Time to Keep "Scrappy" Inside...1st Cat in Germany Found to have "Bird Flu"....

Well it seems that the H5N1 Bird Flu has arrived in Northern Germany and confirmed in a cat....the 1st time the virus has been identified in a mammal in the 25 nations of the European Union.

So the next time you see your little "fur ball" walking around outside and then coming inside to drop that little "present" in front of your feet...beware. "Tweety just may be your ticket to the Grim Reaper".

This stuff is starting to get a bit scary.

Click on link below for the full story as reported by the Associated Press:

JS Online: News:

Some other good news to report....

-It seems that "The Big Easy" is actually having a pretty good turn out for "Mardi Gras". I guess that is a good sign that New Orleans may yet just bounce back from the horrible Hurricanes that devastated it this last year.
I was reading an article in New scientist about all the problems that city is still facing and the outlook for it's future. While some of the things going on down there are on the positive-such as trying to repair the levees that broke and new retaining walls and flood gates....and now Mardi Gras being celebrated, though in a bit more of a keyed back state-I wonder if this once great city on the Shores of the Gulf of Mexico can bounce back from that horrific storm of last year.
The article that I read in New scientist last night also talks about the "inevitable gentrification" of the city as it is recreated.

School book 101 for the masses just in case: Gentrification=refers to the process whereby a low rent neighborhood is transformed into a high rent neighborhood through redevelopment, usually in conjunction with changing demographics and an influx of wealthier residents.
The term is used most frequently by those critical of this redevelopment, and historical examples (such as the demolition in the 1960's of entire blocks of old brownstones in Harlem to make way for hotels and strip malls) underscore the often thoughtless destruction of charming old working-class neighborhoods for commercial gain.
The term is occasionally also used by supporters, who point out that rising prices due to market forces in the inner city serve not only to enrich property owners and boost local tax revenues, but often these same forces can efficiently mitigate problems that plague dense urban areas, such as high crime rates, drugs, gangs, abandoned cars, piles of trash, and boarded-up buildings.

A little ditty on the new Mardi Gras celebration as reported by the Milwaukee Journal:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MARDI_GRAS?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Read below for my other post on a local Milwaukee happening that I am personally glad I missed.
I just hope they have the mess cleaned up in time for the next showing of "St Peter and the Treasures of the Vatican". We wouldn't want to have the Pope's bronze hands covered in "puke" now would we???

A link to this exhibition at the Milwaukee Museum that I surly plan on taking in...that is after the mess from the party I talked about below is cleaned up:
http://www.mpm.edu/exhibitions/special/vatican/index.php

Warm Regards.....

Martinifest leaves art museum shaken and stirred-They Were Standing on it-Grabbing it's "Boobs"...

Quotable
"It was crazy. People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork."
- Kathleen Christians,39, attendee

I couldn't think of a better title for this post if had come up with it myself...well maybe the following sentence could also have been used as I did use part of it after the Milwaukee Journal's initial title.

Nice to read a funny "uplifting" article about the citizenry of the Milwaukee area being responsible "adult drinkers"....NOT!!!

Way to set an example. What more could Clear Channel expect though?
Come on...this is "Brew City" where drunken malees and a tavern on every corner are as common as well......drunken malees and a tavern on every corner....

Quotable
"They were standing on it, grabbing the boobs, and somebody was just taking pictures with a cell phone,"
-Laura Collins, 35, attendee


Click link below for the entire "sordid" event and hopefully you will have as big a chuckle as I did.....
JS Online:Martinifest leaves art museum shaken and stirred

Happy Tuesday!!!

Lost Civilization Found...Claim Scientists

In the evening of 5 April 1815 the lieutenant governor of Java, Sir Stamford Raffles, instructed two boats in Batavia (the present Jakarta) to go to the Java sea because incredible explosions were heard (they thought a ship was in danger).
Later on it became clear that the eruption of Mount Tambora had caused the loud noise.

A total of 10,000 people on Sumbawa and the islands around it were killed. Thereafter 82,000 people died from starvation and diseases (a cholera epidemic broke out). A big part of Sumbawa was covered with a 1.5 m deep layer of ash. The sea around the island was strewn with dead trees and big pumice stones (a light, brittle and spongy volcanian stone) were floating around. A week later when the heavy eruption had come to an end, Tambora was no longer 4,500 m high but only 2,850.

So....Imagine a thriving island community of 10,000 or more people and on the outskirts, another 70,000 people. Then imagine that wondrous mountain outside your front door that you have looked at lovingly for so many years.

Now imagine in one instant that mountain exploding with the fury of the Gods and in another few minutes those 80,000 lives with their histories and stories and their very souls....All destroyed.

How awful.
Buried since the early 1800s, scientists and explorers believe they have found such a place that was indeed buried by a volcanic eruption back then.
Mount Tambora was supposedly the biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history and far outweighs even the historically massive volcano that destroyed Pompeii.
The story below even tells how this eruption affected the world for a time with some people calling that summer "The year without a summer".

Click on the link for more on this story....

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Our government Finally Taking Personal Responsibility for Failure??

