77 Cents For Every Dollar

“Many victims of pay discrimination who didn't immediately realize they were being paid less than others will have no remedy, even though the discrimination continues with every paycheck,” Kennedy said. With women earning only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, the nation needs strong laws against pay discrimination. This is not what Congress intended when we passed the landmark Civil Rights Act of and we need to restore full protection against wage discrimination. Because of this wee need to change this rule to ensure that any future violations of pay discrimination does not happen, also we need to make sure that any company planning, or that already does, partake in these practices knows that they will be rightfully punished for their illegal actions. Even though I agree that this law needs to be amended, I do feel as though if after 19 years of working you don’t know the people around you make more then you maybe need to be talking at work more, or should have talked with management earlier in your employment. If you take this long to bring up a law suit against you employer, then maybe you don’t diverse to get any more money for the job you have been doing, because you don’t show any initiative in the things that need to be done, and maybe they were right to pay you less money.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PETIMO1&show_article=1&catnum=3

Romney: Military Needs More Troops

I think that Romney is on the right track suggesting that we entered into the Iraq situation with to few troops and we need to send more troops over there to ensure that we don’t suffer any more casualties. I also think that he was on the right track when he talked about how wee need to keep our troops in Iraq until the problem “we” have created is solved, and if we where to bring the troops home I would only create future problems that could be worse than the ones now. Even though I agree with what he said, with regards to the troops, I don’t think it was the best thing for him to say this late in the presidential candidacy process, mainly because most Americans don’t feel that way; they want to bring the troops home and to send more would be sending them to their death. Also when he said he wanted to give president Bush’s plan a year of “wait and see” that is putting limitations on it and by doing so that year may not be long enough for the new troops to solve the problem and then we are right back here…with no solution in near sight.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PESHKG0&show_article=1&catnum=3&image=large

"Law and Order" Star Runs For Presidency

It looks to me like all and every possible candidate seems to be coming out for this election, which means that there is no strong candidate and does not bode well for the top candidates for presidency, mainly because these new people are only taking away their votes. Although it seems like the election for governor of Californian, in which everyone believed they could have won, Fred Thompson has a legitimate reason to run, he was once a US senator and knows how the government runs and how the get things done in congress. He, does however, supported campaign finance reform, oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, elimination of funds for the National Endowment for the Arts and a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration. He also favored a ban on a late-term abortion procedure and voted against requiring criminal background checks for purchases at gun shows. Do we really want a person as president that wants to ruin Alaska and ensure that any and everyone can own a gun? I think not…so lets hope that this is just a ploy to get him re-elected for a senate position down the line.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PERD200&show_article=1&catnum=3

Thomspon accounces run at presidency:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Snw7_6mJf5c

Bush Takes On Opponents of Immigration Deal

I think this bill does provides to much freedom for illegal immigrants in this country right now, even though Bush claims that the purpose of this bill isn’t amnesty for illegal immigrants he surely doesn’t say that it is not an added part: “a path to citizenship for some 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country.” This bill also shifts the system for awarding permanent residence status to give more weight to education and skills and less to family reunification, while conservatives have derided the plan for allowing illegal aliens to legalize their status. On the other hand if this bill was to pass I think it would make immigration issues in the United States a clearer cut issue, in which those who provide a service to this country are allowed to stay and those who don’t are sent back to Mexico.

I think this sums up all the problems that are going to appear due to this bill:

“But Mr. Bush and his allies on Capitol Hill are at a significant rhetorical disadvantage: conservative opponents can capture their objection to the bill in a single word — amnesty — while supporters are forced into the complex weeds of policy and the nuances of legislative language.”

Read the story for yourself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/us/29cnd-immig.html?ei=5065&en=14d081ab7d03c8a7&ex=1181102400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
Bush on the immigration bill:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nSdm_c07uUU

Edwards: Move Past 'War on Terror'

"We need a post-Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq military that is mission focused on protecting Americans from 21st century threats, not misused for discredited ideological purposes," Edwards said in remarks prepared for delivery. "By framing this as a war, we have walked right into the trap the terrorists have set—that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war on Islam." Everything that Edwards is saying above is true wee, as an American government, need to focus on how to protect out citizens and then if that is accomplished we can focus on other worldly matters. The government needs to protect out soldiers fighting in Iraq, and by having there to fight a “world” war they aren’t even fighting for their loved ones at home, they are now fighting to save Bush and things need to change. I think that Edwards needs to change his mind on this issue of the war being a lost cause, not only do his opponents Obama and Clinton feel opposed to him, but by saying this many of the Americans who have soldiers in Iraq are feeling like he is crapping all over their efforts. Also, I think that Edwards needs to recognize that we can’t just “move past this war” and focus on Americans in the 21st century…this war is going to define the America of the 21st century and it needs to be handled with and not forgotten about.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PA5VM80&show_article=1

