A FLORIDA Voter’s Alert

Proposed Constitutional Amendment No.8
Ballot Title:EMINENT DOMAIN
Ballot Summary:Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to prohibit the transfer of private property taken by eminent domain to a natural person or private entity; providing that the Legislature may by general law passed by a three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the Legislature permit exceptions allowing the transfer of such private property; and providing that this prohibition on the transfer of private property taken by eminent domain is applicable if the petitionof taking that initiated the condemnation proceeding was filed on or after January 2, 2007.
Full Text:ARTICLE XMISCELLANEOUSSECTION
6. Eminent domain.—
(a) No private property shall be taken except for a public purpose and with full compensation therefor paid to each owner or secured by deposit in the registry of the court and available to the owner.
(b) Provision may be made by law for the taking of easements, by like proceedings, for the drainage of the land of one person over or through the land of another.
(c) Private property taken by eminent domain pursuant to a petition to initiate condemnation proceedings filed on or after January 2, 2007, may not be conveyed to a natural person or private entity except as provided by general law passed by a three-fifths vote of the membership of each house of the Legislature.

I didn’t even know it was on the ballot. Dave? Any gobbledeegook involved here we should watch for? ‘Cause it sounds good on it’s face to me. My only concern is the implementation date ~ lets all those cases right now off the hook and to be sorted out in court, but I guess that’s the price you pay.

One Last Bit of Perspective on the CNN “Story”

I’m not sure how many of you clicked through Bingley’s link to the pitiful excuse of an excuse. If you survived the initial shock and disgust, but had neither the patience nor the stomach to wade throught the comments, buried therein was a gem. A Cpl Barrett from Portland OR vented, thought about it…and came back to vent again.. After the understandable anger at spending tours in Iraq and wondering where the US media was. When our kids desperately need support and the American people needs to hear their stories. He noted:

Why do you think, for example, that they don’t show the video of the Crocodile Hunter’s death? It is because there is a point where enough is enough. I don’t know why I should support a station that graphically shows my brothers in arms dying.

Bless his heart. BLESS. HIS. HEART.
A stingray accident versus our life’s blood.
It doesn’t get more upside down than that.

The End of Florida

Really.

What Mohammad Said

…She passed the man a coin and walked off, quietly completing the most mundane of daily tasks while wearing a garment — the full-face veil, or niqab — that has caused a raging debate about how well Britain’s nearly 2 million Muslims are integrating into society.
…After she walked away, the vendor, Mohammad Dehbourzorgi, a Muslim who moved to Britain 22 years ago, sounded almost contemptuous. He said he agreed with Jack Straw, a top official in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government and leader of the House of Commons, who started the controversy this month by complaining that veils create distance between individuals and cultures.
‘Try to be English’
“Jack Straw has a point,” said Dehbourzorgi, who was wearing blue jeans. “If you come to England, then try to be English.“

Or American or French or wherever your travels land you. (The upside is, the WaPo actually quoted this guy. I would have thought that would work against their normal bias.) If you still want to kill your sister to cover something you did, not let her learn to read, drive a car or feel that the Koran says you should help kill the Pope ~ stay in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Wherevistan that Stone Age crap flies. The only ‘Stan‘ I want in the States ends with ‘– Laurel & Oliver Hardy‘.

Jaw DROPPING, Gob SCHMACKING Ignorance

“Dunkin’ Donuts just don’t have much flavor,” said Evans, who grew up in Alabama. “These are just more moist. You can fold them up and stuff a whole one in your mouth.“

By GOD, what was I thinking? I love to EAT Dunkin’ Donuts Chocolate Creme Filled. Bite after lucious bite. Yum yum! Some last 5 or six bites, ’cause I cain’t stand for them to be gone.
And ALL this time, I coulda been stuffin’ WHOLE Krispy Greasy Kremes into my gaping maw.
You know, the stuff these Southerners keep to themselves would just fill a hog farm retention pond, I swear.

Someone Needs to Take That Fat Little Sh*t Out

Bill Roggio says so, too, but nicer.

