HAMAS endorses Jimmy Carter. Do we really need to know anything else?
Mood:
irritated
Topic: Unintentional truths
Quoted from Aaron Klein of World Net Daily:
"Hamas terrorists join Jimmy Carter fan club
Top political adviser calls ex-prez 'noble person who can achieve something no one else can'
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – Former President Jimmy Carter is a "noble person" whose planned meeting with Hamas would help the terror organization "engage with the world community," Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, told WND today in an exclusive interview.
"Carter can achieve something no one else can. He is open-minded and has a very noble cause to come and meet with all people," said Yousuf, the chief political adviser to Ismail Haniyeh, the deposed prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
Yousuf, who is usually the Hamas figure responsible for coordinating meetings with foreign officials, said Carter "should get credit because he is the one who really understands the (Israeli-Palestinian) conflict and knows what is needed to achieve peace."
He indicated Carter's visit could help end Hamas' international isolation.
"If he comes and meets Hamas, this will also enhance the image and understanding between America and the Muslim world," said Yousuf, speaking by phone from Gaza. "Carter's visit is a good step and a positive step in the right direction. It would engage with the world community. To what degree he succeeds depends on the people in Europe and the U.S."
Yousuf blasted the Bush administration for "trying to block every attempt to lift sanctions against Hamas."
He accused "Zionists" and U.S. Jewish groups of "trying to sabotage [Carter's Middle East] trip ... . Some reports said American Jewish groups tried to stigmatize him with being connected to terrorism or working against Jewish ambitions at home."
Asked if he believes Democrats would engage Hamas if the party takes the White House next year, Yousuf replied, "I do believe Democrats will make a drastic change in American foreign policy. I hope they are able to fix the damage done by [President] Bush and the Republicans and engage again in a very positive way with the Arab and Muslim world, where most of their vital interests lie."
Yousuf slammed Bush for "engaging in a terrible crusade against the Muslim world."
According to reports, Carter is planning to meet in Syria with Hamas chieftain Khaled Meshaal, who resides in Damascus.
The U.S. and Israel have been trying to isolate Hamas, which is classified by the State Department as a terror group. It is responsible for scores of deadly suicide bombings, and thousands of shooting attacks and rocket firings against Israeli civilian population centers.
The State Department says it twice advised Carter against meeting any Hamas representative.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized Carter for his planning meeting with Hamas.
"I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace," Rice said.
Carter arrived in Israel today in a stop on a wider regional tour, but he was mostly shunned by Israeli leaders. A schedule released by the U.S.-based Carter Center showed no plans for the former president to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni or Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
Carter did meet Israeli President Shimon Peres in a low key talk that was closed to members of the media.
Israel's Haaretz daily newspaper quoted sources in Peres' office stating the Israeli president rebuked Carter over his last book, titled, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," in which he claimed Israel was an apartheid state, and told Carter his activities in the Israeli-Palestinian arena in recent years caused grave damage to Israel and to the peace process.
The former president is defending his plan to meet with Hamas.
"I think someone should be meeting with Hamas to see what we can do to encourage them to be cooperative and to find out what their attitude is,'' Carter said on the ABC News program "This Week.''
"If Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, Hamas will have to be included in the process," he said.
Carter told ABC his aim during his Middle East trip is "to promote peace in the region.''
Does anyone remember that when Jimmy Carter went to North Korea to promote peace in THAT region, not only did North Korea violate every provision of the resulting treaties they physically could, but they now have equipped Iran with a three-stage missile that could easily be used to hit targets in an arc ranging from Casablanca to Berlin (something of which Vladimir Putin could hardly fail to be aware as he sells the Iranians things to put on top of that missile).
The words "Jimmy Carter" and "world peace" go together like "Adolf Hitler" and "bar mitzvah," at least from the cause-and-effect standpoint.