I find this story a little refreshing. At least certian parts of this "government in disaray" is willing to take a little responsibility for some of the failures that have happened since this administration took over our "Once Great Nation".....

Click on link below for the full story of some part of our dysfunctional government taking responsibility...
JS Online: News:

With that I will bid myself a fond evening and go grab a bite to eat. My main nutrition today has been but one sugar cookie and 8 cups of coffee.

Timeline of Events Leading to Proposed Ports Deal.....

(A photo of David Sanborn -The Senior Executive of DP World-who has been nominated by Bush to be our New "Maritime Administrator" in charge of U.S. Ports and our interests in worldwide shipping and all other Maritime matters).




(Associated Press Photo of Union Workers at one of our U.S.Ports protesting the "Controversial Takeover" of some of our Ports by "DP World")

(Associated Press Graphic of Timeline of Events leading to the Ports Deal Controversy)

So.... following is the Associated Press version of the "Timeline of Events" leading to the Ports Deal with the UAE Based Company referred to as "DP World".

I am still seeing it as very strange that no where in the timeline is there even a mention of the "Senior Executive" of this company (Mr. David Sanborn) being nominated by President Bush to be our "Federal Maritime Administrator" of the U.S. Port infastructure.

A link to one of the Maritime Administration Web Pages with information on what this position is responsible for as well as some links to various officials in this part of the Federal Government:

http://www.marad.dot.gov/Offices/MAR-100.html

I thought for sure I would see this "connection" mentioned in the the following time line....but alas...I did not see one single mention.

And now, according to new news articles that I have read today, the U.S. Coast Guard has admitted to the press that it also has had reservations about links to "terrorism threats" based on it's overview of this company.

What is going on here?
I repeat the title of one of my previous posts on this blog....
"What is the meaning of Duh"????

Click on link below for the timeline of events according to the Associated Press.
(And add in there between Jan 17 and Feb 11 the nomintation of David Sanborn (by Bush) to the position of Federal Maritime Administrator of our U.S. Ports).....
JS Online: News:

I think I will try bringing this all together with a post entitled "Connect the Dots" in the near future. But I want to do some more digging so I can make sure I have all of my facts right.
There are a few more interesting bloggers I want to check out that I have heard about the last few days.
Stay tuned for more as I find things that seem to be amiss in regard to this deal.....

Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Concerns

So the Bush Spying network is at it again. Now they are requesting records of "internet searches" from Google (which by the way I think is poised to take over the world someday soon...reminder to self....buy stock now).

Will I have to start using the MSN Search engine??
I hope not. I really enjoy Google and all of it's innovative "Toys". And add to that I use their search engine quite frequently both at home and at work.

I predict that the Bush Administration's next move is to make the "internet of today" into a total government entity. Oh wait a minute...I almost forgot that it has been from it's inception since the age of DARPA and the 60s. (So scratch that last comment).

Click below to read a little more on the ensuing fight between King George's court and the Brainy Google boys.....

Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Concerns - ComputerVitals

How do you spell Duh?

After talking with an associate of mine earlier this evening at work I have come to the following conclusion on a few things. One area of concern that has always bothered me is why so many people seem to believe whatever they are "fed" via our government, official news outlets and those in a position of authority.

Many people in general are not really confident enough in thinking for themselves and often abdicate responsibility to and require their acknowledged leaders to step up and lead the way into awareness on a provocative issue like this before they will seriously consider it as a subject they need to be aware of, concerned about, and involved in.
Often, the uncertain public in general, not wanting to deal with something like this themselves, doesn't want to acknowledge this or, for that matter, be faced with the reality of any leadership failure in this regard. To do so would no doubt cause them even more uncertainty and nervousness, so they simply don't and avoidance and thereby ignorance is their default habitual path.

The general political leadership are well aware of the general public's apathy in this regard and their lack of doing anything is generally geared to that perception. In other words, they take their cues from their perception of the general public's attitude in this regard.

The few political leaders who might have just a bit more of this on their radar usually come by their extremely limited information by often being in bed with the secrecy types in some manner and of course are compromised to that extent.

Further, they really haven't the slightest idea how to start to go about dealing with this and the deeply embedded secrecy power they would have to go up against, so they simply don't and so avoidance and thereby ignorance and apathy becomes their default habitual path.

The secrecy insiders are aware, at least based on the degree of their individual secrecy need to know, but they're mostly focussed on special interests such as technological advancement gains and military intelligence gain agendas.
Although there may be contingency plans in place, I suspect that the bottom line is that they have no definitive responses or answers as to what they anticipate will be public concerns and pressure for them to supply if the truth were to come out into greater general awareness.

So, avoidance but without the ignorance becomes their default path and ever increasing self perpetuating secrecy is the result of that as well as their increasing self isolation away from interest in the welfare of those (you and I) they are suppose to serve.

The Testimony of Mr David Sanborn to the Senate on Being Nominated to Maritime Administrator

So this is the speech (in Adobe Acrobat Format) of the High Level Executive of the "Duabi World Ports" company that is poised to take over the operation of what now seems to be up to 21 of our nation' ports. I still repeat my question that I find it hard to believe that those in the government (Esp. Bush and his administration) that are currently arguing over this whole thing that this guy's connection to the whole thing has NOT been mentioned...as I have written about in my posts further down on this site.

