Saturday - April 08, 2006

Flight Plan

_{Mike Lester—Rome (GA) News-Tribune}

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/08/2006 at 10:29 AM   
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   Friday - April 07, 2006

It’s All Relative

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/07/2006 at 09:33 AM   
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The Senate Fiddles …

Partisan bickering, my aching back! The Senate squabbling continues and while they fiddled around another 10,000 MESS-Cans crossed the border. We’ll be knee-deep in refried beans before the ass-clowns in Congress actually do something.

Face it, it’s an election year and neither party wants to piss off millions of Hispanic voters and neither party wants to piss off millions of legal Americans who are sick and tired of the flood of illegal immigrants. They will continue to fiddle-fart around unless somebody up there in DC decides to act like they got a pair. Unfortunately, I don’t think you could find a real pair of cojones in the entire town. Maybe they can hire some MESS-Cans for that too ...

Partisan Bickering Delays Immigration Deal
_{Apr 7, 7:09 AM (ET)}

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate breakthrough on an immigration bill praised by leaders in both parties appeared endangered by partisan bickering over amendments from opponents. Both sides acknowledged that if the Senate is going to pass a bill, it might not occur until Congress returns from a two-week Easter recess.

Republicans appeared united in blocking a final vote on a compromise proposal worked out among immigration leaders in the two parties until Democrats allow votes on amendments by opponents. A test vote was scheduled Friday on the compromise, as well as a bill by Majority Leader Bill Frist. Democrats said the amendments would undermine the immigration compromise that offered hope for American citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

“I know the reality, tomorrow we cannot finish it,” the assistant Democratic leader, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said late Thursday. Supporters of the compromise claimed 70 votes and said they could defeat all of the amendments offered by opponents. Republicans, however, closed ranks in insisting that at least some of those amendments get votes. Both sides indicated the Senate would complete the bill when Congress returns from the recess that begins Monday.

“The momentum can move either way. Who knows what we’ll face when we return,” Durbin said. President Bush had applauded the Senate’s efforts to draft a comprehensive immigration bill. “I would encourage the members to work hard to get the bill done prior to the upcoming break,” he said Thursday. The election-year legislation is designed to enhance border security and regulate the flow of future temporary workers as well as affect the lives of illegal immigrants.

It separates illegal immigrants now in the U.S. into three categories. Illegal immigrants here more than five years could work for six years and apply for legal permanent residency without having to leave the country. Those here two years to five years would have to go to border entry points sometime in next three years, but could immediately return as temporary workers. Those here less than two years would have to leave and wait in line for visas to return.

The bill also provides a new program for 1.5 million temporary agriculture industry workers over five years. It includes provisions requiring employers to verify they’ve hired legal workers and calls for a “virtual” fence of surveillance cameras, sensors and other technology to monitor the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border.

- Congressional Haggling To Read About Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/07/2006 at 07:57 AM   
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Moonbat Du Jour

First of all, he’s a chiropractor. Second, he’s a lunatic, Third, where in hell did he come up with a name like “Bahlaqeem”? Sounds like that crap we used to use on our hair way back when. Speaking of way back when, I wonder if this cat can go back in time and tell me in 1984 not to marry that dipsy broad. I’d be willing to pay a lot for that ....

Chiropractor Claims He Can Go Back in Time
_{April 6, 2006, 8:39 PM EDT}

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators. The Ohio State Chiropractic Board, in a notice of hearing, has accused James Burda of Athens of being “unable to practice chiropractic according to acceptable and prevailing standards of care due to mental illness, specifically, Delusional Disorder, Grandiose Type.”

Burda denied that he is mentally ill. He said he possesses a skill he discovered by accident while driving six years ago. “My foot hurt and, knowing anatomy, I went ahead and I told it to realign and my pain went away,” Burda said Thursday. Burda calls his treatment “Bahlaqeem.”

“It is a made-up word and, to my knowledge, has no known meaning except for this intended purpose. It does, however, have a soothing vibrational influence and contains the very special number of nine letters,” Burda’s Web site says.

The board alleges in three counts against Burda that the treatment is unacceptable and constitutes “willful and gross malpractice.” Burda has until May 1 to request a hearing. The board can levy penalties ranging from a reprimand to revoking his license to practice, said Kelly Caudill, the board’s executive director.

Burda’s Web Site: http://www.bahlaqeem.com

- More Moonbat Madness Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/07/2006 at 07:42 AM   
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Shopping For Cheap Labor In France

Hmmmm, let me see, mon ami ... I’ll take three of those Poles, one Romanian and you may dispose of those Algerians over there. We do not need any more of them, n’est ce pas?

