Saturday, December 1, 2007

Thoughtcrime

" The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" is working it's way through the Senate after being passed in the house. If it passes we will be having McCarthy era hearings of suspected terrorist. Terrorist could be an antiwar demonstrator or anyone who cries over their lost Constitutional rights . Free speech on the internet maybe about to be curtailed. Here is the bill if your interested in looking at it.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Andrew Napolitano Explains How Bush Redefined "Financial Institution" To Mean Anything and other Constitutional Violating Measures

The Federal Government redefined "Financial Institution" to mean anything so they could investigate our mail at the post office, bank records, lawyer's files, and your doctors. Andrew Napolitano explains the many attacks upon our freedom by the US Government.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Saudi Arabian Terrorist Make Up Half of the Foreign Fighters in Iraq

This is an interesting article. It claims that 45% of the foreign fighters in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia. Not surprisingly the White House and the State Department declined to comment. If it was Iran they wouldn't be able to help themselves in commenting about it. The government is more concerned with protecting it's own interest than the American people.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Ron Paul Interview

Here is Ron Paul's Official Campaign Website. He does weekly columns on his House Website, speaking his mind.

WorldnetDaily grills Ron Paul on his positions. Ron Paul wants to pull our troops out Iraq and stop threatening Iran. He points out that the number one reason for terrorism is occupation from a foreign power.Wolfowitz even connected the dots between our military bases in Saudi Arabia, resulting in Muslime outrage and 9/11. He wanted to move the bases out of Muslim holy land and into Iraq which we are in the process of doing. Ron Paul is strongly against further consolidation of the United States, Canada and Mexico in what would become the North American Community. It would be the next step to an European Union style government. The European Union was the successor to something called the European Economic Community.

He wants to take away the incentives from people to come here illegally and end birthright citizenship. Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com draws interesting parallels between the American Empire's immigration policy and the Roman Empire's. The Romans relied on Mercenaries just like the United States. We have over 100,000 taxpayer paid private contractors in Iraq right now.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Colin Powell Tried to Talk Bush Out of Invading Iraq

Colin Powell openly admits he virtually got down on his hands and knees, begging Bush not to attack Iraq :
“I tried to avoid this war,” Powell said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “I took him through the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.”
There have been other instances where other people have come forward saying that Powell disapproved of President Bush and his Neoconservative allies but this is the first time he brought it out into the open. It is no wonder that he called the Neocons "F-- crazies" in a conversation with British Foreign Minister Jack Straw. The Neocons want to maintain the American Empire and bring democracy to those who don't understand it. They have a website called the Project of a New American Century online.

Bush kicked Powell out early in his second term because he wanted ideological purity and had no more use for Colin Powell after he went to the altar of the UN to sacrifice himself for a cause he didn't believe in. Bush used one of his servants to deliver the message to Colin Powell that he was fired:
"The president would like to make a change," [Chief of Staff Andrew] Card said, using a time-honored formulation that avoided the words "resign" or "fire." He noted briskly that there had been some discussion of having Powell remain until after Iraqi elections scheduled for the end of January, but that the president had decided to take care of all Cabinet changes sooner rather than later. Bush wanted Powell's resignation letter dated two days hence, on Friday, November 12, Card said, although the White House expected him to stay at the State Department until his successor was confirmed by the Senate.
Colin Powell as well as other Generals have pointed out that the problem in Iraq is political so Bush can surge and mistakenly train and arm the Mahdi army but his goals are probably not going to be met unless he wants destruction and mayhem, so he can bleed the American Treasury for the Military Industrial Complex. The Iraqi Government has yet to try to reconcile the differences among Iraqis.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Microsoft Plans to Open Office in Canada, Making It Easier to Hire Cheaper Foreign Labor

Microsoft believes that the worlds brightest employees are mostly found in other countries other than the United States. The truth of the matter is they want low cost workers. Microsoft will "open a software development office in Vancouver later this year." If they can't bring more cheap labor in they will open up shop where they can. There is a difference between the H1-B Visa and Canadian Permanent residency that has attracted Microsoft up North.

