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Mexico Trucks Roll Into U.S 2007-09-01 21:12:00 The Bush administration can proceed to open U.S borders to the long haul Mexican trucks, an appeals court has blocked an appeal by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block this. The administration eager to comply plans to start the program on September 6, the argument from the Transportation Department claims that the direct shipments will benefit us the consumers. This is nothing more than B.S, the only people this will help is the big corporations who will get their goods delivered for a song and dance and labor and the consumer will get the shaft. You know who will take the hit? the American truckers who are transporting these good right now that's who and for these guys to insinuate that somehow this 'cheap' trucking will be passed along to the average American consumer is a bunch of bull, in 1994 when this NAFTA was going strong the approval of broader access for ground shipment was approved,,however, the Clinton administration never complied with the trucking provi Read more:Mexico
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Adding a favicon, the easy way 2007-08-31 03:06:00 I have found a somewhat easier way to add a favicon
to your blog and it seems to work pretty good and it's easy, sounds good to me. When I started toying with this at first I kept getting errors but added more code and it took it here is what I added to my template,,add this code right before the of your template;After adding this I kept getting error messages so under that I simply added; After that it saved the template, most already know this but I figured I would post it for those who may be curious, another item I found useful is the free download of ifranview, I found this program useful in resizing photos and changing the color of them this little gem does quite a lot for being a freebie. Remember in the above code to substitute the url of your image, in the Image URL spot.
Cargo plane shot at after taking off from Baghdad 2007-08-31 01:49:00 Apparently a plane carrying three senators and a House member had to take evasive measures to avoid being shot down by RPG's, apparently they had been over there to see what great progress we are now making. One of senators a Mel Martinez of Florida said he quickly put back on his body armor, well Mel, you are getting shot at with an RPG from the ground I don't think that will help you that much, but it is a good gesture.Senator and House member's plane takes fireTechnorati Tags: senators, Baghdad
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Illegals busted in Ohio 2007-08-29 02:18:00 I see they busted 160 illegal aliens working in Fairfield and immigration officials have described Koch Foods Co. as being a blatant violator of our nation's laws, I am speaking of course about hiring all these illegals to work for them. More than 3,600 illegals have been busted nationwide about three times as many as in 2005 according to the article, apparently during the bust several employees went scrambling for the door. You know what really got my goat on this one? The spokesman Monte Lobb crying like a baby because apparently all who want to work at his company are illegals, my answer to you Mr.Lobb is cry me a river, you are telling me that you can't get legal Americans to work for your company? I don't buy it for a minute I bet they were lined up to the street to work in the place of all the illegals you had working which got busted. The immigration officials are trying to do their jobs we should be handing them out medals and pay raises for being so good at their work, ther Read more:Illegals
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All it takes is tax money 2007-08-29 01:46:00 Lets look at a quick run-down put out in the Washington Post today of what this mess is costing us now,,first of all next month Bush is supposed to ask Congress for another $50 billion dollars, this is up and above the $460 billion in the 2008 defense budget and,,$147 billion in a supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is about $657 billion dollars folks for defense and to fund these wars, this is about to the point where I think Congress should be voicing a much higher decibel to stop this mess. At this point I am disgusted with the Congress but I also know that the Republicans or most of them are upholding this escapade and are not open to any kind of timetable to end this thing, for many years I know we labeled the Dems as nothing more than 'tax and spend liberals' but are you ready? The Repugs have become like a hog under an acorn tree,,they never look up to see where the acorns come from,,uh, I might have lost you on that one but I don't want to beat u
Time to start paying for Iraq America 2007-10-03 01:53:00 Well time to start paying for this mess may be sooner than later, if I am reading the article's right? I have harped so much on this blog about paying for this money pit that I start scanning the news early this morning and low and behold it is on my screen and it really is not news to me I mean you figure that sooner or later someone is going to have to ante up and that someone is us my friends, these article's are just touching the iceberg on the money pit known as Iraq
