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Hate tell, Joker, but already blog few months ago. Still, interesting, ain’t? It’s our minds the blanks, in many ways.
Good me, as I bad habit words out.
“Business interests however are short-term. Easy immediate access to labour will always be preferred to the costs of training and capital investment for the longer term. In the nature of economic cycles, yesterday’s essential labour can often become, as the defunct factories and mills of Europe have shown, today’s unemployed. Employers who demanded immigrant labour are not held to account for this or required to contribute to subsequent costs of their unemployed former workers. Few things are more permanent that temporary worker from a poor country. If business were made responsible for the lifetime costs of their migrant labour in the same way as they must now deal with the lifetime environmental costs of their products, perhaps enthusiasm for labour migration might be moderated and make way for longer-term investment in capital-intensive restructuring.”
http://www.illegalaliens.us/economics.htm
Under the euphuism ‘Hispanic Homeland’ and ‘Nation of Aztlan,’ activists from numerous organizations including Mexican American Legal Defense and La Raza (The Race) activists are attempting to annex large portions of SW United States to Mexico. “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is “an inevitability” says Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico. He further states the new “Hispanic Homeland” should be brought into being “by any means necessary.”
The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and the National Immigration Forum (NIF) whose names imply grassroots organizations reflecting the will of American Hispanics, do not represent mainstream American Hispanic opinion. Rather, they speak only in their own best interests, favoring the mass immigration that gives them more constituents they can then profess to represent. Polls show that Hispanic-Americans, like all Americans, support stronger enforcement of our immigration laws.
A ‘Hispanic Homeland’ could be written off as the work of extremists were it not for wide-spread support by Mexicans. A June 2002 Zogby poll of Mexicans found that a substantial majority of Mexican citizens believe that southwestern America is rightfully the territory of Mexico and that Mexicans do not need the permission of the U.S. to enter. The poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, “The territory of the United States’ southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico.” Zogby said 28 percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren’t sure.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/aztlan.htm
Global Perspective:
Immigration is often promoted as a means to solve global problems such as poverty, corruption, and overpopulation, but immigration merely shifts global problems to the U.S. Global problems need to be solved where the people are at. Politicians and others avoid the causes of global problems and dramatically increase U.S. problems when they say immigration must occur until the forces causing immigration are eliminated.
Possible solutions include;
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Restructuring of U.S. foreign aid from corporate welfare and aiding despots with military armaments to effective techniques such as sustainable agriculture, women’s rights, and access to contraceptives.*
Increased support for global human rights. It is important to recognize that human rights agendas provide the right of emigration, but not immigration. In other words, people everywhere should have the right to leave their country to go to a country that accepts them, but human rights agendas do not provide the unconditional right to break the laws of a sovereign country.*
The U.S. needs to lead by example. Although the U.S. is often perceived as a model for economic and military power, democracy, and individual rights, a multitude of problems such as inability to stabilize U.S. population, wasteful consumption, and excessive corporate power urgently need fixing and are a poor example for the rest of the world.
National Perspective:
From a national perspective America can get illegal immigration under control only if the will to do so exists. Unfortunately that will has not yet existed. Only until Americans force their leaders to address the problem will levels be significantly reduced. Addressing the problem means illegal aliens should not be rewarded, but, if they refuse to return home voluntarily, they should be humanely deported as required by law. Reduction in the number of illegal aliens should be by attrition as a result of real enforcement of immigration laws. Mass deportation is not a viable approach. See Attrition.
Experts generally recommend the following three major priorities to control illegal immigration into the U.S.:
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Interior enforcement, especially laws pertaining to jobs,*
Border security, especially the Arizona border, and*
Elimination of benefits, such as amnesties, educational subsidies, driver’s licenses, illegal alien identification cards, and many others.
Principles for turning the tide on illegal immigration explains the main actions necessary.
9/11 Families for a Secure America has an excellent list of solutions at Essential Immigration Reform.
It should be understood that illegal migration can not be reduced without a reduction in legal immigration. There is a high correlation between legal immigration and illegal migration. Legal immigration increases illegal migration and illegal migration increases legal immigration. When someone says “I am against illegal immigration but am for legal immigration” the reality is that one significantly drives the other and addressing only one aspect will not resolve the problem.
