The 'direct' solar radiation from Sol is nearly to the Equator and there is enough relief for some deep freeze over the Blue Ice

March 6, 2008
0900 AM
Antarctica Surface Winds

Both this image and the 24 hour loop (click here) show different air masses. The coastal air masses and the Blue Ice air mass. They are 'non-communicating' except where the frigid air from the 3 mile high Blue Ice 'falls off' its plateau due to its denser weight to the lower coastal elevations.
The heat transfers are 'on shore' winds, while the Blue Ice surface winds, even though swirling and turbulent, are 'off shore' winds.
In that realization is a danger... one not discussed in the literature leaving only speculation to exist... so I propose an experiment...ready? Okay. It's a reasonable hypothesis, so here we go. More than reasonable actually.
I am going to need some items. I need a stack of ice cubes, perhaps three or four, frozen together in a straight line. They can be any kind of ice cubes, lemonade, water or any other liquid substance that freezes 'water like' in its consistency. But the ice cubes have to be frozen together and they all have to be the same liquid regardless of what that chosen liquid may be.
The ice cubes have to be the same size, frozen together in a row.
The ice cubes now have to stand on end as if a tower. These ice cubes represent 'The Three Mile High Blue Ice.' Let's just for the sake of 'hypothesis' call this 'the core' of the ice mass that is Antarctica. It's the one core that always receives some type of recharge and primarily maintains its 'mass balance.' The structure basically always is the same mass. Okay?
Now. While supporting that tower of ice cubes is there anything there to stabilize it so it doesn't fall over, other than a warm finger one is holding the tower with that is causing some melting? Is there any supporting structure to hold the tower of Blue Ice in place? Of course not. The tower of Blue Ice is standing alone.
Now, what would it take to support that tower of Blue Ice? It would take 'terraces, like stair steps to provide enough mass over a wider base, such as the entire coastal area of Antarctica to support that tall tower of Blue Ice.
That is indeed what Antarctica is like. Not just a 'flat' map of white ice as viewed in a National Geographics Map Book. Antarctica is a terraced and structured ice mass at the south polar region of Earth.
Each ice structure of Antarctica, be it 3 mile high Blue Ice, the Ice Terraces, the Ice Fields, the Ice Shelves or the Sea Ice all serve the same exact purpose and that is to work as a team to serve the stability of the overall Antarctica structure.
The issue is this, as the sea ice wanes and the ice shelves collapse and the ice terraces melt into water runoff into the East Wind Drift; what indeed will support that tower of Blue Ice, BECAUSE, it is the knowledge of any Antarctica scientist that the Blue Ice at the very core of the Antarctica Ice Structure will never melt. There will always be 'enough' frigid air mass due to lack of sunlight alone during the winter months to maintain a significant amount of Blue Ice. And while holding a warm finger to a tower of ice cubes will provide enough heat to 'melt down' the structure that is not how Antarctica will meet with demise.
Antarctica will meet its demise through exposure of the 'base' to arriving heat transfer systems as the ice terraces disappear. It will melt from the bottom, leaving a stable and frigid mound of ice on an every shrinking base.
Now, using one's 'breath' begin to blow at the bottom of the ice cube stack as if a heat transfer system arriving to the bottom of the Blue ice. Does it melt in an orderly fashion? No. It melts in an array of indentations that will cause the toppling of the tower.
I have said this before and I'll say it again, human beings are playing with fire to allow Human Induced Global Warming to continue. The toppling of the core of Antarctica's Ice Structure will create a tsunami that will wipe out most life, either flora or fauna, on every coast of Earth.
And when the Antarctica ice cube melts in the Atlantic Ocean the world will no longer have ANY buffer to it's ever increasing heat.
end

March 12, 2008
0600 gmt
Antarctica Polar Vortex/Jet Stream

The Antarctica polar vortex has been impinged upon in this image. In animation (click here) the vortex is obviously disrupted and there is arrival of heat transfer from March 6 through March 12th. The largest heat transfer of March 11th dissipated enough to have only a minimal impact on the Blue Ice. However, that dissipation effected the ice structures otherwise and without a doubt the stability of any ice terraces still existing that acts to stabilize and protect the 3 mile Blue Ice.