.The tax will range from 2% on the low tier to 15% on the big white-collar folks, it is start to sounding like a bad credit card, I figure 'our' take is probably from 8-10 percent give or take a few percent. A lot of the white-collar are holding up the war banner so they should be feeling pretty at ease now paying for the money pit. Apparently it is applied to the Iraq war and not Afghanistan,,"We need to stop pretending that this war doesn't cost anything," Obey said. The Wisconsin Democrat said the "war surtax" Read more:America
Melting Ice opens up Northwest Passage 2007-10-02 22:32:00 "While a number of natural factors have certainly contributed to the overall decline in sea ice, the effects of greenhouse warming are now coming through loud and clear," Serreze said. "The implications for global climate, as well as Arctic animals and people, are disturbing."This graph says it all or, at least since records have been kept 1979 to present, look at the steep decline in 2007.More and more Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the effect we have on our environment and adopting this kind of attitude will certainly help our grand-children in the future the Science Daily conducted a poll on relevance to our environment and a growing number think that global warming is an important threat that calls for drastic change. 40% consider a presidential candidate's position on global warming as a major relevance and 62% believe that life will continue as we know it only if we act to curb global warming, after reading a few article's out there it seems that most Americans ar Read more:Northwest
Install a second drive in hp pavilion a705w 2007-10-02 13:24:00 Let me follow up more so as to make it easier, first get a compatible drive
(EIDE) I got one at Wal-Mart, Western Digital EIDE Hard Drive WD Caviar SE-7200RPM, I am giving you this one because I know for a fact it works in the computer, the one I got is 160GB, you can get a less one if you want to. Best to write down what I know works in this computer then we have no guess work,,if you are installing read on,,Step-1; Loosen thumb screws and slide the side off the cover.Step-2; Take your new drive and install it in the slot with screws provided (in a705w use the slot just above the USB port)Step-3; Locate the Gray ribbon-wire, and gray 40 pin plug that is on the ribbion- wire and is empty, plug that into your drive.Step-4; Locate the plug labeled P3 and plug that into your Drive.Step-5; slide the side cover back on and tighten the thumb screws Turn system back on as usual, and after everything boots up, insert the CD that came with the Drive.When the screen comes up, click on; Run Data
Another scare tactic 2007-10-01 04:06:00 Dean Baker puts the Bush scare tactic on Social Security in perspective with this post, seems Bush is up to his old scare tactics again, well, at least it's closer to Halloween,,trick or treat America.Bush is again declaring war on Social Security, claiming that theprogram is going bankrupt and will impose an unbearable burden on ourchildren and grandchildren. In an apparent effort to lay the groundworkfor a future president to privatize and/or cut the program, theTreasury Department is circulating a new set of Bush stories that aredesigned to convince the public that the Social Security program mustbe changed.Suppose we use the numbers from the non-partisan Congressional BudgetOffice (CBO) instead of the Social Security Trustees, since four of thesix trustees are political appointees of the President. CBO tells usthat the projected shortfall over the next 75 years is equal to 0.4percent of projected income. This is approximately 30 percent ofcurrent spending on the war in Iraq and ab
Install a bigger hard-drive in hp pavilion a705w the easy way 2007-09-30 20:38:00 First I have had this computer a few years it is a hp pavilion a705w running windows XP Home Edition on it, problem is the thing came with only 256MB of memory and a 40GB hard drive
, a computer guy I know worked on it and put in a bigger power supply and put in another stick of memory, if you look in the back you see two thumb screws, loosen those and slide the side back and off, best of my memory you will see the stick of 256MB of memory or at least that was what was in mine, with the tower setting up-right in normal position the memory will be sitting in a vertical position, labeled DDR-1,DDR-2,,the 2 slot will be empty. In the empty slot I added 512MB SD Ram(SDR)(DDR PC-2700 memory), would have replaced the other one but did not have it at the time.The hard drive you use must be an EIDE hard drive, I got mine at wal-mart, it is;Western Digital WD Caviar SE 7200 RPM (EIDE) There is software that comes with it to help you install the new drive and format it, it has added software on t
Abortion rates same whether legal or not - Women's Health - MSNBC.com 2007-10-11 21:26:00 A study shows that women do get an abortion if they want one whether it is legal
or not. “The legal status of abortion has never dissuaded women and couples, who, for whatever reason, seek to end pregnancy,” Beth Fredrick of the International Women
’s Health
Coalition in the U.S. said in an accompanying commentary.Abortion rates same whether legal or not - Women's Health - MSNBC
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Free Browser Maxthon 2007-10-11 02:36:00 Never had tried out this browser before, but tonight I had a little time and figured I would try out a couple of browsers to see how they work, both work with the IE browser, one I tried was called Avant and the other was called Maxthon
