My Missle Position

All this concern about North Korea's missle launch is beyond me. Who cares? It's not like we wouldn't know where the launch took off from. I also find it highly doubtful that anyone in the whole world would believe that the govt. in place Didn't Know that a whole complex was erected for a launch. With all the spy sats. flying around, someone would have to be able to detect the project.

I don't think Al Qaiada in Afghanastan, or Mesopotamia, or any other crazies would be interested. Well interested maybe, but highly impractible for them.

Let's face facts here, Kim Jong Il ain't crazy. He plans on living a long time at any cost. He and everyone else knows that we would retalliate agalnst the perpetrators. After all with Goerge Bush as Pres. the world is more afraid of us than anyone else in the world. That's GOOD as far as I'm concerned.

The only problems I see, are if N.K. gains access to space. Once he can place sattelites there, He can cause some real problems for everyone. He's got a long way to go before that happens. I hope.

How Do We get Rid of Jihadi's ?

The big question is "What can we do about changing Jihadi tendencies?" It's something I've thought about, not long and hard, but off and on.

We should bring all the women and children here, and a program for it already exists. It's called the "Foreign Exchange Program". We let kids from Europe come and I think it changes attitudes at home when they leave here. American Freedoms and Culture, tho shocking to some, are the envy of the world. If you look at a country like Iran, where the powerful hate and demonize us, the young like us and want to have some of the things we have like Freedom.

Let's face it, people are killing themselves to get in here and for most, it's only because of what they've heard. Once they're here it doesn't take long for our lifestyle and liberties to become engrained. Now we even have ILLEGAL ALIENS marching in our streets, demanding their non-existant rights. Something they can't even do in their own countries.

Even Mohammed Atta was becoming "Americanized". He and another 911 hijacker spent their last night on earth at a " strip joint", drinking and ? I would have thought that such devout Muslims would have spent it on their knees, praying to Allah for strength and guidance.

People break-in to our country by sneaking accross our borders and use entry-visas and never leave. Why? Is it because they hate it here, but are trapped? Not. It's because they can do here what they can't do in their Home countries, Live and Breathe Free.

Women are the major influence on men and culture. Maybe not so much in the Middle East now, but once upon a time they were more like property here too. They got a little freedom and things changed, for better or worse, depending on your point of view. Once they 've driven, voted, walked down the street with or without a burka witout being bothered, when they go back , they'll push for change and push hard. I'm reminded of the movie "The Godfather",the part where Michael is in Italy and his new wife, Appolonia, wants to drive over to him. His bodyguards comment was "She'll make a fine American wife, boss". You could just see in his eyes, that they didn't go for that Women's Lib stuff, but look at them now.

All men in free societies know the influence women have over men. I know my wife got me to settle down.

Did You Ever See "Good Fellows"?

Did Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida have Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed? Sure makes sense to me. Everybody in the world knew that bin Laden and Zawahri didn't agree with Zarqawi's methods. They realized the mistakes they made in Afghanistan when bin Laden and the Taliban rode rough-shod over the people.The Afghans were supporting the Taliban, but they killed and tortured that support right out of them. I can still see in my mind that women kneeling down and then getting her brains blown out in that stadium. I guess they were just trying to explain things to the Afghans. They must have figured that a picture is worth a thousand words. Toe the line. Besides, I think bin Laden is more interested in getting Saudi Arabia. He hates them and they hate him. He probebly just wants training for his men and Iraq's a good place for it.

So what better way to change their ( al-Qaida) direction in Iraq than to set him up? Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Get rid of Zarqawi, to put your man in, and get the American's to do it. That way you can keep the party faithful, faithful and riled up because they've been duped into thinking the American's did it. I think that we'll see a lot more attacks on our troops instead of on the Iraqi people in the coming days. More in line with al-Qaida's thinking.

Let's face it, we've seen lots of people get ratted out here in America. Politicians and even some criminals too. I mean, after-all, haven't we all seen "Good Fellows"? If you want to see it for real and in person, just go to Washington D.C.

