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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address |
This is the season of seemingly endless graduation ceremonies. I attended one of these the other day and I wish someone had given me the advice that I am about to give to you. Follow this link, (below) print out the speech, bring it along and read it during the commencement speech that you are attending.
If you follow my instructions exactly I am certain you will be contacting me personally to thank me.
Congratulations and good luck.
BBlebowski
Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address |
Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas
Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT
Deborah Knapp
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who.... treats a majority of these patients.
Patients get lesions that never heal.
"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.
Patients say that's the worst symptom — strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors.
"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are crawling under your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons disease have been reported in South Texas.
"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely said.
While Savely sees this as a legitimate disease, there are many doctors who simply refuse to acknowledge it exists, because of the bizarre symptoms patients are diagnosed as delusional.
"Believe me, if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my office, I would think they were crazy too," Savely said. "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, that becomes quite impressive."
Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago. He called his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.
"It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his chest," Lisa Wilson said. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out."
The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors and medicine.
"Most of them are antibiotics. He was on Tamadone for pain. Viltricide, this was an anti-parasitic. This was to try and protect his skin because of all the lesions and stuff," Lisa said.
However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no longer take it.
"I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could do to stop him," Lisa Wilson said.
Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.
Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.
"The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come out," she said.
She also has the crawling sensation.
"You just want to get it out of you," Bailey said.
She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to clear it up.
"They (doctors) told me I was just doing this to myself, that I was nuts. So basically I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up," Bailey said.
Harriett Bishop has battled Morgellons for 12 years. After a year on antibiotics, her hands have nearly cleared up. On the day, we visited her she only had one lesion and she extracted this fiber from it.
"You want to get these things out to relieve the pain, and that's why you pull and then you can see the fibers there, and the tentacles are there, and there are millions of them," Bishop said.
So far, pathologists have failed to find any infection in the fibers pulled from lesions.
"Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences.
Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from Morgellon's patients to try and find the disease's cause.
"These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers," he said.
The goal at OSU is to scientifically find out what is going on. Until then, patients and doctors struggle with this mysterious and bizarre infection. Thus far, the only treatment that has showed some success is an antibiotic.
"It sounds a little like a parasite, like a fungal infection, like a bacterial infection, but it never quite fits all the criteria of any known pathogen," Savely said
No one knows how Morgellans is contracted, but it does not appear to be contagious. The states with the highest number of cases are Texas, California and Florida.
The only connection found so far is that more than half of the Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease.
For more information on Morgellons, visit the research foundation's Web site at www.morgellons.org.
Deborah Knapp
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who.... treats a majority of these patients.
Patients get lesions that never heal.
"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.
Patients say that's the worst symptom — strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors.
"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are crawling under your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons disease have been reported in South Texas.
"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely said.
While Savely sees this as a legitimate disease, there are many doctors who simply refuse to acknowledge it exists, because of the bizarre symptoms patients are diagnosed as delusional.
"Believe me, if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my office, I would think they were crazy too," Savely said. "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, that becomes quite impressive."
Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago. He called his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.
"It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his chest," Lisa Wilson said. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out."
The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors and medicine.
"Most of them are antibiotics. He was on Tamadone for pain. Viltricide, this was an anti-parasitic. This was to try and protect his skin because of all the lesions and stuff," Lisa said.
However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no longer take it.
"I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could do to stop him," Lisa Wilson said.
Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.
Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.
"The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come out," she said.
She also has the crawling sensation.
"You just want to get it out of you," Bailey said.
She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to clear it up.
"They (doctors) told me I was just doing this to myself, that I was nuts. So basically I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up," Bailey said.
Harriett Bishop has battled Morgellons for 12 years. After a year on antibiotics, her hands have nearly cleared up. On the day, we visited her she only had one lesion and she extracted this fiber from it.
"You want to get these things out to relieve the pain, and that's why you pull and then you can see the fibers there, and the tentacles are there, and there are millions of them," Bishop said.
So far, pathologists have failed to find any infection in the fibers pulled from lesions.
"Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences.
Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from Morgellon's patients to try and find the disease's cause.
"These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers," he said.
The goal at OSU is to scientifically find out what is going on. Until then, patients and doctors struggle with this mysterious and bizarre infection. Thus far, the only treatment that has showed some success is an antibiotic.
"It sounds a little like a parasite, like a fungal infection, like a bacterial infection, but it never quite fits all the criteria of any known pathogen," Savely said
No one knows how Morgellans is contracted, but it does not appear to be contagious. The states with the highest number of cases are Texas, California and Florida.
