George W. Bush Sewage Plant: Panem et circenses

Can we give California back to Mexico?

There is a ballot initiative afoot in San Francisco to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant".

"In President Bush's case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years," he said. "The sewage treatment facility's job is to clean up a mess, so we think it's a fitting tribute." I think it is a fitting tribute to the city of San Francisco and the State of California, it characterizes everything that is wrong with that city and state.

Regrettably, such juvenile and childish behavior is demeaning to Americans and unworthy of America. It illustrates the worst of American politics, a once noble endeavor reduced to schoolyard name calling, teasing, and immature behavior. If you agree, or even if you disagree, you can let them know at: http://presidentialmemorial.wordpress.com/

I am not a fan of George Bush, yet can offer the man the respect due his office and position, a concept unfortunately lost to many. The principle this country was founded upon, rational intelligent debate in an open and public forum is unfortunately lost to many too. I would support this measure no more than I would support naming 'The Chicken Ranch' the 'William Jefferson Clinton Memorial Oval Office Fun Park'! (For those of you of a more morally pure nature, the Chicken Ranch is a licensed Brothel 60 miles west of Las Vegas). One has to wonder in which direction the pumps at the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant are running... whether they are pumping into or out of the city.

The politics of California: There are many recognized aspects of power; legitimate power (such as a policeman has), referent power (bestowed due to accomplishments), expert power (bestowed due to education or experience), and what we are seeing in California, incentive and coercive power, summarized by Gompers maxim "reward your friends, punish your enemies". Another aspect of power is authority, gained from legitimacy which is gained through the application of power in accordance with acceptable standards or principles. Legitimacy, an aspect of power the people of California seem all to willing to give up. Finally, there is sovereignty, which the people of California are free to exercise, even to their own detriment. Like I said "Panem et circenses"... Bread and Circuses!

Only time will tell whether the people of California are intelligent, rational, mature adults worthy of the freedoms of a participatory democracy or if they are simply whining petulant children calling each other names and bullying each other around the playground.

The vote is yours; use it wisely, for not only will George W. Bush be judged by history, but so shall you. Is this the legacy you wish to pass on? Is this act the act you wish to be remembered by? A not so funny footnote in the pages of history? George Bush will either be vindicated by the passage of time or forgotten, do you remember James Knox Polk? History, and America in general seems not to despise poor leaders but forget them.

~Finntann~

This says it all

http://sendables.jibjab.com/sendables/1191/time_for_some_campaignin

A Free and Sovereign Nation

The United Nations' highest court has ordered the United States to halt the planned executions of five Mexicans on death row in Texas while their cases are being reviewed.

On June 24, 1993, José Ernesto Medellín and several other gang members raped a 14-year-old and 16-year-old girl for an hour in Houston, Texas. The rapes were part of a gang initiation. Both girls were killed to prevent them from identifying their assailants. Medellín, who confessed, strangled one of the girls to death with her own shoelaces.

Aside from having withdrew from general International Court of Justice jurisdiction on October 7th, 1985, and from the optional protocol to the Vienna convention on 7 March 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States has also spoken:

"A treaty is not binding domestic law, it said, unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or the treaty itself conveys an intention that it is "self-executing." "None of the relevant treaties—the Optional Protocol, the U.N. Charter, or the ICJ Statute—were self-executing, and no implementing legislation had been enacted".

One of the judges voting against the United States was Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, the judge from Mexico... so, how do you say conflict of interest in Spanish?

I have a suggestion for Senor Amor... keep your gang-banging felons on your own side of the border and we won't have any problems like this, you certainly have some cojones ojete.

“Bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico” will “unquestionably” be affected by these cases, Mexico’s brief said... as if the senseless slaughter of our innocent children isn't reason enough. What we ought to do is challenge the Chinese for the 'great wall' title.

In the words of Robert Frost... 'good fences make good neighbors'.

~Finntann~

John McCain: Republicrat or Democan?

Presumptive Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain says his views are closer to Theodore Roosevelt's than to more conservative presidents...more like his views are getting closer to Obama and Hillary.

Shame on you John McCain! Can I have my vote back? Well, I might not be able to get my primary vote back... but don't you think for a minute that you've got my presidential vote secured.

Again and again, in speech after speech, you trump up job loss:

"More than 400,000 people have lost their jobs since December, and the rate of new job creation has fallen sharply." -Denver town hall meeting, Ohio town hall meeting, La Raza Convention...

