Kristol reports:
1) Sandra Day O'Connor resigns next week.
2) Bush appoints Gonzales
3) Genuine conservatives scream that Gonzales is not conservative
4) Rove retorts that "He's a little more conservative than O'Connor, quitcha b$^%&-a."
5) Conservatives finally understand that GWB is a poseur.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Fraud on the Court
NOT on the Milwaukee JS' front page:
The women behind the Supreme Court cases that led to legalized abortion told a Senate panel Thursday they never intended to help the abortion rights movement and claimed they were duped by lawyers representing them more than three decades ago.
The anti-abortion views of Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano, the anonymous plaintiffs in Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, are well-known, but it is the first time both have testified together in Congress.
Both women have tried unsuccessfully to overturn the cases that have spawned years of bitter debate over the question of abortion. They were called, along with legal and medical experts, to testify on the consequences of the 1973 decisions that found a Constitutional right to abortion.
The hearing before a packed Senate conference room was convened by Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, an ardent abortion opponent who is eyeing a run for president. He called it "the first in a series to highlight the effect certain Supreme Court decisions have had on American life."
Brownback, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, already has held hearings this year on the need for a constitutional amendment to protect marriage and the need for more federal obscenity prosecutions.
Cano, 57, told the panel she was uneducated, poor and pregnant with her fourth child when lawyers recruited her to challenge Georgia's anti-abortion statute. She claims she never authorized lawyers to say she wanted an abortion.
"I feel like my name, life and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes," Cano said.
McCorvey, 58, called herself "a pawn of the legal system" and recounted her decision to join the anti-abortion movement 10 years ago after she spent time working in an abortion clinic.
Neither Cano nor McCorvey ever had the abortions at issue in their cases.
Among those testifying in favor of Roe v. Wade was Kenneth Edelin, associate dean of Boston University School of Medicine. Edelin recounted his experience as a young doctor in 1966 trying to save the life of woman who had a botched illegal abortion and urged lawmakers not to "turn back the clock" on abortion rights. (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11969357.htm)
From other sources:
The choice of panelists was made equally by Brownback and Feingold. The constitutional law attorneys arguing that Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were constitutionally unsound decisions were Teresa Collett, Esq., Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN and M. Edward Whelan, Esq., President, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC.
Those arguing that they were "sound law" were R. Alta Charo, Esq., Professor of Law and Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, and Karen O'Connor, Esq., Professor of Government, American University, Washington, DC.
[Sen. Jeff Sessions commented]: "I've heard these ladies before, known about their wanting to change what was done in their names and without their permission, but to have them here before us, is remarkable. It sounds like fraud was done on the [Supreme] Court. We need to look into this." (http://anniebanno.blogspot.com/2005/06/sounds-like-fraud-upon-court-pls.html)
The hearing was sponsored by Sen. Brownback. Sen. Feingold was present throughout and did not comment extensively.
The women behind the Supreme Court cases that led to legalized abortion told a Senate panel Thursday they never intended to help the abortion rights movement and claimed they were duped by lawyers representing them more than three decades ago.
The anti-abortion views of Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano, the anonymous plaintiffs in Roe v. Wade and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, are well-known, but it is the first time both have testified together in Congress.
Both women have tried unsuccessfully to overturn the cases that have spawned years of bitter debate over the question of abortion. They were called, along with legal and medical experts, to testify on the consequences of the 1973 decisions that found a Constitutional right to abortion.
The hearing before a packed Senate conference room was convened by Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, an ardent abortion opponent who is eyeing a run for president. He called it "the first in a series to highlight the effect certain Supreme Court decisions have had on American life."
Brownback, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, already has held hearings this year on the need for a constitutional amendment to protect marriage and the need for more federal obscenity prosecutions.
Cano, 57, told the panel she was uneducated, poor and pregnant with her fourth child when lawyers recruited her to challenge Georgia's anti-abortion statute. She claims she never authorized lawyers to say she wanted an abortion.
"I feel like my name, life and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes," Cano said.
McCorvey, 58, called herself "a pawn of the legal system" and recounted her decision to join the anti-abortion movement 10 years ago after she spent time working in an abortion clinic.
Neither Cano nor McCorvey ever had the abortions at issue in their cases.
Among those testifying in favor of Roe v. Wade was Kenneth Edelin, associate dean of Boston University School of Medicine. Edelin recounted his experience as a young doctor in 1966 trying to save the life of woman who had a botched illegal abortion and urged lawmakers not to "turn back the clock" on abortion rights. (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11969357.htm)
From other sources:
The choice of panelists was made equally by Brownback and Feingold. The constitutional law attorneys arguing that Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were constitutionally unsound decisions were Teresa Collett, Esq., Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN and M. Edward Whelan, Esq., President, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC.
Those arguing that they were "sound law" were R. Alta Charo, Esq., Professor of Law and Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, and Karen O'Connor, Esq., Professor of Government, American University, Washington, DC.
[Sen. Jeff Sessions commented]: "I've heard these ladies before, known about their wanting to change what was done in their names and without their permission, but to have them here before us, is remarkable. It sounds like fraud was done on the [Supreme] Court. We need to look into this." (http://anniebanno.blogspot.com/2005/06/sounds-like-fraud-upon-court-pls.html)
The hearing was sponsored by Sen. Brownback. Sen. Feingold was present throughout and did not comment extensively.
Security? WHAT Security?
From the London "Sun":
CROOKED call centre workers in India are flogging details of Britons’ bank accounts, a Sun probe has found.
Our undercover reporter Oliver Harvey was sold the top secret information on a thousand accounts, and numbers of passports and credit cards.
And today City of London police launched an investigation after receiving a dossier of information from The Sun giving details of the banks whose security may have been compromised.
A number of high street banks including Barclays, the Woolwich, HSBC and Lloyds TSB, said they were working with police.Harvey, who paid a total of 5,000 US dollars (£2,750) for the information and was asked for another £275 to be sent later, was told details usually cost £4.25 but he was getting a special deal.
