You did a great job! The blog looks tons better than the last one! It would be even BETTER if you destroyed all references to the BIG red N :)
I am jealous! You will have to tell me if you earn anything on the AdSense...lmao.. Hey maybe we can each help each other out! Force your family! lmao..
Friday, December 28, 2007
Colorado Taxpayers get soaked again
Colo. Gov. gives state workers a day off
By: John Ingold, The Denver Post12/27/2007
DENVER
It wasn't a sweater or a fruitcake or a gift card.
This year, Gov. Bill Ritter gave about 30,000 state employees the nicest holiday present of all: an extra day off.
In November, Ritter and Rich Gonzales, executive director of the state's Department of Personnel and Administration, decided to re-institute a year-end administrative-leave day for employees, or what is sometimes called the "governor's holiday." It allows state employees to take off either New Year's Eve day, Christmas Eve day, or the day after Thanksgiving.
"It's a morale-booster for the workforce," said Evan Dreyer, Ritter's spokesman.
The day had been a long-standing tradition in Colorado until Gov. Bill Owens discontinued it during his administration, said Julie Postlethwait, a spokeswoman for the Department of Personnel and Administration.
Dreyer said the day off allows state government to function more efficiently at a time that's usually pretty slow.
Both Dreyer and Postlethwait didn't call the day off a holiday, though, because state offices remain open those days.
Lets say the average State employee makes $150 /day ($39000/yr). 30,000 employees received this "present".
30000 * $150 = $4,500,000
Tax payers just got stuck for $4.5 million dollars.
By: John Ingold, The Denver Post12/27/2007
DENVER
It wasn't a sweater or a fruitcake or a gift card.
This year, Gov. Bill Ritter gave about 30,000 state employees the nicest holiday present of all: an extra day off.
In November, Ritter and Rich Gonzales, executive director of the state's Department of Personnel and Administration, decided to re-institute a year-end administrative-leave day for employees, or what is sometimes called the "governor's holiday." It allows state employees to take off either New Year's Eve day, Christmas Eve day, or the day after Thanksgiving.
"It's a morale-booster for the workforce," said Evan Dreyer, Ritter's spokesman.
The day had been a long-standing tradition in Colorado until Gov. Bill Owens discontinued it during his administration, said Julie Postlethwait, a spokeswoman for the Department of Personnel and Administration.
Dreyer said the day off allows state government to function more efficiently at a time that's usually pretty slow.
Both Dreyer and Postlethwait didn't call the day off a holiday, though, because state offices remain open those days.
Lets say the average State employee makes $150 /day ($39000/yr). 30,000 employees received this "present".
30000 * $150 = $4,500,000
Tax payers just got stuck for $4.5 million dollars.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Disappearing Car Door - by Jatech
Check what this company is doing with their approach to the auto car door! This is really cool!
http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/
http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/
Global Cooling
Check out the article by David Deming. He points out more facts disputing the Global Warming Hoax. It seems the tide is starting to turn against Al Gore and the Drive by Media.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Written by 100 Prominent Scientists
See the open letter written the United Nations reguarding Global Warming. Great letter, bet you will not hear about it in the Drive By Media!!
http://www.mediamax.com/huskerfancf/Hosted/UN_open_letter.pdf
http://www.mediamax.com/huskerfancf/Hosted/UN_open_letter.pdf
Friday, December 14, 2007
Bo Pelini Talks to Reporters in Lincoln
A few tidbits:
-- Pelini said junior running back Marlon Lucky is considering skipping his senior season to declare for the NFL Draft.
Pelini said he'll help Lucky submit paperwork to the NFL College Advisory Committee, a group that helps underclassmen gauge their draft status. Pelini said he'll advise Lucky during the process, but that the final decision is Lucky's.
The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft is Jan. 15.
Pelini's opinion?
"That's between me and him," Pelini said. "But I do know this: Unless you are a first-round draft pick, you should come back."
-- Pelini said his coaching staff is "one phone call" from being complete.
"It fell right into place," he said. "I knew what I was looking for. I had a lot of certain things in mind, certain people in mind, in some instances. I was able to accomplish exactly what I wanted to get. The guys I targeted, I got."
