While politicians such as President Barack Obama denigrate the government of Arizona and “activists” attempt to punish that state’s citizens, these so-called social justice paragons ignore the fact that the U.S. is Mexico’s de facto penal colony.
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Archive for May 1st, 2010
Arizona: Illegal Alien Crime Wave Continues
Why don’t we cap the Gulf oil leak the same way we capped the 1969 blowout?
In 1969 it took engineers and workers 11 1/2 days to stop the oil leak at the coast of Santa Barbara under what could be considered worse conditions than are present in the Gulf of Mexico. “Workers pumped chemical mud down a 3500 foot shaft into the problem pipe at a rate of 1500...
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How they stopped the January 29, 1969, Santa Barbara, California oil blowout
It took oil workers 11 1/2; days to control the leaking oil well. Workers pumped chemical mud down the 3500 foot shaft at a rate of 1500 barrels an hour. It was then topped by a cement plug. Residual amounts of gas continued to escape and another leak sprung up weeks later, releasing oil...
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A graph explaning the fight beneath the sea to shut off the oil leak(what we are doing today)
Even as experts scramble to come up with a way of keeping the oil from the Deepwater Horizon well from continuing to flow freely into the Gulf of Mexico, BP concedes that a relief well will eventually have to be drilled in order to successfully shut down the existing leaking well. The graphic below...
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DC City Council Ready to Vote to Protect Illegal Alien Criminals
Some D.C. Council members are looking to prevent police from joining a federal fingerprinting program that allows authorities to check the immigration status of people they arrest, officials said Tuesday,” according to WJLA. Police Chief Cathy Lanier supports DC police joining the Secure Communities program, that sends fingerprints of inmates on to the DHS...
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ECB President Favors Global Governance
The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis. In his prepared printed and spoken remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods...
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Is It Worse To Be A Poor White Person In America, Than It Is To Be A Poor Black?
In an earlier thread I engaged a poster on the subject of white poverty, which is often overlooked, when poverty is being discussed in America. It sucks to be poor in America, and life is much worse if you are poor and white. If one is poor and a racial minority, one has the...
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Helen Thomas: The Last Defiant Roar Of the Old Media Dinosaurs
Much as the dinosaurs of earth’s past died out to due to changes in their environment, the old media of TV, newspapers and reports are finding it hard to adapt to the changes in the environment of the new media. One of the true dinosaurs of the old media, Helen Thomas, recently lashed out...
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Overpopulation and Climate Change
PUTNEY, VERMONT — With the continuing failure of governments to reach agreements on combating climate change, the outlook for both humans and nature remains bleak. And nowhere is the failure more conspicuous than in the avoidance of the subject of population growth. Population is a double-barreled environmental problem — not only is population increasing;...
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House Votes to Allow Puerto Rico to Become 59th State
Or would Puerto Rico be the 58th state? In any case, the House has voted and now the issue of Puerto Rican statehood is in the hands of Puerto Rico: The House of Representatives voted Thursday to allow Puerto Ricans to decide their own political future and relationship with the United States. The vote...
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