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Wood Group Mustang Completed Concept Study On Ecopetrol's Oleoducto Del Pacifico Initiative
HOUSTON, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wood Group Mustang recently completed the Phase 1 concept study for Ecopetrol's Oledocucto del Pacifico initiative. The initiative is a new Colombian pipeline to transport crude from the oil-rich Llanos, Caguan & Putumayo basin of eastern Colombia across the Andes Mountains to either Tumaco, in Nariño province or Buenaventura, in Valle del Cauca province, Colombia's two largest Pacific ports. This pipeline is expected to be more than 1,550 miles (2,500km) long with multiple pumping stations and storage terminals on the Pacific coast. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120426/MM95878LOGO)As Colombian oil & gas production hits historic record levels, heavy crude makes up roughly 60 per cent of the country's output. This will be Colombia's first pipeline to focus on the Pacific region rather than Caribbean ports and will substantially increase Colombia's oil exports to Asian markets, which are experiencing unprecedented growth in crude demand. The highly specialized and integrated team created to conduct the study included engineers from Energeticos, Wood Group Mustang's Bogota-based engineering business, and sister Wood Group company, J P Kenny, to deliver the first phase of this initiative in record time and under-budget. "Wood Group Mustang is excited to have assisted Ecopetrol with the first phase of this pipeline initiative. Our full-service pipeline engineering and field services will provide excellent support for Ecopetrol in any future phase of the initiative," said Steve Knowles, president of Mustang. Wood Group Mustang has completed numerous pipeline projects focused on improving integrity, safety and increasing crude production for Ecopetrol and has also provided conceptual engineering services for its downstream petrochemical operations. Wood Group Mustang, which comprises Mustang, Alliance Engineering, IMV Projects and Energéticos, is a global project management, engineering, procurement, and construction operations business serving the upstream oil & gas, refining & chemicals, pipeline, automation & control, and industrial markets. It has offices in the United States, Latin America, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, West Africa and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.mustangeng.com. Energéticos, part of the Wood Group Mustang family of companies, is a Colombian engineering company with more than 35 years of experience on oil & gas, petrochemical and industrial projects. Energéticos, with almost 900 employees, has over 420 engineering specialists in various disciplines providing high-quality engineering services for clients across Latin America. Wood Group is an international energy services company with $6.bn sales, employing more than 41,000 people worldwide and operating in 50 countries. The Group has three businesses – Engineering, Wood Group PSN and Wood Group GTS - providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas and power generation industries worldwide. www.woodgroup.com Ecopetrol is the principal petroleum company in Colombia, as well as its largest corporation. The company has at least 50 percent ownership in all oil producing fields in Colombia as well as two refineries, ports for fuel exports on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts and a transportation network of more than 8,000 km of pipelines and polyducts throughout Colombia. SOURCE Wood Group Mustang
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by Mark Rabinowitz
[The following editorial solely represents the views of the author, and
does not necessarily reflect the views of this publication.]
On April 10th, 1952, Elia Kazan, one of the pre-eminent film and theater
directors in the United States testified before the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (HUAC). By doing so, he became a participant in
one of the most shameful periods of our nation's history, naming 11
individuals, among them friends and colleagues, as Communists. On March
21, 1999, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will
bestow an Honorary Award on Kazan, adding to the two Best Director
Oscars he received for "Gentleman's Agreement" in 1948 and "On the
Waterfront" in 1955. According to an Academy press release, the award is
"in appreciation of a long, distinguished and unparalleled career during
which he has influenced the very nature of filmmaking through his
creation of cinematic masterpieces."
There is no doubt that he was a great film and theater director (he won
three Tony Awards for directing), and that these honors were bestowed
upon him legitimately. The real question is, however, does someone who
informed on friends and co-workers, thereby helping to legitimize a
modern-day witch hunt, deserve additional accolades? After some
consideration, my answer would be no. This decision is not an easy one,
however. By the definition in the Academy's release, there can be
little argument as to Kazan's ability and achievement as a director,
but as a human being, he has some shortcomings.
This is not the place to go into a lengthy discourse on the history of
the "Red Scare" of the 1940's and 50's, as that is the subject of many
much longer articles and books, some of which are mentioned at the end
of this piece. It is also very important that it be noted that the even
larger villains of this sad tale are Senators Joseph McCarthy and James
Eastland, lawyers Richard Arens and Roy Cohn, and other such vile
characters. These four, along with many others, systematically
destroyed the lives of not only many artists and writers, but
thousands of teachers, trade unionists, lawyers, doctors and others,
most of whom lost the ability to make a living.
This is, however, the place to address my feelings on the subject of Mr.
Kazan's honoring by AMPAS. I was raised in a house rife with leftist
politics, including a healthy distrust of the government and a thorough
dislike for informers. My father was on the front lines during the cold
war, working as a lawyer defending any and all who came to him after
being called to testify before HUAC and the various other committees and
subcommittees terrorizing certain sections of the American population.
When I was three, my mother overheard me talking in my sleep, saying
something like "Shhhh, be quiet - the walls have ears." As an adult, it
makes my flesh crawl to think about anyone who collaborated with the
McCarthy-era hysteria, receiving any award...for anything.
In the March 22nd issue of The Nation, playwright Arthur Miller, himself
a victim of the anti-Communist hysteria of the time, addresses the
subject of Kazan's upcoming honor, drawing a distinction between a
person's artistic achievements and their political actions. "So I am
perhaps overly sensitive to any attempts to, in effect, obliterate an
artist's name because of his morals or political actions," wrote Miller.
As fair and true a statement as can be made on the subject, to be sure,
but by applying this statement to Kazan, Miller seems to draw a parallel
between artists who were blacklisted due to leftist politics, either
real or perceived, and those whose very political actions contributed to
the blacklisting of other artists. Kazan, along with Lee J. Cobb,
Clifford Odets, Sterling Hayden, Jerome Robbins, Robert Rossen, Bud
Schulberg, and many others, testified before HUAC, thereby caving into
the badgering and subpoenas of a government gone awry. Those named to
the committee saw their lives ruined, some even wound up having their
lives ended as a direct result of being named before a committee.
Some have said that one should let bygones be bygones. The past is done,
let's move on with our lives. I can't object more strenuously. If the past
is not remembered, it WILL repeat itself. It has happened time and time
again. The only way to even try to ensure that it doesn't, is to remember.
One of the only good things that can come out of Kazan's honorary award on
Sunday night is that this horrible part in America's history is again being
brought to light. Maybe if members of the audience do stand and walk out,
those watching the telecast will be prompted to go to their local book store
or library and read up on the subject. The McCarthy-era was a dark era in
our history. It rivals periods of political repression that have taken
place in many countries throughout human existence. Thousands of people
lost their livelihoods and their lives due to fear, hatred and ignorance.
Kazan has received his awards. Two Oscars and three Tonys. To many who
lived through the times, Kazan is a man without honor. To give him an
honorary award is simply wrong.
The following are some books on the subject that might be of interest to
those who would like to learn more about this period in our history.
While three of the four books here are available at Amazon.com, I urge
those of you so inclined, to search out an independent bookstore in your
town, or visit your local library. They can use your support.
"Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir," by Victor Rabinowitz. What can
I say, Pop made me who I am, in addition to being a hero and advocate for
the poor, oppressed, underfed and underpaid people of the world. This
kind of praise would make him uncomfortable, but it's due and accurate.
