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Arizona Woman Gets Prison Sentence for Hiring Illegal Immigrants Tue Nov 25, 2008 at 06:24:06 PM

 

 

The office manager of a Sierra Vista drywall firm was sentenced to jail today for hiring illegal immigrants in the case of the first worksite enforcement bust in Arizona by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

 

 

 

According to this news release by the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona, 44-year-old Carol Hill of Sun Drywall and Stucco must serve two months in prison, followed by one year of house arrest and 36 months of supervised release.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a pretty stiff sentence for doing something that thousands of other Arizonans have done in recent years: Hire illegal immigrants.

But Hill and the seven other defendants in the case got swept up in the national anti-illegal-immigrant fervor that compelled ICE to look more closely at employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers. The bust at Sun Drywall, as part of a larger ICE worksite enforcement effort in the spring of 2007, made headlines across the country. Another Sun employee, manager Edward Durgin, received a sentence of probation over the summer after he pleaded guilty. The company's president, Ivan Hardt, awaits trial.

 

 

ICE efforts targeting employers continued through this summer, which only seems fair considering all the illegal immigrants being deported these days. If undocumented workers themselves are a problem, it stands to reason the people who hire them are the root cause of that problem -- and should face consequences.

 

 

 

 

Some worksite enforcement has occurred locally due to the state's employer sanctions law. But that has resulted only in the jailing of Hispanic employees, not their bosses. In fact, the state's law doesn't mandate jail time for employers in violation.

The punishment for Hill and Sun Drywall, however, will undoubtedly instill more fear in employers who hire illegal immigrants. -- Ray Stern

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I find it curious that our government would be wanting to stand up and bail out a corporation like Citi Group that is 51% owned by the United Arabs Emirates, the same people that have enough money to be building billion dollar islands.

in the Persian Gulf.

We have US automakers (thats right, made in the USA) that are turned away by the government. Everybody right up to the President Elect is supporting the bail out of Citi Group. I do not care what they claim, whether they bail out Citi Group or not those peoples homes that are in forclosure with Citi Group will still be forclosed on. I'm not saying there are not some good people out there getting a bad deal with a forclosure, but come on, most over extended themselves and regardless if the morgage companies get bailed out or not those same people will have their homes forclosed on. Why can't the Arabs bail out their own crap. They are droping over 14 billion on a man made island

I don't know where all the concern has went for the economy, but I can grant you just because you changed the President you still have to stop the congressional morons from killing this country. If you have not heard our President and Congress have been dumping money (our money) into CEO's hands, vacationers and major exiting bonuses some 800 Billions dollars. They told you that it was needing to be down because CEO's falsified documents and just wasted corporations and stock holders money. I think  they were calling it miss management of funds and they held NO BODY ACCOUNTABLE !!! In case you have not been paying attention, because they are hoping you are so caught up in the leection you are not watching the other news reports. The treasury department that gave out your money has recently announced they will need to BORROW 500 BILLION dollars to fulfill that pledge. NOW WHO IS MISS MANAGING THIS COUNTIES MONEY ? They bailed everybody out and my retirement is still down over 40%. You elected a NEW PRESIDENT and my retirement is still down 40%. Our country is about to sell off ownership of what you and your ansestors have fought to retain. YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR FREEDOM.
Now they are going to go outside this country for that $500 BILLION DOLLAR LOAN and guess what, they are going to have to give perks to the countries that loan them the money

1985-1988

 Obama moves to Chicago, and hangs out with black militants and leftists. [33] Obama works as a “community organizer” for the “Industrial Areas Foundation” (IAF), an organization founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul Alinsky. Its national activities have included a “Citizens USA” project to obtain citizenship for over one million illegal aliens. (Coincidentally, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s senior honors thesis at Wellesley College, “There is Only the Fight,” is about Alinsky; [45,192,229] in 1968 Alinsky offered Clinton a job, which she declined.) [46]

