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Another Border Guard To Be Jailed

2007-06-09T08:07:00.000-05:00

Johnny Sutton and judge Kathleen Cardone are at it again. Why are we purposefully prosecuting the men who are doing their jobs, protecting our borders? World Net Daily has the story, noting all the similarities to the Ramos and Compean cases.

The case bears similarities to the recent case involving two other Border Patrol agents – Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos – sentenced to prison for shooting at a drug smuggler as he fled back into Mexico, leaving behind hundreds of pounds of drugs he'd brought into the U.S..

Sutton has been criticized for a number of his decisions in the Ramos-Compean case, including his choice to provide immunity to the drug smuggler and return him to the United States to help prosecute the law enforcement officers. And the judge, Kathleen Cardone, has been criticized for not allowing the jury to know that the incident involving the border agents was not the only drug-related incident involving the smuggler-turned-witness.

It seems that border guard Noe Aleman and his wife found a typo on some paperwork when they were adopting thier nieces from Mexico. Aleman immediately reported the typo when he noticed it, but was later arrested and convicted of harboring illegal aliens.

"Here is just a sampling," said Andy Ramirez, chairman of the Friends of the Border Patrol , "of what Sutton’s prosecutors did to the Aleman family and how their civil rights were violated:

"First, Noe was charged with smuggling his own legally adopted nieces. Yet, the government has never opposed the adoption paperwork as finalized by the State of Texas, which remains valid today. This was the same type of false statement that Sutton did to Agents Compean and Ramos though they claim that Agents Compean and Ramos are the wrongdoers and filed false statements.
"Next, the government through agents from the Office of Inspector General and the FBI interrogated the Aleman daughters without counsel present and were trying to get the girls to admit they were being abused, which they vehemently denied. Is this not a violation of the civil rights of their daughters for being questioned without counsel present to protect their rights? When I think of what the government did to protect the non-existent rights of career drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila as compared to the civil rights of the Aleman girls, it makes any logical person sick knowing what happened to the Alemans, their daughters, and fellow Agents Compean and Ramos as well as their families.
"After no evidence of abuse was discovered from this hostile and illegal interrogation, in which the girls were traumatized psychologically; Noe and Isabel's daughters were, in retaliation for not lying to the government, placed in Removal Proceedings late June 2004.
"At the Immigration Hearing on June 20, 2005, the girls, through their counsel, applied for Admission to the U.S. based on the fact that they are legally adopted daughters of U.S. Citizen Parents. The Immigration Judge denied the Application and ordered them removed. The Alemans appealed the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals ('BIA'), who upheld the original ruling. The Aleman daughters were subsequently deported though their legal and only family remains here in the U.S. The girls were deported and ordered ineligible to return to the U.S. for 10 years.
"The Aleman girls were denied all visitation, and communication to their parents by the Department of Justice throughout this process, though, again, the girls are their legally adopted daughters."Ramirez also said Sutton's assistants called the Aleman girls "little whores" during testimony before the grand jury.

Aleman appealed his case, but recently lost his appeal and has been ordered to report for his one-year prison term on Monday in El Paso, Ramirez said.

Interview with Ed Brown's Neighbor

2007-06-08T21:12:00.000-05:00

The Union Leader reports a story of Ed Brown, who is in the middle of a standoff with local, state, and federal authorities over his unpaid taxes.

Brown, who maintains there is no law that requires average American citizens to pay a direct tax on their wages, spoke to a group of reporters from a second-floor window in his house after a veritable army of heavily armed police officers and federal agents left the area around his rural home without ever making contact with him.

As Brown spoke, half a dozen helicopters made wide circles overhead.

According to a World Net Daily article in January:

Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, of Plainfield, N.H., were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to disguise large financial transactions and structuring.

I talked with a neighbor of Ed & Elaine Brown today. He said they are both Dentists. He also said that there are armed National Guard troops all over, and that he has to go through police checkpoints just to get to his own home. The neighbor told me that there were people bringing the Browns food and deliveries, but that no one can get to the house now. He also confirmed that there were indeed helicopters all over the area.

Here is a video taken at the Brown's house back in January.

Here is a copy of a letter written by Ed Brown February 1, 2007:
Something very important is going on here.
Sure it starts with my tax case but let's look at the big picture here.
I am providing a place for us to make a difference, for the people, for this country!

I even offered to pay the taxes just so they would leave me alone, but no,...
They took my guns (before ever being convicted of anything).
They took my wife and court ordered her away from me.
They now want much more money then they say I owe.
They want my house.
And will again offensively attack me and take my life as well as those around me here now
unless we have enough people to make a difference!
We may never have another chance!
I need people here Now!
Now is the time!

401 Center of Town Road
Plainfield, New Hampshire 03781

NATIONAL SUICIDE

2007-06-05T08:13:00.000-05:00

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." - Theodore Roosevelt

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This video has been making the rounds all week.

The Jawa Report

If you haven't seen it yet, watch it!

MORE BRITISH DHIMMITUDE

2007-06-05T08:00:00.001-05:00

What is going on in Great Britain? At least once a week I am seeing stories like this one.

Demands for a ban on “un-Islamic” activities in schools will be set out by the Muslim Council of Britain today.

Targets include playground games, swimming lessons, school plays, parents’ evenings and even vaccinations.

And the calls for all children to be taught in Taliban-style conditions will be launched with the help of a senior Government education adviser.

Read that last paragraph again. Did you notice the part that said all children? This is not just directed at the Muslim children in the schools.

Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society said the report was a “recipe for disaster”. He added: “Schools with even just a handful of Muslim kids will find they have to follow these guidelines because there aren’t the staff to have one set of classes for Muslims and another for the rest."

And yes, it seems the the government is backing this.

Professor Tim Brighouse, chief adviser to London schools, was due to attend the event at the capital’s biggest mosque. His presence there was seen as “deeply worrying”, and a sign that the report was backed by the Government.

FRANCE IS CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGALS

2007-06-05T07:50:00.000-05:00

Check out this statement from Nicolas Sarkozy, France's New Prime Minister:

"Generosity is not opening wide the borders without thought for how people will integrate, how they will live, how they will subsist," said France's Prime Minister. Sarkozy has just increased the quota of illegal immigrants that must be arested and deported to a whopping 25,000 per month.

Our elected officials could learn a thing or two from him about how to deal with an immigration problem.

TIME TO STAND UP

2007-06-05T06:41:00.000-05:00

Abraham Lincoln said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

We are destroying ourselves. We have become so complacent and engrossed in what Paris Hilton is doing, or who is getting kicked off American Idol, we don’t care about the monumental changes happening right under our noses. We complain that we have to vote for the lesser of two evils, or we don’t vote at all. Our apathy will destroy this country.

Our elected officials are abusing their power! We had the Boston Tea Party for lesser offenses than the ones being committed by our leaders right now. It is time to fight back. The Declaration of Independence tells us, it is not only our right, but our duty to fight back against the government when they abuse the powers we gave them. Billions of dollars are spent on wasteful projects every year by Congress. They spend all their time on partisan bickering and showboat non-binding resolutions that mean nothing. Congress is actually wasting time worrying about changing light bulbs1 and impeaching Dick Cheney, while not funding our troops.

Whether we agree on the war in Iraq or not, the soldiers are there NOW. Congress voted to send them. We cannot have leaders who are so busy politicking; they won't even send the troops needed funds in the middle of a war.

Illegal Immigrants will take trillions of dollars in federal funds (welfare, education, etc...) They will receive $21,000 more in funds than they pay in taxes each year. It is not fair to people waiting to come into the United States legally when illegal aliens sneak in and are given amnesty, free education, and welfare. It is not fair to us (the people going to work daily to pay the taxes2) that our money is being used to support even one person who broke the law to get here.

New Haven, Connecticut is a sanctuary city. Mayor John DeStefano is about to slap the rest of the U.S. in the face by giving illegal immigrants free ID cards so they can open bank accounts and register cars. In a recent poll in the New York Times, 69% of Americans want illegal aliens deported. Searching out and deporting 12-20 million illegal immigrants is not feasible. But when we come across them, especially those who commit crimes, we cannot turn our backs and look the other way. I have seen massive illegal immigrant protests with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens waving Mexican flags and yelling about their rights. YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS!!! YOU BROKE THE LAW TO GET HERE!!! Can someone please explain to me, where else can you break in and then demand you have rights? Ted Kennedy (D. Mass) says it is time for illegal aliens to come out of the shadows. Mr. Kennedy, I don’t know what hole you have your head in, but they are out of the shadows. Just look in front of Home Depot in the morning.

The United States is a nation of laws. Certain groups should not be given preferential treatment and be allowed to blatantly break laws. We need to let our elected officials know we will not tolerate this disregard for our laws or our sovereignty. Countries have borders for a reason. Almost every terror attack that has been thwarted since 9/11 involves terrorists who entered or stayed in this country illegally. Bush likes to talk about Mexicans doing the jobs Americans won’t do. It is time for us to do the job our elected leaders won’t do! Seal the borders! Get rid of leaders who tax us to death (literally) just so they can spend our earnings for special interests. Anyone managing a business can do a better job than congress does with spending and the budget. If a publicly owned company had accounting practices like the government does, the company would be investigated and shut down faster than you can say Enron.

1. The new light bulbs being touted by environmentalists and congress as earth friendly contain mercury. There are more warnings on the new bulbs than there would be on a pack of cigarettes soaked in gasoline. One woman had to pay thousands of dollars for an EPA cleanup after she broke one of the bulbs in her daughter’s bedroom.

2. About 50% of all the money you earn is taken by the government for taxes, and when you die the government will take 50% of what you have left for what is called Death Tax.

Happy Birthday America!!

2006-07-04T08:11:00.000-05:00

Happy Fourth of July!!

No American Hero!!

2006-06-29T00:41:00.000-05:00

I just read an interesting post from The Right Track about the new superman movie.

Practically anyone in America can complete the phrase “Superman stands for truth, justice, and (fill in the blank). Of course, the correct answer is “the American way”.
In Superman Returns, editor of the Daily Planet Perry White says, “Truth, justice and … all of that stuff.” And I found out the omission was no accident...

You can read the entire post on Terry's blog. This is really irking me. What the hell is wrong with these people?? Don't people realize how great it is to be an American? Every day on the news there is a story about someone who is banned from flying the American Flag, disciplined at an American public school for not standing during the Mexican National Anthem, or the Pledge of Allegiance being outlawed.

What is going on here?? When did it become so unpopular to be an American here in America?? This goes beyond ignorance, as far as I am concerned these are blatant and malicious attacks against our country. George Bush, if you are listening stop telling us how upset you are with the New York Times committing Treason and do something about those who mean to harm the United States. While you are at it, encourage congress to pass a law to deny giving tax payer money to any group or organization that has a motive of undermining the United States.

There is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to destroy this country. The infectious disease of anti-Americanism can be just as damaging as any violent threat.

