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The People's View

The People Killed AMNESTY

Rassussen has the best summary

It is impossible to overstate the significance of this basic fact. Outside of 46 Senators, hardly anybody thought the legislation would work. That’s why it was defeated. It wasn’t amnesty or guest-worker programs or paths to citizenship that doomed the bill. Each of those provisions made it more difficult for some segments of the population to accept. However, a majority would have accepted them as part of a true compromise that actually gained control of the border.

In that environment, the only way for political leaders to prove they are serious about enforcing the border and reducing illegal immigration will be to do it. That’s the next logical step in the immigration debate.

Let's roll ...

Why Amnesty Is Important

I hate to say it, but President Bush was warned -- Gran Fracaso! Bush achieves domestic legacy with the AMNESTY bill's defeat. Cloture Fails: 46-53. The grand, delicate, secret, back room bargain doesn't even get a majority.

Immigration And Liberals

No one has given me the answer why we can't secure the border without giving AMNESTY to 12 million illegals ... Maybe this video will help explain the mindset behind immigration.

Leader Of The Viral Videos

Leader of the PACK!

The Shangri-Las were another of the great 60's girl groups. They gained recognition not only for the content of their songs but also for their visual appearance.

Twenty-two year old producer George "Shadow" Morton -- so named for his habit of disappearing for several days at a time -- recruited two sets of sisters out of Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, New York to be the Shangri-Las. Mary Weiss and her sister Betty joined with twins Marge and Mary Ann Ganser to form the group. While the girls were still high school students the charismatic Morton conceived the idea of having them record Remember [Walkin' In The Sand]. He made a demo tape and took it to Kama Sutra Productions and Artie Ripp. Brill Building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich were added to help with the actual production of the song [Greenwich had attended the same high school as Morton], the sound of seagulls screaching in the background was added, and it was leased to Red Bird Records. The song entered the charts in September, 1964 and peaked at the number 5 position. The Shangri-Las were on their way...

Why Liberals Hate FNC

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New Snook Rules Approved

The Florida Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has decided to take a proactive approach to managing snook stocks. Rather than let the snook population collapse and then trying to fix it post collapse, they are moving ahead with new rules. It's hard to imagine how much pressure the snook in Florida gget from the tourist trade and locals alike. Here is a summary of the new rules.

The new rules, which will take effect when snook season reopens in September, would:

• Reduce the daily recreational bag limit from two fish to one on the Atlantic coast.

• Tighten the slot in the Atlantic to 28-32 inches.

• Tighten the Gulf slot -- including the Keys and Everglades National Park -- to 28-33 inches.

• Add the first half of December and the month of February to the closed season in the Gulf.

• Allow anglers to carry more than one cast net aboard a boat while fishing for snook.

The working group and the FWC believe that, if enforced, the new rules could bring snook up to 40 percent SPR in 10 years.

As is often the case, there are dissenting views, one of the most prevalent is that the much narrower slot limit will result in many more fish being caught and released, the trauma associated with a higher catch and release rate, will result in a higher death rate for the snook overall. That's probably true, if the angler does not understand how to handle the snook for release, then I would say it will be a problem. Especially for one of the favorite ways to catch snook, bridge fishing.

When bridge fishing, the release almost always involves dropping the snook from a height into the water. I have seen many a fish stunned by the drop and what happens to them after is not known. Boat fisherman may fair better, since they avoid the drop, but the catch and release cycle can still be traumatic for the snook if not done right. Often times the snook spends way too much time before the camera when more water time would be better for the fish.

I don't keep snook, except on rare occasions, so all my catches are released. I fish only artificial lures so I avoid the "deep hooked" syndrome as well. Most people fish with bait, especially tourists, so the hook injury is frequent. Guides do mitigate a lot of the hook injury problem, because experienced guides know how to do minimum damage when releasing a fish. We are going to have to see how it works out.

The days where we used to catch tens of snook an outing are long gone. Back then, snook were thought to be "soap fish", because people tried to eat them without first removing the skin. And yes they do sort of taste like a Dove soap bar when cooked that way.

The season reopens on September 1, 2007.

