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[SouthwestRanger]

Sarah Palin fires up Tea Party rally

By Joe Dwinell and Hillary Chabot
Wednesday, April 14, 2010



A Roaring Crowd cheered on Sarah Palin on the Boston Common today as she slammed President Obama promising it?s ?nothing a good old fashioned election can?t fix.?

Palin, wearing a lipstick-red leather jacket, urged ?less government? and ?cut spending? and do more than ?stall the spending spree we?ve been on.?

The common-sense hockey mom praised Bostonians for electing upstart GOP star U.S. Sen. Scott Brown as she stood in the shadow of the Democrat-controlled State House.

?Bostonians have never been afraid to stand up for their freedoms,? Palin said. ?Shoot, look at what Massachusetts did in January. You shook up the U.S. Senate.?

She called for taxes to be cut so families can ?keep more? of what they earn. She tossed in a call for ?drill, baby drill? and to stop America from ?bowing to Saudis.?

It was a speech aimed directly at the Democrats and it was the fuel that pumped up the Tea Party Express crowd.

The turnout ? clearly well in the thousands ? went beyond expectations, Tea Party organizers said. The crowd filled the Common to hear Palin who took the stage before 11 this morning.

Palin took to the stage to pound away at ?Obamacare? and the borrowing that will tax future generations, she said.

?The first test will be at the ballot box in November,? she said, calling on Tea Partiers to get out the vote.

Almost everyone said they came today to catch a glimpse of the conservative shooting star, but she?s not the only draw.

Gold Star Mother Debbie Lee told the story of her son, Mark, who was killed in Iraq. She broke down in tears to remember a boy she lost to war who stood in the line of fire to save his squad.

?He did that for each and every one of you today,? she said of her son?s death. ?We?ve got political insurgents in Washington, D.C. And will you have the same response my son did? ?Roger that. Let?s go get ?em.??

The rally, which kicked off before 10 a.m. and will last until about 1 p.m., has made the corner of Charles and Beacon the epicenter of the Tea Party movement today.

?This may be our only opportunity to see her live on the East coast,? said Dennis McHale, a police sergeant who worked a night shift on Long Island and then hit the road to the Hub.

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[SouthwestRanger]

Arizona Lawmakers Pass Tough Immigration Laws

April 14, 2010 12:56 p.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN News Editor



SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO FOR PRESIDENT !!!!


Phoenix, AZ, United States (AHN) - Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday passed a new state law against illegal immigration. The new legislation is the toughest stance against immigration passed by state lawmakers in the country.


The new law passed by the Arizona House, known as SB1070 makes it a misdemeanor to be in the state without proper immigration papers or identification. Furthermore it gives police broad powers to determine whether a person is legal even if they aren't suspected of another crime. The ACLU says the new law will unleash a floodgate of lawsuits.

Even among law enforcement the bill is been met with mixed reactions. Police unions are backing it, however the state police chief's association is opposing the bill.

Proponents of the measure say once it is signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer law enforcement will have the tools needed to address illegal immigration. Critics say the measure will turn the desert state into a ?police state.? Opponents believe it will give credence to and mandate racial profiling and people with an accent could be arrested for something as simple as leaving their wallet at home.


rest of article here: Arizona Lawmakers Pass Tough Immigration Laws | AHN

SR: Critics say the measure will turn the desert state into a ?police state.?

Only if they are entering the country illegally. As in criminals, as in breaking the laws etc etc etc....Bienvenidos Mexifornia! As if we don't have enough of thm and all the problems and financial ills they've caused!

[Secret Six]

S6: Bout damn time!


Now lets see if the fed will follow suit... something tells me Obummer will give amnesty to 20 million criminals..it's votes ya know....

:doh::flagwaver:

[tghtrkk]

I dont think its insae...What made you think that??

[Secret Six]

Pot enthusiasts gather at California cannabis expo

By SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press Writer Sudhin Thanawala, Sat Apr 17,

DALY CITY, Calif. – Medical marijuana users near San Francisco lit up Saturday at the opening of the two-day International Cannabis and Hemp Expo, where vendors displayed bongs, vaporizers, hash brownies and other marijuana-related products.

Organizers of the event at the Cow Palace said they insisted on having an onsite medicating area before holding the expo. Under a white-canopied courtyard, young adults in baggy jeans and baseball caps smoked alongside aging hippies.

Adrian Hernandez said marijuana use helps him deal with chronic knee pain.