Stay tuned for more info as I find it. I think this is just the tip of the "Iceberg" and that Bush is finally getting slapped in the face for all of his dirty underhanded deals.....

Click below to read Sanborn's speech to the senate commitee that is in charge of transportation. You will need to have adobe acrobat reader installed. As a courtesy I have included a link to download this application below the link to the speech:
http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/sanborn-020706.pdf

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

yes/no media and parallel worlds

As I continue to try and find out more about the "Ports Controversy" and keep learning more, I came across this guy's website and his "missives" on what he feels is going on. A lot of good commentary from others follow his musings as well.

As I wrote before it is just too strange that this "David Sanborn" guy is not being mentioned in any of the news articles in regards to the unfolding "Ports Controvery". It is af if he is completely "under the radar screen" for some reason and I cant seem to figure it out. He has to be a pretty big piece of this deal...but yet Bush nor the media is even mentioning him.
I have been doing some more digging and the more I leaen about this company (Duabi World Ports) the more "unsavory business practices" I am unearthing about this company and the people and other companies that are involved with it.

Seems like a lot of "backroom deals" going on over in the mideast and Bush's administration is coming up as a major accomplice in alot of the information I have been unearthing.

Too strange. I wonder how long it will be before all of these connections I am seeing are mentioned in the mainstreem news or even acknowledged by the administration.

Gotta get ready for work.....

Click on the link below for this gentlemen's views and the views of alot of others who have commented. I have also left a comment to his post towards the end of his site. My reply is authored by "jrep".

yes/no media and parallel worlds TPMCafe

A happy weekend to all....

Another View on the "Ports Controversy" from another Blogger

I have linked to this blogger as he seems to offer some very good points on what is going on right now across the globe in relation to a whole bunch of different things. One in particular being our sordid history with both the U.A.E. and Iran and even a little refresher on Iraq and the rest of the middle east.

Also he has included some very interesting perspectives from other government officials and has included links to a lot of other interesting stories that try to make sense of everything that has been happening since Iran decided to pull out their "Nuclear card" again and he mentions the controversy involving the "Muhammad cartoon" which I have blogged about previously.

Some of his paragraphs end up being long reads but one doesnt nessicarily have to read the entire thing to get a good idea of where he is coming from.

So click on the link below and start reading some enlightening missives on the current state of things......I hope he is wrong on some of the things but as I have said before....I think he may just be right.

I agree with this guy on his idea that he thinks the next part of this war on terroirsm will end up being Iran and then either just before or shortly after that the country that is supposed to shortly start managing most of our ports.....The U.A.E.

Thats my spin for today....
Warm Regards....
Once Upon a Time...: Getting Our Hate On: Now We Are (Almost) All Michelle Malkin

Cheneys Got a Gun . . .

Click on link below. Eveyone needs a bit of humor now and again.....

Grouper Media cheneys got a gun . . .

With broadband the video should load fairly quickly. If one is on dial up...be patient.

Update on Wed. Evening Protest in Front of Paul Ryan's Office

( A picture of a T-shirt I want to buy!!)

Well I made it to the protest in front of Congressman Ryan's office this evening.
I was running late as I had tons of errands to run and one of those being getting my driver's liscence renewed at the D.M.V. (That was an hour long wait just there....).

I got into Downtown Racine around 530pm and unfortunately the group was just starting to break up.


I did get to talk to a few nice people and I shared my views on the latest scandals unfolding in Washington and signed a petition to send to Washington to stop the domestic spying. I also signed up for an email news letter from one of the protest organisers and got a flier for a speech that will be held on an upcoming March monday where a Marquette University professor will be speaking about some pretty cool subject matter.

I was kind of dissapointed that not one of my friends or associates from work offered to go with me. But that is ok. I understand that everyone probably had other things to do.
It was a very nice half hour that I spent with some very like minded individuals though and I had a nice time in all.

Warm Regards for a good Thursday to all.....

Associated Press is Reporting that Bush knew NOTHING about the Sale of our Ports Infastructure...

This stuff with Bush just keeps getting better and better.....

And this is after I discovered that he personally nominated a senior executive of the very same company that wants to buy the port operations to the federal government position of "Maritime Administrator"!!
(See my post below this one for more info on that).

Maybe he (Bush) has forgetten that he knows Dave Sanborn.
I seem to remember another time during the presidential elections a few years ago where George claimed he didnt know quite a few people and then later on his face turned up in photos with him....too funny.

So to get back to my post....
I just read a report from the AP via the Milwaukee Journal Online and in part of the story, it says that the White house did not tell Bush about the secretive negotiations with the company in question.
I find that impossible to believe and I find it equally impossible to even think that the A.P. would not be picking up on some of the things I have discovered.

