4.6%
unemployment rate

Captain's Quarters

"The Truth Behind The Numbers"

"The DHS awards of block grants for the Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) touched off a fiery round of criticism, with some calling for George Bush to fire DHS chief Michael Chertoff after seeing funding cut to New York City and Washington, DC. However, a look at the numbers calls the accuracy of this blamethrowing into serious question."
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Six Powers Reach Accord On Iran Plan

"VIENNA, June 1 -- The United States and five other major world powers agreed Thursday to offer Iran a broad new collection of rewards if it halts its drive to master nuclear technology, but they threatened 'further steps in the Security Council' if Iran refuses.

The agreement, announced here by British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett following extended talks, brings general unity to the countries' approach to Iran after months of discord, diplomats said. It is intended to sharpen the choice facing Iran, giving it a clear reason to opt for cooperation over confrontation on its nuclear program."
Washington post

Do we really think this will work?

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via- Althouse

Thanks Union Bosses!

"Our labor officialdom, on the whole, is a bureaucracy so obsessed
with retaining its own power in its unions that it curbs the rights
of its own membership."
—Author and labor reformer Herman Benson,
“Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers,” 2005



The truth hurts. The pure idea of unions looking out
for the working man is wonderful,
but the reality is far from this utopian idea.

unionfacts.com

From my wifes great X5 Grandfather to my Father and
to all who have served and given to us liberty and freedom.

THANK YOU!



A soldier guards the remains of three unidentified American soldiers at the Tomb of the Unknowns, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Located at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, the memorial is guarded every hour of every day.

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“America, is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold:
its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas,
America will collapse from within.”... Joseph Stalin

via insight on freedom

Muslim countries have lower rates of adultery.






















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Competitive Enterprise Institute

"'Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story' "

Gore burns fossil fuels at an unbelievable
rate trying to get people to stop burning fossil fuels
because he thinks the world is going to end soon
if we keep burning fossil fuels!

view the video here:

A must read article

Bush and Iran
A threat that can't be outsourced any longer.

Friday, April 21, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

"Bill Clinton often complained that history had denied him the sort of historic challenge--a Great Depression or war--that might have made his Presidency great. We suspect that, after five tumultuous years, President Bush has more than once wished that he could have been so lucky.

But that is not the fate of this President, who has had to confront the consequences of the holiday from history that was the 1990s: September 11, continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now his most severe test yet, the looming crisis over Iran's drive for nuclear weapons."

OpinionJourna:

Bloomberg.com: Asia

here it comes!

"Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients (Update1)

May 23 (Bloomberg) -- All seven people infected with bird flu in a cluster of Indonesian cases can be linked to other patients, according to disease trackers investigating possible human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus."

Bloomberg.com: Asia:

A fantasy letter to the president of Iran
Woundn't it be great if this letter was actually real?
Thanks to a former Reagan guy we are able to dream a little!


Thanks to LGF


Dear President Ahmadinejad,

Please forgive this tardy response to your letter of early May. We did not reply at first because we doubted the letter’s authenticity. We suspected that someone was trying to play a trick on you. The discourse, you must admit, is unusual for a communication between heads of state. However, now that you have openly admitted that the letter is yours, I will respond.

Thank you for your invitation to accept Islam. As you know, I am a Christian. Throughout your letter you accuse me of being a bad Christian, which leaves me puzzled as to why you think I might make a good Muslim. However, before you proselytize outside your own country, you might want to address the condition of the Islamic faith in Iran.

I am genuinely sorry to hear that so many Iranians, especially the young, have lost their faith because of their profound disillusionment with theocratic clerical rule. Apparently, there is no way for them to distinguish between their religion and your rule. That is understandable since you claim there is none, that your authority comes directly from God and you are ruling in his name. It is no wonder you disdain “liberalism and Western style democracy.” Under it, you would be answerable not only to God, but to the Iranian people, to whom God gave certain “unalienable Rights” that you and the mullahs have chosen to ignore. How ironic that, in the name of God, you deny your people’s God-given rights.

When young Iranians survey the way in which the clerical regime has enriched itself and impoverished the country, and enforced its rule with such harshness, what are they to think of this “God” who rules over them in this way? As a result, they abandon their religion and, unfortunately, many turn to drugs.

Your answer to the abuses under which the Iranian people live is nuclear “power.” Since your country is so richly endowed in oil and natural gas reserves, this is a strange answer. In fact, you so often denounce “lies” in your letter, I am surprised you would engage in such a whopper yourself. No country has conducted a 20-year clandestine program to develop nuclear power for peaceful domestic uses. The reason is that it is perfectly legal to do so in the open. In fact, we would support your nuclear power program, if that is what it was. However, as everyone outside of Cuba, Syria and Belarus knows, you are developing nuclear weapons.

