Another lovely moment in Los Angeles brought to you by hard working, oppressed, law-abiding, living-in-the-shadows, decent people who love America. Yeah. (Via Drudge)
And America doesn’t need them either. President Bush keeps talking about needing to “bring people out from the shadows.” As a matter of fact, that is now the undeniable spin line from Bush and the open borders crowd. But what people would that be? People in the shadow of their Mexican flag as they run through the streets half naked?
The only “people in the shadows” I’ve noticed are American patriots who are accused of racism and xenophobia by the president because they’re trying to keep this nation safe by securing our borders and refusing to reward criminal behavior.
Grrr…
Hal
I first reported about Hal’s adventure in NY Central Park in the Sadie & Sydney blog. This was the coyote who somehow found his way to Central park, and after along chase was captured. As they were tagging him for release back into the wild the tragedy happened.
Hal, the Central Park Coyote, Dies
ALBANY, N.Y. – Hal, the coyote who paid a visit to New York City and was captured as he loped around Central Park, died as he was being tagged for release in the wild, a state official said Friday.
The coyote stopped breathing Thursday night during the routine tagging procedure and biologists could not revive him, said Gabrielle DeMarco, spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Pathologists were trying to determine whether the stress of his capture or captivity or something else contributed to the death of the year-old, 35-pound coyote. [...]
I hope they do an autopsy so we can find out what happened. Perhaps it was the stress, or maybe he separated from his pack in the first place because he was sick. Hal had become one of Sydney’s heroes. Let’s all send good vibes for his little coyote soul.
Phil Spector with Agitated Hair
Cynthia McKinney with Agitated Hair
Perhaps we should start to consider that hair, being closest to the brain, could give us the first sign that something may be going terribly wrong underneath. I opine, you decide.
With Spector, his hair became noticable unhappy when he claimed that actress Lana Clarkson put a revolver in her mouth when she decided for some inexplicable reason to blow her head off in his foyer. His trial, btw, has been postponed until September 2006. In the meantime he’s wandering around free on one million dollars bail.
McKinney’s hair seems to have freaked out when the Congresswoman decided that her punching and slapping a police officer was their own fault and a result of her victim’s incompetence (and racism of course). Oh, Danny Glover supports her. Is that supposed to make us afraid or something? Or maybe he’s just the one guy in her vicinity who’s too big for her to beat up. Facing assault charges, McKinney is also, as of right now, still wandering around free in Washington, DC.
With news like this from both coasts, I think we should all just stay inside, and report any other hair that appears to be telling us something.
Spolied French Baby Courtesy of France and F*** France
Just moments ago Jack of France made a televised statement about the jobs law which has sparked all the protests by spoiled brats who want “job guarantees.” In the US, of course, a job guarantee is you doing a good job and earning it. That’s a foreign concept in socialist countries.
Here’s what Jack had to say:
Chirac: Divisive Jobs Law to Be Modified
PARIS -President Jacques Chirac said Friday he would press ahead with a contentious labor law making it easier to fire workers, but he offered some concessions in hopes of calming furious protests that led to nationwide strikes.
Chirac said he would reduce a trial period during which employees could be summarily dismissed from two years to one, and he would require employers to offer reasons.
This means the babies will still have to show up for a year and actually work. I have a feeling they’ll still be throwing a tantrum or two.
UPDATE 3/31 3:45pm PT:
Whaddya know–I was right!
Chirac Compromise Offer Fails to Stem Opposition to Labor Law
Related Link:
CNN: Chirac defiant on French jobs law
Let me put it this way, Chirac is one frog who will never turn into a prince, even if he kisses the most powerful and certainly one of the more lovely women on Earth. In the meantime, the Secretary may need to click here. Hey, we’re here to help.
Meow.
Brokeback Cancun: Apparently our Illiegal Immigration buddies didn’t share with Canada’s Harper the White Shirt/Khaki memo. Where’s Manolo when you need him!
While I do take issue with some of Lou Dobbs’ postions on the issues, he is clearly one of the leading voices when it comes to the disaster of illegal immigration. Fortunately with Tivo, I’m able to watch Brit Hume, and then I scan the Dobbs program on CNN.
Reporting from Cancun where President Bush is meeting with Mexico’s Fox and Canada’s Harper, Dobbs does not mince words about the president, illegal immigration and the WoT. Here’s your snippet, but do indeed read the whole thing:
The United States is challenged as never before in the global war on radical Islamist terror. And yet, our borders and ports remain insecure four and a half years after the 9/11 attacks. Our lack of border and port security is nothing less than a failure of the U.S. government and its policies. While we spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the war in Iraq, we spend next to nothing to protect our own borders.
President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Harper will discuss border security in terms of the perimeter of our three nations — regional security perimeter, if you will. Such a concept, in my opinion, has no merit whatsoever while the United States cannot defend its own borders.
And get these Reuters headlines:
Bush reassures Mexico’s Fox on immigration reform
Bush seeks support from Mexican Fox on immigration
And here may I say, the president is ‘reassuring’ and seeking support of the wrong person. Last time I checked, Vicente Fox isn’t a US citizen, and cannot vote in November. It would serve President Bush to not only reassure us, but recognize our will on this issue. He will eventually have to accept that we will prevail, not Vicente Fox, no matter how charmed they are by each other in the same outfit.
Somebody alert Jesus! Scientists say he’s wasting his time.
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And might even be bad for you. Of course when a headline gives away the fact that it’s scientists who are conducting a ’spiritual’ study, one knows what the outcome will be. Not that scientists know what evidence they’re looking for, or have pre-conceived notions about what they’ll find. And not that scientists would ever, ever, discount the supernatural when it comes to issues of life and death. Nah, The Scientist, who worships the Atom, would never expect to find that there is no divine intervention. After all, if we confirmed that, fewer people might think doctors are, uh, God. God forbid.
