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Please watch this video, Barack Hussein Obama is talking about what he will do with our military if elected president. This man is truly the most dangerous person the United States has ever encountered. His intention is to make us a third world country as far as our military is concerned. We will be essentially defenseless if he becomes president. If you thought Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton weaken our military, just wait until Barack Hussein Obama gets into office. Beware of this man's CHANGE!!!!!!!!!! Words from his own mouth.  Go to the website below and listen to him speak.         

This guy may be the biggest danger our country has ever faced! 

GO HERE NOW

As you will see, he plans to completely disarm America

 

The Dam

Talk about governmental bureaucracy...

 This is actually a true story and the account of the
investigation makes it even better... 
 
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter

SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County

Dear Mr. DeVries:

It has come to the attention of the Department of Environmental Quality that there has been recent unauthorized activity on the above-referenced parcel of property. You have been certified as the legal landowner and/or contractor who did the following unauthorized activity:

Construction and maintenance of two wood debris dams across the outlet stream of Spring Pond.

A permit must be issued prior to the start of this type of activity.  A review of the Department's files shows that no permits have been issued. Therefore, the Department has determined that this activity is in violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams, of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.

The Department has been informed that one or both of the dams partially failed during a recent rain event, causing debris and flooding at downstream locations. We find that dams of this nature are inherently hazardous and cannot be permitted. The Department therefore orders you to cease and
desist all activities at this location, and to restore the stream to a free-flow condition by removing all wood and brush forming the dams from the stream channel. All restoration work shall be completed no later than January 31, 2006.

Please notify this office when the restoration has been completed so that our staff may schedule a follow-up site inspection.

Failure to comply with this request or any further unauthorized activity on the site may result in this case being referred for elevated enforcement action.  We anticipate and would appreciate your full cooperation in this matter. Please feel free to contact me at this office if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

David L. Price

District Representative and Water Management Division.

Here is the actual response sent back by Mr. DeVries:
Re: DEQ File No. 97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County

Dear Mr. Price,

Your certified letter dated 12/17/02 has been handed to me to respond to. I am the legal landowner but not the contractor at 2088 Dagget Lane, Trout Run, Pennsylvania.

A couple of beavers are in the (State unauthorized) process of constructing and maintaining two wood "debris" dams across the outlet stream of my Spring Pond.  While I did not pay for, authorize, nor supervise their dam project, I think they would be highly offended that you call their skillful use of natural building materials "debris."  I would like to challenge your Department to attempt to emulate their dam project any time and/or any place you choose.  I believe I can safely state there is no way you could ever match their dam skills, their dam resourcefulness, their dam ingenuity, their dam
persistence, their dam determination and/or their dam work ethic.

As to your request, I do not think the beavers are aware that they must first fill out a dam permit prior to the start of this type of dam activity.

My first dam question to you is:
(1) Are you trying to discriminate against my Spring Pond beavers, or
(2) Do you require all beavers throughout this State to conform to said dam request?
If you are not discriminating against these particular beavers, through the Freedom of Information Act, I request completed copies of all those other applicable beaver dam permits that have been issued.  Perhaps we will see if there really is a dam violation of Part 301, Inland Lakes and Streams,
of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act, Act 451 of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.30101 to 324.30113 of the Pennsylvania Compiled Laws, annotated.

I have several concerns.  My first concern is, aren't the beavers entitled to legal representation? The Spring Pond beavers are financially destitute and are unable to pay for said representation -- so the State will have to provide them with a dam lawyer.  The Department's dam concern that either one or both of the dams failed during a recent rain event, causing flooding, is proof that this is a natural occurrence, which the Department is required to protect.  In other words, we should leave the Spring Pond beavers alone rather than harassing them and calling their dam names.

If you want the stream "restored" to a dam free-flow condition, please contact the beavers -- but if you are going to arrest them, they obviously did not pay any attention to your dam letter, they being unable to read English.

In my humble opinion, the Spring Pond beavers have a right to build their unauthorized dams as long as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream.  They have more dam rights than I do to live and enjoy Spring Pond.  If the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection lives up to its name, it should protect the natural resources (beavers) and the environment (beavers' dams).

So, as far as the beavers and I are concerned, this dam case can be referred for more elevated enforcement action right now.  Why wait until 1/31/2006? The Spring Pond beavers may be under the dam ice then and there will be no way for you or your dam staff to contact/harass them then.