The satellites missing this week are 9 AM, 12 Noon and 6 PM.




The coldest reporting stations are:

Amundsen-Scott, Antarctica

Local Time: 9:30 AM NZDT on March 13, 2008

Lat/Lon: 90.0° S 0.0° E

Temperature :: -75 °F / -59 °C

Conditions :: Snow

Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h from the East

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 3.2 kilometers

Clouds :: Few 5906 ft / 1800 m
(Above Ground Level)

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m



Vostok, Antarctica

Local Time: 2:32 AM VOST on March 13, 2008

Lat/Lon: 78.4° S 106..9° E

Temperature :: -62 °F / -52 °C

Conditions :: Clear

Humidity :: 40%

Dew Point :: -69 °F / -56 °C

Wind :: 14 mph / 22 km/h from the West

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m


The warmest reporting stations are:

Bellingshausen, Antarctica

Local Time: 8:59 PM GMT

Lat/Lon: 62.2° S 58.9° W

Temperature :: 37 °F / 3 °C

Conditions :: Partly Cloudy

Humidity :: 78%

Dew Point :: 33 °F / 0 °C

Wind :: 12 mph / 18 km/h from the NW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.82 in / 976 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers

Elevation :: 52 ft / 16 m




King Sejong, Antarctica

Local Time: 9:00 PM GMT

Lat/Lon: 62.2° S 58.8° W

Temperature :: 36 °F / 2 °C

Conditions :: Partly Cloudy

Humidity :: 89%

Dew Point :: 34 °F / 1 °C

Wind :: 25 mph / 41 km/h from the WNW


Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.77 in / 974 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 6.0 miles / 10.0 kilometers

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Some of the frigid air mass is reestablishing as the sun's traverse heads north, but, there is still enormous heat transfer from the equator.

March 12, 2008

1312 gmt

Antarctica

Anti-Whalers End Mission Near Antarctica, Say 500 Mammals Saved (click here)
By Michael Heath
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- A conservation group that clashed with Japanese whalers off Antarctica said its ship is running out of fuel and heading home after saving more than 500 whales.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it prevented the Japanese from harpooning any whales for a total of 5 1/2 weeks, or almost half of the whaling season. The season finishes in about 10 days, it added.
``We have no alternative but to retreat from the Southern Ocean,'' Paul Watson, president of Sea Shepherd and captain of the group's ship, the Steve Irwin, said in a statement. ``We have just enough fuel to make it back to port.''
Japanese ships head to Antarctica in November each year to kill as many as 1,000 minke and fin whales in the name of scientific research. Japan says the research is necessary to prove whale stocks have recovered sufficiently to make a return to commercial whaling sustainable.
The Japanese fleet has killed no more than 400 whales, Watson said late last month....

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is chilly.

The Cheney Observer - Day Two

McCain as Roosevelt (click here) - Who's the Enemy?


Oil's surge hits U.S., lifts Canada
SHAWN MCCARTHY
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
March 11, 2008 at 9:12 PM EDT
OTTAWA — The U.S. economy is showing the increasing strain of the stunning rise in crude oil prices, which topped another record yesterday and is contributing to both growing inflation and slowing growth south of the border.
But the broader Canadian economy appears to be more resilient, thanks to booming energy exports and a strong Canadian dollar.
Fuelled by rising prices, the value of Canadian crude oil exports rose 12 per cent in January, leading to an overall improvement in the country's trade surplus, Statistics Canada said yesterday. For Americans, the spike in oil contributed to an increase in the U.S. trade deficit in January. The contrasting trade figures “are a very good illustration of how the two economies diverge,” said Meny Grauman, a senior economist with CIBC World Markets Inc.
Because of the weaker U.S. dollar, American consumers have had to fully absorb the runup in crude oil, which has touched record highs in the past five days. Mr. Grauman noted that U.S. consumer spending had fallen 7 per cent in the final quarter of last year, and that rising fuel prices were a “big factor” in that slide.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080311.r-oil12/BNStory/energy/?cid=al_gam_nletter_maropen