John Edwards Anti-War rally:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n-Mj436fGqY

Finally Congress Cracks Down On High Gas Prices

On Tuesday, this week, the House voted to allow the government to sue OPEC over oil production quotas, while on other hand the White House said that this was a bad idea and could threaten gas prices in the future. The measure would change antitrust laws so that the Justice Department can sue OPEC member countries for price-fixing, and would remove the immunity given a sovereign state against such lawsuits. In think that the House is nuts in wanting to sue OPEC mainly because they supply over 40 percent of crude oil to the United States, if this bill was to pass OPEC could cut of the United States from all oil supplies forever. “The White House objected, saying that might disrupt supplies and lead to even higher costs at the pump.” On the other hand OPEC needs to be put in their place and know that the world has other alternatives to them, even though they may not be recognized now, but eventually OPEC needs to lower their prices of the United States will go else where. “We don't have to stand by and watch OPEC dictate the price of gas," Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said, Nevertheless, the House felt it was important to take on OPEC, the major player in oil production.

Read the story for yourself:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_go_co/congress_energy_1

Democrats Retreat With Iraq Pullout Bill

Recently President Bush told Democrats in congress that he was going to veto their bill that stipulated a retraction date for all the troops in Iraq, because he said if we eave before the job it will have all been for nothing and leaving Iraq in shambles will only create more problems. After this had happened, which we all knew it would, the Democrats in congress have decided to take the retraction date out of their bill and focus more one the money we spend in Iraq and other things in the same area. I think by doing this the Democrats have accepted defeat and in doing so they let down the people of America, who supported their bill, and would have done all they could to see it pass. Also, by only focusing on the money involved in the Iraq war they have accomplished nothing that they set out to initially do; along with letting down the American citizens they also let down the troops in Iraq who are fighting in a losing effort. Maybe, though this was a good idea, to take out the retraction date, because if they left it in their any bill that was attached along with it would have never passed. What they should have done was continue to push the bill, seeing how Iraq is eating up enough of tax payers money, and just wait until a Democratic president was elected and have him approve the bill.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/washington/22cnd-cong.html?ei=5065&en=2d27446ebbab5252&ex=1180497600&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1179893468-HfH2WyJWhNvE7MixBYIWkQ

Criticisms of the Iraq bill:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p8vxieZlGNU

Senate Puts Off Immigration Action

Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status. I think this was a good move by the Senate to push off this bill and deliberate on it starting after Memorial Day, by doing this they have opened up the floor to others who see problems with this bill; by doing ths they are able to amend the bill to please the majority of the people voting on it. I think that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it the best: "I think we could, but I'm afraid the conclusion wouldn't be anything that anyone wanted.” Even though I may disagree with certain points in this bill, like giving illegal immigrants citizens status, I think this bill needs to be passed as soon as possible for the sake of all immigrants and American citizens. This bill will do a lot to help out county right now, it will secure our borders better in an effort to end the whole illegal immigrant problem and by giving American status to illegal immigrants we can tax them and have it contribute to the economy.

"For each of us who crafted it, there are elements that we strongly support and elements we believe could be improved. No one believes this is a perfect bill,"
---THEN WHY PASS IT ??????????????

Read the story for yourself:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070521/ap_on_go_co/congress_immigration_25

Criticism slows work on immigration deal video:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=2781072&ch=68276&src=news

Illegal Immigrants Bill Awaits Approval

There is no way in hell this proposed immigration bill should ever pass because all it is doing is giving people a free pass into this country, before those who have waited their time in line for it, and most of them are entering this country illegally. If this bill was to pass it would be rewarding those who illegally entered our country with amnesty from being kicked out and also tax breaks if they were to become citizens; not even American born people get that. Even though I may disagree with this bill and every other piece of immigrant legislation that would give illegal immigrants the ability to become citizens and give them the right to stay free in America, if there not here who is going to do the jobs they do? Part of me would just say, “let them stay in this country and don’t bother them.” Because it’s not like there taking jobs many Americans desire and without them it would probably hurt our economy; because who else are we going to find to clean houses and pick fruit for next to nothing?

