http://www.firesociety.com FireSociety - nwind Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:10:18 GMT admin@firesociety.com FireSociety 60 http://www.firesociety.com/images/home/mainlogo.gif http://www.firesociety.com http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/19073/Any-news-on-the-LOST-vote-/?src=103 I await news with great anxiety!  Am at work so cannot watch CSPAN. Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:10:16 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/19073/Any-news-on-the-LOST-vote-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/19042/ACTION-ALERT----Law-of-the-Sea---Vote-is-Tomorrow-/?src=103 Action Alert! Action Alert! American Policy Center website URGENT!! Immediate Action Needed!! SINK the Law of the Sea Treaty - Vote Expected Wednesday! The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote on the Law of the Sea Treaty this Wednesday, October 31. The Committee's meeting will start at 10:30 AM and the treaty is the first item on the agenda. PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION! The momentum is on our side, but we need to keep it going. In the past few weeks, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced his opposition to the treaty. However, the last word we received was that Sen. McConnell has yet to put this treaty language before all the Senate committees that would normally have oversight. He certainly has a moral obligation to do so, if not a legal one. Far too many Congressmen know nothing of the details of the the LOST Convention. They only are being told the President Bush and his administration wants it. They're also being told that all the old problems with LOST have been fixed; NOT TRUE! At least five GOP candidates for President have announced their opposition, too, as have Senators Vitter and DeMint. We expect ... Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:33:56 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/19042/ACTION-ALERT----Law-of-the-Sea---Vote-is-Tomorrow-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18803/-quot-Global-Warming-quot--Devastating-California-s-Economy/?src=103 This is an excerpt from an extremely good article on the effects of global warming on California and they are devasting.  The entire article is here: http://www.freedom.org/news/200710/23... color="#0066cc"> http://www.freedom.org/news/200710/23/mcclintock.phtml : But now I would like to address myself to a grim subject: the actual threat that global warming poses to our planet - and most specifically to California. And that threat is very real, and it is devastating. I speak specifically of the radical policies that the global warm-mongers are now enacting.? Last year, in the name of saving the planet from global warming, California adopted the most radically restrictive legislation anywhere in the nation, including AB 32, which requires a 25 percent reduction in man-made carbon dioxide emissions within 13 years. To put this in perspective, we could junk every car in the state of California right now - and not meet this mandate. Californians just approved $40 billion of bonds that California's political leaders promised would be used for highways, dams, aqueducts, and other capital improvements. They are desperately needed. But at the same time, those same political leaders have imposed a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Now here's the problem: Building highways, dams, and aqueducts ... Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:09:13 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18803/-quot-Global-Warming-quot--Devastating-California-s-Economy/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18648/Hermandez-Released/?src=103 Border agent Gilmer Hernandez released after spending ten months in prison for doing his job:  http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2007/10/17/intv.beck.border.agent.released.cnn Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:04:41 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18648/Hermandez-Released/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18610/Maybe-We-Need-To-Import-Some-Aussies-/?src=103 America Needs A Leader Like This! Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia and her Queen at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his Ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state, and its laws were made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you", he said on National Television "I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia : one the Australian law and another Islamic law that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country, which ... Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:20:16 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18610/Maybe-We-Need-To-Import-Some-Aussies-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18546/Dolly-Parton-s-new-song---quot-Hello-God-quot-/?src=103 I found it quite inspiring: http://gospelman.info/christian/HelloGOD.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:01:38 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18546/Dolly-Parton-s-new-song---quot-Hello-God-quot-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18545/Can-in-New-Mexico-help-/?src=103 Hi All, I have a friend in New Mexico who is in a heap of trouble.  She is an older lady, in her sixties, living on very small social security checks.  She has been falsely accused of assault in corrupt Soccoro County by a very bad man.  She is eligible for a public defender but they are so busy that she may even be able to meet with him until the day before court in Nov. Does anyone know of any groups in the Alburqurque area who might provide help or any gutsy attorneys who take an occasional pro bono case and is willing to take on the corrupt Soccoro County sherrif's department? This lady could face eighteen months in prison on a totally bogus charge and an attorney who cares is simply beyond her means. Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:51:46 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18545/Can-in-New-Mexico-help-/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18426/Any-New-Yorkers-here--Oct-13-Property-Rights-Conference/?src=103 Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights Saturday, October 13, 2007, Holiday Inn Turf, Albany, N. Y. Registration is still open to hear Nationally Recognized Leaders and Experts discuss "Forging Ahead for Private Property Rights" October 10, 2007 T he Property Rights Foundation of America brings to Albany noted speakers to discuss a gamut of topics with the common thread of private property rights, ranging from communities and farmers facing off environmental preservation to international treaties threatening U.S. individual rights. Noted scholar Roger Pilon, Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, will give the opening address on the Supreme Court's narrow view of property owners' rights, including those under eminent domain. The keynote luncheon address will be given by William Perry Pendley, Founder of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, on "The New Wars for the West." During the packed day, discussions will also center on navigable waterways, corporations vs. the free market, irrational environmental regulation, small business and property rights, animal rights-/eco-terrorism, and national landscape preservation. This is a "hands on" conference where attendees can mingle with the speakers at the buffet breakfast and evening reception, sit with them at the full luncheon, or discuss ... Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:41:07 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18426/Any-New-Yorkers-here--Oct-13-Property-Rights-Conference/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18425/SPP-and-NAU/?src=103 The new article by Phyllis Shafley appeared today on www.freedom.org : Scholars Explain Bush's SPP By Phyllis Schlafly October 10, 2007 T hose who seek to understand what's behind the chatter about Bush's Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) as a possible prelude to a North American Union (NAU), similar to the European Union (EU), should read the 35-page White Paper published recently by the prestigious Hudson Institute called "Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership." This Washington, DC think tank is blunt and detailed in describing where SPP is heading. Here's how Hudson defines SPP's goal: "The SPP process is the vehicle for the discussion of future arrangements for economic integration to create a single market for goods and services in North America." The key words are "economic integration" (a phrase used again and again) into a North American "single market" (another phrase used repeatedly). "Integration" with Mexico and Canada is exactly what North American Union means, but there's a big problem with this goal. "We the people" of the United States were never asked if we want to be "integrated" with Mexico and Canada, two countries of enormously different laws, culture, concept of government's role, economic system, and ... Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:36:43 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18425/SPP-and-NAU/?src=103 http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18377/An-Interesting-Perspective-on-the-Iraq-Mess/?src=103 The Iraqi Tar Baby By Alan Caruba October 09, 2007   A s one of those who thought the invasion of Iraq was a good thing to do for both humanitarian and strategic reasons, the flow of books by those who went there after the invasion or by Iraqis who did their best to put it on the path to democracy all tell essentially the same story. Iraqis were totally unprepared to rule themselves and thus create a modern bulwark against the menace of al Qaeda’s or Iran’s fanatical Islamism. Iraq has become like the tar baby in the Uncle Remus story about the way Brer Fox lured Brer Rabbit into a fight with a tar baby. He got so angry at the tar baby that would not respond to his questions that his vanity got the better of Brer Rabbit who punched it and discovered he was stuck. He butted it with his head and got further stuck. How that rabbit avoided becoming dinner for Brer Fox is unknown, but it is rumored Brer Bear extricated him. The people of the United States are locked into a debate about whether to get out of Iraq without actually looking like ... Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:38:21 GMT nwind http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/18377/An-Interesting-Perspective-on-the-Iraq-Mess/?src=103