So I decided to email as many editors of the Associated Press that I could.
Following is a copy of the email I just sent out.
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From the desk of John Repinski
Wed-Feb. 22, 2006



To the editors of the Associated Press:

To whom it may concern,

I am a reader of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal and as such I read many of the Associated Press Reports via the newspaper's online edition. I enjoy your articles very much and also have much admiration for your writers-journalists.
But with the unfolding story regarding the "Sale of some of our Ports to a foriegn company based in the U.A.E., I decided I wanted to try and get my thoughts about the story to one of your reporters or editors to see if they have noticed the following connection......
I would like to know if anyone in the AP has any idea of the connection of one of "Duabi's Ports" chief executives (David Sanborn) being nominated as Maritime Administrator for the U.S. government by none other than President Bush. He will be reporting directly to Minetta.
Add to this your article which I just read in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PORTS_SECURITY?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

......says Bush knew nothing about this pending sale of our ports before it was approved...even though he personally nominated a chief executive of that company to be a senior member of our federal government that will essentially be in charge of all of our port infrastructure in this country.
It all just seems a little weird that all of the above could have been missed by your reporters. Or is that something you do not feel has any bearing on this unfolding story....I sure think it does as do quite a few people I have talked to in the last day since Bush started sounding his "I wont back down horn" to congress.
To me it makes it seem all that more apparent why Bush would be fighting for this deal to go through being that he surly knew of what was happening, what with nominating Mr. Sanborn to that post and all.

(Then again maybe I am wrong but somehow the pieces of this story just don't seem to fit together too tightly when it comes to the White House and Bush's involvement in all of this).

Warm Regards,

John Repinski

PS: I would gladly be up for any comments you may have to the above items I noted.

You can reach me at 262-xxx-xxxx (home phone) and my email address is
x.xxxx@xxxxx.xxxx.xxxx

(I have deleted my phone number and email from here so my right wing neocon friends cant harrass me....)
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The Newest Bush Problem that could be a Big Problem for Everyone

Ok, so my conservative friends may say I am going out on the "Crazy Limb" here but I was thinking about this very thing the other day when I first read about it and now I am sure there is a big problem brewing in Wahington and the more tv news I watch tonight the more convinced I become that this is going to be a biggie. But then again what I am about to theorise on will probably find a way of being buried and suffocated just as most of the other weird things that have been going on were. At least in the mainstreem media that is.

A foreign company (based in Saudi Arabia no less) taking over 3/4ths of our "Sea Ports". Just the idea alone of us (being the U.S.A.) NOT being in control of our ports of entry scares me. More on this company I just found out about is further down in my post. Pretty interesting stuff to say the least and if you play the kid's game of "Connect the Dots".....it would seem plain to see that something big is going on here. So bear with me here throughout and hopefully you will all see what I am starting to see.
Add to that, a foreign country where "terrorists" have been harbored and where a lot of the "supposed 911 hijackers" came from....

So.....I don't know about anyone else but things just don't seem to add up.
And I guess I am not the only one thinking these things. Even some (quite a few actually) conservative republicans are voicing their concerns (as per the article at the bottom of my post from the "Milwaukee Journal" tells) but the only person or people that are trying to "SHRUG" it off is the Bush Administration.

And after digging into the company a little bit more, I can now understand why Mr. Bush wants this "deal" to go forward so badly. It seems that alot of planning behind the scenes has been going on for quite a while and just like a puzzle, the pieces that I see are starting to come together into a neat little picture that is worthy of framing.
It seems that according to this article.....
http://www.dpiterminals.com/fullnews.asp?NewsID=39

....which I gleemed from a website belonging to one of the companies involved in the "deal", one of their high ranking executives has just been appointed to a "Very prestigious post" by the President himself. Meet the newsest future member of our Federal Transportation Department:
Dubai, 24 January 2006: -
Global ports operator DP World today welcomed news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator, a key transportation appointment, reporting directly to Norman Mineta -the Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member

According to the website, this company is a pretty major player on the world market and is probably one of the biggest in the middle east.....which is funny as this is where all hell is still breaking loose and where so many of the bad guys have come from. It is amazing to me the tangled web that our president is currently weaving. I have to wonder what this is all amounting to.

Then there is another company or organization that I have heard about before that is connected to the above company. After reading just a little of their "mission statements" and "visions like this statement gleemed from one of their pages.....boy oh boy it sure sounds like the UAE (United Arab Emrites) is poised to start taking over a large part of our world as we know it (if it already hasnt)....
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From the Free Zone site:
I would like to welcome you to the official website of Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority (DAFZA).
Dubai Airport Free Zone was established in 1996 and now it is considered as one of the fastest growing Free Zones in the region. The Free Zone provides all the facilities required by multinational companies worldwide to establish their regional offices to capture the business opportunities available in the neighboring markets of over 1.2 billion consumers.
DAFZA website is designed to provide a complete view of all the information, facilities and services that the customer will be requiring, applying meanwhile, the latest art, design and technology in order to deliver an easy and user-friendly access to our customers. DAFZA online services are geared to provide our customers a quick access to the various facilities and services provided by DAFZA.

A direct link to the site: http://www.dafza.gov.ae/en/Default.aspx
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I so wish I was a "fly on the wall of Bush's office" so I could prove all of what I am rambling about in this post....

