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Who runs the government? The government is run by one source and that source is the mafia the most powerful or the one that has all the money and it's not only the U.S it's every place that runs a government.......think about it why does the government never capture any of those huge drug dealers????? because its not convenient for them the drug dealers buy judges,lawyers,senators ect. and that's why they would never want to capture them because all those judges,lawyers ect. would lose all their money if you make a Business with a drug dealer he give's you 30$ million every month and your a judge and all you have to do is announce his men innocent would you want to let him get caught? Those military men are all bought thats why they will never catch those big drug dealers because this whole government is corrupt think about it? That's why this whole world will never stop being corrupt they say the only way to stop the drug buisness is to make it legal but that will never happen because the mafia has senators bought and they would decline that law and the mafia would still go on............just think about and then tell me who runs the government

future and career? i need a really high paying job. a job that pays a lot and fast. high school is pressuring everyone bc they think we are the future of the world, which, in truth, we are. i need an awesome job that is fun and that i can be proud of that also pays a lot bc i want to donate millions every month if i can bc that is the number 1 goal in my life right now. and that will always be my goal. i live in a small suburban area so i dont know any variety of jobs except the usual lawyer, heart surgeon, etc which are all boring. any suggestions?

Why do people think teachers get paid extremely low? People make it out to be that public school teachers get paid EXTREMELY low. I looked up some numbers. According to AFT, the average salary for public school teachers is $51,009 in 2007 ( http://www.aft.org/salary/ ) According to simplyhired, the average salary for a lawyer is $64,000 in 2009 ( http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-lawyer ) Teachers generally work 9 out of the 12 months a year. This means teachers make $5,668 a month and lawyers make $5,333 a month. So a school teacher is making more a month than a lawyer! And that school teacher has 3 free months. If the school teacher decided to get a summer job (such as teach summer school), he/she could make even more money! Not to mention that a typical school day is 8-3, which is 7 hours and there is usually an hour lunch. So the actual work day is 6 hours 5 days a week totalling 30 hours a week. Not to mention the benefits a teacher receives over a lawyer such as tuition reimbursement for continued education, retirement, insurance, etc. And this comparison includes jobs that both include bringing work home with them, so while teachers may bring some work home with them, so do lawyers (and a million other jobs). Teachers also get the benefit of always getting vacations off (christmas, thanksgiving, etc), the summer off, spring break off, etc. Not many jobs get that benefit each and every year and for each and every holiday. I'm not saying public school teachers are paid a ridiculous amount. I'm simply saying that public school teachers seem to get paid more than people make it out to be. From how people talk, you'd think public school teachers are getting paid $10,000 a year.

Australian Government - Kevin Rudd.? Today I received this email ... is this correct? (below) NOW THIS IS UNDISPUTABLE!!! NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICAL LEANINGS. Quoted by : Ross Greenwood of Money News. Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone - including us the mug-punters and the International Monetary Fund that it will not exceed its own, self-imposed, borrowing limits. How much? $200 billion. And here's a worry. If you work in a bank's money market operation; or if you are a politician; the millions turn into billions and it rolls off the tip of the tongue a bit too easily. But every dollar that is borrowed, some time, has to be repaid. By you, by me and by the rest of the country. Just after 5 o'clock tonight I did a bit of maths for Jason Morrison. But it's so staggering its worth repeating now. First though; here's what Chairman Rudd has been saying about - what he calls - these temporary borrowings. Remember Those Words : Temporary Deficit. But the total Government debt could end up around $200 billion. So here's a very basic calculation ... I used a home loan calculator to work it out ... it's that simple. $200 billion is $200,000 million. The current 10 year Government bond rate is 4.67 per cent. I worked the loan out over a period of 20 years. Now here's where it gets scary ... Really scary. The repayments on $200 billion come to more than one and a quarter billion dollars - every month - for 20 years. It works out we - as taxpayers - will be repaying $154 billion in interest and principal every year ... $733 for every man woman and child - every year. The total interest bill over the 20 years is - get this - $108 billion. Remember, this is a Government that just 18 months ago had NO debt . NO debt. In fact it had enough money to create the Future Fund to pay the future liabilities of public servants' superannuation ... And it had enough to stick $20 billion into the Building Australia Fund last year ... Money News Presenter, Ross Greenwood Who were the idiots who voted these spin-doctoring bozo's into office? (not me,mate) Alan Jones Comment - this is frightening: Hmmmmm?? He continues... A note that was sent to me which explains that the six leading members of the Government from Mr. Rudd down, the top six have a collective work experience of 181 years, but only 13 in the private sector. If you take out of those 13 years the number that were spent as trade union lawyers, that total 11, of the 181 years only two years were spent in the private sector. So the people who will rack up a net Federal debt of a minimum of $188 billion, the highest in our history, have virtually no experience in business. So out of those 181 years: - no years spent running their own business - no years spent starting their own business - no years spent as a director of a family business or a company - no years as a director of a public company - no years in a senior position in a public company - no years in a senior position in a private company - no years working in corporate finance - no years in corporate or business restructuring - no years working in or with a bank - no years of experience in the capital markets - no years in a stock-broking firm - no years in negotiating debt facilities with banks - no years running a small business - no years at the World Bank or IMF or OECD - no years in Treasury or Finance. But these people have plunged Australia into unprecedented debt, and now threaten to torpedo employee share schemes which they plainly don't understand. Well, in a way you can't blame them. It is clear the electorate did not do their homework, because the Gov't is there by right. If you have read this, you may like to pass it on to your friends as you, them and me and our grandchildren, will be repaying the these debts for years to come........................................... ........ and that scares me for the welfare of our children and grand children! This is what a fiscal conservative does with our money. I've been around long enough to see several cycles of government and the pattern seems to be that Labor run us into the red from Whitlam onwards and when the cart is far enough into the poo, we vote in a conservative government who set about repaying the debt and building wealth. When we are in good enough shape financially, we vote them out and give it back to labor to spend all over again. Sound familiar? This time we have really blown it. They have not only spent our kids future fund that the Libs built up for us but they have also spent another 200 Billion that we don't have to put us back in the poo again.... and they call us the lucky country... (end of email)

Will the voters of Alaska come to the rescue of the USA and recall Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R)? As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig continues to spill over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf every day, Republicans are demanding less regulation for companies like BP and Transocean while also looking for a taxpayer-funded bailout of BP. After a month of oil spewing into the Gulf, the cost of cleaning up BP's mess is $542 million and counting. But a group of Republican senators led by Lisa Murkowski of Alaska want the company to pay for only the first five days of the cleanup and put taxpayers on the hook for everything else. That's right, Murkowski and her pals want to "Bail out BP." We need to tell Murkowski and her Senate colleagues that this is not OK. http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=71 BP makes over $3.9 million EVERY HOUR. In the 31 days since the rig exploded, they've earned over $2.8 billion. Meanwhile, BP lawyers are working overtime to make sure that they are on the hook for only $75 million of the cleanup cost. And Murkowski and her allies think that's just fine because, to them, fewer rules are a good thing. First, they wanted less regulation for Wall Street and the banks (look where that got us). Now, they want to do the same for oil companies. It's outrageous. We need oversight that protects our communities and environment -- not another taxpayer-funded bailout of the oil companies. @Islam Defenda, thank you for the information about no recall option for U.S. Senators, I didn't know that. Live and learn.

SEEING AS I WAS ROBBED of SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS over the anna nicole smith baby drama? should i fire my lawyer? i was poking her every single night for 3 months, that kid is mine!!

california law for unmarried couple of 10 years? Ive been with this guy for ten years but never married, we both own a house and two car, no children between us. he did raise my 10 year old. my question there are no common law. right? What kind of lawyer would i be seeking to help me get my half? I trusted him and never thought he would take everything knowing everything is in his name. I wasnt like that with him when we were renting and living together everything was in both of our name until his grandfather passed away leaving him 1/2 million. I was very sick last year and almost died. I was in and out of the hospital getting blood transfusion. on my son's birthday he had bought a house for us. like i mention i was too sick to go with him to sign papers for the house. Its in his name. now hes trying to move me , he refuses to give me my car he bought me. My son and I have no money, no home ,no one to help me with my cases. Im hopeless in trying to keep my son under a roof. I've called almost every lawyer in Modesto. none want to take my case. i trusted him i even have my money in his bank thinking its safe there knowing i kept a bank card with me and he had one himself. who will take my case. we go to court on the 18 of this month. hes also stated that i was his roomate and want me to pay rent from July of last year. Hes doing this to evicte me from my home. Who should I seek for help. please help me if you think i can seek help from someone. Thank you.

Interesting Facts - Version 3? 1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ. 2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards. 3. 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia. 4. According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place! 5. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life. 6. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women. 7. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats! 8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes. 9. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking. 10. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months. 11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable. 12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com. 13. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second. 14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline. 15. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. 16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 17. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design. 18. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating. 19. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water. 20. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined! 21. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war. 22. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles. 23. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour. 24. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. 25. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month. 26. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world. 27. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year. 28. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. 29. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents! 30. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit. 31. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles! 32. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. 33. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die! 34. The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts. 35. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 36. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. 37. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog! 38. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark. 39. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims. 40. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving

A court case I have ... I need to make a plead But I'M screwed either way I need someone PLEASE help ME!? Okay so today I had court on a case i Have .. I'm being accused on Theft by shop lifting and simple battery Twice .... Okay this is the situation... ON July of this summer i walked in to Macy's store with my younger sibling (15yrs old) Me and Him entered the mall using the Macy's main doors. At the very first entrance when u first come in u see the jewelry department. I picked up a set of bracelets and tried them on as i was in the store i continued walking through out the store deeply Immerse in conversation with my brother.. the main reason to the visit of the mall was because me and my brother was going to the movies. and he was rushing me and i accidentally walked out the store with the damn bracelets on... Seconds later when i was about 100 feet out the store i get stopped by a white lady that tell s me that we need to talk about the bracelets i was wearing on my wrist.. I confused looked at my wrist and noticed that my careless self took the bracelets with me.. I felt so embarrassed and ashamed cuz the predicament i was found in. How ever i explain to the lady that stopped me that I was truly sorry and that my intentions weren't what they appeared to be. She told me that it was too late that i Already had walked out the store so that I need to follow her to the Lost prevention Office. But in my point of view i felt that there wasn't no need to do all that if i didn't steal the bracelets and i didn't pocket them or put the in my purse. Next thing i know there is Another security guy at the incident and he's telling me that I need to come with him. I refused to walk with them to the office so I intended to walk out the door, Next thing i know the security of the store grabs me by the arm and tells me that I'm not allowed to go no where.. Until I'm done with him. I get upset and I tell him to get off me and i try to make my way out once again. Next thing I know I'm on the floor on my knees on a head lock-position by this male security subject. I get afraid that he''ll chock me or something and my natural reaction was to bite him. to sum it up.. I get arrested and sent to jail. I spend 3 days In jail I get out with a Bail of 5,700 dollars. I get a police report of what my charges are.. and the security subject from Macy's explains the incident as me taking the bracelets and him trying to stop me and me biting him. Never does he says that he threw me on the floor and hurts me.Then me biting him. I get assigned to a Lawyer. I explain to the lawyer what happened and she tells me what do I want to plead. I tell her not guilty!! *********so my question is.... what should i do????????******** Lawyer tells me that my best option is to plead (guilty)and i will get: *12 months of probation 2 day of community service * a fine of 350 dollars * i have to take and HIV test since i Bit the security subject * And take classes that i most pay for 270 dollars Mind you This will still give me a criminal record of a misdemeanor!!! Now I feel like this isn't fair and I want to take this case to trail so that this way i can explain my side of the story and show that i am INNOCENT! But my lawyer said that i don't have a good chance of convincing the jury and that my defense is weak!! She said to me that its best for me to take the plead. But i DO not want to do that. She told me that if i take it to trail that i can get sentence to jail for 30 to 60 days. And that i will still have to serve probation time. I want to prove my innocence!!! But I am afraid that even so I run a great risk of getting more harsh punishment Just for trying to prove my self!!!!!! I do not believe that this isn't FAIR at all.... I just one some one to PLEASE HELP me and advice me and tell me what they believe is best for me to do!!!!!!!! Please Help me!!!! I would fell like every one's opinion would be a blessing to me!! TRULY APPRECIATE 100% thanks a million every one!!!!

What do you think of my story so far? The only thing that was in my mind right now is to fit in. Yeah, that's on everyone's mind but it's in my mind the most because I'm a shape shifter. In live in the world of pixies, vampires, werewolves, and werecats, but 85% humans. The Council is like the governors of America, but they are for the world, and all 2% humans. There are nine council members, each so ancient and powerful. Every nine million years, they change and get new council members. There are three vampires, three shape shifters, three werecats, and four werewolves. If one council member dies in battle, they would combine their powers, and that would revitalize the dead council member, and bring them back to life. In three years, there is going to be a new pick of The Council. Everyone is training their hardest to get to be chosen as one of The Council, but I doubt they would be picked. Only nine out of a billion our kinds would be picked, so fat chance that you will be picked, and a good chance that one of the presidents would be chosen from the 9 states, an officer, a math geek, lawyer, doctor, and any other person that has done something that alleviated the pain of the Old War or Modern War or someone very important. I live with three best friends Lola, Jana, and Ashley. Our guardians are Teresa Sparks and Loyd Sparks, but they only come over once every two weeks, so typically, twice a month. Today is my first day of school as a senior in high school, and I'm so nervous. I just got a black Eclipse Mitsubishi from my mom. My mom and I keep one secret to ourselves, my power, or should I say, powers. I can control nature, everything about it is under my control … it's not good to share it with the public because they might get the wrong idea of my powers. “Zaphara! HURRY! WE'RE GOING TO ME LATE!” Lola yelled. “Coming, gosh!” I said, and grabbed my tan messenger bag. I smiled when I remembered there were four seats in the car, not just two. We hopped in the car, and I drove off. OK, I'm NOT a crazy driver, I'm just a drive that gets to my destination ASAP, although speeding then times faster than a drunk driver, and driving in a straight line, only occasionally going to the left lane to get in front of the car in front of me. “WHATCH IT!” Jana squealed. “We're not going to die,” I assured them, and jerked to a stop, a police officer was in front of us. “Oh, now you blew it, Zaphara!” Ashley taunted, but knew I would just flash my CIA badge at them. My mom (gosh, I sound young) made sure I had one to get where ever I needed. It's real, and I'm in their system, but I don't go on missions, I just pop up once in a while, so if anyone asks, they'll say I was there. “Excuse me ma'am, do you have a reason that you are speedin'?” the officer asked. “Asthma, my friend has asthma … and we're chasing that green car,” I said, and Sara immediately started huffing and puffing and turning red, then, I flashed him my badge. “Oh, I'm sorry, get along! And I hope your friend is alright!” “Thanks,” I said, and sped off, chasing the green car that was going towards the direction of my school. “When did you get that?” Jana asked. “A year ago,” I answered, and parked under a tree. “Good, that got us out of a speeding ticket,” Lola said. “I need to barf,” Ashley groaned. “Trash can right there,” I said, pointing to Ashley's head. “Hey!” Ashley said, and shoved me. That shove would've broke a person into pieces, but we were OK with it, we're indestructible. “NO RUNNING!” screamed an old lady “Oh, great. Another great principal.” I muttered.

Porn on the Internet: Problem for your relationship.... or is it not? OK..... I enjoy a bit of porn from time to time... and now its free.. direct to my home... I dont even have to get it wrapped in brown paper or stuff it under my jumper.. or hide it on the top shelf of my wardrobe where she can't reach it! All I gotta do is clear my history page every time. But I don't get what all the fuss is about. Apparently divorce lawyers are increasingly citing "web porn addiction" as a major factor in around 50% of the divorces that Solicitors milk and cream..... And it's not a small number of us ... apparently 88% of the viewers of porn are men.... and last month around 2.34 million hits in Australia were all visiting online porn sites... so it's a mighty popular past-time for regular guys... not just sex starved basement dwellers. (The population of Australia is around 20 million). So what's up wth that anyway.

Need free lawyer until wins someone stole my dads "cartoon" and its on TV? I'll give no names (for press reasons) but my dad gave this person (who was NOT that famous at the time) a tape that was copy written. Well 9 months later he see's the character he draws going across the screen. He thought nothing of it and watch the show. He found it quite funny. But some of the lines that he said and some of the plots where all smiler to the tape the he had given this person. Well he still did not realize it until the persons name ran across the screen and it hit him!!! The funny part is she kept the characters name the same , dressed the character in the design my dad made and copy written. He only had 6 different "cartoon" things on his tape and out of of 6 their where 4 of them taken and twisted around to make them a bit different , The cartoon type things has made a lot of money (more then 1 million) and sets this persons carer OFF the ground!!!!!! My dad can't find a lawyer that would take the case without $10,000 for the cost to go back and forth the court. They said it would cost this much to go back and forth on the planes etc... they all tell him now that this person if famous they really want to take the case but don't have enough to put so much money down. He has 6 lawyers wanting to take this case but say they need money down and email him every 2 or 3 months saying come on we only need this much down.........Please give me the names of the lawyers that would take this case until my dad wins! My dad said he will willing to split the cost with the lawyer half and half he just wants people to know what a thief the person is!!! The reason why the person thought it was not copy written was my dad had just changed his name and the copy written had not transferred over to his new name yet! I can't say to much about the show but the whole show was based on my dads ideas and my dads plots ... so its just not the charter they stole they stole the who idea of the show

someone stole my dad's copy written "cartoon" and its on tv need lawyer? I'll give no names (for press reasons) but my dad gave this person (who was NOT that famous at the time) a tape that was copy written. Well 9 months later he see's the character he draws going across the screen. He thought nothing of it and watch the show. He found it quite funny. But some of the lines that he said and some of the plots where all smiler to the tape the he had given this person. Well he still did not realize it until the persons name ran across the screen and it hit him!!! The funny part is she kept the characters name the same , dressed the character in the design my dad made and copy written. He only had 6 different "cartoon" things on his tape and out of of 6 their where 4 of them taken and twisted around to make them a bit different , The cartoon type things has made a lot of money (more then 1 million) and sets this persons carer OFF the ground!!!!!! My dad can't find a lawyer that would take the case without $10,000 for the cost to go back and forth the court. They said it would cost this much to go back and forth on the planes etc... they all tell him now that this person if famous they really want to take the case but don't have enough to put so much money down. He has 6 lawyers wanting to take this case but say they need money down and email him every 2 or 3 months saying come on we only need this much down.......... Please give me the names of the lawyers that would take this case untill my dad wins! My dad said he will willing to split the cost with the lawyer half and half he just wants people to know what a theif the person is!!! Also I forgot to say the reason the person thought this was not copy written was because it was on my dads old last name and the person did not know my dads old last name!!! So when they looked to see what he had copy written they could not see it because it was not trafered over yet!! Also I forgot to say the reason the person thought this was not copy written was because it was on my dads old last name and the person did not know my dads old last name!!! So when they looked to see what he had copy written they could not see it because it was not trafered over yet!! Also I forgot to say the reason the person thought this was not copy written was because it was on my dads old last name and the person did not know my dads old last name!!! So when they looked to see what he had copy written they could not see it because it was not trafered over yet!! i'm sorry i cant say ! my dad does not want this known until we get a lawyer We are in Ann Arbor MI

Do i have to wait until i'm 21? When i was 9 i got hit by a car and broke my hip...we sued and setteled out of court for like a 1/4 of a million(250,000) of course my lawyer got his share and every yr i get interest. To access this money do i have to be 21 or can i get some when i turn 18(which is this month may 31st) i start school soon and i dont have the money to pay for school on my own and an apartment. Would i be able to get this money after my 18th birthday? Thanks for your help:)

Hell, hath no fury.....? After 17 years of marriage, a man dumped his wife for his young secretary. His new girlfriend demanded that she wanted to live in the couple's multi-million-dollar home and since the man's lawyers were little better than he, the girlfriend's wishes prevailed. The now ex-wife was given just 3 days to move out. She spent the first day packing her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases. On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things. On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candlelight, put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of Chardonnay. When she had finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimp shells, dipped in caviar, into the hollow of all the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left. When the husband returned with his new girlfriend, all was bliss for the first few days. Then slowly, the house began to smell. They tried everything; cleaning & mopping and airing the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents, and carpets were steam-cleaned. Air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which they had to move out for a few days, and in the end they even paid to replace the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked. People stopped coming over to visit... Repairmen refused to work in the house... The maid quit... Finally, they could not take the stench any longer and they decided to move. A month later, even though they had cut their price in half, they could not find a buyer for their stinky house. Word got out, and eventually, even the local realtors refused to return their calls. Finally, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place. The ex-wife called the man, and asked how things were going. He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely, and said that she missed her old home terribly, and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting the house back. Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, he agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house had been worth. But only if she was to sign the papers that very day. She agreed, and within the hour, his lawyers delivered the paperwork. A week later, the man and his new girlfriend stood smirking as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home....including the curtain rods.

Who are these hundreds of thousands of new citizens? Who says illegals don't get free heath care? About every six months the population of the U.S. increases about as much as the population of Tallahassee. Who are these hundreds of thousands of new citizens? They are newborns, children of illegal aliens born in the United States - birthright citizens, "anchor babies" - not illegal aliens. This quirky legal right then allows the mother's parents and siblings to remain, and later a whole bunch of their relatives to immigrate legally. This why they are also known as "Jackpot babies." Just consider Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, the second busiest maternity ward in the U.S. In 2006, 70 percent of the women giving birth in Parkland were illegal immigrants. That added up to 11,200 babies for which Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million to deliver these babies, the feds another $9.5 million and Dallas taxpayers tossed in $31.3 million. The average illegal patient is 25 years old and giving birth to her second anchor baby. We could also talk about California, but you get the point. By law, illegal immigrants cannot be denied medical care based on their inability to pay or their immigration status. These women also receive free prenatal care, medication, car seats, bottles, diapers and formula. The U.S. and a few other countries offer citizenship to anyone born on their soil. The United Kingdom and Australia abandoned this practice in the 1980s after being abused by immigrants for many years. Why do we allow this to continue? The 14{+t}{+h} Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states wherein they reside... It was added to our Constitution right after the Civil War as part of a package of reforms to prevent any more injustices to African Americans, such as states denying citizenship to native born blacks. The drafters of the "Citizenship clause" made it clear from their debate, that the clause "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" meant that the status of the parents of a child born within the territory of the U.S. determines whether of not that child is eligible for U.S. citizenship. There have been surprisingly few Supreme Court opinions construing this clause - the results being a mixed bag of decisions. The lawyer in me wants to go into detail, but let me be mercifully brief: The latest case involved a terrorist who happened to be born in Louisiana, when his father, a native of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, was working as an engineer for Exxon. He returned to Saudi Arabia as an infant, took up with al Qaeda as an adult, was captured during a battle in Afghanistan and wound up imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jan/26/ha-anchor-babies-weigh-down-economy/It is sad to watch our nation destroy itself right before our eyes.

What Should I Do To Get Back With My Mom!? I'm going to try to make this as short as possible. My brother and sister went to a school that they absolutely hated, so they threatened my mom that they would run away. They finally realized that they could just move with my dad. My brother and sister use my dad for material things. Anyway, they visited my dad, and my dad brainwashed them with pure trash saying he would get a million dollar house, buy them dirt bikes, etc. My brother and sister then decided that they could move there. They asked my mom if they could move, then she said "of course", because she lets us choose where we want to live. My brother wanted my mom to sign paperwork that wasn't really legit, and she wanted to wait to talk to her lawyer about it. My brother and sister grew impatient and found a way to get my mom in trouble. My sister was being snotty, and my mom was doing everything to control her - grounding, taking privileges, etc. - and it still wasn't working. My mom finally did it the traditional way and spanked her with a belt. The belt left a slight bruise on my sister's leg. My brother found out about it, and told my dad. He exaggerated as much as possible, and my dad called the social services. My sister told me the cops were coming to the house. I went to go take a shower, to go visit my mom at the library, since that's where she works. When I was going upstairs, I seen the cops and they started asking me questions. I didn't really even know what was going on, and they told me. I was sick to my stomach. For some reason I got dragged into the situation, and I had to go with my brother and sister to the police station. They were smiling, and acting cocky, while I was just very confused. I later seen my mom come into the police office, and my mom, sister, brother, and I got interrogated. I told them that my mom wasn't abusive, and she took superior care of us. For some reason, they didn't acknowledge that, and they gave me the bad news that the law took custody of me, and now I have to live with my grandma. I've been living here for more than a month. I can't speak, write to, or even look at my mom, until the court says it's okay. I feel like a lunatic, and I can't do anything or see anybody. I had to switch from my favorite school, my best friend and I are losing our relationship, and I'm just so depressed. I cry every night just missing my mom, and now I have to wait until November just for the court to have another discussion. I don't want to wait a year to see my mom, just because of my slob brother and sister. The lawyers are local, lazy, and unprofessional, and the caseworker just isn't trying to do anything to help me, so I'm stuck in the middle of the situation, and I can't bear the fact that I can't see or contact my mom or anybody on her side of the family, including her boyfriend. Please help... I miss my old life. I miss my friends, family, pets, sanity, and happiness that I had with my mom. The court needs to realize that we're human beings with feelings, souls, and personal lives, and the court is personally treating me like a stray dog. It would be really appreciated if anyone can give me advice, to get back with my mom very, very soon... thank you very much.