No Support

Well, the Senate didn't do much today really. Guess they forgot about Border security, health care, etc. They haven't been in session since the 15th so, we weren't really hurt. They took their solemn duty and confirmed a judge. Yawn.

There was some action on the 15th tho. A LOT of huffing and puffing about Iran. They expressed the "Will of the Senate" and TOLD Iran not to build any nuclear bombs. They sure told them too, boy. So there. It's to bad they don't have the Guts to back it up and support the Pro-democracy Iranians.

The Santorum Ammendment came up for a vote also and was soundly rejected. A special THANX to the 11 Republicans who jumped ship.

The Santorum ammend. #4234; To authorize, with an offset, asssistance for Pro-Democracy people in Iran. To make clear the U.S. supports their ability to exercise self-determination over their form of govt. Defeated. 53-46

Both Senators from Illinois, Barak Obama and Dick Durbin, voted against it also. The "Will of the Senate" is that we can Not help them fulfill their Dreams. Our Senate Told Iran not to build a bomb, and make them MAD, or Else. I guess they figure that's all it's going to take. They don't need to add any extra pressure, because the "Will of the Senate" was expressed to the mullahs. I can just see them on their camels, racing out of town to tear everything down.

Me, I think anything we can do to screw them up, the Better. Bringing on as much CHAOS as we can seems to be the smartest thing we can do. Enough trouble on the homefront and it has to slow everthing down. A blind man can see that the Iranians are running a game on us. Just like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

It's a good thing we have Tough senators like Barak Obama and Dick Durbin from here in Illinois. N.Y. might have Hillary and Mass., Ted, but just look at what we have. Yes sir, they are Impressive.

No Support for the Pro-Democracy Iranians, No Support for the American position, No Support for our Ports ( Yes Dubai does own them NOW, the senate Quietly took the origional language out of the bill), and apparently No Support for our Airlines now either. They don't seem to have much trouble stopping judges and stuff they don't like.

Definately No Support for securing Our Borders. Just more Crying from people like Carl Levin( he always seems to be in such pain, poor thing), Joe Biden, Pelosi, and the usual suspects.

Only 1 Year

Since we saw parts of the captured letter from al Zarqawi back to headquarters, I expect to see a full court press by Democrats and anti-war activists to bad mouth the Iraq war and change public opinion. They have to. We haven't seen much of the letter, by the way, and I guess that can be explained because it's GOOD NEWS and the TRUTH. The only response the left is making is that they don't believe it because they didn't see the soldiers actually take the zipdrive from his pocket.

Cong. Murtha was all over the airways Sunday and he's was breathing heavy. He really seems to want the U.S. to loose or just quit. Why, just so the Dems can point their fingers? I'm sure the left would like nothing better than to be able to say America lost another war under a Republican administration.

Just like with Viet Nam, we're still hearing that we lost the war. Noone ever will admit the TRUTH and admit that we just QUIT and hung the Vietnamese out to DIE, not dry this time.

I remember John Kerry on TV every nite of the week back then, just like now. American soldiers did this and American troops did that. Never anything GOOD about them. Just like his book that he won't allow to be reprinted states, AMERICA is the ROOT of ALL EVIL. American troops are MURDERERS and THUGS and BAD.

This morning, Murtha was complaining that this war was lasting longer than Korea did. Is he kidding or what? We still have 37,000 troops on the FRONT LINES protecting the south from an invasion from the north. We're still protecting Europe with 80,000 troops from an invasion.

President Clinton told us that our troops would only be in Bosnia for 1 year. How long has it been now? 10 years? Americans are providing 3/4 of the troops (17,000) , all the fuel, the helicoptors, the repair parts, the trucks, the armor, and everything else. We never hear about that. It's like the place doesn't even exist anymore.

Sometimes I think that the President should have done what Bill Clinton did. Just LIE to the American people, and just say 1 year.