In conclusion, I would like to bring to your attention to a real environmental quality, health, problem in the area. It is the bears! Bears are actually defecating in our woods. I definitely believe you should be persecuting the defecating bears and leave the beavers alone.  If you are going to investigate the beaver dam, watch your step!  The bears are not careful where they dump!  Being unable to comply with your dam request, and being unable to contact you on your dam answering machine, I am sending this response to your dam office.

THANK YOU.
RYAN DEVRIES & THE DAM BEAVERS

A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and
asks for the loan officer. She says she's going to
Europe on business for two weeks and needs to
borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the
bank will need some kind of security for the loan,
so the blonde hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce.
The car is parked on the street in front of the
bank, she has the title and everything checks out.
The bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for
the loan.

The bank's president and its officers all enjoy
a good laugh at the blonde for using a $250,000
Rolls as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An
employee of the bank then proceeds to drive the
Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the blonde returns, repays the
$5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.
The loan officer says, "Miss, we are very happy to
have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"

The blond replies....."Where else in New York City
can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41
and expect it to be there when I return?"

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost.  She lowered her altitude and
spotted a man in a boat below.
She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet
him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied,
"You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above
sea level.  You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."

She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the man.  "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct,
but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. 
Frankly, you've not been much help to me."

The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going.
You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air.
You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. 
You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."

Has anyone seen him?

 Good luck!!!!

 

 We are all guilty!!

 

 Not sure what to say.........

 

 This usually the problem anyway.

 nanana...na..na!!

 

 

 We already knew this .........and one that should come standard issue in all computer....

Five surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on. The first surgeon, from New York, says, "I like to see Accountants on my operating table; because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."
The second surgeon, from Chicago, responds, "Yeah, but you should try Electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."
The third surgeon, from Dallas, says, "No, I really think Librarians are the best. Everything inside them is in alphabetical order."
The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles, chimes in, "You know, I like construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."
However, the fifth surgeon, from Washington, DC, shut them all up when he observed, "You are all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There are no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine; and the head and the #ss are interchangeable."

" Calling it a morally repugnant practice, two state lawmakers gave opening testimony for a bill that would ban corporal punishment in Ohio schools.

House Bill 406, sponsored by Reps. Jon Peterson, a Republican from Delaware, and Brian Williams, a Democrat from Akron, would affect 17 districts in the state that still administer paddling as a means of discipline.

“There is nothing to indicate that beating our children furthers [advanced learning],” Peterson told the House’s Education Committee today. “We all agree that discipline is important, but we should be focused on effective discipline.”

Under current state law, school districts that have adopted the appropriate policies and resolutions can administer corporal punishment.

Among the districts that have done so are West Branch in Mahoning County (two paddlings administered to one pupil in 2005-06), Mogadore in Portage County (16 paddlings administered to 13 pupils), Canton City in Stark County (91 paddlings to 50 pupils) and Barberton City in Summit County (three paddlings to two pupils), according to statistics compiled by the lawmakers. Under the proposed legislation, school districts would be banned from paddling pupils."

 

.........This is why many of our schools have become war zones...no "fear factor" when it comes to authority.

Parents expect the school to teach and watch over their kids safely for 6-8 hours a day, but take away the staffs ability to keep the population in line....ridiculous.

Next, it will be illegal to yell at the students...might hurt their self esteem....

"WASHINGTON  --  House Democratic and Republican leaders appeared close to agreement with the White House Wednesday night on a significantly reworked package of emergency tax cuts to jolt the economy out of its slump.

At a Wednesday evening meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made major concessions to drop increases in food stamp and unemployment benefits in exchange for tax rebates of at least $300 for all people earning a paycheck, including low-income earners who make too little to pay income taxes. Families with children would receive an additional $300 per child, while those paying income taxes could receive higher rebates as well, a senior House aide said"

Sooo, now they want to give a "income tax rebate" to those that did not pay any income  tax in the first place?? Alrighty then...........

An attorney arrived home late, after a very tough day trying to  
get a stay of execution for a client who was due to be hanged  
for murder at midnight. His last minute plea for clemency to  
the governor had failed and he was feeling worn out and  depressed.  

As soon as he walked through the door at home, his wife started  
on him about, 'What time of night to be getting home is this?  
Where have you been?' 'Dinner is cold and I'm not reheating it.'  

And on and on and on.  

