Friday, May 18, 2007

Summer in the Baltic - 2007


Der Speigel has a slew of articles about the upcoming G8 Summit to be held on the German coast.
Big Trouble in Little Heiligendamm

By Marcel Rosenbach, Gunther Latsch and Markus Deggerich

Heiligendamm is normally a sleepy seaside resort on the Baltic. But with the G-8 coming in June, the town has been transformed into a well-fortified stronghold. And the German authorities aren't the only ones who have been preparing for confrontation.

The coastal idyll on Germany's north shore this spring ends abruptly on country road number 12, right after the little village of Hinter Bollhagen. At the outskirts of town, just at the edge of the picturesque, stunningly yellow field of rapeseed is The Fence. Intimidating. Martial. And a bit surreal. That, at least, is how the locals and curious day trippers see it. Those responsible prefer to speak of a "technical barrier."Since January, workers have been busy building an enormous enclosure around the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm -- and they are being very thorough. The fence that ploughs through the landscape for some 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) is 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) tall, affixed at the base by 4,800 concrete slabs and crowned by four rows of barbed wire. Thick rolls of sharp razor-wire are wrapped around the barbed wire, gleaming silver in the spring sun.

The protective fence is the most visible part of a unique security strategy devised for the three-day G-8 summit -- bringing together the leaders of eight of the world's most important economies -- scheduled to be held in the luxurious resort in early June. In addition, the largest police operation in the history of the German Federal Republic will transform the fenced in enclosure around Heiligendamm into the equivalent of a maximum-security prison.

But this one is designed to keep people out. The authorities and protesters alike have been gearing up for the showdown for two years already. As many as 100,000 demonstrators will arrive from all over the world and take to the streets, protest organizers hope. Sixteen thousand policemen are preparing to defend the site of the summit.

According to Der Speigel, Germany has spent about $136 million in preparation so far and the protestors are estimating one demonstration alone, in Rostock, "is using up about €200,000 ($271,133), according to an internal budget plan; the camp sites for an estimated 20,000 protesters will cost about €260,000 ($352,417)." But they're hoping that it is money well spent and will bolster the cause of left wing resistance.

Speigel reports that the left's organizers may be a "dreaming" when they talk about putting 100,000 angry protestors into the streets. But just as the authorities are preparing, so are the anti-authoritarians. Exercises in seige tactics such as fence scaling and blockade training have been conducted around the country in preparation. The idea is to have at least one demonstrator make it over the fence while other groups block roads to shut down and isolate the Summit site.

In another article, noting that that there will be around 2,000 participants from government delegations, 4,000 journalists, 16,000 police officers and around "100,000 angry protesters, " Speigel takes a closer look at the politics, the players and the question of violence:
Cue the Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets

By Reinhard Mohr in Berlin

Were Protesters "Criminalized"?

The vast majority of G-8 critics, whatever their political leanings, don't support the use of violence. The limit for physical resistance is usually met when demonstrators have a sit-in or set up a blockade and tussle with police as they're carted away.

But it would be naïve to assume there were no radical leftist or militant anarchist groups that would use this opportunity to make an explosive point. That's part of the ritual, too: They know they can't stop the G-8 summit, but it might be enough to create a few images for TV showing "revolutionary" resistance to the "imperialistic world domination" by US President George Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and their cohorts.

The chairman of Germany's police union, Konrad Freiberg, is certainly warning of an increased likelihood of attacks this year. In fact he talks about a "whole new dimension" of leftist extremism. The left-wing scene, naturally, sees things otherwise. After the "anti-RAF campaign" of the last few months -- during the 30th anniversary year of some of the Red Army Faction's bloodiest deeds in West Germany -- comes a string of nationwide raids against anti-G-8 leftists last Wednesday. German left-wingers are convinced that legitimate democratic opposition to the destructive machinations of the global capitalist system is being equated -- once again, just like in the '70s and '80s -- with breaking the law.

The storm of protest against the G-8 summit in Germany next month amounts to a scripted ritual. Leftists need to ask themselves whether violence is a legitimate form of resistance, and if so, how much is acceptable.