-- Pelini clearly is eager to ask Tom Osborne's advice on a variety of matters. "I mean, I ask his advice in a lot of different decisions," Pelini said. "Some things that you may think are very small and trivial, I ask him, 'What do you think here?' Just day-to-day things."
Pelini didn't want to get too specific about the type of things he asks Osborne.
"If anything, I probably drive him crazy sometimes," Pelini said.
-- It's not as if Osborne is trying to run the show, Pelini said. "At no point has he ever said, 'I want you to do this, I want you to do that.' He says, 'You need to do what you see as best.'
"But he makes it clear he's always there to offer his suggestions. I appreciate that."
-- Did Osborne suggest that Pelini hire certain guys on the staff?
"No. He just gave me information. And I asked him for information. I said, 'How do you see it? What is your evaluation?' There's not one person he told me to hire. I'm sure he wouldn't have hired some of the guys I did.
"What he does is provide you with information. And obviously, he has good information."
-- Pelini said junior running back Marlon Lucky is considering skipping his senior season to declare for the NFL Draft.
Pelini said he'll help Lucky submit paperwork to the NFL College Advisory Committee, a group that helps underclassmen gauge their draft status. Pelini said he'll advise Lucky during the process, but that the final decision is Lucky's.
The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft is Jan. 15.
Pelini's opinion?
"That's between me and him," Pelini said. "But I do know this: Unless you are a first-round draft pick, you should come back."
-- Pelini said his coaching staff is "one phone call" from being complete.
"It fell right into place," he said. "I knew what I was looking for. I had a lot of certain things in mind, certain people in mind, in some instances. I was able to accomplish exactly what I wanted to get. The guys I targeted, I got."
-- Pelini clearly is eager to ask Tom Osborne's advice on a variety of matters. "I mean, I ask his advice in a lot of different decisions," Pelini said. "Some things that you may think are very small and trivial, I ask him, 'What do you think here?' Just day-to-day things."
Pelini didn't want to get too specific about the type of things he asks Osborne.
"If anything, I probably drive him crazy sometimes," Pelini said.
-- It's not as if Osborne is trying to run the show, Pelini said. "At no point has he ever said, 'I want you to do this, I want you to do that.' He says, 'You need to do what you see as best.'
"But he makes it clear he's always there to offer his suggestions. I appreciate that."
-- Did Osborne suggest that Pelini hire certain guys on the staff?
"No. He just gave me information. And I asked him for information. I said, 'How do you see it? What is your evaluation?' There's not one person he told me to hire. I'm sure he wouldn't have hired some of the guys I did.
"What he does is provide you with information. And obviously, he has good information."
Helping Cory Voorhis
Check out the story of Cory Voorhis! The ICE agent who is a victim of political revenge by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter for exposing his support of illegal immigration while DA in Denver, Colorado. Truly amazing story!
The Political Prosecution of Immigration Enforcement Agent Cory Voorhis
A federal grand jury is needed to get at the truth beneath the corruption and cover-up
Who is Cory Voorhis and why should you care?
Cory Voorhis is a former Border Patrol officer and 15-year veteran of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). He was charged in federal district court in Denver on Oct. 25, 2007 with three misdemeanor counts of "unauthorized access"' of a federal criminal database and now faces the possibility of three years in prison, heavy fines, loss of his job, and horrendous legal bills. He has also been notified he will be placed on leave-without-pay by ICE, which is an unprecedented action against a law enforcement officer who has only been accused, not convicted. Voorhis and his wife and two children now face Christmas and the New Year with mounting legal bills and no paycheck.
Cory Voorhis has a distinguished record as a Special Investigator for ICE. He was the lead investigator for the interagency task force that broke up the largest document fraud ring in United States history, a Guadalajara-based operation working in Colorado and 14 other states producing millions of drivers' licenses, green cards, and Social Security cards. Most of the customers were illegal aliens.
In September of 2006, Voorhis read Denver newspaper accounts of statements by Bill Ritter, then a candidate for Governor of Colorado and now the incumbent in that office, claiming to have been a strong prosecutor of illegal alien criminals when he was Denver's District Attorney from 1994 to 2004. Voorhis knew from his personal experience with the Denver police and courts that this was not the case, that hundreds of illegal alien criminals had been released and avoided deportation through dangerous plea bargaining agreements and other subterfuges. Such practices are consistent with Denver's "sanctuary city" status, inaugurated by Mayor Wellington Webb in the mid-1990s.