.I was more happy with Maxthon and I will tell you why, right now I am connecting to the internet via dial-up and connect using a proxy (web accelerator) well anyway with the Avant browser when I gave it the proxy and port, it did connect and was doing a good job. But when I started to access my web mail and started using blogger, I kept getting the 405 error and when I connected directly then it would work. Avant was giving me this error all over the place, so I tried this other browser Maxthon and so far have not got one error from it, it is quicker than IE-7 and it has some really neat skins you can apply to it, you guys that read my blog know I run around looking for different things that seem to work good and this is just another one of them, gettin
Hillary tromps rivals in Nevada 2007-10-10 14:45:00 Hillary has a commanding lead in Nevada
, holding 51% her closest rival is Edwards at 14%.Nevada Democratic Presidential Caucus PreferenceTags: Hillary, Nevada, Tromps Rivals
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TheHill.com - Pelosi turning tables 2007-10-10 12:16:00 I knew this was coming, it's simple, every time we run into an obstacle or argument concerning a program or incentive for middle and poor America, we keep getting the song and dance budget rhetoric. Nancy should have been doing this from day one, my old saying to this is; Don't throw stones if you live in glass houses. The currant administration has reigned over the biggest budget wasting pork deals of history, runaway spending and waste are common-place except when it comes to helping middle America and the poor, at that point it is classified as being wasteful, wasn't it Cheney who said "Deficits Don't Matter."TheHill.com - Pelosi
steers spending debate to costs in IraqLink In Reason
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White House threatens to veto housing bill 2007-10-10 02:43:00 Bipartisanship as long as it benefits theadministration,,WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Tuesday threatened to veto Democratic-written legislation designed to provide affordable housing for low-income families, saying it opposed the way a newly-created trust fund would be financed.In the first year of the fund, all money would be earmarked for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But the fate of the fund is tied to legislation to reform Fannie and Freddie as well as the FHA.This is simply another attack on the middle-class, looks like we are just going to have to take the abuse until the election maybe then we 'might' get some relief. It seems every post I read around the web has something to do with the middle-class or the poor folks getting the shaft and now they threat of yet another veto and this one just like the health-care for children is skewed against the working class of this country, the first year all money would be earmarked for Hurricane victims of Read more:White
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Lap Dogs Trot In Line 2007-10-19 02:34:00 Let's cut to the chase shall we,,Republicans throw the middle-class under the bus. That is about as simple as it gets, the Republicans who voted as usual to follow Bush's lead have come up with absolutely nothing in trying to defend their position. Except this position "government medicine" well, seemed good for the last 10 years, the other position,,the cut-off line is to high,,(middle-class kids have health-care) why not come out and say it like it is that is what they are saying,,middle-class kids are all covered so they don't need it. Oh I forgot one last argument, cost to much,,I won't even go there.What we have are elected officials that can't think for themselves, if Bush was not there to guide them they would be as lost as bird in a tornado, you don't see me speak frankly that often but this just got me to lay on the line what exactly is taking place, but I also know you guys know all this already, what happened is a disgrace to middle-America.House Fails to Override Chil
Turkey cranks up the war wagon 2007-10-18 02:35:00 A response last week in Istanbul to plans of going into Iraq issued this statement concerning 'our' feelings about them doing so; Despite the US demand that there be no attack, Mr Erdogan is critical of the US saying at a rally in Istanbul last weekend: "Nobody can give us lessons on beyond-border operations. Did the US consult us when it entered Iraq from tens of thousands of thousands of kilometres away?" The vote was 507/19 to launch attacks into northern Iraq to target the PKK.The simple but very real problem we have is this; The Kurds are really the only bloc in Iraq to approve of America's role in the country, in other words these are about the only friends we have in the whole country and it would not be in our best interests to abandon them. In the past we have favored Turkey
in their endeavors against the Kurds but, this time that certainly would not be in our interest.Restraint is also being urged not only by Washington, but also the UN and as in the past under Saddam they
Manitoba Canada 2007-10-17 15:08:00 This photographer in Churchill thought his huskies might be lunch but it turns out the polar bear just wanted to romp in the snow,,,,(edited photos using the free software Paint.NET) [+/-] show/hide this post