"It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America,"
by Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz. It did happen here.
"Naming Names," by Victor Navasky-This book is out of print, but I urge
you to look for it. Amazon.com does have a search for out of print books,
as do many second hand book stores.
"Only Victims," by Robert Vaughn. Yes, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. wrote a very
interesting study of show business blacklisting.
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Why does Pope Benedict bother to write books? Long before his election to the See of Peter he was established as a leading theologian of his generation. Being universal pastor of the Church is a crushing job, so why add to it by embarking on a massive scholarly project?
Evidently the pope enjoys writing theology. The deeper reason though is that Benedict knows, with all humility, that he is better at it than anyone else. Just as the soon-to-be-Blessed John Paul II knew that he had a special gift for leading massive, history-changing public manifestations of the faith, Benedict likely concludes that if the Lord wanted him as pope then he should do what God gave him the talent to do.
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Often, I am asked whether I believe in evolution or whether evolution is a fact. These are complicated questions, but most who ask them expect a clear and simple answer. So I have learned to simply say "yes, evolution is a fact."
However, I quite disagree with those who think that evolution is the answer to all there is to ask about life. Evolution is a theory of something, but not everything.
At the birth of my first child, I experienced in a personal way the fulfillment of God's promises. I remember how close I felt to the Lord during my pregnancy, despite the physical difficulties of childbearing.
Very early on Christmas morning, I travelled to hospital and laboured through the dark hours to deliver my daughter. In the gift of Hannah's birth, I came to a deeper understanding of the events of the Nativity, when God's promise of salvation is fulfilled in one tiny, human baby.
In the Foreword to the new volume of his book Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger says he wants to lead his readers to both a personal encounter with Jesus and to "sure knowledge of the real historical figure of Jesus." The two goals are compatible, a fact that Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) has long striven to articulate and defend. It is possible to both know and love Jesus.
We are saved by the death of Jesus. All Christians believe this. This is a central tenet within the Christian faith and the centre of almost all Christian iconography. Jesus' death on a cross changed history forever. Indeed, we measure time by it. The effect of his death so marked the world that, not long after he died, the world began to measure time by him. We are in the year 2011 since Jesus was born.
In this week's Gospel, Jesus says of himself, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work."
Jesus came to do the will of his Father. This was the spiritual food that he ate. His entire life was dedicated to this purpose.
Do old men have dreams?" asked Jeanette as she watched her 88-year-old father through the window of the cottage they rented for a week in the Rockies.
Bill Richards was standing alone on the deck looking at the natural majesty around him. It was dusk. The last vestiges of daylight were slipping behind a snow-capped mountain in the distance. It was the end of another day of more than 32,000 previous days that had passed in Bill's long life. There was something sad yet symbolic in the scene.
Lent is a time for prayer, fasting and almsgiving. I can understand fasting and almsgiving. But how can I pray?
Last month, the Nothing More Beautiful presenters at the basilica spoke a powerful social justice message. One quote from Lesley-Anne Knight, the secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, struck a special chord with me.
She said: "I am sometimes asked why, as a Catholic organization, we (Caritas) deliver aid to people of other faiths, Muslims and Buddhists. My answer is always that we help people not because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholics."
Thirty years ago, Stephen Spielberg directed the blockbuster adventure movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The plot followed the search for the Jewish Ark of the Covenant, the golden chest housing the stone tablets on which God wrote his Ten Commandments. The movie followed the fictitious conflict between American Army Intelligence and the Nazis in their efforts to own the Ark.


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- "Celebration" Performed by Kool & The Gang
- "Sugar Rush" Performed by AKB48
- "Bug Hunt (Noisia Remix)" Performed by Skrillex
- "Shut Up and Drive" Performed by Rihanna
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Walt Disney Records To Release Wreck-It Ralph Original Motion Picture Soundtrack On October 30, 2012
BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Walt Disney Records will release the soundtrack for the Walt Disney Animation Studios film "Wreck-It Ralph" on Oct. 30, 2012, which features four new songs and a score by composer Henry Jackman ("Winnie the Pooh," "X-Men: First Class"). Owl City contributes the end-credit song "When Can I See You Again?" Directed by Rich Moore, produced by Clark Spencer and featuring the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch, "Wreck-It Ralph" crashes into theatres on Nov. 2, 2012.(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121017/LA95204) Classically trained composer Henry Jackman was called on to write the score for "Wreck-It Ralph," helping to shape the film's diverse worlds with music. Jackman researched arcade games and incorporated their classic sounds into the score, bringing the arcade and its individual games to life. According to Jackman, the score was driven by the story, which allowed him to tap his classical roots, too. "When something emotional is developing, it actually opens the door to the orchestral score without it feeling imposed," he said. Underscoring the chaos and excitement of Hero's Duty, the first-person shooter game, GRAMMY®-winning artist Skrillex wrote the game-play music, "Bug Hunt," hand-picking Netherlands' producers/DJs/videogame soundtrack composers Noisia to remix the track for the album. "The mood of that game world is high-energy and futuristic. I make music with many different colors of the emotional spectrum—this reflects a more aggressive side of my music." Owl City ("Fireflies," "Good Time") provides an upbeat and story-driven cap to the film with "When Can I See You Again?" According to singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Adam Young, the song offers a bit of an emotional tug-of-war. "It's a very bouncy, happy, uplifting song, but there's a bittersweet part of it, leaving a key relationship in the film open-ended." The music video was directed by Matt Stawski ( Cee Lo Green, Train, All Time Low) and creates the world of a classic 8-bit video game that seamlessly connects it to the world of "Wreck-It Ralph." The video will premiere exclusively on VEVO Oct. 26. Japan's pop phenomenon AKB48 accompanies Ralph to the land of sweets with the aptly named theme song "Sugar Rush." The song also appears in the end credits. Also contributing to the end credits are Buckner & Garcia, the team behind the 1982 Top-10 hit "Pac-Man Fever." Jerry Buckner of Buckner & Garcia co-produced the song "Wreck-It, Wreck-It Ralph" with hit songwriter/producer Jamie Houston ( Steven Tyler, Macy Gray). Wreck-It Ralph original motion picture soundtrack track list:
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On Saturday nights you should hang out on the back patio.
Great intimate music venue.
Any night is a good night. Beers $5-$9. Not bad. You can order pizza from the venue. First timers please don't block the walkway/bar to the patio. A lot of indie bands and upcoming artists. [chvrches]
Small intimate venue. Concerts are loud and the place gets packed quickly.
Funky. Sole. Nuff said
Local H at the echo
The Echo has the most adventurous, experimental lineup of any Eastside music venue.
Dope, intimate venue to catch a show
Best venue in Southern California.
This place is an incognita. I heard opera, jazz and rock in the same night. Don't go alone. Not good for flerting!
Cool place way too expensive
Women's restroom is behind the merch table while the men's restroom is on the opposite side of the stage. Be prepped before pushing your way through the crowd.
High ceilings.
Nice venue for music
Really reasonable drinks prices for a music venue. Can usually get a beer or cider for $5-7
Plenty of places to sit. Small venue, so it's very intimate, making it easy to see the artist up close without having to wait in line all day.
Better than the EchoPlex down the corner. Room to move & you can see who you're sweating with. $5/$10 bucks cover. On the cheap.