Condoleezza Rice could help unite Republicans behind McCain
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
BY MARY BETH BROWN
The American Dream is being dealt with and considered on your own merits. In America it doesn't matter where you came from, it matters where you're going." These words summarize Condoleezza Rice's views on the American dream. If Sen. John McCain is to win the difficult race he faces this fall, he should closely consider the merits of this most extraordinary woman as his running mate.

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=403016&Category=14&subCategoryID=


11/03/2008 10:48:24 Õ
It’s still the Occupation, stupid!
By Aijaz Zaka Syed*
In an Op Ed piece for the International Herald Tribune three years ago, I wrote: “If Bush wants to usher in a new era of democracy and peace in the Muslim world, he should be prepared to deal with the (people’s) genuine and legitimate representatives.” (IHT, June 29, 2005).
Commenting on Washington’s refusal to engage the groups like Hamas because it views them as ‘terrorist organizations’, I had pointed out that “terrorists do not take part in elections and political processes,” as Hamas has repeatedly done.
That was three years ago. A friend recently forwarded the article back to me noting how my argument was still relevant.
Indeed, reading it today you are struck by the fact that little has changed in the Middle East and the US’ approach to the Muslim world.
Three years on, the same hypocrisy, the same double standards and the same obstinate refusal to see reason and the big picture prevail in Washington and indeed much of the West.

http://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=2008%5C03%5C03-11%5Czopinionz%5C960.htm&dismode=x&ts=11/03/2008%2010:48:24%20%C3%95


Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship
CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship."
As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush administrationline in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion.
On last week's Topic A With Tina Brown on CNBC, Brown, the former Talk magazine editor, asked comedian Al Franken, former Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke and Amanpour if "we in the media, as much as in the administration, drank the Kool-Aid when it came to the war."
Said Amanpour: "I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x.htm


Audio

http://www.bmivault.org/Multimedia/Audio/2008/2008-03-11-Amanpor-Iraq.mp3


Amanpour Still Faults Media for Iraq War; Defends 'God’s Warriors' Series
By Jeff Poor
March 11, 2008 - 10:24 ET
Long-time CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour still harbors some resentment toward the American media for the Iraq war.
In September 2003, Amanpour spoke out publicly and said CNN was intimidated by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship." Over four years later, Amanpour is still disappointed with the media leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2008/03/11/amanpour-still-faults-media-iraq-war-defends-god-s-warriors-series


Goldman Sachs to buy 20 pct in India's Shriram Credit for 3 bln rupees - report
03.12.08, 2:47 AM ET
MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Investment banking major Goldman Sachs is investing 3 bln rupees for a 20 pct stake in India-based Shriram Group's non-banking finance unit Shriram Credit, the Economic Times reported.
'We are in discussions with certain prospective investors for giving a minority stake in Shriram Credit, which will eventually hold both the broking and distribution business,' the report quoted Shriram Financial Services Holdings managing director DV Ravi as saying.
The report added that unnamed sources, however, say the deal has been finalised with Goldman Sachs.
According to the report, Goldman Sachs also has the right to hike the stake to 25 pct.
The investment in Shriram Credit will be done through Goldman Sachs' Mauritius-based subsidiary GS Strategic Investments.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/03/12/afx4761120.html

The Audacity of Wealth. Let's see, who should we buy today? As if they are doing everyone a favor. It usually works out to be disasterous to the working class.

