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Constitution Is the Solution Series
Don't miss out ! Session 1 starts Saturday, April 26 at Noon.
The Constitution Is The Solution for what ails America. Do you feel a sense that our nation is in trouble? Do you feel, as many of your neighbors feel, our nation is moving in the wrong direction? This series examines the original intent and philosophy of limited government espoused by our founding fathers. It shows how our greatness as a nation is linked to our ability to enforce the Constitution and restrain the powers of government. This is not a trivia course. This course will open the Constitution. We will read from its pages, discuss the letters written by our founders which sought to explain its provisions and discuss how it was originally interpreted and applied. Why seek new innovations if we are yet unfamiliar with the sound principles which were responsible for our rise to greatness as a nation?
This course is divided into 6 parts. We will tackle 2 parts in each session. Topics to be discussed include:
1. The dangers of Democracy: A discussion of the various political systems which magnifies the differences between the raw power of Democracy and a Republic. Why our founders looked with dis-favor on pure democracy and how they sought to check the dangers by implementing the "rule of law" in a Republic that would protect individual rights from the fickle whims of mob rule.
2. Enumerated vs. Unlimited Power: A discussion of the two prevailing philosophical views of the Constitution. Is the Constitution a declaration of specifically limited and enumerated powers or an open-ended system of implied and unlimited powers?
3. Economics: What does the constitution have to say on matters of money? What is a dollar? What are the powers of the federal government with regard to the economy? What about the Federal Reserve? What about paper currency vs. hard money? The founders had plenty to say on these questions.
4. The Constitutional War Powers: How does the Constitution treat war? How and why are the war powers split between the Legislative and Executive branches. Why do we fight so many undeclared wars? What is/was the role of the state militias and how did they provide a check against federal abuse of the war powers?
5. Exposing the Enemies of Freedom: Who is working to subvert our Constitution? What enemies do hard-working, law-abiding Americans have to contend with in order to correct abuses of power and re-establish a working Constitution?
6. Restoring the Constitution: Effective Action in programs such as these help to spread awareness and educate the people. It is said that you must know from whence you came in order to know where you are headed. Where are we headed America? Help us lead our nation towards a rebirth in liberty by peacefully restoring the proper understanding and application of our Constitution. "Let us bind men down from mischief by the chains of a Constitution." — Thomas Jefferson
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Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder visited Your World last Friday (12/7/12) to discuss Michigan's GOP-controlled legislature approving right to work laws. He said, "We're gonna get it done… It's really important for a couple of reasons… It's all about being pro worker. We have hard working people in Michigan, and it's important to give them the freedom to choose. They should be able to choose whether to join a union or not, and this is about the relationship between a union and workers, not about employers and unions."
Snyder continued, "The second piece is, is I think this can be good for economic development for more and better jobs coming to Michigan."
Cavuto offered the mildest of pushbacks. "They say, the unions do, Sir, that you're presenting a Trojan horse here, that you're actually out to destroy the unions, and... it's about the slow dismantling of unions. What do you say?"
"Not at all," Snyder insisted. "If you look at unions in Michigan, they've done a lot of great things in our state. We're at the center of the labor movement going back in the last century. In the 20s, 30s, and 40s, people flocked to join the unions because they were helping with working conditions, wages, all those things.
…People used to choose to join a union. Now, I don't believe it's appropriate to say just to keep your job you have to pay dues and be a union member… I view this as pro-worker legislation."
But the Economic Policy Institute did the math that Cavuto didn't bother to do. The EPI found that right-to-work laws don't boost job growth; they lower wages and reduce benefits for both union and non-union workers. Funny how Cavuto avoided mentioning any actual statistics.
You want people who don't want you to be able to choose, how about you look at Fox News? They've supported every effort to exterminate unions. They've supported every effort to end their rights. they've paraded people who outright admit that they're selling no rights as better rights.
How about you take a look at what they're doing, before you level false accusations against the people on this site.
Seriously, dude, do you even think stuff through? The simple REALITY is that these "right-to-work" laws also just happen to make it a hell of a lot MORE difficult in starting a union or even being covered by a union. And yet, it's folks like you who would expect hard-working union MEMBERS to pay for all those "leeches" who want the union to protect THEM the same way the union does its dues-paying members. That's right. "Leeches." It cuts both ways. The right-wing has no problem going after the "takers" when folks get stuff from the government but they're all in favor of "takers" when it comes to non-union workers in a union workplace.
The GOP state people trying to inflict this attack have no interest in workers or their families. They just hate unions and wish to do anything they can to undermine and destroy them. The point of the legislation is to destroy their funding source and drive as many people out of the unions as possible. If it were successful, the unions would no longer have a voice in politics, while the major corporations that are outsourcing their jobs would have a monopoly on access. Given how poorly the GOP has performed in such matters (c.f. Paul Ryan's disregard for the devastation in his own community until he could try to blame it on Obama), this is not a winner for them.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that they rushed it through the legislature. Meaning that they knew this couldn't go through and would likely be thrown out, and that they're trying to get it in before the end of the year. By the middle of next year, whatever hasn't been immediately tossed by the new state legislature will likely be thrown out in court. Again.

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Stork Craft at (800) 274-0277 Monday through Friday between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. PT, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or online at http://storkcraftdirect.com and click on Product Recall near the bottom of the page for more information.
Recall Details
This recall involves Stork Craft foam crib and crib/toddler mattresses with model numbers 06710-100 and 06710-200 and a date of manufacture between August 2014 and January 2015. The mattresses have a zippered white fabric cover and measure about 28 inches wide, 52 inches long and have a 5 inch thick foam core. The model number, date of manufacture and "Stork Craft Manufacturing (USA) Inc." are printed on white federal label attached to the white mattress cover. The mattresses' box has a Graco logo.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled crib mattresses and contact Stork Craft for a free, zippered mattress barrier cover to be placed over the mattress foam core and under the white mattress cover provided with the mattress.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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To rescue SAnctuary. It has to be a pay site. Members/listeners have to pay each month.
Stongly believe that if every listener, is charged one buck a month, they wont turn their back on Santuary.
Santuary have up to 5000 listeners a day. So if half of them abondoned Santuary, it dosent matter. Still income enough, to the good side.
It can be a problem getting new listeners. But with a free 3 months trial, i dont think that would be a problem


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Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT's daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here's what we're reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you're following as well. Follow us all day on Twitter at @TPEquality.
– This weekend, a group of 150 Mormons publicly "declared their independence from Mormonism" in protest of the Church's positions on social issues.
– Sorry, Jitters and Bliss Coffee, you cannot partner with the National Organization for Marriage and "maintain a neutral corporate position on marriage," regardless of what NOM's press releases say.
– A lesbian couple has come forward saying their family was also discriminated against by an athletic club in Roanoke.
– The Alliance Defense Fund has appealed the case of the discriminating wedding photographer to the New Mexico Supreme Court.
– A new fund will help educate New York City police to not profile transgender women.
– Argentina's president personally delivered the first national identity cards under a new law that recognizes transgender citizens' authentic gender.
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Saturday, 27 Sep 2008
Warren Buffett Invests In Chinese Company Developing 'Green' Cars
Posted By: Alex Crippen
Topics:Automobile Industry Energy Alternative Energy Warren Buffett
Sectors:Automobiles and Parts
Companies:Constellation Energy Group Inc Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
A subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is making a $230 million investment in a Chinese battery company that's developing environmentally-friendly cars to be sold around the world.
In a news release, Berkshire's MidAmerican Energy Holdings says it has agreed to buy a 10 percent stake in BYD Company Limited, which trades on Hong Kong's stock exchange.
BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu is quoted in the release as saying, "We are extremely pleased and grateful that Berkshire Hathaway and MidAmerican will be our long-term investor and partner, as we bring our electric vehicles and other environmental protection measures to the global space."
As is the custom in this sort of announcement, Buffett returns the compliment. "We are thrilled to be partners with BYD and the people of China. Mr. Wang Chuanfu has an extraordinary managerial record, and we welcome the opportunity to work with him."
MidAmerican Chairman David Sokol calls BYD's technologies "an integral part of the future."
Reuters says BYD is working on electric-hybrid cars that it plans to sell in China starting later this year, and in Europe by 2010.
"BYD's electric cars are expected in Israel and Europe by 2010. The firm has said the cars could travel 300 km (190 miles) on a single charge. A full charge needs nine hours using its lithium-ion batteries, although they could be charged to 80 percent capacity in 15 minutes. ($1=7.773 Hong Kong Dollar) (Editing by Lincoln Feast)"
BYD's realtively low share price may have been part of Buffett's buying decision. Reuters says the company's shared closed at HK$8.40 on Friday, less than half of its October high of HK$20.45.
While this is a relatively small deal, it continues Berkshire's recent trend of putting money into technologies meant to reduce the world's reliance on oil as an energy-source. Late last week, MidAmerican picked up Constellation Energy
for the "bargain" price of $4.7 billion, after its stock had been beaten down. Constellation has several nuclear power plants in the U.S. and has plans for more.


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A news story on CBC News of Toronto tells the story of a property owner who discovered that his tenants were keeping livestock inside his house. It took 6 months to evict them, and once they were gone he found an enormous amount of garbage left on the premises. He had to rent a giant dumpster and remove animal carcasses from the premises. THe property owner estimated it would cost him $30,000 to get the smell of feces and urine out of the property.
"I knew it was bad but I had no idea how bad it was. It was sort of a numbed, stunned sort of feeling." — Andrew, property owner


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Plumeria Press launches a live music calendar
Half of the draw when picking a venue to explore in Anguilla is live music! The island has an incredible amount of local talent which provides visitors and locals alike the opportunity to enjoy fine dining or beachside relaxation while being serenaded by local musicians. Whether you're looking for The Musical Brothers to get the party started at the Pumphouse or Sprocka to bring the jazz at Johnno's, there's no shortage of entertainment to keep your trip alive with Anguillan tunes.
We have officially launched the newest addition to Plumeria Press, our Live Music Schedule, which can be found at the top of the page. We'll be keeping the page updated as new performers begin making the rounds, so please let us know if we need to make additions or changes.
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Thanks to Crusader Rabbit blogspot, I've located the fence on the border! Prepare yourselves. I'm certain this is not what you imagine when you think of our border fence. Take a good look America. That is all which stands between you and terrorists coming across our border as reported by wsbtv (Part 1, Part 2).
Monday, May 24, 2010
Tucson Public Schools "The Race" Studies
Tucson Public Schools has a "La Raza" program. I deliberately translated that into the English "The Race" in the title of this posting so that the reader would have no doubt about the racist nature of this program of study. I would go on about the several years of controversy on the topic but Accuracy In Media does it far better than I ever could so I quote them here:
Arizona Ethnic Studies Exposed
Cliff Kincaid, May 24, 2010
Arizona Ethnic Studies Exposed
Cliff Kincaid, May 24, 2010
We have allowed these communist progressives to take over our educational systems and, thus, the minds of children. THIS MUST STOP! WE MUST DESTROY THEIR CONTROL OVER THE MINDS OF THE CHILDREN! Get involved in your local school boards and city councils!One of Bill Ayers' courses at the University of Illinois includes Pedagogy of the Oppressed as required reading. Author Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Marxist, declared:
"This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well."
It turns out that the Freire book is required reading in "Raza Studies" or Mexican-American courses in the high schools in Tucson, Arizona, where students have been protesting Arizona's new immigration law. Other required books are Occupied America by Rodolfo Acuña, a professor emeritus of Chicano studies at California State University in Northridge (CSUN), and Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Communist.
Occupied America, the fifth edition, includes an image of Fidel Castro on the front cover, and Castro and Che Guevara on the back cover. It refers to white people as "gringos" and actually includes a quotation on page 323 from Jose Angel Gutierrez of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), who was angry over the cancellation of a government program. He declared:
"We are fed up. We are going to move to do away with the injustice to the Chicano and if the 'gringo' doesn't get out of our way, we will stampede over him."
The book goes on:
"Gutierrez attacked the gringo establishment angrily at a press conference and called upon Chicanos to 'Kill the gringo,' which meant to end white control over Mexicans."
Reviewing this material for the National Association of Scholars, Ashley Thorne commented that, "Actually, 'kill the gringo' meant 'kill the gringo.' But admitting that makes Mexicans look radical, infuriated, revolutionary, Acuña sidestepped that image and substituted it with one of browbeaten Latinos rising to overthrow injustice."
The Arizona citizens upset about this kind of material said that they initiated an investigation into the problem back in 2007 and found it difficult to get access to the books. One activist said the concern began when parents came to be aware of violence in the schools directed against white and black children. "This investigation was undertaken to find the roots of this hate," she told me. Another person, in turn, "told me the books in their Mexican-American classes are kept under 'lock and key' and the kids can't even take them home. She said she asked to see them but they were very secretive about them and she was prohibited."
However, the citizen activists persisted, demanding access to the books under a state open records law. The courses, after all, are taxpayer-funded. Eventually, a list of books was produced, and a controversy ensued.
The footnotes for Pedagogy of the Oppressed tell us a lot about the nature of the book. Sources include Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mao, Herbert Marcuse, and Vladimir Lenin.
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), which Bill Ayers serves as a vice-president, includes a "Paulo Freire Special Interest Group" in his honor. AERA has more than 25,000 members, including "educators; administrators; directors of research; persons working with testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists."
More open than even Bill Ayers about the mission, Paula Allman wrote Critical Education Against Global Capitalism, incorporating the ideas of Marx, Freire and Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist who emphasized the subversion of Western cultural institutions such as the educational system. Allman is in the School of Continuing Education at the University of Nottingham, England. The foreword to her book is by UCLA Professor Peter McLaren, one of those on Bill Ayers' own "blog roll" of favorite websites, and an open advocate of "Revolution as education," the subtitle of one of his books. Allman, he wrote, was "part of a bold new group of Marxist educationalists in Britain…"
Here, McLaren is leading the charge, as Ayers tags along and gets most of the "glory."
Bill Ayers explains to his students that Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed is "a complicated and layered book that will likely take you some time and sustained commitment." This is a book written by a Marxist for the purpose of sparking communist revolution. As the title indicates, this is a Marxist view of oppressors and the oppressed. Hence, students reading this book are supposed to come to an understanding of how various groups in society are being "oppressed." In fact, students themselves may come to believe, under careful guidance, that they, too, are members of the "oppressed" class. Didn't such a realization lead to the "student movement" of the 1960s, of which Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, were prominent members?
Perhaps this has something to do with the "new SDS," a new group of student activists being groomed by the Movement for a Democratic Society, under the watchful eyes of Ayers, Dohrn and their comrades.
The "Oppressed" in America
In the hands of a skillful "educator," and in the context of the reading of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Occupied America, the apparent aim is to convince the Mexican-American youth that they are the victims of the "oppressors"—white society. Occupied America opens with a map of "The Mexican Republic, 1821," showing Mexico in control of the Southwest United States. The subtitle of Occupied America, "A History of Chicanos," sets the tone. Freire promises them "liberation" from the gringos.