Kkaran Bahree, who said he got the details from a network of call centre workers in Delhi, also boasted that he could get up to 2,000 account details a month.
The information received included account holders’ addresses, secretpasswords, credit card details, passports and driving licence information.
In some cases there were also the issue and expiry dates of bank cards, as well as the three digit security number from the back of the card.
A spokeswoman for the City of London Police said: "All the financialinstitutions identified have been fully informed of the situation."An investigation is now under way. Therefore it would be inappropriate for us to provide further details at this stage." (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005280724,,00.html)
CROOKED call centre workers in India are flogging details of Britons’ bank accounts, a Sun probe has found.
Our undercover reporter Oliver Harvey was sold the top secret information on a thousand accounts, and numbers of passports and credit cards.
And today City of London police launched an investigation after receiving a dossier of information from The Sun giving details of the banks whose security may have been compromised.
A number of high street banks including Barclays, the Woolwich, HSBC and Lloyds TSB, said they were working with police.Harvey, who paid a total of 5,000 US dollars (£2,750) for the information and was asked for another £275 to be sent later, was told details usually cost £4.25 but he was getting a special deal.
Kkaran Bahree, who said he got the details from a network of call centre workers in Delhi, also boasted that he could get up to 2,000 account details a month.
The information received included account holders’ addresses, secretpasswords, credit card details, passports and driving licence information.
In some cases there were also the issue and expiry dates of bank cards, as well as the three digit security number from the back of the card.
A spokeswoman for the City of London Police said: "All the financialinstitutions identified have been fully informed of the situation."An investigation is now under way. Therefore it would be inappropriate for us to provide further details at this stage." (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005280724,,00.html)
ID's--98% or Less?
From Bruce Murphy's column:
But will such legislation requiring all voters to have a photo ID disenfranchise some people? The ETI research shows an incredible 30 percent of residents in Milwaukee County lack a valid driver’s license, including 47 percent of African-American males. Statewide, 23 percent of senior citizens, or more than 177,000 people, lack a valid driver’s license or photo ID. That’s an awful lot of people who won’t be allowed to vote, unless they chose to stand in the endless lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles office for their free ID. (http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/)
BUT:
According to DOT, about 98 percent of Wisconsin's adult population have driver's licenses or a picture identification card issued by DOT. (http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=43749&ntpid=2)
Frank Busalacchi, Call Your Office!!
But will such legislation requiring all voters to have a photo ID disenfranchise some people? The ETI research shows an incredible 30 percent of residents in Milwaukee County lack a valid driver’s license, including 47 percent of African-American males. Statewide, 23 percent of senior citizens, or more than 177,000 people, lack a valid driver’s license or photo ID. That’s an awful lot of people who won’t be allowed to vote, unless they chose to stand in the endless lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles office for their free ID. (http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/)
BUT:
According to DOT, about 98 percent of Wisconsin's adult population have driver's licenses or a picture identification card issued by DOT. (http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=43749&ntpid=2)
Frank Busalacchi, Call Your Office!!
The Insurance Will Pay
Jensen, Gielow, Gard, Stone, Vrakas, Underheim, Sinicki.
Republicans.
Voted for 'one of the worst bills' (Sykes) in Wisconsin legislative history.
A reminder: Scott Jensen also believes that our elected officials need NOT vote on certain tax increases--like the gas tax. Last thing we want to do is make our position clear on tax increases, right?
Republicans.
Voted for 'one of the worst bills' (Sykes) in Wisconsin legislative history.
A reminder: Scott Jensen also believes that our elected officials need NOT vote on certain tax increases--like the gas tax. Last thing we want to do is make our position clear on tax increases, right?
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Bush Policy on Dual-Use to the ChiComs (Headache)
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The razor-thin sheets of film looked as benign as tin foil. But they were intercepted on their way to the Great Wall Industry Corp., a Chinese aerospace company, and in their neat brown cardboard package they illustrate the conundrum China presents for U.S. military planners.
The foil actually was Kapton, a substance used as a thermal insulator for satellites and rockets. Kapton is a "dual-use" item, one that can be used both for civilian and military purposes, such as in ballistic missiles. Permission to export it is required by the U.S. government.
The exporting company, Valtex International Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., tried to skirt the law three years ago by mismarking a shipping label after the government denied its exports on two attempts.
The Valtex case is one of a growing number of export-enforcement actions involving Chinese companies and agents intent on acquiring U.S. military technology. (Valtex and its president pleaded guilty in February, and last month they were given probation, ordered to pay $427,000 and banned from making exports for three years).
Such incidents underscore the inherent tension within current U.S. China policy, one that keenly promotes robust trade in hopes that it will lead to democratic reforms while trying to keep China's growing military might - and regional ambitions - in check. The Bush administration recently has raised new concerns about China's military ambitions, with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld early this month questioning China's "continuing large and expanding arms purchases," and has exhorted European nations and Israel not to sell arms to China.
But some China analysts say much more attention should be paid to the U.S. dual-use technology that might go to China for civilian use but find its way into military manufacturing. The list of those items is long and difficult to police, from computer components to manufacturing equipment to the aerospace components like the space-age metal that Valtex tried to supply.
"Almost nothing is denied to the Chinese at this point," said Peter Leitner, a senior analyst at the Pentagon's Defense Technology Security Administration. "The administration overall leans in terms of balance-of-trade concerns, rather than restricting the sale of potential military goods to China."
Commerce Department officials dispute that claim. They said concerns over China's military expansion have heightened enforcement actions and led to increased scrutiny, including a recently launched review of what can be exported without licenses. "What we're doing now is looking at items that don't currently require licenses when they're shipped to China," said Peter Lichtenbaum, the acting undersecretary of commerce. "We don't want any items going to the military."
U.S. manufacturers have long argued that export restrictions often are meaningless because similar goods can be purchased from foreign sources. Still, China is the leading destination for dual-use items, according to government figures. From 2000 to 2002, according to a government audit, U.S. exporters received 2,644 licenses from the Commerce Department to ship dual-use goods to China - more than a third of the licenses granted during that period.