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Make a free blog header from Photo's 2007-10-16 01:57:00 Here is a good little tool to use free of course, make a header
for your web page out of photo's from your computer, it will make it the correct size for a normal header, I believe 800 x 200. Anyway try it out and put your own header on that blog, example you say; Go over to my other blog,,Blogging America and see the pig roast. (pig roast has been changed but you get the idea) I was just testing it out photo is not that good, but just seeing how it worked, this little tool has some potential. This tool has good things for making your header anything you want it and it is free.Blog Header Generator: Spiff up your blog with a custom headerTags: Free, Header Maker, Tool
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Measure to shield reporters' secret sources likely to pass - USATODAY.com 2007-10-15 01:44:00 It looks like a bill that would help reporters protect their sources
is going to pass easily despite opposition by the glorious leader. The bill seems to have a good left/right following, if this bill was stifled that would mean that reporters would have to divulge their sources on stories and would hinder the whistle blowers out there squealing about all the corruption going on. This should put in perspective why it is meeting such resistance from the administration and others who simply want more law to keep us in line and they sure don't need more whistle blowers out there giving us any insight.Liberal Democrats, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have joined conservative Republicans, such as Pence, to support the bill. Although no floor vote has yet been scheduled in the Senate, the chamber's Judiciary Committee this month approved its version of the shield bill by a 15-2 vote.Measure
to shield reporters' secret sources likely
to pass - USATODAY.com
Latino Head of RNC Resigns in Frustration 2007-10-22 19:10:00 The Republican Party's highest-ranking Latino
official abruptly resigned Friday, marking the latest casualty in the GOP's bitter internal fight over immigration and dealing another setback to President Bush's years-long effort to court Latino voters. The ploy to get the Latino vote evaporated fast, as the latest defector is Mel Martinez and head of the Latino RNC, Martinez is a Cuban-born Senator from Florida.Like his hero McKinley, he alone was the true visionary. Everyone else looked at the political landscape and saw a nation at rough parity. Rove looked at the same thing and saw an emerging Republican majority.The last link I got off Mother Jones also and it puts in perspective of how Karl Rove came to seeing just about whatever Karl Rove seemed to see, Karl's goal was to bring in the Latino vote for the GOP but it did not quite get materialized like a lot of Karl's other wishes that seemed to vanish like vapor.MotherJones Blog: Latino Head of RNC Resigns in Frustration
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In aftermath of SCHIP bill veto,Bush asks for $46 billion to fund wars 2007-10-22 15:25:00 Bush asking for more money for his wars just after vetoing a health plan for middle-class American kids, boy talk about brass I'll say one thing for him he's got brass. You know what is always attached to these requests for this money war in Iraq, the stipulation of somehow questioning the support of troops always comes into play here, if the troops were actually being supported they would be home with their families in America.I know we could always tie in the same rhetoric such as if you support middle-class health care for children then the SCHIP bill would have been signed. The Dem's have grown weak over the years just stick to their guns and go for it and I believe correct me if I'm wrong but the SCHIP bill I think required $35 billion
as it was written.Harry Reid had this to say; "We've been fighting for America's priorities while the president continues investing only in his failed war strategy -- and wants us to come up with another $200 billion and just sign off on it?"
Blackwater still under the gun 2007-10-22 14:29:00 In addition to Blackwater
s being under scrutney for it's dealings in Iraq, the lastest comes from a lawmaker who is now accusing Blackwater of tax evasion.The California Democrat said the firm "sought to conceal its conduct from Congress and law enforcement officials."Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said in an e-mail that Waxman argues Blackwater cannot treat its personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan as "independent contractors" and contends they must be treated as employees for IRS purposes.Earlier this month, Rice ordered the installation of cameras on all Blackwater convoys in Baghdad and said diplomatic agents should accompany them on each mission.Blackwater still under gunLink inside this blog
Go Steve Go!!!! 2007-10-26 02:54:00 With the election looming I could not be happier that Gov. Flecther is trailing Beshear by double digits, but I won't count my eggs before they hatch I am only saying that I'm in hog heaven as the polls go in the Bluegrass. I have also noticed that McConnell has been rather quite these days, figured he would really be supporting his buddy Ernie.Go Steve
Go!!!