There are many obvious flaws in the book, and the treatment of communist subversion in the Western hemisphere is one of them. The book examines the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s from the standpoint of the U.S. trying to maintain "North American hegemony" and the power of the "ruling elite." President Reagan is portrayed as a fool for insisting that the Soviets and Cubans constituted any kind of threat to the region. Pro-communist groups such as the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) are depicted as helping refugees and countering "Reagan's propaganda."
But Reagan is attacked not only for resisting communist subversion. "In 1981 Reagan declared war on working families by firing 11,400 air traffic controllers…" it declares. When Reagan was elected president, "he appointed his Mexicans to offices." (emphasis in original). The book explains that Reagan's Mexicans were not "committed people" but "were conservative" and, for the most part, had "few links to the community." What's more, "resistance to bilingual education increased during the Ronald Reagan years," it says ominously.
Despite a controversy over the use of such books as Occupied America in the Tucson, Arizona schools, the University of Arizona in 2008 co-sponsored a four-day institute with Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American/Raza Studies program that featured Peter McLaren as a keynote speaker. McLaren's website opens with music and the face of Che Guevara on a red flag urging people to "join the revolution," while another speaker, Sandy Grande, an associate professor of education at Connecticut College, has a website that features a Che Guevara quotation:
"The first step to educate the people is to introduce them to the revolution. Never pretend you can help them conquer their rights by education alone, while they must endure a despotic government."
Grande's research "has focused on critical theory and American Indian intellectualism and she has written widely on topics that include revolutionary struggle, identity, power and environmental ethics." According to her bio, Professor Grande's approach "is profoundly inter- and cross-disciplinary, and has included the integration of critical, feminist and Marxist theories of education with the concerns of American Indian and environmental education." It says that she "teaches Foundations of Modern Education, School and Society, and Methods of Teaching. In addition to these courses, she has also taught courses in Multicultural Education, History of American Education, and the Pedagogy of Revolution."
Grande, chair of the Education Department, says that "our legacy builds upon on a long list of teacher/intellectuals: Paulo Freire, Maxine Greene, Peter McLaren, Michelle Fine, Antonia Darder, Joel Spring, Michael Apple, Marie Clay, Linda Thuwai Smith, Lisa Delpit, and Vine Deloria."
Ayers must be wondering why he failed to make the grade.
One of the leading critics of the Freire approach is Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, who points out that China and Cuba, "whose regimes Mr. Freire praised," never reformed their own educational systems along these lines and instead have concentrated on producing more industrial managers, engineers and scientists.
It seems that Pedagogy of the Oppressed is being reserved for the capitalist countries still in need of "liberation."
In a lengthy analysis, Stern notes that Pedagogy of the Oppressed "has achieved near-iconic status in America's teacher-training programs" and that one study found that it was "one of the most frequently assigned texts" in the curricula of 16 schools of education — 14 of them among the top-ranked institutions in the country. "These course assignments are undoubtedly part of the reason that, according to the publisher, almost 1 million copies have sold, a remarkable number for a book in the education field," he noted.
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and can be contacted at email@example.com. This is an excerpt of one of his columns, which can be read in its entirety here.
Calderon: LIAR, Manipulator, Gun Banner
Mexican President Calderone came to the USA and insulted us, we all know that. But, he also LIED and manipulated our lame stream media and called for an assualt weapons ban in the USA. Knowing full well that our pathetic, statist loving agit-prop media would run with it and misrepresent it, he actually told the truth. Eighty percent of the guns that the USA has traced for Mexico originated in the USA. That is not 80% of all guns confiscated in Mexico. See the trick? Well, sucks to be Mexico, doesn't it? I guess you better step up enforcement of the northern border to keep all those dangerous weapons out. Why have they not done so already if this is such a problem? Why don't they build a fence? Why don't they deploy their military? We all know the answer to this. Cut off the flow south, and you cut off the flow north (or at least restrict it to certain locations which we can then easily patrol) which in turn cuts off the flow of $20 billion per year south.
Speaking of enforcing their northern border, local news just reported that the US Consulate in Nogales has issued a travel warning due to unauthorized police check points which have begun to appear on Highway 8 which is the main highway from Lukeville, Arizona south 50 miles to the beach resort of Puerto Penasco (aka Rocky Point), Mexico. The warning also states "Consulate staff on official travel between cities must use armored vehicles" and "At some checkpoints, motorists who have not stopped at unofficial checkpoints have been shot at and killed.". Many Arizonans vacation there regularly and have for years. Some even foolishly own homes or condos there in spite of the rampant and open corruption. Unauthorized police checkpoints should frighten you. We all know that a huge percentage of the police in Mexico are on the payroll of the drug cartels. Americans turn up missing in Mexico often enough to concern us all. Anyone foolish enough to continue to go to Mexico after these episodes should study this picture. Innocent mistake or malicious intent or just plain stupid. That is what you're dealing with.
Back to Calderone's lies. From The Heritage Foundation:
In his speech before a Joint Session of Congress yesterday, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico made a bold claim. He asserted that:
"Just to give you an idea, we have seized 75,000 guns and assault weapons in Mexico in the last three years. And more than 80 percent of those we have been able to trace came from the United States — from the United States."
The media immediately picked up on this claim. As Reuters summarized the President's remarks:
"[He] said more than 80 percent of [the guns] came from the United States"
Except that, of course, was not what the President said. The President included a crucial qualifier in his statement: he was referring only to the guns that Mexico has (with U.S. assistance) been able to trace. And in that context, the President's claim is correct: he was referring to a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report concluding that, of the guns seized in Mexico and given to the ATF for tracing from 2004 through 2008, approximately 87 percent originated in the U.S.
But this number says nothing about the percentage of guns seized in Mexico that originated in the U.S., because the U.S. does not trace the majority of guns seized in Mexico. Figures like "87 percent" sound impressive, but actual numbers are more illustrative. According to the GAO, the number of guns seized in Mexico that have been traced back to the U.S. has ranged from 5,260 in 2005 to 1,950 in 2006 to 3,060 in 2007 to 6,700 in 2008.
Thus, if the "last three years" the President mentioned are 2007, 2008, and 2009, only 9,760 of the guns seized in those years – the total of 2007 and 2008 – definitely came from the U.S. The U.S. share for 2009 has not yet been reported, but even if it doubled the total of 2008, the U.S. share for all three years would be less than a third of the 75,000 seizures in Mexico. A more realistic U.S. share is between 20 and 25 percent.
The argument the President made today has been refuted again and again, but it is not surprising that he relied on it. The only surprising fact is that the President couched his remarks in the context of a request for an 'assault weapons' ban, instead of in the context of support for the OAS's Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials, commonly known as CIFTA.
Perhaps this is a tactful admission that the Convention is seriously flawed. But if the President was trying to be tactful, he might have omitted his argument that the U.S. faces an incipient armed rebellion unless it acts on his request. The basic fact is that Mexico's problems are fundamentally homegrown. It may be politically convenient for the President of Mexico to claim U.S. responsibility, but in the form he presented them today, those claims are regrettably misleading.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
For the illiterati
For the illiterate opponents of AZ SB 1070
Friday, May 21, 2010
New CafePress Shop
Being fed up with the whole brouhaha over Arizona SB1070, I created a CafePress shop where you can buy this new design I just made.
Careful what you wish for. While we do not have the ability to flip the switch immediately, we do have the ability to ensure a less cooperative attitude in future negotiations.
Why the hell can't California build power plants in their own state anyway? Same reason they won't drill for oil to fuel their own economy. Elitists and environmental whackjobs control everything out there (don't give me any lip either! I was born and raised there!) and won't allow. Fine. If it were up to me, you'd be sitting there in the dark already.
All the normals are cordially and enthusiastically invited to live here in Arizona, holy land of SB 1070.
