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He is also claiming that Israels attack was already being planned and that the abductions only caused them to accelerate their timetable. He is clearly trying to deflect the heat and bring his "party" back from the political brink. As much as he would like the rest of the to world believe that Israel was planning an invassion I doubt that many nations outside of the middle east will be easily convinced. Nevertheless, this is just another tactic to further tarnish Israels world image through false propaganda.

Jebs' call for a state of emergency 48 hours from expected landfall is hardly out of the ordinary and should not be perceived as an election year ploy. Whats amazing here is how fast liberals are to toss accusations around.

Hint Hint Iran. I can't believe they have not given him the boot yet. This certainly does not come as a surprise to me. One has to wonder if the rest of the world hasn't gotten the picture of how much this man hates Israel. Regardless, such obvious hatred does nothing to minimise the chreering of terrorist groups or slowing of anti-Israel rhetoric.

Meanwhile they make threats that an international peace force on their border to Lebanon would be considered an attack on their "sovereignty". All their threats and protests are clearly and simply because it would affect their ability to supply Hezb'allah. I honestly don't believe they are the least bit concerned for the people of Lebanon except to the extent of their own influence over them.

What I want to know is why make and sell cars that CAN go 125 mph if its illegal to do so in the first place? I am definately against having big brother in my car. I have read about black boxes that would store data relative to any accidents they may be involved in, but I definately do not need my car tattling on me. As for discounts on insurance, I believe we are all well aware that it's not people speeding that is the cause of high insurance premiums but people making false and/or exagerated claims against insurance companies. The second reason for high insurance premiums is because insurance companies are also in the buisiness of making money and once again the bottom line dictates what they can sell their service for. Just look at how many insurance companies are using vague and inconcise language in their incurance contracts to avoid paying out to Katrina and Rita victims. Even allstate has revoked its coverage for hail damage in south Louisiana understanding that hail is inevitable. If they can't make money at it they won't do it. It's sad but true. I know I wouldn't want to insure people for fire damage if they lived at the base of a volcano.

CNN just put up an article saying that Iran is now ready for "serious" negociations on the nuclear issue. One has to wonder how many time the rest of the world will fall for deceptions. All the while they continue to pursue their goal of "joining the nuclear club". Israel has already stated where they stand on the issue and they have proven time and again that their inteligence program is one of the best in the world. When the time comes I doubt they will be keeping any information to themselves.

You don't see them trying to hold such parades in Muslim countries but those who claim "tolerance" are being walked on and even mocked.

Perhaps this time around the U.N. has gotten the message. They sat on their thumbs for the last two years "observing" and doing nothing to press or enable the Lebanese government to rid itself of militias. Any force that presumes to replace Israel in southern Lebanon had better be prepared to defend Israel, or they will find themselves in Israels line of fire as well. Strangely enough there are probably countless millions of Arabs that believe such a "peace keeping" force will be there to defend Lebanon from Israel, despite Hizb'allah having started the conflict to begin with. While the destruction of airport runways, bridges and major roads may have been strategically necessary to prevent Hizb'allah from reinforcing its people in the south, it seems that "over-reaction" seems to be the common sentiment around the globe. Most people only see the event that started the conflict and have completely overlooked the daily barages of missiles into norther Israel. I guess, instead they saw those missiles as some sort of defense of Lebanon rather than an assault, which Hizb'allah started.

Fauxtography....thats clever.

Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght..... Perhaps I wouldn't go as far as to call it progress but they would at least be able to pass a few bills. Unfortunately they would be trying to pass bills like the minimum wage/estate relief bill which would not be a good thing. While I would like very much to see some bills that make sense I am almost afraid to give the upper hand to the republicans in every branch.