The left is chafing under the intense scrutiny of the German authorities who have reverted to form and stereotype as they surveil and harass the leftists in the run-up to the Summit. There have been accusations of heavy-handed Police State tactics and according to Duetshe Welle , last week 900 police participated in raids, made arrests made this week netted explosives as well as fake identity cards. And in the midst of all this, we still have this:
"We shouldn't underestimate the immense dangers posed by Islamic terrorists," said Konrad Freiberg, head of the police union, in an article for the Bild am Sonntag paper. "It was while the G8 summit was taking place in Gleneagles in Scotland in 2005 that bombs planted by Islamic terrorists exploded in the London subway."

Freiberg also warned that police forces would be overstretched during the security operation for the G8. Freiberg called the G8 summit a "Herculean task" and said it would constitute the "biggest police operation of all times."



Watching preparations for the far left violence at upcoming G8 Summit provides some momentary distraction and relief from the grinding US politics and the murder and mayhem in Iraq. Bono this week criticized the G8 for not honoring their pledges to Africa. Bush is blamed for watering down a G8 policy statement on Climate Change.

It is almost comical to read that the radical left chafes at being compared to Islamic terrorists. "After all," they protest, "it's only violence against things and not people." Okay, so technically, it's Second Degree Terrorism. Book'em, Dano.

80 comments:

  1. There probably just pissed that their European sister, I mean, brother, Germany, just took a hard right on them....

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  2. Doug said...
    Did Desert Rat commit Suicide?

    Fri May 18, 09:06:00 AM EDT

    desert rat said...
    No just wallowing in the realization I've been right all along, doug.

    Just once it'd be good to be wrong.

    But, no. Instead we get to watch the demise of the United States and the rise of the North American Empire. Exciting times.

    I had been hopin' that it was just my imagination, running away with me. But nah, it's much much worse, than that.
    ---
    You got that right.
    Never woke up with a worse feeling about our country, or more of a desire that it was just a continuation of the dream/nightmare I was having when I awoke about ineffectively and inarticulately trying to have an effect.

    Good to see Bobal's doing his part.

    Habu, maybe you could put some of that energy you've been putting into your alternative characters into writing Feeney, et al.
    If you know what Feeney is up to, let us know.
    He impressed me a bunch in 2000.
    (course Bush "impressed" me enough to vote for him over Algore, although now I would BET that pre-crazy Al would have done a BETTER job on the border.)

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  3. So far, been doing honeydews to survive until the Caffeine and Sudafed kick in enough to overcome my suicidal impulses.

    Wish I was still young enough to believe that acts of suicidal madness in service of the country actually worked.

    Instead, the MSM would spend a week or so bemoaning whatever beloved part of the machine I took out, while blaming it all on my talk radio habit.

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  4. Stoutfellow,
    Since you don't have time to read the bill, think about someone like Hewitt, an experienced Constitutional lawyer, and almost blind cheerleader for Bush, (fought like crazy FOR Harriet Miers, for instance) and on-the-record extreme moderate on immigration:
    He says it's pure BS.
    How can it be a security Bill when it cuts the PROMISED amount of fence in half, to a measely 300 miles.

    But GWB and company have shown their good faith by building TWO MILE or so of the 700 mandated in Duncan Hunter's bill passed last year.

    Course the sun may not come up tommorrow, either.

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  5. Hewitt is still also blaming Trancredo and anti-illegal immigration activists for the loss in 2006 and all of the GOPs problems.

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  6. It's always the "little guy" the screws the pooch. Never the man in charge. The buck seems to stop a long way from anyone with authority.

    So refreshing, the refusal to take responsibility, by our leaders.

    Happy that I did not vote for Mr Kyl, sad, now, that he won the election. Turns out to be just another socialist.

    Looking to government to "fix" the problems that government incompetency allowed, in the first place.

    Wish my youngest was a bit older, then I could get out of Dodge. Soon enough, though, she will be.

    Seems like Border Security is not as nearly as important as funding the troops. Nor is maintaining the integrity of the citizenry. No vetos to address my domestic concerns.

    Guess I can quit paying taxes.

    Aprenda espanol, amigos, necessitamos muy pronto.

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  7. I was going to ask you about Kyl, Rat. I can't understand the Republican arizona senators, where the problem is about the worst.

    Somos sigue avanzando sin perder una palma de terreno.

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  8. Honestly, if this shit passes, I really couldn't critize anyone for not paying taxes.

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  9. This Gorilla is just fed up with zoo food and wants a decent meal. And won't pay the taxes on it either.

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  10. Can you believe these assholes are going to vote on a thousand page bill that will affect the future that you and your ancestors paid, fought and worked for and the dirty sons of bitches will not have time to even read it, even if they were inclined to do so?