Technology companies want cheap labor:

About 58 percent of the $360-million worth of software that flowed out of India last year ended up in the U.S. That tiny drop hardly makes a splash in a $92.8-billion market. But several trends may propel exports beyond the $1-billion mark as early as 1997. The single most important factor, Pawar asserts, is the support of the Indian government, which has eased tariffs and restrictions, subsidized numerous software technology parks and export zones, and doled out five-year tax exemptions to software exporters. "The opening of the Indian economy is acting as a very big catalyst," Pawar says.

It certainly seems to have attracted the attention of large multinational firms eager to reduce both the cost of the software they need and the amount they build in-house. The primary cost of software is labor. Indian programmers come so cheap-$125 per unit of software versus $925 for an American developer, according to Jones-that some companies fly an entire team to the U.S. to work on a project. More than half of India's software exports come from such "body shopping," although tightened U.S. visa restrictions are stanching this flow.

Another factor, Pawar observes, is a growing trust in the quality of overseas project management. "In the past two years, American companies have become far more comfortable with the offshore concept," he says. This is a result in part of success stories from leaders like Citicorp, which develops banking systems in Bombay, and Motorola, which has a top-rated team of more than 150 programmers in Bangalore building software for its Iridium satellite network.

It is interesting this has gone on for years.

Friday, June 29, 2007

The Real Divide Between Parties: Nationalist vs Globalist

I'm amazed how most of the Presidential Candidates from both political parties are the same after you peel back the persona they project to rally their respective bases to vote for them. Democrats may openly hate on Bush but advocate aggression (leave all options on the table) towards nations who are not a threat to the United States. What did Kosovo ever do to the United States? Why did Bill Clinton ally himself with the Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA, knowing full well it is a terrorist group? Our government even gave these violent thugs training. If the KLA needed anything they could call Wesley Clark on his mobile phone.

Andrew Longman, accurately points out the real fault line in America:
[T]he 2008 election will be fought out between globalists on one hand (Romney, Giuliani, McCain, Thompson, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Biden and Dodd) and American sovereign parties on the other (Tancredo, Hunter, Paul and Kucinich). It will be a mistake and a mirage for Americans to believe any longer in the Democrat-Republican political theatre, which has been mass packaged by the media for our consumption. These Grammy-winning musicals only exist to play the masses off one another so the globalists, who have dictated the entire top money-tiers of both parties, may forge ahead with their plan to obliterate American sovereignty and crush the peoples beneath their plans for high profits and the global police state. To again gain the privilege of actually having the liberal-conservative contest, populists on both sides must throw out the tops of both parties. What happens in political reality today is a dumb show of convenience, that the puppeteers might install that most beautiful globalist who gets chosen "best actor."

Hope says that real people still vote in the primaries. We, The People, must make a vow not to be influenced by the big-money TV and standard media that seek to install yet another globalist actor candidate. We must hang tough for the real thing. And we must give our money to the Tancredos and the Kuciniches – both of whom are pariahs of their money-elite leadership.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Illegal Immigration, Slave Economy, Guest Worker Program, Republican and Democrat Politicians: The Immorality Of It All

Slavery was vital to the global economy in the 18th and 19th Centuries:

The vast majority of enslaved Africans employed in plantation agriculture were field hands. Even on plantations, however, they worked in other capacities. Some were domestics and worked as butlers, waiters, maids, seamstresses, and launderers. Others were assigned as carriage drivers, hostlers, and stable boys. Artisans—carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, millers, coopers, spinners, and weavers—were also employed as part of plantation labor forces.

Enslaved Africans also worked in urban areas. Upward of ten percent of the enslaved African population in the United States lived in cities. Charleston, Richmond, Savannah, Mobile, New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans all had sizable slave populations. In the southern cities they totaled approximately a third of the population.

The range of slave occupations in cities was vast. Domestic servants dominated, but there were carpenters, fishermen, coopers, draymen, sailors, masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, bakers, tailors, peddlers, painters, and porters. Although most worked directly for their owners, others were hired out to work as skilled laborers on plantations, on public works projects, and in industrial enterprises. A small percentage hired themselves out and paid their owners a percentage of their earnings.

Each plantation economy was part of a larger national and international political economy. The cotton plantation economy, for instance, is generally seen as part of the regional economy of the American South. By the 1830s, "cotton was king" indeed in the South. It was also king in the United States, which was competing for economic leadership in the global political economy. Plantation-grown cotton was the foundation of the antebellum southern economy.

