There Goes The Neighbourhood

Generally, my view of anyone who 'harms' a child is they do not deserve the chance to rot in prison.  'Harm' is subjective, and I would define it very loosely as anything that causes physical harm to a child, and extreme emotional or mental harm.  However, to cross into the area of no rotting in prison because they don't deserve it, one must cross a threshold that is more than spanking a child once in their life or yelling at a child once in their life.  It does include any act of sex or sexual content. Nambla should pay attention.  Tolerating the abuse for any reason is tolerating an evil that should not be tolerated. I have heard of the issue that follows, and been aware of it for some time, and perhaps I have not thought too much about it to avoid the conclusion I must reach - we should leave and let them slaughter each other.  Less of them.  But, what of the children harmed by this evil practice.  The disdain for them, their culture, their 'religio...

Brewer condemns report to UN mentioning Ariz. law Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press Writer – Fri Aug 27, 10:57 pm ET PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state's controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations' human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is "downright offensive" that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years. "The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional," Brewer wrote. Arizona's law generally requires police officer enforcing other laws to in...

Obama doubled down on his support for a mosque and community center planned for a site two blocks north of ground zero in lower Manhattan – and denied reports that he tried to back away from backing the controversial project. “I didn’t walk it back it all,” he said. “I was very specific with my team… The core value and principle that every American is treated the same doesn’t change… At [a White House Ramadan celebration], I had Muslim Americans who had been in uniform fighting in Iraq… How can you say to them that their religious faith is less worthy of respect?... That’s something that I feel very strongly about.” obama

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson violated rules, steered scholarships to relatives 12:35 AM CDT on Sunday, August 29, 2010 By TODD J. GILLMAN and CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers' causes. The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money. And all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member's district. Johnson, a Democrat, denied any favoritism when asked about the scholarships last week. Two days later, she acknowledged in a statement released by her office that she had violated the rules but said she had done so " unknowingly " and would work with the foundation to "rectify the financial situation....

I suppose, to each his own, whatever they eat, culture and all that jazz.  Except, as the following points out, there are some questions about the need to eat the cats and dogs. Saturday, August 28, 2010 How many dogs and cats are eaten in Asia? The absence of dogs and cats from the agricultural statistics of almost every dog or cat eating nation tends to confirm that they are eaten not primarily for food value, but rather as a vice, believed to enhance sexual attraction and potency. Some of the Asian nations in which dogs and cats are eaten are descended from some of the first civilizations to keep written records. Statistics on grain production and animal husbandry in many ancient Asian empires are still accessible to scholars who can read the scripts. Yet quantifying dog and cat consumption, either historically or today, remains more mysterious than estimating the numbers of children born out of wedlock, the truth of which is emerging through genetic research that seeks to trac...

Fair minded individuals on the left have been saying for some time that FOX News is the depository for all things conservative.  Last week more indications of this truth - the parent organization for FOX donated $1 million to the Republican Governor's Association. When a media source donates millions (whether it is this donation or the scores of donations between each presidential election) you have to wonder.  Any reasonable person would.  Most reasonable people would walk away thinking - FOX = Republican party, and would naturally dismiss many comments emanating from FOX News about Democrats or liberals.  And I think that is reasonable. So is the following - Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network execs, writers, reporters By: Mark Tapscott Editorial Page Editor 08/27/10 3:45 PM EDT Washington Examiner Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and...

This time, 14 murders in Acapulco.   The safe sanctuary for visitors - a murder haven.  The Mexican government helpless. It seems the Mexican government only asserts powers and shows stength when dealing with US immigration issues. The man investigating the massacre of 72 Mexicans attempting to sneak into the US murdered by the cartel - himself a victim.  He was found dead, along a roadway near where the 72 bodies were found. The Cartels are winning.  Mexico is losing.  Mexicans are losing.  The people are helpless.  Mexico

There are moments when I have no words for the foolishness of the corporate world.  In the interest of making money, they will sell their soul, and once they have no soul, all they will have is their wealth, which will be tied to the back of a political system that devastates the environment and controls human beings like cattle.  When the time comes that this government cuts the wealth strings, where will you run?  And don't say that by then you will control the economy of China, for the economy of China is controlled, not by outsiders, but by the PRC - almost exclusively. They are in so many ways, much worse than traitors. Banks back switch to renminbi for trade By Robert Cookson in Hong Kong Published: August 26 2010 17:55 Last updated: August 26 2010 17:55 A number of the world’s biggest banks have launched international roadshows promoting the use of the renminbi to corporate customers instead of the dollar for trade deals with China. HSBC, which recently moved its c...

Dear Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, For years you have worked to aid those who had no voice, who were rejected and oppressed by the system, who sought freedom and hope, and instead were faced with uncivil and unjust actions. You are in large part response for the murder of these 72. You will be held responsible for their deaths when you meet your Creator. Those voiceless and rejected many you aided, you did so for your own benefit and to pepetuate a steady stream of clients who would flood into the US despite Mexican laws and US laws and international laws ... and as a result of your work, you contributed to the deaths of these 72 human beings. The number of deaths each year is reaching upwards of about 200 - the number who die trying to enter the US illegally. In one night, nearly half that number are murdered in Mexico. All the paper, all the publicity, all the speeches and all the crying - at the very least 1/2 that should be devoted to those murdered who never...

Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs' Thu, Aug 26 12:50 PM Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid. Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012. Similar storms back in 1859 and 1921 caused worldwide chaos, wiping out telegraph wires on a massive scale. The 2012 storm has the potential to be even more disruptive. "The general consensus among general astronomers (and certainly so...

There are so many problems with this story and I would like to highlight a few. 16 illegals sue Arizona rancher By Jerry Seper Washington Times Monday, February 9, 2009 An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol , he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home. His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as "the avenue of choice" for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally. Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of...

Morgan Stanley Says Government Defaults Inevitable By Matthew Brown Aug 25, 2010 Bloomberg.com Investors face defaults on government bonds given the burden of aging populations and the difficulty of increasing tax revenue, according to a Morgan Stanley executive director. “Governments will impose a loss on some of their stakeholders,” Arnaud Mares in the firm’s London office wrote in a research report today. “The question is not whether they will renege on their promises, but rather upon which of their promises they will renege, and what form this default will take.” The sovereign-debt crisis is global “and it is not over,” he wrote. Rather than miss principal and interest payments, governments may choose a “soft” default in which they pay back debts with devalued currencies resulting from faster inflation or force creditors to take lower returns, Mares said in an interview. Borrowing costs for so-called peripheral euro-region nations from Greece to Ireland surged today, resuming thei...

Some times I wonder.  Liberals have always made it clear, unlike the foolish right, what Bush was doing to our civil liberties and to us ... unlike the left who were passionately opposed to such infringements.  I can only imagine what it would have been like if Bush was still in charge, given how quickly the left is erasing all our civil liberties (not erased by Bush). The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS By ADAM COHEN Time August 25, 2010 Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements. That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circui...