Sunday, September 30, 2007
ToDaZeD "Gee. Yuh think?!?"
staggering revelations of the supremely obvious
IBD:
It’s now believed that several leaders of the Muslim establishment in America last decade conspired to infiltrate the U.S. political system, change Middle East policy and gradually Islamize America. At the same time, they hatched a plot to fund overseas terrorists.
Fighting Upstream Against the Downward Spiral
a view to our future?
[Jack] Straw believes that a key part of citizenship is knowing that “the system will stand up for you if you stand up for fellow citizens.” He will say: “Communities with the lowest crime, the greatest safety, are the ones with the most active citizens, with greater sense of shared values, inspired by a sense of belonging and duty to others, empowered by the State and also supported by it – in other words by making a reality of justice."
Saturday, September 29, 2007
From the Dept. of Unintended Consequences
or not so unintended...
The lunch lines weren’t moving fast enough for Linda Stoll, head of food programs at the Boulder Valley, Colo., school district. Because of that, kids had barely enough time to sit and eat before the lunch period was over. So, last year, Stoll began looking for ways to speed up the queue. She discovered that many students, especially kindergarteners, can’t remember their six-digit ID number, which they’re required to type into keypads at the end of lunch lines. She then found out that there was technology that would allow a scanner to identify a kid qualified for lunch ...It would help kids who regularly forget their lunch money, and it would potentially remove some of the stigma faced by children who receive special tickets for free or reduced lunch.
For the Chiiiildren™
[except those “who can’t have an image taken of them because of religious or cultural issues”
void where prohibited]
Friday, September 28, 2007
From the Dept. of Blind Pigs
a nut
Chavez complained about the new fad of giving the plastic surgery operation at 15—when Latin Americans celebrate a girl’s coming-of-age—during a diatribe against what he says are Western-imposed consumerist icons such as Barbie dolls.
...as opposed to those “Western imposed” icons like geography lessons.
Still, Chavez, who happily describes himself as ugly ...
‘nuff sed.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Some Animals Are More Privileged Than Other Animals
this animal is gonna go have a smoke
Mark Steyn: The state, in other words, is prepared to treat Muslims as free-born adults who can weigh the “cultural value” (ie, the pleasures) of smoking against the health risks. But not the rest of us.
Irritating, right? You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.
Starting today, state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists spotted buying large quantities of cigarettes in border states, then charging them with a crime and, in some cases, seizing their cars.
It ain't the Lead, Fred.
hand me that ChiCom backpack
“We already knew this, senator,” [Ronald Colburn, national deputy chief of the Border Patrol] answered. “This is not a surprise report to us.”
Government investigators were able to cross from Canada into the United States carrying a duffle bag with contents that looked like radioactive material and never encountered a law enforcement official,
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that because of identity fraud and lack of adequate and trustworthy databases, the Diversity Visa program is a national security risk.
Gee. Supplies.
“Nononononoooo—just have ‘em check the Bangladesh computer ID system. We’ll find out who that is.”
*Picks Jaw Off Floor*
*klonk*
WASHINGTON — The prospects for immediate Senate action on the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants, disappeared Wednesday amid Republican opposition.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pledged that senators would vote on the the measure, which is strongly opposed by anti-illegal immigration groups, before the Senate finishes its work for the year in mid-November
Key:
With conservatives being barraged with [OUR] calls, faxes and e-mails from anti-illegal immigration groups that view the DREAM Act as amnesty, [because it is] some Republicans who supported the measure in the past have been reluctant to do so now. Durbin needed 60 votes to surmount an expected filibuster.
Somebuddy make some popcorn!
Dots Coalesce to form an Ugly Mass
serious threat
Please email your congress “representatives” to VOTE NO ON S. 1870 and H.R.2421
Here’s why:
By now you have all read the IBD articles on Soros which I referenced below. [you haven’t? no more *spankin’s* 4 U !!! git!]
As we have learned in the shakeout from that bill, The “Campaign Finance Reform” aka McCain/Feingold was crafted for the convenience of Soros and his 527’s. Which means Mr Feingold is, at best, seriously compromised by, or, at most likely, a wholly owned subsidiary of Soros.
Here’s his latest offering to his Master.
Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)
[if linky is expired go to thomas.gov and put in S. 1870 and H.R.2421]
I’ll excerpt a few things just to getcha started:
(1) Water is a unique and precious resource that is necessary to sustain human life and the life of animals and plants.