Minimum Wage

So, Nancy and Teddy and Harry and the rest of the Democrats think that our Nation needs to raise the Minimum Wage again. Maybe if we cracked down and deported the Illegal Aliens, wages would rise Naturally (DAH!) and Taxes would go down and we'ld even reduce the deficiet. But seeing as we're dealing with congresspersons, chances of that happening are Slim.

Since the "WILL of the SENATE" was expressed on the Immigration bill, it seems Congress has been doing any and everything to get the bill to die. It's like the House and Senate reached a truce or something. Don't bring it up. Let sleeping dogs lie. All the while we have more and more Illegal Aliens flooding in and Higher and Higher costs to go with it.

Just a couple of things. 1 Insurance bills would drop, because Illegals wouldn't be here driving with no insurance. 2 Tax bills would drop, or rather should drop, because we wouldn't have the expense of educating their children and paying for their health care. Insurance is becoming a thing of the past, because Illegals have driven Wages down so low for Everyone EXCEPT the Politicians. They Voted Themselves a Big Fat One the Other Day.

But Congress tells us that they can't catch them or find them. IT'S TOO HARD TO DO.

I have an idea aside from the obvious, which is going after Employers. Why don't they set up some ROADBLOCKS? You know, like the kind they have when they declare OPEN SEASON on motorists in honor of Every Holiday we have.

When our elected officials need more revenue, they don't seen to have much trouble calling out the Dogs to make sure you have your Seatbelt on or talking on the Telephone, but they can't find any Illegal Aliens. The Police in Texas, were going into Bars where I ( for one) would expect to see people drinking, then giving field sobriety tests, and then arresting people. Even ones with Designated drivers, in an attempt to GET THE MONEY. Would you believe it, even in Texas they can't seem to find any Illegals, anywhere. Wait, I think I answered my own question. GET THE MONEY. I guess that our elected officials see arresting them that as an expense.They already know they wouldn't be able to fine them. Besides, what would we do with all those Spanish interpreters at the courthouses.

We have got to be the laughing stock of the Whole World.

Another Example of Congressional Competance

Debolt Voting Machines. Here we go again. Another election upon us, and we're still hearing the same old arguements. After we discovered the that there are to many people out there who can't follow directions with a sheet of paper in 2000, the nation's legislators swung into action all across the this great land. Whipped up by the Media they promised us the best and latest voting machines on the face of the earth to ensure that our votes Counted. They spent Millions. They sure didn't worry about Paper trails and the like back then.

Thus the Electronic Age came to the American People. Not long after, the chorus started. No Paper Trail. No Reliability testing is possible. From the Very Same People who Bought Them in the 1st Place.

Let's see now. Since 2000, we've gone through 3 national elections and we're still hearing the same stuff everytime. Not one Town, City, County, State, or anybody has bothered to either find out about if they work, or if anyone has tested them. You can't expect Democrats to do it, because then when they loose an election they won't have anything to blame. You have to wonder "Why". You would think that in all this time Somebody, Sometime, Somewhere they would have checked it out by now.

Me, I like the old Voting machines we used to have in Chicago.You step in, or do whatever to get in, and pull the "close curtain" lever. Then you take your finger and push the levers down under your choices. You can't push 2 levers in the same catagory because there is an interlock to stop you. You have to push the other lever up, and then make your selection again. Then you can stand there and look at your choices and make sure you have the ones what you wanted. When you pull the "close curtain" lever again, it records your vote and resets the levers.

No paper trail with that one either. If you want to see if the machine is working properly, you open up the back, push some levers, and look and see if the gears turned and it did what you wanted it to.

Simple and Easy. What's wrong with that. I don't think we a bunch of scientists figuring this one out. They all seemed to work just Fine for Years.

Scientist's make a new Discovery (Again)

FLASH; BREAST MILK BETTER than FORMULA for BABIES!!!!!

