Monday, February 07, 2005

The Pan Show

The Spanish government is starting a process of granting legal amnesty to up to 800,000 undocumented immigrants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...242411.stm

Democratic idealism that once alone gave the nation its needed social safety net, civil rights legislation, and environmental protection is becoming ossified and in danger of ensuring a permanent party of strident second-guessing and deductive furor at the loss of almost all political power. A majority of the state legislatures and governorships is lost. The Senate is lost. The House is lost. The Presidency is lost—the Supreme Court almost. Whether Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, or Alberto Gonzales, ‘minorities’ no longer have any need of liberal gate-keepers—or of a particular patron like Barbara Boxer.
http://www.victorhanson.com...05.html

Oil is indeed finite. The Society of Petroleum Engineers estimates remaining official reserves represent 44.6 more years of oil.
http://ask.yahoo.com/as...7.html

With a hero who gave his life for the elections, a revived national anthem blaring from car stereos and a greater willingness to help police, the public mood appears to be moving more clearly against the insurgency in Iraq, political and security officials said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/..._3_2005feb6

That Pan's show is on the air at all underscores how reforms in the past decade, including new investment rules announced late last year, have guardedly opened China's state-controlled television production to private domestic and international investors who have the money, patience, and stamina to deal with mazes of bureaucracy.
http://www.iht.com/articles...himedia07.html

For him, the re-election of George W. Bush was the last straw..."I love the United States," he said as he stood on the Vancouver waterfront, staring toward the Coastal Range, which was lost in a gray shroud. "I fought for it in Vietnam. It's a wrenching decision to think about leaving. But America is turning into a country very different from the one I grew up believing in."
http://www.iht.com/articles/.../refuge.html

As an aside, have you ever wondered why conservatives hate the United States so much? In their view, their government always fails -- except in fighting wars -- and private enterprise always succeeds. Yeah, sure, like how many airlines have faded away in the past 20 years, and how many are operating in bankruptcy now? Just for example.
http://www.sfgate.com/...2005/02/07/hsorensen.DTL

Bush's budget axe to fall on poor...President Bush is proposing to reduce spending on public health and social welfare in the US to help pay for tax cuts and the war in Iraq, according to early reports of today's White House budget.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...,1407400,00.html
President Bush sent Congress a $2.57 trillion budget plan Monday that seeks deep spending cuts across a wide swath of government from reducing subsidies paid to the nation's farmers, cutting health care payments for poor people and veterans and trimming spending on the environment and education....Aside from defense and homeland security, favored Bush programs included a new $1.5 billion high school performance program, expanded Pell Grants for low-income college students and more support for community health clinics.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/..._x.htm

Equine Essentials is a liquid nutritional supplement for horses that provides all of the natural benefits of Morinda citrifolia (noni) in a highly palatable form.
http://www.tahitiannoni.com/...NYPD.html
To: Jonathan From: Gene, with love...

5 Comments:

Blogger Michael and Natalie said...

i really dont know how a nation like Spain can be so foolish (and by 'nation like Spain I mean a modern nation with an unemployment rate that hovers at 10.5% that is somewhat of an international influence and player') They have been pulling this amnesty stuff for a while now. i remeber when my cousins in Argentina were debating whether or not to move to Spain because they had opened their doors to anyone in Argentina who had a marketable degree. I know I should further look into this, and I will...but perhaps someone knows why they are so anxious to allow so many people in...the article states that Spain is just trying to deal with their own immigration problem, but how can they so blatently ignore the negative consequences of undertaking an immigration move of this magnitude? I know they re socialists, but come on...

Mon Feb 07, 10:27:00 AM GMT-7  
Blogger Michael and Natalie said...

i know drudge is sensationalistic and the Bryan's probably already seen this..but i thought i should share this with everyone eles anyway

Lt. Paul Vernon of the Los Angeles Police Department,
"When people start talking about Big Brother, I say, 'I've got nothing to hide.' Those cameras aren't looking into my home, and if they were, it would be pretty boring."

"How would you like to be followed around by a slimy guy in a raincoat who records everything you do? It's a technological version of a slimy guy in a raincoat," said privacy expert Lauren Weinstein

"A lot of people don't care, but they haven't thought about it," he said. "The dark side of this stuff isn't discussed."

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2696693,00.html

Mon Feb 07, 10:42:00 AM GMT-7  
Blogger bryan said...

The politics of it are surreal. Wall Street Journal economic libertarians cite cheap labor and robust demography brought on by unchecked immigration as an economic plus for us in an increasingly global economy. The Left apparently sees an entire new generation of voters who can be nursed on the need for government entitlements to ensure them a parity of result rather than an equality of opportunity.

Yet despite the politics, there are other reasons why all citizens of conscience should worry abTout illegal immigration well beyond national security and deficit spending. It is a moral quagmire that soils everyone and everything it touches. A complacent and often corrupt Mexican government has not made needed social and economic reforms. Despite oil, minerals, favorable climate, and soil, it cannot feed its people or treat them humanely. Why? Mexico City prefers to export dissent, hoping to rid the country of its surplus poor—even as it counts on $12 billion in remittances from loyal and nostalgic expatriates to prop up a failing system back home in need of long postponed reform.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson091604.html
California had somehow managed to run up a $38 billion dollar shortfall. It produces the worst schools in the nation. Entitlements skyrocketed; so did the size of state government. It has the country's largest penal industry, and a decrepit transportation system—despite having nearly the highest sales and income taxes in America. It wasn't always so. California is a naturally rich state.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson090304.html
Whatever one thinks of illegal immigration, however one laments the absence of HMO cards like mine in the hands of every American resident, and despite the rhetoric that our poorest communities are given inadequate health care, the destitute without attention is not what I saw last week and many such times in the last 20 years with my accident prone children.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson031304.htm

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson092903.html
Nicaraguan police, with U.S. assistance in a sting operation, thwarted black marketeers trying to sell SA-7 shoulder-fired missiles capable of downing commercial aircraft earlier this month

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050127-122517-1306r.htm
Fed up with illegal immigration and eager to send a message to federal lawmakers, hundreds of volunteers from across the nation will spend the month of April patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border, helping to apprehend migrants coming into the United States.

http://www.boston.com/news...a_citizens_border_patrol/
Jailed foreigners(illegal aliens) costing Calif. big money

http://www.freerepublic.com...posts
Mexico publishes guide to assist border crossers

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/...1.html

Mon Feb 07, 12:23:00 PM GMT-7  
Blogger bryan said...

pardon the bad formatting...

Mon Feb 07, 12:24:00 PM GMT-7  
Blogger bryan said...

theres a lot of things that evil corporations could do for themselves that make sense to them but are illegal. they could not have provide a safe working enviroment. many companies dont pay their employess overtime pay even though their employees are working more than 40 hrs a week. they could cut out all breaks throughout the work day. all these measures would make the company more productive and what company wouldnt want that? that doesnt change the fact that its still illegal.

Tue Feb 08, 08:14:00 AM GMT-7  

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