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WASHINGTON-  The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by environmental groups to rein in the Bush administration's power to waive laws and regulations to speed construction of a fence along the U.S. - Mexican border.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has used authority given to him by Congress in 2005 to ignore environmental and other regulations to move forward with hundreds of miles of fencing in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

The case rejected by the court involved a two-mile section of fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Arizona. The section has since been built.

As of June 13, 331 miles of fencing have been constructed in the afore mentioned four states.

"I am extremely disappointed in the court's decision," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said.

Thompson chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. He and 13 other House Democrats filed a brief in support of the environmentalists' appeal. 

Russ Knock, a spokesman for the Homeland Security Department, said: The American people expect this department to enforce the rule of law at the border. He added that the department is happy with the courts decision.

- -Associated Press

Are you happy with this decision? Or not happy with it?

What are your thoughts on this?

If you read my first post on this topic, you are up to date. So to continue.....

Three hundred feet below  France and Switzerland is a machine that could not only destroy the earth, but the universe as well!

This summer they will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful atom smasher.

Seventeen miles in circumference, it collides counter-rotating beams of protons and detects the showers of subatomic particles with precision detectors that are seven stories high.

The protons make 11,245 laps around the 17 mile beam tube each second!

Although the proton beam has a mass of only one ten-thousanth of a grain of sand, it is moving so close to the speed of light that it has the energy of a 30,000 pound fighter jet moving at 500 mph!

The control of the proton beam is such that it travels through a tube less than 3 inches in diameter.

The machine is designed to re-create conditions of the so called big bang theory. If it works as expected, it could be a crowning achievement in quantum physics.

However, many believe this machine could actually create a black hole, that will grow to not only swallow the earth, but eventually the entire universe as well!

So the question here, as before. Should they be allowed to start up this machine?

What if they are wrong? What if it does create a black hole that cannot be suppressed?

Does this handful of scientists have the right to gamble with the future of matter itself?

Once upon a time ago, it welcomed many people into this country, that wanted to come here to be Americans, and were willing to sacrifice everything to do that, and come here legally.

All my grandparents, paternal and maternal came here through Ellis Island, and were proud to be American, and I have nothing but pride in the way they came here and went through all the legal channels to gain the coveted American citizenship.

What does the statue mean today?  Nothing! We should pack it up and send it back to France!

Surprising coming from one that is French-Canadian eh? 

That statue today calls out to every illegal from ALL nationalitys to sneak into this country, and get benefits many American born citizens cannot get.

Including, but not limited to:

Free health care.

Welfare.

Food Stamps.

They can even get voting rights!

Does this statue really represent America anymore?

This statue has lost all meaning.

Am I wrong on this?

DENVER - The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting.

Barr beat research scientist Mary Ruwart, who also sought the party's presidential nomination unsuccessfully in 1983, on the final ballot. The vote was 324-276.

Barr endorsed Wayne Allyn Root, who was eliminated in the fifth round, to be his vice-presidential nominee.

Barr left the GOP in 2006 over what he called bloated spending and civil liberties intrusions by the Bush administration.

-- Associated Press

I have said he is the new Ross Perot already, and now he is officially in the race.

Do you think he will get the Democrats in office again, against all odds, like Perot did twice?

I think it is a good possibility, and I also think that is the only chance they have of winning.

Did you ever have a sense you have already read something, or been somewhere before?

This eerie experience was dubbed deja vu by scholars who obviously thought the English "already seen" lacked cachet. According to an article by Alan S. Brown in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, new medical tools and imaging systems, plus an evolving grasp of the human brain are enabling researchers to zero in on deja vu and its causes.

Researchers now know deja vu is an illusion, a vivid mental trick played by the mind on itself. Only we are too dim to get the joke.

Have you ever walked into a room for the first time, and could swear you have been there before?

Have you ever been in a place that you know in your heart you have seen in the past, even though you haven't? Doing the same thing you are doing? 

What is really happening is your brain is processing the experience along several neural pathways simultaneously. They all meet in the brain's higher processing centers and get filed into memory as one incident.

But sometimes one copy of the message takes a shortcut and zips into the memory first. When the other identical messages arrive, the processor announces, accurately, that they are exact repeats.

To the brain, this means you have been there before.

Two of every three people report having had the experience. 

Wait a minute.  Didn't I write this blog before?  LOL!

Have you ever had this experience?

Blog it here!

Two men have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii over what they perceive to be a doomsday machine.

They believe a giant particle accelerator will produce a black hole that will grow to swallow the earth.

Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho say that  the European Center for Nuclear Research have trivialized the chances that the collider could produce a small black hole that could eventually consume the earth. 

The Large Hardon Collider, (no kidding, that is what it is called!) will fire up protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts before banging them together.

This is boggling to the mind. 

While it is no real biggy in the atmosphere, as it happens thousands of times there, this is different.. It is being done in a laboratory environment far below the atmosphere.

Who gets to say yes or no to take this risk? Scientists?

Do you think this experiment should be allowed to proceed?

Do you think they should stop it, before it is too late?

What if they are wrong?

Read over the "news" FRONT PAGE here on the blogs, and give me an honest opinion of how many are "news", and how many should have been posted under other categories.

This goes for Fox people, as well as my fellow bloggers. The news category moves the fastest, but it is because every Fox person that is blogging, posts under "news" !

Regardless of whether it belongs there or not. 

Fox claims this blog would not be possible without bloggers, but it is getting painfully obvious they do not care about bloggers input other than commenting on thier blogs.

I always go to "see all " , and NEVER click on a front page blog. This is because I know the real blogs, from real bloggers, are there and not on the front page.

I have seen many blogs ignored, that SHOULD have made front page of news, and so many that made front page that should NOT have been there!

Recipes, and baby names, is not news! But if you are a Fox personality, you get put up! 

Am I alone on this? Is this some wacky conspiracy theory I dreamed up?

See for yourself, then let me know. (if I have not disappeared)