Once again our Learned Scientists have made another Major discovery to take Mankind to new soaring heights. For the last 30 or 35 years they have been brow-beating the World into believing Baby Formula is what babies need to survive. The Best. They must have all been wondering how mankind survived all these centuries. Not anymore. New Discoveries have solved the Riddle. Breast milk protects our children from a myriad of infections and diseases and allergies that for years our scientists were blaming on our bad management of the environment.

It seems the our scientists have been making a lot of discoveries as of late. They've discovered that the Natural Foods that Mankind has eaten and evolved to eat for millions of years are actually good for us. What gives? Are they saying all that stuff they dreamed up for the last 50 years isn't that good for us? I'm in shock. Someone has to be mistaken.

Butter, eggs, whole milk, Breast milk, coffee, chocolate, wine, ALL GOOD? I can remember as a kid , how me and my friends would joke and laugh about how it would be if someday they discovered Chocolate was good for you. I never even dreamed that I would actually see the day.

What a Discovery !!!!!!!

When I hear stuff like this, it really makes me Wonder about other things they've said. Like GLOBAL WARMING. I'm old enough to remember the "ICE AGE" scare crisis back in the 1980's. All we heard about for Years about the "LOOMING Ice Age". Noone knew what we were going to do. The looming "Ice Age" made the covers of TIME and NEWSWEEK magazines for months. We had Scientific Papers, Newspaper stories, and, ofcourse, plenty of Congressional Gas. It went on and on ad nauseum. Our Learned Scientists and the Know-it-all elites don't want to talk about that SOLID SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE they presented to the world back then, tho.

Now it's GLOBAL WARMING. What a crock of B.S. While watching the Weather Channel last week, their meteorologists were saying that this year was shaping up exactly like 1934. They also said that we were heading into a new 25 year weather pattern. They knew it was a 25 year cycle because they've seen it over and over in their records. A strong weather cycle followed by a weaker one.

I sure hope that our Congress follows their past traditions and doen't do anything, just like during the near "Ice Age". One thing's for sure, They DO NOT have a clue. Besides in 25 or so years, we'll probably be talking about the LOOMING "ICE AGE" Again, when the weather patterns change Again.

Carl Rove and American Justice.

Those Poor Democrats and Assorted Liberals. Another bad news day for them. Already Chuck Schumer is beating the drum. He's demanding that the special prosecuter, Fitz, break the law and release or Leak Grand Jury testimony. But then he'ld have to investigate himself for leaking.

You really have to give those guys credit. For 6 years they've been trying to do something, anything to bring down the Bush admin. or atleast someone in it. Nothing seems to work. Their assault has been unrelenting. From every newspaper in the country sending 75 reporters to Florida, to try and get someone dirty, to michael Moore to Dan Rather and Cindy. What a joke.

I'll bet Ted Kennedy started spitting again when he heard the news.

Carl Rove, basically, has been EXONORATED finally after 5 Grand Jury appearances. Instead all they got was another Kennedy pleading GUILTY to a DUI.

It must be obvious to everyone by now, that Pat Fitzgerald didn't think Valerie Plame was a "Secret Agent" either. Noone has been charged with leaking her name. So far only 1 Reporter has gone to jail.

Well, there's always tomorrow. If they keep at it long and hard enough, maybe they'll eventually come up with another Non-crime. They've got 2 more years to do it.

What the Senate Says

The last time I applied for a job, they handed me a bunch of forms to fill out. They wanted to know the usual, name , address, S.S., and check my ID to see that I was a citizen. They also wanted my Criminal History, and last but not least , the Urine test.

I couldn't help but think that they're spending all this Money and time and effort to check me out and I'm supposed to believe that it's to Hard and Expensive to check and see if someone has a REAL SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER? I find that hard to believe, well maybe not.

Then again Maybe we could try Employer Punishment, by enforcing the laws we have on the books now. As a matter of fact, 1 of our Il. Senators (Barak Obama) had nothing but praise for the idea of a new database for that purpose. The only problem is that there Won't be any funding for a database for atleast 2 years after enactment. What good will that do?