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  11. Unfortunately I can believe it. I have sent e mails and letters to everyone I know today, and have exhausted my mighty leverage.

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  12. gorilla in the zoo
    gorilla in the zoo
    I'm starting to feel
    a lot like you

    gorilla in the zoo
    gorilla in the zoo
    I'm wantin' outta here
    just like you

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  13. La Raza

    Maybe Habu is right about it all. The inspectors pulled an inspection in Iran just yesterday I think. Iran has crossed the 'red line' as everybody knew they would. Maybe we will have a civil war in the United States. Maybe we will look back in 10 years time and why oh why didn't we bomb Iran when we had the chnce. If Israel attacks we will be drawn in, that seems certain.

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  14. "We have a problem. So much dissidence and turmoil. So, my fellow countrymen, we have come to an agreement! Because everyone wants an agreement! The contents do not matter, we just need an agreement, because the current state of affairs cannot go on. Therefore, we have decided to solve the nuclear proliferation problem by giving nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda. The problem is now solved, because we say it is. Carry on with your normal affairs."

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  15. There's nothing that can make a more determined federalist than seeing the national government go nuts.

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  16. Stoutfellow,
    Since you don't have time to read the bill, think about someone like Hewitt, an experienced Constitutional lawyer, and almost blind cheerleader for Bush..He says it's pure BS.


    Doug,
    Has Hewett read the whole thing? I'm looking through it with my admittedly non-lawyer eyes and see some good things. For example, this section - SEC. 229. LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY OF STATES AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS AND TRANSFER TO FEDERAL CUSTODY.
    affirms the role of local and state governments in enforcing immigration laws, to detain suspected illegal aliens, and to hold them while they notify the Feds. There are provisions for reimbursement by the Feds for expenses the locals incur during detainment. This would be an improvement over the current situation in which local and state law enforcement agents can't "act as immigration enforcers" (at least most seem to have that perception).

    More later, I'm wrapping it up at work. I'll be heading down to the Elephant Bar for a tall cool one as soon as I can get out of here.

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  17. The interesting thing, about the 12 to 20 million immigrants, in the country today.

    The individuals that I have met are reasonably well educated. Kinko's managers and the like, in Mexico. These men were employeed, here in the US, in low end jobs, due to their illegal status.

    Give these fellows work permits, they won't be in those entry level, grey market jobs another day.

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  18. As to this G8 meltdown, just look at the numbers, to see the imbalance and the Establishments inferred strength or weakness, depending upon perspective.

    "... Germany has spent about $136 million in preparation so far and the protestors are estimating one demonstration alone, in Rostock, "is using up about €200,000 ($271,133), according to an internal budget plan; the camp sites for an estimated 20,000 protesters will cost about €260,000 ($352,417)." ... "

    $136 MILLION USD vs $600,000 USD.
    227 to 1

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  19. "Give these fellows work permits, they won't be in those entry level, grey market jobs another day."

    If that's the case we better get looking for illegals to do the jobs legal illegals don't want to do.

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  20. "Drink is the curse of the working class'--Karl Marx

    'Work is the curse of the drinking class'--anon

    Make work illegal all our problems are solved.

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  21. Don't cut your wrists yet, boys, this is just another sign of the apocalypse. There will surely be more abominations to come...

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  23. Stoutfellow:
    Here is
    White House Press Secretary Tony Snow on the new immigration bill.
    Hugh will post Audio Soon.

    Astounding as it may be 9-11, this bill will still have a Gorelick wall provision, which will prevent information sharing on terrorists! Same tired old excuse:
    "If we give people the power to prevent terrorism while dealing with immigrants, they may not volunteer information to the government."

    Many "tells" in Tony's breezy and ultraconfident delivery:
    My favorite -
    Weeks ago he promised Hugh he would have figures on fence construction, which, he said, "were readily available."
    Here, he starts out claiming 300 plus miles, later, when pressed is at 80, and finally, admits he is not sure. (Duncan Hunter Mentioned "a couple" yesterday)

    Hugh asked why they could not simply publish them on a website.
    ...but this is govt work, as "enforcement" will be, and there may be good reasons, you know, not to publish them, even tho weeks ago he insisted they were not secret, but publicly available.

    Tony is not yet sure who will do the 12 million background checks in their spare time, but THIS GROUP OF CLOWNS was mentioned.

