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Jun. 5th, 2006
05:57 pm - Song I can't get outa my mind
Moma, I just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger now he's dead
Moma,........
Damn Freddie was good!
Mar. 10th, 2006
Mar. 1st, 2006
05:10 pm - Why?
Why do we still call February Black History Month but call people African Americans?
Feb. 28th, 2006
03:49 pm - My Business
Tomorrow I sign the papers to sell my business. I must provide 2 weeks of training but thereafter I'm free to goof off as much as I like :)
Feb. 25th, 2006
Feb. 10th, 2006
05:06 am - Ongoing conflicts
Feb. 5th, 2006
Jan. 29th, 2006
10:08 am - The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
Very long but equally interesting read.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_b
Jan. 24th, 2006
04:21 pm - Border intrusions
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_343
Article Last Updated: 1/24/2006 12:49 PM
Police face Mexican military, smugglers
Armed standoff along U.S. border
By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Staff Writers
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.
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Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department.
Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border -- near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso -- when Border Patrol agents called for backup. Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward, Doyal said.
"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed the incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time.
"Bad guys in three vehicles ended up on the border," said Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman with the FBI's El Paso office. "People with Humvees, who appeared to be with the Mexican Army, were involved with the three vehicles in getting them back across."
Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred inquiries to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE did not return calls seeking comment.
Doyal said deputies captured one vehicle in the incident, a Cadillac Escalade reportedly stolen from El Paso, and found 1,477 pounds of marijuana inside. The Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river, he said.
Doyal's deputies faced a similar incident on Nov. 17, when agents from the Fort Hancock border patrol station in Texas called the sheriff's department for backup after confronting more than six fully armed men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men -- who were carrying machine guns and driving military vehicles -- were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal said.
Doyal said such incidents are common at Neely's Crossing, which is near Fort Hancock, Texas, and across from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
"It happens quite often here," he said.
Deputies and border patrol agents are not equipped for combat, he added.
"Our government has to do something," he said. "It's not the immigrants coming over for jobs we're worried about. It's the smugglers, Mexican military and the national threat to our borders that we're worried about."
Citing a Jan. 15 story in the Daily Bulletin, Reps. David Dreier, R-Glendora, and Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, last week asked the House Judiciary Committee, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the House Homeland Security Committee and the House International Relations Committee to investigate the incursions. The story focused on a Department of Homeland Security document reporting 216 incursions by Mexican soldiers during the past 10 years and a map with the seal of the president's Office of National Drug Control Policy, both of which were given to the newspaper.
Requests by Dreier, chairman of the House Rules Committee, and Hunter were made in jointly signed letters.
On Wednesday, Chertoff played down the reports of border incursions by the Mexican military. He suggested many of the incursions could have been mistakes, blaming bad navigation by military personnel or attributing the incursions to criminals dressed in military garb.
Mexican officials last week denied any incursions made by their military.
But border agents interviewed over the past year have discussed confrontations those they believe to be Mexican military personnel.
"We're sitting ducks," said a border agent speaking on condition of anonymity. "The government has our hands tied."
Sara A. Carter can be reached by e-mail at sara.carter@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-8552.
Kenneth Todd Ruiz can be reached by e-mail at todd.ruiz@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-8555.
Jan. 15th, 2006
09:34 am - Entertainers who espouse political views
Shutup and entertain us!
Nothing is more stupid than a famous movie star with a political view point. And then using their fame to vocalize it.
Dec. 30th, 2005
08:39 pm - This is wrong in so many ways
http://www.bet.com/News/personoftheyear
Wait for the mothership.......
Dec. 24th, 2005
08:03 am - ID vs Evolution
I don't see why it matters whether the "big bang" just happened or god made it happen the end result is the same.