For all the rest of us who still have some common sense and venom left in us, I say fight back. Let's take back America. Fly our flags, pledge our allegiance, and show all these liberal, anti-Americans the door... or the border. Technically not having a wall makes it easier for those exiting as well as those sneaking in.

FairTax.org Stamp

2006-06-29T00:29:00.000-05:00

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FairTax BlogBurst

2006-06-28T19:01:00.000-05:00

With any proposal, sooner or later the naysayers start their doom-and-gloom predictions. The FairTax proposal is no exception. There are those out there whining and crying about how “it won’t really work that way”, despite the fact that the current income tax system isn’t working the way it’s supposed to work. I suppose their fear is exchanging the devil they know for the devil they don’t know. In this article, I’ll highlight some of their worries and attempt to dispel them.

A national sales tax will create a huge black market.

Among all the arguments to be made against the FairTax, perhaps this one holds the least water. Arguments are made that this “black market” will spring up, with people “illegally trading DVDs, cigarettes, canned foods” yada yada yada. OK, illegally trading? What’s illegal today about trading those items? Nothing! So what’s the problem?

“They’ll be avoiding the tax!”

And that’s bad, why? My wife buys romance novels at a used book store now. She’d be avoiding the tax, too. She’s also reading books that everyone else read weeks or months ago. I say, “Come on, black market!” Only the market won’t be black. It can be right in a store front, advertising used books, consignment shops for clothes, furniture, camping equipment, you name it! A whole new type of business will emerge! That will be great for the economy, right? Right!

The national sales tax will give government another reason to make cash purchases illegal.

Those making this argument claim that paying with cash will make it easier to avoid paying the tax. This is simply ridiculous. Number one, most businesses are run by honest, dependable people. It’s not the business owner that’s being taxed, remember, it’s the purchaser of goods and services. With penalties for those who attempt to cheat the system, the onus is on the business to be open and above-board in collecting and paying the tax. The businesses will keep a small percentage of what they collect in order to offset their expenses in collecting and reporting the tax! While the consumer might hope for a break from the tax, it would be the rare businessman who would collude with the consumer in his scheme to avoid the tax!

The tax will be used to track your entire financial life.

Coming so closely after the previous argument, you have to laugh. First folks are going to pay with cash to avoid the tax, then the tax will be used to track your entire financial life. Unbelievable. How so? You’re not filing a return, are you? To do this, the government would have to:

1. Obtain records of your purchases from retail or service center outlets
2. Obtain records of your purchases from your financial institution
3. Collate the records in order to see what went where
4. Have a really good reason to waste their time doing this

But remember, the tax applies to new goods and services only. Don’t want the government to know you bought that new Humvee? Get last year’s model from a used car dealer. Want a couple of evening gowns? Hit the new consignment shop that just opened up a few blocks from your work. But do you know why the government won’t track your entire financial life? Simply put, you’re not that big a deal. Sorry to deflate your ego, but why would the government care to delve into your personal finances? They don’t care what you spend money on, as long as they get their cut!

Simply put, any tax scheme can run rampant over the American people without diligent and unceasing attention on the part of the American taxpayer. It is up to you and I to keep our government on a short leash. We must realize that there are no free rides. When the government gives you something, they have to take something away from you first in order to do so.

As author Edward Abbey said, “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.”

TD

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Stupid Liberal Attitude

2006-06-23T09:49:00.000-05:00

A group of young men seized in a Miami warehouse have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiring with al-Qaida to "levy war against the United States" by committing acts of violence including blowing up Chicago's Sears Tower.

According to the indictment handed up Thursday, a young man identified as Narseal Batiste, beginning in November 2005, recruited and trained the others "for a mission to wage war against the United States government," including a plot to destroy the Sears Tower.

To obtain money and support for their mission, the conspirators sought help from al-Qaida, pledged an oath to the terrorist organization and supported an al-Qaida plot to destroy FBI buildings, the four-count indictment charged.

Batiste met several times in December 2005 with a person purporting to be an al-Qaida member and asked for boots, uniforms, machine guns, radios, vehicles and $50,000 in cash to help him build an "'Islamic Army' to wage jihad'," the indictment said. It said that Batiste said he would use his "soldiers" to destroy the Sears Tower.

In February 2006, it said, Batiste told the "al-Qaida representative" that he and his five soldiers wanted to attend al-Qaida training and planned a "full ground war" against the United States in order to "kill all the devils we can." His mission would "be just as good or greater than 9/11," the indictment accused Batiste of boasting.

To me, these are serious charges and I am happy and relieved they caught these Islamic terrorists before they had a chance to hurt anyone. Apparently our fellow Americans who happen to lean a little to the left aren’t so happy. While the democrats reek of indignation when we call out their feigned patriotism, they really are intent on undermining any attempt to keep America secure. This is what people had to say on Democratic Underground:

**This raid sounds like b.s. and voter intimidation to me
This is more of J.E.B.'s (sic) campaign to keep black people in Florida from voting. Bet on it.
**This is blown out of proportion

How can you even pretend to want a secure nation, and claim to be against terrorism when you so stupidly defend those who are caught trying to destroy us. Voter intimidation?? Is that really what liberals think this is?? After reading the article above and seeing what these seven men had planned how could any sane person with functioning brain cells think that simply arresting these men is blowing it out of proportion?

If liberals are so blinded by their hatred of George Bush that they choose to defend terrorists that mean us harm, I think those liberals need to seriously consider whether they would be better off leaving America. I know we would be better off without them. France is nice this time of year, and I am sure Chirac would welcome the America bashers with open arms.

