Is al-Zawahir Taking His Cue From America’s Left
Here are some quotes from al-Qaida’s number two man, Ayman al-Zawahri. If you didn’t know better wouldn’t you think this is coming from the far left moonbats in this country. This is nothing that hasn’t been said on liberal blogs for the last six years. These people are giving comfort to the enemy, they are emboldening our enemy, and they are too stupid to understand that. They believe that George W Bush is the enemy, not terrorists. They also believe global warming is more of a threat to America than radical Islam.
Here are some of the quotes:
“Bush suffers from an addictive personality, and was an alcoholic. I don’t know his present condition … but the one who examines his personality finds that he is addicted to two other faults _ lying and gambling,”
“So pay attention before it’s too late, and beware of Bush’s losing gambler’s lie which claims that he, with the corpses of your killed and limbs of your wounded, is spreading democracy around the world”
“The people chose you due to your opposition to Bush’s policy in Iraq, but it appears that you are marching with him to the same abyss”
Sounds like al-zawahri is a Democrat to me.
Credit Cards For Illegals
This story will make your blood boil. How can this country continue to let things like this happen? We need to send a message to Bank Of America if they actually do this. Why do people that come here illegally end up with more rights than us?
From Reuters.com:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper said, adding these immigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.
The new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a Social Security number and a credit history, as long as they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, the Journal said.
Bank of America tested the program last year at five branches in Los Angeles, and last week expanded it to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the U.S., the Journal said.
The bank hopes to roll out the program nationally later this year, the paper said.
A Bank of America spokesman was not immediately available to comment.
© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved
Bush’s Plan For Iraq
While we hear all these Democrats talking about how we need a plan to get out of Iraq, I notice one thing is missing. They keep saying we need to withdraw or re-deploy, none of them say we have to win. They keep saying we need an exit strategy, but none of them offers one. Their plan is to get out regardless of the consequences, we all know what happened in Vietnam after we cut and ran.
If we just withdraw or re-deploy( or more accuratly, cut and run) we will leave behind a breeding ground for terrorists.
President Bush, on the other hand has a plan, or an exit strategy, if you prefer, IT’S CALLED VICTORY. We must destroy this enemy that is committed to our destruction. If we do not complete this mission it could lead to the end or our culture as we know it.
How do you negotiate with an enemy who seeks to destroy us? Do you bargain down to only killing half of us? You can’t negotiate with them. You have to defeat them. Only then can you hope for peace.
I only hope that the next president has the courage to finish what this president started. Unfortunately, I believe the American people have grown soft, and are too passive to see this through until the end. They will vote in whomever promises to end the war immediately, regardless of the consequences. Most Americans are asleep to the true dangers our country faces, and September 11th is a distant memory.
Unbelievable Global Warming News
This is more proof that the global warming alarmists are nothing but kooks.
They believe they are smarter than you. They want to tell us how to live our lives and what is best for us.
This is an unbelievable article from telegraph.co.uk:
Valentine bouquets ‘are bad for the planet’
By Nicole Martin
Last Updated: 1:53am GMT 10/02/2007
The Valentine’s Day bouquet — the gift that every woman in Britain will be waiting for next week — has become the latest bête noire among environmental campaigners.
Latest Government figures show that the flowers that make up the average bunch have flown 33,800 miles to reach Britain.
In the past three years, the amount of flowers imported from the Netherlands has fallen by 47 per cent to 94,000 tons, while those from Africa have risen 39 per cent to 17,000 tons.
Environmentalists warned that “flower miles” could have serious implications on climate change in terms of carbon dioxide emissions from aeroplanes.
Andrew Sims, the policy director of the New Economics Foundation, said: “There are plenty of flowers that grow in Britain in the winter and don’t need to be hothoused.
“Air freighting flowers half way round the world contributes to global warming.
“You can argue the planes would be flying anyway but the amount of greenhouse gases pumped out depends on the weight of the cargo.”
Vicky Hird, of Friends of the Earth, said: “We don’t want to be killjoys because receiving flowers can be lovely but why not grow your own gift?”
The figures also revealed that imports of roses from Ethiopia have grown from zero to 130 tons a year since 2003.
Kenya is the second biggest exporter of flowers after the Netherlands, followed by Colombia and Spain.