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6647676,00.html

Immigration Bill Offers To Much

In my opinion this most recent immigration bill, proposed by President Bush and group of bipartisan Senators, is going to do to much to help out people that illegally come into this country and just want to stay for the benefits then get such as tax breaks for their kids to go to school. Also the fact that they propose to give ALL illegal immigrants in this country temporary status seems like it may get out of hand and how are they going to find all of these immigrants; in the future they only plan to give work visas to the skilled and educators workers who want to come here. This is only going to cause more problems for congress because now they have to consider what is “skilled” and if we even need them in this country…I they if you came here illegally you need to get back over that boarder and stay there. There are a lot of negatives is this bill does not pass and is torpedoed in the Senate or the house: immigrants coming into the country under the temporary work program would have to leave when their permits expire, with no chance to appeal for permanent residence. Labor unions say such a system would depress wages and create an underclass. Along with this many of these “illegal immigrants” do the jobs that keep our economy were it is today, and many of there jobs no self respecting American would ever touch with a ten foot poll, so in a sense wee need them to keep out strong economy going in the right direction.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051700253.html

John Kerry reacts to Congress:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2007/05/17/VI2007051701641.html

Bush Gets Ready For Iraq U-turn

After many good years as Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair will step down after he had regrettably followed Bush and the United States into war with Iraq, and also many failed peace talks with Northern Ireland. He will be followed by his close friend Gordon Brown, who will take over his party’s power and become the new Prime Minister; this does mean problems for Bush and his efforts in Iraq. The new Prime Minster has been noted as saying that what Blair did, send their troops to die in Iraq, will not be tolerated any more and he will end their fruitless effort with the war. This is a good idea since Bush initially forced Blair to help him out when Britain has nothing to gain by going to war and everything to lose by staying home; since Iraq never attacked them they sent troops to fight a battle that had nothing to do with them or their country. Even though Bush may give the new Prime Minister a hard time about retracting their troops he should stick with what is best for his country and their people, not what is best for America. Still I think that what Britain has helped us get into is partially their responsibility and if they were to extract their troops it would leave ours out to dry, and in doing so would leave all Americans, that still believe din the war, a sour taste with any regards to Britain in the future. Also if they took their troops out I think it would only cause future problems in which Britain may need Americas help and we may turn them down because of what happened now.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JR5HD4O334JHRQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/20/wirq20.xml

New Prime Ministers first speech:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0

Bush White House Fires Back At Jimmy Carter

The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him "increasingly irrelevant" a day after Carter described George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations. Carter needs to recognize that a preemptive war may be the right answer in this situation, even though one terrorist attack happened on US soil it should not take any more for out government to take action; Carter should understand that drastic measures may need to be undertaken to protect our freedoms. Maybe this will be a wake up call for Bush and his administration to change their ideas and goals dealing with global impact, especially the situation in Iraq and also in Israel. Carter’s comments should be taken to hart, not only because it happens to be how most Americans feel, but it is also how many other countries feel about the USA in general; even though he has very little time left in his presidency Bush should at least go out on a good note…even though it may be very hard.

Read the story for yourself:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2020522120070520?feedType=RSS&rpc=22

Carter Blasts Bush On His Global Impact

Initially I thought that past Presidents are supposed to support each other, and even the current President, since they all know how hard it is to have that job, but apparently Jimmy Carter missed that meeting as shown by his recent comments about President Bush’s global impact. After reading this article I think that Jimmy Carter should retract his statements made about Bush, even if they may be true, but regardless he should never come out and bash Bush’s global impact; he has not right mainly because he never had to deal with problems of this magnitude. Then to go on and say Bush’s administration is the “worst in the history,” with regards to their impact on the nation and the world, Jimmy should go back to his book writing and stay out of what he does not understand. Even though I think that Carter should have kept his comments to himself, what he said was not to far away from the truth, Bush and his administration has done very little if anything to help the USA’s international relations and impact. Carter also “criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted" every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents.”

Read the story for yourself:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070519/D8P7O79O0.html

Former President Carter calls out Bush:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHAHEWen_s4

McCain Makes Waves Again

McCain was completely out of line with the comments he made towards Cornyn about immigration issues and how Cornyn has no business in there debates and should not even be allowed into the meetings. "[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room," is what McCain said in regards to Cornyn’s comments about how McCain has just come into these meeting form out of nowhere and should take a back seat to everyone else. Even though Cornyn maybe shouldn’t have said that, in no situation should McCain have used foul language and targeted Cornyn’s political character. You know what, the media and each politician’s side should just let shit like this go and chalk it up as another process involved in the Presidential campaign, and possibly use it as good PR and not deny what each of their candidates said by “declining to comment on the issue.” If there weren’t heated debates like this, even though it may have gotten a little out of hand according to Cornyn, then why would I want to vote for someone who isn’t passionate about the issues they stand on…being passive never got anyone elected and it never will.

Read the story for yourself:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/

Senator McCain on Immigration:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=13PJnI0VMZI

Gore: USA Needs You To Prosper

In this article by the New York Times they discuss how the country wants Al Gore to come out of his “political retirement” and run again for president, probably because there is no truly strong candidate this year which the public believes can solve all the problems Bush has created. Personally I think that Al Gore should stay put where he is and continue on trying to help out planet not be destroyed by the “global warming” problem. Gore has done so much good since he has taken him self out of mainstream politics and whose to say that he would even be a good president, maybe he has lost his ambition for those type of things? Even though he has attempted to do a lot of good for our countries future, outside of the political world, mainly focusing on the environment with his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore should return to politics where he rightfully belongs. He would be very good for this country and would be able to get the USA out of the many problems Bush has caused us, and in doing so would have the public support; unlike Bush whose approval rating seem to be dropping by the minute. Gore needs to put his past presidential run behind him, even though he probably still thinks he should have one, and move on to better things; if he is president he will be able to end the “global warming” problem that he warns us all about.