But the American financial and shipping industries were also dependent on slave-produced cotton. So was the British textile industry. Cotton was not shipped directly to Europe from the South. Rather, it was shipped to New York and then transshipped to England and other centers of cotton manufacturing in the United States and Europe.

As the cotton plantation economy expanded throughout the southern region, banks and financial houses in New York supplied the loan capital and/or investment capital to purchase land and slaves.

Recruited as an inexpensive source of labor, enslaved Africans in the United States also became important economic and political capital in the American political economy. Enslaved Africans were legally a form of property—a commodity. Individually and collectively, they were frequently used as collateral in all kinds of business transactions. They were also traded for other kinds of goods and services.

Today the same type of people who practiced slavery want a guest worker program and illegal immigrants. However when they have to pay them minimum wage their support vanishes:
For example, the Florida sugar cane industry began importing Caribbean workers to hand cut cane in 1943 and maintained that cane harvesting could not be mechanized because unique muck soils would bog down machines. But after a lawsuit was filed in the early 1990s alleging that workers guaranteed $5.30 an hour and required to cut one ton of cane per hour should be paid $5.30 a ton, rather than the $3.70 a ton they were paid, cane companies mechanized the harvest within three years.
Politicians like President Bush, Senator John McCain, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Lindsay Graham want to continue using poor people from other countries as slaves, wanting to continue the treatment of them as second class citizens. Politicians and Businesses don't care about these human beings. People like Bush, McCain, Fred Thompson, Ted Kennedy should help these people instead of legalizing their exploitation.

This is pathetic:
Affidavits allege that Insolia preferred to hire illegal immigrants because they were desperate for jobs and willing to put up with atrocious working conditions. He even helped them secure forged identity papers, referring them to vendors who would produce the documents for about $120. As for the working conditions, workers were routinely denied overtime pay, docked 15 minutes for every minute late and fined for talking on the job or spending more than two minutes in the plant's "squalid" rest rooms. Sure, but at least the vests and backpacks were made in America!
I would be ashamed if I was one of the Americans eagar to continue this horrid abuse like Bush, McCain and Ted Kennedy.

U.S. Capital Hill Switchboard Number So You can Call your Representatives

Tell your Representatives what you think! Remember they will serve you for a price! The Number is: (202) 224-3121

Lines maybe busy but keep calling!

Senators Blame Talk Radio for the Hostility of Americans Towards Them

Republican Senators are blaming talk radio for the anger and threatening messages (ex. Richard Burr received a message, saying the caller knows where he lives) they are the receiving from their constituents. They are playing the race card, hinting immigration opponents are racist. Many won't openly criticize talk radio out of fear but they share Senator Trent Lott's sentiments. It is clear these Senators are confronting an issue as divisive as its ancestor slavery was.

In their own words:

Senator Lindsay Graham from South Carolina said, “there’s racism in this debate. Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks. The tone that we create around these debates, whether it be rhetoric in a union hall or rhetoric on talk radio, it can take people who are on the fence and push them over emotionally.” Graham said, "we've been down this road before -- 'no Catholics,' 'no Jews,' 'Irish need not apply.'"

Senator Trent Lott from Mississippi said, “talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”

Senator Lindsay Graham forgets that most Americans are upset at illegal immigration regardless of the color of the skin the immigrant has. He is as disconnected from morality as were the plantation owners of his home state in the slavery era, using slaves as cheap labor, doing jobs Americans wouldn't do for slave wages. Everyone knows how racist Senator Trent Lott is. I personally wouldn't be surprised if things turned violent like in the old Roman Republic or like the American Civil War between the abolitionist (nativist) and slaveholders (neoslaveholders).

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

President Bush Calls Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill Amnesty

Did President George W. Bush have a freudian slip or was it a simple mistake?

