October 25, 2005
The votes have been counted and it's official, the Iraqi's have a new constitution! AP Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq after a 10-day-audit showed that Sunni Arabs, who had sharply opposed the draft document, failed to ...
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Filed Under: Iraq
To me President Bush's foreign policy is fine. His domestic policy is pretty much atrocious to me. From his moralistic stance on issues with a religious bent like the Schiavo incident or the "war on porn" to his overspending to ...
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Filed Under: Politics
Now this is just ridiculous. It's one thing to be against abortion for moral reasons and sure there's potential dangers, but sometimes wacko's go too far on trying to tie things together in order to support their moralist agenda. Case ...
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Filed Under: Rants
The plan for day 9 had been to head east out of Orlando taking the 528 towards Titusville where we would be able to see the Space Shuttle on the launchpad ready for liftoff at Kennedy Space Center. However, the ...
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Filed Under: Cross Country 2005
81 members of Congress signed a letter to President Bush demanding that immigration laws be enforced before any "guest worker" program is even brought up. As frustration builds in the Republican party over this issue, more and more members of ...
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Filed Under: Immigration | Politics
A few days ago I covered the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff lies where he said they'll end the practice of "catch and release" and seemed to imply that it would happen within a year. Congressman Tom Tancredo ...
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Filed Under: Immigration | Politics
October 24, 2005
I clawed my way out of bed after the heroic driving effort the day before. The wife hadn't been feeling too good throughout the whole trip and so far I had driven every mile. I wasn't complaining though, I was ...
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October 23, 2005
We awoke on Day 7 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. We washed up, packed the car and hit the road. I initially wanted to get in some touring of civil war battlefields when I was planning this trip, but decided against it ...
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Filed Under: Cross Country 2005
We were a few hours ahead of schedule as we woke up on day 6 in our 12 day journey across America. We had planned to stop in Oklahoma City for the night, but had continued on for a few ...
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We received a call "early" in the morning from the office wondering if we were going to pay for another day or be on our way. It turned out it wasn't really early, but more along the lines of 10:15 ...
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October 22, 2005
We awoke in our little smurf-like wigwam and prepared for the days trip ahead. We headed out on day 4 taking a final look back on the Wigwam Motel, still enthralled with it. Our first stop I had originally scheduled ...
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October 21, 2005
Howard Stern's ratings have gone through the floor over the past few months in Washington D.C. and are down 15% in New York. I stopped listening to him about a year ago when he changed his show from kind of ...
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Filed Under: Entertainment
The Senate Judiciary committee approved of a Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) plan to sell high tech work visa's and green cards to big businesses. The deal includes going back to 1991 and counting up all ...
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Filed Under: Immigration | Outsourcing
In the continued assault on every person in America, Northwest Airlines is implementing a plan to charge smokers more for health insurance starting in January. An internal memo laid out the plans. I'm sure there's some of you out there ...
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Filed Under: Business | Outrageous | Rants
October 20, 2005
Let's just take a look at what Michael Chertoff, the head of DHS, means when he says "Our goal is to return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions". First of all let me print what he really should have said ...
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Filed Under: Immigration | Outrageous
October 18, 2005
Believed to be 40-ish and Moroccan, a former Arabic translator for the U.S. Army has been charged with making false statements to the FBI, Department of Defense officials, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. The criminal complaint filed last ...
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Filed Under: Iraq
October 17, 2005
If a person travels to Toronto from upstate New York, as an example, and receives a traffic ticket, I advise that the ticket be disputed in traffic court. Why? Almost two-thirds of all traffic infractions are dismissed in court because ...
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Filed Under: Miscellaneous
Once again we have an example of idiots who don't give a crap about freedom of speech in this country. Five protesters were arrested in Chicago after attacking police at a meeting of the Minuteman Project. The protesters showed ...
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Filed Under: Minuteman Project | Outrageous
October 16, 2005
Hey hey! It looks like the Iraqi's are ready to move forward as they went to the polls this weekend. Even more voters participated than in January which is a sign that Iraqi's are not only interested in their future, ...
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Filed Under: Iraq | Politics
Whites rioted and burned police cars and private businesses in Washington D.C. after a black Nazi rally was held downtown last night. The riots occurred after a peaceful free speech call to black supremacy rally. The whites threw bottles and ...
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Filed Under: Humor
October 15, 2005
Joseph Turner, founder of Save Our State a grassroots organization against illegal aliens (see the Save Our State archives on Diggers Realm for protests we've covered), has filed a ballot measure in San Bernardino that really targets the base of ...
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Filed Under: California | Immigration | Politics | Save Our State
October 12, 2005
David Blum's Tick ... Tick ... Tick ..., the gossipy tell-all about television's 60 Minutes, came out in hardcover last year and has been a conversation-starter ever since. Due out this week is the paperback edition which contains some fresh ...
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Filed Under: Miscellaneous
Here's a press release I received from the host of Subject2Discussion, Shaun OMac. Shaun has been trying to get me to do the program for a few months and with my recent move we haven't been able to hook ...
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Filed Under: California | Immigration | James Gilchrist | Minuteman Project | Politics
In a further sign of the disgusting practices of big business we have the recent bankruptcy filing by Delphi and the discovery that they owe their pension funds 10.8 billion dollars. Now I'm a pro-business guy in general until it ...
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Filed Under: Business | WTF
October 11, 2005
Blogger A.E. Smith headed to the border to investigate the truth of living there. He has lots of great pictures and interviews with locals in the area. Here's an excerpt: Borderlands, USA A hazy New Mexico sun shines through the ...
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Senator John McCain, who lost all of my respect back in May with his massive illegal alien amnesty bill with Senator Kennedy, showed up in the golden state to help push forward Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's propositions. If it was up ...
