Locally Speaking

Myrtle Beach Sued Again Over Biker Rally Ordinances

Residents and motorcyclists are challenging another of Myrtle Beach's ordinances designed to quell the May motorcycle rallies.

[This] time, it's the noise ordinance.

Virginia-based attorney Tom McGrath filed suit in Horry County Circuit Court last week on behalf of local motel owner William o"Day, Horry County ABATE, and others who feel the noise regulation is unconstitutional.

The ordinance says motorcycles built after Dec. 31, 1982, must have unmodified exhaust mufflers bearing federal Environmental Protection Agency stickers or stamps, and those built before Dec. 31, 1982, must not be louder than 89 decibels when measured from 20 inches away. The rule makes broken, straight-pipe, hollow-core or off-road mufflers illegal inside city limits.

The state Supreme Court earlier this month ruled the city's helmet law invalid because, justices said, state law has already covered the issue of who must wear helmets. The court also said the city impliedly invalidated the law itself -- and four others -- when it rescinded an ordinance creating the administrative hearing process that was to deal with those infractions.

The city will consider changing those other four ordinances from infractions to misdemeanors at Tuesday's council meeting to keep them valid. They are the rules about hotel check-in requirements, drinking in parking lots, the juvenile curfew and convenience-store security.

McGrath said he didn't file this new suit with the state's High Court because he felt it would be best to give the county's court a chance to make the decision.

"Let's see if the judge will follow the Supreme Court's opinion," he said.

No hearing has been scheduled in the case.

The city does not typically comment on pending litigation. –Sun News

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Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville Hotel May Be In The Works For Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach may be getting a Margaritaville Beach Hotel - the latest in Jimmy Buffett�s brand endeavors, according to a company spokesman.

Margaritaville Management is considering Myrtle Beach as the site for a hotel, said Mike Stommel, a publicist for Margaritaville Management.

Jim Wiseman, Jimmy Buffett’s development partner, told the Pensacola News Journal that he is working on developing a Margaritaville hotel in Myrtle Beach. Wiseman could not be reached for comment. It is unclear where or when the hotel might open.

Buffett, the popular singer-songwriter, already has a successful Margaritaville restaurant in Myrtle Beach.

The restaurant is one of the most popular attractions at Broadway at the Beach and has a high level of brand recognition, said Lei Gainer, a spokeswoman for Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc., which owns Broadway at the Beach. –Sun News

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Haley Wins SC Runoff For Governor

Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, won the Republican nomination for governor and Tim Scott, a black lawmaker, grabbed a commanding lead in his bid for the GOP nod for a House seat in South Carolina primary runoffs Tuesday, a measure of racial progress in the Deep South and the GOP.

With her victory, state Rep. Haley moved one step closer to becoming the first female governor in the conservative-leaning state. She brushed aside allegations of marital infidelity and an ethnic slur to come within a percentage point of winning the gubernatorial nod outright on June 8. And with 40 percent of the precincts reporting in the runoff, she led with 63 percent of the vote to Rep. Gresham Barrett's 37 percent.

Scott, also a state lawmaker, hoped to become South Carolina's first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Scott, who has the backing of several Republican leaders in Washington, led Paul Thurmond, the son of the late U.S. Sen. and former segregationist Strom Thurmond in the runoff. The GOP-leaning district stretches down the Carolina coast and includes Fort Sumter where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.

If elected to the House, Scott would be the GOP's first black lawmaker since Oklahoma's J.C. Watts retired in 2003. –Sun News

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Illegal Worker Law Sees Results In South Carolina

South Carolina is combating illegal immigration with a less aggressive law than other states, with the second phase starting this week of a program that politicians and business owners say is working.

Arizona's tough immigration law passed earlier this year set off demonstrations and controversy, while South Carolina's regulation has quietly been putting illegal immigrants out of work, officials say. The South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act, which created the new regulations, was debated intensely but ultimately passed two years ago.

In the first year, the rule - which requires employers to verify every new worker's immigration status and penalizes businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants - resulted in citations for about 10 percent of the businesses audited, including about a dozen in Horry and Georgetown counties, according to state records.

In the first year under the new rules, there has been nearly full compliance with the regulations, but as the pool of businesses grows Thursday, there will likely be more violators[.]

The law applies to new hires only, but if an employer finds out at any time that an employee is not legally allowed to work in this country, the employer must investigate and fire the employee if he or she is working illegally.

Eleven businesses in Horry and Georgetown counties were cited, including stores, hotels and a restaurant. (The Sun News was among those cited.) Fees for the citations ranged from $850 to $42,500, though most fees were waived when businesses fixed the problem. All of the businesses now verify the status of employees, according to the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Through May, the Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation found about 200 violations statewide, with penalties of about $550,000. All of those violations, except for one, were fixed within the first 72 hours and the fines erased.

The department collected $11,500 from a landscaping company in Charleston, the only company that did not comply. That company also had its operating license suspended for 10 days and will be on probation for a year because it was knowingly employing illegal immigrants.

About 23 investigators will audit businesses throughout the state, and because there are 110,000 businesses, not all will be examined.

"We will be going into places or businesses that statistics show employ large immigrant populations,"[.]

Hotels, landscaping companies, cleaning companies, golf courses, construction companies, some manufacturers and restaurants would likely be on the target list for audits, but all companies should be in compliance. –Sun News

Ragbag Headliners

Neb. Town Votes To Restrict Illegal Immigration

Voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont on Monday approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants, the latest proposal in a series of immigration regulations taken up by communities around the country.

About 57 percent of voters in Fremont supported the proposal, according to unofficial results that still must be certified by the election commissioner. The measure is likely to face a long and costly court battle, with the American Civil Liberties Union saying it will try to block it before it even goes into effect.

