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Beat up a white boy..Go to jail..Make bail..Get Media attention..Walk the red carpet for the BET Hip Hop Awards..Pose for the camera. PRICELESS!
Just goes to show that these boys are sadly misguided… They are walking the red carpet to revel in something they shouldn’t be proud of.

It is a real sad day when a culture actually promotes and honors individuals who were arrested for Assault and Battery and treats them like celebrities—- What a way to promote hate.  Hey, if you’re not white and know how to cry racism, you too, can commit crimes against others and become a celebrity.

Steven Mufson

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health and the environment.

The decision marks a victory for environmental groups that are fighting proposals for new coal-fired plants around the country. It may be the first of a series of similar state actions inspired by a Supreme Court decision in April that asserted that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide should be considered pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
 

Sunflower Electric Power already operates a coal-fired power plant in Holcomb and had proposed to build two more units.
Sunflower Electric Power already operates a coal-fired power plant in Holcomb and had proposed to build two more units.

In the past, air permits, which are required before construction of combustion facilities, have been denied over emissions such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury. But Roderick L. Bremby, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said yesterday that “it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing.”

The Kansas agency’s decision caps a controversy over a proposal by Sunflower Electric Power, a rural electrical cooperative, to build a pair of big, 700-megawatt, coal-fired plants in Holcomb, a town in the western part of the state, at a cost of about $3.6 billion. One unit would have supplied power to parts of Kansas; the other, to be owned by another rural co-op, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, would have provided electricity to fast-growing eastern Colorado.

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Read the whole sickening thing.
The entire global warming hypothesis has now gotten out of hand.
It’s time to put this BS where it belongs, then flush it.

Richard Newcomb

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have a history of fund-raising from shadowy Asian donors. Bill was connected with such donors in a scandal that was never fully investigated due to most of the targets fleeing to their native countries. Now the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Hillary also is gaining money from Asian sources that would seem to merit some investigation. The question is- will the rest of the mainstream media actually follow up and report it? Other than the LA Times and a story in the Washington Times, I have yet to find any mention of this in other media outlets. According to the Times story,

  The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

  And several dozen were described in financial reports as holding jobs—including dishwasher, server or chef—that would normally make it difficult to donate amounts ranging from $500 to the legal maximum of $2,300 per election.

  Of 74 residents of New York’s Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx or Brooklyn that The Times called or visited, only 24 could be reached for comment.

  Many said they gave to Clinton because they were instructed to do so by local association leaders. Some said they wanted help on immigration concerns. And several spoke of the pride they felt by being associated with a powerful figure such as Clinton.

This would seem to be an area where the FBI should be investigating if the donors actually gave of their free will, or if their contributions were ‘bundled’ and they were later illegally reimbursed. The story continues by saying, that at least some donors’ existence could not even be confirmed. The Times wrote,

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If Hillary is gaining illegal contributions that may be coming from foreign sources, or if her campaign is using asssociations to force residents to contribute, then they are breaking the law, and should be investigated and prosecuted. The LA Times admits that it was not able to confirm the existence of some of these listed donors. The question now is, will the media actually spend any effort in investigating these shadowy donors? Based on past experience, I’m not holding my breath. Cross-posted on StoneHeads.

The phony “scandals” have been keeping this very important campaign finance scandal by a major Presidential candidate off the front pages.  I question the timing.

As much as I would actually benefit from this ... I am afraid it would be my death sentence, not from physical exertion,  but from trying to type and walk at the same time, lol….

Don’t Buy Gas From This Ass LOL, Hugo, Hugo, Hugo… I agree, what an ass
Citgo is Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. The picture on the billboard is the country’s president, Hugo Chavez.
John McCombs owns the entire billboard and says he had some free space so he used it the way he saw fit. He thinks that if people actually understand world events, they would (or should) agree with him. “He called my president the devil so I don’t like him. He’s in with Iran’s president and he hates America. That’s the main thing.”
So, the three letter word will stay. McCombs says he has no plans to take the sign down and might even move it around the county!
You go Mr McCombs and more power to ya!

Joe Torre turned down the Yankees’ one year offer to return as the team’s manager next year.

With that decision, Torre ends the most remarkably successful managerial stint in major league baseball history.  And with the Yankees, that’s one helluva lot of history.

In his 12 years as the team’s manager, the Yankees did not miss the playoffs once.  Not once! 

And during those 12 years, Torre took the Yankees to the World Series 6 times and won that coveted title 4 times!  Half of the years he guided the team, they went to the World Series, winning two thirds of those!  Absolutely astonishing!

...and he’s packing heat!

As I recall, a certain commenter on Say Anything predicted he’d be back!