You know that we know you are doing this. In fact, you deliberately exacerbate the free world’s worries with your continued exhortations about wiping Israel off the map. I understand that your policy of confrontation helps you to consolidate your domestic power and that is why you generate so much tension. The more likely you can make it seem that Iran will be attacked from the West, the more Iranians will rally around you. You provoke us. We respond. You get stronger. Since the Iranian people will soon realize we have no intention of attacking them, they will soon weary of this artificial hysteria and begin to wonder why your government fails to provide even the most basic necessities.

We also understand the real reason you want nuclear weapons. Of course, you have the dream of being the regional hegemon, and the prospect of your having nuclear weapons already terrifies your neighbors. But you also want them for the same reason as North Korea. Once you possess nuclear weapons, you believe you will be immune, as is North Korea, from external pressure for domestic political reform. You can tell the world to take a hike and to leave you in peace to oppress your own people. This is why Iranians who wish to see a return to genuine democratic, constitutional order despair at the thought of your succeeding. They know they will be finished, that no one will then dare speak up on their behalf.

So this is not really about nuclear weapons; it is about the rights of the Iranian people – your desire to take them away, and our desire to see them respected. We don’t worry about Great Britain, or France, or now India, having nuclear weapons, because they are democracies; they are founded on the “unalienable Rights” of their peoples. People who are free to exercise those rights seldom seek to take them from others. We, and the rest of the world, are worried because of the nature of your regime, because you deny you own people its rights. Therefore, we take you seriously when you say you will take rights from others – most especially their unalienable right to life – by “wiping them off the map,” and we see you seeking to obtain the means to do this.

We do not think the Iranian people are going to let you get away with this. They see their religion prostituted to power and their great culture traduced by fanatic ideologues. We are on their side.

Thanks for writing.

Sincerely,
George W. Bush

P.S. I attach a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

The sad state of Leadership in the democratic party
Ted Kennedy, who was thrown out of Yale for cheating and left a woman to drown.
Robert Byrd who was the head recruiter for the Klu Klux Klan.
Its a shame that now the only one to take the moral high ground, is a man who
was the architect of the Tawana Brawley scam, AL Sharpton!



BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - "Alabama Democrats should get rid of a candidate who denies the Holocaust and another who has advocated killing illegal immigrants"

activist Al Sharpton said Monday.

While state party officials say they are powerless to remove the pair from the ballot because the June 6 primary is so close, Sharpton said:

"There's no room for these
two men in our big tent."

Yahoonews

lgf: banned in Saudi Arabia!

"here are excerpts from a speech on Kuwait’s Al-Risala TV by Dr. Sallah Sultan, president of the American Center for Islamic Research in Columbus, Ohio, who tells the Arab audience that America planned the 9/11 attacks in order to control and terrorize the entire world. And it was all based on a Denzel Washington movie."
Little green footballs

A little history

"Bush National Guard Proposal a Right Step, but Not Enough
'In 1916, Georgia National Guardsmen deployed to the Mexican border as American troops under General John J. Pershing hunted the Mexican bandit chief, Pancho Villa who had been raiding U.S. settlements…on the U.S. side of the border some hundred thousand federalized National Guard troops kept order from Yuma, Arizona to Brownsville, Texas. By 1919 U.S. control over the region was clearly established.'
-- From A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GEORGIA NATIONAL GUARD"

Congressman Charles W. Norwood, Georgia's 9th District: Homepage:

Tom Kean Jr. for U.S. Senate
Can a republican actually win in the state of New Jersey?
Kean spoke at a rally in the square
in Morristown today.
A good crowd and many
State politicians and a
U.S. Congressman.

A "Ginty for Senate" group,
numbering around 10 showed up
With Ginty himself proclaiming
that he was the Conservative choice.
Like a far right politician has a chance
of winning in New Jersey!

Kean impressed me with his pasion
and charisma as well as is urge to
cut taxes and close up the border.




TomKean.com

How long do we wait this time?

Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.


"This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

"Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis."

from canada.com

'Our enemies are mentally ill'

"Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poked fun at opponents of his country's nuclear programme on Thursday, saying they had mental problems.

Speaking in the town of Zarandiyeh, central Iran, Ahmadinejad said: 'Those who get sad at the progress and happiness of others are suffering from mental and psychological problems, so they should find a way to cure themselves.'"
news24.com

The civil war begins.
The people chose Hamas and now they are
realizing that they can't live with their choice.

"GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A gun battle erupted early Friday between the new Hamas security force and rival Fatah forces in Gaza City, police officials said. Two police officers were wounded."
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