Read the story for yourself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/magazine/20wwln-gore-t.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

An Inconvenient Truth:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Imus Returns Even With Pending Lawsuit

Today Don Imus made his attempt to return to radio and TV broadcasting, according to 4 close sources to him, mainly his lawyer who said that CBS has a duty to him and if they break it they are breaking their contract with him. Imus’s lawyer, Martin Garbus, says that if CBS continues on with their lawsuit and refuses to bring back Imus then they are in violation their contract with him and are liable to pay him over 40 million dollars for the breach of contract. Even though I think that Imus’s lawyer is talking out of his ass I don’t think that Imus should have been fired in the first place, because now many other shock jocks, even on XM radio, are being suspended and fired for crude comments. What CBS did is going to set a bad precedent within the radio world and is going to limit the freedom of speech that is out there, all because some CBS was afraid of losing their advertisement money. On the other hand Imus should just quit while he is behind, which he should have learned from before, but apparently he didn’t and this may cost him any future jobs with any/every radio station. By filing a breach of contract law suit against CBS Imus is still trying to say that what he did was right and his comments we not harmful…he need to recognize that they were and that he may never work on radio or TV again.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05182007/business/imus_legal_bluff_business_peter_lauria.htm

Army Not On Offensive...For The Time Being

Recently 4 US troops have gone missing, and at the worst presumed dead or captures, but this didn’t stop our heroic army from trying to find those troops at all costs which is what they should be doing. Regardless of how many hours or troops it takes every man or woman in the army should be accounted for before they move on, the soldiers care so much about each other that if they were to just say “he’s gone and now we have to move on” it would destroy the army’s moral. Even though no solider should be forgot or left behind the army needs to focus on the bigger picture, regardless of who may be affected by these men not being found, they need to ensure the safety on the soldiers they can account for so those aren’t kidnapped. The army took four thousand troops form the battle lines to look for these 4 soldiers that have been lost for a few days, to me this sounds very inefficient and a waste of those soldiers time which could be better spent securing Iraq so they can come home soon.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/world/middleeast/13cnd-iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Campaign Promises Only Lead To Failure

Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that disasters such as worldwide famine and an obesity epidemic could destroy the U.S. health care system unless politicians begin to look ahead and cooperate. He went on to say governments fail to act even when disasters are anticipated, because leaders are distracted by fulfilling campaign promises and scrambling to respond to immediate emergencies. Big-picture planning gets "crowded out," he said. Clinton warned presidential candidates of both parties — a group that includes his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton –- that it will be hard, and likely unpopular, to prepare for foreseeable disasters.

Listen to Clintons comments about the war and healthcare:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=90rQXhFTXsc

Read the story for yourself:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_re_us/clinton_disaster_conference_2

SUVs, Not Recyling, Oh Yes And Babies Are Destroying Our Planet

According to experts in Australia when families have more than 2 babies they are destroying our country, albeit very slowly, but they are creating more carbon dioxide that will eventually add to the “global warming” problem. Along with Australia, the British are saying the same thing about having three kids versus having two kids, and that it is causing a lot more carbon dioxide to be released into the environment when they have to use their cars. On the other hand to say that one more kid is really going to change out climate is a load of crap you are going to drive the same amount regardless of if you have 2 or 3 kids; the extra trip to the doctor isn’t going to kill the environment any time soon. Lastly, having a big family is supposed to be a happy occasion and in most cases is used to be until certain people look too much into this paper published by some people who just want their names and ideas out there.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21684156-5009760,00.html

Democracts Whimp Out

Yesterday, after the overturn of the veto by congress failed, President Bush and the Democratic members of congress discussed a second bill that they both would have input on and this would ensure that the bill would pass without the threat of a Presidential veto. The reason why the Democrats decided to take this action is because their bill failed 222 to 203 in the House, and as everyone who owns a TV knows it was heavily and quickly vetoed by President Bush; however they still want the troops home, but have to take a different approach at it now. The main thing that the Democrats will have to give up is their time line for the end of the war and to bring troops home, which was the only reason why they proposed the Bill to congress. Since this has been taken out of the bill I have a hard time seeing exactly what the Democrats want to try and do with President Bush.