    "we probably won't get final text until after we vote on the stupid thing."

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  24. HH: Let’s test that. Which agency is actually going to do the background checks on the 11 to 12 to 20 million people who will be eligible? Which agency?

    TS: Again, I have not looked at it, but I am assuming it’s a combination of DHS doing the coordination along with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, but people will find out.

    HH: And how many people, how many people do you think it’s going to take to do 11…I’ve had three full field background investigations, each one of which took about six months. You know the drill on this. You know that there is not anywhere near the number of federal employees available to do a sophisticated search of 11 to 12 million people.

    TS: But what you’re also saying is that you’re advocating a full field investigation on 12 million people.

    HH: No, I want to find the people we should be worried about from a national security standpoint.

    TS: Exactly, exactly.

    HH: But we’re not going to be looking,* because you don’t identify by country of origin in this law, do you?*


    TS: No

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  25. Bad to Worse
    [Kate O'Beirne]

    Analysts at the Heritage Foundation have the current legislative text of the immigration deal and are alarmed at provisions they view as dangerous loopholes. They point out that once the bill is signed its language appears to create a "cease and desist" order on law enforcement given what looks like a prima facie assumption that any illegal alien is eligible for amnesty and can therefore be given preliminary legal status. Under the "Treatment of Application" section, once an application for the new "Z" visa has been filed, it appears that the government has only "one business day" to identity a disqualifying factor or the visa must be issued. And lots of provisions are apparently able to be waived by Cabinet secretaries so there's plenty of discretion for the next Clinton administration.

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  26. Dennis Miller

    Well, the news of the immigration bill dominated a lot of conversation today. First up we had Rich Lowry, Editor of the National Review. Lowry said the bill will allow every illegal in the country amnesty up front, and then all the enforcement will allegedly happen later. Yeah, right. We saw how that worked under Reagan.

    Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen Project was our second guest. 33 million illegals are in our country, according to Gilchrist. So what should we do about it? Repatriation. That's a nice word for deportation. Local communities around our nation are passing laws to deprive illegals of rights and benefits. Let's take a cue and get a grassroots movement going. We can't depend on the folks in the White House to help us -- because they won't.

    As Gilchrist says, how many third-world impoverished people can we sustain before we turn into a reflection of Somalia or Mexico or many other countries around the world?? You've heard of the Trojan horse invasion? Dennis calls this one a Trojan burrow invasion!

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  27. 'Rat,
    Many of the illegals VDH ran into, or rather illegals that ran into VDH's farm, and many of them living in the Barrios of LA, or doing business in Macarthur Park, are anything but Kinko's Manager Material!

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  28. I hate the concept of conspiracies but...

    there's more to this picture than meets the eye.

    could the leadership of this country be as incompetent as they seem in the Iraq mission, border security, out-sourcing our entire manufacturing base, social security, et al?

    or..

    is all this political divisiveness just a smokescreen for the hidden agenda below?

    I'm starting to lean towards a belief that we're being sold down the river by pure evil.

    Are we dead and already in hell?

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  29. I like the 20 million figure for the current infiltrators in the country, but who can tell, for sure.

    Out of that number, doug, there are more than a few competent ones.
    There are also some pretty bad apples. Who's to know?

    Listening to O'Reilly earlier, what a buffoon. He knows full well that once in the country the Supremes will not allow discrimination against previously illegal immigrants, they already have so decided it is illegal to deny them some benefits, like health care and education.

    Sad day for the Republic, good day for the Empire.
    Old buddy used to chafe at my Skull & Boners references. That and the New World Order.

    That is what herr hitler promised, a New World Order. isn't it?

    Both Henry Ford and Charlie Chaplin certainly thought so, each acting according to their percieved roles.

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  30. lugh
    Mr Bush went to both Harvard and Yale. He has done quite well, surrounded by a time tested management team. The stars of past GOP administrations inhabit all the key positions, always have.

    They are not that inept.

    Their agenda is not mine, nor I think yours, or most of ours.

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  31. It may not make it through the house. What were they called--the blue dogs?--some of those dems that recently got elected, promising to be tough on immigration.

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  32. Depending upon the "Blie Dogs" and Ms Pelosi ... who has come out against it.

    The beach is looking better and better.

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  33. I think McCain has screwed his goose the last few days as far as the nomination goes. My wife thinks so too and is glad having instantly turned into a Romney supporter at first sight. Fainted dead away she did, at the sight and sound of that man. Swept off her feet.

