What’s In Your Food? A Toxic Tale

More proof that the FDA is totally incompetant when it comes to the American Citizen’s health has come to light again.  New efforts to force GE/GMO wheat on the American public without our knowledge is at last meeting some opposition.  But with companies like Monsanto and Bayer Crop Science, it seems to be only a matter of time before we find these frankenfoods growing wild and polluting the food sources of this country.   The ability of these GMO/GE plants to infest non-GE/GMO plant sources during pollination is incredible.  And how Monsanto was ever allowed to patent life is beyond me.  God created the female of the species for that purpose.  But with that patent they can follow wind currents and then sue the farmers of neighboring fields because Monsanto’s adulterated spawn have now contaminated, and taken over, other farmer’s fields.  Our food supply is in peril and the FDA refuses to see or hear how much American’s don’t want these toxic products in their foods.  The evidence mounts that the FDA is a corporate flunky and not, as their mission statement says:

What We Do

The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.

The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.

As you can see, the FDA has failed miserably in its assignment and now Congress wants to give it even more powers?  Who are they kidding here?  This is nothing but a money generating corporation for the federal government.  The FDA refuses to require the labeling of GM/GMO foods and so Americans don’t know what they are eating.  What’s in that can of corn  you opened and served for dinner?  How about that cornbread mix or any other corn product?  Does it contain GM products?

Places like Austria, Hungary, Iran, and Germany have banned the use of GM products in their countries.  And while the EU has had a ban on them, they are considering lifting it.  At the very least those foods which contain GM products MUST be labeled as such.  We don’t even have that much protection here in these united States.

Evidence shows that as early as 1994 pesticide chemicals were affecting species which were not meant to be affected.  The government has known this for a long time.  Yet bowing to corporate  greed, they ignore their own science and continue to allow companies such as Monsanto and Bayer Crop Science to exist and to pollute our environment

Consider the following:

Related Facts of the Week

• The average child gets 5+ servings of pesticides in their food and water each day.
• The pesticide Atrazine is so toxic it is banned in Europe, but it is used so widely in the U.S., that it is found in 71% of the U.S. drinking water.
• Currently, over 400 pesticides can be legally used in the U.S.apples can be sprayed up to 16 times with 36 different pesticides. None of these chemicals are present in organic foods. For example,
• According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, organophosphate pesticides (OP) are now found in the blood of 95% of Americans tested, and the levels are twice as high in blood samples taken from children. Exposure to OPs is linked to hyperactivity, behavior disorders, learning disabilities, developmental delays and motor dysfunction.

It takes very little imagination to conceive of the notion that if a child gets this kind of pesticides in their diet, how much more devastating can it be for a pregnant woman carrying a fetus? Are the pesticides responsible for the increase of autism in our children today? Look at the symptoms listed above and think carefully.

A new search engine allows you to see just what is sprayed on your food.  It can be found here:

http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/

This database will allow you to search by food product such as potatoes, tomatoes,  apples, or even applesauce. Neurotoxins, carcinogens, hormone disrupters, and developmental or reproductive toxins are all sprayed on food. Men wonder why they need viagrawomen wonder why they can’t get pregnant, well here is your answer. and

Do not believe for a second that the government isn’t fully aware of these toxins.  Yet daily you are consuming them without knowing it.  No labeling has to include a list of toxic ingredients found in your food product.  Proof can be found on the U.S. governments USDA marketing site. Still think the FDA or the federal government has your best interests at heart?  Think the current Obama administration doesn’t know?  Think again…

And contamination of our food supply is not limited to what is grown in the ground.  Even fish are becoming hazardous to our health. Dr. Robert P. Friedland, a neurologist from the University of Louisville, is now warning that fish, raised in farms, may have been contaminated by Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease.  Dr. Friedland says that by feeding these farmed fish cattle byproducts, which they could never get in the wild, we are opening up the possibility of these fish acquiring mad cow disease and passing it on to humans.

Friedland and co-authors raise the issue in the Journal of Alzhemier’s Disease and call on food regulators to ban feeding cow bone or meat to farmed fish until it can be determined if the practice of feeding fish cow-parts is safe.

“We have not proven that it’s possible for fish to transmit the disease to humans. Still, we believe that out of reasonable caution for public health, the practice of feeding rendered cows to fish should be prohibited,” Friedland said. “Fish do very well in the seas without eating cows.”

I can’t begin to tell you just how much I don’t want to see them wait for this to manifest in this or any other country.  Mad cow disease is a horrible disease and very preventable.  Yet with feeding these fish cow parts, there is no guarantee that the fish won’t carry this disease.

With this in mind, one can assume that the hormones and antibiotics these cattle are fed could also be getting into these fish and contaminating our food supply.  Evidence damning the FDA just keeps mounting!  Do you think for one second that Congress and the acting POTUS don’t know of this?  Do you think that anyone in Congress or the acting POTUS or the FDA actually give a shit about your health or mine?  There is none so blind as those who refuse to see!

http://www.kitchengardeners.org/pics/seeds053006.jpg

Those agencies supposed to protect us as consumers seem bound, set, and determined to poison us. Who then can we trust? Certainly not the huge farming corporations which mass produce food. These are the farms using those pesticides and cow byproducts.  It is the small family farms that grow organic which are our only hope and then it is so long as their fields aren’t contaminated with either pesticides or GM/GMO pollutants.

Even our water has become a source of concern.  Hormones in the water as well as antidepressants and pain killers have rendered our water increasingly toxic.  Imagine then what watering our plants and animals with this water does to them.  Male frogs are now being found to produce female eggs.  A Huffington post article had this in March of 2008:

Sex Hormones, Mood Stabilizers Found In Drinking Water Of 41 M Americans

A vast array of pharmaceuticals _ including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones _ have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

But the presence of so many prescription drugs _ and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen _ in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.

Even this isn’t the end of it. The environment is mutating very fast. If it is happening in our environment, how long before the human race is affected to the point we cannot recover? Why aren’t those agencies whose sole purpose is to protect human beings AND the environment doing anything about this?  Interesting facts from website below Here:

Poisoned Waters – PBS Frontline Investigation

Three decades after the passage of the Clean Water Act, many of our waterways are still too polluted for fishing or swimming. Chemicals banned long ago continue to enter our drinking water, and new chemicals are so disruptive to life that male fish and frogs are becoming feminized and producing eggs. That’s just not right! Imagine what these chemicals are doing to our children. Poisoned Waters explores some sources of this persistent water pollution.

Chesapeake Bay, the country’s largest estuary, is like a canary in a coal mine, warning of environmental disasters which lie ahead. In Chesapeake Bay, it’s not uncommon to find frogs with six legs or male frogs with ovaries. Like most of American’s waterways, Chesapeake Bay is in trouble.

Frogs have long been the herald of a future to come for human beings.  If the frogs are showing signs of mutation, how long before we humans will be born with 6 legs?  How long before the men start to produce ovaries instead of, or along side of, their male testicles?

Weedkiller makes male frogs into females – study

Date: 17-Apr-02
Country: USA
Author: Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

The decline worries scientists because amphibians such as frogs respond to environmental dangers before other species.

“Atrazine is the most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. and probably the world,” the researchers wrote in their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “It can be present at several parts per million in agricultural runoff and can reach 40 parts per billion in precipitation.”

To truly go green one must consider ALL that pollutes our world and make sure that we aren’t one of those who says, “Let someone else worry about it, I need my car/truck/suv/(insert convenience here)…  To truly go green we must use that which is environmentally friendly such as the all electric vehicles that WERE on the market until the oil tycoons decided they were against them because they never needed an oil change or gasoline.  Now we have hybrids which are not as good as the EV1s were.  You can still convert you gas powered car.  Click Here: And there are other products which are coming to light that will help our environment.  Don’t be fooled into the global warming thing though, that happens to be a hoax, (as evidenced by Gore’s continuing to ignore the million dollar challenge).  We need to clean up our environment before what is polluting it turns around and kills us off.

CommonDreams. org had this article, which includes a short video:

‘Humanure’ Victory: Green Toilet Wins Austin City Approval

Composting commode is first to gain official stamp.

by Asher Price

Benefits include the production of a valuable fertilizer, savings in water use, and the prevention of treated effluent, possibly laden with chemicals, from being discharged into waterways, said Lauren Ross, a civil engineer who worked on the project.

Flush toilets also contribute to the enormous amounts of energy required to pull water out of the Colorado River, treat it to a drinkable standard, flush it through the sewage system, and treat it again before it can be discharged back into the river. Austin Water Utility uses as much electricity as all other city departments combined, not including Austin Energy, said David Greene, energy and resources engineer with the water utility.

As far as I’m concerned there has been zero *Change we can believe in.* The FDA should stand for MOST *Failed Department Around.* The USDA’s name should be changed to *Use, Screw, Damage All.* These agencies have become locked into payoffs from Corporations which will destroy the earth and human beings along with it.  The payoffs the people these agencies are made up of are part of the revolving door which so defines our legislators and government in general.  They cannot be trusted to do the jobs they were hired for.  It is up to Americans.

As for the Obama administration, we can already see the effects of his cap and trade bogus plan.  I’m not sure how many have looked at your recent utility bills but a new *environmental tax* has been added.  Those tax increases meant for polluters are now being passed on to customers through increases tacked onto your utility bills.  The water bill we just got had a 3 plus dollar increase.  This will add almost $40.00 over a years time to just 1 utility bill.  Add in the other utilities and you start to see just who is getting screwed here.

How important is your health to you?  How important is your child’s health?  Ever wonder if it is the food you eat, or what is in it, that is causing weight gain, arthritis, Alzheimers, or other diseases?  What about the water you drink?  Those hormones and chemicals are in EVERYTHING.  Americans need to send a strong and clear message to both Congress and the FDA/USDA on what is important to them and what we will NOT tolerate any longer.  And if you think Obama’s health care insurance is going to be free then I guess you think that stimulus check you got didn’t come out of your pocket either huh?

In the Oxymoron of the hall of fame, the FDA and USDA will forever be noted as the greatest examples of government intelligence.  Instead of agencies with integrity and devotion to those they represent they represent shame , greed, arrogance, failure, and the worst of government.

U. N. And Marijuana Where Is The Science?

A Marijuana Leaf

I’m a big fan of CNN’s Lou Dobbs.  I watch the show regularly and while I have my own views on most things Lou Dobbs covers, I agree with him.  So when this slight mention of the U.N. and a Marijuana report came up I was all ears waiting to see what he had to say.  I know Lou Dobbs isn’t a fan of drug use so I knew the coverage had to be something that had recently come to light.  I wasn’t disappointed.  However, here Lou Dobbs and I have vastly different views on the subject.

Cannabis sativa is the scientific name for this plant.  The uses of which are not just hallucinogenic.  Clothing made from Hemp, (the stem part of the plant) would never wear out.  Can’t have that in a world that says it needs to go green…  Other uses include everything from ship nails to food.  The stalk has two parts; Bast and Hurd.  The bast is what can be woven into cloth and worn forever.  Bast is more commonly known as HEMP.

According to HowStuffWorks:

Hemp Products

The marijuana plant has many uses. Its stiff, fibrous stalk can be used to make lots of products, from food to ship sails. The stalk is comprised of two parts — the hurd and the bast. The bast provides fibers that can be woven into many fabrics. These fibers (also called hemp) are woven to create canvas, which has been used to make ship sails for centuries.

The hurd provides pulp to make paper, oil to make paints and varnishes, and seed for food. Marijuana plants produce a high-protein, high-carbohydrate seed that is used in granola and cereals. Hemp oil and seed contain only trace amounts of psychoactive chemicals.

Owning hemp products, such as hemp rope or a hemp shirt, is legal. However, it is illegal to grow or possess marijuana in plant or drug form in the United States. Possession of the cannabis plant or marijuana seeds is punishable by fines and possible jail sentences. ­

Think of all the things you could do away with if you could grow this stuff at home. A little knowledge of how to prepare the plant for clothing and paper products and your budget spent at the store would dramatically decrease. And then there are the cleaning products you can make. And none of this touches the medicinal properties of the plant.

Cannabis sativa has a recorded history in China of 10,000 years. They use it to strengthen concrete, as food, (the seeds are high in protein), for fishing bait, in birdseed mixes, and the list goes on and on. Such a useful product would seem to be of benefit to humans, yet because it has been used as a drug it is outlawed. A long list of uses can be found on Wikipedia.  From hand creams to oil paint bases, from clothing to canvas, from construction to health care, there seems to be no end to the usefulness of this plant.  You just won’t believe all the good things that Hemp can make or be a part of.  Why then is it illegal?

But according to the Lou Dobbs show, the U.N. is all up in arms about the usage of this plant:

DOBBS: A new report tonight showing a tremendous increase in the use of marijuana in North America over the last decade. The United Nations report also warning that marijuana is much more harmful than previously reported and people are seeking treatment in record numbers. Louise Schiavone has our report.

LOUISE SCHIAVONE,CNN CORRESPONDENT : About two thirds of all the marijuana seized worldwide is seized in Mexico and the United States. Narcotics officers on the front lines say it’s a seriously underestimated problem.

RONALD BROOKS, NATL. NARCOTICS OFFICERS ASSN: Drug abuse in America is a bio-chem attack. It’s our own home-grown terrorism. It’s keeping kids from achieving their potential. It breaks up families, it fuels crime. It is truly the mother’s milk of gangs because it’s where they get their funding.

