Friday, June 1, 2007
Thursday, May 31, 2007  
Wednesday, May 30, 2007  
Tuesday, May 29, 2007  
Monday, May 28, 2007  

Oregon News:

• Wyden Wants Permanent Ban On Internet Sales Tax, Other Want Temporary Ban.   Present ban ends in November. (Internet News)
• Petitioners Seek To Undo Two Same-Sex Rights Laws.   (Brad Cain, SJ)
• Illegal Immigrants Aren't Needed To Fill Jobs In U.S.   (Opinion -- SJ) Blogger opinions have been added.
• Wyden Pitching Universal Health Care Plan.   Supported by Hillary Clinton, Obama. (Oregonian)
• Lawmaker, Girod, Is Back At Capitol More Than a Decade After First Term.   (Peter Wong -- SJ)
• Resolve To Cut Multnomah Budget Feels Heat.   County officials intended to trim $15.6-M but, face pleas to save programs. (Arthur Sulzberger -- Oregonian)
• Salem:   Town Hall Meetings Focus On Oregon's Future.   (Peter Wong -- SJ)
• Senate Committee Mulling Kitzhaber Health Plans.  Alternative health care bills also under consideration. (Peter Wong -- SJ)

National News:

• Bush Attacks Opponents Of Immigration Bill.   Says they don't want to do what is good for America. (AP)
• Tony Snow Says White House Sees Progress Agaist Foes Of Bipartisan Immigration Bill.   (The Hill)
• Minority Caucuses Question Alien Bill.   (WA Times)
• Huckabee Pitches IRS Elimination.   (GOP USA)
• Kevorkian Released from Prison.   (Click On Detroit)
• Three Iranian-Americans Charged With Spying.   (WA Post)
• Creationist-Friendly Museum Opens In KY>   (AZ Republic)
• Cindy Sheehan Quits As Face Of Anti-War Movement.   (Fox News)
• LA Times Claims "Immigration Screening Could Snag Too Many Workers."
• TN:   Sen. Ophelia Ford Refuses To Talk To Family Members.   Family traveled to Nashville to take her home & enter the embattled Memphis Dem into rehabilitation. She shocked lawmakers and observers with an angry, rambling tirade that lasted several minutes in a Senate committee meeting May 14. The next day she was taken to a hospital after falling from a bar stool at a Nashville hotel. Ford attributed her fall to problems she's had with anemia and to not eating properly, while a hotel employee told a 911 dispatcher that she was intoxicated. (WMC TV)
• Clintons Linked To Lawsuit Against Omaha Benefactor.   (KETV)
• Operation AC -- Sending Supplies To Our Troops.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

• U.S. Ambassador Meets With Iranian Counterpart.   (Click On Detroit) [It's a waste of time.]
• Meetings Between U.S. & Iran the First In Decades.   But, are they merely just talking past each other? Nothing has been resolved. (KETV)
• U.S. Warns Iran Over Arming Iraqis.   (BBC)
• Great Satan Sits Down With the Axis Of Evil.   ([London]Times On Line)
• Bush To Slap New Sanctions On Sudan.   (Mail & Guardian)
• Rachael Smith, Miss USA, Booed In MX City Pageant By Mexicans.   (National Ledger)

International News:

• New Clashes In Lebanon.   (AP)
• European Union Declares Carbon Trading Scheme Hailed As Success.   (EU Observer)
• The Islamic Reconquest Of Palestine.   (P. David Homik, Front Page Magazine)
• Code Pink Ready To Keep the Pressure On Obama.   (Sam Youngman -- The Hill)
• FRANCE CONSIDERS PAYING MIGRANTS TO GO HOME.   (EU Observer)
• Romanian Abortion Film Wins Cannes Prize.   (AZ Republic)
• China Building Nuclear Plants.   (WA Post)
• JIHADISTS MOVING INTO LEBANON FROM SYRIA.   (WA Times)
• RUSSIA Test-Launches New ICBM.   Intercontinental balistic missile capable of carrying multiple independent warheads. Would modernize Russia's stockpile at a time of rising tensions with the West. (WA Times)
• British Forces At War -- As Seen By An American.
• CHINA Internet Users Aghast At Video Of Students Abusing Teacher.   (Breitbart)

Oregon News:

• Petitioners Seek To Undo Two Same-Sex Rights Laws.   (Brad Cain, SJ)
• News Report Claims Children's Health Care Hinges Upon Cigarette Tax Being Passed.   (SJ)
• First County Officials To Quit In Protest of Tax Cuts.   (Oregonian) [Counties' refusal to make law enforcement the budget priority is to blame here, not tax cuts. Long ago, our schools have had enough money & many other far less important budget items could have been dropped. Countywide and statewide the tactic of budgeting last for law enforcement has been used to bully the taxpayer into raising taxes. The public won't be bullied into raising taxes this way anymore.]
• Just In Case You Legislators Are Considering ANY Budget Cutbacks Affecting Seniors...   ...this is how mean so-called "senior advocates" (and the media) are making you look. "There is a ton of misinformation that is scaring seniors," said Schrader, who is getting an earful from seniors. "That is totally inappropriate." (Anti-tax propaganda provided by Steve Law, SJ)
• Democrat Lawmaker Wants "Chemical Castration" for Sex Offenders.   (Oregonian)
• Agents Will Target Criminal Migrants.   "Illegal immigration -- Action to deport those in jails mihgt have good, bad effects." (So says, Esmeralda Bermudez, Oregonian)
• Multnomah County:   Sheriff Giusto May Lose Budget Control.   (Oregonian)
• Clackamas:   Attack By Mob Against Two Latinos:   Conjecture As To Why.   (Steve Mayes, Betsy Hammond -- Oregonian)
• Private Security In OR Self-Police, But Loopholes Persist.   Criminals still can work for up to four mos. (Oregonian)
• County Must Address Retiree Costs.   Good opinion post. (RG)
• Sen. Smith, Dodd Introduce Bill Exempting First Responder Volunteers from Taxes.   Would exempt property tax abatements, fundraising banquets, travel expenses... (Fire Rescue News)
• OR Trail Preservation Bill Meets Local Oppostion.   [It's just another excuse for gov't misuse of eminent domain as recently ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.] (SJ)