Do you STILL thinki that Sarah Palin is qualified? -----Original Message----- From: Anne Kilkenny <annekilkenny@hotmail.com> Date: September 1, 2008 12:20:01 AM PDT Subject: re: SARAH PALIN Dear friends, So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . . Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common: their gender and their good looks. :) You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . . Thanks, Anne ABOUT SARAH PALIN I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city. She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe". It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months. She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby. There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby. She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym. She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit. Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans. Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters. She's smart. Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents. During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign. Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents. The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing. While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once. These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city. As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs. She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas t To all the naysayers and those who think this was nothing but BULL. It was on NPR's All Things Considered today as well. LOL... So much for THAT theory Agent 99, I am very tolerant of just about everyone..but THIS is not a matter of being tolerant. Our Nation's if not the entire WORLD's future is at stake here and I sure as heck DON'T want to see our ufture put into the hands of some NUTCASE from the middle of nowhere. Ms Plain wants to paly with the big kids, well the big kids ply by the rules and she isn't playing bythe rules. She needs to be called on it and it is NOT a matter of sexism, it's a matter of patriotism. She is onlyin it for herself and it's high time that folks like her get called on it. Raji Baloon Buster, Anne HAS been interviewed. She was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" yesterday (Friday, Aug 6th). I don't think that this is going to go away unless the CURRENT administration decides to pull ot the National Security Act and call the media a "terrorist Organizatin and have them all "detained" until AFTER the election. Raji

What would yo do if a celebrity ripped you off? A celebrity author ripped me off when I had just lost my beautiful 12 year old daughter Natasha to Cancer. I had been in private & confidential correspondence with him and he infringed on my copyright (design and patents 1988 act singularity of letters) He used part of my life and that of my family as a basis for one of his thriller fiction novels. I promised Natasha before she died that, everyone possible would be able to read her life through my eyes within the pages of my autobiography. This author celebrity knew this and still produced his novel, which is what I call a fictionography of part of our lives and has made millions out of it. If I was very wealthy I would have taken a law suit for copyright infringement against this celebrity author, but I am not, so unless you are a copyright lawyer who wants to take this on a no win no fee with a percentage basis payment for winning, please don’t bother to suggest this option. Things I have already done and the results from doing them: Corresponded with this celebrity author and his solicitors, bu-ls—t replies, followed by letters warning, demanding that I reply in writing to confirm that I will not infringe on his copyright or put anything out of his novel in my autobiography. Result: Interesting, I did not bother to reply to this because my life-story is real and his novel he claims is fiction, if the two were to cross anywhere just who would be to blame for that NOT ME!. Lol (lol=laughing a lot) what arrogance! I produced a screenplay of my life-story together with my American screenwriting partner Cathy Jourdan (love you Cathy if you are reading this) at the request of a film production company that wanted to produce it for the big screen. We WGA registered it before sending to the production company. The details were plastered all over the internet by the film production company at the time. Result: The celebrity author came to some sort of mutual agreement with the film production company and the film production company dropped us. Take into account that for months the big gun of the film production company had been talking to Cathy and me every day on the telephone, sometimes for hours on end, and suddenly he cut us dead!!!! I have talked about what this celebrity author did on radio openly, and have plastered the details all over the internet. I even have this celebrity authors name as one of my registered domain names under co.uk, yes he is British by birth, at the time of writing this checking out his name in Google my site is number 8 on the first page of results. I have even left details on his readers/fans sites so they can go and see what he has done. Result: Book sales, queries by the bucket load, numerous reporters contacting me for the story, who then just didn’t follow up or come back to me as to why. I sent a petition to no 10, Downing Street to try and get a law brought in to stop this from happening to other people like me. Result: Reply letters from 10, Downing Street. They haven’t told me what they are doing about it, by all means write and ask them. If they try telling you they don’t know what you are on about I can send you a copy of one of their replies by email attachment. I have the proof of everything I tell you. I have done a lot of other things but to tell you what they are I would have to name him here and I don’t want to do that. I welcome your ideas/suggestions. Thank you

moving to argentina and playing poker? I'm 18 years old. Yes I know, young and foolish and filled with hope for life just waiting to get his spirits crushed. And so, before stands me one option. Accept money from the parents i most deeply dislike, attend a state university, get some degree in financing, making my 60-80k over a career, maybe one day 100k?!?!, hope america's infrastructure doesn' collapse one day, and die on the inside, shitting on every ideal of freedom and staying true to your dreams i ever held. Or... I become a poker pro. Now just stay with me here. An online professional poker player might make anywhere from 15k (you gotta be god awful) to 100k a year (you gotta be really good). Its quiet even possible I hit it lucky and I win a few lucrative tournaments here and there, cashing in some extra few hundred grand. On average, lets say an online poker pro, as myself, will make 50k a year... (Then again, I say I'm going to be making hundreds of thousands, but thats just arrogance speaking =P) At this point, financial analyst for the win. Poker earnings are still taxed as an income tax, the job would seem far to volatile and unreliable (no health benefeits and such), and quiet honestly I come out looking like a fool unless I am the new Phil Ivey of poker. Stage two... I move to buenos aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina, is deemed "the paris of south america". With warm weather, great nice people, and a happy atmosphere, the place seems great from everything I ever read. Not once have I read anything bad about the place. On top of that, due to inflation, on 20k u.s. A year, I'd be living like a prince there (Somewhat). For example, on average a person there makes 1500 pesos a month, 18000 a year. The exchange rate is 1 us dollar to 3.5 pesos. Thus, 20k is 70k pesos. A top notch lawyer makes about 6k a month, or about the equivelant to my 20k U.S. (which i also plan to switch into euros, for the dollars quickly losing value). Anyways, with due practice and diligence, even if I hit the lowest of cielings in poker, I can live happily in argentina. Part three. As a U.S. citizen, living abroad you still follow a U.S. income tax. At first I was infuriated by this, until I learned more... if you make under 95k a year though, your exempt from the income tax. :O. Thus, all my poker winnings now become tax free, and seeing as Argentina has much bigger problems to tackle, I don't see them making online gambling a policy of theres anytime soon. But thats the beautty of online poker! If things get heated in Buenos aires, I pick up my things and move somewhere else. All I need is an internet connection and a bank account and whalla! I am employed no matter where I go :). Part four. I get to argentina, I live happy, and say I'm not a retarted monkey at poker. I make say 50k a year? That leaves 30k a year extra. Those 30k, I invest in mutual fund, (stock and money), which can overtime lead to a year roi of say 5-10%. Say I get better at investing, manage to get my portofolio to a steady RoI of 8%, and continually pump in 30-50k of savings each year (hell, win a tournament or two, and I could throw in something like 100k in a given year.) In about 20 years, at that pace, my investment portfolio would be worth millions. Forty years? ITs not too hard to imagine anything in the range of 10-30 million. Of course, this is all cirumstantial! I can get shot in the head by a maniac who randomly let out a gun shot in the direction of my window as soon as I finished writing this. But what do you think? Is it too insane? I mean the average american savings per year is 400 bux, and on average the debt is something like 150k? Even as a financial analyst, pressured to live up to "Societal standards" I don't see myself investing more than 6-10k a year, and thats without the strain of a family or wife. So, PUT IN YOUR INPUT GUYS!

preeclampsia malpractice? 8 month pregnant mother went to regular check up. up til now everything was going smooth. Told doctors she has had headaches for a week. they gave her a regular urine test(which showed high levels), to find out why they then asked her to do a 24 hour urine test. she dropped it off next morning at 9am friday. tuesday night we went to the emergancy room because she was still not feeling good. at the pregnancy ward the nurses came in with a dr. checked with the ultrasound, baby was not alive. meanwhile they checked the computer and found that they had her lab results from the urine test and that she had preeclampsia. the first thing we asked the dr was why didnt we receive a call asap after the urine test was dropped off. if we had found out on friday we could have gone to the hospital and had the baby delivered early. but because they did not call us and we had to go to the emergancy room ourselves it was too late. nothing can replace this loss in our lives, we have a lawyer and they are keeping us in the dark about everything because it is going to take years to recover any kind of settlement. does anyone have a figure on how much we are looking at for such a medical malpractice case. i am not trying to be greedy i just would like to know what would happen in this sort of matter because i see malpractice cases awarding up to 5 million dollars i think we deserve every penny from what we went through.

I was ripped off by a company in CA, and I live in New York. What actions can I take to file a crime report? After recently graduating from esthetics school (spa, facials, ect.) I bought spa equipment from a company called ree've lab out of CA when they were at the beauty/esthetics conference at the Javits Center in NYC earlier this year. At the Beauty show you get a lot of good deals, and so as a business investment, I purchased $1100 for all of the equipment for an entire spa room. Barely any of the numbers for this company work, and now when I finally find a working number and get someone on the phone, it's actually the owner, stating his name, but not his position as the owner (he was acting like an underling and like he had to go through different departments to get me my equipment, but in reality, and after researching, I found out there are only four employees and he's the owner). After weeks of me calling this man everyday, finally, he claimed the paperwork was done and he said everything was in motion to get my equipment shipped, and that he would call me the next day with a freight number and never did. This BS went on for a few months. Every time I call, he gives me an excuse and the run around saying it's on it way, but it never is. I have to block my number for him to answer my calls. Now he is still answering the phone at Ree've Lab, with just his name, but after all of this, he's now telling me that Ree've Lab went out of business and that he's working for and they're operating under a new company, and that they don't have to honor my sale anymore. I HATE TALKING TO HIM. He is mean, deceitful, and I have caught him in so many lies. I want to take legal action even though I don't have money for a lawyer. If I am in New York and the company was in Ca, what can I do? I know I should file a crime report of some kind, but I don't know where to start. I spent over a thousand dollars total (I don't really even have the money-it was more of me buying the equipment as a business investment- I used my savings that as a student took me a while to save). I have a receipt and everything that I would need to prove I bought it from them. I already contacted the administrators from the esthetics and cosmetology conference in New York to tell the the story. If I google his name there are millions of complaints. I don't know how he keeps getting away with it. I guess it's easy to prey on people at trade shows, because we automatically think it's safe to buy from a company at one of these events, but it's not and I don't want this stress happening to others! I have been losing sleep over this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Husband wants to divorce me, but i have no money for a lawyer. HELP!!! need advice? i decided i didn't want to be with my husband because he cant stop cheating. We have a 4 month old baby boy. He dropped off some papers at my moms house that are a Waiver of Citation. he tore it out a book that he bought from books a million. i refuse to sign it. he wants to keep our son 3 days out of the week. i told him he can get him every other weekend and split holidays. i refuse to let that happen because he doesn't come to get his son now. He doesn't have a job he was kicked out the army for pattern of misconduct and he sells drugs. i don't want my son around that at all. i don't have a job but i have been trying very hard to get one. but i am enrolled in school. i won't be able to get a lawyer until September when my mom can pay for one. I need help and steps on what to do. and the cheapest way. i don't want to put him on child support his mom gives me money for the baby and says its from him but i know it is really from her. we were married for 2 years. what do i do? do i sign anything he gives me? can the divorce wait til september until i have money for a lawyer?

POLICE OFFICERS, put yourself in his place, try to think like he does, my son 23 is currently in jail for? letting traffic violations, seat belt, speeding, out of date sticker, etc...all pile up and now he is in a "CORRECTIONAL FACILITY" for 6 months. Okay, first..he is a high school drop-out, he was spoiled rotten as a teen, his first "Job" was working with a guy cutting trees. At the end of the first week he got paid...week 2 he gets a bottle of 120 hydro's (hydrocodone, I guess) and the guy tells him, "Man you can sell these and make way more than what I was supposed to pay you" (yeah, right!! he was 17 his dad and I had no knowledge until WAY after the fact. So, blah, blah, he gets hooked on pills, stole stuff, pawned stuff whatever it took to get his "fix". He finally ended up on methadone. This is the stuff they give people to get off some street drug, ie..heroine? So, me and his dad finally figure out all this and end up taking him to a methadone clinic every day for 6 months. They are supposed to dose him down and get him off of it. They gave him more and he ends up worse than when he started!(Yes, daddy and I paid every day to try to help our son get off drugs) We find out that this so-called clinic makes MILLIONS of dollars a year keeping people hooked on methadone. I call whoever I can think of to tell them...news, police, lawyers,,etc.. NOTHING is done. The clinic is still open. Anyway, we refuse to take him anymore, he goes ballistic! screaming,cussing me-his own mother! We kick him out. He is like a little bloodsucker moving from friend to friend until he comes here begs on his knees to let him stay here until he gets off it and will I please help him through withdrawal? Yes, he did it it was awful, gross, disgusting, but we did it. Now he tries to find a job, finds some keeps them a while, starting getting tickets, speeding, then he got his license revoked. Lets the tickets pile up again and ends up in jail again, he knows he can't live here anymore, he is now 23,no drivers license, homeless, no car, no diploma. Can you imagine what is going through his mind? I know you cops see all kinds of stuff. But what is the answer? He already knows he MESSED up bad! He admits it, We all know this, we know where mistakes were made. Is his life over at 23? He is off drugs because he says he can't get pills in jail. But, when he gets out what is he supposed to do? Police officers, law enforcement agencies, judges, lawyers...anybody...especially police I know you see pitiful stuff all the time, He knows where he made his mistakes and wishes to God that he could start over....can he? please give me suggestions, comfort, prayers anything but smart-eleck remarks. I really don't need that I need help, he needs help he knows that. Please please put yourself in his shoes and give me suggestions, nice ones, (even if YOU would never do anything like that) Officers I know things like this go through your mind, suggestions, encouragement....anything? why thank-you officer ICET that is exactly what I needed to know.. ISAID WE KNOW WE MESSED UP, LETTING HIM DROP OUT, WE KNOW could a REAL police officer with a heart answer my question, I don't need preaching. He is going to come out of jail with no where to go, no food to eat,no way to get to the GED school. He IS paying for his actions by being in jail. , how does a homeless person become a responsible citizen? He is sorry, he is ready to start fresh he has realized the error of his ways. I am talking the DAY he gets out...how does he start?

Would you possibly believe your jobs are NOT being sent overseas? If I said your jobs are NOT being sent overseas and the US now underbids the lowest of the low of the Asian sweatshops you might say I'm crazy, but the reality is that your jobs are being outsourced not to foreign nations, but to the PIC, Prison Industrial Complex. Federal Prison Industries, FPI now sells inmate produced goods globally and to you in stores all over the land then simply labels them as "Made In China" and other foreign markets. Isn't that sweet? The job you might expect to be paid a living wage is sent to slaves in our prisons and 3/4ths of these slaves would never qualify for prison in Europe, but do in the US. How could a system that built thousands of new prisons possibly pay for them when tax payers could barely afford the ones we had in the 70's and 80s? Slave labor. I don't know how many remembered the big "outcry" to keep inmates in prison longer and longer and to stop releasing "violent inmates" back in the 80's and 90's, but that wasn't because crime rates went up and it wasn't because judges went soft on crime at all. Juries never decided to let the bad guys go scott-free because of some imagined sympathy. Instead we were sold the proverbial pig with lipstick on a grand scale. Oh sure, there was the occasional inmate who was released only to reoffend, but the numbers never told the truth because those were and still are the exception rather than the rule. Prosecutors didn't suddenly become better lawyers and defense layers didn't suddenly become blathering idiots. Judges had sentencing common sense yanked away and every crime now has a prescribed number of days, months or years on the books and many of them are so unreasonable you couldn't possibly believe them even if you read them. The truth is the public was sold a bill of sale and told we lived in constant fear of crime while our jobs were being outsourced to slave labor in American prisons. Ironically crime rates never really went up the entire time and FBI statistics prove that. At least 37 states have legalized the contracting out of prison labor to private corporations that set up operations inside state prisons. (The number is much higher now) The list of these prisons’ business clients reads like a Who’s Who of Corporate America: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless, Texas Instruments, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target stores, and on and on and on and...on. In 1994 state prisoners produced over $900 million worth of goods and services. (God only can guess that number now) With the vast increase in corporate use of prison labor, this may very well be fifty or even a thousand times that now, but is surely in the hundreds of billions now. This does not include the value of services performed by prisoners just to maintain the prison. If the state had to pay outside labor even the legal minimum wage for this work, it would cost far more than the states pay prisoners. Many pay nothing for this prison maintenance work. There are at least seven distinct ways profits are wrenched out of this vast U.S. prison population: (1) Goods and services produced inside prisons by prison labor and sold by federal, state and local prisons/jails either to other government agencies, or on the open market or as exports abroad; (2) The contracting out of prison labor (both inside and outside prisons) to private corporations at slave labor wages; (3) The creation of vast new private prison corporations that profit both from housing inmates from state prisons as well as from using these inmates as forced prison labor; (4) The construction of new prisons, using both prison and non-prison labor; (5) Interest paid to banks and Wall Street investment houses on loans for the construction and upkeep of new prisons, both public and private; (6) The venders of supplies to prison industries; (7) The pay telephone racket set up inside prison walls by private phone companies for collect calls by prisoners to the outside world. All these profiteers combined comprise what is now commonly defined as the Prison-Industrial Complex, one of the biggest growth industries in the U.S. This multi-billion dollar industry has its own trade shows, conventions, web sites, mail order catalogues, direct marketing campaigns, architectural firms, construction firms, Wall Street investment houses, plumbing supply companies, food service companies, and outfits selling "prison-specific" products: bullet-resistant security cameras, padded cells in "vast color selections," belts and shackles ("special for juveniles"), body orifice security scanners, razor wire, etc., etc. This industry even has its own Yellow Pages, with a list of over 1,000 venders. All this is largely based on the non-violent offenders (two-thirds of the two million) who, by even European capitalist standards, should not be in prison at all. Here many inmates origina

Imagine being 16 and having your whole life in front of you now imagine an illegal immigrant is responsible? Imagine being 16 and having your whole life in front of you now imagine an illegal immigrant is responsible driving without a license or insurance and with a 0.28 blood alcohol level — more than triple the state limit of 0.08. how would you feel if this was your child ?Imagine being 16 and having your whole life in front of you. Now imagine being hit head on by a drunken driver and left in a crumpled car by the side of the road. Your whole life has just come to a screeching halt. That's exactly the experience one Tracy resident went through when she was just 16. Lori Ann Martin was a small town girl, deeply rooted in the community where her parents grew up and her grandparents settled. In fact, two streets in the city of Tracy (Travao Lane and Alzira Court) are named after her grandfather and grandmother. Martin was popular in school and a straight-A student. She played volleyball and softball and attended all the local football games and dances. She was the picture of an all-American girl. Then one night, during her junior year of high school, everything changed. She was headed back from work at 8:15 p.m. April 10, 1992, traveling along Grant Line Road. Another car that was headed in the opposite direction, with a drunken driver at the wheel, hit her head on. The driver was an illegal immigrant, driving without a license or insurance and with a 0.28 blood alcohol level — more than triple the state limit of 0.08. At the site of this gruesome accident scene, Martin was found unconscious, unresponsive, and still strapped into her seat belt. Extrication took 40 minutes using the Jaws of Life. She was then taken to the hospital by Medi-Flight. She suffered numerous injuries, including a swollen brain, several broken and dislocated bones, a collapsed lung, cracked ribs, torn tendons, multiple fractures, a lacerated liver and was paralyzed on her left side. While still in the hospital, Martin slipped into a coma for 100 days and developed a high fever which led to the loss of her hearing. Martin's recovery time was extensive. She spent a month at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton and then went to Golden State Rehabilitation Hospital in San Ramon. She spent the next eight months relearning how to walk and talk. Her next stop was in San Jose at a facility called Learning Services; several months later she returned to Tracy and started therapy at Sutter Tracy Hospital. More than a decade later, Martin's therapy is still ongoing, yet she has been able to give back to the community in many ways. For the past few years, Martin has worked with the Tracy branch of the California Highway Patrol during its annual "Every 15 Minutes" campaign. This anti-drinking and driving program also enlists the help of the Tracy police and fire departments, American Medical Response, Sutter Tracy Hospital, local judges, tow companies and local high school students. It takes a hard look at the aftermath of a drinking and driving car accident, through intense moments and realistic surroundings. How come when an illegal causes medical injuries they are not required to pay restitution ? If this was an illegal would lawyers not step forward free of charge to collect millions ?http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_11898593

help with poverty.!!? this is a newspaper article. i was wondering literally HOW education can get you out of poverty: "It felt like our whole future had been destroyed." Returning from hiding to her village in Sierra Leone, 15-year-old Mary Smart was stunned to find her classroom burned to the ground by rebels. The rebels ransacked her school and killed her teachers, as they had done countless times across the country, in the hope of keeping the population uneducated. But it didn't work. Now that the country's civil war is over – with largely peaceful elections held last month – Mary and others have begun returning to class, refusing to have their education taken from them. Mary wants to be a lawyer, she says. That way, she can defend the rights of other children to ensure they also get to go to school. This is the kind of success story that next Saturday's International Literacy Day is meant to honour. But while we are celebrating stories like Mary's, we must remember just how low on the world's list of priorities literacy has become. Less than 3 per cent of official development assistance is spent on education, with just a fraction of that going to literacy programs. While it would cost just $7 billion (U.S.) to teach every person to read and write, one in six is illiterate. By contrast, the U.S. and Europe alone spend upwards of $18 billion every year on makeup products. That's a discouraging disparity. It means that there are still 120 million children not in primary school and that nearly a billion people cannot read papers like this one. No one doubts that even a basic education is vital. The UN estimates that earning potential increases by as much as 10 per cent for every year of schooling. Basic literacy vastly improves a family's quality of life: they are better able to find jobs, prevent diseases and protect their rights and dignity. What's key about education is that it allows people to lift themselves out of poverty. It's not charity, but rather a long-term and sustainable path to development. Countries in the developing world, from Brazil to Senegal, are becoming aware of these benefits and in recent years have introduced national literacy strategies. Ethiopia's initiative is called the Education Sector Development Program. It provides alternative learning for children not in school, literacy classes for youth and even basic skills training for adults. With a literacy rate of only 41 per cent, the program will go a long way in helping ordinary Ethiopians out of poverty. It is expected to reach more then five million people by 2011. But these countries are struggling to fund their programs. Kenya spends just over $30 per person on education, while China spends about $20. Canada spends nearly $1,500 per person on education. Part of the problem is that many developing world countries are saddled with debt repayment, diverting billions of dollars a year away from social services. Burkina Faso spends five times more on its debt than it does on education. That is where the developed world can help. By dropping crippling debt repayments for countries that show good governance, the West can ensure poor nations have more money for education. And by linking aid and trade deals to education spending, countries can know that their money is being put to good use. Three per cent of official development assistance is simply not enough. Because, as Stephen Lewis once said, "education is the solution to everything." what would happen if this problem isn't corrected?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN NY ANDREW CUOMO IS CORRUPT? Hello, May 25, 2010 I am a victim of a corrupt Government official that is with the New York Attorney Generals Office. I sell puppies, I was a licensed pet dealer and breeder. Unfortunately I sold a puppy to Mr. Ralph Pernick the Assisant Deputy to Andrew Cuomo. The puppy passed away at about 5 months old, now the AG's office went ahead and brought a Special Proceeding against me. They wanted to settle with me for $400,000 of which I do not have. Now they are looking to take my house, they have already frozen my bank accounts and all my assets. They are now looking for 1.5 million dollars from me.And I had to beg the judge for my some of my money to be released just so that I could hire a Lawyer.The NY Attorney General's Office conspired a plan against me, it's pure CORRUPTION and now they are trying to extort every penny I have and take my home as well.VICTORIA SAFRAN IS LEADING THE SHOW WITH DIRECTIONS FROM RALPH PERNICK, AND INVESTIGATOR PAUL MATTHEWS WAS GOING TO MY FRINDS HOUSES AND FOLLOWING MY BOYFRIEND, MY X HUSBAND, MY SONS FATHER, TRYING TO BRIBE THEM INTO LYING AND MAKING FICTICIOUS STORIES UP ABOUT ME, MR. PAUL MATTHEWS HAS BEEN REPORTED AS WELL, AND THERE LOOKING INTO THIS CASE.As Mr.Pernick is definetely the driving force and big wheel behind this litigation against me.I am a single mom of a special needs little boy 8 years old, my pet dealers license was revoked and I was ordered by the AG not to sell puppies any longer, now all my assest's are frozen and I am suffering and so is my little boy that is special needs. My Lawyer wants to air the story somehow, we want the world to know how corrupt the Government is !! Starting with ANDREW CUOMO !!Please can you help my email addess is tiara3661@yahoo. com I reside in queens NY Please advise me on what to do. This is definitely an injustice, as I have hundreds of happy customers and only A FEW, A HANDFUL OF complaints (1-2 VALID ONES WHICH ARE ON APPEAL NOW IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT) with Mr. Ralph Pernick being the main one (WITH OUT A VALID COMPLAINT, AS HIS DOG DIED 5 MONTHS AFTER HE PURCHASED IT, THE PET LEMON LAW ALLOWS 14 DAYS) and Mr. Pernick is leading the "LYNCH MOB"I HAVE ALERTED THE F.B. I. THERE NOT DOING A THING, NOW I WAS JUST CONVICTED BY A JUDGE IN NASSUA COUNTY WITHOUT EVEN HAVING A TRIAL, I WAS DENIED A TRIAL, AND MY CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED, PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME !!! THIS CASE OF EXTORTION/CONSPIRIC Y We cannot let them get away with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated I can put you in touch with my Lawyers.Thanks again Yes thats a very good idea will send out emails to the news channels and 20/20 and dateline tomorrow and yes, it is exactly what I said and I left nothing out I have all the papers to prove what I said is 100% TRUE AND ACCURATE !! Thanks so much for your help and input any help is so much appreciated !!!!

how to fix the economic crisis? i am having a debate with my teacher he has said this...... I read a column in today's paper that said we could easily fix the current economic situation. Here's how: “All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,” said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. “We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate — no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.” Do you think this would work? I HAVE SAID.....Its a massive over-simplification of...... a) the state of affairs and........ b) the role recovery needs to take. While at its core, i agree that lowering the barriers to entry for citizenship in the US would be a positive- not only is there no guarantee that those people would "fix everything", predicting that they can't fix the recession seems more likely (given my framework regarding econ in general and the current contraction/recession). Assume 2 million people move here, the authors makes it seem that their presence will create the jobs needed to sustain them (and others who've lost jobs, unemployment is 7.6%- that about 11 million people). Also, theres no guarantee that any of those people, even if they all did magically find jobs- even have the ambition to buy homes and thirdly- it assumes that some dude straight off the boat, with perhaps a month of work history is going to be able to get mortgages and loans easily- not true. Complex adaptive situations, like the economic state of affairs, tend to not have simple, "4- word" answers like "let 2 million ppl immigrate" that should raise an eyebrow. and so on he has said.....Courtney ... all I can say is "wow." You would make a terrific debator ... and then a great lawyer. Your arguments make good sense. That whole piece was "tongue in cheek" but the point being made was that America made its wealth on immigration (my ancestors, your ancestors) who worked hard and paid their debts. Now that "fat, lazy and sloppy" Americans are deeply in the red and are unable to make their mortgage payments, the writer is saying that we opened (the currently closed) doors to new immigrants, they would work hard, pay taxes, and pay their mortgages on time. When you see roofers on houses ... aren't they usually Mexicans? My friends who are developers will ONLY hire Mexicans because they show up on time and work hard all day. We have people in the GOT, for example, that show up 30 minutes late every day and then whine if they don't get to go home early. This is happening all over the country. We can't compete in a global market with these kinds of waste-oids. What happened to America's work ethic? You need to get a degree and go to law school, woman! .......i am stuck now on what to say i dont understand what he is trying to ask me so i am in desprate need for some help on how to answer thins question?

Question about probate. An older mans will & such? I friend of mine is totally dependent on her dad. He pays her a small salary despite not working from his business and has repeatedly told her she would be "set for life" when he died. But, she is lacking on the details. The man is 68. a raging alcoholic. Married to someone for 6.5 years. Her brother runs the business. Her dad draws a salary despite never working. He owns his house which is maybe worth $150k and some land beside it that he is asking $2 million for but the county values them both for tax purposes for about $360k. Also a relative thinks the land will NEVER sell for 2 million. My understanding is a spouse gets everything when someone dies. But, he apparently has a will. Can a will favor a son and daughter at the expense of the spouse ? He has told he she will get his salary when he dies, for 10 years. That they couldn't make it go any longer. The problem with that is her brother will get the business and he wont be happy to pay her $60k per year for 10 years for doing nothing when its his business. That's even assuming they CAN. She really doesn't have a penny to her name, barely pays her $550 house note each month. Her dad could die soon and she doesn't have a dime to hire a lawyer to protect her interests. Her step mom and her brother do. Id appreciate any light anyone can shed on the above matters. He is drunk every day and doesn't seem interested in making sure everything is done correctly. The state is Alabama. He has told her the land will be hers and it was aquired prior to the marriage as was the house but I cant see the spouse being kicked out of her house. He has also told her he "set her up" to get his salary for 10 years. Even if he has a will, what are the chances of the brother or step mother prevailing over the will because they can hire councel and she cant ? Oh, and he DID make her sign a prenupt before they got married.

