The U.S. Senate soon could debate whether you, your spouse and each of your children – as well as your in-laws, parents, grandparents, neighbors and everyone else in America – each will spend $2,500 or more to reduce poverty around the world.

The plan sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is estimated to cost the U.S. some $845 billion over the coming few years in an effort to raise the standard of living around the globe.

S.2433 already has been approved in one form by the U.S. House of Representatives and now has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar for pending debate.

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No matter how gloomy life may seem, there’s always good news somewhere.

A killer who argued that Virginia’s procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country’s second-busiest death chamber.

Christopher Scott Emmett, 36, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m. ET. He was convicted of beating a co-worker to death with a brass lamp in 2001 so he could steal the man’s money to buy crack cocaine.

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There are two points of redeeming social value: first, the bastard can no longer steal oxygen and second, Virginia canceled his ticket just 7 years after the murder.

Putting Money Where Mouths Are:
Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1

The New York Times’ refusal to publish John McCain’s rebuttal to Barack Obama’s Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money.

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The contributions add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans — most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.

What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).

Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there. [Emphasis added]

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This is the most outrageous act yet: 9/11 date to be placed as star on crescent and star flag

Not all of us can make it to Pennsylvania next week to help Tom Burnett Sr. stop the re-hijacking of Flight 93, but if anyone needs another reason to try…

The crescent memorial to Flight 93 will have the 9/11 date inscribed on a separate section of Memorial Wall that is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent, in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag.

Check it out. As can be seen on our blogburst logo, there will be a copse of trees that sits roughly between the tips of the giant crescent (roughly in the position of the star on a crescent and star flag). That is the Sacred Ground Plaza, which sits just above the crash site. Inside the Sacred Ground Plaza is a two part Memorial Wall that follows the flight path down to the point of impact:

For an elevation view of Memorial Wall » click to see large image. Source .pdf document here.

The lower section of Memorial Wall (on the left) contains forty “translucent marble” blocks, inscribed with the names of the 40 murdered heroes (including Tom Burnett Jr.)

Next there is a gap marked “trail,” then the separate upper section of Memorial Wall has three more translucent blocks, inscribed with the 9/11 date. (There is one more translucent block on the flight path: the huge glass block that dedicates the entire site. It sits at the upper crescent tip, at the end of the Entry Portal Walkway. That bring the glass block count to 44, equaling the number of passengers, crew, AND terrorists.)

The path that divides the wall into two parts can be seen on the Crescent of Embrace site plan:

Purple: the path that divides the Memorial Wall into separate upper and lower sections. Aqua: the separate upper section of Memorial Wall, inscribed with the 9/11 date. Red arrow: the centerline of the giant crescent (points to Mecca).

Just by looking, you can see that the upper section of section of Memorial Wall is centered on the bisector of the giant crescent, placing it in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag. (Click picture for larger image.)

The date goes to the star on the Islamic flag. The date goes to the terrorists.

Just one of many Islamic and terrorist memorializing features in the planned memorial, and all of it remains completely intact in the Circle of Embrace redesign, which only disguises the giant crescent with a few irrelevant trees.

August 2nd

At about 1PM (when the Memorial Project meeting lets out) Mr. Burnett and Alec Rawls will host a press conference and a rally outside the Somerset County Courthouse (where the meeting will be held).

Saturday evening we will have dinner someplace that can be flexible about our numbers (probably a big buffet style restaurant). Sunday morning we will visit the crash site. (Alec is making arrangements with the Park Service now, in case we get a large turn out.)

The only reason to try to make it to the meeting itself (10AM-1PM) is if you want to sign up to speak during the public comment period at the end. Otherwise the meetings are pretty dreary.

The larger purpose is to make a statement to the national news outfits that Mr. Burnett’s presence will likely bring. (Fox news gave Mr. Burnett some nice coverage a couple of months ago.) A substantial rally would help that cause, hard as that will be to achieve out in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania.

Somerset is a long way to go to make a statement, but the crash site is well worth visiting in its own right. If you’ve been thinking of making the trip, the weekend of August 2nd would be the time. It is a chance not just to pay a visit, but to in some small way honor the heroes of Flight 93 by following their footsteps and tackling our own hijacker.

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PICO RIVERA, Calif. — An autopsy was pending Wednesday on the body of a man found dead in the driver’s seat of a parked car — with a parking ticket on it — in an unincorporated area near Pico Rivera.

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“I’d seen the guy laying in the car, but I also noticed a ticket laying on the side of the door…I tapped on the window and the guy did not move, and so I called 911,” one of the shop’s workers told the station.