The illegal immigration problem can be solved if only the will to do so exists. A humorous solution, taken from the mad cow disease investigation, is:
Our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. They can track calves direct to their stalls, but is unable to locate 11+ million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Perhaps the solution is to give every illegal alien a cow.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/solutions.htm
The issue of what to do about illegal aliens living in the United States is often presented as a Hobson’s choice: either launch mass roundups to arrest and deport 9-million-plus people, or define away the problem through legalization.
The second option — amnesty — is the one President Bush chose in his January 7 speech on immigration. It also underlies many congressional proposals, from the McCain-Kolbe-Flake and Hagel-Daschle bills in the Senate to the House Democratic leadership’s proposal unveiled in late January. . . . Fortunately for America there is a third way, between the politically impossible and disruptive approach of mass roundups on one hand, and the surrender of our sovereignty by the open-borders Left and its libertarian fellow-travelers on the other.
This third way is attrition, squeezing the illegal population through consistent, across-the-board law enforcement to bring about an annual reduction in the illegal population rather than the annual increases we have seen for more than a decade. Over a few years, the number of illegal aliens would drop significantly, shrinking the problem from a crisis to a manageable nuisance. Remember that the purpose of immigration law enforcement is to stop illegal immigration, not persecute individuals. Illegal aliens will have to accept the consequences of their illegal actions.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/attrition.htm
The following article says it all.
THE ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME WAVE
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION
The Social Security Administration offers a free employee verification service for employers wishing to verify the legal status of potential employees. The service verifies the social security numbers (SSN) for up to 5 employees. Call toll-free 1-800-772-6270, weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST. You will be asked for your company name and EIN. You must also provide the following information for each name/SSN you want to verify:
SSNlast namefirst namemiddle initial (if applicable)date of birthgender
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=118860,00.html – See Verifying Employee Names and Social Security Numbers (SSNs)
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/jmvtestimony022106.html – Verification of Employment Authorization: Federal Basic Pilot Program is an Effective and Employer-friendly Tool for Immigration Law Compliance
http://www.illegalaliens.us/employmentverification.htm
VOTE FRAUD
Because of virtually no vote fraud enforcement, motor voter registration, driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, amnesties and other factors, American’s most precious liberty, voting, is being rapidly undermined by illegal aliens.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/votefraud.htm
DISTORTION
Negative impacts of mass migration aren’t treated fairly in the media and elsewhere. A plethora of special interests promote mass migration through various techniques designed to emphasize only the benefits. Far too frequently the costs and consequences of mass migration are never mentioned.
Because of political correctness, a form of bias, writers distort the truth by promoting their agenda, typically liberal, and by avoiding objective reporting. For example, newspaper writers (using ‘journalists’ usually is a stretch when it comes to immigration) overdose the columns with immigrant and illegal alien ‘heart-breakers.’
Politicians likewise distort the truth (like this is a revelation) to pander for ethnic votes.
Race-biased groups, under the veil of ‘immigrant rights,’ distort the truth to gain advantages for their special interest group.
The basic techniques used to distort mass migration, with possible counter arguments, are:
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Immigrant / Illegal Alien Glorification. Mass migration proponents extol the virtues of immigrants and illegal aliens with glowing characterizations such as “hardworking.”
Counter: Immigration glorification needs a reality check! There are plenty of lazy immigrants and illegal aliens. Our jails are over-flowing with immigrants and illegal aliens. Lower their glorification to the reality that foreign-born persons are neither inherently good nor inherently bad. Making generalizations is generally inaccurate and the issue is mass numbers.
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Economic Benefits. Cheap labor advocates are prone to say something like lettuce will cost $10 a head without migrant labor.
Counter: Cheap labor benefits only a few and only over the short-run. The wealthy benefit by cheap labor but the middle and especially lower class suffer by having fewer and lower paying jobs. Taxpayers have to pay for the infrastructure costs or face declining quality of services. Competitors suffer too. Point out the unfairness and stress the long term.
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Victimization. In order to justify rewards, illegal alien advocates portray illegal aliens as victims instead of law breakers. For example, many illegal alien ‘rights’ groups want an amnesty because the illegal aliens have worked hard and are just trying to improve their lot.
