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Powerful Bay Area Lawyers Represent Immigrants For Free
MSNBC
SAN JOSE, Calif
Dozens of attorneys from some of the nation’s most powerful law firms have united to create a task force that will come to the aid of undocumented immigrants, NBC11’s Damian Trujillo reported Monday.
The 60 attorneys from 14 law firms have said they will face the government head-on — challenging the legality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
60 Attorneys From Bay Area Firms Offer Free Help
The list of law firms includes Dechert LLP, Wilson Sonsini, Skadden-Arps and Orrick, Herrington & Suttcliffe, according to Trujillo. The firms count Yahoo, Hewlett -Packard, Sun Microsystems and many other Fortune 500 companies among their clients.

The legal plan called for the lawyers to vigorously defend the constitutional rights of all people, including undocumented immigrants, Trujillo said.

Andrew Thomases said Dechert LLP, which represents Yahoo, and the other law firms would represent undocumented immigrants for free.

Andrew Thomases said Dechert LLP, which represents Yahoo, and the other law firms would represent undocumented immigrants for free.

“We do have the resources to help all our clients,” Thomases said. “All individuals have constitutional rights, and we want to make sure the rights are not violated, and the government is not violating the Fourth or Fifth Amendment when doing searches and seizures.”

Thomases said lawyers would specifically tackle violations such as entering an apartment without a warrant or pushing an immigrant to answer questions when he refuses to talk.

ICE officials did not respond on camera to the story, Trujillo said.

A spokesperson did tell the reporter that “agents follow the law on all arrests.”

In a statement ICE said:
“As a country, we welcome law-abiding immigrants, but those who violate our laws and commit crimes against our

citizens should understand that ICE is going to use all of its tools to find you and send you home.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Pro-bono, my a$$.
Somebody’s paying for this representation, but my guess is it’s some of their other big clients. Industries such as wineries (Nancy Pelosi owns a vineyard), agricultural companies like Tyson foods, etc.
The left (Democrats) is well financed in its efforts to destroy this country. Power is the name of the game and the destruction of the Constitution is the means.
The legal plan called for the lawyers to vigorously defend the constitutional rights of all people, including undocumented immigrants, Trujillo said.”
They have no constitutional rights, being illegal aliens. We need tougher judges to throw each and every case out before these “lawyers” even open their mouths.
Pelosi’s illegal alien employees
And this at Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/14/video-report-pelosi-hired-illegal-immigrants-for-napa-valley-vineyard/

Rich countries must pay up to help poor countries adapt to climate change
oxfm ….for complete article
Current payments an ‘insult’ to developing countries says Oxfam
Rich countries have paid only $67m into a UN fund to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to climate change which is less than what Americans spend on suntan lotion each month, according to a new report published today by international agency Oxfam.

“This figure represents quite an insult, to be frank, given that the least developed countries will need at least $1-2 billion to meet just their most urgent adaptation needs,” said report author Charlotte Sterrett. Oxfam calls on rich countries gathering in Bali for the 13th UN conference on climate change to honour their promises and increase their commitments to pay adaptation costs.

Bali needs to tackle both cause and effect equally. Even if the world stopped polluting today, the worsening impacts of climate change will be with us for 30 years or more. That’s why it is so vital that rich countries help developing countries to cope now. This would also signal their genuine intent to tackle the problem,” she said.

“Oxfam wants to see negotiators in Bali set a plan for identifying new finance-raising mechanisms, so that vulnerable communities in developing countries will have the resources and support they need to plan for and protect themselves from the worst impacts of climate change. This is not about aid, it is about the world’s biggest and richest polluters covering the costs forced upon those who are most vulnerable,” she said.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
The looters are gathering at the gates.
What a bunch of BS! I only put some snipets of the article here, it is ticking me off how gready and stupid this whole thing is. You all are so right it is ALL about MONEY and they want USA dollars big time. CHA. CHING. Gimme yer dough. As a rule, money sent to aid third world countries ends up in numbered Swiss bank accounts.
GRRRRRRR
I say ….GO POUND SAND!

Republican Presidential hopeful, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., talks to supporters at Wade’s Southern Cooking Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

Thompson: Don’t let the government tell you what to eat
CNN
SPARTANBURG, South Carolina
Fred Thompson wants the government to keep its hands off your dinner plate.
That’s what he told a questioner Tuesday in South Carolina, anyway.
Standing about 15 feet away from a mouth-watering steam tray buffet loaded with fried chicken, creamed corn and macaroni and cheese at Wade’s Southern Cooking in Spartanburg, Thompson dismissed the idea that preventative care and wellness education should be central features of a government’s health care system.

“I’m telling you, I don’t think that it’s the primary responsibility of the federal government to tell you what to eat,” Thompson said to applause when asked if his health care plan included any details on preventative care, a priority for Democratic candidates.

