And in Hollywood - Where reality is just another thing you fake

Do As I Say Not As I Do must be Bono and U2’s moto. The Irish band wants the USA to pony-up an additional 1% of our federal budget to end poverty. And that means we pay more taxes, right? But whereas the Generous Ones don’t mind us paying taxes, Bono and friend’s DO mind it and moved their corporate selves from Ireland to the Netherlands where their taxes will be practically nothing again. There’s a lot of that going around in Ireland and the Irish are ticked off. The band members, now disguised as ‘employees’, plan to take their yearly tax-free $30 million, a few rounds of Guinness then stagger all the way to the bank.

David Copperfield did more than cop a feel and the young lady didn’t like it. In fact, once she was allowed to leave Copperfield’s private island she went straight to the police with evidence of rape. It all started in January when she and her family attended a Copperfield show. The aspiring model was singled out, given special seats with her family and later brought on stage as part of the act. Soon she was corresponding with Copperfield and got an invite to an exclusive party on his isolated island and promises of help with her career. But what she got when she arrived was a party of one. And she was the party favor. Copperfield raped, repeatedly beat and then threatened her if she ever spilled the beans. Copperfield’s attorney said he couldn’t comment on the allegations but let slip Copperfield was upset by it all. Must be. Rumor is Copperfield has started buying Zoloft by the pound.

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“And on the seventh day God rested. That’s when he asked me to take over.”

Today’s pundit: Jean Giraudoux (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1882-1944)

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.”

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California Officials said that last week’s huge $10 million Santiago Canyon Fire was caused by arson. Police shot dead one arson suspect while another was arrested when residents saw him light a fire and walk away. Rumor now is the firebug already has a lawyer who says that in order for his client to get a fair trial, he must have a change of venue - preferably to a different planet.

Zimbabwe, the bread basket of Africa is finally just a basket case. White farmers had their lands confiscated by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s thugs disguised as officials who turned productive farms into waste lands. And the black citizens Mugabe says he’s doing it all for? Well, one woman who was hospitalized after trying to take part in a demonstration reported, “We were half men, half women. There were six women with children. There were grandmummies. We were made to lie down on our stomachs in rows of five or ten with our hands stretched out in front. All were beaten. From about 6pm to 11pm they were beating us, nonstop, going up and down the rows, one after another. When one group of police got tired another would take over. They trampled on our bodies with their boots. One of them hit me on my ear with his hand. Now I cannot hear. They said we wanted to have the country recolonized by Bush and Blair.” Today Zimbabwe’s currency is in the toilet with their millionaires worth but a single USA buck. And Mugabe is expected to sign a law forcing all foreign-owned companies to sell 51% of their equity to black Zimbabweans. Rob Davies, an economist said, “It shows the lunacy of their belief they can legislate against inflation and bring it down at the barrel of a gun.” But Mugabe is smart and plans to spin the situation with a little PR. He’s holding a contest to find the perfect symbol to represent Zimbabwe’s economic future. You know, like Smokey the Bear. But so far the only entry is a lovely rendition of circling vultures.

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Well it seems it’s a shoe-in. An AP survey shows there are only two viable contenders. Hillary Clinton’s 37% to Rudy Giuliani’s measly 14% with no other candidate rising above 6%. That’s right folks. The winner of the Who Would Make the Scariest Halloween Costume is our Hillary! Old Hil thanked everybody very much and said she would spend a meaningful Halloween at a fund raiser bobbing for donations.

Hillary is the winner in yet another opinion poll. Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terror group just loves her. “I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq.” As for Rudy Giuliani “If I had the occasion to meet him I would hurt him. For the sake of the American people, Giuliani shouldn’t be elected,” saith Ramadan Adassi, a West Bank Al Aqsa leader. As for Al Aqsa’s Ala Senakreh take on Rudy, “Giuliani doesn’t deserve to live or even to be mentioned.” Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, you’ve done them terrorists wrong by putting them in jail here in the USA and now you’ll pay. In fact they wrote a campaign song just for ya, ‘Come Back Rudy, Come Back. We’ve Been Missing You So Badly - And We’ve only got One Bullet Left!’

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Would you buy a used news story from this man? Seems when Bobby Calvan of the Sacramento Bee left the Green Zone in Bagdad to attend a press conference, he forgot his ID back at the hotel and wasn’t allowed back in without it. Well, he wasn’t going to let some GI with a gun protecting the perimeter push HIM around. “With nothing to lose I decided to get pushy. I asked him how he could not possibly know that Knight Ridder was one of the country’s largest newspaper chains. I told him that we’re bigger than the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times.” Well GI Joe wasn’t impressed and told the pushy reporter to call the Military’s Media Office. Boy Bobby, you’re so full of hot air, it’s amazing that when you opened your big mouth - your lips didn’t go into a vapor lock.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free - but for God sakes, put my campaign headquarters in a nice ritzy neighborhood. Yep, the poor-man’s candidate, John Edwards wasn’t happy when whippersnapper graduate student, Carla Babb, focused on his campaign headquarter’s local and not the message so his staff demanded her piece be snuffed. They threatened that if the school didn’t drop the UNC-Chapel Hill Student TV Station piece and pull the YouTube video, heads would roll and access to the ‘Breck Girl’ of Politics would be cut. Associate Professor C.A. Tuggle said, “My gosh, what are they thinking? They’re spending this much time and effort on a student newscast that has about 2,000 viewers? They’re turning a molehill into a mountain.” But what the staffers were trying to do was protect Edwards’ bandwagon and Edwards’ bandwagon is pretty easy to ID. It’s the one pulled by the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