Counter: Agree that illegal aliens have indeed been shamefully exploited. However, the solution is to garner the American will to end acceptance of any underclass, not by rewarding those in the underclass and not by condoning existence of an underclass. Importantly, sanctions against employers of illegal aliens and protection of our porous borders are desperately needed. For more, see Solutions. Ask when and how the opponent expects to end the victimization.
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Character Assassination. This is generally name calling of the messenger using direct or veiled accusations of racist, xenophobe or other derogatory characterization in an effort to avoid discussion of the negative impacts of mass migration. For example, The Denver Post tried to butcher the character of Rep. Tom Tancredo.
Counter: If anything, mass migration is an issue of nationalism, not racism. If appropriate, point out that the opponent was the first to bring up race, so is the opponent playing the ‘race-card?’ Ask for an apology and then raise the discussion back to the issue of mass numbers.
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Perverted Fairness. Mass migration advocates often promote mass migration as a solution to global inequity of wealth.
Counter: While many of their claims of inequity may be true, the unconditional right to violate America’s borders is not the solution. Poor people of the world can and should be helped where they are at. America should overhaul foreign aid to emphasize sustainable agriculture, libraries, and contraceptive access instead of giving cash and military hardware to despots. America should refrain from recruiting skilled people away from their homelands. With their perverted sense of fairness mass migration advocates generally choose immigrants and illegal aliens over the welfare of American citizens who bear the consequences and costs. The real issue is to whom fairness is due — citizens or immigrants and illegal aliens. Immigration is not the solution to global problems.
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Humanizing Distancing. A humanist-centric person might use word distortion even though the issue is acknowledged. Sometimes this humanist-centricity is called ‘liberal guilt.’ For example, mass migration advocates and the media call illegal aliens ‘undocumented’ to distance the reality of illegality to a status of legitimacy.
Counter: Use realistic words. If appropriate, embarrass them with their political correctness because ‘undocumented’ means the foreign-born have the unconditional right to violate America’s borders and immigration laws.
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Humanizing Avoidance. In this more extreme type of Humanizing Distancing (above) the issue is ignored because the problem is contrary to the opponent’s humanist philosophy. Admission that ‘undocumented workers’ negatively impact health care, sprawl, environmental degradation, traffic congestion, and school overcrowding is not perceived as a humane story to expose and consequently the negative impacts are not attributed to mass migration. Typically the humanist holds a globalist perspective.
For example, school overcrowding is due to mass migration but it is blamed on “The Baby Boomer Echo”. Arizona is a war zone of illegal invaders but we hear ‘nary a whisper’ about it. Border Patrol agent Kris Eggle was murdered by illegal alien drug smugglers but the story was ignored.
Counter: It is difficult to debate these rather abstract concepts, but we must try. Stress that these major impacts are due to mass migration and can no longer be avoided. Humanism is a worthy goal but to what extent should Americans sacrifice for the benefit of others? Despite injustices, illegality and invasion are not the solutions. Americans should take care of their own first. Stress patriotism and alternative solutions.
Humanizing Avoidance even shows up in the way statistics are accumulated. For example, school districts are by law prohibited from asking if children are illegal aliens. Anchor babies (children born in the US of illegal aliens) are counted as citizens.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/distortion.htm
ACTION
Please consider joining one or more of the following free activist sites where you will be given information on pressuring officials to enforce the law:
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NumbersUSA*
FAIR*
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC*
Links to State Organizations
Also please consider:
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Contacting your elected officials.*
Writing letters to editors.*
Becoming knowledgeable and speaking out!
Your help is needed!
In OUR future thinking & practices: No racism ALLOWED! No idiotic male chauvinism nor bigoted discrimination ALLOWED! No ideological nor religious motivated terroristic stupidity ALLOWED! No xenophobic isolationism, dumb criminality, abusive exploitation or violence against women and children, nor avaricious global exploitation of humanity ………ALLOWED!
AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE:DAY 2096….
Presidency held hostage:826 Days left.
Congress held hostage:81 Days left.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
Tracy
What about abusive exploitation and violence against men?
Read some of the proposed solutions. Not too bad. However, in regard for global leadership from the US, not from this current junta!
