I disagree w/ him on a number of things. But I don't accept the mindset that "everything a conservative does is evil and everything a democrat does is perfect". I thought the article gave a realistic interpretation of the situation. The fact that only 5 - 7 % of cargo is screened really bothers me, although it's been that way for sometime. That needs to be increased significantly.
just more conservatives saving the world... http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/abortion_rights_debate PIERRE, S.D. - The Legislature on Friday approved a ban on nearly all abortions in South Dakota, setting up a direct legal assault on Roe v. Wade. ADVERTISEMENT Republican Gov. Mike Rounds said he was inclined to sign the bill, which would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life. The measure would make no exception in cases of rape or incest. Many opponents and supporters of abortion rights believe the U.S. Supreme Court is more likely to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion now that Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito are on the bench. Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion clinic in South Dakota, has pledged to sue over the measure, which would become law July 1. The clinic does about 800 abortions a year. The House passed the bill 50-18 on Friday. The Senate approved the measure 23-12 earlier this week. Under the measure, doctors could get up to five years in prison for performing an illegal abortion. The governor said he believes it would be better to eliminate abortion in a series of steps, but some abortion opponents want a court challenge that could wipe out abortion in one fell swoop. "I've indicated I'm pro-life and I do believe abortion is wrong, and that we should do everything we can to save lives," Rounds said. "If this bill accomplishes that, then I am inclined to sign the bill into law." During debate on the measure, lawmakers were told that an anonymous donor has pledged to give the state $1 million to defend the abortion ban in court. The Legislature is setting up a special account to accept donations for the legal fight. "I can tell you first-hand we've had people stopping in our office trying to drop off checks to promote the defense of this legislation already," Rounds said. Opponents of the bill argued that abortion should at least be allowed in cases involving rape, incest and a threat to a women's health. If a woman who is raped becomes pregnant, the rapist would have the same rights to the child as the mother, said Krista Heeren-Graber, executive director of the South Dakota Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault. "The idea the rapist could be in the child's life ... makes the woman very, very fearful. Sometimes they need to have choice," Heeren-Graber said. Arent republicans wonderful??
I heard/read somewhere lately that in the last 20 years there have been 40 MILLION ABORTIONS. That is 40 MILLION MURDERS. Republicans just want to stop all the murdering. (Hitler didn't even kill that many people)... :eek: P.S. Abortion clinics are in it for the money and the money only.
United Arab Emirates is just a Cayman Islands address in the Mid East that calls itself a nation - a bullshit post office box nation with a few office towers. Got it? Pick around in the CIA Fact Book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ae.html#Intro populataion - 2,563,212 note: includes an estimated 1,606,079 non-nationals So we have 2.5 M people and 1.6 are non-nationals? What's that mean - they don't have P. O. Boxes yet? And this is our great ally the Mid East - 2.5 million post office boxes? Wow, what a powerhouse in the cause of freedom. Now let's have a look at Dubai Ports. Go ahead - take a look. Do some DD. Pretend you just got stock tip on Dubai Ports. Pretend it was on Cramer just now. Let me know what you find. Now lets look at the seller - P & O. Them I feel comfortable with and so does everybody else in the US. Here's why: P&O has a unique heritage. Founded as The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1837 the company has a long and celebrated past. Click on the links below to find out more. http://portal.pohub.com/portal/page?_pageid=71,207389&_dad=pogprtl&_schema=POGPRTL I can even go to a museum in London and check out the background on P & O if I want. Just go away Bush. Stop selling the country out to these fast buck corporate maggots. Thought he'd have smartened up with the screeching over Halliburton. Jackass.
===================== Actually I am in favor of selling the Chinese & Arabs, K.F.C.[Kentucky fried chicken, finger lickin good]; probably should include a premium priced product like'' free range healthy chicken'' And include a small royalty for Trader- 5287 & me for peaceful solutions like this Saw on CBN news Dr.Pat Robertson mentioned something like Pres Bush had delegated it to D.O.D+ 4 more agencies , first saw it in news like we did!!!!! That is in Presidents favor . Also have worked well with Arabs before, one in particular ,who had a wife with HebrewChristian name. However don't want to sell Arabs or Chines our oil companies, or ports. Also never did believe left leaning profs about America being all evil. A triune government which was modeled after [O,T.]Israel.;citizens can over rule Supreme Court, Executive branch. with Chuck[d] Schumer, Peter [r] King and so on.
Yeah Murray. Now you're cooking with gas. They get consumer products, guns, porno. If they have hot money left over - buy Treasuries, I say. No ports. No No No. We get oil. And BTW Bush where the fk is my Iraqi oil anyway? How much longer? Went to get it in 2003. It's 2006 now. Wowwwaa, Aren't I quite the Jingo Man this morning. :eek:
21 Ports - Not 6. Get him out of here. By PAMELA HESS UPI Pentagon Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21 American ports, far more than the six widely reported. http://upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060223-051657-4981r
Looks like Snow isn't as stupid as he looks. Energy companies going ex-US too. Bring on the protectionism and go short. See - March 15, 2002 top in Dow - caused by steel tariffs. Posted on Tue, Feb. 21, 2006 Dubai company set to run U.S. ports has ties to administration BY MICHAEL MCAULIFF New York Daily News WASHINGTON - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House. One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose department heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port. Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet. The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and who was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration. The ties raised more concerns about the decision to give port control to a company owned by a nation linked to the Sept. 11 hijackers. "The more you look at this deal, the more the deal is called into question," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who said the deal was rubber-stamped in advance - even before DP World formally agreed to buy London's P&O port company.
=========================== Trader5287; how did you rightly know I like to occasionaly ''cook '' with that sector????? Looking good, Senator Chuck[d] Schumar/Rep Peter [r] King ; have apparently 45-50 days to study it. President Bush , unlike the Nazi gov, Pres Bush respects Judge Roberts, democrats[ like democrat Zell Miller.] & respects voters US. Trader 52, my banker dad showed US how to'' cook'' also; with hickory scraps & hard wood scraps .Further budget diversification along with oil/gas sector. It gave Mom a brief sabbatical from ''cooking'' also ; NOW you re cooking.