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calendar   Saturday - June 25, 2005

Where Can I Buy One Of These ?

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/25/2005 at 11:48 AM   
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Some People Just Never Learn

Bubba Caught In Canoodling Kerfuffle?

Do we really want this man to become “First Gentleman”?
(that’s FGOTUS - pronounced “fug-otis")


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/25/2005 at 01:46 AM   
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The Great Land Snatch Begins

The Great Land Snatch of 2005 is on. First out of the gate was Washington, DC. Now, Houston, Texas piles on and plans to wipe out several seafood companies to build an $8 million private marina. Their reason? The marina will attract hotels, restaurants and other businesses ....

FREEPORT - With Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, Freeport officials instructed attorneys to begin preparing legal documents to seize three pieces of waterfront property along the Old Brazos River from two seafood companies for construction of an $8 million private boat marina.

The court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that cities may bulldoze people’s homes or businesses to make way for shopping malls or other private development. The decision gives local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.

“This is the last little piece of the puzzle to put the project together,” Freeport Mayor Jim Phillips said of the project designed to inject new life in the Brazoria County city’s depressed downtown area.

Over the years, Freeport’s lack of commercial and retail businesses has meant many of its 13,500 residents travel to neighboring Lake Jackson, which started as a planned community in 1943, to spend money. But the city is hopeful the marina will spawn new economic growth.

“This will be the engine that will drive redevelopment in the city,” City Manager Ron Bottoms said.

Lee Cameron, director of the city’s Economic Development Corp., said the marina is expected to attract $60 million worth of hotels, restaurants and retail establishments to the city’s downtown area and create 150 to 250 jobs. He said three hotels, two of which have “high interest,” have contacted the city about building near the marina.

“It’s all dependent on the marina,” Cameron said. “Without the marina, (the hotels) aren’t interested. With the marina, (the hotels) think it’s a home run.”

Since September 2003, the city has been locked in a legal battle to acquire a 300-by-60-foot tract of land along the Old Brazos River near the Pine Street bridge as well as a 200-foot tract and 100-foot tract along the river through eminent domain from Western Seafood Co. and Trico Seafood Co.

Eminent domain is the right of a government to take private property for public use upon payment of the fair market value.

The tracts of land would be used for a planned 800- to 900-slip marina to be built by Freeport Marina, a group that that includes Dallas developer Hiram Walker Royall. He would buy the property from the city and receive a $6 million loan from the city to develop the project.

WHAT HATH SCOTUS WROUGHT?


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/25/2005 at 01:31 AM   
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Hello .. Is There Anybody In There?

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/25/2005 at 01:23 AM   
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calendar   Friday - June 24, 2005

Large Explosion In Downtown St. Louis

This is really going to screw up rush hour traffic out of the downtown area. I’m about ten miles due west of the explosion that occurred at Praxair a short time ago. I can see the smoke rising from the downtown area. Stay tuned ....

imageimage(KSDK)—Explosions estimated as high as 100 feet have been ripping through the Praxair Company site at 2210 Chouteau and south St. Louis Friday afternoon. Flames continue to burn as fire crews work to contain the explosions. Reporters in the area can hear explosions every 5-10 seconds. The company is located near Jefferson & Chouteau.

Chopper 5’s Bill Houska reports seeing tanks fly through the air as fireballs jump several hundred feet into the air. ALso, the flames and explosions have started fires across the street.

Several businesses and homes in the area are being evacuated. So far, we do not know if there are any injuries in the fire.

Witnesses who have been evacuated say they felt several booms, one saying it was “like an earthquake.” They also report burning shrapnel raining down from the fire and explosions.

The fire is also being complicated by the heat, and traffic on Highway 40 is slowing as people see the smoke.

Praxair’s primary products are atmospheric gases—oxygen, nitrogen, argon and rare gases (produced when air is compressed, cooled, distilled and condensed) and process and speciality gases - carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, semiconductor products and acetylene (produced as by-products of chemical production or recovered from gas.)

For those who live here, I’ve pinpointed the area on the map below ....

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 04:32 PM   
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Death Of An Automaker

imageimage The year was 1953. Dwight Eisenhower had just been elected President and was promising to build a national system of “interstate” highways to make transportation across America much easier and to provide easy access for national defense in light of the rising communism in Europe. General Motors executives brought a new phrase into American folklore when one of them stated, “What’s good for Genera Motors is good for America”.