The French are finally realizing their open door policy is a miserable wreck. Minister Sarkozy is giving it his best shot. I like the quote about “cannot continue to welcome people whom we have neither jobs nor housing to offer.” Well, that’s a no-brainer. It’s too bad they didn’t think of it 40 years ago. Then again, here in America we’ve just about filled our quota of gardeners, cooks and toilet cleaners - what are we going to do with more Mexicans if they continue to pour in?

France Wants to ‘Choose’ Its Immigrants
_{April 7, 2006, 4:15 AM EDT}

PARIS (AP)—The curtain falls on a bevy of near-naked dancers in feathered headdresses, and Adir Rafael Pires glides into action. As a set-changer at the Lido, the racy cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees, Pires could not be farther from his desert birthplace: Cape Verde, a rocky, drought-stricken archipelago off West Africa’s coast. But the door that allowed Pires to make France his home may now be closing. France, like other European countries, is taking a harder look at the immigrants it lets in.

The drive toward “selective” immigration is inspired by electoral politics, by fears that some immigrants are not integrating and may even be vectors for terrorism and militant Islam, and by widely shared concerns that immigrants overtax welfare systems and compete for scarce jobs. French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy championed a bill that would make it more difficult for poor immigrants with little education and few skills to start a new life in France—long one of Europe’s most coveted destinations for immigrants.

Pires, 24, reached the ultimate goal—acquiring French nationality—at a naturalization ceremony last month after spending more than half his life here—much of it as an illegal immigrant. Hi mother, Vitalina, came to France in 1990 on a tourist visa, then stayed on as a live-in maid with a Parisian family. Pires visited her for summer vacation, and never returned to Cape Verde. Nearly sixteen years later, mother and son became French thanks to a provision that allows foreigners to apply for citizenship after 10 years in the country—even if they were here illegally.

That is one of many immigrant-friendly provisions that would be scrapped under Sarkozy’s immigration bill. Sarkozy, whose father immigrated here from Hungary, argues that France should take a more pro-active approach to immigration by hand-picking foreign workers. His arguments gained resonance after riots ripped through heavily immigrant French suburbs last fall. Sarkozy acknowledges that he wants to court voters away from the far right, which argued that the riots showed the perils of immigration.

If passed, the law would form part of France’s multi-pronged offensive against clandestine immigration that also includes stepped-up border controls and deportations. Under Sarkozy, deportations have increased 72 percent over the past two years, with a record 20,000 illegal immigrants expelled in 2005. “France cannot be the only country in the world that refuses to adapt its immigration policy to its economic needs and its capacity to absorb new arrivals,” Sarkozy said recently. “We cannot continue to welcome people whom we have neither jobs nor housing to offer.”

- More Fwench Fun In This Story Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/07/2006 at 07:26 AM   
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Prelude

_{Michael Ramirez—The Los Angeles Times}

- “Defiant Iran’s Boast Over Missile Test”

As international action against the Islamic state’s nuclear weapons program galvanises, Iran yesterday announced the successful test-firing of a “top secret” missile - the third test of a new weapon within a week. State-run television called the missile an “ultra-horizon” weapon that it said could be fired from all military helicopters and jet fighters.

A brief video clip showed the missile, fired from a helicopter, hitting a target on the surface of the water. The tests come during war games held by the elite Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea since Friday, at a time of increased tensions with the United States over Iran’s nuclear program.

- “Two B-2s Could Take Out Iran’s Nuclear Assets”

Veteran foreign correspondent Arnaud de Borchgrave, writing for the United Press International, quotes a “prominent neo-con” with good White House and Department of Defence contacts, as the source of the assertion. Asked what would the US do if sanctions did not make Iran turn away from its nuclear target, the source replied, “B-2s. Two of them could do the job in a single strike against multiple targets.”

De Borchgrave writes in an amused vein, “So we looked up B-2s. The US Air Force only has 21 of them. Perhaps price had something to do with it. They came in at $2.2 billion a copy. But they can carry enough ordnance to make Iranians nostalgic for the Shah and his role as the free world’s gendarme in charge of the West’s oil supplies in the Gulf. These stealthy bombers have one major drawback in the Persian magic carpet mode. They can only attack 16 targets simultaneously; one short of the 17 underground nuclear facilities pinned red on Mossad’s target-rich PowerPoint presentations to the political leadership. Presumably, that’s why two B-2s would be required.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/07/2006 at 05:26 AM   
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   Thursday - April 06, 2006

Optical Illusion Du Jour

Are the wheels turning?

Background – In the image above the strong (and beautiful) rotation of the “wheels” occurs in relation to eye movements. On steady fixation the effect vanishes.