Can post partum depression start in the last few wks of pregnancy? I don't know what's wrong with me. Is anyone else feeling blue? The past week I've been really emotional, crying, just feeling like I wanna curl up in bed and cry and not come out. I have suffered from depression on & off my entire adult life, although it has been so manageable it's been non-existent the past several years. Because it was so bad in the far past, my dr's decided to keep me on an anti depressent throught the pregnancy (the only one that has been tested and proven safe for pregnancy). I don't get it.... I've been doing pretty great throughout the whole pregnancy but this week I feel like I'm slipping into a black hole. I don't know if it's that DH isn't jazzed about the baby like I've been because he's under SO much stress from his ex wife of 15 yrs ago filing one court thing after another demanding more in child support (we used to give her $2000/mo for his daughter, now $1500/mo). After paying support for December, DH only brought home $911 for the entire month. Our mortgage alone is $4000/mo (for a VERY basic boring 1970's house, not updated that anywhere else in the country would be around $100-$150K but prices here are insane and a Million $ only gets your a plain house in the San Jose/ San Francisco area. We can't move because we owe more on the house than it's worth right now. DH is super stressed between how little he's making since the stock market crash and how every night we have to type of legal documents to the ex wife (since we can't afford a lawyer anymore). DH's focus has been 100% on his ex wife's paperwork, having my type it every night till all hours, and I don't know if this is why I'm overwhelmed or what... This miracle of a baby boy I have wanted for SO long is almost here and there is no celebrating it because DH is so obsessed with defending himself in court from the ex who demands more & more money that we just plain don't have. I feel like I need to get very far away from DH and his court battles that cost us everything. This keeps going we'll be struggling not to lose our home, while the ex wife is a multi millionaire and doesn't need our money but goes after it with a vengeance to destroy DH (husband). They were only married a year 15 YEARS ago and he didn't meet me till 3 yrs ago but she's a Borderline Personality Angry woman who wants us dead and wants all of what's left of DH's money even if it means we'll be homeless. (She's also alienated the daughter who hasn't spoken to her dad in 3 yrs) Anyways I don't know if it's this or if it's possible for the brain to get ready for post partum depression in the last few wks of a pregnancy.... what do you guys think? I want to be a good mommy for this baby I want so bad, not a depressed one. __________________ I'm 36 1/2 weeks

I need help ASAP PLEASE...Anxiety/Depression/He… Health? I'm going thru a really hard time right now...I did my EKG yesterday, it wasn't normal...Said something about 'borderline'...I took out blood today so I'm waiting for the results...On January 1, 2010, I ended up in the ER around 3am...I had shortness of breath...The doctor saw me and took xrays...He said i had a little bit of bronchitis, and my chest was a little inflated. He put me on anti-inflammatory pills and prescribed me a inhalator. But he said it was mostly just anxiety. I just turned 27 in January. I had never smoked anything, but around September i decided to try Marijuana. I smoked almost everyday to relax myself. But one day in December, I noticed i had my first panic attack. I was high at the time. I gruesome seen in 'Kill Bill' triggered it. I had to stop watching the movie, my heart started racing, i started thinking crazy thoughts. Ever since then, i stopped smoking. Been sober ever since. But really, i think the root of everything is my relationship with my ex. He had been locked up for 2.5 years. I waited for him all that time. Stayed home, didn't go out, was a perfect woman for him, so he wont go crazy in there. We ended up getting married in 2008. I have a tattoo of his name on my back, his initials on my wrist, and the day we got married on my wedding finger. Everything was beautiful the entire we were together. I ended up selling my furniture because we needed money. He didn't let me work cause he 'needed' to talk to me all the time. I sold my clothes that no longer fit me. And finally i ended up selling my car for his lawyer. He was released in May of last year. We would fight all the time cause obviously there was no $. About a month later, he said he needed space so he ended moving to his moms house. I got pregnant but he said he didn't want it, so you know what that meant. Then 1 month & a half after he had moved out, I found out he had gotten with his childhood friend. The same girl that had left him when he first got locked up. She ended up leaving him, getting with another guy and having a baby with him. She has 2 kids with 2 different men. He used to hate her. Mind you, Ive known him since 2001, we used 2 talk back in the day. I didn't just meet him... I cried every single day. I couldn't sleep without taking a xanax. I lost so much weight. They're still together till this day. I ended up getting back with one of my X's. He's awesome. But i still feel confused. I get anxiety attacks all the time. I'm always depressed. I started working but the company ended up closing down. So now I have no job again. I feel like time is running out. I don't know what to do. I have nothing left. No car, nothing. Thank God for my boyfriend that lends me his car whenever I need it. Ive been to a million interviews but for some reason I'm not getting the job. My heart is scaring me. It beats super fast, I lose my breath. I'm just scared. I'm always thinking nasty thoughts. I just wanna be how I used to be. I hate my X for everything he's done to me. I don't even have $ to get a divorce. I hate everything about it. want nothing to do with him. My mom works at a clinic so Ive started the laser for the name on my back... Please, any advise would so be greatly appreciated. I need HELP ASAP Thank you so much <3

My twisted Sister , Plz help ? My sister lives with her bf, his mother, and a 7 month baby. The mother and bf is lazy. Only time they ever do anything, is run their mouth off at anyone. They don't work, she pays for her car. While other family members pays for her bills and such. My sister get little money each month, she clean and cook for them retards. Plus take care of my nephew in the mean time. The bf don't fool with his kid much, always want to ship him off to someone, and yells at my sister when the baby needs something. He said he rather live with his mom, then when she dies, he be able to get her trailor and car and crap. He has not, far as I know work a day in his life. Even too lazy to mow what lil yard they have there. I have try every thing to get my sister out, I talk to her, give her advice, and I feel now it had fallen on deaf ears. She called legal aid for help, telling her best to leave and court, and the law crap with her and dealing with the baby. She was going to leave, we plan her coming to my house to stay till she gotten back on her feet. But some how, her bf found out, and threaten her that his aunt, not him will pay for his lawyer and child support if she left him. He is all freaking bluff and God knows no action. I want so bad to take the baby and raise him as my own. Least he would have a better home, ride to the doctors, roof over his head and money coming into the house. But I know he is not my child, I hate seeing and hearing how things are over there. I wanna just kick his low life butt and smack him so dang bad. Iam angry that someone like that, and get away with crap. My sister is scared of him, I know she is, she told it blue million times before. But he say something and she all shaking in her boots. I know I can't live her life, but Gosh, something needs to be done, Iam at my loose ends here. I want my sister to leave and take her baby with her.When is there a miracle when you need it. Sorry, I just to let my anger out.

I need help ASAP PLEASE...Anxiety/Depression/Heart Health? I'm going thru a really hard time right now...I did my EKG yesterday, it wasn't normal...Said something about 'borderline'...I took out blood today so I'm waiting for the results...On January 1, 2010, I ended up in the ER around 3am...I had shortness of breath...The doctor saw me and took xrays...He said i had a little bit of bronchitis, and my chest was a little inflated. He put me on anti-inflammatory pills and prescribed me a inhalator. But he said it was mostly just anxiety. I just turned 27 in January. I had never smoked anything, but around September i decided to try Marijuana. I smoked almost everyday to relax myself. But one day in December, I noticed i had my first panic attack. I was high at the time. I gruesome seen in 'Kill Bill' triggered it. I had to stop watching the movie, my heart started racing, i started thinking crazy thoughts. Ever since then, i stopped smoking. Been sober ever since. But really, i think the root of everything is my relationship with my ex. He had been locked up for 2.5 years. I waited for him all that time. Stayed home, didn't go out, was a perfect woman for him, so he wont go crazy in there. We ended up getting married in 2008. I have a tattoo of his name on my back, his initials on my wrist, and the day we got married on my wedding finger. Everything was beautiful the entire we were together. I ended up selling my furniture because we needed money. He didn't let me work cause he 'needed' to talk to me all the time. I sold my clothes that no longer fit me. And finally i ended up selling my car for his lawyer. He was released in May of last year. We would fight all the time cause obviously there was no $. About a month later, he said he needed space so he ended moving to his moms house. I got pregnant but he said he didn't want it, so you know what that meant. Then 1 month & a half after he had moved out, I found out he had gotten with his childhood friend. The same girl that had left him when he first got locked up. She ended up leaving him, getting with another guy and having a baby with him. She has 2 kids with 2 different men. He used to hate her. Mind you, Ive known him since 2001, we used 2 talk back in the day. I didn't just meet him... I cried every single day. I couldn't sleep without taking a xanax. I lost so much weight. They're still together till this day. I ended up getting back with one of my X's. He's awesome. But i still feel confused. I get anxiety attacks all the time. I'm always depressed. I started working but the company ended up closing down. So now I have no job again. I feel like time is running out. I don't know what to do. I have nothing left. No car, nothing. Thank God for my boyfriend that lends me his car whenever I need it. Ive been to a million interviews but for some reason I'm not getting the job. My heart is scaring me. It beats super fast, I lose my breath. I'm just scared. I'm always thinking nasty thoughts. I just wanna be how I used to be. I hate my X for everything he's done to me. I don't even have $ to get a divorce. I hate everything about it. want nothing to do with him. My mom works at a clinic so Ive started the laser for the name on my back... Please, any advise would so be greatly appreciated. I need HELP ASAP Thank you so much <3

My business partner is threatening to wind the company up can he do this wuithout my consent? I started a business about seven years ago and I and a business colleague put 50% each into starting it. I used to own 50% of the shares. I since had to move to the US with my husband and take a lesser salary and role in the business. However, I still went back to UK for at least 4 to 5 months a year and my role was executable from the US. I took a considerable drop in salary to reflect the location and what I could contribute. This worked perfectly for around two years. In 2005, my partners contacted me and wanted me to transfer 50% of my then shareholding to them and with a lot of pressure and threats from them I relinquished my shareholding since they told me that if I didn't do it they would wind the company up. We negotiated on the phone and the outcome was that I gave them what they wanted but in consideration they had to guarantee my salary/retainer for 5 years. In addition my business partner no longer wished for me to play and active role in the business and basically said that I should be on hand on an as need to basis. Given the situation I took a back seat in the business as requested. The transfer of shares occurred in October 2005 and for a few years we performed that contract, I performed duties on an as need to basis, executed strategy decisions with them, etc. I however no longer had a specific role. Last year in June 2008, informs me that he is going to make me redundant I of course say why you would do that since you have guaranteed me a retainer for five years and the terms of that are not up. He says that he has no intention of paying that and that he would only give me statutory redundancy. Therefore we couldn't agree on this and we have fallen out. He continually threatens to wind the company up. I still own 25% of this company and am concerned that not only has he screwed me of the original contract but he is also going to cheat me out of the remaining 25%. The facts are that they have got greedy and want me out. In the process they will use every vehicle in their possession including lies to steal the business from me. THIS BUSINESS WOULD NOT EXIST IF IT WEREN"T FOR ME IT WAS MY IDEA. The problem is that the costs of taking them to court to stop them doing this are prohibitive. The business has a few hundred customers and a turnover of over a million. The company is making a loss but improving and has grown substantially. The company has never been allowed to make a profit and the current partners charge it an extortionate management charge of 400K a year. The company would show a profit, but then they would have to pay tax and pay dividends which they obviously do not wish to do. The company that we set up has since been incorporated to a group structure and merged with their other business. I know that my share of this business is worth something and I really wish to protect it. However Legal costs are prohibitive and I really need someone to represent me on a no win no fee basis so that we can also get legal expense insurance to fight this. We do have a shareholders agreement, but everything comes down to my needing expensive lawyers - surely there has to be a way of protecting my interest. What is the point of contracts if they cannot be enforced just because you do not have the funds to fight a legal battle. It is really frustrating that those with deeper pockets always win despite them being in the wrong. I am willing to sell my share of the business to them, but they have declined my extremely fair price in preference to just finding a way of taking my share for nothing. I need to do something to stop them? In short;They own 75% and I own 25% of the business. We have not reached a deadlock in terms of how the business should be run, it's a simple matter of my partner wishing to get rid of me for nothing. I also wish for the management charges to be revised since these costs are pretty much costs that already existed in the parent company and are fixed. The premises are owned by my partners pension fund and very few people that work for my side of the business are actually in this office. The employees mostly work from home and it could easily be run from cheaper serviced offices. Any advice? Please? Any Lawyers out there willing to take my case on a no win no fee basis?

How do I petition a judge on a case settlement? This is a long story, so be patient. My son was in a car accident 7 months ago. He is doin great, broken bones have healed nicely. They are still a little bent, but the doctor says they should straighten by the time he is in high school. Not completely, but enough that is shouldn't be a problem. The insurance company was screwing us around, so i called a lawyer. Everyone has told my son that he will be rich, he will have collage paid for. This kinda upsets me. What happened was no more than an accident, it is not a meal ticket. We are Broke, the medical bills have not been paid and the lawyer is working on a no win, no fee basis. He will get a % of the settlement. I just wanted the medical bills paid for. Of course the lawyer is wanting more. I can understand this, the more they settle for the more he makes. As much as i dislike the entire idea of million dollar band aids, this lawyer has been a God send. I could not have handled all of this, he has totally taken care of everything. Im still arguing with him a little. I have made my thought on the subject of money clear to him, and left it at that. So, if he gets this big settlement, it will go into a trust my son. He wont be able to touch it for 8 years. now im getting angry. I told them that kind of money was unnecessary, but hell, if they are gonna do it anyway, we might as well cash in. The kinda money they are talking is life changing to us. its not millions, but is enough to get the family out of debt. I argue that the family is as one, we suffer and rejoice together. We should all share in it. 10% will go to God, debit will be paid, the rest will go in the bank for future emergencies, or schooling for the kids. We would be able to go out for pizza every once in a while. Dont get me wrong, our finical situation is getting better. Its just been a long road, we are all ready for it to be over. The opportunity has presented itself. Why let money set for 8 years when it can help us out so much now. Why not improve our quality of life now? How do i ask the courts to let us have this money immediately? Do you agree, or do you think it should stay in trust?

Actors are one of the easiet , high potential paying, most flexible job?? actors can make like 15 million in one film and there schedule is flexible....they dont hav to work every single day...and theyll shoot it for months (sometimes at a time) soo its not that a busy job such as a doctor, lawyer, investment banking etc. like real jobs...that just is crazy though! music artists r way busier they got to be in a tour and travel soo much when actors have it way easier but only lucky ones get it though that make itbig time!

My grandpa left me and my family in his will... But his wife wont give us whats rightfully ours... Plz help? My grandpa passed away 2 years ago and he left me my 2 sisters and my 2 aunts in his will for a pretty large sum of cash.... He left his wife...( not my granma he remarried) the majority of his estate... He also left her in charge of dividing the will... A few months after his death we met with his lawers and they said it was up to his wife to pay us... The problem is she wont.... My family is really struggling and we really need that money... We cant wait 30 years for his wife 2 die (im not saying i want her 2) ..... Every time we ask her about it she declines.... We cant take her to court b.c we dont have a good enough case( or 70 million dollars 2 spend on a lawyer) what should i do? The 70 million $ comment i made.... I was just saying a struggling family cant afford a lawyer .... But the 70 mil that my gpa's wife has will probly buy a lawer or few

Has the election been stolen already? According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale. - Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls. Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal. - While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush. Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters. - A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent." - Digging through government records it was discovered that in 2004 a GOP scheme called "caging" ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.

Republicans trying to steal the election? Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls. While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush. Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters. Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal. The article will be in the current Rolling Stone magazine. This is sick, I know there are independent voters that will bring cameras to many voting locations in swing states. These independent voters will be posted where there are more African Americans or Latinos to see how many will be turned away by polling officials or police. Good answer by Republicans. I will also be in a swing state with a camera. See you there. None of these were Acorn registrations. Sorry, you can repeat Acorn all you want, but this is worst, this is Voter Fraud, not Registration Fraud.

How to deal with ex-husband? I've been separated over a year, trying to get divorced(husband keeps contesting...). My ex was abusive, both physically and emotionally, he was a liar,cheater, thief, drug-addict and just not a good person. He finally left me for someone else and even went as far as taking our child's money I had put aside for daycare to leave me. He wasn't working, and I paid all the bills at that time. We've finally come to an agreement regarding custody of our 1 yr old, with me having sole legal and physical, and he only gets some access every other weekend, supervised pending completion of his anger management therapy. NOW he keeps emailing me (our custody agreement clearly states he has to communicate by phone to set up access), getting mad at because I don't answer (he sends about 3 emails in 1 hour, while I'm at work). He threatens me, that he's going to take me to court to getcustody (he won't ever have it either..ehe). He threatens, yells, fails to pay his child support, insults me, tries to get information on my private life, if he learns I have male friends he threatens that he will get custody because it's "not fair" that one day another man might play a bgger part of our child's life... he tries to control who I see, when, where I work, where I can live, etc. I've told him a million times that he can only talk to me about our child, the rest has nothing to do with him and is none of his business.. Well, now when he calls to set up access, he keeps whining that he has a big lawyer bill (THEY complicated things, screwed up papers, took months to do something simple), that his dad and him aren't speaking, etc... trying to get simpathy from me. How do I deal with him? I've told him I didn't care about anything in his life except when it comes to our child and that he could only speak about our child. Then he kept going on and on about his 2000$ bill from the lawyer, and lots of other stuff. I remind him, over and over again, that I don't give a f*ck. I've had to hang up on him many times because he cannot comprehend that he isn`t the "master" of my life and that I have NO pity for him, he put himself in the position he's in.. karma's a b*tch... So, any advice on how to deal? I ignore the emails, never answer, but I'm getting tired of it all!!!

i broke up with her, and i know im right..but....? so..this is the story...when i moved to ???? i met one of my female cousin's best friends... my cousin thought we would like each other and she was right (i guess?) cause i really liked the girl from day 1. she is something else. now, i had a very difficult life even tho im very young. im talking about love life. my ex girlfriend has now a baby which is not mine, and one of my other exes...o well im just gonna say i had to get a lawyer for stalking...yea u know its problems... lots of people have them, too bad im only 22. anyways, we started talking a lot and one night i invited her to eat something. 2 hours into the night and we were kissing. i felt so happy, cause i felt like finally i have met someone that is not afraid of let herself go and she always says whats on her mind. i felt So happy and then out of nowhere shes like: what if i disappear tomorrow...i was like wtf? and didnt know what to say... the next day she called me and she asked me to hang out next week...(i thought that she was gonna disappear.... ??). so we started hangin out more and we have been going out for 6 months more or less... the thing is that i really feel good with her, but she comes up with all these questions i don't wanna even take in consideration like: what if i decide i dont wanna hang out with u anymore? can u tell me about your ex gfs? which one was your favorite? and so on ive been gettin real angry at her for this. i told her im not gonna tell her anything about my ex gfs cause i find it disrespectful to her, and that if she wants to stop seeing she should just do it instead of running her mouth about it for so long. so she started telling me about her exes like "ur not my first musician" and so on...i couldnt stand it. i told her that i didnt care about her exes and that i felt really disrespected by all this. she says its normal to be talking about one's experiences, and i told her that i can think of a million stories to share that are not about my ex gfs, which i think its right. she says she cant stand the fact that im so jealous...which i dont think i am as much as she claims. and ill tell u why: we were watching tv at her place one day, and she said she had to talk to me. she told me about her life before me and said that there was a period of her life that she used to be, well, a whore. she made it clear that shes not proud of it and that she thought i should have know. all i said was: well, then i am glad u are here with me, and that horrible period of your life is over. i could have made a scene, but no, i said what i thought was right, and im proud of it, cause i think those are the kind of decisions that a real man would make. so that is the difference: random mouth-flap about ex boyfriends and such --> not happy; serious talk about one's negative experiences -->happy to have a constructive discussion about it. thats the thing: i dont think that talking about exes and stuff in the ways she did was constructive at all. yesterday we were talking and she started telling me how she had sex in an alley once. im like: omg seriously? she made a scene cause she said im paranoid. later that night we were chatting and i told her i wanted to straighten things out cause i dont wanna have a fucking argument about her ex boyfriends every fucking week. she signed off IM saying that i am a drama queen and that shes not gonna do this cause having discussions about this kind of things its what faggots and lil girls do (?)...so i called her and said: fine, if u wanna treat me like a piece of crap, than you can go back to one of your exes you always talk about. so she laughed at me and called me a drama queen, saying that she wasnt gonna chase me. basically i broke up with her. the thing is that, i didnt wanna break up with her, and she is so proud she is never gonna give me a call. what should i do? i do wanna keep my position, i still think talking about her exes and her past sex life is inappropriate unless she has something serious to share, and im not willing to change my position cause i think i am absolutely right about that. so, please tell me what u think and what should i do, be honest and tell me if im wrong and sorry if i typed all of this but im so nervous and angry cheers and sorry for the spelling and such Yes i have told her that i dont wanna be called any names. I have never called her names its just plain stupid and immature. Thanks for the answers. I think that if shes gonna come back for me, i will try it out if shes willing to stop acting like that. Im not gonna tell her any conditions, its not the way its supposed to be and she already knows what i want. She probably wont do it tho. I feel really bad about this. I really cared for her. I should have understood it long time ago that she wasnt that much into me. I think relations are just not for me, that was my last shot,ill be on my own from now on i do understand we still have to grow up but u know what? do we ever stop growing up? the thing is that...we both have our points? i dont think she has a point at all...calling names and talking about her exes in inappropriate ways and times is not "having a point"... as i have said, when she had to talk to me about that kind of stuff i took it seriously and i kept an open mind, but when she was just trowing too much information out there...well i wasnt ok with that...

Why is this woman writing these student complaint reports? I attended an aesthetic program in April 2009 and then after a few month found the school students too controlled and quiet for my likely. In Sept 2009, the school told me that due to my fragrance allergy they could not accommodate me because they relocated and it would cost hem millions of dollars to change their product line to accommodate me at their new location so they stopped my course. I got accepted in a new school and filed a Human Rights Commission complaint against the old school. To my surprise this morning I received the school's defense which listed 7 student somplaint reports of which 4 of them were from the same student who said she could not stand to be near me physically or verbally and that she was writing every day reports on me and my behaviour to the school owner to get "rid " of me as she found me uncomfortable to be around. I was in shock. She reported that I made comments, insulted her, did what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it and that I was targeting her as I used her garbage can sveral times in class when I had my own . She found me dirty, sloppy, aggressive , insulting, and requiring special attention since I had a "fragrance allergy". She found me racist/sexist and against "gay and lesbians" and thought I should be "removed from this planet entirely" , I cried when I got the reports and the defense. I am replying to these allegations. The school's lawyer DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE A MEDIATION MEETING WITH ME...FINDING IT USELESS....THE LAWYER WANTS TO GO TO TRIAL AND BE AWARDED SOME MONEY FOR ALL THESE REPORTS THEY RECEIVED ABOUT ME AND THE UNDUE HARDSHIP THE SCHOOL FACED HAVING ME IN THEIR SCHOOL. I have a fragrance allergy ...that is all....these students are young and immature and insecure. The woman who wrote the stalk ing reports was watching my every move and going home and writing report after report to the school ., The school told me nothing about them. 8 months later when I take the school to the Human Rights Commission , I find out about the reports ...the school must have been encouraging them.....what is the reason a school would encourage a student to write "student complaint reports '???? And not have a policy in place for handling them????

this is kind of long but please read for english class? this is for my english paper on my future career. please tell me if it's alright for a 9th grade english class. Acting is one of the longest standing careers in history. Beginning even before the ancient Romans, it is larger than ever today. It has always been human nature to imitate others for entertainment, which has lead to the world of acting. Acting is universal. Many people watch actors on movie screens wishing they were the actors, but only an elite group of actors actually get the chance to be very famous. Anyone who is considering being an actor must be very flexible in almost every aspect of their everyday life. Depending on the project, actors have to move from city to city, and often from country to country. The shoot locations could be in the most remote part of the Sahara Desert one weekend, and the next week, it could be in the middle of Times Square, New York. Also, the life of an actor can get extremely lonely, although they are constantly surrounded by cameramen, makeup artists, directors, and dozens of other crew members, actors have to leave their families and loved ones at the drop of the hat for films or TV shows they’re interested in doing. The salary of an actor is almost the most variable salary in any career, depending on how talented and widely known you are. Most actors are working part time other jobs like waiting tables, being a substitute teacher, or other jobs that don’t require a long term commitment. An actor’s salary could vary from sixty five million a year, which is Harrison Ford’s income from 2009, which ranked him as the highest paid actor according to Forbes magazine, to merely one hundred dollars an hour for a local commercial, and after this job, the actor could be out of work for months. In the acting world, it is extremely difficult to find work. Directors and Producers are extremely specific about what an actor for a project should look like. If you don’t meet these specific requirements, you most likely won’t be right for the job. Also, there are millions of actors in the world who are looking for work. To be a professional actor, it is ideal that you join the Screen Actors Guild, or SAG. The Screen Actors Guild is a group professional actor’s joined together. It is designed to protect actors and make sure they are being treated fairly. Meryl Streep has once said about acting: Acting is being susceptible to what is around you and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need -- and it's wonderful in that way --and when it's right, you're lost in the moment. Meryl Streep is a very accomplished and world renowned actress, born June 22, 1949. Streep has won 2 Academy Awards, 7 Golden Globes, and 2 Emmys. In addition, she has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards, 25 Golden Globes, and 3 Emmys. She is very famous for being able to master almost any accent in the world. Meryl Streep was in plays all throughout high school, and even went to Yale Drama School, although she believed it was “frivolous” and “just for fun”. She wanted to do something meaningful with her life, so she decided to be an environmental lawyer. But, the day of her law school entry exam, she overslept. She took this as a sign that she wasn’t meant to be a lawyer, and pursued her acting career. Streep took many steps to become an actress, although she didn’t originally plan to follow that career path. In 1971 she got her Bachelor of the Arts in drama at Vasaar College, and then enrolled in Dartmouth. After a semester at Dartmouth, she received her Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, She was very involved in the theatre. She played a widely diverse range of roles all the way from an eighty year old woman in a wheelchair to the beautiful Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Robert Brustein was quoted saying “It was immediately apparent, she was destined for greatness”. It is apparent that acting requires persistence, willpower, patience, and the ability to accept rejection along with many other qualities. It takes a strong willed person to be successful in this career, which is why it is one of the hardest career fields to enter. But, millions of people still aspire to be actors. It is because of the adrenaline rush of performing, the natural drive to do better every time you perform a scene. It’s also the feeling of success when you are part of a good play or other type of performance. You feel as if you’re a part of something meaningful. Plays or movies can be funny and amusing, but also there are those that actually reach out and touch the audience and change people’s lives. In 2003, America alone had over one billion movie tickets purchased. It goes to show that acting is one of the most extensive means of communication ever. If a message is in a movie, you can be sure people around the world will hear it. These are only some of the reasons acting is so abundant throughout the world. Acting has

Terminated from work due to car accident disabled, need surgery? I was a passenger in car accident. We were hit by drunk driver, he admitted to falling asleep after they caught up to him at his house. He received tickets. i don't know for what but it left me unable to work. I was out for 3 months for post concussion because I hit my head on glass and right shoulder after accident. I went back to try to work, did light duty work , after awhile none was available for me (law enforcement) i was basically told I was a security risk. I went back to Doctor because I was still in so much pain but he assured me that it was strain. I went to orthopedic DR. They sent me to get Mri.I have to get surgery because of insertion injury tear or something like that. Meanwhile due to my head injury my breast have been making milk. No one can figure out what is exactly wrong. I had brain scan and it shows that i have a cyst in the brain and an enlarged vessel on the right side where I hit my head. I never went back to Neuro because It seemed like the more I go to Dr. I find out more stuff. I got a lawyer because i got terminated from work due to not being fit for duty. My question is should I be worried about the financial future of our family. My lawyer sent a demand letter but i do not even know how much they are demanding. Should I know? I am concerned. I hate going to DRs and the insurance company own independent medical examiner said i will never be able to do what I was doing before.i have faith n God and I am praying for healing . I can't have the surgery because I need 7 blood transfusion for medical clearance. I refuse to do that.not for a million dollars.What is a reasonable amount should i be compensated. I use to make $50,000+ a year and increases every year.I was in 10 years.Are they suppose to pay me what i would be making? Any thoughts anyone? I am sorry i came across like I am just worried about money. i am not. It is just that i have 7 children and my husband works hard. I had a career worked for about 10 years. It is depressing situation > if i were to complain about everything the DRs put me on pain meds but it made me feel not all there and couldn't focus on kids. I am 35 and this accident happened 2 years ago. I am worried because I should be feeling better by now. thank you all for your responses.