Cars were being built at an astounding rate and Americans were buying them up. Life was good. Then along came the Auto Workers Union who decided their workers deserved a bigger piece of the pie. Gradually, over the years, wages increased, often outpacing price increases on cars. In addition, the union held out for a medical plan for its members that was unprecedented .... completely free medical care with GM paying 100% of the premiums, guaranteeing auto workers a lifetime of free medical care.

Fast forward fifty years to today. National health care costs have risen dramatically over the last two decades. They are so high that a decade ago, most companies switched over to the HMO plans and raised the amount employees had to pay for company-provided coverage. Not General Motors. The unions refused to back off on their health coverage in the contract. As you read the excerpt below from an article in today’s USAToday, keep in mind the following salient points ....

Taking a cigarette break outside a General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Lansing, Mich., last week, Mike O’Driscoll admits he has problems: diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol.

But his arteries are cleaned out, thanks to a $160,000 heart-bypass surgery a few years back.

“I ate too many steaks and not enough veggies,” says O’Driscoll with a laugh.

For as long as O’Driscoll has worked at GM, he hasn’t had to worry about health care costs. He paid nothing for his heart surgery, and he estimates that during the past five years, he has paid his cardiologist a total of $500. GM doesn’t take anything out of his paycheck for health insurance.

The American auto industry is one of the last bastions of generous benefits that were once part of many employers’ largess: fully paid health insurance, retiree medical coverage and pensions.

At a time when the average American company requires workers to pay more than $2,000 a year toward family health insurance premiums, the auto industry is among the 4% of employers that offer free family health coverage. Retirees, who outnumber workers by more than 2-to-1 at General Motors and represent significant percentages at the other major U.S. automakers, get the same deal.

As GM recovers from its worst quarterly loss in more than a decade, $1.1 billion, executives have targeted health care as a top opportunity for cost cutting. And as GM is the nation’s largest private purchaser of health care, what it does is being watched closely and could have ramifications beyond its own 1.1 million employees, retirees and dependants.

The cost of providing health care adds from $1,100 to $1,500 to the cost of each of the 4.65 million vehicles GM sold last year, according to various calculations. GM expects to spend at least $5.6 billion on health care this year, more than it spent on advertising last year.

But getting the union to agree to major changes in the middle of its contract could be difficult. Already, union members are balking at talk of trimming retiree benefits, and local union leaders are grumbling about the possibility of a strike if the company tries to force changes through; however, a mid-contract strike could be deemed illegal.

“It is a well-known fact that the U.S. automobile industry spends more per car on health care than on steel,” says Lee Iacocca, the retired chairman of Chrysler who in the early 1990s advocated a national health care program as a solution. “This problem is not going to go away on its own.”

And while white-collar workers at GM, who represent 26% of the active workforce, pay about 27% of their health care costs, unionized workers pay about 7%. Because the coverage is mainly free, that 7% comes from charges for doctor-office visits and co-payments on drugs. Outside the auto industry, single employees pay an average of 18% of the cost of their premiums, and families pay 22%, according to research by benefit firm Towers Perrin. Many also pay deductibles, co-payments and other out-of-pocket costs on top of that.

The UAW is on course to kill GM. That’s not good for GM and surely not good for America.




Posted by Z Woof   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 10:37 AM   
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In Case You Thought They Were Kidding …

News Flash!

Less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court’s decision to allow local municipalities to seize private land from citizens, our nation’s capitol is the first to jump on the bandwagon. That’s right, the Washington, DC mayor and council are already making plans to seize land to build a stadium for the new Washington Nationals baseball team, among other things. Lock and load, people. What you’re about to witness will be an ugly sight indeed ....

District leaders said a Supreme Court ruling yesterday that gives municipalities broad powers to seize private property will provide the city leverage in its goal to acquire land for two controversial projects, including a new baseball stadium.

Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) had been closely watching an eminent domain case in which homeowners in New London, Conn., sued the city when it attempted to take their land to develop a shopping mall. The court upheld the right of city governments to force property owners to sell to make way for private development.

D.C. officials want to acquire 14 acres near the Anacostia waterfront by the end of the year to build a stadium for the Nationals. They also have been trying to buy the 1950s-era Skyland strip mall in Southeast to build a larger, upscale retail complex. In both cases, city officials say they will invoke eminent domain if necessary.

.... coming soon to a town council near you ....


