SAN FRANCISCOAbout a dozen members of an anti-illegal immigration group gathered Wednesday in front of San Francisco City Hall to call for the mayor’s resignation over the city’s sanctuary policy. But the protesters from the Minuteman Project demanding the City obey federal laws were drowned out by the nearly 200 professional protesters from the radical A.N.S.W.E.R. group yelling, “Go home, racists!”
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(July 30) – The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance. Current laws targeting marijuana users place undue burdens on law enforcement resources, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed the substance and unfairly affect African-Americans, said Frank, flanked by legislators and representatives from advocacy groups.
Ice drifts off Canada’s Ellesmere Island on Sunday after separating from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. The shelf lost a sheet of ice that covers seven square miles. A scientist said the cause was a “different climate” that isn’t rebuilding Arctic ice, though he stopped short of directly blaming global warming.
by Jack Lee
(PAID ADVERSTISEMENT) Got a heavy debt load on that new house you just bought? Are you thinking you made a mistake and deserve a break? Never fear Nanny-Mae is here!!! Never a qualifiying check, no points, no service fees, we’re practically giving away money!
Before you go broke cause you made a bad decision pick up that phone and call me now, President George W. Bush, your authorized Nannie Mae agent, 1-800-BIG-LOAN. Se Habla Espanol.
Note: July 30 — President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that gives special loans to over 400,000 homeowners facing foreclosure and extends a $25 billion dollar line of credit to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Posted by Tina
A secret nuclear bomb manufacturing center at Al-Zarqan Area in Al-Ahwaziya Region, which was first established in 2000, was discovered recently, highly reliable sources told Al-Seyassah. Sources from Al-Ahwaziya claimed Tehran has started building a secret nuclear plant for manufacturing atomic bombs in Al-Zarqan Area near Al-Ahwaz City in southwest Iran and its border with Iraq. Arab Times (Kuwait City)
Despite expanding markets for organic farm products, Norwegian farmers are leaving the ecological branch of agriculture as fast as others are joining. They claim they can’t make enough money at it. *** Those giving up blame the paperwork and bureaucracy they must contend with in order to document their operations. ”You get the feeling you’re not being trusted,” said former organic farmer Turid Wenche sum. – Aftenpost (Norway)
OSLO Ruins recently discovered on Greenland may mark the Vikings’ most northerly year-round hunting outpost on the icy island, a researcher said on Monday. Knut Espen Solberg, leader of ‘The Melting Arctic’ project mapping changes in the north, said the remains uncovered in past weeks in west Greenland may also be new evidence that the climate was less chilly about 1,000 years ago than it is today. – Reuters
Prosecutors indict Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on charges related to thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home. Stevens, the first sitting U.S. senator to face federal indictment since 1993, is running for re-election this year. He has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing.
People who have high IQs are less likely to believe in God than people of average and below average intelligence, according to Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ireland’s University of Ulster. Lynn claims that the general decline in religious observance over the last century is directly related to a rise in average intelligence. The smarter we are the more likely we are to shun religious services?
Editors note: I’m wondering which religion has the smartest membership and which has the dumbest? My guess is Christians (includes Jews) are among the very smartest and I won’t say who I think has the worlds dumbest members because they might chop my head off or drive a bomb laden truck into my house.
“There is a huge rock near a gravel pit on Hwy.25 in rural Iowa. For generations, kids have painted slogans, names, and obscenities on this rock, changing its character many times. A few months back, the rock received its latest paint job, and since then it has been left completely undisturbed…”
I received this in an email and thought it was worth posting in case some of you haven’t seen it. Unfortunately I lost the artists name but if I recall correctly he was about 18 or 19 when he did the painting.
Posted by Tina
By now you have probably seen or heard the commercials by oil man T. Boone Pickens. Hes thrown a considerable amount of time and money into harnessing wind power and using natural gas to wean ourselves from dependence on foreign oil. His commercials, however, have been shown to include a few misleading facts. In fact, Steven Malloy at the popular website junkscience.com is asking the question:
Is T. Boone Pickens ‘Swiftboating’ America?
Formerly reviled for funding the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” campaign against Sen. John Kerry, he’s now adored by the Left unfortunately, for trying to gaslight the rest of us on energy policy. *** This column recently spotlighted Pickens’ proposed plan to get America off foreign oil by substituting wind-generated electricity for natural gas-generated electricity and then using the natural gas to replace gasoline. *** Already having addressed the proposal’s flaws and Pickens’ plan to profit at taxpayer expense from it let’s consider how Pickens’ marketing shades the truth. *** On his Web site and in TV commercials, Pickens tries to frighten Americans about being “addicted to foreign oil.” *** “In 1970, we imported 24 percent of our oil. Today, it’s nearly 70 percent and growing,” he intones. *** Aside from the fact that the Department of Energy (DOE) puts the import figure at a more moderate 58 percent, Pickens gives the impression that imported oil is scary because it all comes from the unstable Mideast. *** His TV commercials feature images of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and he likens the annual $700 billion cost of foreign oil to “four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.” *** But hold the phone. Only 16 percent of our imported oil comes from the Persian Gulf barely up from 13.6 percent in 1973, according to the DOE. Imports from OPEC countries are actually down from 47.8 percent in 1973 to 44.5 percent in 2007.
Mr. Malloy’s full article contains additional examples.
More information and opinion about Pickens plan can be found HERE and HERE.