Scientists Study Prayer Impact on Heart Patients
For people facing surgery or fighting disease, the prayers of others can be a comfort. But a large U.S. study has found that praying for the health of a heart bypass patient has no impact on their surgical outcome. [...]
To their surprise, the researchers found that the third group of heart bypass patients, those who knew others were praying for them, had more surgical complications as a whole than the other two. Another of the researchers, physician Charles Bethea of the Oklahoma Heart Institute, says the doctors do not know if that result is random or not. He says people in this group might have become anxious knowing others were praying for them.
Gee, I wonder if anyone studied the impact of the idea of prayer for the patients on the doctors who were taking care of those people. Until a “study” is willing to address the doctors reaction to the intervention of prayer (especially a subconscious hostile, or passive-aggressive reaction) one really can’t say why that one group did badly. Unless, of course, the doctors somehow treated those patients differently, certainly at a subconscious or in a passive-aggressive way. Not that they’d want to disprove the power of prayer. No, of course not.
Doctors and the fruits of science clearly play an important role in the quality of our lives, but let’s leave the spiritual to those who believe, as we ask those who worship the atom to mind their own business. I would no more ask a doctor about the issue of prayer and faith than I would ask a priest to prescribe meds for me.
UPDATE 3/31:
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In a few momements we’ll be joined by Curt Hopkins of the Committee to Protect Bloggers. He also has Morpheme Tales with some great poetry. Visit both. We’ll talk with Curt about the release of Jill Carroll and other threats against bloggers and journalists around the world.
Earlier we also spoke with Andrew Wilkinson, Newsmax.com’s Money Guy. While politics is important to us, money is the ket to being truly personally free. Make sure you check in with Newsmax, and click on the “Money” icon just under the banner, sign up for their newsletter and you’ll get Andrew’s excellent weekly Money Column.
And Evan Sayet, our Tammy Radio Contributor, joins us at 11:30am PT to give us his special, witty, and insightful perspective on the immigration debacle. I can’t wait 
The Christian Science Monitor journalist was grabbed of a Baghdad street on January 7, and her translater was killed. Here is a portion of the CSM statement about her release today from their Jill Carroll Update page:
After her release in Baghdad Thursday, Jill Carroll was dropped off near an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, according to Iraqi police. From there, she was able to speak with US officials, and was briefly interviewed by Baghdad TV. She said she was treated well by her captors, and they never threatened her. She also said she did not know why she was kidnapped. [...]
Richard Bergenheim, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, issued the following statement today after learning of Jill Carroll’s release.
We were thrilled to hear that Jill Carroll has been released and will soon be back with her family. People all over the world have been working and praying for this. We can assure you that she is receiving good care and that her family will be meeting with her soon.
Few will ever know how many people have been working day and night for this result. Jill’s fellow journalists, her good friends in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, the Iraqi and American governments, leading clerics throughout the Arab world, and political leaders in Iraq have pursued every venue possible to return Jill to the arms of her family. Jill will also soon discover that people all over the world, of all faiths, have been praying for her release.
Her interview after her release played on Fox has her oddly defending her captors, making it clear that she was treated well, and not tortured. She was never hit, she says, was in a safe room, nice furniture, given clothes and food. Well that’s very nice, but I also vaguely recall videotapes released by the savages where Carroll was hysterically sobbing to be saved (see my Religion of Ghouls post), otherwise she would be killed. Of course that’s psychological torture.
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Ahmadinejad’s likely reaction to the UN’s threat to send a letter and then continue to meet about Iran getting the bomb, and about how very, very bad that is
Yeah, Iran, or else we’ll, we’ll, uh, just a minute, I have to check about what we’ll do…I know it’s in here somewhere. It’s very serious, too, so you better listen. Just…one…second. Yes, here it is. Okay, so, You better stop that uranium enrichment Iran or we here at the UN, we’ll, uh, meet again apparently and then talk about what it is we’ll do. Then you’ll be scared!
But you have only 30 days, got it? 30 days, Mister Mullah, to stop trying to get the bomb. Yeah. Because after that, well, you just don’t want to know what we’ll do. You better believe, mister, how much trouble you’ll be in. I swear, all 5 of the Big 5 agree on this. In a way. Sort of. But no one’s really quite sure.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Wednesday’s statement — issued a day ahead of a meeting of the council’s veto-wielding permanent members and Germany in Berlin — sends “a very clear message” that Iran should meet its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“There’s no ambiguity here,” Bolton said. “We’re waiting for the Iranians to do what they said they were going to do and violated, and the obligations that they undertook by being a member of the IAEA.”
Yeah, that’s right. We’re waiting. And we’ll be waiting it seems for quite some time because there’s no statement in the statement about having a statement and a strongly worded letter about what the consequences would be if Iran doesn’t capitulate to the statement of the Dreaded Strongly Worded “You better stop it right now!” Letter.
Yeah.
Related Link:
Vital Perspective has the full text of the statement and additional commentary. (HT PJM)
Bangkok Post: UN Gives 30-Day Ultimatum to Iran
The Best Pup in the World, aka “Sydney Bruce” on her way home from today’s Dog Park excursion
My faithful hound Sydney. She’s a sweetie and one-year old this month. While this is not the thing one would normally share, I figure if an angel of a dog like Syd needs this, your dog probably does, too. Syd has developed a rather irritating little bodily function that dogs in general don’t seem to care about. No embarrassment there. No “courtesy walks.” Nope, there’s none of that, so there has to be this. And thank goodness, too. I love Sydney, but jeezo-peezo. At the rate she’s going, I almost expect her to ask for a beer and cheetos while she watches the WWF. Let’s just hope it works.
For a completely unrelated cool dog site: Doozie Dog
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