America loves AZ SB 1070
President Obama, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, California Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar are all governing against the will of the American people. And by American people I mean American citizens. The vast majority of American citizens agree with me!
Viva Los 1070!
Mr Calderone, when you go home to the corrupt crime ridden region you call a country, take your citizens with you.
See the entire poll here (pdf).
32. Do you think the current level of security at the country's borders is toostrict, not strict enough or about right?
Too strict Not strict enough About right (Don't know)
18-19 May 10 2% 76 18 3
Democrats 4% 65 28 3
Republicans 1% 85 13 1
Independents 2 % 81 11 5
29-30 Aug 06 4% 77 15 4
35. Do you favor or oppose requiring people to show documents proving their immigration status if government officials have reasonable cause to ask for them?
Favor Oppose (Don't know)
18-19 May 10 84% 13 2
Democrats 75% 21 3
Republicans 95% 4 1
Independents 82% 15 3
36. Do you favor or oppose allowing local and state police to detain anyone who cannot prove their immigration status?
Favor Oppose (Don't know)
18-19 May 10 76% 19 5
Democrats 69% 27 4
Republicans 85% 9 6
Independents 73% 19 7
37. (Skip if in AZ: n=884, ±3) Would you favor or oppose YOUR state passing an immigration law like Arizona's new law?
Favor Oppose (Don't know)
18-19 May 10 52% 31 18
Democrats 31% 48 20
Republicans 73% 10 17
Independents 55% 33 12
38. Some businesses and organizations are boycotting trips to Arizona or business with Arizona because of the state's new immigration law. Do you support or oppose these types of boycotts?
Support Oppose (Don't know)
18-19 May 10 23% 66 11
Democrats 34% 53 13
Republicans 10% 81 9
Independents 28% 65 7
39. After publicly questioning the constitutionality of the new Arizona immigration law, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently admitted in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that he hadn't read the law. Do you think it is shocking for the attorney general to take a stand about laws he has not read, or is it not a big deal?
Shocking Not a big deal (Don't know)
18-19 May 10 83% 12 5
Democrats 77% 19 4
Republicans 92% 5 3
Independents 81% 13 6
Calderone: Harvard man
Felipe Calderone. Harvard man. Racist. Open borders progressive - as long as it's not his southern border.
As an Arizonan, I'm disgusted at our President standing there and not defending Arizona and it's law which is less strict than Federal Law. I'm also disgusted at half the Congress for giving Calderone a standing ovation. You all take a look at who stood up and vote those people out of congress! Actions should have consequences so make them pay.
My new friend BJinAmerica wrote this article yesterday:
Yesterday, the President of Mexico took the opportunity of a White House Press Conference to share his opinion of Arizona's attempts to solve the rise in crime it's experiencing due to an open Southern border. Obama looked on as President Felipe Calderón criticized Arizona law in front of foreign and American reporters. Obama followed with some comments of his own. The event had a very unreal quality about it. You can watch some of it here:
Calderón comes from a political family, and he is no novice to diplomatic decorum. He earned degrees in both law and economics in Mexico before going to Harvard University. When he returned to Mexico, he proved himself a capable and gifted politician as he advanced from one position to the next honing his executive skills. He has always seemed more savvy, discreet, capable, and diplomatic than his actions showed yesterday. The whole episode was confusing – until I woke up.
I now realize we were treated to a dog and pony show, sanctioned by the White House. Perhaps Chitown Rahm even whispered in Calderon's ear and gave him a wink and a nod. It's more than possible that the statement was suggested or at least sanctioned. I mean what foreign diplomat uses a White House photo op to criticize an American law and American citizens? It was uncouth, and Calderón is getting much criticism on numerous blogs for his actions. (Another sacrifice for President Obeyme, but this one will hurt Mexico tourism.)
As for the POTUS, he stood there and allowed a foreign President to criticize an Arizona state law that mirrors our federal law on immigration. Calderón said, "such laws as the Arizona law that is forcing our people to face discrimination." What did Obama have to say in response? He said a "fair reading" of the law, which suggested that he has read the legislation, unlike his Attorney General last week. Obama says he fears "harassment" and believes the judgments law enforcement would need to apply the law are "troublesome." He said the Justice Department is looking at the legislation to make sure it's consistent with "existing legal precedent."
Legal precedent? That's a good idea, MR President. Given how you and yours have a soft spot for international law, let's look at how Mexico treats foreigners, including legal and illegal immigrants. It turns out Mexico has stricter immigration laws than the United States of America. These laws are contained in Mexico's Constitution and Mexico's Immigration Law (General Law on Population). Mexico's laws answer at least ten important immigration questions.
1.) What immigrants are welcome in Mexico?
• Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society. Foreigners admitted "according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress." (Article 32) Immigration officials must "ensure" that "immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance." (Article 34)
• Foreigners may be barred if their presence upsets "the equilibrium of the national demographics," when deemed detrimental to "economic/ national interests," when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they break Mexican laws, and when "they are not found to be physically/ mentally healthy." (Article 37)
2.) How does Mexico track its immigrants?
• Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country: Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)
• A National Population Registry tracks "every single individual who comprises the population of the country," and verifies each individual's identity. (Articles 85 & 86)
• A National Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and assigns each individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91).
3.) What happens to foreigners using false papers/ pretenses to enter?
• Foreigners who use fake papers or false pretenses to enter Mexico may be imprisoned.
• Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)
• Foreigners who sign government documents "with a signature that is false or different from that normally used" are subject to fine & imprisonment. (Article 116)
4.) What happens to foreigners in Mexico who break its immigration laws?
• Foreigners who fail to obey the rules are fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons. Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
• Foreigners who are deported and attempt to re-enter without authorization can be imprisoned up to 10 years. (Article 118)
• Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison (Articles 119, 120 and 121).
• Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico — such as working without a permit — can also be imprisoned.
5.) What's Mexico's penalty for illegal immigration?
• Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony.The General Law on Population says: "A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)
• Those with legal immigration issues may be deported not imprisoned. (Article 125) Foreigners who work against national sovereignty/security are deported. (Article 126)
6.) What happens to Mexican citizens who break Mexico's immigration laws?
• Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter Mexico are considered criminals.
• A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)
• Shipping and airline companies that bring undocumented foreigners into Mexico will be fined. (Article 132)
7.) How do non-citizens participate in Mexican political Life?
• The Mexican Constitution forbids non-citizens to participate in the country's political life. Non-citizens are forbidden to participate in demonstrations or express opinions in public about domestic politics. Article 9 states, "only citizens of the Republic may do so to take part in the political affairs of the country."
"Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country." (Article 33)
8.) What property rights do foreigners have in Mexico?
• The Mexican Constitution denies fundamental property rights to foreigners. If foreigners wish to have certain property rights, they must renounce the protection of their own governments or risk confiscation. Foreigners are forbidden to own land in Mexico within 100 kilometers of land borders or within 50 kilometers of the coast. "Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters." (Article 27)
• The State may grant the same right to foreigners, provided they agree before the Ministry of Foreign Relations to consider themselves as nationals in respect to such property, and bind themselves not to invoke the protection of their governments in matters relating thereto; under penalty, in case of noncompliance with this agreement, of forfeiture of the property acquired to the Nation.
• Under no circumstances may foreigners acquire direct ownership of lands or waters within a zone of one hundred kilometers along the frontiers and of fifty kilometers along the Shores of the country.
9.) What employment rights do immigrants enjoy in Mexico?
