Mexico Too Dangerous For Elected Officials To Live There…

Juarez Mayor Moves To El Paso

EL PASO — Police are investigating threats against Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, who moved his family to El Paso for safety, El Paso police Detective Carlos Carrillo said Monday.

“We received information that the Juárez mayor lives in El Paso, and that possibly they were going to come to El Paso to get him,” Carrillo said. “He has not asked us for our help, but it’s our duty to protect any resident of our city who may be under threat.”

Juárez police said written threats against Reyes Ferriz and his family were left in different parts of Juárez after the police chief, Roberto Orduña Cruz, resigned Friday. The threats were written on the kind of banners and posters that the Juárez drug cartel has used to send messages to police and others.

"I'm as good as dead if I stay in that jungle. I recommend that we move all of Mexico to the United States!"

Meanwhile, Mexican authorities were unraveling a shooting Sunday in Chihuahua City that killed one of Chihuahua Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza Terraza’s bodyguards.

Alejandro Chaparro Coronel died while defending another state agent in a convoy. He was a commander who served on the Chihuahua state police force for 11 years.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Great,  just what we need–more illegals sneaking into the country!

Today In History

1868–President Andrew Johnson became the first President to be impeached…quickie quiz:  can you name the other?

1946–Juan Peron elected President of Argentina.

1991–Gulf War Ground Offensive begins.

1993–Eric Clapton sweeps Grammy Awards.

Quiz Answer

Houston Considers Paying Credit Card Balances For Customers…Pinch Me, Is This The Twilight Zone?

No problem you guys...just take what you need!

Houston Wants To Use Public Funds To Pay Off Private Debt

Houston taxpayers could start footing the bill to help first-time homebuyers pay off debts and improve their credit scores, under a proposal before City Council this week.

The “Credit Score Enhancement Program” will give up to $3,000 in grants to individuals who are trying to qualify for mortgages through the city’s homebuyers assistance program. City officials say some applicants fall short of eligibility by only 10 or 20 points on their credit scores, and paying off some debt balances can quickly improve their numbers.

(B.S.–Why don’t we just deposit a million dollars in their bank accounts…won’t that help their credit score?)

The proposal has aroused critics who say the city should not use public funds to help people pay down car loans, credit card balances, or other debts — even if the slight credit bump would help them realize the dream of home- ownership.

(B.S.-Gee, I can’t imagine why some people think they shouldn’t pay off other people’s debts!)

“We just can’t give away government money to help people with their credit scores,” Councilman Mike Sullivan said Monday. “You’re giving them other taxpayers’ money to pay off the bills.”

Councilwoman Anne Clutterbuck called the program well intentioned but said it would go too far.

“If this credit crisis has taught us anything, we need to focus on paying off our debts and saving more,” she said. “Using government money to help someone pay off their debts is not the same as asking them to pay off their debts themselves.”  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–This country is going insane!  Is all private debt now public debt?  If that’s the case, do we now get to share in the profits of individuals that we’ve staked to a new home?  I want no part of this Brave New World!

How are we teaching individuals responsible financial behavior if we bail them out each time they act irresponsibly?  Is the goal here to create a society of dependent morons?

People must be sent a message that they have to act in a responsible manner and that they, as individuals, are responsible for their own life decisions.  You know, kind of like the America we lived in for over 200 years.

Obama’s Head of the National Economic Council falls asleep at fiscal summit…

Wake up Mr. Summers...Yes, I know, hearing the President speak does the same thing to me.

Obama Promises Bipartisan Action On Deficits

Barack Obama on Monday launched what he promised would be an enduring bipartisan process to bring down the fiscal deficits that have started to explode under his watch. 

(B.S.–They only talk about reducing deficits after they spend “trillions” of taxpayers’ money.)

Mr Obama, who called 130 lawmakers and members of think-tanks to the White House for what he described as a “fiscal sustainability summit”, added that by the end of his first term, he would halve the budget deficit he inherited from George W. Bush.

(B.S.–Of course he will–even after he takes over and nationalizes health care.  This will involve some very creative “cooking of the books.”)

Although Lawrence Summers, head of the National Economic Council, fell asleep on the podium, most attendees, including Republicans, appear to have appreciated the exercise. There was even some light-heartedness.

(B.S.–Obviously, Mr. Summers and President Obama fell asleep at all the lectures they’ve ever attended discussing the importance of  free-markets, low tax rates, and limited government regulation.)

John McCain, the former presidential candidate, recommended Mr Obama get rid of his planned new presidential helicopter, the cost of which now equals that of Air Force One. Mr Obama said the existing chopper was adequate, but added that he had no experience of personal helicopters.

