Immigration Raids Lead To Farm Labor Shortage - Bakersfield News Story - KERO Bakersfield

Immigration Raids Lead To Farm Labor Shortage - Bakersfield News Story - KERO Bakersfield: "BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- While harvest season is getting under way for some crops, fewer undocumented farm workers are on the job, fearful of immigration raids and deportation."

For those of you who think that it's a ruse for exploitation of immigrants. They really are filling a void.

WMFE Public Broadcasting Stations : Audio Reading Service

I drove to Orlando today and this is what I did from 12 noon to 2PM.


WMFE Public Broadcasting Stations : Audio Reading Service: "The WMFE Audio Reading Service (ARS) is a valuable community service that provides news and information from local newspapers to the visually-impaired and print-disabled of the Central Florida region."

With fall nearing, beer lovers celebrate brewing - CNN.com

With fall nearing, beer lovers celebrate brewing - CNN.com: "Finding The Best Brews If brewing your own is a little too much work, but you want to expand your beer horizons, look for recommendations at beeradvocate.com and ratebeer.com, which rank the best beers in the world. Both of these sites are dedicated to all things beer and feature lively online communities of beer aficionados from the world over. "

newsjournalonline.com

newsjournalonline.com: "Paey had served nearly four years on a 25-year sentence after prosecutors convinced a jury that he had forged so many prescriptions and purchased so many pain pills he must have been selling them, despite no additional evidence supporting that claim."

The Jury Selection process needs to be overhauled.

FOXNews.com - China Recalls Tainted Leukemia Drugs - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

China Recalls Tainted Leukemia Drugs - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News:

"China, a major global supplier, has been facing growing international pressure to improve the quality of its exports after dangerous toxins — from lead to an antifreeze ingredient — were found in goods including toys and toothpaste."

Call me one of those "Conspiracy Theory NutCases" donning his tin foil hat, but you have to admit that the evidence continues to mount that China is trying to destroy America by poisoning us slowly but surely.

The Deadbeat Dad Myth � Violent Acres

The Deadbeat Dad Myth | Violent Acres: "Suspiciously, the courts aren’t as harsh if a woman denies her Ex his court ordered visitation. In cases like that, he’s got to scrape together the cash to take her to court to get her wrist slapped by a judge. Fact is, there’s no money in ensuring a Father access to his kids which is why the court only gets involved when you pay them to."

My nephew in-law pays through the nose for a child he never sees. The EX keeps disappearing.

The courts tell him, "Oh well, too bad!"

Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community

Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community: "'That's extortion and we should call it what it is,' he said. 'To say, as [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that game."

Man must pay alimony to wife despite her domestic partnership - CNN.com

We want to be considered married to get all the rights that come with marriage but still get all the perks of single life.

It's not about equal rights anymore for special interest groups, its about preferential treatment!!


Man must pay alimony to wife despite her domestic partnership - CNN.com

SSRN-"I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel Solove

It's not a question of whether I have something to hide or not, it's a question of whether the Government has just cause to look. If they do, they can convince a judge and obtain a warrant. It they don't, they need to keep their noses out of my personal business.

SSRN-"I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel Solove

Google Maps Mania: Driving Directions get even better on Google Maps!

Google Maps Mania: Driving Directions get even better on Google Maps!: "The Google Maps Team have added a pretty nifty new feature to Google Maps. Here to tell you about 'Draggable Driving Directions' are Jess and Evan, from the Google Maps team (YouTube link):"

U.S. troops intensify fighting

The troop surge struggles forward in a manner reminiscent of clearing Nazis out of Paris and chasing the Viet Cong through tunnels while destroying whole villages.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/23/2007: "Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek, assistant commander for operations with the 25th Infantry Division, estimated that several hundred low-level al-Qaeda fighters remained in the city.

'They're clearly in hiding, no question about it. But they're a hard-line group of fighters who have no intention of leaving, and they want to kill as many coalition and Iraqi security forces as they possibly can,' Bednarek said yesterday.

'It's 24-7 for us here, and it's probably the same for our adversary as well,' he said. 'It's house to house, block to block, street to street, sewer to sewer - and it's also cars, vans - we're searching every one of them.'"

Duke, ex-lacrosse players reach settlement - CNN.com

Would be scapegoats of a political aspiring DA out to make a name for himself at the expense of others are duly compensated; the DA, disbarred!

Duke, ex-lacrosse players reach settlement - CNN.com

A rift emerges over U.S. policy toward Iran - International Herald Tribune

I am really beginning to fear that we are heading towards WW III.

A rift emerges over U.S. policy toward Iran - International Herald Tribune: "The debate has pitted Rice and her deputies against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney who, by some accounts, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities."

Also from the Article: "Even beyond its nuclear program, Iran is emerging as an increasing source of trouble for the Bush administration by inflaming the insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and in Gaza, where it has provided military and financial support to the militant Islamic group Hamas, which now controls the coastal strip."

With the American forces engaged with the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan, will we be invading our ally Pakistan in an attempts to end the tribal harboring of the enemy?

With Iran's alleged funding and arming of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and various insurgency groups in Iraq, will the US begin some type of aerial assault on Nuclear enrichment facilities, weapons plants, the Capitol or wholesale on Iraqi people themselves.

The Wild West "Shoot 'em dead" mentality of the Bush Administration makes the worst case scenarios more realistically probable than any American Citizen will admit to themselves.

Memo

When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? | steve-olson.com

When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? | steve-olson.com: "When did we decide to allow the police to smash into private homes without knocking and identifying themselves? "

Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART

Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART is a great short animated film. Very funny.

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Teatro Triste del Clown

Catch me at: Teatro Triste del Clown!! Ipromise to write more often

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

Ding Dong, Milosevic is dead!!

CBS.COM

CBS' interview with Steve Vai.

USA Women's Ice Hockey Team Tribute Site

USA Women's Ice Hockey Team Tribute Site

USA Hockey

USA Hockey Is the best hockey in the World, in my opinion, bar none!

NBCOlympics.com - Results and Schedules - Ice Hockey

NBCOlympics.com - Results and Schedules - Ice Hockey

Blue Screen of Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blue Screen of Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daisy Duke Dances for You

Daisy Duke Dances for You

Frets Magazine - The complete acoustic guitar package

Cover Story - Ani Difranco