This probably explains why Carter's the Arab world's favorite infidel who deserves only to be beheaded if he does not renounce a faith which worships a brother of pigs and apes.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 8:41 PM MDT
Big surprise... Terrorists: "We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections"
Mood:
irritated
Topic: ...Those Who Will Not See
Hamas terrorists make 2008 U.S. presidential pick
Cite need for change, excuse opposition to Carter meeting
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Posted: April 14, 2008
10:09 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
C 2008 WorldNetDaily
Sen. Barack Obama (Courtesy Carrie Devorah)
JERUSALEM - On the eve of a planned meeting with former President Jimmy Carter, the isolated Hamas terrorist organization has expressed "hope" Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential elections and "change" America's foreign policy.
"We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections," Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an exclusive interview with WND and with the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in New York.
"I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse. ...I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principal (sic). And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance," Yousuf said, speaking from Gaza.
Yousuf, the Hamas figure usually responsible for coordinating meetings with foreign officials, told WND
www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61496 earlier that Carter's planned meeting this week with Hamas would help the terror organization "engage with the world community."
"Carter can achieve something no one else can. He is open-minded and has a very noble cause to come and meet with all people," said Yousuf."
Well, that confirms something I've been saying all along (let's glide past the obvious comment that Carter's open mind allowed his brain to escape from his head somewhere on the way to the North Korean nuclear weapons negotiations in the 1990s) -
Barack Obama = Jimmy Carter (plus fifty IQ points, apparently used for charm and plausibility).
Any questions?
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 7:30 PM MDT
Updated: Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:37 PM MDT
STOP FUNDING THE RADICALS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND VENEZUELA
Mood:
irritated
Topic: No Truce with Terror!
From an Email my wife forwarded to me from her office:
"WHERE TO BUY GAS WITHOUT FUNDING TERROR...
Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us!
The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.
Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends.
I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.
These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell.......................... 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco.........144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil...............130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway...117,740,000 barrels
Amoco........................62,231,000 barrels
Citgo gas is from Venezuela, run by Hugo Chavez, a murdering Communist, Fidel-loving dictator who hates Americans.
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amounted to over 18 billion dollars.
But the current truth is worse than that because oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel
That's right - the scum and filth who had 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 and sent the cowardly little turd who murdered my son in Iraq and eight other troops with an IED are making about 54 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR from the crude oil they sell us.
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Here are some large companies that DO NOT import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco.....................0 barrels
Conoco/Phillips....0 barrels
Sinclair.....................0 barrels
BP..............................0 barrels
Hess..........................0 barrels
ARCO........................0 barrels
Sunoco.com has a list of their station locations near you.
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers."
PASS THIS ON, PLEASE. IT'S IMPORTANT IF WE'RE GOING TO BREAK THE TERROR MACHINE.
Be aware, though, that this is unlikely to be as powerful a weapon as the author seems to think it is.
China would just buy up any oil that we didn't buy on the world market - we have to out-bid them right now on the spot market, just to get oil from overseas. China is one major reason oil costs over US$100 a barrel.
However, it would drop the market price for oil on the world market, which would hurt the Arabs.
In fact, if we were able through driving less, using hybrid, ethanol and other biopower, and nuclear-generated electricity to stop importing oil entirely, we would bootstrap our economy into a whole new era of efficiency and profitability.
Just developing inertial confinement fusion power, which can use an isotope of boron which makes up 80 percent of the natural supply as nuclear fuel and may not create nuclear waste at all (since the boron fusion reaction creates no neutrons, and thus makes few radioactive materials), could turn the United States of America back into the leader of the free world in every respect - technology, economic power, military power (an inertial confinement fusion reactor would probably be much easier to build and safer than current nuclear reactor designs, and might be capable of being built small enough to run ships, aircraft and motor vehicles).
We keep not working to our strengths. This is going to be our undoing if we persist in it.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 6:32 PM MDT
Updated: Friday, 25 April 2008 7:50 PM MDT
Barack Obama is a racist.
Mood:
incredulous
Topic: Unintentional truths
What do we know?