Goldman adds Cardinal Health to Buy list
NEW YORK
Shares of Cardinal Health Inc. rose Tuesday after a Goldman Sachs analyst predicted a strong second half of the year for the health care products and services company.
Randall Stanicky placed Cardinal Health shares on the Americas Conviction Buy List, a portfolio of recommended securities. He expects improved results from the company's pharmaceutical distribution business and its clinical and medical products business in the fiscal third quarter.
"Cardinal has outperformed its drug distribution peers, the S&P 500 index, and the healthcare group, as represented by the DJ US Healthcare Index," he wrote in a note to clients. "However, over the last two weeks, shares have given up 11 percent compared to an S&P500 decline of 8 percent, creating an opportunity to get more aggressive on what we consider to be an already attractive valuation."

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8VBHNUO0.htm



'Shell' companies accused of ducking US payroll taxes
Published on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
As a team from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) takes a look at how the Cayman Islands oversees offshore business, the latest news from the US could hardly have been worse timed.
The Cayman Islands’ reputation as a partner in tax avoidance and fraud has hardly been helped by worldwide media revelations that a major US defence contractor, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), has used Cayman-registered “shell” companies to avoid payment of “hundreds of millions of dollars” in Federal Medicare and Social Security payments.
The scandal broke after workers returning to the US from KBR contracts overseas, mainly in Iraq, found they did not qualify for unemployment assistance.
Reports in the US describe KBR as the nation’s top Iraq war contractor, and which was, until last year, a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp.

http://caymannetnews.com/news-5912--1-1--.html


Romney open to VP invitaiton
Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor March 11, 2008 07:20 PM
Mitt Romney is declaring that he would jump at the chance to be vice president if Republican John McCain offered the No. 2 slot.
"I think any Republican leader in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee, myself included," Romney said in an interview to be aired tonight on Fox News Channel.
In his first interview after leaving the GOP race, the former Massachusetts governor also called Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "chihuahuas" and McCain the "big dog" on national security. Unlike many other Republicans, Romney said he hopes Obama wins the Democratic nomination because his inexperience makes him an easier target for McCain.
During the primary campaign, Romney tussled with McCain, who at one point compared Romney to a pig. But Romney endorsed the Arizona senator after suspending his campaign last month and said last night there are no hard feelings.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/03/romney_open_to.html


Why not Jeb Bush for Vice President and Georgie for Secretary of State ?

Our Fauntleroy Still Thinks He's Special
By Daniel Ruth, The Tampa Tribune
Published: March 11, 2008
It was a royally annoyed Jeb Bush who showed up in Lakeland the other day, which was sort of odd.
After all, the former governor was about make a very nice chunk of change off a bunch of unsuspecting marks, who had coughed up $300-a-pop to listen to a bunch of twaddle about how wonderful the Bush Junta years were for the state.
Instead, the ex-governor was in a sour mood, as if he had given himself a wedgie, after a bunch of nosy reporters started asking the Diocletian of the Apalachee Parkway why he treated his eight years in office as if his reign was one giant Skull & Bones meeting.
The Infamous Scribblers, as George Washington once referred to journalists, peppered Bush with questions about his hatched-in-secret plan to buy up 61 miles of CSX Transportation track in the Orlando area for $491 million, which would then enable the company to enhance its freight line traffic through a new Polk County hub.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/11/me-our-fauntleroy-still-thinks-hes-special/