“Possible solutions include;
* Restructuring of U.S. foreign aid from corporate welfare and aiding despots with military armaments to effective techniques such as sustainable agriculture, women’s rights, and access to contraceptives.* Increased support for global human rights. It is important to recognize that human rights agendas provide the right of emigration, but not immigration. In other words, people everywhere should have the right to leave their country to go to a country that accepts them, but human rights agendas do not provide the unconditional right to break the laws of a sovereign country.* The U.S. needs to lead by example. Although the U.S. is often perceived as a model for economic and military power, democracy, and individual rights, a multitude of problems such as inability to stabilize U.S. population, wasteful consumption, and excessive corporate power urgently need fixing and are a poor example for the rest of the world.”
Heckler asks:What about abusive exploitation and violence against men?
You mean like at how do you say it…Abu Ga..Gar…Garib..Abu Garab….Abu Garaib
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444
typical liberal response, play the “race card”
it’s amazing that even when confronted with overwhelming evidence about how illegal immigration is hurting America, all the liberals can do is play the “race card”
So the question Americans should ask themselves is why are liberals so determined at destroying our country?
I bet all I get is another stupid imbecile with the “race card” up his sleeve.
Who is playing the race card wgh?Illegals come here for work. Clinton Prosecuted far more employers for hiring undocumented workers than this admin.Your using the time tested divide and conquer method, typical wingnut response. Until you cut off the incentive to come here…….they will come.
Hey KSMeadowlurk -
Check out this story:http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/15777193.htm
This terrible thing must have been caused by that company which seeks to bring MO and KS into the 21st century. How dare they do that. Of course I am referring to these folk: http://www.stowers-institute.org/
Mr. go home–Do not talk shit here about playing the race card.I SAW YOUR MEAN SPIRITED RACIST REMARK on the Seyam thread.(before it was removed for good reason, it was as low as a Phelps family)
There is no way in hell you will convince me that you are nothing more than another stewpud racist.Immigration policy is not for RACISTS to decide.
This is a proudly multi-racial country and stewpuds like you are the ones endangering this fine country.
If anyone wants to know what the asshole above remarked about Mr. Seyam’ death, just drop me a line.Just so you’ll know what a dispicable person is posting this crap.
I saw it too, Tracy. It was a new low for this blog.
Well, Senator Brownback’s actions are threatening a compromise on appointment of federal judges?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601201.html
A rebuttal of a frequrntly told lie RE: embronic stem cell research vs. adult stem cell research:
http://www.stowers-institute.org/WhatsNew/pr2006/PR071406.asp
Well, at least Kansas isn’t in the bottom five:http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/007569.htmlbut unfortunately, isn’t in the top five, either. Interesting that a Kansas company puts this report out.
Thanks for the link Steven.Those of us who have family with spinal cord injury find that playing politics with this issue is beyond dispicable.
Hey look, now Ian has somebody to fondle, if it’s not Ian himself.
To those of you who say we don’t need moderators, how do you like the spam?
‘Cause I don’t.
Nevermind the vicious racism that one hoped was dead, or if not dead, at least SHAMED into remaining silent.
Just the spam factor alone is enough to warrent pulling the posts and tombstoning the poster.
When you get to heaven, a black Jesus with a big old afro is going to look down at you and ask, “who you callin’ ‘boy’?”
Don’t abandon alternative energy R&D:
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/JubaksJournal/OilPricesWillLeapAgainBlameRussia.aspx?page=1
Interesting that the commentator sees this coming for 2008, what?
*typical liberal response, play the “race card”*
I find it highly ironic (read that as STUPID) for someone to post a remark like that while using the screen name of “wetbacks go home.” Talk about racists…
Hey, wetback, I encourage you to start your own racist blog somewhere else. I’d be happy to set one up for you, say, for a couple of thousand $$.
A better link:
http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm
it turns out that Kansas is #13, up two positions from the prior year. The fact California is in the “bottom five” is evidence, to me, that taking money from education will harm it. IIRC, in my younger days, the California public education system was to be emulated.
TRACY,
’stewpuds’–damn, I like that.
As for WBGH, well, it’s nice that someone can make use of that internet connection in his parents’ basement while they’re at work. Keeps him off the street, I guess.