We are in the middle of a war, a "War on Terror" to use the popular term. We are not fighting against Swedish grannies. We are fighting against terrorists who would kill any one of us without batting an eye, yet the liberals would have us believe we should pity the terrorists. The attacks are not just isolated, occasional incidents. They are frequent, methodical, vicious assaults. They have been carried out in every country, with blatant disregard for human rights, yet the terrorists are defended, even championed by the so called human rights advocates. I was not alive during World War II, but I don't remember hearing about any Americans or Europeans blaming Roosevelt for the deaths of millions by the Nazis. I don't recall anyone comparing Roosevelt to Hitler because we invaded Germany.

We are told that the violent terrorists are just a small fringe of the Muslim population. Most Muslims are peaceful. Islam is called “The religion of Peace”. If it is so peaceful, where is the anger and the cry to stop the violence from the “moderate Muslims” It is rare to hear them denounce the actions of the terrorists. This silence does nothing to end the violence.

Albert Einstein said it best, “The world is a very dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing about them."

We have had many successes in this war. We caught Saddam, we have killed Zarqawi, there have been successful elections in Iraq, (more people showed up to vote in Iraq’s elections than any election in the United States, and we aren’t faced with horrible attacks when we vote.) we recently found a large cache of WMDs, the death toll of American soldiers is very tragic, yet it is small when compared to other wars. Bin Laden has been rendered impotent, we have him so afraid to even stick his head out of whatever hole he is hiding in. These are all major victories for us, but you don’t hear any of this reported as being good news.

When we killed Zarqawi, you would think people would be celebrating in the streets. Okay, they were in Iraq, but you would have hoped for a little more enthusiasm from Americans. Michael Berg, whose son was beheaded by Zarqawi himself, on television, was not happy at all. He mourned the death of Zarqawi, saying Iraq is worse now than it was under Saddam. He expressed sadness at the demise of the man who beheaded his son on camera.

When we found the stockpiles of 500 WMD a few days ago, it wasn’t long before the Bush haters were complaining that Bush is still a liar because these aren’t the right WMDs. Saddam lied, how does that sit with you. He said he had destroyed all WMD. Sarin gas is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN Resolution 687, and its production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. Yet, he still had it. It doesn’t matter if he had it since 1991. It was outlawed in 1993 and he promised that all WMDs were gone.

I can understand that many people don’t like Bush. I am not trying to change their minds. There are things I don’t like about him. I won’t even begin to talk about his spending record. I do think he needs to stand taller as our leader. He needs to be stronger and louder and pound his fist on the podium when he talks. That is what I want to see from Bush. I want him to say, "sit down and shut up." to the press, to Kerry, and definitely to Murtha. He is faced with one of the toughest presidencies in history, and as a result he needs to be tougher. A lack of love for George Bush should not cause anyone to slander their own country. One can disagree with Bush, and still support a secure, strong country that is not afraid to defend its people against the bad guys.

If we listen to the liberals we will fall. We must fight to keep our freedoms. They are what make this country great. We must not appease any group. We must stop worrying about which group or country we are offending right now. If offending someone is the worst crime possible we really need to rethink our priorities.

A terrorist can blow up innocent people, but we cannot speak out against him because someone might be offended. There are Saudi Arabian schools teaching hate against America. Guess where they are? Surprise, they are in Virginia. Do we put a stop to it? We don’t speak out because we don’t want to be called racists, we don’t want to be called offensive or (gasp) intolerant. If someone were to speak up and denounce these hate-teaching schools they would be called a racist, and most likely be forced to attend some type of tolerance classes.

Our public school teachers were made to attend these tolerance training seminars so they could go back to the classroom and teach the kids tolerance for Islam after Islamists attacked us on 9/11. See, the government and the teachers unions thought we might be angry that a group of Islamists hijacked several airplanes and used them as really big WMDs to kill thousands of our citizens. They thought maybe we would harbor feelings of hostility and resentment for those who so maliciously attacked us. So we must be forced to take classes so we can appreciate Islam. California even allows taxpayer funded public schools to force kids to pretend they are Muslims for 2 weeks. We aren’t allowed to say “God” in public, but these kids are forced to praise Allah, encouraged to fast, and given extra points for dressing in traditional Muslim clothing. This dhimmitude is unbelievable. Groups such as CAIR promote all of this because they feel that Muslims are looked at unfairly in the United States.

As a result, we now have civil liberties groups in this country fighting for the rights of child molesters, rapists, convicted murderers, (remember Tookie Williams a few months ago) and too many other scumbags for me to list here. When was the last time the ACLU defended a real victim. When have they ever fought for someone’s first amendment right to practice Christianity? When have they spoken up for our country, our pride in the flag or being allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools? Are they fighting for civil liberties or criminal liberties? Where are our morals? We talk about tolerance, but morals fall by the wayside. No one cares what crimes people commit, so long as we say nothing bad about them.

We should change “Don't Tread On Me” to “You can tread on me, just don’t insult anyone.”

Miami Terror Plot

2006-06-22T21:43:00.000-05:00

7 arrested in Miami today in what seems to be a terror plot against the Sears Tower in Chicago and other buildings in the U.S.

A federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations.

Hmmm... CNN reports say something a little different,

Some of the suspects are members of a radical African-American Muslim group and that at least one had taken "an al Qaeda oath," law enforcement sources told CNN.

Sources told CNN that the arrests culminated a monthslong undercover operation. The suspects believed they were dealing with an al Qaeda operative, but the person was actually a government informant, the sources said.