There are somewhere between eight and eleven million illegal aliens in this country, John... what do you think there impact on American jobs is? 400,000 jobs lost since December? Want to do something constructive? Put them in I.C.E; You can't have immigration reform when you have open borders and eight million illegals running around. The Reagan Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986 granted amnesty to approximately three million illegal aliens... now we have eight million. AMNESTY DOESN'T WORK!

"We know as well that tens of thousands of felons -- in custody and at large -- entered our country illegally. Why has it has fallen to sheriffs and other local officials to protect their citizens from these foreign-born felons? Because our federal government failed to protect our borders from their entry, and this serious dereliction of duty must end." -Speech to National Sheriffs Association.

Funny... I don't recall you telling La Raza that!

"Our compassion for laborers who entered this country unlawfully -- our understanding of their struggles, even as we act to secure the border -- speaks well of America. But this respect does not extend to criminals who came here to break our laws and do harm to people."

I got news for you John, those who entered this country unlawfully... are criminals who have broke our laws and do harm to our people. Funny how you seem to make a semantic distinction between "unlawful" and "illegal" when it comes to regarding felons and aliens.

A definition:

Unlawful: 1. Not lawful: Illegal. 2. Not morally right

Illegal: 1. not according to or authorized by law: Unlawful: Illicit.

I am not without compassion, but do not support rewarding lawbreaking behavior. I would support significant increases in the legal immigration quotas for our American brethren... but do not support legalization of those here illegally. The Hispanic vote might be the "key" to "this" election... but DO NOT FORGET THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE IS THE "KEY" to "YOUR" election. Losing the conservative base will lose you the election... think we'll vote for you simply because you're the Republican nominee? Think Again!

Having listened you during the primary and listening to you now, I'm beginning to feel I was sold us a bill of goods. That, or you're selling a bill of goods now! Either way, I don't like it.

I've also seen your 'Colorado' Ads pandering to Hispanic-Americans and Latino-Americans and don't like them either. You want to be like Teddy Roosevelt? Let me leave you with his words:

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American."

"This is a nation — not a polyglot boarding house. There is not room in the country for any 50-50 American, nor can there be but one loyalty — to the Stars and Stripes."

"The effort to keep our citizenship divided against itself by the use of the hyphen and along the lines of national origin is certain to breed a spirit of bitterness and prejudice and dislike between the great bodies of our citizens. If some citizens band together as German-Americans or Irish-Americans, then after a while others are certain to band together as English-Americans or Scandinavian-Americans, and every such banding together, every attempt to make for political purposes a German-American alliance or a Scandinavian-American alliance, means down at the bottom an effort against the interest of straight-out American citizenship, an effort to bring into our nation the bitter Old World rivalries and jealousies and hatreds."

"Let us say to the immigrant not that we hope he will learn English, but that he has got to learn it. Let the immigrant who does not learn it go back. He has got to consider the interest of the United States or he should not stay here. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend upon his knowing English and observing American standards ... We must insist upon his showing the same standard of fealty to this country and to join with us in raising the level of our common American citizenship."

Teddy Roosevelt; my great-grandmothers petard!

~Finntann~

Lunch, and a show too!

Nearly nude activists protest at KFC.

Fried Chicken and mostly naked women... it doesn't get much better than that.

The facts, according to PETA, are that KFC's suppliers mistreat to the point of torture the chickens that are eventually paired with mashed potatoes and biscuits ..."I just think it is key that people know the facts," said Powell, who became a vegetarian three years ago after researching the treatment of animals in the food chain. "From there they can make their own decision."

That decision, I suppose you are expecting, is to become a vegetarian, no doubt. But, I got news for you, those passing motorists aren't honking in support of the chickens.

A more disturbing facet of PETAs agenda is their targeting of children :

Members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were outside a Lincoln (Wisconsin) Middle School giving away "Chicken Chumps" trading cards that warned against what they claimed were health hazards associated with chicken meat. The cards had characters such as "Cruel Kyle," "Tubby Tammy" and "Sickly Sally," each meant to illustrate the potential ill effects of eating the domestic fowl. A fourth card, "Feathered Friends," portrayed chickens as family birds that don't want to be eaten.