Too shattered to play his usual role in this familiar ritual, he  
went and poured himself a shot of whiskey and headed off for a  
long hot soak in the bathtub, pursued by the predictable sarcastic  
remarks as he dragged himself up the stairs. While he was in the  
bath, the phone rang. The wife answered and was told that her  
husband's client, James Wright, had been granted a stay of  
execution after all. Wright would not be hanged tonight. Finally  
realizing what a terrible day he must have had, she decided to go  
upstairs and give him the good news.  

As she opened the bathroom door, she was greeted by the sight  
of her husband, bent over naked, drying his legs and feet.  
"They're not hanging Wright tonight," she said.  

To which he whirled around and screamed....,,

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD,   WOMAN, DON'T YOU EVER STOP?"

Sorry to "stir the turd", but I could not let the "be afraid" blog a could of days (political blog) back go, without a response.

Fear of George Bush
Fear that Bush is to blame for everything
Fear that Bush isn't to blame for everything
Fear that if you continue to blame everything on Bush, you won't actually figure out who really is to blame for your problems
Fear of Walmart
Fear of people who shop at Walmart
Fear that you might actually save money if you shopped at Walmart
Fear that Walmart has done more to help the poor than any social program ever created by our government.
Fear of all forms of energy except for the ones that don't work
Fear that low taxes actually do create prosperous societies

Fear (in secret) that tacos and burritos will someday soon replace hot dogs and apple pie.

Fear that a border fence will help support new generations of citizen seekers, instead of entitlement seekers.
Fear that people will find out what a hypocrite you are because you call for higher taxes while using tax shelters
Fear of judgmental people
Fear of appearing narrow-minded
Fear of intolerance
Fear that with your tirades against SUVs, Wal-Mart, meat, cigarettes, guns, whisky, and organized religion, you are the judgmental, narrow minded, intolerant one.
Fear of 3d ultrasounds that show fetal development
Fear of being judged in the afterlife
fear of being judged in this life
Fear of all country singers except for the ones that hate Bush
Fear that when they take away your anger there will be nothing left.
Fear of free speech when it mocks your beliefs.
Fear of free speech when it speaks back to you.
Fear of free speech when it comes from Christians.
Fear that your definition of free speech - that only you get to be heard-- won't fly with us Wal-mart shoppers.
Fear of a police state unless of course it actually is a police state, like, Venezuela
Fear of Hugo Chavez dying
Fear of Castro Dying
Fear of Communism dying
No fear of Hezbollah and their pleasure in blowing up citizens
Fear that your comments are default responses to people who already agree with you
Fear that maybe shame is a good thing
Fear of rightwing "Repuglicans"
Fear of "crackpot Christians"
Fear of losing the next election
Fear that people will realize that a record of no terror attacks on the U.S. in six years, and liberating 55 million people in two Muslim nations, is not so bad.
Fear of having to come up with a new dehumanization campaign for the next Republican president.
Fear that common sense is making a comeback
Fear of the death penalty actually being a deterrent.
Fear of a Marine knocking on your Prius's window to discuss your bumperstickers.
Fear of your conscience telling you even though you are supposed to like it, you really think NPR - especially its self serious whispering, wimpy bumper music and simpering anchors -- sucks.
Fear that your anti-Americanism is becoming even boring to you.
Fear that everyone will notice that other than incessant complaining you haven't come up with a single solution.
Fear of someone sitting you down and forcing you to deal with the fact that even if global warming was absolutely manmade and as bad as Gore says it is, that the threat of islamic terrorists getting WMDs and using them is far greater and imminent and requires offering at least moderate allegiance to the current president of the United States and Sen. Lieberman.
Fear of Nascar
Fear that even if the democrats win the 08 election, Europeans will still look down on us and Muslims will still want to kill us.
Fear that capitalism actually works better than any other economic system
Fear that America really is the freest country in the world

Now put THAT in your peace pipe and smoke it!

I posted a link, the pictures would make this blog a mile long. Click below.

http://www.anvari.org/cols/Sheikh_Zayed_Bin_Sultan_
House.html

THE YEAR'S BEST HEADLINES OF 2007:
(Yes, they were really printed as seen here.)
 
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
No, really?
 
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Now that's taking things a bit far!
 
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
What a guy!
 
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-sos!
 
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
See if that works any better than a fair trial!
 
 
War Dims Hope for Peace
I can see where it might have that effect!
 
 
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Ya think?!
 
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Who would have thought!
 
Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
They may be on to something!
 
 
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?!
 
 
Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
He probably IS the battery charge
 
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Weren't they fat enough?!
 