SCHIAVONE: Last year, says Brooks, millions of marijuana plants were eradicated on public land, much of it cultivated by heavily-armed Mexican drug cartels. A report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime finds that while opium and cocaine production are declining globally, marijuana seizures in North America are rising. More than 3.5 million kilograms of marijuana was seized in North America in 2007 according to the U.N. study, roughly 2.2 million in Mexico and about 1.5 million in the United States.

And while there’s an ongoing debate of therapeutic use of marijuana for the seriously ill, doctors advice that marijuana can damage the brain.

DR. DENISE GREENE, PSYCHIATRIST: Long term side effects of chronic marijuana use, psychologically, are depression, and anxiety. So anyone who certainly has unrelying psychiatric illnesses should not be using marijuana on top of that.

SCHIAVONE: The U.N. report says marijuana is more harmful than commonly believed. Narcotics officer Brooks said today’s marijuana is deliberately cultivated to pack a punch that is 10 times stronger than it was in the ’70s.

SCHIAVONE: Lou, doctors tell us that marijuana can trigger an earlier onset of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in teenagers with a predisposition for them. For the general population, marijuana can be associated with psychosis, impaired memory and Lou, there are studies examining the correlation between consistent marijuana use and Alzheimer’s Disease later in life.

DOBBS: And the source of — the origin of that report is the United Nations, that’s worth repeating, I think. Louise Schiavone, thank you very much, appreciate it. Well, it’s also worth repeating that Mexico remains the major source of marijuana, methamphetamines, cocaine and heroin into the United States.

If Lou Dobbs is depending on the word of a psychiatrist I’ll keep my own counsel thank you very much! These quacks are a bunch of nutcases whose diagnosis depends on human behavior to give them validity!  For a clearer picture on the art of psychiatry, view this video:  Click HERE: Maybe this will open a few eyes…

However, I did look up schizophrenia and regular brains to see if I could see a difference.  Also of note is that the tests were run with HEAVY usage of marijuana smokers, not normal usage.  By normal I mean once or twice a day for relaxation purposes and not continuous chain smoking.

Schizophrenic brain and normal brain both male and female. http://www.schizophrenia.com/research/schiz.brain.htm

I tried to find a medical definition for could since I know that the word *cause* in the medical world is different than for the rest of us.  For us, cause equals something.  Like carcinogens equal cancer or CAUSE cancer.  But in the medical world cause means something very different.  Cause for the scientific community means “an increased risk of, or, may be associated with.”  They know full well that the average person has a totally different understanding of this definition so why do they use it?  Why would they even have it???  The same holds true for lawyers.

This report from the U.N. doesn’t contain any definitions whatsoever.  And while there seems to be a long list of contributors, there are no reference marks or numbers attached to their report.  For example in the Forward section of the report:

In the United States, about 90 per cent of narcotic drugs were used for non-medical purposes. As drug abuse spread, an increasing number of people became familiar with the wretchedness, misery and evil connected with that affliction.

No reference is given for this claim. No explanation, no study sited, just what you see above.  It doesn’t say WHICH narcotics were used, just a round figure that we are supposed to interpret as truth.  Well, I have issues with this.  I’ve seen time and again how fuzzy math is used to come up with numbers that are scary when the reality is actually minimal.  After the forward we do have some numbering and referencing, but I have to question these.  My search criteria was for anything relating to these united States.  For example:

Essentially, under the 1961 Convention narcotic drugs were considered hazardous until it was proved that they were not; psychotropic drugs remained uncontrolled unless WHO advised that there was “substantial evidence” that they were liable to abuse or constituted a public health and social problem that would warrant their placement under international control.10

10 István Bayer, “Genesis and development of the international control of psychotropic substances”, paper prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, United States of America, 1989, pp. 42-43.

So, the U.N. is basing their statement, which it makes an absolute, on 1 page of a document that was never published.  Therefore it is impossible to verify the information that was used, check for peer reviews, or substantiate the findings.  Again, this comes down to fuzzy math and misleading statements and is dependent on you taking their word for it.  Not me.

33. The inconsistent implementation of provisions on cannabis control is a legal challenge of a different nature, since no Government has legalized the cultivation of cannabis for non-medical use. The original objective of the 1961 Convention was to prohibit the use of cannabis in a few countries where its non-medical use was traditional. Today, its nonmedical use has virtually disappeared, and cannabis has become the most widely used illicit drug worldwide. In the past two decades, new, more potent forms of cannabis have been developed, mostly in industrialized countries. Sophisticated growing
technologies produce cannabis with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels that are considerably higher than that of the cannabis produced during the 1980s. That development may be associated with the increased demand for cannabis-related treatment services in several countries. Apart from the known risks of smoking tobacco, with which cannabis is frequently mixed, there are indications that cannabis consumption may be associated with an increased risk of psychotic disorders and schizophrenia.

33 United States of America, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health,
Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: a Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders, 2nd ed., NIH publication No. 04- 4212(A) (Bethesda, Maryland, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003), p. 2.

If you were to open the link given, you will find that page 2 is blank with only a symbol on the page and this one entry:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Boulevard Bethesda Maryland 20892

Page 2 actually begins on page 9 of the report.  In speaking of children and risk assessment they talk about aggressive behavior and poor self esteem as causes for those at risk. Please tell me of one child out there who doesn’t have these issues at one time or another.  I recall seeing these same issues with my daughter as she was changing from a child into an adolescent.  I simply have to  questions such assumptions based on my own experience.  My daughter has never used any drugs in her life beyond an antibiotic or ibuprofen.  I would love to have someone else’s view on this.

Given these two examples, doesn’t it make you question this report just a bit?  How do they make such assumptions with so little in facts to base their assumptions on.  It surprises me then that CNN’s Lou Dobbs would just make such a small comment on such a huge report.  Think of all the countries who are members of the U.N. and part of this drug compact.  The report speaks of “rogue pharmacies which encourage drug abuse” and the use of the internet as part of this “global ring of pharmacies which are breaking international laws.  (47 United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Counterfeiting: a Global Spread, a Global Threat (Turin, Italy, 2007).  This report doesn’t site sources for the numbers they claim are there.  How can I believe a report where I can’t verify the data?

Imagine how much one plant can do. Didn't the Creator make it best, first?

And then we have another report which says just about the opposite of the U.N. report.  At the same convention where the U.N. issued this report, there were scientists that were asking for just the opposite.

Legalize, Tax Marijuana, Researchers Tell UN Drug Commission

VIENNA — A group of drug researchers is urging diplomats at a United Nations meeting to drop their prohibition on cannabis and allow the psychoactive substance to be sold and taxed like tobacco.

“Our message to politicians is that ‘you don’t have to worry too much about the effects of cannabis and that the kids aren’t listening to you in any case,’ ” Peter Room, a public health professor at the University of Melbourne, said today at a briefing. He helped chair a scientific committee that produced a report saying that marijuana isn’t a public health menace and that half the U.S. population born after 1970 and at least 21 years old has tried the drug.

The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs is meeting for a second day in the Austrian capital. More than 1,400 diplomats and policy makers from 130 countries are attending.

So, here we find out that it is politicians that are making medical decisions for the rest of us, not doctors, not scientists, but those pesky politicians that seem to think they know what is best for all of us even when they couldn’t be further away from our own thoughts and feelings. How interesting. Doesn’t that just give all kinds of validity to their report? I don’t think so either.  I’m getting awful sick and tired of these *self interest groups* making decisions for all of us.

There is also the fact that some very important wording is missing from the U.N. report.  Words like *genetically predisposed to schizophrenia.*  Genetic predisposition has an incredible impact on the findings of a study.  It totally changes the picture in that you are looking more for a genetic deficiency instead of a plant based assumption.  In other words, the U.N. study makes it look as though the plant is responsible for the problem when in reality it is  genetics.

This report from Forbes Magazine, released on March 31, 2009 says:

Active Ingredient in Marijuana Kills Brain Cancer Cells

03.31.09, 08:00 PM EDT
Experts say finding worth further study, but patients shouldn’t light up just yet

WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) — New research out of Spain suggests that THC — the active ingredient in marijuana — appears to prompt the death of brain cancer cells.

The finding is based on work with mice designed to carry human cancer tumors, as well as from an analysis of THC’s impact on tumor cells extracted from two patients coping with a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

Another study done uses condensed marijuana smoke to prove it has carcinogen properties and causes cancer and tumors.  But after having read this study, I can’t make hide nor hair out of their findings.  Definitely NOT layman friendly.  And all their findings DO NOT support their claims. Go figure… Some of the columns are left blank as in no data or the data did not support that claim.

I’d sure like to know how each of these studies can be right.  However, based on the plants usage, the risks definitely do not outweigh the benefits.  But I am certainly NOT going to listen to the U.N. Study or to Lou Dobbs report since no one there read the study to begin with.  None of the CNN Correspondents took the time to review the report and only reported on the outcome of the meeting.

It should also be noted that these united States did NOT provide data on marijuana for the 2008 study that the U.N. did.  That is reported on page 13 number 59.  You’ll see what I mean when/if you pull up the linked report.

Boeing, Paying The Price Of Outsourcing America

“We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” Ronald Reagan American 40th US President 1981- 89, 1911-2004

It seems that Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner will never get off the ground.  It sits at 2 years behind schedule and counting.  I’m sure it WAS cheaper in the beginning for Boeing to outsource the parts, but it seems now that this very cheapness on Boeing’s part has caused it to run a-fowl of flying and leaving production so far behind.

For now the first test flight of the 787 Dreamliner, which can’t get off the ground, is  pushed back for the 5th time.  One has to wonder if Boeing should have outsourced this plane or left it instead in the hands of Boeing’s’ experienced machine crews.  Well, apparently they are getting their just deserts on this one.  After the American people rallied around Boeing when the Air Force tried to purchase a fleet from EADS, Boeing turned its back on America and decided it was cheaper to build outside the USA.  Tell me Boeing, is it still cheaper???

Boeing started out with the concept of the *Sonic Cruiser* which then morphed into the 7E7 which is now the Boeing 787.  The idea was to cut down on the amount of time an airplane had to spend in the sky.  This would increase profits for the company as well as make the customers happy.  With flight times cut down, people would be spending less time in the air.  It was a solid idea, till they outsourced it all.  And while Boeing defends itself for outsourcing, maybe this will teach them a lesson?  How much interest can a plane drum up if it never gets off the ground?

http://www.aviationexplorer.com/787_facts.htm

Now, we know that China has a Buy China clause in all their agreements, well, in order to fill the orders the Chinese gave Boeing, they had to outsource from these united States.  It seems to be costing Boeing dearly.  American companies are such wimps when it comes to the global markets, bowing and scraping to other nations.  All these companies should have stood firm and stood for the American Worker!  We now see the cost of working in a global market where we don’t control the outcomes of anything.

On April 26, 2004 Boeing selected All Nippon Airways, (AHA), to be its launch customer.  A Japanese customer, not American, put in an order for 50 aircraft, the largest in Boeing’s history and worth about $6 Billion dollars to Boeing.  The launch date and delivery were originally scheduled for early 2008.  Boeing’s customer list includes New Zealand (ANZ), First Choice Airways of the United Kingdom, Blue Panorama of Italy, U.S.A. Primaris Airlines, Japan Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, and China Aviation Supplies Import & Export Corporation.

According to AviationExplorer.com, the orders for  this plane are quite extensive:

China 60, Japan 50, (30 now and 20 later), New Zealand 2 with options on 16 more, First Choice Airways 20 with options for 15 more, Continental 10, and Vietnam 8.  They were supposed to be delivered beginning 2008 and China was supposed to have theirs before the summer Olympics started.  Ouch, that’s got to have hurt not to have had their pretty new planes for the Olympics…

http://www.aviationexplorer.com/787_facts.htm

Delivery is behind schedule obviously.  For the 5th time Boeing has rescheduled the trial flight of this aircraft meaning that it isn’t ready to fly yet.  Yet Boeing maintains that its decision to outsource certain aspects of this plane was a sound one.  OK, so how sound is it when 2 years later you still don’t have a plane that flies?  I’m just asking.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs did a piece on the Dreamliner last night.  Here’s what he had to say:

A new delay for Boeing’s troubled 787 Dreamliner. The first test flight to push back now for a fifth time delayed again. The plane is already two years behind schedule. Major parts are built overseas. That is, outsourced, and then shipped back to the United States for final assembly. The outsourcing of that production is the reason for much of the delay. Kitty Pilgrim has our report.

KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The 787 Dreamliner is a production nightmare. How about this for a flight delay? Two years behind schedule. The company, again, put off its first flight test. Boeing said as part of the normal stress test, they need more structural reinforcement on the body of the plane. Industry analysts are very skeptical.

RICHARD ABOULAFIA, AVIATION ANALYST: The bigger question is what happens next because if they’re finding issues like this at this stage of the pre-flight test program, then who knows what they’re going to find after the plane flies.

PILGRIM: The production of the plane has been outsourced to a variable United Nations of countries and that’s where the problems began. As far back as 2007, pieces from around the world came in incomplete. The wings and forward fuselage of the plane is from Japan, center fuselage from Italy and South Carolina, the nose from Kansas, wing tips are Korean, the rudder, Chinese, the doors from Canada, Sweden, and France, lighting from Germany.