The only connection found so far is that more than half of the Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease.
For more information on Morgellons, visit the research foundation's Web site at www.morgellons.org.
Friday, May 12, 2006
Woman, 74, gets revenge on gator with hose
Hey Don -- you better be careful; looks like the ladies in your neighborhood are pretty tough!
Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. - An elderly woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.
Constance Gittles, 74, of south Punta Gorda was watering plants Tuesday when a nearly 6-foot-long alligator bit her leg just above the ankle.
"I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle," she said. "After that, he took off," Gittles told the News-Press of Fort Myers.
Gittles received three puncture wounds and some smaller scrapes and abrasions from her confrontation with the alligator.
A trapper working with wildlife officials later caught the animal in a nearby pond. It will be killed and the hide and meat sold.
Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. - An elderly woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.
Constance Gittles, 74, of south Punta Gorda was watering plants Tuesday when a nearly 6-foot-long alligator bit her leg just above the ankle.
"I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle," she said. "After that, he took off," Gittles told the News-Press of Fort Myers.
Gittles received three puncture wounds and some smaller scrapes and abrasions from her confrontation with the alligator.
A trapper working with wildlife officials later caught the animal in a nearby pond. It will be killed and the hide and meat sold.
Read this article and let me know if you catch "it"
NBC 4
4:35 p.m. EDT May 11, 2006
HILLSBORO, Ohio - The National Weather Service said Thursday that a weak tornado touched down late Wednesday night in Highland County. Tim Davis said he believed it was a miracle that no one in his neighborhood was hurt when the tornado touched down.
SLIDESHOW: Images From Scene
"The wind just came across real hard and it shook the whole house and it was over," Davis said.
No warning was posted at the time of the twister. The tornado, touching down near Rocky Fork Lake, tore down trees and caused damage on Wizard of Oz Drive, NBC 4's Duarte Geraldino reported.
Eddie Sandlin and his children were inside their home when they were directly hit.
"My wife threw my kinds down onto the floor and I took my dad and threw him to the floor and I just sat there and watched the roof and everything blow away," Sandlin said.
The NWS reported that wind speeds exceeded 60 mph.
Sandlin said winds tore the front porch off, spinning it around his house before it landed in the pool, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
No injuries were reported.
4:35 p.m. EDT May 11, 2006
HILLSBORO, Ohio - The National Weather Service said Thursday that a weak tornado touched down late Wednesday night in Highland County. Tim Davis said he believed it was a miracle that no one in his neighborhood was hurt when the tornado touched down.
SLIDESHOW: Images From Scene
"The wind just came across real hard and it shook the whole house and it was over," Davis said.
No warning was posted at the time of the twister. The tornado, touching down near Rocky Fork Lake, tore down trees and caused damage on Wizard of Oz Drive, NBC 4's Duarte Geraldino reported.
Eddie Sandlin and his children were inside their home when they were directly hit.
"My wife threw my kinds down onto the floor and I took my dad and threw him to the floor and I just sat there and watched the roof and everything blow away," Sandlin said.
The NWS reported that wind speeds exceeded 60 mph.
Sandlin said winds tore the front porch off, spinning it around his house before it landed in the pool, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
No injuries were reported.
"Where are the heroes of today?"
"Where are the heroes of today?"
> > a radio talk show host thundered.
> >
> > He blames society's shortcomings on education. Too
> > many people are looking for heroes in all the wrong
> > places. Movie stars and rock musicians, athletes,
> > and models aren't heroes; they're celebrities.
> > Heroes abound in public schools, a fact that doesn't
> > make the news. There is no precedent for the level
> > of violence, drugs, broken homes, child abuse, and
> > crime in today's America. Education didn't create
> > these problems but deals with them every day.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Consider Dave Sanders, the schoolteacher.... shot to
> > death while trying to shield his students from two
> > youths on a shooting rampage at Columbine High
> > School in Littleton, Colorado. Sanders gave his
> > life, along with 12 students, and other less
> > heralded heroes survived the Colorado blood bath.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Jane Smith, a Fayetteville, NC teacher, was moved by
> > the plight of one of her students, a boy dying for
> > want of a kidney transplant. So this woman told the
> > family of a 14 year old boy that she would give him
> > one of her kidneys. And she did. When they
> > subsequently appeared together hugging on the Today
> > Show, even Katie Couric was near tears.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Doris Dillon dreamed all her life of being a
> > teacher. She not only made it, she was one of those
> > wondrous teachers who could bring the best out of
> > every single child. One of her fellow teachers in
> > San Jose, Calif said, "She could teach a rock to
> > read."