Testimony Doctored 2007-10-25 02:43:00 I remember a comment recently to this affect mainly I said that science has become a big PR game in that it can be manipulated to fit into any agenda, such as the editing of climate change testimony.Lately science has been barraged by deals such as this and as the tobacco and petroleum conglomerates have also proven time and again that if the science don't match the facts the easiest thing to do is, hire some other scientists to try and cast doubt on the public.some good examples can be found on Common Dreams Dot org,, Gore issued a statement that in effect that money is the universal language when it comes to this,,”There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community,” Gore said at a forum in Singapore. ”In actuality, there is very little disagreement.”Let's not leave out Exxon Mobil who done it's share of funding thin Read more:Testimony
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Hillary a Neocon? 2007-10-29 22:27:00 Don't ask me how Tucker Carlson came to this hypothesis but at any rate it was said, what is far more interesting is that every Republican that is running for the 2008 nomination their tone is much more clear to the sense of the word. Having said that we find the conservatives coming out and condemning an ideology that they hold dear, I mean who are they fooling?So what are the neocons to do such as Romney, among others, are they going to now embrace liberalism? What gets me is someone like Carlson making an idiotic statement and then you have coming out of the woodwork trying to condemn something they are part of themselves.My opinion of Hillary
is that she really is not as liberal as I would like her to be, but also I know she is not just another Bush drone, I think America has had enough drones to last her a while, we have had enough beating down of the middle-class on child heath-care and wages, their record is out there for all to see they can't talk their way out of it,,it is a
WKYT - WYMT News 57 Mountain News Homepage - All The News, Weather, and Sports from Eastern Kentucky 2007-11-05 11:40:00 FRANKFORT, KY (November 2, 2007) -- Attorney General Greg Stumbo today announced that agents with the Kentucky
Bureau of Investigation (KBI) will visit numerous precincts throughout the state to observe the conduct of the general election on November 6, 2007.Tomorrow is election day for our Governor among other races, the Secretary of State seems to be the close race to watch at this time. So remember to get out there and vote.WKYT - WYMT News 57 Mountain
News Homepage
- All The News, Weather, and Sports
from Eastern
Kentucky
No evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons program, experts say - 11/03/2007 - MiamiHerald.com 2007-11-04 14:19:00 WASHINGTON -- Despite President Bush's claims that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons that could trigger ''World War III,'' experts in and out of government say there's no conclusive evidence that Tehran has an active nuclear-weapons program.Even his own administration appears divided about the immediacy of the threat. While Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney speak of an Iranian
weapons program as a fact, Bush's point man on Iran, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, has attempted to ratchet down the rhetoric.No evidence of Iranian nuclear-weapons program, experts say - 11/03/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
Britain Praises Iraqi Kurds’ Efforts to End Crisis - New York Times 2007-11-04 01:50:00 While Turkish and American officials have stepped up criticism of Iraqi
Kurdish leaders for failing to curb the guerrilla fighters who have sanctuary in northern Iraq, a top British official lent his support to the Kurdish regional government during a visit on Thursday and indicated that he was confident of its commitment to resolving the crisis.I agree with Mr. Browne on this one, why would one alienate the only Ally bloc we have in the whole of Iraq?Britain
Praises Iraqi Kurds’ Efforts to End Crisis
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Bush Vetoes Water Bill, Citing Cost of $23 Billion - New York Times 2007-11-02 23:39:00 Another veto and this one was concerning water resource projects to which most of the ravaged Gulf Coast would benefit. It does seem like a large cost $23 billion and it is a domestic project and does not have anything to do with the war funding machine, so it is likely to be on the chopping block. Any thing domestic has not mattered before it should not come as any surprise to Americans that it would matter now, just business as usual.Bush Vetoes Water Bill, Citing Cost of $23 Billion - New YorkTimes Read more:New York Times
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