Today, Boeing executives admit an international team will have to fix the new problem because the wing is from Mitsubishi. The side of the body’s center section is from Fuji. But the overall design from Boeing.

SCOTT FANCHER, GEN. MGR., BOEING 787 PROGRAM: Is it concerning to us? No, not particularly. I mean the timing is certainly unfortunate, but we’ve seen nothing about what led us to the discovery that would lead us to broader concerns.

PILGRIM: The head of the union says his members believe it’s the airplane of the future and they want it to succeed.

TOM WROBLEWSKI, INTL. MACHINISTS UNION: It’s good that we found — that the company has found this problem now instead of once the airplane’s in the air, so the process is working.

PILGRIM: But it’s a big question why Boeing doesn’t seem to be able to keep the schedule. At the Paris Air Show last month, an executive said, technical problems are all largely behind us.

PILGRIM: By the end of the Boeing news conference/phone conference, there was still no clear delivery date, no exact estimate on when the new design will be worked out by the international team and the company actually defended the outsource production saying they will be able to work around the clock fixing the new problem because the companies are based in different countries. Lou?

DOBBS: So they’re taking advantage of different time zones…

PILGRIM: Right.

DOBBS: … even though they apparently mismanaged those production facilities in all those time zones?

PILGRIM: Well it certainly doesn’t seem to be pulling together very well.

DOBBS: Well at least they have the orbit of the earth to benefit them. Thank you very much — Kitty Pilgrim.

I’d have to agree with Tom Worblewski.  We would NOT want the deficiencies of the plane to be discovered when it is in the air.  That could be deadly to the pilot and crew.  Definitely a good thing that it was discovered early, or late, depending on your point of view.

I guess, to be fair, we can only blame ourselves as Americans for allowing this to happen. We’ve been told for so long that manufacturing is a dirty job, a job meant for *others*, but just who those others are has turned out to be other countries. Americans have lost the ability to manufacture anything here and if we are to save this country, we have got to return to our roots. Manufacturing IN THIS country. It will not be corporations that save us, but ourselves. Corporations will do what is good for them. It is up to us to restore America.  Having sucked up that *manufacturing is for others* lies, we now find ourselves out of work and desperate.  Americans used to build, now we sit in offices and think we should be there.

But Americans are smart.  A perfect example of ingenuity are these two guys:

GREASE GUZZLER
Two Massachusetts men journey west in van that runs on fat and cooking oil

Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 9, 0

These guys just decided to try something. And then they made it work. The rest of us are just as capable. If we continue to look to Corporations for help in getting on our feet we will be sorely disappointed. It is up to We the People to get American back on track. Obama can’t do it, he can only socialize everything and that is NOT going to help America!

Or how about this company Resilient Technologies:

Resilient Technologies, a Wisconsin based company, has created a tire that can’t go flat.

Instead of using a pressurized air cavity, the tire design relies on a geometric pattern of six-sided cells that are arranged in a matrix like a honeycomb.

By far, America’s greatest inventor though was Albert Einstein.  Although he was German born, he spent most of his life in America.  Has the dumbing down of America led to killing off the American inventor?  We will have to wait and see.  But check out these kids who are already inventing new gadgets in America!  Click HERE: Just scroll down the page to see a list of winners.  Kids like Brandon and Spencer Whale, 10 and 7 years old, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose Inventions: A “PaceMate” device for better transmission of EKG over phone lines, and an IV carrying device for kids’ wagons. Amazing huh?

Now, according to the Seatle Times:

In late May, Boeing engineers found a structural defect while conducting stress tests on the plane, the first to be built primarily out of carbon-fiber plastic composite.

After several weeks of analysis — and after the Paris Air Show gatherings of industry chieftains wound down — the company concluded late last week that, in the words of Pat Shanahan, head of airplane programs, “a productive flight-test program could not take place without structural reinforcement in limited areas.”

Wikipedia says the carbon-fiber plastic composite is very light, strong and expensive. It is a fiber reinforced polymer which is similar to fiberglass. You can read more about this on the link just above.  More and more aerospace applications are being found for this product.  But in Boeing’s case they need to strengthen this part of the project before they can test fly the plane.

Obviously investors in this aircraft are not happy about these delays.  Boeings stock dropped after the last announcement that the plane wasn’t ready to fly yet.  Perhaps if Boeing had kept to American parts and American know how it would have had this plane off the ground by now.  We will never know though.  What Boeing decides to do from this point on we can only watch and see, however, it is good to see that they are having issues with all these parts from around the globe.  Boeing should stick to MADE IN AMERICA if it wants to keep plane delivery on schedule.

GAO, DOJ, Fuzzy Math Used In Reports; More Gun Control?

False and misleading data are being used against gun owners.

The Obama Administration seems to be at it again.  This time though they are backing up their fuzzy math with fuzzy, real sounding reports.  As I’ve read these reports what has become clear is that Obama’s agenda to confiscate arms and ammunition is still at the forefront and that other agencies are working hard to make a case for gun confiscation and an end to our 2nd Amendment guarantees.  Our RIGHT to own guns is Creator given, not up for debate or to legislation by Congress.  But I fear there is a war brewing if the agendas of those in Congress are not careful.

The reports I am referring to are:GAO report: FIREARMS TRAFFICKING
U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges which then led me to the DOJ report: National Drug Threat Assessment The GAO report is only 10 pages long and an easy read. So is the DOJ report. However, the DOJ report mixes in things like those seeking treatment for prescription drug abuse which hardly counts as drug trafficking.  The GAO report is based on the DOJ report.

The common theme of both documents is the *illicit gun trafficking* from these united States to the country of Mexico and the drugs which fuel the Cartels.  This makes gun owners directly or indirectly responsible for the guns finding their way into Mexico.  The accuracy of the numbers used and the actual numbers of guns finding their way to Mexico from these united States are misleading to say the least.  Yet BATFE is continuing to misquote the numbers by way of fuzzy math and of guns finding their way to Mexico.  According to Gun Facts:

Myth: The United States is the source of 90% of drug

syndicate guns in Mexico

Fact: This is an often misquoted data point from the BATFE, who said 90% of the firearms that have been interdicted in transport to Mexico or recovered in Mexico came from the United States. Thus the 90% number includes only the firearms American and Mexican police stop in transport.70 Mexico’s Massive Illegal weapons coming from China and the U.S., American Chronicle, March 14, 2009

Fact: The original number was derived from the number of firearms successfully traced, not the total number of firearms. For 2007-2008, Mexican officials recovered approximately 29,000 firearms from crime scenes and asked for BATFE traces of 11,000. Of those, the BATFE could trace roughly 6,000 of which 5,114 were confirmed to have come from the United States. Thus, 83% of the crime guns recovered in Mexico have not been or cannot be traced to America.71  The Myth of 90 Percent, Fox News, April 2, 2009, BATFE data distilled by William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott

It is sad that we have to put up with these political agendas directed by the acting POTUS and Congress. However, when you have the facts they are easy to debunk. What worries me is if Congress believes the lies and tries to do something about gun ownership in these united States.   Fortunately there are many staunch gun supporters in Congress.  We can only hope they are not swayed by these misleading numbers.

In a previous article I wrote where I *Questioned the Guns flowing into Mexico,*I found some hard facts to debunk all the rhetoric that has been floating around the D.C. area.  The GAO report doesn’t even mention these facts which have been proven and are based on reports from the government itself.  It amazes me what passes for logic these days, but then, we are talking government agencies, Congress, the acting POTUS, and fuzzy math along with personal agendas.

A News with Views article was the first to alert me to these misleading reports.  I always check things out for myself though as I have learned, the hard way, that you cannot trust everything you read on the internet.  So I dug up the reports myself and read them.  I believe that personal knowledge is more important than taking someone else’s word for it.  This way I can be sure of what I’m talking about and not just running off at the mouth.

Mexico has its own agendas.  They have very strict gun laws there.  According to Gun Facts, Mexico rates 4th from the top of the top 10 countries having crimes committed with guns.  (see page 19 on GunFacts 5.1)  These united States don’t even figure into that top 10.  However, in order to ban guns or even to force stricter gun controls on people, the government has to lie or mislead where gun facts are concerned.  According to Wikipedia, Mexico’s gun laws contain the following:

Gun licensing and legislation for Mexican citizens

Ley Federal de Armas de Fuego y Explosivos (Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives)

Generally, citizens are restricted by law to:

* pistolas (handguns) of .380 Auto or .38 Special revolvers or smaller in either case,
* escopetas (shotguns) of 12 gauge or smaller, with barrels longer than 25 inches, and
* rifles (rifles) bolt action and semi-auto.

Handguns in calibers bigger than those mentioned above are forbidden from private ownership.

Examples of firearms that are legal for citizens to own include .380 ACP pistols (such as the Glock 25); .38 Special revolvers, 12 gauge shotguns (no short-barreled shotguns are allowed) and rifles in any caliber up to .30 caliber.

Permits for the transportation and use of such non-military caliber firearms are issued for one year terms by SEDENA (Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional) and may be applied for up to 10 firearms, total, for each designated and planned use that is legally authorized. These uses may include hunting or shooting at a club or national competition. Permits are very easy to obtain, but may be only obtained by citizens belonging to a shooting club.

There is only one legally authorized retail outlet in Mexico City: UCAM (Unidad de Comercialización de Armamento y Municiones), run by the Army and able to sell firearms. It is owned by, and is part of, the government. Although there is no legal limit on how many firearms an individual can own, once any individual has purchased ten firearms from the only retail governmental outlet, he cannot get a permit to buy any more. However, private party sales are legal and are largely uncontrolled, and wealthy gun-collecting citizens thus can legally buy more firearms from other private owners.

By pointing fingers at these united States, Mexico is let off the hook some for its incompetence in dealing with the drug cartels and its own corruption.  Gun owners here in America would never stand for these types of laws.  However, if fuzzy math can be used to emotionalize the issues and show that it is guns coming from America that are causing problems in Mexico, it then becomes these united States problem to stem the flow, that flow being very questionable.  As I’ve previously pointed out in my article linked above, the types of weapons that are finding their way into Mexico cannot be bought by the average Citizen.  These are rocket launchers, grenade launchers, fully automatic weapons, and other high powered munitions that only OUR Government, (the military), can sell.  No Citizen may purchase of possess these weapons.

According to the GAO’s report:

We determined the data provided to us by various U.S. agencies on these topics were sufficiently reliable to provide an overall indication of the magnitude and nature of the illicit firearms trade. We conducted this performance audit from July 2008 to June 2009 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives.

In brief, Mr. Chairman, we found that U.S. efforts to combat the illicit trafficking of firearms to Mexico face several challenges, particularly relating to the planning and coordination of these efforts.

Available evidence indicates a large proportion of the firearms fueling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, including a growing number of increasingly lethal weapons. While it is impossible to know how many firearms are illegally trafficked into Mexico in a given year, over 20,000, or around 87 percent, of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and traced over the past 5 years originated in the United States, according to data from ATF (see fig. 2). Over 90 percent of the firearms seized in Mexico and traced over the last 3 years have come from the United States.

There’s that fuzzy math again which gives such misleading data results. The key words in this section of the report are: increasingly lethal weapons. The average Citizen doesn’t get these kinds of weapons at either a gun store or a gun show. This is purely misleading information and I have to wonder at the audacity of those who put these reports together and call them factual. Just a tad bit further down the article you can find this little gem:

For example, many of these firearms are high-caliber and high-powered, such as AK and AR-15 type semiautomatic rifles. Many of these firearms come from gun shops and gun shows in Southwest border states, such as Texas, California, and Arizona, according to ATF officials and trace data.

Now, we’ve all heard the gun fights going on between the drug cartels and the Mexican army. Did those sound like AR15s to you? No, those were automatic weapons fire (video).  Or how about this shoot-out in Tiajuana video?  You can clearly make out the automatic weapons fire beneath the voice over of the reporters.  American Citizens cannot acquire automatic weapons legally.  To insinuate that these weapons came from “gun shops and gun shows in Southwest border states, such as Texas, California, and Arizona, according to ATF officials and trace data.”  Now, someone familiar with bullets and guns can tell you better than I what the ammunition of these weapons is from this video.  At .18 seconds into the video they pan across the weapons and bullets confiscated.  Those do not look like semi-automatic munitions although I couldn’t tell and AR-15 from an M-16.  However, those you see fighting are military personnel.  It serves to reason then that military weapons have been confiscated.  Bets that these weapons were sold to Mexican authorities by the U.S. Military???  And what of this Glenn Beck report (2007) on the Zeta gang?  These reports directly contradict the GAO’s report concerning weapons coming from these united States or that CITIZENS could get these types of weapons.

The DOJ report includes prescription drug abuse.  I’d like to know how this relates to the drug cartel?  Do they now own doctors in this country?  I have a hard time believing that.  In their summary, the DOJ claims:

• Mexican and Colombian DTOs generate, remove, and launder between $18 billion and $39 billion in wholesale drug proceeds annually.
• Diversion of controlled prescription drugs costs insurance companies up to $72.5 billion annually, nearly two-thirds of which is paid by public insurers.

