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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

FLU PANDEMIC, WHAT DUTY HEALTH CARE WORKERS?,

Today the BBC and other media are discussing the results of research by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Israel's Ben-Gurion University as to the willingness of American health care workers to report for duty in the event of a flu pandemic caused by the H5N1 avian virus The researchers... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 17, 2006

LUCKY YOU

Well I had written a short article about the conviction of Exgovernor Ryan on Federal corruption charges, but I put Mayor Daley and Al Capone in the same sentence and my computer ate it...... Lucky you. Ok, let's try a short save, what about Hamas, US and EU have cut off funding due to Hamas refusal... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 16, 2006

RUMSFELD, SHOULD HE GO OR SHOULD HE STAY

The BBC reports today that seven retired US generals including a former NATO commander think Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense should go. While officially retaining President Bush's full confidence, things may be blowing in the wind. The retired officers' complaints seem to boil down to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

TODAY'S TOPIC, IS ANYBODY WORTH $144,573.00 A DAY?

According to today’s New York Times, for 13 years of service as chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, retiring Lee R. Raymond received $144,573.00 a day, for a total $686,000.000.00 USD, $400,000,000.00 in his last year of employment. Now it is not to be denied that during that time he... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 14, 2006

IMMIGRATON & ALLEGIANCE

Now all naturalized citizens, members of the Armed Forces, and office holders, plus some others, must swear allegiance to the United States and to defend and protect the Constitution and the nation. Everybody else, including native born citizens have not. As a nation of immigrants, we have been... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE

If close our borders, and regulate immigration much more severely, do we have an obligation to improve conditions in Mexico? I would argue that we certainly have the moral duty, under the concept that all men are brothers. For those who argue against this, I would remind you of the population... Sign in to see full entry.

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Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

It has been my observation, that are rarely new arguments, life is but a single book, and each day a page within.... " In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

IS IMMIGRATION BROKEN????????????

I begin to think that Bloggers have no position on immigration, English after all is not even a language, but a loose association of words and grammar lifted from every tongue we ever came across. The Britons didn't want the Romans The Romans didn't want the Angles The Angles didn't want the Saxons... Sign in to see full entry.

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EVERYBODY MUST BE SATISFIED WITH IMMIGRATION SITUATION...

Doesn't any one wish to take a pro or con approach on this issue? Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Immigration? Or the Question of WE. PS

I did not forget the French, I would simply prefer to ignore them. Sign in to see full entry.

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REAL POLITIC or OLE FASHION POLITIC"K"ING Or, how to solve the world's problems without ever leaving your chair, from a Southern perspective. The concept is simple, I identify a problem, propose a possible solution, then the rest of the world tears it to shreds..... In the end, what everyone thinks is important, and just perhaps, every once in a while we can reach a consenus. If you have time, please take a look at my other blogs: FARSAILOR'S SHORELEAVE * FARSAILOR'S VOYAGE * FARSAILOR'S WRITING MISADVENTURES * MURDER BY DEATH, AND OTHER GOOD STUFF

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