McCain Retreats on Terror
Though acclaimed for opposing torture, the Republican presidential nominee votes to keep it
by Nat Hentoff
March 11th, 2008 12:00 AM
On February 13, in a historic vote, the Senate—following the lead of the House—for the first time explicitly prohibited the CIA from using torture in its interrogations. A section of the 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act mandates that the CIA, despite the special powers given it by the president, is bound by the rules of the Army Field Manual, thereby setting a single standard for all interrogations by U.S. forces.
The Army Field Manual bars waterboarding, conducting mock executions, exposing prisoners to extremes of heat or cold, refusing medicine and or mental-health care, beating or using electrodes to shock detainees, and other violations of international treaties and our own laws.
As soon as this proposal had surfaced, the White House's first reaction was: "Dangerous and misguided!" When a majority of Congress disobeyed the commander in chief, Bush vowed to veto the bill.
The Senate measure was brought by Democrats Dianne Feinstein, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Russ Feingold, and Republican Chuck Hagel. Since the vote was 51 to 45, it took four Republicans and one independent—Richard Lugar, Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, Gordon Smith, and Bernie Sanders, respectively—to assure passage by joining the Democrats. (The only other independent in the Senate, Joseph Lieberman, voted for the President and against the anti-torture amendment.)
When the ban on torture passed the House in December, 229 had voted for it. Of the 199 nays, 189 were Republicans. As a December 28 editorial in Vermont's Brattleboro Reformer sardonically noted: "At least the Republicans are honest about their love of torture. . . . Our [Republican] leaders in Washington are . . . complicit in the carrying out of war crimes."
Among the Republicans in the Senate voting to carry out the wishes of Bush, Cheney, and the CIA was presidential nominee John McCain, who had formerly been the leading warrior against our use of torture, famously proclaiming that it's not a matter of "who they [the enemy] are. It's who we are!"
This was not the first time that Mr. Integrity has retreated on torture. McCain voted for the 2006 Military Commissions Act, which gave Bush the authority to allow the CIA to continue its special brand of "coercive interrogations"—a license that Bush himself validated in an executive order last July.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374048,374048,4.html


Awash in cash, oil patch braces for changes
DAVID EBNER AND NORVAL SCOTT
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
March 10, 2008 at 8:15 PM EDT
CALGARY, EDMONTON — As Alberta's oil sands reach a global scale, they are facing ever tougher environmental scrutiny and now, a new volley of federal legislation.
Ottawa yesterday afternoon unveiled draft rules that would require projects starting operations in 2012 and beyond to reduce greenhouse gases, largely through carbon capture technology.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080310.r-carbon11/BNStory/energy/home


AFL-CIO targets John McCain as 'anti-worker'
by Jill Zuckman
The AFL-CIO is not going to let the lack of a Democratic nominee stand in the way of jumping into general election mode. On Wednesday, the labor organization will announce the launch of a campaign to make sure workers know where the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, stands on trade, jobs, health care and Social Security.
Political director Karen Ackerman will brief reporters today at noon on McCain’s “anti-worker record and his ties to the failed economic policies of President Bush,” according to an advisory from the AFL-CIO.
The campaign will include a new website called “McCain Revealed,” to explain the senator’s economic record and positions. It will also target union households with leafleting, door knocking, direct mail and union meetings as part of a massive grassroots political effort this year.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/aflcio_targets_john_mccain_as.html



McCain lashes Democrats for criticizing NAFTA
Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:45pm EDT
Sphere
By Steve Holland
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized his Democratic rivals on Tuesday for pledging to renegotiate a hemispheric trade treaty that Democrats blame for U.S. manufacturing job losses.
At a town-hall meeting in St. Louis, the Arizona senator also called for the Democratic-controlled U.S. Congress to approve a free-trade treaty with Colombia that is being stymied on Capitol Hill.
"On trade, I'm a free trader," McCain told employees at Savvis Internet company, a session dominated by questions about the ailing U.S. economy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1157111820080311


Ford Loses $82 Million Rollover Verdict Appeal
California woman paralyzed in Explorer rollover accident
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By Joe Benton
ConsumerAffairs.Com
March 11, 2008
A paralyzed California woman has won her appeal of a $82.6 million verdict against the Ford Motor Co. because her Ford Explorer rolled over, resulting in her injury.
Ford appealed the award arguing that the jury unfairly punished Ford even though the design of the vehicle met federal safety standards.
The paralyzed woman, Benetta Buell-Wilson of San Diego, was driving her 1997 Explorer on an Interstate highway on January 19, 2002 when she swerved to avoid a metal object in the road. The SUV went out of control.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/03/ford_rollover.html



