Appearing on the Piolin radio show in support of immigration “reform”, aka a massive amnesty for illegal aliens, Senator Teddy Kennedy broke into song… in Spanish
Wild Thing’s comment………..
Getting drunk and drowning a lady does strange things to a person. Memo to Ted Kennedy: This is your liver speaking, “please back away from the bar.”
I got this from a friend of mine in an email and wanted to share it with you. Plus it will tick off the Moslems that lurk and read this blog. heh heh……Wild Thing
This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years.
The following is my reply:
Theologically – no. . . . Because Muslims allegiance is to Allah, The moon God of Arabia.
Religiously – no. . . Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256) (Koran)
Scripturally – no. . . Because Muslims allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.
Geographically – no . . Because Muslims allegiance is to Mecca, to which they turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially – no. . Because Muslims allegiance to Islam forbids them to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically – no. . Because Muslims must submit to the mul lahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel, Christians and the destruction of America, the great Satan.
Domestically – no. . . Because Muslims are instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34 )
Intellectually – no. . . .. Because Muslims cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Christian Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically – no. . .. . Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually – no. .. . . Because when we declare “one nation under God,” the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran’s 99 excellent names. – – – Therefore after much study and deliberation…. Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. – – – They obviously cannot be both “good” Musli ms an d good Americans.
Call it what you wish, but it’s still the truth.
It will come a day soon when it will be a matter of life and death; then you will believe it.
The more we Christians, Americans and our Jewish brothers understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future. The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.
And Barack Hussein O bama, a Muslim, wants to be our President? You have GOT to be kidding! Wake up America!
Take a look at the pic on Pelosi’s website (it’s a flash thing, so wait till it comes around but there is a screen cap below) where she touts how “the House is providing the largest increase in veterans’ funding in history”. The picture?
That of a Canadian officer, all epaulets have “CANADA” in gold lettering on the epaulets on the part nearest the sleeve.
Nancy Pelosi website
Can you believe it?Good grief!!!
A college education for illegal aliens
Washington Times
It’s no secret that the Senate immigration bill rewards 12-20 million illegal aliens with immediate amnesty. What is less well known is that the bill also allows illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition rates at public universities, discriminating against U.S. citizens from out of state and law-abiding foreign students.
These provisions are buried deep in the Senate bill. They are part of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act section.
(please…..see my link in my comment further down about the Dream Act)
The DREAM Act is a nightmare. It repeals a 1996 federal law that prohibits any state from offering in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens, unless the state also offers in-state tuition rates to all U.S. citizens. On top of that, the DREAM Act offers a fast track to U.S. citizenship for illegal aliens who attend college.
On its own, the DREAM Act never stood a chance of passing — even in the Senate. Every scientific opinion poll on the subject has shown over 70 percent opposition to giving in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens.
Not surprisingly, the DREAM Act languished in committee for five years — until the opportunity arose to hitch it to the Senate’s “comprehensive” immigration bill of 2006. Now, Sen. Edward Kennedy and his allies have added it to this year’s amnesty bill, too. They know that the only way to slip such bad legislation past the American people is to bury it in a comprehensive bill.
Wild Thing’s comment…………
The D.R.E.A.M. Act is a bill that was introduced in Congress on August 1, 2003, by Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah.
The one thing American taxpayer money DOESN’T seem to go to is HELPING AMERICANS. Missions to TERRORISTS in Hamas, Fatah, etc. etc. etc. We are being treated as worker bees to provide the honey for whomever our elitist politicians wish to pander to. It’s beyond disgusting … And this kind of nonsense must stop.
They have changed the standards of getting a college education…in that they believe it is a “right” instead of a “privilege”. The minute that happened…..it all went to hell in a handbasket. Minorities get first choice and priority status…..regardless of whether they really want it or not.
Is there ANYTHING in this bill that doesn’t mess with Americans?? I do not understand how those who are sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution can use it as toilet paper.
This is an article from last year that I never saw before today.
States Grapple With In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
A video of when this all happened that sent Ramos and Compean to prison.
Ignacio Ramos reported in ’emaciated’ condition
Congressional aide says Border Patrol agent ‘languishing in solitary’
A congressional aide who visited Ignacio Ramos in prison said the convicted Border Patrol agent appeared emaciated, losing more than 30 pounds in solitary confinement.
Ramos, who is appealing his 11-year sentence for the non-lethal shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler, has been in a “special housing unit” since he was beaten by inmates in February at the medium-security Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Miss., said Tara Setmayer, spokeswoman for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.
“He was very happy to see me, but, overall, he was very emotional,” Setmayer said. “He is demoralized. Languishing in solitary for 135 days takes its toll on anyone.”