UPDATE #1:
One of those arrested is an illegal alien from Haiti. He is here illegally after overstaying his visa. Another suspect is a legal resident alien, and the remaining five are Americans. ( I use the word 'Americans' only because it is the one being used right now on CNN. I don't believe anyone plotting to cause terror and death in our own country should be refered to as 'Americans'. I prefer to use that word for those people who strive to uphold our way of life instead of choosing to destroy it.

Update on WMD in Iraq

2006-06-22T12:54:00.000-05:00

Fox News has the story. Hannity & Colmes did nothing but argue over the story last night. Sean Hannity of course thinks this is wonderful news, and fully expects many liberals to start apologizing for calling Bush a liar. Alan Colmes, on the other hand says these WMD's don't dispute the fact that he thinks Bush lied... he says these aren't the right WMD's.

How many WMD's do we have to find before these whiny liberals will shut up? We capture Saddam Hussein and put him on trial, we kill Al-Zarqawi, and now we find the WMD's the democrats insist weren't in Iraq, yet they still insist we are losing the war, Bush is a liar, and America sucks.

We are winning in Iraq, just don't try telling that to the liberals.

Socialist Plan

2006-06-21T18:55:00.000-05:00

San Francisco is announcing a new universal healthcare plan for any adult resident, regardless of employment status or their legality in the United States. The plan still needs to be approved by the city's Board of Supervisors.

The city estimates the plan would cost $200 million a year, an expense that would be borne by taxpayers, businesses that don't already insure all their workers, and participants themselves.

This will be a huge burden to the city of San Francisco. Since the plan will work on a sliding scale those who are unemployed will pay almost nothing. The majority of the cost will be on the shoulders of employed people who already pay for their own health insurance, and businesses in the city. Why should those who work and cover their own medical expenses have to pay for those who don't?

The most recent version, sponsored by Supervisor Tom Ammiano, would require every business with more than 20 employees to pay $1.60 an hour into the system for all employees not already covered by a health plan, no matter how few hours they work.

Laurie Thomas, owner of three restaurants in San Francisco, said that she already contributes to health insurance for her employees who work more than 28 hours a week, but that the hourly mandate Ammiano is proposing would put her out of business.

This plan is a disaster for the city of San Francisco. The people who work hard and are able to support themselves will be forced to take care of everyone else. There is no incentive for people to work hard and be self sufficient if the government is always there handing out freebies.

Furthermore, businesses will ultimately choose to leave the city, resulting in loss of jobs, tax revenue, and causing even more poverty than there is now.

Read the whole story at Yahoo News.

WMD's in Iraq

2006-06-21T16:46:00.000-05:00

How many times have you heard, "Bush Lied!" or "There Were No WMD's"?

All the liberals can now eat their words. Fox News just had a live press conference given by Senator Rick Santorum (R. Penn.) He had some news for the naysayers to choke on.

We found 500 weapons!!

I haven't been able to find the article anywhere online yet, but this is great news. I'm sure the liberal MSM will say it doesn't matter, or that Bush is doing it to move up in the polls, but this is HUGE.

I will have more later.

Man Arrested For Christian Beliefs

2006-06-21T15:49:00.000-05:00

WND ran a scary article today:

A husband and wife arrested while preaching on a corner in downtown Kansas City spent a night in jail Nov. 7 after being arrested at the Kansas City Area Transit Authority's Transit Plaza on the corner of 10th and Main streets.

Michael Wheeler said he was sharing his faith, with his wife quietly praying alongside, when a Metro bus supervisor approached and told the couple to leave.

The Wheelers began to pray, and police soon arrived to arrest them. Michael Wheeler was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct and Joy Wheeler was charged with disorderly conduct.

"Religious speech is not second-class speech, and Christians should not be arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights," said Alliance Defense Fund Litigation Counsel David LaPlante. "Unfortunately in this case, a Christian husband and wife were arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct for sharing the gospel in a public place."

"It's hard to believe that we've come to a point in our country where Christians are arrested for sharing the gospel on a public street corner," he said.

Upon first reading this article it seems horrible. It makes you wonder if you will also be arrested for your faith. I felt outraged at the trampling of the couple’s first amendment rights to free speech and religion.

After doing 30 seconds worth of research (I simply typed in the couple’s name in the Yahoo search engine). I was feeling a little different. The article from World Net Daily paints the two as helpless victims being persecuted for their religious beliefs, unbelievably, here in America. But only a small bit of looking, and I had quite a different story. Michael Wheeler has been arrested no less than 46 times. According to the Kansas City Police Department, Wheeler has been found guilty or paid a monetary fine 10 times since April 1986. He has been charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct, obstructing and resisting an officer.

This is from The Kansas City Star: Scroll to the bottom of this page to read the whole article from April 20, 1998.

"He'll stand in one spot and run in place and yell about Jesus," Officer Russ Dykstra said. In 1986, according to an article that ran in The Kansas City Star, he was sentenced to six months in the city jail for refusing to leave a restaurant. He was sentenced to another year for contempt of court in another case.

He was stabbed, he said, in Seattle while preaching in the streets. One woman in Los Angeles asked if she could borrow his Bible, then promptly smacked him across the face with it.

This seems to indicate that he may not be just an innocent preacher on the side of the road. It would seem reasonable that it would take quite a bit of anger to smack a total stranger across the face with his own Bible. What provokes such an action from a lady?? Maybe he isn't quite as innocent as the ADF would have you believe.

Wheeler goes on to explain why he may not be all there: Past drug use including marijuana and acid.