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Filed Under: California | Politics
Philip Badowski, 22, whose chainsaw massacre murdering of his parents was covered here December 10, 2004, entered a surprise guilty plea to the murder of his parents and dismembering of his mother with a chainsaw today in Tennessee. Police arrived ...
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Filed Under: Sicko
October 10, 2005
To summarize, a caller to various franchise restaurants has been impersonating an authority figure and ordering female employees to strip and perform lewd acts in order to avoid arrest and/or being fired. The hoaxes have occurred over 60 times in ...
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I've been working on a number of personal projects in addition to Startup Hints, my website to help people starting up their own businesses. A little online advertising and research and some integration things. I'm back to my typical working ...
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Filed Under: Diggers Life
October 07, 2005
There are two new articles up over at Startup Hints. One deals with market research and competitive analysis and the other deals with networking at events and other functions. "The 5 Easy Steps to Researching Your Market" Learn five easy ...
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(Burlington, Vermont) On Tuesday, St, Albans Police arrested four foreign nationals for suspected illegal alien smuggling. Details are sketchy on this story. From WCAX.com:Acting on an alert from the border patrol, city police stopped a car with four foreign nationals ...
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Filed Under: Homeland Security
October 05, 2005
(Rio Grande Valley) The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has launched a campaign to stem the flow of illegal aliens into and through South Texas. As a result, the Mexican Consulate in Brownsville sent a warning."The [Mexican] consulate will be alert ...
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Filed Under: Homeland Security | Immigration | Mexico | Minuteman Project
In a move that I think everyone can agree is common sense -- except for sex offenders with impotency -- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill banning the state health care system from paying for Viagra for poor sex offenders. ...
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James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project and currently running for Congress as an American Independent, made a decent showing in the 48th district election yesterday. (Contrary to what people like those at the OCBlog say was an embarrassing ...
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Filed Under: California | James Gilchrist | Minuteman Project | Politics
October 04, 2005
When Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) declared a state of emergency In August for New Mexico over illegal immigration it was assumed that he would be ensuring the earmarked $1 million in funds to border counties would be used to shore ...
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Filed Under: Immigration | Minuteman Project
There's a new article over at Startup Hints entitled "How To Write A Startup Business Plan" here is an excerpt: Why do you need to write a business plan? There are a number of reasons. Writing a plan dramatically increases ...
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October 03, 2005
The mayor of Riviera Beach, Florida has decided he knows what's best for the homeowners of a local community and has decided that throwing them out of their homes and onto their asses is the best course of action. It's ...
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Filed Under: Outrageous | Rants
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) is under investigation with over 2,500 misconduct charges being filed against employees of the agency. In addition another 50 are being added to the list weekly. Included in the charges are bribery, giving "green ...
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Filed Under: Homeland Security | Immigration | Outrageous
Do we really want a Conservative Supreme Court? I don't think I really do. With the nomination today by Bush of Harriet Miers (Nice roundup at Wizbang and The Moderate Voice of the Blogosphere reaction) I haven't a clue where ...
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Beginning with the Class of 2006, students must pass the California graduation exam to receive a diploma. The exam has two parts, math and English. Students in the 12th grade must demonstrate proficiency at the eighth-grade level in math and ...
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Filed Under: California
Cronyism, the first word that comes to mind when mentioning Julie Myers. Here's the latest news on her nomination. The nomination of Julie Myers to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has been put on hold by ...
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There was a lapse in my coverage from June-August here at Super Silly due to a move from California to New York, so I'll be covering the 4 month period here. Diggers Realm Stats And Growth For The Months Of ...
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A massive joint venture in California between the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Narcotics and SWAT Divisions, the Barstow Police Department, the San Bernardino Police Department SWAT Unit, ICE, Border Patrol, County Probation, the Redlands Police Department and San Bernardino ...
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Filed Under: Amazing | California | Immigration
A group of Colorado lawmakers is set to take a fact-finding mission to Arizona this week to discover the true costs of illegal immigration. I suppose they chose to pick a state that has been devastated by the costs imposed ...
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Filed Under: Immigration | Politics
Rep. J.D. Hayworth, (R-AZ) introduced his tough immigration bill to Congress on Sep 29, 2005. The Enforcement First Immigration Act of 2005 includes adding 10,000 border patrol agents, increased customs officers at ports of entry and an increase in detention ...
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Another medical center is facing the crunch of being legally bound to treat illegal aliens, but never being paid for doing so. The board of directors at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center have applied for federal reimbursement. The center spends about ...
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Filed Under: California | Immigration
This weeks poll is wacky. What is your preference blonde, brunette or redhead? Vote now in the poll box on the navbar to your left. Your choices are: Blonde Brunette Redhead You can comment below on the lack of options, ...
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Last weeks poll was on whether Julie Myers should head the ICE. The results of the poll are in: % No 78.3% Yes 21.7% Most thought she shouldn't, but to be fair the sample size was really too small to ...
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October 02, 2005
Al-Qaeda is claiming that it has two US Marines being held hostage and that they will be executed within 24 hours unless female Sunni Muslim prisoners are released. Reuters "Al Qaeda soldiers succeeded in kidnapping two Marines ... and Al ...
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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda | Hostages | Terrorism
Mark Edwards, founder of the Wake Up America Foundation, will be appearing on the Subject2Discussion webcast on Wednesday, October 5,2005 at 7 pm PT (10PM ET). Mark's foundation focuses on illegal immigration and the struggle to get the federal government ...
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Filed Under: Immigration
Three simultaneous bombs in Bali restaurants Saturday killed at least 26 and injured more than 100. This came just days before the third anniversary of the Nightclub bombings in 2002. The attacks are believed to be the works of Jemaah ...
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