While I agree with PETAs right to protest, I find questionable there targeting of school children, on or near school property, with a message that is factually questionable. Chris Link, PETA campaign coordinator, said he hoped the information might convince students to become vegetarians. He contends all meat is packed with fat and cholesterol, which can lead to illnesses such as heart disease and obesity. Chickens are given antibiotics to plump them up faster, Link said. Gee, and I thought they were given antibiotics as a disease preventive... so remember, next time your sick, don't hit the antibiotics or you'll get fat.

Can't convince the parents? Start early with the children when they are assumed to be incapable of rational thought, they are after all the next generation of voters. Yet PETAs assumption that targeting children will advance their agenda seems to be backfiring, as students at the Lincoln school held their own counter-protest... It's tasty," said eighth-grader Colin, 14, whose sign read "I Love to Eat Chicken." "We can eat whatever we want, and PETA can think whatever they want," he said. Way to go Colin, seems you have the basic concept of American freedom down pat... Lincoln must be doing a good job with their Civics program.

Last time I checked, chicken (sans skin) was a viable low-fat, low-cholesterol meat with little to no antibiotics residue.

It's not about the chickens folks, it's about the meat! PETA doesn't really want you to stop eating chicken and start eating meat... they want you to join their vegan bandwagon of karmic bliss. An interesting read by the consumer freedom foundation regarding PETAs targeting of children can be found here:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/docs/040817_petakids.pdf

While I am all for the humane treatment of animals, (wild, pets, and livestock), I find PETAs approach and tactics questionable and more disturbing than the mistreatment of chickens. They seem to eschew science and fact, whenever convenient, simply to further their own agenda and their targeting of children is reprehensible. In order to raise awareness for their cause, members of PETA have begun distributing "buckets of blood" to children outside KFC restaurants. By specifically targeting children with these buckets, which include fake bones, bloodied feathers and a rubber chicken, PETA has sunk to an all-time low. They have even sunk to the low of comparing food processing plants to the Nazi gas chambers:

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/petas-death-wish-when-fried-chicken-becomes-auschwitz/


To read PETAs message, go here: http://www.peta.org/

If we are not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?

But on a more serious note, Humans are omnivores... not herbivores.

Bears, dogs, crows, people, and yes EVEN CHICKENS ARE OMNIVORES!

SAVE THE WORMS!!!

~Finntann~

Undifferentiated Schizophrenia: Politics Today

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia two or more of the following symptoms must be present for more than one month:

Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized Speech, Thought Disorder (Disorganized and unusual thinking), Grossly disorganized behavior, Catatonic Behavior (Maybe in some cases), Social Dysfunction, Occupational Dysfunction, Impaired Social Cognition, Avolition (A lack of drive, desire, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals), Anhedonia (the inability to experience pleasure).

Damn... sure sounds like congress to me!

Congress has reached an all time low: A 9 percent approval rating. Don't kid yourselves, it's not an approval rating, it's a 91 percent DISAPPROVAL rating.

According to the LA Times 72% of Americans believe members of congress are more interested in furthering there own careers than doing public good.

Here is where the Schizophrenia comes on the strongest: The Democrat controlled congress blames the Republican minority for their approval rating and things will be better when they have a stronger majority. Don't like milk? Here have some more... don't worry it'll grow on you.

I am ROFLMAO at the blog posts like:

"Once the Democratic Party obtains a much larger majority in the next election cycle, they will be in a much better situation to ward-off the failed Republican policies, and bring our country back to greatness, once again."

Or this one:

"Barack will lead the party to victory in Nov. With a greater Dem najority, more legislation will be passed to allow more government control over policy. This desirable shift to the left is what we the people want. The Sierra Club will play a key role in establishing ground rules for decreased pollution through conservation and reduced driving. 55 mph speed limits should be passed on Day One. SUVs and non-commercial trucks should be reduced as much as possible. This is a new era. Animal rights will be respected."

HELLO? ANYBODY IN THERE? WOW...THAT POKE IN THE EYE HURT...DO IT AGAIN, MAYBE IT'LL FEEL BETTER THE 26th TIME. OW! NOPE! AGAIN! OW!

WOO HOO! look at Congress go! National Watermelon Month! (Hmmmmm......watermelon). Potato Month (Hmmmm, potatoes!) Congratulations Iowa Hawkeyes! Way to Wrestle! GO HAWKEYES GO! Recognized Soil as a natural resource (Hmmmmm.... Soil!)