Glad I missed it, Tracy.
Hey Capn!
Your black Jesus quote reminds me of my youth.
I used to have a paper route in Winfield, KS. I had the poor side of town, west of main, south of 9th. It was half black and half poor white trash.
What an education! Never had a problem collecting from the blacks. Others would tell me twenty reasons why they couldn’t pay me.
One old black lady would always pay me on time. Sometimes it would be in nickels and pennies, but she never made me come back. She would invite me in and always offer me a drink of water or ice tea.
Once, while waiting to get paid I noticed that there was a picture of Jesus on the wall. Jesus was black! I was amazed, never thought that he could be black! The old lady came over and put her arm around me and asked, “What are you goin’ ta do son when you get to heaven and find out that Jesus is black?”
“I hope I don’t notice.” I replied!
Hank
I remember that in Protestant churches in the South Jesus was always portrayed are fair-skinned with light hair. Interesting – most Jews I know have black hair and are somewhat darker-skinned. I think we tend to portray God and Jesus in our own image, whoever we are.
Energy news.http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17615&ch=energy
Thanks hackler – had heard something general about that yesterday on NPR but not this detail.
I wonder how a diesel-electric hybrid might work? Combine BOTH benefits.
Ben the low sulfur does 2 things. Allows for catalytic converters to clean up emmisions, and it allows the use of more advanced fuel injector systems. Apparently the high sulfur in yesterdays diesel could damage some components in modern fuel injectors.Don’t know the details.
The “efficiency” claims are a little misleading. Yes your mileage will increase but to a large degree because there is more energy per gallon in diesel.
I don’t know about the injectors but I do know that sulfate was a problem with the catalysts. My thing beyond that was to join the diesel with the hybrid technology.
Ben,Whether or not we are created in god’s image, he is always created in ours.
Thanks, Heckler; the fact that the new engines would be able to use biodiesel makes it even a more positive development.
Ben, showing my ignorance here, wouldn’t the extra weight of the diesel engine plus the weight of batteries be somewhat a drawback of diesel hybrids? I note that the article referenced use by UPS of diesel hybrids in their delivery fleet, making sense in an urban stop and go environment; on the highway, though, I would think a straight diesel burning biodiesel makes more sense to me.
As we are in an agricultural state, albeit with a climate not totally optimal for raising soybeans, does it not make sense to explore biodiesel with as much fervor as ethanol?
Good question Vaughn. Keep in mind though that most of our driving is stop/go urban.
When will Galahad be around to claim victory in his/her bet with Joe Williams? Some poster named CapnAmerica claimed victory, but if I were Joe Williams I would wait for Galahad to appear.
vaughn – I like the idea of biodiesel from ‘crud’ – turkey guts, fat, rendering waste, etc. Basically build in a number of areas simultaneously.
Heckler – wasn’t it you with the capacitor idea/references? I wonder what gives here with batteries?
Sony to recall own batteries
TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Tuesday it may change its full-year earnings forecast because of costly recalls of its batteries and a price cut for its PlayStation 3 video game console.
Sony also said it would recall 90,000 of its Vaio brand laptop computer batteries in Japan and China, adding its name to the list of PC vendors recalling a total of about 8 million Sony batteries, which the company has said can on rare occasions overheat and catch fire.
“We are in the process of determining whether a revision to our annual earnings outlook is necessary, taking into account various factors that could affect our group earnings,” the electronics and entertainment conglomerate said on its Web sitehttp://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/16/sony-to-recall-300000-batteries-paper-says/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fnm%2F20061017%2Ftc_nm%2Fjapan_sony_dc
As you know, I am interested in applications of advanced battery technology to cars. This sure doesn’t help!
9/11 conspiricy theories …
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/16/the-conspiracy-industry/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popularmechanics.com%2Fscience%2Fresearch%2F4199607.html&frame=true
The Conspiracy IndustryBY JAMES B. MEIGS, Editor-In-Chief, Popular MechanicsPublished on: October 13, 2006
On February 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/ Illuminati conspiracy for global domination. It was on that day the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics, with its cover story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories, hit newsstands. Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs—which calls itself the “9/11 Truth Movement”—was aflame with wild fantasies about me and my staff, the magazine I edit, and the article we had published.
much more at the link …
More on N Korea’s Kil il Idiot …
Kim’s life of luxury as the people starveBy Richard Spencer in Beijing(Filed: 16/10/2006)
From imported lobsters to cognac and Mercedes-Benz cars, the expensive tastes of North Korea’s secretive leader, Kim Jong-il, have never failed to stagger those who have witnessed his conspicuous consumption.