It seems that these statements above are because of pressure put on the DOJ by the drug companies. They don’t worry about what drugs do to the population only that it costs them, (drug companies cartels themselves), money. Anything for a buck, even American lives…

DTOs rapidly adapt to law enforcement and policy initiatives that disrupt their drug trafficking operations. Law enforcement and intelligence reporting revealed several strategic shifts by DTOs in drug production and trafficking in 2007 and early 2008, attributed in part to the success of counterdrug agencies in disrupting the operations of DTOs. Many of these shifts represent immediate new challenges for policymakers and resource planners. The National Drug Threat Assessment 2009 outlines the progress and emerging counterdrug challenges in detailed strategic findings, including the following:

We could get a handle on this simply by making drugs legal, taxing them, and controlling their disbursement. That would end the cartel’s dominance in this area as well as the violence across the border. Of course, it would take some actual thinking on the part of those in Congress, (they seem clearly incapable of such), and someone would actually have to listen to expert testimony, not to more politicians spouting more rhetoric!  Other countries that have legalized drugs find that they have the money to treat those who become addicts, crime rates go down, and there is no increase in drug usage because once you make them legal, the appeal is gone.  Prohibition has always given the opposite result than those it intended.

As if to prove my point above:

• Mexican DTOs represent the greatest organized crime threat to the United States. The influence of Mexican DTOs over domestic drug trafficking is unrivaled. In fact, intelligence estimates indicate a vast majority of the cocaine available in U.S. drug markets is smuggled by Mexican DTOs across the U.S.–Mexico border. Mexican DTOs control drug distribution in most U.S. cities, and they are gaining strength in markets that they do not yet control.

• Violent urban gangs control most retail-level drug distribution nationally, and some have relocated from inner cities to suburban and rural areas. Moreover, gangs are increasing their involvement in wholesale-level drug distribution, aided by their connections with Mexican and Asian DTOs.

Take away the reason for the cartels to make a profit here in these united States and you take away their ability to make money at it. This article from Rolling Stones shows a good example of how the drug lords know more about our law enforcement than we know about their business.  Notice the rifle in the picture?

Then there is a statement made by William F. Buckley.  Probably one of the greatest thinkers in these united states, Buckley long ago came to the conclusion that the war on drugs was a lost cause.  In fact, continuing these tactics is only pouring money down a black hole.  The cartels pay so well that even those in law enforcement can be corrupted.  In 1995 he was asked to make a statement to a panel of lawyers considering the drug question.

About ten years later, I deferred to a different allegiance, this one not the presumptive opposition to state intervention, but a different order of priorities. A conservative should evaluate the practicality of a legal constriction, as for instance in those states whose statute books continue to outlaw sodomy, which interdiction is unenforceable, making the law nothing more than print-on-paper. I came to the conclusion that the so-called war against drugs was not working, that it would not work absent a change in the structure of the civil rights to which we are accustomed and to which we cling as a valuable part of our patrimony. And that therefore if that war against drugs is not working, we should look into what effects the war has, a canvass of the casualties consequent on its failure to work. That consideration encouraged me to weigh utilitarian principles: the Benthamite calculus of pain and pleasure introduced by the illegalization of drugs.

The article is a very long one and cites other opinions such as Ethan A. Nadelmann, (Formerly in the Political Science Department at Princeton, he is now the director of the Lindesmith Center, a drug-policy research institute in New York City. He is the author of Cops across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement.) Kurt Schmoke a politician of the day. Joseph D. McNamara, chief of police in Kansas City, Mo., and San Jose, Calif. and author of 4 books.

There are so many more out there to refer to but this article is getting too long.  We could win this war in a very decisive manner if we could only change the way people think about them.  It is possible.  With the demand for thier wares gone, the cartels would either have to come up with a new demand or fade into oblivion.  But the GAO report and the DOJ report are both flawed and lead the reader astray.  They are ploys by the government to disarm Americans.  To get a better idea of what government agents do read this:

From the ‘Lectric Law Library’s stacks

King Rat: Playing Dirty In The War On Drugs

Stop H.R.2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson

We have seen just how inept the FDA is to either police itself or ensure the safety of our food.  Now they want to expand this decrepit and self-serving agency.  It isn’t bad enough that they have failed miserably to ensure the safety of our food, but when they started to label Cheerios as a drug, I had to wonder if everyone there is taking drugs that aren’t on the regular market.

Now, Congress wants to expand this agency!  As if that is going to improve the safety of our food and drugs!  Did Congress take their stupid pill in mega doses?  Must have!  H.R.2749 has got to be stopped!  With the utter failure of the FDA to make sure that the food entering this country is safe, just how are they going to do even more?  Maybe if they hired 10,000 more employees they might get a handle on the ports and borders and put enough agents in the field to START showing they are worth having, but that isn’t likely to happen now is it?  The federal government just isn’t that into making sure American Citizens are safe.

The goal of this bill seems to be the elimination of food production by family owned farms across these united States.

And this is another absolute monster bill!  One of those that will take the reader an hour at least to read.  Think Congress is going to take the time?  Of course not!  These people are the laziest in the world.  The laws don’t seem to apply to them so they will continue to pass. or try to pass, the most outrageous and stupefying of bills.

TITLE I–FOOD SAFETY

Subtitle A–Prevention

SEC. 101. CHANGES IN REGISTRATION OF FOOD FACILITIES.

(a) Misbranding- Section 403 (21 U.S.C. 343) is amended by adding at the end the following:

‘(z) If it was manufactured, processed, packed, or held in a facility that is not duly registered under section 415, including a facility whose registration is canceled or suspended under such section.’.

The bill then goes on to talk about *fees* that you will have to pay the FDA. Now, we already know this agency is run by special interest. They don’t give a hoot for your health or mine.   Like a sales tax, they take and take and take without us ever seeing any real benefit. They have no power to order foods that are tainted to be withdrawn from the market, they can only request that this be done. So, why in the world, would we want to pay them even more money? What makes this agency deserve even one penny when their very policies harm We the People? But the government wishes to grow beyond all its boundaries and poke into every little nook and cranny of our lives. So, an expanded FDA under the guise of H.R. 2749 will not improve our food system, but will instead, run farmers off their land!

Now, if you read Subtitle A–Prevention SEC. 101. CHANGES IN REGISTRATION OF FOOD FACILITIES, you might think this is about preventing bad foods from getting on the market or into our food supply. You would be sadly mistaken! This part of the bill is all about FEES! It is about a description of what the sponsors think should be in the codes for financial purposes. Nothing here is to prevent bad food from getting to the market!

And then we have even more information on what fees and when:

‘PART 6–FEES RELATING TO FOOD

‘SEC. 743. FACILITY REGISTRATION FEE.

Yup, fees and more fees and their descriptions and applications and yadda, yadda, yadda. One begins to think this is all this bill is about, extorting money from the farmers who will then pass it along to the consumers.  The kicker here is that the fee amount will be set at $1,000.00 for fiscal year 2010! Someone help me out here a moment, shouldn’t those getting a fee for something actually DO something???  This is just more fleecing of America.

And in 2011, the fees are adjusted UP again.  So figure that every year these fees are going to increase.  Soon food will be so expensive that no one will be able to buy it.  Every farmer will go out of business and your health and mine will go out the window.  We’ll be so sick with chemically treated and radiated food that we will all need that (LOL), *health care* Obama is so fired up about! I found this next section to be particularly interesting. Remember, the FDA will be garnering fees to perform its duties…

SEC. 418. HAZARD ANALYSIS AND RISK-BASED PREVENTIVE CONTROLS.

‘(a) In General- The owner, operator, or agent of a facility shall, in accordance with this section–

‘(1) conduct a hazard analysis (or more than one if appropriate);

‘(2) identify, implement, and validate effective preventive controls;

‘(3) monitor preventive controls;

‘(4) institute corrective actions when monitoring shows that preventive controls have not been properly implemented or were ineffective;

‘(5) conduct verification activities;

‘(6) maintain records of monitoring, corrective action, and verification; and

‘(7) reanalyze for hazards.

‘(b) Identification of Hazards-

‘(1) IN GENERAL- The owner, operator, or agent of a facility shall evaluate whether there are any hazards, including hazards due to the source of the ingredients, that are reasonably likely to occur in the absence of preventive controls that may affect the safety, wholesomeness, or sanitation of the food manufactured, processed, packed, transported, or held by the facility, including–

‘(A) biological, chemical, physical, and radiological hazards, natural toxins, pesticides, drug residues, filth, decomposition, parasites, allergens, and unapproved food and color additives; and

‘(B) hazards that occur naturally, may be unintentionally introduced, or may be intentionally introduced, including by acts of terrorism.

Can someone please tell me where in here the FDA does ANYTHING to get the fees they require? This is all put on the backs of the farmers, processors, and sellers of the foods. All the FDA would do is read the paperwork, if even that! So WHY would we give them money??? Am I stoned here or did I misread something?  This is all self monitoring.  At no point does the FDA do a damn thing! The FDA doesn’t even issue guidelines for food safety.  That comes from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.  So please tell me why the hell one penny should go to an agency that doesn’t do squat for us???  Because I really want to know what the justification is for this crap.

By the way, we are about 1/3 of the way down the bill now.  I’ve yet to see one thing that improves anything about food safety in this bill so far.

The next section deals with fresh vegetables and salad greens or peppers and such:

SEC. 104. SAFETY STANDARDS FOR FRESH PRODUCE AND CERTAIN OTHER RAW AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.

(a) Adulterated Food- Section 402 (21 U.S.C. 342), as amended by sections 102(a) and 103(a), is amended by adding at the end the following:

‘(l) If it has been grown, harvested, packed, sorted, transported, or held under conditions that do not meet the standards established under section 419A.’.

(b) Standards- Chapter IV (21 U.S.C. 341 et seq.), as amended by sections 102(b) and 103(b), is amended by adding at the end the following:

No one is going to be exempted from obeying the rules of this law. But I would surely like to know if it is even Constitutional since the fees go to an agency that doesn’t do a thing to earn them. Perhaps the FDA is now going to be the fee earner for the other agencies? Cuz it sure doesn’t do squat on this bill.

The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is Kathleen Sebelius.  From what I can gather, she has zero experience in the areas of health, let alone human services.  She is a politician and that is the extent of her qualifications.  Read for yourself at the link provided.  And that makes 2 worthless previous governors to Obama’s cabinet…  Yet this is the person who will set forth procedures and policies that all farmers must obey or lose their registration permits.  Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… Check out the following:

‘(2) may include, with respect to growing, harvesting, packing, sorting, transporting, and storage operations, minimum standards for safety as the Secretary determines to be reasonably necessary;

‘(3) may include standards addressing manure use, water quality, employee hygiene, sanitation and animal control, and temperature controls, as the Secretary determines to be reasonably necessary;

‘(4) may include standards for such other elements as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out subsection (a);

Standards addressing manure use??? Does the current Secretary have a clue about manure? I think not. So how can this person, or any other in this position, ever make reasonable decisions where farming and produce or animals is concerned? I really want to know.  Because as far as I can see she has ZERO qualifications that would enable her to do this job credit or in any way make valid decisions.  Now, if they put a farmer in charge, I’d quit bitching.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services MAY co-ordinate with the Secretary of Agriculture to see that things get done.  Guess what?  The Secretary of Agriculture is totally clueless about his job too!  Read Here: So, 2 utterly clueless fools are in charge of our food and our lands?  Call me crazy, but this is bullshit if you ask me!

And then we have this bit which makes  utterly no sense to me at all:

(b) Reports on Risk-Based Inspections of Food Facilities-

(1) ANNUAL REPORT- Not later than December 31 of each year, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit a report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate describing–

(A) the number of foreign and domestic facilities, by risk category, inspected under the risk-based inspection schedule established under section 704(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by subsection (a), in the preceding 12 months; and

(B) the costs of implementing the risk-based inspection schedule for the preceding 12 months.

(2) THIRD-YEAR REPORT- Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit a report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate describing recommendations on the risk-based inspection schedule under section 704(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by subsection (a), including recommendations for–

(A) adjustments to the timing of the schedule and other ways to increase the efficiency of inspections in order to enable the Food and Drug Administration to conduct more inspections; and

(B) other methods to contribute to assuring the safety of food.

Just who are these committee members that this agency reports to? How does giving this report improve anything? Are you starting to see just how bogus this bill is?? But wait, it gets better!

(c) Tracing System for Food-

‘(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall by regulation establish a tracing system for food that is located in the United States or is for import into the United States. Such regulations shall require each person who produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, or holds such food–

‘(A) to maintain the full pedigree of the origin and previous distribution history of the food;

‘(B) to link that history with the subsequent distribution history of the food;

‘(C) to establish and maintain a system for tracing the food that is interoperable with the systems established and maintained by other such persons; and

‘(D) to use a unique identifier for each facility owned or operated by such person for such purpose, as specified under section 911.

Once again the whole thing is placed on the farmer or producer to work out, enforce, and comply with arbitrary rules some flunky who doesn’t know her head from a hole in the ground decides on. Are you impressed? Oh, I am not either. Congress is outdoing themselves with this one.

To tell congress NO click on this link:

Let your voice be heard of forever remain silent as you go hungry, as your children starve, as farmers and farms go out of business.  The bill currently sits in these committees:

House Energy and Commerce — Bill Text Revised

House Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health — Bill Text Revised — Bill Reported Out

We must stop this bill from ever getting out of the respective committees.  This is a bad bill, a horrible bill.

And while you are at it, Fire these Congressmen/women!