• The Mexican Constitution denies equal employment rights to immigrants (even legal ones) in the public sector. Mexicans have priority over foreigners "under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable." In peacetime no foreigner can serve in the Army nor in the police/ public security forces." (Article 32)
10. What citizenship rights do immigrants enjoy once they are naturalized?
• The Mexican Constitution guarantees that immigrants will never be treated as real Mexican citizens, even if they are legally naturalized. Foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico are banned from serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports. (Article 32)
• In order to belong to the National Navy or the Air Force, and to discharge any office or commission, it is required to be a Mexican by birth. This same status is indispensable for captains, pilots, masters, engineers, mechanics, and in general, for all personnel of the crew of any vessel or airship protected by the Mexican merchant flag or insignia.
• An immigrant who becomes a naturalized Mexican citizen can be stripped of his Mexican citizenship if he lives again in the country of his origin for more than five years. (Article 37) Mexican-born citizens risk no such loss.
• Foreign-born, naturalized Mexican citizens may not become federal lawmakers (Article 55), cabinet secretaries (Article 91) or supreme court justices (Article 95).
• The president of Mexico must be a Mexican citizen by birth AND his parents must also be Mexican-born citizens (Article 82), thus giving secondary status to Mexican-born citizens born of immigrants.
• The Mexican constitution singles out "undesirable aliens." Article 11 guarantees federal protection against "undesirable aliens resident in the country."
• The Mexican constitution states that foreigners may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, "the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action."
Here is Arizona Governor Jan Brewer sharing her feelings on the issue:
The Obama-Calderón Tag Team was very memorable;it will take us years to push it from our collective memory and forget it. We have a President who holds his country and its citizens in contempt. The POTUS did not mention the murders, kidnappings, drug and human trafficking on the US-Mexico border, but then we've become accustomed to him holding our great country in low regard so that it mirrors his own meager capabilities.
He has distinguished himself as the one and only US President, who bows to our enemies as he systematically dismantles our economy, security, and achievements on his never ending apology tour. The fact that he allowed a foreigner in the Rose Garden to slam the USA was small potatoes in comparison to the countless ways he and his minions are working overtime to de-develop our country. It's ok; we are a resilient people, and we look forward to November. It is just around the corner.
I can see November from my house!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Unions: Despicable dregs of humanity
Just saw this story told on Glenn Beck so i looked it up. Union thugs intimidate 14 year old boy and the police. Thugs! As you know if you're read this blog before, I despise unions. They are thug communists!
Thank Heavens Nina Easton is this guys neighbor and has the balls to tell the story because you haven't heard this story anyplace including the news shows on FoxNewsChannel!
This kind of evil along with the blatant lies you're all hearing in the media about my beloved state of Arizona has gone far enough!
NOTE: I know that many people are forced to join a union in order to be employed. YOU are not who I am talking about unless you engage in or encrouage this type of behaviour. But the leaders of these unions are communist thugs. The union stewards are dupes, dopes, useful tools, or willing accomplices.
NOTE: I know that many people are forced to join a union in order to be employed. YOU are not who I am talking about unless you engage in or encrouage this type of behaviour. But the leaders of these unions are communist thugs. The union stewards are dupes, dopes, useful tools, or willing accomplices.
What's really behind SEIU's Bank of America protests?
Every journalist loves a peaceful protest-whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. Then there are the ones that show up on your curb--literally.
Last Sunday, on a peaceful, sun-crisp afternoon, our toddler finally napping upstairs, my front yard exploded with 500 screaming, placard-waving strangers on a mission to intimidate my neighbor, Greg Baer. Baer is deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), a senior executive based in Washington, D.C. And that -- in the minds of the organizers at the politically influential Service Employees International Union and a Chicago outfit called National Political Action -- makes his family fair game.
Waving signs denouncing bank "greed," hordes of invaders poured out of 14 school buses, up Baer's steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer's teenage son Jack -- alone in the house -- locked himself in the bathroom. "When are they going to leave?" Jack pleaded when I called to check on him.
Baer, on his way home from a Little League game, parked his car around the corner, called the police, and made a quick calculation to leave his younger son behind while he tried to rescue his increasingly distressed teen. He made his way through a din of barked demands and insults from the activists who proudly "outed" him, and slipped through his front door.
"Excuse me," Baer told his accusers, "I need to get into the house. I have a child who is alone in there and frightened."
When is a protest not a protest?
Now this event would accurately be called a "protest" if it were taking place at, say, a bank or the U.S. Capitol. But when hundreds of loud and angry strangers are descending on your family, your children, and your home, a more apt description of this assemblage would be "mob." Intimidation was the whole point of this exercise, and it worked-even on the police. A trio of officers who belatedly answered our calls confessed a fear that arrests might "incite" these trespassers.
What's interesting is that SEIU, the nation's second largest union, craves respectability. Just-retired president Andy Stern is an Obama friend and regular White House visitor. He sits on the President's Fiscal Responsibility Commission. He hobnobs with those greedy Wall Street CEOs -- executives much higher-ranking than my neighbor Baer -- at Davos. His union spent $70 million getting Democrats elected in 2008.
In the business community, though, SEIU has a reputation for strong-arm tactics against management, prompting some companies to file suit.
Now those strong-arm tactics, stirred by supposedly free-floating (as opposed to organized) populist rage, have come to the neighborhood curb. Last year it was AIG executives -- with protestors met by security guard outside. Now it's any executive -- and they're on the front stoop. After Baer's house, the 14 buses left to descend on the nearby residence of Peter Scher, a government relations executive at JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500).
Targeting homes and families seems to put SEIU in the ranks of (now jailed) radical animal-rights activists and the Kansas anti-gay fundamentalists harassing the grieving parents of a dead 20-year-old soldier at his funeral (the Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the latter). But that's not a conversation that SEIU officials want to have.
When I asked Stephen Lerner, SEIU's point-person on Wall Street reform, about these tactics, he accused me of getting "emotional." Lerner was more comfortable sticking to his talking points: "Millions of people are losing their homes, and they have gone to the banks, which are turning a deaf ear."
Okay, fine, then why not continue SEIU protests at bank offices and shareholder meetings-as the union has been doing for more than a year? Lerner insists, "People in powerful corporations seem to think they can insulate themselves from the damage they are doing."
Other reasons why SEIU might protest
Bank of America officials dispute Lerner's assertion about the "damage they are doing," citing the success of workout programs to help distressed homeowners, praise received from community groups, the bank's support of financial reform legislation, and the little-noticed fact that Bank of America exited the subprime lending business in 2001.
SEIU has said it wants to organize bank tellers and call centers -- and its critics point out that a great way to worsen employee morale, thereby making workers more susceptible to union calls, is to batter a bank's image through protest. (SEIU officials say their anti-Wall Street campaign has nothing to do with their organizing efforts.) Complicating this picture is the fact that BofA is the union's lender of choice -- and SEIU, suffering financially, owes the bank nearly $4 million in interest and fees. Bank of America declined comment on the loans.
But SEIU's intentions, and BofA's lender record, are ripe subjects to debate in Congress, on air, at shareholder hearings. Not in Greg Baer's front yard.
Why the media wasn't invited
Sunday's onslaught wasn't designed for mainstream media consumption. There were no reporters from organizations like the Washington Post, no local camera crews who might have aired criticism of this private-home invasion. With the media covering the conservative Tea Party protesters, the behavior of individual activists has drawn withering scrutiny.
Instead, a friendly Huffington Post blogger showed up, narrowcasting coverage to the union's leftist base. The rest of the message these protesters brought was personal-aimed at frightening Baer and his family, not influencing a broader public.
Of course, HuffPost readers responding to the coverage assumed that Baer was an evil former Bush official. He's not. A lifelong Democrat, Baer worked for the Clinton Treasury Department, and his wife, Shirley Sagawa, author of the book The American Way to Change and a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, is a prominent national service advocate.