He said:
"You know, I've heard all the rhetoric -- you've heard it, too -- about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that."
The Whitehouse is working hard to refute critics of the bill. Bush's slip of the tongue isn't doing him or his fellow ideologues any favors.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Bush Administration and Giuliani Accused of Misleading New Yorkers, Concerning the Health Risk of Being Exposed to the Debris of the Twin Towers

New Yorkers exposed to the debris of the Twin Towers have developed respiratory ailments/lung damage from the dust and may develop cancer from the toxins released. The Bush Administration and Giuliani are implicated in lying to New Yorkers about the Air Quality:
The American College of Preventive Medicine, meanwhile, has expressed fears that deadly, malignant mesothelioma could develop in those exposed. Scores of rescue workers - 40 per cent of whom have no medical insurance - have already developed rare blood-cell cancers and thousands of firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory problems.

"The 9/11 health crisis is an emergency on a national scale, and it requires a federal response," says Carolyn Maloney, Democratic congresswoman from New York, who adds that citizens from all 50 states in the Union as well as foreigners are affected.

The scandal is that the Bush administration knew almost immediately of the dangers of the toxic New York air, but lied. The public could breathe free, secure in the knowledge that "it is not being exposed to excessive levels of asbestos or other harmful substances", according to Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor appointed by Bush to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in January 2001. Speaking seven days after the attacks, she said: "I am glad to reassure the people of New York . . . that their air is safe to breathe." The then mayor, Rudy Giuliani, chimed in to say that air quality was "safe and acceptable". Both Whitman and Giuliani, subsequent investigations suggest, were under pressure from the White House to provide these reassurances in order to keep Wall Street operating.

In the words of O'Clery, "we were systematically misled". Dr Cate Jenkins, a senior EPA scientist who has kept her job despite accusing Whitman and others of lying, says the EPA knew all along that the air hundreds of thousands were breathing was potentially as "caustic and corrosive as Drano", the best-known American drain declogger.

Dr Marjorie Clarke - an environmental scientist at the City University of New York - like-wise contradicted the Bush administration when she warned a Senate committee that, far from it being the case that the air in New York was safe to breathe, the attacks had "produced uncontrolled emissions equivalent to dozens of asbestos factories, incinerators and crematoria, as well as a volcano". These "created an unpre cedented quantity and combination of dozens of toxic and carcinogenic substances" and were "dispersed over a large area for several months", including parts of New Jersey. "US Geological Survey aerial maps in late September 2001," she found, "show asbestos contamination in Manhattan miles from the WTC."

Christine Whitman, the former EPA Chief was questioned by Congress. Whitman tried to deflect attacks, claiming the terrorist should be blamed and not the Government, but Democrat Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York pointed out that she was a liar.

Most US Presidential Hopefuls Lack Military Experience

Only Duncan Hunter and John McCain have combat experience. Jim Gilmore served in West Germany, Ron Paul was a flight surgeon, Chris Dodds and Tommy Thompson were in Army Reserve. Unless we elect someone like Ron Paul we may very well have another incompetent fool in the White House, trying to police the world unless Pro-war Conservatives start supporting Duncan Hunter or find one of those Four Star Generals who rejected Bush's overtures to be his War Czar. Do we really need more posturing with no substance?

Marine Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan, former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO Commander-in-Chief, and U.S. Atlantic Command. A highly decorated warrior:
His decorations and medals include: the Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Silver Star Medal; Defense Superior Service Medal; Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” and gold star in lieu of a second award; Purple Heart with gold star; the Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Meritorious Service Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Navy Achievement Medal; Combat Action Ribbon; Presidential Unit Citation; Navy Unit Commendation; National Defense Service Medal with one bronze star; Vietnam Service Medal; Southwest Asia Service Medal with two bronze stars; Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with silver star; and the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Honor (First Class).
He said, "[t]he very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going, so rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and eventually leave, I said, 'No, thanks,' ", believing Cheney and the Neocons are more powerful in the White House than pragmatist trying to find a way out of Iraq.

It is telling when someone as decorated and knowledgeable as Marine Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan rejects a position offered by the President of the United States because there is a lack of intelligent thought in the Executive Branch. We need someone like him as President if we are to continue our present foreign policy.

Vice President Richard Cheney's Take on Presidential Authority.