 Obama also works with the Alinsky group “Developing Communities Project” (DCP), and “ACORN” (the “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now”) and Project Vote, both Alinsky-network creations. Obama’s duties include organizing residents of the Altgeld Gardens housing project on Chicago’s south side. [45,324] ACORN is an off-shoot of what had been the National Welfare Rights League (NWRL), a militant 1960s group that staged protests in welfare offices and, often successfully, demanded increased benefits with threats of violence. ACORN was founded by William Ayers’ SDS associate, Wade Rathke, and is currently the largest and most powerful leftist organization in the United States. [227,322]

 Obama’s Altgeld Gardens work allegedly involves forcing a clean-up of asbestos. Obama’s mentor during his time on the project was Hazel Johnson, who argues that she discovered the asbestos problem and led the efforts to resolve it; according to Johnson, Obama exaggerated his role in the project in his book, “Dreams From My Father.” [345]

 Alinsky’s “training manual” for community organizers, “Rules for Radicals,” states that community organizers are primarily agitators, who must "Fan the resentments of the people of a community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression - he must search out controversy and issues... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontentment [sic].... He knows that values are relative.... Truth to him is relative and changing." [315]

 Note that Alinsky’s work also influenced the creation of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” named after Columbia University professors Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their strategy involves taking action to force deliberate failure in society, to foster change toward socialism, by overloading the bureaucracy with impossible demands, lawsuits, holding officials to the extreme letter of the law, etc. The Cloward-Piven method is to push society into an economic collapse, thus forcing a fear and resentment of capitalism, making it easier to usher in socialism. The Cloward-Piven strategy is one of the tactics used by “community organizers” (e.g., storming welfare offices and violently demanding immediate action) to impose intentional strains on the system, like forcing the hiring of more government workers to deal with their ever-increasing demands. [327]

 Obama has probably already met William Ayers by this time, and likely still remains in contact with him. [259]

 While at IAF, Obama reports to Gerald Kellman. [20] Kellman is a follower of Alinsky, whose book “Rules for Radicals” was widely read by 1960s radicals, such as members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weather Underground, and the youths who rioted at the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago. [33] (Obama’s line about “the world as it is and the world as it should be,” which his future wife swooned over and which she repeated twice in her speech to the Democrat National Convention, comes from Chapter 2 of Alinsky’s book.) [352]

 Obama is hired with $25,000 Kellman receives from the Woods Fund. [33] Obama will later serve on the Woods Fund board, along with former Weather Underground domestic terrorist, Pentagon bomber, radical, leftist, communist, and fugitive from justice William Ayers. [33,204]

 Note that the Woods Fund was founded by the Woods family, which owned a coal business that was a major supplier of coal to Commonwealth Edison; the CEO of Commonwealth Edison was Thomas Ayers, father of William Ayers. [346]

Gerald Kellman later relates that Obama’s job “largely consisted of interviewing community members and creating a narrative out of their experiences, the problems the community faced.” [190]

 As a community organizer, Obama, despite being a “master of agitation,” [47] has limited success [35,47] working for more welfare programs for the poor on the south side of Chicago. Obama is less a “community organizer” than a “community agitator,” getting people to demand more welfare benefits and government hand-outs.

 Obama also works on voter registration drives during this period, and comes into contact with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI); Obama is likely to have met Carl Davidson during this period; Davidson is a former member of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and later is a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), which organized the 2002 rally where Obama announces his public opposition to the looming Iraq War. [34]

 Obama learns from the Alinsky crowd the method for getting people to support radical change they would ordinarily not be willing to accept. "They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.” [192] Thus, just as it has been the theme of most Democrat Presidential campaigns over the last 30 years, so is it Obama’s: “Everything is terrible and headed in the wrong direction, your lives are in shambles, greedy capitalism is at fault, and you need to trust a bigger government and my plans to solve all  your problems.”

