Grannies For Peace Acquitted

Grannies Acquitted

Mexico To Legalize Drugs

They will decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, ecstacy, and heroine!

Drugs Will Be Legal In Mexico

Five Democrat Congressmen Arrested At Darfur Protest

Good for them! Finally, some members of Congress, other than John Kerry, willing to stand up for what they believe. You will never see a Republican protesting in such a way.

Congressmen Protest

UN Cuts Aid To Darfur

Aid To Darfur Cut

Dubai Firm To Take Over Military Manufacturing Plants

How is this any different than the ports issue? It is a matter of our military's security.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Friday approved a deal for a Dubai-owned company to take control of some U.S. plants that manufacture parts for American military contractors.

"This was a transaction that was thoroughly reviewed and closely scrutinized," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said in confirming the deal. "In the view of the committee, it does not compromise our national security."

As a condition of the president's approval, the company signed an agreement that promised an uninterrupted supply, McClellan said. The White House was in the process of informing key members of Congress of the president's decision.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which must review foreign transactions of this kind, began its review of the transaction on Jan. 28 and made its recommendation to Bush on April 13. He had 15 days to make a decision, a timeframe that expired Friday.

The decision follows a political uproar earlier this year after Bush backed a deal allowing another Dubai-owned company to operate several major U.S. port terminals. The company, DP World, decided to sell the U.S. operations that it acquired in its purchase of a British firm to an American firm after Republicans and Democrats in Congress balked, saying the transaction could compromise America's security interests.

Congressmen Will File Lawsuit

Because Bush signed a law that did not pass the House. I don't care what the specifics are...there is a reason our government is set up the way it is...it may not be perfect, but that doesn't give the dictator the right to circumvent. I wonder what excuses the sheeple will have for this one. This man is dangerous. Thank God he can't be re-elected. Tony Snow has a monumentous task, explaining away Bush's incompetancies and arrogance.

Bush Thumbs Nose At House

"Nothing Prepared Me For Bush"

Great article about a journalist who has extensively interviewed most modern age presidents. His book "Playing President" sounds wonderful.

Playing President

May 1 Immigrant Boycott

What exactly are these people trying to prove? That they can bully the government into allowing law breakers a free ride into citizenship? It is outrageous that illegals and their friends think that they have absolute right to come here unannounced and undetected. Where I had some compassion, now I say, get them all out of here.

Immigrant Boycott

Lyrics To Neil Young's "Let's Impeach The President"

Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave himA
And shipping all our money out the door

He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war

Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way?
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?

Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean

Thank God

Senate May Give 100.00 Gas Rebate Checks

Well, it's something. But by the time we get them, gas will be 200.00 a gallon. This 100.00 will fill out tanks up about twice. Nice gesture, but they have to do better than that.

Gas Rebate Checks

Bush Favors Amnesty But Doesn't Want To Talk About It

So, is he supposed to get kudos for what he thinks? (Not that I agree with him) It's what he does that matters.

Bush Wants Amnesty

Peace Takes Courage

Peace Takes Courage

20 Years After Chernobyl

Chernobyl Legacy

Carter vs. Bush

My Fantasy

Ok, I know...I need to get a life.

FOX News Anchor Likely To Replace McClellan

Snow May Replace McClellan

And here are comments Snow made about Bush:

Snow On Bush

183 Illegals Arrested In Florida Last Week

All if whom are fugitives from justice.

183 Illegals Arrested

New Problem In Iraq: Sex Trafficking

Everything is out of control. The thugs have taken over. Does anyone really think that forming a government is going to make them go away? They are in it for the long haul.

TIME Article: Iraq and Sex Trafficking

Army Training Navy For Ground Combat

The Army is in rougher shape than I thought.