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  34. Reid and Pelosi are just faking displeasure, the better to lend support to the view that the bill is
    "Too Draconian"
    and needs to be watered down to respect the human rights of these welcome guests.

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  35. But there are already concerns that the "enforcement triggers" may prove more fungible than advertised. If the Democrats win in 2008, do conservatives trust Hillary's Department of Homeland Security to certify that the borders are secure? Worse, the bill creates probationary "Z visas" for illegal immigrants present and working in the United States since the beginning of this year as well as their parents, spouses, and children.

    The probationary period begins before any of the enforcement triggers are pulled. The visa-holders are eligible to stay in the country indefinitely, possibly undermining the appeal of the path to citizenship. And all this assumes that the country's existing immigration bureaucracy, with a backlog of 4 million unresolved cases, can properly determine the status of at least 12 million people in a timely manner.

    It may be 1986 all over again. After that year's Immigration Reform and Control Act became law, nearly twice as many people applied as officials expected and over 90 percent were accepted. Today the numbers are even greater. So is the potential for amnesty to occur without the promised enforcement ever materializing.

    American Spectator

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  36. This is one of the more impossible aspects of their fantasy:
    ---
    " And all this assumes that the country's existing immigration bureaucracy, with a backlog of 4 million unresolved cases, can properly determine the status of at least 12 million people in a timely manner"
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    To which Tony Snow answers:
    Hire more Federal Workers!

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  37. Bobal,
    Tell your wife Mitt is in 5th place in Carolina, where he is considered too Metro!

    Tell her to sew him up some Bibb Overalls!

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  38. Did I ever introduce y'all to my Kinfolks?

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  39. Don't Be Fooled [Heather Mac Donald]

    Republican supporters of the Senate’s latest amnesty bill are trying to distract voters by dangling before them the requirements for an illegal alien to become a citizen or purchase a green card. These requirements make this bill a tough, no-cave-in reform, proponents say, that responds to the public’s outrage over immigration law-breaking. Don’t be fooled. Prerequisites to citizenship or permanent residency status are irrelevant to whether this bill rewards law-breaking or will encourage more in the future. Its key feature is rather that illegal aliens, according to press reports, can immediately have their illegal status wiped away with a temporary-residency permit, available virtually upon demand. That’s it. The rest is noise. Whether or not one has to show English proficiency and a knowledge of civics to become a citizen is irrelevant from an illegal alien’s perspective; a minute proportion of illegal or even legal Mexican and Central American immigrants come here with the desire to become citizens. The naturalization rate among qualified Hispanics has traditionally been negligible compared to other national groups; it started rising only when Congress required citizenship to receive welfare benefits.

    There is no ambiguity about the effects of amnesty. Everywhere they have been introduced—including in Europe—they have brought in their train a new flood of illegals. This latest bill will do the same.

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  40. Your wife picked the winner, Bobal. He's solidly in the lead in New Hampshire, tied in Iowa, and slowly moving up elsewhere.

    It takes awhile. First people have to find out who he is; then they have to get past the Mormonism, and the past pro-choice positions; but, in the end, they come around.

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  41. This thing ain't fooling, anyone, Doug. They've probably got over a million emails, and faxes, by now.

    Those of us that have supported the administration are hurt, and pissed off at this dishonest piece of shit.

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  42. Tell your wife Mitt is in 5th place in Carolina, where he is considered too Metro!

    What is Romney's position on flying the Confederate battle flag on the State House grounds? South Carolinians want to know.

    Bar tender slide a cool Miller down to that fella wearing the Hawaiian shirt, we're drinking the finest brew from Milwaukee's south side (what my neighbor calls "college beer").

    I'm burned out anarchists and the G8 and the losers in Congress and Bush's skull and bones crowd who are globalist first and Americans second . How about we drink a beer and listen to some Southern Rock. I pick tandem guitars, two drummers and a Hammond B3 organ. The glory days before Duane crashed his motorcycle and Greg passed out in his spaghetti. In the cemetary on the hill above Macon Ga where the inscription reads In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

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  43. Rufus, you and I might be distantly related. I think I saw old unca Ollie in one of those cuts.

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  45. Stoutfellow, just One More Downer before I drown my sorrows in the Suds.
    ---
    You might suspect that once the federal government gets involved, a clerk making his best guess as to the language the person is speaking and asking a coworker to interpret would be unacceptable. You would be correct.