Richard Cheney believes that it is the Presidents prerogative to decide how war is conducted without any restraints from National Laws or Treaties such as the Geneva convention. Human Rights groups took Cheney to task when he said in an interview that "a dunk in the water" for terrorism suspects during questioning in order to save American lives was a "no-brainer". President Bush and Cheney defended themselves saying that the US doesn't commit torture and that he wasn't advocating torture.

George W. Bush and Richard Cheney subscribe to the Unitary Executive Theory. They have been able to expand the Executive Branch's power, virtually ending the Posse Comitatus Act, so the President can control and use the United States Military against Americans in the United States as he or she sees fit. Governors are fighting back hard to regain the exclusive power of controlling the National Guard in their home states.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

The House of Representatives Votes to Ban Aid to Saudi Arabia

Rep. Shelley Berkley said, "Saudi Arabia propagates terrorism." Lawmakers also were angry at the religious intolerance found in Saudi Arabia which is no surprise since Saudi Arabia's official faith is Salafism the very same faith of Osama Bin Laden. They pointed out that Saudi Arabia is rich and we shouldn't be paying tribute, I mean giving aid to them.

High-Tech Companies Will Not Hire Americans but Will Hire Cheaper H-1Bs

Dr Norman Matloff's Testimony to Congress on the subject:

There is no shortage of programmers. Companies just want cheap workers on H-1B visas:
Employers only hire about 2% of their software applicants, and they admit that they reject the vast majority of their applicants without even an interview. If employers were so desperate, they could not afford to be so picky.

Both government and private data show that average wage increases for programmers have been mild, 7 or 8%, and again contradict the claims of huge shortages. The industry's own study estimated that the claimed `shortage' is only driving up salaries by 3%. If employers were desperate, they would be willing to pay much higher wage premiums.

And though figures like 7 or 8% are a few percentage points above inflation, they are still very mild. If employers were desperate to hire, as they claim, they would certainly be willing to pay a premium of more than 7%. Wages in almost all professions have been going up at least this much. Surveyors and dieticians saw their salaries increase far more than programmers in 1997, beating inflation by 20% and 17%, respectively.

It is a very interesting read older workers as young as 35 are being discriminated against and American workers have to leave the field because Employers do not like to hire them because they want low wage labor.

The Programmers Guild website has information and assists unemployed programmers!
http://www.programmersguild.org/

Free Speech Zones

WorldNetDaily reports that Atlanta Officials have decided that people of opposing viewpoints may not participate in the Atlanta Pride Festival. This is ridiculous because you must allow for speech you don't like so you can have speech that you do agree with. This disrespect for freedom is shown at the highest levels of government.

The American Conservative points out that Bush throws out dissidents during his appearances even for something as small as holding a sign up critical of him
:

When Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up “free speech zones” or “protest zones” where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event.

When Bush came to the Pittsburgh area on Labor Day 2002, 65-year-old retired steel worker Bill Neel was there to greet him with a sign proclaiming, “The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us.” The local police, at the Secret Service’s behest, set up a “designated free-speech zone” on a baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bush’s speech. The police cleared the path of the motorcade of all critical signs, though folks with pro-Bush signs were permitted to line the president’s path. Neel refused to go to the designated area and was arrested for disorderly conduct; the police also confiscated his sign. Neel later commented, “As far as I’m concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone. If the Bush administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind.”

At Neel’s trial, police detective John Ianachione testified that the Secret Service told local police to confine “people that were there making a statement pretty much against the president and his views” in a so-called free speech area. Paul Wolf, one of the top officials in the Allegheny County Police Department, told Salon that the Secret Service “come in and do a site survey, and say, ‘Here’s a place where the people can be, and we’d like to have any protesters put in a place that is able to be secured.’” Pennsylvania district judge Shirley Rowe Trkula threw out the disorderly conduct charge against Neel, declaring, “I believe this is America. Whatever happened to ‘I don’t agree with you, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it’?”

What kind of a country has the United States become where an elected servant can have someone arrested for using their freedom of speech or a city can ban peaceful protest if they don't agree with the stance of the protesters?

Friday, June 22, 2007

Nativist vs Neoslaveholders on the Guest Worker Program

I'm wondered if it is possible to make Nativist and Neoslaveholders both happy. The problem is the Nativist don't want to pay for the healthcare for the Neoslaves and compete with them, arguing that Neoslaves drive down wages for lower class Nativist. The upper class Neoslaveholders argue that Neoslaves do jobs Americans don't want, saying that they can't get Americans to do hard manual labor such as cleaning and working on plantations for low wages.