Army Trains Navy

I'm The Decider (Sing To "I AM The Walrus")

I'm The Decider (Koo Koo Ko Coo)

Rice Accused Of Leaking CIA Information

So which category does she fall into? Should she face prosecution like the CIA agent who leaked information, or does she have the same alleged right to declassify information at will, just as the President does? Will be interesting to see how this one turns out.

Did Rice Leak?

College Protesters Block Bush

Mercury News

President Bush's visit to Stanford University's Hoover Institution was quickly moved to another location after more than 1,000 protesters converged around the Hoover tower.

The White House said the protesters blocked the only road into the central areaof the campus where Hoover is located, which forced a meeting with several Hoover fellows to be moved to the campus home of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Hoover fellow who organized the gathering.

The motorcade instead traveled to the house, which is on the outer edge of campus.
The change in plans delayed the president's arrival by about 15 minutes.

Protesters said they were disappointed that the President would not see them and accused the President of sneaking around to avoid them.

Live New Orleans Election Coverage

NOLA Elections

The Bushiad And The Idossey: A Tribute To Homer

Bushiad

Wenyi Wang May Be Charged With Federal Crime

I can understand why she was taken away from the White House appearance of the Chinese president. She was becoming disruptive. But to be arrested and charged with a federal crime? She was practicing her rights, even if it was to criticize the Chinese president. Bush claims to be apalled by the antics of this president relative to Chinese civil rights...he ought to stand up to him and tell him, in America, we are encouraged to speak out when we see injustices, and use this woman as an example of the freedoms we have here. (Or so I thought)

Armageddon

FOX News Reports 33% Approval For Bush

And it's probably lower, since it is a biased FOX News poll.

FOX Poll

Faces Of Our Fallen Heroes

Faces Of The Fallen

Bush's Tax Trick

Sigh...more for the rich. Republicans whine that Democrats set up social programs that end up raising taxes. Better to spend tax dollars helping our own people who really need it, than spending it on a bogus war and giving back to the wealthy.

Tax Gimmickry

Iran Claims To Have 40,000 Suicide Bombers Trained

40,000 Suicide Bombers

Special Agent Bush-Flash Cartoon

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0616,fiore,72881,9.html

Retired Colonel Claims Operations Underway In Iran

During an interview on CNN Friday night, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner claimed that U.S. military operations are already 'underway' inside Iran, RAW STORY has found.

"I would say -- and this may shock some -- I think the decision has been made and military operations are under way," Col. Gardiner told CNN International anchor Jim Clancy (as noted by Digby at the blog Hullabaloo).

Gardiner, who designed a war game in November of 2004 for Atlantic Magazine ("Will Iran be next?") which simulated "preparations for a U.S. assault on Iran," also claimed that Aliasghar Soltaniyeh, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told him a few weeks ago that units who had attacked the Revolutionary Guard had been captured and confessed to working with Americans.

"The secretary point is, the Iranians have been saying American military troops are in there, have been saying it for almost a year," Gardiner said. "I was in Berlin two weeks ago, sat next to the ambassador, the Iranian ambassador to the IAEA. And I said, 'Hey, I hear you're accusing Americans of being in there operating with some of the units that have shot up revolution guard units.'"

"He said, quite frankly, 'Yes, we know they are. We've captured some of the units, and they've confessed to working with the Americans,'" said the retired Air Force colonel.

Last Thursday, Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna reported (On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say) that, according to former and current intelligence officials, the Pentagon has been using a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) as an operational asset "to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack."

"Instead of securing a known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world – including US civilian and military casualties – Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran strike," Larisa reported.

"They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all,” an intelligence source told Larisa.

Larisa reported that the MEK soldiers were told to "quit" their organization and were "renamed" in accordance with a plan conceived by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld so that they could be "converted" into a military special ops team.

According to a UN official close to the Security Council whom Larisa interviewed, the "newly renamed MEK soldiers" were being employed in the place of U.S. military advance teams to commit "acts of violence in hopes of staging an insurgency of the Iranian Sunni population."
“We are already at war,” the UN official told RAW STORY.