We have been tippy toeing around this ee-ville SOB for far too long. Everytime we’re within a hair’s breadth of wiping his smug mug off posters for good, he scuttles back to his lair like Shelob (Update :Exhibit A) and we get to start all over again. Malaki needs to be told take care of it NOW, or know that we will. And then we HAVE to. No Fallujah Cotton-Eyed Joe, so he can rearm. And no deals. Dear God, let this be the “new direction” the administration takes.
The kids on the ground are the ones paying for diplomacy where none is warranted.

Read It

…and decide for yourself. There are quite a few elements that ring true for me. But I also know families are the fiercest advocates for the accused.
I think the truth is somewhere in between.

Searching for Answers Friday

Is it any wonder that the “meaning of is” hangover from the Clinton is still…hanging around, with prominent Clinton faces in prominent places? Take Dollnna Shalala, president of that bastion of integrity ~ the University of Miami. Oh, boy she’s sticking to her guns. “The buck stops here” and a ripsnorting

“But we will not throw any student under the bus for instant restoration of our image or our reputation. I will not hang them in a public square. I will not eliminate their participation at the university. I will not take away their scholarships. . .”

Of course her wealth of experience with miscreants at the highest levels leaves her BLIND to the fact that while SHE might not throw her players under the bus, HER PLAYERS wouldn’t hesitate to throw a body, given a LITERAL bus rumbling down Beach Boulevard.

Saturday’s brawl was the third major on-field incident in Miami’s past seven games.
The Hurricanes took part in a nasty fight with LSU at the end of December’s Peach Bowl that left two Miami players, guard Andrew Bain and receiver Khalil Jones, unconscious.
That was followed Sept. 16 with a near-melee with Louisville players after the Hurricanes stomped on their host’s cardinal logo at midfield following warm-ups.

That’s the problem. They’re goons. They have always been indulged GOONS. The contrast is pretty graphic, too, given…

FIU dismissed two players for good and suspended 16 indefinitely, and when Shalala was asked about the gulf between punishments, she said, “There is no gulf. All of us did essentially the same thing, and that is suspending players and setting a standard in which they fully understand what the standard is.”

Oh, sweet, SWEET baby Jesus. Just Photoshop Bill or HIllary’s head on her stumpy body.

Coker defended the one-game suspension for cornerback Brandon Meriweather, seen stomping on FIU players in video.

Oh, of course he did. Toney private school U of M (and their apologists) will be missing suspended players for?
The game against the ALWAYS DANGEROUS DUKE.
Don’t worry fans. Most everybody‘ll be back for GA Tech the week after that.
Hey! It’s scheduling! Dolla Shalala isn’t like Karl Rove or anything. It just worked out that way.
While I’m piling on… How can a PROFESSIONAL baseball player ~ in a TEAM sport, a LEAGUE PENNANT series and a SHOT at the WORLD SERIES ~ “not be speaking” to his manager?

La Russa explained that he didn’t say anything to Rolen because “the last time I talked to him, it was a worthless exercise.”
La Russa added: “He didn’t want to hear it. He didn’t believe it. He didn’t understand it.”

Tony La Russa has had to watch film to see if Scott Rolen’s shoulder is well enough to be scheduled in the line up.
Did he play baseball at Miami?

Well, As They Say

…”the Grasso’s always greener on the other side”. Better luck next time to YOU, Dick.

Former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso will have to repay “tens of millions of dollars” to the Big Board after a court rejected his motion to dismiss certain claims, the New York Attorney General’s office said on Thursday.
…New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Grasso in 2004 for return of some of the $187.5 million in salary, bonuses and retirement compensation plans he received….
Judge Ramos denied Grasso’s bid to seek damages from the NYSE over losing his job in 2003, concluding that Grasso had resigned and was not fired as he had claimed.
…Grasso, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing, sought $48 million in compensation, plus interest, that he said was still due him.

Not Just “NO“

…but “HELL NO“, “F@CK NO“, “NO WAY” and “NO HOW”.