However, his love of the finer things in life, in a country where his people have been allowed to starve, is now being challenged by the United Nations sanctions imposed at the weekend.
They include a clause banning the export of luxury goods to North Korea and aim to cut off or at least greatly diminish the dictator’s supplies, which he is believed to use to reward senior officials for their loyalty.
Little reliable detail emerges from behind Kim’s secluded palaces in his capital, Pyongyang.
But reports from defectors, previous employees and, in some extraordinary cases, people whom he has kidnapped but who have returned to the West, have described a lifestyle that would be unimaginable to North Koreans, who survived a major famine that killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, a decade ago.
One source was Konstantin Pulikovskiy, a Russian official, who described a train journey on which he accompanied Kim to Moscow in 2001.
Kim’s chefs, he said, had cooked lobster that had been flown in specially to points along the way.
Another was Kenji Fujimoto, Kim’s Japanese chef, who on returning to Tokyo told newspapers of his partiality for shark’s fin soup, a delicacy which he would eat three times a week.
At one stage, Kim was reported to be the world’s biggest single customer for Hennessy’s Paradis cognac, although he was later forced to cut down his intake, acting on medical advice, and took up fine French red wine.
Jung Sung-san, a North Korean musician who defected to the south, said his father worked for the state firm responsible for importing Mercedes-Benz, bought legally abroad, to be used by the country’s leaders. The exact import route changes, though, and will be hard to monitor.
North Korea operates a variety of front companies around the world through its embassies, many of which are involved in both making money and sourcing goods for Pyongyang.http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/10/17/-kims-life-of-luxury-as-the-people-starve/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fmain.jhtml%3Fxml%3D%2Fnews%2F2006%2F10%2F16%2Fwnkorea416.xml&frame=true
Ben,
Does your message regarding 9/11 conspiracy theories mean that you believe in these or that you do not?
So let me get this straight…they’re planning on parking up to 2 blocks away from the proposed arena because there is no room for a parking lot of their own? And borrowing parking from other places? Yeah come to the arena, but good luck finding parking!
What the he!!? another reason why it’s so dumb to put it downtown!
SM – absolutely not. Just found the discussion by the Pop Mechanics editor (with whom I DO agree) interesting.
Just like I do NOT support Kil il Idiot.
Thanks Ben, I was curious and am glad to hear that. There are two things that we agree with.
Good story, Hank. I enjoyed that.
“What about abusive exploitation and violence against men?”
Damn, heckler still playing that persecuted majority card?
heheheheheh
Doing the same things over and over….
Ben
The capacitor research was being done by a company called EEStor. The advantage of a capacitor is that there is no chemical reaction involved thus no heat.
I tend to agree with Vaughn in that the weight of the standard batteries and the “hybrid” apparatus is a drawback but if the capacitor research comes out half as good as they think it might it would change that game.
Some people have been doing research with solid batteries like the ones in watches (ni-cads?) but they put off an incredible amount of heat under rapid discharge. We’ll just have to wait and see what comes a year or two down the road.
On the diesel hybrid front, a couple of companies are building “yard” locomotives using a small diesel to charge a huge bank of lead/acid batteries. It saves them a lot of energy and maintenance on switching locomotives in the rail yards where the engines spendsmost of their time just idling in the yard.
What is the liberal position on our horrendous borders?
Let everyone see that instead of arguing the issue, the liberals on this idiot blog resort to personal attacks. this only proves that they have lost the argument.
Not only do the liberals on this blog resort to personal attacks, but they are all for censorship of my freedom of speech. You idiot liberals arent different from fascists. GFY all of you.
The Mexican military has crossed the US border over 200 times in the past 9 years!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48357
Every sensible American needs to wake the hell up! If you don’t want southwestern Americans to be taken hostage by these hostile invaders then write your congressman and vote in representatives who support a reasonably tough stance on the border. If we lose control of our borders, we lose control of our country! All I know is our forefathers didn’t fight so hard for their freedom over 200 years ago just to be bullied and intimidated by liberal-fascists and foreign invaders!