 For three years, Obama is the director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), part of the “Gamaliel Foundation,” another Alinsky-like group which uses “in your face” tactics and threats against banks to obtain more loans to people in poor neighborhoods. Gamaliel’s co-founder and executive director is Gregory Galluzzo, who served as a trainer and mentor during Obama’s community activist days in Chicago. [227,228,337]

 Probably in 1987 or 1988, Obama joins the black liberation theology Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC); it’s pastor is Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who preaches Marxism, black liberation theology (a Marxist version of Christianity that worships a white-hating black Jesus), gives controversial sermons, supports communists in Cuba and Nicaragua, and who later says America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that America intentionally spread the AIDS virus to remain wealthy at the expense of poor Africans. Some accounts state that Obama joins TUCC in 1992. [33,268,324,336]

 For what it calls a “commitment to truth, education, and leadership,” Obama’s church magazine, “Trumpet Newsmagazine,” gives a “lifetime achievement award” to Louis Farrakhan, [36] a virulent anti-Semite whose quotes include, “Hitler was a very great man,” [37] “Judaism is a gutter religion,” [38] and “white people are potential humans, they haven’t evolved yet.” [39] Obama alleges that his church is “fairly conventional,” and that he “wasn’t in church” when Wright made his more inflammatory statements.

 Reverend Wright, along with Louis Farrakhan, visits Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 1984. Obama’s church presents Louis Farrakhan with its “Empowerment Award.” (References to that award are, in 2008, removed from the church’s web site after Obama’s relationships with Wright and Farrakhan are questioned.) [315]

 Obama considers Wright to be his “moral compass,” “sounding board,” and “confidant.” [202] Obama is likely an atheist, like his mother and father, but joins the church for “street cred,” probably to please his wife, and to end the flak he receives from people in the community for his lack of religion. [239,271,336]

 Obama alleges that he was baptized at TUCC, but no one has been able to find records of the event. [336]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I read the below blog and it about floored me. What I ask you now if with the approval of the AIG Bailout in which involved congress as well as the current President.

The CEO's of AIG was so grateful to your presidential candidates and congressional candidates for relieving their stress and filling their bank accounts they all took a 400,000 dolar vacation at your expense. Even with the congressional hearing do you really think any one of those CEO's will be held accountable ? Those hearings is just a public PR show to keep you the people off their governmental butts.

I am actually surprised there was not a blog already listed involving this subject with the political party dwellers that flock on what they think can be used against the other.

 

AIG Bailout: Is It Working? September 17, 2008 03:56 PM ET | Kirk Shinkle | Permanent Link | Print

Obviously, it's a bit early to tell whether the government's $85 billion bailout of American International Group will keep the financial sector from falling in on itself, but after watching the market's reaction today, things could be better.

 

I recently read a blog that was commending Missouri for passing a ban on Commercial Trucks in the Left Lane. As it may resolve the road rage of sum, it is not the trouble behind your traffic congestion nor is the trouble behind the traffic accidents that tie up your travel lanes from time to time. What I really found interesting is the author has set the blog for per-edit authorization only. Myself I welcome the input of others, whether it is good or bad input. I was traveling east threw KC the other day with my cruise control set at the speed limit following behind one of the ever so annoying trucks the blog I was reading refers to. For approx. 15 miles this truck driver had traveled the same lane doing the posted speed limit when he came up on another vehicle running slower then the posted limit. For the next 20+ miles this driver gave proper signal on various attempts to change lanes in hopes to travel once again at the posted speed limit. For that same 20+ miles he was unable to change those lanes for the 4 wheeler that had gradually moved up beside him decided to run along beside this driver instead of getting past him. Most common people would have seen the drivers signal to desire a lane change and would have got on past the driver. )If I remember correctly the original design of the left lane/passing lane was to allow any motorist the opportunity to pass the vehicle in front of them that may be going slower then they are. You see the biggest problem with our country today and the reason this country will never come together again as one. It has become THE ALL ABOUT ME SHOW !!! One of the original reasons I left fox and have only come back from time to time is there are some good people I know in here but for the most part there are only one sided stories offered in here anymore.

 I guess the morral to my blog is: before you bark at the subject of commercial truck drivers and their vehicles. Like I have expressed personnally to the GAO and their lobbist about running that dead dog in the ground further. Maybe we all should examine our own local laws and driving hablits.

               

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size  

 

Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the head of a national security panel has warned.

 

In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee and in remarks to a private conference on missile defense over the weekend hosted by the Claremont Institute, Dr. William Graham warned that the U.S. intelligence community “doesn’t have a story” to explain the recent Iranian tests.

 

One group of tests that troubled Graham, the former White House science adviser under President Ronald Reagan, were successful efforts to launch a Scud missile from a platform in the Caspian Sea.