National News:

• Memorial Day
• ALL NYC Mayors Have Insisted Upon Giving Terrorists "Deadly Cover."   Past & present mayors still refuse to report illegal aliens despite two bombings on the Twin Towers.   (Michele Malkin, 2002)
• TX Lawmakers Refining TX (Mexican Corridor) Legislation Following Gov. Perry's Veto.   Bush GOP alliances & liberal Dems, determined to get passed the intitial opening of the North American 16-Lane Corridor from MX to Canada which will be owned by other countries. (My West TX News)
• Gov. Richardson Changes His Mind about Immigration Bill.   Says now he opposes it. [Wait long enough. He'll change back. His finger is in the wind.]   (The Conservative Voice)
• Ill Ground Zero Workers:   U.S. Failed To Help So...   They went to Cuba for med care according to Michael Moore documentary. Part of "Sicko" 'documentary.' Moore argues that terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay receive better medical care than the heroes of 9/11. "...at a news conference Friday held by [pro-Castro] U.S. Rep. Jose E. Serrano (D-N.Y.), said they went to Cuba after the U.S. government and healthcare system failed to provide the support for medical treatment they needed." [That's a switch. Liberals used to claim we were torturing them down there.] (LA Times)
• Europe and Posada Carrilles (From Communist Publication)   "...Later, together with US Army Colonel Oliver North, Posada got involved in the trafficking of cocaine for weapons during the dirty war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua." (Periodico26)
• Immigration Bill Could Outlaw Gun Shops?   When Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced these anti-gun provisions in 1998, the GOA grassroots were able to convince seven senator cosponsors to pull their names from Hatch's bill. (Gunowners Of America)
• The Congressman Talks a Good Game On Immigration -- Or Does He?   (YouTube)
• TX Passes Bill To Allow School Districts To Offer Elective Bible Classes...   ...IF 15 or more students want to take the courses. ACLU slaps lawsuit. (My West TX)
• Political Mercenary, Dick Morris, Says Republicans Should Support Immigration Bill Compromise.   (vote.com)
• Lead Terrorist Captured.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

• China Says U.S. Report On Its Military Exaggerated.   (Reuters)
• Bush, Putin Discuss Kosovo In Phone Call.   (Reuters)
• Newsletter from the U.S. Ambassador to MX.  (U.S. Embassy)
• U.S. Heroes Are Villains At Cemetery In MX.   [Yes, bring these dead Americans home to be honored in the same way on future Memorial Days.](AZ Republic)
• One version of history info on U.S. Memorial In MX.
• Brief narrated tour of U.S. Memorial Cemetery In MX City.
• U.S. Immigration Charges Against Anti-Castro Militant Dropped.   He is considered a terrorist in Cuba and Venezuela (& by pro-Castro U.S. congressmen.)(Final Call News)
• Pro-Castro Congresspersons Call for [the innocent] Luis Posada Carriles To Be Prosecuted As a Terrorist.   (Presnsa Latina -- Pro-Castro media)
• Aid from U.S., Allies Arrives In Lebanon.   (Guardian.co.uk)

International News:

• Venezuela:   Chavez' Troops Seize "Anti-Gov't" TV Station.   Mass protests. (Reuters)
• Illegal [Libyan] Immigrants Cling To Tuna Buoys As Rescuers Argue.   Eventually neither the Maltese or Libyan gov'ts did rescue. Italy did. [See below for why it is good for them that Italy took them.] Maltese tug was ordered not to pick up the illegals possibly because earlier rescuers found that all countries refused permission to enter harbour. [So, why do so many Libyans still want to escape their homeland?] (news.com.au)
• Luxury Migrant Camp Sparks Row On Italian Island.   (Reuters)
• Mexican Day Of Violence Marks Ten Assassinations In Seven Mexican States.   Two of the victims had the mark that characterizes organized crime, raising the # of murders relating to its credit to 1,127 in 2007. Left note with one assassination making clear murder was for drag traffice revenge. (Latin American News Agency)
• Poland To Probe If Teletubbies Are Same-Sex.   (news.com.au)
• India Rejects Greenhouse Gas Limits.   REFUSES TO RESTRICT BOOMING ECONOMY. (news.com.au)
• Melbourne, Australia:   Tribunal Rules Homosexual Pub May Ban Heterosexual Men.  Pub exempt from Equal Opportunity Act. [Let this be another memo to those of you who have been fooled into believing that all the same-sex movement has wanted is "equal" rights. They've always wanted a double standard; you can't ban them, but they can ban you.] (news.com.au)
• You DON'T Want To Get Arrested In the United Arab Emirates -- Aussie Held In "Hell-Hole" Desert Jail.   "He's being well-treated – well, he's not being mistreated. He's being fed a diet of fermented camel meat and some rice and bits and pieces....There's been mention of a potential 15-year sentence..." "In the United Arab Emirates certain prescription drugs that may be legal and lawful in countries like Australia, England or America are prohibited out here, and there is an instant presumption against bail with that. (news.com.au)
• Australia:   Aboriginal Kids Must Learn English...   ...if they are to succeed in school and if parents are to get off welfare. (news.com.au)