Bush set for immigration speech

WRIC News ^ | 5-14-06 | AP

[JustPiper]

BUSH SET FOR IMMIGRATION SPEECH WHITE HOUSE President Bush is getting set for a prime-time speech on immigration tomorrow night. Aides note the 8 p-m, Eastern Time, speech will be the president's first from the Oval Office that does not involve Iraq and the war on terrorism. And they say that reflects Bush's "passion" on immigration. He's speaking as the Senate is poised to clear a compromise measure including his idea for a guest worker program. However, a rival House bill is limited to a border crackdown, and meshing the two won't be easy. Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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[devolve]

LA: "Eight workers at the city's Department of Water and Power
have been arrested because they were unauthorized to work in the United States, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said."

How many minutes were they held in custody until released?


The recent "raids" turned out to be "catch & release" as usual -

But I hear "catch & release" is going to be phased out -

Let's see -

September 11 2001
May 19 2006

Hmmmmmmmm.....











Feds only prosecuted 6% of illegals-drugs cases

AG Gonzales says "priorities" again

Gonzales is (allegedly) a waste and not (allegedly) a loyal American in the opinion of many

I myself am only repeating what I have heard from some top attorneys

His comments about English language in America were revealing and disturbing


If Gonzales ever got on SCOTUS you could kiss the USA goodbye

[Smartass]

Going to Call it a day.
Good night all you good FReepers:

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[La Enchiladita]

Latest report on the

Border Shooting

[Cindy]

Sleep well Smartass.

[La Enchiladita]

17 Ways to Maintain A Healthy Level of Insanity

1. At Lunch Time, Sit in Your Parked Car with Sunglasses on and point A Hair Dryer at Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with That.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In".

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone Has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch To Espresso.

6. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "Signed under duress"

7. Finish all Your Sentences with "In Accordance With the Prophecy."

8 don't use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."

11. Sing Along At The Opera.

12. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme

13. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play Tropical Sounds All Day.

14. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"

15. When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking Lot, Yelling "Run for Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

16. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To Gas Prices, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

And The

Final Way
To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......

17. Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.

[investigateworld]

LOL ! Thanks

My favorite is to go into a Wal-mart changing room and yell "Hey, you're out of paper in here".

[La Enchiladita]

Oh no! I dont have a wal-mart.

I like #11. La-la-la-la......

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"Info (On 'Fence-mending'?)"

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[investigateworld]

Oh that's where I know you from!

Phantom of the Opera, LA, Micheal Crawford, mean anything to you?

[TheLion]

Frightening Skin Disease Invades L.A. (Morgellons)

KCAL9 ^ | 5/19/06 | KCBS
Posted on 05/19/2006 6:46:43 PM EDT by BurbankKarl
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635214/posts

Moregellons Makes Your Skin Crawl With Threadlike Strings Coming Out Of Sores (CBS) LOS ANGELES It's a "mystery” straight out of the "X-Files."

But those who suffer from it will tell you it's painfully real.

Imagine sweating "beads” of a *black tar- like substance" -- or pulling colored threadlike strings from sores all over your body.

Worst of all... not only are doctors unsure of what it is, many tell patients they're making it all up.

The disease literally makes your skin feel like it's crawling-- but here's the real scary part for us. Out of the entire country, the L.A. area has the highest percentage of cases.

According to some patients: "They start out like little pimples or something and you scratch them, and they bust open and they spring forth these weird fibers like a strand of a piece of cotton. "

"I saw white fiber on my face, I saw black specks coming out of what looked like pimples really. "

It sounds like these people are talking about something out of a science-fiction movie. But they're not-- they're describing the painful symptoms associated with a mysterious skin disease called Morgellons.

Most sufferers have lesions on their skin that ooze multi-colored fibers.

"Blue red yellow pink white coming out of the skin, not landing on it."

Black pepper-like particles are also often found on the skin-- and then there's the bugs.

"The most disturbing symptom is just the crawling feeling on your skin like you got bugs crawling all over you."

“My son felt it first: ‘Mommy I have bugs on my skin.’ I thought he must be having a vivid dream. Then I started having the symptoms.”

This woman-- who only wants to be identified as Marcella, says in addition to the bugs, there's severe pain.

"Yes, tremendous amount of joint pain particularly the large joints. Like the hips and the knees."

These are just a few of the more than 3500 Americans believed to be suffering from the illness. The highest rate is right here in the L.A. area.

"My symptoms started out as small lesions that looked like birth marks, exactly like birthmarks"

William Zielenbach believes he's had the disease for the past two years. Right now he has lesion covering his arms and legs. He lives with his girlfriend, Katherine Walker, in this Hollywood apartment building. She recently came down with it and dropped about 40 pounds in a matter of months. They're now shells of their former selves.

"I was getting little lesions on my ears. Again my case wasn't as bad except for the chronic fatigue, which is how a lot of people say it starts for them."

Another troubling symptom-- hair loss. Annette Riaubia of Harbor City shows us why she has to wear a wig.

"My biggest symptom has been hair loss."

She often get lesions on her scalp.

"They don't actually heal. They just end up leaving strange looking scars."

