It's been a good week for freedom lovers. Congress was brought to a new reality out there. And that reality is just who is in charge of running things in America. It's worth singing about so let's get on with it and take a look.
So sorry el friendo
Ever wonder who your friends really are?
Mexicans chide U.S. over
immigration; By
LISA J. ADAMS, Associated Press Writer;
Jun 29, 2007
Our southern border friends haven't realized we are on the same continent. Our southern border friends haven't realized who their largest trading partner is. Our southern border friends haven't realized they are under the umbrella of protection of the United States. Or at least the liberals amongst them haven't realized it.
Opinion makers and migrant advocates in
Mexico said Friday that the collapse of U.S.
immigration reform plans hurts Mexican
workers, U.S. employers and anti-terrorism
efforts.
(scratching head) If you look at that statement as written you would realize that just the opposite is true. Ask the questions. How does it hurt Mexican workers? It doesn't, those who are in the country haven't had their status changed. How does it hurt U.S. employers? It doesn't in the long run because it saves future tax related expenditures (big time). How does it hurt anti-terrorism efforts? Even a 5 year old can figure that one out. It stops the free flow of illegals coming into the country.
"This is very bad news for
Mexican migrants in
the U.S.," said Jorge Bustamante, special
rapporteur to the U.N. human rights
commission for migrants. "It means the
continuation and probably a worsening of the
migrants' vulnerable
conditions."
Spoken like a true liberal -- feeling over substance. How can you say that Eye?
Don't you know these poor people are
vulnerable. IF they were so vulnerable and the conditions are so bad then why would anyone want to come here? I guess they are a bunch of masochists. Why, anyone in their right mind wants to makes their life moves based on a need to make things worse (rolling eyes).
The Rev. Luis Kendziersky,
director of a
shelter for migrants in the border city of
Tijuana, said it appeared senators "are
focused more on the political game than on
the real needs of the people."
I guess Louie didn't read Bunstamante. The
conditions are vulnerable already so how can
you say the "real needs of the people"?
"The most powerful country on the planet will
have to continue living, for many more
months, with the scandalous contradiction
between its laws and the real needs of its
economy, thirsty for cheap labor to guarantee
the international competitiveness of its
exports, especially in
agriculture."
Talk about contradictions! Based on the premise of the article, nothing these people have said agrees. You want to know the real truth here. The real needs of the people have been met. The problem is our southern border friends haven't realized who the real people are. I guess they call them "gringos". Hasta lavista baby.
The global warming update
Last week I started the blog with global warming. I want to do a little update. Just to show you how unreal it is.
Alarmist global warming claims
melt under
scientific scrutiny;June 30, 2007; BY JAMES
M. TAYLOR; Chicago
SunTimes.com
I am truly surprised at the headline. It actually is truthful. I don't suppose Algore approved this article.
In his new book, The Assault
on Reason, Al
Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the
rejection and distortion of science. We must
insist on an end to the cynical use of
pseudo-studies known to be false for the
purpose of intentionally clouding the public's
ability to discern the truth."
I guess the dryball Gore has a book to go along with his stupid movie (called a "documentary"?)
Many of the assertions Gore
makes in his
movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been
refuted by science, both before and after he
made them. Gore can show sincerity in his
plea for scientific honesty by publicly
acknowledging where science has rebutted his
claims.
The mass media, worldwide I might add, will not tell you this. You have to ask the question "why?".
For example, Gore claims that Himalayan
glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to
blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the
American Meteorological Society's Journal of
Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the
Himalayan Mountains, confounding global
warming alarmists who recently claimed the
glaciers were shrinking and that global warming
was to blame."
(Gasp!!) Glaciers are growing?
Gore claims global warming is
causing more
tornadoes. Yet the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
stated in February that there has been no
scientific link established between global
warming and tornadoes.
(Gasp!!) No link to global warming in tornadoes either?
Gore claims global warming is
causing an
expansion of African deserts. However, the
Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist
reports, "Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular'
retreat . . . making farming viable again in
what were some of the most arid parts of
Africa."
(Gasp!!) Deserts shrinking?
Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown,
and that this threatens to raise sea levels by
20 feet. But according to a 2005 study in the
Journal of Glaciology, "the Greenland ice
sheet is thinning at the margins and growing
inland, with a small overall mass
gain."
Ice levels actually increasing. (Gasp!! Gasp!!)
Gosh, no alarm?!! Nothing to worry about?!! What's the real problem here, Eye?
What is the real issue? Tell us you
windbag. Sure. The real problem is Al Gore. He has never been right about anything. (Read the entire article here. )
Finally!!!!!!!!!
I did a little commentary on this a couple of weeks ago. Can't say complete justice has been served, but certainly it was a step in the right direction. He should have been given a full pardon.
Bush commutes Libby prison
sentence;
Yahoo.com; By BEN FELLER, Associated Press
Writer; Jul 3, 2007
It's about time. Libby was a victim of a complete travesty of justice. A prosecutor gone wild on a witch hunt.
President Bush spared former White House
aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-
year prison term in the CIA leak investigation
Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in
the highly charged criminal case. Bush said
the sentence was just too harsh.
The only reason it was highly charged is because they were after Bush and/or Cheney and couldn't get them. Don't you just love the reporting here - "a political thunderbolt". What did the man do? He forgot who told him a name and mistakenly said it was someone else. Never mind the fact that he was an advisor to the Vice President where he is mentioned about people, places and things ten thousand times a day. Never mind the fact that a crime hadn't even been committed either.
"Libby's conviction was the
one faint glimmer
of accountability for White House efforts to
manipulate intelligence and silence critics of
the Iraq war," said Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid. "Now, even that small bit of
justice has been undone."
There was no charge of manipulating intelligence nor was there any effort to silence the critics of the Iraq war.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., said
Bush's decision showed the president
"condones criminal conduct."
Gosh, I did a dozen commentaries on the Clinton pardons from the release of Puerto Rican bombers in NYC to the Marc Rich tax evasions to the release of Mexican drug smugglers. I guess these don't rise to the level of criminal conduct. (Read the entire list here. )
Nobody was ever charged with
the leak,
including Deputy Secretary of State Richard
Armitage or White House political adviser Karl
Rove, who provided the information for the
original article. Prosecutors said Libby
obstructed the investigation by lying about
how he learned about Plame and whom he
told.
Finally we get to the real meat of the situation. There was no criminal charge ever leveled in this case. So what was his crime,
Eye? What was his crime? Being a Republican of course. A crime of the highest magnitude.
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