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Sep 9
Border Patrol agents came under fire Sunday evening near Nogales but were not injured.
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Sep 8
REMEMBER SEPT 11TH…..AND FLY OUR FLAG WITH PRIDE………..
…………..Stand up for our FREEDOM and vote in November
Sep 8
Sep 3
Sheriff: Mexican Cartels Control Parts of Arizona
01 Sep 2010, Washington Post.
By: Jerry Seper and Matthew Cella
The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.
The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.
They warn travelers that they are entering an “active drug and human smuggling area” and they may encounter “armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed.” Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to “use public lands north of Interstate 8″ and to call 911 if they “see suspicious activity.”
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.
“Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.
“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”
He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer condemned what she called the federal government’s “continued failure to secure our international border,” saying the lack of security has resulted in important natural recreational areas in her state being declared too dangerous to visit.
In a recent campaign video posted to YouTube, Mrs. Brewer – standing in front of one of the BLM signs – attacked the administration over the signs, calling them “an outrage” and telling President Obama to “Do your job. Secure our borders.”
BLM spokesman Dennis Godfrey in Arizona said agency officials were surprised by the reaction the signs generated when they were put up this summer.
“We were perhaps naive in setting the signs up,” he said. “The intention of the signs was to make the public aware that there is potential illegal activity here. But it was interpreted in a different light, and that was not the intent at all.”
He said there should be “no sense that we have ceded the land,” adding that no BLM ………………………read more
Sep 3
On
Friday, September 11th, 2010, an
American
flag should be displayed outside
every home,
apartment, office, and store in
the United States . Every
individual should make it their
duty to display an American
flag on this eighth anniversary
of one of our country’s
worst tragedies. We do this to
honor those who lost their
lives on 9/11, their families,
friends and loved ones who
continue to endure the pain, and
those who today are
fighting at home and abroad to
preserve our cherished
freedoms.
In the days, weeks and months
following 9/11, our country was
bathed in American flags as
citizens mourned the incredible
losses and stood
shoulder-to-shoulder against
terrorism. Sadly, those flags
have all but disappeared. Our
patriotism pulled us through
some tough times and it shouldn’t
take another attack to
galvanize us in solidarity. Our
American flag is the fabric
of our country and together we
can prevail over terrorism of
all kinds.
Aug 30
HuffPost’s QuickRead…
Arizona Gun Law: Concealed Weapons Allowed Without Permit Under New Law »
PAUL DAVENPORT and JONATHAN J. COOPER (April 16, 2010) PHOENIX — Favoring the constitutional right to bear arms over others’ concerns about gun safety, Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit.
The measure takes effect 90 days after the current legislative session ends, which likely puts the effective date in July or August.
read more The Huffington Post…..Arizona
Aug 29
DNA gathering development a blow to Japan’s whaling ‘science’
Sallie Don, From: The Australian
August 27, 2010
A NEW way to study dolphins and whales without dart guns undercuts Japan’s argument for what it calls scientific whaling, scientists say.
The “blow-sampling” method, developed by Australian scientists, allows scientists to gather crucial DNA information without potentially harming the animal, discrediting Japanese arguments that a whale needs to be killed.
Celine Frere, from the University of Queensland, headed the study. “Maybe this will make them realise they don’t have to kill the whale to get the information,” Dr Frere said.
Marine animal researchers have relied on gathering the animal’s DNA by shooting a dart into the skin of the mammal to gather tissue samples.
Blow-sampling captures the air and the equivalent of spit expelled from the animal when they come up for air.
The Australian (newspaper) via Seaa Shepherd
Aug 27
Killing entire wolf packs from helicopters. Gassing helpless pups in their dens. Surgically sterilizing alpha wolf pairs after killing off their families.
It’s all part of a disturbing plan to escalate wolf killing in the Northern Rockies by Wildlife Services — the federal agency that helped exterminate wolves last century. We need your help to stop them.
Contact Defenders of Wildlife for more information and/or donate to help this worthwhile cause.
Aug 24
Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
By Toby Harnden
Published: 21 Aug 2010
Few Americans consider themselves bigger than the presidency but Obama might be one of them. The man in the Oval Office, argues Toby Harnden, may already be preparing for a role as a post-president in a post-American world.
When David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, wrote recently that his former boss was “not concerned with his re-election”, there was predictable scepticism.
After all, it has long been a truism that every politician wants to cling to power and a reality that presidential campaigns are planned years in advance. Pronouncements about not looking at polls and concentrating on getting things done are, moreover, standard fare from poll-driven, election-obsessed politicians and their apparatchiks.
In this case, however, Plouffe may inadvertently be onto something. Almost everything Obama does these days suggests that he doesn’t care much about being re-elected. Strange as it might seem, perhaps he wants to be a one-term president.
Obama was elected in 2008 at an extraordinary moment in American politics. Suddenly, this charismatic figure, elected to the Senate without serious opposition in 2004 and without any executive experience, was catapulted into the White House.
His presidential bid had been based on the power of his life story and his ability with the spoken word. Doubtless he was as surprised as anyone else that he pulled it off. Governing has been altogether more difficult for him and there are signs he is already tiring of it.
Obama’s intervention on the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” issue is a case in point. There was no need for him to get involved – the Islamic community centre two blocks from the 9/11 site is unlikely to get built and there was no political advantage in his making a statement.