My father-in-law and my mothe-in-law are staying with us for 5 years.? My father-in-law and my mothe-inlaw are staying with us for 5 years. I don't want them to live with us because of a lot of reasons. First, they started to move in my house last five year ago. My wife told me that they were going to stay with us for a few months. However,they didn't move out. They came from third world country and they live in my house as if they live in the third world country. They don't understand how to live in the United States. They picked up a lot of stuffs on the street that some people threw away, and brought back to my house. They are really messy and their room is like a garbage. They threw away the garbage wherever they want to. They messed up my dining room, living room, etc. They spit their saliva wherever they want to around the house (on the carpet, etc). I don't really like it. They never paid the rent at all for over five years. If I am rich, I don't mind. However, I am the guy who get minimum wage. I can barely pay for my own mortgage. I think they should help us out. They destroyed my very expensive electronic stuffs that I bought. They used all my stuffs and destroyed it. They don't know how to handle the electronics and other expensive stuffs. They are really messy and unorganized. Now, they brought their another children( over twenty years old -two children). Their children are also like them and they are from third world country. Their children are illegally staying in my house(NOT A LEGAL ALIEN, so they cannot work). They don't pay for rent and for food. I don't want them to live in my house. I tried to educate them, but they don't listen. They are trying to attack me and yelling at me. I told them "please do not use my stuff if I don't allow" . They don't care what I said. They said "who cares...I used it..so what? what do you want to do? they chALLENGE me. I lost over $2000 when my wife and I were on vacation. I put it in my bed room and locked it. Nobody live in my house. Only four people live in our house - My wife, my father in law, mother in law and me. As soon as I came from my vacation, I realized that something is wrong in my bedroom which I locked in. When I asked them, they said they broke into my bedroom and they called some of their friends and fixed the internet. My wife and I bought the house after we get married. Of course, my wife wants to stay with their parents. I don't want to hurt my wife's feeling. I understand she really love her parents. However, nobody can understand me as my point of view. I don't want them to live with us. I tried to tell them "please rent to another apartment and move out". They don't listen. They don't care whatever I said. My wife doesn't listen. Now, all I have to do is move out of my house and divorce my wife. I tried to explain million times to my wife. She didn't listen. She want to live with her parents. It is very understandable. However, I cannot understand her parents. They live in my house. They eat my food. They used my stuffs(bed, matress, pants,computer, tv, every kind of stuff) and THEY are yelling at me and trying to control my house. What should I do ? any suggestion. I want to do it by law . any legal advice. Should I hire the lawyer? I don't want to waste my money on lawyer. I wish anybody out there who understand the law can help me out. thanks. Which is the best website/forum for my problem ?

When is enough enough? Well, first of all, both of my parents committed suicide, then my mom's mom and before that my grandmother's sister. I grew up in an abusive home after my mom dies and lived in foster homes until I turned 19. I was date raped twice in my early 20's, and sexually abused as a child. I became an escort as well as an alchoholic. I did drugs often and tried so hard to change my life. I never really felt like I fit in in life, I felt like an outcast, like there was something wrong with me. After such a traumatic childhood I found it hard to have friendships, and relationships. I still do. I have travelled, I have been to counsellor after counsellor, I have taken every anti depressant on the market, I've switched to raw food and eaten very healthy, I got married and had a baby. I have done work spiritually, I've meditated, I stopped doing drugs, drinking, smoking even. I've read a million self help books but still feel so alone and out of place, depressed. Now recently, My 2 year old son was just extradited back to Europe after his abusive father (my ex husband) filed under the HAUGUE CONVENTION and convinced social services to support him in court. I read their affidavit and it was untrue I can even prove it with records. I love my son and I took good care of him. I was depressed but I didn't deserve to loose him. And I was very forthcoming with everyone to make sure that my son was happy, and when I felt that I needed to sort myself out, I took his Dad to court to secure my rights and shockingly, I was forced to sign over my rights, now I spoke to an advocate who was there in the courhouse that day and witnessed the hearing and she agreed that I hadn't a snowballs chance in hell of even defending myself . I was railroaded by two huge cases One was a Section 13 Removal, which by the way I was hospitalized for the flu and that's why they did the removal because nobody else could take him so I asked the social worked to give respite. And the second was the HAGUE CONVENTION, I didn't have a lawyer. Social Services now deny forcing me to sign over my rights and have offered me a letter of support which does nothing because they've already done so much damage. When my ex walked in to the court house him and the social worker hugged eachother, I was puzzled. and completely unprepared and thought that this was going to be a very simple hearing in which my rights were secured and my ex would take my son for three months. Now I lost custody of him. I'm not a bad mother, I never hurt him or neglected him, I love him more than life, and I am so shellshocked that this has happened because if it can happen to me, it can happen to ANYONE. Now I used to think nothing can break me, but this is just too much. I feel like my life just has no meaning to it. I can't afford to go all the way to Ireland and fight for custody with no money and unable to afford a lawyer. It's terrifying to think that my son will grow up without a mother, and his father has no problem with that, his mother is very involved and she's taking my place which makes me sick. I know what some people out there might say and believe me, I've said it to myself so many times to lift myself out of hell but when is enough enough? I just want a happy normal life but I truly don't believe that will ever happen. One more thing i'd like to add is that I have spoken to three different lawyers and they've all said that I would need to go to Europe to fight it in person. So I have gotten legal advice.

Should I go to the police? My mom and my step dad went on vacation to Ibiza. They were supposed the come back 3 days ago, but I haven't heard anything from them since the day they left. My mom is the type of person who will call and check up literally every chance she can get. She called me twice from the airport before her plain departed and twice in London while waiting for her connecting flight, but she hasn't called since then. I called the hotel in Ibiza, but it's not even a working number. Here's the other thing. My mom didn't leave money for us. My step-dad convinced her to take our ( my brother and I) credit cards away while she was gone . She was supposed to leave her debit card with us , but she forgot to give it to my brother when he took them to the airport. She told me when I talked to her at the airport she would overnight it from the the airport in London, but it never came. This isn't normal behavior for my mom . When she goes out of town seriously calls at about 3-5 times a day to check up on us. My brother who's away in college sent us money about 4 days ago so we're not starving or anything, but I'm worried. He said they're probably just having a good time. Which made sense at the time, but they haven't even came back yet or called once. My brother went to the airport to pick them up, couldn't find them. He talked to the airlines...they have no record of them even being on the return flight. My step dad booked the tickets and we had the itinerary, but the lady said they weren't on the flight and weren't on any flight with that airlines. I've been trying to reach my dad ( not stepdad) for the past few days he lives in a different state and he's vacationing with his new wife somewhere in South America. I finally got a hold of my dad this morning, I told him I what was going on and he said he'll be here tomorrow and also sent money. My brother logged into my step dad's credit card statements online, he knew the password.....the last time he used the card was at the airport in London. We don't know the password for my moms account. I just called both of their jobs, ( they were both supposed to go into work on Friday). I talked to my moms secretary, she hasn't spoken to her, she never even called in and she was supposed to be at work. My mom always calls her job. My step dad called in sick on Wednesday according to his job. Which makes no sense. My step dad hasn't used his credit card since the day he left, yet it's his primary credit card. He's somewhere and obviously fine enough to contact his job, but not us. He has a 3 year old daughter and a 6 year old son with my mother, who are also here with my bother and I. My brother and I are both 16 BTW. I have a million red flags in my head. If my mom were ok she would have called us, she would have called her job. When I talked to my dad he told me not to go to the police until he gets here. My dad's a lawyer so I guess he knows what he's doing, but now that I know that my step dad called into work and my mom didn't or hasn't even called us.... I just feel like somethings terribly wrong and I want the police involved. My 3 and 6 year old brother & sister want to talk to our mom. I don't know what to tell them. We all are supposed to start school tomorrow, but we just moved here 3 months ago and I don't even know where my sister's daycare is. My mom wouldn't just leave for ten days and not call, or make sure we had money and not even come back when she said she would, especially a few days before school starts. My brother and I are going crazy sitting in the house. My little bro and sis can tell we're worried. I think we'll take them to the beach or for ice cream or something to keep them occupied. I really just want to go to the police, but may dad said to wait. Should I wait until he gets here tomorrow or go to the police? OC, I don't have any reason to be afraid of my dad. My stepdad is a different story.I've never really liked him, but never had problems with him. My older brother always thought he was after my moms money, but I don't know he has a good job too. My dad is booking us a hotel for the night, he doesn't want any of us in the house alone anymore. Which I guess makes sense. I just want my mom to fine and to come back. My brother and I are 16, almost 17 we both have cars we live in a safe neighborhood. It isn't unusual for them to go out of town and leave us with the little ones, but they're never gone more than a week. I've considered the fact that social services might get involved which is why my dad probably told me to wait for him, but I'm also considering the fact that my mom may be in some sort of trouble and I'm wasting time by doing nothing. I just moved from New York to Los Angeles 3 months ago, I don't know any of our neighbors. The only people I know here are my stepdad's family and a few friends.

Could this be a lawsuit? Chinese drywall? A few years ago my parents bought a gorgeous home at the Parkland golf and country club in Parkland Florida. The house alone was $2 million and last Spring they poured another $300-400,000 remodeling it to give the inside a "roman empire" appearance. My mom has never had any medical problems and the only thing she would take every morning were multivitamins. Last Fall, we noticed she had a horrible cough which would end up turning into coughing fits that sounds like she can't catch her breath throughout the night and she always feels horrible. It never got better, only worse and she has been sick since last Fall. She now has a bag full of 11 different prescription drugs and now has to has an inhaler. Her doctor's couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong with her until now. Apparently, when their home was built Chinese drywall was used and according to an article in chinesedrywall.com..... "compounds as butanethial, carbonyl sulfide, hydrogen sulfide, mercaptan, methylthio pyridone, SULFURIC ACID, sulfurous acid, sulfur dioxide and stronium sulfide have been found in Chinese drywall. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared many of these compounds to be toxic, however, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) states that the levels found in Chinese drywall are not high enough to present “an imminent or chronic health hazard at this time.” It is not clear whether this finding takes into consideration long-term exposure and the combined exposure to multiple compounds. ......her doctor's say that her home has made her sick. My mom is the only one who is there ALL the time. She works at home, my dad goes away for months at a time to Kazakhstan for the family's adoption business, my sister lives with her boyfriend and I am in college, only home on the weekends. My mom went to see a lawyer the other day and she wants to bring W.I.C. (property builders) to court. The house needs to be torn down. Could we win this and have my parents pretty much lost all of their money they have put into this house?

Should I file a missing person report? I know I just asked this, but I'm now thinking that maybe I should file a missing person report?? Would I have to go into the police station to do this or could I do it through their phone line? ******************* My mom and my step dad went on vacation to Ibiza. They were supposed the come back 3 days ago, but I haven't heard anything from them since the day they left. My mom is the type of person who will call and check up literally every chance she can get. She called me twice from the airport before her plain departed and twice in London while waiting for her connecting flight, but she hasn't called since then. I called the hotel in Ibiza, but it's not even a working number. Here's the other thing. My mom didn't leave money for us. My step-dad convinced her to take our ( my brother and I) credit cards away while she was gone . She was supposed to leave her debit card with us , but she forgot to give it to my brother when he took them to the airport. She told me when I talked to her at the airport she would overnight it from the the airport in London, but it never came. This isn't normal behavior for my mom . When she goes out of town seriously calls at about 3-5 times a day to check up on us. My brother who's away in college sent us money about 4 days ago so we're not starving or anything, but I'm worried. He said they're probably just having a good time. Which made sense at the time, but they haven't even came back yet or called once. My brother went to the airport to pick them up, couldn't find them. He talked to the airlines...they have no record of them even being on the return flight. My step dad booked the tickets and we had the itinerary, but the lady said they weren't on the flight and weren't on any flight with that airlines. I've been trying to reach my dad ( not stepdad) for the past few days he lives in a different state and he's vacationing with his new wife somewhere in South America. I finally got a hold of my dad this morning, I told him I what was going on and he said he'll be here tomorrow and also sent money. My brother logged into my step dad's credit card statements online, he knew the password.....the last time he used the card was at the airport in London. We don't know the password for my moms account. I just called both of their jobs, ( they were both supposed to go into work on Friday). I talked to my moms secretary, she hasn't spoken to her, she never even called in and she was supposed to be at work. My mom always calls her job. My step dad called in sick on Wednesday according to his job. Which makes no sense. My step dad hasn't used his credit card since the day he left, yet it's his primary credit card. He's somewhere and obviously fine enough to contact his job, but not us. He has a 3 year old daughter and a 6 year old son with my mother, who are also here with my bother and I. My brother and I are both 16 BTW. I have a million red flags in my head. If my mom were ok she would have called us, she would have called her job. When I talked to my dad he told me not to go to the police until he gets here. My dad's a lawyer so I guess he knows what he's doing, but now that I know that my step dad called into work and my mom didn't or hasn't even called us.... I just feel like somethings terribly wrong and I want the police involved. My 3 and 6 year old brother & sister want to talk to our mom. I don't know what to tell them. We all are supposed to start school tomorrow, but we just moved here 3 months ago and I don't even know where my sister's daycare is. My mom wouldn't just leave for ten days and not call, or make sure we had money and not even come back when she said she would, especially a few days before school starts. My brother and I are going crazy sitting in the house. My little bro and sis can tell we're worried. I think we'll take them to the beach or for ice cream or something to keep them occupied. I really just want to go to the police, but may dad said to wait. Should I wait until he gets here tomorrow or go to the police?

Would you read this story or am I wasting my time? Hi all! This is just the first chapter of the book I'm writing (I have more but didn't wanna break your brain from just looking at this soooo...) let me just tell you now, IT IS NOT TWILIGHT! HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT ANY OF MY IDEA'S! this is all my own creative juices working here, enjoy! Chapter 1 Highway 97A on the Eastern Bank of the Shuswap River 10 miles north of Armstrong and 16 miles south east of Salmon Arm. These are the exact directions to for Enderby, British Columbia aka my new home. This is where my mother, Elise (apparently calling her mom is to old and motherly), has relocated herself and I to in the middle of my senior year for a new adventure. This is how she states it, but the real truth is that she wanted to leave the United States of America on a quest for love. Every since she got a Divorce from dad she has been on over drive searching for a man in her life. Town after town, state after state searching for the silver lining but she found none. So British Columbia was just another stop on the way. Maybe Elise is just upset that he left her rather then vise versa? All I know about the split was that dad got up one day from the breakfast table and left. No notes, no more phone calls, just a call from a his lawyer demanding. This all happened years ago when I was a baby so I don’t remember any of it and it doesn’t bother me in the least. Call me insensitive, but I never truly knew the man. I was too young to remember him and why should I waste time time crying over him when he means nothing to me. The only time dad ever even remotely comes into our lives are on holidays and for child support (which was totally unnecessary, because Elise’s parents, my grandparent, died in a car crash before I was born. Therefore Elise inherited millions from my grandparents accounting business which was what funded the “new adventures”, money was never an problem in this family but Elise felt kind of sort of bitter about the divorce so she intended to collect what was due.). Even then it’s a check once a month and a card or so on my birthday and on Christmas. Sometimes I think we would be better off without any contact at all, because when ever the checks or cards come Elise becomes a wreck. She becomes even more intent on her pursuit for that perfect person. She almost never gets past the first or second date though, when ever somebody even considers a date with her. You see, Elise is not somebody that is very dependable. Elise is more of a sister then a mother, she is beyond free spirited and has more energy and spunk then anybody (including her) knows what to do with. Elise is- “Charlotte. Charlotte Griffith?” Elise’s impatient voice erupted into my thoughts from the open cell phone that was placed on the dash “If you expect this to work you have to pay attention, now turn up here on the next dirt road.” “Kay, Elise.” I replied into the phone, this little experiment we where trying was the only way I could keep my most prized position. My big black 2008 Chevrolet Suburban. My SUV was the only think I actually appreciated from my dad. It was my 16th birthday gift. Moving our possession to Enderby wasn’t the hard part of the move it was getting my car there. Elise apparently didn’t feel comfortable having me drive the roughly 10,000 miles it was to get to Enderby in another car then her own so the entire time we have been connected by phones. Ugh. Constantly hearing Elise ramble about how great this will be. I repeat, Ugh. But thankfully this was going to be our last day of driving. In fact this dirt road we were currently turning onto was my new house’s drive. It was the middle of January so the sides of the thin rocky dirt road that was surrounded by dense forest cover, was neatly coated in a 6 or 7 inch deep layer of snow. Snow. Ugh. I miss the dry landscape of my sunshiny home in Coronado, California. I missed the all year summer. I missed the stiff water deprived grass. And most of all I missed the beach, and the waves. The cool water and the way it use to gently splash against me and my surf board was now was just going to have to be a fading in the back of my head. Cause for as far as I could see it was either forest or open valley. Not quite the conditions for surfing. Then right as I was about to fall into that deep dark pit of despair and homesickness, I saw the house coming into view. Well, I only had one thing to say. Wow. Elise sure knows how to pick ‘em. The house was magnificent. With it’s Victorian style build to the huge wrap around porch, there was not a single flaw with this house. I had to admit that it was a nicer house then the one we had in California (I hated to say that). Despite the look don’t touch factor, the snow was like a cherry on top of this beauty. I was awe struck for a couple of seconds before I had to slam on the breaks as not to hit Elise’s Volvo C30, the midget car of family

Is there a way for him to find out where we are? Can someone please answer the first part, these 2 questions. If my dad booked the hotel, is there a way for my step dad to find out where we are? Is there a way for someone to tell if you are logging into their bank/credit card accounts online? ************************* My mom and my step dad went on vacation to Ibiza. They were supposed the come back 3 days ago, but I haven't heard anything from them since the day they left. My mom is the type of person who will call and check up literally every chance she can get. She called me twice from the airport before her plain departed and twice in London while waiting for her connecting flight, but she hasn't called since then. I called the hotel in Ibiza, but it's not even a working number. Here's the other thing. My mom didn't leave money for us. My step-dad convinced her to take our ( my brother and I) credit cards away while she was gone . She was supposed to leave her debit card with us , but she forgot to give it to my brother when he took them to the airport. She told me when I talked to her at the airport she would overnight it from the the airport in London, but it never came. This isn't normal behavior for my mom . When she goes out of town seriously calls at about 3-5 times a day to check up on us. My brother who's away in college sent us money about 4 days ago so we're not starving or anything, but I'm worried. He said they're probably just having a good time. Which made sense at the time, but they haven't even came back yet or called once. My brother went to the airport to pick them up, couldn't find them. He talked to the airlines...they have no record of them even being on the return flight. My step dad booked the tickets and we had the itinerary, but the lady said they weren't on the flight and weren't on any flight with that airlines. I've been trying to reach my dad ( not stepdad) for the past few days he lives in a different state and he's vacationing with his new wife somewhere in South America. I finally got a hold of my dad this morning, I told him I what was going on and he said he'll be here tomorrow and also sent money. My brother logged into my step dad's credit card statements online, he knew the password.....the last time he used the card was at the airport in London. We don't know the password for my moms account. I just called both of their jobs, ( they were both supposed to go into work on Friday). I talked to my moms secretary, she hasn't spoken to her, she never even called in and she was supposed to be at work. My mom always calls her job. My step dad called in sick on Wednesday according to his job. Which makes no sense. My step dad hasn't used his credit card since the day he left, yet it's his primary credit card. He's somewhere and obviously fine enough to contact his job, but not us. He has a 3 year old daughter and a 6 year old son with my mother, who are also here with my bother and I. My brother and I are both 16 BTW. I have a million red flags in my head. If my mom were ok she would have called us, she would have called her job. When I talked to my dad he told me not to go to the police until he gets here. My dad's a lawyer so I guess he knows what he's doing, but now that I know that my step dad called into work and my mom didn't or hasn't even called us.... I just feel like somethings terribly wrong and I want the police involved. My 3 and 6 year old brother & sister want to talk to our mom. I don't know what to tell them. We all are supposed to start school tomorrow, but we just moved here 3 months ago and I don't even know where my sister's daycare is. My mom wouldn't just leave for ten days and not call, or make sure we had money and not even come back when she said she would, especially a few days before school starts. My brother and I are going crazy sitting in the house. My little bro and sis can tell we're worried. I think we'll take them to the beach or for ice cream or something to keep them occupied. I really just want to go to the police, but may dad said to wait. Should I wait until he gets here tomorrow or go to the police? My brother and his friend are flying in from NY and will be here in the morning. I think I'll just wait for them, I just want to know if my stepdad can find out where we are?

Get answers from millions of real people.? I am 6 months pregnant by a man who was once only a friend, When I told him I was pregnant, he immediately started forcing the idea of abortion on me- Honestly I've had one before & that experience was so horrible that I've vowed to myself that I would NEVER to do it again. I told him we could go to his lawyer & sign papers releasing him of any responsibilities-He agreed for a couple of days, and then he starts threatening to hire someone to kill me, and telling me that I deserved a miscarriage, and that the baby would be mentally retarded. He says he feels that since he was my friend I should have been able to do this abortion for him regardless of how it would have effected me. I haven't seen him for about 2-3 months but he calls and emails often saying things that I feel are very cruel. Now that it is getting closer to time for me to deliver & I guess it feels more real to him now- He is saying that he is a man of integrity & could never walk away from something that belongs to him. And now he has told me that he plans on taking my daughter away from me, he went out of his way to mention that it wouldn't be through the courts b/c he doesn't have a legal job. This man is 14 years older than me, and every time he says something to me its belittling, cold and cruel...i.e. he says I'm ignorant for having a child with someone I'm not going to "be" with. I'm stupid, weak, and he uses the word bitch alot. When I tell him how he makes me feel, and that it make me want to just "cut him off" he says its all in my head, and that I'm just projecting. He really expects to be in the delivery room-but how can I let him if he makes me feel so bad? He says he will love the baby but he will always blame me for the baby....he says he has no resentment, but he blames me and is blantantly cruel....does any of his reasoning make sense??

I need help ASAP PLEASE...Anxiety/Depression/Heart Health? I'm going thru a really hard time right now...I did my EKG yesterday, it wasn't normal...Said something about 'borderline'...I took out blood today so I'm waiting for the results...On January 1, 2010, I ended up in the ER around 3am...I had shortness of breath...The doctor saw me and took xrays...He said i had a little bit of bronchitis, and my chest was a little inflated. He put me on anti-inflammatory pills and prescribed me a inhalator. But he said it was mostly just anxiety. I just turned 27 in January. I had never smoked anything, but around September i decided to try Marijuana. I smoked almost everyday to relax myself. But one day in December, I noticed i had my first panic attack. I was high at the time. I gruesome seen in 'Kill Bill' triggered it. I had to stop watching the movie, my heart started racing, i started thinking crazy thoughts. Ever since then, i stopped smoking. Been sober ever since. But really, i think the root of everything is my relationship with my ex. He had been locked up for 2.5 years. I waited for him all that time. Stayed home, didn't go out, was a perfect woman for him, so he wont go crazy in there. We ended up getting married in 2008. I have a tattoo of his name on my back, his initials on my wrist, and the day we got married on my wedding finger. Everything was beautiful the entire we were together. I ended up selling my furniture because we needed money. He didn't let me work cause he 'needed' to talk to me all the time. I sold my clothes that no longer fit me. And finally i ended up selling my car for his lawyer. He was released in May of last year. We would fight all the time cause obviously there was no $. About a month later, he said he needed space so he ended moving to his moms house. I got pregnant but he said he didn't want it, so you know what that meant. Then 1 month & a half after he had moved out, I found out he had gotten with his childhood friend. The same girl that had left him when he first got locked up. She ended up leaving him, getting with another guy and having a baby with him. She has 2 kids with 2 different men. He used to hate her. Mind you, Ive known him since 2001, we used 2 talk back in the day. I didn't just meet him... I cried every single day. I couldn't sleep without taking a xanax. I lost so much weight. They're still together till this day. I ended up getting back with one of my X's. He's awesome. But i still feel confused. I get anxiety attacks all the time. I'm always depressed. I started working but the company ended up closing down. So now I have no job again. I feel like time is running out. I don't know what to do. I have nothing left. No car, nothing. Thank God for my boyfriend that lends me his car whenever I need it. Ive been to a million interviews but for some reason I'm not getting the job. My heart is scaring me. It beats super fast, I lose my breath. I'm just scared. I'm always thinking nasty thoughts. I just wanna be how I used to be. I hate my X for everything he's done to me. I don't even have $ to get a divorce. I hate everything about it. want nothing to do with him. My mom works at a clinic so Ive started the laser for the name on my back... Please, any advise would so be greatly appreciated. I need HELP ASAP Thank you so much <3 Thanx Bud!!! I stopped using the xanax. I didnt wanna get addicted so I stopped taking them. Now what I do 2 fall asleep is listen to 'nature sounds' on my ipod. Sounds corny but let me tell you it helps a lot. I know i'm so much better, than that...But thats what baffles me..why?! why did he do that 2 me?! who cares now anyways...obviously he didnt realize it... im just scared of the whole heart problem im having... thank you 4 all ur help!

Terminated from work due to car accident disabled, need surgery? I was a passenger in car accident. We were hit by drunk driver, he admitted to falling asleep after they caught up to him at his house. He received tickets. i don't know for what but it left me unable to work. I was out for 3 months for post concussion because I hit my head on glass and right shoulder after accident. I went back to try to work, did light duty work , after awhile none was available for me (law enforcement) i was basically told I was a security risk. I went back to Doctor because I was still in so much pain but he assured me that it was strain. I went to orthopedic DR. They sent me to get Mri.I have to get surgery because of insertion injury tear or something like that. Meanwhile due to my head injury my breast have been making milk. No one can figure out what is exactly wrong. I had brain scan and it shows that i have a cyst in the brain and an enlarged vessel on the right side where I hit my head. I never went back to Neuro because It seemed like the more I go to Dr. I find out more stuff. I got a lawyer because i got terminated from work due to not being fit for duty. My question is should I be worried about the financial future of our family. My lawyer sent a demand letter but i do not even know how much they are demanding. Should I know? I am concerned. I hate going to DRs and the insurance company own independent medical examiner said i will never be able to do what I was doing before.i have faith n God and I am praying for healing . I can't have the surgery because I need 7 blood transfusion for medical clearance. I refuse to do that.not for a million dollars.What is a reasonable amount should i be compensated. I use to make $50,000+ a year and increases every year.I was in 10 years.Are they suppose to pay me what i would be making? Any thoughts anyone? * 12 hours ago * - 3 days left to answer. Additional Details 10 hours ago I am sorry i came across like I am just worried about money. i am not. It is just that i have 7 children and my husband works hard. I had a career worked for about 10 years. It is depressing situation > if i were to complain about everything the DRs put me on pain meds but it made me feel not all there and couldn't focus on kids. I am 35 and this accident happened 2 years ago. I am worried because I should be feeling better by now. thank you all for your responses. shark... I thank you for your response but there is life after death. I had an out of body experience. I didn't believe in God at 1 point but I now know that your spirit goes somewhere when you die. I was watching them work on me in the hospital and was able to recall everything to Drs amazement. I know that what is going on it seems hard to believe but man has altered the bible some and made some people think that it is impossible to please God. i didn't mean to sound like I'm crazy but went to physical therapy and etc.. it has not helped but wasted money for no reason.All I have left is prayer. I am receiving lost wages from no-fault monthly provided I go to Dr. every month. They have denied treatment from neurology because of an ime I had after the time I went back to work everyone was saying I should take my time going back to work but at that time I felt i could do something. i have 7 kids not use to sitting around doing nothing.My biggest fear is 1.ending on up welfare 2. them saying i need brain surgery 3. dying from complications due to accident.I live in New York.