Doing The Jobs Aemricans Won't Apply For

China Sunrise

As you would expect, the major media outlet missed the story, so here is a recap.

China has overtaken the United States as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, because of surging energy use in its economic boom, a Dutch environmental agency said. Other experts have estimated that China will not surpass the United States until as late as next year. ''But whether it is 2006 or 2007 is not the key issue,'' said Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency. ''What is key is that China is becoming the world's top carbon dioxide emitter.''

Newsbusters has the full story about the missed story. All the news that fit to print if it fits our agenda. You would think the news that China is now the worlds biggest polluter would make front page headlines worldwide, that is unless globull warming isn't real. How else can you explain the silence.

Looks like China is just not going to participate in our very own planetary emergency, since China told the G-8 Summit that they plan to do nothing about their CO2 problem. India is also saying they have no plans to participate in the planetary emergency. WHy you might ask? It's a hoax, globull warming caused by man made CO2 releases is a hoax.

China Surpasses US In Greenhouse Gas Emissions, CO2

Inconvenient timing, you could say that. With the upcoming 60's age globull warming luv in coming in July, this is not welcome news if your plan is to try and shame the US into paying confiscatory taxes for the furthering of the socialist state.


Cough, cough, choke, choke, this air is thick. Cyclists pass a factory in Yutian in China's north-west Hebei province.

Why is China excluded from ll these talks about greenhouse gases and globull warming? Because they told the world to get stuffed, they aren't going to do anything about it.

China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show.

The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China's growing role in driving man-made global warming and will pile pressure onto world politicians to agree a new global agreement on climate change that includes the booming Chinese economy. China's emissions had not been expected to overtake those from the US, formerly the world's biggest polluter, for several years, although some reports predicted it could happen as early as next year.

The world's biggest polluter, the US? Sure it is, only in the minds of the looney left and enviro-wackos -- Find a single US city that is as putrid as the common Chinese city. You want pollution, then you want third world, walk through the streets of a typical third world country, make sure you where boots and don't step in the trash, no telling what bacteria live there. One of the huge benefits of a thriving capitalist economy is not pollution, it is the ability to clean up your messes and not pollute.

The notion that CO2, the stuff every living animal, fish, insect and bird exhales is a pollutant is silly on it's face. I think that's why they are called carbon life form.

But according to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, soaring demand for coal to generate electricity and a surge in cement production have helped to push China's recorded emissions for 2006 beyond those from the US already. It says China produced 6,200m tonnes of CO2 last year, compared with 5,800m tonnes from the US. Britain produced about 600m tonnes.

Jos Olivier, a senior scientist at the government agency who compiled the figures, said: "There will still be some uncertainty about the exact numbers, but this is the best and most up to date estimate available. China relies very heavily on coal and all of the recent trends show their emissions going up very quickly." China's emissions were 2% below those of the US in 2005. Per head of population, China's pollution remains relatively low - about a quarter of that in the US and half that of the UK.

So the numbers do not include pollution, only CO2. I suggest we decide to declare CO2 not a pollutant, that would solve that problem.

Read the rest here.

U.S. Missile Strike and The Children

The things you aren't being told by the drive-by media are alarming. We had the recent story about seven children being killed in Afghanistan. But was that the real story, or was there more, much more to the story. Allahpundit at Hot Air thinks so. Gives a completely different picture, likely the real picture of what is going on in Waziristan.

Fred In London, 6/16/07

Fred Thompson was in London today - the day on which one opinion poll made him the frontrunner in the Republican race for the White House. BritainAndAmerica was present when he spoke at the Policy Exchange think tank. Four video extracts from his Q&A are posted below:

• Video 1 is about his view of Iran - in which he suggests a blockage might be necessary.
• Video 2 focuses on Iraq and he warns against leaving without stabilising the country - because US forces might only have to return
• In Video 3 he identifies his American political heroes as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
• In Video 4 he pays tribute to Margaret Thatcher - who he'll meet tomorrow. He is also due to meet Tory leader David Cameron.