I've been pondering if there is a way for Nativist and Neoslaveholders to get along. If the Federal Government enforced border law and allowed the States to determine their own immigration needs then maybe these two very opposing groups could make peace. The Guest Workers would be forced to wear RFID tags and the States would decide if they are welcome to compete with the American workforce for jobs in their state or live there. The States hosting the Guest Workers would have to pay fines for any problems Guest Workers cause in other States.

The United States is already decided to use RFID tags on domesticated animals to track them!

Why the comparison to slavery
?
Wright argues that slave-based commerce was central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.


Thursday, June 21, 2007

Water Supply Crises by Year 2025

Here is a link to the Department of Interior, concerning the looming crises:
http://www.doi.gov/water2025/

It appears according to this map that the West Coast and Central US is not going to have the water to meet the demands from people, farms and the environment in that region in about 18 years.

Barack Obama Is Not Antiwar

He speaks out against minding our own business and not using our military to continue our Wilsonian Foreign Policy:
There is no doubt that the mistakes of the past six years have made our current task more difficult. World opinion has turned against us. And after all the lives lost and the billions of dollars spent, many Americans may find it tempting to turn inward, and cede our claim of leadership in world affairs.

I insist, however, that such an abandonment of our leadership is a mistake we must not make. America cannot meet the threats of this century alone, but the world cannot meet them without America. We must neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission – we must lead the world, by deed and example.

We must lead by building a 21st century military to ensure the security of our people and advance the security of all people. We must lead by marshalling a global effort to stop the spread of the world’s most dangerous weapons. We must lead by building and strengthening the partnerships and alliances necessary to meet our common challenges and defeat our common threats.



He thinks we should maintain Bush's Wilsonian fantasy and desire to spend more taxpayer dollars in reshaping the Middle East and the world. He promises to be better at it than our current president, seeking global consensus before we blow up another country. He believes we should leave all options on the table, concerning Iran. He believes the US may one day have to rain down missiles onto Iran and Pakistan.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The Iranian Coup in 1953

The US was fearful that the Iranian government lead by Dr. Mohammed Mosaddeq would fall into communism. The British were angry that he nationalized oil in Iran. They overthrew his government, reinstalling Muhammad Reza Shah back into power in Operation Ajax in August of 1953. Muhammad Reza Shah was overthrown in the late 70's by zealous religious students for Ayatollah Khomeini.

Here is an interesting pdf file concerning extremist ideology:
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub738.pdf


Fred Thompson Supports Open Borders and Voted for McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Bill

Why are Republicans excited about this guy in his rented, red pickup truck? They despise McCain but Fred Thompson shares many of McCain's values. I'm thinking either they don't know this guy's record very well or they love the message (open borders and McCain-Feingold) but hate the messenger. Fred Thompson was instrumental to the passing of the McCain-Feingold reform bill.

Here is Fred Thompson's record for those curious compiled by Americans for Better Immigration.

Fred Thompson's votes against Interior Enforcement:
1996: Voted in committee in favor of the Hatch Amendment to S. 1664 to reduce fines against employers who hire illegal aliens Sen. Thompson voted as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of the Hatch Amendment to S. 1664. The Hatch Amendment stripped the provision from S. 1664 that increased fines against businesses that hire illegal aliens, thus making it less attractive for businesses to hire illegal aliens. The Hatch Amendment passed by a vote of 9-8.

1996: Voted in favor of the Abraham Amendment to S. 1644, a vote against of increased interior enforcement Sen. Thompson voted in favor of the Abraham Amendment to strip the voluntary workplace verification program from S. 1644. Workplace verification programs help reduce illegal immigration by withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens. The Abraham Amendment failed by a vote of 54-46.


Fred Thompson voted for amnesty for undocumented workers from Cuba and Nicaragua:
1997: Voted for an amnesty to illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba. Sen. Thompson voted for a procedural move that helped allow the Mack Amendment to be included in S.1156 (the District of Columbia Appropriations bill). This amendment granted amnesty to illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba and is expected to add close to one million people to U.S. population.