 

“They’ve got [test] ranges in Iran which are more than long enough to handle Scud launches and even Shahab-3 launches,” Dr. Graham said. “Why would they be launching from the surface of the Caspian Sea? They obviously have not explained that to us.”

 

Another troubling group of tests involved Shahab-3 launches where the Iranians "detonated the warhead near apogee, not over the target area where the thing would eventually land, but at altitude,” Graham said. “Why would they do that?”

 

Graham chairs the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001.

 

The commission examined the Iranian tests “and without too much effort connected the dots,” even though the U.S. intelligence community previously had failed to do so, Graham said.

 

“The only plausible explanation we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from a ship and get it up to altitude and then detonate it,” he said. “And that’s exactly what you would do if you had a nuclear weapon on a Scud or a Shahab-3 or other missile, and you wanted to explode it over the United States.”

 

The commission warned in a report issued in April that the United States was at risk of a sneak nuclear attack by a rogue nation or a terrorist group designed to take out our nation’s critical infrastructure.

 

"If even a crude nuclear weapon were detonated anywhere between 40 kilometers to 400 kilometers above the earth, in a split-second it would generate an electro-magnetic pulse [EMP] that would cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure," the report warned.

 

While not causing immediate civilian casualties, the near-term impact on U.S. society would dwarf the damage of a direct nuclear strike on a U.S. city.

 

“The first indication [of such an attack] would be that the power would go out, and some, but not all, the telecommunications would go out. We would not physically feel anything in our bodies,” Graham said.

 

As electric power, water and gas delivery systems failed, there would be “truly massive traffic jams,” Graham added, since modern automobiles and signaling systems all depend on sophisticated electronics that would be disabled by the EMP wave.

 

“So you would be walking. You wouldn’t be driving at that point,” Graham said. “And it wouldn’t do any good to call the maintenance or repair people because they wouldn’t be able to get there, even if you could get through to them.”

 

The food distribution system also would grind to a halt as cold-storage warehouses stockpiling perishables went offline. Even warehouses equipped with backup diesel generators would fail, because “we wouldn’t be able to pump the fuel into the trucks and get the trucks to the warehouses,” Graham said.

 

The United States “would quickly revert to an early 19th century type of country.” except that we would have 10 times as many people with ten times fewer resources, he said.

 

“Most of the things we depend upon would be gone, and we would literally be depending on our own assets and those we could reach by walking to them,” Graham said.

 

America would begin to resemble the 2002 TV series, “Jeremiah,” which depicts a world bereft of law, infrastructure, and memory.

 

In the TV series, an unspecified virus wipes out the entire adult population of the planet. In an EMP attack, the casualties would be caused by our almost total dependence on technology for everything from food and water, to hospital care.

 

Within a week or two of the attack, people would start dying, Graham says.

 

“People in hospitals would be dying faster than that, because they depend on power to stay alive. But then it would go to water, food, civil authority, emergency services. And we would end up with a country with many, many people not surviving the event.”

 

Asked just how many Americans would die if Iran were to launch the EMP attack it appears to be preparing, Graham gave a chilling reply.

 

“You have to go back into the 1800s to look at the size of population” that could survive in a nation deprived of mechanized agriculture, transportation, power, water, and communication.

 

“I’d have to say that 70 to 90 percent of the population would not be sustainable after this kind of attack,” he said.

 

America would be reduced to a core of around 30 million people — about the number that existed in the decades after America’s independence from Great Britain.

 

The modern electronic economy would shut down, and America would most likely revert to “an earlier economy based on barter,” the EMP commission’s report on Critical National Infrastructure concluded earlier this year.

 

In his recent congressional testimony, Graham revealed that Iranian military journals, translated by the CIA at his commission’s request, “explicitly discuss a nuclear EMP attack that would gravely harm the United States.”

 

Furthermore, if Iran launched its attack from a cargo ship plying the commercial sea lanes off the East coast — a scenario that appears to have been tested during the Caspian Sea tests — U.S. investigators might never determine who was behind the attack. Because of the limits of nuclear forensic technology, it could take months. And to disguise their traces, the Iranians could simply decide to sink the ship that had been used to launch it, Graham said.