In 2004 and so far this year, U.S. companies have shipped China more than $2 billion in products used in the aerospace industry, another $2 billion in electronics and $81 million in advanced materials, according to figures compiled by the University of Georgia's Center for International Trade and Security.
Concerns over China, a key campaign issue for President Bush in 2000, have been overshadowed by continuing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But recently administration officials and members of Congress have begun to speak openly about China's military expansion and what it may mean for security in Asia, and beyond.
In the House, members of both parties recently formed a China caucus and plan to hear from experts on everything from the theft of intellectual property to the range of the latest Chinese missiles. Dual-use exports from the United States are a primary concern, according to the caucus chairman, Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va.
"One of my big concerns is twofold," Forbes said. "What we're selling to China in a dual-use way and what they can turn back on us. And ... the number of companies forming to come to the United States to get intelligence information from our defense industry."
In January 2004, the General Accounting Office (now known as the Government Accountability Office), Congress' investigative arm, reported that the Commerce Department checked just 6 percent of 7,680 dual-use exports to "countries of concern" to ensure that recipients were using the products for civilian, not military, purposes.
China, the GAO noted in particular, "limits the number of checks each year." The Commerce Department's Lichtenbaum said the United States and China have struck a new agreement that allows inspections and that department investigators have worked through the backlog of inspections. But a congressional aide who tracks the process and requested anonymity said it still is "too early to tell if the process is working or not."
Recent cases also suggest that plenty of Chinese and American businesses are willing to ignore the law altogether.
Three Chinese nationals were charged in April in a federal court in New Jersey with fraud, with prosecutors alleging they bilked their U.S. company out of $1 million while arranging the sale of devices used to control radio signals.
In another recent case, Laurel Industrial Inc. of San Jose, Calif., was charged with violating U.S. export policy in its sale of underwater acoustic detection equipment to a Chinese customer. The company had failed to receive a license and agreed to pay a $44,000 fine.
During a recent defense ministers' conference in Singapore, Rumsfeld said the Pentagon's report on the Chinese military would show that it now has the world's third-largest military budget, after the United States and Russia. A Rand Corp. study issued in May found that China was spending as much as $78 billion annually on defense, or about 2.8 percent of its gross domestic product.
The United States spent $430 billion last year on defense, nearly 4 percent of GDP.
But analysts also cited positive developments in the U.S.-Chinese military relationship, such as exchanges among groups of officers that started in the late 1990s to thaw the diplomatic chill that followed the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
One group of Chinese generals and admirals visited National Defense University in recent weeks, said Bud Cole, an NDU professor who recently wrote a book on the Chinese navy. Cole and others who have taken part in the exchanges said they have offered U.S. officers unusual insight into the Chinese military and its capabilities.
"We learn a lot more about them than they learn about us in the military exchange programs," said Cole, who was given entree to Chinese Navy ships and facilities while researching his book. "They're such a closed society, one of our military attaches in China would have to scramble to find out things. But we're such an open society, they probably ship stuff they get from open sources back in footlockers."
Most of us are well aware of X42's "What, ME Worry?" attitude to arming Red China. I had kinda hoped that GWB would have put the clamps down.
http://americaneconomicalert.org/news_item.asp?NID=1592175
The foil actually was Kapton, a substance used as a thermal insulator for satellites and rockets. Kapton is a "dual-use" item, one that can be used both for civilian and military purposes, such as in ballistic missiles. Permission to export it is required by the U.S. government.
The exporting company, Valtex International Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., tried to skirt the law three years ago by mismarking a shipping label after the government denied its exports on two attempts.
The Valtex case is one of a growing number of export-enforcement actions involving Chinese companies and agents intent on acquiring U.S. military technology. (Valtex and its president pleaded guilty in February, and last month they were given probation, ordered to pay $427,000 and banned from making exports for three years).
Such incidents underscore the inherent tension within current U.S. China policy, one that keenly promotes robust trade in hopes that it will lead to democratic reforms while trying to keep China's growing military might - and regional ambitions - in check. The Bush administration recently has raised new concerns about China's military ambitions, with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld early this month questioning China's "continuing large and expanding arms purchases," and has exhorted European nations and Israel not to sell arms to China.
But some China analysts say much more attention should be paid to the U.S. dual-use technology that might go to China for civilian use but find its way into military manufacturing. The list of those items is long and difficult to police, from computer components to manufacturing equipment to the aerospace components like the space-age metal that Valtex tried to supply.
"Almost nothing is denied to the Chinese at this point," said Peter Leitner, a senior analyst at the Pentagon's Defense Technology Security Administration. "The administration overall leans in terms of balance-of-trade concerns, rather than restricting the sale of potential military goods to China."
Commerce Department officials dispute that claim. They said concerns over China's military expansion have heightened enforcement actions and led to increased scrutiny, including a recently launched review of what can be exported without licenses. "What we're doing now is looking at items that don't currently require licenses when they're shipped to China," said Peter Lichtenbaum, the acting undersecretary of commerce. "We don't want any items going to the military."
U.S. manufacturers have long argued that export restrictions often are meaningless because similar goods can be purchased from foreign sources. Still, China is the leading destination for dual-use items, according to government figures. From 2000 to 2002, according to a government audit, U.S. exporters received 2,644 licenses from the Commerce Department to ship dual-use goods to China - more than a third of the licenses granted during that period.
In 2004 and so far this year, U.S. companies have shipped China more than $2 billion in products used in the aerospace industry, another $2 billion in electronics and $81 million in advanced materials, according to figures compiled by the University of Georgia's Center for International Trade and Security.
Concerns over China, a key campaign issue for President Bush in 2000, have been overshadowed by continuing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But recently administration officials and members of Congress have begun to speak openly about China's military expansion and what it may mean for security in Asia, and beyond.
In the House, members of both parties recently formed a China caucus and plan to hear from experts on everything from the theft of intellectual property to the range of the latest Chinese missiles. Dual-use exports from the United States are a primary concern, according to the caucus chairman, Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va.