Saudi Prime Minister Recalls Talk With Cheney

And claims when he asked Cheney why the US was intent on attacking Iraq, Cheney replied, "because it's doable".

http://www.watchingamerica.com/saudigazette000004.shtml

Keystone Cops In Charge Of National Security

I really wish there was one positive thing that I can say about the administration's war on terror. I really do. Every day there is some bumble or lie that comes out. If they can't even keep track of their computers, how are they going to protect us?

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - American investigators armed with a "box full" of cash have paid thousands of dollars to buy back stolen computer drives — many of which contain sensitive military data, shopkeepers outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

But dozens are still on sale, including memory sticks with information ranging from U.S. troop resumes to photographs of Air Force One during Bush's visit last month.

The surfacing of the stolen computer devices has sparked an urgent probe to discover how security could have been breached at the heavily guarded Bagram base, which coordinates the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants and includes one of the military's main detention facilities for suspected terrorists.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Mike Cody said he could not comment because an investigation was ongoing.

Shopkeepers let an Associated Press reporter review about 40 of the drives on a laptop computer Friday. Most were blank or did not work, but three contained data, including a soldier's military discharge certificate, troop resumes and photographs of Air Force One during Bush's visit to Afghanistan last month.

One shopkeeper, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution, said soldiers went around the market outside the base Thursday carrying "a box full of afghanis (the Afghan currency), buying all they could find."

He said he sold about 50 for $2,000, roughly $40 each. A day earlier, he was selling them for about half that price.

"They said they wanted them all and price wasn't important," the shopkeeper said.

The troops hadn't returned to the market by Friday afternoon despite dozens of the flash drives still being available. Another shopkeeper, who declined to be identified for the same reason, said the troops promised to return.

Included on some memory drives seen by AP earlier this week were the
Social Security numbers of hundreds of soldiers, including four generals, and lists of troops who completed nuclear, chemical and biological warfare training.

The Los Angeles Times also reported that some drives had classified military secrets, including maps, charts and intelligence reports that appeared to detail how Taliban and al-Qaida leaders have been using southwestern Pakistan as a planning and training base for attacks in Afghanistan.

The documents, which seemed to be based on conversations with Afghan informants and official briefings, outlined how the U.S. military came to focus its search for militants on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border, according to the newspaper.

The Times also said the drives appeared to contain the identities of Afghan sources spying for U.S. Special Forces that operate out of Bagram.

The shopkeepers have said they were not interested in the data and were only selling the drives for the value of the hardware.

They say the drives were stolen by some of the 2,000 Afghans employed as cleaners, office staff and laborers at Bagram. Though workers are searched coming in and out of the base, the flash drives are the size of a finger and can easily be concealed on a body.

The memory sticks seen Friday included photographs of mine clearing vehicles that appeared to have been damaged by explosions.

There were several performance reviews of troops, which included their Social Security numbers. One review reprimanded a soldier for misplacing his weapon.

U.S. commander Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry has ordered a review of policies and procedures relating to the accountability of computer hardware and software at Bagram, outside which hundreds of shops have sprung since the Americans took it over in 2001 after ousting the Taliban for harboring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The leaked data wasn't the first time secret information has been discovered electronically by reporters in Afghanistan.

Shortly after U.S.-led troops invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal bought a computer in Kabul that had belonged to al-Qaida. It contained memos of the terrorist group's chemical and biological weapons program, justifications for killing civilians and a propaganda video made from footage of people fleeing from the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks.

Bush's Excuse For Biolab Blunder-Editorial

Molly Ivens makes a great point. Wake up people!

"According to White House spokesman Scott McClellan, the DIA report debunking the "weapons labs" is "a complex intelligence white paper and it's ... one derived from highly classified information (and) takes a substantial amount of time to coordinate and to run through a declassification process."