"At first, I was kind of ashamed for experiencing (drugs)," he said. "Now, it's like a blessing. I can relate to people who are hooked on drugs."

Does the ADF know about all these other problems? I’m sure they must, yet they paint him as just an innocent preacher being persecuted for his Christian beliefs. It seems scary until you know the whole story.

He's No Berg

2006-06-21T13:06:00.000-05:00

Newsbusters :

The father of PFC Thomas Tucker of Oregon spoke with simple eloquence:
"We don't understand the big political picture. We understand what has happened. Our son has died for the freedom of everybody in the United States. We are very proud of our son."

The entire United States is sickened by what has happened to these two young soldiers. It is especially tragic for their families, but at least they aren't tarnishing what the young men were fighting for.

A surprisingly pro-America comment from the NY Times:

If the two soldiers had one thing in common, it was their determination to join the Army and fight in Iraq, believing it to be the right thing to do. It is a message they tried to impress on their families, who worried incessantly about phantom snipers and hidden bombs. "I'm going to defend my country," Private Tucker said in the telephone message. "Be proud of me."

Michael Berg, the father of Nick Berg who was beheaded by Zarqawi, says President Bush is “almost as bad as” al-Zarqawi and called the terrorist’s death a “tragedy.”
When asked if he sees any difference between George Bush and al-Zarqawi, Berg responded “No I don’t.”

This is what he has to say in remembrance of the murderous bastard who killed his son in cold blood. The Michael Bergs and Cindy Sheehans of the world have no idea what freedom costs.

Michelle Malkin has more. Many people are asking where George Bush is during all of this.

Bush's Secret Let Out Of The Bag??

2006-06-21T10:56:00.000-05:00

WND reports:

Author Jerome Corsi filed a Freedom of Information Act request yesterday asking for full disclosure of the activities of an office implementing a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that apparently could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress.

Corsi believes President Bush effectively agreed to erase U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada when he signed the SPP (Security & Prosperity Partnership).

"This is all being done by the executive branch below the radar," Corsi told WND. "If President Bush had told the American people in the 2004 presidential campaign that his goal was to create a North American union, he would not have carried a single red state."

Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.

I wonder what he will find out?

Why am I still not hearing about this on the news?? I'm not really surprised MSNBC or CNN don't care about this, but I haven't seen it on FOX either.

MY PREVIOUS N.A. UNION ARTICLES: here and here

FairTax BlogBurst

2006-06-21T08:03:00.000-05:00

20-Jun-2006, 8:20 pm
FairTax Blogburst
By TD in Crossposts, Fair Tax

As I see it, the main problem with the Income Tax is that it is virtually impossible to enforce completely and fairly. Compliance with the Income Tax depends on taxpayer truthfulness, which generally is motivated either by a) good character, or b) fear of an IRS audit. With the FairTax, the tax is collected when the money is spent, from everyone, with greatly reduced opportunities for non-compliance by the public.

For instance, what about the criminal element in our country? Have you ever heard of the Mafia? Or the drug dealer? Do you think that these people report 100% of their income? Of course not! They get out of paying a huge percentage of their actual tax bill by the simple expedient of not reporting all of their income. But these same individuals still have to pay utility bills, purchase prescription drugs, visit doctors, and buy food. And if they believe in the “high life” of new cars, fancy clothes and jewelry, and new homes, they’re going to pay more than “Joe Six-pack” who chooses to drive a used car, or purchase a home that’s not brand new.

And it’s not just individuals who are managing to avoid paying taxes these days. Everyone in America has heard of the rush to move American companies “offshore”, whether in whole or in part. Think about it — have you ever seen an American-flagged commercial vessel? Oh sure, we’ve got our warships, but what about commercial boats that carry cargo or cruise passengers? Most of these are flying the flag of Liberia or Panama — low-tax nations.

In the mid-1950s, about 33% of all income taxes collected were paid by American corporations. Today that number is down to approximately 10%. From “The FairTax Book” by Boortz and Linder:

“That plunge is a major factor in our recent soaring deficits. Indeed, international corporations are essentially “voluntary” taxpayers today, paying only that amount in taxes that they believe will avoid attracting embarrassing news coverage. These corporations believe that our draconian tax structures make their actions necessary. The OFCs [offshore financial centers, or banks - TD] make their plans feasible” [Emphasis added - TD]

Boortz and Linder make the point that if we eliminated all taxes on capital and labor, (which the FairTax does), the United States would become the world’s tax haven.

We have the most stable economy, the most liquid and trusted markets, and the highest rates of labor productivity in the world — and the trillions of dollars in those OFCs would flow back home to the United States for the very reason they found themselves offshore to start with.

And we’re not just talking about American businesses coming home, we’re talking about wooing corporations based in other countries into America. Think of the economic benefits! More productivity, lower unemployment, higher wages, and all occurring within a tax system that allows you at least partly to choose whether to pay taxes! Buy it new, pay a tax, buy it used and don’t!

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Surprising ESQUIRE poll

2006-06-17T12:26:00.000-05:00

Esquire recently took a poll of 1,083 men aged 25 and older. The 29-question survey had some surprising results. From a list of 14 women the men would most like to invite to dinner, most men chose substance over sex appeal.

Taking first place was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Second place went to Oprah Winfrey, and third place went to Angelina Jolie.

Okay, I didn't say they all chose substance over beauty.

Dixie Chick Mentality

2006-06-17T12:07:00.000-05:00

Here's the latest garbage from the Chicks...and no it's not their album.