The town of about 25,000 people has watched as its Hispanic population surged in the past two decades, largely due to the jobs available at the nearby Fremont Beef and Hormel meatpacking plants. The city also has an enviably low unemployment rate that matches the Nebraska rate of 4.9 percent.

Nonetheless, residents worry that jobs are going to illegal immigrants who they fear could drain community resources. Proponents of the ballot measure collected enough signatures and fought in the Nebraska Supreme Court to put the question to a public vote.

Supporters say the measure is needed to make up for what they see as lax federal law enforcement. Opponents say it could fuel discrimination.

Trevor McClurg said the measure is fair because it's aimed at people who aren't legally in the U.S.

"I don't think it's right to be able to rent to them or hire them," McClurg said. "They shouldn't be here in the first place."

Clint Walraven, 51, who has lived in Fremont all his life, said the jobs should go to legal residents who are unemployed - something he believes the ordinance would help fix. Discussions on the issue can get heated, he said, particularly if racism is mentioned.

"It has nothing to do with being racist," said. "We all have to play by the same rules. ... If you want to stay here, get legal."

Rachel Fleming said she voted against the measure, noting that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants.

"This country has been founded on waves of immigration," Fleming said. "I just think it's (the ordinance) contrary to the spirit of the country."

From about 165 Hispanics - both legal and illegal - living in Fremont in 1990, the total surged to 1,085 in 2000, according to census expert David Drozd at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He said an estimated 2,060 Hispanics lived there last year.

The measure will require potential renters to apply for a license to rent. The application process will force Fremont officials to check if the renters are in the country legally. If they are found to be illegal, they will not be issued a license allowing them to rent. The ordinance also requires businesses to use the federal E-Verify database to ensure employees are allowed to work.

Communities that have passed such laws have faced costly legal bills and struggled to enforce them because of legal challenges. Hazleton, Pa., passed an ordinance in 2006 to fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and deny permits to businesses hiring them. The Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch also has tried for years to enforce a ban on landlords renting to illegal immigrants. Federal judges struck down both ordinances, but both are on appeal.

Even before the Fremont measure passed, the ACLU of Nebraska had said it would sue.

"Our goal would be to bring an action to ensure that there is not even one day that the law can go into effect," said Amy Miller, legal director for the ACLU of Nebraska.

Fremont City Councilman Scott Getzschman said he wasn't sure when the ordinance would take effect if it's not blocked by a judge. Once the Dodge County election commissioner certifies it, the City Council must accept the vote.

Getzschman didn't support the measure but said he expects city leaders will respect the outcome of the election and defend the ordinance in court.

The vote is the latest chapter in the tumult over illegal immigration across the country, including a recently passed Arizona law that will require police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there's a "reasonable suspicion" they're in the country illegally.

Kansas City, Mo.-based attorney Kris Kobach, who helped write the Arizona law, has been working on the ordinance in Fremont. He is also running for secretary of state in Kansas. –Sun News

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Unemployed Need Not Apply

The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn't even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just that.

Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested only in applicants who already have a job.

"I think it is more prevalent than it used to be," said Rich Thompson, vice president of learning and performance for Adecco Group North America, the world's largest staffing firm. "I don't have hard numbers, but three out of the last four conversations I've had about openings, this requirement was brought up."

Some job postings include restrictions such as "unemployed candidates will not be considered" or "must be currently employed." Those explicit limitations have occasionally been removed from listings when an employer or recruiter is questioned by the media though.

That's what happened with numerous listings for grocery store managers throughout the Southeast posted by a South Carolina recruiter, Latro Consulting.

After CNNMoney called seeking comments on the listings last week, the restriction against unemployed candidates being considered came down. Latro Consulting refused to comment when contacted.

Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that was hiring for a new Georgia facility, also removed a similar restriction after local reporters wrote about it. According to reports, a Sony Ericsson spokesperson said that a mistake had been made.

But even if companies don't spell out in a job listing that they won't consider someone who currently doesn't have a job, experts said that unemployed applicants are typically ruled out right off the bat.

"Most executive recruiters won't look at a candidate unless they have a job, even if they don't like to admit to it," said Lisa Chenofsky Singer, a human resources consultant from Millburn, NJ, specializing in media and publishing jobs.

She said when she proposes candidates for openings, the first question she is often asked by a recruiter is if they currently have a job. If the answer is no, she's typically told the unemployed candidate won't be interviewed.

"They think you must have been laid off for performance issues," she said, adding that this is a "myth" in a time of high unemployment.

It is not against the law for companies to exclude the unemployed when trying to fill positions, but Judy Conti, a lobbyist for the National Employment Law Project, said the practice is a bad one.

"Making that kind of automatic cut is senseless; you could be missing out on the best person of all," she said. "There are millions of people who are unemployed through no fault of their own. If an employer feels that the best qualified are the ones already working, they have no appreciation of the crisis we're in right now."

Conti added that firms that hire unemployed job seekers could also benefit from a recently-passed tax break that essentially exempts them from paying the 6.2% of the new hire's wages in Social Security taxes for the rest of this year.

Thompson said he also thinks ruling out the unemployed is a bad idea. But he said that part of the problem is that recruiters and human resource departments are being overwhelmed with applications for any job opening that is posted. So they're looking for any short-cuts to get the list of applicants to consider down to a more manageable size.

"It's a tough process to determine which unemployed applicants were laid off even though they brought value to their company and which ones had performance issues," he said. "I understand the notion. But there's the top x percent of unemployed candidates who are very viable and very valuable. You just have to do the work to find them." -CNN Money

$7-a-gallon Gas?