"We made our position clear. He made his position clear. Now it is time for us to try to work together…But make no mistake: Democrats are committed to ending this war." (House Speaker Nancy Pelosi)

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050201517_pf.html

The War Begins: As Iraq Bill Is Vetod

Well it happened, Bush kept his word an vetoed the bill passed by the democratic congress which stated that they wanted a time table to bring back the troops form Iraq. The only problem with his veto is that it that it came at a time when his approval rating was at 28, miserable but the highest its been in a long time, and is sure to drop very far since this bill was backed by a lot of the American citizens. Also, the president has to realize that vetoing this bill will not stop the Democrats push, but possibly fuel the fire for them to get the bill passed; it may also gain a lot of Americans attention which could be very negative for Bush, who doesn’t please most of them as it is. Only Bush can really defend himself in this situation which the decision that he made to veto the bill…"Our troops and their families deserve better, and their elected leaders can do better," Bush said. "Whatever our differences, surely we can agree that our troops are worthy of this funding and that we have a responsibility to get it to them without further delay," the president said.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ORS7LO0&show_article=1

Bush Reacts To Iraq Bill's Passing

President Bush recently took a stab at the Bill, just recently passed by the Senate, which would require a timetable for withdrawing out troops form Iraq and according to him would leave Iraq in a state of chaos. I agree with what Bush is saying about how if the military was to leave Iraq it would not help anyone, it would provide a safe haven for terrorism to grown and for terrorist to plot more attacks against our country. Also, we can’t leave the Iraq government structure the way it is now, because by now having a strong government Iraq will only fall deeper into the civil war they are fighting now. Reid, however, does make many strong points to withdrawal out troops form Iraq; we need to bring them back for their won safety and not leave them there to die in the middle of a civil war they don’t need to be fighting/dying in. Also, we need to end this stupid 4 year onslaught on terrorism which has yielded almost nothing for the time and money our country has put into it…we need a change and it all starts by this bill passing and sending our troops home.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ORNPM00&show_article=1

Biden on Iraq bill: "We're going to shove it down his throat.":
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0507/Biden_on_Iraq_bill_Were_going_to_shove_it_down_his_throat.html

Illegal Immigrants Want Rights Too

Today, May 1st 2007, is a national immigration rally known as “May Day,” in which many immigrants, most of them happen to be undocumented, gather in the streets of major cities and protests for equal treatment in all aspects of thief life. I some sense of it I agree that they, legally document aliens, should be treated with the same dignity and be subject to the same treatment under the laws as American born citizens, because without past immigration out great nation would never be were it is today. As for the illegal immigrants they should not be given the same rights as the document ones, but none the less they should not be immediately deported since they happen to do the jobs that most Americans don’t even want to do: gardening, house cleaning, nanny, etc…and they don’t take the jobs away from Americans. On the other hand if they are breaking into our country illegally why the hell should they be entitled the rights that the people who pay taxes, and contribute to our country, are entitled to; they should either be given a chance to earn a work visa or get the hell out of here. Also, they want money for there kids to go to school and this money is coming from taxpayers who have to deal with their own problems and their taxes should not go to help those who don’t even pay them. Lastly many illegal immigrants say they come to American because it is a necessity for them to survive, and I don’t believe that is true since the quality of life they live cant be that much better than the one they had before they cam here.

Read the story for yourself:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070501/D8ORNH2G0.html

Iraq Withdrawl Bill Awaits Bush

Well its official the bill to withdraw our troops from the destruction in Iraq passed congress today and is on its was to the President for his apparent veto of this bill, because he doesn’t believe that the army has done their job in Iraq and doesn’t want them home until they do so. Reid and the Democratic majority in congress passed the bill today with the threat of President Bush’s presidential veto looming large but they said they were doing what the American people wanted, bring back their sons and fathers from terror. Reid also claims that since Bush went into Iraq with only wanting to stop terrorisms, which is very broad and hard to stop, we should pull the troops out since that goals will never be accomplished.. On the other hand Bush has the right to want to veto this bill, because if it was to pass him, and his followers, would feel as though they ailed in Iraq and it would leave Iraq in a state of emergency. Also I agree with him and the democratic senate leader when they said they don’t support and exact time line, but they do want to bring the troops back when Iraq has a government, and until that happens more terrorist attacks could come.

Read the story for youself:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070426/D8OOIJF00.html

McCain Weight In On Iraq Bill

Senator John McCain recently said the he thinks President Bush’s war in Iraq is a “Great Tragedy,” but refused to back the Democratic parties Bill to have the stoops return and end this war. This seems like a pretty risky statement for McCain, who is a Republican presidential candidate, because many of the hardcore republicans are in favor of the war due to their love for George W. Bush. I think that this comment will cause McCain to lose many votes since he is opposing the main reason why many people will vote for a Republican candidate…the War in Iraq. On the other hand in think that these comments show that McCain is a candidate that is willing to stand up for his personal beliefs regardless of if they oppose the positions that his party is running on. These comments prove that McCain does have a heart and is looking out for all Americans and wants to ensure their safety. Lastly, even though McCain makes theses comments he says later in his speech that if the American troops were to pull out of Iraq it would only cause chaos and more problems for the American government and its people.