I have a theory here but I don't know if I even want to go into it because when I "link" my thoughts on this to all of the other things that have happened since the day 911 happened....it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
Am I crazy in theorizing that it isn't in the realm of possibility that the ongoing campaign of "subterfuge" from within our administration is now at this very moment planting the "seeds" of another "attack" on our country and then will try to make it seem that it was all unavoidable and a key part of this ongoing plan will be our new "Maritime Administrator".
I am watching CNN right now and the president is talking about how important it is to let this deal go through but yet he mentions NOTHING AT ALL about the connection of this Mr. Sanborn to this big middle eastern country that is based in the same area as where some of the 911 hijackers came from. This stuff is just so lethal.....I cant even begin to think what path this lunatic (Bush) is taking us down.....

I seriously think it is in this country's best interest to think very long and hard about giving up our ports to a foreign nation...even though it is only a company that is based in a foreign nation.

Unfortunately I think the proverbial "Can of Worms" has been opened along time ago and this latest piece is just another step in the "Massive Conspiracy" to take our country into a very scary "Police state" that frankly is reminding me more and more of what started to happen in "Nazi Germany".

And I repeat my question....why if so many people are against this whole thing...is the president so adamant about this "tragedy in the making" going ahead??
I think this is way above my head and probably 99% of the population. But it doesnt take much thinking to realise that there is something so seriously much larger at stake here......

I personally think someone else is pulling the strings here and that our president is truly just a puppet for some much bigger, much sinister group of powerful deranged individuals who will stop at nothing (and I do mean nothing) to bring in the "New World Order". In other words...Bush got his "marching orders" from some of the bigwigs in the "Bilderberg Group".....
http://www.bilderberg.org/
(Click on link above for more info on this very big part of our future weather we like it or not)

(I personally have a feeling that this is the start of something very big.
I hope that all those on the good side of power can muster the strength and the will to fight this "port takeover" from happening. If they can then maybe we still have a chance at a nation that "Thomas Jefferson and a few other ancient souls had in mind for this country. )

Click on link below for the Associated Press article on this latest episode of "The Bush Chronicles" which is what I am thinking of changing my blog to....
JS Online: News:

The above may be quite a bit for some to digest and if I have confused some of you, I apologize in advance. But by digging into things and not taking things at "face value"...things tend to come into perspective just a bit more.....

Warm Regards for a good week to everyone....

John

"King George" coming to Milwaukee Today....Updated at 1:45PM

Above: A photo of King George at the Johnson Controls Plant in Milwaukee ealrier today....................
"Happy President's Day".....as Bush says "The only person working on President's Day is the President!!" Isnt he just the most handsome man you have ever seen????How I wish that only the president was the only person working today was true. I really need a day off myself......

Energy, Energy, Energy..... what are we to do??
King Goerge says: "Well Dick, seein that you shot that feller, and that we had our hands caught in the "spying cookie jar" and now that people are startin to figure out that we is just over there in Iraq to dig for some of that ol Black Gold.....how are we to cover our tracks....?"

Prince Dickey replies" "I gots it boss!! Lets drum up a "new energy policy" to deflect the heat off the reason we be over there in the dessert!!"

George says: "Now why didn't I think of that you darn fool??"

Dickey says: "You just did boss...you just did!!"

George says: "You'r right ol buddy...I did...didn't I?? Dagnaggit, I am the smartest piece of Texas Shit I know!"

So.... did you know that we Americans are too dependent on "oil"???
I would never have realised....(hmm).
And to keep our great nation the number one "Superpower" on the face of the planet, we need to have the most supply of that "goo" that keeps the world humming. But to attack a soverign nation to do it and then get caught red handed... (and if anyone thinks that this war was started to stop a dictator or wipe terrorism off the charts...I really DO HAVE A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU IN BROOKLYN. AND YES IT REALLY IS FOR SALE!!)

Q: So to cover up his "War on Oil", the "King" is starting to spread a "smoke screen" of sorts about himself. Why do this?
A: To try and "distance" himself from the ongoing and pretty prevailant views that he orchistrated the War in Iraq to get his hands on that pretty impressive supply of "black gold". What better way to that than to "champion" alternative energy sources.

And you thought that his "State of the Union" address was really about "alternative energy and us using too much oil".
No my friends.....it was just the start of a very intelligent campaign to try and get people to not think about or further delve into the idea that this war was and is being fought for one reason only....to keep the supply of oil flowing into our "great nation" with a "great leader" at the helm.
Welcome to the beggining of the "4th Reich".......

Click on over to this website for FYI of George's visit. I wish I didn't have to work on monday. I would surly be sitting at Mitchell Airport when his plane lands to give this asshole a piece of my mind....oh well.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=402769

I do plan on watching the webcast just to see what nonsense will come "dribbling" out of his mouth this time.

To be continued.........
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Good Morning.....

Here is the link to Bush's speech which is about 40 minutes long.
http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/multiplayer.asp?id=11230

It is only an audio broadcast and I have only started listening to the beginning but from the first few minutes....it seems like "King George" is "tooting his horn and saying that the economy is "FINE", taxes are "LOW" and recalling "the Good Old PAST" while talking about the "GLORY YEARS of the 8os'".....it is actually quite funny in spots.
Esp. the part where he said "We got alot of Sharp "Partisan Elbows" up there in Washington these days......
while talking about his energy strategies.....


