IT GOES WAY BEYOND JUST BAD PRODUCTS!!!

New information is coming to light that many admirals, and other senior commanders in the Pentagon now say they had no idea about.
And we thought they were on top of things.

Last week the Chinese govt. refused safe harbor to 2 U.S. mine sweeper ships who were caught in a bad storm out at sea and had requested to make port in Hong kong until the storm was over!!

On Thanksgiving day the USS kittyhawk battle group prepared to make port in Hong Kong so that thousands of sailors and airmen could have a few hours shore leave.
Hundreds of family members of the crew had flown to Hong Kong to spend time with them, and all for nothing, because at the last minute China refused to allow the ships to dock.
Several hours later the Chinese changed their minds but by then it was to late as the ships were already heading back out to sea.

Just today information has come to out that the Chinese are refusing to allow the USS Reuben James, a frigate, to make a port call in Hong Kong on New Years eve.

A total of nine U.S. military ships have, in the last few months, been refused ports of call in Hong Kong. The last time China refused entry of U.S. ships was in 2002, and yet now suddenly they have done it 9 times in just the last few months.

Also it should be noted that a C-17 aircraft making a routine supply visit to the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong was turned down for flight access into China.

Now that Navy Admirals, and the general staff at the Pentagon have been "informed" about these incidents they say they are stunned & preplexed.
Wow is that all they have to say about it???
The White House seems to share the Pentagons apathy, with no real outrage expressed.

The Navy Admirals and crews "in the field" however do have strong opinions about this and are definately NOT happy!!!

ADM, TIMOTHY KEATING, COMMANDER OF THE U.S. PACIFIC COMMAND said "It's not, in our view, conduct that is indicative of a country that understands its obligations as a responsible nation," he added that he hoped the decision "is not indicative of future repeated denials."
The admiral also expressed concern about China's refusal to allow the minesweepers USS Patriot and USS Guardian to enter the port in Hong Kong.
"A storm blew up and they needed to get into a place of refuge ... so for the Chinese to have denied those two ships, in particular, that is a different kettle of fish for us and is, in ways, more disturbing, more perplexing than the denial for the Kitty Hawk's port visit request."
Keating added that there was an unwritten law among seamen that if someone is in need, you offer safe harbor. He described China's refusal to do so as "behavior that we do not consider consonant with a nation who advocates a peaceful rise and harmonious relations."

I will leave it to your imaginations to decern what the sailors and airmen of these ships have had to say about all this.
But believe me...it ain't pretty!!!

The Pentagon says that the Chinese have yet to offer any explanation for their denial of entry in any of these cases, but reports are that the Chinese are angry because the U.S. congress recently gave a medal to the Dalai Lama, whom China's communist government considers an enemy, and because the U.S. has sold military equipment to Taiwan.

NEW CENSUS BUREAU REPORT

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a new census reports states the following................

The U.S. is now getting a higher number of immigrants, both legal & illegal, then we have had in the last 3 decades.

Over 1/2 of the estimated 10 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in the last 7 years have been illegal. 90% of those being from Mexico.
And this is a low number as MANY remain hidden in the shadows and are therefore never even counted in a census.

And unlike in the old days when education was a great priority for immigrants, the U.S. census bureau reports that since the year 2000, approx. 33.5% of immigrants no longer bother to graduate from high school.

These are among the main reasons for America's
rising poverty rates
School over-crowding
Soaring healthcare costs

The census bureau also reports that at least 1/3 of all immigrant families have at least one of its members on public assistance (welfare).
A welfare budget that is paid for by your tax dollars!

The minimun wage in Mexico is just under $5 per day, so when they come to the U.S. and are offered $5 or $6 an hour they jump on it, which drives down the standard U.S. wage for American citizens.
Not to mention the lose of the job itself which is going to an illegal rather than to an American sitizen.

So jobs lost, wages depressed, Soaring healthcare costs, bankrupt medical institutions, school over-crowding which leads to the "dumbing down of America", rising poverty rates which puts an even greater burden on ALL public assistance programs, over-crowding which always leads to crankier people and higher crime rates, and a new generation of outsiders who will soon, if not now, be deciding the governmental makeup of this nation!

This is what open borders has given us!!!!

A country who can not protect it's own borders will not remain a sovereign nation for long!!!

DOOMED TO FAIL BEFORE IT EVEN GOT STARTED!!!

America invited Middle East nations to Annapolis Maryland for a meeting about how to work together in order to finally settle the issues between the Palis and the Isrealis.

This is the top issue muzzies use to bash the western world, especially America.
This is also the issue that MANY have tried to resolve in the past with absolutely no results!!!

Anyway, yet another summit is now underway, but before the meeting really even got started thousands of Palis took to the streets, led of course by Hamas, to protest the meeting with crys of "death to America" and "death to Isreal".

Although all the major players were invited to this meeting Iran was not!.....Oh what a slap in the face...lol

After the first day of the summit was over both the Pali president and the Isreali president said the meeting was productive and gave them hope.
However Iran's president announced that the meeting was a complete failure but since he wasn't even there I guess he must be pyschic!

In reality, I must agree with the Iranian president, because people like him, Hamas, and others, will ALWAYS make sure that the Isreali/Palestinian issue is a failure. Otherwise muzzies will lose alot they have always had to bitch about, and they can't let that happen now can they!!!

ISLAM STRIKES AGAIN!!!

54 year old Gillian Gibbons, A british teacher who teaches children in the Sudan was arrested on charges of "blasphemy" because she asked her 7 year old students to name a teddy bear as part of a school project.
The children voted, and choose to name the stuffed bear Mohammed.

OH THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!