In total, Britain imports more than £315 million of flowers, with the typical Briton spending £39 a year on them.
“That’s very little when you think what we spend on CDs, coffee and even lipstick,” said a spokesman for the Flowers and Plants Association.
He said the boom in Third World flowers would help poorer countries to build schools and boost the economy.
Deval Patrick And Criminals In Massachusettes
Deval Patrick, the Democrat governor of Massachusettes, is working on a bill to limit a potential employer from checking the criminal record of a potential employee. This bill would deside what parts of a criminal record may pertain to the type of job the employee has applied for.
This is a case of criminal rights being more impotant than anyone else’s rights.
This was an issue in the election in the state to my south. The liberals in Massachusettes knew that he was very soft on crime. He tried to have a convicted rapist freed, and even payed for a DNA test which prooved he was guilty. He still wanted him freed after that test. They knew he wants illegals to have drivers lisences, they didn’t care.
Bill Clinton came to the state and stumped for him. He said,” you like Deval Patrick because he makes you feel good”. That is what liberalism is all about, making everyone feel good. The results don’t matter because the intentions seem so good. You feel good because of how compassionate you are.
No one in Massachusettes feels as good as the criminals there do today.
Second Opinion On Al Gore
Last week I posted a story from cnn.com in which Al Gore accused the Bush administration of paying of scientists to dispute global warming. I titled the post Al Gore Is Insane. Well now it seams I am not the only one who believes this. In an interview with “Hospodárské noviny”, a Czech economics daily, Czech president Vaclav Klaus is critisizing the UN palel on global warming.He said it was a political issue and without scientific fact. He goes on to question Gore’s sanity.
I believe that Al Gore started to lose his mind after the 2000 election. He still believes it was stolen from him. This is when the original cracks in his sanity began. Since then he has turned into a being teetering on the edge of sanity. Now that he will never be president he has taken on a new cause. He sees himself sort of the leader, or president if you will, of this cause. It is his way to garner the attention he believes was so rightly deserves and was taken from him.
There is no scientific proof of man made global warming. There are theorys, but nothing has been proven. This is being taught in schools as fact, and our children are being indoctrinated into it. People like Al Gore will force their beliefs on the world by attacking mentally the weakest amoung us. Our children.
Al Gore should be ashamed of himself.
More Global Warming Myth Busting
You don’t hear much about the global warming critics in the mainstream media because it doesn’t fit the template for bigger government, more regulations, and more taxes. Which is why the global warming hoax is being purpetrated on the American people, it’s all about more goverment control. SO I will attempt to bring you the other side when possible.
The following is from timesonline.co.uk:
From
February 11, 2007
An experiment that hints we are wrong on
climate change
Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, says the
orthodoxy must be challenged
When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months’ time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases.
The small print explains “very likely” as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain’s top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works.
Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases. As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with impediments to their research careers. And while the media usually find mavericks at least entertaining, in this case they often imagine that anyone who doubts the hypothesis of man-made global warming must be in the pay of the oil companies. As a result, some key discoveries in climate research go almost unreported.
Enthusiasm for the global-warming scare also ensures that heatwaves make headlines, while contrary symptoms, such as this winter’s billion-dollar loss of Californian crops to unusual frost, are relegated to the business pages. The early arrival of migrant birds in spring provides colourful evidence for a recent warming of the northern lands. But did anyone tell you that in east Antarctica the Adélie penguins and Cape petrels are turning up at their spring nesting sites around nine days later than they did 50 years ago? While sea-ice has diminished in the Arctic since 1978, it has grown by 8% in the Southern Ocean.
So one awkward question you can ask, when you’re forking out those extra taxes for climate change, is “Why is east Antarctica getting colder?” It makes no sense at all if carbon dioxide is driving global warming. While you’re at it, you might inquire whether Gordon Brown will give you a refund if it’s confirmed that global warming has stopped. The best measurements of global air temperatures come from American weather satellites, and they show wobbles but no overall change since 1999.
That levelling off is just what is expected by the chief rival hypothesis, which says that the sun drives climate changes more emphatically than greenhouse gases do. After becoming much more active during the 20th century, the sun now stands at a high but roughly level state of activity. Solar physicists warn of possible global cooling, should the sun revert to the lazier mood it was in during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago.