Dec. 14th, 2005
05:49 pm - Gotta see it to believe it or a Night at Tookies
Zombie's Photo Blogs Anti-Death Penalty Protest Last NIght
http://www.zombietime.com/tookie/
Dec. 13th, 2005
04:25 pm - This pisses me off
The PA's New Terror Law
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
December 6, 2005
The very same day that an Islamic Jihad suicide
bomber killed at least five Israelis and wounded more
than 40 innocent people in a Netanya shopping mall,
the Palestinian daily, al Hayat al Jadida (page 3),
reported that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud
Abbas, signed a new law to support the families of
suicide bombers.
A day earlier (Dec 4, 2005), the news was celebrated in
a special gathering in Gaza, organized by Yasser Ararir,
Chairman of the Gazan Association of Martyr Families,
who led the public campaign for the approval of this law
for over a year. He praised Abbas' decision.
Enacting a special law to financially support terrorists
will ensure that this kind of activity continues. Each
shahid's family will receive a monthly stipend of at least
$250. The family of a married shahid will receive an
additional $50. Parents will receive an additional $25,
and each additional child and/or brother or sister will
get another $15.
This new budget to support the families of suicide
bombers comes on the heels of the recent approval of
another new law providing more than $50 million per
year to support Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons
and Palestinian terrorists wounded while attacking
Israel.
According to the latest figures from the Palestinian
Authority, 3,746 Palestinians were killed to date during
the second Intifada (September 2000 - December
2005). Many of them were killed while engaging in
terrorist attacks against Israel. The budget for this
group alone is more than $11 million per year.
Add the financial support now enacted by law to the
families, spouses, children and siblings and the
budget will increase by at least $20 million annually.
This new law is not limited only to the suicide bombers
of the second Intifada, but includes all the Palestinian
suicide bombers since this practice began thereby,
adding many more millions of dollars to the budget for
more terrorists. For example, covering the basic
monthly grant for the 1,533 Palestinian terrorists who
participated in the first Intifada (1987 - 1993), will total
more than $4.5 million per year.
This law provides legitimacy to the "armed struggle"
and elevates terrorists to the status of "national
heroes."
According to official Palestinian sources, the PA is
transferring $4 million every month to Palestinian
terrorists held in Israeli prisons. In total, support for the
"martyr families," prisoners and the wounded could
reach more than 10 percent ($100 million) of the PA's
national $1 billion budget.
The financial benefit for the families of the shahids,
prisoners and wounded terrorists do not end with the
Palestinian Authority. In addition to the PA's handsome
rewards, they also receive grants from the so-called"
charitable" organizations of Hamas and Islamic Jihad,
to the tune of tens of millions annually. The source of
most of this money is charity trusts out of Saudi Arabia,
Iran and Persian Gulf states with some donations
being channeled through Islamic charities in Europe
and the United States.
Israel had outlawed all charitable organizations
belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad because they
are part of the economic infrastructure that supports
terrorist activities.
This new law that funds terrorism is the most
egregious evidence of the Palestinians' intentions to
wage permanent war on Israel.
In what has become the staple subterfuge of PA, Abbas
issued a condemnation of the latest attack in Netanya:
"These operations against civilians cause the greatest
damage to our commitment to the peace process, and
the Palestinian National Authority will not show
indulgence towards anyone who is found responsible
for this operation." Yet, hours earlier, Abbas had signed
into law financial incentives for future suicide bombers.
It is time for the international community to stop funding
the PA.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of "Funding Evil: How
Terrorism is FinancedÐand How to Stop It", is director of
American Center for Democracy and member of the
Committee on the Present Danger. Alyssa A. Lappen is
a freelance journalist.
Dec. 10th, 2005
07:42 am - Christmas Party
We have our annual (6th year) home Christmas party tonight :) Same group of friends come from all over the metro area. We eat, drink, play games and when we've drunk enough sing Christmas carrols.
Dec. 6th, 2005
05:33 am - New employee
A little girl quit this Saturday cause she couldn't do basic math at 17. She started crying and said she had to leave. I offered to take time and help her but she said it was too much for her. I felt bad.
The good news is I have a new employee starting today that can work days! I sure hope she works out
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