McCain reacts to the war in Iraq:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvZ3kiL1dIg

Read the story for youself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OOKR200&show_article=1

"Southern" A Language?

I think that the critics need to leave Hillary alone and give this whole “southern twang” a rest, so she may have faked a southern accent to get more to like her in order to have more people vote for her…she could have done much worse. In the past I'm sure that other politician’s have lied or faked something about their campaign issues, which is a huge issue when compared to the way in which you speak, with her actions people are still voting for her based on her stances on certain political ideas and not because of her accent. The part of this that I find amusing is that she is actually from the south, Alabama, and therefore she should have some sort of a southern accent in her speech. On the other hand if she is in-fact faking her southern speech, because she has never talked this way before, I think that is horrible because what she is doing is exploiting the voters in the south and lying to them. The other part that was horrible is that she only tends to talk this way in front of black audiences, what kind of message is this sending them…I'm going to talk down to because I don’t think you would be able to understand otherwise.

Hillary Clinton's speech in Selma:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyONrRg7pRk


Southern Fried Hillary P 2 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OP3RA80&show_article=1&image=large

If Democrats Win in 08...World Will Come To An End

"Then Sept. 11, 2001, happened, and we got it. (Giuliani)" This is the claim by Presidential candidate Rudolf Giuliani about how the Republic party has been able to control the war against terrorism since the 9/11 attack; the problem is what exactly have we “got.” From what I have seen, by watching the news, all we caught was a leader who had no weapons of mass destruction, and we got ourselves hated by the rest of the world because of the turmoil we have caused in Iraq. Also, Giuliani claimed that only the republicans will be able to end the terrorist problem by using offense and all the democrats want to do is pull back and use defense; this also seemed like one big article about how Giuliani wanted to plug his own candidacy. Even though I think this who article is crap and is only an attempt for Giuliani to push his run for presidency, he does make a few good point about how if the democrats won they would go on the defensive. If this was top happen they would retract all the troops and efforts they had put into Iraq make all their actions useless since they didn’t get to finish their job. Also by going on the defensive we are saying that the situation in Iraq is not our problem and this can only cause more harm to our country in the future…we need to stop terrorism now and swiftly to ensure it doesn’t start up again and do more damage to our country.

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3684.html

Bush To Veto Congress's Actions

President Bush has ever right to want to veto congresses actions with regards to the bill they have created, making time table for bringing back the troops from Iraq, because the reputation of his presidency is on the line with this endless war. If the troops were brought back before Bush declared they had finished the job they were sent there accomplish, it would leave a sour taste in all of his fellow republicans mouths, not to mention the troops that are stationed in Iraq now… apparently for nothing. By bringing the troops back before they are done you, The Democrats, are saying that they have accomplished all they can in Iraq, which is not true; by leaving you will leave Iraq in turmoil and that could possibly lead to another “war.” On the other hand these troops deserve to come home after all the fruitless time they have spent in Iraq dying for oil and to keep Bush from having a bad mark on his Presidential record. Bush doesn’t want to accept this time table because in doing so it would admit that his idea to go to Iraq was wrong, since nothing has been accomplished in almost 2 years. Lastly, Harry Reid claims that the troops still in Iraq are not fighting our war, but in fact they are fighting an Iraqi civil war and dying for causes they don’t understand…this is why they need to come home and leave Iraq’s civil war to themselves

Read the story for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ON31I80&show_article=1

According To Bush: Tides Turning In Iraq...What A Suprise

According to President Bush’s most recent speech about the war in Iraq, he claims that sending more troops to Iraq is what is going to finally end this war and allow the military to send the remaining troops home for good…if only it was true. To send more troops to their death, in Iraq, will only bring down the US citizen support for Bush’s war in Iraq, not that it was very high anyways, but regardless of that no more lives should be lost fighting this never ending war. President Bush should be working on a time table for removing troops from Iraq, they are not fighting for the US any more but are in the middle of an Iraq civil war in which they are dying for no good cause. Even though I criticize President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq, if this is what it’s going to take to end this war on Terrorism or Oil, I think that we should send in more troops. The fresh troops will not only revitalize the derailed military forces in Iraq, but they will also add a moral boost to the troops fighting there now, it will show them that what they are fighting for is still important and a major concern of the United States.