The Chicks can't hide their disgust at the lack of support they received from other country performers. "A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do," says Robison.

"A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism."

"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," [Natalie] Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."

Unbelievable!! They really just don’t get it, and they never will.

Thanks Michelle Malkin. Michelle also has a link to a great site about those country singers who do support our troops & this country.
For more info on the Un-Patriotic Chicks and some great comments: Coalition of the Swilling

Bush Ignores Borders

2006-06-16T14:35:00.000-05:00

President Bush has refused to meet with border law enforcement officials from Texas for a second time. His response to their request came in the form of a letter Monday, angering both lawmakers and sheriffs.

In fact, some Republican members of Congress, upset by what they call the administration's seeming lack of concern for border security, are preparing to hold investigative hearings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas, early next month.

Members of the House subcommittee on international terrorism and nonproliferation hope to expose serious security flaws that could potentially lead to terrorist attacks in this country.
"The next terrorist is not going to come in through screening at Kennedy airport," Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas said. "We already have information that people from the Middle East have come through the border from Mexico. They assimilate in Mexico learning to speak Spanish and adopt customs and then they cross the border into the United States."

"The president is the busiest man in the world but he needs to take the time to talk to the border sheriffs and learn what's happening in the real world from them," Poe said. "We can’t understand why he refuses to meet with them."

I don’t think that the problem is that President Bush is too busy. The problem is that he already has loyalties to Vicente Fox. He doesn’t want to secure the border. He wants a unified North America. Securing the border would harm so much of the work he has already been doing with Mexico and Canada.

Rick Glancey, spokesman for the sheriffs coalition, said its members are angry and disappointed in the president's response. Glancey said Bush's recent tour of the border with Border Patrol spokesmen did not reflect the reality of what locals live with every day.

"It's a slap in the face to the hardworking men and women on the front lines of rural America who every day engage in border security issues," Glancey said. "He missed the opportunity to take off his White House cowboy boots and put some real cowboy boots on, and walk in our shoes for a few minutes."

The border hearings will expose the truth to the American public and force the administration to take a serious look at the border, said Alan Knapp, Poe's legislative director.

When the American public finds out that Bush favors an open border, that he has been making deals with Fox without approval from Congress; what will we do? When we find out that he is trying to sell out America, and replace it with a unified North America will it be too late??

Bush Converting To Islam??

2006-06-16T14:10:00.000-05:00

Cleric Calls on Bush to Convert to Islam

BREITBART Reports:
Militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir called on Bush and Howard to convert to Islam, saying it was "the only way to save their souls,"

Bashir, 68, was released from prison Wednesday after completing a 26- month sentence for conspiracy in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people

He was asked Thursday about families still suffering from the Bali blasts. He said the attacks "were God's will" and that survivors should "convert to Islam" if they wanted to soothe their suffering.

Bashir called Bush an "infidel," but said he was happy the American people were starting to realize that their president had made a mistake when he decided to wage war on Muslims. He did not elaborate, but was apparently referring to sliding opinion polls.

This is something our press and our politicians need to pay attention to. A large part of Congress is pandering to the whining anti-war/hate Bush crowd. This is harmful to our country, our war on terror, and especially our soldiers. Every time Murtha, Kerry, or any other supposed leader of America starts whining it strengthens the terrorists.

Haditha, Hamdaniya and many other media feeding frenzies would never happen if our country was perceived as a unified front. These terrorists not only fight with IEDs and guns, they know how to play us off of one another. They are taught to lie about being tortured. Many Islamists hate America and Americans. They know our media and most of congress will jump on any accusations they throw out there. It doesn’t matter how ridiculous it is. The media is ready to pounce on it, they will slander one of our soldiers in front of the world and not even think twice about it.

If we want to truly win this war (and we are winning it now, regardless of what MSNBC says). We need to come together in the eyes of the world. We sound like a bunch of whiny, weak, feeble, frightened pansies if you ask me. Our soldiers risk their lives on a daily basis. Some will die. Some will be injured. But their sacrifice is for our freedom. Even our first amendment protected right to smear and slander the very same soldiers who fight for those rights.

If we don’t quit crying about bringing the troops home by the end of the year, we could end up prolonging this war, strengthening the resolve of the terrorists, weakening the moral of our own troops, and encouraging more attacks on American soil.

Parental Rights Discarded, Again

2006-06-15T09:11:00.000-05:00

In an article from GOPUSA Tuesday, Steve Crampton tells the story of Laurie Taylor. Laurie is the mother of two children who attend public school in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She has been trying to get several books promoting sex and drugs (aimed at elementary school children) put into a separate section of the school library. A child would need parental permission in order to check out books from this section.

At first, school system leaders seemed to agree with Taylor, and placed the books in a "parent library" section with other books geared more to parents than to children. But when Taylor found dozens more books with sexually explicit content, and asked that they not be made available to students without parental approval, the school reneged. It overturned its earlier decision and voted to leave all of the books on the shelves with unrestricted access by the students.

Some of the books include graphic descriptions of incest, homosexuality, masturbation, bestiality, and child molestation. For instance, Push is the story of a young girl who is pregnant with her father's child. The local newspaper, the Northwest Arkansas Times, which opposed the effort to limit access to the book, admitted that it contained "materials that are patently offensive."

Another book is advertised as being "the most controversial young adult novel ever," and describes an adolescent boy's love affair with a teacher, and two teens who become addicted to heroin. Oh, and by the way, the book won an award as "an outstanding book for children."

