely with the US.“Do we Europeans have the capacity to change the situation and influence this area? The answer is no,” he said.

Aznar said that European policy was “not favorable to Israel,” and that different political leaders in Europe used the Middle East question as a way to establish a different identity from the US.

“In Europe, Israel is not very popular, not only this government, all governments,” he said. “Most Europeans support the Palestinian cause. Europeans sincerely wish for a peace agreement and support the peace process, but the reality is that the peace process is closed. At this moment I think that Europe should work closely with the States, because that is the only opportunity to change the region.”

"Just doing my job"

Who says there are no heroes anymore? What about Sgt. Leandro F. Baptista? Who is Leandro F. Baptista you ask? A Marine who won a Silver Star for heroism under fire in Fallujah. And just in case you're wondering, oh yeah, he earned it:

With six men wounded and two vehicles out of action, Baptista "sprinted across a shallow canal, climbed a 10-foot berm, and charged towards the enemy."

Under fire, he knocked out one gun emplacement and grabbed three other Marines to help continue his charge.

After disarming an improvised bomb that threatened backup forces, Baptista split his men up, and the ad hoc team charged a group of 11 insurgents from two angles. Baptista killed at least four of them himself "at close range," while his team attacked the other seven, the citation said.

Marines at the ceremony said at least one Marine was killed during the 30-minute ambush and firefight.

The citation concluded that by his "bold leadership, wise judgement and complete dedication to duty" Baptista upheld the "highest traditions of the Marine Corps."

After pinning the heavy star on Baptista's shirt pocket during the ceremony Friday, Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski, the 1st Marine Division's commanding general, said that hearing the events of that day recounted "brings chills to my spine."

He said Baptista's actions were "part of the legacy of our Corps, of this division," and ranked him alongside heroes from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

So is all that praise going to Baptista's head? No, he handled it the any Marine would:

Baptista, who only left the side of his fiancee long enough to shake the hand of his former 1st Recon comrades, said he was "just doing my job."

"I'm thankful, but I really didn't want to make a big deal of this," he said after the ceremony.

"Everybody out there should be recognized," he said. "People died out there. People got wounded. Everybody did their part. I was just in the position where I had to make a decision and take charge."

Now that is a real American hero...

Hat tip to the Mudville Gazette for the story.

Red or Blue?

Here's a test to tell which you really are!

Troops yes, Memorials No!

Both sides of the political spectrum say the “We Support the Troops”. However, this type of judicial hogwash has nothing to do with supporting the troops, and is an outright slap in the face of Veterans and their families.

The memorial at Mount Soledad was built in the early 1950s to commemorate the service of Korean War veterans. For 16 years, however, legal battles have persisted over the cross that towers over the La Jolla memorial, as some groups (ACLU) alleged that its presence on public land violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

So the city tried to sell the land to the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association, Inc., however, the judicial activism of the courts found the sale of the property to the Association violated provisions of the California Constitution prohibiting government support of religion.

Why do we have “The Wall”, “Iwo Jima Monument”, and finally the well deserved “World War II Memorial” for those Veterans and their families? Is it not for the service and sacrifice for this country and their loved ones?

This is not a battle over religion as some would have you believe! It is a battle of symbolism. Those memorials and many more like them are a symbolic recognition of war, conflicts and sacrifices by those people who fought in them.

Since the left believe that appeasement is the only way not to offend the international community or brutal dictatorships and war is a four letter word, then what a better way to change the course of history in addition to the hearts and minds of the followers than to dismantle those monuments!

So we support the troops but not the memorials that honor them. We support the troops but not the War. Sound familiar?

The Truth?

MSM always use the statement war torn Iraq time and time again, seeming never to find any good that our US military boys are doing. Michael Yon who is currently in Iraq has been traveling with our boys and shows what is really happening.

Doh!

In their haste to make political hay over Jack Abramoff’s connections to Republican lawmakers, the dem/leftists have hit a bump in the road. Look likes Abramoff also gave heavily to some big name dem/leftists, including, Patrick J. Kennedy, Harry Reid, Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt. You can see more on this here.

"The Democrats’ hope of capitalizing on the investigation into lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s connections to Republican lawmakers has been dealt a serious blow by the revelation that he funneled money to Democrats as well.

Abramoff and an associate solicited millions of dollars from six Indian tribes with gambling interests and steered the money to powerful legislators – including top Democrats, a new Washington Post probe disclosed.

"Democrats are hoping to gain political advantage from federal and Senate investigations of Abramoff’s activities and from the embattled lobbyist's former ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay," the Post reported.
"Yet many Democratic lawmakers also benefited from Abramoff's political operation, a fact that could hinder the Democrats' efforts to turn the lobbyist’s troubles into a winning partisan issue.""

The fact that this has appeared in the Washington Post, will make it difficult for the dem/leftists to use their usual media allies to make any attempt to bury this or make it go away.

About time!

INVASION USA
Congressional call for troops on border
Iowa rep says he will introduce bill in weeks
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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, called today for deploying the military to seal the borders against illegal immigration and stiff new financial penalties for employers who hire aliens.