Rep. John Dingell [D-MI15]

Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO1]

Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ6]

Rep. Betty Sutton [D-OH13]

Rep. Bart Stupak [D-MI1]

Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA30]

KPHO Broadcasts Designed To Overthrow Law And Order

“Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.” The Talmud

It is just sickening what these broadcast stations are doing.  The deliberate choosing of articles designed to overthrow law and order and make you feel sorry for the criminal illegal aliens that are over-running this country makes me ill.  Article after article are spewed across the news designed with one thing in mind, tear down our borders.  What they don’t dwell on is the fact that these articles are designed to make law and order a thing of the past.  What if we were to feel sorry for EVERY criminal, not just the illegal criminal aliens?  How about murderers?  They only pick on the weak leaving the strong in society to survive.  Isn’t that a positive thing?  I’m sure they are just misunderstood.  How about the sexual pervert?  Don’t they only prey on children and old people?  Poor pervert!  Let’s send him/her to therapy, not prison!  Gosh, that’s too harsh don’t you think? < Rolls eyes here >  While we are at it, let’s just throw out law and order all together.  After all, it would eliminate the need for lawyers, judges, prisons, and jails.  See how much money we’d save?  Isn’t that what we are talking about here?

The latest article KPHO did which just pissed me off was this one:

Girl: Parents Arrested In Arpaio’s Raid
Jennifer Parks
Reporter, KPHO.com UPDATED: 1:50 pm MST June 18, 2009

PHOENIX — She’s only 9 years old, but Katherine Figueroa is learning a lot about county politics and immigration laws.

Figueroa’s parents, Sandra and Carlos, both worked at the car wash about 11 years. Prosecutors charged them with using false identification.

The pathetic video can be found here: You can hear how she is being coached in her plea to Obama. Makes me want to puke.

What is glossed over is the fact that the parents had false ID. That means STOLEN IDs in case you can’t quite wrap your brains around it after watching that noxious video. Which in turn means that two American Citizens out there had their Identities stolen and this couple used them for 11 years!  The girl cries for Obama to help them.  There is an easy solution, send her back with her parents to Mexico. You can tell she is an anchor baby simply because the parents didn’t do what most Hispanic families do and have a dozen kids more.

For 11 years this couple broke our immigration laws. So let’s throw away the immigration laws, hell, let’s throw away all laws, especially those that don’t suit us or that we don’t agree with.  It would be all those smoking bans for me.  For over 240 years our laws have worked for us, now suddenly there are huge corporations which want cheap labor and wish these laws on immigration to be overthrown and they are going to make it happen.  Forget about the murders, rapists, and drugs that come across the border.  Just think about this poor pathetic child in distress!

Now, you may think me heartless for not feeling for this child but I actually do feel for her.  However, her parents made choices that have led directly to this conclusion, no one else did, so why should I be made to feel guilty if I don’t burst into tears over this story?  The parents knew that if they were ever caught they would be deported.  They made this choice with full knowledge of the consequences for them AND THEIR CHILD! End of story.  To throw a crying child into it just shows how low these special interest groups and news media will stoop to.  Anything to make a story sell!

And then KPHO ran this story although I missed it and assume it was glossed over:

DPS: Suspects Made 60+ Fake IDs

UPDATED: 10:48 am MST June 18, 2009

PHOENIX — A two-week investigation led to the arrest of two people and the seizure of more than 60 fraudulent identification cards, authorities said.

According to a news release from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Arizona Fraudulent Identification Task Force served a search warrant at a Glendale home Tuesday and discovered a woman making fake ID cards inside.

Agents seized a laptop computer, a printer/scanner, ID card printers, more than 500 pieces of blank laminate, 200 sheets of card stock used for Social Security cards and $400 in cash, as well as false ID cards for Arizona, Tennessee, California and foreign governments, DPS said.

Where do you think these fake ID’s were headed people? Do you think they were being made to hang on a wall? Perhaps as decoration for Halloween? Come on and wake up! They were going to be used to help criminal illegal aliens obtain work here in the U.S.A, work that AMERICAN CITIZENS NEED!  These IDs, if good enough, would have allowed criminal illegal aliens to obtain work and housing and medical aid until they got on their feet.  It would have allowed them to file for Social Security benefits without ever having had to work within this country.

Arizona is being overrun by the criminal illegal element.  They are taking American jobs in a time when we cannot afford to lose even one.  According to Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

The number of unemployed persons increased by 787,000 to 14.5 million in May, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.4 percent. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has risen by 7.0 million, and the unemployment rate has grown by 4.5 percent-
age points. (See table A-1.)

Unemployment rates rose in May for adult men (9.8 percent), adult women (7.5 percent), whites (8.6 percent), and Hispanics (12.7 percent). The jobless rates for teenagers (22.7 percent) and blacks (14.9 percent) were little changed over the month. The unemployment rate for Asians was 6.7 percent in May, not seasonally adjusted, up from 3.8 percent a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

That is a lot of Americans out of work!  And those figures don’t include June data.  I hear daily on the news that another company is shutting down operations here in America.  Boeing, thanking the Citizens for standing up for them, is terminating 10,000 jobs.  We’ll remember you Boeing, oh yes we will.  Boeing’s problem is that they outsourced a new project and it is now 2 years behind scheduled release.  They abandoned America.  Anyone who now asks me to support Boeing will find me deaf to their pleas for help and support!  But Boeing isn’t this articles target…

Instead, KPHO is on the rampage against the ONE MAN who actually fights for Arizonans and American Citizens and their jobs!  With articles designed to discredit and anger people, push their emotion buttons, and promote lawlessness, they run these terrible stories about our Sheriff Joe Arpaio!  Of course, Joe Arpaio isn’t bowing to corporate greed and he doesn’t support those who do, like Mayor Phil Gordon.  He works for We The People!  You can tell that Phil Gordon is a brown nose with it stuck so far up the corporate butt that it is a wonder the man can breath!

Gordon To Arpaio: Denounce Nazis

UPDATED: 8:25 am MST June 11, 2009

PHOENIX — Mayor Phil Gordon used the U.S. Holocaust Museum shooting in the nation’s capital to criticize Sheriff Joe Arpaio for what the mayor characterized as Arpaio’s “associations” with neo-Nazis.

“I’m calling upon the sheriff of Maricopa County to denounce the neo-Nazis and the Nazi’s today,” Gordon said at a news briefing on Wednesday.

This is totally inflammatory and a defamation of character! Were I Sheriff Arpaio I think I’d sue the pants off this cowardly mayor. And while you can access a video there that states “I don’t support Neo-Nazis” it just shows the slander for which Gordon is so famous. This mayor needs to be removed and someone who cares about American Citizens put in his place! Shame, Shame on you filthy criminal loving mayor, who is the true promoter of criminal activity.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio stands calm and serene though.  He doesn’t stoop to the gutter level the mayor holds to.

Arpaio said he was saddened by the mayor’s remarks.

“I don’t support any neo-Nazi or racist organization,” Arpaio said at a late-afternoon news briefing. “That’s a pretty low blow that he did to me.”

Sheriff Joe Arpaio talks to any and all who wish to speak with him.  Just because a person is affiliated with a group and Sheriff Joe speaks to him, it doesn’t mean that the Sheriff is a sympathizer or a follower. That would be like saying that someone who is married to, or knows, a murderer supported those deeds.  That is patently UNTRUE!  This NewTimes article is slanted and left of left wing! You can hear the sneer in the writers words. He takes the fervor of the interviewee and places it in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s back, like the Sheriff asked for it instead of placing it on the back of the interviewee, *Vandal*. The character assignation of Sheriff Joe Arpio by this supposed journalist is pathetic!  Just another example of journalists trying to overthrow the laws of this land!   It certainly doesn’t stop with journalists though.

It used to be that if you promoted illegal activity you were arrested for conspiracy.  What has happened to those days?  Why is the promotion of criminal illegal migration to be approved of when we arrest drug smugglers?  What is the difference?  An illegal activity is still an illegal activity, I don’t care how it pulls at the heart-strings!!!

You will not find a single article about Sheriff Joe Arpaio of a flattering nature on KPHO’s biased, and criminal activity promoting, station!  Not ONE!  Can there be any more positive proof that KPHO doesn’t report news but instead promotes the views of the network who owns them?  What of the law abiding citizen?  Where is there sympathy for the plight of American families whose identifications and lives are stolen by these criminal illegal aliens?  How about the jobs lost to these criminals by the businesses that hire them?  What of the American Children who are becoming homeless because of the criminal element who have stolen American jobs?  Where is the sympathy for these children, these parents, their lives?

Justice in America is in the toilet too.  Even the Justices of courts are now giving criminal illegals a free pass.  This flies in the face of our laws and they are the ones who are supposed to be upholding them.  How do we hold these Justices accountable for THEIR criminal decisions?

AP:Judge: Immigrants’ rights violated in Conn. raids

By DAVE COLLINS – Jun 8, 2009

Immigration Judge Michael Straus, in decisions last week, said the ICE agents went into the immigrants’ homes without warrants, probable cause or their consent, and he put a stop to deportation proceedings against the four defendants, whose names were not released. ICE officials claim all four are from Mexico, but all four cited their Fifth Amendment rights in refusing to say what country they are from.

Two of the four immigrants lived in one home, and two lived in a second home. They said in affidavits that agents barged into both homes after residents had opened their doors only a little. The agents went into both homes looking for specific illegal immigrants on a “target list,” who weren’t found, court documents say.

EVERY TIME police respond they barge in. This investigation started a year before these people were arrested.  And what rights should criminal illegal aliens have in this country? They are here illegally, breaking the law by stepping foot inside the USA. What kind of moronic judge violates the laws of this country and gets away with it? Why isn’t he disbarred? Why isn’t there a way to hold these judges accountable?  This judge is going out of his way to help the mayor of this city break U.S. laws.  Why aren’t they behind bars themselves?  And there is NOTHING we can do about it?  Has this country degenerated so much that this is tolerated now?

If it is ok to break one law, why not all of them?  I seriously want to know.  How about if I go rob a bank and I’ll use the setting free of these criminal illegal aliens as my defense?  Do you think for a second that the judge would go for that?  Why not?  If we allow criminals to be freed for breaking our laws, if it doesn’t matter that they steal our ID’s, live in our country illegally, use our services, buy houses and cars and clothing and food while breaking the laws, why can’t I rob a bank and get the money I need to live a better life on?  Someone please explain the difference to me.

When is enough, enough?  When will the agendas of the huge corporations with self interest be exposed for their illegal deeds in bringing in these criminal illegal aliens so they won’t have to pay a living wage to REAL American Citizens?

I have become numb to the bombardment of *poor pity the pathetic illegal*, they are only trying to make a living…  Well guess what?  So are the rest of us.  A choice is made when these criminals come here and break the sanctity and Sovereignty of this country.  Let them deal with the consequences of that action/choice.  I read recently where the women coming here from Mexico start to take birth control pills months in advance so that they don’t get pregnant from the rapes they will endure to get here.  Now that is some choice, don’t you think? It seems to me that this goes hand in hand with them willing to lose their children in order to break our immigration laws and come here illegally.

Do not tell me, as a Citizen of this country and of the State of Arizona that *I* have to obey the laws and then let these criminals off.  Either we enforce all the laws or none of them.

I support Sheriff Joe Arpaio 100% because he supports ME!

English As The Official Language And Mexican Citizens

"I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the tie that binds the millions of immigrants who come to America from divergent backgrounds. We should, and do, encourage immigrants to maintain and share their traditions, customs and religions, but the use of English is essential for immigrants and their children to participate fully in American society and achieve the American dream." Rep. James Sensenbrenner

I think it is truly sad that we have to pass a law that states that English is the official language of the country, but the disrespect that the immigrant of today shows for this country makes it necessary.  It used to be that those who immigrated here from other countries took pride in learning English and becoming a full member of society.  But with the influx of so many Hispanics both legal and the criminal illegal alien element, it has become a matter of necessity, and pride, that we state We Speak English HERE!  Learn it!  It isn’t that I mind hearing Spanish while riding the bus or out shopping, because I don’t, even if I think it is a bit rude.  But we have bent so far over backwards to accommodate these immigrants that we are losing OUR heritage because of it.

Now there is a movement afoot to change that and to make English the official language of the land.  About time too I’d say.  You want to live in OUR country?  Learn English.  You want to enjoy the American Dream?  Learn English!  Stop thinking you are entitled to taxpayer funded services when you cannot even speak our language.  No other country on this Earth has to tell the immigrant, legal or otherwise, to learn the language of the land.  Only in America!

42 out of 50 States have English or English plus, as the official language.  The federal government has passed a law that states English is the official language of the federal government and no business will be transacted in any other language.  There are 6 other States that have English and a second language recognized.  These States have English as the official language:

States where English is the official language Source: Wikipedia

Alabama (1990), Alaska (1998), Arizona (2006), Arkansas (1987), California (1986), Colorado (1988), Florida (1988), Georgia (1986, 1996), Idaho (2007), Illinois (1969), Indiana (1984), Iowa (2002), Kansas (2007), Kentucky (1984), Massachusetts (1975), Mississippi (1987), Missouri (1998), Montana (1995), Nebraska (1920), New Hampshire (1995), North Carolina (1987), North Dakota (1987), South Carolina (1987), South Dakota (1987), Tennessee (1984), Utah (2000), Virginia (1981, 1996), and Wyoming (1996).  Then the following States have at least 2 languages that are recognized; Hawaii (1978) Hawaiian and English, Louisiana (1807) English and French, New Mexico (1989) English Plus, Oregon (1989).  2 States have pending legislation; Rhode Island (2007, pending) and Washington (2007-8, pending).  I’m real curious why Alaska isn’t in blue on this map when it is part of the English as the official language.  Maybe someone screwed up?

