Pentagon releases al-Qaeda torture manual drawings, victim photos ...

Pentagon releases al-Qaeda torture manual drawings, victim photos ...

Please read the article above and take a look at the pictures.....

I'm speechless to all the pacifist's out there who think captives at Guantanamo should get the same rights and treatment that U.S. citizens receive. The captives being held at Gitmo are there for a reason....and it's not because of racial profiling. There is no negotiating with terrorists.

If you want to see how terrorists negotiate take a look back to what they did on 9/11/ and when they beheaded U.S. citizen, Nick Berg.

John Stossel on Ethanol

After being lucky enough to hear a great John Stossel speech on Identifying America's Enemies, he has without a doubt become one of my favorite prime-time reporters.

In this article, like he does with many other myth's in America, he shows us the fictitious facts about ethanol as a energy source and why presidential candidates are jumping on the bandwagon.

I'm all for an alternative and cleaner energy source mainly because it would get us out of the Middle East and Venezuela's control when it comes to oil but this article clearly shows that ethanol is in no way the answer. Sorry to all you mass producing corn farmers.

No doubt about it, if there were a Miss Energy Pageant, Miss Ethanol would win hands down. Everyone loves ethanol.

"Ramp up the availability of ethanol," says Hillary Clinton.

Ethanol makes a lot of sense," says John McCain.

"The economics of ethanol make more and more sense," says Mitt Romney.

"We've got to get serious about ethanol," says Rudolph Giuliani.

And the media love ethanol. "60 Minutes" called it "the solution."

Clinton, Romney, Barack Obama and John Edwards not only believe ethanol is the elixir that will give us cheap energy, end our dependence on Middle East oil sheiks, and reverse global warming, they also want you and me -- as taxpayers -- to subsidize it.

When everyone in politics jumps on a bandwagon like ethanol, I start to wonder if there's something wrong with it. And there is. Except for that fact that ethanol comes from corn, nothing you're told about it is true. As the Cato Institute's energy expert Jerry Taylor said on a recent "Myths" edition of "20/20," the case for ethanol is based on a baker's dozen myths.

A simple question first. If ethanol's so good, why does it need government subsidies? Shouldn't producers be eager to make it, knowing that thrilled consumers will reward them with profits?

But consumers won't reward them, because without subsidies, ethanol would cost much more than gasoline.

The claim that using ethanol will save energy is another myth. Studies show that the amount of energy ethanol produces and the amount needed to make it are roughly the same. "It takes a lot of fossil fuels to make the fertilizer, to run the tractor, to build the silo, to get that corn to a processing plant, to run the processing plant," Taylor says.

And because ethanol degrades, it can't be moved in pipelines the way that gasoline is. So many more big, polluting trucks will be needed to haul it.

More bad news: The increased push for ethanol has already led to a sharp increase in corn growing -- which means much more land must be plowed. That means much more fertilizer, more water used on farms and more pesticides.

This makes ethanol the "solution"?

But won't it at least get us unhooked from Middle East oil? Wouldn't that be worth the other costs? Another myth. A University of Minnesota study shows that even turning all of America's corn into ethanol would meet only 12 percent of our gasoline demand. As Taylor told an energy conference last March, "For corn ethanol to completely displace gasoline consumption in this country, we would need to appropriate all cropland in the United States, turn it completely over to corn-ethanol production, and then find 20 percent more land on top of that for cultivation."

OK, but it will cut down on air pollution, right? Wrong again. Studies indicate that the standard mixture of 90 percent ethanol and 10 percent gasoline pollutes worse than gasoline.

Well, then, the ethanol champs must be right when they say it will reduce greenhouse gases and reverse global warming.

Nope. "Virtually all studies show that the greenhouse gases associated with ethanol are about the same as those associated with conventional gasoline once we examine the entire life cycle of the two fuels," Taylor says.

Surely, ethanol must be good for something. And here we finally have a fact. It is good for something -- or at least someone: corn farmers and processors of ethanol, such as Archer Daniels Midland, the big food processor known for its savvy at getting subsidies out of the taxpayers.

And it's good for vote-hungry presidential hopefuls. Iowa is a key state in the presidential-nomination sweepstakes, and we all know what they grow in Iowa. Sen. Clinton voted against ethanol 17 times until she started running for president. Coincidence?

"It's no mystery that people who want to be president support the corn ethanol program," Taylor says. "If you're not willing to sacrifice children to the corn god, you will not get out of the Iowa primary with more than one percent of the vote, Right now the closest thing we have to a state religion in the United States isn't Christianity. It's corn."

Let's see where this all end up.

Recently I have been feeling the urge to express my ideas and opinions on several subjects so I decided to set up this blog account in order to do so. Basically, what I'm looking to write about are the things that I am interested and currently involved in. Let's hope they don't bore you.

My first post was a test to see how this posting thing worked. It was also a pretty cool rant that Jeff Foxworthy went on while describing why he "liked" country music.

First real post is coming soon.

Why I like Country Music by Jeff Foxworthy

I was actually moved by this little rant Jeff Foxworthy went on about why he likes country music at the CMT music awards show....it's a good read...if you like country music......




I like country music because it’s about the things in life that really matter…it ain’t about braggin’ about how you’re gonna mess somebody up or how somebody ain’t respectin’ ya. It’s about love, family, friends, with a few beers, a cheap woman, and a two-timin’ man thrown in for spice.

It doesn’t take political sides even on things as ugly as war. Instead it celebrates the brave men and women who go to fight ‘em, the price they pay to do it, and the longing we have for them to return home to the ones that they love.

It’s about kids and how there ain’t nothin’ like ‘em. I get tired of hearin’ about how bad kids are today because there are a lotta great kids out there that just need somebody to love’em and believe in ‘em. Country folks love their kids and they will JACK YOU UP if you try to mess with them.

People in country music don’t forget the people that allow them to do what they do for a livin’. They sign autographs and they take pictures with the fans because they know without’em most of us entertainers would be getting’ a lot dirtier in the course of our work day. We are THANKFUL that people wanna hear the songs and the jokes that we write.

Country music doesn’t have to be politically correct. We sing about God because we believe in Him. We’re not tryin’ to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists.

We love country music because it touches us where we live. It’s about mamas and when they were hot and when they are unappreciated and when they were dying. It’s about daddies and the difficulties they have sometimes in tellin’ the people that they work so hard to protect and provide for, how they feel about’em.

Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. It’s about gettin’ drunk and it’s about getting’ sober. It’s about leavin’ and it’s about comin’ home.

It’s real music sung by real people for real people—the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want, we’re not offended ‘cause we know what we’re all about. We get up and go to work. We get up and go to church. And, we get up and go to war when necessary. All we ask for is a few songs to carry us along the way, and that’s why I love this show.

Because it ain’t some self-important Hollywood hype, where the winners determined by somebody else. On this show, you decide who goes home with a trophy. And you get to dance and sing along with the people that bring you the songs of your life.