We’ll just have to wait and see how good a shot he is!

Hat tip to The Lasso of Truth (more...)

Joseph Goebbels, the brilliant but evil Nazi propagandist,  coldly and succinctly stated the fascist’s view on the news media: “It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.” Studying the record of President Bush’s Federal Communications Commission, one could easily envision the FCC’s commissioner heartily endorsing the quote.

The Bush gang has not yet started goose stepping or wearing arm bands, but the FCC are making proposals that have many folks very concerned . The concern is that they are attempting to consolidate the most important element of a free and democratic state-  the news media.

Our FCC is made up of five people,  all appointed by the President. Currently we have three Republicans and two Democrats.  The Commissioner is Kevin Martin, a Republican who replaced Michael Powell, the son of Colin Powell, in 2005.  Both Martin and Powell have made every effort to loosen the rules on media ownership that will give major corporations the ability to own more media outlets. 

Evidently they are still not satisfied with how much the media has been consolidated already. Currently six corporations control half of all news and entertainment flows on the planet- Rupert’s News Corp plus Viacom, TimeWarner, Disney, CBS and General Electric. On August 1st, Murdoch put yet another notch in his belt with a hostile takeover of the Wall Street Journal which was a family owned paper for the last 100 years. Murdoch’s News Corp. has an empire of 35 television stations, 26 papers, 5 magazines, and 26 publishing companies . Think of all the fair and balanced reporting that is spread all over the world.

During the reign of Michael Powell, Bush’s first commissioner,  the FCC proposed major rule changes which would have allowed companies dual ownership of a daily newspaper and a television station in markets with more than four television stations and cross-ownership in markets with nine or more stations. Further he wanted to give companies the right to own up to three stations in markets with 18 or more and allow a single company to own two stations in markets with five or more. Despite 750,000 comments submitted to the docket (almost all against the proposals) and protests in 14 cities, the FCC voted in favor of the changes. 

Fortunately On September 3, 2003 The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia granted an emergency order to stay the rules pending a lawsuit against the rules. Lead counsel for the plaintiffs, Andy Schwartzmann,  later acknowledges that the stay was granted because the court acknowledged that “a million people” wrote in against the rule changes.  In June of 2004 the same court ruled against the FCC,  deeming the rule changes “irrational” and “inconsistent”, keeping the stay in place and requiring the FCC to start anew on its attempt to revise the rules. All subsequent attempts to appeal the ruling in the next two years have failed.

The fight is nowhere nearly over. Despite public resentment of the commissions proposals,  Bush’s newest commissioner, Kevin Martin, is pushing the same agenda as his predecessor. It is up to us, the folks who rely on a diverse news media to keep us informed. Some polls conclude that anger over these proposals to consolidate an already shrinking media ranks second only to the Iraq war.  Let’s help prevent the Murdochs and other corporations from being the only ones serving up the news.

Farrakhan Urges Black Americans to Establish & Support their own Community.

The fiery orator spoke for nearly 2 1/2 hours, touching on issues including the disparities blacks face in areas such as education, health care, voting and incarceration, the Jena Six case in Louisiana, last weekend’s arrest of Atlanta rapper T.I. on federal weapons charges, the war in Iraq and the Michael Vick federal dogfighting case.

He criticized both the black middle and upper classes and white America, and said that separation from a world of materialism and individualism was the only way the entire black community could progress.

This man is a very scary man

“I want to talk to my gang-banging family,” he said. “You make it very difficult for me.

uhh… say what bro?

“A life of ease sometimes makes you forget the struggle,” he warned. “It’s becoming a plantation again, but you can’t fight that because you want to keep your little job.”

Let us all remember the struggles our ancestors endured and be sure not to live a life of ease now… hundreds of years later! Quit your jobs now… and blame others for your struggles.
Fine .. I’ll stop with the sarcasm and let ya’ll read the insanity  for yourselves

Taking their story from the Times of London, Fox News reports on last week’s racially controversial comments by Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson.

One of the world’s most eminent scientists has created a racial firestorm in Britain.

James D. Watson, 79, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine, told the Sunday Times of London that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.”

He recognized that the prevailing belief was that all human groups are equal, but that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”

Acknowledging that the issue was a “hot potato,” the lifelong Democrat and avowed secular humanist nonetheless said his beliefs were not an excuse to discriminate against blacks.

“There are many people of color who are very talented,” said Watson, “but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level.”

The notion that intelligence tests and other scientific evidence shows that racial groups differ in intelligence, at least statistically, is not a new one.