13% of Democrats give congress a good rating, 8% of Republicans, and only 3% of Independents

I have a proposal... let's tie congressional salary to approval ratings!

Currently rank and file members earn $169,300, at a 9% approval rating, that would be $15237 Sounds like some organization owes the American public $67,017, 405

Tomorrow, the Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence Subcommittee meets to discuss Human Intelligence in the Intelligence Community...

HOW BOUT SOME HEARINGS ON HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IN CONGRESS?

Lets take a look at some of the acts of Congress and see if we can figure out why their approval rate is so low:

House Resolution (HR) 437 To name the post office in Rio Grande City TX "Lino Perez Jr."

HCON RES 44: Honoring and Praising the NAACP on it's 98th anniversary

H Res 120: Recognizing the African American Spiritual as a national treasure (And they said congress could never agree on anything, passed 426-0)

H.CON.RES.34 Title: Honoring the life of Percy Lavon Julian

H.RES.59 Title: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week

H.RES.90 Title: Congratulating Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears and Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts on becoming the first African-American head coaches of National Football League teams to qualify for the Super Bowl

H.RES.58 Title: To honor Muhammad Ali, global humanitarian

H.RES.43 Title: Commending the Boise State University Broncos football team for winning the 2007 Fiesta Bowl

H.R.759 Title: To redesignate the Ellis Island Library "The Bob Hope Library"

H.RES.89 Title: a day should be established as Dutch-American Friendship Day

H.CON.RES.112 Title: Supporting the goals and ideas of a National Child Care Worthy Wage Day

H.RES.233 Title: Recognizing over 200 years of sovereignty of the Principality of Liechtenstein

H.RES.467 Title: Condemning the decision by the leadership of the University and College Union of the United Kingdom to support a boycott of Israeli academia.

Flake of Arizona Amendment: I got news for you, you're all flakes!

This is just a smattering of some of the silly things accomplished. Not to demean the accomplishments of any of the aforementioned people, groups, etc... BUT IS THIS WHAT WE ARE PAYING 169K A YEAR FOR?

Can't naming post offices be delegated down to some GS-5 somewhere?

Did we send you to Washington to congratulate football teams?

QUIT WASTING OUR TIME AND MONEY

and you wonder why you have only a 9% approval rating

Okay, National Defense Budget GOOD.... Recognizing Liechtenstein BAD. You should have learned to recognize Liechtenstein in 9th grade geography class!

You could write a book on this: Stupid Congress Tricks!

~Finntann~

McCain or McLeft?

John McCain is at serious risk of alienating the conservative base of the Republican Party if he has not already done so.

Both John McCain and Barrack Obama pitched comprehensive immigration reform to the "League of United Latin American Citizens"

Might I inquire as to which Latin American country they are campaigning for President of?

According to the Associated Press: It's a poignant message for the audience, an organization that advocates social and economic policies benefiting Hispanics.

What ever happened to social and economic policies benefiting Americans?

Both candidates are also slated to address the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) later this month.

NCLR unabashedly defends its contributions to a chapter of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) stating that while they 'disavow' their separatist rhetoric, they will continue to support programs that help Hispanics enter and finish college. Check out both websites:

http://www.nclr.org/section/separatist/
http://www.nationalmecha.org/about.html

Do tell me, precisely what does "MEChA was founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of our people" mean in the context of Hispanics in America?

How about: "the affirmation that we are Indigenous people to this land by placing our movement in Aztlan, the homeland of all peoples from Anahuak."

Google "Aztlan" if you really want a shock!!!

NCLR's statement is the equivalent of a German-American organization vowing to continue to support a chapter of the Nazi party, despite their political philosophy, because they help German-Americans enter and finish college.

I'm having trouble figuring out which candidate is the far-left liberal candidate! If Barack Obama continues to move towards the center and John McCain towards the left, we might eventually have to swap candidates between the parties.

JOHN McCAIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I urge all readers, Democrat or Republican, to voice your opinions on this issue to their respective candidate. I for one, as an American, in vehement disagreement with the philosophy of NCLR and MEChA, am appalled at this shameless pandering for votes.

I am beginning to wonder if (hope?) a viable independent candidate will emerge.

Alan Keyes is even beginning to look viable. http://www.alankeyes.com

http://www.selfgovernment.us/aip/

Questioning the wisdom of a two-party system.

~Finntann~