> >
> > Suddenly she was stricken with Lou Gehrig's Disease
> > which is always fatal,
> > usually within five years.
> > She asked to stay on job ..
> > and did. When her voice
> > was affected she communicated by computer.
> >
> > Did she go home? Absolutely not! She is running two
> > elementary school libraries! When the disease was
> > diagnosed, she wrote the staff and all the families
> > that she had one last lesson to teach .... that
> > dying is part of living. Her colleagues named her
> > Teacher of the Year.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Bob House, a teacher in Gay, Georgia, tried out for
> > Who Wants to be a Millionaire. After he won the
> > million dollars, a network film crew wanted to
> > follow up to see how it had impacted his life.
> >
> > New cars?
> > Big new house?
> >
> > Instead, they found both Bob House and his wife
> > still teaching. They explained that it was what they
> > had always wanted to do with their lives and that
> > would not change. The community was both stunned
> > and gratified.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Last year the average school teacher spent $468 of
> > their own money for student necessities ...
> > workbooks, pencils .. supplies kids had to have but
> > could not afford. That's a lot of money from the
> > pockets of the most poorly paid teachers in the
> > industrial world.
> >
> > Schools don't teach values?
> > The critics are dead wrong.
> >
> > Public education provides more Sunday School
> > teachers than any other profession.. The average
> > teacher works more hours in nine months than the
> > average 40-hour employee does in a year.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > For millions of kids, the hug they get from a
> > teacher is the only hug they will get that day
> > because the nation is living through the worst
> > parenting in history. An Argyle, Texas kindergarten
> > teacher hugs her little 5 and 6 year-olds so much
> > that both the boys and the girls run up and hug her
> > when they see her in the hall, at the football
> > games, or in the malls years later.
> >
> > A Michigan principal moved me to tears with the
> > story of her attempt to rescue a badly abused little
> > boy who doted on a stuffed animal on her desk ..
> > one that said "I love you!" He said he'd never been
> > told that at home. This is a constant in today's
> > society .. two million unwanted, unloved, abused
> > children in the public schools, the only institution
> > that takes them all in.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Visit any special education class and watch the
> > miracle of personal interaction, a job so difficult
> > that fellow teachers are awed by the dedication they
> > witness. There is a sentence from an unnamed source
> > which says: "We have been so eager to give our
> > children what we didn't have that we have neglected
> > to give them what we did."
> >
> > What is it that our kids really need?
> > What do they really want?
> >
> > Math, science, history and social studies are
> > important, but children need love, confidence,
> > encouragement, someone to talk to, someone to
> > listen, standards to live by. Teachers provide
> > upright examples, the faith and assurance of
> > responsible people.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Then go down to your local school and see our real
> > live heroes, the ones changing lives for the
> > better each and every day!
> >
> > Now, pass this on to someone you know who's a
> > teacher, or to someone who should thank a teacher
> > today. I'd like to see this sent to all those who
> > cut down the importance of teachers. They have no
> > idea who a public school teacher is or what they do.
> > a radio talk show host thundered.
> >
> > He blames society's shortcomings on education. Too
> > many people are looking for heroes in all the wrong
> > places. Movie stars and rock musicians, athletes,
> > and models aren't heroes; they're celebrities.
> > Heroes abound in public schools, a fact that doesn't
> > make the news. There is no precedent for the level
> > of violence, drugs, broken homes, child abuse, and
> > crime in today's America. Education didn't create
> > these problems but deals with them every day.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Consider Dave Sanders, the schoolteacher.... shot to
> > death while trying to shield his students from two
> > youths on a shooting rampage at Columbine High
> > School in Littleton, Colorado. Sanders gave his
> > life, along with 12 students, and other less
> > heralded heroes survived the Colorado blood bath.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Jane Smith, a Fayetteville, NC teacher, was moved by
> > the plight of one of her students, a boy dying for
> > want of a kidney transplant. So this woman told the
> > family of a 14 year old boy that she would give him
> > one of her kidneys. And she did. When they
> > subsequently appeared together hugging on the Today
> > Show, even Katie Couric was near tears.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Doris Dillon dreamed all her life of being a
> > teacher. She not only made it, she was one of those
> > wondrous teachers who could bring the best out of
> > every single child. One of her fellow teachers in
> > San Jose, Calif said, "She could teach a rock to
> > read."