 

Several participants in last weekend’s conference in Dearborn, Mich., hosted by the conservative Claremont Institute argued that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was thinking about an EMP attack when he opined that “a world without America is conceivable.”

 

In May 2007, then Undersecretary of State John Rood told Congress that the U.S. intelligence community estimates that Iran could develop an ICBM capable of hitting the continental United States by 2015.

 

But Iran could put a Scud missile on board a cargo ship and launch from the commercial sea lanes off America’s coasts well before then.

 

The only thing Iran is lacking for an effective EMP attack is a nuclear warhead, and no one knows with any certainty when that will occur. The latest U.S. intelligence estimate states that Iran could acquire the fissile material for a nuclear weapon as early as 2009, or as late as 2015, or possibly later.

 

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld first detailed the “Scud-in-a-bucket” threat during a briefing in Huntsville, Ala., on Aug. 18, 2004.

 

While not explicitly naming Iran, Rumsfeld revealed that “one of the nations in the Middle East had launched a ballistic missile from a cargo vessel. They had taken a short-range, probably Scud missile, put it on a transporter-erector launcher, lowered it in, taken the vessel out into the water, peeled back the top, erected it, fired it, lowered it, and covered it up. And the ship that they used was using a radar and electronic equipment that was no different than 50, 60, 100 other ships operating in the immediate area.”

 

Iran’s first test of a ship-launched Scud missile occurred in spring 1998, and was mentioned several months later in veiled terms by the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, a blue-ribbon panel also known as the Rumsfeld Commission.

 

I was the first reporter to mention the Iran sea-launched missile test in an article appearing in the Washington Times in May 1999.

 

Intelligence reports on the launch were “well known to the White House but have not been disseminated to the appropriate congressional committees,” I wrote. Such a missile “could be used in a devastating stealth attack against the United States or Israel for which the United States has no known or planned defense.”

 

Few experts believe that Iran can be deterred from launching such an attack by the threat of massive retaliation against Iran. They point to a December 2001 statement by former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who mulled the possibility of Israeli retaliation after an Iranian nuclear strike.

 

“The use of an atomic bomb against Israel would destroy Israel completely, while [the same] against the Islamic only would cause damages. Such a scenario is not inconceivable,” Rafsanjani said at the time.

 

Rep. Trent Franks, R, Ariz., plans to introduce legislation next week that would require the Pentagon to lay the groundwork for an eventual military strike against Iran, to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and EMP capability.

 

“An EMP attack on America would send us back to the horse and buggy era — without the horse and buggy,” he told the Claremont Institute conference on Saturday. “If you’re a terrorist, this is your ultimate goal, your ultimate asymmetric weapon.”

 

Noting Iran’s recent sea-launched and mid-flight warhead detonation tests, Rep. Franks concluded, “They could do it — either directly or anonymously by putting some freighter out there on the ocean.”

 

The only possible deterrent against Iran is the prospect of failure, Dr. Graham and other experts agreed. And the only way the United States could credibly threaten an Iranian missile strike would be to deploy effective national missile defenses.

 

“It’s well known that people don’t go on a diet until they’ve had a heart attack,” said Claremont Institute president Brian T. Kennedy. “And we as a nation are having a heart attack” when it comes to the threat of an EMP attack from Iran.

 

“As of today, we have no defense against such an attack. We need space-based missile defenses to protect against an EMP attack,” he told Newsmax.

 

Rep. Franks said he remains surprised at how partisan the subject of space-based missile defenses remain. “Nuclear missiles don’t discriminate on party lines when they land,” he said.

 

Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, a long-standing champion of missile defense, told the Claremont conference on Friday that Sen. Obama has opposed missile defense tooth and nail and as president would cut funding for these programs dramatically.

 

“Senator Obama has been quoted as saying, ‘I don’t agree with a missile defense system,’ and that we can cut $10 billion of the research out — never mind, as I say, that the entire budget is $9.6 billion, or $9.3 billion,” Kyl said.

 

Like Franks, Kyl believes that the only way to eventually deter Iran from launching an EMP attack on the United States is to deploy robust missile defense systems, including space-based interceptors.