"One of my big concerns is twofold," Forbes said. "What we're selling to China in a dual-use way and what they can turn back on us. And ... the number of companies forming to come to the United States to get intelligence information from our defense industry."
In January 2004, the General Accounting Office (now known as the Government Accountability Office), Congress' investigative arm, reported that the Commerce Department checked just 6 percent of 7,680 dual-use exports to "countries of concern" to ensure that recipients were using the products for civilian, not military, purposes.
China, the GAO noted in particular, "limits the number of checks each year." The Commerce Department's Lichtenbaum said the United States and China have struck a new agreement that allows inspections and that department investigators have worked through the backlog of inspections. But a congressional aide who tracks the process and requested anonymity said it still is "too early to tell if the process is working or not."
Recent cases also suggest that plenty of Chinese and American businesses are willing to ignore the law altogether.
Three Chinese nationals were charged in April in a federal court in New Jersey with fraud, with prosecutors alleging they bilked their U.S. company out of $1 million while arranging the sale of devices used to control radio signals.
In another recent case, Laurel Industrial Inc. of San Jose, Calif., was charged with violating U.S. export policy in its sale of underwater acoustic detection equipment to a Chinese customer. The company had failed to receive a license and agreed to pay a $44,000 fine.
During a recent defense ministers' conference in Singapore, Rumsfeld said the Pentagon's report on the Chinese military would show that it now has the world's third-largest military budget, after the United States and Russia. A Rand Corp. study issued in May found that China was spending as much as $78 billion annually on defense, or about 2.8 percent of its gross domestic product.
The United States spent $430 billion last year on defense, nearly 4 percent of GDP.
But analysts also cited positive developments in the U.S.-Chinese military relationship, such as exchanges among groups of officers that started in the late 1990s to thaw the diplomatic chill that followed the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
One group of Chinese generals and admirals visited National Defense University in recent weeks, said Bud Cole, an NDU professor who recently wrote a book on the Chinese navy. Cole and others who have taken part in the exchanges said they have offered U.S. officers unusual insight into the Chinese military and its capabilities.
"We learn a lot more about them than they learn about us in the military exchange programs," said Cole, who was given entree to Chinese Navy ships and facilities while researching his book. "They're such a closed society, one of our military attaches in China would have to scramble to find out things. But we're such an open society, they probably ship stuff they get from open sources back in footlockers."
Most of us are well aware of X42's "What, ME Worry?" attitude to arming Red China. I had kinda hoped that GWB would have put the clamps down.
http://americaneconomicalert.org/news_item.asp?NID=1592175
Genesis of the Abrogation of the 5th Amendment
There seems to be a bit of surprise at the Supremes' Statist Ruling.
The surprise is unjustified.
Any "Court" which can issue Roe and Casey certainly has the authority to create a State's right to bulldoze a few old houses and steal from grandma.
The surprise is unjustified.
Any "Court" which can issue Roe and Casey certainly has the authority to create a State's right to bulldoze a few old houses and steal from grandma.
Copy to Charlie
This is a copy of the email I just sent to Charlie Sykes--who gets a large bunch of well-deserved props from me (and others.) But he does have a couple of blind spots.
So this morning he becomes a little concerned when he learns that some Communist Chinese front company wants to buy Unocal lock, stock, and barrel(s.)
How can the John Galt eonomics-types argue about this? We all know that:
"1) Under Capitalist 101, the highest bidder gets the prize. Now we have a problem, eh?
"2) Under Capitalist 101, the lowest priced comparable good should be preferred, right? But this is NOT a problem, regardless of what factors enter into the pricing (slave labor, no labor/enviro/safety/tax concerns…just for example…)
Somewhere along the line, Galt’s Capitalism 101 should be recognized for what it is: a false god.
Personally, I like ‘national interest’ interventions. Now if we could only find a Congress which understands THAT term."
So this morning he becomes a little concerned when he learns that some Communist Chinese front company wants to buy Unocal lock, stock, and barrel(s.)
How can the John Galt eonomics-types argue about this? We all know that:
"1) Under Capitalist 101, the highest bidder gets the prize. Now we have a problem, eh?
"2) Under Capitalist 101, the lowest priced comparable good should be preferred, right? But this is NOT a problem, regardless of what factors enter into the pricing (slave labor, no labor/enviro/safety/tax concerns…just for example…)
Somewhere along the line, Galt’s Capitalism 101 should be recognized for what it is: a false god.
Personally, I like ‘national interest’ interventions. Now if we could only find a Congress which understands THAT term."
Immigration of Computer Whizzes
Steve Forbes attempts to make the case that the US economy is going to suffer because Immigration policy now restricts foreign students from coming here, earning a degree, and then applying their IT skills.
Really, Steve?
Some would simply take Forbes' input (a re-puking of ITAA propaganda combined with certain collegiate-professor Interest Group propaganda) as the ultimate word on the situation. After all, if it "hurts American Business" it simply must be reversed or derogated.
Some facts that Forbes failed to mention are found here: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/MichJLawReform.pdf; you can download either the Index or the whole shootin' match...
Norm Matloff is a professor at a UC campus. He's well aware of the politics and the interest groups. He also presents info which simply debunks Forbes' alarmism.
In a nutshell: The US does not lack for talented IT people. The "reformers" simply want CHEAPER IT people. Indentured servitude of the Green Card variety assures that end; dealing with US citizens is more challenging.
UPDATE: Career experts say the decline of traditional tech jobs for U.S. workers isn't likely to reverse anytime soon.
The U.S. software industry lost 16 percent of its jobs from March 2001 to March 2004, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute found. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that information technology industries laid off more than 7,000 American workers in the first quarter of 2005.
"Obviously the past four or five years have been really rough for tech job seekers, and that's not going to change - there are absolutely no signs that there's a huge boom about to happen where techies will get big salary hikes or there will be lots of new positions opening for them," said Allan Hoffman, the tech job expert at career site Monster.com.
(http://americaneconomicalert.org/news_item.asp?NID=1586482)
Maybe Steve Forbes didn't read this article, eh?
Really, Steve?