President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.

That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.

So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?

Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.

The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

That sure was true of global-warming policy, and especially the cap-and-trade bill. Many observers thought the measure, introduced last year in the House by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), was dead: The American people didn't seem to think that the so-called global-warming crisis justified a price-hiking, job-killing, economy-crushing redesign of our energy supply amid a fragile recovery. Passing another major piece of legislation, one every bit as unpopular as ObamaCare, appeared unlikely in an election year.

So Obama and congressional proponents of cap-and-trade spent several months rebranding it -- downplaying the global-warming rationale and claiming that it was really a jobs bill (the so-called green jobs were supposed to spring from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (that will somehow stick it to OPEC).

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) even reportedly declined to introduce their new cap-and-trade proposal in the Senate on Earth Day, because they wanted to de-emphasize the global-warming message. Instead, Kerry called the American Power Act "a plan that creates jobs and sets us on a course toward energy independence and economic resurgence."

But the new marketing strategy wasn't working. Few believe the green-jobs hype -- with good reason. In Spain, for example, green jobs have been an expensive bust, with each position created requiring, on average, $774,000 in government subsidies. And the logic of getting us off oil imports via a unilateral measure that punishes American coal, oil and natural gas never made any sense at all.

Now the president is repackaging cap-and-trade -- again -- as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But it's the same old agenda, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less.

The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump -- Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it "may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020" to meet Obama's stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector.

Of course, doing so would reduce gasoline use and also raise market share for hugely expensive alternative fuels and vehicles that could never compete otherwise. Less gasoline demand means less need for drilling and thus a slightly reduced chance of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill -- but only slightly. Oil will still be a vital part of America's energy mix.

Oil-spill risks should be addressed directly -- such as finding out why the leak occurred and requiring new preventive measures or preparing an improved cleanup plan for the next incident. Cap-and-trade is no fix and would cause trillions of dollars in collateral economic damage along the way.

Emanuel was wrong. The administration shouldn't view each crisis -- including the oil spill -- as an opportunity to be exploited, but as a problem to be addressed. And America can't afford $7-a-gallon gas.

By BEN LIEBERMAN-New York Post

Ben Lieberman is senior analyst of energy and environmental policy in The Heritage Founda tion's Roe Institute.

Is Your Marriage Making You Sick?

[I believe this could apply to any relationship]

You eat right. You exercise. You get an annual physical. You probably think you're doing everything you can to stay healthy.

But here's one more thing you need to do: Learn how to argue well with your spouse.

A new study from Ohio State University shows just how physically harmful it can be to argue the wrong way. In the study, 37 married couples were brought into a hospital research lab, and a tiny vacuum device gave them eight 8-mm blisters on their forearms. Each couple was then videotaped while having conversations, and researchers graded them on their communication skills, noting who had distressing or hostile styles of communicating.

After 12 days, the researchers noticed that the blisters healed faster on the couples who had more positive communication styles, and the blisters healed the slowest on the couples with more negative styles.

Why would physical wounds heal more quickly among the better communicators? The researchers at Ohio State who did the study think it might have something to do with oxytocin.

"Oxytocin is a protective hormone," says Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, the lead author of the study, who noted that the better communicators in her study -- the ones whose wounds healed the fastest -- had the highest levels of oxytocin in their blood.

The study was recently published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.

There are certainly many examples of high-profile troubled marriages. For example, actor Charlie Sheen was arrested in connection with an argument he had with his wife last Christmas Day; a court hearing on the case was delayed Monday. But husbands and wives don't always make the connection that stressful marriages can actually harm your physical health.

"People get very surprised when they hear that marital stress is actually worse for your health than workplace stress," says Tara Parker-Pope, author of "For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage."

Overall, couples with more marital stress have worse immune function and higher blood pressure and heart rates, according to Debra Umberson, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas, who studies couples and stress.

"Marital stress is so pernicious because it's chronic, long-term, and you can't get away from it," she says "You're having these problems day in and day out year after year, decade after decade."

While both sexes suffer, some, but not all, studies show women suffer more physical effects from a bad marriage than men, Umberson adds.

Of course, having a happy marriage or relationship is easier said than done. Here are some tips for limiting marital stress to make you happier and physically healthier.

1. Argue well

"We tend to focus on how often we fight -- as in, 'we've been fighting a lot lately' or 'we've haven't fought much lately,'" Parker-Pope says. "But that's actually pretty meaningless. What really matters is the quality of your arguments."

Let's say, for example, your house is messy. You have a choice: you could say something like "This house such a mess, and you never help me clean it up" or you could say "I want us to learn how to be neater." The latter, marriage experts say, is better not just for your marriage but for your and your partner's physical health.

"Any elements of criticism or demand make your words stressful," Umberson says.

Here's another example. Let's say your partner has just baked cookies and the kitchen looks like a hurricane hit it.

"You could walk into the kitchen and notice the mess but not the cookies," she says. "Or you could say, 'It smells great in here, and I can't wait to have one of those cookies, but wow, it's messy in here."

If you think style doesn't matter, think back to that Ohio State study, Parker-Pope adds.

"Think about those blisters, and how slow they were to heal after a nasty comment," she says. "This should make everyone stop and realize, 'I need to think about what I'm doing to my health and my partner's health and make sure I'm fighting well to stay well.'"

2. Your spouse is annoying -- accept it!

Umberson noticed something interesting in her studies of happy couples.

"It's always been striking to me that when people get along, they just accept something annoying about their partner. They don't try to alter it," she says.

Case in point: The wife in one of her happy couples had the habit of stacking up books in various places around the house, including doorways. Her husband wasn't thrilled with it, but he learned to live with it -- and more.