But we've been told by our SENATORS, that that is "THE WILL OF THE SENATE".

All in a Day's Work

Well let's see what our Senate did today. NOTHING. Nothing since 6-8. I guess they are busy doing other things, I mean taking care of the people's business. Well atleast they aren't hurting us.

They were in session for about a week before 6-8 to vote for a couple of judges, but they ALL voted "Yea", so what's the point? They were off for the previous 2 weeks, I guess to discuss the Judicial Nominations.

Forget about Soc. Sec., the Budget, Immigration, the new hurricane season levy repairs, or even todays report about the increase in the violent crime rate. See how Your senator voted on the nominees, before they beat it out of town, AGAIN. I can be proud, both of the Senators from the Great State of Il. voted "YEA". I guess they don't know about the 15 or so citizens of Chicago that were gunned down this past weekend. Click on the Senate Votes links in the sidebar.

Maybe they'll be back tomorrow to discuss those more Mundane issues. I believe that the only thing that could drag them back now would be a Gripe Session about the detainees committing suicide or BANNING Ann Coulter. That's important.

Chicago's DEMOCRATIC "CULTURE of CORRUPTION" Highlites

Four weeks old and here's what's happening.

MAY 15: Asst. U.S. atty. Pat Collins tells jurors the defendants ( Sorich and McCarthy) schemed to reward Pro-Daley workers with Jobs and Promotions. Sorich's atty. answers with they weren't doing anything that hasn't been done in Chicago for years. He argued that a crime hasn't even been commited.

MAY 16,18: Mary Jo Falcon, a former personnel director for the Sewer and Water Management Dept., testifies that for 11 years she recieved "BLESSED LISTS" of preselected job applicants from the defendants, and made sure those people were taken care of.

MAY 22: Joseph Gagliano,former Deputy Sewers Commissioner, testifies that Victor Reyes, who once ran the Mayors Office of Inter. Gov. Affairs and is head of the powerful Pro-Daley Hispanic Democratic Org., is in on the scheme. He said Reyes pushed through a bricklayer who came late, left early, and did a lousy job.

MAY 24: John Kosiba, the highest ranking Daley aide to testify, said he never spoke to Daley about hiring and promations.

MAY 26,30,31: Jack Drumgould, retired personnel director in Streets and San., testifies under cross-exam that he made sure the Chicago Skyway Tollway was fully manned, because the Mayor went that way to his Summer Home in Grand Beach, Mi. He also said the interview process for jobs at Streets and San. was a sham because the winners were pre-selected.

MAY 31, JUNE 1: David Katalinic, a former deputy in Streets and San. and the 5th defendant in the case, testifies he built a White patronage army at Sorich's request. In return he asked Sorich's help in getting Jobs and Promos. He pled guilty to taking $15,000 in "Hired Truck" program bribes.

JUNE 5,6: Dom Tomczak, longtime #2 at the city's Water Dept., testifies that from the time Daley took office, he maintained a large political army of City Workers. He took orders from the Mayors Office and was rewarded with Jobs and Promotions, a process he called "BEING MADE". He admitted taking $400,000 in "Hired Truck" program bribes.

More to come.

A Wake-up Call?

All this time we've been hearing movie stars and others talk about leaving the U.S. for Canada and a better way of life. A couple of people have, but noone of any consequence. I really wish they would tho. Then we could get a 1st hand account about what it's like to live in a country where the Government can LEGALLY spy on you. They have their very own spy agency(CSIS) to spy on their very own people. Imagine that.

Wikipedia has this description: MISSION- "The people of CSIS are dedicated to the protection of Canada's national security intrests and safety of Canadians". CSIS does NOT have an active foreign intell department, but SOLELY acts as a DOMESTIC service to collect intell with the goal of protecting from internal and external threats. CSIS officers and surveilance personnel may work internationally,in their effort to monitor and counter threats to Canadian security.