Climate history and related archeology give solid support to the solar hypothesis. The 20th-century episode, or Modern Warming, was just the latest in a long string of similar events produced by a hyperactive sun, of which the last was the Medieval Warming.
The Chinese population doubled then, while in Europe the Vikings and cathedral-builders prospered. Fascinating relics of earlier episodes come from the Swiss Alps, with the rediscovery in 2003 of a long-forgotten pass used intermittently whenever the world was warm.
What does the Intergovernmental Panel do with such emphatic evidence for an alternation of warm and cold periods, linked to solar activity and going on long before human industry was a possible factor? Less than nothing. The 2007 Summary for Policymakers boasts of cutting in half a very small contribution by the sun to climate change conceded in a 2001 report.
Disdain for the sun goes with a failure by the self-appointed greenhouse experts to keep up with inconvenient discoveries about how the solar variations control the climate. The sun’s brightness may change too little to account for the big swings in the climate. But more than 10 years have passed since Henrik Svensmark in Copenhagen first pointed out a much more powerful mechanism.
He saw from compilations of weather satellite data that cloudiness varies according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars. More cosmic rays, more clouds. The sun’s magnetic field bats away many of the cosmic rays, and its intensification during the 20th century meant fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer world. On the other hand the Little Ice Age was chilly because the lazy sun let in more cosmic rays, leaving the world cloudier and gloomier.
The only trouble with Svensmark’s idea — apart from its being politically incorrect — was that meteorologists denied that cosmic rays could be involved in cloud formation. After long delays in scraping together the funds for an experiment, Svensmark and his small team at the Danish National Space Center hit the jackpot in the summer of 2005.
In a box of air in the basement, they were able to show that electrons set free by cosmic rays coming through the ceiling stitched together droplets of sulphuric acid and water. These are the building blocks for cloud condensation. But journal after journal declined to publish their report; the discovery finally appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society late last year.
Thanks to having written The Manic Sun, a book about Svensmark’s initial discovery published in 1997, I have been privileged to be on the inside track for reporting his struggles and successes since then. The outcome is a second book, The Chilling Stars, co-authored by the two of us and published next week by Icon books. We are not exaggerating, we believe, when we subtitle it “A new theory of climate change”.
Where does all that leave the impact of greenhouse gases? Their effects are likely to be a good deal less than advertised, but nobody can really say until the implications of the new theory of climate change are more fully worked out.
The reappraisal starts with Antarctica, where those contradictory temperature trends are directly predicted by Svensmark’s scenario, because the snow there is whiter than the cloud-tops. Meanwhile humility in face of Nature’s marvels seems more appropriate than arrogant assertions that we can forecast and even control a climate ruled by the sun and the stars.
Minimum Wage Backlash
While increasing minimum wage seems like a wise and noble thing to do it will have consequences. You hear the Democrats talking about people trying to support a family on minimum wage and think, “we need to correct this”. The truth is minimum wage is an entry level wage for people with little or no experience. As their experience grows so does their salary. Most minimum wage earners are high school students who are working part time for a little spending money. The government doesn’t have the right to step into the buisness world and dictate what private employers pay anyway.
Below is article that appeared on azcentral.com, it illustrates what happens when minimum wage is increased:
New wage boost puts squeeze on teenage
workers across Arizona
Employers are cutting back hours, laying off young staffers
Chad Graham
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 10, 2007 12:00 AM
Oh, for the days when Arizona’s high school students could roll pizza dough, sweep up sticky floors in theaters or scoop ice cream without worrying about ballot initiatives affecting their earning power.
That’s certainly not the case under the state’s new minimum-wage law that went into effect last month.
Some Valley employers, especially those in the food industry, say payroll budgets have risen so much that they’re cutting hours, instituting hiring freezes and laying off employees.And teens are among the first workers to go.
Companies maintain the new wage was raised to $6.75 per hour from $5.15 per hour to help the breadwinners in working-poor families. Teens typically have other means of support.
Mark Messner, owner of Pepi’s Pizza in south Phoenix, estimates he has employed more than 2,000 high school students since 1990. But he plans to lay off three teenage workers and decrease hours worked by others. Of his 25-person workforce, roughly 75 percent are inhigh school.