It last gained popular attention in 1994 with “The Bell Curve,” a best-selling book written by Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (who died before publication) and political scientist Charles Murray, which argued that intelligence was more important than socio-economic background or education in achieving success in American life…

Most sociologists, geneticists and psychologists reject the notion of racial differences in intelligence, pointing out that economic and social factors clearly influence IQ test scores.

The issue of race itself is scientifically controversial, with some arguing that it is a meaningless term and others saying that consistent traits occur among individuals of shared ancestry.

The scrambling among Democrats to get in line to disavow Dr. Watson’s remarks is gonna look like the beer line at a 4th of July picnic back when Democrats weren’t too embarrassed to be patriotic.

Still, this story was originally published in last Sunday’s Times of London.  I wonder why the MSM has yet to pick it up?  Are they afraid to embarrass their Democrat patrons?  Or maybe they’re afraid they’d be forced to editorially disavow Watson’s remarks?

Senator Byrd, the KKK’s on line one.

HALLOWEEN????

Ok, Ok, so it’s not a shock to have snow at my house on Halloween, or Easter for that matter. Of halloween pasts weve had many frost bit fingers and nose tips, snow covered pumpkins, snowball massacres with loss of candy, and many, many costume clad kiddy casualties on frozen sidewalks. But hey, on the good side ... I bet we’re the only ones who can safely hand out popsicles to trick-or-treaters!

From a clearly disappointed Washington Post:

Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government’s domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted the program, according to congressional sources.

The collapse marked the first time since Democrats took control of the chamber that a major bill was withdrawn from consideration before a scheduled vote. It was a victory for President Bush, whose aides lobbied heavily against the Democrats’ bill, and an embarrassment for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who had pushed for the measure’s passage.

The draft Senate bill has the support of the intelligence committee’s chairman, John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), and Bush’s director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell. It will include full immunity for those companies that can demonstrate to a court that they acted pursuant to a legal directive in helping the government with surveillance in the United States.

Such a demonstration, which the bill says could be made in secret, would wipe out a series of pending lawsuits alleging violations of privacy rights by telecommunications companies that provided telephone records, summaries of e-mail traffic and other information to the government after Sept. 11, 2001, without receiving court warrants. Bush had repeatedly threatened to veto any legislation that lacked this provision.

This is a crushing defeat for Speaker Pelosi, who had made the Democrats’ revision of FISA a centerpiece of the Democrats’ legislative agenda.

Of course, WaPo still insists on mis-naming the NSA communications monitoring program “domestic surveillance”, but that’s to expected considering the source.

It’s also interesting to note that while Congressional Democrats are inclined to whoop and holler with every little (occasional) victory, the Bush White House remains modestly focused on the job at hand.  No party favors… no parades… back to work, everyone.  The contrast couldn’t be more stark.

Damn, he’s good:

DANIEL HENNINGER ON THE POLITICS OF IRAQ: “Arguably it is the proper role of politics to intervene, to question. But during Vietnam and again now, we haven’t been able to avoid simultaneously putting troops on the battlefield while fighting bitterly amongst ourselves at home for the length of the war. The U.S. officer corps is aware of this. While no one is talking about a stab in the back, they may conclude that the home front and its institutions are unable to, or will not, protect their back.”

The problem is that our political and journalistic classes lack sufficient patriotism to promote self-discipline, or perhaps sufficient self-discipline to allow them to act patriotically.

On the other hand, here’s some important post-Vietnam progress, demonstrating that the troops have managed to improve even as the political class has deteriorated. Though there are troubling aspects to that differential.

Though I would quibble that the MSM is more than making up the difference.

We still have 13 months to go before the 2008 election, yet Earl Pomeroy has already stockpiled a staggering $1,057,433 for his re-election bid. Where is all of this money coming from, you might ask? Well, of the $921,000 that he has raised this year, nearly 80% of it has come from out of state special interest groups. Only $189,015 has been raised from individuals, and only $4,900 of that has come from North Dakota individuals. In other words, 99.5% of Pomeroy’s cash so far has come from out of state. To be fair, that percentage will decrease as more North Dakotans get involved in the election, but it won’t decrease dramatically. But when a candidate is taking in 99.5% of his contributions from interest groups, you have to wonder who’s interests he is really representing. How are the other members of our delegation faring? Conrad is looking pretty content with his stockpile of nearly $2 Million, as is Dorgan with his $1 Million. Conrad is five years away from re-election, Dorgan is three away. These incumbents will be incredibly difficult to defeat, but it can be done, and every North Dakotan needs to realize that.

According to statistics provided by Google Inc.

1. Marijuana
2. Viagra
3. Love
4. Hangover
5. Homosexual
6. Terrorism
7. Burrito
8. Iraq
9. Tom Cruise
10.Britney Spears

Someone,  please tell me it aint so….
*Sigh*