What he said about religious freedom was typically Obama – high-minded, principled and legalistic. He is, after all, a former constitutional law professor. What his words lacked were any real empathy with what Americans felt and practical considerations about resolving the issue – never mind the political downside for him.
Doubtless he has been advised to prove he is “connected” to ordinary Americans by doing things like be seen attending church and taking “regular” holidays. But Obama seems happy to act as a European-style secularist, vacation in Martha’s Vineyard and send his daughters to one of America’s most exclusive private schools.
Obama does not suffer for self doubt. He has long seemed so convinced of his own virtue that to question his motives is illogical. Increasingly, his pronouncements carry the tone of one who believes those who disagree are stupid or bigoted.
Before departing for Martha’s Vineyard last week, Obama spent three days on the campaign trail raising money and support for Democratic mid-term election candidates. Don’t give in to fear,” he said in Milwaukee. “Let’s reach for hope.”
It was a message that worked once but is unlikely to appeal this time, with America in the grip of a recession, unemployment still stubbornly close to 10 percent and blame-it-on-Bush rhetoric wearing very thin.
Obama is, however, at his best in these settings. He has the crowd hanging on his every word and he is not dealing with grubby political realities or objectionable opponents. Perhaps they are a reminder for him of simpler times.
They might also be a glimpse of the future. For Obama, the crowning moment of his presidency have been speeches abroad – the statement in Strasbourg that America had been “dismissive and arrogant”, the address to the Muslim world from Cairo, the acceptance in Oslo of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Berlin in 2008, Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world”. He has dismissed the bedrock notion of American exceptionalism by describing it, also in Strasbourg, as little more than narrow patriotism. Elite opinion among liberal Ivy League types – of which Obama is the embodiment – holds that we are already living in a post-American world.
There are few Americans who see themselves as bigger than the presidency but Obama could well be one of them. In 2008, Obama showed little appetite for the down-and-dirty aspects of political campaigning.
When things got tough against Hillary Clinton, he all but conceded the final Democratic primaries and let the clock run out. Against John McCain, he developed a campaign plan and refused to deviate from it. McCain was level in the polls when the US economy imploded, handing Obama a relatively comfortable victory.
Obama is the first black American president, an established author, multi-millionaire and acclaimed figure beyond American shores.
It seems highly unlikely that Obama will decide not to run in 2012. But he might well be calculating that a embarking post-presidential role as the leading global thinker in the post-American world as a Republican successor enters office is more attractive than being sullied by the political compromises and manoeuvrings necessary to win.
Aug 24
George W. Bush on the Rise (Surprisingly) Again
22 Aug 2010 11:22 PM
By: David A. Patten
When George W. Bush departed the White House on Jan. 20, 2009, he left as one of the most unpopular presidents in history.
At the time, a Gallup poll found President Bush tallied a mere 34 percent approval. That put him only slightly above the two most unpopular presidents in the era of modern polling: Harry Truman (32 percent when he left office), and Richard Nixon (22 percent when he resigned in disgrace in August 1974.)
Close to two years into President Barack Obama’s term, Bush’s mojo with the American public appears on the rise.
“President Bush has been diplomatic and gracious since leaving office,” former Bush media adviser Mark McKinnon tells Newsmax. “And as Americans view him through the lens of history and compare him to modern presidents who struggle to meet the challenges of the 21st century, President Bush’s tenure will continue to look better and better. It’s happening faster than anyone thought.”
The turnaround couldn’t come at a better time for Republicans who were hoping voters would be forgetting about Obama’s predecessor. Their worries are dissipating fast.
The key reason for Bush’s rising popularity? Obama’s rapidly declining favorability.
A top Democratic pollster in Washington is circulating a poll showing Bush’s popularity in key contested congressional districts is now 6 points ahead of Obama’s.
“That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear,” National Journal’s Hotline on Call reports.
Bush more popular than Obama? It all depends on which congressional district you’re referring to.
Nationally, Obama continues to be the more popular politician.
Gallup’s latest poll shows Obama’s favorability at 52 percent, compared with Bush’s 45 percent.
Yet, these numbers show steady improvement for the one-time Texas governor who led the nation’s “war on terror.”
Since March 2009, Bush’s Gallup rating has climbed 10 points. Obama’s favorability during the same period: down by more than 20 points.
The bottom line: just 18 months after leaving office, Bush doesn’t look so bad after all — despite the fact that the Obama administration has used him as a political piñata for months.
“All presidents generally hope history will judge them well and that their legacy ratings will improve over time,” Gallup’s Lydia Saad recently wrote. “That process may be starting for Bush.”
For the moment, Bush’s Rocky Balboa-like comeback is happening despite the fact that Bush left the country in the worst financial shape since the Great Depression and ramped up social spending to dizzying heights while nearly doubling the national debt and embroiling the nation in two foreign wars.
The cause for this GOP windfall could be because of the fact that Obama seems to have fallen so far short of the “hope and change” message he promised voters. His actions during his first two years have alienated independent voters in a manner that go well beyond any of Bush’s errant ways.
Obama came to the White House lambasting the federal deficit and what he inherited from Bush.
Bush left him with a big deficit “wrapped in a bow waiting for me,” Obama told Democratic contributors at a fundraiser in Miami last week. “What did they have to show for the $1.3 trillion deficit that they delivered to us?”
But his first legislative priority was to ram through Congress the largest spending bill in history — the $1.17 trillion stimulus……………………read more
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