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Ok so what the illegal aliens are demanding is that they continue to gain access to Oregon driver’s licenses. New rules took place in Oregon on Monday and the legislature began it’s “special” session on Monday as well.

So those who are in this country illegally (because if they were legal they would have social security numbers which would allow them to get driver’s licenses which means they would have no reason to demonstrate and chant, chant, chant in spanish.) decided to protest a country that is not their own.
I am Coyote at NWRepublican.blogspot.com

H/T N W Republican

A fourth underwater telecommunications cable between Iran and OPEC countries has been cut in about a week. The cables carry both Internet and regular telephone traffic and TelCos have started using IP to transmit long distance calls because it’s cheaper. The odds of this happening accidentally are greater than winning the lotto. Most telecom people would say that this is impossible.

The thing that immediately comes to mind is that, like Saddam did prior to the invasion and Chavez is currently doing, Iran has started demanding oil payments in Euros. OPEC monarchs agreed, in exchange for protection from external forces and internal coupes, to hedge the dollar by pricing oil in U.S. currency. As the dollar continues to fall, the Euro is a more attractive form of payment.

If Iran is able to talk a couple of OPEC kings into following suit, no amount of interest rate cutting or tax rebates could stop the fall.

Cable Cuts!

INSANE MC-CAIN SLAIN IN MAINE
Neo-Con McCain for McCain-Feingold suppression of internet freedom of speech, for the rights of illegal Mexicans to services and jobs, and for the sacrifice of the wealth and blood of the American People for Israel, wants to be president; but got a date with the Conservative Republican firing squad.

From Wrong Planet.net:

1. Autism is not new. Any problem parents of autistic children have now others have dealt with them in the past. This means you can use what others have learned about autism to help you. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.


2. Autistic people contribute to their communities in many ways, no matter what constellation of obvious abilities and disabilities they demonstrate. Autistic people are valuable as they are. They don’t have value only if they can be transformed into less obviously autistic people.


3. The very wiring of an autistic brain means that the autistic person is likely to have significant and unusual abilities. Those abilities won’t always be make us employable, but autistics usually have excellent memories for facts accompanied by a drive to collect them. These abilities shouldn’t be seen as disabilities or freakish “splinter skills” just because they are less common among non-autistic people.


4. The term autism spectrum does NOT describe a line upon which a series of “functioning levels” are laid out stepwise, with “low functioning” on one end and “high functioning” on the other. Just because a person seems to belong to one category at one point in their life doesn’t mean that he or she will seem the same at another point in his or her life. The situation the person is in often dictates how “functional” the person is. Children, especially, can get moved from one autism spectrum diagnostic category to another during early childhood.


5. Listen to and respect autistic adults. They may be your best resource for information about autism, even if their apparent “functioning level” doesn’t seem to match your child’s. Keep in mind, they are adults, whereas your child is a child.

Read the whole thing.

Sam of Uncle Sam’s Cabin.

This quiz might be an entertaining exercise for some of you. Who is your presidential candidate?

Hat tip What if?.

Sam of Uncle Sam’s Cabin.

Super Tuesday is finally here. For months now the country has been atwitter over the historic convergence of Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. Everyone wants to know, will Americans vote for a woman for President? Will they vote for a black man? I’ve heard/read umpteen news stories about how black women are conflicted over which one they should vote for. Then there are the news stories where someone will emphatically declare that they will vote for Hillary because she’s a woman or vote for Barack because he’s black.

This leads me to one question. If it is unacceptable to refuse to vote for someone because of their race or gender why is it acceptable to vote for them because of their race or gender?

Sam of Uncle Sam’s Cabin.

The best thing about snow in Montana is not for the well-to-do down hill ski industry. I spin it to North Dakota and recharging the Missouri River system, Lake Sakakawea and Lake Oahe. And it’s about time for some good news, from the Minot Daily News.

The mountain snowfall that eventually melts and drains into the Missouri and Yellowstone river basins that feed Lake Sakakawea is accumulating at normal levels this winter, something that hasn’t occurred since 1999.


“I would guess we would say it’s good news, but it’s still too early to claim victory over the drought,” remarked Jody Farhat, hydraulic manager at the Corps of Engineers Missouri River Basin water management office in Omaha. “Normally, by February 1st, we have about 60 percent of peak accumulation on the ground. We need that other 40 percent over the next couple of months.”

