Who wants more immigration?

Got a "to-kill-ya" hangover from too much Cinco de Mayo partying?

Feeling a little queasy?

USDA says 156,235 pounds beef recalled for e-coli
Sat May 6, 2006 6:00 AM BST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said that an Oklahoma-based company has voluntarily recalled 156,235 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
The company, Fadler, Southwest Food Distributors, LLC of Tulsa, has voluntarily recalled beef products produced on various dates between February 6 and May 3.
The problem was discovered through routine product testing on beef patty products that were distributed to retail establishments, restaurants and institutions in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, the USDA said.
E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that causes bloody diarrhea and dehydration, leaving the very young, seniors and those with compromised immune systems at the highest risk.

Beardstown plant to close Monday for immigration rallies
By LISA KERNEK
STAFF WRITER
Published Wednesday, April 26, 2006
BEARDSTOWN - The Cargill Meat Solutions pork-processing plant will close Monday to allow workers to take part in a national day of immigration-rights rallies...


Bush praises Mexican contribution to US society
Mercosur Saturday, 06 May
United States president George W. Bush said again that the problem of illegal immigration can only be solved through a combination of tighter border security and a guest-worker program, but also stressed that immigrants have a duty to integrate into American society...

Southwest Economy
Issue 1, January/February 2006
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
...The two economies are also linked by the flow of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and the remittances they send back home to their families. The approximately 10 million Mexican nationals who reside in the U.S. sent back an estimated $20 billion in 2005, an amount equivalent to 3 percent of Mexico’s GDP...


Dobbs: Radical groups taking control of immigrant movement
By Lou Dobbs CNN
Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 10:19 p.m. EDT (02:19 GMT)
..In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services....

A new Zogby poll of likely voters,
WASHINGTON (May 3, 2006) – using neutral language (see wording on following pages), finds that Americans prefer the House of Representatives’ enforcement-only bill by 2-1 over Senate proposals to legalize illegal immigrants and greatly increase legal immigration. The poll was conducted for the Center for Immigration Studies...

Goss Was Told to Resign, Sources Say

Hookers involved in Goss resignation?
Posted by Evan Derkacz at 11:43 AM on May 5, 2006.

The Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq

Negroponte and Goss, both 1960 Yale graduates
"Bucky"
Sun Apr 17, 2005 17:23


Preznit Bunnypants really needs to talk to daddy, to learn how to do that pardon thing, you know?

Here's a fun little tip from Randi Rhodes: Go to Google, put asshole there in the search term place, and hit "I feel lucky." Turn the speakers on.

Diebold makes me crabby

E-VOTE MELTDOWN: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!
Blogged by Brad on 5/2/2006 @ 11:32am PT...
Man Smashes Diebold Touch-Screen Voting System in Ohio!
Arrested at Polling Place During Today's Ohio Primary Election


I don't like the machines.





DIEBOLD DISASTER: Optical Scan Machines Fail in Michigan, Officials Forced to Hand-Count Ballots
Blogged by Brad on 5/3/2006 @ 7:18pm PT...
Voting Machine Printout Reports Zero Votes for Several Candidates, All Bond Measures Received Zero YES Votes...
Reasons for Problem 'Unknown', But Sound Remarkably Similar to Recent Leon County, FL Hack on Same Diebold Machines
Voting Machine Printout Reports Zero Votes for Several Candidates, All Bond Measures Received Zero YES Votes...
Reasons for Problem 'Unknown', But Sound Remarkably Similar to Recent Leon County, FL Hack on Same Diebold MachinesOur Electoral System Meltdown continues as more and more reports come in on epidemic Electronic Voting Machine failures around the country. It's neck and neck right now as Diebold and...

"Representatives"

Have you ever surfed over to the thomas.loc.gov website to see what we pay our "represntatives" to vote on?

Here's a very brief example of a few decisions they may make for us.

Upcoming Votes

Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act - H.R.4939

The Senate is scheduled to complete work on this $106 billion spending bill providing emergency funds for hurricane relief and military operations in Iraq.
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Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 - H.R.4975

The House is scheduled to vote this week on this lobbying reform bill.
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SAFE Port Act - H.R.4954

Go look at what they did yesterday and ask yourself how much of this crap affects you, or the majority of Americans? http://thomas.loc.gov/


A quick Google brought up only TPM Cafe reporting on "106 billion supplemental"

Mything the Point of "Freedom isn't Free"
By background N015E bio at TPM Cafe
When people start talking like that, I always check to make sure my wallet is safe. It's the kind of platitude people resort to so they can justify the sacrifices they ask others to make.
Let me give you an example. Right now the latest in a series of off-budget-down-payment-without-oversight-emergency- appropriation bills is heading for the Senate floor. The total bill is $106 Billion. This omnibus bill is for Iraq and Katrina relief...

Why is the MSM (mainstream media) so lousy at reporting things like this? I have my suspicions

Hmmm, 106 billion, looks like a lot, some is supposed to go to Katrina re-building, so why is Qatar being so generous?

And I saw a couple of proposals to stop the oil companies from price gouging, what's up with them?

Ain't fucking happening.

Update: U.S. House Passes Bill to Make Price Gouging a Crime (Update2)
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Well, let's see hmmmmm
"...The gouging bill is "pretty toothless,'' said James Lucier, a senior political analyst with Prudential Equity Group Inc. "It's all about posturing and political cover.''...

Blowholes and Blowback

400 Dead Dolphins Wash Up on African Beach
MSNBC News
Friday 28 April 2006

Underwater noise:Death knell of our oceans?
Linda Weilgart, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Dalhousie University 7 November 2005

U.S. Navy Sonar May Harm Killer Whales, Expert Says
John Pickrell for National Geographic News
March 31, 2004

Media Looks the Other Way: U.S. Military Largest Source of Toxic Waste
By Andrea Sutton Apr 1, 2004, 23:48


Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Foreign Policy
by Jon Baker

Update: Hmmmm, when I posted this morning, I had no idea that Chalmers Johnson would be writing for TomDispatch today. Weird, huh?

Anniversary

Remember this?


It was three years ago today.

(Hat tip to One Pissed Off Veteran )


Um.... Preznit Nails-on-the-chalkboard, Uh.. how's that mission going, again?

And via skippy, Mediabloodhound, and on to Media Matters (boy, that's hoppy, er I mean happy) an update on on how Kaydee giv us newz

Another immigration post

There is so much that I want to say about the immigration rallies. There are many people who immigrated legally who are not happy about this. My question is which came first, cheap labor, or employers who think they need to use it to compete?
And why aren't latino kids graduating ?
And if you want a better life, why do you have to be disruptive to get it?
Gearing Up, and Girding for, Protests
Around the U.S., cities brace for marches. In L.A., a huge crowd is expected along Wilshire.
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Arin Gencer, Times Staff Writers
May 1, 2006
Protests Disrupt California-Mexico Border Crossing

It's not only disposable labor that is being brought into this country illegally from Latin America.
La Sierra

talkback

The elites in North and South America probably don't have any real problems with immigration, legal or illegal, they are doing just fine. What about the rest of us?

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press Writer Mexican president urges prudence during immigration marches in his country, U.S.

hmmmmm, I wonder why?

Could it be that Mexico, India and the Philippines receive the most in remittances. More than 60 percent of the Latino population in the U.S. is of Mexican descent. About Mexico Dr. Ratha says, "Mexico received $17 billion last year and that was higher than their foreign direct investment. It was about the same size as their oil exports."