If I understand what McClellan is saying, Bush leaked bad information from a classified intelligence report because there wasn't enough time for the contradictory DIA report to go through a declassification process. All of which would make more sense if we hadn't just gone through this Valerie Plame episode, in which the White House says if the president leaked it, then it's legal to leak it. No problem, the president can declassify at will, they said. I don't know about you, but none of it is becoming clearer for me. Does anyone understand yet why we had to bomb Iran? "

http://www.alternet.org/story/34963/

Priest To Be Tried In Nun's Murder

What a bizarre story!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PRIEST_NUN_SLAYING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

Sixth General Calls For Rumsfeld To Resign

But Bush keeps defending and supporting him. Who should we believe? Six experienced military generals or the bumblers at the White House who have messed things up since day one? Bush is either delusional or dangerously stubborn to continue supporting Rumsfeld.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060414/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc_5

Mike Gravel To Announce Candidacy For President

http://ni4d.us/people/gravel.htm

http://www.vote.org/gravel.htm

School Segregation In Nebraska

This is unbelievable. I guess the white lawmakers think that black and Hispanic students are a detriment to the white students.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060413/ap_on_re_us/omaha_schools

George Bush Goes To The Psychiatrist

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays6w/shrink.htm

Louisianna Parish Considering Hiring Mike Brown

To oversee recovery efforts. Oh my. I don't know how I feel about this. He was made to look the bumbling fool during the hurricane, but since then, videotapes have confirmed that he made it clear to Bush and the administration how serious the issue was and that alot of help was needed. Who knows, maybe he learned something from all of this and his unique perspective on the hurricane may be beneficial.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_BROWN_PARISH?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

Bush Claims Of Iraq Biolabs Used To Justify War False

And he knew it before he made the statement. Next he will tell us they found some firecrackers that were intended to be used for WMD.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101888_pf.html

Man Faints After Getting 218 Trillion Dollar Phone Bill

Lol...I guess noone reviews the bills before they go out.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/weird_news/14313443.htm

Cheney Throws First Pitch

He was greeted with cheers and boos. He probably brought along the US servicemen because he thought the crowd would dare not boo him in their presence.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-04-11T184559Z_01_N11383794_RTRUKOC_0_US-BASEBALL-CHENEY.xml

Federal Law Will Require Proof Of Citizenship For Healthcare

This is a step in the right direction, although I do understand the concern about displaced people not having proper documentation. I don't understand why this law was "tucked away". People need to know about this, so that they can prepare now and get any necessary documents that they may need. While it may seem discriminatory to target Medicaid recipients, illegals most surely get their healthcare through Medicaid, if they have any at all. It would be a good idea for everyone to have to do this though. It isn't a big deal to carry a copy of your birth certificate in your wallet. However, procedues should be put in place to ensure that doctors are not turned into UNS agents. Anyone, legal or illegal who goes to the ER with a life threatening situation should be treated. Doctors can't turn people away to die. But they should be able to turn people away who show up at the ER with non-life threatening conditions.

By Scott Helman, Globe Staff April 11, 2006

Almost all of the state's poorest residents will have to show proof of US citizenship to continue getting medical care by July 1, under a little-noticed federal law that could endanger coverage for many, as Massachusetts is trying to expand access to healthcare.

Born out of ongoing efforts in Washington to clamp down on illegal immigration, the new federal requirement compels anyone seeking Medicaid coverage to provide a birth certificate, a passport, or another form of identification in order to sign up for benefits or renew them.
No such proof is required now.

The requirement was tucked into the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which President Bush signed into law earlier this year.

The measure was part of an effort to limit the skyrocketing growth of federal entitlement programs. It has surfaced as Massachusetts begins to implement its sweeping healthcare plan, which aims to bring health coverage to almost all of the state's uninsured, in part by enrolling those in Medicaid who are eligible but who have not signed up.