"Everybody needs their medication when they need it," said Hernandez, who is in his 30s. "We'd have to step out and go hide in our cars."

In 1996, California voters approved a measure that allowed sick people to use marijuana if they have doctor referrals and an identification card.

But marijuana advocates want to take it a step further. In November, voters will consider a ballot measure on whether to legalize and tax pot in California.

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[Secret Six]

Blonde-haired women, who are often stereotyped as carefree and ditsy, earn seven per cent more than women with hair of other colours, researchers claim.





CHERIE: I'm in the $$$$$ I'm in the $$$$$ !!!!!


And in addition to their preferential pay packets blondes also marry wealthier men, who earn an average of six per cent more than the husbands of other women.

A study in the journal Economics Letters reported that having blonde hair boosts pay by ?1,600 a year for a woman earning ?22,000 a year ? the average salary in Britain.

Researchers at the University of Queensland, who surveyed 13,000 women, said that the difference in pay remained the same even when other factors such as height, weight and education were removed.

They could not explain why blonde-haired women enjoy more financial success, but said no other hair colour produced similar results.

Dr David Johnston, who led the study, said: "Blonde women are often depicted as being more attractive than other women, but also less intelligent.

"But it seems the association between blondes and beauty dominates any perception that they have low intelligence.

"This could explain why the 'blondeness effect' is evident in the marriage market."

Olga Uskova, president of the International Blondes Association, told the Mail on Sunday: "Blondes have wealthier husbands because we are more fun and outgoing, and men are more attracted to us.

"We also do better in the workplace because when we make a mistake we can say, 'Oh, sorry about that, it's because I'm blonde' and get away with it."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/75 ... women.html

[SouthwestRanger]

Arizona Sheriff Says Cops Are Being Killed by Illegal Aliens; Joins Call for U.S. Troops at Border

Penny Starr
April 20, 2010
CNSNews.com

Law enforcement officials from the Arizona counties hardest hit by illegal immigration say they want U.S. troops to help secure the border, to prevent the deaths of more officers at the hands of criminals who enter the country illegally.

“We’ve had numerous officers that have been killed by illegal immigrants in Arizona,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Monday at a Capitol Hill news conference. “And that shouldn’t happen one time.”

Babeu said the violence in Arizona has reached “epidemic proportions” and must be stopped. “In just one patrol area, we’ve had 64 pursuits -- failure to yield for an officer -- in one month,” Babeu said. “That’s out of control.”

The recent murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, who was shot to death last month on his own property, apparently by an illegal alien, also has fueled public outrage.

Arizona Sens. John McCain and John Kyl, both Republicans, called Monday’s news conference to announce a 10-point plan to secure the border between Arizona and Mexico. They are requesting the immediate deployment of 3,000 National Guard troops and a permanent increase of 3,000 more Custom and Border Protection Agents along the state’s border by 2015.

McCain, who faces a tough primary election against conservative Republican JD Hayworth in September, sponsored an immigration-reform bill in 2000 that would have established a guest-worker program and a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants. The bill was opposed by many conservatives. He also supported immigration-reform bills in 2006 and again in 2007.

But on Monday, McCain was talking only about enforcement: "The lesson is clear: First we have to secure the border," McCain said. "If you want to enact some other reforms, how can that be effective when you have a porous border?”

Later on Monday, McCain told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly that he changed his stance on immigration over a year ago. McCain also made that point at Monday’s press conference:

“Let me just say that one of the requirements is absolutely that we need to send 3,000 National Guard troops along the Arizona Mexico border – something that Senator Kyl and I called for well over a year ago,” McCain said.

Kyl said the effort to make sure the government fulfills its responsibility to enforce federal immigration law goes back to the days when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was still governor of Arizona. But Napolitano has not responded to the latest request for troops through the proposed 10-point plan.

The senators’ plan includes a wide range of tactics for securing the border, including funding and supporting Operation Streamline, which calls for criminal charges against and incarceration of individuals who enter the U.S. illegally.


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[SouthwestRanger]

Botox may diminish the experience of emotion

April 16, 2010

DO you smile because you're happy, or are you happy because you are smiling? Darwin believed that facial expressions are indeed important for experiencing emotions. In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he wrote that "the free expression by outward signs of an emotion intensifies it...[whereas]...the repression...of all outward signs softens our emotions." This idea was subsequently elaborated by the great psychologist William James, who suggested that "every representation of a movement awakens in some degree the actual movement which is its object."