(B.S.–I would gladly allow each member of Congress a helicopter, a jet, and just about anything else they wanted if they would just slash all taxes and then adjourn for 8 years.)

He also promised to deliver a more transparent budget that would factor in the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, natural disasters and the likelihood that Mr Bush’s tax cuts would expire in 2010. Mr Obama’s headline budget is due to be announced on Thursday.

“In order to address our fiscal crisis, we have to be candid about its scope,” Mr Obama said. “For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception, a series of accounting tricks to hide the extent of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue.”  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–How can we be candid about the scope of our deficit, Mr. President, when you keep adding to it every day?  Lets see, today’s Democratic proposal is another $410 billion spending bill.  Read more here.

"Huh, what did you say Mr. President? I must have dozed off."

Maybe We Can Still Use The Satellite To Study The Antarctic…

Satellite To Study Global Warming Crashes Into Antarctic

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — A satellite launched from California failed to reach orbit today, crashing into the sea near Antarctic and dooming a $273 million mission to study global-warming gases.

Chalk up another $300 million wasted on "global warming."

“The mission is lost,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Steve Cole said in a telephone interview from the launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

"Uh oh, I don't feel so well--I'm having a little problem with my payload fairing."

The NASA satellite was to orbit 438 miles (705 kilometers) above Earth and observe how carbon dioxide enters and leaves the atmosphere, helping scientists predict future increases in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.  Instead, the satellite fell in the ocean near Antarctica though the mission manager said at no point did the craft pass over land.

“It’s a huge disappointment for the entire team who have worked very hard for years and years and years,” NASA Launch Director Chuck Dovale said in a briefing from California. “Even when you do your very best, you can still fail.”

Today’s malfunction follows a Feb. 11 collision of U.S. and Russian satellites almost 500 miles above the planet, the first crash of its type, which created a space debris field of more than 300 pieces that could damage other satellites.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite didn’t reach orbit after a 1:55 a.m. launch because the “payload fairing” failed to separate, NASA said. The fairing covers the top of the satellite during launch and needs to come off so the satellite can detach from the rocket and enter orbit.

“It’s disappointing because it was giving us novel information to help us move our understanding forward on global warming,” Alan O’Neill, science director of the Reading, U.K.- based Centre for Earth Observation, said in an interview.

Orbital Sciences

Both the satellite and launch rocket were built by Dulles, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. John Brunschwyler, Orbital Sciences’s mission manager, said “over the past 10 years, we’ve flown a nearly perfect record — 56 out of 57 vehicles and we’ve not had any problems with this particular fairing design.”

NASA’s investment was $273 million for the design, development and launch operations. Insurance details on the mission may be given later today, NASA said. (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Hey NASA, you just wasted another $300 million of taxpayer money, what do you have to say for yourself?  “Even when you do your best you can still fail,” said Chuck Dovale, NASA Launch Director.

You can always tell when a person or a company isn’t using their own money.  Shouldn’t heads roll?  One thing’s clear:  We need a new Launch Director…

This satellite was supposed to provide us with “valuable” global warming data that we would then use to guide our global warming policy.  Let me help you guide our global warming policy—do nothing!   It’s weather!  It will take care of itself like it has for billions of years!  We have more pressing concerns at the moment.

Obese Man Has To Take U-Haul To Get To Court…

Accused Drug Dealer Obviously Not Dealing Diet Pills

"Hey, Mr. Attorney, what do you say we hit a drive-thru before court?...I'm starving back here! By the way, what time do they serve lunch anyway?"

Auburn, NY — A U-Haul trailer was used to transport an obese Genoa man to Cayuga County Court this morning so he could be arraigned on charges of selling drugs out of his home.

Stephen Turo, 56, of 1138 Maple St., says he weighs about 570 pounds. At noon, the truck he was transported in was backed up to the loading dock ramp at the Old Post Office on Genesee Street.

When Turo didn’t appear in court last week, Cayuga County Judge Thomas G. Leone told Turo’s lawyer Turo must get to the courthouse in Auburn to be arraigned on charges contained in a sealed indictment.

Turo’s wife, Claudette, 54, of the same address, was in court Thursday to be arraigned on a 17-count indictment alleging sales of prescription pain-killers among other charges. She said efforts to enlist ambulance services to get her husband to court were unsuccessful.

“I’m not unsympathetic to his plight, but these are serious charges, ” Leone said Thursday. “You need to make the necessary arrangements.”

Leone said he would not arraign Turo at his home, but the judge offered to conduct the arraignment in the courthouse parking lot.

