Dick Morris: the Political A team falters...........

"They were supposed to be the A Team in American politics. The Clinton Machine that inspired fear and admiration throughout the political world........".

Melanie Phillips- the War within the West

"But in the twisted world of BBC values, it appears, Israel has no right to defend itself. Because when Stourton says the US and UK refused to call for a ceasefire, that’s not quite correct. They actually called upon Hezbollah from the start to stop its aggression. What Stourton — and the UK media and Labour party — found so unacceptable was that Bush and Blair didn’t insist that Israel should stop defending itself. In other words, that they did not insist that Israel surrender. And surrender, what’s more, to an army of Iran which has declared not only its intention to wipe Israel off the map but also to destroy the west and conquer the Arab world too. "

"Project shows ease of money laundering in USA"

"What does it take to create secretive U.S. companies capable of wiring funds to and from an offshore bank with virtually no identifying trail for law enforcement authorities? About one month and $4,000.
Demonstrating how easily tax evaders, money launderers or terrorists can hide behind secretive domestic firms, two retired IRS agents formed anonymously owned companies in Florida, New York and Panama, then wired money among the firms' bank accounts.

"Our point is to show the world how easy it is … to move money in and out, using U.S. companies, without a trace," said Charles Intriago, a former federal prosecutor. "This is a glaring problem."

His firm, Alert Global Media, began the research project at the start of 2006 for presentation at a money-laundering conference set to open today in Florida."

Americans flood troops with support

"After only three months in Iraq, Lieutenant Edwards has received over 200 care packages addressed to him. They came from friends, family, and complete strangers, he said in a phone interview, adding that he distributes most of them throughout the regiment.

"We definitely receive more now than in previous deployments. America's support for her troops has not waned," he says.

Other troops report similar experiences. "I have received so much stuff, I would be hard-pressed to say 'thanks' enough," writes Commander Paul Eich, a naval aviator working as an intelligence officer in Baghdad, in an e-mail. Commander Eich, speaking as a citizen, not a representative of the US military or government, says he once received two boxes with enough hand sanitizer to last him over six months. "

FTC................Bogus Biller Settles FTC Charges

Rush Limbaugh- Global warming

"Who the hell do we think we are? What kind of vanity do we have that we would dare admit that there are things on the sun that are impossible? It's like telling God that things are impossible. At any rate. It's gotta make me wonder. Here you've got Gore, the leading snake oil salesman of one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the planet, what must it be like to be this guy every day? Now, yesterday at the Senate hearing that they had on this, Algore refused to take the personal energy ethics pledge. It was offered to him by Senator Inhofe. Senator Inhofe showed Gore a film frame from "An Inconvenient Truth" where it asks viewers, "Are you ready to change the way you live?" Gore has been criticized for excessive home energy usage at his residence in Tennessee, and it's been reported that many of these so-called carbon offset projects would have been done anyway whether he got involved in it or not. He was asked, "Are you willing to make a commitment here today by taking this pledge to consume no more energy for use in your residence than the average American household by one year from today?"

Gore is telling everybody else we gotta downsize. We have to reduce our carbon footprint. We've got to do all this. So he asked Gore, would you do it? Here's the pledge. "As a believer that human caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our survival, as a believer that home energy use is a key component of overall energy use, as a believer that reducing my fossil fuel based home energy usage will lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and as a believer that leaders on moral issues should lead by example, I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my home than the average American household by March 21st, 2008?" Gore refused to take the pledge."

Sen Fred Thompson- Global warming- but an asteroid is supposed to hit in about 30 years- global warming much later- which to worry about first??

The Newsroom's agenda...............

Crime beat - grow op bust- just $20 billion more to go

"Residents at one of the Hamilton apartment buildings targeted in a massive marijuana bust are fuming at the mess that's been left behind.

M.J. Dann says she complained many times to the building manager about the noise in one of the grow-op apartments, but nothing was done.

Hamilton police say they are still hunting for a highly organized group that used at least 48 east-end apartments for the multimillion-dollar grow op".

Walid Shoebat's video: via AtlasShrugs

William Tucker embedded with the troops in Iraq

Port security recommendations ( the Liberals underfunded the RCMP by at least 2200 officers and CSIS by 800 people ) other than that things are great?

"The implementation of identification cards for restricted access areas;

The RCMP should take a greater role in seaport security and work to tackle organized crime;

Between 1,300 and 1,500 new fulltime workers should be hired by the RCMP to work in port enforcement;

Every sea container destined for Canada should be sealed at its departure point, and scanned in detail upon arrival. And the government should keep a record of the drivers who haul each container;

Tighter security measures should be placed on cruise ships and large ferries, including crew and passenger screening, vehicle searches and luggage checks".

What happened to that $9 billion the Liberals said they put into security? How many RCMP officers above the attrition level were hired with that $9? billion?

Goracle- Priests from on High- do as I say , not as I do

..."And when it comes to the economics of the issue, Gore is way outside the mainstream. Appearing before a House committee, he said that changing the American economy in the way he proposes - a plan of freezes, taxes, market controls and regulations that would represent a massive expansion of government control over the economy - would not be costly.

Yet he also endorsed the ill-fated Kyoto Protocol (which he helped negotiate). The U.S. Energy Information Administration calculates that Kyoto would reduce U.S. gross domestic product by $100 billion to $400 billion a year.

Gore is a very wealthy man, but it's hard to see why he can't recognize that this is a lot of money lost - and a lot of jobs lost and a lot of families going cold and hungry. .......
If you establish that the Earth is warming, it doesn't necessarily follow that we have a moral duty to reduce emissions. What should follow is an informed debate about the costs and benefits of various policies to address that warming - reducing emissions is just one possible answer. Another debate should focus on those policies' economic costs.

Al Gore doesn't want to have those debates, because the majority of evidence suggests that emissions reduction will be very costly and will have little effect. Kyoto, fully enacted by all its parties, would for all its cost reduce global warming by a mere 0.07 degrees Celsius by 2050 - a barely detectable amount. "

"Hollywood's 9/11 idiot Brigade"

Toronto Hydro- heads we win , tails you lose

We support the troops but not the war?? via Captainsquartersblog

Pork has no place in "emergency war" bill..........

Well, what about William Jefferson??

Climate change: The Snow Job Of Kilimanjaro

For those who still haven't seen it- the Great Global Warming Swindle

Cat ownership offsets - makes as much sense as the carbon offsets they are flogging-like the old snake oil salesmen

It's one thing to come up with technology to improve the environment, quite another to set up a trading scheme. Who's going to keep an eye on them, the same guys who were responsible for UNSCAM?