Karl Rove must have been very busy creating this speech.........and I have to admit that his speech sounds exactly like I thought it would......talking about a bunch of things that should be taking the "HEAT OFF OF" all his dirty deals and shenagins.......

So how long do you think it will be before the secret service and all the other government cars and trucks and airplanes and jets will be running on "itty-bitty batteries"?
It would be fun to see all those little black "mini cars" instead of those big black "Lincoln Navigators" that I have seen our federal government and secret service use in the past. (And I have seen this close up when one of our Senators visited Racine a few years ago......it was amazing how much gas those "guzzlers" use and how many vehicles were in the convoy for "one senator".......

A Good Monday to All.....

What are You Doing this Wednesday???

"Above: Our next President of the United States of America....Mr. Russ Feingold"

"Above: One of the "evildoers" of today's society.....the Anticrist possibly???"

Where will you be at 5pm this Wednesday?

Feel like joining me and hopefully a whole bunch of other "like minded" and or "otherwise" individuals for a worthy cause?? There is so much going on in the current administration that there needs to be things, like the following event, for people to be able to voice their opinions on all the criminal shenanigins that are going on in "King George's" court of "Clowns". So, if interested then read on......

Then plan on meeting in front of Congressmen Paul Ryan's downtown Racine Office which is located at 304 Sixth Street in downtown Racine.... at 5pm. Why would I want people to meet me there on this date at this time??

I will tell you why: The "Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice" is joining with groups across the country this week to protest the Bush Administration's "domestic spying".
The local protest, part of national "Witness to Lawbreaking" events will be held at this location at 5pm on Wed.

"Witness Against Lawbreaking" is a phrase from a senate statement made by Sen. Russ Feingold. The statement will be read at the protest.
According to the "Journal Times of Racine" newspaper (where I found out about this event and got some of the information above, which suprises me being that this newspaper is so right wing whacko it is unbelievable that they would even mention this event by the way), all interested people are welcome to join the protest.

Yes I say...lets kick some republican Ass!!!

PS: Bob you are welcome to join me in a spirit of partasinship if you like. I will even pick you up!!

More on the "National Witness to Lawbreaking Events" and the "Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice" to follow below this post if I can find some links on the web......

Information on the National Witness to Lawbreaking events:
http://political.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=34&id=6894-2957659-ly9JTHUE1XSTpFAfVy5DVA&t=2

And some more background on what these protests are all about. Some pretty good reading can be found here: http://www.bordc.org/

Information on the "Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice: http://www.wnpj.org/pdf/racine06.pdf

(This is a PDF document so in order to see it you will need to have, at a minimum, the Adobe Acrobat Reader. I have included a link to the download page for Adobe. The reader is free of charge.)
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Information on the "Mother" orginization which is called "The Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice":
http://www.wnpj.org/orgs

I hope some of my friends will be willing to join me this Wed. at 5pm in downtown Racine.
If you feel like planning ahead and maybe even grabbing a bite to eat afterwards or maybe just stopping somehwere for a quick beer then give me a jingle via email: jrepinski@gmail.com

Warm Regards......John

A story to Warm the "Cockels" of your Heart on a Cold Winter Weekend

It may be One Degree Below Zero with wind chills in the minus 30's here in South East Wisconsin, and though it is freezing cold outside, after reading the following little ditty-my heart (some people may say I do not have one....but I really do) warmed up a few degrees....

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=402217

....The story tells of a couple who just couldnt live without one another. And alas they are together again....maybe not in South East Wisconsin, but somewhere much much better....

Happy Thoughts for a pleasent weekend to all.

Deadly bird flu found in northern Europe - Breaking News

"Awk Awk Awk"....

The "Bird Flu is getting a bit closer to our shores. I personally thought it would take alot longer than it has. Indications from this article are that this "avian flu" which has shown to jump indiscriminately from birds to humans is tracking further west at an alarming rate:

New Scientist Deadly bird flu found in northern Europe - Breaking News

I myself was sicker than a "dog" last week, having suffered from an "Upper Respitaory" infection that really threw me for a loops. I am still trying to recover from that one. Imagine if this flu does the "complete jump" from our fine feathered friends over to us humans.

There are going to be a lot of sick people around......

Hijacking the Internet

This just in:

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies have a vision for the Internet's future. Verizon, AT&T (formerly SBC), Comcast, and Bell South want to create a privately run and branded "pay-as-you-go" Internet, making everything we do online a "billable," revenue-generating service. Our every cyberspace move will be tracked and stored so we can be better marketed to (a data collection system that might even rival the NSA's!). Those with the deepest pockets--think corporate special interest groups and major advertisers--will get preferred treatment. Their content will show up (and be processed) the fastest on our computer and television screens. Content seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, may be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out, say "white papers" and other documents given to the cable and phone industry.........