Healthcare specialists voiced fear that because many Medicaid recipients -- including the homeless and the mentally disabled -- won't be able to easily produce documentation of their citizenship, they will have difficultly receiving care at community health centers, hospitals, or anywhere else.

''So we've got people in nursing homes, people in the [state Department of Mental Retardation] institutions, we've got the homeless, we've got the . . . mentally ill who now will have to come up with some verification to prove that they're citizens," said Victoria Pulos, health law attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. ''It's ironic that this is happening in the state where part of the health reform plan is to make sure that everyone who's eligible for Medicaid is enrolled."

The new federal requirement, which all states have to comply with, would apply to the vast majority of the more than 1 million people on MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid program.

The intent is to prevent undocumented immigrants from posing as citizens and taking advantage of taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits that are afforded only to legal residents. (Under federal law, undocumented immigrants can receive only emergency Medicaid care; Massachusetts has 40,000 on such a program, which is called MassHealth Limited.)

Less than three months before the new citizenship requirement takes effect, though, Massachusetts and other states are waiting for guidance from the federal government on how it will work.

Mary Kahn, a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said that the agency is writing the regulations, but that there is no indication of a delay.

Massachusetts already compels Medicaid recipients to verify their incomes, usually through W-2 forms, to ensure that the figure is low enough to qualify for the program. The state Medicaid director, Beth Waldman, played down the difficulty of adding another requirement.

''This shouldn't take away from people's access to healthcare," Waldman said. ''All you need to do is show that you're a citizen."

Waldman said that many of the state's 1,033,000 MassHealth recipients are not likely to have trouble proving citizenship, because they have already had to do so in registering with some other federal program, such as Social Security. (About 478,000 MassHealth members, for example, also get Medicare, Social Security, or welfare benefits, the state says.)

Some healthcare advocates, though, described the new rules as onerous on community health centers and other healthcare providers, but more so on Medicaid recipients, many of whom, they said, may not continue getting care if they cannot provide the paperwork or may have to wait to get treatment until they can locate the right documents.

''We're in the business of trying to make central Dorchester and parts of Mattapan a healthier place," said Bill Walczak, chief executive officer of Dorchester's Codman Square Health Center. ''We didn't create the healthcare centers to become citizenship enforcement centers."

The provision was added to the Deficit Reduction Act by two Republican representatives from Georgia, Charles Norwood and Nathan Deal, who have been outspoken against illegal immigration. Bush signed the legislation two months ago, saying, ''The bill I sign today restrains spending for entitlement programs while ensuring that Americans who rely on Medicare and Medicaid continue to get the care they need."

Gallup Poll: Bush And CIA Leak Case

63% of Americans believe that Bush did something illegal or unethical relative to the CIA leak case. If that is the case, and with his approval rating so low for so long, how is he allowed to remain in office without at least censureship? I am so sick of those Democrats who won't stand up.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002315172

15 Immigrants Fired After Attending Rally

Some of them were undocumented, and some activist says they should not have been fired because they were just standing up for their rights. What rights? Some of these people were not able to prove they are here, working legally. They have no rights. And what about the company that hired them without the proper documentation-Wolverine Packing Company...are they going to charged with a crime? It will probably be overlooked. This would be a good opportunity for the government to send a message.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMMIGRANTS_FIRING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

This Is Our President-Video Clip

Bush comments to a first year college student relative to ensuring ethics of private military contractors. Pathetic. Some think he is folksy, I don't think he even understands the question.

http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/2006/04/this_video_of_p.html

Campaign For Immigrants Dignity

Why is asking that immigrants prove their status before getting a job, and requiring them to be here legally in the first place, akin to treating them like criminals? Legal immigrants are not treated as criminals...it's the illegals who are breaking the law. Why do these people think they are above the law? And these preachers who are clainimg that this is a civil rights issue...what nonsense! Noone has rights in this country unless they are citizens or are here having taken the proper channels...this is not a civil rights issue.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMMIGRATION_PROTESTS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900515.html?nav=hcmodule

ABC To Offer Online TV For Free

Can't people leave their computers for a brief period of time to watch a TV program? Kinda cool for those who are stapled to their computer chairs, I guess. ABC will provide 4 TV programs online for free.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_bi_ge/walt_disney_abc_shows

AT&T Has NSA Spy Room?