Awesome layout! Bar seating in the back with a slightly raised platform so you can still see the show. Dance floor on the right. Patio entrance at the back left. And cool staff to boot.
Grand ole echo on Sunday afternoon/evening. Blue grass. Cheap beer. Patio. The good life
Funky Sole. Friendly, happy, positive people. A great experience. Place was packed! Great to see young folks digging music made like 20 years before they were born. Drinks were steep ($$) though.
Rock and roll; you'll enjoy both together but not apart from one another.
The Echo: the stage is stacked on subwoofers. So you feel it in your pants.
You're definitely not too uncool enough.
Very small intimate club.
Is now the best venue in LA. Other spots have gotten too pricey or fallen off. Bootie parties, part time punks, funky sole, check yo ponytail and new and old underground, indie favorites
Sock Puppet Sitcom Theatre. This month, Roseanne. Next month, The Golden Girls!
Great place to see Septic Death
They don't tell you beforehand that you can't bring your backpack and then they tell you to fuck off if you try to get back inside even though you already paid for your ticket. Full of assholes.
No backpacks allowed.
Watch out when you walk in that you don't fall and break a hipster!
The Echo and its downstairs counterpart, Echoplex book the hottest indie bands. Stop by the Echo for regular "Bootie L.A." nights, featuring DJs spinning rock and pop mash-ups. Read more
Funky sole is $5 now. #LAME
Arrive late, drink jack and eat at two boots pizza, the vegan is awesome
Wear your dancing shoes and get ready to party when Walk the Moon opens for Kaiser Chiefs here on March 19, 2012!
Check out heavy punk band Mr. Dream here on March 2, 2012!
One of my favorite places to see a show in LA. Every view is a good view and if you get bored of the crowds take your beer out back and chat up a stranger or stare at your feet. Bring cigarettes.
One of the best venues in LA.
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Great intimate indie venue, with free residency shows to boot!
Fun fact: Airborne Toxic Event played 10 of their first 12 shows here. They literally had to beg for the slot after Spaceland said no. What do you think the booking agent would say now?
Not the most glamorous, but the divey vibes & iconic status give a kind of cbgb feel to an LA venue. Order Two Boots at the bar, & catch Monday night residencies to see bands on the verge of success
I've been thrown out of here for fistfighting on the dancefloor.
Dance, dance, dance!
Amazing sound.
LA Weekly's Best of LA 2010 pick - Part Time Punks= Best Punky Time!
Bring cash for Two Boots pizza afterwards :)
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RCED-96-155: Published: Jun 14, 1996. Publicly Released: Jun 14, 1996.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed rural communities' efforts to develop advanced telecommunications technologies, focusing on: (1) federal programs that fund rural telecommunications projects; (2) lessons learned for developing such projects; and (3) whether changes to these programs are needed.
GAO found that: (1) as of December 1995, there were at least 28 programs that provided discretionary development funds for rural telecommunications projects; (2) 13 designated programs provided about $715.8 million for 540 telecommunications projects; (3) program users and rural development experts believe that rural communities need a basic understanding of telecommunications technologies and their potential benefits, strategic plans to determine the technical and financial feasibility of telecommunications development, and partnerships among key players involved in constructing, financing, and using telecommunications networks; (4) rural development experts and public officials believe that telecommunications programs could be improved by educating rural communities on the potential benefits of telecommunications technologies, building in requirements for considering telecommunications technologies in long-range planning, and making multiple federal programs easier to use; (5) most federal agencies lack the resources required for educational outreach programs; and (6) 1996 legislation emphasizes the need for rural communities to include telecommunications projects in their long-term planning and coordination of multiple federal programs.
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Alexandrian Primate laid the foundation stone of the Church in Blantyre, Malawi24. October 2011 - 14:31
His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa expressed his satisfaction on the missionary work which has been done in the recent past in Malawi, while visiting the site of a new church under construction and laying the foundation stone for another.
Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa in Malawi24. October 2011 - 14:28
On 13th October 2011, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa conducted the Service of the Inauguration of the Holy Church of the resurrection of the Lord, in the city of Blantyre in Malawi.
The Venerable Sash of the Mother of God - from Vatoped to Russia24. October 2011 - 8:20
The delegation of the Foundation of Saint Andrew The First-Called, with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, brought on October 20, 2011 in the Russian Federation, The Venerable Sash of the Most Holy Lady, which has been kept for centuries in the monastery Vatopedi at Mount Athos. Many believers could worship the relics, that will remain in Russia until November 23. On that occasion the Sash along with the prayer could be worshipped by believers from many Russian cities - from St. Petersburg, where was the first place where the shrine was brought, through Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Niznhny Novgorod, Diviyev, Sharansk, Samara, Rostov and Kalingrad until Moscow.
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Non-pharmacologic or non-medical therapies are sleep hygiene, relaxation therapy, stimulus control, and sleep restriction. These also are referred to as cognitive behavioral therapies.
Sleep Hygiene
Sleep hygiene is one of the components of behavioral therapy for insomnia. Several simple steps can be taken to improve a patient's sleep quality and quantity. These steps include:
Relaxation Therapy
Relaxation therapy involves measures such as meditation and muscle relaxation or dimming the lights and playing soothing music prior to going to bed.
Stimulus Control
Stimulus control therapy also consists of a few simple steps that may help patients with chronic insomnia.
Sleep Restriction
Restricting your time in bed only to sleep may improve your quality of sleep. This therapy is called sleep restriction. It is achieved by averaging the time in bed that the patient spends only sleeping. Rigid bedtime and rise time are set, and the patient is forced to get up at the rising time even if they feel sleepy. This may help the patient sleep better the next night because of the sleep deprivation from the previous night. Sleep restriction has been helpful in some cases.
Other simple measures that can be helpful to treat insomnia include:
A person's circadian rhythm (biological clock) is particularly sensitive to light. Parents who need to sleep during the day may have to make child care arrangements to allow them to sleep.
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Skip to comments.Beef prices hit all-time high in U.S.
Posted on 04/09/2014 3:42:47 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Come grilling season, expect your sirloin steak to come with a hearty side of sticker shock. Beef prices have reached all-time highs in the U.S. and aren't expected to come down any time soon. Extreme weather has thinned the nation's beef cattle herds to levels last seen in 1951, when there were about half as many mouths to feed in America. "We've seen strong prices before but nothing this extreme," said Dennis Smith, a commodities broker for Archer Financial Services in Chicago. "This is really new territory." The retail value of "all-fresh" USDA choice-grade beef jumped to a record $5.28 a pound in February, up from $4.91 the same time a year ago. The same grade of beef cost $3.97 as recently as 2008. The swelling prices are roiling the beef supply chain from rancher to restaurant.
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Add to this the coming shortage of pork and pork products, due to a virus not previously extant in this country, that kills baby piglets, thus decreasing the availability of those sides of pork six months to a year from now.
As of now, there is very little the pork producers can do to contain or stop this virus infection. Even as prolific as swine are, the births cannot keep up with the devastating loss in numbers until this virus is controlled in some way.
There is a way out.
Soylent Green.
I didn't know about the pork virus. I can do without beef but I love pork.
The American standard of living continues to decline.
And the package size drops as well.
"And it isn't just beef - all food items have gone up and keep going up. Of course, there is no inflation."