Click below for full story:

Hijacking the Internet MediaChannel.org:

......."Unless there is action, we will have a wonderful new medium for advertising and entertainment from Big Media companies--but a poor one for democratic discourse, alternative expression, and political dissent."

Feingold stalls Patriot Act

Our very own Wisconsin Senator is rightfuly not afraid to voice his opinion on the "National "Spy" Act.........

JS Online:Feingold stalls Patriot Act

I find it amazing that one couragous individual is willing to go up against King George and his cronies.
Seems to me that there is a possible canidate here for the 2008 presidential election.

What do ya think??
Me thinks it could be a good idea and me also thinks that this guy could possibly be leading our nation in a few years....and if that were to happen, I would drop all of my plans to eventually move to Canada (Im only partialy packed anyway).....

Happy Thursday to all.....

Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax !!

This is a chilling if not very scary story to read and some of my friends may further call me a left wing "whacko" but consider the following and then read the story by clicking on the link below....

Given what is emerging about 911, what are we to believe? The administration has reached another nadir of unpopularity, one even deeper than the one it was in before 911. However, if there is another terrorist attack at this point, it is going to be blamed, not honored with the support of a shocked nation.

So what would motivate it to orchestrate another attack, if indeed it orchestrated the first one? It knows that what few supporters it has left would abandon it if this was done. Homeland Security would be painted as another FEMA-style farce. Beyond being impeached, the president might literally be run out of town on a rail.

However, it could be that the attack will be so appalling that the administration will, quite simply, end the republic altogether and commence frank dictatorial rule.

If such an attack happens, there seems a distinct possibility that it will have been either officially inspired, actually orchestrated by a government run amok, or allowed to happen. Even if the terrorists are real and they are indeed responsible for such an attack, it wll represent a failure of government so profound that we will need the administration to resign. There will have to be a special election, or a special convention of the Electoral College to choose new leadership.
However, that's not what will happen. If there is an attack, the country will be battened down tight by the administration. It will become a dictatorship, and will remain so until the terrorists are defeated.
But they will never be defeated.

Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax - Yahoo! News

Comments welcome. (Either on the site here itself or via email)

Warm Regards for a good weekend to all.

A Crime in my West Racine Neighborhood that is worthy of "Movie of the Week"

It started around noon on Thursday according to the "Racine Journal Times" newspaper....

Link to the Journal Times Story:http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=3906

.... Wife comes home for lunch, she is taken hostage by two "soon to be bank robbers", her son comes home from school later in the afternoon and is told from outside by his mother (who is inside the home with a gun pointed to her head) not to come in as she has "The Flu".
Then this woman's "father in law" stops by the house (he has a key but for some reason its not working) and no one answers, he peers through the windows and doesnt see anything and leaves.

Move forward to 530pm and the husband comes home from his day at "The Bank of Elmwood" where he works....
He comes into the house and is bound and taken hostage in his own home along with his wife who has now endured being held hostage since noon.

This goes on through the evening, with phone calls from the parents, the couple refusing offers of dinner with them, as the wife is "ill with the flu".....
..... and then sometime around 3AM on Friday morning, the kidnappers take the husband to the bank where he is employed to get money from a safe. They "bind" him there, take off in his car, the car is found by the police just a block or so away, the wife at the same time unbinds herself, walks over to this neighbor's house clutching a knife and calls 911 to report the above ordeal...or parts of it at least and then collapses in neighbor's daugter's arms.

I dont know about anyone else but if this all happened the way it played out....my god.....these two folks have to be traumatized for life. And if so, my prayers and thoughts are with them....

.....But something just does not "smell right" to me with the whole scenario. (A few others that have posted comments on the "Journal Times story site" that I linked to above are thinking some of the same thoughts).
It kind of sounds like an "inside job".
And by that I mean something worthy of some pretty smart and caculating people. Maybe other employees of the bank where husband works or.......you can fill in the blanks.
There just seem to be alot of "holes" in this story and I am not even a detective...though I am pretty good at conspiracy theories. Why didn't the "kidnappers-robbers" kill these two after all of this.
Surly they (the kidnapper-robber combo) must realise that if they are ever caught, this couple will identify them and all of these crimes (home invasion, kidnapping, bank robbery) will positively lead to life imprisonment. And to bind wifey so loosely that she could untie or unbind herself.....I just gotta say it all sounds a bit crazy.

Some things just do not add up. Twenty or even ten years ago, most of these things would have gone unnoticed, but today with CSI and all the other law and order type shows and just alone all the "facts" that have been brought to light from that afternoon into the next morning make me think that if not a total "inside" job...at least help from somewhere within the friends or families of some of the bank employees...
I don't personally know these people but I like I said, if all of this truly played out the way the news strories are saying then I feel very sorry for them.
If, on the other hand, something more sinister happened...then I hope the authorities uncover it quickly before someone flys off to South America weather it be a man in a dress and his black buddy or another associate of said bank or some other whacko who thinks they can get away with this stuff. But being in Racine, that is exactly what will probably happen. No one will get caught and if eventually they do, they will probably get probation or a suspended sentence...

A side note: Another of the neighbors was supossedly intimately involved, according to his blog post which I have posted a bit of below as well as a link to the rest of his post........

