FROM ANNANOVA:
Pub becomes embassy to beat cig ban

Landlord Bob Beech is getting round next week's ciggie ban by turning his bar into an embassy for a remote Caribbean island.
He claims the Wellington Arms in Southampton will be the only pub in Britain to allow smoking after Sunday - by becoming the UK base for tiny, uninhabited Redonda.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2391027.html?menu=

Any chance this would work in Ft. Wayne?

For those of you that may not get over to Mitch Harpers' FWOB on a regular basis, he has posted a link to a website http://www.legistorm.com/ I think many of you will find fascinating.

We all know there is an enormous amount of waste in Government, so do me a favor and look at the congressional staffers salaries posted and then get out your calculator. You won't be a happy camper. Is it possible 1 legislators job requires this much freakin' help??????

H/T Ft Wayne Observed

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid walks from his Chevrolet Suburban (left) to attend a news conference on energy efficiency Wednesday in Upper Senate Park. Reid rode in the sport utility vehicle from the Capitol to the event, which was across the street.”


Do as I say, not as I do, eh Dingy??? He has 2 Suburbans in Washington and 1 back in Nevada.




“The time has come for us to speak for the American people and not the car manufacturers,” Reid inveighed in between his SUV shuttle stops."

HMMMM.......POT? KETTLE? BLACK?

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In the event you need a really good belly laugh, click on the link and listen to Teddy pander in Espanol.

What a maroon!



http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/23/audio-teddy-sings-an-amnesty-lullaby-in-spanish/

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Ten Simple, Direct Steps to a Legal American Immigration System

1. Keep the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli commitment and control the border. In The Reagan Diaries (HarperCollins, May 22, 2007), President Ronald Reagan wrote that he was going to sign the Simpson-Mazzoli bill because "it's high time we regained control of our borders and [this] bill will do this." For national security reasons, it is vital we regain control of our border. Congress should pass a narrowly written emergency border bill to finish the necessary fence in less than a year and to have complete border control within two years.

2. Announce an immediate shift of Internal Revenue Service resources to audit companies that are deliberately hiring people illegally. We do not have to focus on deporting those who want to work. We need to focus on the Americans who are getting richer by deliberately breaking our laws, hiring people illegally and failing to pay taxes. These people are cheating their own country. We should focus on fining and making it economically impractical for Americans to deliberately encourage law breaking. Economic penalties for knowingly hiring someone who is illegal should rise dramatically with each employer (including subcontractors) conviction, making it simply too expensive to cheat. This will eliminate the magnet of illegal jobs, will begin to diminish the flow of new illegal workers and will lead some illegal workers to return home voluntarily.

3. Outsource to American Express, Visa or MasterCard the job of building a real-time verification system so that honest companies can confirm the legal status of all workers and identify people with forged papers before they hire them as fast as your automatic teller machine identifies you and gives you money in a matter of seconds. We must distinguish between companies that deliberately hire illegal workers and companies that hire people who they believe are legal. It is the government's duty to help this second group of companies by providing a real-time verification system for identifying the legal status of all workers so that it is possible to screen out those with illegal documents. The government should outsource the creation of this system so that it is easy, fast and accurate.

4. Focus deportation efforts on criminals. Those who claim that opponents of the Bush-Kennedy-McCain bill support mass deportations are simply wrong. We want a system in which honest work is available for law-abiding workers and in which the natural attrition of declining job availability will reduce illegal behavior. However, there is one group that should be deported immediately, and the law should be modified to make it easy to do so. Criminals have no future in America. In every major city and increasingly in small cities and even small towns, gangs have become a problem and people feel a rising sense of insecurity. There are at least 30,000 illegal gang members now in the United States. The system should focus on deporting criminals so that people who are here illegally understand that breaking the law will get them deported immediately.

5. Cut off all federal aid to any city, county or state that refuses to investigate if a criminal is here illegally. These so-called "sanctuary cities" are in effect abetting the violation of American law and increasing the risk to honest, law-abiding Americans. They should be cut off from all federal aid if they refuse to help enforce federal law.

6. Offer intensive education in English to anyone who wants to learn English, and make English the official language of government. This will begin to reassert the commitment to assimilation and Americanization that has historically been part of legal immigration to America.

7. Ensure that becoming an American citizen requires passing a test on American history in English and giving up the right to vote in any other country.

8. Within the context of these proven changes, establish an economically driven temporary worker program like the Krieble Foundation proposals. Any temporary worker would have to pass a background check to ensure they are not a criminal, would have to give biometric information (retinal scan and thumbprint) for a special card that would be outsourced to American Express, MasterCard or Visa so it would be harder to defraud and counterfeit, and would have to sign a contract committing them to pay taxes and obey the law or be removed from the United States within two weeks without recourse to long court processes.