Army Corps proposes easing Gulf wetlands rule
Anger greets plan to let developers skip permits to speed Katrina recovery
Federal wetlands regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a little-publicized proposal to relax restrictions on filling in certain wetlands along the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast to speed recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
“It’s unethical, illegal, immoral, unsustainable and they’re simply doing it to make the fat cats richer faster,” said Derrick Evans, executive director of a Gulfport, Miss., community group that plans to fight the proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Corps’ proposal would allow property owners and developers to skirt the conventional “regional general permit” process for any projects that fill up to 5 acres of “low-quality” wetlands in the six southernmost Mississippi counties. Especially galling to environmentalists: The new process would also eliminate the requirement for public notice of such projects.

Oh, please. ‘Speed recovery’? How about “speeding significant bucks to undeserving pockets”? Perhaps everyone’s forgotten what they were fixing to FIX prior to Katrina and why?

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Joke Of The Day, Part 2

CNN has responded to critics of their latest jihadi propaganda

Whether or not you agree with us in this case, our goal, as always, is to present the unvarnished truth as best we can.

Just like they did when they covered up for Saddam so they could keep their ‘access’.
Their pompous self-importance makes me sick.

Best Joke Ever

I am humbled by its brilliance.

I Beginning to Believe One Shouldn’t Leave the Beach

…without a RAY GUN.

A Lighthouse Point man is in critical condition this morning, a day after authorities say a stingray jumped onto his boat and stabbed him in the chest, leaving a foot-long barb stuck in him.
Eighty-one-year-old James Bertakis was boating with his grown granddaughter and her friend yesterday afternoon when the rare attack occurred.
…Authorities say Bertakis suffered a closed chest wound, collapsed lung and may have to undergo open-heart surgery.
Firefighters say the roughly five-foot wide, 30 pound stingray died on the boat.

Good Lord! I’m even keeping an eye on the drain in the shower. I mean, you just never know.
UPDATE: I’m frightened. Judging by the anecdotal evidence pouring in from Swillers across the country (See the comments…if you DARE!), I am going to have to change my mind and BELIEVE that…there is more to this fish story than meets the eye.
I am going to become…a

TRUTH Rayer

According to Census Bureau Statistics, There Is NO ONE

…named Mister Bingley in the United States.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Soooo…
Who the f*ck IS this obnoxious, mysterious stranger….?

CNN Shills For The Jihadis

I’m not even going to link to it, but here is what the bastards at CNN say as their top story:

Almost 2,800 Americans have been killed so far in Iraq and one of the most dangerous insurgent opponents is the sniper. CNN has obtained graphic video from the Islamic Army of Iraq, one of the most active insurgent organizations in Iraq, showing its sniper teams targeting U.S. troops. The Islamist Army says it wants talks with the United States and some Islamist Internet postings call for a P.R. campaign aimed at influencing the American public. The video is disturbing to watch but CNN believes the story, shocking as it is, needs to be told.

You disgusting bastards.
What “story needs to be told”, you pusillanimous turds? The story of how murdering islamists can sneak up and take potshots at US soldiers because the soldiers are decent kids operating under civilized rules of engagement and the islamists live only to kill? The ‘story’ of how you will show US soldiers getting shot but not mention the ethnicity or religion of terror suspects and rioters?

Hahahaha!

Don’t take your passwords to the grave

No sh*t.

After a Loud SNORT of Derision

…I have come to the conclusion we’re doomed. First ::roll eyes:: of the morning…

In the wake of the Miami-FIU brawl, the NCAA says it would consider helping schools and conferences develop a standard policy to curb on-field violence.

…”The NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference have principles of sportsmanship to which the University of Miami is committed,” Miami athletic director Paul Dee said. “It is important for us to use opportunities such as these to re-emphasize this commitment to sportsmanship.”

“I think it’s more in how they look at power and intimidation, and a lot of young people look at that as a physical thing,” Stratten said. “You see that from guys who grow up in that kind of environment.“

So because they grew up as thugs and can handle a ball, we must let convicts be convicts? And I don’t see ANYTHING U of M is committed to other than the almighty $halala dolla.
Then there was this.

