Europe rethinks its 'safe haven' status - Yahoo! News
Interesting that while our Senate is voting to add 200 million people to our population in the next 20 years and with virtually no thought and with no facts or figures to use to make an educated policy decision, Europe is re-evaluating their past decisions to allow immigration (on a far smaller scale than here in the USA) because of problems and issues.
Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years
Unbelievable!! The Senate wants to add 103 million, and possibly up to 200 million, additional people to our population over the next 20 years!! Yes, 20 years!! Think the schools are bad now? Water problems? Traffic? Crime? Ecology? And, guess what? We get NO say whatsoever! Kiss THIS America good bye.....
If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years—fully one-third of the current population of the United States.
TomPaine.com - Wal-Mart's Tax On Us
Wal-Mart's Tax On Us
And you still shop there?????
In Rural Texas, Blessings and Culture Shock - Yahoo! News
In Rural Texas, Blessings and Culture Shock
Good Katrina story about the real America. Nice to see after all of the negative garbage in the news.
Why New Orleans Cell Phones Aren't Working - You might want to change your number. By Daniel Engber
Interesting article. A must read if you own a cell phne..
Steady buildup to a complete meltdown - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
Confusion, bureaucracy reigned as floodwaters overtook New Orleans
Great article reviewing what went wrong during and after Katrina. Must read.
Will New Orleans Recover? by Nicole Gelinas
Weak and struggling before Katrina, the good-time city now teeters on the brink.
China is stepping up its overt and covert efforts to gather intelligence and technology in the United States, and the activities have boosted Beijing's plans to rapidly produce advanced-weapons systems.
An article just for you, Walmart shoppers!!
"Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists—myself included—did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting. "
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
Great read. I've been mulling over the exact same questions and coming tothe same conclusions the last few days!!
I'll been in floods, huricanes, huge blizzards at -50, tornadoes that wiped whole towns off the face of the planet but I never sat on my hands waiting for someone to rescue me. We jumped in and saved ourselves, our relatives, our neighbors, strangers....
I'm disgusted with what I've witnessed the last few days, really disgusted and ashamed. Why should I feel ashamed because a group of people acted like animals? Because I am an American and so, unfortunately, are they....
Police kill at least 5 in New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com
NEW ORLEANS - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
With much of Friday's media coverage concentrating on the chaotic state of New Orleans, MSNBC's Lisa Daniels welcomed military analyst Dan Goure to 'Connected Coast to Coast' to discuss why it has taken so long to get help in to New Orleans.
Interesting perspective analysis.
Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina - New York Times
Excellent graphics of New Orleans and area. Must see..
New Orleans bar keeps doors open through catastrophe - Yahoo! News
NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - The bars of the Big Easy prided themselves on staying open come rain or shine but only one kept serving through the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
"We don't have any locks on the door," said Julie Sprinkel, a server at Johnny White's Sports Bar on the normally raucous Bourbon Street.
"NOLA Disaster Plan Outsourced
Updated 3 September
The private firm charged with developing the New Orleans hurricane disaster plan identified the need for 1,000 shelters and said that they would need to be open 100 days (more than three months!). A press release asserts that "state resources are adequate to operate shelters for the first 3-5 days." After that, the problem was to organize replinishment from federal and other sources. The firm also "developed a transportation plan for getting stranded residents out of harm’s way."
Doesn't look like this 500 million was spent to wisely! !
nbc13.com - News - Fort McClellan To Take In Hurricane Victims
I've seen this place. Abandoned army base converted over to housing etc. Pretty decent place to relocate if you need to do so.
HoustonChronicle.com - Anatomy of raid rumors: Did helicopter start it?
As if the INS would ever get off of their dead asses and do their job!!!! Fat Chance!!
The panic that sent hundreds of illegal immigrants fleeing from their homes, jobs and schools in recent weeks may have been set into motion on March 23, when a developer and contractor surveyed their sprawling construction site from a white helicopter with green stripes -- the same colors as U.S. Border Patrol helicopters.
CBS News | U.S. Must Pay In Men-Purge Scheme | February 19, 2004 08:36:09
Yahoo! News - Indonesian Democracy Boosts Rent-A-Crowd Business
A must read!!
This is a great analysis of President Bush’s immigration proposal and how it will effect our economy, culture and our children. It shows a gloomy picture of their future and how this proposal will impact their jobs and income. A must read!!
Yahoo! News - IBM to Export Highly Paid Jobs to India, China
Some workers are scheduled to be informed of the plan for their jobs by the end of January. After that they will be expected to train an overseas replacement worker in the U.S. for several weeks. The IBM workers marked for replacement have 60 days to find another job inside the company, likely to be a difficult task at a time when IBM is holding down hiring.
Who says IBM isn't hiring? They are hiring Indians and firing Americans!! And they have to TRAIN??!! their replacements? IBM is off MY christmas list!!
ENN News Story - Nanoscale iron could help cleanse the environment
Could clean up a 300X300 foot lot for less than $3000!!
HoustonChronicle.com - Metro's train comes in: Rail plan approved
Seven Billions of Dollars to start!!!
Interesting story about how China, using predatory trade practices, is wiping out some of our industries; in this case, crawfish farmers in Louisiana.
Free trade is great but we don't have it. Soon, we will have achieved a wonderful unity with the rest of the world and will share their standard of living. Hope you LOVE rice...............
General Motors' Destruction of California Transit Systems
Interesting article about how, during the 1940s & 1950's, GM destroyed Mass Transit to enhance sales.
The Village Idiot
Here is some interesting Iraq stuff. Lots of good ideas.
Yahoo! News Message Boards Top Stories
About Iraq and the torture of the people there before the war....
Human rights groups estimate that at least 290,000 Iraqis have disappeared since Saddam took power 34 years ago. Hussain was just a schoolgirl in Baghdad when the reality of life under Saddam hit home. She recalls riding on a school bus at age 13 and seeing a crowd gathered in the center of the capital, around bodies of men hanging from poles. "I remember the blue faces, the long necks," she said.
Al-Suwaij knows firsthand how even young girls were imprisoned for what seem to be trivial offenses. Al-Suwaij says she had a 16-year-old cousin who was beaten and tortured with electrical shocks for having written something against the government in her school notebook.
reviewjournal.com -- News: Iraqi natives in LV support war effort
NYPOST.COM Post Opinion: Oped Columnists: WHY THE LEFT ? OSAMA By DANIEL PIPES
ABCNEWS.com : Iraqi Women Grateful for U.S. Campaign
United Press International: Lucky Break for Jordan
Untitled Document
Compare the "half-wit" politicos with their detractors from hollywood.
Ever wonder why schools are overcrowded and failing, the freeways are packed and taxes are so high??
Wonder no more. Read www.numbersusa.com and find out why. And you can do something about it!! Great reading.