Seeking to have the truth of the matter discussed in the public domain, Voorhis offered information to Congressman Bob Beauprez, who was also a candidate for Governor, regarding the plea bargaining practices of the Denver DA office and the subsequent criminal activity by some of the persons who were released and not deported. Voorhis told the Beauprez staff where to look in public records for additional information and cases.
ICE agent Voorhis had legitimate professional reasons for accessing the federal and state crime databases on Denver criminal alien cases, and all of his actions in accessing the ICE database and the federal NCIC database were fully consistent with written ICE policies and guidelines. It was part of his job. Voorhis shared only such information with the staff of Congressman Beauprez that he could release to any public official, employer or citizen who asked for it. The criminal "rap sheets" and identities of illegal aliens are not protected by the Federal Privacy Act.
Nevertheless, when information became public about a specific illegal alien who had committed additonal crimes after being released through a plea bargain his office had engineered, gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to open an investigation into ICE agent Voorhis. Ritter charged that Voorhis had committed a crime by accessing the NCIC database. Ritter made this charge one day after someone in the Denver District Attorney's office accessed the same federal database to identify agent Voorhis. No one disputed the accuracy of the information revealed about the criminal alien in question, but the allegations of wrongdoing by Voorhis was successful in shifting the public focus away from Ritter's record when he was Denver DA. The only illegal alien case discussed in the press was the one revealed by the Beauprez campaign, the case of Walter Noel Ramo, who had originally been charged with the sale of heroin but allowed to plead guilty to "agricultural trespass," a low level felony that does not generally result in deportation. Ramo, while living in California under an alias, was subsequently charged with a sex-related crime against a minor. After Ritter asked for a CBI investigation of Voorhis, the Denver media stopped investigating Ritter's record in this area and instead focused on Voorhis.
Cory Voorhis had nothing to gain personally or financially by revealing information about the problem of non-prosecution of criminal aliens in the Denver District Attorney's office, past and present. He had not been active in the Beauprez campaign and had never made a financial contribution to that campaign. His actions were motivated solely by the desire to raise the level of the public discussion of this important issue, an issue that was being swept under the rug by both the Ritter campaign and the office of the incumbent Denver District Attorney, Mitch Morrissey. One of Denver DA Morrissey's staff attorneys was in fact working in the Ritter campaign on a leave of absence, and that person, Stephanie Villafuerte, now serves as a senior aide to Governor Ritter. A Morrissey spokesman denies any wrongdoing on the part of the Morrissey staff, yet it is remarkable that the individuals involved in accessing the NCIC database in October of 2006 were never questioned by the CBI or FBI as part of the investigation.
Any reasonable person will conclude that there can be only one reason for the prosecution of this courageous law enforcement officer: political retaliation. The prosecution of Cory Voorhis is a case of selective prosecution for political purposes, while similar actions by other public employees are neither investigated nor prosecuted. Two other individuals accessed the same NCIC database on Walter Noel Ramo in the same time period, one in Harris County, Texas (Houston) and one in the Denver District Attorney (Morrissey's) office. Neither one has been investigated or charged with a crime. Only Cory Voorhis has been charged.
The only conclusion to be reached is that it was not the "unauthorized access" to the information on this criminal alien that upset candidate Ritter, it was making it public, and that is why Cory Voorhis was targeted for prosecution. The success of the Ritter campaign was more important to Bill Ritter than the public's right to know the facts about the crimes of a man he had allowed to escape a serious felony prosecution and likely deportation.
ICE agent Cory Voorhis is being prosecuted for actions that were not only not criminal in nature, but were a public service to the people of Colorado. Voorhis' actions not only did no harm to any public entity or contemporary criminal case or defendant, they contributed to an elevated public debate on the treatment of aliens charged with criminal activity. "No harm, no foul."