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The Chicken Little Report - The weather - brought to you by Bossy - and a good MOOO to you!

If you want a real scare this Halloween, live near China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. I mean, you know you’ve got trouble when even gung-ho Chinese Officials start calling their pride and joy a disaster waiting to happen. Not only did the government move 1.3 million people and pay billions to construct it but now they may have to move more people as the banks around the dam collapse. Xinhua News, a propaganda organ for the government reported: “There exist many ecological and environmental problems concerning the Three Gorges Dam. If no preventive measures are taken, the project could lead to catastrophe.” When a Chinese government official tried to make the case for the Three Gorges Dam to the little people, an aide told him that these weren’t the little people. Just your average Chinese citizen on their knees praying.

Weather Stations Giving Bad Global Warming Data — MSM MIA
By Warner Todd Huston
10-01-07

The Bandelier National Monument is a place of great natural beauty with a rich American history going back into prehistoric times. It is 32,000 some acres of amazing nature with indigenous Indian archeological sites like the Anasazi cliff dwellings, numerous petroglyphs to see and caves to visit. The natural awesomeness of the Pajarito Plateau easily impresses with its red earth and cliffs and sporting miles of backpacking trails and picnicking areas. It’s a wonderful place and a great natural, American resource.

As it so happens, Bandelier National Monument also sports a weather station. Off the trail (and therefore not legally approachable I’m told) sits a weather station right up against the red cliffs of the Monument.

The placement of this station is most likely a major problem with the data that might be had from the weather devices there, however. The cliffs may be fun to explore, they may be beautiful and they are certainly a great and wondrous place for historical sightseeing but any area right up against the cliffs is a horrible place for a station that measures temperatures.

Consider this: during a hot summer day have you ever walked up next to the solid brick wall of a building exposed to direct sunlight? Have you ever had cause to place your hand on those bricks exposed to the blazing summer sun? If you ever have, you’ll have noticed that heat simply radiates in waves from those bricks. In fact, for hours after the sun goes down that brick facade will radiate heat.

This radiation of heat occurs because materials such as brick and rock absorbs heat and holds it for quite a while radiating it back out into the air through the day. In fact, Indian peoples throughout history have used these New Mexico cliffs to keep warm by snuggling up to the great rock edifice to soak up the heat it radiates.

And this heat daily radiating from the cliffs is just the problem here. Looking at the photo of the weather station will show how close this station is to those massive rocks. So, this raises the question: wouldn’t the heat constantly radiating from the cliff face cause the temperature devices to measure unduly high temperatures? Might not this temperature data be consistently higher to some degree than it otherwise might be should the station had been placed, say, in the near by meadow which is away from the cliffs?

These are the sorts of questions that need answering about our entire weather station system. The common sense of the construction and placement of these stations needs to be reviewed so that we might be able to assure proper accumulation of weather data.

Excerpted from
NewsBusters.org

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Did you see the sobbing Ellen DeGeneres crying for forgiveness ‘cause she discarded the dog Iggy and that please, please, please give Iggy back to her hairdresser’s kids? The pet adoption agency Mutts & Moms’ lawyer Keith Fink called DeGeneres a liar and played back a voice-mail message for the New York Post’s Page Six. “This is Kelly Bush. We are filing a legal case against you. We are going to be contacting the media. This is not going to be good for your store or your organization. You did not do the right thing. You need to call back. There is no reason for you to take this dog. Please call back before this gets further out of hand.” Kelly Bush says it’s a lie. But there was the odd fact that TMZ had a camera crew waiting for Mutts & Moms’ to come and pick up the dog. Then there’s LA producer Kerri Randles who says DeGeneres pulled the same trick on her and gave away her pooch. In fact, there may be more than 9 other ditched dogs weeping for one more chance. But I take DeGeneres’ contrition at face value. In fact, I heard she’s trying to prove her love of animals by creating a Foundation for Unwed Goldfish.

Stephen Colbert announced on his show, The Colbert Report, that he’s running for prez. Only in South Carolina though, and as a “favorite son” for both the Democrat and Republican parties. After his dramatic announcement of ‘Yes, I’m doing it!” he brought out CBS political analyst Jeff Greenfield to analyze his impacted the 2008 race “in the past three minutes.” Not everybody is laughing though. Some actually think the Federal Election Commission will get on his case for violating election law. Personally, the only Hollywood star I would consider voting for is Mickey Mouse. As he’s the only candidate honest enough to admit he’s a rodent.