Reform the immigration debate By Jeff Sessions August 2, 2006 The Pence-Hutchison immigration-reform proposal, like the other prominent plans, fails to address critical issues relating to meaningful immigration reform. It must not become law. The legislation fails to provide a real solution for a number of important reasons. Namely, the proposal: 1) will allow for a virtually unlimited number of immigrants to come to the United States; 2) favors low-skilled workers; 3) provides more preferences to the eight NAFTA and CAFTA countries over the rest of the world; and 4) gives no preference for English-language or employment skills that help make immigrants successful in our dynamic economy. This plan swallows hook, line and sinker the idea that as long as there is a foreign worker wanting to come to America, and an American company that wants to hire the individual, the foreign worker should be admitted, allowed to work and put on a path to citizenship. This concept violates the principle followed by every other nation in the world, that immigration policy should be based on the needs of the nation, not the desires of those that want low-cost labor. Under the Pence-Hutchison plan, foreign workers will initially be granted two-year work visas, automatically renewable for an additional 12 years. Then the foreign worker is given an "X-Change" visa, newly created by the legislation. After five years, the "X-Change" visa will allow the worker to transition to permanent resident status (a green card holder). Permanent residents are entitled to citizenship after five years. Because "temporary" workers will have the right to bring their families, the right to stay and work for 17 years and then the right to stay permanently, the vast majority will certainly do so. A temporary worker program can play an important role in our immigration reform policy, but the Pence-Hutchison proposal, like the flawed Senate bill, does not create a real "temporary" worker program. To be truly "temporary," the workers' stay must be limited, for instance, to 10 months each year, and they cannot be allowed to bring dependents. This is common sense -- we cannot expect that workers invited to move their entire families to America and live here for years will want to go home. Who will uproot these long-settled families if they become temporarily unemployed? The answer is that no one will. Foreign workers entering under this proposal will overwhelmingly be low-skilled. It is well documented that such workers will cost the U.S. Treasury far more than they will ever pay in taxes. A flood of low-skilled workers will further depress wages for American workers who compete with them for jobs. There is a basic economic truth that cannot be escaped -- an excess of labor drives down wages, a shortage of labor causes wages to rise. Few dispute that in recent years lower-wage earners have seen their wages decline. Professor George Borjas of Harvard, the leading expert in the field, reports that immigration has already reduced the incomes of low-skilled workers by as much as 8 percent, or $1,200 per year. For a family making around $25,000 a year, a decrease such as this can be the difference in making it or not. By limiting the new program to only NAFTA and CAFTA countries, the bill would be a further and dramatic tilt to Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, over every other country in the world. At a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, a witness for the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Nial O'Dowd, explained that "if the Irish antecedents of Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan were trying to enter the United States today" they could not get in legally. He justified his comment by noting that "of the 1 million green card visas given out last year, about 2,000 went to the Irish." Irish settlers helped form this nation yet, amazingly, they received only two-tenths of one percent of our green cards last year. Finally, in establishing a good immigration policy for the United States through comprehensive reform, it is critical to decide the number of immigrants we can accept and the skills we want them to possess. Clearly, these decisions should be based on the national interest, not special interests. Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, developed nations all, have objective employment-based immigration policies, usually centered on a merit-based points system used to evaluate which potential immigrants will contribute the most to their society and take full advantage of citizenship opportunities. Why are we not considering reforms to our immigration system that take these important issues into account? The need for border and workplace enforcement is a given. What we have lacked in this discussion is a serious evaluation of the merit-based policies other developed nations have adopted. Neither have we had a real discussion of the number of immigrants that America should admit annually. Without such a discussion, good comprehensive reform cannot occur. Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

We are in agreement here I believe. If they openly support any group that has openly declared its intention to harm Americans and American interests they should be sent to join them. Even the EU has instituted laws that permit the authorities to deport anyone who promotes violence.

The Lebanese government is insisting that its military be involved in the effort. Personally I think the ties between the Lebanese government and Hezb'allah are too close to discount the possibility that valuable information would be leaked out. Such information could be used to exploit weaknesses in the peacekeeping forces lines allowing further attacks against Israel despite their presence.

Duh! That pretty much goes without saying. Iran disregard U.N. resolutions? Of course. What the world needs to take note of is that Russia and China will both continue to play footsie with Iran while they continue to admonish Iran for the world press.

To some degree I can understand why Israeli military would have sensored the video. Pro-palestinian news sources are already fabricating and exagerating their own accounts of incidents, why should Israel offer them any more propaganda amunition. These days I find myself yelling at news reports like some people yell at televised sporting events. The lack of credit they give us is insulting and even frightening at some points when you understand how many more people actually accepted the reports as the truth. These days I have to trust my instincts more and more as the lies continue to come.

I ask you, if there truly are so few people that actually make the minimum wage then how can it possibly affect the economy as you declare. "From what I can see, those who chose to work at jobs that pay the minimum wage are students, second wage earners in a family, the retired who have another source of income, and the undereducated." Now where do these people fit into the manufacturing process? What raw materials do they process? What products do these raw materials make that will so drasticly go up in price? Knowing what the divorce rate is in this country how can you even assume that any percentage of the working class worth mentioning is actually working as a second income? The point is that if so few people make minimum wage how on earth should it matter if they make 85 cents an hour? You say that increasing the minimum wage to 7.25 would harm the economy but you also say you would oppose increasing it to 6 dollars as well. That being the case perhaps the government should do away with the minimum wage altogether and let the buisinesses decide how much they should pay their employees. Really. We should let profits drive everything that way whenever the economy slows they can go up on their prices to compensate and if they get really stingy they extort money from us just to stay in business. It's ok to pay people less than they are worth for their efforts as long as the profit driven corporations are making their profit goals. Want to know a secret? If the minimum wage went up to a paultry 6 dollars an hour, the companies would still make a profit and the resulting increase in the cost of goods at the counter would be by the greedy companies adjusting their profit margin back up. You however would blame the government and the people making the minimum wage when all along its the profit mongers that are not willing to share the profits to help out a few people.