Some would simply take Forbes' input (a re-puking of ITAA propaganda combined with certain collegiate-professor Interest Group propaganda) as the ultimate word on the situation. After all, if it "hurts American Business" it simply must be reversed or derogated.
Some facts that Forbes failed to mention are found here: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/MichJLawReform.pdf; you can download either the Index or the whole shootin' match...
Norm Matloff is a professor at a UC campus. He's well aware of the politics and the interest groups. He also presents info which simply debunks Forbes' alarmism.
In a nutshell: The US does not lack for talented IT people. The "reformers" simply want CHEAPER IT people. Indentured servitude of the Green Card variety assures that end; dealing with US citizens is more challenging.
UPDATE: Career experts say the decline of traditional tech jobs for U.S. workers isn't likely to reverse anytime soon.
The U.S. software industry lost 16 percent of its jobs from March 2001 to March 2004, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute found. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that information technology industries laid off more than 7,000 American workers in the first quarter of 2005.
"Obviously the past four or five years have been really rough for tech job seekers, and that's not going to change - there are absolutely no signs that there's a huge boom about to happen where techies will get big salary hikes or there will be lots of new positions opening for them," said Allan Hoffman, the tech job expert at career site Monster.com.
(http://americaneconomicalert.org/news_item.asp?NID=1586482)
Maybe Steve Forbes didn't read this article, eh?
Statism Rules the Supremes
The ruling allowing a developer to bulldoze family homes in Connecticut was 5-4; Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor opposed.
That means that the Statists are the "liberals," (although Kennedy was appointed by a Pubbie Pres.) However, Kennedy's wacked-out opinion in Casey is ample proof that given a choice, he's a Statist.
Bad Moon Rising....
That means that the Statists are the "liberals," (although Kennedy was appointed by a Pubbie Pres.) However, Kennedy's wacked-out opinion in Casey is ample proof that given a choice, he's a Statist.
Bad Moon Rising....
"Because That's Where the Money Is..."
Update on Jesse James, from the Washington Post
The number of registered lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since 2000 to more than 34,750 while the amount that lobbyists charge their new clients has increased by as much as 100 percent. Only a few other businesses have enjoyed greater prosperity in an otherwise fitful economy.
The lobbying boom has been caused by three factors, experts say: rapid growth in government, Republican control of both the White House and Congress, and wide acceptance among corporations that they need to hire professional lobbyists to secure their share of federal benefits.
(snip)
"People in industry are willing to invest money because they see opportunities here," said Patrick J. Griffin, who was President Bill Clinton's top lobbyist and is now in private practice. "They see that they can win things, that there's something to be gained. Washington has become a profit center."
Take the example of Hewlett-Packard Co. The California computer maker nearly doubled its budget for contract lobbyists to $734,000 last year and added the elite lobbying firm of Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC. Its goal was to pass Republican-backed legislation that would allow the company to bring back to the United States at a dramatically lowered tax rate as much as $14.5 billion in profit from foreign subsidiaries.
The extra lobbying paid off. The legislation was approved and Hewlett-Packard will save millions of dollars in taxes.
The Republicans in charge aren't just pro-business, they are also pro-government. Federal outlays increased nearly 30 percent from 2000 to 2004, to $2.29 trillion. And despite the budget deficit, federal spending is set to increase again this year, especially in programs that are prime lobbying targets such as defense, homeland security and medical coverage.
1) Just change a few names, amounts, and locations, and each State fits this picture.
2) Of course, all the results are in "the National Interest," right?
Only ten years ago, those who spoke of "the Party of Government" were dismissed as alarmists. "Prophets" might have been better--or simply "clear-sighted."
The number of registered lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since 2000 to more than 34,750 while the amount that lobbyists charge their new clients has increased by as much as 100 percent. Only a few other businesses have enjoyed greater prosperity in an otherwise fitful economy.
The lobbying boom has been caused by three factors, experts say: rapid growth in government, Republican control of both the White House and Congress, and wide acceptance among corporations that they need to hire professional lobbyists to secure their share of federal benefits.
(snip)
"People in industry are willing to invest money because they see opportunities here," said Patrick J. Griffin, who was President Bill Clinton's top lobbyist and is now in private practice. "They see that they can win things, that there's something to be gained. Washington has become a profit center."
Take the example of Hewlett-Packard Co. The California computer maker nearly doubled its budget for contract lobbyists to $734,000 last year and added the elite lobbying firm of Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC. Its goal was to pass Republican-backed legislation that would allow the company to bring back to the United States at a dramatically lowered tax rate as much as $14.5 billion in profit from foreign subsidiaries.
The extra lobbying paid off. The legislation was approved and Hewlett-Packard will save millions of dollars in taxes.
The Republicans in charge aren't just pro-business, they are also pro-government. Federal outlays increased nearly 30 percent from 2000 to 2004, to $2.29 trillion. And despite the budget deficit, federal spending is set to increase again this year, especially in programs that are prime lobbying targets such as defense, homeland security and medical coverage.
1) Just change a few names, amounts, and locations, and each State fits this picture.
2) Of course, all the results are in "the National Interest," right?
Only ten years ago, those who spoke of "the Party of Government" were dismissed as alarmists. "Prophets" might have been better--or simply "clear-sighted."
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
More Bad News
From the Washington Times today:
China has successfully flight-tested a submarine-launched missile that U.S. officials say marks a major advance in Beijing's long-range nuclear program.
"This is a significant milestone in their effort to develop strategic weapons," said a U.S. official familiar with reports of the test.
U.S. intelligence agencies monitored the flight test of a JL-2 missile about 10 days ago, officials said.
The missile was launched from a Chinese submarine near the port of Qingdao and was tracked to a desert impact point in western China several thousand miles away, the officials said.
The Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center reported that the JL-2 "will, for the first time, allow Chinese [missile submarines] to target portions of the United States from operating areas located near the Chinese coast."
The JL-2 is estimated to have a range of up to 6,000 miles, enough to hit targets in the United States.
