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Obama’s International Socialist Connections « No Compromise When it Comes to Being Right!
February 18, 2008Hilarious Hillary Poem: First Three Chapters « Jabberwocky
February 17, 2008Hilarious Hillary Poem: First Three Chapters « Jabberwocky
OUTSTANDING!
This is great stuff! Go there!
Can we get a libertarian for Obama? « Bricks
February 17, 2008Can we get a libertarian for Obama? « Bricks
Obama is anti Second Amendment.
Obama thinks he can talk our way out of terrorism.
Has Obama seen a tax that he didn’t like?
Obama attends a racist church.
This Conservative Libertarian refuses to vote for anyone like that.
Colorado Senate Bill 49
February 17, 2008COLORADO: Colorado: Mandatory Storage Bill Sent to Senate Appropriations Committee! Senate Bill 49, which requires mandatory storage of all firearms, would force adults to put all their firearms under lock and key or face an undetermined misdemeanor penalty if a firearm is later used in a suicide or crime. This dangerous bill renders homeowners defenseless and gives criminals a clear advantage in home invasions. If passed, SB49 would add to the already cumbersome bureaucracy that affects gun shops, gun shows, or anywhere else firearms are sold, by requiring them to post a sign informing gun owners that they must lock up their guns. Please contact the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and respectfully urge them to defeat this dangerous legislation. Contact information for the Senate Appropriations Committee members can be found here.
Source : NRA
Warfront with Jihadistan: Justice served
February 15, 2008From: The Patriot Post
“You can run, but you can’t hide.” So said President Ronald Reagan to terrorists nearly 20 years ago. This week, one jihadi who had been running was finally found, and let’s just say he won’t be in the terror business anymore. Senior Hizballah planner and operative Imad Mugniyah, wanted for more than 25 years, was killed Tuesday in Damascus by a car bomb, a fitting end for the man who pioneered vehicle bombings as an act of terror. Mugniyah was behind some of the most significant acts of terrorist violence ever perpetrated against Americans, including the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, and the 1985 murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem during an airline hijacking. However, he had virtually disappeared since the early 1990s. Syrian, Iranian and Hizballah spokesmen immediately blamed Israel and the United States for the car bomb, a charge Israel promptly denied. The authors of this bombing will likely never be known, but the end result is the same: justice served at long last to a terrorist with the blood of hundreds on his hands.
Turning to the ongoing terrorist threat, two documents recently recovered by U.S. forces in Iraq offer insight into the current state of mind of al-Qa’ida in Iraq: gloom and doom. Citing the sweeping changes that have taken place since the U.S. troop surge began, one captured document’s author laments, “[T]he Islamic State of Iraq is faced with an extraordinary crisis, especially in al-Anbar.” Patriot readers will no doubt remember that just 18 months ago the Marines’ top intelligence officer judged that “there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation [in Anbar].” While these documents represent the views of only two individuals, the enemy’s own words are the clearest possible indication of what effect the surge and the Sunni Awakening have had in Iraq, no matter how many times Harry Reid (D-nial) and Nancy Pelosi (D-featist) tell us it isn’t so.
“The gains [in Iraq] have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure! The troops have succeeded. God bless them. We owe them the greatest debt of gratitude, the sacrifice, their patriotism, and for their courage, and to their families as well. This is a disaster, and we cannot perpetuate it.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who, uh, supports the troops, God bless them!
Finally, justice for 9/11 may be served. On Monday, the Pentagon formally charged six jihadi suspects held at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes related to the September 11th attacks, with Pentagon officials saying they will seek the death penalty should the suspects be convicted. Among the six is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the U.S. military-tribunal system, said of the 169 charges to be brought against the suspects, “These charges allege a long-term, highly sophisticated, organized plan by al-Qa’ida to attack the United States of America.” The other five jihadis include Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged 20th hijacker; Ramzi Binalshibh, liaison between the hijackers and al-Qa’ida; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali (a.k.a. Ammar al-Baluchi), a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and lieutenant for operations; Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, one of al-Baluchi’s assistants; and Waleed bin Attash, who selected and trained some of the 9/11 hijackers. Needless to say, they are as fine a group as any to kick off the first capital trial under the military’s tribunal system.
Of course, the usual cadre of leftists, pacifists and dimwits (but we repeat ourselves) started howling that the indicted jihadis had been tortured and denied due process. We are not entirely clear on how making the Pentagon jump though years of legal hoops and modify its tribunal rules is not due process. As for torture, waterboarding may or may not be torture, but that has no bearing on the jihadis’ involvement in 9/11. We may soon see the Jihadi 6 sent to meet their 72 virgins.