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 10:16 AM   
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Hilarious Clinton Gets Spanked By Pataki

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Senator Hilarious Clinton (D-NY), pictured at left giving a salute to her storm troopers and shouting “Seig Heil”, was scolded by New York Governor George Pataki after the Senator requested Karl Rove’s head on a platter. Pataki snapped back that he would deliver Rove’s head when Senator Hilarious delivered the heads of Harry Reid, Howard Dean and Dick Durbin. At last report, no one was giving head ....

New York Gov. George Pataki read Sen. Hillary Clinton the riot act on Thursday after she demanded that he condemn comments by White House political advisor Karl Rove.

“I think it’s a little hypocritical for Sen. Clinton to call on me to repudiate a political figure’s comment, when she never asked Sen. Durbin to repudiate his comments,” Pataki told reporters, after she complained that he sat idly by as Rove blasted liberals for being soft on terror at a New York Conservative party function Wednesday night.

“She never responded when asked to respond [about Durbin],” Pataki complained. “She never responded to Howard Dean’s insult to every single Republican, saying that they never earned an honest day’s living.

“She never responded to Sen. Reid’s unfair criticism of the president - he called the president a loser and a liar. He’s never apologized - she never requested that.”

“She never called for an apology or clarification when Moveon.org called for moderation and restraint in response to the terrorist attacks.”

Pataki concluded: “So, when she does that, I’ll be glad to listen to her call for me to ask someone to apologize.”


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 09:39 AM   
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The News Story With Everything

Great Caesar’s Ghost! This story has boobies, large amounts of cash, suspected drugs, plastic surgery, a lawsuit and the DEA. The only thing it’s missing is Michael Jackson ....

BOSTON - A Quincy woman who apparently stuffed $46,950 in cash in her bra before trying to board a plane to Texas for plastic surgery has sued a federal agency, demanding the return of her money.

The money was seized from Ileana Valdez, 26, after a security check at a metal detector at Logan International Airport on Feb. 3. Valdez told authorities she was heading to Texas for plastic surgery on her buttocks and breasts.

“I don’t know why she was carrying it (the cash) in her bra,” said Boston lawyer Tony V. Blaize, who filed the suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston on behalf of Valdez.

In her suit, Valdez said a male Drug Enforcement Administration agent told her she had a nice body and didn’t need surgery — and then seized the cash, claiming it was drug money.

Valdez, a single mother said in her suit that she has no criminal record and earned the money by selling her Dorchester business and two parcels of property in Boston’s Jamaica Plain section.

Anthony Pettigrew, a spokesman for the DEA in Boston, said he could not comment on the lawsuit. But he said federal asset forfeiture laws allow agents to seize suspected drug profits.

boobies «-- Ms. Valdez      The DEA --» monkey


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 01:15 AM   
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On This Day In History

1812 - Napoleon’s Grande Armýe Invades Russia

imageimageFollowing the rejection of his Continental System by Czar Alexander I, French Emperor Napoleon orders his Grande Armýe, the largest European military force ever assembled to that date, into Russia. The enormous army, featuring some 500,000 soldiers and staff, included troops from all the European countries under the sway of the French Empire.

During the opening months of the invasion, Napoleon was forced to contend with a bitter Russian army in perpetual retreat. Refusing to engage Napoleon’s superior army in a full-scale confrontation, the Russians under General Mikhail Kutuzov burned everything behind them as they retreated deeper and deeper into Russia. On September 7, the indecisive Battle of Borodino was fought, in which both sides suffered terrible losses. On September 14, Napoleon arrived in Moscow intending to find supplies but instead found almost the entire population evacuated, and the Russian army retreated again. Early the next morning, fires broke across the city, set by Russian patriots, and the Grande Armýe’s winter quarters were destroyed. After waiting a month for a surrender that never came, Napoleon, faced with the onset of the Russian winter, was forced to order his starving army out of Moscow.

During the disastrous retreat, Napoleon’s army suffered continual harassment from a suddenly aggressive and merciless Russian army. Stalked by hunger and the deadly lances of the Cossacks, the decimated army reached the Berezina River late in November, but found their way blocked by the Russians. On November 27, Napoleon forced a way across at Studenka, and when the bulk of his army passed the river two days later, he was forced to burn his makeshift bridges behind him, stranding some 10,000 stragglers on the other side. From there, the retreat became a rout, and on December 8 Napoleon left what remained of his army to return to Paris. Six days later, the Grande Armýe finally escaped Russia, having suffered a loss of more than 400,000 men during the disastrous invasion.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 12:41 AM   
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Dissenting Opinion

The Supreme Court has moved this country one step closer to a “people to be governed” instead of a “government of the people”. With yesterday’s decision in Kelo vs. City Of New London (PDF), we, the people of the United States of America can no longer count on having a place to call “home” which cannot be taken away from us by government. We have surrendered our rights that were set down in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to The Constitution Of The United States.