CSIS states it's role Programs that are Pro-active and Pre-emptive, to investigate threats, analize info, produce intell reports, and advise the Canadian Gov.

Two different commissions, 1 by Justice MacKenzie in 1969 and the other by Justice McDonald in 1977, recommended that security intell functions be seperated from the RCMP and that a civillian service be formed. Both commissions recognized that the problem of balancing the need for accurate security intell with the need to respect democratic rights and freedoms couldn't be adequately resolved as long as security intell responsibilities remained part of the federal police force.

I can only imagine the Grief we'ld hear from our friends on the left if the U.S. was doing that.

Maybe it's time we woke-up to the fact that People out there want to KILL us.

You can read a full report titled " How Internet Monitoring Sparked a CSIS Probe" by clicking here.

Chicago's DEMOCRATIC "CULTURE of CORRUPTION" #2

Donald Tomczak, a key prosecution witness in the Chicago City Hall trial, said Mayor Daley's patronage chief ordered him to hire a politically connected person who was "somewhat of a drinker". He also repeatedly engineered the promotions of workers with clout over more qualified candidates.

Tomczak said he warned Daley aide Robert Sorich that the man, a political worker under Ald Ed Burke(14th), could cause injuries on water dept. jobs because of his drinking. But Tomczak said Sorich said "Work it out Don". He was hired and put to work at the Jardine Filtration Plant.

Prosecutors hope the testimony supports their contention that clout mattered more than qualifications. Under cross-exam Sorich's lawyer prodded Tomczak into admitting that Sorich was only one of several players in the exact same system "That has existed for years, since Daley became Mayor in 1989.

Former personel directors of the City's Water, Sewers, and Streets and Sanitation depts., told jurors they recieved "Blessed Lists" of political workers from Sorich and Tim Mc Carthy, Sorich's aide and co-defendant.

Two directors testified they falsified ratings forms to ensure the hiring of favored applicants. They and other witnesses said the City's interview process for many blue-collar jobs was a Charade. The fraud alledgedly was designed to get around the decades old legal restrictions against City Hall patronage called "The Shakman Decree".

Under cross-exam Tomczak said Sorich answered to higher-ups, former top Daley aides,Victor Reyes and John Doerrer. He said he arranged one promotion for an unqualified political worker and because of it had to bring in an extra man with more experience to back him up.

His testimony also blunted the City's arguement that the Mayor's Office got involved in it to promote "racial diversity". He said most were White.

A former Water Dept, commissioner, Phyllis Bergthold, said said she met with Sorich from 1993-2002 to get names the Mayor's Office wanted promoted. She said she told Federal agents that the names were" Recommendations or Preferred candidates" and admitted that the vast majority of them were hired or promoted. More later.

The Gov's story hasn't come out yet.

More Joe

As usual, the subject of Iraq came up Sunday. Here's a guy that's hardly even been on a military base, and he knows more about running the war and military ops than some general that's trained his whole life for it? When he was asked about a war plan, all he did was go on about Geo. Bush losing the war. Nothing about a plan on how the Democrats would win it. Just CUT, RUN, and BLAME the PRESIDENT, Repubs., or the "NEO-CONS".

I remember the number of soldiers KIA (200 per week)in V.N., Mi Lai, Hanoi Jane, and our hero John Kerry.

Listening to Kerry, Mertha, Biden, et. al., I'm reminded of Viet Nam all over again. Back then we had a congress that thought they knew more about winning the war than the generals also. We all know what that led to. 150,000 American KIA and wounded.

But Sen. Joe Biden knows what to do.

Chicago's "DEMOCRATIC CULTURE of CORRUPTION"

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Collins; " Were they the best men for the job?"

Chicago Water Dept. #2 Donald Tomczak; "No. They were active in my political group and did a good job." Testimony from the trial of Robert Sorich and other directors of the " Mayors Office of Intergovernmental Affairs".