“I’ve had to go to some of my kids and say, ‘Look, my payroll just increased 13 percent,’ ” he said. ” ‘Sorry, I don’t have any hours for you.’ ”
Messner’s monthly cost to train an employee has jumped from $440 to $580 as the turnover rate remains high.
“We go to great lengths to hang on to our high school workers, but there are a lot of kids who come in and get one check in their pocket and feel like they’re living large and out the door they go,” he said. “We never get our return on investment when that happens.”
For years, economists have debated how minimum-wage increases impact the teenage workforce.
The Employment Policies Institute in Washington, which opposed the recent increases, cited 2003 data by Federal Reserve economists showing a 10 percent increase caused a 2 percent to 3 percent decrease in employment.
It also cited comments by notedeconomist Milton Friedman, who maintained that high teen unemployment rates were largely the result of minimum-wage laws.
“After a wage hike, employers seek to take fewer chances on individuals with little education or experience,” one institute researcher told lawmakers in 2004.
Tom Kelly, owner of Mary Coyle Ol’ Fashion Ice Cream Parlor in Phoenix, voted for the minimum-wage increase. But he said, “The new law has impacted us quite a bit.”
It added about $2,000 per month in expenses. The store, which employs mostly teen workers, has cut back on hours and has not replaced a couple of workers who quit.
Kelly raised the wages of workers who already made above minimum wage to ensure pay scales stayed even. As a result, “we have to be a lot more efficient” and must increase menu prices, he said.
While most of the state’s 124,067 workers between the ages of 16 and 19 made well above $5.15 per hour before the change, the new law has created real-life economic opportunities.
Liliana Hernandez brings home noticeably more under the new law. The 18-year-old, who attends Metro Tech High School in Phoenix and works part time at Central High School, is saving the extra money, maybe to put towards buying a used car.
Hernandez said she deserves the raise just like any other Arizona worker even if she still lives with her parents.
“I’m doing the best I can and working hard like everyone else,” she said.
In the months leading up to last November’s vote, advocates of the new law maintained that it would help Arizona create a “living wage” for some of the poorest workers.
The Economic Policy Institute estimated that 145,000 Arizonans would receive a pay raise. That was how many made $5.15 to $6.74 per hour.
At one press conference, a mother described how she was unable to afford basic school supplies for her son.
Opponents, however, said there was little talk about teenage workers. “Everyone wanted to focus on the other aspects of the minimum-wage campaign,” said Michelle Bolton, Arizona state director of the National Federation of Independent Business.
An Employment Policies Institute study determined that 30.1 percent of affected workers in Arizona fell between the ages of 16 and 19.
“Workers affected by the minimum-wage increase are less likely to be supporting a family than the typical Arizona worker,” it stated. “For example, 30.4 percent of the workers are living with their parent or parents, while only 7.6 percent of all Arizona workers are in this category.”
John Weischedel, a senior at the East Valley Institute of Technology in Mesa, knows he is lucky to be making $8 per hour at an auto dealership and learning technical skills. So are most of his friends who make $9 or more per hour while still attending high school.
After the minimum-wage law went into effect, “a couple of my friends got laid off – they worked in fast food,” he said. “They’re going to wait until they’re out of high school to find other jobs.”
Matt Dempsey contributed to this article.
Pelosi’s Hypocrisy
The following appeares onnypost.com, it shows Nancy Pelosi’s hypocrisy rather nicely:
AIR PELOSI
SPEAKER OPTS FOR WASTE AND ARROGANCE
By Richard Miniter
February 10, 2007 — THURSDAY morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped out of her Georgetown home and into a government-owned black Chevy Tahoe SUV. That gas-guzzler truck took her directly to the Rayburn House Office Building – where she was the lead witness at a Science and Technology Committee hearing on global warming.
This, the day after word broke of Pelosi’s request for regular use of a U.S. Air Force C-32 – the same plane that flies the vice president and first lady.
She wants to travel in luxury. The Air Force jet is the same size and airframe as the Boeing 757-200, which carries about 300 passengers. The C-32 boasts 42 business-class seats – plus a wood-paneled state room, big-screen TV, full-size bed and crew of 16, including uniformed stewards who bring drinks and meals on request. Oh, and an open bar.