February 11, 2009 a bill was introduced in Congress which would declare English to be the official language of the Country.  The bill is currently sitting in the following Committees:

House Education and Labor

House Education and Labor,Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and, Secondary Education

House Judiciary

The bill is H.R. 997

HR 997 IH

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 997

To declare English as the official language of the United States, to establish a uniform English language rule for naturalization, and to avoid misconstructions of the English language texts of the laws of the United States, pursuant to Congress’ powers to provide for the general welfare of the United States and to establish a uniform rule of naturalization under article I, section 8, of the Constitution.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2009

There are 61 sponsors of this bill. I’d sure like to see a unanimous vote on it. This bill would make it clear to all those who immigrate here that this country expects them to respect the English language and to learn it. You are not entitled to get your paperwork in your native language and disregard the rest of society or the unifying language. We need this bill.  It would, once and for all, unite this country.  That is something we need as a nation.  United we stand, divided we fall.

An excerpt from Common Dreams has this to say:

Numerous campaigns across country

The movement to make English the official language of U.S. government seems to run in cycles, and for now it’s back. Since the beginning of the year, four bills to that effect have been introduced in Congress, with versions of the idea included as part of at least three other bills. Meanwhile, similar measures have been introduced in at least 10 of the 22 states that don’t already have such provisions.

“A nation of immigrants needs one national language,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said last month in introducing legislation that would make English the “national language” and declare that “there is no entitlement to receive federal documents and services in languages other than English.”

That would make the total States to have English as the official language up to 42 out of 50 if they all pass leaving only 8 States which would not have any official language.  It is unclear if the respective States would then adopt English as the official language or not.  This isn’t to say that any language besides English can’t be spoken in your communities or at home, or even on the bus, only that English is the official and founding language of these united States.

Those who wave the Mexican flag should refresh their memory concerning the Naturalization Act of 1795.  According to the first section of that act:

SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, or any of them, on the following conditions, and not otherwise. First, he shall have declared, on oath or affirmation, before the Supreme, Superior, District, or Circuit Court of some one of the states, or of the territories northwest or south of the Ohio River, or a Circuit or District Court of the United States, three years at least before his admission, that it was, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof such alien may at that time be a citizen or subject.

Secondly. He shall, at the time of his application to be admitted, declare on oath or affirmation before some one of the courts aforesaid that he has resided within the United States five years at least, and within the state or territory where such court is at the time held, one year at least; that he will support the Constitution of the United States; and that he does absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreigh prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever and particularly by name the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.

Thirdly. The court admitting such alien shall be satisfied that he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States five years. It shall further appear to their satisfaction that during that time he has behaved as a man of a good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.

Fourthly. In case the alien applying to be admitted to citizenship shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility, in the kingdom or state from which he came, he shall, in addition to the above requisites, make an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility in the court to which his application shall be made; which renunciation shall be recorded in the said court.

Raising the Mexican flag in this country, especially above the flag of these united States, is a direct violation of this Act and shows that your allegiance is still to the Mexican government and NOT to the Constitution OR the United States.  It also invalidates your demands for Citizenship.  Disrespecting this country and our laws doesn’t make you a good candidate for Citizenship in my opinion. That our country would even consider giving into your demands with these violations of our laws is ridiculous.  Raising the Mexican flag IN THIS COUNTRY shows all the world that your loyalty is to Mexico. This makes you ineligible for Citizenship to these united States.

Recognized Mexican Flag as of 9-20-1916 http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.partt.org/MexicanFlag.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.partt.org/mexican_flag.html&h=396&w=790&sz=28&tbnid=et5iPS6OZ3pQFM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMexican%2BFlag&hl=en&usg=__0S00gkmzMUwKMexTBx9kDo-yigY=&ei=27Q5St-3FsmMtgfUqPzjDA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image

The following applies to ALL criminal illegal aliens, and those harboring or transporting these same criminals across the United States Border:

§ 1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens

(a) Criminal penalties
(1)
(A) Any person who—
(i) knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;
(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
(iv) encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or
(v)
(I) engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
(II) aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
(C) It is not a violation of clauses [1] (ii) or (iii) of subparagraph (A), or of clause (iv) of subparagraph (A) except where a person encourages or induces an alien to come to or enter the United States, for a religious denomination having a bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the United States, or the agents or officers of such denomination or organization, to encourage, invite, call, allow, or enable an alien who is present in the United States to perform the vocation of a minister or missionary for the denomination or organization in the United States as a volunteer who is not compensated as an employee, notwithstanding the provision of room, board, travel, medical assistance, and other basic living expenses, provided the minister or missionary has been a member of the denomination for at least one year.
(2) Any person who, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has not received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever, such alien, regardless of any official action which may later be taken with respect to such alien shall, for each alien in respect to whom a violation of this paragraph occurs—
(A) be fined in accordance with title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; or
(B) in the case of—
(i) an offense committed with the intent or with reason to believe that the alien unlawfully brought into the United States will commit an offense against the United States or any State punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year,
(ii) an offense done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(iii) an offense in which the alien is not upon arrival immediately brought and presented to an appropriate immigration officer at a designated port of entry,
be fined under title 18 and shall be imprisoned, in the case of a first or second violation of subparagraph (B)(iii), not more than 10 years, in the case of a first or second violation of subparagraph (B)(i) or (B)(ii), not less than 3 nor more than 10 years, and for any other violation, not less than 5 nor more than 15 years.
(3)
(A) Any person who, during any 12-month period, knowingly hires for employment at least 10 individuals with actual knowledge that the individuals are aliens described in subparagraph (B) shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
(B) An alien described in this subparagraph is an alien who—
(i) is an unauthorized alien (as defined in section 1324a (h)(3) of this title), and
(ii) has been brought into the United States in violation of this subsection.
(4) In the case of a person who has brought aliens into the United States in violation of this subsection, the sentence otherwise provided for may be increased by up to 10 years if—
(A) the offense was part of an ongoing commercial organization or enterprise;
(B) aliens were transported in groups of 10 or more; and
(C)
(i) aliens were transported in a manner that endangered their lives; or
(ii) the aliens presented a life-threatening health risk to people in the United States.

Seizures and forfeitures include any kind of transportation vehicle used in the commission of the crime of bringing in illegal criminal aliens, money or property owned by those who transport, harbor or entice a criminal illegal to come to this country in violation of our immigration laws. These are steep penalties if you don’t have the money or property to lose.  Of course, the coyotes seem to have enough to lose.

And just because we have a lot of gutless wonders in government at present, doesn’t mean that at some point down the road the tide won’t change.  Tides always do.  Your actions speak louder than your words ever will.  Go ahead and wave your Mexican flags, it only goes to show just how UN-American you can get.  Citizenship for you?  Not on my watch.

There is only one portion of this code that Homeland Secretary consistently violates or fails to act on:

(e) Outreach program
The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, as appropriate, shall develop and implement an outreach program to educate the public in the United States and abroad about the penalties for bringing in and harboring aliens in violation of this section.

Too bad the Homeland Secretary is such a coward.  But doing this would mean that we would ENFORCE our immigration laws and the penalties that go along with them.

Monsanto, A Killer Corporation

A new study out proves that Genetically Modified foods are a health hazard and should be removed from our diets and the environment.  The study conducted by American Academy of Environmental Medicine states that lab tests done on rats have shown the following severe health issues:

1. Infertility
2. Immune dysregulation
3. Accelerated aging
4. Dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis
5. Insulin Regulation
6. Cell Signaling
7. Protein Formation
8. Changes in the Liver
9. Changes in Kidney
10. Changes in spleen
11. Changes in Gastrointestinal System

Criteria used to evaluate GM/GMO foods are done under strict scientific conditions. Cause is found using the Hill’s Criteria of Causation. According to this scientific process, there is more than just a slight or casual association between GM/GMO foods and adverse health effects.  Study after study done on animals leads scientists to believe that these same adverse effects will also happen to human beings.

Adverse health effects include obesity, allergies, asthma, and inflammation.  Animal studies also show altered structure and function of the liver, including altered lipid and carbohydrate metabolism as well as cellular changes that could lead to accelerated aging and possibly lead to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Changes in the kidney, pancreas and spleen have also been documented. A recent 2008 study links GM corn with infertility, showing a significant decrease in offspring over time and significantly lower litter weight in mice fed GM corn. This study also found that over 400 genes were found to be expressed differently in the mice fed GM corn. These are genes known to control protein synthesis and modification, cell signalling, cholesterol synthesis, and insulin regulation. Studies also show intestinal damage in animals fed GM foods, including proliferative cell growth and disruption of the intestinal immune system. ‘

Whether the FDA will listen or not is another matter all together.  Cleaning up this agency is a gargantuan project that money special interest groups such as Monsanto will make virtually impossible.  Assume that anything with corn in it these days is of GM origin.  With all the commercials lately for viagra products it would seem that it is already having an effect on male reproductive dysfunction.   And, if Monsanto has its way, wheat and rice will be part of our diet as well.

You can read for yourself the following animal studies that prove GMO foods are unsuitable for human and animal consumption:

World Health Organization. (Internet).(2002). Foods derived from modern technology: 20 questions on genetically modified foods.

Smith, JM. Genetic Roulette. Fairfield: Yes Books.2007. p.10

Freese W, Schubert D. Safety testing and regulation of genetically engineered foods. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews. Nov 2004. 21.

Convention on Biological Diversity World wide meeting of scientists concerned with bio-engineering.

David R. Schubert The Problem with Nutritionally Enhanced Plants.

Society of Toxicology. The safety of genetically modified foods produced through biotechnology. Toxicol. Sci. 2003; 71:2-8.

GAO’s report to Congress can be found here:

Finamore A, Roselli M, Britti S, et al. Intestinal and peripheral immune response to MON 810 maize ingestion in weaning and old mice. J Agric. Food Chem. 2008; 56(23):11533-11539.

For example, in a paper published in November of 2008 Italian researchers concluded that “the consumption of [Bt] MON810 maize…induced alterations in intestinal and peripheral immune response of weaning and old mice. Although the significance of these data remains to be clarified to establish whether these alterations reflect significant immune dysfunctions, these results suggest the importance of considering the gut and peripheral immune response to the whole GM crop, as well as the age, in the GMO safety evaluation” (p. 11537 Finamore, A. et al., 2008). This study illustrates the importance of testing animals at appropriate stages of their lifecycles.

Malatesta M, Boraldi F, Annovi G, et al. A long-term study on female mice fed on a genetically modified soybean:effects on liver ageing. Histochem Cell Biol. 2008; 130:967-977.

And the list goes on and on. Why then are GMO foods still on the market? Why is it that the FDA refuses to allow packaging to list whether or not a food or by product is of GM origins???  Money of course!  Monsanto uses all of its might and money to keep the production of GM foods on the market and the public blind as to what their products contain.  The idea is to take over the natural food production and replace it with GM foods.  A list of those companies who are taking steps to eliminate all GM products from their suppliers can be found HERE:

Some short videos to watch concerning the misleading and faulty data that Monsanto  uses can be found here:

YouTube – The Genetic Conspiracy (1/3) – about Monsanto
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YouTube – The Genetic Conspiracy (3/3) – about Monsanto
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Genetic Conspiracy – Following the Trail – Channel …
	Jun 16, 2007 The Genetic Conspiracy – Following the Trail.This documentary is in English and from the German International channel Deutsche Welle.

The Genetic Conspiracy (2/3) – about Monsanto
	9 min – Jul 22, 2007 - Watch as a farmer talks about his cattle and hens getting into the soy fields of his neighbors and die from it.  This farmer also says his family got sick and had to go to the hospital. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHobGDHtq4E

And, just in case you think we are being unfair to Monsanto, check out the following videos to see how Monsanto can buy off even the Courts of this country!

YouTube – Fox News Kills Monsanto Milk Story
	10 min – Sep 9, 2006 - Investigative news report regarding cancer-causing additives to milk by Monsanto is shut down by Fox News executives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw

Americans stand no chance for getting rid of GM/GMO foods with everyone being bought off and hiding the real science. One must look to the internet to get the facts, and those can be distorted if you are not careful. Trusting anything the FDA or Monsanto says is likely to kill you or someone you know. For now, assume anything with corn in it is tainted with GM products or DNA. And unless you know your local dairyman, assume that milk is too.

According to Financial Sense.com, doctors across the country have issued a statement declaring that a moratorium be placed on all GM/GMO foods.

US Doctors’ association calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods

by F. William Engdahl
May 21, 2009

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods. In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the AAEM states that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk’ and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes ‘there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects’ and that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health.’ The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the world’s leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides.

The paper further states that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) technology ‘abrogates natural reproductive processes, selection occurs at the single cell level, the procedure is highly mutagenic and routinely breeches genera barriers, and the technique has only been used commercially for 10 years.’

The original article was a b**ch to find!  While most articles linked to the article above, I had to search for an hour to find the original from which this article was written.  What a pain in the a**!  So, the original article can be found here:  I can’t tell you just how annoyed I am when I cannot find the original article!  Why don’t people link to that instead of some mass produced one? Thank you to Singularity for actually linking to the original article!