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70619-0.html

Marine General Calls Those Who Pushed War "Zealots"

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1181587,00.html

New Yorker Magazine Reports Administration Considering Attacks On Iran

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060408/wl_mideast_afp/usirannuclearmilitary

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact

Kerry Resolution For Iraq Withdrawal

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Kerry_introduces_resolution_calling_for_Iraq_0406.html

Bipartisan Immigration Proposal

If here over 5 years...Must learn English and American Civics, pay 2000.00 fine, get to stay

If here 2-5 years...Must leave and may immeditely come back to be processed through a US port

If here under 2 years...Must leave, may apply for worker visa the usual route.

So if you have broken the law for a really, really long time, you get to stay. Where is the part about it being a felony for companies to hire illegals? Who is going to round up these people? Do they think they will just turn themselves in? What about securing the borders? As soon as these illegals are shipped out, more will come to take their place. Out government is broken. This is the most idiodic plan I have ever heard of. I was embarrassed when I saw all of those senators standing up and proclaiming a "breakthough".

Here's a plan. Raise the minimum wage...significantly. Then, American workers will be able to afford to take the jobs that illegals now do. Make it a felony for business to hire illegals. Put in place, the manpower/resources to do a sweep of businesses to ensure that all workers are documented. Maybe when these things are done, there will not be a need for illegal workers, and maybe some of them will turn around and go home, for there is no longer an incentive. Secure the borders.

But the minimum wage isn't going to be increased anytime soon with the Republicans in charge. They worry oh so much about how this will affect businesses. It will be hard on businesses, but perhaps, if you don't have the ability to pay a decent wage, you should not be in business. Give em a tax break or something to make up the difference, come up with some kind of plan, but this one that they are proposing sure isn't going to work.

Libby Claims Bush Authorized Leak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12187153/

Rumsfeld Says Rice Ignorant About War

Now there is infighting amoung the main players, about the war. Just Rumsfeld trying to cover his ass. At least Rice is trying to be truthful.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502269_pf.html

Democratic Veterans Running For Office

http://www.democrats.org/page/content/fightingdems/candidates/

Dick Cheney's Cab Ride-Flash Cartoon

http://bigdick.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

29 BILLION Spent On Pork Projects

13 million for a toilet seat conference, 500 thousand for a teapot museum...come on now...can't we just scrap all this nonsense and use that money for something worthwhile, like education, or healthcare, or (gasp) even funding the war, since we have to cough up the money anyway? Where are the people in Congress with balls to say enough is enough?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12169524/

Hamas Government Begs For Aid

They are broke. Won't be able to make payroll. My, my...what an interesting scenerio. Not one penny of US money should be given. Will be intereting to see if anyone comes to their aid. Perhaps this situation could be exploited in order to develop some type of peace agreement to ensure Israel's safety against these lunatics. On the other hand, they are terrorists and can't be trusted.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5735691,00.html

Homeland Security Deputy Arrested For Seducing Teenage Girl

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12159118/

Buckley, Jr. Says Hillary Clinton May Easily Become First Woman President

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=afgZZj1sxB5w

Massachusetts Passes Mandatory Health Insurance Bill

BOSTON (AP) -- Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that would make Massachusetts the first state to require that all its citizens have some form of health insurance.

The plan -- hailed as a national model and approved just 24 hours after the final details were released -- would dramatically expand access to health care over the next three years.

If all goes as planned, those already insured will see a modest drop in their premiums, lower-income residents will be offered new, more affordable plans and subsidies to help them pay for coverage, and those who can afford insurance but refuse to get it will face increasing tax penalties until they obtain coverage.