How many other border towns are having (or will have) these SAME problems?? Most Popular Change Type Size Nogales grapples with murky issue: Mexico's sewage Shaun McKinnon The Arizona Republic Feb. 25, 2007 12:00 AM NOGALES - Every day, more than 14 million gallons of raw sewage rushes beneath the streets here through a pipeline crumbling from age and overuse. The rancid stream carries waste from both sides of the border, starting from a dilapidated system in the other Nogales, a Sonoran city 20 times more populous than its Arizona sibling and just enough uphill to make retrieving the waste too costly. An antiquated treatment plant near Rio Rico, about an hour south of Tucson, swishes the water around and spits it into the Santa Cruz River, still unfit even for fish. Along the way, waste seeps out of a leaky collector system and contaminates the aquifer and the Nogales Wash, a cross-border tributary to the Santa Cruz that bypasses the treatment plant. High flows could overwhelm the nine-mile main line and inundate streets and neighborhoods on the Arizona side, spreading disease and forcing thousands of people from their homes. advertisement Ignored, the untamed wastewater undermines quality of life on both sides of the border, or Ambos Nogales, a term used to describe the two cities together. The Sonoran side continues to swell with people who add to the need for a modern system, but without it neither city can attract the investment required to sustain the economy. Governments at every level in both countries know about the wastewater and the risks it poses, and they have discussed dozens of possible solutions, prodded by environmental groups, health organizations and courts. So far just one idea has survived nearly a decade of talks. Using hard-fought grant money, Nogales, Ariz., will start work next month on a $62 million upgrade to the treatment plant. The project will help the city meet the terms of a federal consent decree; it will not repair the deteriorating pipeline or address any of the other problems. The long-term question of how to deal with 5 billion gallons of wastewater a year remains mired in politics and a sticky web of conflicting laws and treaties. Adding to the confusion is an evolving view of the waste stream, which has helped restore a riparian area in Arizona and could provide a badly needed water source for the growing border region. "We'll probably never see an end to the issues," said Nogales Mayor Ignacio Barraza, who was elected last fall. "But we can't say because it originates in Mexico, it's not our problem. This is our health and economics and safety, our quality of life." Among the most serious problems: • Inadequate wastewater systems. Scores of colonias, the clusters of ramshackle homes, cling to the edge of the Nogales wash in Sonora. Most lack modern plumbing, so their drains and toilets empty directly into the wash, where storm runoff carries raw sewage into Arizona. • Lax enforcement of environmental laws. Mexico has increased efforts to require pretreatment of hazardous wastewater, especially at the border maquiladoras, or factories. But some factories ignore the laws. • Contaminated groundwater and surface water. The sewer lines on both sides of the border leak badly, but in Sonora, the system fails in numerous locations, releasing raw sewage into the aquifers and the wash. A sample of wash water in December found levels of fecal coliform so high they could not be counted using the typical measuring units. • Outdated treatment systems. The 50-year-old International Outfall Interceptor carries waste from the border to the treatment plant. It leaks, allowing waste to escape and groundwater to seep in. The extra groundwater overwhelms the plant, especially during rains. Pressure in the main line has blown manhole covers into the air. Although the waste stream has not contaminated drinking-water supplies, officials believe it could seep into shallow aquifers and contaminate wells in the area. In March 2000, the Sierra Club filed suit alleging that the treatment plant was violating water-quality permits issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A consent decree issued by the court mandated reductions in contaminant levels in the treated wastewater, mostly nitrogen and ammonia. High concentration of those organic materials can be toxic to humans, wildlife and aquatic systems. "We know it's a tremendous undertaking," said Joy Herr-Cardillo, who monitors progress at the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest. "If this situation existed anywhere else in this state, it wouldn't have been tolerated so long." 'It has become our issue' The truth is, the situation probably could not exist anywhere else in Arizona. Nogales clings to the desert hills at the end of Interstate 19, a city shoehorned into a narrow valley along the Santa Cruz. About 20,500 people live on the Arizona side of the border; as many as 400,000 people, perhaps more, live on the Sonoran side. The river flows north, downhill into Arizona from Mexico, an unexpected reversal of the rule that north is up and south is down. In that quirk of geology lies the real culprit in the two cities' wastewater troubles: gravity. "If the water didn't flow from south to north, if we didn't have to treat Mexico's wastewater, we wouldn't be in this situation," said Barraza, the Nogales mayor. "But now it has become our issue." Nogales, Ariz., uses less than one-third of the plant's capacity but pays two-thirds of its $2 million annual operating cost, a disparity that persists even as Mexico tests limits on how much water it can send north. Mexico pays based on the cost of treating waste in its country and has resisted efforts to adjust that formula. The two cities were once served by one water system, on the Arizona side, and as wastewater became an issue, the cities again looked for one answer. In 1951, working with the International Boundary and Water Commission, the two countries opened a shared plant. The plant was expanded twice since then, but it always struggled to keep up with the flows. "When they first decided to build the plant, we argued that they were underplanning," said Michael Gregory, executive director of Arizona Toxics Information, a group that worked on behalf of Nogales residents. "We knew the growth rate in Sonora was going to be higher, yet they underbuilt each time." For an operation with such an imposing name, the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant cuts an unimpressive profile. It sits in a shallow basin off I-19, hidden by a row of produce warehouses. An electronic gate guards the entrance, but the plant itself offers no hint that it serves such a large population. The main sewer line, the interceptor, ends at a concrete structure, where grit settles and a screen removes trash and other non-biological debris. What remains flows into aerating and settling ponds, and from there the water is filtered, chlorinated, de-chlorinated and emptied into the Santa Cruz River, where it flows north for about 16 miles before percolating into the ground. John Earl, the on-site construction manager for the upgrade project, moved his office to the plant earlier this month to oversee site preparations. Earl, an engineer for the international firm of Faithful-Gould, said the politics and the issues between the two countries do not matter once the front gates close behind him. "This is a standard-issue plant," he said. "Nothing much special." The upgrade will improve water quality and bring the effluent into compliance with EPA standards, Earl said. But the upgrade will not solve two significant problems: • The main delivery line, the International Outfall Interceptor, needs to be replaced. That project would cost as much as $40 million, and the city says it does not have the money. Until the line is replaced, problems such as groundwater infiltration, spills and storm-caused floods will remain, problems the plant upgrade can't solve. • Contaminated wastewater continues to flow into the Nogales Wash, mostly on the Mexican side. 'A mixed blessing' Fixing infrastructure also will not solve the broader issue of whether the treated effluent could be used to fill water needs in the growing region. Terry Sprouse, a senior research analyst for the University of Arizona's Water Resources Research Center, said the border muddies the question. "Mexico retains the rights to the effluent based on the 1944 treaty," Sprouse said. "Legally, they could stop it at the border." Gravity makes that unlikely. Because Mexico legally owns the effluent, it can't be used in Arizona by developers who need to prove a 100-year water supply. Sprouse said some lawyers would argue that once the water percolates into Arizona's aquifers, it belongs to Arizona, but Mexico would probably dispute that. "Technically," he said, "nobody should be using it." But somebody is using it, or, rather, some things. The effluent from the treatment plant flows down the usually dry Santa Cruz River and helps sustain a vibrant riparian system that would not exist otherwise. At first glance, the river looks like any other as it gurgles past Santa Gertrudis Lane outside Tumacacori. Winter has stripped the trees of their warm-weather wardrobe, but green plants still hug the banks and watercress floats on the surface in some places. Then the wind shifts, carrying an unmistakable odor. "It's a mixed blessing, but a blessing," said Sherrie Sass, one of the founders of the Friends of the Santa Cruz. "Without what comes out of the plant, there probably wouldn't be any water here on account of groundwater pumping." The group collects water samples from the river monthly, mostly below the plant. They have found chlorine, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates and ammonia, among other contaminants. Levels of nitrates and ammonia have risen steadily in recent years as flow into the treatment plant tested its limits. Sass reviewed recent reports from water taken in the Nogales Wash, not far from the treatment plant. Below the plant, levels of fecal coliform, an indicator of raw sewage, were low. At another location, above the plant, the reading was "TNTC" - too numerous to count. Upgrading the plant will improve water quality in the river significantly, Sass said, but the water will remain contaminated until Mexico addresses more serious issues on its side of the border. The Nogales Wash still bypasses the plant and it still carries polluted water from Sonoran streets and colonias. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality also monitors water quality at the border and has charted contamination from the wash as it enters the state. "We've seen a lot of unauthorized discharges into the Nogales Wash," said department director Steve Owens. "We've seen leaks in the interceptor, rain events that cause overflows of raw sewage into the wash. We've had emergency situations where we've had to buy bags of chlorine to disinfect the wash." Owens said efforts to improve water quality run into the same border issues that have stymied other agencies. "In the past there have been commitments from Mexican authorities to do monitoring and assessment work," he said. "The level of commitment comes and goes depending on what's happening on the Mexican side of the border. The Number 1 concern we have is that drinking-water supplies on the Arizona side are not affected, and so far they have not been." Along the Santa Cruz, when the wind shifts, most people would not guess the source of the water. The nearby Juan Bautista de Anza Trail attracts thousands of visitors. The National Park Service recently bought a stretch of the river that is already popular among birdwatchers. "Riparian vegetation is so adapted to flood and drought regimes here, it's hard to kill, as long as you have hydrology," Sass said. "It will survive, even if the water's polluted, and we're really grateful for it." To the poster below (no name) the reason i post the articles themselves is because NUMEROUS people on here have said they will NOT click on any links!!

30 days Plan to resemble a command economy in 30 days: free market and progress for all? Rockwell's Thirty-Day Plan By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. When Eastern Europe broke free in 1989, we all realized just how little thought had been given to the transition from socialism to capitalism. Mises had told us the collapse was coming, and we should have been prepared. As America comes to resemble a command economy, we need a transition plan here too. Yuri Maltsev proposed a "One-Day Plan" for the U. S. S. R. We're not in that bad a shape (yet), so we could do it in 30 days. DAY ONE: The federal income tax is abolished and April 15th is declared a national holiday. The 40% reduction in federal revenues is matched by a 40% cut in spending. The budget is still almost twice as big as Jimmy Carter's. DAY TWO: All other federal taxes are abolished, including the corporate income tax, the capital gains tax, the gasoline tax, "sin" taxes, excise taxes, etc. Businesses boom, and the few legitimate federal functions are funded with an inexpensive head tax. People who choose not to vote need not pay it. (Note: this was a mainstream view in the 19th century.) DAY THREE: The federal government sells all its land, freeing up tens of millions of acres for development, mining, farming, forestry, oil drilling, private parks, etc. The government uses the revenue to pay off the national debt and other liabilities. DAY FOUR: The minimum wage is reduced to zero, creating jobs for ex-federal bureaucrats at their market wage. All pro-union laws and regulations are scrapped. The jobless rate falls dramatically. DAY FIVE: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, like the rest of the Labor Department, is sent to that big hiring hall in the sky. Without detailed economic statistics, future economic planners will be blind and deaf. DAY SIX: The Department of Commerce is abolished. Big business has to make its own way in the world, without subsidies and privileges at the expense of its competitors and customers. DAY SEVEN: The plug is pulled on the Department of Energy. Oil and gas prices plummet. DAY EIGHT: All regulatory agencies, from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the Federal Trade Commission, are deep-sixed. Competition is legalized. DAY NINE: HUD is squashed like a bug. There's a buiding boom in cheap, private, apartments. DAY TEN: The interstate highways reopen as private businesses. Road entrepreneurs price travel according to consumer demand. Using modern technology, drivers get bills once a month. Credit risks-and drunks and dangerous drivers- aren't allowed on the road. Non-drivers no longer subsidize car owners. DAY ELEVEN: Government welfare is wiped out. Bums work or starve. The deserving poor find a cornucopia of private services designed to make them independent. Private charity explodes, as the American people, already the most generous in the world, find their incomes almost doubled, thanks to the tax cuts. DAY TWELVE: The Federal Reserve closes its open-market operations and stops protecting the banking industry from competition. But banks can now engage in all the non-bank financial activities previously forbidden to them. The business cycle, which is caused by monetary expansion through the credit markets, is liquidated. DAY THIRTEEN: Federal deposit insurance is scrapped. All insured deposits are redeemed from federal assets, which include the personal assets of high-level government employees. The threat of bank runs forces banks to keep 100% reserves for their demand deposits, and prudent reserves on all other accounts. There are no more inherently bankrupt banks propped up by the government, at taxpayer expense, and no more bail outs. DAY FOURTEEN: The shaky fiat dollar is defined in terms of gold, with the ratio determined by dividing the government's gold stock by all existing dollars on that day. DAY FIFTEEN: The federal government sells National and Dulles airports to the highest bidder, and stops all subsidies to other socialist airports around the country. All constraints on airline prices and service cease. It costs more to fly during peak hours than off-peak, but overall, air travel drops in price. DAY SIXTEEN: All government regulations that create and sustain cartels are abolished, including those for the post office, telephones, television, radio, and cable TV Prices plummet, and a host of new and unforeseen services becomes available. DAY SEVENTEEN: Centrally planned agriculture, as imposed by Hoover and Roosevelt, is repealed: there are no more subsidies, payments-in-kind, marketing orders, low-interest loans, etc. Farm prices drop. Entrepreneurial farmers get rich. Welfare farmers go into another line of work. The poor eat like kings. DAY EIGHTEEN: The Justice Department shutters its anti-trust division. Companies, big and small, are free to merge – up, down, or sideways. Stockholders can buy any other company, or sell their stock to anyone else. Marginal producers can no longer battle their competitors with bureaucratic weapons. DAY NINETEEN: The Department of Education flunks the constitutionality test, and is kicked out. Private charities set up remedial reading and writing programs for the former bureaucrats. Federally subsidized sex education and other anti-family programs go out of business. Local school districts become responsive to parents or close, pressured by a fast-growing private school sector (which many more parents can now afford). DAY TWENTY: All federal monuments are sold, in some cases to non-profit groups based on the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, which owns and runs George Washington's home. The VFW buys the Vietnam memorial. There is much bidding for the Jefferson and Washington monuments. Nobody wants FDR's, so it's torn down and the land sold to a farmer. (With the federal government cut back to its constitutional size, much of Washington reverts to productive uses like agriculture, as in late 18th century.) DAY TWENTY-ONE: The computerized financial and political dossier maintained by the government on every American is erased. The public wanders through the federal offices to make sure, in a reprise of the East Berliners' visits to Stasi headquarters. DAY TWENTY-TWO: Equal rights are granted to all Americans, even members of non-victim groups. There is no affirmative action, no quotas, no set-asides, no public accommodations laws. Private property and freedom of association are fully restored. DAY TWENTY-THREE: The EPA is cleaned out, with all "clean air" and similar big-government laws repealed. Ten thousand lawyers leap from their balconies. Private property is established in air and water. Americans harmed by pollution are free to sue the polluters, who are no longer protected by the federal government. DAY TWENTY-FOUR: Americans are given complete freedom of contract, restoring rationality to malpractice and product liability law. DAY TWENTY-FIVE: Government scrambles for more assets to sell (i.e., the National Zoo, also known as Washington, D.C.) to pay off the liabilities of the privatized Social Security system. DAY TWENTY-SIX: Porno artists have to earn their own livings, as the National Endowment for the Arts tries to raise its budget through sidewalk painting sales. DAY TWENTY-SEVEN: Foreign aid is outlawed as unconstitutional, unjust, and un-economic. Foreign politicians have to steal their own money. The World Bank, IMF, and United Nations close their super- luxurious doors. DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: The American people are given the unrestricted right to keep and bear arms. DAY TWENTY-NINE: The Defense Department is reoriented towards defense. American troops come home from all around the world. We adopt a policy of armed neutrality, remembering the Founding Fathers' teaching that we could not have an empire abroad and a constitutional republic at home. DAY THIRTY: All tariffs, quotas, and trade agreements are put through the shredder. Americans can trade with anyone in the world, without barriers or subsidies. Japanese car prices drop an immediate 25%. In just 30 exhilarating days, we have established the outlines of free market. Radical? Maybe so. Me, I can't wait until Month Two. __________ Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is president of the Mises Institute and editor of LewRockwell.com. rockwell@mises.org. This article appeared in The Free Market, March 1991. Please Read This : http://www.mises.org/story/2685

Liberals are followers and Bush is a leader. Its better to be right than popular? President Bush's Accomplishments Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law

Do you feel this a good program for our nation? BROWNSVILLE, Texas - The strip mall storefront of International Educational Services opens up into cheerful offices and classrooms decorated with American flags. Open a classroom door, and dozens of smiling children look up from their workbooks for a heavily accented group "good morning." ADVERTISEMENT The children are illegal immigrants, and all but one are from Central America. In the afternoon, they will go to foster homes, where they will live until they can be united with a "sponsor" — a parent, relative or family friend within the United States. It's a better scenario than they would have faced in the past, when children caught crossing the border were locked up like adults. But critics say the majority will eventually fade into the nation's illegal immigrant subculture, easily becoming lost in a maze of homeland security and social service agencies. In fact, 68 percent of the juveniles never appear in court, according to a 2004 analysis by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said it was up to the sponsor to bring children to their proceedings. "This is fraud-prone and this is an inducement to illegal immigration," said Don Barnett, a fellow at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies. "There's no question that smugglers are totally aware of this program and know how to use it." Barnett found that some children are being turned over to non-relatives because their blood relatives are illegal immigrants who fear being deported if they present themselves. Smugglers are telling parents to separate from the children once they cross the Rio Grande, he said. Even if they are caught by the Border Patrol the children are all but guaranteed to be in a safe, comfortable home within a day or so and placed with a relative or friend within a few weeks or months. The parents can meanwhile seek "voluntary departure," which means they can leave without a deportation order on their record — which would prohibit them from entering the United States within the next 10 years and subject them to jail time if they are caught. They can then try to qualify for a visa or attempt to sneak in again. If they were caught together, the entire family would be detained at one of the federal government's new family facilities, such as the T. Don Hutto facility in Taylor that has been criticized for prison-like conditions. There would be no chance of avoiding removal proceedings. Sandra De La Garza, lead case manager at the International Educational Services foster program, said she had heard of families purposely breaking up to avoid Hutto. And staffers said there was no doubt the smugglers and immigrant families knew about their agency. Children at the Brownsville facility seemed upbeat about the whole process, saying they were happy at their temporary homes. One, a 13-year-old from Honduras, said she thought the journey was fun. The foster care programs emerged from the 1997 settlement of Flores vs. Reno, a class-action lawsuit against the former Immigration and Naturalization Service. The suit argued it was wrong for children caught by the Border Patrol to be treated punitively like the adults. Under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which abolished INS and created the Department of Homeland Security, the care and placement of illegal immigrant children was transferred to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Children would fall under the purview of social service and not federal law enforcement officials. "The government felt DHS was doing it from a legal authority perspective," said Teresa Brooks, an Office of Refugee Resettlement official responsible for overseeing immigrant foster care programs in the Rio Grande Valley. "They're law enforcement, and that's the way they are." International Educational Services, which is a nonprofit agency, is one of more than 30 under contract with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. Since January, the agency has received $5 million in federal money for two foster programs and the detention center where teens are housed a few miles away in Los Fresnos. Foster parents are reimbursed for costs of feeding their charges and ensuring they experience "environment" — which can mean trips to parks and malls. All homes are equipped with cribs for the many teenage girls arriving with babies or in advanced pregnancy. Eventually the children will be on their way to a relative or family friend's home — somewhere on the felt map of the United States that hangs in the agency's hallway. "We don't have contact with them after that," Brooks said. "It's up to the sponsors to see that they attend court sessions to see if they can stay or not." Kathleen Walker, a longtime immigration lawyer based in El Paso, said such programs should be embraced for treating children like children rather than prisoners. She said the government had records of every sponsor and should have no problem following up on cases. "In this case you have citizens and legal permanent residents providing you with all kinds of information about where they are and where the person is going to be. So if there's a problem it's not like ICE can't go and do something," she said. "I think what we're trying to do is be humane," she said. "Is the objection here that we want to make sure that children are behind bars and behind concertina wires?" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_re_us/immigrants_foster_care

do u know that islam is not terrorist? THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION: "THERE IS NO TERROR IN ISLAM" Some analysts have said that this policy conceals a hidden agenda and is no more than a show designed to get the Muslim world on its side. There certainly may be some truth in this, for America is pursuing this policy for its own national ends. But there is another obvious fact: No matter what the facts may be, this policy will enable Islam to become known by more people and will allow the West to correct its erroneous opinion about Islam. Signs of this are already visible. Samuel Huntington's 1993 thesis about a "clash of civilizations" between the West and the Islamic world has never been accepted by the American administration. This is an important advance. The White House countered this claim at the outset and, in subsequent events that brought it head to head with some Muslims, made it clear that it had no negative feeling about the Muslim world or Islamic values. America has never targeted Islam in reaction to thThe same view was stated several times by variously ranking members of the government. In a speech made in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, John Beryle, acting assistant secretary for the American State Department's Bureau of Newly Independent States, explained his government's attitude toward Islam: The United States abhors terrorism and we reject extremism, but we have great respect for Islam… I draw this distinction forcefully, because so many people fail to draw it at all. Some believe that the United States opposes Islam, that the Cold War has been replaced by a clash of civilizations. Others, including some in my own country, believe that terrorism is somehow related to Islam. They are both wrong. The distinction I want you to understand is this: the United States opposes those who use terrorist methods. We do not oppose any religion. We distinguish our friends from our enemies on the basis of actions, not beliefs… Americans recognize Islam as one of the world's great faiths. It is practiced on every continent. As Westerners, we acknowledge Islam as a historic civilizing force among the many that have influenced and enriched our own culture. The legacy of Islam, which reached into our civilization via the conquest of Spain at just about the same time it arrived in Uzbekistan, brought us, as it brought you, a rich scientific, artistic, and cultural heritage, as well as a tradition of tolerance. Beryle continued his speech by quoting Surat al-Baqara: 62 and Surat al-Ma'ida: 69, and concluded: Those who have faith, and those of the Jews, the Christians, and the Sabaeans - whosoever has faith in God and the Last Day and works wholesome deeds - their wage awaits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be upon them, neither shall they sorrow (Surat al-Ma'ida: 69). These are the words of tolerance. They stand as a striking demonstration that tolerance is part of the foundation of Islam, that fundamental Islam should be a force for tolerance, that extremism is not truly Islamic… I wonder whether there is any other nation on earth in which so many people have been converted to Islam over the past several decades. Islam in the United States is becoming more widespread, better known, and more influential. For five years now the end of Ramadan has been celebrated with a feast in the White House. A similar tradition was established in the Pentagon and this year included the first-ever Muslim chaplains to serve in the U.S. military. The Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, held her second annual Iftaar Dinner at the State Department on December 21. Similar celebrations occur all across the U.S. Muslims are becoming an important and respected part of the American mosaic… And finally, from the Koran, Sura 2, ayat 256: "Let there be no compulsion in religion." 5 This attitude of the American administration did not change after the events of 9/11. Some days after the attack, President Bush visited the Islamic Center in Washington and stressed in his speech that Islam and terror could not be mentioned together because Islam was a religion of peace: The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war. When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that's made brothers and sisters out of every race - out of every race. America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect. 6 Words like these have been repeated time and again after 9/11 by high-level officials. For example, White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer, when asked whether this attack had been the result of a clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, said: "This attack had nothing to do with Islam. This attack was a perversion of Islam." 7 American State Officials Praise Islam The fact that American state officials recognize that there is no connection between Islam and terrorism shows that they know what kind of religion Islam is. As they get to know Islam, they naturally come to admire it and often mention it in their speeches. This has been noticeable especially in the last three presidential administrations. So, the idea put forward by theorists after the Cold War that Islam would be America's next target has come to nothing. But there is an important point here: Some of the American government's decisions with regard to the Muslim world must be examined in the light of the advantages that it hopes to gain as a nation from its international policy and strategies. These decisions must not be confused with the American administration's and people's interest in Islam. This book examines the following topics: the approach of American state officials and the general public toward Islam in the last few years, the fact that Islam is always a topic on the public agenda, and the resulting rapid rise of Islam. This is certainly a remarkable historical development that, when considered from these aspects, should make every Muslim happy, enthusiastic, and excited. As we said earlier, the American government's approach toward Islam began in the 1990s and reached its high point during the Clinton administration. Clinton was the first to commend Islam and its moral teachings in his speeches, and the first to issue invitations to the White House on Islamic holidays. Under Clinton, for the first time invitations were arranged at the administration's top level for Muslims to attend an iftar meal. Subsequently, this became a tradition. When Clinton spoke about Islamic morality, one of the topics that he dwelt upon was the compatibility of Islamic moral values with those of the West. Clinton believed that "Devotion to family and to society, to faith and good works-are in harmony with the best of Western ideals."8 In another speech he said; That is why we welcome Islam in America. It enriches our country with Islam's teachings of self-discipline, compassion, and commitment to family. 9 And on another occasion, he said that Islam was highly regarded by America: America is made stronger by the core values of Islam-commitment to family, commitment to family, compassion for the disadvantaged, and respect for difference. 10 Hillary Clinton, who began the tradition of inviting Muslims to the White House, once stated during one of these gatherings that she admired the following things about Islam: Universal values - love of family and community, mutual respect, education, and the deepest yearning of all - to live in peace - values that can strengthen us as a people and strengthen the United States as a nation. 11 The Secretary of State at the time, Madeline Albright, in an article that she wrote for State Magazine, "Learning More about Islam," drew attention to a very important point and said that the American people must learn about Islam.12 As a result of her comment, State Department officials prepared a report on how people could familiarize themselves with Islam: Our society can solve it through education, people-to-people exchanges, and by encouraging responsible reporting in the mass media and accurate portrayal in the movie industry. 13 The decision of the Clinton administration that the people should be taught the truth about Islam is extremely important. As we shall see in the following pages, priority has been given to this, especially since 9/11, and newspapers, television, and other media outlets have presented news, programs, and inquiries. President Bush's approach to Muslims began with his election campaign. Known to be a religious person, Bush received support from a significant section of American Muslims during his campaign. For this reason, he is constantly engaged in dialogue with Muslim communities. The 9/11 attack has become a vehicle by which he has been able to assert more often the closeness he feels toward Muslims, and frequently to remind his fellow citizens to understand Islam correctly and establish good relationships with Muslims. During one speech, he stated that: The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur'an. It teaches the value and importance of charity, mercy, and peace. And it is one of the fastest growing religions in America, with millions of American believers today… The Holy Qur'an says: "Piety does not lie in turning your face to the East or West. Piety lies in believing in God." (2: 177) 14 The American Government's Iftar Invitation Another important development that shows the coming together of the American administration and American Muslims is the iftar invitation, which has become a tradition in the last few years. Each invitation provides the opportunity for dialogue between the two groups. The tradition of hosting of Muslims in the White House was started by Hillary Clinton, who received them to offer them Eid congratulations. For the first time in 2001, Muslims were invited to an iftar meal in the White House that the president had organized. As stated earlier, these iftar invitations began in the State Department with the participation of the then-Secretary of State, Madeline Albright. It is often said that these invitations were very important for developing relations between Muslims and the American people, a project on which Albright laid great importance. In Ramadan 2000, at the second iftar meal, she described these efforts: I am very, very pleased to welcome you all to the Department of State. And as many of you know, we had a similar Iftaar Dinner here last year for the first time, and tonight we continue what I hope will become a tradition that lives on for many years to come... The month of Ramadan and the daily fast are powerful reminders for Muslims of the centrality of God and of the potency of the message conveyed through the Prophet Mohammed... I am pleased that since last year the State Department has inaugurated a new website entitled "Islam in America." Its purpose is to help people everywhere learn more about the positive force that Islam has become in American life and about the growing role of Muslim Americans as they are there to play a role in ensuring the security, prosperity, and freedom of our land. Equally vital are the international exchange and people-to-people programs we conduct with Muslim-majority nations. These efforts bring distinguished Muslim visitors to our shores to exchange views and promote understanding... We are strongly encouraging young Muslim Americans to apply to the Foreign Service as part of our overall effort to attract talent and promote diversity, and we have had a lively discussion at my table on that subject. Together, during the past few years, we have made an important beginning in providing that answer, not only through these dinners but also through our religious freedom roundtables, open forums, conferences, and seminars. We have established and expanded a dialogue, but obviously much more remains to be done. It is vital for Muslim Americans to know and have access to American policymakers. It is even more vital to become policymakers. 15 As we see, the State Department regarded it as its duty to build a bridge between the Muslim community and the American people and administration. This played an important role in the rising interest in Islam. This speech was very important, for it showed what an influential position Islam had gained in America. Ten years earlier, American Muslims had lived a cloistered social existence encountering many difficulties in their daily lives, but now they have been invited by the Secretary of State to be directors of American policy. These iftar invitations have continued under her successor Colin Powell. During his short address on November 29, 2001, at a State Department iftar meal, he stressed the following basic points: Ramadan is a time of prayer and fasting for followers of the Muslim religion. This year, it is also a time of reflection for all Americans. Less than three months after the tragedy of September 11th, we were all examining our lives and reaffirming the importance of family, faith, and country. In fact, this year marks the first Ramadan for many non-Muslim Americans who have been made aware of the great significance of this period for the first time in their lives. But there remains much ignorance and confusion about Islam, and that presents an opportunity for those of us who are not Muslim to learn from those of you who are. I hope that all of you here will seek out opportunities to talk with non-Muslims throughout your communities about your faith; to help all of us learn from, understand, and appreciate one another; and that you will encourage others in turn to talk to you about their faith. And I heard some wonderful stories at my table about how you are doing that, reaching out to Christians and Jews, and letting everybody know we are all -- we are all creatures and children of a benevolent God, and we must come to understand that to love one another is being faithful to our God. I was very moved by some of the conversations that we had at our table, as we talked about discrimination, we talked about profiling, as we talked about how we have to be sensitive to each other and to be sensitive to the diversity that we all represent. This touched me deeply, because I am a minority. I have been profiled. I will never forget my background; I will never forget what those who came before me did so that I could be in this position today ... I will always be sensitive to the issues that have been raised this evening… 16 The Defense Department also has hosted iftar meals. This tradition, which goes back officially to 1998, consists of an iftar meal ordinarily arranged by the deputy secretary of defense and attended by Muslims working in the department and the army. At the 1999 iftar meal, the then-Deputy Secretary of Defense, John Hamre, said: I am very honored to be invited to be here tonight. A little over a year ago I was invited to address the first Iftar celebrated here at the Department of Defense. The fact that you would ask me back for a second time is a tremendous honor. I am very grateful. As I said last year, I am a Lutheran in my own religious background and not a Muslim, so I cannot fully appreciate how important this Night of Power is for all of you. But I can understand why this Night of Power is deeply important to you, because I am a religious person myself. I can understand how moving it is, in this season of dedication, that all of you have spent the entire day focusing on your relationship with God.... I believe that vision in our Constitution springs directly from our shared religious values. There is not a word in the Constitution for which a good Muslim would not fight…. It is the same ideal expressed in the Holy Koran: "O mankind, I created you from a single pair and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other, not that ye may despise each other." 17 Hamre's address was notable for his declaration of personal religiosity, the closeness and love he showed toward Muslims, and for quoting the Qur'an. The Defense Department's third iftar meal was held on November 30, 2001, and attended by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz. He began his address with the words As-Sallamu alaykum, which he learned while serving as ambassador to Indonesia, and continued: Each time faithful Muslims gather in prayer and in peace, you reclaim your faith and reaffirm the great gift that Islam has been to humanity through the centuries. Mohammed said that those who provide a fasting person with something to eat will be blessed as though they themselves had fasted. As we gather tonight in this spirit of generosity, we are mindful of the great blessings that we enjoy. We are thankful to share them with others. 18 Hillary Clinton first invited Muslims to the White House for the Ramadan Eid in 1996, and on every subsequent occasion gave significant messages to those in attendance. Among those who attempted to explain what Ramadan means for Muslims was Huma Abedin. Mrs. Clinton said that she personally learned a lot from this woman, and frequently mentioned the special importance she placed in establishing dialogue with Muslims. At the 1999 reception, she even said she prayed for this: I have been told that a common Muslim prayer tells us: "No struggle is easy unless you make it easy for us. And only you, my Lord, can make a hardship easy to overcome." With God's help, and with the kind of determination, courage, and hope that is lived out in the lives of all of you and millions of others around our country and throughout the world, I believe that we can do more together to help build a more peaceful, prosperous, and hopeful future in which all of God's children can live in peace and fulfill their God-given promise. 19 This tradition begun by Hillary Clinton was continued by Bill Clinton during his final year as president, when he personally received Muslim guests for the Ramadan holiday. The meal began with quotations from the Qur'an. Bill Clinton also quoted from the Qur'an in his address, and frequently expressed his interest in Islam: And I thought it was particularly moving that the Imam read the passage from the Koran that said that Allah created nations and tribes that we might know one another, not that we might despise one another. There's a wonderful passage in the Hebrew Torah, which warns people never to turn aside the stranger, for it is like turning aside the most high God. And the Christian Bible says that people should love their neighbor as themselves. But it's quite wonderful to say that Allah created the nations and tribes that they might know one another better, recognizing that people have to organize their thoughts and categorize their ideas, but that does not mean we should be divided one from another... Let me say, also, that there is much that the world can learn from Islam. It is now practiced by one of every four people on Earth. Americans are learning more in our schools and universities. Indeed, I remember that our daughter took a course on Islamic history in high school and read large portions of the Koran, and came home at night and educated her parents about it, and later asked us questions about it… I ask all of you to help with that, to share the wellsprings of your faith with those who are different, to help people understand the values and the humanity that we share in common, and the texture and fabric and fiber and core of the beliefs and practices of Islam... The Koran also teaches, in addition, to the fact that we should do unto others as we wish to have done to us, and reject for others what we would reject for ourselves, but we should also make a commitment to live in peace… 20 Under the present Bush administration, for the first time in American history a president organized an iftar meal. This meal was attended by the ambassadors of Muslim countries and the heads of Muslim organizations. In his address, the president commended Islam and called for dialogue and understanding among different faiths: Ramadan is a time of fasting and prayer for the Muslim faithful. So tonight we are reminded of God's greatness and His commandments to live in peace and to help neighbors in need… All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. Ramadan and the upcoming holiday season are a good time for people of different faiths to learn more about each other. And the more we learn, the more we find that many commitments are broadly shared. We share a commitment to family, to protect and love our children. We share a belief in God's justice and man's moral responsibility. And we share the same hope for a future of peace. We have much in common and much to learn from one another. 21 All of these iftar meals and the addresses given at them are very significant for the relationship between Muslims and the American administration, and indicate that Muslims have begun to influence American society and culture. The relations between Americans and Muslims are not limited to these invitations and various talks, for Muslims are now an inseparable part of America and active at every level of social life. A most significant example of this is their position within the American army.