 
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
That's what he gets for eating those beans!
 
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Do they taste like chicken?
 
Local   High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Chainsaw Massacre all over again!
 
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Boy, are they tall!
 
And the winner is....
 
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
Did I read that right?
 

The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman. Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate speech.' Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following:

Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called 'whores' in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France. This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.' If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially,
S. Wichman
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen. Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion. For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor Wichman , saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. Way to go Michigan State!!!

PHOENIX — Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home countries or trying their luck in other states.

For months, immigrants have taken a wait-and-see attitude toward the state's new employer-sanctions law, which takes effect Jan. 1. The voter-approved legislation is an attempt to lessen the economic incentive for illegal immigrants in Arizona, the busiest crossing point along the U.S.-Mexico border.

And by all appearances, it's starting to work.

"People are calling me telling me about their friend, their cousin, their neighbors — they're moving back to Mexico," said Magdalena Schwartz, an immigrant-rights activist and pastor at a Mesa church. "They don't want to live in fear, in terror."

Martin Herrera, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant and masonry worker who lives in Camp Verde, 70 miles north of Phoenix, said he is planning to return to Mexico as soon as he ties up loose ends after living here for four years.

"I don't want to live here because of the new law and the oppressive environment," he said. "I'll be better in my country."

He called the employer-sanctions law "absurd."

"Everybody here, legally or illegally, we are part of a motor that makes this country run," Herrera said. "Once we leave, the motor is going to start to slow down."

There's no way to know how many illegal immigrants are leaving Arizona, especially now with many returning home for normal holidays visits. But economists, immigration lawyers and people who work in the immigrant community agree it's happening.

State Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa, the author of the employer sanctions law, said his intent was to drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona.

"I'm hoping they will self-deport," Pearce said. "They broke the law. They're criminals."

Under the employer sanctions law, businesses found to have knowingly hired illegal workers will be subject to sanctions from probation to a 10-day suspension of their business licenses. A second violation would bring permanent revocation of the license.

Nancy-Jo Merritt, an immigration lawyer who primarily represents employers, said her clients already have started to fire workers who can't prove they are in the country legally.

"Workers are being fired, of course," she said. "Nobody wants to find out later on that they've got somebody working for them who's not here legally."

When immigrants don't have jobs, they don't stick around, said Dawn McLaren, a research economist at Arizona State University who specializes in illegal immigration.

She said the flagging economy, particularly in the construction industry, also is contributing to an immigrant exodus.

"As the jobs dwindle and the environment becomes more unpleasant in more ways than one, you then decide what to do, and perhaps leaving looks like a good idea," she said. "And certainly that creates a problem, because as people leave, they take the jobs they created with them."

Pearce disagreed that the Arizona economy will suffer after illegal immigrants leave, saying there will be less crime, lower taxes, less congestion, smaller classroom sizes and shorter lines in emergency rooms.

"We have a free market. It'll adjust," he said. "Americans will be much better off."

He said he's not surprised illegal immigrants are leaving the state and predicts that more will go once the employer-sanctions law takes effect next month.

"It's attrition by enforcement," he said. "As you make this an unfriendly state for lawbreakers, I'm hoping they will pick up and leave."

Right on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pop star Madonna has been selected to enter the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The announcement from the Hall of Fame Foundation also named The Dave Clark Five, poet and folk-rocker Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter John Mellencamp and 60s surfer band The Ventures for the honours.

 

The musicians will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March during a ceremony in New York.

The nominees are chosen by a committee and are cut down to a final list of five by more than 600 music experts.

Artists become eligible for the honour 25 years after their first recording.

Madonna signed her first US record deal in 1982, and scored her first hit with Holiday in the UK two years later.

Mellencamp emerged from Bloomington, Ind., in the early 1980s with enduring, heartland rock tracks like Pink Houses, Rain on the Scarecrow and Jack & Diane. 

 

Cohen has been producing folk-tinged rock since the late 1960s, with tracks like Suzanne.

The Ventures are best known for instrumental rock evergreens such as the theme from Hawaii Five-O, Walk Don't Run and Perfidia.

The Dave Clark Five become one of the most successful British "invasion" bands of the US during the 1960s.

Last year's inductees were REM, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Van Halen, the Ronettes and Patti Smith.

 

Once inducted, the artists are featured in the Museum's Hall of Fame exhibit, which includes a computerised jukebox containing every song of each inductee and a film played on three big screens recounting their careers and music.