Yeah, ok: “water = good.” I geddit.
What I also get is that any and all land is completely useless without it. Useless, valueless, unsalable, dead. Which is why, historically, Water Law has held that the rights to the water under the land go with the land itself. The rights to what falls outta the sky onto the land are treated similarly. The big fights come when the water that falls onto the land collects and runs into major streams and rivers and the downstream folks want a piece of it.
Usually, the first person to claim water rights from a stream/river has the first claim on the water. Those rights can be and are sold independent of land.
This stuff doesn’t mean much so far to those living in the ‘burbs. Deeds in incorporated cities usually specifically exclude the right to dig your own well and commit the owner to using the municipal water source.
Don’t wander off yet, ‘k?
(7) Small and intermittent streams, including ephemeral and seasonal streams, comprise the majority of all stream miles in the United States and serve critical biological and hydrological functions that affect entire watersheds. These waters reduce the introduction of pollutants to large streams and rivers, provide and purify drinking water supplies, and are especially important to the life cycles of aquatic organisms and the flow of higher order streams during floods.
“Intermittent and ephemeral” streams—which every danged agency I can find refuses to officially define—include that gopher hole that water runs out of after a big storm and every low spot that does or could possibly hold water at any time for any length of time.
Yeah—that little low spot in the back of your garden. Hold that in mind.
EC. 4. DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
...
(24) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term `waters of the United States’ means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.’.
SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended--
(1) by striking `navigable waters of the United States’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’;
(2) in section 304(l)(1) by striking `NAVIGABLE WATERS’ in the heading and inserting `WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES’; and
(3) by striking `navigable waters’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’.
So. From “protecting” and “preventing pollution in” the “navigable waters” of the US, this bill is proposing to change the focus to placing every drop of surface water under its control.
Swell.
And not just “these waters,” but “activities affecting these waters.” Which means each and every one of us is subject to, among dozens of others, the kind ministrations of the Army Corps of Engineers.
This overrides every local county permit bureau, every state licensing and permission process, every everything.
But wait—there’s more.
The Clean Water Restoration Act would codify the regulations the federal agencies have used to enforce the Clean Water Act for over 30 years. This is necessary to prevent the judicial branch from re-defining “navigable waters’’ as something other than the “waters of the United States.’’
This country was based on the idea that the Law would be written by those directly answerable to the Voters. To the Citizen. The People.
The advent of Agencies and Agency Regulations has taken that concept out and had it summarily shot. Federal, State and Local Agencies create “regulations” which have the force of Law but which are created, enforced and adjudicated by Agency personnel without any citizen recourse to “Throwing the Bums Out” at the ballot box. Even elected legislators are helpless in the face of Agencies.
They created these monsters but failed to install an “off” button to pull the plug. And that, Virginia, is what is meant by the term “shadow government.”
With these Bills [S. 1870 and H.R.2421] they’re going to do it again.
Only this time what is at stake is the lifeblood of the country: Water.
Why this had my alarm bells clanging
The wording in these Bills is eerily similar to the wording in General Plan 2020 —for all counties I have studied. Santa Cruz had similar wording in their GP2020 and allowed monitoring of wells “for the collection of groundwater table data.” Within a year the wells were metered for usage and within 2 years the government was telling folks how much water they could take from their own wells. In Monterey the story is the same—they’re down to being allowed 85% of their previous usage.
Meanwhile the cities are pumping twice and more of their historic usage, creating water table droppage and land subsidence. Cities are being allowed to annex areas for pave-over housing developments which are directly on top of “recharge areas.” [areas where the geology allows the rainfall to filter down and recharge the groundwater aquifers.]
[For Reference: A regular old rural household with hobby animals uses about an acre/foot of well water per year. (Agriculture uses more, depending on the kind. Lots of ag is what is known as ‘dry farming’ which relies on rainfall) One smallish city around here is currently pumping 4 acre/feet per day over and above its legally allowed amount from the same aquifer used by rural residents and farmers. Who’s using up the water?]
This is not about pollution or protection: this is about “He who controls the Water controls the people.”
Please email your congress “representatives” to VOTE NO ON S. 1870 and H.R.2421
Searching for Explanation
Borg with malfunctioning chip?
Loaded?
About to *snap* and bite the head off a kitten?
