The Absurd Report

The State Dept and Saudi students

Please read the below message. I have deleted the agency’s name and location of the briefing. But the information came from a man whom I have known since 1958 and his word is gold with me. -Jim Murphy

Jim: from my son-in-law who is with a federal agency - makes you wonder dosen’t it?

Had an unclassified briefing by the FBI Anti-Terrorism Task Force which they presented to XXX XXXXXXX. The State Department continues to import thousands of Saudi students, on fully paid scholarships thanks to your tax dollars, whereby some of the students are organizing anti-US groups to include directing jihad websites and chat-rooms. Some of their rants cheered the death of American troops in Iraq. I inquired whether said students were politically connected to the Saudi structure/royalty, but not. Just regular mutts off the streets who hate the US. It is angering when I think how much money you and I paid/will pay to put our kids through college. Our State Department is insane.

There is a reason I have waited to order my McCain bumper sticker… the VP pick.

Tom Ridge is only slightly less liberal than Joe Lieberman. Either would be a more appropriate choice for the Democrat ticket.

Ridge is especially troublesome because this guy wants people to think he’s a Conservative, albeit one who just happens to be pro-choice. It’s actually worse than that.

Ridge is a self-professed Catholic who believes abortion is a woman’s “right”. Pro-choice Catholic, is an oxymoron. Most so-called Catholic abortion enablers at least use the Cuomo jive about being personally opposed, but,,,. Not Ridge though. He’s “morally” and politically pro-abortion.

“Otherwise” is he conservative though? Hardly. As a Congressman, this guy led the opposition to Reagan’s SDI initiatiative. He was a “nuclear freeze” proponent , without the “trust but verify” condiditions demanded by Reagan. He opposed the Bush cuts in Capital Gains Taxes, and was a big spending Governor of PA as well as a lap-dog to that State’s labor unions.

Ridge was to the Keystone State, what George Pataki was to the Empire State. We call that an abomination.

Make no mistake about this. If McCain chooses Ridge or Lieberman he will be giving the arrogant finger to the main body of Republican loyalists.

In that case, on election day a huge number of these GOP voters will return the gesture to the peculiar little man from AZ. - Jim Mc

When the Rubber meets the Road

35 years ago I learned the tricks of proper tire inflation, clean air filters, proper engine oil, use of oil coolers, keeping carburetors and fuel injectors clean, etc. But once you get stuck in traffic moving about 3 mph, caught in gridlock at intersections such that you need 5 cycles of the light to get across, etc. most of those tricks go right up in smoke (or out the tailpipe, if you wish).

The 15% number is garbage, if you’re lucky you can get 5%. Obama’s claim of saving as much gas as new drilling would produce is garbage, you can do the math. And with the proper numbers (such as, we use 21 million barrels per day of oil, but only 9 million of that goes to cars. 4.5 mbpd goes to diesel - cars (a few), trucks, trains, and heating oil. Another 4 mbpd to jet fuel, the rest to product manufacturing.

You can bet that most trucks already take advantage of these tricks; that’s how the truckdrivers make their living, and they know how to do their jobs.

Trains don’t have tires to pump up.

Planes have tires, but they don’t spend very much time traveling on them. If they do, they must belong to USAir.

Home heating furnaces don’t have tires.

Plastic soda bottles don’t have tires.

So more than half of the petroleum used by the country will not be affected by pumping up your tires.

And not everyone has tires that are under inflated.

So the percentage of oil that can be save by inflating your tires gets smaller and smaller, the more you look at it.

For anyone who actually believes that the Saviour’s plan for energy conservation is going to give us any real benefit, I have some property in Florida I can sell you. Just send me all your money and I’ll get back to you later. - Nandrelli

Date Line Victoria Texas. Victoria is a town about 80 miles west of Houston.

Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasian owned businesses in the Victoria area this past weekend as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community.

The boycott was declared a success by the Hispanic community, noting that revenue in Caucasian owned businesses was down by 19%.

Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, and the cost of daily cleanup and trash collection was down by 84%. Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards! - Bill in Texas

Taxpayers Association files campaign ethics complaints against two Jackson County candidates

The Jackson County Taxpayers Association filed complaints with the Missouri Ethics Commission alleging State Rep candidates Joe Volpe and Jason Norbury received contributions exceeding the legal limits. Missouri Statutes limit the amount of money a candidate may receive from Legislative Committees in an uncontested primary election to $1,675.

Joe Volpe received $2,000 from the 48th District Legislative Democratic Committee. Jason Norbury received $3,250 from the 48th Democratic District Legislative Democratic Committee and $3,250 from the $3,250 from the 47th Democratic District Legislative Committee, all contributions exceeding the $1,675 limit.

The Taxpayer Association also filed complaints against the two Democratic Legislative Committees for making the unlawful contributions. The complaint against the 48th Democratic District Committee also alleges that its Ethics Commission report attempted to falsely disclose the contributions as committee expenses and not as contributions to a political candidate. The Committee’s Ethics Commission report described the unlawful contributions as “general expenses.”

The Taxpayer Association alleges that these unlawful receipts are not just oversights but serious violations of Missouri Ethics Commission rules. Norbury is an attorney and has previous experience as a candidate for State Senate and Volpe teaches political science at Maplewood JC.

Click here for the MEC’s notice of this contribution limit of $1,675 on unopposed primary candidates from Legislative committees. Note that this limit applies to both the candidate and the committee.

Jason Norbury’s July 08 report shows he received $3,250 from the 47th District Legislative Committee (Democratic) and $3,250 from the 48th District Legislative Democratic Committee. Click here for his report documenting the illegal contributions. Norbury is unopposed in the primary election so the maximum amount he may receive from any Legislative Committee is $1,675.

Joe Volpe’s July 08 reports shows he received $2,000 from the 48th District Legislative Committee (Democratic). Click here for his report. Volpe also is unopposed and has a legal limit of $1,675.

Click here for the 47th Democrat legislative committee showing $3,250 to Norbury.

Click here for the 48th Democrat legislative committee showing $3,250 to Norbury and $2,000 to Joe Volpe. - Bob in Missouri

Collins questions Edwards’ baby denial

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins speculated on a live radio broadcast this week that former Democratic U.S. Sen. John Edwards is the likely father of a child born to a woman with whom he recently admitted having an affair.

In an appearance on WJBQ-FM in Portland on Wednesday, the Maine Republican told the station’s morning show hosts that she was shocked when Edwards admitted to an affair with a campaign aide while his wife was in remission from breast cancer in 2006.

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