“The fact of the matter is we got an awful lot of knowledge,” said the former Tennesse senator. “Sometimes we don’t have a whole lot of will power, and I don’t know of any government program that’s going to instill that.”

Thompson, ever a fan of small government, said healthy living should be the responsibilities of families first.

“We shouldn’t be looking at the federal government in Washington first and working our way down, it ought to be just the other way around. With that, or whether you’re talking about education, there’s some things the federal government can’t do,” said Thompson.

Wild Thing’s comment………
I will alwys like to hear don’t let the government be a nanny in my life. oh yessss
I love the idea of the govt staying out of my tummy. I am sick of them telling me what is healthy & what is not. Unless its to warn us of a bad product I wish they would stay out of my diet.

Army Spc. Joel M. Ogden from Buffalo, N.Y., replaces a flat tire on a Humvee in the Spera district of Afghanistan’s Khowst province after a drive through a wadi. Photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr., USMC

U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers drive a Humvee up a hill to the Spera district center in Afghanistan’s Khowst province.

A Humvee belonging to 82nd Airborne Division soldiers sits in a wadi after a tire fell off on return from a recent mission in Afghanistan’s Khowst province. Photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr., USMC

Soldiers Overcome Afghanistan Terrain Challenges
Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr., USMC
KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan
Dept. of Defense
Dec. 4, 2007
Mentoring Afghan national security forces puts coalition soldiers everywhere in Afghanistan, which means a lot of wear and tear on their vehicles. But that’s not stopping them.
Soldiers recognize that the dirt and rocky roads, mountain sides and random paths are hard on even the toughest of all-terrain vehicles, so the troops handle mechanical breakdowns in stride.
During a recent morning mission in western Khowst, soldiers with Anti-tank Platoon 4, Company D, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, drove from Shamal district center to Spera district center, then to Spera village. Along the way, they experienced many challenges brought on by the rough Afghanistan terrain.
The soldiers had a four-vehicle convoy and experienced mechanical difficulties early on. They drove primarily through a wadi, but traversed up and down several hills as well. At their first stop, the Spera district center, soldiers had to change a flat tire on one Humvee. They also decided to tow one of the Humvees because a front left wheel had become wobbly.

“It’s really difficult to maintain the vehicles in this terrain,” said the AT-4 platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class William J. Holman, from Flora, Ill. “We do what we can. But it’s a big heartache lots of times.”

After their business at the Spera district center, AT-4 soldiers followed Afghan National Police by vehicle convoy to Spera village to assist in searching for Taliban and other enemy fighters. This trip was also through a wadi. The roads at Spera village were too narrow for the towing and towed Humvee. They parked just below the village, from where soldiers stood guard.
The other two Humvees were positioned in the village to provide additional security. Several soldiers and Afghan police were dismounted throughout the village to provide more protection as needed. The platoon commander, Army 2nd Lt. Marc D. Laighton, from Erda, Utah, assisted Spera district police in searching through random compounds.

Once the searches were finished, AT-4 had to decide on the return route. Holman and Laighton decided to drive through the wadi because it might be a shorter trip than the road. Unfortunately, a few miles into the drive, the wobbly wheel on the towed Humvee fell off. “This is the second time we’ve had a wheel fall off (in a wadi),” Holman said.

Holman and a few soldiers climbed a nearby mountain to ensure the area was secure. The Humvee driver, Army Sgt. Ryan A. Siddall, removed the tire from under the vehicle to determine the cause of the breakdown. Once he determined additional maintenance assistance would be needed, a message was sent to the company headquarters, from where a mechanic and parts could be sent.
It would be several hours before maintenance assistance could be sent, so the soldiers made due. They created a secure perimeter, kept themselves warm, and made use of night vision goggles to remain on the lookout for possible attacks. The soldiers rotated shifts hourly as lookouts in the gunner turrets to remain alert.
Night fell by the time help arrived, but the soldiers went right to work. Army Sgt. David L. Wight, from Joplin, Mo., was the mechanic sent over from AT-3 at Camp Clark. Wight worked from about 11 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. before realizing another trip would have to be made. This time AT-4 split up, with two vehicles making their way to Camp Clark for picking up a gear box and the other two remaining at the site of the break-down.

After returning in the morning, Wight spent another hour making final repairs. Like the other soldiers, he took it in stride. “It wasn’t too bad,” Wight said. “It’s all easy.”

At about 9:30 a.m., all of AT-4 had returned to the Shamal district center, their current home in Afghanistan, just in time to prepare for a visit from their battalion commander and stand by for their next mission.

Wild Thing’s comment………
Adapt, improvise, and succeed. BTW, there’s something funny about the phrase “the wheel fell off in a wadi” if you say it out loud. Okay; too much coffee for me. hahahaha
Love our troops!!