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My Neighbors Were Held Hostage by Bank Robbers
This is not a joke. There is a nice couple that lives two doors down from my house in Racine, WI. Michael is an employee at the Bank of Elmwood. Yesterday two armed men forced their way into Michael and Jessica's house and held them hostage. Then very early this morning they took Michael to the bank and forced him to give them money. At about 4am Jessica got free from her restraints and came to my house for help. When my daughter answered the door (I spent the night at my girlfriend's house last night) Jessica was standing there barefoot and clutching a knife. She was obviously afraid for her life. Jessica was shaking and hyperventilating and frantic about her husband. After she used our phone to call 911 she broke down crying while my daughter held her until the police arrived. Thankfully Michael and Jessica were not physically harmed. The bank robbers released Michael after they got the money they were after. As of this writing the bank robbers are still at large.

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Comments anyone???
Feel free to reply....

And here are some of the comments from the Journal Times story that various people have posted over the course of the past few days...



RacineGuy23 wrote:
I hate to offend those who know the victims and I have NO first hand knowledge of this event; but this has all the telltale signs of an inside job. I could be wrong but it seems like a highly advanced crime if done by an outsider - the time and effort and research needed. Also, law enforcement people will tell you that most of these types of robberies, burglaries, and thefts involve "insiders". Just a thought. Hope the police are thorough and open-minded in the investigation.
02/04 22:44:12

Webbie wrote:
Well - I DO have some first hand knowledge of this case and let me tell you: there are GLARING inconsistencies in the stories here and there will be a huge "change" in the focus in the investigation as early as Monday. Mark my word.
02/04 22:50:09

Ordering a pizza in 2010-Scary Scenario

1984......still coming but maybe a fews years late....

This link came from a friend.
I implore everyone to click on the link and listen to the "phone call" the ensues as well as look at the web page as the call progresses.

It gave me the "willys" to say the least.....

AdCritic Interactive

Funeral protest bill would fail test of law

This article is from my "Home town" newspaper, which I try to view every once in a while online. (More or less to keep up with "Back home" going ons.....

I have to agree with the writers of this article. Mainly because if we pass this bill, we WILL be restricting that 1st Ammendment Right that we all hold near and dear to our hearts.
Read the entire article, as at times it doesnt seem to make sense...but when you read the entire article, it all comes together like the author intended.

Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Funeral protest bill would fail test of law

Bush Countdown Clock

I thought this was kind of cool. A clock that shows how many days, hours, minutes and seconds that "King George" has to go in the current administration.

Go to the site to see exactly how long he has to go in office.
When I blogged about this, he had approx. 1082 days and 11 hours or so.....

BBspot - Bush Countdown Clock

Common cold may save us from bird flu - Breaking News

I have blogged about this FlU before and from all accounts that I have read up to today, the prognosis for avoiding an eventuall pandemic is slim to say the least.

But now today, an article in "New Scientist" gives some hope on avoiding this nasty killer that has already emerged in parts of Europe after having escaped from Asia this last winter.

And the hope comes from the common cold! Imagine that.
Nature sure does work in funny ways.
Read on below for the full scoop:

Common cold may save us from bird flu - Breaking News Print New Scientist

Crawford's Take: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'"

An interesting "ditty" I just read on Renee's blog about a not much talked about provision of the "Revised Patriot Act" that the Bush Administration wants to get approved. (I agree with her...I am now getting scared). Read on by clicking the link below. It will take you to Renee's site and in particular her post about this subject:

Crawford's Take: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'"

New Orleans: Part Duex (Takes a licking...)

....And Keeps on Ticking:

"Someone" sure has New Orleans on their radar screen lately. First the hurricane that pretty much destroyed the city and now a "winter" tornado. This global warming stuff is starting to seem pretty ominous.
Read Full story by clicking on the link below:

JS Online: News:

And the "Groundhog" in Penn. saw his shadow this morning, so I guess that means "six more weeks" of mild winter. We will probably get a blizzard up here in Wisconsin now....

And as "Paul Harvey" says...here are the rest of the stories (a sort of news capsule of sorts) from today's associated press:

Latest Updates from AP
U.S., Europe Gather Support for Iran Move
Rage at Drawings Spreads in Muslim World
CIA Chief Says Wiretap Disclosure Damaging
Bush to Request $70B More for War Funding
Tornadoes Blow Through New Orleans
Bono Pushes U.S. to Increase Aid to Poor
Punxsutawney Groundhog Sees His Shadow
Worker Productivity Slows, Labor Costs Up
Woman Eats 26 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Sweden's Naslund to Miss Turin Olympics
U.S., Europe Gather Support for Iran Move
Rage at Drawings Spreads in Muslim World
CIA Chief Says Wiretap Disclosure Damaging
Bush to Request $70B More for War Funding
Tornadoes Blow Through New Orleans
Bono Pushes U.S. to Increase Aid to Poor
Punxsutawney Groundhog Sees His Shadow
Worker Productivity Slows, Labor Costs Up
Woman Eats 26 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Sweden's Naslund to Miss Turin Olympics