Well not everybody in Hollywood is soft in the head. Actor/director Chris Burgard is peddling his documentary BORDER. It’s the side of illegal immigration you don’t hear about. How illegals are brutalized as they try to escape Mexico’s downward spiral. He documents “Rape trees. Armed men in uniform from Mexico using mule trains to smuggle tons of contraband into America. Rancher after rancher living behind razor wire. Ranch after ranch on the verge of bankruptcy due to the illegal traffic, vandalism and drug cartels that are flooding their land. Dead bodies so numerous that border counties are going broke just paying for all of the coroner inquests.” Guess the only thing you can say about those who help illegals stay in this country while ignoring the tragedy of Latin America - is that they are giving new depth to sallow.

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“And on the seventh day God rested. That’s when he asked me to take over.”

Today’s pundit: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, writer

“A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

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So sue ME! may be New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s new theme song after Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola filed suit to stop the Gov’s Majority of One order to give illegals driving licenses. DMV clerks came out against the Gov’s order as well as 70% of polled citizens of New York State. Seems the thought of giving illegals driving licenses which allows them to register and vote too, isn’t sitting too well with the citizens. But Spizter says he governs by principle not polls. In fact he plans to announce another well thought out executive order. Soon before doctors can slap a new born babe, they’ll have to read the kid his rights.

American Security Council Foundation (ASCF) has released a documentary Crisis in the Americas. And no, it isn’t about illegals coming to the USA but WHY they would want to. This flick centers on Venezuela ‘president’ Hugo Chavez and his best buddy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Chris Brown, Director of Education and Research Programs for the Washington D.C. think tank says, “The brilliance of the Chavez strategy in Latin America and the Iranian strategy in Iraq is that we are being hung by our own democratic ideals. It is a mistake to confuse the mechanics of democracy with the principles of democracy.” After you see this documentary you’ll understand Chavez’s and Ahmadinejad’s standing invite for their country’s dissident to run down to the local cemetery - and ‘mingle.’

I am a Hispanic American and I’m not going to take it anymore says, Al Garza National Executive Director of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps. He’s ticked off at LaRaza’s threat that Kansas City either kick a little old lady off their Park Board or lose LaRaza’s convention business. Her crime? She’s a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps. Well, the City wouldn’t kiss LaRaza’s Reconquista butts, so the lady stays and LaRaza’s 2009 convention is gone. That makes Al Garza happy. “After all, can any organization that encourages people to violate our laws truly claim to love America? Can you truly love America if one of your stated goals is to violently reclaim U.S. soil in the name of Mexico through a movement known as Reconquista?” Now LaRaza has another pet peeve. They’re demanding Black Flag rescind their occupancy limits of only 24 illegals per Roach Motel.

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The latest Zogby poll of American’s take on politicians showed a 29% positive opinion for Bush and 11% for Congress. WOW! Who knew they were that high!

They’re at it again! Now the Senate Happy Hollywood Dems want to be compassionate with your tax dollars and give up to 2.1 million minor illegal aliens an education. Called the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (S. 2205), or the DREAM Act, it turns out (of course) to be no dream for us. Out-of-state US citizens or legal foreign students need not apply. And there are no limits so fraud is guaranteed with this bill they’re trying to push through this week. But I do understand why so many politicians like to cater to illegal immigrants. They’re alike. Both have total contempt for USA laws

The DREAM Act: The Senate’s “Stealth” Amnesty Bill

Secure Our Future Now

LOST at sea - and everywhere else if the US Congress ratifies the UN’s Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) this week. The treaty will give UN crooks control over 71 percent of the Earth’s surface including our territorial waters. The Un will charge ‘user fees’ to private companies, control our Navy and interior waterways, and limit what “any commodity, currency or person” can be loaded or unloaded from ships. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen said of 2003’s attempt to get this turkey through that it “could have an impact on operational planning and activities, and our security.” If the UN and their stooges in Congress pull off this boondoggle, their next Save the World project is to unionizing plants. Countries will suffer severe repercussion if their foliage do not get two extra hours of sunlight per day, freedom to photosynthesize at will and a bug free life.

Gosh, the Chinese restaurants must pay GOOD in LA. Seems their dishwasher, waiters and other mainland Chinese emigrants can’t afford to live in decent surroundings but they can afford to pony up thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to help Hillary get elected president. Wait, is this a replay of the Bill & Hillary Show from the 1990’s? You know, when the Clinton administration not only accepted illegal monies from Chinese nationals but actively helped the Red Chinese government get a foothold in this country. And just like the original 1990’s broadcast, The New Hillary & Bill Show admits to only one underground connection - the sewer.

The China Connection: Summary of the Committee’s Findings Relating to Efforts of the People’s Republic of China to Influence U.S. Policies and Elections

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