Abu Ghraib! UAE! Abu Ghraib, UAE! Desecrating our Ports! Buy American! USA, USA. No foreigners need apply! There's no such thing as an illegal alien! No Undocumented Unamericans!
The cognitive dissonance must hurt their heads.
21 February 2006
09 February 2006
A bit of hypocrisy in Germany
In Germany if appears you get 2 weeks without trial for goose stepping.
As one of the commentators below quoted below said, it seems some satire is punished in Europe more than others.
I think this should make someone in Germany a bit uncomfortable, WWII has been over for 60 years, I think it's time we all got past this.
Comments below from the Sun Online article linked above.
As one of the commentators below quoted below said, it seems some satire is punished in Europe more than others.
I think this should make someone in Germany a bit uncomfortable, WWII has been over for 60 years, I think it's time we all got past this.
Comments below from the Sun Online article linked above.
The first jailed England fan will have a VERY good case in the European Courts.
A goose-step, though perhaps offensive to some people, is not in itself an incitement to violence or hatred.
I think the Germans are on very thin ice with this one.
Rece PorterFlorida, USA
It is interesting that this story appears now in light of the raging controversy over the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad vs the rights of free speech.
Why is satire at the expense of one community acceptable, but not against another?
ShouldnÂ’t all societies accept that free speech is not an inalienable right to humiliate or degrade each other?
Hedieh Mirahmadi
07 February 2006
03 February 2006
The tree of liberty, from time to time, must be replenished with the blood of patriots
Saw this via LGF :
Reminds me of a couple of quotes:
Said by Ahmed Akkari, a Muslim theologian from Copenhagen:
.......the level of anger was “very high” in the Muslim community across
Europe and the wider world.
“It is more likely [than not] that any minute we
will hear of violence unless the police can control the situation.”
Reminds me of a couple of quotes:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"- Patrick Henry
(March 23, 1775)
"The tree of liberty, from time to time, must be replenished with the blood of patriots."- President Thomas Jefferson
02 February 2006
Hoboken and Scooter Link for Today
A good day in Hoboken
http://www.philly2hoboken.com/blog/archives/2006/02/its_a_beautiful.html
http://www.philly2hoboken.com/blog/archives/2006/02/its_a_beautiful.html
Riding Scooters around Australia with lots of photos
http://www.gemellivespa.com/sito/pagen/homepage.asp
24 January 2006
Mexican Army in the USA ?
OK, this seems to be down played, were they really Mexican army?
If so I'm getting very tired of this sort of thing. Another thing to add to this line of reasoning.
Texas Officers Involved in Standoff at Border
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers, apparent drug suspects and Texas law enforcement officers faced off near the U.S.-Mexican border after three suspicious SUVs attempted to flee state authorities, officials said Tuesday.
Andrea Simmons, an agency spokeswoman in El Paso, told The Associated Press that Texas Department of Public Safety troopers chased three SUVs, believing they were carrying drugs, to the banks of the Rio Grande during Monday's incident.
Men dressed in Mexican military uniforms or camouflage were on the U.S. side of the border in Texas, she said.
Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred requests for further details to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., reported Tuesday that the incident included an armed standoff involving the Mexican military and suspected drug smugglers. The incident follows a story in the Bulletin on Jan. 15 that said the Mexican military had crossed into the United States more than 200 times since 1996.
In a news conference, Rick Glancey of the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition, said three Hudspeth County deputies and at least two Texas Department of Public Safety troopers squared off against at least 10 heavily armed men from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
U.S. officials who pursued three fleeing SUVs to the Mexican border saw what appeared to be a Mexican military Humvee help one of the SUVs when it got stuck in the river, he said.
When that didn't work, a group of men dressed in civilian clothes started unloading what appeared to be bundles of marijuana from the SUV, and the stuck vehicle was then torched, he said. A second SUV had a flat tire and was left behind in the United States and its occupant ran across the border, he said.
Glancey said he could not confirm whether the armed men seen at the site were Mexican Army, police officers, or drug dealers, and would not detail what markings deputies may have seen on the men's uniforms or the Humvee.
Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department said that Mexican army personnel had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border, the Daily Bulletin newspaper reported earlier.
"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."
Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West, whose officers were involved in a similar incident last year, said he is certain that Mexican authorities know who was involved.
After the newspaper reported on Mexican military crossings earlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the report was overblown and most of the incursions were just mistakes.
In eastern California, Arizona and New Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border is largely unmarked. But in Texas, the Rio Grande separates the two countries and even when dry, is a riverbed about 200 feet wide.
In November, Doyal said Border Patrol agents in the border town of Fort Hancock called for help after confronting more than six men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men allegedly were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal told the newspaper.
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If so I'm getting very tired of this sort of thing. Another thing to add to this line of reasoning.