 

The United States “needs a missile defense that is so strong, in all the different phases we need to defend against . . . that countries will decide it’s not worth coming up against us,” Kyl said.

 

“That’s one of the things that defeated the Soviet Union. That’s one of the ways we can deal with these rogue states . . . and also the way that we can keep countries that are not enemies today, but are potential enemies, from developing capabilities to challenge us. “

He didn't want the American flag shown at his speech in Germany and at his press conference in Paris. He canceled a trip to visit wounded soldiers when he was told the press couldn't take pictures of him. And the American public thought the press coverage of his trip was simply "excessive."

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Quote: I still have not heard anyone ask the ultimate question to both race. Are you as a black voter supporting Obama because you believe he would be the best for the job? If you do what do you base that on and why. Or are you supporting him because he is black? The same should be ask of the white voters for Clinton. As for the article and media felling the reason to point out the fact that other politicians and delegates that are supporting Obama is black. We as citizens do not give a fat rats ass to their race because when you point that out then it looks like they are wanting to show the fact that they are running scared that they may lose their black man in the white house if CLINTON does not drop out.       

          Let me tell you clueless dumb a**es something if it goes Clinton vs McCain your party has a chance of taking the white house, If it goes Obama vs McCain you don't have a chance in hell of taking the white house. (My basis: I have voted democrat all my life, but due to the lack of experience and major incompetence, if Obama wins the nominee I will be going REPUBLICAN this election) For those of you that are mad as hell and wanting to go racist on my comments think about this. I am not BLACK nor WHITE so play your racist crap some where else

 

Dems fear racial divide - Washington Post- msnbc.com

I FOUND THIS BLOG ON ANOTHER SPACE. I HAVE TO AGREE WITH ALOT OF THE POINTS THE PERSON MADE IN THE BLOG!!!

     To those who I have enjoyed so much, debating with, I bid you farewell. I have enjoyed the open opinion of everyone, as well as the debate over all issue's and not just one or two subjects. This will be my last blog.

      To those I offended I apologize, because that was not my intentions. I like yourself, am human and get caught up in some subjects more then I should. On that thought please remember all actions have reactions.

(THANKS FOX 4, YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST)

As of April 8th, I will no longer be here on fox blogs take care everybody. Have fun and remember,

(STAND FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE)

 

   

       I posted the ad below, because in recent past I have made comments to people who I felt had made some ridiculous assumtions on behalf of our current president as to why fuel prices are so high. My ad below is not the reason either, but it is a part of a long chain as to why the prices are where they are.

             I am a business owner and if you put in the media ALL THE TIME that my merchandise prices will be hitting record high. Guess what, I am going to look at that and say, hey I can start raising my prices and make the media look good on their reports. Oh and by the way, because my merchandise has so much media hype and presictions on pricing. I'm taking an extra week in Paris this year. Thanks to all the media hype and prediction crap that has already prepared the public for rising prices. And the fact they can not go with out my merchandise to manage their everyday lives.

         My point being to the ad below I have heard the same media hype crap about $4 and 5 dollar a gallon fuel for the past 2 years. THIS YEAR BEING THE FIRST TIME IT HAS ACTUALLY GOT CLOSE. (BUT STILL NOT THERE YET) You keep telling the public that my fuels is going to cost them, these outragious prices. I am not going to disappoint you all and raise my prices to what you expect and buy me another vacation home on some exiotic beach to add to my already collection of 4 in the past 3 years.

(THANKS AMERICA and MEDIA)

What $4 gas would mean to you

Rising pump prices demand sacrifice elsewhere. A survey of new-car shoppers finds 44% eating out less and 40% cutting back on entertainment. Incumbent politicians may also be forsaken.

By U.S. News & World Report

Now that oil prices have crested another heady threshold -- trading above $110 per barrel -- it's time for motorists to start contemplating another once-implausible scenario: pump prices of $4 a gallon.

Just a few years ago, auto-industry futurists thought $3 gas would be a game-changer, unnerving consumers and forcing dramatic changes in their choice of cars and driving behavior. Since then, gas prices have spiked above $3 several times, but they've usually drifted back down. Until now.