Like Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean, who are now serving prison terms for shooting a drug smuggler, Cory Voorhis is being prosecuted for doing his job. He was helping to educate a sitting US Congressman and his staff about the huge but invisible world of criminal aliens released from jail by the Denver District Attorney under laughable "agricultural trespass" plea deals. Such practices in Denver and other Colorado counties have allowed hundreds and probably thousands of illegal aliens to avoid serious felony convictions that can lead to deportation.
Colorado citizens and all Americans who value the work of dedicated ICE agents need to support the Cory Voorhis Legal Defense Fund. We cannot let this good man and dedicated public servant fight this battle alone. Cory Voorhis is a hero, not a criminal.
NOTE: Cory Voorhis's attorney is William Taylor, a former Assistant US Attorney, who is on staff with the Denver law firm of Holland and Hart. Voorhis' legal expenses to fight the charges will likely exceed $100,000.
The Political Prosecution of Immigration Enforcement Agent Cory Voorhis
A federal grand jury is needed to get at the truth beneath the corruption and cover-up
Who is Cory Voorhis and why should you care?
Cory Voorhis is a former Border Patrol officer and 15-year veteran of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). He was charged in federal district court in Denver on Oct. 25, 2007 with three misdemeanor counts of "unauthorized access"' of a federal criminal database and now faces the possibility of three years in prison, heavy fines, loss of his job, and horrendous legal bills. He has also been notified he will be placed on leave-without-pay by ICE, which is an unprecedented action against a law enforcement officer who has only been accused, not convicted. Voorhis and his wife and two children now face Christmas and the New Year with mounting legal bills and no paycheck.
Cory Voorhis has a distinguished record as a Special Investigator for ICE. He was the lead investigator for the interagency task force that broke up the largest document fraud ring in United States history, a Guadalajara-based operation working in Colorado and 14 other states producing millions of drivers' licenses, green cards, and Social Security cards. Most of the customers were illegal aliens.
In September of 2006, Voorhis read Denver newspaper accounts of statements by Bill Ritter, then a candidate for Governor of Colorado and now the incumbent in that office, claiming to have been a strong prosecutor of illegal alien criminals when he was Denver's District Attorney from 1994 to 2004. Voorhis knew from his personal experience with the Denver police and courts that this was not the case, that hundreds of illegal alien criminals had been released and avoided deportation through dangerous plea bargaining agreements and other subterfuges. Such practices are consistent with Denver's "sanctuary city" status, inaugurated by Mayor Wellington Webb in the mid-1990s.
Seeking to have the truth of the matter discussed in the public domain, Voorhis offered information to Congressman Bob Beauprez, who was also a candidate for Governor, regarding the plea bargaining practices of the Denver DA office and the subsequent criminal activity by some of the persons who were released and not deported. Voorhis told the Beauprez staff where to look in public records for additional information and cases.
ICE agent Voorhis had legitimate professional reasons for accessing the federal and state crime databases on Denver criminal alien cases, and all of his actions in accessing the ICE database and the federal NCIC database were fully consistent with written ICE policies and guidelines. It was part of his job. Voorhis shared only such information with the staff of Congressman Beauprez that he could release to any public official, employer or citizen who asked for it. The criminal "rap sheets" and identities of illegal aliens are not protected by the Federal Privacy Act.
Nevertheless, when information became public about a specific illegal alien who had committed additonal crimes after being released through a plea bargain his office had engineered, gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to open an investigation into ICE agent Voorhis. Ritter charged that Voorhis had committed a crime by accessing the NCIC database. Ritter made this charge one day after someone in the Denver District Attorney's office accessed the same federal database to identify agent Voorhis. No one disputed the accuracy of the information revealed about the criminal alien in question, but the allegations of wrongdoing by Voorhis was successful in shifting the public focus away from Ritter's record when he was Denver DA. The only illegal alien case discussed in the press was the one revealed by the Beauprez campaign, the case of Walter Noel Ramo, who had originally been charged with the sale of heroin but allowed to plead guilty to "agricultural trespass," a low level felony that does not generally result in deportation. Ramo, while living in California under an alias, was subsequently charged with a sex-related crime against a minor. After Ritter asked for a CBI investigation of Voorhis, the Denver media stopped investigating Ritter's record in this area and instead focused on Voorhis.
