ICE Sting

And I hear from the "Wall Street Journal" radio station that the Feds have arrested an ICE (That's Immigration and Customs, formerly INS) for accepting over $8000 in bribe money from an undercover officer to look the other way while illegal aliens were being smuggled into the country. Not only are the border agents out funded and out manned, they can't even trust their own to follow the rules and do the job properly. I like to see turncoats and traitors rooted out of their holes. They caught one, but how many more disheartened border agents have turned to making money after seeing the futility of stopping something that our own government does not really want stopped?

Leonard, you got it wrong

Leonard,
You got it wrong (as usual). The southern Republicans don't blame those groups for anything. They blame the federal government for pandering to them by passing laws that promote racism and sexism through affirmative action programs. I am really surprised that we are all not insulted by the lowering of hiring standards in order to get a quota of some particular group into a profession or job.
It is our federal government that promotes these things as they have slowly eroded the power of the states to have and use the powers under the United States Constitution. You remember, those powers not specifically granted to the federal government were reserved to the States. The federal government usurps more and more power, even to the point of performing acts not authorized under the Constitution.

And on a positive note...

Finally, a jury was able to cut through the in the latest Muslim Charity Trial. For years, they were able camoflage their support of evil by sending some funds to worthwhile charities. Perhaps the victory won't have much substance, though. I suspect that Obama and his people will look to pardoning these people so they can carry on their nefarious activities right under our noses.

Obscene Airline CEO salaries

Check out this video link about the CEO of Japan Air Lines sacrificing in the difficult times that the rest of his employees are suffering to keep the planes operating and the airline running. The amazing part is the obscene salaries of the American CEO's while they seek government handouts to keep their lines running. Also, they claim they need to add fees for baggage checking and so forth. Really? How about cutting out billions in fat from their overhead?
Are these guys really this valuable to their companies?
(Thanks to emailer for sending me this story)

The kind of information that we need

This is the kind of information that we need to combat the socialists in Washington who keep wanting to give away tax money. $35.8 billion lost is medicare and medicaid billing errors.
How many other places are there where billions are wasted in carelessness or bad decision making?

Historic Bait and Switch

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake

Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

These two gentlemen have succeeded in the biggest bait and switch on the largest group of people in American history. Is the rest of America as goofy as the Pennsylvania constituents of Rep. Murtha? What does it take to insult your intelligence?

If you hire a contractor to build a house for you, and he is taking money from your account presumably to pay the subcontractors who do the work, but he decides to use the money in some other way, do you not want that individual in jail? Would you not like to see him in a place where he can never defraud anyone else again?

Are we sheep to merely be sheared?

Venus and Jupiter in the sky tonight.

The two bright stars in the western sky at sunset are Venus and Jupiter. Venus is the brighter of the two.

I just pass this on because that kind of stuff just fascinates the heck out of me. There is so much other stuff going on out there, it's amazing how important we really perceive ourselves. Are there really no others out there?