"He saw her as a creative, interesting, quirky person," she says. "He just saw it as a reflection of why he'd fallen in love with her in the first place."

Here are more tips on how to have a happy marriage from the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center.

3. Don't yell at a yeller

If you're married to a yeller, don't yell right back, advises William Doherty, a marriage and family therapist and professor in the Family Social Science Department at the University of Minnesota.

"Be strong without shouting," he says. For example, if you're dealing with a chronic yeller, you could respond by saying in a calm voice: "This behavior that you're doing now I will not accept in this relationship, and if you continue it, I'm leaving."

4. Limit the Greek chorus

Doherty says he's noticed that women who are unhappy in their marriages will often confide in their girlfriends, and the typical response tends to be, "What a jerk!"

While it's fine to seek support from your social circle, it's also important to go to a counselor, who will do more than commiserate, and actually help you find a solution to your problems, which might include identifying the role you've played in your marital difficulties.

The website for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy can help you find a therapist near you.

5. Recall the happy times

Even in stressed-out marriage, there are often moments of happiness. Tracy Todd, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Virginia, and spokesperson for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, recommends analyzing them.

"Think of some recent times that were OK to positive. How did they occur? What did you do to help create the situation? What can you do to recreate a more positive environment?" he says. "Recall exceptions to the bitterness." -CNN Health

Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao (R-LA) -
Stark Discussion With Oil Industry CEO Panel

Our Caudillo President

As I write this on Monday night, there are rumors around that BP will agree to President Barack Obama's demand that the oil giant "voluntarily" put about $30 billion into a fund to be administered by the government to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Now, no one disputes that this is a real disaster and that BP acted irresponsibly in commissioning Trans-Ocean and Halliburton to drill for oil in waters so deep that if a failure occurred there would be no way to fix it -- at least until major damage had been done. BP, Trans-Ocean, and Halliburton, as well as the individuals involved, have much to answer for.

But the action of the President in demanding this immense transfer of the stockholders' wealth without any legislation or court decision is extremely worrisome.

We live in a Constitutional Republic. The President's job under the Constitution is to enforce the laws made by the elected Congress. His job is not to create new laws and enforce them all by himself. His job is as magistrate under the Constitution, not as Caudillo. He is not the law. He is supposed to enforce what Congress decides.

The BP behavior is reminiscent of how, immediately after assuming office, Mr. Obama, with no Congressional authority or administrative allowance, simply made a phone call to fire the head of GM. When I called the White House press office to ask under what law or regulation Mr. Obama was acting, I was told he did not need a law. If the government put a lot of money into GM, it could call the shots at GM, I was told. But under what authority, I asked. "None needed," was the final answer.

Without any new legislation, President Obama has used returned TARP money as a political slush fund to prop up favorite industries. This is the same problem: serious executive action without legislative authority.

The same goes for Mr. Obama's demand that BP pay the lost wages of oil and gas workers suspended from work because of the moratorium on Gulf of Mexico underseas drilling. There simply was no legislation allowing this kind of specific demand. Mr. Obama's demand was in the nature of a threat, more than a Constitutional act.

Of course, every President tries "jawboning" to restrain steel company price increases or something similar. But to create specific enactments and actions without any authority -- now Mr. Obama's specialty -- is so at odds with the law of the land that it terrifies me. These are not the acts of a teacher on Constitutional law. These are the acts of a big city boss or a third world dictator. If you want to know why business has pulled in its horns and hunkered down, and why people at tea parties and elsewhere are scared, look no further than Barack "I Am The Law" Obama.

Is there anyone in Congress to stop him? Is there anyone in a black robe to stop him? Or is everyone already too scared to challenge the Duce in the White House?

By Ben Stein – American Spectator

LEGAL Atlanta Residents Rush to Get Work
After Resort Fires Illegal

KFC’s New Menu Addition

We all remember Kentucky Fried Chicken's "Hillary Meal"---two small breasts and two big thighs. Now, KFC has announced an addition to its line of chicken dinners. It's called the "Obama Cabinet Bucket" which consists of nothing but left wings, butts, and assholes.

And by the way, did you know that Playboy recently offered Sarah Palin $5 million to pose nude in one of its future issues, while Michelle Obama was offered $25 to pose for the National Geographic?

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Dan Stein on Latest News SB 1070

Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment

What you are about to read is what scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you by order and threat of the Obama administration. They are under the threat of severe repercussions to the max. Scientists confirming the findings cannot be named due to the above, but they want the truth to be known by all.

Take a map of the USA, lay it flat, and measure inland a minimum of 50 miles to get an idea of the amount of total destruction all around the Gulf of Mexico based on what the article below describes. The carnage to the United States will be so staggering, it will take your breathe away. Should what the scientists believe [and want to warn everyone] come true, all of Florida will be completely destroyed as will everyone and everything in it.

Everyone has the right to read the article, including the separate comments by the scientists, who the Obama administration and BP are trying to shut up.

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It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 psi (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control. US scientists are forbidden to tell the public many facts about the Gulf crisis … Click on the link below to get a (very limited) view of the stream of oil spreading in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the current BP oil crisis.

Click here.

SUMMARY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING

The estimated super high pressure release of oil from under the earth's crust is between 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day.

The flow of oil and toxic gases is bringing up with it rocks and sand which cause the flow to create a sandblasting effect on the remaining well head device which is currently somewhat restricting the flow as well as the drilled hole itself.

As the well head becomes worn, it enlarges the passageway allowing an ever-increasing flow. Even if some device could be placed onto the existing well head, it would not be able to shut off the flow because what remains of the existing well head would not be able to contain the pressure.