I think this quote by Bush summarizes everything that is going on with the Iraq war:

"It's natural to wish there was an easy way out, that we could just pack up and bring our troops home and be safe. Yet in Iraq, the easy road would be a road to disaster. The price of giving up there would be paid in American lives for years to come,"

Read the article for yourself:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070420-105542-2117r.htm

Congress Shows No Support For Armed Forces

Finally…some one stepped up to Bush and appealed to congress that this war is a ridiculous idea and by keeping it going you are only costing US military personnel their lives by having them fight in a losing effort. I think that Congressman Reid’s push to remove all the troops is a good thing because it will save a lot more lives than people realize; also it shows a lot of poise to continue with his bill even after the President said he would veto any time table set to remove the troops from Iraq. Although this bill is a great idea I think he went a little far with the “add-ons” when he requested 25 billion dollars, as if our country isn’t in enough debt from this war, for Hurricane Katrina help, Medicare for returning troops, and relief for the recent farm disasters. Reid should only worry about one problem at a time and right now that problem is how to get the troops back and in one piece; in the future I think these extra propositions will limit how fast this bill gets passes. Lastly, the other problem I see with removing troops from Iraq, is that if we leave Iraq now, while it is in turmoil, I think it will cause more problems for the United States in the future…from which another “war” like this may occur.

Read it for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OMHID03&show_article=1

Bush Slammed Again

US Congressman, Harry Reid, said on Thursday that we are losing the war in Iraq against terrorism and that we should not hesitate to pull our troop out and to send more in would be a moronic move. He said sending in more troops towards a losing effort would be like what Lyndon B. Johnson did so many years ago during the Vietnam War; he sent in large amounts of troops essentially to die so that he would not have America’s only losing war on his shoulders. Reid does make a very strong point that sending in more troops would only be sending them to their death, because after over two years of sending in troops the army has accomplished nothing; there is no peace and no strong government. On the other hand Reid should have never made these comments; especially right after a suicide bomber killed 200 people in Baghdad, because it makes all the troops in Iraq fell as though their friends are dying for nothing. By making these comments he belittles all of the actions of the soldiers in Iraq, and sort of shames those who died fighting for our country. Reid should keep his mouth shut when talking about the war, unless he is going to say “I support our troops.”

Read the article for yourself:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070419184534.ileoeb47&show_article=1

If It's Not Born Can It Exist?

Should abortion be up to the person it affects…Yes. Should abortion be regulated by the government…Yes. Within all of this the problem is finding a balance between the two since each side believes it has the one and only answer. The antiabortionists do make many very strong points about how after a certain time the mother should be obligated to have the fetus, because if she hasn’t decided to rid herself of it by now she should have to live with her decisions. They also seem to harp on the saying that if you were aborted how would you feel in this whole debate? Hell if I was aborted I probably would even care because I would have never been alive to listen to their bogus statements. Also in the new legislation it doesn’t even motion how there should be certain acceptations if the mother’s life is in jeopardy, regardless of what trimester the fetus is in the mother’s heath and safely should always be put ahead of the unborn fetuses. Lastly I think the reason why this piece of legislation was pushed through was because it had the compete backing of President Bush; therefore it had the approval of every Christian in the House.

Read the story for yourself:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070418/D8OJ7CL00.html

Bill Beats Hillary...but With Obama's Help

Finally something went wrong with the Democratic Party’s candidates’ run for presidency, controversy has sprung up within the Clinton campaign after recently finding out that many of her husbands supporters are now changing their mind and backing Presidential candidate Obama. The numbers of donators and how much they donated was released last week and it showed that at least a dozen of Bill Clinton’s high donating people have decided to give their money to Obama,; possibly a signal that their trust in Hillary is gona, and Obama is going to win the Democratic bid for President. In my opinion how much certain people donate should not be public records now or ever, I think it should stay within the party to protect certain peoples secrecy with their donations. Lastly, I find it ironic that even after Obama and his campaign affiliates said they got many of Hillary’s potential donations, they are still in debt in a excess of two hundred thousand dollars.

Read the story for youself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/politics/16donate.html?ei=5090&en=10864fc50a4923c0&ex=1334376000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Terror at Virginia Tech

This morning at Virginia Tech there was a shooting in one of the dorms by an Asian male, who is still unidentified because of his later actions, and the school was not immediately put on lock down or closed. 2 hours later the gunman opened up fire again in a classroom on the other side of campus, when all the smoke was gone he had killed 32 students and himself. At about 1 today President Bush made a speech expressing his sorrow for the students, I was surprised that it only later 3-5 minutes; I would have expected more as this was the largest shooting in US history. The other problem I have with this situation is how come the school wasn’t immediately shut down and the students in class notified, the Dean and chief of police said it was because they had the situation under control…that happened. I think they made a vital mistake that cost 31 families their sons or daughters; if the school or the police station was to be sued over this it would not surprise me at all…I would for their irresponsible actions.