Last week, we reported that the city of Berkeley, California, had resolved that the United States Marine Corps was not welcome to continue recruiting there. If they continued, it would be as “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” It seems that news raised the ire of many a patriotic American, forcing the city council to reconsider—now they will not send their hateful letter to the USMC. Not only that, but they issued a statement saying they “deeply respect and support” the men and women who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. Something makes us doubt their sincerity. Maybe it’s the fact that the angry anti-war group Code Pink still has a special parking space reserved outside the recruiting office.
In Congress, Rep. John Campbell (R-CA) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) responded by introducing the Semper Fi Act, which would strip Berkeley of all federal earmarks for fiscal year 2008, instead giving the money to the United States Marines for recruiting.
Apparently, the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, hadn’t seen this news as he ordered 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines to turn around and leave rather than engage in urban-patrol exercises in the downtown area. Despite the fact that Toledo police knew about the exercise days in advance and the Marines have held exercises there before, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (yes, that’s his real name) “asked them to leave because they frighten people,” according to a spokesman. “I wish they would have told us this four hours ago,” Staff Sgt. Andre Davis said. Indeed, the aborted exercise—busing the Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan—cost roughly $10,000.
Ohrah!
Gun Free Zones: Preferred by armed assailants. « In2thefray
February 15, 2008Gun Free Zones: Preferred by armed assailants. « In2thefray
I started calling them “Free Fire Zones” as soon as the law was passed. It shocked the local authorities to be sure. Here was a Senior Paramedic saying that criminals would have the temerity to actually break the law, and shoot up a school?
Aside from what was noted above I simply have to ask this question. I know, perhaps it is asking the impossible, but reportedly there were well over one hundred people in that auditorium … Why the hell didn’t they just rush that punk and kick the living crap out of him?
Shock Doctrine: Part I « Publius2012’s Weblog
February 15, 2008Shock Doctrine: Part I « Publius2012’s Weblog
This seems to be an exercise in historical rhetoric. Often using two unrelated things to hitch a point together somewhere else. Example: Noting that the actions of the C.I.A. went against the U.C.M.J. (Publius called it the “army’s” when in fact it governs all the services.) The C.I.A. is not a part of the military, sorry about that.
Then he calls out the Chicago School of Economics for abuses that were carried out in Brazil..? If he actualy knew anything about what is taught in Social Economics he would know better than to spout such nonsense.
He speaks about American mining operations in South America as if the businesses did nothing for the local population. Schools must not matter, nor fresh running water and sewer systems. Just to name a few.
Utopia will never happen, period. Free Markets do however offer the best hope for mankind to get near that state.
NewsMax soars in web ratings « Stiff Right Jab
February 14, 2008NewsMax soars in web ratings « Stiff Right Jab
Congradulations NewsMax, well done!
Ron Paul got only five percent
February 14, 2008“Republican Party candidate Ron Paul got only five percent of the votes [Super] Tuesday for his message of less government, lower taxes and following the Constitution. The American people have spoken. Five percent of the voters are for freedom, and 95 percent are for free stuff.” —Argus Hamilton
from Patriot Post
~snip~
I have commented on Ron Paul enough elsewhere on this blog. However, isn’t the above quotation a bit frightening?
PHOTOS OF HOFER RAINBOWS
February 14, 2008Here are links to file photos of Hofer Rainbow trout. Simple copy and paste. Also below is photo caption information. Please, credit photos to Colorado Division of Wildlife.
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This is a cross between a Hofer rainbow trout and a strain of rainbow that the DOW has used for many years. The Hofer cross rainbows grow more quickly than the traditional rainbows. This fish, hatchery raised for brood stock, is about 18 months old.
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George Schisler is an aquatic researcher for the Colorado Division of Wildlife and has been doing whirling disease research since the mid 1990s. He’s holding a Hofer cross rainbow trout that is about 18 months old. This fish was raised in a hatchery. But in the wild Hofer cross rainbows grow more quickly than traditional rainbow strains.
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These are hatchery raised rainbow trout that are 8 months old. On the right are Hofer rainbows that are about 8 inches long; the other fish are traditional rainbow strains. The Hofer rainbows grow faster in the hatchery and in the wild than traditional rainbow strains.
For more information about Division of Wildlife go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us.