Cheney may have to testify
By Felisa Cardona
The Denver Post
Vice President Dick Cheney may be ordered to answer questions about a 2006 encounter he had at a Beaver Creek mall with a citizen who told him that he disagreed with the Iraq war.
Steven Howards, who was arrested for allegedly assaulting Cheney after voicing his objections, asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer today to order Cheney to undergo a deposition about the exchange.
Howards, who contends he merely patted Cheney's arm when he made the anti-war statement, is suing the Secret Service agents who arrested him for violating his civil rights.
A criminal charge of harassment against Howards was dropped by Eagle County prosecutors.
Shaffer did not rule on Howards' motion but hinted he was leaning toward allowing Cheney to be deposed because he was a direct witness.
James Gilligan, an attorney for the vice president, argued that deposing Cheney would distract from his official duties and that there were other witnesses who could testify instead.
He also argued that allowing a vice president to be deposed in this case may open the door for other high-ranking government officials to be forced to testify.

http://www.denverpost.com/dnc/ci_8534042


The Bush Tragedy
politics
entries
from: Jacob Weisberg
What Bush Believes
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008, at 6:57 AM ET
What are George W. Bush's religious beliefs? The question, which would seem central to understanding his presidency, comes up again and again and never receives a satisfactory answer. When religiously inclined writers try to describe Bush's faith, they invariably end up talking about how Bush uses religion, how he relates to other religious people, and what faith means to him. But they seldom say anything about its content. They described all the things his faith is not—fiery, judgmental, dogmatic, exclusive—but don't discover positions on even the most basic theological issues that divide and define denominations, such as whether the Bible is literally true, whether Christians should evangelize, or whether salvation comes through faith alone. They overlook the curious detail that he seldom goes to church. Often, they end up projecting their own beliefs and assumptions onto his blank screen.
After reading a certain amount of what might be called Godly-President Literature—The Faith of George W. Bush by Stephen Mansfield, God and George W. Bush by Paul Kengor, A Man of Faith by David Aikman—the recognition begins to dawn that Bush's faith has no specific theological content.

http://www.slate.com/id/2186343/entry/0/

Thank you, Mr. Moore !!!

Dick Cheney likely has nothing to fear
Impeachment Reserved for Sexual Indiscretions

March 11th, 2008 2:45 pm

NY Republicans threaten to impeach Gov. Spitzer (click here)
By Claudia Parsons / Reuters
NEW YORK, March 11 - New York State Republicans threatened on Tuesday to impeach Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he does not quit over a sex scandal that has raised questions over whether he could face criminal charges.
The threat added to pressure on Spitzer, a Democrat and former state chief prosecutor who made his name fighting white-collar crime on Wall Street, to step down after a report that he hired a high-priced prostitute.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a person close to Spitzer, who is 48 and married, as saying he could resign as early as Tuesday but he wanted to deal with his family crisis first.
"If he does not resign within the next 24 to 48 hours, we will prepare articles of impeachment to remove him," said James Tedisco, leader of the Republicans in the state Assembly....

I told you it was entrapment. Bush used surveillance for potlical purposes ! The Tax Audit is completely atypical with this administration.

The Bush/Cheney Administration has cut the IRS auditing capacity to the bone in spending cuts. There are dearly few wealthy persons or operations that get audited and when they do, such as when the GAO audits (click here) in regard to Halliburton and the reliability of 'the mission' in Iraq to any consistent and measurable outcome, the audits are completely disregarded and in the case of Halliburton completely dismissed as irrelivant to the interests of the nation.