In the 1990s, the Baers' former bosses, Bill and Hillary Clinton, denounced the "politics of personal destruction." Today politicians and their voters of all stripes grieve the ugly bitterness that permeates our policy debates. Now, with populist rage providing a useful cover, it appears we've crossed into a new era: The politics of personal intimidation.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Illegal Garbage
My friend Holger posted this on his blog today. I live in Arizona. I've seen pictures of the border crossing areas. I've read about the detritus left by the illegals. But, this is far beyond what I knew about.
You really want that boycott, Los Angeles?
Yeah, I got yer boycott right here. Rolling blackouts in Los Angeles. I grew up in Los Angeles. Blackouts = riots and race attacks. Fine. If it were up to me, the power would already have been switched off. First on a Saturday as a warning. Then, first thing Monday morning. And it wouldn't come back on without an apology either. From Villaraigosa and Schwarzenegger too. I'd feel bad about the impact on regular people but stupid words and votes have consequences.
Former Community Organizer and now Mayor of Los Angeles, Villaraigosa, take that!
From hotair which says "The Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott the state of Arizona over its new immigration-enforcement law, and now the Arizona Corporation Commission has responded. Gary Pierce, one of the commissioners chosen in state-wide elections to the utility regulation panel, notes that Los Angeles gets about 25% of its power from Arizona producers. If the City of Angels really wants a boycott, Pierce offers his services to help, as he explains in a letter to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and copied to Hot Air"
A scan of the letter can be downloaded here".
Dear Mayor Villaraigosa,Commissioner Pearce has my vote for the foreseeable future!
I was dismayed to learn that the Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott Arizona and Arizona-based companies — a vote you strongly supported — to show opposition to SB 1070 (Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act).
You explained your support of the boycott as follows: "While we recognize that as neighbors, we share resources and ties with the State of Arizona that may be difficult to sever, our goal is not to hurt the local economy of Los Angeles, but to impact the economy of Arizona. Our intent is to use our dollars — or the withholding of our dollars — to send a message." (emphasis added)
I received your message; please receive mine. As a state-wide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona's electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the "resources and ties" we share with the City of Los Angeles. In fact, approximately twenty-five percent of the electricity consumed in Los Angeles is generated by power plants in Arizona.
If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation. I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands. If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy.
People of goodwill can disagree over the merits of SB 1070. A state-wide economic boycott of Arizona is not a message sent in goodwill.
Commissioner Gary Pierce
Saturday, May 15, 2010
McCain should be apologizing to Arizona
Riehl World View is right. McCain should be apologizing to Arizona. He has been the Senator from Arizona for decades but in Washington he represents himself and his own ambitions with little or no regard for his constituents.
McCain was pro-illegal, pro-amnesty, anti-fence, anti-border enforcement in 2007 and many times before. Now he expects us to believe that he's flipped on the issue? Fine. Even if we believe he is a flip-flopper, which stance represents his real values and which of those will he take back to Washington if re-elected? The anti-border enforcement pro-amnesty stance of 2007? Or this new border hawk stance of 2010? And why should we trust him since we can't tell where he truly stands?
McCain is also trying to blame Washington for this lack of border enforcement. Senator McCain, you are Washington and have been for decades! YOU are the problem!
Forget it McCain. You are long past your rotten-by date. Please retire. Someplace other than Arizona.
For the record, I voted against Obama, for Palin, and not for you in the '08 Presidential election.
McCain's Shameful Irresponsibility On Illegal Immigration
I see others are laughing at McCain's illegal immigration ad I mocked the other day. Michelle Malkin calls it desperation. It's that and worse. John McCain has been in Washington for freaking ever. He was supposed to be representing Arizona. But when people in Arizona and across the country were calling for a secure Southern border, he ridiculed them. Then he jumped in bed with Ted Kennedy to play politics on comprehensive reform no one wanted, because we know we can't trust DC on the enforcement angle.
McCain should be apologizing to Arizona, not engaging in weak attempts to make the issue his own, now. He's a big part of the problem and wasn't interested in being part of a real solution when it was needed, because he was positioning himself to run for President in 2008. (Kirls - While I believe McCain should have been retired before '08, I believe this is a typo and should have read 2010)
McCain is the worst kind of joke on this issue, an old and a sad one. And he needs to be retired in 2008.
John McCain is everywhere now preaching the gospel of secure borders. He's inescapable. And shameless. And desperate.
Read this by Michelle Malkin. She has links to his past pro-amnesty, anti-fence stance from '07. Michelle reminds us that McCain is "The man who proudly named Soros-funded, open-borders radical Juan Hernandez as his Hispanic Outreach Director" for his '08 Presidential bid.
And let's not forget the Vanity Fair piece in 2007 where he is quoted as saying By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it." So, it was the gd fence then and the dang fence now. Nothing has changed but the presentation.
Join me everyone. Support JD Hayworth for the Senate!
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Petition: I Support Arizona's New Immigration Law
I have added a new widget to my sidebar which you can click on to sign a petition to show your support of Arizona's new Immigration Law (SB 1070) which merely echoes Federal Immigration Law. The difference is that we here in Arizona, will, for the most part, enforce the law. The protestors are singling Arizona out for that reason alone. The protestors like the lack of enforcement which allows them and the gangs and the human traffickers and the drug traffickers to slip back and forth across the border at will. Sign the petition!
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Radical Agenda of SB1070 opponents
The world knows that the entire country, and some outside the country, have protested Arizona's controversial SB 1070 which simply echoes Federal Immigration Law. The entire world knows this because that is all the main stream media in this country has talked about since the bill passed. As if this law, which only codifies what the Phoenix police have been doing for years (ie, if there is some other lawful contact, also check the immigration status). Arizona is overrun. There are less than 6 million people in this state and nearly half a million are illegals. Do the math. The percentage is not trivial.
What the world may not be aware of is the real agenda of these protestors. In addition to the fists and masks and open borders agenda observed in Phoenix, the protestors in California are showing more of their real agenda. All the pictures below are taken from KFI.
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A small survey American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) members found that most of them had used online streaming media (i.e. YouTube) at least once to learn a new technique and most had used those techniques in practice, according to an article published online by JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.
Anita Sethna, M.D., of the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and coauthors surveyed AAFPRS members and received 202 responses, about 8 percent of the AAFPRS membership.
The most popular ways to stay current with technical and nontechnical findings included meetings, journals and discussions with colleagues. However, 64.1 percent of respondents said they had used online media at least once to learn a new technique, especially for rhinoplasty and injectable procedures, and 83.1 percent had used those techniques in their practice. Less experienced surgeons were more likely to have used online streaming media than more experienced surgeons.
"The enthusiasm is not unbridled, however. The Internet's ease of access has raised concerns regarding the quality of these sources," the authors note.


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Manila, Philippines–Fortifying its presence in the local market, Kata Philippines has officially opened its Kata Store today, November 29, 2013 at the 2nd floor of Forum Robinsons in Edsa, Mandaluyong City.
The huge flagship store housed an array of Kata products such as i1 and i2 smartphones, T2 and FishTab 3 tablets, Maya Atom desktop computer and other related accessories.
The new establishment also serves as an avenue for customers to experience the products at hand. Apart from that, the store provides gadget aficionados with hassle-free and convenient mobile-gadgets store experience through their well-trained front liners, pleasant store ambiance with demo-ready product displays, and well-selected products.
This new milestone of Kata aims to further strengthen its niche by constantly providing wider choices of its latest and innovative gadgets. In fact, Kata Store has a lot in store for you, as they are set to launch their latest product this coming December 7, 2013 at Forums Robinsons.
Experience Kata and head over to Robinsons Forum and shop for your favorite devices.