That's right. It was frightening that unemployment and inflation didn't cost Obama the 2012 election; these were things that effect everyone (including welfare queens), and he won anyway.
But I'll bet Mr. Ranger would be PISSED!
Before you know it, we'll be eating squirrel and possum again.
It is now almost as cheap to eat out every meal than buy food, cook and clean up afterwards. I can go out to eat every meal and spend less than $25/day. If I go to the store every week I spend almost that same amount.
All I can afford is cube steak, and it's gone up.
The Currency of the future will be chicken eggs and tubes of Neosporin.
That sounds to me like low-end dining out and high-end grocery shopping. My guess is that ultra-convenience is the common denominator.
If you can grab it quickly enough, there is plenty of road kill out there....
We just buy what's on sale. I wonder if prices would be as high if there were no food stamps?
The obumer won the election because of voter fraud...plain and simple... I absolutely refuse to believe the American people are that stupid...
If it takes 1 hour a day to shop, cook and clean up then that has to be factored into the calculation. Your time has value.
It really is amazing that we have a White House pushing obesity and food desert ideology, but no one can afford to eat decent food. As long as a person can eat off the McDonald's menu for under $5 per day, why pay huge prices for the government's centrally controlled, subsidized beef, pork, or chicken?
Seriously though, prices are through the roof for groceries. I recently started "juicing" as a way to improve my consumption of more vegetables and fruits. Juicing just the daily normal allotment of "fresh" fruits and veggies runs over $60 in my grocery cart per week. And that's just for me, not a family of 4 or 5.
The liberals famous "food desert" is happening in middle America too as no one can afford real food. Beef shortage and pork shortage is going to be a famine for many who can't afford to pay for their meat. The only one's who will be buying it are the folks with EBT cards.
We see it now as we stand in line to check-out. The full grocery cart with steaks, lobster, and junk food all paid for with our tax dollars...while we buy low-end quality products. We are already seeing 'welfare queens' being taken better care of than those who are forced to donate to the government charity system and centralized subsidized farmers.
Prices going up on every item in the supermarket, while the amount purchased shrinks .just like it was when Jimmah Carter was in office. Some of us were cursed to have seen two really lousy Democrat presidents ruin the economy.
Checked the freezer. 1. Elk, 3. Whitetail Deer, 3 Feral Hog's and just recently added 3 Turkey Gobblers. Plus we still have some Quail, Dove, Catfish and about a dozen Cottontails. We're good to go!
True, but I never feared Carter. I truly fear Obama.
"Before you know it, well be eating squirrel and possum again."
Fried squirrel with biscuits and gravy is some fine eating.
Yes, but how long does it take you to make three trips a day to a restaurant of some type?
Beef prices have been ridiculously high for the las couple of years, they're going to have to drop sometime.
Farmers are in business to make money, and won't bypass an opportunity.
Besides, I'm not sure food prices have done anything except reflect the falling value of the dollar.
and keep in mind that gas is still hovering around 4.00 a gallon.then again,look at what party is running the country.
We love wild turkey!
The supply of tuna is getting low.;(
LACK of Global Warming is the culprit? I did not see ethanol production mentioned. Burn animal food in our cars and the price of beef goes up! Wow, who da thunk! I'm sure compliance with ever increasing EPA regulations is a factor also.
Wild Turkey is not bad, but Jack Daniels Black is better
MMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....that'd be 4 backstraps. ;)
The ability to put food on your table is paramount.
I remove the breasts, season, bacon wrap and slow cook them on the grill or smoker. Take the wings, leg's and back and cook them in a large pot of water with seasoning. When done I pull them out and take all the meat off of them. Throw some potato's onions and whatever else I want and cook them in the broth. When about an hour out I throw in some rice and the rest of the turkey. Fine eating and I put the rest in 1 lb coffee containers and store them in the freezer for later.
I had 10 deer eating the clover in my front yard Sunday evening.
Saw 3 nice size ones during my walk this morning.
Could be a good deer season next fall.
I won't lie, it is for me heh, my wife is still across the country, won't be back til June. I try to eat healthyish, but it's tough cooking on one's own when you work 12 hour days or more.
I'm in no way judging or disapproving. Just curious.
Life is short. We might as well eat what, when and how we like.
Only problem is it's harder to keep the weight down then. My wife wants me back in my soldier shape again, which means I need to drop about 10 lbs heh.
Fresh fruits and veggies can generally be had for about $1 a pound, maybe $3 a pound for organic.
For people eating a pound a day—not juicing through them like crazy!—that's $7 to $21 a week.
Lots of reasons for increased beef prices including several years of drought in cattle country, a winter storm that decimated beef herds in the Dakotas and the ethanol boondoggle that diverts 40% of our corn crop to making motor fuel that could have gone to beef production. However, with high prices beef producers will increase their herds leading eventually to lower beef prices.
Depends on the big packers honestly.
I know quite a few beef farmers. They are not getting the premium that is being charged in the grocery stores.
There is a reason I buy my beef from farmers I know.
How many servings of fruits and veggies are you supposed to get per day? I only juice for two 8oz. glasses per day. That's 2 fruits and 4 veggie servings, still not the required daily servings.
I don't know how many pounds of veggies it takes to make an eight ounce glass of juice.
But if you just had six three-ounce servings of veggies a day (thus getting all the fiber as well), you'd be about at the pound-a-day rate of veggie use. That would mean you were paying almost $9 a pound for your veggies.
This morning's glass of juice:
2 Carrots
Half a cucumber
1 beat root with leaves
1 Apple
Yielded a little over 8 oz.
I will give you consideration that you don't know much about modern juicing
So that's, what close to two pounds of vegetables for eight ounces of juice—or almost four pounds of vegetables a day for two glasses of juice?
What are you doing with the pulp?
I take it you're not subsisting on juice, but did you see the speculation that a juicing diet is what killed Peaches Geldof at age 25?
I bought two cans of food, one high priced, one cheap.
The high dollar can was packed full to the top,no excess juice or water.
The cheap can was about 3/4 full, the rest water.
I've noticed that on all stuff bought at low ball stores.
Chicken is still the cheapest thing out there, but it may go higher in the future.
I still remember the beef shortage of 1974. I noticed more fat being left on the meat.
My parents remembered the beef glut of the 1930s when government agents bought all they could find, dug a hole and shot and buried them, to create a shortage and get the price up. They would NOT allow anyone to cut a steak from the shot cattle.
Chicken really isn't the cheapest thing out there anymore, at least where I live and I live in "chicken country."
Your average modern chicken house holds 35,000 broiler/fryers, across the road from me there are 5 such house and the farmer has 12 more just like it on other properties - and that is just one farmer I know. With 2 processing plants in this county, it's pretty hard to swallow low end whole chickens costing $1.29/lb on sale.