Take action, America!
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50703
WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Tancredo’s charge that Mexican drug cartels are buying up legitimate businesses in U.S. cities to launder money and using some of the proceeds to win local mayoral and city council seats for politicians who can shape the policies and personnel decisions of their police forces, has been backed up by a veteran gang investigator.
wetback,It would do america a lot of good if you were to join the minutemen and move to the arizona border.
I guess it was okay for our forefathers to bully and intimidate the “foreignors” who were the inhabitants of this country when our forefathers arrived, what?
It’s kind of the way of the world. Or at least history proves it such. Does that mean we are being taken over by “liberal-fascists and foreign invaders!”? We are 300 million people in this country. Gosh, I’m frightened to the core, but in the meantime, I’m going to a movie.
see that’s your problem, you can go watch your movies pretending like our country’s not being raped, then you try to excuse the illegal Mexicans actions by stating what our forefathers did hundreds of years ago. Thanks for the weak argument, and thanks for keeping to the liberal mantra of avoiding the issue!
GFY buddy, GFY
Actually, wetback, it’s racists such as yourself that causes the problems. You and your kind are the problem. Racists, religious whackos; you’re all cut from the same cloth.
Me? I have no problem, other than having to read your sick and twisted racist crap on this blog. As for gfy? You sure ain’t man enough to do it.
O, by the way, the movie was the Marine. Something someone who hides behind some ridiculous moniker like wetback go home could never hope to be.
Can we work to insure Tanker Todd is not re-elected? Will we vote for Garth McGuinn? I hope so.
I think Garth, as unknown as he is, can be a new fresh voice for moderates and independents in district 4. In reviewing todd’s record I can’t see much of anything he has actually accomplished for the district / Kansas in 12 years. He voted 4 times against a Congressional Investigation into the Halliburton, Caci et al contracts in Iraq that have squandered billions and adversely affected our soldiers ability to fight the best fight. He purports to supporting our troops yet has voted for legislation / appropriations that have REMOVED 2 billion dollars from the Military Personnel budget. I cannot find any legislation, supporting the military that todd has sponsored or co-sponsored in the last 4 years. He recently voted for a meager 2.2% pay raise for the military, even though DOD and the Senate had approved a 2.7% pay raise. Todd has also been a close ally of Tom Delay, the Texas rep that resigned when he was indicted for campaign fund raising irregularities in Texas and money laundering. Todd gave and received money from delays various shadowy PACs.
Garth McGuinn, although new, can and will be part of the new Democratic Congress that will take aggressive steps in Ethics reform, Immigration reform. and tax reform. I believe he can be instrumental in bringing / advocating for the alternative fuels industry in Kansas, creating thousands of jobs, and providing new revenue sources for kansas farmers — he deserves our support.
Tell our friends — tell your neighbors — think of the positive headlines it will bring to the nation when the unknown Democrat, Garth McGuinn, from Kansas defeats an entrenched conservative republican lackey without the benefit of much if any help from the DNC.
Stealing from IAN :
Viva McGuinn
Vote McGuinn IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
As an added bonus with McGuinn winning, we all get to see Todd Tiarht’s face when he loses! Now that would be priceless.
Look, Ian split himself in two, I guess cells aren’t the only thing that can divide!
I made a terrible mistake and misspelled McGINN’S (not McGuinn)
his web page is gogarth.org
adding now — I intentionally keep TT’s name without caps — he doesn’t deserve the extra recognition it might give him.
Garth can certainly use a contribution to his campaign — if that’s not possible email him and volunteer to have one of his yard signs, canvass your neighborhood, stuff envelopes etc … anything that will give him name recognition at the polling place — WE CAN DO THIS — no more lip service about dumping TT — do something about it —- NOW !!!!
As I do more research watch for future blogs about why not to vote for TT and why to vote for GARTH McGINN. I have had tunnel vision because I am retired from the Air Force and am primarily concerned about military issues — but I will find a whole list of reasons to vote for Garth … future blogs will be shorter –
VOTE FOR McGINN