Texas Officers Involved in Standoff at Border
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers, apparent drug suspects and Texas law enforcement officers faced off near the U.S.-Mexican border after three suspicious SUVs attempted to flee state authorities, officials said Tuesday.
Andrea Simmons, an agency spokeswoman in El Paso, told The Associated Press that Texas Department of Public Safety troopers chased three SUVs, believing they were carrying drugs, to the banks of the Rio Grande during Monday's incident.
Men dressed in Mexican military uniforms or camouflage were on the U.S. side of the border in Texas, she said.
Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred requests for further details to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., reported Tuesday that the incident included an armed standoff involving the Mexican military and suspected drug smugglers. The incident follows a story in the Bulletin on Jan. 15 that said the Mexican military had crossed into the United States more than 200 times since 1996.
In a news conference, Rick Glancey of the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition, said three Hudspeth County deputies and at least two Texas Department of Public Safety troopers squared off against at least 10 heavily armed men from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
U.S. officials who pursued three fleeing SUVs to the Mexican border saw what appeared to be a Mexican military Humvee help one of the SUVs when it got stuck in the river, he said.
When that didn't work, a group of men dressed in civilian clothes started unloading what appeared to be bundles of marijuana from the SUV, and the stuck vehicle was then torched, he said. A second SUV had a flat tire and was left behind in the United States and its occupant ran across the border, he said.
Glancey said he could not confirm whether the armed men seen at the site were Mexican Army, police officers, or drug dealers, and would not detail what markings deputies may have seen on the men's uniforms or the Humvee.
Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department said that Mexican army personnel had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border, the Daily Bulletin newspaper reported earlier.
"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."
Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West, whose officers were involved in a similar incident last year, said he is certain that Mexican authorities know who was involved.
After the newspaper reported on Mexican military crossings earlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the report was overblown and most of the incursions were just mistakes.
In eastern California, Arizona and New Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border is largely unmarked. But in Texas, the Rio Grande separates the two countries and even when dry, is a riverbed about 200 feet wide.
In November, Doyal said Border Patrol agents in the border town of Fort Hancock called for help after confronting more than six men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. The men allegedly were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the Rio Grande, Doyal told the newspaper.
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18 January 2006
A great Ben Franklin quote
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
http://www.notable-q...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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19 December 2005
12 December 2005
Love
Someone whom I love very much is trying to tell me something. I thought that with my very morose and defeated state of mind lately I would try to come back with an amazingly depressing quote, but unfortunately I was only able to come up with this:
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Sir Winston Churchill
30 November 2005
Great pictures of Hudson County
Looking west on Hoboken Avenue from Baldwin Avenue, taken February 10, 1906
Here is another example of the great pictures available on the LOC site.
The pics are availible in jpg or very high resolution tiff files. For example the following is taken from the picture above.
22 November 2005
Jefferson and the Internet
WINDSOFCHANGE.NET post on the attempted takeover of the Internet by the UN linked to the following news article.
"Those who have supported nihilistic and disorderly freedom of expression
are beginning to see the fruits" of their efforts, [Robert] Mugabe said, adding that Zimbabwe will be "challenging the bully-boy mentality that has driven the unipolar world." . . . . "Fidel Castro, the unflinching promoter of the use of new technologies," believes "it is necessary to create a multinational democratic (institution) which administers this network of networks," said the WSIS delegate from Cuba. . . . . Too often, the Internet is used for the "propagation of falsehoods," said Mohammad Soleymani, Iran's minister of communication and information technology. . . "Changing the current Internet governance to a participatory, legitimate and accountable system under an international authority is imperative," he said. But changes proposed by Third World countries that would give them more influence are "being rejected because they are not facilities managed by the Breton Woods institution by the West's neo-colonial desires," charged Zimbabwe's Mugabe, referring to a post-World War II agreement that led to the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Mozambique Prime Minister Luisa Diogo predicted the struggles to replace ICANN were not over, saying that "it is a matter of justice and legitimacy that all people must have a say in the way the Internet is governed." ICANN does have an international board of directors, including members from Senegal, Morocco, and Nairobi, but critics say that's not enough.
The desire of the UN to control and stifle dissent on the Internet reminds me of a quote by one of our founding fathers:
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."
I think it is best said like this: “The best cure for free speech is more of it”
Where does this name come from? / First Post.
This blogs name is from a section of Jersey City called the Heights, it was once called Showhank Hill and at one time had a brook of the same name. I found the name while browsing the Library of Congres American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. This collection contains many interesting pictures and drawings. I lived in the Heights at one time and it's a great and stimulating place to live.
The main purpose of this blog is to improve my writting skills and contribute something to the Internet.
The main purpose of this blog is to improve my writting skills and contribute something to the Internet.
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