A defense official said the missile test was a major step forward in China's strategic nuclear missile program and shows an improved capability to produce and launch submarine-launched missiles. "It was a successful test," this official said.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050621-102521-5027r.htm
Thanks, X42. The guidance systems YOU helped them get accelerated the program nicely.
China has successfully flight-tested a submarine-launched missile that U.S. officials say marks a major advance in Beijing's long-range nuclear program.
"This is a significant milestone in their effort to develop strategic weapons," said a U.S. official familiar with reports of the test.
U.S. intelligence agencies monitored the flight test of a JL-2 missile about 10 days ago, officials said.
The missile was launched from a Chinese submarine near the port of Qingdao and was tracked to a desert impact point in western China several thousand miles away, the officials said.
The Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center reported that the JL-2 "will, for the first time, allow Chinese [missile submarines] to target portions of the United States from operating areas located near the Chinese coast."
The JL-2 is estimated to have a range of up to 6,000 miles, enough to hit targets in the United States.
A defense official said the missile test was a major step forward in China's strategic nuclear missile program and shows an improved capability to produce and launch submarine-launched missiles. "It was a successful test," this official said.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050621-102521-5027r.htm
Thanks, X42. The guidance systems YOU helped them get accelerated the program nicely.
Republican Whores
Coincidence Department:*
1) Assembly leadership (that's John Gard) has paved the way for a bill which would steal several hundred million dollars from an insurance company to assist Fort Howard Paper (and G-P, its parent). The insurance company would be forced to pay for the cleanup of the Fox River, which was not part of its insurance policy.
2) Assembly leadership (that's John Gard) is running for Congress from a paper-producing District in Wisconsin.
*"There is NO SUCH THING as co-incidence." --Jack Ryan, speaking for Tom Clancy.
1) Assembly leadership (that's John Gard) has paved the way for a bill which would steal several hundred million dollars from an insurance company to assist Fort Howard Paper (and G-P, its parent). The insurance company would be forced to pay for the cleanup of the Fox River, which was not part of its insurance policy.
2) Assembly leadership (that's John Gard) is running for Congress from a paper-producing District in Wisconsin.
*"There is NO SUCH THING as co-incidence." --Jack Ryan, speaking for Tom Clancy.
Channel 4 Gets It Right
Heard with my own ears, last night on Channel 4's 10PM news---
Mike Gousha's story on the Budget Battle began with the words "The Republican budget increases school spending by $400 million dollars, but the Democrats wish to spend $438 million [more than that]..."
Can't ask for a better take on the story.
Mike Gousha's story on the Budget Battle began with the words "The Republican budget increases school spending by $400 million dollars, but the Democrats wish to spend $438 million [more than that]..."
Can't ask for a better take on the story.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Gard's On Guard. SHUT UP!
From Xoff of Christofferson, (the wrong stuff, but interesting): this excerpt of a floor speech by a somewhat disaffected Pubbie. What's interesting is the reference to Grothmann.
“Some might wonder why I’m bringing up these things that were said in (secret) caucus. While these things were being said in caucus, when I put my name on the list to respond to them, I was told, 'We didn’t have enough time, we had to talk about the budget now.' I've been here two and a half years, I’ve never gotten up to speak on a bill…I passed bills and I never felt the need to get up and give rhetoric on other bills knowing full well it wasn’t going to change the vote. But on this one, I feel like I was silenced in caucus.
“And not just me, but this has happened in the past. Last year, now-Sen. (Glenn) Grothman was silenced by our leadership in caucus. I stood up to defend him. This year, another member of (Republican leadership) tried to silence (Republican Rep. Scott Suder of Abbotsford). And I stood up to defend him.
“What happened today, I wasn't just silenced. The 50,000 people that I represent were told we didn't have enough time to hear what I had to say. After all the speeches I’ve listened to on this floor…I’ve spent what seems like half my life listening to (Democratic Rep. Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids) telling me how evil I am, I just think that was way out of line....
Gard, and some others in the Assembly, have had NO real jobs outside of politics--and they would have us believe that this makes them "qualified" for higher office.
Maybe.
“Some might wonder why I’m bringing up these things that were said in (secret) caucus. While these things were being said in caucus, when I put my name on the list to respond to them, I was told, 'We didn’t have enough time, we had to talk about the budget now.' I've been here two and a half years, I’ve never gotten up to speak on a bill…I passed bills and I never felt the need to get up and give rhetoric on other bills knowing full well it wasn’t going to change the vote. But on this one, I feel like I was silenced in caucus.
“And not just me, but this has happened in the past. Last year, now-Sen. (Glenn) Grothman was silenced by our leadership in caucus. I stood up to defend him. This year, another member of (Republican leadership) tried to silence (Republican Rep. Scott Suder of Abbotsford). And I stood up to defend him.
“What happened today, I wasn't just silenced. The 50,000 people that I represent were told we didn't have enough time to hear what I had to say. After all the speeches I’ve listened to on this floor…I’ve spent what seems like half my life listening to (Democratic Rep. Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids) telling me how evil I am, I just think that was way out of line....
Gard, and some others in the Assembly, have had NO real jobs outside of politics--and they would have us believe that this makes them "qualified" for higher office.
Maybe.
The Madison Dance
Lassee's take on the 'conservative' Republican budget for Wisconsin:
MADISON – The budget bill coming up for a vote in the Assembly Tuesday spends too much, borrows too much, and relies on too many accounting gimmicks. Yet, said Rep. Frank Lasee (R-Bellevue), Republican leadership is trying to sell it as a conservative budget because it is “better than Governor Doyle’s.”
“Our Republican leadership is relying completely on the argument that their budget is better than the Doyle budget,” Lasee said. “It borrows less than his does. My thought is: so what? That doesn’t make it a fiscally responsible budget. It still spends and borrows more than we can afford.”
“It’s like saying that smoking three packs a day is unhealthy, but you’re all right because you only smoke two packs a day,” Lasee said. “Comparatively, it’s better, but it’s still bad. This budget is a bad budget. Leadership is just trying to make it look better by comparison to Doyle’s.”