The well head piping is originally about 2 inches thick. It is now likely to be less than 1 inch thick, and thinning by each passing moment. The oil has now reached the Gulf stream and is entering the oceanic current, which is, at least, four times stronger than the current in the Gulf, which will carry it throughout the world within 18 months.

The oil along with the gases, including benzene and many other toxins, is depleting the oxygen in the water. This is killing all life in the ocean. Along with the oil along the shores, there will be many dead fish, etc. that will have to be gathered and disposed of.

SUMMARY OF EXPECTATIONS

At some point, the drilled hole in the earth will enlarge itself beneath the well head to weaken the area which the well head rests upon. The intense pressure will then push the well head off the hole allowing a direct unrestricted flow of oil, etc.

The hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the massive cavity five miles beneath the ocean floor will begin to normalize.

This will allow the water, under the intense pressure at 1 mile deep, to be forced into the hole and the cavity where the oil was. The temperature at that depth is nearly 400 degrees, possibly more.

The water will be vaporized and turned into steam, creating an enormous amount of force, lifting the Gulf floor. It is difficult to know how much water will go down to the core and, therefore, it is not possible to fully calculate the rise of the floor.

This will create a tsunami wave anywhere from 20 to 80 feet high, possibly more. Then the floor will fall into the now vacant chamber. This is how Nature will seal the hole.

Depending upon the height of the tsunami, the ocean debris, oil, and existing structures that will be washed away on shore and inland will leave the area from 50 to 200 miles inland devoid of life. Even if the debris is cleaned up, the contaminants that will be in the ground and water supply will prohibit re-population of these areas for an unknown number of years.

(End of scientific information release. From Tom Buyea, Florida News Service)

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Comment
Joseph F.
6-9-10.

Jeff - As I wrote in the PS and Comment to another article, high school (HS) physics tells us that a liquid cannot be compressed. Period.

Perhaps the statement you posted on http://www.rense.com/general91/oilor.htm will help the wake-up call.

As pointed out … the hole will continue to increase in size allowing more and more oil to rise into the Gulf. After several billion barrels of oil have been released, the pressure within the massive cavity five miles beneath the ocean floor will begin to normalize.

If HS sheeple had elementary physics, chemistry, biology, botany, and zoology BEFORE leaving HS, the MSM could not hood wink so many so often. - Joseph

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Robert M.
FYI...Jeff Rense is right ...
Robert M*

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To: Ted O.
Subject: update on the oil spill
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:30:22 - 0500

Hi, Ted:

You probably will not be surprised to learn that the situation is much worse than the mainstream media are reporting. We have a geyser of lies from BP and the White House.

Some friends have kept track of the situation. One is a retired troubleshooter for big oil and another is a very bright physicist who is working with other scientists to develop some strategies for coping with the spill.

It now appears that degradation of the sea floor and well casing may soon allow the pressure of the effluent to spit out whatever is still blocking the flow (probably pieces of the casing) and push the blowout preventer aside. If that happens there will be a dramatic increase in the flow.

BP has quietly advanced the completion date for a relief well to Christmas. It is not clear that a relief well will actually be able to stop the spill. The relief well has to intercept the bore of the wild well at a place where the casing has integrity, and no one knows where that place might be or if it even exists.

By August enough oil may have been released to pose a serious threat to life in the Atlantic Ocean. There is no way to keep it out of deep currents that will carry it everywhere.

Today, someone posted a disturbing forecast on rense.com. (http://rense.com/general91/oilor.htm) I sent it to the physicist, hoping he would say it was exaggerated.

He replied: "I read Rense.com also. I already sent the article out to our 'group' for their opinion. Two of the best geologists and oil-well experts in the country are in our little klatsch. It was their opinion that no BOP in existence would have contained the overpressure. From day one, I was arguing that the pipes were being eroded. I think the quoted pressures are off by a factor of 10, but even 7000 psi is nothing to sneeze at. Remember my worry of 'fracking' and steam formation? Now people can get it from both ends of the horse. Yes, I believe the website is quite credible.

"Let me scare you even more. Fracking can proceed to where many of the so-called oil wells are joined, since there is only one really big deposit underlying the entire GoM shelf. Yep, all the way to your neck of the woods. All the platforms are really sucking teats from a single sow. A chain reaction is possible, eroding all the walls, going down to as far as Venezuela as a worst-case scenario. And remember, that South American deposit extends all the way, nearly to the Antarctic. The Falklands war was over possession of the oil. Estimates of several trillion barrels of oil can be let loose.

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" ---end quote--

I don't know about the tsunami. I don't see how anyone can predict that with precision. However, I think the discharge of that hydrocarbon reservoir will result in geological changes including subsidence of fairly large areas that are currently dry land.

Considering the possibility that mass evacuations may be required, it is probably not a coincidence that NorthCom is gearing up for military action inside the United States.

The federal attention is all on Florida right now. Bobby Jindal and his citizens are being left to twist in the wind. ["Serves them right for being Republicans."]

That could be to your benefit, since we all know that when the feds take control chaos follows. The oil contains volatiles that are toxic and carcinogenic. If you can smell heavy oil you are undoubtedly breathing much more than the EPA safe limits of these gases. Workers are trying to clean up this material wearing boots and gloves. They should be in protective clothing with respirators. BP is lying about the toxicity of the oil along with everything else.

This isn't good news, but I thought you should know.

Maybe NO is in less danger than Florida. The feds seem to think so.

Love,
Shelley

Justice Department Plans To Sue Over Arizona Law

Obama administration lawyers are planning to file a legal challenge to a controversial Arizona immigration law within a month, according to a senior administration official.