Yet another book proudly displayed on the Fayetteville library shelves was once featured in Playboy magazine. Its vile and sexually explicit content is interspersed with dialogue such as this: "Just keep asking yourself: 'What would Jesus not do?”

Of course local liberals from nearby colleges are protesting, screaming about censorship, and denouncing Taylor’s attempts to choose what her own children are exposed to. It seems funny that these liberal types aren’t saying anything about the suggested censorship in New Jersey, where two state reps are trying to get a ban on Ann Coulter’s new book ‘Godless’

Isn’t it the rights of the parents to monitor what their own kids are reading and being taught in school. Taylor isn’t even asking for a ban, though I believe she has every right to. All she and the other parents are asking for is to keep the books inappropriate for kids in a separate section.

Apparently Arkansas isn’t the only school with this problem right now.

In Overland Park, Kansas, parents are organizing to protest the Blue Valley School District's inclusion in its curriculum of numerous books containing explicit material. One parent, Janet Harmon, objected to a book her freshman son was reading, which contained "references to oral sex and homosexuality," she said.

In Maine, Orono High School has reaffirmed its commitment to allow the use of the sexually explicit book, Girl Interrupted, as part of the ninth-grade English curriculum. The novel, written by Susanna Kaysen, is not fit reading for high school students, argued many parents and local residents. "It's a book about an 18-year-old who ends up in a mental asylum and has a number of conversations with mentally disturbed people -- conversations of the most graphic sort, especially sexually," said Michael Heath, head of the Christian Civic League of Maine. "The f-word [appears] 30 times on one page, and this is being given to freshmen in high school as literature. It's absolutely horrifying."

Now I saw this movie, I thought it was a good movie, as an adult I can make that choice. This is not what our kids should be reading in school. Is this the best curriculum the school could find? Isn’t there something else, Shakespeare, Mark Twain...I can think of hundreds of great classic literature books that these kids could be taught from.

Librarians do everything possible to obscure the reading habits of students -- who are required by law to attend school -- from any attempt by parents to learn what their children are reading.

Here is another point I disagree with. Children are required to be educated, but they are not “required by law to attend school”. Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states. Parents who are so obviously upset by what is going on in the public schools always have this choice. More parents need to remove their kids from public schools and start giving them a better education.

A federal judge in Fayetteville has recently ruled in a similar case that restricting access of library books only to students who have obtained parental permission infringes upon the First Amendment rights of the students.

Okay, now here is the first amendment:

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Do you see anything in there restricting parents from choosing appropriate reading material for their children? Asking for parental permission in no way violates Freedom of Speech laws. Tell me whose Freedom of Speech is supposedly being violated here? The books aren’t being banned, simply separated. The children aren’t being silenced. The protestors were allowed their demonstrations. The school has had their say. It seems to me the rights of the parents, the most important voice in these kids’ lives, are the only ones being squelched.

Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe has said that any determination as to whether these books violate the harmful to minors law must be left "for a court or properly instructed jury."

When did the right of parents to choose what their kids are taught and exposed to get thrown to the judicial branch? What exactly is a “properly instructed jury” anyway? Who is instructing them?

As I stated earlier, there is always choice. Homeschooling would eliminate this problem immediately. Hopefully, common sense will prevail in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It seems to me that with five minutes, and a short conversation this could be easily solved. It is simply a waste of everyone’s time and lots of taxpayers’ money to take this to court.

FairTax BlogBurst

2006-06-15T08:20:00.000-05:00

FairTax Blogburst
By TD in Crossposts, Fair Tax

There are many reasons to support the FairTax. I managed to do a little research, and found some rather unique points of view that I had not previously considered, and was reminded of some previously-covered ideas that are still worth mentioning.

For the most part, the FairTax is voluntary. If you want to pay the tax, purchase a new house, car, motor home, etc. If you want to avoid the tax, purchase a used house, car, motor home, etc. The tax only applies to new items.
No one will ever need to take out a loan to pay taxes, interest, or penalties again, as can all too often happen under our current system.
Drug dealers and other criminals, as well as anyone else currently paid “under the table”, will pay taxes if they purchase new items. Ever seen a drug dealer driving a used car? Ever seen a pimp shopping at Goodwill? I didn’t think so.
Lower income families working multiple jobs get a fantastic incentive to work now, knowing that zero Federal taxes will be withheld from their paychecks. Most of the money from the second job can be applied to whatever previously unaffordable luxury they wish — perhaps including, for the first time, a home of their own?
With the abolition of the death tax, homes, farms, and land which might previously have had to be sold to satisfy the government’s unquenchable thirst for money can now be retained and kept in the family. In cases where the property has been in the family for multiple generations, can you imagine the gratitude of the family?
Friends and family can now actually help each other out with tax-free assistance, since the gift tax will be abolished.
Businesses can actually lower their cost of doing business since they won’t be paying the current 7.65% matching FICA tax for each employee.
It’s even a good deal for the environment — think of all the paper we’ll save by not having to file taxes!

But even with all this, we must remember that the FairTax initiative is a grassroots effort. If your Senator or Representative does not support the FairTax, find out why. Then let them know that you do support it. Make phone calls, write letters. Let your friends and family know the details of the FairTax, and why you believe it is such a good deal for Americans. Only through the diligent and concerned efforts of ordinary citizens will these bills ever make it through to the floors of the House and Senate.

The FairTax Blogburst is jointly produced by Terry of The Right Track Blog and Jonathan of Publius Rendezvous. If you would like to host the weekly postings on your blog, please e-mail Terry or Jonathan. You will be added to our mailing list and blogroll. TD ABCD