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Charlestown Beach-Pond (25 Pequot Dr. Charlestown), walk to public lifeguarded beach, about 15 minutes,3-4 minutes by car, ocean views, great sunsets, large modern newer clean, contemporary, eat in kitchen, 4BR, L.R., 2BA, family room with wet bar, wall to wall carpet, ceramic tile kitchen, & baths(2), 2 decks, outside shower, back yard for lawn games, lots of parking, energy efficient construction with maximum insulation,modern hot air propane gas heat. Convenient location to restaurants, numerous public lifeguarded beaches, airports, train station,churches, pharmacy,hospital,post office,,golf courses Newport Mansions, Foxwoods/Mohegan Sun Casinos, marinas, Mystic seaport/aquarium and village, Block Island, Martha s Vineyard Ferry, Point Judith Fishing Village, stores, restaurants, tourist attractions and highways. Rental is top 2 floors. Part time property manager on premise in case of emergency. No Pets, Must be 21 years of age to rent and occupy,CANNOT rent for others except by written landlord authorization
Area: A 'Get Away Relaxing Carefree Great Vacation' in a large comfortably furnished luxury home at the Beach with breathtaking views of the Ocean, Salt Ponds,Dynamic Sunsets from inside the home and decks. Quiet private area, short walk to the ocean public beach with lifeguards. Enjoy fishing, bird watching, Marinas, whale watching, Numerous Golf courses close by with new public course 'Lake of Isles' at Foxwoods/Mohegan Sun Resort Casinos Hotel, Mansions in Newport with Jazz &Folk Concerts, Sail Boat racing, Block Island Martha s Vineyard Ferry. Numerous fine restaurants, high quality local grocery meat market movie rental,local fresh farm fruit-produce market, fish markets, home made bakery-coffee, ice cream shop, Vineyard Winery Tours, Live Theater, movie complex, library, miniature golf,shopping malls in Warwick&Providence, Pizza Shops with delivery, airports, trains, churches. Weekly events newspaper distributed by tourism council. 'You won't want to leave
Amenities: Cable Color TV (2) DVD/VCR Player (2) A.M.-F.M. Stereo CD-Cassette Player, WI-FI for Your Laptop, Microwave, Dishwasher, Local Phone Calls unlimited, Auto Drip Coffee Maker, Toaster, Blender, Hair Dryer, Iron/Board, Clock -Radio Alarm, All Rooms Have Fans, Deck Furniture, Gas Grill, Outside Shower, 2 Queen Beds, 2 Bunk Beds(modern style upper bunk single, bottom double, all beds have blankets, pillows, All Kitchen wares, Beach Cooler, Refuse pick-up weekly. Tenant brings all bed sheets, pillow cases, towels, linens, paper goods (napkins, towels, tissues toilet, nose). IMPORTANT FROM EXPERIENCE, SAVE/USE YOUR TIME TO VACATION, RECOMMEND USING WHENEVER POSSIBLE ALL PAPER GOODS, lots of plates, cups, napkins, towels, etc, and plastic utensils, and discard rather than time spent with the dishwasher.
Activities: Numerous Public Beaches, Swimming, Boating, Fishing,-Clamming, Marinas (Boat Rentals, Charters) Close to Newport Mansions, Watch Hill, Misquamicut Beach Concerts, with Water Park, Amusements, Numerous Public Golf Courses, Mystic Aquarium-Seaport-Village, Point Judith-Galilee Fishing Village with Block Island/Martha s Vineyard Ferry and Deep Sea Daily Fishing Trips offered, Whale Watching, Foxwoods Casino with Indian Museum, and World Class Public Golf, NewPort Mansions, Watch Hill, Roger Williams Zoo, Beach Concerts, Matunick Beach Live 'Theater By The Sea,' Heart of the Beach Areas, Weekly Activity Guide Distributed.
This home really does accommodate ten people; there was plenty of living space for all to have some breathing room. The view of the bay is good, and the short drive/walk to the beach is very do-able. Not listed in the amenities are some items that you need not bring...Hair dryer and fans are the two that spring to mind. On the downside, there is a gentleman who seems to live downstairs in the bottom floor. Although he seemed nice, I would have liked to have been informed of this ahead of time. I believe him to be from the realty agency that markets this property. The sofas and other furniture are not wonderful to sit on, but all and all, we really did have a nice stay at this home. I would stay again.
Beautiful, Clean public ocean beach area with lifeguards, marinas, with numerous beaches to choose from, all close by. Charlestown Town Beach Is a Public Life Guarded Large Ocean Beach, a 15 minute walk, 3-4 minute car ride from the house. Burlinggame State Park Is Public with rental camp sites, showers, restrooms, and large clean fresh water lake with beach area for swimming, boating, picnics. Misquamicut Beach has Amusement Rides And Waterpark at its large beach area, Concerts and Fireworks, Must See Newport Mansions, Jazz/Folk Festivals, Sail Boat Racing,Jamestown, Narragansett, Point Judith fishing village, with fishing boat half and full day for individuals and group charters. Block Island and Marthas Vineyard Ferry, Cinemas, Providence Roger Williams Zoo, Mystic aquarium, seaport, village, Watch Hill Historic 5 Star Ocean House Hotel -Restaurant Foxwoods-MGM,Mohegan Sun Casinos, Foxwoods has Indian Museum, Lake of Isles Public Golf Course and numerous excellent public golf courses close by,Live Theatre By The Sea Matunick Beach, fishing and beaching everywhere, No Pets
Other Activities: Whale watching, Newport Mansions, Foxwoods Casino, Block Island, Beaches
Golf: Numerous Public Golf Courses all close by, all well groomed. Foxwoods Casino has World Class 'Lake Of Isles' public course, 'outstanding.'
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Dudes and dudettes, I've been very short on time today with a power outage and preparing for more global warming to come in my neck of the woods for the next few days…spooky temps to come. Nevertheless…the beat goes on, and on and on!
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Killing Floor is a survival horror total conversion set in London, England.
In a laboratory under the city, a series of human experiments in cloning and biological augmentation are being conducted by the employees of "Horizon". Horizon is a BioTech corporation formerly employed by the government to do the R&D on a top secret series of synthetic combat drugs which would enhance the effectiveness of soldiers in the field.
Horizon's funding was cut, when their practices were deemed too immoral even for such a controversial project, but the research didn't stop. Funded by private money from the deep pockets of Horizon chairman and research scientist Kevin Clamely, tests continued in a more...private location.
That was until something went wrong. There were reports that the lab had been comprimised; that the subjects were behaving abnormally...then, silence.
Several days later, twisted shapes began to emerge from the confines of the lab into the city above.
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Yes, it is true. My friend the developer whose name I will not divulge, as well as myself, have made some major improvements to the game. We have added more and newer weapons, and a new character which I called the 'Infected'. The additions are displayed below (namely the new textures of the Killing Floor mod characters):
1. Bloat
2. Clot
3. Crawler
4. Gorefast
5. Infected (New)
6. Scrake
7. Siren
8. Stalker
NOTE: There are more updates in the latest version, which will be posted in another news article. Updates in the weapons list. Stay tuned.
The Killing Floor mod is still alive. And the forum is available to those who want to post anything related to the mod.
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Killing Floor mod Linux version with installer and a few nice features like a cache extractor and playlist generator
Just a zip version as an alternative to the Windows Installer, extract under UT2004
The definitive cooperative survival horror mod for UT2004. Play as part of a squad of soldiers, attempting to survive a horrific onslaught. Use weaponry...
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This is a huge update. I would download this if you want to play online so download this to play game. It fixes lots of problems and adds some cool new...
This fixes some minor errors for 2.0. Recommended if you want to play game only, most use this update.
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Are those models for KF30 final because why do the bloats have entirely green skin?
Also, will KF30 add extra stuff such as maps/weapons/characters/more new specimen types(higher specimen count in waves) and so on.
Sorry if these questions seem stupid or have already been answered but I am new here and do not know.