On another note, in anticipation of the yuletide season, Kata will be having a Cyber Monday Sale this coming Dec. 2, 2013 wherein when you buy an i1, i2, T2 or FishTab 3 with reduced prices, you can get FREE accessories. While on Dec.2-8, 2013, you can get a FREE Divoom speaker in every purchase of i1. Furthermore, Kata will be launching an online shop at their Official Website wherein you can have 50% off on accessories for every purchase of the featured Kata devices and to top it all, items will be delivered at your doorstep for FREE.
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Maine DECD plans to close Dolby Landfill in 2016 | News
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The state took ownership of the Dolby Landfill with the hope of keeping jobs in the Katahdin Region, but now it's looking more like an expensive waste of taxpayer dollars.
In 2011, the state agreed to assume ownership of the Dolby Landfill in East Millinocket. It was part of a deal set by Cate Street Capital in order for them to buy the struggling paper mill and preserve about 200 jobs. Cate Street saved those jobs for about a year before closing the mill, and the state was left with millions of dollars in costs.
The Landfill Oversight Manager for the State Department of Economic and Community Development, Michael Barden, said the department has budgeted for an allocation of $12 million from the state to close the Dolby Landfill. That process will start in 2016 and last three years.
Since 2012, the average annual operating cost of the landfill has risen to $400,000, according to Barden, and after the landfill is closed it will still cost the state about $100,000 annually over the next 30 years to monitor it, as per the Department of Environmental Protection's requirement.
State Rep. Stephen Stanley of Medway has pointed out another problem; he said the Dolby Landfill and East Millinocket's wastewater treatment plant are connected, and that taking away the landfill would mean having to rebuild a new wastewater plant, something the town can't afford.
"The town is in such financial strain and it's going to be very devastating to the people because now you've lost your major manufacturer and the people are paying the water bills," Stanley said.
The East Millinocket Administrative Assistant said the town council will be holding a meeting Tuesday night to discuss the wastewater treatment as well as the future of the landfill.


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Treading Aegean waters in style
Mykonos a sublime, white washed slice of heaven perched right on the waters edge. Meandering through the streets is a dream for any fashion conscious traveller. Don't be put off by the designer cluster, mind you, perched as snug and frequently, are smaller boutiques where you can pick up beautiful trinkets and stunning cheesecloth tops and dresses for next to nothing.
Where to eat: Remezzo Mykonos The highlight of our week was the magical Remezzo restaurant with a view of the harbour so spectacular that it would be criminal to miss. The food was fresh and delicious, I recommend the truffle oil chips, and my lobster served on Greek pasta was some of the freshest I've ever had. Prepare for tabletop dancing as the night goes on!
Matsuhisa, The Belvedere Hotel Matsuhisa, AKA, Nobu in the Belvedere Hotel is an idyllic setting for dinner. The norm is to eat dinner in Mykonos after 10pm, so book a table late for the best experience. The hanging lanterns and secluded pool garden is beautiful. We opted for the 7-course chef menu so beyond mentioning preferences the rest was a complete surprise. The cocktail bar at Matsuhisa is unrivalled and honestly, it is such an atmospheric place for some downtime.
Where to soak up some sun: There is no question that the sea in Mykonos is one of the best. The aquamarine waters are clear as glass and the suntan that you acquire in Mykonos is a strong one.
Nammos Beach Table after table of faces more gorgeous than the one before, this is truly a place to party from day to the night. Eat dinner on the beach while the sun sets in their outdoor restaurant and get totally swept away by the palms and the music. If you're looking for a real party vibe this is your port of call.
Platys Gialios A fun, unassuming beach! family friendly and relaxing. Head to Mykonos Water sports when you are there!
Where to Shop: Mykonos town itself is an exquisite maze of expensive boutiques intertwined with more traditional jewelers and clothing stores. It offers everything from luxury to affordable. Situated in Psraou Beach, right by the entrance to Nammos is 'Psarou Kaftans and beachwear' where I purchased the most beautifully made kaftan in the softest of white cotton with red detailing. An obligatory pit stop before Nammos for sure.
Getting around With only 33 taxis in the entire island of Mykonos, I would fully recommend the hire of an ATV or Moped. Apart from the obvious fun factor, it is just a perfect way to get about and see the island in its true splendor. It's the closest I'll ever get to being a Hell's Angel.
If Santorini is the honeymoon of Greece, then Mykonos is definitely where you had the wild love affair to begin with.


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Edgar Allan Poe was a famous 19th-century writer who is still popular. He created the detective-story genre and wrote poems with interesting rhythms (like "The Raven").
The tale of his own disappearance, followed soon thereafter by his death, remains a "cold case" in literary history.
Poe's short story about a murderer, who kills an old man because he doesn't like his "vulture" eye, is a classic of conscience-haunting. Is it the still-beating heart of the dead man—or—the pounding of the murderer's own heart which forces his confession?
If we look at the original publication of this story, which Poe released in 1843, we see that he introduced it with a poem not his own:
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
That he chose an 1838 poem by Longfellow—a poet whose work Poe publicly criticized as smacking of plagiarism (a form of cheating which Poe had despised since childhood)—is telling. Perhaps this stanza of "A Psalm of Life" reflects the imagery Poe wanted to convey of a heart still beating after death?
The narrator of this story—who is unnamed—does his best to convince readers that he is sane. Would a sane person take these actions? Would a sane person kill the old man just because he doesn't like the old man's eye? Whose fear is more palpable in the story—the old man's or the murderer's?
You decide as you read this abridged version of Poe's classic tale (which he originally published in the January 1843 issue of The Pioneer: A Literary and Critical Magazine, Volume I, Number I).
True! Nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled—them.
Above all was the sense of hearing. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in the underworld. How, then, am I mad? Observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a bird, a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell on me, my blood ran cold; and so—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and free myself of the eye forever.
Now this is the point. You think me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely and carefully I went to work!
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the lock of his door and opened it—oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening big-enough for my head, I put in a dark lantern—all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I stuck in my head.
I moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously—oh so cautiously—cautiously (for the hinges creaked). I undid it just so much that a single thin ray of light fell upon the vulture eye.
And this I did for seven long nights—but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.
On the eighth night, I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening. The old man sat up in bed, crying out "Who's there?"
I kept still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle. During that time, I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening—just as I have done, night after night.
Then I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of human terror. It was the low sound that arises from the bottom of the soul. I knew the sound well. Many a night, late at night, when all the world slept, it has welled up from deep within my own chest. I say I knew it well.
I knew what the old man felt, and felt sorry for him, although I laughed to myself. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him.
When I had waited a long time, without hearing him lie down, I decided to open a little—a very, very little—crack in the lantern. So I opened it. You cannot imagine how carefully, carefully. Finally, a single ray of light shot from out and fell full upon the vulture eye.
It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew furious as I gazed at it. I saw it clearly—all a dull blue, with a horrible veil over it that chilled my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person. For I had directed the light exactly upon the ... spot.
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but a kind of over-sensitivity? Now, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my anger.
But even yet I kept still. I hardly breathed. I held the lantern motionless. I attempted to keep the ray of light upon the eye. But the beating of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every second. The old man's terror must have been extreme! The beating grew louder, I say, louder every moment!
And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst.
And now a new fear seized me—the sound would be heard by a neighbor! The old man's hour had come! With a loud shout, I threw open the lantern and burst into the room.
He cried once—once only. Without delay, I forced him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled, to find the action so far done.
But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a quiet sound. This, however, did not concern me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length, it stopped. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the body. I placed my hand over his heart and held it there many minutes. There was no movement. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.