Illegal Immigration destroying America's middle class - Us or Them? Economist Paul Roberts wrote on January 21, 2003, "Will America become a Third World country in 20 years?" In the Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 2003, "But as the US economy shifted toward service jobs, factory jobs have steadily lost-in fact in just the past 39 months, some 2.8 million jobs vanished." Where are they going? China. India. Mexico. Deep into the Third World. "You Americans have lived an artificially high standard of living for a long time," a man working one our jobs outsourced to India wrote me. "It's time you Americans drop to the poverty levels of the rest of the Third World." American jobs are offshored, insourced and outsourced at such blinding speed that millions of American citizens stand in unemployment lines every morning while the rest of us go to work, that is, if we still have jobs. America's middle class is being dismantled by jobs exported to cheap-labor Third World countries. CEOs and corporations that enjoy the luxuries of America's hard won freedom care not a tinker's dam whether you have a job or not-or a living wage. But the American man and woman on the street--the ones with two kids, a mortgage and bills coming out of their ears--stand powerless as their jobs vanish. Worse, our Congress upped the H-1B visas by another 20,000 again this year. That quota rise spits in the face of thousands of American IT workers standing in unemployment lines. Our Congress gave out nearly one million H-1B visas in the past decade. Congress facilitates outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring! Why complain? You just re-elected most of them back into Congress. Cannon, Kennedy, McCain, Udall, Degette, Pelosi, Allard, Dillon, Kyle, Kolbe, Flake and the list continues. Paul Hamilton write his story, "You have to work in the Silicone Valley for a while to really understand what it is like to be a white male in the IT business now days. I've worked for the Chinese, Iranians and Indians. I could tell you some horror stories ...HORROR stories! My career went to China, India and the WWW a long time ago though. "Today, I am a plumber. I started a new career and things are that tough here in California. I was lucky enough to get on with Marina Plumbing which is a huge Corporation that does the plumbing on new construction...think BIG housing subdivisions. "I look around on the job site and I am the only white male in a sea of Mexicans. Few of these Mexicans speak English. There are usually several boom boxes blaring Maruichi music all day long. The Mexicans OWN ALL THE TRADES! The concrete workers, the framers, the heavy equipment operators, the roofers and even the truck drivers delivering building materials--ALL are Mexicans. "President Bush is 100 percent off the mark, or he is crazy... or?" "I was the leading channel rep in the Silicone Valley for high end CISCO switches. For a year and a half I have been in IBM's Presidents club before. I wonder what the Germans thought circa 37, 38, 39 when the SS was taking over and doing the dirty work for Hitler? Were the Germans just sitting around wondering what was going on? Were they just sitting there in disbelief? I hear our esteemed President talking about Mexican Amnesty and think about how they have already brought misery to an already dead-broke state and wonder what the hell?" But there is another ominous skullduggery afoot across this country. It's the importation of illegal aliens by major US companies who thwart Federal Laws in order to 'lose' American workers and then, wholesale, break OSHA standards at will. How? Because illegal aliens will not make a whimper for fear of losing their jobs. The displacement of American workers proceeds methodically. American corporations sacrifice American workers in the name of profit. Over 200,000 illegal aliens swarm the Colorado job market. They displace Denver pavers, roofers, landscapers, beef processing plants, framers, dry wallers and virtually have taken over all fast food restaurants. This story repeats millions of times. A recent television news broadcast by one of the big three showed a man who had just made the 'Wall of Unemployment Shame' in his workplace, which included 1,000 fellow employees who had been laid off. Formerly making $22.00 an hour, he's now driving a delivery truck for $11.00 an hour. His wife and children struggle with their new financial reality. Currently, 15 million illegal aliens commandeer jobs away from American citizens. If they don't steal those jobs, they depress the wages to the point of legalized slavery. We have an estimated one million illegal alien Chinese in this country (Source: March 2005 Forbes Magazine). At the same time, we outsource jobs to China where a billion people can't wait to make 50 cents an hour. Human smugglers bringing illegals into America make $7 billion annually according to the report. Do they work the jobs Americans won't do? False! If American doctors were paid $5.00 an hour they wouldn't be working those hospital jobs either. You have to ask yourself if you want illegal immigrant doctors working at minimum wage to perform a by-pass heart surgery on you? Would you like an illegal immigrant lawyer defending you in court for $5.00 an hour? How about a $5.00 an hour illegal immigrant college professor teaching your kids calculus? How about an illegal alien truck driver driving down the road at 70 MPH with 80,000 pounds of steel, no ability to read English and a fifth grade education-from Mexico's educational system? Meanwhile, profits soar for corporations while the middle class of America plummets into worsening unemployment. Will America drop into Third World conditions as economist Paul Roberts predicts? At the current rate of 4.1 million legal and illegal newcomers imported into the United States annually, it's only a matter of time before, we too, manifest conditions of the Third World. You can't drown the labor market with millions of people and expect to keep your wages high when immigrants will undercut you. That's why the pay in China or India is less than $10.00 per day. They have 2.4 billion people in those two countries. That's why they live subsistence lives. In time, that reality will manifest itself in America as the middle class vanishes. It's already happening. You need look no further than California as an example of the first Third World State of America. Call your representative at 1-877-762-8762 and ask if he or she is on the Tom Tancredo Immigration Reform Caucus in the US House of Representatives? If your rep isn't--demand that he join because you are sick and tired of Americans jobs being given away to illegal aliens. You're sick of H-1B and L-1 visas as well as offshoring, insourcing and outsourcing. Make that call today! http://www.rense.com/general60/illegalimmigrationsdestruct.htm So should we give up our middle class so that Illegal immigrants can come here and take the jobs "Americans won't do"? we shouldn't thank bush, we should impeach bush for not protecting a whole class of people in the united states! in order for a mother to get welfare, there must not be a man living in the home. Ms. magazine was bankrolled by the CIA. The rockefellers bankrolled feminism in the united states, which caused the problem that Frosty points out. It makes you wonder if there is a hidden agenda or something on the part of the government...possible to crash the dollar, make everybody here poor, redistribute the wealth to third world nations, and eventually make a one world government? did you people read the details? it explained about outsourcing. This is not about war. i am anti-war, and i hate bush. Its not racist. its about saving our country as we know it and not allowing corporate interests to control our immigration policies. this is supposed to be a government Of the people, BY the people, FOR the people!!!! But what do we get??? a government OF the corporations, BY the corporations, FOR the corporations!!!!!!! so F*CK the illegal immigrants, IT'S EITHER US OR THEM!! only one sentence was written by an economist, and it is in quotes, cookie. and this is not some crazy theory, its already happening. hillary can't and won't save us, rudy can't and won't save us, mccain can't and won't save us, obama can't and won't save us. They keep telling us that deportation is out of the question, or that it is impractical. That is totally untrue. A guest worker program is not needed. Businesses should be paying legal workers a descent wage. If that means less profit, then that is just how it's got to be. The economic growth that has come over the past few decades to those businesses that hire illegals is due to cheap labor. They shouldn't have broken the law, and they shouldn't have lowered wages for the rest of us by making us compete with illegal aliens.

Why do libs avoid President Bush's Accomplishments? President Bush's Accomplishments Spotted at Rightnation.us and GOPUSA.com reprinted here for your pleasure. I encourage people who support Bush to learn how effective our President has been, and liberals ought to browse this too. Just remember, the liberal media can't cover up the truth of his accomplishments. The Bush Administration 2001-2004 Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law

What do you think of the 1000 characters limit? Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake.

Is this why the libs hate BUSH? President Bush's Accomplishments Spotted at Rightnation.us and GOPUSA.com reprinted here for your pleasure. I encourage people who support Bush to learn how effective our President has been, and liberals ought to browse this too. Just remember, the liberal media can't cover up the truth of his accomplishments. The Bush Administration 2001-2004 Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law ________________________________________ TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror KEYWORDS: bushlegacy; bushrecord; georgewbush; gwb2004 ________________________________________ 1 posted on 03/12/2004 4:23:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife Bush is our President. He fixed our country. He brought back family values. He made us strong in the face of danger. He is looing out for my childrens education. He has reduced my income tax. That's why he gets my vote. 2 posted on 03/12/2004 4:43:46 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (60 Senate seats changes the world!! Bury Kerry in 04!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife someone one point to the Medicare section and the savings accounts, someone scream at the conservatives who cry about drugs and point out $28,000 for ulcer surgery vs $500 for medicine; Medical Savings Accounts as a way to have larger deductibles and more patient responsibility. THESE ARE CONSERVATIVE PROGRAMS!! Newt was all over TV praising this program one week after they passed it but RUSH who is a headline reader has gotten it wrong and cost Bush 10 points in the polls. 3 posted on 03/12/2004 4:53:54 AM PST by q_an_a [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife Bookmark for future reference 4 posted on 03/12/2004 5:05:46 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (1 democrat + 1 democrat = 5 opinions, 6 tax increases, 2 more welfare programs & 0 solutions.) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife wide open borders that allow narco terrorists al qaeda and chi coms open easy access to CONUS? 5 posted on 03/12/2004 5:26:59 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] ________________________________________ To: Cincinatus' Wife Abortion & Traditional Values 1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade. 2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy. 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. 4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services. 5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. 6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. 7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman. 8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents. 9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools. 10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms). 11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline. 12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs. Budget, Taxes & Economy 1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. 2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. 3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. 4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. 5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. 6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. 7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. 8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. 9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. 10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. 11. Signed trade promotion authority. 12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. 13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. 14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. 15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. 16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. 17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. 18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. 19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year. Character & Conduct as President 1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. 2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. 3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days: Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation. Education & Employment Training 1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. 2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. 3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) 4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. 5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. 6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. 7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. 8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to become teachers. Environment & Energy 1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. 2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc. 3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives. 4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops. 5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger. 6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger. 7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California. 8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species. Defense & Foreign Policy 1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. 2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. 3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Maida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaeda leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. 4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. 5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. 6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. 7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. 8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. 9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. 10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. 11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. 12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. 13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. 14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. 15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. 16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. 17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. 18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. 19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. 20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Globalization & Internationalism 1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). 2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. 3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty). 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. 5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Government Reform 1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. 2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. 3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security. 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. 5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals. Health< 1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free. 2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health. 3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: A 10-year privatization option. Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors. New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford. Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration 1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security. 2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004. 3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield). 4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders. 5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity. 6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals. 7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones. 8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested. 9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies. 10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization. 12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens. 13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications. 14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack. Judiciary & Tort Reform 1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits. 2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA. 3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary. 4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims. Politics 1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. 2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes. Second Amendment 1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. 2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. 3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism. Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism 1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself." 2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world. 3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families. 4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved. 5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible. 6.Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them. 7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states. 8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa. 9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles: Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law

is this going to cause the end of the world?? what are these stupid scientists thinking....if there is a 1 in 5000000 chance of destroying our world...it still can happen no matter how small the chance. READ THIS ARTICLE!!!!!1!! MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. ADVERTISEMENT But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump? Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN — some of whom have been working for a generation on the $5.8 billion collider, or LHC. "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on," said project leader Lyn Evans. David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets. "If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here," he said. The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors. The ring, which straddles the French and Swiss border, is buried 330 feet underground. The machine, which has been called the largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months. But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling findings. Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle thought to give matter its mass. The collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings. The theory could resolve many of physics' unanswered questions, but requires about 10 dimensions — far more than the three spatial dimensions our senses experience. The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million — long odds, to be sure, but about the same as winning some lotteries. By contrast, a CERN team this month issued a report concluding that there is "no conceivable danger" of a cataclysmic event. The report essentially confirmed the findings of a 2003 CERN safety report, and a panel of five prominent scientists not affiliated with CERN, including one Nobel laureate, endorsed its conclusions. Critics of the LHC filed a lawsuit in a Hawaiian court in March seeking to block its startup, alleging that there was "a significant risk that ... operation of the Collider may have unintended consequences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet." One of the plaintiffs, Walter L. Wagner, a physicist and lawyer, said Wednesday CERN's safety report, released June 20, "has several major flaws," and his views on the risks of using the particle accelerator had not changed. On Tuesday, U.S. Justice Department lawyers representing the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation filed a motion to dismiss the case. The two agencies have contributed $531 million to building the collider, and the NSF has agreed to pay $87 million of its annual operating costs. Hundreds of American scientists will participate in the research. The lawyers called the plaintiffs' allegations "extraordinarily speculative," and said "there is no basis for any conceivable threat" from black holes or other objects the LHC might produce. A hearing on the motion is expected in late July or August. In rebutting doomsday scenarios, CERN scientists point out that cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth, and triggering collisions similar to those planned for the collider, since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. And so far, Earth has survived. "The LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, what it has been doing for billions of years," said John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN. Critics like Wagner have said the collisions caused by accelerators could be more hazardous than those of cosmic rays. Both may produce micro black holes, subatomic versions of cosmic black holes — collapsed stars whose gravity fields are so powerful that they can suck in planets and other stars. But micro black holes produced by cosmic ray collisions would likely be traveling so fast they would pass harmlessly through the earth. Micro black holes produced by a collider, the skeptics theorize, would move more slowly and might be trapped inside the earth's gravitational field — and eventually threaten the planet. Ellis said doomsayers assume that the collider will create micro black holes in the first place, which he called unlikely. And even if they appeared, he said, they would instantly evaporate, as predicted by the British physicist Stephen Hawking. As for strangelets, CERN scientists point out that they have never been proven to exist. They said that even if these particles formed inside the Collider they would quickly break down. When the LHC is finally at full power, two beams of protons will race around the huge ring 11,000 times a second in opposite directions. They will travel in two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. Their trajectory will be curved by supercooled magnets — to guide the beams around the rings and prevent the packets of protons from cutting through the surrounding magnets like a blowtorch. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few of the protons in them will collide, at a series of cylindrical detectors along the ring. The two largest detectors are essentially huge digital cameras, each weighing thousands of tons, capable of taking millions of snapshots a second. Each year the detectors will generate 15 petabytes of data, the equivalent of a stack of CDs 12 miles tall. The data will require a high speed global network of computers for analysis. Wagner and others filed a lawsuit to halt operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state in 1999. The courts dismissed the suit. The leafy campus of CERN, a short drive from the shores of Lake Geneva, hardly seems like ground zero for doomsday. And locals don't seem overly concerned. Thousands attended an open house here this spring. "There is a huge army of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly as far as concerns the LHC," said project leader Evans.

Pointers and tips on my fictional story... and how do you like it so far? The tires of the red Ferrari squealed, as it came around the corner and dove neatly into the space where Jack Watson always parked it. It was in the parking lot of his Beverly Hills store, Julie's, exactly twenty years before, he had named it after his nine year old daughter, that a friend of his had had through artifical insemunation, in which Julie was his biological daugther, but she was not the biological daughter of his ex-husband. That was sometimes a problem in a gay realtionship when you deside to have kids through artifical insemunation. Julie was now a grown and beautiful twenty nine year old daughter that lived in New york and was in her Sophmore year at New York University. It had taken her a little longer then most people to start college, but she had wanted some years after highschool to get her life sorted out before starting out on the journey of college. The shop had been a lark to him then, something he was going to do for fun, after deciding to give up producing movies. He had produced a few low-budget flims, none of them remarkable, and before that he had spent half a dozen years, after college, working on and off as an actor. His flim career had been relatively minor, filled with all the hopes and promises that never turned out quite as he planned, and too often turned out to be disappointing, but as much as director's and producers were payed these days, you could produce or direct one movie and have enough money to live on the rest of you life. He had over two hundred million dollars in his bank account which the only bad part of that was he contantly had to be on the look out for guys that he was dating that may be just after his money. He grew tried of producing movies and started his own shop, which he really did not have to worry about what kind of business he got, because he had so much money he did not have to worry about having enough money to keep the shop up. He really loved living were gay people were accepted more then anywhere else in the United States. But the store that he had bought, any woman or gay man in L.A. would have killed to shop there. His boyfriend had helped him with the buying at first, but within two years he figured out that he had a better eye for that merchandise then he did. Every gay man in town, actors, socailites, models, and just ordinay average joe's that happen to be gay with money to spend, wanted to go to Julie's... and meet Jack Watson. He was the kind of gay guy that everyone loved and the gay guys were absolutly gaga over him. Every guy on the sidewalk that he passed that he supected to be gay would always look twice at him. If there was more then one good thing about living L.A. it was that finding another guy to date was definitly never a problem, even if Jack was a little picky. He was a very good looking guy that looked ten years younger then he really was. When Jack went out to smoke his cigarette out on the sidewalk of the store, as many of hundred people would pass him each day as he smoked and more then half of them always made time to say hi to Jack. He had dark brown hair and gorgues facial features and a toned thin body. He had definitly had his share of realationships in the past, and yet he still was not settled down with Mr. Right, and though he was in his late fourties he was in no rush. Two years after he opened his store, to his suprise, his huband of eleven years left him. And for the past eight years, he had to admit, he still missed him from time to time. He had meet him on the set of one of his flims, he had come to read for him, and spent the next two weeks lost in passion with him in his Malibu cottage. He feel madly in love with him, six months later they were married, and the marriage lasted about eleven years, and one kid, which was the reason that Jack thought that he had left in the first place, because of peir jealousy over the baby being partly Jack's and not at all his. He took another shot at marriage a year later, with a man who was far too smart to have him. He was the only man who had ever made him want to be faithful to him, and for once he had been. He had been in his early thirties then, Eric had been thirty-nine, French, and a very sucessful artist. Eric moved on with his life after two years, Eric was wanting to study and become a artist is France. Along with that Jack made it very clear that he would never leave his country like that. Eric wasn't the type to be held back from his dreams, so he took off in less then a week after the dicussion. The only two things Jack learned from that marriage was to never get involed with someone from anthor country unless their planning to stay an American citzen, and he learned how to speak fluent French. Jack had been single now for seven years now, and he had to admit that he was happy being single for now, but in the back of his mind he did have the hidden fear of being alone in his old age. He had been eyeing this young guy that comes in everyday around noon, and they always do the eye flirting. Jack knew that he came about twelve thirty so he had started ordering out for lunch and staying there at the shop just to see his guy. The guy was itleast twenty five years old, and Jack was known to date younger guys. His realationships where always like the Deni Moore and Ashton Kuther of the gay world. It was Monday and Jack was back from his two days off and it was going on twelve thirty and his guy had not yet showed up. Jack looked forward to seeing the guy each day and died to talk to him but never did. Even though Jack could have any gay guy in Beverly Hills he wanted, he had his eye on this one. At exactly twelve fourty one the guy of Jack's dreams came in the front door of the store. Jack noticed that there was something different about the guy and then he notcied that he had his hair gelled down today, and Jack was mesmerized at how good looking the guy was. Jack had finished his lunch and was loading up the shelfs with Cashmere sweaters when he noticed "the guy" was walking up to him, he suddenly felt like he was in High School again about to talk to his crush for the first time. "Hi, do you have a medium in these pants?" the guy said. Jack cleared his throut. "Actually I belive we do, let me go get them from the back." Five minutes later he was back with a medium in the pants, and the guy was still standing in the same place looking at the Cashmere sweaters. "Thank you" the man said when Jack reached him the pants. The man turned to go to the dressing room, and Jack went back to folding the Cashmere sweaters. "What is you name?" the man said as if he didn't already know. "Jack Watson" Jack said still in disbelief that he had finally talked to him. "My name is Steven." he said. "I thought it might be you, it is nice to finally meet the famous Jack Watson." "Oh I wouldn't say famous." Jack laughed. "You know I have a meeting to go to at one-thirty, and then I'm going to be going to O'Charley's, would you like to be my guest?" "Are you asking me out on a date?" Jack said. "Well, whatever way you want to precieve it." Steven said with a smile. Jack then noticed how very beautiful he's smile is. There was a ackward five second silence. "Well, what do you say?" "I would love to" "Thats great" Steven said. "Meet me at O'Charley's at six o'clock." "See you then." Jack said as Steven walked back to the fitting rooms. Jack felt a feeling that he had not felt in quite a while, itleast for seven years. The last time he rememberd feeling like this was when he was in love with Eric. He felt like he was in High School again and his crush had asked him out for the first time. Although that never happened, when Jack was in High School it was from ninteen seventy two through ninteen seveny six. Boys asking other boys out in High School was unheard of in that time period. It was always the girl best friends of the guys that he liked and Jack never rememberd excepting any offers from girls to go out, but he did remember getting plenty of offers. At six o'clock Jack drove to his Bel-Air mansion to take a shower and get dressed and checked his phone messages and one was from his daighter Julie that said... Call me, dad I have some exciting news for you, kisses, bye Jack's mind went on a whirlwind of things that it could be, he could hardly wait to get ahold of his daughter as he dialed the numbers on his cell phone when he got into his red ferrari and started on his way down to O'Charley's. The phone ringed more slower then usual, or itleast it seemed that way to Jack. Hello dad Hey girl, tell me your exciting news Dad, your baby girl is getting married. Oh my gosh, your engaged, what the boys name? And why haven't I meet him? Dad I just meet him eight weeks ago, he's name is Bobby and he is great, you'll love him, when I come home next week he's coming with me. Good I need to meet this boy, and see if he is good enough for my little girl. Trust me you'll love him, now I've got to go dad, my next class is in ten minutes. love ya, bye. Be good, Bye. When Jack arrived at the restaurant at exactly six o'clock, Steven was setting in the parking lot in his truck. They both got out and Jack realized that Steven had roses. "That's so sweet, are those for me." "Yes, they are for you." "I love them so much, thank you." They went into the restaurant and got settled in and the waitor took their order. Jack noticed that Steven ordered a unusal amount of food. "Are you sure you can fit all of that in that tiny stomach of your's?" "Yeah I always eat that much when I go out?" "Wow." Jack said "What you ordered made what I ordered look like nothing, anyway I watching my carbs." "Nonsense, why would you watch you're carbs?" "Well, I have this body because I do watch my fat grams and carbs." Jack said. "But never mind that, I just got great news on the way over here." "Great!." Steven said. "What is it?" "Just to let you know, I have a daughter." when Jack said that he noticed that Steven's eye's got big, then relaxed again after he told him that she was twenty three. "She told that she was engaged, but the only bad thing is that I don't even know the boy, but knowing Julie he's great." "That's wonderful, when do you get to meet him?" "I get to meet him on Monday." "Wow, just three more days." "Yeah, she is going to college in New York and she is coming home for her one week vacation and spending it with me and the family." "Are you still close with your family?" "Yeah, my mom and dad didn't really care if I was gay, straight, bi, or transgender, they just loved me always for who I am." Jack said. "Your lucky, I don't have a mother and father anymore, they both disowned me." Jack said with intense sadness. "Thank god, my two brothers still accept me and itleast talk to me." "I'm really sorry about that." Jack said. "How old were you when you came out?" "I was thirteen when I came out." Steven said. "What about you?" "Wow, you came out early." Jack said. "There was no certain age that I came out, parents always knew, you know it was just there." The next morning, Steven slept in late since he didn't have any meetings until one o'clock. He got up and took his shower, and drunk his coffee while he read the newspaper. He always had the same routine each morning, and sinse he was not have a meeting for later then usual he was thrown off balance for the day. He was a lawyer, he had been for seven years next month. He had even been married before at the young age of twenty-four. "I guess I forgot to tell Jack that I have been married before, yesterday during our date?" Steven thought as he walked into the living room and turned on "Rachael Ray." He had been married to a guy named Phillip for three years, and they dated for over two years before that, he had thought at the time that Phillip was the one. He came to realize that Phillip had a drinking problem, and it got worse and worse each year. Steven couldn't take it anymore so he walked out, and moved to Beverly Hills. He had had off and on realationships sinse, but none of them had really lasted over a month, or amounted to anything.