First of all, 'No, your questions aren't stupid.' And second of all, the KF3 models are the same except for the textures. Those are my very own custom textures. I made them based of movie characters (namely, Hellboy). And the new weapons are made by my good friend who is a modeller/coder.
But these changes are strictly for personal use. Tripwire owns the rights (copyright) for the game and they don't want people to use it publicly!!!
Go to my ModDB site, Killing Floor (UT2004) Klub for more info -- Moddb.com
I receive this error, does anyone know how to fix it?
General protection fault!
History: UObject::ProcessEvent <- (KFHumanPawn KF-WestLondon.KFHumanPawn, Function KFMod.KFPawn.PostNetBeginPlay) <- ULevel::SpawnActor <- (KFHumanPawn) <- UObject::ProcessEvent <- (KFGameType KF-WestLondon.KFGameType, Function KFMod.KFGameType.PendingMatch.Timer) <- AActor::Tick <- TickAllActors <- ULevel::Tick <- (NetMode=2) <- TickLevel <- UGameEngine::Tick <- Level KF-WestLondon <- UpdateWorld <- MainLoop <- FMallocWindows::Free <- FMallocWindows::Realloc <- 676F4C57 0 FArray <- FArray::Realloc <- 0*2 <- FMallocWindows::Free
Looks to me like you have the problem with the West London map. Did you edit the map? There is something in that map that crashes the game.
I get that same problem but with me it says KFClotPawn. instead but this only happens on random maps and I dont see a reason for it.
Also I get a problem where sometimes if I get hit or take damage the screen goes completely white, but I can still see the HUD and my guys gun. It only goes back to normal if I get away from the specimen attacking me, which is hard when I cannot see them.
again this only happens on random maps and it appears for no reason at all.
My suggestion is to take note which maps give you the problem, then post them here. We'll see what exactly the maps have that causes this problem(s). This must have something to do with zone (glitch in the zoning).
스팀판으로 출시되기전 언리얼토너먼트 2004의 모드였던 킬링플로어..! 예전버전도 할만해보입니다.
It wouldn't let me play normal UT2004, so I uninstalled it, and now I can't play either one of them. I get this error message:
Failed to enter Entry: Can't find file for package 'InterfaceContent'
Anybody know how to fix this?
It doesn't affect UT2004 at all, you must have installed it wrongly.
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Skip to comments.Earth To Conservatives: Immigrant Amnesty Is A Conservative Policy
Posted on 09/11/2012 11:16:54 AM PDT by Bratch
Latinos are religious, morally conservative and tend disproportionately to join the military. They also tend to be hard working and entrepreneurial. Do we really have too many of them?
Do we really want to pack them up, forcibly, by the millions in the greatest forced migration in human history? How many are there, 15, maybe 20 million? No one has ever moved 15 million people against their will. No one has ever moved half that many without concentration camps, forced marches of one form or another and mass death through plague.
If theres another way to do it, please tell me what it is. But I havent heard one. What I hear is slogans like what part of illegal dont you understand and attacks on amnesty. Slogans move callers to dial in to talk radio, but they dont move 20 million people voluntarily back into poverty and squalor. Soldiers do that (unhappy ones); box cars full of people do that. Camps surrounded by barbed wire do that. In the end you either let them stay or you herd them out. If you want to call it amnesty, go ahead.
After all, whats wrong with amnesty? The idea has a well-worn legal tradition, one strongly associated with the Christian faith. It means forgiveness. After the Civil War, Lincoln offered amnesty to rebel soldiers. Was he wrong to do so? They had taken up arms against their own government; they had killed hundreds of thousands. But Lincoln (as opposed to the radical republicans) had the wisdom to offer forgiveness. What about runaway slaves after emancipation? They had broken the law, shouldnt they have had to pay the price even after the laws were changed? Of course not. Why should immigration laws be any different?
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com ...
Nope, not buying it. I'm more positive about immigrants than many here, but this article is ignorant and erroneous.
Evidently, I neglected to properly proofread my thread information.
The author of this piece is Jerry Bowyer.
Mr. Bowyer is the author of "The Free Market Capitalists Survival Guide," published by HarperCollins, and a columnist for Forbes.com
This crap is from Townhall?
Wow. I knew Townhall was no longer relevant. But I had no idea they went loonie tunes leftist.
You don't have to "round them all up", you just stop coddling them.
1. E-Verify
2. Random sweeps
3. Secure the boarder
4. No welfare
5. Punish sanctuary cities/states
6. No public services
7. Work hand-in-hand with the states
After a while, it sours the milk.
Frankly, the discussion on what to do with the illegals already here is premature. The first thing that needs to be done is to close the freaking border to stop the influx. Then, and only then, we can have a discussion on how to deal with the ones here, because unless and until we can stop the inbound flow, sending illegals back won't solve anything.
Well, the Civil War was over, so there was no longer a mechanism to keep creating former rebel soldiers. Illegal immigration is not over. Neither is the welfare state. So amnesty would encourage more illegal immigration, just like it did after 1987.
Typical half-baked pap from the pro-amnesty community.
"Latinos are religious, morally conservative and tend disproportionately to join the military. "
Not this crap again? It shows how moral you are when you break into someones country, get free education for your kids, get the Earned Income Tax Credit, get the EBT cards, get the "crazy" money from Social security for your kids, get free medical treatment and a myriad of other social services. Yeah, you're a real shining moral example.
I don't care how religious and conservative you are, get the hell out of my country.
Lie. Republicans from Fred Thompson to Mitt Romney have raised the concept of self-deportation.
"Ronald Reagan saw it, even if alleged Reaganites dont. He signed amnesty into law in 1986, inviting three million illegals to become legals."
The worst argument ever. Its like saying to someone that they survived cancer once before why not again. Hey you broke a leg but now you walk normal. Why not break it again? Regardless of who did something before theres no assumption they were correct unless they walked the earth about 2000 years ago and was named Jesus.
Perhaps the person who typed in the article could explain why he feeeeeeeeeeeeeels that Latinos alone are all inveterate law-breakers . . . .
Reading the excerpt was as far as I got.
Make life intolerable for them and they will self-deport. Many already have. Come here legally or don't come at all.
Hmmmm..TownHall. Huh.
Now, having said all that conservative stuff. Tell me: Why do they identify overwhelmingly Democrap?
8. and go after the employers too!
What other crimes do you think should be forgiven en mass ?
These people are FOREIGN INVADERS.
If we can't deport them then we need to cut off the welfare, job, health care and schools to these illegals. Taxpayers should not be on the hook to support millions and millions of foreigners.
Slaves and Confederate soldiers were indigenous, illegal aliens are not. And many illegal aliens owe their allegiance to their birthplace, as well illustrated by the conduct of Mexicans at soccer games between Mexico and the United states, during which the US team, anthem, and flag are booed and the Mexican equivalents are cheered. Why single out Mexicans? Simple. Because they comprise the vast majority of illegals and seem to have the most nostalgia of their homeland, but not enough to leave.
Tens of thousands of illegals self-deported after AZ SB 1070 was passed.
and Reagan admitted amnesty was a disaster later on too, I seem to recall
No one wants the libertarians to win on this one.
This is the actual, 2004 text of the Libertarian Party Platform on immigration.
The Issue: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new Berlin Wall which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. governments policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.
The Principle: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
Solutions: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.
