"...now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country..."

I've typed that a million times - like many of you, probably - while practicing typing skills, under my mom's tutelage. I've always liked that it ended with "country", and not the original wording of the phrase, which is "party."  

"SPRINGFIELD | The wife of a founder of the Ozarks Minutemen has pleaded guilty to lying about being raped and shot by three Hispanic men.

Angela D. Wilburn, 44, appeared in Greene County Associate Circuit Court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to making a false report, a class B misdemeanor. Wilburn is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 3. She could face up to six months in prison and a $500 fine."

Source: http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/639159.html

McJoan at Daily Kos writes:

"Seriously, Joe needs to take some time away from his YouTube watching and McCain duties to pay a little bit of attention to what is supposed to be one of his jobs: oversight on Homeland Security. The latest bit of news from the GAO isn't good, particularly for those of us living in port cities."

Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/29/11102/7266

(I beat ya', Mitch, tee hee.) 

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A fellow who worked for the same NGO in Viet Nam as I did has posted a blog on Iraq. You can, and should, read his entire blog at Peace Talk.

He's not retired but until his retirement he headed Christian Peacemaker Teams which worked in Iraq both before and after the invasion. In July of 2003 he traveled to Iraq and his blog has many interesting observations.

"After the Jordanian officials were done with us, we went on. At the technical border we were greeted by the first fruits of occupation, a massive broken down monument to the Iraqi state and several more dilapidated buildings. No one could tell us where to go. Just as I was deciding to look like I knew what I was doing and keep walking to the place where you find the taxis and buses to Baghdad I saw the real border - two American soldiers sitting at a broken down old table, head in hands and fast asleep. “So this is the New Border,” I thought. Hardly a picture of the great awakening to the age of democracy.

EPA OK's BP Pollution at Whiting, Indiana Refinery

EPA Okays BP Pollution at Whiting, IN Refinery

(click ^^^^^^^ for the full story cross-posted in the INDIANA DU forum.)

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Some of you may have remembered my post about putting RFID chips in US Passports (Got RFID Passport?) . Now we have the US Border Patrol requiring a US Passport from US citizens to LEAVE, not just enter, the U.S. via air travel. The UMW Post (Passports needed to re-enter U.S. by air from Mexico, Canada) explains,

Out of all the discussions I have had it has lead me to believe that what leads those insisting that the president is above reproach is a fear and hatred against Muslims, and probably more so a fear. A fear that we will be taken over by Muslim culture, religion, beliefs, etc. This fear blinds them from the reality that we are actually being sold to Sadia Arabia who loans us money to conduct this war and who collects great wealth from our oil consumption.

If you study the culture and get to know a Muslim or two, you'll find that they are people just like you or I and within all religions and cultures you have fanatics.

Something roughly along these lines...

This may be one of the few times in political history when it no longer matters what party you belong to, or if you're part of the roughly 50% who don't vote. Forget about finding an issue to get behind. Let's make it a simpler:

If you agree with everything the Bush Administration has done since 2000, and want President Bush and his administration to have unfettered power to continue on their current course for the next two years - vote Republican.

Here's what will happen if President Bush's Republican Party retains control of both houses of Congress: President Bush will consider this a mandate that justifies anything and everything he wants to do - no matter what it is - and he will have two more years to carry out those plans without worrying that Congress will try to stop him. They won't. They've already demonstrated that.

This is my plan for a TICKET TO WORK:

Make Employers be responsible for their employees.

Any person from Mexico that wants to come to the U.S. to work must sign up at a local, U.S. employment office located at different locations along the border of Mexico. These workers shall be finger printed and given a picture identification card. Each individual will be given a physical examination and searched for any illegal substances.

These non-Americans shall follow the following rules:

Employees shall pay State and Federal taxes only. No Medicare or social security taxes will be deducted.