"The destiny of America is going to be shaped a lot by immigration policy," said King, who said he will introduce legislation "in the next several weeks."

King said the measure he's pushing would put in place severe financial penalties for companies hiring illegal workers, ending the companies' ability to take deductions on wages and benefits for those workers.

"That will change the dynamic of this," said King. "That will slow the growth in this job magnet that's driving our illegal immigration."

King spoke during a taping of Iowa Public Television's "Iowa Press" program airing later this weekend.

"Immigration is the big sleeping issue that seems to be the subject that no one wanted to touch in the last presidential campaign, the subject that these presidential candidates don't want to touch, but it's something that Iowans and Americans want to have a national debate on," said King.

His bill, he said, would give "safe harbor" to companies that use Internet-based tracking systems to verify that workers are in the country legally.

"We need healthy immigration," said King. "We should go around the world and recruit the best people we can get. We just simply can't be the relief valve for all the poverty in the world."

King said it would be a relatively simple task to seal the border by deploying military units for that task.

"Yes we can control the border, we can put more people on the border," said King. "Deploy our military to the border. That's great terrain to train to go to Iraq. You need to keep an army busy. We have National Guard people down there now, we can just put more there."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44597

AL-ZARQAWI Dead?

As yet unconfirmed. From AKI

Baghdad, 2 June (AKI) - The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.

During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.

Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.

Republicans Busted

For those of you who are of the Republican side of the political spectrum, just in case you did not know Howard Dean has your number!

“A lot of Republicans'' don't make an ''honest living."

Is this an example of it takes one to know one?

This diarrhea of the mouth and temper tantrum has got to stop. Is this what our political system has come to, angry outbursts because your political party has some issues to deal with? Grow up Dean and those who would believe what spills out of his festering pie hole called a mouth as the gospel truth!

Busted!

This is something that you can not make up! Care for a copy?

Still Rather Clueless

Dan Rather appeared on Larry King Live last night to discuss the outing of Mark Felt as Deep Throat. King couldn't resist the urge to compare the Watergate story to that of the disgraced 60 Minutes II report on George Bush's TexANG service, and Rather couldn't resist the urge to once again claim that no one had proven the Killian memos as fraudulent:

KING: Well, I don't know another word. You might still believe the story, by the way.

RATHER: Well, without getting into that because the panel, this panel that was chosen by CBS to look into it, they issued their report. CBS adopted the report. I said at the time and I say now, I read the report. I absorbed it. I carried forward in my work. Anybody wants to know the panel's version of what happened should read the report.

The situation that we had and still have is the last line of this has not been written. I will be very interested to see the last line of this story (INAUDIBLE) written. But, you know, I've acknowledged that we didn't do it perfectly. I wish we had. Others may say, well, you didn't do it well. They're entitled to that judgment. ...

Now, the documents were a support for those and an important support, and when questions were raised, well, how do we know that documents are true? We had some problems. However, I do want to point out, and I -- listen, anybody who wants to castigate this or fuss with this, have at it. I will point out that the panel, which was headed by a President Nixon, Reagan, Bush family supporter and a journalist who said that George Bush one was one of the greatest people he ever met -- this panel came forward and what they concluded, among the things they concluded after months of investigation and spending millions of dollars, they could not determine that the documents were fraudulent. Important point, that we don't know whether the documents were fraudulent or not.

KING: Are you saying the story might be correct?

RATHER: Well, I'm saying a prudent person might take that view.

A prudent person might take that view? A prudent journalist would have taken into account the recommendations of the document examiners who looked at these memos before publication. Every one of them warned CBS of serious questions about their authenticity, except for the one that only looked at the signatures on the memos.

Women want to *gasp* drive cars!

And US women think they are being discriminted against and have it so bad! You want real discrimination, then fly to Saudi and try renting a car!

The driving ban applies to all women, Saudi and foreign, and forces families to hire live-in drivers. These drivers are allowed to be alone with women because, Al-Zulfa explained, clerics deem this a lesser evil than driving.

Kofi fires the wrong someone

On the first day of June, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has Top Worldwide">fired Oil-for-Food official Joseph Stephanides. Of course it just a ploy to cover his collective behind!

June 1 (Bloomberg) — United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday fired Joseph Stephanides, an official in the Iraq oil-for-food program, for misconduct in the awarding of a contract to a company that inspected humanitarian goods imported by former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who is investigating allegations of corruption in the program, said in a Feb. 3 report that Stephanides “tainted” the process of hiring Lloyds Register Inspection Ltd. by telling the U.K. company how much to lower its bid to win the 1996 contract.

“After a thorough review of all aspects of the case, the secretary-general has decided that Mr. Joseph Stephanides be summarily dismissed for serious misconduct, in accordance with the United Nations staff regulations,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters today at the UN.

See the military does target journalist!

Syria may have withdrawn their troops and intelligence operatives from Lebanon, but that doesn’t mean they’ve given up: Anti-Syrian journalist killed in Beirut.