Tomczak ran one of the biggest city-based political armies (250 men) and was one of the highest ranking city officials involved in the scandlous "Hired Truck Program". That program was touted by the Mayor as good for Chicagoans, altho he didn't specify which ones exactly. The idea was to give his cronies a lot of Tax Dollars for renting their trucks. Like we don't have enough. Some of them were caught Stealing and Selling city-owned asphalt instead of delivering it to city work sites. Tomczak admitted recieving about $400,000 in bribes himself.

The directors of the "Mayors Office of Inter governmental Affairs"said which pols got their help. The troops were divided into 3 groups. Black, White, and Hispanic because "the areas we worked in were diverse. We needed groups to go in and talk to various people."

They took orders from Sorich, Victor Reyes(head of Hisp. Dem. Org.) or John Doerrer. Some of the pols they helped recently are Al Gore-pres., Glenn Poshard-gov. , Rahm Emanuel-cong., Patricia Bailey-Il house, Iris Martinez-Il. senate, alderman, and on.

After elections he'ld go to his superiors and discuss who did good political work, and get them a promotion. He said their status was evaluated on pricinct by precinct election results. Those comments echoed testimony by Dan Katalinic who led White Ethnics in the Streets and Sanitation Dept., and Mary Jo Falcon who coordinated Asian workers in the Sewer Dept.

More to Come

Illinois's DEMOCRATIC "CULTURE of CORRUPTION"

Here in the Great State of Illinois, we've got some really juicy stuff going on. We're finding out again just how close Mayor Daley and Gov. Blagojevich really are. It seems they went to the same school. They have lists of names of people who are going to get a job. Nothing political ofcourse.

Chicago's story is an old one. It's been going on for years and years. Mayor Daley never knows anything about anything. The whole rest of the city and county know whats going on. You only hire people who are on the "Jobs List". (In all honesty, the city people used Index cards). Forget about "qualifications". Last year, the City tried to hire 2 nineteen year olds to be City Building Insectors. Their fathers were Union Leaders tho, so I can only guess that their kids had vast experience despite their youth. Then, when the story broke, we got deluged with the usual "I don't know's", "We're going to get to the bottom of this", Etc. Finally after about a week City hall DISCOVERED that they weren't really qualified, and were let go. More on Chicago's "Culture of Corruption" later. The trials of underlings is going on right now and they're ALL trying to get less jail time, so I'll have to update.

Next, Gov. Blagojevich. He tried to lay the blame on the previous adninistration's hiring practices. It only took them 3 years to discover what was happening. The Governor's press secretary said that the practice stopped long ago. The very next day, the Tribune reported that the Federal Investigators said the practice stopped 2 Days AFTER they learned about the FEDERAL INVESTIGATION going on.

The Gov. is pretty tight-lipped right now so, I can see I'm going to have to cover each of Illinois's "CULTURE of CORRUPTION" cases seperately. I like that name for it. Thankx Nance, Harry.

Alternative Fuel

I watched Sen. Joe Biden's interview on "Meet the Press" Sunday and reached the same conclusions I always do. Every time they have him on a show, it's the old thing. They act like he actually knows what he's talking about.

One subject was Alternative Fuels, and he said he would have demanded we have alt. fuel cars by 2010. He seemed to imply that the fuel would be cheaper than plain gas. Noone ever calls these guys on that point. The only reason we are hearing about alt. fuels now is because it's Cost Competetive with gas NOW. If they make them, and the price of gas falls, and it will, then what? If you don't TAX the hell out of it, we'll just use Gas again.

Same thing for these electric cars. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never had a battery last more than 6 years. There are alot of big batteries in those cars and replacement won't be cheap. That doesn't even consider the cost of disposal. What happens in an accident, do we have to get a "Hazmet" team out there for the clean-up?

I think it's time to start using our brains here, and start asking the real hard questions and stop letting these goofs sing and dance arond them.