Quoted from "Barack Obama's 'bitter' remarks give Hillary Clinton an opening ahead of Pennsylvania primary, " By Jim Kuhnhenn and Charles Babington of the Associated Press:
http://www.startribune.com/nation/17591464.html
"At issue are comments he (Obama) made privately at a fundraiser in San Francisco last Sunday. He was trying to explain his troubles winning over some working-class voters, saying they have become frustrated with economic conditions:
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
The comments, posted Friday on The Huffington Post Web site, set off a blast of criticism from Clinton, Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain and other GOP officials, and drew attention to a potential Obama weakness — the image some have that the Harvard-trained lawyer is arrogant and aloof."
I think that Obama went way past "arrogant and aloof."
Barack Obama is obviously so immersed in that famous racial experience he and his former pastor share that he is indulging in prejudice against people who are not like him. He is a glib, slick, gladhanding racist.
This isn't as much about arrogance as it is about prejudice. Obama is so blind to the concerns of "people in those small towns" (which is another way of saying "white people") that he discounts those concerns without having examined them.
If people in Carmel, Indiana or Peoria, Illinois or Hershey, Pennsylvania, or Thibodaux, Louisiana or Sterling, Colorado don't agree with Obama on gun control (which, since the assault weapons ban elapsed several years back, has been demonstrated to be almost completely unnecessary), economic policy, faith or illegal immigration (which should concern people, considering that it IS a violation of Federal law that Obama's party is trying to help people commit), Obama doesn't need to revisit his ideas - oh, no, it's the fault of those ignorant, inbred crackers out in the sticks who don't even know the real reason they're upset.
It's our fault. We're just a bunch of ignorant redneck white trash.
Back to the story:
"His campaign scrambled to defuse possible damage.
There has been a small "political flare-up because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter," Obama said Saturday morning at a town hall-style meeting at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. "They are angry. They feel like they have been left behind. They feel like nobody is paying attention to what they're going through.
"So I said, well you know, when you're bitter you turn to what you can count on. So people, they vote about guns, or they take comfort from their faith and their family and their community. And they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country."
After acknowledging his previous remarks in California could have been better phrased, he added:
"The truth is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That's what sustains us. But what is absolutely true is that people don't feel like they are being listened to."
And another thing that is absolutely true is that people don't want to be told that they don't know what they're angry about when it's very clear:
- people are getting away with waltzing across our national border in direct violation of Federal law;
- once here, they steal the identities of American citizens, run up debts in their names, DON'T pay taxes, DO send their kids to school at public expense despite NOT paying taxes, murder, rob, rape and steal at much higher rates than people who are here legally;
- the people who ARE here legally are being deprived of their own legitimate rights, such as the right to keep and bear arms, the right to be secure in their possessions and property against greedy land developers who pay city councils off in order to run folks off of their land through abuse of eminent domain;
- health care is unaffordable to a large part of the populace in great part because one of the largest supporters of the Democratic party, the trial lawyers of America, flood the courts with baseless law suits which are often paid off by hospitals, drug manufacturers and their insurance companies to avoid trials in which exorbitant awards could bankrupt health care providers whether they're guilty or innocent of any wrongdoing - and the cost is passed down to the rest of us, so many of us can't afford health care when we once could...
...the list goes on and on. We know perfectly well why we're angry - the system is broken and Barack Obama's party had a large part in breaking it. But it's easier to smugly explain all of that away by talking about bitter people in small towns than to confront the activists and wealthy supporters of one's own party in an election year.
You can't win the Democratic Party's nomination to the Presidency by admitting that the Democratic Party has, by hook and by crook, sabotaged our own government - so sharp operators like Hillary Clinton and John Edwards could make fortunes by picking up the phone and cashing in favors, or by threatening to bankrupt your local hospital if their insurance company doesn't cough up a few million dollars, forty percent of which a sharp operator like Edwards can keep. Easy money for the Democratic Party's powerful.