Lasee noted that under the JFC budget, general fund spending will grow by 10%, and general obligation bonding – bonds paid for with tax money – will grow by 55%.
Other dissenters include Nass of Whitewater, and some Fox River Valley stable-boy who is a professional pain in the nose.
MADISON – The budget bill coming up for a vote in the Assembly Tuesday spends too much, borrows too much, and relies on too many accounting gimmicks. Yet, said Rep. Frank Lasee (R-Bellevue), Republican leadership is trying to sell it as a conservative budget because it is “better than Governor Doyle’s.”
“Our Republican leadership is relying completely on the argument that their budget is better than the Doyle budget,” Lasee said. “It borrows less than his does. My thought is: so what? That doesn’t make it a fiscally responsible budget. It still spends and borrows more than we can afford.”
“It’s like saying that smoking three packs a day is unhealthy, but you’re all right because you only smoke two packs a day,” Lasee said. “Comparatively, it’s better, but it’s still bad. This budget is a bad budget. Leadership is just trying to make it look better by comparison to Doyle’s.”
Lasee noted that under the JFC budget, general fund spending will grow by 10%, and general obligation bonding – bonds paid for with tax money – will grow by 55%.
Other dissenters include Nass of Whitewater, and some Fox River Valley stable-boy who is a professional pain in the nose.
Roman Restoration
From UPI today, repeating a few "hot" rumors:
Pope Benedict XVI wants to restore the traditional ceremonial Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, with Latin instead of the vernacular and Gregorian chants.
Vatican expert Sandro Magister reported in his weekly newsletter Saturday that the pope is expected to replace Archbishop Pietro Marini, his predecessor Pope John Paul II's master of liturgical ceremonies.
Whoever follows Marini will have orders to restore the traditional style and choreography of papal ceremonies in St. Peter's.
Out will go the international Masses so dear to Pope John Paul II's heart, with such innovations as Latin American and African rhythms and even dancing, multi-lingual readings and children in national costumes bringing gifts to the altar.
Pope Benedict wants to return to the Sistine Chapel choirs singing Gregorian chant and the church music of such composers as Claudio Monteverdi from the 17th century. He also wants to revive the Latin Mass.
Archbishop Marini always planned the ceremonies with television in mind, Magister said, and that emphasis will remain. A decade ago the Vatican set up a system for transmitting papal ceremonies world wide via multiple satellites.
(UPI) http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=89706&cat=World
For those who have ears to hear...the straws are in the wind.
Pope Benedict XVI wants to restore the traditional ceremonial Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, with Latin instead of the vernacular and Gregorian chants.
Vatican expert Sandro Magister reported in his weekly newsletter Saturday that the pope is expected to replace Archbishop Pietro Marini, his predecessor Pope John Paul II's master of liturgical ceremonies.
Whoever follows Marini will have orders to restore the traditional style and choreography of papal ceremonies in St. Peter's.
Out will go the international Masses so dear to Pope John Paul II's heart, with such innovations as Latin American and African rhythms and even dancing, multi-lingual readings and children in national costumes bringing gifts to the altar.
Pope Benedict wants to return to the Sistine Chapel choirs singing Gregorian chant and the church music of such composers as Claudio Monteverdi from the 17th century. He also wants to revive the Latin Mass.
Archbishop Marini always planned the ceremonies with television in mind, Magister said, and that emphasis will remain. A decade ago the Vatican set up a system for transmitting papal ceremonies world wide via multiple satellites.
(UPI) http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=89706&cat=World
For those who have ears to hear...the straws are in the wind.
Monday, June 20, 2005
Which Church?
Found on FreeRepublic, in a discussion of a recent conversion to Roman Catholicism by a bright young musician:
The lyrics to the "hymns" were put up on the wall with an overhead projector, and were some of the most banal and repetitive dreck I've ever heard. The simple melodies were as dull as dishwater. Even so, barely one in ten people was really singing whole-heartedly. These are not churches for people who wish to contemplate the Infinite in music. Frankly, their entertainment was a good deal shakier than their doctrine.
Ummmnnnn, nope. NOT the St. Louis Jesuits. Sorry, Zero!
The lyrics to the "hymns" were put up on the wall with an overhead projector, and were some of the most banal and repetitive dreck I've ever heard. The simple melodies were as dull as dishwater. Even so, barely one in ten people was really singing whole-heartedly. These are not churches for people who wish to contemplate the Infinite in music. Frankly, their entertainment was a good deal shakier than their doctrine.
Ummmnnnn, nope. NOT the St. Louis Jesuits. Sorry, Zero!
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Oscar Mayer, Where Are You?
Kraft, the owner of Oscar Mayer, has decided to be a sponsor of the "Gay Games" in Chicago this summer.
There are just too many possiblities, beginning with "Oh, I Will NOT Be an Oscar Mayer Wiener..." and going south from there...
There are just too many possiblities, beginning with "Oh, I Will NOT Be an Oscar Mayer Wiener..." and going south from there...
Fisking The Coroner of Pinellas
Here's a take on Thogmorton which is born of Right Thinking from Troy Newman:
Schiavo Autopsy an Orwellian Masterpiece
George Orwell once wrote "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." The recent release of the Pinellas County autopsy of Terri Schiavo is a clear and convincing example of Orwell's assertion. The national thought and language has been overtaken by a Big Brother of sorts, the mainstream media who is now "thinking our thoughts" and compelling us into their world of "doublethink."
Written using technical medical terminology, which is lost on most, the 39-page tome announced that the certified manner of death is "undetermined," and the cause of Terri's untimely departure from this earthly life was "Complications of Anoxic Encephalopathy," or, in layman's terms, a brain injury from lack of oxygen. The report continues to explain that because no one really knows what caused the episode fifteen years ago that resulted in Terri's injury, her manner of death remains uncertain.