Claudette Turo pleaded innocent to the charges against her. Her bail was set at $1,000 cash or $2,000 bond.

Budelmann told the judge investigators found $2,325 in cash and hundreds of Oxycontin, hydrocodone and morphine pills at the Turos’ house, along with two scales and a quantity of marijuana.

"Yes, that'll be one extra large jail cell please."

B.S. Report–It’s odd, when you are that obese, you are basically under house arrest already.  I’m sure the guy rarely, if ever, leaves his home.

That’s why they nearly have to sentence the guy to some jail time, don’t they?  Otherwise, it’s like he’s not really being punished…well, except for the fact that every day is punishment when you weigh over 600 pounds.

Freedom Quote Of The Day

“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.  These rights cannot be separated.”

–James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention, December 2, 1829

Chinese City Forbids Bright Clothes And Unnatural Hair Styles…

Hi, I'm Here For My Public Servant Job Interview!

BEIJING (Reuters) – Public servants in the gritty central Chinese city of Zhengzhou should not sport “unnatural hair styles” or wear clothes that are too colorful, according to new city regulations.

From now on, Zhengzhou city officials should make sure their clothing matches and stay away from bright color schemes, the regulations specify.

Neatness and order are the order of the day.

“Don’t just dress any which way,” the regulations order.

Zhengzhou, the capital of land-locked Henan province, is better known for its agricultural futures exchange and railway station than for its sense of style.

But no specific breach triggered the latest set of rules, which are “designed to improve the image of our public servants,” an official at Zhengzhou’s central government office told Reuters on Monday.

Hi, I'm here for the banking position...

B.S. Report–Even our dictator, President Chairman Obama, hasn’t decided to control clothing and hairstyles–at least not yet.  Of course, he’s worse than China on economic issues…

Bunning Apologizes For Ginsburg Comments

Senator “Foot-In-Mouth” Jim Bunning Apologizes To Ginsburg

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim Bunning today apologized for saying over the weekend that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.

The Grim Reaper, Senator Jim Bunning

“I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsburg,” Bunning, a Kentucky Republican, said in a statement released by his office. “That certainly was not my intent. It is great to see her back at the Supreme Court today and I hope she recovers quickly. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.”

During a 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said he supports conservative judges “and that’s going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg … has cancer.”

“Bad cancer. The kind that you don’t get better from,” he told a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater.

“Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after (being diagnosed) with pancreatic cancer,” he said.

Ginsburg, 75, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this month, and surgeons removed a small tumor that had not spread. Doctors termed it a “Stage 1” cancer, meaning they found it in the early stages, when it is most curable.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–‘Atta Boy Senator Bunning…way to make friends and show that you’re not a stereotypical cold-hearted Republican!  Your statement yesterday was a little on the cold side, don’t you think?  I mean, you practically had a service and threw dirt on Justice Ginsburg.

True, she’s a lousy justice, but that’s still no excuse.  When your time comes lets hope the other side isn’t quite as “ghoulish” as you were.

Hey, Hey, Hey!…I Thought The Army Was Looking For A Few Good Men!

Police: Army deserter — wearing thong — arrested in Boulder

BOULDER, Colo. — A 21-year-old man wanted by the U.S. Army for desertion was arrested in Boulder over the weekend.

In a strange twist, he was found wearing a woman’s thong and had three pairs of women’s underpants stuffed in his shirt pocket.

Boulder police said they received an anonymous tip Saturday that Christopher Mauger, who has a nationwide felony warrant for desertion, could be found in an apartment unit at 770 29th St. in Boulder.

Police went to the apartment around 4 p.m. and caught Mauger, who was wearing Army camouflage pants, at the back of the building trying to climb down to the ground from the deck.

Mauger — who Army officials say is from Centerport, N.Y. and was undergoing basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. — told police that he left the base while he was on leave and didn’t plan on returning. Then he tried to run away, according to an arrest report.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–It’s funny that the article mentions that the deserter was wearing a thong and had 3 pairs of women’s underwear stuffed in his shirt pocket.  It’s as if they are purposely going out of their way to embarrass this guy.

I mean, desertion is a serious crime–but I had no idea that wearing women’s underwear and toting around women’s underwear was also a crime.  So are they simply taking it upon themselves to point out that the guy’s a weirdo?

Don’t get me wrong…I don’t wear women’s underwear….not that there’s anything wrong with that!… as Seinfeld would say.

In My Humble Opinion…This Is VERY HOT!

And This Is So Very NOT HOT! …Sorry Guys for even posting it.

"My Army buddies didn't like it when I wore these!"