That's why Hillary Clinton's attacks on Obama are so cynical and crooked - she plays exactly the same game he does - she just sugar-coats her quack medicine more palatably.
"Clinton attacked Obama's remarks much more harshly Saturday than she had the night before, calling them "demeaning." Her aides feel Obama has given them a big opening, pulling the spotlight away from troublesome stories such as former President Clinton's recent revisiting of his wife's misstatements about an airport landing in Bosnia 10 years ago.
Obama is trying to focus attention narrowly on his remarks, arguing there's no question that some working-class families are anxious and bitter. The Clinton campaign is parsing every word, focusing on what Obama said about religion, guns, immigration and trade.
Clinton hit all those themes in lengthy comments to manufacturing workers in Indianapolis.
"The people of faith I know don't 'cling' to religion because they're bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor, but because they are spiritually rich," she said.
"I also disagree with Senator Obama's assertion that people in this country 'cling to guns' and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration," Clinton added."
That's funny. The wench never saw a gun control bill she didn't like before....
"People don't need a president who looks down on them," she said. "They need a president who stands up for them."
Exactly why neither Clinton nor Obama belongs in the White House. They BOTH look down on us as ignorant sheep waiting to be sheared.
"McCain's campaign piled on Obama, releasing a statement that also accused him of elitism."
Again, pot calling kettle black. McCain has also played footsy with liberal elitists whenever he thought it would help him... remember "McCain-Feingold"? The law that gave George Soros and his liberal pals a near-monopoly on access to political advertising in the 2004 election?
"One of Clinton's staunchest supporters, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., acknowledged there was some truth in Obama's remarks. But he said Republicans would use them against him anyway."
Republicans? REPUBLICANS? Bayh (another elitist horse's ass from the Senate) seems oblivious to where 99 percent of the brick bats over Obama's little lapse into saying how he really feels are coming from - the other Democratic candidate. Not the Republican party. McCain has hardly said anything - doesn't need to, really. Hillary's got that target saturated.
"Political insiders differed on whether Obama's comments, which came to light Friday, would become a full-blown political disaster that could prompt party leaders to try to steer the nomination to Clinton even though Obama has more pledged delegates. Clinton supporters were eagerly hoping so.
They handed out "I'm not bitter" stickers in North Carolina, and held a conference call of Pennsylvania mayors to denounce the Illinois senator. In Indiana, Clinton did the work herself, telling plant workers in Indianapolis that Obama's comments were "elitist and out of touch."
No. Obama's comments were accurate in that they tell us how the man really feels.
He does NOT respect the people of America - at least the people who are not like him.
Barack Obama is himself a patronizing bigot of the worst sort - the kind who believes he is uniquely qualified to run other people's lives for them.
His remarks about "people in small towns" are very thinly disguised code for "people who don't look like me and who didn't go to an Ivy League school."
"Obama tried to quell the furor Saturday, explaining his remarks while also conceding he had chosen his words poorly.
"If I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that," Obama said in an interview with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal."
Not "I'm sorry,' not "I shouldn't have said those stupid things," not "I was out of line and said things I had no business saying," but "I deeply regret that."
"I deeply regret that" is one of those things a politician says when he doesn't regret having done something one bit, but can't afford to admit it.
Barack Obama has managed to be a sublimely arrogant racist and an insufferable snob at once. And if the people of this country vote for him we deserve every minute of national agony we will endure afterwards.
Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter because, unlike Carter, Obama is smart enough to really foul things up - like the precocious six-year old who knows how to pull the back cover of the color TV off.
In a century when countries that can't maintain their own paved roads can purchase nuclear weapons, we don't need snotty, arrogant, bigoted pissants (or psychotic broads with major control issues) in charge.
McCain may not be the best choice for the job, but he's the best man for the job in the current Presidential election. In four years, maybe we can get Joe Lieberman to run.