I am simply tired of the muslims chanting "death to Israel" and "death to America". Israel has done nothing to the Muslim world except exist. To some degree I can understand middle east hatred of the U.S. but when Iraqis, especially Shittes, protest against America after we freed them from Sadamms opression. It's insulting. Even now our government is pouring billions of dollars into the effort there and this is the thanks we get. As for Israel, perhaps it's time they clean out some of the old amunition and make room for more state of the art stuff. They have spent the last 50+ years being the middle easts punching back and it's about time they punched back. Unless the rest of the world intends to do something about terrorism they need to mind their own buisiness and let those who are the victims of it deal with it in their own way.

We should have left Sadam where he was.

Notice how they claim they were sent to defend Lebanon, as if Israel had plans to take it over. All the Arab nations talk as if Israel were out to take over the middle east when in truth all of the middle east has it in for Israel.

It does not say here that God loved the Jews so much that he decided to save everyone else too as long as they believed in Jesus, nor does it say here that God loved the world so much that whichever Jew decides to believe in him should have everlasting life. While I understand that the jews are the apple of Gods' eye, I know that it is not BECAUSE of the Jews that the rest of us are saved but through a single Jew, Jesus, that we are saved.

I have said it once and I will say it again. We all are paying to make up the difference between what these people earn and what they need to survive. Either we pay it through our taxes to welfare programs or we pay it at the register. I for one would rather pay for it at the register and stop paying extra for the government to manage such programs. As a single man making a touch over ten dollars an hour I know how hard it is to make ends meet. If I had a car note I would be forced to share an apartment with a room mate. Understanding how tight things are for me at 10 dollars an hour I fully sympathise with people who have no choice but to combine their incomes just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Those of you who are against increasing the minimum wage should try living on 20k a year or less and then tell me what you think. Or you can ignore me and go back to driving your SUV and whining about how an increase in the minimum wage would cost you more at the register. Boo hoo.

I can't express the anger I feel over this. It seems that the rest of the world chooses to ignore the fact that this is a religious war and that Islam is the instigator. The world looks at Israel and sees a massive military machine and automatically accuses it of abuse of power. The truth is that the size of Israels military is in direct proportion to the threat it is under of being "wiped off the map". Israels massive military, and its experience, its a direct result of the constant agression they have faced since it was proclaimed a nation. It seems the world chooses to overlook this and blame Israel for all of the problems in the middle east. It's very disconcerting. Come Jesus, come.

This is just more evidence that the world has lost its collective mind. Israel is doing what it must to end attacks on it's civilians and the rest of the world seems to think that Israel is somehow in the wrong. All we hear on the news is Israel attacked here or Israel attacked there but for obvious reasons there is little said about the volleys of rockets being fired into Israel. Israel has been under attack for decades now and because of this they are prepared, and as such there are few casualties to be reported on the Israeli side. I guess the rest of the world thinks that since the number of deaths are uneven then Israel is abusing its power or something. This could not be further from the truth. The truth is that the Muslims and Arabs have been the cause for Israels arming themselves as they have. I think any country that had been under attack for so long also would have invested just as much time and money, if not more, into their own safety. Anyone who blames Israel for over reacting is both misinformed and a hipocrit.

I am glad our government is supportive of Israel no matter what they claim is their reason. History, exclusive of the Bible, also shows that the Jewish people have been abused and persecuted to the extent that any rational and caring person should see that they deserve to finally be left in peace. Any intelligentperson with enough of the facts can easily deduce that the Muslim nations are waging a an unjust war against a people who are overwhelmingly outnumbered. Anyone who believes in fairness and justice would back Israel on those principles alone as long as they were properly informed. Those of us who believe and trust in the Bible as the word of God support Isreal as our duty as a servant of God.

The F22 is no longer the best fighter/bomber available. Try googling the F35. Certain versions of it even have vertical take off capability. The military channel has shown a documentary several times. Its supposed to be the combine efforts of developers from 9 different nations. The F22 may very well be the most advanced "stealth" fighter but it is not the most advanced in general. I have not seen any results on the F35 radar signature tests but estimates are that its signature will be that of a duck after the coatings are applied.