War In Georgia Apparently Concerns Only Those Who Want To Be President, Not Actual President Himself

Defending the Empire

Rattlesnakes Are Smarter Than 16% Of U.S. High-School Biology Teachers

It turns out that rattlesnakes in Arizona are starting to lose their rattles, apparently in reaction to human encroachment of their habitats. As people build houses in the desert, trample the earth to build golf courses, and roll their RVs into previously virgin territory, banging smack into wildlife, they – we - have a tendency to react badly to nature, which results in a lot of dead rattlesnakes. A handful of the rattlesnakes that haven’t ended up deceased are those that manage to keep quiet and slide on by – in other words, the rattlers that can’t rattle.

Spanish Spoken Here

The U.S. Census Bureau recently coughed up a bunch of fascinating statistics, and not only fascinating, but also depending on how your mind words, frightening, depressing, and/or mind-boggling.

And we’ll start with one little fact: Nearly three quarters of the 727,070 residents of El Paso, Texas speak Spanish at home, even if they are fluent in English. The numbers also show that 1 of every 5 living in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California, use Spanish, not English, at home.

Think about that.

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sarah

John McCain will lose come November, and he will lose by a lot. That’s the way it has been for a long time now, and nothing’s going to change it. And when John McCain loses, he will fade from the national scene, and not long after, disappear from the Arizona political landscape as well. And that will be that.

And then we will be left with Sarah.

Dear God, Not Sarah Palin

Let us bow our heads, my friends, and make short work of Sarah Palin: I won’t bother to repeat the details of her “unusual” family history, which promises to dip into the truly bizarre and probably unpleasant before long. Nor will I raise her dubious political story, from her duplicitous tale about the Bridge to Nowhere, and her attempted banning of books, on and on; rest assured all that will be thoroughly vacuumed in short order.

No, my issue is simple enough, and it is this: The United States of America cannot have a vice president who believes in creationism, intelligent design, or anything other than basic science.

Hilary Clinton gave her speech at the convention and she said everybody should vote for Barack Obama. Okay, she said a little more than that, she said, I did this, I stand for that, I’m really terrific…and the other guy is okay, too – but that just about summed it up.

The reaction from the media was predictable. CNN loved it, MSNBC practically swooned, and Fox thought otherwise. (Actually, if Abraham Lincoln himself had been reanimated to say something nice, a Fox host would have dismissed him, claiming the Great Emancipator maybe wasn’t a real Republican, as he hadn’t been around to vote for Reagan.)

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War In Georgia Apparently Concerns Only Those Who Want To Be President, Not Actual President Himself

Written by Len Sherman
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Russia-Georgia war sharpens voters' doubts about Obama, McCain… McCain stays tough on Russia...The question that hangs over Obama... Georgia war is a neocon election ploy… It might not be possible to accurately count all the articles that have been written about Obama’s and McCain’s responses to the Russian invasion of Georgia. It is possible, however, to find out, at least according to Google, how many reporters, commentators, and editorial writers have posed the vaunted, “Who would you trust in the White House when the phone rings at 3 am?” litmus test of the day. On August 11, some 884 pieces used that term, while the total rose to 2,577 the next day. Even with all that, something seemed to be missing. Make that somebody. In all the discussion of who you’d trust when the lights are out, no one seems to have noticed that the elected, sitting President isn’t around the White House to answer that ringing phone, busy as he is enjoying himself as Fan-in-Chief at the Olympics. And while Bush was sitting in the stands in the USA-China basketball game and palling around with our comely volleyball players on the beach, his Russian counterpart and trusted friend Vladimir Putin (remember when Bush famously declared after meeting with the Russian that he had looked in his eyes and gotten “a sense of his soul”?) was directing the Russian military assault. So what was the response from Bush’s White House to the invasion? Some nonsense about a “stand-down by all troops” on both sides – “evenhanded mush” to quote a Boston Globe editorial. It took no less than four days for Bush to condemn the Russian action in appropriately strong language. Bush has loudly promoted Georgian democracy in no uncertain terms. In 2005, he traveled to Tbilisi to give his “pledge to the Georgian people that you’ve got a solid friend in America.” Bush has also vigorously backed Georgia’s bid to NATO, a tough and controversial stance that move that Russia made clear it would not tolerate. The government and people of Georgia had ample reason to believe that the U.S. would rush to its defense, one way or another.They were dead wrong. The famous quote from Henry Kissinger has been used to describe various times and occasions – the Poles in 1944, the Hungarians in 1956, the Cubans in 1961, the South Vietnamese in 1975, the Iraqis in 1991, a sampling of examples - and it certainly fits here as well: “It is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal.”
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Border/Immigration

Mexico Finally Seals Border, Stops Americans From Buying Cheap Gas, Keeps Lanes Open For Drugs

Whoever said Mexicans couldn’t or wouldn’t control their border has just been proved wrong. Yes, our friends and allies to the south have finally stepped up and shut down traffic…traffic, that is, bearing U.S. plates and carrying containers fuel, looking to save a few bucks with cheap Mexican gas.
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Mexico Invades America – Again

Mexican soldiers on Arizona soil held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint Sunday night. The Mexicans retreated after backup agents responded.

This is far from the first time the Mexican military, and/or those wearing Mexican uniforms, most likely members of Los Zetas, have crossed over the border, in support of drug and illegal immigration operations. Though both governments have sought to downplay such incidents, the increasing number of these sometimes violent incursions – over 200 confirmed incursions since 1996 - makes the situation difficult to sweep under the rug.

Mexico is finding that dealing with the devil is not a deal without consequences. And those consequences are coming home to roost in a most horrific way.

Not long ago, the Mexican government maintained an “understanding” with the drug traffickers: Don’t cause problems in Mexico, and roll your drugs into the United States without too many hassles. Oh, and don’t forget the payoffs.

Whichever side you’re on in the immigration debate, the landmark raid at the Iowa meatpacking plant back in May, which rounded up 389 illegals, proves that this is an issue that demands action and resolution. The political void has resulted in a situation that is simply intolerable in a nation of laws and liberty.

To begin the abuses: More than 20 of those arrested were underage workers, some as young as 13, forced to work shifts of 12 hours or more in dangerous conditions, sometimes through the night, six nights a week, using razor-edged knives and saws to divide up freshly slaughtered beef.

The Fence Cuts Both Ways

The fence, any fence, hasa certain basic appeal: separate Us from Them, the latter consisting of the bogeymen of your choice. With the immigration crisis in full bloom, the idea ofa fence sounded as simple and as direct as a solution could be. Stop them from coming by stopping them from coming.

Ah, if reality was so black and white. Or, in the case, so American and Mexican.