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Since last summer, gas prices have steadily ticked upward, to about $3.20. And with the spring and summer driving seasons approaching, many analysts think increased demand and other factors could drive pump prices higher still.

"Four-dollar gas is possible, maybe even probable," says Bill Reinert, national manager for advanced technology at Toyota. "We could even see $5 gas."

If gas does hit $4, here's what's likely to happen:

           Everybody has heard all the media hype as to how we need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels and so forth. One of the things that keeps the issue hot is the use of E10, E15, or even E85. As we all are aware, ethanol burns hotter and cleaner then gasoline. BRAVO everybody is hooked on the idea because of that one phrase.

           Now for the rest of the story. Has anyone bothered to stop and ask the more detailed questions evolving around ethanol. Can it reduce your consumer cost per gallon if we use it ? (Sure it can, if like gasoline, we produce more then the demand requires us to produce. Instead of only what the demand needs to get by)

          Is it actually reducing our dependency on fossil fuels ?

(1) Only if somebody invents a vehicle that will get a better MPG on ethanol mix then a gallon of gas right now.

(2) As it stands right now, current vehicles on the road get less MPG on E10 then they do on pure gasoline. Which in return actually causes you to return to the fuel pump to buy more fuel sooner then it would have if you were running a pure blend of gasoline as to running an ethanol blend.

(3) End result you commute 500 miles a week back and forth to your job with an average cost of $60.00 a week on pure gasolines. You then are requires to use ethanol blend and after a couple of weeks, you have noticed it has started costing you $66.00 a week for the same amount  driving and distance, your consumtion has increased. Which has made your dependency more on the same fossil fuel then it was before they rquired you to buy a 10% blend.

So I ask you: (GOOD IDEA or another result of GORE HYPE)

                 As for those that seam to be so irritated when you see people not having to work as hard as yourself and I stand with you. There is a young lady I know that blogs in here, She is not of US back ground. You should take in a little consideration for all people when you are not happy with day to day situations. I being a decendant of German, Dutch, Scottish and native american indian would proudly stand and work with the lady I speak of any day of the year.

       (When it is all said and done ask yourself if you are a 100% pure blood native born american indian and if your answer is NO. Then guess what ? You to are a decendant of an IMMIGRANT)
           So PLEASE stand for what you believe in, speak that of what you know and believe in, But when looking down to another ethnic group. Have a little consideration in the words that you chose to express

Breaking from Newsmax.com

Gore to Rake in IPO Millions

Former Vice President and global warming crusader Al Gore stands to make close to $50 million when the TV channel he co-founded goes public with an Initial Public Offering.

Current TV, which debuted in August 2005, has been billed as “television for the Internet generation" of tech-savvy 18-to-34-year-olds, and allows viewers to contribute much of its content.

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But it currently is available in only about 19 million U.S. homes, and has lost $31.5 million over the last three years, Ron Grover discloses in BusinessWeek.

Current Media, Current TV’s parent company, hopes to raise $100 million in a public offering it filed on Jan. 28. Some of the money raised will go to lenders, who include a few major Democratic Party fundraisers.

“Something about this deal just doesn’t sit right with me,” Grover observes.

He notes that Gore and co-founder Joel Hyatt not only will take “piles of cash,” but they also collect “hefty salaries for a company that hasn’t shown a profit in three years — taking down $491,677 apiece last year in cash.”

Gore and Hyatt also collected $550,000 bonuses for, in Gore’s case, helping get the company new affiliate agreements and putting together a management team. The two currently receive $600,000 a year in salary and can collect additional bonuses.

“What really sticks out to me,” Grover writes, is that Gore and Hyatt, “who jumpstarted the company with a broken-down Newsworld International channel they bought for $70.9 million, will have the kind of hammer-lock control over the company decried by shareholder rights activists and many of the same unions that supported Gore for years.”

Gore and Hyatt will control all of the company’s B shares, which give them 10 votes for every vote of a common shareholder with a Class A share, according to the filing.

The company hasn’t yet set a price per share for its IPO, but Grover cites one estimate of between $13 and $15 per share, making Gore’s 3.7 million shares worth more than $48 million.

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