The men who bloodied Ramos with kicks from steel-toed boots are in the same unit, Setmayer said.
Although the prison tries to make a distinction, she noted, “the protective measures are punitive, so he suffers all of the same restrictions as those there for disciplinary reasons.”
A lockdown had been implemented prior to Setmayer’s visit June 11, and Ramos had not received a hot meal in two days, Setmayer said.
Ramos’ wife, Monica, visited him Monday and reported he was in the same condition.
Charles Smith, spokesman for the Yazoo City prison, said he could not comment on Ramos, or any prisoner, without the prisoner’s written permission.
Ramos and Border Patrol colleague Jose Compean are serving sentences for their actions in the shooting of drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila-Aldrete as he fled back to Mexico after driving across the border with 742 pounds of marijuana in February 2005. U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton gave the smuggler immunity to serve as the government’s star witness and testify against the border agents. While under immunity, the smuggler was caught in another drug delivery, but the judge sealed that information from the jury.
Setmayer also visited Ramos just days after the February assault, witnessing his injuries first hand.
“It was one of the most emotionally intense things I’ve ever experienced,” she said. “The hardest thing was walking out of the facility while they were handcuffing him and taking him away.”
Setmayer said that while she didn’t have to see bruises this time, she saw an “emaciated officer.”
“It just emboldens us even more so,” she said of congressional efforts on behalf of the agents, including a resolution calling for pardons. “It was encouraging for him to find out our efforts are moving forward full steam ahead.”
Rohrabacher has requested a hearing on the case before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight. Among its aims, the panel wants to examine possible influence by the Mexican government on the case. Sutton has said he is willing to testify.
The Mexican Consulate sought the prosecution of Ramos and Compean, and also Hernandez.
Setmayer said her office has been “stonewalled” by the Department of Justice in an attempt to get details of Davila’s immunity agreement and of a second attempt by him to deliver a load of marijuana across the border.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security subcommittee, also is examining the case.
Setmayer said more Congress members have signed on to a bill by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., that calls for the two agents to be pardoned.
She pointed out the case has received attention recently amid discussion of whether President Bush should pardon convicted former White House aide Lewis Libby. Presidential candidates Hunter and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have asked how the president can consider pardoning Libby if he doesn’t pardon Ramos and Compean.
Rohrabacher says he will not endorse anyone for president who doesn’t commit to pardoning the two agents
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Wild Thing’s comment…………
This is just so wrong!!!! It used to be there were good guys in the white hats that rode in to town. Well most had white hats, except for Hopalong Cassidy. The good guys tracked down and found the bad guys, and the town and Mayor of the town cheered the good guys on.
More and more the world is turned upside down, and the local Mayor ( our government for the most part) gives favor to the bad guys and punishes the good guys.
He was sentenced to 11 years for shooting an illegal alien drug dealer in the ass. HE should have got a medal, not prison. What has happened here to this man is obscene.
If either of these men, Ramos or Compean die because of where they are, their treatment or from anything that happnes to them while they are in prison, I put the full blame for their death on anyone at any level that could have put a stop to this insane judgement and punishment of these two Border Agents.
Washington
Forbes.com
The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move its terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere.
Senior administration officials said Thursday a consensus is building for a proposal to shut the center and transfer detainees to one or more Defense Department facilities, including the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where they could face trial.
President Bush’s national security and legal advisers had been scheduled to discuss the move at a meeting Friday, the officials said, but after news of it broke, the White House said the meeting would not take place that day and no decision on Guantanamo Bay’s status is imminent.
“It’s no longer on the schedule for tomorrow,” said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “Senior officials have met on the issue in the past, and I expect they will meet on the issue in the future.”
Previous plans to close Guantanamo ran into resistance from Cheney, Gonzales and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. But officials said the new suggestion is gaining momentum with at least tacit support from the State and Homeland Security departments, the Pentagon and the Intelligence directorate.
Cheney’s office and the Justice Department have been against the step, arguing that moving “unlawful” enemy combatant suspects to the U.S. would give them undeserved legal rights.
In Congress, recently introduced legislation would require Guantanamo’s closure. One measure would designate Fort Leavenworth, located about 30 miles northwest of Kansas City in northeast Kansas, as the new detention facility.
Another bill would grant new rights to those held at Guantanamo Bay, including access to lawyers regardless of whether the prisoners are put on trial. Still another would allow detainees to protest their detentions in federal court, something they are now denied.
Gates, who took over the Pentagon after Rumsfeld was forced out last year, has said Congress and the administration should work together to allow the U.S. to imprison permanently some of the more dangerous Guantanamo Bay detainees elsewhere so the facility can be closed.
Military officials told Congress this month that the prison at Fort Leavenworth has 70 open beds and that the brig at a naval base in Charleston, S.C., has space for an additional 100 prisoners.