As of Feb. 1, the mountain snowpack water content was tracking along historic norms and was listed at 100 percent of normal. A year ago at this time the snowpack was at 84 percent of normal. Although the critical snowfall months of February and March are still to come, any signs of a normal winter in the mountains is welcome news for the Lake Sakakawea region.


I’d prefer 300% of normal, but even just ‘normal’ is a welcome change.

When I watched this the fist time I thought it was a little over the top. I watch FSN a lot with the Wild and they do all kinds of stuff like this. This clip is a real head scratcher, I wonder how they came up with this one. I kind of actually wonder if the guy in the Sioux jersey woke up with any bruises the next day?

In a mindnumbing display of sheer nerve Richard A. Viguerie, an open Paul supporter, writes an appeal to Open Up The GOP Race. In this article he’s offering we must now find a candidate who clearly holds the “three-legged stool” of economic, national security and social conservatives in bringing the base together.

Viguerie is famous for being the “funding father of the conservative movement” by starting various conservative groups and used direct mail to help Reagan get elected. Now, he will be infamous for attacking and assisting the exit of the only candidate in the race who clearly had the qualifications without which Viguerie predicts we will not win.

By supporting Ron Paul, whose party affiliation is closest to the Libertarians but, even they disavow him, Viguerie declares that he has grown far more than impatient, he is now a fanatic himself who can’t come to grips that he has helped to create the situation we now face of three liberal candidates running on the republican ticket.

Apparently oblivious to or trying to erase from our view the high price of his continuous rantings of insignificance against Fred Thompson and a wrongheaded support of a fringe candidate Vaguerie turns to us not to apologize for his wrongheadedness but, to point as if in a new direction he should have taken from the beginning...as if leading conservatives to join together instead of revealing exactly what cost us the 2008 election.

Richard A. Viguerie is an example of what is so vividly wrong with conservative leadership. He chased his fringe views in denying what is inherently correct only to spin around as if he never left our side...we watch and more importantly we see and remember.

Let this exposure serve as the first warning shot to our alleged leaders of our party where they will be held accountable for their actions.

After reading the absolutely silly Owens article (reposted by Proof), this phrase, more than any other, stuck out:

But McCain is far superior to the Democratic contenders on the basis of character and virtue. For instance, once the North Vietnamese found out that McCain was the son of the U.S. military commander in the Pacific theater, which included Vietnam, they offered him the chance to go home before his POW comrades.

No one is denying McCain is a war hero, or a true American. This is not a sufficient reason to vote for him. Much of the article seems to read as a recount of his war record. But NO ONE is attacking this. If being a soldier was enough, we would’ve voted for Wesley Clark.

It is telling that Owens chooses to talk extensively about the past, and say absolutely nothing about McCain’s actual voting record...except to tell us that it’s no worse than Obama. That’s it? No worse?

So he’d be (maybe) a step above Obama or Clinton, or equal...BUT NO WORSE! Indeed, on immigration, taxes, abortion, class warfare, etc, he is no different. And on the war (one of the two areas he is claimed to be superior), he consistantly voted with Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama to close Gitmo, to offer terrorists access to our courts, and offered a non-binding resolution that demanded Iraqis make certain benchmarks or risk losing American support.

The idea that he’s a huge hawk is misleading at best.

Likewize, it is pure fantasy that McCain would appoint conservative judges. Much as when Guiliani was promising to appoint conservative judges, McCain’s promise flies in the face of reality that he has consistantly not only voted against conservative principals, but has taken great delight in pissing off the conservative base in doing so.

McCain may have character, and may vote on principal, but that principal is not anything remotely conservative. And his character is little more than a shield to deflect criticism of his abysmal record.

In short Owens is playing the military infallibility card that failed to get Kerry elected in 2004. Hopefully it’ll fail just as badly this time...but in the primaries.

Here is some pictures and video of the Ron Paul rally in Bismarck. Attendance was estimated at about 300 - a good mixture of youth like myself and older adults as well. Century High School was very well represented at the rally - 10-15 of my fellow students attended. First five minutes of the speech is on video below.

Full picture gallery available here.