The Justice Department would not confirm the claim, saying only that "The Justice Department is continuing to review the law."

Federal government lawyers who have been working on the expected challenge for several weeks will most likely file their arguments in federal court in Phoenix in the days leading up to July 28, when the statute is scheduled to take effect, the official said.

Although the Justice Department indicates no final decisions have been made at this point, officials were put on the spot when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a recent television interview in Ecuador the government "will be bringing a lawsuit" in the case.

Administration officials have indicated the question of Arizona usurping federal authority to control the border and enforce immigration law is the most likely federal point of attack against the state law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer earlier this year. –CNN U.S.

Locally Speaking

Optimistic For A Bike Rally Rebirth

With the South Carolina Supreme Court's ruling overturning Myrtle Beach's helmet law, many people wonder whether motorcyclists will return in greater numbers next year.

Harley-Davidson of North Myrtle Beach is betting on it. The shop has already chosen the dates for a seven-day rally in 2011 - May 13-21 - and changed the marquee in front of the store on U.S. 17 to let people know.

Fliers for next year's rally say "The Beach is Back," and while that might seem overly optimistic to some, others say the beach is at least on its way back.

Horry County hotelier Robert Kelley, who founded Business Owners Organized to Support Tourism, one of the groups that sued the city to end the helmet law, said as soon as the news began to spread about Tuesday's ruling, he received calls from regulars already looking to book rooms for next year.

In peak years, May's rallies drew an estimated 500,000 people. Whether because of the city's stand, the economy or both, the past two Mays have seen far fewer motorcycles in the city and along the Grand Strand. –Sun News

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Ferris Wheel Gets Myrtle Beach CAB's OK

The Myrtle Beach Community Appearance Board likes the concept of the giant Ferris wheel complex proposed for Ocean Boulevard.

At Thursday's meeting, the board gave a conceptual review to the plans for the 5,400-square-foot building that will house a restaurant with a two-story deck, a retail shop, a gift shop and the SkyWheel ticket booth on the two .28-acre lots where the Golden Villas motels now stand at 1106 N. Ocean Blvd.

The board doesn't have approval over the wheel itself, because it's an amusement. But it does have to approve the support building and its look.

St. Louis-based Pacific Development plans a 175-foot-tall SkyWheel Ferris wheel on the oceanfront just north of Plyler Park.

The wheel would be the largest east of the Mississippi in the United States, and be just like the one on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.

The wheel's 42 glass gondolas would take people on a 10- to 12-minute ride of three revolutions. Each gondola seats six to eight people, but if people want private rides, they can have them. Schneider said the company figures it will charge $10 for adults and $6 for children, and because the gondolas are air conditioned and heated, it can be operated year-round. –Sun News

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BP Asks For Stay In Myrtle Beach Area Suits

BP has asked an S.C. court to stay three lawsuits filed by Grand Strand businesses and individuals earlier this month.

BP asked the court to delay the case until the meeting of a judicial panel on multidistrict litigation can decide whether these lawsuits, and many others BP is facing, should all be tried in the same location, according to the stay request filed Wednesday.

The lawsuits, filed June 6, said that BP and its subcontractors on the Deepwater Horizon acted negligently and that the oil spewing from the well has entered the loop current and is threatening South Carolina's beaches, fishing habitats and business interests.

The three separate lawsuits represent different types of people and businesses affected - one a group of oceanfront property owners; the second, area restaurants; and commercial oceanfront property holders. The lawsuits join thousands of other lawsuits and claims filed against BP.

The companies and individuals said property values already have begun to drop as a result of the reports that said there's a chance oil could reach the area. The lawsuit filed by a group of property owners also addresses the declining property values and the loss of the use of recreational and natural spaces.

The plaintiffs are asking the court to allow them to proceed as a class-action suit and are asking for at least $5 million in damages.

More than 200 cases have been filed against BP in a number of state and federal courts in the Southeast as a result of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the oil spill; at least 130 of them are class-action suits.

On May 7, BP filed a motion to consolidate the cases related to the oil spill to one court. The panel to decide whether the cases will be tried in one court will have a hearing July 29 in Boise, Idaho, according to the court filing.

BP said the cases should be transferred because they have one or more common questions of fact as other cases submitted to the panel, according to the filing.

The stay would prevent a waste of time and resources of the parties in the case and of the court, BP said in the filing.

BP faces the risk of inconsistent pretrial rulings and a waste of resources if the stay is not granted and the stay would conserve judicial resources and prevent contradictory judgments, BP said in the filing.

BP also said in the filing that the stay would not impose prejudice on the plaintiffs.

"This type of response from BP and their attorneys is nothing unusual when looking at a suit of this size spanning several different states," said Aaron Jophlin, a lawyer with the Bell Legal Group, who is working on the case.

Ed Bell, the lead lawyer on the case and a partner at the Bell Legal Group in Georgetown, has said that as soon as the court allows, he will ask the court to intervene early and require BP and the other companies being sued to help mitigate the potential damages.

Jophlin said the stay wouldn't prevent the companies and individuals from asking the court for the early intervention. –Sun News

Ragbag Headliners

BP Is Destroying Evidence and Censoring Journalists

BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability and is actually disappearing oiled wildlife.

Orange Beach, Alabama -- While President Obama insists that the federal government is firmly in control of the response to BP's spill in the Gulf, people in coastal communities where I visited last week in Louisiana and Alabama know an inconvenient truth: BP -- not our president -- controls the response. In fact, people on the ground say things are out of control in the gulf.

Even worse, as my latest week of adventures illustrate, BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability.