VIDEO ONE: THOMPSON ON IRAN

VIDEO TWO: THOMPSON ON IRAQ

VIDEO THREE: THOMPSON ON HIS AMERICAN POLITICAL HEROES - GEORGE WASHINGTON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND RONALD REAGAN

VIDEO FOUR: THOMPSON ON HIS SCHEDULED MEETING WITH BARONESS THATCHER

June 19, 2007 at 05:39 PM in

Water Content Of Clouds

Have you ever wondered how much water is in clouds? This image is a global map of "cloud water content"--a measure of how many grams of water per square meter you would get if you drained all the water out of the clouds into a flat layer on the ground. White areas show clouds with as much as 1,000 grams of water per square meter; pink shades show areas with about 500 grams of water per square meter, and purple shows areas with little or no cloud water content.

Using the MODIS, flying aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, scientists can measure how much visible and near-infrared light is reflected by clouds back up into space. The more particles contained within a cloud, the more it reflects visible light. And the larger the cloud particle size, the more it absorbs near-infrared light. Thus, by measuring how much light a cloud prevents from traveling down through a column of atmosphere (or cloud optical thickness) and the size of the particles that make up the cloud, scientists can estimate how much water is in the cloud.

In short, the soggier the cloud, the more it reflects sunlight back to space and the more it cools Earth's surface. Cloud water content and cloud particle size are also important for global studies of precipitation. Smaller cloud particles tend to remain suspended in the atmosphere longer, and so clouds comprised of smaller particles tend to linger longer and exert a greater cooling influence on the surface.

This data shows the earth between May 1 and June 1, 2007.

AMNESTY, How Did It Work Out?

Same as it always does.

If We Drill For Oil In Alaska, What Will Happen To The Caribou?

Remember this photo when the whining starts about why we can't drill in Alaska.

Vaclav Klaus Sets The Record Startight

This from someone who nows the face of Communism up close and personal.

Freedom, not climate, is at risk

In the past year, Al Gore’s so-called “documentary” film was shown in cinemas worldwide, Britain’s – more or less Tony Blair’s – Stern report was published, the fourth report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was put together and the Group of Eight summit announced ambitions to do something about the weather. Rational and freedom-loving people have to respond. The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced.

The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: “the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem. It requires courage to oppose the “established” truth, although a lot of people – including top-class scientists – see the issue of climate change entirely differently. They protest against the arrogance of those who advocate the global warming hypothesis and relate it to human activities.

As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.

We would be wise to heed his advice, or Communism may sweep the world.

Fred Thompson Interview At Hoover Institue

Here is an outstanding, in-depth, interview Fred Thompson did recently with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute. It gives you a good feel for Fred's persona as well as his views on issues.

Global Warming Explained

Sunspot cycles, notice how they have been building for the last 80 years. Click here for more.

Butterfly diagram showing paired Spörer's law behavior. At the start of a sunspot cycle, sunspots tend to appear around 30° to 45° latitude on the Sun's surface. As the cycle progresses, sunspots appear at lower and lower latitudes, until they average 15° at solar maximum. The average latitude of sunspots then continues to drift lower, down to about 7° and then while the old sunspot cycle fades, sunspots of the new cycle start appearing at high latitudes.

Seems Something Is Lurking Out There

TB is in the news,

There's another high-profile tuberculosis case here in Colorado, but this time the results are deadly.

Kalpana Dangol, 19, went to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs early Friday morning complaining of abdominal pain. She died that afternoon. Now health officials are trying to track down anyone she had close contact with so they can be tested for TB.

Dangol was from Nepal. She was a nursing student at CSU-Pueblo. Health officials aren't releasing her name, but they think she got the disease outside the U.S. and if she was contagious at all, it would only have been in the last four months. Unlike the Atlanta man being treated for a drug resistant form of TB at National Jewish in Denver, health officials say she didn't fly while infected.

Ever wonder why now? Open borders makes anything possible.

Dennis Miller Unloads On Sen. Reid

Why The Immigration Bill Failed

The answer is quite obvious, when the bill is less popular than the Iraq war, it deserves to be defeated. Rassmussen has the details here.

The last Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll found that just 23% of Americans supported the legislation. When a bill has less popular support than the War in Iraq, it deserves to be defeated.