So why was there no press on this? Why the silence and the cover-up of the media? These aren’t just farmers or your neighbor down the street, these are knowledgeable physicians who have studied the situation.  The plot seems to be to get these farmers locked into a cycle of getting seeds directly from Monsanto, then Monsanto goes after them for fees due directly to the use of the seeds.  As the grounds get used to the herbicide resistant soy and other GMO products the weeds get more and more resistant also.  It is a vicious circle that Monsanto and others profit from while the earth herself suffers as nutrients are ripped from the soil.  Soil color goes from rich black to lifeless gray.

Much has been heard of MASAHARU KAWATA Assistant Professor, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan and his review of Monsanto’s flawed science with regard to soybeans.  His report can be found HERE: Thankfully the report has been translated into English for those of us who don’t speak Japanese.  Professor Kawata did painstaking research in evaluation Monsanto’s claims of *equal to* the original plants. Some of his findings are highly disturbing. Consider the following excerpts:

(3) A mystery of “The samples used for analysis and animal dietary test were cultivated without herbicide application”.

The Roundup Ready soybean marketed is usually applied with the herbicide Roundup. But surprisingly enough, our inspection revealed that both the gene modified soybean 40-3-2 strain and conventional strain A5403 were NOT sprayed with Roundup herbicide in their cultivation. Monsanto produced only small amount sample with Roundup on the side to test residual glyphosate in the harvested forage, hay and seed. All the soybean of a few thousand kilograms used in safety experiments was harvested not sprayed. The reason is not stated in the documents.

The data obtained with such samples may be therefore not valid to guarantee safety of soybean that human and animals take in the real life, not just because of the residue glyphosate is a toxin to kill plants by inhibiting plant enzyme EPSPS. Effects on other metabolic pathway must be taken into account particularly when such artificial genes are inserted. For consumers, the test results using different sample than marketed soybean may be meaningless.

(4)Incomplete analysis of introduced protein CP4EPSPS.

It is expected that CP4EPSPS protein expressed in the bio-engineered soybean have the same amino acid sequence as the soil bacterium from which the gene was originated. This can only be verified when soybean produced protein is isolated and the amino acid sequence is determined, because exchanging genes between bacteria and higher organism can sometimes result in partial amino acid change and/or post-translational modification after expression. Before inspection we presumed that amino acid sequence of soybean CP4EPSPS was determined. However, to my surprise, it was not.

What Monsanto has determined was only 15 amino acids from N-terminal of the protein, which was expressed in E.coli. The rest of the sequence was presumed one from the nucleotide sequence of the bacterial DNA. Then only 3.3% of expected total of 455 amino acids was decided, and the protein is not of soybean! ELISA test described in the documents is the only method to verify antigenic equivalence of proteins. But antigenic similarity itself does not prove the amino acid sequences are the same. The true face of CP4EPSPS protein in the soybean that we are taking is still unknown.

It is clear that the FDA and Monsanto lied about GM/GMO foods. Wherever possible, we should avoid these products like the plague! Monsanto refuses to address any of these issues and the FDA continues to maintain that there are NO differences between GM/GMO and regular agriculture products.  Professor Kawata goes much deeper into his analysis of the false and faulty data Monsanto released and the FDA sucked up as fact.  All consumers should become aware of and read the facts by these impartial sites concerned with consumer health.

Amazingly, most of the links referencing GM/GMO foods on the FDA website come up with *Page Not Found* errors.  Some of them contain links to articles of the same name and so one has to assume that the original articles were moved from one server to another.  However, some key documents are simply missing.  View the list HERE: It makes me wonder if the FDA is rethinking their position on GM/GMO foods.  As for their policy statement, it seems to be gone…

Articles covering everything from cancer producing milk in Florida with the bovine hormone enhancer,  (rBGH), from Monsanto, to cloned meat,  to rice and corn documents are available on the web from various sites.  With the evidence mounting, why is the FDA still so sure that GM/GMO foods are safe?  All the evidence points in the opposite direction…  But then, we all know what money can buy.

One of the most important paragraphs from the original study says this:

Therefore, because GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health and are without benefit, the AAEM believes that it is imperative to adopt the precautionary principle, which is one of the main regulatory tools of the European Union environmental and health policy and serves as a foundation for several international agreements. The most commonly used definition is from the 1992 Rio Declaration that states: “In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

GMO foods are without benefit! That about says it all doesn’t it?

Rebuttal For Amanda

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants. Steve Israel

Someone named Amanda sent me a reply to my post on Rights For Illegal Criminal Aliens.   I didn’t ignore your comments, but it will take some time to reply.  Here is a post just for that reply.  I’ll back my post up with facts and figures as needed.  I want Amanda to know where I’m coming from and why I feel the way I do.  Amanda, please know that I took comments to heart and that I’ve devoted this article to answering you.

Amanda said:”It would seem that you perhaps are not aware of many things that this country stands for. First of all, there is no reason for an immigrant, legal or illegal, to learn English.

This is true, however, there is no law in any country that speaks a common language that demands ALL speak that language. It is, however, common courtesy to speak the language of the land you move to. This is just one of the ways a person proves their loyalty and desire to be a good Citizen.  No other country on this Earth is expected to conform to those that immigrate, legally or ILLEGALLY, to its shores. Why is it that America and Americans must do so? And while America does have a federal law on the books making it so that English is the “sole legal authority” for the business of the federal government, and declares that no person has a right to require officials of the United States government to use a language other than English; we DO provide translators and signs/paperwork in various languages out of courtesy.  What other country does that? If I went to Mexico do you suppose that the Mexican government would provide me with a translator for all my needs simply because I can’t be bothered to learn that country’s language?

Amanda said: “I understand if everyone spoke the same language the world would be much easier, however there is no official language of the United States of America. If you do not like to hear others speaking foreign languages, I suggest that you purchase Rosetta Stone and begin learning.”

Actually Amanda, I speak 4 languages.  Some with better fluency than others, but I can understand most of what is said. I speak German, Greek, English and I’m learning Spanish.  And we aren’t talking about the rest of the world, we are talking about this ONE country, the United States of America.    How many languages do you speak? My mother immigrated legally to this country from Switzerland when she was 19.   She learned English and she spoke 5 other languages fluently.  And why is it that these Mexicans expect us to speak and provide Spanish translations when they do not do the same in Mexico or any other country for that matter??? Why is it all right for Americans to bend over backwards but not for other countries? Why should I spend money for a language course just to make some people (Illegal or legal), feel at home? IN MY OWN COUNTRY This is MY HOME!

Amanda said, “Second of all, nobody has the right to silence.”

We all have a right to silence and to BE silent. This statement is either a misspeak or you didn’t read what I wrote correctly.  The right to silence can keep you from self incrimination…

Amanda said, “I would like to see what you would do if your country had rejected you and forced your family into poverty and the only way out was to do anything to find a job.”

Actually Amanda, I do know exactly how this feels. You see, I’m a smoker and so is my roommate and daughter. We are now a 3rd class Citizen of this country I so love, taxed near to breaking, and not working. My daughter has been looking for a job for the past year. My family DOES live in poverty right now. There are over 14.5 million Americans out of work right now, today the totals are even higher. So explain to me why I should support an illegal criminal alien’s desire to work in this country today. More importantly, why should I give a damn about them?

Amanda said: “And when you work harder, longer and faster to support the needs of a greedy U.S. citizen just to be abused, criticized and hated, would you sit by and take it?”

Here you show your true colors Amanda, your hatred for Americans. You want me to welcome you with open arms while you feel this way about me and my country? Greedy Americans who are being taxed to death so that these criminal illegals can abuse our services? Free breakfast and lunch for their school kids, free emergency room care, (forcing the closure of hospitals because these criminals don’t pay their bills), while American Citizens cannot afford the same, free housing, free food stamps, free health care, (again something most Americans who fall through the cracks can’t get but illegals can!), that comes along with all your anchor babies! Do NOT go there with me or any other tax-paying Citizen of this country and call us greedy! If criminal illegals weren’t greedy they would stay in their own country and work the lands there or make their own business opportunities. No, it is the criminal illegals that are the freeloaders, the greedy, in this country.

Amanda said,”Thirdly, the Mexican government hardly will change the country because a of the living conditions of a poor civilian. A good model of this is the U.S. Republican party, perhaps you know a thing or two about that.”

Americans fought and died for freedom from a tyrannical government.  We understand what it takes to be free.  While you wave your Mexican flags, some even above the American flag, in this country to signify your loyalty to Mexico, (which makes no sense to me if Mexico forced you out), you turn around and announce that Mexico doesn’t care about its poor so you will come here and create the same conditions you left behind. Criminal Illegals bring diseases and poverty with them. They trash American soil and neighborhoods without regard for the country they intend to live in. They disrespect our laws from day one of their illegal entrance and through selfish interests and greed. They desire for themselves what their country won’t provide them with. Why don’t Mexican Citizens rise up and fight for their needs?  Change is painful but it won’t happen if you abandon your country.

As for the Republican party, we have two parties in this country, both broken. One is extreme in that it over indulges the * entitlements *, (Democrats), and the other one taketh away, (Republicans). We the People would be better served if these two parties found a middle ground and stayed there. Most importantly we need to make sure we aren’t burdening the taxpayer with supporting people who do not belong in this country!

Amanda said, “Immigration procedures are not getting any easier, in fact they are getting more difficult. This I know because even to marry the man I love I must wait up to 10 years, and even then who knows if they will allow him in.”

Amanda, either you are NOT a citizen of this country or you don’t know how to look things up on the web. I found this with the search: U.S. Citizens marry Immigrant. This was what I found when I clicked on the top search result:

GETTING YOUR GREEN CARD THROUGH MARRIAGE
Each year, over 400,000 citizens of the United States marry foreign-born persons and petition for them to obtain permanent residence in the U.S. Spouses of U.S. citizens are considered “immediate relatives” under the immigration laws, and are exempt from all numerical quota limitations. In other words, marriage to a U.S. citizen is the fast lane to a green card.

Alternately, marriage to a permanent resident is very problematical and often results in the recently-married spouses living apart for many years. A legislative solution to this problem is required.

It is also possible for a U.S. citizen to obtain a temporary visa for a fiancee and get married once he or she arrives in the U.S.

IF THE MARRIAGE OCCURS IN THE U.S.
Procedurally, the process works like this. The U.S. citizen must submit a visa petition (form I-130) to the National Benefits Center in Chicago to prove that the marriage is bona fide, that is, entered into for love rather than simply for the foreign-born spouse to obtain a green card. Attached to the visa petition are the following items: (1) Biographical forms (forms G-325A) for both the husband and the wife with photos attached; (2) Proof of the citizenship status of the petitioner. This can take the form of a U.S. Passport, a Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship or a certified copy of the citizen’s birth certificate; (3) A certified copy of the marriage certificate; (4) Certified copies of the documents that terminated any previous marriages of the husband or wife, including final divorce decrees, and certificates of annulment or death.

Simultaneously, the foreign-born spouse, assuming he or she entered the U.S. lawfully, should submit an application for adjustment of status (form I-485) which is an application for a green card. Items which generally accompany form I-485 include green card photographs, an affidavit of support from the spouse, an application for employment authorization, an application for a travel permit (known in USCIS jargon as “advanced parole”) – assuming the non-citizen spouse has not be present in the U.S. unlawfully for 180 days or more – and numerous other USCIS forms.

And don’t forget the USCIS filing fees.

The USCIS will accept the applications, cash your check, and schedule an interview somewhere between six months and 12 months. If the wait for the interview exceeds 90 days, chances are that the work card and the travel permit will be issued. We list the USCIS waiting times for all 60+ District Offices.

Do you truly expect me to believe that you have done all of the above and they told you it was a 10 year wait? Does your love have a criminal record that would make it hard for him to join you here? If you expect me be concerned about this then you will be disappointed.  According to the above information your * love * would have to be a criminal to be excluded.

Amanda said, “Part of being a person with a valid point of view is to appreciate and understand the other side of the argument. This is a concept you seem to have failed to understand.”

And where is that carved in stone? This is my view of the world here on my blog. What part of *My Blog* makes you think I should, or have to be, impartial? And why should your opinion of my writings in any way invalidate my own? LOL!  If you don’t like that point of view NO ONE says you must read my stuff. Trust me on that one! I’ve also considered both sides of this issue and decided this is the side of the fence I want to be on. My choice, my blog, my writings. There is no failure to comprehend, there is simply a decided-upon view.

Amanda said, “This is the Untied States of America, the world’s melting pot. Please, ask your ancestors why they immigrated to the United States, I am sure they will tell you many of the same reasons a immigrant today comes here. Without them you would not exist or have the freedoms you have. Thank and immigrant for having the courage to better their world.

Oh, I know my history Amanda! My father’s family came from England. I’ve already said how my mother got here. She ate one meal a day for 5 years in order to save up the money she needed to pay the fees. Then she got herself a sponsor and a job and never once lived off welfare or any other entitlement program. They both worked hard and learned and worked harder and they instilled this work ethic in me. I am proud of my heritage. When my mother got here she only spoke two words of English, but she learned. She moved up the corporate ladder into one of the biggest firms in this country. How many Mexicans learn the English language? I’m forced to see Spanish signs everywhere because of people who refuse to learn English. And do not even try to tell me that it is impossible to learn English! My mother didn’t whine and moan because things were hard, she simply dug in and WORKED at it all the time. Nor was she forced to give up her heritage to do so. I cook like a Swiss, from scratch and a lot of my traditions were handed down by her. No excuse! Legal immigration is one thing, these criminals that come here illegally do not deserve sympathy or pity. They deserve to be deported back to Mexico. I don’t care what Mexico does with them.