Transitional Action: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.
Perhaps he did so because Mexicans comprise not all, but the vast majority of illegal aliens.
In the early 1990s, Bowyer was the executive director of the National Reform Association, an organization with close ties to the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.
He called for creation of a "theocracy" in America: "Christocracy, the rule of Christ over the nation," he called it once, according to a 1999 Washington Post article.
Bowyer changed his position on religion and state in the mid 90s and frequently asserted his disagreements with the religious right and agreements with the position of the founding fathers on his radio program
Amnesty has been tried before, and it made the situation worse. Look up Simpson-Mazzoli, people.
Rewarding line-jumpers and law breakers is not a "conservative" policy.
Creating a new underclass is not a "conservative" policy.
Bankrupting our hospitals, social services and taxpayers to take care of these invaders is not a "conservative" policy.
What the heck is wrong with this guy? Mr. Bowyer needs to return his conservative badge with the googly eyes and go off to work for the Left.
Great Plan!
So destitute people from third world countries should be free to walk across open borders and 'share' the wealth. And this is conservative, free market capitalism, right? No education, no experience with self rule, accustomed to 'working' a corrupt system run by an hereditary elite - but they will fit right in and make an immediate contribution, right?
What Friedman said was that we HAD open borders in the nineteenth century, but it didn't matter because we had NO social welfare system, so the immigrants either took the dirty jobs that no one else wanted, or they starved. Friedman's position was NOT that the immigrants should not be eligible for welfare, but that governments should not engage in social welfare.
As far as the Levitical law somehow stipulating share and share alike for unwanted immigrants, each family had a portion of the land allotted by tribe, and the land could not be permanently sold/traded/given to a foreigner. In Israel's bronze/iron age agrarian economy, land was the source of all wealth.
Its amazing how we can twist any dataset to agree with our predetermined view though, isn't it?
1. E-Verify
2. Random sweeps
3. Secure the boarder
4. No welfare
5. Punish sanctuary cities/states
6. No public services
7. Work hand-in-hand with the states
8. No welfare
9. No welfare
10. No welfare
1,000 No welfare
Not that the other items aren't good, but when being here illegally doesn't 'pay' as well as it does now, that's pretty much all it takes to solve the problem.
He called for creation of a theocracy in America: Christocracy, the rule of Christ over the nation, he called it once, according to a 1999 Washington Post article.
Bowyer changed his position on religion and state in the mid 90s and frequently asserted his disagreements with the religious right and agreements with the position of the founding fathers on his radio program
He was wrong then. He is wrong now.
Bowyer is a moron committing an oxymoron. There is no difference between the beliefs of the Religous Right and those of the Founding Fathers.
Both groups acknowledge God as the Creator and author of all our inalienable rights.
When what they came here for, work and benefits, are no longer made available to them - they will leave.
It is as simple as that.
As to those who decry 'making things so miserable, so oppressive, so mean!' that people self deport - are we actually responsible for providing jobs and benefits to illegal aliens?
If you don't offer food and drinks to someone you INVITED into your home you are a bad host - but are you a bad host if you decline to offer food and drink to someone who illegal BROKE IN to your home?
I don't think so.
(See tagline for my thoughts on Libertarians.)
Did they also - while welcoming illegals - ask them to bring plenty of dope across also?
The problem is that the article ascribes the merits of legal immigrants to the criminals in an apparent attempt to whitewash them. They are not the same. That initial criminal act leads to a criminal's view of the US, just as that initial decision to follow the rules colors how the legal immigrants view their new country.
100 Passengers per train car in a 100 car train = 10,000 people
5 trains a day = 50,000
run the trains 300 days (6 days a week, no Sundays or holidays) and you have moved 15 million passengers in one year.
no forced marches, no death camps, no plague.
lets not forget, most of them walked here, I think we can bus, ship, train, fly them back with no trouble.
I have reached the boiling point with self-appointed experts who constantly tell us all the things we CAN'T do. Have any one of them offered a solution, other than breaking the law that is virtually ignored? No, the "experts" are too busy pushing for "comprehensive immigration reform".
Everytime I hear a politician say "comprehensive", it's BOHICA time, again. How's this for a solution:
1. Make E-verify a condition of employment; and
2. Fine for non-compliance is $1 million dollars a day for each illegal employee.
No jobs = no illegal immigrants = no problem.
Mitt Romney is very libertarian when it comes to illegals.
In December of 2006, the republican Governor was exposed, and suffered national embarrassment for using Guatemalan illegals for 10 years.
In December of 2007, in a national debate, Rudy Giuliani referred to the decade long illegal connection, accusing Mitt Romney of having run a "Sanctuary Mansion". On national TV, Mitt Romney indignantly denied the claim.
A few days after the debate, the Boston Globe decided to look again at Mitt's house, and guess what, they found Guatemalan illegals, they were working for the same Colombian, MITT HAD NEVER FIRED THEM!
Ten years and a national scandal, turned into 11 years, and a second national scandal, with all the same players, the same "contractor", Guatemalan illegals, and the same Mitt Romney and his wife interacting with them at their home during the week.
I DO know something about some American children I know.
They are "into" drugs, tattoos, body piercings and computer-gaming. Sometimes they are "into" sports. What a lot of them are not "into" is working. Their mommies and Daddies work hard to buy them everything they want - cars, college educations, you name it. Also, a lot of them are not found anywhere near a church on Sundays.
In many cases their parents are successful small business people or tradesmen. But their offspring feel they are too good for such a vocation and have no interest in succeeding their parents or do so so poorly they don't succeed.
I am not speaking about MOST American kids - just TOO DAMN MANY of them. Especially around the urban areas and in the northeast and LEFT Coast.
When I was growing up NOTHING was too hard or too menial for me to do to make a buck. I washed and polished cars, collected and washed soda bottles for $ .05 deposits apiece, shoveled snow, worked in fast-food joints - ANYTHING for a buck. Not them.
Now let me tell you about some Hispanics I know. They are working here legally (I think). I know they are strong family-oriented people who are very often devout Christians. Many of them work two or more jobs - hard jobs that many native born American children of the present generation turn their noses up at. They work at these jobs to survive and put THEIR kids through college, colleges where very many of them perform very well. Just like a lot of the Asian kids who come here legally (I think) or are first generation.
Somebody here said the FIRST thing to do is seal up the borders. THAT is CORRECT. STOP letting illegals here in the FIRST place.
You want to get rid of illegals who are here? Pass legislation with TEETH that will allow the government to effectively PUT OUT OF BUSINESS any company which KNOWLINGLY hires FRESH illegals.
THEN, look at the ones who are here already. If they are CURRENTLY employed somewhere and have a good work history and have no criminal backgrounds, give them a choice - get into a line to become a citizen while continuing to work under a guest worker program or leave.
But Guest Worker Programs should be restricted to people who are ALREADY here and NOT to new recruits from overseas. A PREMANANT Guest worker program would establish a permanent underclass of disenfranchised, exploited, ghettoized, unassimilated non-citizens with no real connection to the nation who are ripe for revolution.
If they had kids while they are here or brought them here illegally at a very young age and they have grown up here thinking they are Americans, you have another problem.
It flies in the face of what most Americans would feel about deporting people who speak our language, consider themselves Americans and are culturally part of America. Allowances will HAVE to be made to expedite their citizenship.