If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise steps I took for hiding the body. I worked quickly, but in silence. First of all, I took apart the body. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
I then took up three pieces of wood from the flooring, and placed his body parts under the room. I then replaced the wooden boards so well that no human eye—not even his—could have seen anything wrong.
There was nothing to wash out—no mark of any kind—no blood whatever. I had been too smart for that. A tub had caught all—ha! ha!
When I had made an end of these labors, it was four o'clock in the morning. As a clock sounded the hour, there came a noise at the street door. I went down to open it with a light heart—for what had I now to fear?
There entered three men, who said they were officers of the police. A cry had been heard by a neighbor during the night; suspicion of a crime had been aroused; information had been given at the police office, and the officers had been sent to search the building.
I smiled—for what had I to fear? The cry, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I said, was not in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I told them to search—search well. I led them, at length, to his room. I brought chairs there, and told them to rest. I placed my own seat upon the very place under which lay the body of the victim.
The officers were satisfied. I was completely at ease. They sat, and while I answered happily, they talked of common things. But, after a while, I felt myself getting weak and wished them gone. My head hurt, and I had a ringing in my ears; but still they sat and talked.
The ringing became more severe. I talked more freely to do away with the feeling. But it continued until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears.
I talked more and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased—and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound like a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton. I had trouble breathing -- and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly—more loudly; but the noise increased. I stood up and argued about silly things, in a high voice and with violent hand movements. But the noise kept increasing.
Why would they not be gone? I walked across the floor with heavy steps, as if excited to anger by the observations of the men—but the noise increased. What could I do? I swung my chair and moved it upon the floor, but the noise continually increased. It grew louder—louder—louder! And still the men talked pleasantly, and smiled.
Was it possible they heard not? No, no! They heard! They suspected! They knew! They were making a joke of my horror! This I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this pain! I could bear those smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! And now—again! Louder! Louder! Louder!
"Villains!" I cried, "Pretend no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the floor boards! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
To experience the adapted story via animation, have a look at this Columbia Pictures video. It features the actor James Mason, as the narrator, and a very strong (and kind of scary) beating heart. How does the impact of seeing the story (the link takes you to a more-recent animation) differ from reading (or hearing) it?
The image, at the top of this page, is by Arthur Rackham, a famous British illustrator from the late-19th/early-20th century. Click on it for a better view.


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On this project we recovered the headliner with the existing board since it was in good shape our customer saved about 1200 dollars on a new one.We also recovered the moonroof to match new material. If your headliner looks like this we can get you going in and out in a day without having to purchase a whole new board. come in today and get a free estimate.


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Rosenthal and Silva have done excellent breakdowns of the free agents by position. I've done something that required less effort, at least from the perspective of writing words, and stuff.
I've put together, with the help of some folks in the league, rankings of the free agents by position, with a projected amount of guaranteed money on a long-term deal.


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The British Olympic Association will tell each of the 560 athletes hoping to represent the host nation this summer they must sign a confidential 34-page rule book, titled the 'Team Member's Agreement', or they will not be allowed to take part.
The agreement, seen by The Telegraph, contains guidelines on everything from banned drugs to political tattoos, and athletes who do not follow its strict rules will be punished with fines or even be removed from the team.
Some of the key orders are that athletes cannot:
criticise team-mates, either during the Games or at any time afterwards
"denigrate" sponsors, even those who have provoked controversy
sell or moidfy items of their Stella McCartney-designed official team kit
attend press conferences not arranged by Olympic organisers wearing kit or medals
bet on any event and must report any suspicions over betting and event-fixing
skip BOA's post-Olympics party on Aug 14.
The agreement also tells athletes they may be in future eligible for induction into a British Olympic Hall of Fame, a clear indication the BOA are planning to create an American-style hall of fame, which they say may be "physical or virtual", for Britain's leading Olympians.
In addition, it advises that any British gold medallists will have their achievement commemorated by the Royal Mail, who will give gold medal winners £10,000 to use their image on a special set of first-class stamps.
The BOA and Locog, the London organising committee, have drawn up the agreement with the aim of maximising the commercial opportunities offered by hosting sport's biggest event.
They will insist on using what they call 'Athletes Attributes' – a catch-all term which includes an athlete's name, nickname, signature, image, and performance at the Games, as well as voice recording and even hand and foot prints – for free. As with many elements of the agreement, this applies indefinitely.
"They seem to be pushing it a bit too far,'' said one prospective athlete who did not want to be named because merely commenting on the agreement breaks one of its rules.
But the BOA was on Tuesday night unapologetic about the document, which reflects the tough marketing strategy of Locog and the BOA, and the strict Olympic Charter, which applies to all competing countries.
Darryl Seibel, BOA communications director, said this agreement was more specific than for previous Olympics because of a 12-month consultative process with athletes, their agents, national bodies and sponsors. "Early in this process it was clear, especially from the athletes' agents, that they wanted a document that was quite specific to avoid any ambiguity,'' he said.
Last week The Telegraph revealed how the agents of some Nike-sponsored athletes such as Mark Cavendish, Paula Radcliffe and Mo Farah were threatening their clients would take off their shoes and appear barefoot on the medal podium to circumvent clauses which require them to wear the shoes and tracksuit of adidas, which is the BOA and Locog sponsor.
Cavendish, Farah and Radcliffe will also be told they are obliged to keep their adidas kit in "good condition", not just for the duration of the Olympics but "in perpetuity". The kit cannot be sold by athletes, although they can donate items to "non-political" charities, but the BOA reserves the right to reclaim one piece of kit per competitor and sell it to raise money.
Athletes are banned from using tattoos, haircuts, piercings or contact lenses as ways of issuing "commercial" or "political" messages. Any existing tattoos which make political statements must be covered.
Sebastian Coe, the chair of Locog, and Steve Ovett enjoyed one of British sport's most high profile rivalries during their careers on the track. Any such rivalries at London 2012 will not be allowed to spill over into public criticism, however, despite athletes' considerable media obligations.
Athletes will not be allowed to "make adverse comments on the performance or prospects of team members". Nor will severe criticism of BOA or Locog sponsors be permitted.
On gambling, athletes will not be permitted to place bets on any event, and they are forbidden from providing "assistance" to anyone seeking inside information on form or fitness of competitors.
Athletes' agents who have seen the team agreement say they are concerned about the intrusive nature of the BOA requirements, especially during the event, which bring about commercial benefits to the BOA and Locog but which they fear could impact on athletes' performances.
But the BOA said their No 1 priority was the performance of the athletes – and they had provided an extensive range of support services during the Games. Seibel said: "That support comes at a cost of being accessible to the media and acknowledging the sponsors.''
The BOA were subjected to criticism before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for drafting an athletes agreement forbidding any criticism of China's political system. The furore which ensued persuaded the BOA to revise the agreement within hours.


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Deborah Ryan – Osteopath.
I first started seeing an osteopath for my son. I saw great results, but it took almost a year before I thought about it for myself. Somehow I thought I didn't need it or deserve it 'as much' as a child! That was 4 years ago, since then I've come to see my osteopath for small things (like a pulled muscle) and big things (like recovery from major surgery). In 2010 I had 5 months of chemotherapy, I saw Debbie every week and came through the chemo treatment much better than any of my specialists expected, i.e. I never vomited, never had mouth ulcers and while I lost all my hair, it also started growing back during my treatment. While I slept alot, I was by no means bed ridden throughout that time. While I don't understand how osteopathy works, I can testify to how it feels, which is like connecting myself back together, physically my symptoms reduce, and at a mental or spiritual level I always feel more whole, more calm and resilient. Now, because of that I use osteopathy to keep myself well as much as to recover from anything!
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