Mackubin Thomas Owens updates his opinion of John McCain from eight years ago:

Eight years ago, I was writing a regular monthly column for the Providence Journal. On the eve of the 2000 New Hampshire primary, I wrote a column entitled “John McCain, the Anti-Clinton.” Although I supported George Bush during the primaries, I thought it was important to lay out the reasons for McCain’s appeal. I concluded that the main thing McCain had going for him was character, and after eight years of Clinton, this was not unimportant.

...I believe that what I wrote then is still relevant today. Many conservatives — Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and the editorial board of National Review to name a few — have made clear their principled opposition to McCain. I am not enamored of his policies either. I would prefer Ronald Reagan, but last I heard, he isn’t running.

...if McCain is the nominee, he will still be a better president than the Democratic hopefuls. If he were the Republican nominee, I would support him on the basis of his likely policy prescriptions alone; as problematic as they may be, they can’t be any worse than that which will be pushed by Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

But McCain is far superior to the Democratic contenders on the basis of character and virtue. For instance, once the North Vietnamese found out that McCain was the son of the U.S. military commander in the Pacific theater, which included Vietnam, they offered him the chance to go home before his POW comrades. Had he accepted, it would have been a great propaganda coup for the Vietnamese communists. But he refused. That’s character and it ought to mean something even to those who are not convinced of his conservative bona fides.

Vote for Romney if you must, but if John McCain ends up the nominee, there’s no need for the party to self destruct.

Mackubin Thomas Owens is an associate dean of academics and a professor of national-security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. He is writing a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

RON PAUL LEADS THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMATION OF AMERICA

I.  OPPOSES:
Un-Constitutional Wars, Imperialistic Foreign Entanglements, Domestic and Foreign Lobbies, McCain-Feingold Suppression of Free Speech, Patriot Act Spying on Citizens, Human Sacrifice by Abortion , Illegal Immigrant Amnesty, Discrimination Against Christian Culture, Alien Birthright Citizenship, Abolition of the Death Penalty, Burdensome Taxes, Burdensome Government Spending, Burdensome Government Regulations, Borrowing from Social Security, Expensive Technical and College Educations, Expensive Medical Care, Expensive Medicaid, and Expensive Litigation.

II. SUPPORTS:
Solar Energy Dependence, Scientific Research and Development, Highly Selective Proactive Recruitment of Immigrants, Government Support for Religious Schools, Internet Freedom of Speech, Right to Bear Arms, Impenetrable Military Defenses, Environmental Restoration and Protection, Tax Exemptions for Motherhood Contributions, Proactive Foreign Diplomacy, Comprehensive Immigration Reforms, Mexican Border Fence, Illegal Alien Deportation, Seasonal Agricultural Guest Work Contracts for Poor Nations, Normalization of Relations with Cuba, and Bin Laden Dead or Alive.

Ballistic missile programme more like.

AFP
The Iranians insist that their space programme is entirely peaceful and is just a reaction to the Western dominance of space exploration. This is their second rocket launch, with the first taking place last February. They intend to launch their first satellite in May or June.

The US administration deemed this turn of events as ‘unfortunate’.

Sean McCormack of the State Department said:

“The kinds of technologies and capabilities that are needed in order to launch ... a space vehicle for orbit are the same kinds of capabilities and technologies that one would employ for long-range ballistic missiles,”
[...]
“And of course, the UN Security Council and other members of the international system have expressed their deep concern about Iran’s continuing development of medium- and long-range ballistic missiles,”
[...]
“The reason for that concern is tied to their ... continued search to perfect enrichment of uranium, which can, of course, be used in a nuclear weapon,”

It’s official—this site completely crashes MSIE 6.0 now.

[UPDATE: Things are somewhat better now, and still improving. See comments.]

For many months, it has become harder and harder to use the world’s most popular web browser to access SayAnythingBlog.com, but this month it has officially become impossible.

If this was due to some conscious effort by religious geeks who despise all things MicroSoft, I could understand it and even forgive them for their principled bigotry.

But for this to happen through sheer carelessness and apathy—on an advertiser supported website no less—just doesn’t make very much sense.

I suppose I’ll soon be joining the many thousands of others who never visit this website.  Pity…

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Disclaimer: I have Firefox of course—I primarily use it for testing and debugging.  Cross-browser support is important to me, and something I am paid very well to achieve, thank you very much. But for constant and daily use, I, like the vast majority of the general public, prefer MS Internet Explorer.  So sue me.