“We will defend what is ours We shall never surrender” -Kosovo Is Serbia-
Oficial Serbian Gov. bilboard

Wild Thing’s comment……..
A good remider that the Serbs were with Churchill, and us, and against Hitler. I thought this billboard interesting.

TEHRAN
Dec 4
Reuters
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who accuses the West of monopolising power in world bodies, proposed on Tuesday setting up an international Islamic court to try war criminals and other human rights violators.
The president gave few details about his proposal, made at a meeting of judiciary chiefs from Islamic countries. But he repeated his assertions that bodies like the U.N. Security Council were being manipulated by the West.

“Today it is necessary to create an international Islamic court for pursuing and following international criminals, those who violates the rights of nations, war criminals and governments …” Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech.

The international community already has two courts, one to deal with criminals and another that handles disputes between states. Both are based in The Hague.
The International Criminal Court was set up in 1998 to try cases such as war crimes. The International Court of Justice was established in 1946 to resolve disputes between countries and is the highest legal authority of the United Nations.

“Some international organizations, specially the Security Council, have not been formed based on justice. The way this council is governed is a symbol of injustice with global effects,” the Iranian president said.

“In this council, some members with special rights are the complainant, the prosecutor and the judge all at the same time … They enjoy complete immunity,” he said.

Ahmadinejad, whose country implements Islamic law or sharia, has accused the United States and its allies, like Britain, of abusing their power after World War Two in imposing a world order that ignores the rights of others.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
Sheesh this guy is so nuts! Dangerous but also nuts. War crimes? He can start with all the killings of his death cult don’t you think so, that should keep him busy into the year 5010 at least. And hey Ahmadinejad,you freak, look in the mirror at yourself and the crimes you have committed!!!

Dana Perino, Helen Thomas Spar Over Troops, Iraqis ‘Killed’
HELEN THOMAS: Does the President want no troops out from Iraq on his watch? I’m talking about all the troops.
MS. PERINO: Well, 5,700 troops will be home by the end of the year, so that is some troops coming home. The President said that troop levels are going to be made by commanders on the ground, and that we’re going to have to talk about –
THOMAS: Why should it be? Why can’t the American people have a say?
MS. PERINO: — return on success. The American people have had a say. They elected a President who is their Commander-in-Chief and is making decisions based on what his commanders on the ground are telling him.
THOMAS: And you think that was the vote of the American people?
MS. PERINO: They elected a Commander-in-Chief, and the President is bringing home 5,700 troops, based on the recommendations of his commanders on the ground and based on return on success. Hopefully in the future we can bring home more, but it’s going to depend on what General Petraeus reports and remember he will come back in March.
THOMAS: Why should we depend on him?
MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He’s the one who is making sure that the situation is moving –
THOMAS: You mean how many more people we kill?
MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.
THOMAS: Do you know how many we have since the start of this war?
MS. PERINO: How many — we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.
Q Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.
MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they are doing.
I’m going to move on.
There is a video of it HERE. thnk you to Ian Schwartz

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Helen might as well march into the room with a Hamas flag. Being in that room is not a Constitutional right – it’s a Presidentially-granted privilege. Helen’s privileges should be revoked! She should have been banned years ago. For the life of me, I don’t understand why the Administration tolerates these hateful bastards in the briefing room. Might as well bring in “reporters” from al Jazeera, Pravda and the Daily Worker. It’s absurd. They should be forcefully thrown out of the room.

Quanell X and the New Black Panther Party Confronted by Joe Horn Supporters
Pasadena, TX
Joe Horn is 61 year old , he heard some noises next door on Thursday afternoon. He was watching a neighbor’s home while they were away. With a quick look out the window he saw a burglary in process.
He diled 911 and the dispatcher told him to sit tight, the police were on the way.
He watched two guys crawl out of a back window. First he sees him crawl in. He calls the cops and they say, they’re on their way, they’re on their way. Well, the people are inside and he’s on the phone saying, okay, guys, where are they? Come on, where are they? “They’re on their way, sir.” He sees them start getting out of the house and he says, “They’ve got a bag of stuff from my friend’s house. I’m not going to let them get away with it. I’ve got a gun.” And the 911 operator says, “Please, sir, don’t do that, don’t go out and do it, you’ll get yourself killed.” And he said, “I’m not going to get killed; I’ll kill them.” Well, that’s exactly what he did.
Instead Horn grabbed a 12 gauge shotgun went outside and as the two Hispanic legal immigrants – Miguel Antonio DeJesus, 38, and Diego Ortiz, 30 – were leaving, Horn shot them three times in the chest from a distance of 15 feet.
The call to 911.