Cost to taxpayers? Some $15,000 an hour.
A round-trip to Rep. Pelosi’s home in San Francisco could easily run $300,000. Meanwhile, the same flight on a commercial jet can run less than $300.
Pelosi campaigned on the promise that she would clean up the GOP’s waste and abuse of taxpayer’s dollars. So why doesn’t she use the little commuter jet that the Air Force lent to Dennis Hastert, the previous speaker?
She said it was “not big enough” to accommodate her staff, supporters and other members of the California delegation. Also, it would have to stop to refuel. “There’s a certain amount of inefficiency and risk involved in stopping and having to refuel,” a Pelosi spokesman said.
Pelosi doesn’t understand why the vice president and first lady rate a bigger plane than she does, when she is two heartbeats away from the presidency.
Maybe she just doesn’t want to fly like the rest of us, enduring long lines and security hassles. On Pelosi’s “Air Force Three,” there’ll be no waiting, no metal detectors, no searches – and the plane leaves when she says it does.
More About Mike Huckabee
The more I read or hear about Mike Huckabee, the more I like him. I know he is a longshot, but we need to get the word out there that there are good, true conservative candidates out there.
The following is from unionleader.com:
Huckabee: Marriages face enough challenges without ‘experiements’
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Republican Mike Huckabee said Friday that marriage shouldn’t be treated as an “experiment,” responding to questions about whether he thinks Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter should have the right to wed.
The former Arkansas governor, making the first trip to New Hampshire since announcing he would seek the GOP presidential nod, said heterosexual marriages face enough challenges without adding new configurations into the mix.
“Taking on a new definition doesn’t make sense right now,” Huckabee said in an interview with The Associated Press after meeting with business leaders.
Mary Cheney and her longtime partner announced last year they were having a baby together.
In 2004, the year Arkansas approved a constitutional amendment to ban “gay marriage,” Huckabee said the ban was needed to quiet activists looking to rewrite the nation’s social code.
“There are some very strong, loud activists who want to completely redefine marriage,” Huckabee said on July 6, 2004. “Many of us (amendment supporters) feel that it has become necessary to reaffirm the historical definition of marriage. It cannot be redefined to be something that culture wants it to be.”
But Huckabee also said it was OK to say a person’s sexual preference was nobody’s business, “even though it’s not consistent with the Biblical norm of male and female.”
“It’s a different thing … to rewrite the social code,” the governor said at the time.
Huckabee wasn’t on the ballot that year, but the anti-gay marriage amendment helped Huckabee’s other ballot-box task: helping President Bush win re-election.
On Friday, Huckabee declined to comment on Mary Cheney’s decision to have a child with her longtime partner.
“I wouldn’t get near specific cases,” Huckabee said.
But when pressed, he said the historic definition has worked for so long for a reason.
“People have a right to decide how they live their lives. But they have to respect not changing the definition of marriage,” said Huckabee, who served as a pastor in Baptist churches before becoming governor in 1996.
Last month, he wrote in his most-recent book, “From Hope to Higher Ground:”
“Whether or not our culture should accommodate persons of the same gender who wish to share hospital visitation rights, insurance benefits, and so forth is an entirely different discussion, but to call anything and everything a ‘marriage’ is unacceptable because marriage means something specific – a permanent relationship between a man and woman for life.”
And when the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2006 rejected the gay foster parents ban that had been put in by a state board, Huckabee said through a spokeswoman: “I’m very disappointed that the court seems more interested in what’s good for gay couples than what’s good for children needing foster care.”
Huckabee, speaking earlier in the day at Daniel Webster College, warned audiences that the country is at war with a perversion of Islam and that any bending of U.S. resolve will let the jihadists destroy America.
“This is an enemy that really basks in the perversion of piety and the face of a faith to create a real sense of the ultimate contrast between light and between darkness, between life and between death,” Huckabee said.
He said anything less than a resounding victory in Iraq and elsewhere would mean the end of U.S. culture.
“This is not like most wars and battles which are fought over property or prosperity or personalities or even politics,” he said. “At the heart of this is religion. But a perversion of religion. Islamic fascism is real and the jihadists that have declared a war against us must be understood in the theological context in which this war is being waged.”