Rice has said she would like to see Guantanamo closed if a safe alternative could be found. She said during a trip to Spain this month that the United States “doesn’t have any desire to be the world’s jailer.”
“I don’t think anyone wants to see Guantanamo open one day longer than it is needed. But I also suspect nobody wants to see a number of dangerous people simply released out onto the streets,” she said.
On Thursday, two Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida and Sen. Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, told a human rights commission that Guantanamo must be closed if the United States is to regain credibility and authority on human rights.
“The damage done to the United States goes beyond undermining our status as a global leader on human rights,” Cardin said. “Our policies and practices regarding Guantanamo and other aspects of our detainee policies have undermined our authority to engage in the effective counterterrorism measures that are necessary for the very security of this country.”
Officials say that Bush, who also has said he wants to close the facility as soon as possible, is keenly aware of its shortcomings.
His wife, Laura, and mother, Barbara, along with Rice and longtime adviser Karen Hughes, head of the public diplomacy office at the State Department, have told him that Guantanamo is a blot on the U.S. record abroad, particularly in the Muslim world and among European allies.
Earlier this month, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called for the immediate closure of the prison, saying it posed an untenable foreign policy risk and was irreparably harming the U.S. image abroad.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said in statement that “removing the stain Guantanamo has left on our foreign policy” is long overdue.
“It also goes a long way toward returning America’s moral authority in the world and addressing the mistakes which have set us back in the fight against terrorism,” said Kerry.
Update:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A White House meeting planned for Friday about the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been canceled after The Associated Press reported the Bush administration was “nearing a decision” to close the center.
National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said there would be no meeting Friday, but he would not comment on the reasons for the cancellation.
Officials from the White House, the Pentagon and the Justice and State departments denied the AP report.
“The administration is not ‘nearing a decision’ on changing our long-held policy to shut down Gitmo in a responsible way,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. “There is no meeting tomorrow.”
These and other steps have not been completed. No decisions on the future of Guantanamo Bay are imminent, and there will not be a White House meeting tomorrow,” he said.
Johndroe later told CNN that a meeting had been set but was canceled.
Wild Thing’s comment…………..
Alcee Hastings!! The guy that was impeached and thrown out as a federal judge for corruption?! Hahahahaha! You can’t make this sh*t up!! Is anyone actually running this government, or is it like a derelict ship with no helmsman?
And what the heck is that about with Laura and Bush’s mom and their input about this. Sorry but I have nothing against Laura at all, but she is not the person I voted for to be President. Since that part of the first article is from the AP it may or may not be true about Laura and Barbara’s input.
But one thing for sure with the UPDATE article, the White House obviously has lied. Can’t these people learn how to lie better especially when it is in the press. Or did they change their minds because it was leaked to the press, who knows.
Between these two articles it reads like a Kerry flip flop. They had a meeting planned, no there was no meeting planned…..well there was a meeting planned but we cancelled it. HUH????
I hope Bush listens to Cheney and says NO to closing Gitmo. But if he doesn’t then Bush is letting the likes of Kennedy, Reid, Powell and others run our White House. I didn’t like reading that Bush wants to close it, that concerns me a lot.
Blind People Have Superior Memory Skills
Live Science
Blind people are whizzes at remembering things in the right order, scientists now find.
In the absence of vision, the world is experienced as sequences, explained neurobiologist Ehud Zohary of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For instance, to identify otherwise indistinguishable objects, such as different brands of yogurt that vary only in their labeling, the blind typically place objects in arrangements of their own making and give mental tags for each of them, such as “the second item on the left.”
Zohary and his colleagues reasoned that since the blind constantly use memory strategies to remember things are, that “practice makes perfect,” giving the blind superior memory skills for other tasks.
The scientists tested 19 congenitally blind and 19 sighted people in two memory tasks. In the first, the volunteers heard a list of 20 words and had to recall them. In the second, they had to remember not just the words, but their order in the list as well.
Blind volunteers recalled 20 to 35 percent more words than sighted ones did, indicating a better memory overall. Their greatest advantage, however, was the ability to remember roughly twice as many more words in sequences according to the right order, findings detailed online June 21 in the journal Current Biology.
“Normally 20 to 30 percent of the brain is basically devoted to vision. With the congenitally blind, you have this brain area, the visual cortex, not getting its natural input,” Zohary told LiveScience. “We had shown that congenitally blind people appeared to be using the visual cortex for other needs, and now we may be seeing part of how this area is getting used for other functions, to maybe be more involved in memory and language processes.”
Wild Thing’s comment…………..
About 14 years ago, I woke up one morning and as I was washing my face I noticed I could not see anything out of my right eye. I mean nothing, no light nothing. Closing my left eye and trying to see from my right eye…… there was zero vision, just total blackness.