Only 30 out of more than 180,000 Millionaires Faced Traditional IRS Audits Last YearAudit (click here)
Rates for Low Income Taxpayers Greater than for Top EarnersIRS Says Release of Statistics that Might Explain Aberration "Would Adversely Affect Tax Administration"
Syracuse, March 28 -- According to new data from the Internal Revenue Service only 30 of the nation's thousands of millionaires were subject to a face-to-face IRS audit in 2005. The very small number selected for the traditional and sometimes intensive audits were drawn from 184,054 individual tax returns reporting a total positive income of $1 million or more....


No administration is supposed to be using the assets of a nation to carry out political directives. The USA government's 'Homeland Defense' has turned into a political scam from nearly every aspect of its existance and when we have Generals resigning in fear of losing all their pension benefits after speaking out on behalf of ending the war this is some of the most hideous use of FBI time and it's against the law. The USA government infrastructure is NOT for use by political parties to degrade officals of the other party. Entrapment is a completely legitimate defense and I strongly suggest Eliot Spitzer pursue it.


Eliot is on the "Top Ten Most Wanted List" to be rid of in any government infrastructure. He has successfully prosecuted Bush cronies. I am 'flyin' tired of having a bunch of Neocons running this country and the government. If Eliot has trouble within his marriage than he needs to 'get it right' at home. I don't need a preacher defending my rights as a citizen, I need someone that can get the job done and it's become stupid to continue to allow the Republicans 'their righteous' venue of wiretaps and meaningless surveillence. GROW UP AMERICA, your country is waning into bankrupcy, your children are going into meaningless and illegal wars and this 'mess' regarding Eliot's marriage viability is an issue? Give me a break (click here)!

Spitzer: Eight ex-insurance executives indicted (click here)
Charges for bid-rigging that cost corporate customers millions of dollars
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced that a grand jury has indicted eight former insurance executives on felonies involving bid rigging that cost corporate customers millions of dollars.
The former executives — including seven from Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., the nation’s largest insurance broker — are accused of colluding with executives at major insurance companies to arrange noncompetitive bids. These bids then were given to Marsh & McLennan clients “under false pretenses,” according to Spitzer’s statement....

The audit was conducted on this sleezy little postitution operation because SPITZER was believed to be able to be discredited by its COOPERATION in obtaining the goal of dismantling Eliot's mantle. This is direct use of a federal agency for political purposes. The Democrats need to call into investigation the use of Homeland Security for political purposes and bring to the public even more reasons to impeach the Bush/Cheney Executive Branch.


FBI Watched Spitzer Before February Incident (click here)

By Keith B. Richburg, Susan Schmidt and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 12, 2008; Page A01
NEW YORK, March 11 -- Weeks before a hotel meeting with a prostitute that threatens to derail his career, the FBI staked out New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer at the same hotel in an unsuccessful effort to catch him with a high-priced call girl, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.

The majority of the New York State legislators of the General Assembly are Democrats. They would be grossly stupid to initiate an impeachment process when the Governor may be found completely innocent of all charges and have done so over a marital issue alone. That would be setting a dangerous precedent for the state as well as the nation. It would grossly disaffect the party's standing in New York State and without 'due cause' for 'due process' there simply is no legitimate grounds for impeaching Eliot Spitzer.


The General Assembly of New York is caught up in a lot of public pressure because of the Bush/Cheney Neocon Climate of the nation. This 'in time' will pass, too. It would be a far better idea to allow this to 'play out' and bring to light the reason for such scandals rather than seek to 'play to the crowd' allowing this 'political venue' of 'riding the Religious Righteousness' for political gain.

The nation has rid itself of the likes of self-righteous, right wing Rick Santorium (What a nightmare he was.) and it will rid itself of the rest of them, but, it takes a couple of elections. The USA needs a chance to recover its government and as long as this type of illegal use of federal agencies continues, every marital discord will result in losing some of the most vicious defenders of our Constitutions at the local, state and federal level. Either the USA wants government that works for them or they want alter boys that sing to the tune of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' while robbing them blind. The Spitzers need to work toward resolving their marriage issues and quite frankly that is none of my business or concern !


End of Discussion !!