There is no mystery to why the public opposed the bill. In the minds of most Americans, immigration means reducing illegal immigration and enforcing the border. Only 16% believed the Senate bill would accomplish that goal.

And then there is this gem

However, most voters were willing to accept them as part of a true compromise that accomplished the primary goal of reducing illegal immigration.

The key to winning voter support was to accomplish that primary goal.

So the answer is obvious, enforce existing law, build the fence then the public will be ready to talk what's next. It's this idiotic comprehensive babble that is failing. Bu now everyone who wants to know, now knows that the 1986 AMNESTY bill failed because the enforcement provisions were never used.

Build the fence, add the border agents, fine employers, give everyone here now a biometric ID, after a period of grace, deport those without IDs, nothing stops the government from doing all that with existing laws. The illegal immigration luanacy must be stopped.

Petraeus Busts Anti-War Bubbles

Just the tone of the questions tells you alll you need to know about CNN. The General just keeps on going.

The Muppet Show - Mahna Mahna

Probably the best Muppets skit ever.

The Horrors Of Global Warming

June 7, 2007 - Fires and smoke in eastern China



The horrors of doing nothing about these kinds of blatant abuse of the atmosphere? Why? Because global warming is a hoax, and even the socialists pushing it know it. Otherwise, when the pollution is so thick you can't see, the cries would be long and loud to stop it now. Who would pay the carbon offsets?

Agricultural burning, it's all the rage in the third world, simple quick, lots of pollution, and does the job of clearing land of refuse crop material.

Dozens of fires, marked with red dots, are scattered across the southern edge of the plain. China’s winter grain harvest appears to happen at the beginning of June every year, and it’s likely that the fires were started by farmers burning the stubble off their fields after harvest. There are images of this same region for June of 2006 and 2003 that show similar conditions to the ones shown here.

NASA Head Regrets Telling Truth About Global Warming

Here is what Michael Giffin said about the religion of Global Warming before ... In an interview with Steve Inskeep airing tomorrow on NPR News' Morning Edition, Administrator Griffin says "I guess I would ask which human beings - where and when - are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take."

One of the best statements of fact uttered on the subject.

The audio of the interview should be at the top, click to listen, but this has caused such a stir that NPR had taken the audio down early this afternoon.

After a quick trip to the woodshed, the truth disappears from view, but not from fact. The fact is the religion of Global Warming is following a false profit, and is not provable by any scientific means available to mankind today. Computer models do not prove anything, they are mere representations of what happens when you input a set of parameters -- Input bad parameters, get output junk.

NASA Head Says He Regrets Global Warming Comments

(AP) PASADENA, Calif. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has told scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena he erred when he aired his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview.

In a video of the Monday meeting obtained by The Associated Press, Griffin said “Unfortunately, this is an issue which has become far more political than technical and it would have been well for me to have stayed out of it.”

Griffin made headlines last week when he told a National Public Radio interviewer he wasn’t sure global warming was a problem.

The radio interview angered some climate scientists, who called his remarks ignorant.

Griffin reiterated that NASA’s job is to provide scientific data on global warming and leave it up to policy makers to decide what to do with it.

It looks like Mr. Griffin was taken to the woodshed for actually telling the truth.

The ignorant climate scientists and their socialist masters pushing this religion are trying to find out how stupid the public really is. The truth will get you a whipping.

Feel The Frustration

The fence was voted for and signed off in October 2006 by President Bush. Why has only 2 miles of "chain link fence" been constructed instead of the construction of 856 miles of double barrier fence.

As Israel proved, good fences make good neighbors.

Even CNN Can't Avoid Murtha Corruption

And you thought Republicans were bad ... Not even CNN can fail to notice that Jack Murtha really is "ABSCAM Jack".



CNN looks at Congressional Democrats and earmarks, concludes: "the democrats promised reform. It's not happening."

* "What does congressman Murtha have to say in defense of the National Drug Intelligence Center here in Pennsylvania? Surprisingly, nothing at all."

* "[A Murtha] Spokesman told us the requests had all been submitted. They are available for review with the committee. Then we got another e-mail saying that he was mistaken, those earmarks aren't available for review after all."