    On page 32296 of its E.O. 13166 “policy guidance,” the Department of Labor actually recommends the hiring of two or more interpreters for every unemployment-insurance applicant who claims difficulties with the English language:


    Where such proceedings are lengthy, the interpreter will likely need breaks and team interpreting may be appropriate to ensure accuracy and to prevent errors caused by mental fatigue of interpreters.

    Actually, having two interpreters in the room may require a third merely to referee. Judge Wayne Purdom told the National Law Journal in 2003 that once the interpreters are in place in an Atlanta courtroom, the language debates have only begun:


    Sometimes one interpreter is very critical of another’s translation — right in the middle of the courtroom — and they will interrupt and contradict each other and say the other person’s translation is bad.

    In the real world, rather than complying with all this linguistic rigmarole, unemployment caseworkers are likely to decide it is easier and cheaper to just give everyone a check who claims not to speak English.
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    Quote of the Day:
    Chertoff calls Kennedy
    "Awesome!"

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  46. Here's a creative way To Get Back At Your Enemies if you have enemies, and are in the mood.

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  47. nice trip down memory lane rufus and doug....thanks

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  48. Chertoff was "tickled to death" because he will be able to take his ICE Agents Off of the Border!

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  49. Here ya go Rufus:
    (Local Sugar Mill produces 7% of Maui's Juice, Windmills 10%, I think.)
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    In Hawaii, a Return to the Land, for Fuel

    David Cole, head of a land holding company, amid biomass, a k a sugarcane, on Maui. Some companies in Hawaii are beginning to push for energy independence.
    The Energy Challenge: Previous Articles in the Series »
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    Hawaiian Cane and Sugar would already be making Ethanol (Again ...they used to make Rum) but for our "Progressive" Democrat Government and all their regs and restrictions.

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  50. They did it in Europe, before the Did it Here.

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  51. Missed this one in my Z Bear link:

    "Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., acknowledging deep divisions on immigration among Democrats, says she won't bring it up unless President Bush can guarantee he will produce 70 Republican backers—a tall order given GOP concerns that the bill is too lenient."
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    Sounds too good to be true!

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  52. Yeah, Rufus,
    That really pissed Hewitt off, having a Gorelick like mechanism to make it so dots that need to be connected can't.

    From the link:
    "Socialists are the same all over.

    They don't believe in the nation-state, and sincerely try to bring about a more perfect world in which nations would not exist.

    They therefore knock holes in the bottom of our little lifeboat, in the belief that they're doing us all a big favor."

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  53. Rufus, you hit upon the very link I e-mailed to all my friends and acquaintances today to try to stir them up.

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  54. Doug, the Brazilians produce ethanol from sugar cane for approx. $0.65/gal. They have recently made a breakthrough which will enable them to utilize the remaining waste (bagasse) at a cost of about $1.00/gal.

    Hawaii has a perfect climate, and should be able to produce a bunch of the stuff. The complicating factor is that Sugar is a "Protected" business in the U.S. Those sugar producers have been on a mighty sweet teat for a long time. It may be hard to get them back to work.

    Anyway, it WILL be a Great Business in Hawaii.

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  55. Bob, I picked that link up from Sharp over at Kudlows.

    Man, the whole internet is RIGHTEOUSLY PISSED at this heap of shit.

    Those Goddamned Republicans might think someone has put one of those Craigslist ads up like you linked to Bob.

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  56. That Teddy-boy; he's just a laugh-a-minute. Stop me if you've heard this:

    Ted Kennedy on Immigration [Mark Krikorian]


    1965: "The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."


    1986: "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this."

    2007: "Now it is time for action. 2007 is the year we must fix our broken system."

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  57. westhawk reports that Mr al-Hakim has come to the US to see a doctor.

    Wile he is here, westhawk thinks he'll speak to the Administration about the coming transition.

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  58. Washington Post says Latino groups such as La Raza were given virtual veto power over the legislation.

    La Raza motto: "For the race everything, for those outside of the race nothing."

    Natural race-obsessed "liberal" Democrats.

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  59. Rufus, that gal, there's a corrupt and corrupting politician we could all vote for. I heard it was against our laws to buy votes, but what about bartering them? :)

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  60. Hell, Bob; Barney Frank's been giving blow jobs for years. It must be alright.