For example, while flying on a small plane from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot suddenly exclaimed, "Look at that!" The thin red line marking the federal flight restrictions of 3,000 feet over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include the coastal barrier islands off Alabama. –AlterNet

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Robin Williams - Fathers Day

Talk Is Cheap

When the President gave his first address from the Oval Office Tuesday night, I was surprised the networks weren't running a live feed of the Gulf oil spill in the corner of the screen.

Not only because they are almost always running that live feed, but because it would be a perfect image of what has been happening for almost 60 days now. Oil has been flowing out of a hole at the bottom of the sea at an astronomical rate, and the President has been talking. Just talking.

Even in his speech Tuesday night, he started by telling the American people what he had directed BP to do. But where is the action?

He said that there are 3,000 oil cleanup workers in four states and 1,000 ships -- but he didn't say that he sent them. He said there are over 17,000 National Guard troops there, but those are the National Guard troops belonging to the Gulf states (of which there are over 50,000 troops) and acting under their governors' leadership. And nonetheless, where are the results of all this effort? Oil is spilling out at higher rates than ever before.

The President used this Oval Office speech to create more theatrics, which has characterized his presidency, when it should be about sound policy and executive action.

President Obama has tried to turn this oil spill into his September 11. Going so far as to analogize this catastrophe to the attack on our country in 2001. His Oval Office speech used war metaphors to talk about the spill and what we must do.

This is not war; this is something that a president should have been able to contain a month ago. And if you couldn't contain it, he should have at least been able to clean up the oil on the surface as it accumulated. It is scary to think we have the strongest military in the world, but we can't even use our ships and equipment to sop up oil.

It is clear that this President was a great candidate; but he is not a great president. In his speech last night he tried to remind the American public of how much they loved him way back when – he was like a toddler trying to regain his mother's approval. "When I was a candidate for this office," the President said -- but how about now, when you are President?

The President, time after time again, tried to become Barack Obama the beloved candidate. He talked about future policy and said that we need a long-term Gulf restoration plan "ASAP." No -- we don't need a long-term plan ASAP, we need to clean up the spill ASAP. Once again, this President is not governing, he is campaigning.

He also emphasized the importance of creating a commission to examine the cause of the spill to once again highlight the finger-pointing he has done from the beginning. Creating this commission should be the subject matter of a speech after the oil is contained. For now, STOP THE SPILL. Then worry about who started it.

The President told the American people that Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar had made cleaning up the corruption in his department a top priority. Then he announced that he and the Secretary are now going to replace management in the corrupt Mineral Management Service. It seems that had it been a top priority, it would have been seen to when the President took office a year and a half ago. Here was again the President was pretending to have a policy – he was campaigning.

The President concluded his speech by talking about future policies. Putting aside the fact that he is once again using this disaster to campaign for his agenda, he said, "The one approach I will not accept is inaction."

Well, Mr. President, lead by example. Because the only approach to cleaning up the oil spill we have endured is inaction. It's time to stop talking and start leading.

By Russ Ferguson– American Spectator

Protect Your Cell Phone

REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public next month ... July

REMINDER: All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone:

888-382-1222

It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked.

You cannot call from a different phone number.

Please pass this on.

Letter to Al Sharpton From AZ Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio

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Spiders On Drugs

One For The Guys (Older Guys That Is)

A man was sunbathing naked at the beach.

For the sake of civility, and to keep it from getting sunburned, he had a hat over his privates.

A woman walks past and says, snickering, "If you were a gentleman you'd lift your hat."

He raised an eyebrow and replied, "If you weren't so ugly it would lift itself."

Author Unknown

Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals

Anchor babies" isn't a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. While not new, the term is increasingly part of the local vernacular because the primary authors of the nation's toughest and most controversial immigration law are targeting these tots - the legal weights that anchor many undocumented aliens in the U.S. - for their next move.

Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they're on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona - and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution - to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens. The law largely is the brainchild of state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican whose suburban district, Mesa, is considered the conservative bastion of the Phoenix political scene. He is a leading architect of the Arizona law that sparked outrage throughout the country: Senate Bill 1070, which allows law enforcement officers to ask about someone's immigration status during a traffic stop, detainment or arrest if reasonable suspicion exists - things like poor English skills, acting nervous or avoiding eye contact during a traffic stop. (See the battle for Arizona: will a border crackdown work?)

But the likely new bill is for the kids. While SB 1070 essentially requires of-age migrants to have the proper citizenship paperwork, the potential "anchor baby" bill blocks the next generation from ever being able to obtain it. The idea is to make the citizenship process so difficult that illegal immigrants pull up the "anchor" and leave. (See pictures of the Great Wall of America.)

The question is whether that would violate the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment states that "all persons, born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." It was intended to provide citizenship for freed slaves and served as a final answer to the Dred Scott case, cementing the federal government's control over citizenship.

But that was 1868. Today, Pearce says the 14th Amendment has been "hijacked" by illegal immigrants. "They use it as a wedge," Pearce says. "This is an orchestrated effort by them to come here and have children to gain access to the great welfare state we've created." Pearce says he is aware of the constitutional issues involved with the bill and vows to introduce it nevertheless. "We will write it right." He and other Republicans in the red state Arizona point to popular sympathy: 58% of Americans polled by Rasmussen think illegal immigrants whose children are born here should not receive citizenship; support for that stance is 76% among Republicans.