> >
> > Suddenly she was stricken with Lou Gehrig's Disease
> > which is always fatal,
> > usually within five years.
> > She asked to stay on job ..
> > and did. When her voice
> > was affected she communicated by computer.
> >
> > Did she go home? Absolutely not! She is running two
> > elementary school libraries! When the disease was
> > diagnosed, she wrote the staff and all the families
> > that she had one last lesson to teach .... that
> > dying is part of living. Her colleagues named her
> > Teacher of the Year.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Bob House, a teacher in Gay, Georgia, tried out for
> > Who Wants to be a Millionaire. After he won the
> > million dollars, a network film crew wanted to
> > follow up to see how it had impacted his life.
> >
> > New cars?
> > Big new house?
> >
> > Instead, they found both Bob House and his wife
> > still teaching. They explained that it was what they
> > had always wanted to do with their lives and that
> > would not change. The community was both stunned
> > and gratified.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Last year the average school teacher spent $468 of
> > their own money for student necessities ...
> > workbooks, pencils .. supplies kids had to have but
> > could not afford. That's a lot of money from the
> > pockets of the most poorly paid teachers in the
> > industrial world.
> >
> > Schools don't teach values?
> > The critics are dead wrong.
> >
> > Public education provides more Sunday School
> > teachers than any other profession.. The average
> > teacher works more hours in nine months than the
> > average 40-hour employee does in a year.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > For millions of kids, the hug they get from a
> > teacher is the only hug they will get that day
> > because the nation is living through the worst
> > parenting in history. An Argyle, Texas kindergarten
> > teacher hugs her little 5 and 6 year-olds so much
> > that both the boys and the girls run up and hug her
> > when they see her in the hall, at the football
> > games, or in the malls years later.
> >
> > A Michigan principal moved me to tears with the
> > story of her attempt to rescue a badly abused little
> > boy who doted on a stuffed animal on her desk ..
> > one that said "I love you!" He said he'd never been
> > told that at home. This is a constant in today's
> > society .. two million unwanted, unloved, abused
> > children in the public schools, the only institution
> > that takes them all in.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Visit any special education class and watch the
> > miracle of personal interaction, a job so difficult
> > that fellow teachers are awed by the dedication they
> > witness. There is a sentence from an unnamed source
> > which says: "We have been so eager to give our
> > children what we didn't have that we have neglected
> > to give them what we did."
> >
> > What is it that our kids really need?
> > What do they really want?
> >
> > Math, science, history and social studies are
> > important, but children need love, confidence,
> > encouragement, someone to talk to, someone to
> > listen, standards to live by. Teachers provide
> > upright examples, the faith and assurance of
> > responsible people.
> >
> > You want heroes?
> >
> > Then go down to your local school and see our real
> > live heroes, the ones changing lives for the
> > better each and every day!
> >
> > Now, pass this on to someone you know who's a
> > teacher, or to someone who should thank a teacher
> > today. I'd like to see this sent to all those who
> > cut down the importance of teachers. They have no
> > idea who a public school teacher is or what they do.
Separation surgery underway
Surgery began this morning at about 8:45 to separate Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen, five-month-old conjoined twins from Fargo, N.D.
Separation surgery underway
Separation surgery underway
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Dobbs to President: Do you take us for fools?
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
Wednesday, May 10, 2006; Posted: 3:44 p.m. EDT (19:44 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN)-- Reports this week that the Border Patrol is notifying the Mexican government of the locations of Minutemen volunteers are being denied by US Customs and Border Protection. True or not the Bush administration continues to follow absurd policies on both issues of border security and illegal immigration.
President Bush continues to push his guest worker program and amnesty for anywhere between 11 million and 20 million illegal aliens, and he insists still that nothing less than what he calls comprehensive immigration reform is acceptable.
And the lies keep coming from both political parties. This president is not.... enforcing the immigration laws enacted by Congress, and this Congress is failing in its duty of oversight to demand that those laws be followed.
Only a fool, Mr. President, Senator Kennedy, Senator McCain, would believe you when you speak of new legislation. You don't enforce the laws now.
Would you do so if the law were more to your liking? Would you secure our borders and ports? Would you halt illegal immigration? Those are rhetorical questions, only, I assure you. The answers are obvious; obvious because of your conduct.