Quanell X (Farrkan groupie, criminal and past druggie) and his new Black Panthers ….racists EVERY ONE OF THEM, came to town in Houston to Joe Horn’s neighborhood and they tried to hold a press conference, but some of the good people in Houston didn’t take too kindly to that.
The Horn supporters, many of whom appeared to come from outside the neighborhood, crowded around Quanell X and his group, revving motorcycles, hoisting signs in support of Horn and chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!”
“The neighborhood does not want that man here. They don’t want him here. He’s not welcome in this neighborhood. They don’t want him,” Blowout, a pro- Horn protester, said.
“We have a right to bear arms, and we’re not afraid to use it. So criminals in Texas, watch out!” protester Jenni Foster said.

Here is a sample of past quote from Quanell X :
” If Louis Farrakhan is ever harmed, black people would kill every white in sight: “Blood will flow in America like a mighty river.”

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
New Black Panthers? I didn’t care for the old ones.
I LOVE Texas and God bless Texans! I m proud to be an ex-Texan! I lived there for 5 years and loved it. Like the saying goes….”Don’t mess with Texas!”
I hope that more people begin to do this whenever these race-baiters, along with Jesse and Al and all the local NAACP race-baiters show up to defend another thug and criminals like the two that Horn shot.

( New movie starring Michael Madsen, should be released in the next couple of months called “Serbian Scars”. The Serbs are the good guys and an Albanian terrorist is the bad guy. It was filmed in Belgrade and Chicago. Then, word has it that there is another film being shot next year about the WWII rescue of over 500 American soldiers from behind German lines by Serbs. Robin Williams is supposed to play General Draza Mihailovic.)

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Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Future Status of Kosovo
clinton.senate.gov
On December 10, the US-EU-Russian troika seeking a mutually acceptable settlement of the future status of Kosovo will make its report to the United Nations and to the world.
Given the current position of the Russian government, it is unlikely that any agreement will be reached. If this is the case, I believe that further delay would be highly inadvisable.
This process, which started far too late thanks to the neglect of the Bush Administration in its first term, has run its course. With Russia threatening to veto any arrangement submitted to the U.N. Security Council, we must be prepared to strongly support the will of the majority of the people of Kosovo. If the government in Pristina decides for independence, I would strongly support prompt U.S. recognition, and I would urge the European Union to do the same. I also congratulate the people of Kosovo on the orderly, peaceful election they have just completed.
In supporting the independence of Kosovo, I want to stress the high importance that I attach to full protection of the rights of all minorities in Kosovo, especially the Serbs. This is an absolute necessity as Kosovo goes forward.
I am also concerned about the deterioration of the situation in Bosnia. Twelve years after the Dayton Agreement ended that war, a combination of American neglect, European Union weakness, and Russian and Serbian obstructionism threatens the stability and future of Bosnia. I urge the Administration to pay more attention to this issue, so that it does not once again become a major threat to European stability, especially at the same time as the Kosovo situation approaches a historic juncture.

Wild Thing’s comment……..

I have posted about this meeting coming up a few days ago. Now we have a statement seen above, from the wicked witch, HIllary.
This woman is a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. Were it not for Pelosi and Boxer, Hillary would be a most sterling example of the term “Bimbo”. Without Bill, she is nothing. And boy, when you’ve got to rely on him for your intelligence, you’re really desparate.
If she follows Bill’s footsteps she will exaggerate the atrocities and then bomb a bunch of civilians and maybe the Chinese Embassy.
So, this scheming witch believes handing the Jihadists a terror state from Serbian lands is a good thing as is forcing the Christian Serbs in Bosnia to remain subject to the Muslims and preventing their succession.
Of course the monstrous imperialist Hillary Rodham Izetbegovic Khomeini supports the “independence” of a Kosovo-Albanian rogue state, and the continued existence of the terrorist and subversive entity that is muslim-dominated “Bosnia”! After all, these constitute the centerpiece of the foreign-policy “legacy” of the clinton crime family. And Senator Khomeini gets to blame delays in acheiving “Kosovo independence” on THREE of her chief enemies–Orthodox Christian Serbia and Russia, and George W Bush!
The Hillary monster is a long-time muslim shill, whose campaigns have always been financed by muslim organizations suspected of terrorist ties. Now we find out that she has a very suspicious Saudi female “assistant”, who follows her everywhere she goes, and who has no visible means of support. Then we find out that Hillary’s “assistant” was her intern (!!!!) in the late 1990s, around the same time as the clintons started celebrating Eid Al-Fitr in the White House. Did BOTH clintons have “intern issues”, with Hillary’s intern being much more sinister than Monica Lewinsky?
Now we are supposed to have sympathy for Hillary because of that “hostage incident”, which comes at a very “convenient” time to revive interest in her tired campaign. But Hillary clinton remains a New World Order megalomaniac and both a muslim and a Chinese communist shill, whom not even liberals should vote for!!!!
May she burn in Hell! Bye Bye Hillary!