Until then, it's McCain or national disaster.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 9:37 PM MDT
Updated: Sunday, 13 April 2008 10:05 PM MDT
Spy photos reveal 'secret launch site' for Iran's long-range missile
(as posted to Open Source Intelligence on yahoo.com by Dietmar Muehlboeck dmuehlboeck@gmx.net)
"Spy photos reveal 'secret launch site' for Iran's long-range missiles
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3724048.eceThe secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.
The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.
Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 6,000km (4,000 miles).
A previously unknown missile location, the site, about 230km southeast of Tehran, and the link with Iran's long-range programme, was revealed by Jane's Intelligence Review after a study of the imagery by a former Iraq weapons inspector. A close examination of the photographs has indicated that the Iranians are following the same path as North Korea, pursuing a space programme that enables Tehran to acquire expertise in long-range missile technology.
Geoffrey Forden, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that there was a recently constructed building on the site, about 40 metres in length, which was similar in form and size to the Taepodong long-range missile assembly facility in North Korea.
Avital Johanan, the editor of Jane's Proliferation, said that the analysis of the Iranian site indicated that Tehran may be about five years away from developing a 6,000km ballistic missile. This would tie in with American intelligence estimates and underlines why President Bush wants the Polish and Czech components of the US missile defence system to be up and running by 2013.
The Czech Republic has now agreed to have a special radar system on its soil and the Polish Government is still negotiating with Washington over the American request to site ten interceptor missiles in Poland.
The Kavoshgar 1 rocket that was launched in the presence of President Ahmadinejad of Iran was based on the Shahab 3B missile, a version of the North Korean Nodong liquid-propellant missile.
Dr Forden said that the Kavoshgar launch did not demonstrate any significant advances in ballistic missile technology. “But it does reveal the likely future development of Iran's missile programme,” he said.
At a meeting on February 25 between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Iranians, UN inspectors confronted them with evidence of design studies for mounting nuclear warheads on long-range missiles. The Iranians denied any such aspirations.
However, according to Jane's Intelligence Review, the satellite photographs prove that the Kavoshgar 1 rocket was not part of a civilian space centre project but was consistent with Iran's clandestine programme to develop longer-range missiles.
The examination of the launch site revealed that it was part of a large and growing complex “with very high levels of security and recent construction activity”. It was clearly “an important strategic facility”, Dr Forden said.
The former Iraq weapons inspector said that Iran was benefiting from the North Korean missile programme and following its designs. The Taepodong 1 consisted of a liquid-propellant Nodong (like the Shahab 3) first stage, a liquid-propellant Scud second stage and solid-propellant third stage.
“The production and testing facility next to the Kavoshgar 1 launch site would seem well positioned to contribute to this third stage,” Dr Forden said."
No, the Iranian government doesn't pose a threat to other countries - unless you count three-stage ICBMs built with North Korean technology.
But I'm sure that given enough notice, they could hide all traces of this weapons program in time for the UN to give them a clean bill of health.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 1:18 PM MDT
Updated: Saturday, 12 April 2008 1:24 PM MDT
You may be a Taliban if....
Mood:
mischievious
Topic: minor chuckles....
Tip of the hat to "obanish" on the Time/CNN Web site, who contributed this:
"With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, US troops in Afghanistan prove they've retained their sense of humor with the following,
"YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF......"
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.
3. You have more wives than teeth.
4. You wipe your rear with your bare left hand, but consider bacon "unclean."
5. You think vests come in two styles: Bullet-proof and suicide.
6. You can't think of anyone you HAVEN'T declared Jihad against.
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
9. You have ever uttered the phrase, "I love what you've done with your cave."
10. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.
11. You bathe at least monthly whether necessary or not.
12. You have ever had a crush on your neighbor's goat."
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 10:15 AM MDT
Churchill didn't like them, either
Topic: No Truce with Terror!
We are used to thinking of the danger posed by Islam as something new, as worldwide, Muslims are threatening to slaughter and burn if a fifteen minute-long film that simply contrasts what Islam says with what Islam does is broadcast.