Interesting notes about this illusion:

• Even when fixating steadily, illusory motion occurs on appearance/ disappearance
• Illusion does not depend on color
• Rotation direction depends on the polarity of the luminance steps

Posted by Drew458     on 04/06/2006 at 04:34 PM   
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The Time Traveler

I saw this link on Misha’s site and followed it.  Wow.

Here’s a taste:

The Time Traveler appeared suddenly in my study on New Year’s Eve, 2004. He was a stolid, grizzled man in a gray tunic and looked to be in his late-sixties or older. He also appeared to be the veteran of wars or of some terrible accident since he had livid scars on his face and neck and hands, some even visible in his scalp beneath a fuzz of gray hair cropped short in a military cut. One eye was covered by a black eyepatch. Before I could finish dialing 911 he announced in a husky voice that he was a Time Traveler come back to talk to me about the future.

If you read nothing else today but this, you will have read enough.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/06/2006 at 08:05 AM   
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Strategery?

_{Chan Lowe—South Florida Sun-Sentinel}

- New York Times: “DeLay Decides to End Career in Congress”

- US News: “With Lead Actor Gone, Foes Talk Up ‘DeLayism’”

Now, some Democrats who have used DeLay as the centerpiece of a campaign to paint the GOP as the embodiment of the “culture of corruption” are growing a bit nervous that they’ve lost their poster boy. Or, in the words of MoveOn.org Political Action’s Tom Matzzie, their “comic book supervillain.” After DeLay’s announcement, Democrats rushed into post-DeLay mode.

“Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue,” Howard Dean wrote in an E-mail to Democratic supporters on Tuesday afternoon. “DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease—a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.”

The Democrats and their progressive allies face the challenge of crafting a message that moves past DeLay while keeping his name in circulation.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/06/2006 at 03:22 AM   
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   Wednesday - April 05, 2006

Optical Illusion Du Jour

Below is a cute little illusion.  Which is lighter, square “A” or square “B”?

Below the fold for the answer

Posted by Drew458     on 04/05/2006 at 04:37 PM   
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Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

Recipe for Hostile Hispanic Homebrew: take one baby shower, mix gently with assorted male and female family members of Hispanic origin, stir in a good deal of alcohol and the famous Hispanic hot-blooded tempers and just fer grins mix in a couple of large sticks and a few firearms.

Oh .... and cook this little recipe up in Massachusetts, the land of The Perpetual Idiotarians. What you end up with is a pregnant woman shot, several guests beaten severely and three gentlemen in the local jail cooling their heels (and tempers) for several years. Aye, caramba!

Three Arrested at Mass. Baby Shower Brawl
_{April 5, 2006, 12:30 PM EDT}

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP)

A baby shower erupted into a fight among guests in which one man was shot and several other people, including the seven-months-pregnant guest of honor, were beaten with a stick, police say. Three people were arrested after the brawl, described by police as a “baby shower gone bad.”

Police said the shooting victim, Aristotle Garcia, got into a fight with a man who is dating his ex-girlfriend. The argument, over whether the woman let their 5-year-old daughter drink beer, escalated and drew in two other people—Jazz Rivas and Juan Velazquez, said Police Lt. Cheryl C. Claprood. When the baby shower’s hostess tried to intervene, Rivas began hitting some of the guests, including the 22-year-old mother-to-be, with a large stick, she said.

Velazquez fired a gun in the air, then fired it into the crowd, hitting Garcia in the stomach, according to police. Garcia, 26, was in stable condition at Baystate Medical Center. The mother-to-be was treated after the incident Saturday and released. Velazquez, 19, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, armed assault with intent to murder. He had not yet been arraigned as of Wednesday morning.

The man Garcia was initially fighting with, Antonio Santiago, 25, pleaded innocent to similar charges on Tuesday and was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Rivas, 22, pleaded innocent to three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault and battery on a pregnant female. His bail was set at $10,000.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2006 at 02:51 PM   
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NIMBY

How often have you heard that phrase “It’s a good idea but ... Not In My Back Yard”. NIMBY. Nobody wants nuclear waste buried across the street from them and nobody wants a prison built next door yet we all need those things.

Right now, the people of New Orleans need temporary housing so they can return and get on with their lives. As long as this crap is going on, they will just have to wait. Then again, it may be a good idea to stay in whatever scattered locations they’re at than to come home to New Orleans and move into a trailer .... with hurricane season less than two months away. The next hurricane will probably pick up those trailers and drop them in somebody else’s back yard ... in Texas.

New Orleans Mayor Blocks FEMA Trailer Park
_{April 5, 2006, 9:33 AM EDT}

NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Mayor Ray Nagin suspended the construction of FEMA trailer parks in the city after a confrontation between federal workers and homeowners who were outraged that a government trailer park was being built inside their gated community.