Cory Voorhis had nothing to gain personally or financially by revealing information about the problem of non-prosecution of criminal aliens in the Denver District Attorney's office, past and present. He had not been active in the Beauprez campaign and had never made a financial contribution to that campaign. His actions were motivated solely by the desire to raise the level of the public discussion of this important issue, an issue that was being swept under the rug by both the Ritter campaign and the office of the incumbent Denver District Attorney, Mitch Morrissey. One of Denver DA Morrissey's staff attorneys was in fact working in the Ritter campaign on a leave of absence, and that person, Stephanie Villafuerte, now serves as a senior aide to Governor Ritter. A Morrissey spokesman denies any wrongdoing on the part of the Morrissey staff, yet it is remarkable that the individuals involved in accessing the NCIC database in October of 2006 were never questioned by the CBI or FBI as part of the investigation.
Any reasonable person will conclude that there can be only one reason for the prosecution of this courageous law enforcement officer: political retaliation. The prosecution of Cory Voorhis is a case of selective prosecution for political purposes, while similar actions by other public employees are neither investigated nor prosecuted. Two other individuals accessed the same NCIC database on Walter Noel Ramo in the same time period, one in Harris County, Texas (Houston) and one in the Denver District Attorney (Morrissey's) office. Neither one has been investigated or charged with a crime. Only Cory Voorhis has been charged.
The only conclusion to be reached is that it was not the "unauthorized access" to the information on this criminal alien that upset candidate Ritter, it was making it public, and that is why Cory Voorhis was targeted for prosecution. The success of the Ritter campaign was more important to Bill Ritter than the public's right to know the facts about the crimes of a man he had allowed to escape a serious felony prosecution and likely deportation.
ICE agent Cory Voorhis is being prosecuted for actions that were not only not criminal in nature, but were a public service to the people of Colorado. Voorhis' actions not only did no harm to any public entity or contemporary criminal case or defendant, they contributed to an elevated public debate on the treatment of aliens charged with criminal activity. "No harm, no foul."
Like Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean, who are now serving prison terms for shooting a drug smuggler, Cory Voorhis is being prosecuted for doing his job. He was helping to educate a sitting US Congressman and his staff about the huge but invisible world of criminal aliens released from jail by the Denver District Attorney under laughable "agricultural trespass" plea deals. Such practices in Denver and other Colorado counties have allowed hundreds and probably thousands of illegal aliens to avoid serious felony convictions that can lead to deportation.
Colorado citizens and all Americans who value the work of dedicated ICE agents need to support the Cory Voorhis Legal Defense Fund. We cannot let this good man and dedicated public servant fight this battle alone. Cory Voorhis is a hero, not a criminal.
NOTE: Cory Voorhis's attorney is William Taylor, a former Assistant US Attorney, who is on staff with the Denver law firm of Holland and Hart. Voorhis' legal expenses to fight the charges will likely exceed $100,000.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
MLB Mitchell Report released
The report is released. See the entire report here:
http://www.mediamax.com/huskerfancf/Hosted/mitchell_report.pdf
http://www.mediamax.com/huskerfancf/Hosted/mitchell_report.pdf
Democrats Bow to Bush's Demands in House Spending Bill
Once again GWB shows who is in charge in Washington! The liberals are nothing but a bunch of losers! Talk talk talk, no action. Typical.
http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70300&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=70
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202837_pf.html
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/our-view-on-war.html
http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70300&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=70
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202837_pf.html
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/our-view-on-war.html
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Bandimere Speedway now sports an all-concrete racing surface
Bandimere Speedway has made great improvements to the track.
This should help them dry the track quicker when it rains, it NEVER rains during the race weekend.
I can't wait until summer!
This should help them dry the track quicker when it rains, it NEVER rains during the race weekend.
I can't wait until summer!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Al Gore-illa Climate Change
Despite the facts Al Gore and the drive by media claim global warming. But things are changing. Check out the following artilcles.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/kansas_climate_profile.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=500586&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/southern_hemisphere_ice_cover_remains_well_above_normal
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/kansas_climate_profile.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=500586&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/southern_hemisphere_ice_cover_remains_well_above_normal
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