Read the story for yourself:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3045574

Watch the story for yourself:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5213680

Rapper Weighs In on Imus Firing

Yes what Imus did was terrible and I agree with Snoop Dog on that, but I don’t believe that he should have been fired for his comments…because that’s all they were, comments protected under the first amendment in the constitution. I also agree that Imus has no right to make these comments ever, even if jokingly, because he is white and sadly to say those types of comments are reserved for black people; it’s the same with Mexicans and the word “beaner.” While I agree with Snoops comments who the hell is he to stand up for the rights of black women after all he does in his songs is bring them down and call them worse things than “nappy headed hoes.” We are supposed to listen to someone who just got charged with possession of a concealed weapon, and we are supposed to value his comments, there is something very wrong with our culture if that is true. Snoop dog should shut his mouth because he is no better than Imus, who should have just apologized and accepted the consequences given to him.

To the story for yourself:
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070412/ENTERTAIN/70412010

Duke Boys Free as Prosecutor is Sued

Finally, after almost a year in trial the three Duke Lacrosse players had their charges dropped against them after the Prosecutors felt no further need to move on; why all of a sudden would this happen you ask? Now normally there are two sides to my argument for what is happening in the story I'm reporting on, but in this case there is to positives for the prosecutors action…they ruined theses three kids life’s forever and not to mention got their coach fired last year. What the prosecutors did was down right evil, they persisted with the idea that these kids raped those stripes and continue on with the cases even without any true hard facts. I truly hope that these state prosecutors get what is coming to them, and are bared from practicing law again in any state.

To watch the story live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHtDbZ5i-w8

To read the story for yourself:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070411/D8OEJ3VO2.html

Imus Finally out...As MSNBC Reacts

After a few short days into his two week suspension Don Imus finds himself outside on the streets without a job as MSNBC reacts to the protestors in front of their studios; all of this was started when Imus made racially slurring comments about the University of Rutgers women’s basketball team. President of NBC, Steve Capus, said he took no joy in firing Imus, but this time he had crossed the line with him comments and this was the only way to make things right. Now there is one positive still out there for Imus, even though his MSNBC show was taken of the air, his nationally syndicated radio show will still be on the air…at least until CBS takes action. I understand why he was fired but there is still one thing that bothers me, Capus claimed Imus was fired because of his comments, but in the article it stated that man of the shows sponsors pulled their ads from it. This seems like it is the main reason why Imus was fired, because as we all know its about the money, and I think they tried to mask Imus firings with his inability to respond to the protestors with an honest apology.

Imus Reacts to MSNBC's actions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgn3807H5k

To read the story for yourself:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070412/D8OEP84G0.html

Obama Calls For Imus's Firing

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has every right to want Don Imus fired for the extremely racist remarks he made on the air; Obama was also upset because the remarks furthered a very racist stereotype of black female athletes. He said later in the interview that he wants his daughters to grow up in a world were they can play basketball without being held down by derogatory stereotypes, “He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women — who I hope will be athletes — that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested in supporting (Obama, Barack).” Now Obama has the right to be pissed but what about the first amendment rights that all Americans have doesn’t that count for anything? The other thing that didn’t seem right was that Obama wanted the people to find a way to stop intoxicating our kids with this filth, there is no way to do that eventually someone is going to teach them its just how life goes. Some might say its an important part of becoming an adult, learning these things young so that as you grow you will grow up with the knowledge of what is right form what is wrong. Lastly what really didn’t sit kosher with me was Obama’s statement about how he wants his daughters to be athletes…to me that seems like he is furthering another negative stereotype himself.

To read the story for yourself:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3031317&page=1

The Mormans Lash Out...Maybe Some Coffee Would Have Stopped This

I completely understand what the Brigham Young students are feeling, about how they don’t want someone to speak at their school that would cause controversy, because who wants to be told how to succeed by someone who committed crimes against the nation he represents. Last time I checked, however, Mormons practice “Learning to forgive and forget.” So why this circumstance is any different is beyond me; let Cheney speak at your school, for god sakes he is the Vice President of the United States…that’s got to count for something.

To read the story for yourself:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/324450,CST-NWS-byu03.article

Time To Chill Mr. Sharpton

Even though I agree with Al Sharpton and the fact that Imus’s comments were a little out of line, I do believe that he and the representative form Rutgers blew it way out or proportion; others could have made the same jokes but since Imus has a history of these comments, Sharpton wanted him of the air for good. I mean why people don’t go after the creators of South Park is beyond me, they make comments of the same magnitude, if not worse, and everybody just laughs along with them. Also, later in the interview Imus said “I can't get anywhere with you people,” and Al Sharpton assumed that the “you” was black people, which is a horrible way to think about the world…if you only think people can do wrong then why bother talking to them.

To read the story for yourself:
http://www.wnbc.com/news/11586673/detail.html?dl=mainclick
Also Listen/Watch to NBC coverage:
http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=89062