A judge has ruled not to interfere with a decision on whether cult leader and convicted killer Yahweh Ben Yahweh’s parole should be terminated because he has advanced cancer.
…Yahweh, who is linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, said he wants to die with dignity at home in the Miami area, according to a motion filed earlier this month.

Oy.

“Brilliant!”

Aishah Azmi, the Muslim teaching assistant suspended for her sack cloth, says everything’s brilliant, so what’s the problem?

…Ms Azmi told the BBC her veil had not caused problems with the children, with whom she had a “brilliant relationship”.
…”If people think it is a problem, what about blind children? They can’t see anything but they have a brilliant education, so I don’t think my wearing the veil affects the children at all.”

Jeez, when I watched her BBC interview, “brilliant” wasn’t the first word that sprang to mind.

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I Didn’t Know

But it’s wonderful.

Christmas at Arlington

Every December since 1992, volunteers have laid wreaths donated by the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine, at the headstones of over 5,000 of America’s honored dead.

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And a Quick Market Update

DOW’s at TWELVE THOUSAND and change

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“In This Galaxy…

…you will NOT.”

Bush Sets Defense As Space Priority
U.S. Says Shift Is Not A Step Toward Arms; Experts Say It Could Be

President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone “hostile to U.S. interests.”
The document, the first full revision of overall space policy in 10 years, emphasizes security issues, encourages private enterprise in space, and characterizes the role of U.S. space diplomacy largely in terms of persuading other nations to support U.S. policy.
“Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power,” the policy asserts in its introduction.

Essential it is.

Brussels Seeks to Ban E.U.Tube

As Voltaire might have said “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to regulate it”

“The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels.”

Or was that quote from Jefferson? I get so confused…
UPDATE: Rally ’round the Tube!

First Harry Reid

Now Hillary is making ‘corrections’ to her life story:

Years after alternative media pointed out the virtual impossibility, Sen. Hillary Clinton finally has admitted she was not named for the famous conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary.
The New York Times, which repeated the claim as fact in a story just one week ago, reported Sen. Clinton’s campaign issued a correction yesterday.
For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton’s informal biography repeated the story, and it was recounted in former President Bill Clinton’s 2004 autobiography, “My Life.”
…”It had two l’s, which is how she thought she was supposed to spell Hillary,” she said. “So when I was born, she called me Hillary, and she always told me it’s because of Sir Edmund Hillary.”
In 1947, Sir Edmund was an unknown beekeeper, but Clinton had explained her mother read about him in a publication while pregnant and liked the name.

Sir Hillary did not climb Everest until 1953, when Ms. Hillary was 6.

“In point of fact,” Hillary Clinton said, “I would like to state clearly for the record that my mother named me for Tenzig Norgay.”

But a “Peacetime Footing” Is Cheaper!

Ask any ‘Rumsfeld doctrine’/neocon analyst.

The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan failed to follow through as it should have after ousting the government in 2001, said the NATO commander in the country.
The mistake — adopting “a peacetime approach” too early — set the stage for this year’s deadly Taliban resurgence, British Gen. David Richards told Pentagon reporters Tuesday.
He said the international community has six months to correct the problem before losing Afghan support.
“The Taliban were defeated. …. And it looked all pretty hunky-dory,” Richard said of the environment at the end of 2001. “We thought it was all done … and didn’t treat it as aggressively as … with the benefit of hindsight, we should have done.”

Let Me Get This “Breaking News” Straight

From a banner on the Fox Buzztracker:

Breaking News >> Judge Tosses Conviction of Late Enron Founder Ken Lay Citing His Death

So, he’s only a crook as long as he’s alive?
Nobody’s got anything else yet. All Wesley all the time so far.
UPDATE: Got it.

A federal judge Tuesday vacated the conviction of Enron founder Kenneth Lay who died in July, wiping out a jury’s verdict that he committed fraud and conspiracy in the months before his company’s collapse.
Lay was convicted of 10 counts of fraud, conspiracy and lying to banks in two separate cases on May 25. Enron’s collapse in 2001 wiped out thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion in market value and more than $2 billion in pension plans.

Because he wasn’t alive to contest the verdicts. Sheesh. It’s been a good week…

…for toads in general.