First my heart jumped a beat, fear and what the heck is going on feeling consumed me for about 2 or three minutes. My very first thought was my husband and oh how much I wish I did not have to let him know, because I knew he would worry. Then our dear animals and being a pianist there was that too. Then I knew that my husband was in the kitchen and I didn’t want to worry him. So I put my makeup on, finished getting ready for work and went to the kitchen.
When he sat down I told him quietly that I could not see anything out of my right eye. No it did not hurt, there was no real pain. I had retired from modeling, acting, singing, dancing and the entire scope of showbiz that I had been in for so many years, and had opened a gift shop/ tea room in Malibu, Calif. where we lived. So he dropped me off at my shop and went on to his own job on a film he was doing stunt work on. He was very concerned and I was too, but I knew one of us had to keep cool or we would send each other into panic mode.
The eye doctor was called, appt. made. While waiting for my appt. my other eye also went blind. So now I had total blindness in both eyes. Not fun to say the least. I had the best customers in the world in my little shop and they would come in and help me wait on customers, help make change at the front desk and even answer the phone. I would make attempted jokes about not being able to see because I didn’t want them to think I had given up and I hadn’t.
Well the eye doctor was not good, he told me I had a 75-25 chance of getting MS and that my blindness had to stem from the MS that must be waiting dormant or something to occur.
I stood up and said thanks for your time and I started to walk out. LOL He stopped me and said to make sure he wanted to send me to UCLA to the neurological dept. to the top Doctor to get examined.
The fun started, the brain MRI was done, very tuff because you absolutely cannot move and barely breath or the film would be fuzzy. The UCLA neurological doc looked at the MRI, tested me with the point the finger thing and how many fingers am I holding up, etc. Nothing, Nada, Zippo was seen. But I felt great, otherwise very healthy.
It came down to one diagnoses from him. I had Optic Neuritis in both eyes, It is an infection of the nerve from the back of the eye to the brain. My brain MRI showed no brain tumor, that was good, and none of what is called the “silent” plaques which it would have had if I had MS or MS starting in my body. Something I did not know about MS so that was interesting. The chance of getting MS was not 50-50 but 75-25 NOT to get it. The blindness would just take time to go away as the infection healed.
He was right, I do not have MS, my blindness went away, but it took a full 1 year and 7 months. It took another 4 + years to be able to drive a car once my Peripheral vision returned.
I go once a year to an eye specialist to be checked out and I am doing great. Sometimes my eyes ache but gosh I am online between my blog and my work that I do and someone’s eyes could easily ache from long hours at a computer.
All of this to say that this article I found very interesting. As I read it I wondered if even though my blindness was not permanent, thank God, but the way I think as my husband kids me about even though he loves it is almost regimented, order in all things and everything in it’s place comes from like this article says too……. a mental labeling of things and able to remember things almost in a list format. I was like that before I went blind but it became stronger afterward.
If our dog and kitty play in the living room and in doing so manage to move something around, a light piece of furniture like a stool, I will automatically put it back …in order….. without even thinking about it. I can see every item on every shelf, every book in the book shelves and know how many books to the right or left a certain book is with my eyes closed.
hmmmmmm I just think it is interesting how God prepares us for all things even if we don’t know it, and how maybe there are things about each of us, that we have at our fingertips to use if an event happens in our life where we may need a certain kind of ability.
Over the years from visiting so many VA hospitals, and talking to the Veterans that were seriously injured to the point where many had to make life changes in how they did things. One thing stands out, there is an inner strength from each of them to cope and make those life changes to go on. Sure they have bad days, but everyone does, theirs are just magnified because of the added pressure of having to do things differently. There inner strength is not only important to them but it is felt by all around them. They make a difference in this world by being the person they are and learning to cope however they can. I admire them so much, more then words can say that would be adequate for how I respect them for meeting their challenges head on.
In Baqouba, 60 klicks northeast of Baghdad, American heroes valiantly begin the surge with Operation ‘Arrowhead Ripper’ isolating terrorists outside the city limits.10,000 soldiers, attack helicopters and armoured fighting vehicles began the offensive against al Qaeda. Today, at least 41 al Qaida terrorists were killed and several bomb and weapon caches destroyed.
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
To our awesome troops we humbly thank you. To Reuters, nudge here for you, maybe if you had a gun along with your camera you could take out a few of the insurgents when they pose for you. I know I would be tempted to shoot them if I was a Reuters photographer. OOHRAH!
New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994.
By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list.
The current 14% confidence rating for Congress is down from 19% last year and is the lowest in Gallup’s history, surpassing the 18% confidence in Congress measured in 1991, 1993 and 1994.
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