[worth the download wait]
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Well, well, well. A Little Tool is, after all, a little tool.
a subject to which we don’t pay near enough attention
How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely “NASA whistleblower” standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute , which gave him “legal and media advice”?
...Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros’ flagship “philanthropy,” by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI’s ““politicization of science” program.
Now there’s a cute little item; a whole “politicization of science” program.
It would seem that the Little Dinnerjacket is not the only turd in our punchbowl.
...last year’s Supreme Court ruling abolishing special military commissions for terrorists at Guantanamo was a Soros project? OSI gave support to Georgetown lawyers in 2006 to win Hamdan v. Rumsfeld — for the terrorists.
OSI isn’t the only secretive organization that Soros funds. OSI partners with the Tides Foundation [yep - Tehrayzhah Kerry Heinz’ little outfit] , which funnels cash from wealthy donors who may not want it known that their cash goes to fringe groups engaged in “direct action” — also known as eco-terrorism.
aka tree-spiking, setting Giant SUV’s™ and Hummers aflame in car sales lots, along with new houses “in eco-seeeeensitive areas.
[Soros] calls himself a philanthropist and has given away $5 billion of his now $8.5 billion fortune through his principal vehicle, the Open Society Institute. The institute, in turn, has passed cash on to far more radical groups, such as MoveOn.org.
But Soros is no hands-off donor. According to the Open Society Institute’s Web site: “Despite the breadth of his endeavors, Soros is personally involved in planning and implementing many of the foundation network’s projects."
Soros says he gives away about $400 million annually.
That is one hell of a tail trying to wag this dog.
...since 2003, tearing down what he views as the “fascist” tyranny of the United States, as he has put it, is “the central focus of my life."
Well, at least he’s clear about things.
summore tidbits:
Soros acolyte Arianna Huffington… Soros also has financed spin outfits such as Media Matters ...Americans Coming Together and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now [ACORN]... “Democracy Alliance”... Human Rights Watch ... Open Society Institute gave $20,000 for the legal defense of radical attorney Lynne Stewart… Soros is also involved in the financing of a 9/11 memorial at ground zero… MoveOn.org, for example, led the charge to keep John Bolton out of a permanent seat in the U.N., and Bankwatch piled on to topple Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.... Soros was a big backer of campaign finance reforms [McCain? Feingold?] ...
Go. Get your airsick bag and read the series
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Once In A Decade
maybe even Once In A Milin Millinnee Century
I think SteveH has invented a new Art form.
Caller and Cuffs
the Important Bits from Dinnerjacket’s Speech
Oh, God, hasten the arrival of Imam al-Mahdi and grant him good health and victory and make us his followers and those to attest to his rightfulness.
The Q’n’A is also interesting. He’s the most greeeezy, “rational ‘n’ reasonable” little Bunco Shark I ever did see.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
A Snake! A Snake!
A Snaaaaaake! *
["In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,"] “In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you we have it."
..."Let me tell a joke here,” Ahmadinejad said. “I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, or testing them, making them, politically they are backward, retarded."
“Mr President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” [university president Lee] Bollinger told Ahmadinejad, ... I doubt you will have the intellectual courage to answer these questions,” he added.
“When you come to a place like this, this makes you quite simply ridiculous. You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated,”
... Ahmadinejad accused Bollinger of a “wave of insults and allegations” while largely avoiding any direct answers to any of Bollinger’s challenges.
Live MiniMahdi blogging here and a good point on allowing the MiniMahdi to speak. [better to look at a snake than not know where it is.]
A reminder
*clicky*clicky*
Saturday, September 22, 2007
On the UP side...
let’s hope they’re sufficiently derisive, mocking and belittling
Death To da MiniMahdi!!
Columbia University students plan mass protests to greet Holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he arrives on campus Monday to give a lecture. ..."Any student who cares about freedom of sexuality and freedom of religion should stand up and protest against this murderous dictator,” said Sharona Getz, 22, who was taping up signs in the student union.
...Columbia is barring nonstudents from the campus Monday for security reasons - to the consternation of some protest organizers.
..."You should treat this as an off-Broadway production,” former UN Ambassador John Bolton said, describing the United Nations as a “Twilight Zone” that gives a platform to “tinhorn dictators.”
...The State Department has issued him a superrestrictive C-2 visa. It lasts 29 days and the holder must remain within a 25-mile radius of Columbus Circle.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned the Iranian president to stay away from Ground Zero because his appearance could incite crowds.
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