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  61. Ha,Ha! I didn't think of that. And that Gene? Stubbs, who made the infamous statement--'I'm not a practicing homosexual, I'm good at it!'Also a representative from Mass.

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  62. Mitt Romney's State of experience.

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  63. Studds made known to his constituents that he was a homosexual, a 'disclosure that apparently was not news to many of his constituents'.

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  64. Prom Date with a Pig/


    And Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), a White House hopeful, warned that “the proposed bill could devalue the importance of family reunification, replace the current group of undocumented immigrants with a new undocumented population consisting of guest workers who will overstay their visas, and potentially drive down wages of American workers.”

    The guy sounds more Republican than most Republicans. Two out of three ain’t bad, Obie although the idea that “family reunification” would be “devalued in this bill is silly.

    We’re going to allow 750,000 immediate family members a year for the next 8 years to come into this country legally. Just how many more would you let in?

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  65. I read somewhere that the Sihks in India, if you had done them a favor, paid you back with a blow job, if you wanted. But I don't know if it is true, or not.

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  66. The more I think about it, most of our politicians behave just like those folks who responded to the Craig's List ad, and the house belongs to the public.

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  67. That does it; I ain't doin no favors for no Sikhs. If they put their wives up I might go for it - on a "selective" basis, of course.

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  68. "Selective" meaning: They had to be able, sometime in the last day or so, to fog a mirror (partially, at least.)

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  69. Notice he's flippin us the Bird just like the Frat Boy Flunking Law Exams he once was.

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  70. Har, har, they say, what a great stash we stole today, from the people's house! Good picture, Doug.


    Sihks suck!

    Nite.

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  71. That's Pitiful. Nite.

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  72. Did someone mention La Raza?

    From The Weekly Standard, 6/19/07:

    The Coming Immigration Reform

    [...]

    You can be pro-immigrant as long as you are pro-rule of law at the same time. Other immigration advocates (for example, Gov. Gray Davis in the 2003 California recall) have made a similar blunder by favoring the awarding of driver's licenses to immigrants who are here illegally. Arrangements of this kind embody everything about the present immigration regime that voters detest. On top of that, a politician who nominally opposes illegality, but in practice winks at it, comes across as a supreme hypocrite, however well-intentioned he or she may be.

    The difference between the politics of a comprehensive solution, and an ad hoc winking at illegality, was recently brought home in two elections in Herndon, Virginia. Herndon's local government set up a work center for immigrants (many if not most of them illegal) to come to every morning to get a day's work. The mayor and his allies on the council were pro-immigrant but were ejected from office by local voters. They were seen as building around an existing system of illegality.

    Yet in the Virginia gubernatorial election a few short months earlier, Republican nominee Jerry Kilgore, who had run ads in the Washington media market attacking his opponent for a mildly pro-immigration stance, was swamped by the same Herndon voters. The same conservative-leaning voters who disliked the apparent condoning of illegality at their local work center voted against a candidate who verged on making hostility to immigration a central campaign theme.

    Conservative politicians from Texas seem to have a leg up in navigating these minefields. Such politicians most emphatically include President Bush and his senior political adviser, Karl Rove. Immigration is not a new issue in Texas, which is at one and the same time the only big state where non-Latino whites are now a minority and that also routinely supports conservatives (it went for Bob Dole in 1996, for example).

    Without coming across in any sense as anti-rule of law, Bush has raised his share of the Hispanic vote in every election he has been involved in, first in Texas and more recently the nation as a whole (the only two national exit polls taken in 2004 showed Bush losing the Hispanic vote to John Kerry by 9 percentage points, while Dole lost the Hispanic vote by more than 50 points eight years earlier). It will take all of the Republicans' skills to bring home a comprehensive immigration bill from this Congress, but if they do so the odds are they will be acting in accord with the American vision of immigration and will enable their party to competitively fight elections of the future in a nation increasingly populated by our latest wave of immigrants.

    Jeffrey Bell, a principal of Capital City Partners, has worked since 2001 as a consultant to the National Council of La Raza on immigration reform.

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  73. Sorry. The date on that article is (obviously) 6/19/06.

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  74. I'm looking forward to the pictures of hippies getting stomped by the jackbooted thugs protecting the illuminati.

    I get such a perverse thrill from seeing it, even though I know it's so very wrong.

    Hippies just need to have sense beaten into them I guess.

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