Amanda said, “The money an immigrant sends back to their country stimulates the economy, which brings it out of poverty. God help your family if the United States ever falls into the same situation and is forced to immigrate.”

Why should I care about another countries economy? How is that helping these united States? This is NOT a reason to throw away the borders and allow free access to any and all people from other countries! Do you truly believe this is a valid argument? Geesh, no wonder America is becoming a third world nation! We have intelligent people like you thinking and talking! America is being destroyed by EXACTLY this type of mentality! If Americans stood up for America the way they do for criminal illegals we’d be a strong nation again!  According to this site: Mexicans have sent home more than $275,904,000,000 since the beginning of this year. The amount is steadily growing. This is just to Mexico, there is another number for other Latin American countries.

Amanda said, “I truly hope you stay. And please remember, immigrants are not only from Mexico. In fact, in many cases Mexicans do not make up the highest percentage of illegal immigrants.

Why would I leave? This is the country I was born into. This is MY Country and I love it dearly. Just because the going gets rough doesn’t mean I’d abandon it like the Mexicans do Mexico.  But I hate to see how it is being destroyed by the Mexican hoard streaming across our borders. According to The American Resistance:

Proportion of illegals from countries other than Mexico

Of course, not all illegal aliens come from Mexico. In 1997, the illegal alien population was 54 percent Mexican.24 The illegal alien population is currently 70 percent Mexican, with 30 percent coming from other countries.   Latin America, including Mexico, is the source of 90 percent of illegal aliens entering into the United States.   A 2004 Fox News article stated that “it is not just Mexicans who are flooding into our border states anymore. Along with the Nicaraguans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, and Chileans, agents of the Border Patrol now encounter Chinese, Pakistanis, and Indians. Nationals of countries other than Mexico are known, in Border Patrol parlance, as ‘OTMs’” – Other Than Mexicans.

Please state where your facts came from because they directly contradict those of DHS, the above site, and many others. Mexico is the number 1 country from which illegal criminal aliens come from. And it isn’t because these Mexicans don’t have jobs either, they do in many cases.

Do you realize that Illegal Immigrant is an oxymoron? In case you don’t know what that means it means putting together two words that are directly opposed.  You can find examples here: An immigrant is someone who comes to a country by means of legally entry. To come here illegally makes them a criminal. You cannot be a criminal and immigrate to this country.

Let’s look at Mexico’s requirements for Immigration:

Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:

* in the country legally;
* have the means to sustain themselves economically;
* not destined to be burdens on society;
* of economic and social benefit to society;
* of good character and have no criminal records; and
* contributors to the general well-being of the nation.

The law also ensures that:

* immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
* foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
* foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
* foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
* foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
* those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison.

No illegal criminal alien entering this country from Mexico deserves to be treated differently than the country they come from treats their foreign visitors. Think on that Amanda.

Amanda’s full message can be found here: Amanda

The Sky Is Falling Or Holocaust Museum Shooting

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. Barbara Ehrenreich

I’ve been taking time off this last month to just relax and take it easy.  It was time to enjoy the coming of summer here in Arizona and lounge by the pool.  But yesterday’s media blitz got to me.  One man goes ballistic with the pressures of the economy, exorbitant taxes, bailouts, and unemployment and the media goes mad with excitement.  Good God, it must have been a slow day for such an outrageous media to plaster our screens with non-news.  You would think that the man blew up a building and killed dozens instead of killing just one man.  Now I’m sorry about the man who died.  I feel terrible for his family and friends and their grief, I truly do.  I don’t think anyone deserves to go out that way.  It is so sudden and final.  But neither do I think that the whole world needs to feed off it like sharks in bloody water.  The feeding frenzy that went on was truly awesome.  And why is it that it is ALWAYS about fear mongering?  CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, CNN’s Campbell Brown, NBC, Fox, MSNBC, CBS local news too, all were part of the mass hysteria of the day.  I’m sure the list of channels that carried the story are endless, so this is all I will link to here.  Video coverage of the day can be found HERE: Top left of the screen, click on the Video tab.

It felt rather like Chicken Little running around telling us the sky was falling without ever looking up to see if it was true.  Speculation was rampant.  We went from possible ties to extremist groups to absolute certainty that the speculation was true.  To me it was one man on a rant to the world about his views.  It had nothing to do with the rest of us, most especially the white race,  and everything to do with the killer’s anger at the world for wrongs he perceived.  And why is it that being proud of being a white person is now considered to be a hate group?  Black pride isn’t.  Asian pride isn’t.  Nor is Hispanic pride.  Just us whites.  Shame on the media and especially on the Souther Poverty Law Center.  Just who put them in charge of listing hate groups?  I really want to know cuz as far as I am concerned it is only their opinion.  And we all know the definition of opinions, they are like assholes, everyone has one…

WWII veteran James Wenneker von Brunn

In article after article that I read about this incident James Wenneker von Brunn worked alone.  And while the FBI is scouring his past and internet records, there are NO proven ties to ANY White Supremacist or Neo-Nazi groups listed.  It is all total speculation, fear mongering and media frenzy making a story juicier.  These media blizters are the ones who should be arrested for grandstanding!  For making up shit and spewing it as fact.  SHAME ON THE MEDIA!

According to The Chicago Tribune:

FBI officials said that all indications suggested that Von Brunn had acted alone, but they continued to investigate that question.

“The preliminary indication is that this incident involved a lone suspect,” said Joseph Persichini Jr., head of the FBI’s Washington field office. Other authorities said that they had no indications in advance that the museum, which is affiliated with the U.S. government, might be targeted.

Townsend said that “if it does turn out that [Von Brunn] is a lone wolf, those are the most difficult to pick up because there is no indication or warning that they will go from saying hateful things to doing hateful things.”

Nowhere in the article is it listed that James Wenneker von Brunn has ties to ANY hate groups. The man was consumed with his own hate, isn’t that enough?  But that doesn’t make all whites haters or racists or accomplices.  But the media sure made it sound that way.  Tie that to the anti-gun drive by Obama and you start to understand just why this was such a delicacy for the media.

Being a veteran of war, ANY war, can leave a man with psychological problems/trauma/disorders such as PTSD, (Post Traumatice Stress Disorder).  WWII was about Germans and Jews.  The Holocaust was real for him.  It has stayed with him.  I’m not excusing him, but it seems to me that the man has mental problems.  There has NEVER been any mental therapy given to these war veterans as it didn’t exist in their time.  I think it is safe to assume that von Brunn needed therapy and never got it.  He does have a criminal history which should have alerted authorities that he needed help.  Instead, he was jail or imprisoned and ignored, listed as a crazy white guy no doubt.  You can read about his criminal history HERE:

Also on that page are a few of the good things von Bunn did such as:

During WWII he served as PT-Boat captain, Lt. USNR, receiving a Commendation and four battle stars. For twenty years he was an advertising executive and film-producer in New York City. He is a member of Mensa, the high-IQ society.

Understanding can only come if we know the whole person, not just the sensationalism that gives the media such a feeding frenzy!  von Brunn is listed as working for the Institute for Historical Review which, according to SPL is on the hate-group watchers list because they talk about the hype that is made of the holocaust.  The Institute for Historical Review do not deny that the holocaust happened, just that the media hype over it is above and beyond what is seemly.   I fail to see how that makes them a hate group.  But perhaps it is because I see things logically and don’t do the knee-jerk reactions that those who are emotion driven do just to see their names in the papers or media blitz of the day.  < rolling eyes here >

And I have to tell you that if expressing our rights to free speech puts us on a hate-crimes list, so be it.  I can’t stand the criminal illegal aliens that are streaming across our borders, ruining the American Lifestyle with cheap labor, trashing our American lands, invading our States, bringing with them crime and disease and we won’t even go into the resources that tax payers pay for them with emergency room usage, food stamps, and housing, or the school resources such as free breakfast and lunch.  Does that make me a hate-crimes advocate?  No because I would feel the same way about any ethnic race that came into this country illegally and I don’t care what the color of their skin is.  It isn’t my fault these criminal illegals have brown skin.  Nor do I advocate violence against these criminals.  I just want my country to uphold the laws of this land and deport them.  If Mexico can ship out 12-20 million criminals to our country, how come we can’t ship them back???  Lazy, greedy  government/corporations is why.  If Mexicans want change they need to start with THEIR country, not expect ME to change MINE! That is what Americans did.  We fought for our country.  We didn’t abandon it when the going got rough!  These spineless Mexicans don’t deserve amnesty for the way they act.  And don’t ask me to feel sorry for them either!

One site links von Brunn to white supremacists groups, another to Neo-Nazi.  They are linking him to just about any and every group out there just because his views reflect, or are similar to, those of these groups.  And while the media would love for you to feel horror and fear at the act of ONE MAN, the way they say it implies all whites are in on it.  It is truly pathetic how the media makes shit up and calls it fact.

And of course, they all had to link this to the White House, like von Brunn was going there next or had a snowballs chance in hell of succeeding!  OMG!  The media is just amazing.  There is simply NO WAY that security at the White House would have allowed von Brunn to get to the White House.  Here is CNN’s Lou Dobbs opening remarks for his show last night:

LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you, Wolf. Tonight, a deadly shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A private security guard, Stephen Tyrone Johns killed. Two other security guards returned fire against the gunman. That gunman critically wounded. The suspect is James von Brunn. He is 88-years- old. He lives in Maryland. Law enforcement describe him as a white supremacist. Von Brunn spent time in federal prison on attempted kidnapping, assault and firearms charges. The museum just blocks from the White House was full at the time of that shooting. Victims were rushed to the nearby trauma center at George Washington University Hospital.

In my mind it is the two other guards, not mentioned by name at all, that are the heroes of the day.  These men risked life and limb by engaging von Brunn in a gun fight.  But no mention of their bravery has been made.  How sad is that?  Don’t these men deserve recognition for their brave actions?  They were the ones who told the people to get down and get out.  Why no mention of them at all except in passing.  It is almost as though they weren’t there at all, that they didn’t engage von Brunn and stop the violence that was in their faces, or save the lives of those in the museum.  Doesn’t anyone else find that just a bit strange?  Why is the dead guy who never had a chance to pull his gun the hero?

Witness after witness was interviewed after that. All were traumatized, as is normal for such a situation, and all had an opinion on what happened and why.  But unless von Brunn wakes up and talks, we’ll never know why he did what he did, if he was mentally stable, or if, indeed, he has ties to ANY of the groups he is supposed to be linked to.  On the other hand, Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns is being herolded as a hero who died in the line of duty.  I’m not sure where the hero part comes in, not that I want to disparage his memory, but don’t you have to do something to be a hero?  He was shot and killed without ever drawing his weapon, that’s all.

According to the WashingtonPost:

Details of the shooting remained sketchy last night, but apparently the 39-year-old, who was armed with a .38-caliber revolver, did not have time to react when James W. von Brunn walked into the museum, according to police sources.

“Immediately upon entering the front doors of the museum, he raised the rifle and started shooting,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said of von Brunn, 88, adding that he “was engaged by security guards, and there was an exchange of gunfire.”

The closest I could get to finding out what the job requirements were for being a security guard at the museum was this page: There was no information there though.

In this image provided by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, museum guard Stephen T. Johns, is seen. Johns was killed Wednesday, June 10, 2009, in Washington, when an elderly gunman opened fire at the museum. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Museum) (AP)

I wanted to see if part of the job description was that you might get shot while on duty or if that was just understood.  You can find out about the company, Wackenhut Corporation, which is the firm that Stephen Tyrone Johns actually worked for, here:

And as I’m looking for more information on Mr. Johns, I come across absolute bullshit sites hailing him as a selfless hero for defending people when he never even had a chance to pull his gun.  Two sites feeding off eachother make you wonder if they are the same person under different blogs.  Neither quotes their sources or at least links to them.  Pathetic!  Mr. Johns was dead before seconds had passed.  It was the other guards there that brought down von Brunn and saved the people at the museum.  Get your facts straight guys or don’t write your articles. Mr. Johns was an unfortunate victim of a horrific crime, not a hero.  Those are the facts whether people like them or not.

I tell you the media circling this situation makes it clear that journalists can say what they please and copy and paste articles without regard to the facts.  Mr. Johns’ probably died without even realizing what was happening.  This is not to say that the man wasn’t a warm and loving individual who cared about those he worked with, and for, only that the facts are the facts, regardless of the hype and blather the media spews forth.

I’m sure all will mourn the passing of this “gentle giant”.  And the world certainly doesn’t have enough of these wonderful people.  It brings to mind what Billy Joel said, “Only the good die young.” Again, I feel so bad for Mr. Johns family and friends.  His loss is a great one I am sure.

In the end we will probably never know why James Wenneker von Brunn went to the Holocaust Museum and opened fire.  He was critically injured in the gun fight he started.  Some articles state he was shot in the head.  Chances are good he’ll die and justice will be served.  The loss of Mr. Johns is a great one though.  He cannot be replaced and his family and friends will greive.  Why an 88 year old man would go on a rampage only he knows for sure.  It is very sad that some only see violence as a remedy for things they don’t agree with.