Can Someone summarize this article for me like NOW? The young teacher hung his head, avoiding eye contact. Yes, he had touched a 5th grader’s breast during recess. “I guess it was just lust of the flesh,” he told his boss. That got Gary C. Lindsey fired from his first teaching job in Oelwein, Iowa. But it didn’t end his career. He taught for decades in Illinois and Iowa, fending off at least a half-dozen more abuse accusations. When he finally surrendered his teaching license in 2004—40 years after that first little girl came forward—it wasn’t a principal or a state agency that ended his career. It was one persistent victim and her parents. Mr. Lindsey’s case is just a small example of a widespread problem in American schools: sexual misconduct by the very teachers who are supposed to be nurturing the nation’s children. Students in America’s schools are groped. They’re raped. They’re pursued, seduced, and think they’re in love. A Lingering Shame Overview: How Project Unfolded Part I: Sex Abuse a Shadow Over U.S. Schools Calif. Rules Mask Details of Sex-Related Misconduct Part II: Band Teacher’s Abuse Scars Family, Splits Community Gender Affects Response to Teacher-Student Sex Part III: Efforts to Curb Educator Sex Abuse Seen as Weak Signs of Improper Sexual Interest From Educators Schoolhouse Sex-Abuse Suspects Face Serial Accusations An investigation by the Associated Press has found more than 2,500 cases over five years in which educators were punished for actions that ranged from bizarre to sadistic. There are 3 million public school teachers nationwide, most devoted to their work. Yet the number of abusive educators—nearly three for every school day—speaks to a much larger problem in a system that is stacked against victims. Most of the abuse never gets reported. Those cases reported often end with no action. Cases investigated sometimes can’t be proven, and many abusers have several victims. And no one—not the schools, not the courts, not the state or federal governments—has found a surefire way to keep molesting teachers out of classrooms. Those are the findings of an AP investigation in which reporters sought disciplinary records in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The result is an unprecedented national look at the scope of sex offenses by educators—the very definition of breach of trust. (Following its own, six-month investigation in 1998, Education Week published a three-part series, “A Trust Betrayed,” that documented the national scope of sexual misconduct involving students and school employees. That series, based in part on a database of nearly 250 cases drawn from published accounts, was updated with further research in 2003.) Solution Elusive The Associated Press’ seven-month investigation found 2,570 educators whose teaching credentials were revoked, denied, surrendered, or sanctioned from 2001 through 2005 following allegations of sexual misconduct. Young people were the victims in at least 1,801 of the cases, and more than 80 percent of those were students. At least half the educators who were punished by their states also were convicted of crimes related to their misconduct. The findings draw obvious comparisons to sex-abuse scandals in other institutions, among them the Roman Catholic Church. A review by America’s Catholic bishops found that about 4,400 of 110,000 priests were accused of molesting minors from 1950 through 2002. Clergy abuse is part of the national consciousness after a string of highly publicized cases. But until now, there’s been little broad public awareness of the extent of educator abuse. Beyond the horror of individual crimes, the larger shame is that the institutions that govern education have only sporadically addressed a problem that’s been apparent for years. “From my own experience—this could get me in trouble—I think every single school district in the nation has at least one perpetrator. At least one,” says Mary Jo McGrath, a California lawyer who has spent 30 years investigating abuse and misconduct in schools. “It doesn’t matter if it’s urban or rural or suburban.” Jennah Bramow, feeding her 3-month-old daughter at home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was 8 when she and two other girls told their parents that music teacher Gary C. Lindsey had sexually abused them. The Bramow family later won a civil suit against the district. —David Lienemann/APOne report mandated by Congress estimated that as many as 4.5 million students, out of roughly 50 million in American schools, are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade. That figure includes verbal harassment that’s sexual in nature. ("Sexual Abuse by Educators Is Scrutinized," March 10, 2004.) Jennah Bramow, one of Mr. Lindsey’s accusers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wonders why there isn’t more outrage. “You’re supposed to be able to send your kids to school knowing that they’re going to be safe,” say

Tell me is Ted Elden worth learning from... Should I learn from him? I been to his home. He collects and shares lots of information. I was wanting to share it with others because I find his work and understanding of our government amazing. Should I pay close attention to this guy and his work? The Truth will set you Free. Step from deception to a new reality, empower yourself ! www.abodia.com/1/1 13 Sept. 2008 6 pm Gold Dome Lions Club - Shoney's Kanawha City I am Ted Elden, Architect ret., Importer, Photographer, Writer, former member of national architectural organizations, importer, national & international sales. In business, I've sold across the US, and to many foreign countries. I've written 1/2 million letters and mailed to millions. I'm good with language, thinking, logic & computers. I'm both scientific & intuitive. Nationally Published & awarded Poet, Photographer, Graduate Colorado Outward Bounds Survival School Carnegie Mellon University, Blair Academy Prep School, I read 300 books as HS Senior year, I acquired 400 books in recent months. I'm reader ! I'm a member of Charleston Rotary and the prestigious Anvil Club with 3 college presidents, professors, lawyers, doctors. I'm easy to reach or visit any time, near Top O Rock, Verizon- Univ. of Charleston. Name, contact, web at bottom. I've published much of my research at www.abodia.com and have tomes more at my studio. I have found important things, that I'd not known in 50 years, The news hides and confuses information. Those with the best information, lead the best lives. Disraeli You too can have a better life, if you get better information. Much I've always feared, I faced. I fortified myself with knowledge, then acted, I moved towards what I feared. As I learned and acted, the fear and danger disappeared. I've researched: 9-11, Income Tax, Suppressed Medical Discoveries, I can give or show you excellent, clear, factual presentations by national professionals with witnesses, evidence, public records, court cases, Congressional Records. The information is startling to behold, but easy to verify. You only need to consider things you have never seen. I work quickly with ideas, and am deeply skilled in verifying information. News is definitely not your best source of information. Local, contemporary news is usually more accurate than national edited news which was adapted for propaganda by the news owners to aid their interests. Large Global Corporations, like military industrial complex, & pharmaceuticals own and control news; TV, books & movies. I speak publicly around the state to students and civic groups, Our Truth Seekers, meets at Top O Rock monthly for 3+ years, first Sundays from 2-4 pm. Many stay late in the evening. Some come from Huntington, Beckley & Wheeling. Anyone may call me in advance to visit my library - 1000s of incredible documents, eBooks, movies. I'm no one, I'm just a bridge to great people and knowledge that most will never see. Most choose to do what is popular, accepted, profitable, personal - helping theirselves, their families, friends & associates. Few have much regard for the community or the future. In America, all is bought & sold, including information. For a high price, important people and institutions have made persuasive presentations about incomplete information. To win an argument or persuade someone, you list items that favor your perspective. You ignore or hide information that favors a different conclusion. We use to have 1,000s of owners of newspapers & TV, but FCC rules have changed. 9 corporations have bought up 95% of main stream media in America. Sony, Disney, AOL/ Time Warner, Viacom, and others. General Electric owns ABC/ NBC. They only repeat information that helps them. They suppress or ignore information that would compromise their profit centers. GE is major player in the military industrial complex. The news teaches hate, war, conflict, to keep us subdued, yielding taxes and freedom to fight distant threats, which the elite create and exaggerate. I thought government & legislators controlled our world. Wrong ! World wide 10,000 or so people, who own the banks, corporations, military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, news, and the legislators, own the money, most corporations & assets and the main stream media. They are working together for their gain, our loss. They create our world of information & perception, leading us to aid their increase in power and the lessening of our thought, freedom, wealth, health & safety. They are not working for our benefit. To ignore this, hoping that our legislators, courts, President will help us is the great illusion. We have to think, realize what is on going and take positive action, writing letters, meeting & telling others, to Awaken a Sleeping (apathetic - hopeless) America. What every you may have imagined or suspected, I can give or find for you hard evidence. MK Ultra mind control is alive & well, workin

Learning and spreading truth is the best actions? What do you think about Ted Elden's information here? Do you buy into his teachings? I met him in 2006 and ever since I am determined to help him all I can to help others with truth and more. Is this worth while? It's alot below. Just tell me what you think. Be nice and thanks so much! The Truth will set you Free. Step from deception to a new reality, empower yourself ! I am Ted Elden, Architect ret., Importer, Photographer, Writer, former member of national architectural organizations, importer, national & international sales. In business, I've sold across the US, and to many foreign countries. I've written 1/2 million letters and mailed to millions. I'm good with language, thinking, logic & computers. I'm both scientific & intuitive. Nationally Published & awarded Poet, Photographer, Graduate Colorado Outward Bounds Survival School Carnegie Mellon University, Blair Academy Prep School, I read 300 books as HS Senior year, I acquired 400 books in recent months. I'm reader ! I'm a member of Charleston Rotary and the prestigious Anvil Club with 3 college presidents, professors, lawyers, doctors. I'm easy to reach or visit any time, near Top O Rock, Verizon- Univ. of Charleston. Name, contact, web at bottom. I've published much of my research at www.abodia.com and have tomes more at my studio. I have found important things, that I'd not known in 50 years, The news hides and confuses information. Those with the best information, lead the best lives. Disraeli You too can have a better life, if you get better information. Much I've always feared, I faced. I fortified myself with knowledge, then acted, I moved towards what I feared. As I learned and acted, the fear and danger disappeared. I've researched: 9-11, Income Tax, Suppressed Medical Discoveries, I can give or show you excellent, clear, factual presentations by national professionals with witnesses, evidence, public records, court cases, Congressional Records. The information is startling to behold, but easy to verify. You only need to consider things you have never seen. I work quickly with ideas, and am deeply skilled in verifying information. News is definitely not your best source of information. Local, contemporary news is usually more accurate than national edited news which was adapted for propaganda by the news owners to aid their interests. Large Global Corporations, like military industrial complex, & pharmaceuticals own and control news; TV, books & movies. I speak publicly around the state to students and civic groups, Our Truth Seekers, meets at Top O Rock monthly for 3+ years, first Sundays from 2-4 pm. Many stay late in the evening. Some come from Huntington, Beckley & Wheeling. Anyone may call me in advance to visit my library - 1000s of incredible documents, eBooks, movies. I'm no one, I'm just a bridge to great people and knowledge that most will never see. Most choose to do what is popular, accepted, profitable, personal - helping theirselves, their families, friends & associates. Few have much regard for the community or the future. In America, all is bought & sold, including information. For a high price, important people and institutions have made persuasive presentations about incomplete information. To win an argument or persuade someone, you list items that favor your perspective. You ignore or hide information that favors a different conclusion. We use to have 1,000s of owners of newspapers & TV, but FCC rules have changed. 9 corporations have bought up 95% of main stream media in America. Sony, Disney, AOL/ Time Warner, Viacom, and others. General Electric owns ABC/ NBC. They only repeat information that helps them. They suppress or ignore information that would compromise their profit centers. GE is major player in the military industrial complex. The news teaches hate, war, conflict, to keep us subdued, yielding taxes and freedom to fight distant threats, which the elite create and exaggerate. I thought government & legislators controlled our world. Wrong ! World wide 10,000 or so people, who own the banks, corporations, military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, news, and the legislators, own the money, most corporations & assets and the main stream media. They are working together for their gain, our loss. They create our world of information & perception, leading us to aid their increase in power and the lessening of our thought, freedom, wealth, health & safety. They are not working for our benefit. To ignore this, hoping that our legislators, courts, President will help us is the great illusion. We have to think, realize what is on going and take positive action, writing letters, meeting & telling others, to Awaken a Sleeping (apathetic - hopeless) America. What every you may have imagined or suspected, I can give or find for you hard evidence. MK Ultra mind control is alive & well, working thru CIA & univer

Was Michael Jackson a Pedophile? I only ask this question in the hopes of getting people that believe he was to read the facts, and educate themselves a little bit. Here are the facts: Michael Jackson met the Chandler family when Jordan had cancer. He (as he did often) offered to pay for all expenses so the family could spend time with their son before losing him. He paid for their cars, their house, and all medical expenses. Jordan beat the cancer, and MJ continued to pay the family's expenses. Eventually, the payments to the family stopped, and Evan Chandler (Jordan's father) was not happy. Prior to the accusation, Evan Chandler, also jealous of MJ's close friendship with his son (a son that he actually cares very little for) accuse MJ of having sex with his son. This is without his son ever having said anything of the sort. Evan Chandler is recorded saying: "There was no reason why he [Jackson] had to stop calling me...I picked the nastiest son of a bitch I could find [Evan Chandler's lawyer, Barry Rothman], all he wants to do is get this out in the public as fast as he can, as big as he can and humiliate as many people as he can. He's nasty, he's mean, he's smart and he's hungry for publicity. Everything's going to a certain plan that isn't just mine. Once I make that phone call, this guy is going to destroy everybody in sight in any devious, nasty, cruel way that he can do it. I've given him full authority to do that. Jackson is an evil guy, he is worse than that and I have the evidence to prove it." - Note: There was never any evidence presented. "If I go through with this, I win big-time. There's no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever...Michael's career will be over." Evan was asked, "How do you think doing this will affect your son?" His answer: "That's irrelevant to me...It will be a massacre if I don't get what I want. It's going to be bigger than all us put together...This man [Jackson] is going to be humiliated beyond belief...He will not sell one more record" Evan Chandler was a dentist, and gave Jordan Sodium Amytal. The government uses this to brainwash people because it makes you "susceptible to suggestion." Sodium Amytal is now being outlawed for use as an anesthetic. To this day, Jordan Chandler's mother adamantly denies any molestation took place. Over the next couple of months both parties engaged in unsuccessful (out of court) financial negotiations, with Chandler and his legal team asking for $20 million, or the issue would be taken to criminal court. Jackson declined the offer, saying, "No way in Hell". A few weeks later, Jackson's legal team gave a counter-offer to the value of $1 million, which was declined by Chandler. The father then lowered his request to $15 million; Jackson rejected this and lowered his original counter-offer to $350,000. With both sides unable to reach an agreement, Chandler decided he would take it to court. Does this sound like the actions of someone who's guilty? Police questioned 30 children who were friends of Jackson, with all denying that the singer was a child molester. A police officer involved in the investigation told The Los Angeles Times that "no evidence (medical, photographic or video) could be found that would support a criminal filing." The police then began an investigation into Evan Chandlers's prior actions and found that he was $68,400 behind in his child support payments, even though he was well-paid as a dentist. 3 years after settling out of court, Evan Chandler then went back for a second helping: (Keep in mind, he still hadn't paid his child support, and made it clear he didn't care what happened to, or how this affected Jordan. This wasn't about his son, this was about him getting paid.) Chandler also has named the pop music star’s ex-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, the Sony Music Corp., the Walt Disney Co. and some 300 unnamed persons as co-conspirators. Note: Evan Chandler did not file a criminal case against Michael Jackson for child molestation. He took him to civil court for money. Here's what a great guy Evan Chandler is: "Jordan Chandler, now 26, filed a request for a restraining order against his father on August 5, 2005. The reason for the order was that Evan Chandler, formerly a dentist and an aspiring screenwriter, had allegedly hit Jordan over the head from behind with a twelve and a half pound weight. He’d also allegedly sprayed him in the face with mace and tried to choke him." Now, these are all the facts. Draw your own conclusions. Note: The courts believe Michael Jackson to be innocent. In 2005 Michael was finally, and fully acquitted. Michael lived his life with people calling him a pedophile, and a freak. He lived in misery. I sincerely hope every person that accused him without a shred of proof eventually has someone accuse THEM of being a pedophile. Note: Not a single bit of this is from *ANY* fan site. All information in here was pulled from CNN, MSNBC, and FOX news. Perhaps you should try to educate yourself? Are you really trying to quote "The Smoking Gun" as a legitimate news source?

