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behead all those who call us beheaders!

Port of Olympia commissioners will discuss the planned visit of three military ships next month at tonight�s port commission meeting at 5:30 in the Market Centre Building, 1111 Market St. N.E.

The ships were invited to Olympia by organizers of Capital Lakefair as part of its 50th anniversary.

The vessels, expected to arrive July 20 and depart July 23, consist of one U.S. Navy ship, the USS Ingraham, and two Canadian vessels, the HMCS Saskatoon and the HMCS Whitehorse.

The ships will be berthed at the port marine terminal, according to a commission advisory notice.

Army Sgt. 1st Class Adin Salkanovic won’t spend a full 15 months in Iraq like the rest of the soldiers in his unit. Still, he knows all too well about the sacrifices of war.

The platoon sergeant with 1st Cavalry Division’s Troop B, 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, volunteered to rejoin his unit in Iraq after recovering from multiple gunshot wounds suffered in Buhriz, Iraq, March 6.

Salkanovic, 27, was leading a dismounted, eight-man reconnaissance team when 15 to 20 insurgents wielding grenades, sniper rifles and AK-47s started attacking from three different directions.

Pinned down on the roof of a building, Salkanovic and his squad returned fire. In a span of 15 minutes, Salkanovic was struck by three enemy bullets: one to his left index finger and shoulder and one apiece to his right shoulder and bicep. Two more enemy rounds nearly struck Salkanovic, but were stopped by his body armor – “the two that would have killed me,” he called them.

Salkanovic’s team managed to fend off the attack, eventually killing two insurgents. If not for the actions of one of his soldiers, Cpl. Cory Walter, Salkanovic is sure he would have died that day, he said.

“Corporal Walter is pretty much responsible for me being alive right now.”

Salkanovic, whose wounds caused him to lose two liters of blood, was evacuated to Germany and later moved to Fort Hood, Texas, to recover. After two months of healing and rehabilitation, he was ready to head back to Iraq. He rejoined his unit, which is based at Forward Operating Base Normandy, May 15.

“As soon as (my doctor) cleared me to come back, I was on the first flight out,” said Salkanovic, a native of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

I just realized my ‘popcorn book*’ stack is empty!!!

Suggestions?

**Popcorn Book—something kinda light and fluffy and inconsequential but really well-written, preferably humorous, historical or out of time, somehow, to be read while falling asleep.

[I just finished the Flashman series. [ Jenny!!] Even tho the lead character is despicable [in a lovable kind o’ way] I enjoyed the hell out of ‘em.  I blame the writing.]

....................How much do they really know about this bill itself?  How much do they know about the fine print, the details that say one thing but mean something entirely different?  They say the fence will come first. 
This is how they’re trying to get us to come on board.  The fence will come first.  Well, what does that mean?  Does it mean the fence will be authorized first or built first?  Does it mean that it will be started, and does it mean it will be finished?  I can sit here and tell you, folks, they’re going to do that fence thing first.  It could mean any number of things.  It could mean they’re going to talk about it first; it could mean they’re going to pass that first.  But are they actually going to do anything toward building it?  Our intelligence guided by experience on that issue alone says no, there already is money for a fence, and is there a fence?  No. .............................

hardly.....

If the effort to catch people illegally crossing the border here in the southern Arizona desert is a cat-and-mouse struggle, the Homeland Security Department says it has a smarter cat.

It comes in the form of nine nearly 100-foot-tall towers with radar, high-definition cameras and other equipment rising from the mesquite and lava fields around this tiny town.

Known as Project 28, for the 28 miles of border that the towers will scan, the so-called virtual fence forms the backbone of the Secure Border Initiative, known as SBInet, a multibillion-dollar mix of technology, manpower and fencing intended to control illegal border crossings.

If successful, hundreds of such towers could dot the 6,000 miles of the Mexican and Canadian borders.

But glitches with the radar and cameras have forced the project to miss its June 13 starting date, just as Congress focuses anew on border security in the Senate measure to overhaul immigration law.

Federal officials confirmed today that they’ll remove a vehicle barrier placed on the wrong side of the US-Mexico border.

A US Customs and Border Protection spokesman says the fence will be rebuilt on the right side of the border.

Joint Task Force North from Fort Bliss, Texas built the barrier is 17 miles west of Columbus, New Mexico. But it encroaches into Mexico territory by from one and six feet along a 1.5-mile stretch.

Customs and Border Protection spokesman Michael Friel says the US government didn’t intentionally erect the five-foot-tall barrier in Mexico. But an aerial survey conducted in March revealed that parts of the structure crossed over the border.

The International Boundary and Water Commission, which determines the official boundary between the United States and Mexico, says the barrier had raised concern with Mexican officials.

RAAAAAACIST!!!

Here’s an idea.  [I scratched off the serial numbers so ya hafta guess whose it really is.]

[Let’s] welcome only foreigners who will be useful to [our] society:

Foreigners are admitted into [our country] “according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.” (Article 32)

Immigration officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” and for their dependents. (Article 34)

Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics,” when foreigners are deemed detrimental to “economic or national interests,” when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken [our country’s] laws, and when “they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy.” (Article 37)

The Secretary of *cough* may “suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest.” (Article 38)

Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)

A national Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and assigns each individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91).

breaded and fried razor clams
fresh spinach steamed/sauteed with minced garlic, olive oil and balsamic vinegar
fresh new beets
(I’m pissed I didn’t get some goat cheese yesterday...warmed beet salad with toasted hazelnuts and goat cheese MMMMMMMMMMMM)

I mentioned on Saturday that a group in Denmark was planning to burn an effigy of Mohammed (instead of a witch) at the traditional midsummer festival.

Since then the group that burned the Prophet has contacted SIAD, who kindly uploaded the video for us.

The Danes made quite a production of the bonfire — the soundtrack has “Light My Fire” on it…

The sentencing today of an illegal immigrant caught up in an Eastern Shore prostitution ring turned into a debate on immigration policy.

Javier Merino-Torres of Mexico was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison despite a plea for leniency from his attorney, who cited the employment and social needs fulfilled by his client and others like him.

“He works here because there is no work at home,” the attorney, David Bouchard of Chesapeake, told the judge.

“What I’m suggesting is that we have created a monster because our economy depends on these people,” Bouchard said.

He suggested that the judge deviate from sentencing guidelines so his client can return home to his family as soon as possible.

U.S. District Judge Walter D. Kelley Jr. said he is bound by the laws passed by Congress to sentence Merino-Torres to a mandatory two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and an additional 21 months for transporting prostitutes.

“Mr. Bouchard has made a very eloquent argument about our immigration system,” Kelley said.

~SNIP~
...........Merino-Torres got involved with the prostitution ring to provide “a great benefit to the men who live away from their families.”............

Anybody watch Deadliest Catch ?

who saw it 2

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Sierrahome

Attention Dennis Kneale of Forbes Magazine: YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DIALING NUMBERS ON A CELL PHONE WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING.

Just continue tap-tap-tapping into that obnoxious Blackberry with those soon-to-be-arthritic thumbs while basking in your superior knowledge over the less unfortunate flat numbers set.

And as for your “second coming” comment....*ahem*

Kit Carruthers: Sir....Where’d you get that hat?

Trooper: State.

Kit Carruthers: Boy, I’d like to buy me one of those.

Trooper: You’re quite an individual, Kit.

Kit Carruthers: Think they’ll take that into consideration?