But that's not true. If anything, the changes are almost entirely due to oil money and airline travel from the Middle East.
Read an English politician's thoughts from 109 years ago:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
Winston S. Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899)
Yes, the same Winston Spencer Churchill who led Great Britain to victory over Hitler in the Second World War. Somehow, I don't think that this guy cared about oil or the state of Israel (which was still some fifty years from being established when he wrote the words I quoted).
No, Churchill had simply been there, and was in a position to know what he was talking about. And now we're in a position where we have to watch what we say, or the big bad Muslims will take out another skyscraper or murder thousands of their own fellow citizens in riots whipped up by fanatic morons with towels on their heads.
It's unreasonable to run our lives to suit a bunch of fanatical fools across the world. We should offer them a simple solution - don't threaten us or send any more terrorists and we won't turn your countries into massive molten glass ashtrays. No more boots on the ground, just Minuteman III ICBMs arcing over the planet to where they will do the most good.
It's time to stop pretending we don't know who pulls the strings on the murderers. Cut the strings and a lot of the trouble will stop, because we will have set the price for attacking our people too high for anyone to want to pay. If these people want to live in the Seventh Century so badly, we can send them back there about an hour after the President sends the orders. It's time.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 2:35 AM MDT
Updated: Monday, 31 March 2008 2:47 AM MDT
H-1B visas during a RECESSION? WHY?
Topic: HOW LAME IS THIS?
Nearly HALF of all illegal aliens in the United States entered legally at first with a visa.
As dumb as it seems, though, certain members of Congress are rushing to expand the H-1B visa program, which imports foreign workers to take American jobs, many of whom overstay their visas and become illegal aliens.
Apparently the Software Business Association's been spending some major folding money on the Hill in one way or another, because expansion of the H-1B visa program makes no sense when American workers are staring right down the barrels of a recession. Does it?
Some of the culprits? (Click on their names to get information on how to show them the error of their ways, please!)
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) has introduced the Innovation Employment Act (H.R. 5630), which would DOUBLE the current H-1B visa cap to 130,000 per fiscal year. H.R. 5630 would further raise the cap to 180,000, for five years beginning in 2010, if the 130,000 cap is reached during the 2009 fiscal year.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has introduced the Strengthening United States Technology and Innovation Act (H.R. 5642), which would TRIPLE the current H-1B visa cap to 195,000 in 2008 and 2009.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) is calling for a bill that would make Rep. Smith's increases permanent.
House Chief Deputy Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) recently made the erroneous statement that H-1B visas are "not tied up to the larger issue of illegal immigration" (when half of illegal aliens are here now on expired or otherwise invalid visas).
Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas) have introduced a bill that would practically staple a green card to the diploma of every foreign student who gets their Ph.D. from an American University.
These people can stick whatever name they like on their bills, but "strengthening United States Technology and Innovation" by opening the flood gates to unemployed foreign workers while Americans qualified and "overqualified" for the same jobs are unemployed is a strange way to go about the process.
It strikes me as more honest to force the authors and/or sponsors of these bills to label them honestly
- "The Taking Jobs Away From Taxpaying American Technology Workers Act" would be a fine description for any of them, as would
- the "Importing Sudden Jihad Syndrome Sufferers Bill."
It's no stretch to see that when the big spenders in Silicon Valley bring in their hundreds of thousands of information workers from Pakistan and points further out in Radical Islam-land, their catch will include folks who identify intensely with Al-Qaeda and other Islamic radical organizations.
Even if they refrain from terror acts themselves (the Sudden Jihad Syndrome), too many will send money home to fund terror schools and increase the danger to our homeland.
We have all the technology workers America needs - they just can't be underpaid and bullied around the way that visa holders can by their sponsors. Bringing in workers from overseas during a recession is both stupid and immoral. It just makes no sense.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 2:30 AM MDT
Updated: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 3:03 AM MDT