The worker said firefighters who responded couldn’t believe that someone had issued the citation without noticing the deceased man.

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William Gheen of ALIPAC on Cavuto Show
Fox: Illegal Alien MS-13 Mass Murder

From AliPAC:

Widow wants San Francisco sanctuary law changed after illegal alien gang member charged with mass murder

A San Francisco woman whose husband and two sons were gunned down last month — allegedly by an illegal immigrant who remained in the city despite previous crimes — is demanding the city do something about its sanctuary law.

Danielle Bologna was widowed on June 22 when Edwin Ramos, 21, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, allegedly gunned down her husband, Anthony, and two sons, Matthew and Michael, in a road rage incident when her family was returning from a picnic.

Ramos has been charged with three counts of murder in the case, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

“It was a senseless crime, and had they done something this animal would not have taken my family,” Bologna told FOX News on Monday. “I feel that the government should have stepped in. I feel that they allow these immigrants to come in and how dare they strip our families like this.”

The Chronicle reported that Ramos was convicted of two gang-related felonies while a juvenile and remained in San Francisco because the Juvenile Probation Department did not alert federal authorities. San Francisco’s 1989 “City of Refuge” ordinance prohibits city agencies from contacting the feds on immigration matters.

Topics: Gangs, MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha 13, San Fransisco, Immigration and Customs, deaths, murders, illegal immigration kills, laws, crimes, policies.

The newspaper also found that federal officials knew about Ramos’ immigration status in March when he was arrested on a gun charge, though they couldn’t tell the Chronicle why they didn’t put an immigration hold on Ramos.

Bologna blames the city.

“It should have been resolved at the beginning, when this guy had done more than one crime in the city,” she told FOX News. “I want justice. I want the people to see: If my family wasn’t safe, what makes you think yours will be?”

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What they’re’re saying

“As Americans pay more than $4 for a gallon of gasoline and watch energy prices continue to climb higher and higher, we need to be doing more to develop our own energy here at home, through resources such as oil shale.” Dirk Kempthorne, Interior Secretary

“Before we move ahead with commercial leasing, we need to know what impact oil shale will have on Western water supplies, whether the technology will work on a commercial scale, where we would get the power for the projects, and what effect it would have on our land and wildlife.” Sen. Ken Salazar, Denver Democrat

“We think that it is critical that we start focusing on the resources that we have in our own country and the ways that we can access those resources in environmentally friendly ways, including oil shale.” Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman

“Oil shale found in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming could yield another 800 billion to 1.8 trillion barrels of oil. This is more than the proven resources of the entire country of Saudi Arabia.” Sen. Wayne Allard, Loveland Republican

“This is a last-ditch, irresponsible attempt by the White House to issue commercial oil-shale leases, at Colorado’s expense, and will do nothing to help hardworking Americans or family-owned businesses struggling today with $4-a-gallon gas.” Gov. Bill Ritter

“With these regulations, Americans who are fed up with high-priced foreign energy will be able to express their opinions about whether this country should be using its largest-in-the-world shale supplies.” Brian Kennedy, spokesman, The Institute for Energy Research

“After listening to the concerns of the people of the Western Slope, it is clear to me that a push for commercial oil-shale production is premature.” Rep. Mark Udall, Eldorado Springs Democrat

“The lack of a domestic oil-shale industry makes it speculative to project the demand for oil-shale leases, the technical capability to develop the resource, and the economics of producing shale oil.” Proposed oil-shale rules, Pages 97-98

He said this in Rochester, New Hampshire:

This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.

That’s a fact and the Lefties know it. We know they know it because it pissed them off, big time.

It even caused Joe Klein and the adolescents that read his tripe to go apeshit.

This is part two of Thomas Sowell’s take on the government created housing crisis. In case you missed it, here’s part one. Both pieces are essential reading for those interested in how the MSM, bleeding heart liberals and Congress managed to screw up the world economy. The government created the situation and owns it but, as usual, we have to pay the bill.

We don’t look to arsonists to help put out fires but we do look to politicians to help solve financial crises that they played a major role in creating.

How did the government help create the current financial mess? Let me count the ways.

In addition to federal laws that pressure lenders to lend to people they would not otherwise lend to, and in places where they would otherwise not invest, state and local governments have in various parts of the country so severely restricted building as to lead to skyrocketing housing prices, which in turn have led many people to resort to “creative financing” in order to buy these artificially more expensive homes.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve System brought interest rates down to such low levels that “creative financing” with interest-only mortgage loans enabled people to buy houses that they could not otherwise afford.

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