On top of having to live with this devastating disease-- these people have had to deal with a lack of support from the medical community. Some have been diagnosed with scabies--- a contagious skin disease caused by a mite.

"Doctor diagnosis? Yeah, scabies from about 10 feet away."

Or they're told they’re delusional and that their ailments are from self-mutilation.

"Went to the doctor, went to the dermatologist first and he basically said that I was delusional.

"I’ve had everything from nerves to drug addiction to delusional parasitosis is the biggest common diagnosis.”

The disease does seem to cause a brain fog or lack of clarity. However, this Florida woman wanted to prove to doctors that it wasn't all in her mind so she saved the fibers that were growing out of her body.

"This has absolutely brought me to my knees."

Some doctors even admit to a lack of acknowledgement of the illness.

"A lot of times, not all of us but there are a lot of us who feel like if it doesn't exist in my medical book then it doesn’t' exist anywhere."

"Believe me if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my office, I would think they were crazy, too."

Nurse practitioner Ginger Savely treats Morgellons patients from all over the country at her San Francisco Medical Center.

“But after you've heard the story of over 100 patients and they’re all down to the most minute detail saying the exact same thing, which becomes quite impressive.”

As you can imagine living with such an illness can cause emotional distress. Lisa Wilson’s son, Trevor, developed the disease just over a year ago. At times she'd try to help him alleviate the pain.

"It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about 1/4 to an 1/8 of an inch. It was sticking out of his chest when having a bad attack. I tried as hard as I could to pull it out."

Trevor tried several medications-- antibiotics, antiparasitics and pain killers-- but when things became too much to bear, he took his own life.

" I knew he was going to kill himself and there was nothing I could do to stop him."

Other Morgellons patients have felt this same type of deep depression. The children have their own struggles:

"I used to have the whole softball team come over. Now no one wants to come over anymore. "

"Every day we just have to think that the end is soon. We just hope it will be over soon."

Researchers at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences have been testing scabs and fibers from patients.

"We don’t' know how to treat it we don't know what causes it. We don't know if it’s an environmental factor, if there are bacteria involved, if there are parasites, or worms or viruses."

Meantime sufferers are praying someone can unlock this medical mystery and release them from this living hell.

"It's just one big Twilight Zone episode that hopefully we get an end here soon!”

Nurse practitioner Savely says she's found some success by giving her patients a combination of anti-fungus, antibiotics and antiparasitics.

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RE: "The shooting prompted an 8 1/2-hour closure of the border crossing..."

...Not all bad, apparently.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."--Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu. Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

[JustPiper]

For some odd reason this smiley reminds me of Foster Brooks

[JustPiper]

Noteworthy Points:

Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ)--are facing challenges from Republicans with strong stances on immigration: Mike McGavick in Washington and Tom Kean, Jr. in New Jersey. I don't think the voters in those states will be happy to learn that their representatives in Congress have put our security and economy at risk by refusing to support border security measures.


When given an opportunity to make English the national language, many Democrats also balked--including Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), who we also feel is very vulnerable. The amendment that would do so, sponsored by Senator Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), which passed 63-34, will not only honor our traditions and history, but also help to ensure that future generations of Americans are
{{{united by a single, common language.}}
~Interesting, the Dem wording 'compromise'

I have been disappointed by the votes, rhetoric, and behavior of many Democrats during this week's debate. Sometimes it just seems like their priorities are different from most Americans'.

~A wise Senator, keep an eye on her voting record in this

[JustPiper]

ICE is doing their job. What is going on here?

Good question, there were several of these stories today

[JustPiper]

Next to some Senator's and many illegals, I think the komodo is sweet

[JustPiper]

Can you not see how injurious S.2611 is to the fabric of this nation?

I think we should all take your one line and fax/email it all week long to every one of them!

[JustPiper]

You just made me think of another SA:

[JustPiper]

Thank you smiled all the way thru and snorted at some

1. At Lunch Time, Sit in Your Parked Car with Sunglasses on and point A Hair Dryer at Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

I think I'll go sit in my car later and amuse myself with this!

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone Has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch To Espresso.

Remind me in our next phone call to tell you about what 2 of my friends did in an officer's mess in Nam

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

This is my youngest girls' philosophy

11. Sing Along At The Opera.

Priceless

16. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To Gas Prices, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

Does this apply to a spouse?

I would like to add one:

Call a bar, ask them if they have "Bud" in a bottle...when they respond...

Tell them to let em' out for goodness sake! He is a friend of yours!

[JustPiper]

31. Make up nonsense products and ask newly hired employees if there any in stock, i.e., "Do you have any Shnerples here?"
32. Take up an entire aisle in Toys by setting up a full scale battfield with G.I. Joes vs. the X-Men.
33. Take bets on the battle described above.
34. Nonchalantly "test" the brushes and combs in Cosmetics.
35. While handling guns in the hunting department, suddenly ask the clerk if he knows where the anti-depressants are. Act as spastic as possible.
36. Hold indoor shopping cart races.
37. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from "Mission: Impossible."
38. Attempt to fit into very large gym bags.
39. Attempt to fit others into very large gym bags.
40. Say thing like, "Would you be so kind as to direct me to your Twinkies?"