It is now official. Nobody really knows why Terri died.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember the ebb and flow Terri's riveting end-of-life struggle being reported internationally for weeks. There were highly published efforts by her family to prevent her court-ordered death by dehydration that involved the United States Congress, the President, the Florida Legislature, the Florida Governor, and an unprecedented number of courts. Even her final moments on this mortal coil were callously reported live as if it was the last two minutes of the Super Bowl. Billions of people all over the globe were morbidly transfixed to their television sets watching and waiting for Terri to slowly die after being deprived of nourishment and hydration.
Now the Chief Medical Examiner of Pasco and Pinellas Counties, Dr. Jon R. Thogmartin, claims we really can't know how she died.
While Terri lay disabled and unable to speak, her caregivers were verbally spinning the account of her tortured, lingering death in to a compassionate healthcare fairy-tale. Terri's estranged husband, Michael, repeatedly told us that his wife "had died fifteen years earlier." How many times did we hear the medical "experts" tell us that her cerebral cortex had "liquefied" or that Terri was in a PVS, Persistent Vegetative State?
Now the autopsy was meant to confirm everything the death-peddling pundits have told us, and with such great authenticity and certainty that no one would dare question their findings. But it hasn't worked out that way.
The questions raised by the absurd declaration that the manner of death cannot be determined makes me wonder if Dr. Thogmartin is a student of the famous science fiction author George Orwell.
In Orwell's masterpiece work 1984, he describes a society manipulated through the use of a deceptive propaganda tool known as New Speak. This tool, where the language was perverted to mean whatever the authorities wanted it to mean, produced "doublethink" in a malleable society. Doublethink is "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
It is evident that a form of New Speak has been employed the case of Terri Schiavo. We have been told that we must accept the "fact" that Terri actually died during her 1991 "accident" and that she was being "artificially kept alive" in spite of the fact that her body was "shutting down." But, in a momentary lapse in Schiavo New Speak, Dr. Thogmartin states that Terri was "a relatively health woman who could have easily survived another 10 or 15 years." Are both true? It seems as though Dr. Thogmartin and his cohort medical examiners are creating a third class of human – the living dead. There are those of us who are alive, those who are dead, and now thanks to the Orwellian Thought Police, we have those, like Terri, who were somewhere in between life and death, hovering in a zombie-like existence.
We have been force-fed the concept that it was benevolent to deprive Terri of basic sustenance, yet our minds tell us it was sadistic. We are being trained to think, in classic Orwellian fashion, that bad is good in a diabolical attempt to justify the killing of the infirmed, disabled, or otherwise imperfect people among us. Today, because of the pro-death spin doctors corrupting our concepts of truth and morality, our society consented to the murder of Terri Schiavo.
Tomorrow? Well, that is a future that even Orwell would not want to consider.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6355
Schiavo Autopsy an Orwellian Masterpiece
George Orwell once wrote "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." The recent release of the Pinellas County autopsy of Terri Schiavo is a clear and convincing example of Orwell's assertion. The national thought and language has been overtaken by a Big Brother of sorts, the mainstream media who is now "thinking our thoughts" and compelling us into their world of "doublethink."
Written using technical medical terminology, which is lost on most, the 39-page tome announced that the certified manner of death is "undetermined," and the cause of Terri's untimely departure from this earthly life was "Complications of Anoxic Encephalopathy," or, in layman's terms, a brain injury from lack of oxygen. The report continues to explain that because no one really knows what caused the episode fifteen years ago that resulted in Terri's injury, her manner of death remains uncertain.
It is now official. Nobody really knows why Terri died.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember the ebb and flow Terri's riveting end-of-life struggle being reported internationally for weeks. There were highly published efforts by her family to prevent her court-ordered death by dehydration that involved the United States Congress, the President, the Florida Legislature, the Florida Governor, and an unprecedented number of courts. Even her final moments on this mortal coil were callously reported live as if it was the last two minutes of the Super Bowl. Billions of people all over the globe were morbidly transfixed to their television sets watching and waiting for Terri to slowly die after being deprived of nourishment and hydration.
Now the Chief Medical Examiner of Pasco and Pinellas Counties, Dr. Jon R. Thogmartin, claims we really can't know how she died.
While Terri lay disabled and unable to speak, her caregivers were verbally spinning the account of her tortured, lingering death in to a compassionate healthcare fairy-tale. Terri's estranged husband, Michael, repeatedly told us that his wife "had died fifteen years earlier." How many times did we hear the medical "experts" tell us that her cerebral cortex had "liquefied" or that Terri was in a PVS, Persistent Vegetative State?
Now the autopsy was meant to confirm everything the death-peddling pundits have told us, and with such great authenticity and certainty that no one would dare question their findings. But it hasn't worked out that way.
The questions raised by the absurd declaration that the manner of death cannot be determined makes me wonder if Dr. Thogmartin is a student of the famous science fiction author George Orwell.
In Orwell's masterpiece work 1984, he describes a society manipulated through the use of a deceptive propaganda tool known as New Speak. This tool, where the language was perverted to mean whatever the authorities wanted it to mean, produced "doublethink" in a malleable society. Doublethink is "the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
It is evident that a form of New Speak has been employed the case of Terri Schiavo. We have been told that we must accept the "fact" that Terri actually died during her 1991 "accident" and that she was being "artificially kept alive" in spite of the fact that her body was "shutting down." But, in a momentary lapse in Schiavo New Speak, Dr. Thogmartin states that Terri was "a relatively health woman who could have easily survived another 10 or 15 years." Are both true? It seems as though Dr. Thogmartin and his cohort medical examiners are creating a third class of human – the living dead. There are those of us who are alive, those who are dead, and now thanks to the Orwellian Thought Police, we have those, like Terri, who were somewhere in between life and death, hovering in a zombie-like existence.
We have been force-fed the concept that it was benevolent to deprive Terri of basic sustenance, yet our minds tell us it was sadistic. We are being trained to think, in classic Orwellian fashion, that bad is good in a diabolical attempt to justify the killing of the infirmed, disabled, or otherwise imperfect people among us. Today, because of the pro-death spin doctors corrupting our concepts of truth and morality, our society consented to the murder of Terri Schiavo.
Tomorrow? Well, that is a future that even Orwell would not want to consider.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6355
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