As many as 3 million illegal aliens continue to cross our border with Mexico each year. Enforcement against illegal employers of illegal aliens in this country is all but nonexistent, Mr. President. How do you explain that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have all but ended their investigations and inspections of employers that hire illegal aliens? Again, only a rhetorical question, because we all know the answer.
But here is the official record of your sense of duty: 318 employers out of five and a half million in this country have been fined for hiring illegal aliens since 2001. In 2004, only three employers were fined. That is a dismal record, Mr. President, as dismal as the fact that the number of ICE agents assigned to enforce immigration laws in the workplace has declined from only 240 back in 1999 to now less than 100.
Illegal Alien Employer Fines
2001 100
2002 53
2003 162
2004 3
(Source: GAO reports,8/31/05)
The problem in our lack of border security and illegal immigration is becoming increasingly obvious: two political parties that are beholden to corporate America, the largest employers of illegal aliens, and the leadership of both parties that are selling out American citizens in search of cheap labor and political advantage. How dumb do you all think we are? Again, that's only a rhetorical question.
Over the next few days on my broadcast, I'm going to make a suggestion that I hope may help the leadership of both the Republican and Democratic Parties begin to take some notice of our laws and our expectations that those laws be enforced. And also take at least some notice of the fact that Republicans and Democrats also represent American citizens, not just corporate America and special interests.
CNN
Wednesday, May 10, 2006; Posted: 3:44 p.m. EDT (19:44 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN)-- Reports this week that the Border Patrol is notifying the Mexican government of the locations of Minutemen volunteers are being denied by US Customs and Border Protection. True or not the Bush administration continues to follow absurd policies on both issues of border security and illegal immigration.
President Bush continues to push his guest worker program and amnesty for anywhere between 11 million and 20 million illegal aliens, and he insists still that nothing less than what he calls comprehensive immigration reform is acceptable.
And the lies keep coming from both political parties. This president is not.... enforcing the immigration laws enacted by Congress, and this Congress is failing in its duty of oversight to demand that those laws be followed.
Only a fool, Mr. President, Senator Kennedy, Senator McCain, would believe you when you speak of new legislation. You don't enforce the laws now.
Would you do so if the law were more to your liking? Would you secure our borders and ports? Would you halt illegal immigration? Those are rhetorical questions, only, I assure you. The answers are obvious; obvious because of your conduct.
As many as 3 million illegal aliens continue to cross our border with Mexico each year. Enforcement against illegal employers of illegal aliens in this country is all but nonexistent, Mr. President. How do you explain that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have all but ended their investigations and inspections of employers that hire illegal aliens? Again, only a rhetorical question, because we all know the answer.
But here is the official record of your sense of duty: 318 employers out of five and a half million in this country have been fined for hiring illegal aliens since 2001. In 2004, only three employers were fined. That is a dismal record, Mr. President, as dismal as the fact that the number of ICE agents assigned to enforce immigration laws in the workplace has declined from only 240 back in 1999 to now less than 100.
Illegal Alien Employer Fines
2001 100
2002 53
2003 162
2004 3
(Source: GAO reports,8/31/05)
The problem in our lack of border security and illegal immigration is becoming increasingly obvious: two political parties that are beholden to corporate America, the largest employers of illegal aliens, and the leadership of both parties that are selling out American citizens in search of cheap labor and political advantage. How dumb do you all think we are? Again, that's only a rhetorical question.
Over the next few days on my broadcast, I'm going to make a suggestion that I hope may help the leadership of both the Republican and Democratic Parties begin to take some notice of our laws and our expectations that those laws be enforced. And also take at least some notice of the fact that Republicans and Democrats also represent American citizens, not just corporate America and special interests.
Things to Ponder.....
1. I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
2. Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
3. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
4. Never take life seriously.... Nobody gets out alive anyway.
5. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
6.life is sexually transmitted.
7. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
8.The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
9. Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
10. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
11. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?
12. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
13.All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
14. In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
15. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
16. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"
17. Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."
18. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
19. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?
20. Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
21. Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?
22. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
23. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
24. Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?
25. Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
26. Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
27. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
2. Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
3. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
4. Never take life seriously.... Nobody gets out alive anyway.
5. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
6.life is sexually transmitted.
7. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
8.The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
9. Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
10. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
11. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?
12. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
13.All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
14. In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
15. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
16. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"
17. Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."
18. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
19. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?
20. Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
21. Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?
22. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
23. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
24. Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?
25. Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
26. Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?
27. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
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