Western society has a demographic problem. We marry late and have small families. Our reproduction can't replace retiring workers leaving the workplace. The children we produce, in too many cases, leave a lot to be desired.
Latinos ARE hardworking, they ARE family oriented, and they ARE Christians.
Like it or not, economics drive immigration. We just have so much control over the groundrules and failed to exercize that control we do have. Just be THANKFUL that the people who are our most ready suppliers of new citizens are Christian Latinos, and NOT, as in the case of our LESS FORTUNATE European counterparts, MUSLIMS.
"Latinos are religious, morally conservative and tend disproportionately to join the military. They also tend to be hard working and entrepreneurial. Do we really have too many of them?"
No, genius, we don't have too many, do we? Let's go ahead and import another 30 million of them. That'll help conservatives win more elections just like in California, right?
Yes, and I don't care if every single one of them is as conservative as Ronald Reagan, they broke the law coming here and I have no problem at all with mass forced expulsions.
"Latinos are religious, morally conservative and tend disproportionately to join the military. They also tend to be hard working and entrepreneurial. Do we really have too many of them?"
In spite of those nostrums, they vote Democratic, and would vote Democrat - the majority - if some GOP Congress granted them "amnesty" today.
Secondly, in spite of the meme "they also tend to be hardworking and entrepreneurial" is the fact that is no more true of "Hispanics" than it is any other group.
Also, why cannot the author separate the facts of legal immigration and illegal immigration and admit that it is the later, more so than "Hispanic immigration" that is the issue.
And, why cannot the author admit that even in that the issue is largely not "Hispanic" illegal immigration - it's not illegal Cuban immigration, not illegqal Puerto Rican immigration, and in the main also not illegal Carribean immigration or illegal South American immigration. Yet, the author sticks to the Dim's talking point that it's "Hispanic" immigration.
The bare facts are that the vast substance of illegal immigration is not a "Hispanic" issue, it's a Mexican issue. It's a Mexican issue, and not a Hispanic issue, because the Mexican government and a large portion of the Mexican population believes that being Mexican gives them a natural right to move themselves to the United States - invited or not. Amnesty would simply reward that idea and cause it to be encouraged; convincing Mexicans it will be repeated again and again, and again. Thats' the issue and that is not a "Hispanic" issue.
Lastly, the author refuses to accept that Amnesty is a moral affront to the millions of legal immigrants now and in the last twenty years. It says to the legal immigrants that their moral investment in legally immigrating here, their moral investment in their childrens' future can be simply given away by a nation who refuses to honor their moral committment to their new nation - just to get a few "Hispanic" votes. It says to the legal immigrants, "screw you"; you wasted your time, your money, your patience, your moral fortitude; you didn't need to come here legally; all you needed to do was find your way to Mexico and cross the border and then wait; all would have been forgiven. It's immoral - amnesty - that's what it is.
The author uses the straw man of "sending them all home" as if only that or Amnesty are the only options; when simple denial of work and benefits will cause illegal immigrants to leave - on their own.
And, as they do (leave on their own) their corrupt employers will pay American wages to the least skilled and semi-skilled American citizens who can't compete in the job market with illegal immigrants. That's been the case every time mass raids on illegal immigrants at job sites are done.
Yes, Conservatives too can believe that certain kinds of immigraton are good for the country - illegal immigration and rewarding it with amnesty are not good for the country.
This is getting at what sensible people many times think or feel but can't quite put their finger on the differences between today and the past.
Government debt today is over 100% of GDP.
When Reagan took office it was comfortably under 40% of GDP.
GDP is nice way of putting the limits of taxation into perspective.
If the government taxes 100% of GDP, there is no private property and everyone works as a government employee.
Of course, taxes must be far less than GDP in order to have a decent standard of living.
Right now, taxes are somewhere between 15% and 20% of GDP, which is outrageous, but we're living with it.
So if debt is more than one year's GDP, it's getting to the point where it would realistically take decades to get back to that 40% number. Certainly we never will if we continue in the same direction we are headed now, and in that case, the debt continues to mount, relative to GDP, until buyers of government debt can't be found, and the government shifts into pure money-creation mode to fuel it's spending. This can and did happen on a gold standard; this was basically what brought down the Spanish Empire, as the King, desperate to have money to spend while prices (for some "crazy"reason) spiraled upward, put less gold into minted coins to generate more money from the gold that poured in from the Americas.
At 40% government debt to GDP, allowing immigrants in to have some of them work and others be economic dead weight was very ill-advised; at 100% government debt to GDP, it will be a significant factor that causes quicker collapse of Congress's Treasury bonds-for votes ponzi scheme.
No conservative would support amnesty. It harms this country and give special privileges to those who break the laws.
If they are all such rock-ribbed free-market conservatives. Then why are most Latin American countries socialist s@hitholes, where the local "Generalisimo" is reelected in a landslide.
But wouldn't it be unfair for those who are not yet in the US, to not be included in this amnesty, therefore I propose totally open boarders, no laws regarding immigration, and special benefits for those not yet honored to be called US citizens.
Illegal aliens are government growth hormone.
30 million illegals is enough to create some 50 congressional districts and they don't even need to vote to do it. If they do vote then those districts will be almost exclusively democrat.
Now think about it. How much does it cost to administer a congressional district? How much pork does the average congressman seek/ How many earmarks?
You are living in a dreamworld. It ain't gonna happen.
The best we can do is STOP new illegals and assimialte the ones here who are worthwhile hardworking people.
Keep the wheat, kick out the chaff.
The term "Latinos" moves the argument from legality to race. As soon as you buy into the premise that "Latinos" are the problem, you have lost the argument. It is not about race, it is about legality.
The '86 Amnesty was supposed to be a "one time only deal". We were finally going to get serious about enforcement.
The '86 amnesty was supported by the Republican leadership, signed into law by a republican President, - and has been paying dividends for the DNC ever since; - at the local, state, and federal level.
B-1 Bob Dornan's congressional district, a district that he had represented for eleven consecutive terms, has now become a democratic stronghold.
Bowyer is clueless.
These Hispander Repubs are making sure that the Romney campaign manages to lose to the evil Obama by driving down the base turnout. WTG dipwads! The Republican Party must be destroyed after 2012!
Immigration ( low skilled; - legal and illegal, anchor babies, etc. ) is the number one reason why.
[ If theres another way to do it, please tell me what it is. ]
OH! ALRIGHTY then.. here it is... Grasshopper(author)..
Pass laws in every local community that you must prove citizenship or some kind legal status to reside in the USA..
You will be prosecuted and sent to a work camp along the Mexican Border to build the wall and fortifications there.. or just deported..
LAws like this would cause many/most to Self-Deport themselves exactely the way they GOT HERE.. Its simple really they might be mexican or some other foreigner BUT THEY ARE NOT STUPID... (most of them)..
**NOTE: Not all illegal insurgents are latinos there are many chinese and other asians.. and people from every country on this planet.. Same work camp all of them..
Bumper sticker: "GET LEGAL OR SELF-DEPORT"....
I like Bowyer. He's pretty clear thinking on most issues. But this is just nonsense. Every amnesty is just bait for another wave of tens of millions of new illegals.
There are three magnets that draw the illegals here: 1. economic opportunity, 2. free stuff from the gov't, 3. US citizenship for their progeny. Eliminate these three and the illegals will self-deport.
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