Feeling that this isulted the entire religion of Islam Ms. Gibbons was arrested by authorities.
According to Sudanese Islamic law she could face 40 lashes and up to 6 months in jail or a fine for "insulting the prophet".

The British Prime Minister says he is trying to get Ms. Gibbons released from jail, and fellow teachers and friends of Ms. Gibbons say they are absolutely shocked by the whole incident!!!

Frankly I am shocked that they are shocked!!

IMAGINE THIS !!!

A young couple falls in love, gets married, and hopes one day to build themselves the house of their dreams.
In the 1980's they buy a plot of land in which to build this home one day. They are happy and oh so hopeful!!!
Their name is the Kirlins.

As often happens though children came along, 3 to be exact, and the building of the house took a back burner to the raising of their little family.
But they never stopped dreaming about that house. They continued to pay the homeowner association dues and property taxes each year, they lived only 200 yards from the property so they hiked past it every week with their dogs, and even sprayed for weeds and fixed broken fences, ETC... then finally in 2006, as the children began to make their own way in life, the couple decided it was time to build that little dream house of theirs.

What they did not know however was that someone else had taken a shine to their little plot of heaven, Someone very powerful!!!

Richard McLean, a former Boulder District Judge, Boulder Mayor, RTD board member - among other elected positions, and his wife, attorney Edith Stevens, used an arcane common law called
"adverse possession" to claim the land for their own.
All the McLeans needed was to develop an "attachment" to it.
Of course their city connections couldn't have hurt, either!!!

In the court papers, McLean and his family admit to regularly trespassing onto the Kirlins' property. They created paths & they put on political fundraisers and had parties on the land (even though not a single photograph of these events surfaced during the court procedings.
Anyway apparently this habit of trespassing developed into an affection for the land and the judge and his wife decided they just had to have the land for their very own!
Now if we take the judge at his own word then he should have faced charges of criminal trespassing, and been labeled a common criminal.

Oh but this is America, and in America the powerful are often allowed to get away with criminal behavior, in America the powerful are often allowed to pervert the rule of law to suit themselves, and in America it is often the regular Joe's, or in this case the regular Kirlins', who pay for the unbridaled greed of the powerful.

The greedy old Judge and his greedy old lawyer wife pulled a few strings, some very powerful strings, and another Judge ordered the Kirlins to sign over about 34% of their 4,750-square-foot lot to McLeans.
To add insult to injury, the case, which the Kirlins are appealing, has cost the family over $100,000 in legal fees so far.

SO MUCH FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM!!!

What lesson can we all learn from this?
Easy. If you fancy some undeveloped property - and have no scruples - keep walking on it until you create a path, have a few parties, and then claim it for your very own!!!

A HAPPY THANKSGIVING FOR WHO??

I was watching the news today and a story came on about the rescue of a sea lion who was embedded with over 40 hooks in it's mouth and flippers.
After the video of the rescue finished playing the reporter commented "wouldn't it be great if people were as nice to each other as they are to animals"?
Well Mr. Reporter I must strongly disagree with you and say I could not stand it if we treated people the same way we do animals!!!

The following video gives a glimpse of just how we humans really DO treat animals and for everyone who sees this I would just like you to know what these particular animals go through in order make your Thanksgiving tables complete.



I'm not trying to get you to stop eating turkey BUT you should at least know HOW they get to you!!!

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

Also known as the capital sins, the seven deadly sins are those transgressions which are fatal to spiritual progress. You probably commit some of them every day without even thinking about it.

#1 - LUST - Luxuria
The sin of lust is usually thought of as involving obsessive or excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature.
Lust can be described as the excessive desire for sexual release. The other person can be therefore seen as a "means to an end" for the fulfillment of the subject's desires, and becomes thus objectified in the process.
Lust is the self-destructive drive for pleasure out of proportion to its worth.

#2 - GLUTTONY - Gula
The sin of gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.
It is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food, or its withholding from the needy.
However gluttony does not pertain only to food, but to entertainment and other legitimate goods, and even the company of others.

#3 - GREED - Avaritia
The sin of greed is, like Lust and Gluttony, a sin of excess.
However, Greed applies to the acquisition of wealth in particular.
Greed wants to get its "fair share" and much more.

#4 - WRATH - Ira
The sin of wrath may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. These feelings can manifest as the desire to seek revenge outside of the workings of the justice system.
Anger is often our first reaction to the problems of others.
Impatience with the faults of others is related to this sin.

#5 - SLOTH - Acedia
The sin of sloth is the failure to utilize one's talents and gifts.
The definition of Sloth has changed considerably since its original inclusion among the seven deadly sins. In fact it was first called the sin of sadness. The original meaning of sloth was to exibit melancholy: apathy, depression, and joylessness.

#6 - ENVY - Invidia
The sin of Envy is to desire something that someone else has which you perceive yourself as lacking.
Dante defined this as "love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs."
Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive.

#7 - PRIDE - Superbia
The sin of pride is the the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and indeed the ultimate source from which the others arise.
Pride is the desire to be more important or more attractive than others. The excessive belief in one's own abilities.
Pride is the deadliest of all the sins and Vanity and Narcissism are prime examples of this Sin.
If someone else's pride really bothers you, you have a lot of pride.


If you would like to take a fun little test to measure which of these sins you are guilty of.....
Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
But be honest now, afterall this is only for yourself and no one else has to know about it.

I took the test and here are my results

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Low
Wrath:	High
Sloth:	High
Envy:	Medium
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	Medium

Damn!!!, and I thought I was doing pretty good in my life ...lol
Anyway, now that you know my sins perhaps you should find out about your own!!