Fred Thompson's record shows he is for a guest worker program:
2000: Voted for S.2045, a foreign worker bill with no worker protections. Sen. Thompson voted for the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers. Despite a GAO report finding no evidence of a worker shortage and suggesting fraud in the H-1B program, Rep. Thompson voted for this bill that included no worker protections or anti-fraud measures

1996: Voted in committee for the Abraham amendment to S.1664. The Abraham amendment to S.1664 stripped all legal reforms from the bill. The legal reforms would have lowered the annual cap on skilled-worker visas and eliminated the category for unskilled workers. S.1664 would have reduced overall legal immigration by about 2.1 million over a ten-year period. The amendment passed.

1998: S.1723, Voted against the American worker in committee. Rep. Thompson stood solidy against American workers by opposing a Feinstein amendment to S.1723 to reduce the H1B increase from 5 years to 3. The amendment failed by 2 votes.

1998: S.1723, Voted against the American worker in committee.
Rep. Thompson stood solidy against American workers by opposing a Feinstein amendment to S.1723 to reduce the H1B increase from 5 years to 3. The amendment failed by 2 votes.

1998: Voted in committee against American workers. The Kennedy-Feinstein Amendment to S.1723 would have accomplished two important goals: ensuring no American was laid off or displaced prior to hiring an H1B employee; and, requiring that employers demonstrate they had previously taken timely and effective steps to hire a qualified American. 10 Senators helped defeat this amendment.

1998: Voted against offering jobs to Americans first. Rep. Thompson voted against the Kennedy amendment(A-2417) to S.1723 that would have required U.S. firms applying for H-1B visas to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. The amendment failed 39-59.

1998: S.1723, Voted to allow American workers to be fired and replaced with a foreign worker. Rep. Thompson voted against the Kennedy Amendment (A-2418) to S.1723 that would have protected American workers from being fired and replaced by a foreign worker (H-1B visa holder). The amendment was defeated 38-60.

1998: Voted against protecting American workers. Rep. Thompson was part of the majority in the Senate Judiciary Committee that voted to send S.1723 to the floor of the Senate without safeguards for American workers.

1998: Voted for S.1723, nearly doubling hi-tech visas. Rep. Thompson helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years even though U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.

Fred Thompson is for chain migration:
2000: Voted for S.2045, a foreign worker bill with no worker protections. Sen. Thompson voted for the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers. Despite a GAO report finding no evidence of a worker shortage and suggesting fraud in the H-1B program, Rep. Thompson voted for this bill that included no worker protections or anti-fraud measures.

1996: Voted in committee for the Abraham amendment to S.1664. The Abraham amendment to S.1664 stripped all legal reforms from the bill. The legal reforms would have lowered the annual cap on skilled-worker visas and eliminated the category for unskilled workers. S.1664 would have reduced overall legal immigration by about 2.1 million over a ten-year period. The amendment passed.

1998: S.1723, Voted against the American worker in committee. Rep. Thompson stood solidy against American workers by opposing a Feinstein amendment to S.1723 to reduce the H1B increase from 5 years to 3. The amendment failed by 2 votes.

1998: Voted in committee against American workers. The Kennedy-Feinstein Amendment to S.1723 would have accomplished two important goals: ensuring no American was laid off or displaced prior to hiring an H1B employee; and, requiring that employers demonstrate they had previously taken timely and effective steps to hire a qualified American. 10 Senators helped defeat this amendment.

1998: Voted against offering jobs to Americans first. Rep. Thompson voted against the Kennedy amendment(A-2417) to S.1723 that would have required U.S. firms applying for H-1B visas to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. The amendment failed 39-59.

1998: S.1723, Voted to allow American workers to be fired and repalced with a foreign worker.
Rep. Thompson voted against the Kennedy Amendment (A-2418) to S.1723 that would have protected American workers from being fired and replaced by a foreign worker (H-1B visa holder). The amendment was defeated 38-60.

1998: Voted against protecting American workers. Rep. Thompson was part of the majority in the Senate Judiciary Committee that voted to send S.1723 to the floor of the Senate without safeguards for American workers.