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DOW SEES NEW STRAIN OF WHIRLING-DISEASE RESISTANT RAINBOW TROUT HATCH IN WILD
For the first time since whirling disease decimated most naturally reproducing rainbow trout populations throughout Colorado more than a decade ago, new strains of rainbows have reproduced naturally in the Gunnison River and in ponds located along the Frying Pan River near Basalt.
Colorado Division of Wildlife biologists are hopeful that the successful natural reproduction will lead to re-establishing wild, self-sustaining rainbow trout populations in Colorado where whirling disease has precluded wild rainbow trout recovery efforts. The fish, a cross of the Hofer rainbow trout and other rainbow strains that are used for stocking, appear to be resistant to whirling disease.
The fish were “young of the year”, and hatched in May 2007. They were captured in October when DOW aquatic researchers conducted electro-fishing operations in the two areas.
“They were plump, colorful fish, they looked good,” said Barry Nehring, an aquatic researcher for the DOW in Montrose who has been working on whirling disease since 1994. “This is indicative that we’ve had successful reproduction.”
Several of the fish were then sent for genetic testing to a laboratory in Boulder that verified the fish were offspring of Hofer-cross rainbows stocked in the river and the ponds in 2004 and 2005.
Hofer cross fingerlings were also stocked in the upper Colorado River near Kremmling in 2006 but researchers did not find any young fish there in 2007. Biologists said that fish grow more slowly in the Colorado River because the water is very cold. Consequently, researchers speculate that Hofer crosses stocked there might not yet have reached sexual maturity. They’ll look for young fish again this fall.
The Gunnison River is lower in elevation, water temperatures are warmer and it is renowned for producing large trout. Brown trout – which are resistant to whirling disease – thrive in the river. The ponds on the Frying Pan River also provide relatively warm water.
George Schisler, another DOW aquatic research scientist, is hopeful that the next positive milestone will come in late 2008. “The fish need to make it to age one and beyond, so we’ll see this fall,” Schisler said.
But judging from research conducted on the Hofer strain, scientists are confident that the fish will survive and continue to reproduce.
Whirling disease is caused by a microscopic parasite that passes through the fish’s skin. The organism attacks the cartilage of young fish and distorts the spine. The affected fish move in a whirling motion, basically swimming in circles when excited or when trying to escape predation. This type of behavior greatly reduces their ability to survive in the wild.
The disease was found in Colorado in the mid-1990s and it devastated most wild rainbow trout populations throughout the state.
During a whirling disease seminar in 2002 in Denver, a German scientist delivered a research report about a rainbow strain that was resistant to whirling disease. The Hofer rainbow trout was raised in a German hatchery. The DOW moved quickly to determine if the fish could survive in Colorado. Early in 2003, DOW researchers worked with the University of California at Davis to import the eggs and start a brood stock at the Fish Research Hatchery near Fort Collins. The fish were exposed to the disease and then dissected to see how many parasite spores had developed.
Schisler said researchers were stunned by what they saw. Spore counts in Colorado River Rainbows – which have been used for stocking by the DOW for years – exposed to the disease could reach 4,000,000 per fish. The highest count in the Hofers reached only about 3,000 and did not affect the fish.
DOW aquatics staff then started crossing the Hofers with existing rainbow stock and conducting more tests. Not only were the new strains of fish resistant to the disease, they also grew faster than traditional stocker strains. Hofers grew to catchable size – about 10 inches – in about 14 months, four months faster than the other rainbow trout strains.
In 2004 fingerlings of the new cross strains were first released into the Gunnison River. They were first released into the Frying Pan River ponds in 2005 and into the Colorado River in 2006.
Some catchable-size crosses were also stocked in two reservoirs near Berthoud in the spring of 2006. The fish continued to grow in the reservoirs and anglers were successful in catching them.
Mark Jones, aquatic research leader for the DOW, said Colorado leads the nation in the whirling disease war.
“No other state has conducted more research into identifying real solutions to the whirling disease problem,” Jones said. “We could tell this was a good thing from the start.”
Based on the extensive research, the DOW hatcheries are expanding production of the various crosses. In 2008 more than 1 million sub-catchable and catchable fish of the Hofer crosses are planned to be stocked in lakes and rivers throughout Colorado.
Research to examine the resistance of the Hofer crosses to whirling disease and their ability to survive in the wild is ongoing.
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The Colorado Division of Wildlife is the state agency responsible for managing wildlife and its habitat, as well as providing wildlife related recreation. The Division is funded through hunting and fishing license fees, federal grants and Colorado Lottery proceeds through Great Outdoors Colorado.
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