Botox, which is used by millions of people every year to reduce wrinkles and frown lines on the forehead, works by paralyzing the muscles involved in producing facial expressions. A study due to be published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that by doing so, it impairs the ability to process the emotional content of language, and may diminish the quality of emotional experiences.

David Havas of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his colleagues have been investigating the relationship between emotion and language. In a study published in 2007, they covertly manipulated facial expressions by asking participants to hold a pen either in their teeth, to simulate smiling, or between their lips, to prevent them from smiling. This was found to affect the time taken to read sentences containing emotional content: reading times for sentences describing pleasant situations were shorter when the participants were smiling than when they were prevented from smiling, and this was reversed when they read sentences describing unpleasant situations. Thus, understanding of the sentences was apparently enhanced when their emotional content matched the participants' facial expression, and impaired when it did not.



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[SouthwestRanger]

England branded least patriotic nation in Europe as citizens are too scared to fly the flag
By Steve Doughty

20th April 2010
DAILY MAIL UK

The English rate themselves the least patriotic nation in Europe, a poll suggests.



Almost half said their country had lost its identity in the face of European interference and political correctness.

The findings were published in advance of St George?s Day which, as two thirds of those polled did not know, is on April 23 ? this Friday.


They showed that on average, English people rate their patriotism at slightly below six on a scale out of ten, behind the Scots, Welsh and Irish and far in the wake of the Dutch, the most patriotic people on the continent.

Only one in ten would happily fly the cross of St George to celebrate the national saint?s day.
Double that number said they thought they would be told by authorities to remove it if they flew it from their house.

Despite calls from public figures ranging from Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu to Gordon Brown for more celebrations of the English national day, there has been clear disapproval from many public authorities.

In 2008 St George's Day parades were banned by local authorities in Bradford and Sandwell in the West Midlands on the grounds they could cause trouble or were 'unhealthy' and 'tribal'.

Last year Mr Brown's instruction that public buildings in England should fly the flag on 23 April were undermined by the production of a European map drawn up in Brussels that wiped England off altogether and replaced the country with a series of EU regions.

The new survey showed that six per cent of English people are scared to show the flag and around 18 per cent are worried that if they do they will be instructed by officialdom to take it down.

Only a third are aware that 23 April is St George's Day and four out of 10 have no idea why he is England's patron saint.

One in 10 of the English are happy to fly the flag, compared with one in three Dutch people willing to fly their own tricolor.


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[SouthwestRanger]

Angry at government, voters may revolt in November, survey shows
By Ed Hornick

April 21, 2010 6:53 a.m. EDT
CNN.com





Washington (CNN) -- The party in power often suffers in midterm elections, but a recent survey suggests that "epic" discontent has created an angry and energized electorate. And while things might look bleak for Democrats who control Congress, some Republicans tied to the establishment might also suffer the consequences. History has shown that Americans' trust in government has declined during times of turmoil or when one party controls the White House and both chambers of Congress. With Congress showing no signs of bipartisanship and Americans not yet feeling economic relief, the midterm elections outcome for incumbents -- especially Democrats -- may be bleak.

According to a Pew Research Center poll released this week, based on polling conducted in March and April, a growing segment of the American public holds intense anti-government views, with those surveyed describing themselves as angry with the federal government. The reason? A "perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government -- a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials," the report concluded. The poll showed that "Distrust of government soars when the public is unhappy with the way things are going in the country" and sad the recent downturn in trust began in the fall of 2008, "when public satisfaction plunged amid the financial crisis."

One of President Obama's top aides said Monday that there are "legitimate" reasons for Americans' anger. "When the middle class in this country has seen their incomes lost and their costs of living go up, and the sense of those who are at the top act with a sense of irresponsibility that led to the worst economic crisis ... there's a reason for that frustration, and it's totally legit," White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told PBS' Charlie Rose. That rising anger may sway voter turnout in November.

"Hostility toward government seems likely to be a significant election issue and an important element in both midterm voting intentions and turnout," the report said. "Consistent with this pattern of partisanship, anti-government sentiment appears to be a more significant driver of possible turnout among Republicans and independents than among Democrats."

The poll found that 83 percent of Republican voters who are highly dissatisfied with the government said they are "absolutely certain" to vote in November, compared with 67 percent of Republicans who have lower discontent with the government. Democrats should be worried, especially when it comes to the connection between anger at government and voting intentions by independents, the poll found. "Independents who are highly dissatisfied with government are far more committed to voting this year than are independents who are less frustrated (78% vs. 58%)."

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