The decision was by a 5-4 margin.

Justices Stevens, Souter, Kennedy, Ginsburg and Breyer carried the majority in this travesty of justice.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the dissenting opinion for herself, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Antonin Scalia ....

Over two centuries ago, just after the Bill of Rights was ratified, Justice Chase wrote:

“An ACT of the Legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary to the great first principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority . . . . A few instances will suffice to explain what I mean. . . . [A] law that takes property from A. and gives it to B: It is against all reason and justice, for a people to entrust a Legislature with SUCH powers; and, therefore, it cannot be presumed that they have done it.” Calder v. Bull, 3 Dall. 386, 388 (1798) (emphasis deleted).

Today the Court abandons this long-held, basic limitation on government power. Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner, so long as it might be upgraded—i.e., given to an owner whowill use it in a way that the legislature deems more beneficial to the public—in the process.

To reason, as the Court does, that the incidental public benefits resulting from the subsequent ordinary use of private property render economic development takings “for public use” is to wash out any distinction between private and public use of property—and thereby effectively to delete the words “for public use” from the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Accordingly I respectfully dissent.

In accordance with the Rights vested in me, I hereby declare today, Friday, June 24, 2005 to be celebrated by all members of this great nation with each and every one of you buying at least 100 (one hundred) rounds of ammo in honor of this decision by the liberal asshats on SCOTUS. Today is hereby declared ....

NATIONAL AMMO FOR HOME DAY


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Posted by Ronald Reagan's Ghost   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 12:09 AM   
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There’s No Place Like .. Uh-Oh !

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Gary Brookins, Virginia—The Richmond Times-Dispatch


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/24/2005 at 12:01 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - June 23, 2005

A View From The Dark Side ….

OK, gang! Here ya go. This gentleman seems to be agrieved by Darth Rove’s statements ....

I’ve refrained from jumping into the fray on the Daou Report, and I’ve done my level best to fairly reflect the honest views of bloggers across the political spectrum (whether I agree or not), but Rove’s 9/11 comments are fighting words, and as a proud American, I won’t sit by and take that kind of shit from anyone.

I just posted this:

I’m devoting much of today’s report to Karl Rove’s vile comments denigrating half of the American public. My office overlooks Ground Zero, and I’m looking at the gaping footprint as I write this. My wife and I were in New York that day, on our way to the WTC for a morning meeting. A chance phone call dragged on a few minutes too long and most likely saved our lives. I lost friends in the towers, and when I walk past the site, as I do almost every evening, the pain is as real as it was on September 11th, 2001.

I spent my youth in Beirut during the height of Lebanon’s civil war, and I fought the Syrian presence in Lebanon long before the “Cedar Revolution.” I watched young boys give their lives and mothers cradle their dying children in blood-soaked arms. I’ve seen more bloodshed, war, and violence, and shot more guns than most of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists combined. I wouldn’t presume to question the strength or dignity of a stranger, and I pity those who blithely push the right=strong, left=weak rhetoric. It says far more about their inadequacies than it does about the target of their scorn. Today, Karl Rove took that rhetoric to a new, filthy low.

Go ahead. Pile on! Tell this gentleman what you think ....

http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=2c4b940b-f2d8-422d-b97f-a6caa52db966

IMHO, he can FOAD!


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/23/2005 at 05:27 PM   
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Dem Bees Are Swarming

Karl Rove evidently stirred up a bee’s nest today (see story below, ”Quote Of The Day”). Now, Howard Dean (Satan’s Mouthpiece), Harry Reid (Satan’s Afterbirth), Nancy Pelosi (Spawn Of Satan) and Hillary Clinton (Satan) are buzzing around Capitol Hill calling for Rove’s head on a platter.

“Karl Rove should immediately and fully apologize for his remarks or he should resign,” Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement. “I hope the president will join me in repudiating these remarks.”

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called on Bush to “show some leadership and unequivocally repudiate Rove’s divisive and damaging political rhetoric.”

“I would hope that you and other members of the administration would immediately repudiate such an insulting comment from a high-ranking official in the president’s inner circle,” [Hillary] Clinton said.

Everybody duck and cover!

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/23/2005 at 03:05 PM   
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