PAYBACK

HOMEGROWN TERRORISM in CANADA? I can't believe the reports coming in. Whooaa!!!! Surely you jest. 12 adults and 5 young adults, all Canadian citizens, arrested on suspicion of planning a series of attacks in Ontario targetting their most famous landmarks. Nothing in the U.S.A. tho. Looks like their liberal policies are going to payoff for them. They sure showed us. Maybe now they'll wake-up.

Reports are they were fairly far along in planning and training. Al Queda inspiration goes along way. I believe that one of Bin Laden's hire-ups, Ahmed Qatar, who was killed in Pakistan, was called by him "Al Canadi", the Canadian, and then there's the Millenium Bomber.

Thank God Steve Harper is there, but I'm sure they will still find a way to blame the U.S. for this.

In the famous words POGO uttered, " We have met the ENEMY, and it is US". Our liberal ideas and policies have gotten us where we are today. It goes back to the 50's& 60's, when the terrorist bombings first started.

These terrorists were blowing up Cairo, Damascus, Beruit, you name it, Then fleeing to the U.S., Canada, and European countries seeking political asylum, claiming that they would be tortured and killed if they were sent back where they committed their attrocities.

We ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE of the world said, "You're Right, you can stay here. Never mind the FACT that you blew 500 or 600 of your fellow citizens to smithereens. Those people will never understand why you had to blow-up their MOTHERS, FATHERS, SISTERS, and BROTHERS, they might hurt you, don't worry . We'll protect you from those BARBARIANS".

Now I guess they've decided to repay our understanding and generosity the only way they know how.

Sen. Green Jeans and the Windmill Factory.

"This is a Big, Ugly Political maneuver by a handful of people who are Undermining America's energy security", said Micheal Vickerman, executive director of RENEW Wisconsin, a non-profit that promotes renewable power.

Here we are moaning and groaning about bad energy policy. The story is an old one. America doesn't produce oil enough to meet her own demand. Not many do.We could produce more, but Democrats and their allies manage to block all attempts to try. They demand that we try alternatives. Solar, electric, and Wind.

The Chicago Tribune had a little story about Windmills on 5-31. The proposed CAPE WIND PROJECT, and lots of them in the Midwest, have been put on hold by some powerful politicians and they're using the FAA to do it.

Leading the charge, or I should say Hold, Sen. Ted KENNEDY and his nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yah, The environmental lawyer and activist. They support turbines everywhere else, just NOT IN THEIR BACKYARDS.

REASON; "It'll spoil the ocean veiw, Threaten the tourist economy, and might endanger migratory birds".

Spoil the ocean view? Where do these people come from? The project was moving forward, so they got a republican ally to add an ammendment to a military spending bill. Just one sentence directing the Defense Department to STUDY whether Wind Towers interfere with the Radar signal of small aircraft.That was it. Everything stopped. Done. Fini. NADA. Both the FAA and the Air Force had already signed off on the projects.

Opponents say there are legit concerns. They point to a British Govt. study that found rotating turbine blades could interfere. I guess they forgot about the part that stated Developers SOLVED the Problem by installing new software at the Radar station and realigning some radar towers.

That's not good enough for Ted & Co. tho. New construction has stopped. One's that are in operation already, can continue even tho they are WITHIN SIGHT of RADAR SYSTEMS.

President Bush is out there trying to encourage more of it's use, saying Wind Power could supply 20% of our power. Quickly too. Imagine not having the enviro problems we have with coal and nuclear technology.Horizon Wind Energy, the company that was going to build the Wind farm on 50 square miles of land here in Illinois, agreed not to do any harm to anything. From subsidizing cable TV, if there are reception problems, to repaving the roads when construction is done. Not to mention the jobs. They thought that getting the permit would be the easy part. HAH!!!

The Good News; Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says that we can't continue without that report, GOOD or BAD in a Timely manner. Of course that was about a year ago. These Senators KNOW that this is way down on the list, because the Department has other things on it's mind. So, NO windmills.

I guess they're worried about Sen. Green Jeans's, OOP's I meant, Sen. Ted Kennedy's PRIVATE JET disappearing off the RADAR screens.