¡¡Soy Española!! commotion in spain for a monster case of Josef Fitzl,? " Conmocción desde España "The case of Josef Fitzl, the Austrian retired electrician who has kept locked in a basement for 24 years for her daughter and three children he had with her has shocked world public opinion. These are the 50 keys of what happened,'' August 1984. Josef Fritzlar, an electrician in Austria 50 years, holds her daughter Elisabeth, 18, in the basement of his home in Amstetten, Austria. 2. Amstetten. Locality Austrian located northeast of the country, in Lower Austria, with about 22,600 German-speaking inhabitants. Birthplace of Josef Fritzlar, 73 years ago. At a nearby gas station, on the motorway from Vienna to Salzburg, he worked Elisabeth in the early 80. 3. APRIL 2008. Kristen, a girl aged 19, was taken to hospital with symptoms of being seriously ill. It is one of the daughters Elisabeth, now 42 years. Kristen is unconscious, but it has a note in which his mother asks for help for the young. Doctors seeking unsuccessfully history of the patient. Notice to the Police and history come to light: Josef Fritzlar has remained closed to Elisabeth for 24 years and has had seven children with her. Three of them (the very Kerstin; Stephan, 18, and Felix, 5) have shared captivity with the mother, another died, and the remaining three (Lisa, 15 years; Monika, 14, and Alexander, 13) lived with Josef and his wife, Rosemarie (Elisabeth's mother), on top of one's own home. Rosemarie ensures that knew nothing. 4. Arrests. On April 27, police announced the arrest of Fritzlar, accused of unlawful restraint and sexual abuse. Shortly before, Josef had released her daughter and their children-grandchildren. The detainee confessed the whole. Then, decides to remain silent until the trial. 5. DNA. Two days later, police confirmed that DNA tests conducted to confirm that Fritzlar is the father of the children of Elisabeth. 6. Abuse. Elisabeth suffered the first sexual abuse of his father in 1977, when she was eleven years. Since then she was raped and beaten systematically. He spent the first nine years of his confinement in a single stay of the basement (not until 1993 his father organized other spaces). Children born at that time witnessed continuing violations. Fritzlar kept handcuffed the first two days of captivity, and during the six or nine months remained tied. Police ruled that Josef Fritzlar had abused their children. 7. Background. Fritzlar was jailed for 18 months in 1967 for sexually abusing a young woman in Linz (Austria). He was also subsequently arrested for attempted rape and exhibitionism. In addition, the Police is investigating its connection with the murder, still unsolved, a woman, Martina Posch, 22 years ago. B 8. Search. When Elisabeth was locked up in 1984 his mother reported his disappearance, but, being older, the police thought that he had left home on his own will and no longer look it up. In fact, Elisabeth was locked up by his father after returning to his home after an initial escape attempt. 9. Babies. The three children who lived with Josef and Rosemarie were left on the door of the house shortly after birth (in 1993, 1994 and 1997). They were legally adopted by his grandparents. C 10. Carter. Fritzlar forced his daughter to write letters to keep the secret safe, especially any suspicions of Rosemarie. In the first, 1984, Elisabeth said she was going home and who did not seek. The three children who were appearing at the door of the house later iban accompanied by letters from Elisabeth in which ensured that he could not take care of them. 11. Wedge. Christine R., sister-in-law of Fritzlar and sister Rosemarie, says he always humbled his sister and mistreated their children. It also noted that Josef fell to the basement every morning, "supposedly to draw maps of some machines that wanted to sell." "Sometimes spent all night there. Now you know why," he added. 12. Dungeon. The dungeon built in the basement of his home by Fritzlar has about 80 square meters, and stretched under the garden of the house. It is accessed through a sliding door concrete than 300 kilos of weight, hidden behind a bookcase. There was a staircase entrance, a laundry room, two bedrooms, 3 square metres and a small kitchen next to a bathroom. Some parts of zulo had no more than 1.70 meters high. Ventilation came from a tube. 13. Code. The door of the basement could only be opened using a secret code known only by Fritzlar. The code shareholders an engine electronically. Fritzlar had activated a mechanism so that the door is opened only if he disappeared. 14. Construction. Fritzlar planned and built the dungeon one year before locking her daughter there, and after seeking permission to reform the building. The plans were approved, but did not include rooms in the basement. 15. Food. Josef was responsible for supplying food and clothing to locked. When was travelling left them food reserve. 16. CIEN. Police intended to interrogate hundred people who went through the house during these 24 years (Fritzlar rented rooms at the top). The investigation could go on for at least two months. Researchers can only work in the zulo followed for half an hour due to lack of oxygen. 17. Damn. Fritzlar, in custody, faces a possible sentence of at least 15 years in prison if found guilty of the charge of rape, the most serious of his alleged crimes, according to Austrian law. 18. Complications. The evidence analyzed so far ruled that no family member acting as an accomplice. Although the police insisted that Fritzlar acted alone, the head of the investigation stated that "someone in the family should know something." In this regard, the German magazine Brigitte said that one of the children living in the upper house had a copy of the key that gave the basement. Dubanovsky Alfred, a man who was 12 years renting a room in the house of Fritzlar, said that he saw another man fell next to his home in the basement. He added that this man was a plumber, and it drew attention because he was trying to enter prohibited in that part of the house. D 19. Drugs. Fritzlar told police he had locked her daughter to "protect and keep away from drugs". 20. Damage. Encerrado without natural light and isolated from the world throughout his life, the children of Fritzlar have developed various phobias and fears. They feel panic before the blue tones of mobile phones, traffic in the city ... In addition, they speak with gruñidos (communicate among themselves with a language itself) and prefer to crawl. The small, five-year, is "joyful and vital", and was fascinated to sit for the first time in a car. The two biggest need at least eight years of therapy. Experts have advised that for the moment, live in a house without windows. The three, like her mother, have skin problems. Kristen has lost almost all their teeth. 21. Fainting. Kristen was transferred to hospital after suffering a fainting, a result of illness endured. According to some sources, his condition is typical of the evils that can lead to having children at an incestuous relationship. Other media point to an infection. E 22. Ageing. Elisabeth looks 20 years over which it has. It has very white hair and skin almost transparent due to lack of sunlight. F 23. Pictures. Despite that have been disclosed both photographs of Josef Fritzlar as Elisabeth, the Austrian authorities have warned that any media to publish pictures or intimate details of the victims could be fined up to 20,000 euros. The authorities are studying the possibility of changing the name to protect the victims. G 24. GAS. Police investigating whether Fritzlar built a device to the zulo be filled gas in the event that something will happen to him. Threats to the gas locked in the dungeon if they tried to break free, which could partly explain why Elisabeth would not have never tried to attack you. H 25. Daughter. Elisabeth took their seven children in the course of 14 years. The conditions under which took place deliveries are still being investigated. The first, Kristen, was born in 1988, and Stephan was born in 1990. Lisa and Monika 'appeared' on the door of the house when they were nine and ten months old. In 1996 twins were born. One of them died within three days and the other, Alexander, 'appeared' also 15 months later at the door of the home. The last, Felix, was born in 2003. According to police, Fritzlar chose the children who took on his health status and its "inclination to mourn." I 26. Incineration. According said Elisabeth, the sister of the dead body was cremated by Josef in the garden. 27. Social impact. The case of Josef Fritzlar has shocked both the town of Amstetten, besieged these days by hundreds of journalists, as the entire Austrian society, especially when it happened barely two years after it was known the case of Natascha Kampusch, the young man who was kidnapped near Vienna for eight years. Some local media also have questioned one type of society in which there may be cases like this one: "Everything should be ashamed Amstetten.'s Neighbors closed their eyes" (Österreich), "The entire community must ask itself what is happening" (Der Standard). Some 200 people gathered in the main square of Amstetten carrying candles to express their "anger" and "deep sorrow" for what happened. "Every day spent in front of the house; should have done something," said one of the assistants. 28. Ignorance. Elisabeth has exculpado his mother from captivity and abuse he suffered, making sure that she knew nothing. "He never had anything to do," he said. J 29. JUDGE. "All the procedures were tough, the pieces were consistent," said Josef Schluegl judge, who granted in their day-to Fritzlar custody of a child, not knowing that it was actually his son, after reading a letter in which Elisabeth asked their parents to take care of small and not try to look it up. "Impossible to imagine that he was kidnapped and forced him to write," he added. K 30. KAMPUSCH, Natascha. The young Austrian 20-year-old Natascha Kampusch, who reappeared in 2006 after spending eight years sequestered, announced the donation of 25,000 euros for victims of Fritzlar. He also made an international appeal to raise money for the family. L 31. Lynchings. Fritzlar has been isolated in prison Sankt Polten before the danger that other prisoners might lynched. "The murderers and rapists of minors are seen as the lowest scale and deplorable, so often suffer attacks extremes," said Günter Mörwald, director of the prison. M 32. Monster. Most of the Spanish press has dubbed Josef Fritzlar as "The Monster of Amstetten." The French daily Le Figaro spoke of "the father of darkness". 33. May, RUDOLPH. It's lawyer Fritzlar. Counsel famous in Austria, Der Spiegel assured that their work is "to show Josef Fritzlar as a human being" after being presented as "a horrible monster and a tyrant sex." "When I saw him for the first time I seemed like a patriarch with good and bad sides, broken, very emotionally affected," he said. N 34. Nazis. The clinic where he recovered Elisabeth and their children, in the town of Mauer, also has its own dark past. During World War II, hundreds of people died here victims of euthanasia practices carried out by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944. Or 35. Other cases. We discovered in Amstetten has brought to mind other similar events, apart from the mentioned Natascha Kampusch. Gouardo Lydia, a French 45 year said they had been raped and tortured for 28 years by his father, with whom she had six children between 1982 and 1993, has shown its desire to meet Elisabeth. Moreover, the Austrian police reopen the case of 64 missing children in the country, five of which are missing from their homes for more than 10 years. P 36. Posch, Martin. He was murdered 22 years ago, when he was 17. His body was found in Lake Mondsee and so far the case has not yet been resolved. Fritzlar's wife then had a restaurant on the banks of the lake, not far from Amstetten. 37. Properties. Fritzlar enjoyed a comfortable financial position. He was registered as sole owner of six real estate, spread over several localities of Lower Austria. The list includes the family home, three buildings with many apartments and commercial premises, another house and a plot, with an estimated value of about 2.2 million. In one of these solar acquired by Fritzlar just three years ago, had moved tens of cubic meters of earth. 38. Imprisonment. In prison Sankt Polten, Fritzlar occupies a cell with a small window by which natural light enters, overlooking a garden. It has radio and television and can go for a walk once a day. 39. Profile. Joseph Fritzlar, 74-year-old retired electrician, has been described by police as a "very intelligent". His neighbors considered him a figure respectable within the community. His sister-in-law, however, he now qualifies for "despot". His neighbours claim that always tried to appear tan, flirting with women and that drew attention for the way he had exaggerated care of your garden. Others noted that ruled his home "as a lieutenant general," and that it was very jealous of their privacy. A former co-worker noted that "was always well dressed, as a diplomat." It belonged to the club's fishing Amstetten. Q 40. Complaint. Some of the tenants of Fritzlar complained that often disappeared as the refrigerator of the house. One of them said not understand because Fritzlar "seemed to enjoy a good economic situation." R 41. Reunification. Each child of Elisabeth (except Kristen, who remained hospitalized) and her mother met for the first time last April 27, at the clinic where they are receiving treatment. The centre's director described as "astonishing" and "exciting" the "ease with which came together", both boys among themselves, as with his mother Elisabeth. Rosemarie told her daughter that it felt and that he had no "no idea". S 42. Suicide. In prison, Fritzlar remains under surveillance 24 hours to avoid dealing with kill himself. 43. Sect. Fritzlar maintained all these years version of her daughter Elisabeth had been picked up by a sect, which obliged him to get rid of their children. The Chief of Police of Lower Austria noted that "this man did not leave any place without tying in order to deceive his family, his wife, their relatives, children and the world around him." T 44. Thailand. The German tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung reported in a video that appears Fritzlar during a holiday in Thailand. It was recorded by a German friend who traveled with the Asian country. In the video you can see how Fritzlar, swimwear, receives a massage from a woman on the beach. In another scene, is preparing to eat a piece of meat and it looks very good mood. 45. Tourism. The Austrian authorities have shown their concern about the effect of tourism in cases like that of Fritzlar or Kampusch. Franz Grossglockner, head of the department of Tourism of Austria, told the AP agency: "Who will want to visit this country? For every wonderful summit snowfall or every cathedral we also have begun a world war, or choose to admit as xenophobes rulers, rapists and incestuous psychopaths in the headlines ...". U 46. Usurpation of staff. In at least one occasion, Fritzlar was going through his daughter Elisabeth to announce by telephone that his wife had left one of the babies at the door of the house. V 47. Summer. Fritzlar had planned to end the confinement this summer, according to British newspaper Daily Mail. Apparently, "no longer endure" his daughter, and was "tired of his dual life" and therefore had decided to return to Elisabeth of the alleged sect which allegedly had ido 24 years ago. W 48. WEB. Internet is the medium that is giving more complete and updated case. In www.20minutos.es there is continuous renewal with photos and videos. X 49. X. The case of 'monster Amstetten "is full of questions and unknowns still to be resolved: How is it possible that no member of the family, especially his wife of Fritzlar, suspected nothing, nor neighbours and acquaintances of the couple? Who Caring for Fritzlar was locked when traveling? How were the births in that zulo what happened when one of the children, especially infants being, fell seriously ill How justified Fritzlar before his wife extra expenditure on food, clothing , Etc.? Z 50. Zul. The basements like the one used as Fritzlar zulo received grants from the Austrian government during the Cold War to be used as shelters before a possible nuclear attack Related articles A tenant who lived in the house of Fritzlar says he knew he raped his daughter (04/05/08) Fritzlar threatened their victims to die gas in the basement (01/05/08) Austria called to testify to the neighbors of Fritzlar (30/04/08) Josef Fritzlar built the dungeon for her daughter a year before encerrado (03/05/08) Elisabeth Fritzlar his acquittal mother of his captivity and abuse (03/05/08) Danger of lynching for the kidnapper and rapist of his daughter, Elizabeth Fritzlar (02/05/08) One witness says that he saw another person come in zulo Josef Fritzlar (02/05/08) -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Send to: Reddit Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Yahoo Fresqui Note: You must be registered in these services to record the contenidoAhora at home ... 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The RNC has said that they're not going to officially make attacks on race and gender, but you can have other groups raise these concerns and it works to McCain's advantage. The other question here is how Obama and Clinton may tear themselves apart heading into the convention and the general election by raising all these questions about each other. They're provoking these implicit biases among the general electorate as we speak--and the Republican Party may not have to do much next fall. Featured, Expertinent, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Permalink: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/a... Sphere It! Digg It! Newsvine Del.icio.us Facebook Type SizePrint Email RSS Social Networks Permalink: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/a... TrackBack URL: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/t... Sphere It! Digg It! Newsvine Del.icio.us Facebook DiscussEnter Your CommentSubmit Member Comments Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 26, 2008 at 7:51 PM) the reverend dr kamal karna karuna roy was not delighted to report to we th peopleo usa that USA as a democratic republi pursuant to declaration in united state constitution, the supreme commandments or testaments of usa as a nation and one of the earliet proponents of league of nations , later , the united nations organization, U N O housed at new york city , new york Plaza, is truly on a showcase about to peril in authentic democratic dreams of over two enturies since independence from british rulers w e f 1766. racial discriminations are partly on way out , but extremely disappointing discrimination in between have_nots, poors in U S A and have_most, multibillionaires, human_god/s democratic devils, , human_animals'conceived custom made god/s of most religions, supposed to be democratic in motto and intentions of we the people in U S A et al are in deep concerts are united to bring peril of u s american democracy, almost in full , in respect of rights of have_nots in u s a whenever the leaderships iossues are concerned problem. Us Courts censor the petition and conenss of grievances of weker people as a whole, as if pains, harks and damages to a weaker man of we the the mauy not exists, judges mostly declare weaker people's concer and griefs are not damage controllable ineye of us $ economics. to be quoted in u s court of laws. As such weaker people,s peoples grievances are censorred for purpose to petion to govt to redress grievance. the us judiciary is a wing of u s govt and such depts are parties to check and balances on other segregated depts of legislative and executive wings, now the issue is U S JUDICIARY HAS TURNED MONSTER TO EAT UP WEAKER PEOPLE,S PETITIONS TO GOVT FOR KEEPING EYE OD THEIR ISSUES. U S JUDICIARY MAY NOT ACT AS CENSORRING WING OF U S GOVT ,BUT IN PRACTICAL EFFECT THE US JUDICIARY ENJOYS BACK DOOR POWER OF OPPRESSIONS ON WEAKER PEOPLE. bUT THE SYSTEM MUST BE CURED AND NOT DESTROYED IN DEMOCRACY, DR ROY TOLD WE THE AT LARGE IN USA AND BEYOND BORDERS OF USA THAT FEDERAL CIVIL ACTIONS HAVE BEEN FILED IN USDC FOR SOUTHERB DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA AT ALEXANDRIA VA AND AT USDC, DISTRICT OF WYOMING AT CHEYENNE WY, USA WITH COMPLAINTS WHERIN U S JUDICIARY ARE PARTIES AS DEFENDANTS AS WINGS OF U S GOVT SHOWING JUDGES OF US DISTRIC COURT ACTING AS DEFACTO OPPRESSOR ON WEAKER PEOPOE VIZ THE REV KAMAL KARNA KARUNA ROY, A US GOP HOPEFUL AND DEMANDING TO BE NOMINATED FOR GOP AT THENEXT PARTY NOMINATING CONVENTION OF GOP, FOR DECIDING ON CANDIDATE OR GOP AT THE U S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL RACE SCHEDULED ON NOV 4 2008 , AND DR ROY DEMANDED TO COURTS 48+USDC'S TO ISSUE INJUNCTIVE ORDER TO POSTPONE U S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR PROPOSE ORDER OF INESTIGATIONS ON CORRUPTION IN CAMPAIGN , AS WELL AS CONDUCTS OF SPECIFIC JUDGES AS THEY WERE ENGAGED TO CURB WEAKER PERSON'S RIGHT IN DEJMOCRACY. oNE OF THE DEFENDANTSNAMED VIZ HON DORA LIZZETTE iRIZARRY OF USD COURT, E D NY AS SHE LOVED TO CURB U S CONSTITUTONAL RIGHTS OF CITIZEN VIZ THE RE DR KAMAL ROY A U S AERICAN POOR IN ALL STANDARD AS HE HAD BEEN ON VOW OF POVERTY AS AN ORDAINED CLERGY REGISTERED IN TH CITY CLERK'S OFFICE IN CITY OF NEW YORK IN NEW YORK COUNTY IN MANHATTAN. THE JUDGE IS IMMIUNE OF FEDERAL CIVIL CHARGES BUT MISCONDUCTS OF FEDERAL JUDGES CAN BE MADE A LIABILITY ISSUE OF US GOVT AS DEFENDANT AS JUDGES MAY NOT VIOLATE U S CONSTITUTION AS U S PRESIDENT ISANSWERABLE FOR VIOLATIONS OF U S CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS, ALTERNATELY NATION OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC SHALL FAIL EXISTANCE OF NATION,USA. FILED LAWFULLY ON 4.26. 2008 VIA MAIL FROM SARANAC LAKE NEW YORK 12983 . Report Abuse --------------------------------------... Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 26, 2008 at 9:00 AM) the reverend hon'ble mr premansy roy das, fellow of world religions school and university of god/s, religions and people in democracies , as is & efforts forsurvival in optimum privileges to al members of we the people, new yorl, world wide. 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DiscussEnter Your CommentSubmit Member Comments Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 25, 2008 at 8:15 AM) Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 25, 2008 at 7:56 AM) the hon'ble reverend premansu roy das , a Religious leader of weaker people world wide ,& agent to remove inequities in democratic rules, and the associate editor publication s of JUNGLE DEMOCRACIES, CAT AND MOUSE DOCTRINES OF OPPRESSIONS on weaker peple or weaker entities or weaker naion ,or weaker social movements for people of regional interests with regional religiou flavour, those movemnts were being termed as terrorism as per view of powerful interests groups domesti or or foreign origins: :Author th rev dr kamal karna karuna roy of usa,anda gop Presidential candidate and hopeful and demanding to be nominee of u s president of gop on basis of qualification, ability to operate(mobile, electroni and hard copis aroun globe to spread love of democratic rule as a best sermon of god/s for equitable societal coexistence.disciple of dr kamal k roy: Report Abuse --------------------------------------... 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DiscussEnter Your CommentSubmit Member Comments Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 25, 2008 at 4:17 AM) appeal to majority white population in usa by the reverend dr kamal karna roy , a gop contender of u s presidency 2008 electoral competiotion now in progress. white majority are possibly in sleep now. or they may may be unconmscious and possibly not in coma. pl do wake up. leadership of usa is going to be auctioned off to a female viz clinton mrs or a 1/2 black person who talks big without a bit of substance in this ethics and realities of usa. a woman president in usa is a very good idea. but u may not benefit from a woman leader of usa, who possibly was involved in whitewater real estate scandal which remained overed with scandalous mystery as the possible most corrupt in the deal hillary r clinton was not fully investigated as during the whitewater r/e investigations hillary was hiding or was covered in a clintonian first woman cloak. One top white house aide linked in above scandal was killed, or he disappeared by death or in a broader conspiracy he was removed from scene of investigations of said scandal many members of we the people lost millions in the deceiving operation of whitewater.reinvestigation is demanded to all law enforcement authorities of usa or stat of arkansas. only one thing i found of the investigatioins. illfamed hillary has been trying nowto steal fame among people by intending to be u s democrat president by causing public sentiment thatshe was woman and a woman presidentshoule b elected.The problem with hillary is she is doubtful, deficient in honesty and she is no proven leader to take as big responsibility of us president. a diffent story is for inability of barrak hussain obama. He is half black no doubt.. he is an opportunist without any question. he changed his religious faith from islam to christianity for privilege to hiself. He changed his nam,partly He changed his economic status by making ponzi crime deal of buying reidential hom with sweet_heart deal with a would be felon as alleged, now in jail and 199% sure he did not pay i r s taxes from illegal bargain for turning himself to be millionaire.Now he is trying to prove that he was leader likejfk or martin luther king jr . He is nothing but oratory magician He is a junk_patrio of usa. He needed clean up his face to show himself clearly to we the people. barrack hussain obama did hear sermon from rev wright which was apparently anti american_terrorist,s voice in usa. as religious leader wright could utter words against some oppressions of black community in usa. his talk was immune under freedom of expression and especillyu wright spoke in court of presumed god christ. But obama's fke renouncement of his 20 years of close relationship with rev right make obama a very devious man as he attended sermons , say , without feeling goo or bad about it whether patriotic or anti american. dump hillary or obama, white majority in usa , yu as a group in human civilization have been excellent selector or a leader like washington, lincoln, roosevelt of reagan, w , then why u sould pick up a counterfeit leader, who be a woman like hillary or black like obama. U could draft a better black person or a better woman to beyour leader if u find it harder to find an optimally good and talented patriot for the job of u s president . look around u may find a true leader for u. from 1. 20. 2009. Pl do not junk you future with sense o nobility to woman or a black.see below : DiscussEnter Your CommentSubmit Member Comments Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM) 4.21.2008new york rev makhan lal ghosh , democratice reforms agent & asst to dr kamal karna roy , a gop presidential hopeful and demanding to be mr cleaner gop would be president of nov 4 scheduled election of 2008 if be held on schedule as prayers were made inthe 42+ usd court jurisdictions in most regions of usa to postpone u s presidential election of 2008 for massive corruptions by 550+ defendants during 2007-08 to harm. to pain . and to damage chances of winningof the rev dr kamal karna k roy as the u s gop candidate and nominee as the mr cleaner president of usa as and when it be held without corruptions in campaign;and prayers were made that u s house of repsentative appoint an interim u s president on jan 20, 2009 pursuant to misc laws in the u s constitution and federal laws on a prayer of usd court ourt suggestion for the appointrment to refil of void in the system if election is postponed. dr roy shall move to ifferent circuit courts of appeals if correctional measures are no approved or granted by courts and pursuant to u s constitution action shall follow u s supreme court in washington dc for appellate reriefs if not be available by lower ourts and circuit court of appeals. Yahoo! SearchSearch:Welcome, viswa_dh [Sign Out, My Account]Answers Home -Forum -Blog -Help Ask Answer Discover Search for questions: Advanced My Profile Home > Politics & Government > Politics > Your Open Question viswa_dh Member since: April 21, 2008 Total points: 91 (Level 1) Your Open QuestionShow me another » The rev mr makhan lal ghosh a leader of masses for democratic have-nots , oors and disadvantaged ? Search:Welcome, viswa_dh [Sign Out, My Account]Answers Home -Forum -Blog -Help Ask Answer Discover Search for questions: Advanced My Profile Home > Politics & Government > Civic Participation > Your Open Question viswa_dh Member since: April 21, 2008 Total points: 96 (Level 1) Your Open QuestionShow me another » THE REV MAKHAN LAL GHOSH AUTHOR POLITICAL STRATEGIST WORLD_WIDE DEMOCRACIES, REFORM AGENT, ORDAINED CLERGY WR? VISITING BELGHORIA, NEAR KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA; BENGALI AUTHOR OF REPUTE; LAWYER; A LEADER OF STRUGGLING PEOPLE IN 3RD WORLD NATIONS; HE WOULD LIKE TO DEVELOP STRATEGY TO BRING HAVE_NOTS CLOSE TO HAVE ALLS: HE IS A FOLLOWER OF DR THE REV KAMAL KARNA ROY, A U S GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND DEJANDING TO BE MR CLEANER GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE OF GOP IN THE NOV 4, 2008 U S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2998 IF BE HELD ON TIME WITHOUT A USD COURTR INJUNCTION TO POSTPONE U S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF NOV 4, 2008 FOR MASS AND SKYHIGH CORRUPTIONS BY 560+ defendants 1 second ago - 3 days left to answer. Report Abuse --------------------------------------... Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 19, 2008 at 2:46 PM) Report Abuse --------------------------------------... Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 25, 2008 at 4:25 AM) the rev makhan lal ghosh & mr the rev premansu das r das reporting themes of the reverend dr kamal karna k toy a u s gop presiential candidate of gop and demanding to be nominated as mr cleanest gop presidential nominee for 2008 nov 4 scheduled election if election be held without injunctive order of postponement of the election of president until enquiries may be completed fof allegations of corruptins by 590+ defendants in 48+ us d court of diverse juridiction. DiscussEnter Your CommentSubmit Member Comments Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN (April 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM) 4.21.2008new york rev makhan lal ghosh , democratice reforms agent & asst to dr kamal karna roy , a gop presidential hopeful and demanding to be mr cleaner gop would be president of nov 4 scheduled election of 2008 if be held on schedule as prayers were made inthe 42+ usd court jurisdictions in most regions of usa to postpone u s presidential election of 2008 for massive corruptions by 550+ defendants during 2007-08 to harm. to pain . and to damage chances of winningof the rev dr kamal karna k roy as the u s gop candidate and nominee as the mr cleaner president of usa as and when it be held without corruptions in campaign;and prayers were made that u s house of repsentative appoint an interim u s president on jan 20, 2009 pursuant to misc laws in the u s constitution and federal laws on a prayer of usd court ourt suggestion for the appointrment to refil of void in the system if election is postponed. dr roy shall move to ifferent circuit courts of appeals if correctional measures are no approved or granted by courts and pursuant to u s constitution action shall follow u s supreme court in washington dc for appellate reriefs if not be available by lower ourts and circuit court of appeals. 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Should I get the police involved? Ok, I asked all that already, but I just logged into my stepdad's account and he's used his credit card in this place called san ynez valley which is only 2 hours away at a gas station. Which means that he could be here in the city by now. I don't know if he wants to hurt us, I don't think he'd hurt his kids, but I'm scared. My stepdad hasn't called even once. My dad booked us a hotel and told us to stay put. He's still telling me to wait for him to get here tomorrow night and not call the police yet. What I want to know is, Is there a way for my stepdad to find out where we're staying if my dad booked the tickets? If he hasn't hurt my mom why hasn't he called to check on us? Is there a way for him to know that we're logging in to his accounts? After ten days why would he now use his credit card? My brother and his friend are flying in from NY and will be here in the morning. He's 21, if we go to the police with him will social services still get involved? ********************************* (original question) My mom and my step dad went on vacation to Ibiza. They were supposed the come back 3 days ago, but I haven't heard anything from them since the day they left. My mom is the type of person who will call and check up literally every chance she can get. She called me twice from the airport before her plain departed and twice in London while waiting for her connecting flight, but she hasn't called since then. I called the hotel in Ibiza, but it's not even a working number. Here's the other thing. My mom didn't leave money for us. My step-dad convinced her to take our ( my brother and I) credit cards away while she was gone . She was supposed to leave her debit card with us , but she forgot to give it to my brother when he took them to the airport. She told me when I talked to her at the airport she would overnight it from the the airport in London, but it never came. This isn't normal behavior for my mom . When she goes out of town seriously calls at about 3-5 times a day to check up on us. My brother who's away in college sent us money about 4 days ago so we're not starving or anything, but I'm worried. He said they're probably just having a good time. Which made sense at the time, but they haven't even came back yet or called once. My brother went to the airport to pick them up, couldn't find them. He talked to the airlines...they have no record of them even being on the return flight. My step dad booked the tickets and we had the itinerary, but the lady said they weren't on the flight and weren't on any flight with that airlines. I've been trying to reach my dad ( not stepdad) for the past few days he lives in a different state and he's vacationing with his new wife somewhere in South America. I finally got a hold of my dad this morning, I told him I what was going on and he said he'll be here tomorrow and also sent money. My brother logged into my step dad's credit card statements online, he knew the password.....the last time he used the card was at the airport in London. We don't know the password for my moms account. I just called both of their jobs, ( they were both supposed to go into work on Friday). I talked to my moms secretary, she hasn't spoken to her, she never even called in and she was supposed to be at work. My mom always calls her job. My step dad called in sick on Wednesday according to his job. Which makes no sense. My step dad hasn't used his credit card since the day he left, yet it's his primary credit card. He's somewhere and obviously fine enough to contact his job, but not us. He has a 3 year old daughter and a 6 year old son with my mother, who are also here with my bother and I. My brother and I are both 16 BTW. I have a million red flags in my head. If my mom were ok she would have called us, she would have called her job. When I talked to my dad he told me not to go to the police until he gets here. My dad's a lawyer so I guess he knows what he's doing, but now that I know that my step dad called into work and my mom didn't or hasn't even called us.... I just feel like somethings terribly wrong and I want the police involved. My 3 and 6 year old brother & sister want to talk to our mom. I don't know what to tell them. We all are supposed to start school tomorrow, but we just moved here 3 months ago and I don't even know where my sister's daycare is. My mom wouldn't just leave for ten days and not call, or make sure we had money and not even come back when she said she would, especially a few days before school starts. My brother and I are going crazy sitting in the house. My little bro and sis can tell we're worried. I think we'll take them to the beach or for ice cream or something to keep them occupied. I really just want to go to the police, but may dad said to wait. Should I wait until he gets here tomorrow or go to the police? My brother and I are 16, almost 17 we both have cars we live in a safe neighborhood. It isn't unusual for them to go out of town and leave us with the little ones, but they're never gone more than a week. I've considered the fact that social services might get involved which is why my dad probably told me to wait for him, but I'm also considering the fact that my mom may be in some sort of trouble and I'm wasting time by doing nothing. I just moved from New York to Los Angeles 3 months ago, I don't know any of our neighbors. The only people I know here are my stepdad's family and a few friends. I didn't mean tickets, I ment the hotel room. If my dad booked the hotel, is they a way for my step dad to find out where we are?

Should I go to the police? My mom and my step dad went on vacation to Ibiza. They were supposed the come back 3 days ago, but I haven't heard anything from them since the day they left. My mom is the type of person who will call and check up literally every chance she can get. She called me twice from the airport before her plain departed and twice in London while waiting for her connecting flight, but she hasn't called since then. I called the hotel in Ibiza, but it's not even a working number. Here's the other thing. My mom didn't leave money for us. My step-dad convinced her to take our ( my brother and I) credit cards away while she was gone . She was supposed to leave her debit card with us , but she forgot to give it to my brother when he took them to the airport. She told me when I talked to her at the airport she would overnight it from the the airport in London, but it never came. This isn't normal behavior for my mom . When she goes out of town seriously calls at about 3-5 times a day to check up on us. My brother who's away in college sent us money about 4 days ago so we're not starving or anything, but I'm worried. He said they're probably just having a good time. Which made sense at the time, but they haven't even came back yet or called once. My brother went to the airport to pick them up, couldn't find them. He talked to the airlines...they have no record of them even being on the return flight. My step dad booked the tickets and we had the itinerary, but the lady said they weren't on the flight and weren't on any flight with that airlines. I've been trying to reach my dad ( not stepdad) for the past few days he lives in a different state and he's vacationing with his new wife somewhere in South America. I finally got a hold of my dad this morning, I told him I what was going on and he said he'll be here tomorrow and also sent money. My brother logged into my step dad's credit card statements online, he knew the password.....the last time he used the card was at the airport in London. We don't know the password for my moms account. I just called both of their jobs, ( they were both supposed to go into work on Friday). I talked to my moms secretary, she hasn't spoken to her, she never even called in and she was supposed to be at work. My mom always calls her job. My step dad called in sick on Wednesday according to his job. Which makes no sense. My step dad hasn't used his credit card since the day he left, yet it's his primary credit card. He's somewhere and obviously fine enough to contact his job, but not us. He has a 3 year old daughter and a 6 year old son with my mother, who are also here with my bother and I. My brother and I are both 16 BTW. I have a million red flags in my head. If my mom were ok she would have called us, she would have called her job. When I talked to my dad he told me not to go to the police until he gets here. My dad's a lawyer so I guess he knows what he's doing, but now that I know that my step dad called into work and my mom didn't or hasn't even called us.... I just feel like somethings terribly wrong and I want the police involved. My 3 and 6 year old brother & sister want to talk to our mom. I don't know what to tell them. We all are supposed to start school tomorrow, but we just moved here 3 months ago and I don't even know where my sister's daycare is. My mom wouldn't just leave for ten days and not call, or make sure we had money and not even come back when she said she would, especially a few days before school starts. My brother and I are going crazy sitting in the house. My little bro and sis can tell we're worried. I think we'll take them to the beach or for ice cream or something to keep them occupied. I really just want to go to the police, but may dad said to wait. Should I wait until he gets here tomorrow or go to the police?

What Do you think of my Story So far? ? I got Really bored these Past Few Days and Decided to Write a Story,i was wondering what you guys think and if you have any suggestions of how the story should go after this section please let me know! I had a good life in the city, I was never popular but people did know my name. I had my group of friends and my boyfriend. I lived with my mum in a two bedroom loft she rented out after my so called father left her when he found out she was pregnant. My mum blamed my dad for all her problems and had an outburst of anger every once in a while. But she always made sense of it, she was a lawyer after all. We didn’t care about our problems when we were together in the apartment it was like we were living in a fantasy world. We had a great life until she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was so scared she was the only family I had apart from my Aunty Corinne that lived in the country with her boyfriend. My mum had gotten over the cancer in a period of a year and I was so relieved. But then 6 months later the cancer came back and hit her twice as hard and a month later on the 18th of August just a week before my sixteenth birthday at 4:38 am with me by her side my mother died. After that my life just turned into a blur all I remember doing was balling my eyes out. My mum was the only person i could ever open up to. Then one week later for my sixteenth birthday my present was moving to the small country side of Capeside to live with my 32 year old cousin Corinne and her boyfriend Max. “Addie” Corinne yelled from upstairs, “do you think you could help me out at the restaurant tonight, one of our waitresses called in sick?” “I suppose I could do that” I yelled back “ no need to yell I’m right behind you” I turned around and saw my 32 year old cousin, with her long blonde hair and gorgeous blue eyes just staring at me, that’s when I realized I was no where as pretty as her with my light brown hair and cheap highlights and my brown eyes were dull compared to her bright blue sparkling eyes. “oh right well im happy to help” Living in Capeside Turned out differently then I expected, the town was small but beautiful there was a total of about 27 shops. Corinne and Max lived in a house across the Creek and owned a restaurant named The Creek Bites; Corinne had made a living for herself with her boyfriend I feel like I had just intruded. I suddenly snapped back into reality. Sitting across from me on the counter was a boy a blonde haired blue eyed boy with the most even tanned skin ever I was tempted to ask him if it was spray on but I dared not to, he looked about my age but I wasn’t sure. “can I get you something” I asked him. “ Hi’ he said ‘I’m Will are you new around here?’ “ yea I am just moved here today actually!” I replied “ you just moved here today and you already have a job boy you must be good!”“well actually Corinne is my aunt and I have just come to stay with her for a while” I said, I didn’t really want to go into the whole my mum died act with a complete stranger. “ Ok Corinne’s niece, do you have a name?” “ Addie” “ ahh is that short for Adeline?” he asked me looking straight into my eyes “ Ah Actually its short for Adrienne, ive never heard the name Adeline before, I’ve heard Adelaide but no Adeline” I said to him confused. “well it must be a very uncommon name it originated from South Africa you know” he looked at me all seriously but before I could say another word Jack the waiter cut in “here you go Will your usual takeaway order for your Friday movie nights” “ thanks man” He replied to Jack and started to walk away “ Oh and Addie it was a pleasure to meet you I’m sure ill see you around sometime”. And then after that he stepped out the door. There was nothing much to do on a Saturday at Capeside, so I decided to go take a wonder to the shops, and check out some of the area. I was at the pier when I turned around and noticed the video store, hmm I thought to myself maybe I could get a couple of videos to watch tonight. As I approached the video store and walked in I saw a familiar face. “Hi Addie” Will said to me as I walked in, “Hey Will” I replied. Just then another guy walked out of the backroom, he was gorgeous, brown shaggy hair with brown eyes. His brown eyes weren’t dull like me somehow they were bright. And my heart started pounding a million times a second before he said “Hi” “Hey” I shyly said. Oh and to tell you the truth this story is kind of like my life except for a few exceptions like the names and everything but it is basically a true story