The measure does not call for new taxes but would require businesses that do not offer insurance to pay a $295 annual fee per employee.

The House approved the bill on a 154-2 vote. The Senate endorsed it 37-0.

A final procedural vote is needed in both chambers before the bill can head to the desk of Gov. Mitt Romney, a potential Republican candidate for president in 2008. Romney has expressed support the measure but has not said whether he will sign it.

''It's only fitting that Massachusetts would set forward and produce the most comprehensive, all-encompassing health care reform bill in the country,'' said House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, a Democrat. ''Do we know whether this is perfect or not? No, because it's never been done before.''

The cost will rise from an estimated $316 million in the first year to more than a $1 billion in the third year, with much of that money coming from federal reimbursements and existing state spending, officials said.

Military General Calls For Rumsfeld To Resign

He is the second in two weeks to call for his resignation due to serious mistakes made conducting the war. But Bush thinks he's doing just fine. Mike Brown deja-vu? Bush's credibility is zilch. He didn't listen to Colin Powell or any other of his advisors before the war started, supported the antics of Mike Brown initially, and continues to support Rumsfeld. Loyalty is more important to him that competancy. That is painfully clear. And that makes him incompetant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/washington/03rumsfeld.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=login

Immigration-Cartoon

Government Classifies Golf Course Ponds As Wetlands

In order to make it appear that they are doing something about the erosion of wetlands. They make artificial bodies of water that have little bearing on the environment and are excited about it.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/31/Worldandnation/Are_these_both_wetlan.shtml

Another Cold War?

Very early in Bush's presidency, he goes to Russia, meets Putin, and exclaims that he gained "a sense of his soul" and found him to be trustworthy. Based on what? The look in his eyes? Now, his buddy is making his criticisms and is not turning out to be the good person Bush thought he was. Surprise, Surprise. Everyone saw that one coming but Bush.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/02/AR2006040200377.html

Stem Cells Made From Human Testes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040101145.html

Six Men Castrated In North Carolina

It used to be that stories like this would make me shudder. Now, I read them and shrug. Our society is getting stranger, way too tolerant, and downright evil. It's like we are immune to the decadence all around us and just sit back and watch it all happen. What a strange story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060401/ap_on_fe_st/castration_dungeon

Depression May Be Used As Defense In Trial Of Minister's Wife

The article says that depression hits some minister's wives. No shit. Depression hits every segment of society, why would it pass them by? Every killer out there has some degree of mental illness, you have to be a little deranged to kill another human being. I don't care if you are psychotic, depressed, or legally insane...if you killed someone, and even get treatment for insanity, if you are released when deemed competant, there is a chance you will kill again. So let's just drop all of this psycho babble and put killers behind bars for good, OK?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PASTOR_SLAIN?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

Hezbollah Could Be Let Loose Of US Strikes Iran

Yeah, no kidding. This is deja-vu, but much scarier than Iraq.

http://www.rawstory.com/comments/13352.html

Republicans Rip Bush "Amnesty" Plan

Interesting thing about the immigration brouhaha. Mexico secures their borders very well. It is alot tougher for us to get into Mexico than it is for them to get into the US. Mexico has a policy that Mexican citizens get top priority for all jobs. The laws on foreign nationals working in Mexico are very strict. Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans have illegally immigrated to Mexico since 2000. In 2000, Mexico deported 150, 000 illegal immigrants and 100,000 in 2001. Since then, Mexico has taken a hard line on illegal aliens. But they feel entitled to illegally come into the US.

I wonder how the powers that be in Mexico would feel if there was a huge immigration of people into their country, demanding rights that they are not entitled to. What is Bush doing there, coddling and cooing? Who is he for anyway, Americans or illegal Mexicans? If Mexico can expeditiously deport 150,000 illegals, so can we.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/264985_immig31.html