Today's Headlines

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:39 am

ole Slick Willy is rolling into town tonight, campaigning for his wife I suppose.. This is a pretty big event for a small town.. anyways... the local radio station had open requests for music that Bill would like. pretty fuuny. I can't remember the last time I heard Sink the Pink by AC DC..

I would go see him but there is a waiting list for a handgun, (kidding, Mr Homeland Security guy

) so maybe I will just catch him later at Showgirls. (local strip club)

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:44 am

I envy you not.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas

Care to bet on his party affiliation?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,339589,00.html

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:42 pm

LIBERTARIAN!

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:51 pm

I find this part of the article disconcerting...

While Dingell's idea will likely lie dormant until after the 2008 election, the idea of carbon taxes is not. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain all support some type of system that either directly or indirectly will raise prices to penalize polluters.

No matter who wins, here come the new taxes. Taxes based on a hoax.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:53 pm

Joy, joy, joy.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:19 am

ElfDude wrote:Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas

Care to bet on his party affiliation? [/url]

Yeah, the EXXON party.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:42 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas

Care to bet on his party affiliation? [/url]

Yeah, the EXXON party.

Higher gas taxes do nothing to help Exxon.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:55 am

ElfDude wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:Michigan Congressman Wants 50-Cent Tax Hike on Every Gallon of Gas

Care to bet on his party affiliation? [/url]

Yeah, the EXXON party.
Higher gas taxes do nothing to help Exxon.

I was joking

, but he wouldn't have even proposed such a thing
if he (and BIG AUTO) didn't stand to GAIN from it. Perfect example of PORK, but I could always be wrong.

Carry on. **about-faces and exits**

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:03 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:

Yeah, the EXXON party.
Higher gas taxes do nothing to help Exxon.
I was joking , but he wouldn't have even proposed such a thing
if he (and BIG AUTO) didn't stand to GAIN from it. Perfect example of PORK, but I could always be wrong.

Carry on. **about-faces and exits**

He definitely wants the dough for pork spending. But again, only the govt would proit from it. It wouldn't help big auto, big oil, any private industry, or you or me.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:15 am

ElfDude wrote: only the govt would profit from it.

Oh I beg to differ. Our humble, proposed-bill-sponsoring
Member of Congress is not looking out for you or me, relatively
speaking of course. There's more to it than meets the eye.

Hidden agenda you ask?

Heynaaaaw....isn't there ALWAYS one?

There will be winners and losers, and there will be blood. LOL

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:13 am

ICE arrests 34 illegals in Virginia

by Dan Genz, The Examiner

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Federal agents arrested 34 illegal immigrants
in raids of two CMC Concrete Construction work sites in Prince
William County Monday.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests sent shock
waves through a community that initiated its own crackdown earlier
this month.

Federal agents had been scrutinizing the construction company as
part of its stepped up investigations into workplaces that hire unauthorized
workers, officials said.

?We like to turn off the magnet to illegal immigration, which is jobs,?
ICE spokeswoman Pat Reilly said. ?This is one of the primary ways
in which we do interior enforcement.?

Repeated calls to the company?s two listed telephone numbers were unsuccessful
Monday afternoon.

The investigation into the company, including the people responsible
for hiring the illegal immigrants is continuing, Reilly said. ?We have
an ongoing operation out there. ? For today, we have made arrests
of people who are in the country illegally.?

The illegal immigrants, from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras,
Costa Rica and El Salvador, will be detained pending deportation proceedings.

While Prince William County police officers were on the scenes
Monday, officials tried to separate the federal work-site arrests from
the county?s policy allowing police officers to detain illegal immigrants
who commit local crimes or traffic violations.

?We didn?t have anything to do with the operation,? said 1st Sgt.
Kim Chinn, a police spokeswoman. ?We put uniforms there when
another agency comes into our jurisdiction.?

Attorney Lisa Johnson-Firth of the Immigration and Human Rights
Law Group described a hectic scene at the raids Monday, where she collected
the names of 22 workers who had been arrested at one of
the sites, 8336 Wellington Road in Manassas.

The raids come as legal and illegal immigrants have been uneasy
about seeking work at informal day-labor sites across Prince William County.

Businesses will be punished for unlawful hiring practices, said illegal immigration critic
Christine Armstrong of Woodbridge.

?It?s sending a really good message to anyone that hires illegal immigrants....
We won?t tolerate it here.?

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:43 am

?It?s sending a really good message to anyone that hires illegal immigrants....
We won?t tolerate it here.?

Ah, William. Is it any wonder you are a prince? I propose he be elevated to King William County!

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:09 pm

No matter who wins, here come the new taxes. Taxes based on a hoax.

To me, this is very simple. I can't afford it. Can't work it into my budget. Not gonna use my savings to pay this year's legalized robbery attempt.

So what now? I don't buy things that are noticeably inflated tax-wise? Boycott establishments and corporations that drive the tax. Make a hundred water balloons and backpack to the next stop on the campaign trail?

Nah, I think I'll just write a letter to The White House (as a catch-all) and simply let whomever is concerned know that I won't be able to participate at any higher level than I am right now.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:24 pm

Big Blue Owl wrote:
Nah, I think I'll just write a letter to The White House (as a catch-all) and simply let whomever is concerned know that I won't be able to participate at any higher level than I am right now.

Why didn't I think of that?!