With an election three weeks away, Nagin sided with the residents of Lakewood Estates, a community of spacious homes in the city’s Algiers section, and suspended the nearly completed trailer project there and similar projects elsewhere in New Orleans.

The Lakewood Estates trailer park was meant to house 34 single women and their children who were left homeless by Hurricane Katrina, but area residents complained it was too close to their homes. The neighborhood association also sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency seeking a permanent injunction against the project.

FEMA officials said they were surprised by Nagin’s decision, especially since he had approved the Algiers trailer site months earlier, FEMA spokesman Darryl Madden told The New York Times. All the necessary building permits had been obtained, Madden said.

The city may have to reimburse the federal government $1.6 million if FEMA is not allowed to finish building the trailer site, Madden said Tuesday.

- More madness from the Big Easy here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2006 at 02:38 PM   
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Tempest In A Teapot

Why must WallyWorld go through this? This is one time I disagree with groups like AFA. I don’t plan to buy the DVD or watch the movie. I saw all I needed to see in the trailer. Why try to stop WallyWorld from selling this piece of crap. Those who want to watch it can buy it and those who don’t can simply ignore it and shop for other movies. After all, I don’t wear women’s panties but that’s no reason for me to protest WallyWorld selling them ...

WAL-MART HIT BY BROKEBACK PROTEST
(ContactMusic.com)

Wal-Mart has turned aside a massive letter-writing campaign by the American Family Association. urging the retailer to refuse to stock Brokeback Mountain, being distributed by Universal Home Entertainment. The group, which has successfully campaigned against what it considers to be broadcast indecency launched the campaign last week after ads for the film began being displayed prominently in the retailer’s 3,900 stores.

In an interview with today’s (Tuesday) Los Angeles Times, the AFA’s Randy Sharp, accused Wal-Mart of helping to push the “gay agenda” by “trying to help normalize homosexuality in society.” He added, “But how many copies are they going to have to sell to [recoup] the losses of customers who they’ve offended and will no longer shop at Wal-Mart?”

But a Wal-Mart spokeswoman replied, “"The fact that we are offering the movie is not an endorsement of the content of the movie or any specific belief. ...We simply offer the latest titles that consumers want.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2006 at 02:26 PM   
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Getting Sick In Massachusetts

Uh-oh, here we go again. Massachusetts is going to require health insurance just like they require automobile insurance. Its’ a good idea but is it feasible. Nowadays, if you’re not in the upper-middle class or above, you can’t afford insurance. We have the best medical system in the world today but at a terrible price thanks to ambulance chasing lawyers, million-dollar lawsuits and greedy hospital administrators and drug companies. Where does it end? What is Massachusetts going to do when someone shows up at an emergency room with no insurance? This bodes ill for all of us ...

Massachusetts Bill Requires Health Coverage
State Set to Use Auto Insurance As a Model
_{Wednesday, April 5, 2006}

BOSTON (WASHINGTON POST)—The Massachusetts legislature approved a bill Tuesday that would require all residents to purchase health insurance or face legal penalties, which would make this the first state to tackle the problem of incomplete medical coverage by treating patients the same way it does cars.

Gov. Mitt Romney (R) supports the proposal, which would require all uninsured adults in the state to purchase some kind of insurance policy by July 1, 2007, or face a fine. Their choices would be expanded to include a range of new and inexpensive policies—ranging from about $250 per month to nearly free—from private insurers subsidized by the state.

Romney said the bill, modeled on the state’s policy of requiring auto insurance, is intended to end an era in which 550,000 people go without insurance and their hospital and doctor visits are paid for in part with public funds. “We insist that everybody who drives a car has insurance,” Romney said in an interview. “And cars are a lot less expensive than people.”

Tuesday’s votes approving the bill—154 to 2 in the House and 37 to 0 in the Senate—were the culmination of two years of politicking and several months of backroom negotiations, as rival health-care plans from Romney and the two Democrat-led chambers were hammered into one.

What resulted is a proposal that health-care experts say is unlike any other in the country. What to do about the 45 million Americans without health insurance has flummoxed both the Bush administration, whose proposal for “health savings accounts” fizzled, and that of Bill Clinton, whose broad plan for health-care changes fell flat.

On the state level, Hawaii and Maine have programs that seek to offer near-universal access to health insurance, and Illinois last year approved a subsidy plan that will widely increase coverage for needy children.

But no state, experts say, has taken the step of making health insurance coverage a legal requirement. The idea was applauded by Uwe E. Reinhardt, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, who said that he has long believed that the American system of allowing uninsured patients to receive care at the government’s expense was nothing more than “freedom to mooch.”

- More medical requirements here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/05/2006 at 10:38 AM   
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