1998: Voted for S.1723, nearly doubling hi-tech visas. Rep. Thompson helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years even though U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.

Fred Thompson is against reducing and eliminating the visa lottery:
1996: Voted in favor of the immigration lottery Sen. Thompson voted against the Feinstein Amendment to S 1664 that would have eliminated the immigration lottery and significantly reduced chain migration. The Feinstein Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74 to 26.

1996: Voted in committee for the Abraham amendment to S.1664. The Abraham amendment to S.1664 stripped all legal reforms from the bill. The legal reforms would have eliminated lottery visas. S.1664 would have reduced overall legal immigration by about 2.1 million over a ten-year period. The amendment passed.

1996: Voted against the Simpson Amendment to S.1664 to reduce the immigration lottery. The Simpson amendment to S.1664 would have reduced the annual number of visas allocated to the lottery category from 55,000 to 27,000. The amendment failed by 80-20 on the Senate floor.

Fred Thompson is not about reducing immigration:
1996: Voted in committee for the Abraham amendment to S.1664. The Abraham amendment to S.1664 stripped all legal reforms from the bill. The legal reforms would have limited annual refugee admissions to 50,000, as recommended by the Jordan Commission. S.1664 would have reduced overall legal immigration by about 2.1 million over a ten-year period. The amendment passed.


Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Donkey Kong

The plot of the game is for Mario to save Pauline from the evil clutches of Donkey Kong. Mario leaps, dodges, hammers everything in his way to reach Pauline in each level. Mario is not a gifted jumper or runner like he is in the Super Mario Bros series. Donkey Kong is a well designed but short game with only three levels. The graphics are tasteful and retro as you can see below.


Rating: Good (75-100)
  • Retro game play
  • Retro yet tasteful design
  • Old school sound with a decent melody
  • Clunky controls unlike Mario's later 2d incarnations
  • Only three levels



Some of Hillary Clinton's Hawkish Values

Hawkish Values:



Bin Laden Hiding in Pakistan

He is said to be protected by sympathizers within Pakistan.





Water Shortage

It is projected that due to climate change and population growth Americans are going to be very thirsty when 2025 rolls around.

http://www.canadians.org/water/documents/NA_Future_2025.pdf

It is counter-intuitive to allow the United States population to continue to grow. Instead of importing more workers we should develop technologies that make it easier to do business with a smaller workforce. It is time to face the music and not wait until we are dying of thirst.


Islamo-Fascist?

I have no idea what an Islamo-Fascist is. There are better labels out there that pin point the groups that are a threat to the United States. Al Qaida's ideology is Salafi-Jihadist. I believe out of ignorance or political motive people do not discuss the underlying ideologies of these terrorist groups.

What is a Salafi-Jihadist?

Salafi jihadists -- who constitute less than 1 percent of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims -- see life as being divided between the world of Islam (dar al-Islam) and the land of conflict or war (dar al-harb). Through jihad, they wish to extend the Muslim world so that all of humankind can live under its umbrella. They harken back to the Great Caliphate, when the Muslim world extended from Spain (then called Andalusia), across North Africa and the Middle East, down the west coast of Africa, and across the Caspian region to India and the Philippines. At its height in the 1200s, the Caliphate was a highly sophisticated civilization, responsible for many inventions and innovations in mathematics and science.


It's daddy is the Muslim Brotherhood created by Arab Nazis and used by Britain, trying to kill the newly founded Jewish state after World War II. Al-Bana was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and was a very big fan of Adolf Hitler. They were stationed in Egypt until the 1950's when they were kicked out and the US Government found them refuge in Saudi Arabia. Salafist and Jihadist interbred in Saudi Arabia. The US Government and the Saudis sent them into Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. They gave them the name "Maktab Al Khidimat Il Mujahideen."




US Failing to Prevent Terrorist Threat

Mansor Dadullah, a Taliban Military Commander congratulates trained teams of terrorist upon their Graduation:

"These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places," Dadullah says on the tape. "Why shouldn't we go after them?"

The leader of the team assigned to attack Great Britain spoke in English.

"So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for a suicide attack in Britain," he said. "Whether my colleagues, companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible)."

I swore the US was over there to prevent attacks over here, maybe I missed something.