9. Create a special open-ended worker visa for high value workers who bring specialized education, entrepreneurial talent or capital that will grow the American economy and make America a more prosperous country.

10. Workers who came here illegally but have a good work relationship and community ties (including family), should have first opportunity to get the new temporary worker visas, but instead of paying penalties, they should be required to go home and get the visa at home. This way they are beginning their new career in America by obeying the law. It is amazing that those who advocate a large fine and the new Z visa, which would be administered in a hopelessly expedited manner, suggest that going home to get a new legal admission to the U.S. is somehow too complicated. If people can break the law by entering the county illegally, they should be able to obey the law and enter America legally.

These 10 steps would lead to a controlled border, a profound revitalization of the core values of American civilization, a renewed respect for the law and an economically driven system of legal temporary workers in an orderly and controllable manner.

This program would work vastly better than the dishonest and hopelessly complex Bush-Kennedy-McCain proposal now being pushed so hard by the establishment against the wishes of most Americans.

Whether you are a Republican, a Democrat, a conservative or a liberal, you have to admit this is a pretty simple plan and beats the hell out of the current version of shamnesty.

Reprinted in it's entirety from an e-mail by Newt Gingrich.

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Poor Algore, just when the lefts' favorite "Nutty Professor" get's a little steam rollin' going for his "I'm Serial, It's The End Of The World" rock operas, Paris Hilton is still getting all the press!

The Sun reports: "AL GORE is a man on a mission to save the planet – and is enraged that everyone else seems more interested in saving Paris Hilton. "

"The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton. We have to ask ourselves what is going on here?”

Sniff, Sniff .........Bwaaaaahhhhhh......

"Yet despite his good intentions, the 59-year-old has come under fire from the likes of The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Live Aid hero Sir Bob Geldof. Both claimed the Live Earth gigs can do little to change the world. Geldof also accused Mr Gore of hosting “an enormous pop concert” with no clear political goals."

Not to mention, all the pollution the concerts themselves will create. Flying rockstars in from around the world, all the semi-trucks bringing in equipment, the thousands of people traveling to attend by car, truck, train, bus and plane. (see: pot, kettle, black)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007280084,00.html

What a maroon.........

FEMA Wants $485M Back From Storm Victims

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says tens of tens of thousands of people received improper aid awards following the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes – and now FEMA wants its money back. According to a USA Today analysis, FEMA overpaid victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma by $485 million and the agency is now struggling to recoup the funds. So far, just $15.6 million has been recovered. The effort to collect the overpayments has drawn protests from many in the region still trying to rebuild two years after the hurricanes. A federal judge this week ordered FEMA to stop trying to regain any funds until it provides aid recipients with better explanations of what they owe.


YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!

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When I got off work this evening, I was enjoying the sunshine and the breeze on my way home, and barely noticed (at first) that Sean Hannity was chirping away in the background over the noise of the wind humming through the open windows. Normally I would just change the station, if for no other reason than the fact that it's difficult to drive with one hand while physically fighting vomit back into my mouth with the other...and Hannity has that effect on me. Frankly, my tolerance for partisan asswipery has grown rather thin in the last year...and Mr. Hannity certainly falls in the overall category of "Partisan Asswipe" with plenty of elbow room.

Sean was on the topic of immigration today...which is something that through a little Googling I found is a fairly regular topic for him as of late. Caller after caller ("great Americans," as he dubs each of his phone-in ass-kissers) yammered on and on about "how can the President and Congress just ignore what the people want with respect to immigration....," because apparently the idea of a mass amnesty plan is somewhat less than popular among the rank-and-file joes in our fine country. Naturally, Hannity agreed whole-heartedly with this sentiment...getting more shrill by the minute...and punctuating his nauseating little rants with lines like "this bill was killed the first time because the public's voice was heard!"

I found this odd, because before I got home, he was absolutely berating some of the 2008 Presidential candidates for "holding their finger to the air" to choose their positions based on public opinion. This is the same guy who over and over has defended total assholes for "sticking to their convictions despite public outcry against them."

So let's recap: It's perfectly OK for elected officials to go against their beliefs and convictions as long as the outcomes they produce are cool with Sean. Any other time, it's wrong to do so.

What a smug, pompous ass.

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This is a funny story...and well worth your time (it's short). Of course, if this had happened in Boston, the guy would have been arrested.

That's right...treat every "tip" as if it will lead to the next 9/11. It's easy to get complacent, and start to slip into a mindset where you believe "cooler heads will prevail," but we've already seen that this isn't always the case, and mark my words, friends, it will get worse before it gets better.

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Just in case you think "opening a dialogue" is ever going to do any good, you might want to watch the video.....


Click here for the video

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