Those who oppose the bill say it would lead to more discrimination and divide the community. Among them is Phoenix resident Susan Vie, who is leading a citizen group that's behind an opposing ballot initiative. She moved to the U.S. 30 years ago from Argentina, became a naturalized citizen and now works as a client-relations representative for a vaccine company. "I see a lot of hate and racism behind it," Vie says. "Consequently, I believe it will create - and it's creating it now - a separation in our society." She adds, "When people look at me, they will think, 'Is she legal or illegal?' I can already feel it right now." Vie's citizen initiative would prohibit SB 1070 from taking affect, place a three-year moratorium on all related laws - including the anchor baby bill - to buy more time for federal immigration reform. Her group is racing to collect 153,365 signatures by July 1 to qualify for the Nov. 2 general election.

Both sides expect the anchor baby bill to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before it is enacted. "I think it would be struck down as facially unconstitutional. I can't imagine a federal judge saying this would be OK," says Dan Barr, a longtime Phoenix lawyer and constitutional litigator. Potentially joining the anchor baby bill at the Supreme Court may be SB 1070, which Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law in April. It is set to take effect July 29, but at least five courtroom challenges have been filed against it. Pearce says he will win them all. –Yahoo News

The Top Salesman!

The class' weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a brief description of one's productive sales tactic and technique. Monday came and each student gave a report.

Little Sally led off and proudly reported: "I sold Girl Scout cookies and made $30. My sales approach was to appeal to the customers' civic spirit, and I credit my obvious success by using that approach."

"Very good," said the teacher.

Little Jenny reported next: "I sold magazines. I made $45. I explained to the prospective buyers that magazines would keep them up on current events and various topics of special interest."
"Wonderful," said the teacher.

Everyone else then reported and it was found that each student sold anywhere between $15 and $45. But that was. . .until the very last student stood up to report. The teacher and the entire class held their breath as Little Johnny walked up to the front of the classroom, dumped a box full of cash on the teacher's desk, and proclaimed: "I made $2,467.00!"

"$2,467.00?" cried the teacher and the entire class in utter surprise. "What in the world did you sell to make that much money?" everyone asked … eager to hear Little Johnny's response.

"Toothbrushes," said Little Johnny.

"Toothbrushes?" echoed the teacher. "How could you possibly make that much money in two days by selling toothbrushes only?"

Little Johnny matter-of-factly said: "Well … very simply … I looked for the busiest corner in town where I set up a chip & dip stand, and I offered everybody who walked by a free sample. After tasting the dip, everyone said the same thing, ‘Hey, this tastes like dog shit!’ They were right, it was dog shit, but I did not say anything to confirm it. Instead, I simply asked … 'Wanna buy a toothbrush to get rid of the taste?' By so doing, I used exactly the same approach which the government uses by offering something which may sound great but which is really simply just pure shit, and then make everyone pay to get the shitty taste out of everyone's mouth."

Author Unknown

Obama Gives Part of Arizona to Mexicans

Dear Editor:

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France , and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France , no one in those villages was looking for the French-American or the German-American or the Irish-American.. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are in 2009 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges, only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed) Rosemary LaBonte

Note: This letter to the Editor appeared in the Orange County California Newspaper.

This Weeks Sound Off

The South Carolina’s Supreme Court’s ruling that its “helmet law” is invalid comes as a victory for the south strand and bikers alike.

Personally, I believe that the city of MB concocted the law simply to harass the bikers. Now the city has to clean up its act by dismissing “all pending helmet tickets, that all records be expunged for those who have received tickets and paid fines, and that all fines paid be returned to the people who paid them.” … LOL

Well, Mayor John Rodes, how do you feel now? How you went about doing away with the bike rallies which caused thousands to loose their job wasn’t legal at all so who’s the ass in this whole mess you created? You are one stupid ass wipe! Maybe those of us who were left jobless because of your stupidity should sue the city for lost wages? Anyway, the damage is done. Your inhospitality has left a scar on the city and a bad taste in the mouth of those who were affected by your foolishness … you are a disgrace to Myrtle Beach!

Locally Speaking

Supreme Court Rules MB Helmet Law Is “Invalid”

The S.C. Supreme Court today unanimously ruled Myrtle Beach's motorcycle helmet law is invalid because it is superseded by state law.

But also, the court said it found the city impliedly repealed the law itself when it repealed its own administrative court ordinance after the court's chief justices opined that was unconstitutional.

The decision was posted moments ago on the court's website. See the ruling by clicking here.

The court ruled that all the ordinances -- 2008-61-67 -- were affected by the repeal of the administrative court hearing, but since 61 and 65, the rules about parking trailers on city streets and partying in parking lots, were made into misdemeanors, those are not invalidated.

2008-62, 63, 64 and 66, however, appear to be invalid along with the helmet law, said city attorney Tom Ellenburg.

He said the helmet law's repeal takes effect immediately, and he will issue an order that the municipal court dismiss all pending helmet tickets, that all records be expunged for those who have received tickets and paid fines, and that all fines paid be returned to the people who paid them.

Myrtle Beach passed the helmet law in 2008 as part of a package of ordinances designed to gain control over the May motorcycle rallies, which had drawn about 500,000 people to the area in peak years.

The helmet law has been by far the most controversial ordinance the city passed, and generated lawsuits by people who said the law cannot stand because it supersedes state law.

The state law says people younger than 21 must wear helmets, but has no such requirement for people older than 21.

The city's goal was to push the rallies outside city limits after years of listening to residents complain about noise, trash and lewd behavior on city streets.

Last year, the rallies' attendance was far below peak years, though rally organizers have acknowledged that attendance was slowly declining anyway.

In its ruling, the court invalidates the city's helmet law, and said there is a need for statewide uniformity in the rules on helmets and eyewear.

"Local authorities might enact ordinances imposing additional and even conflicting equipment requirements. Such burdens would unduly limit a citizen's freedom of movement throughout the state," the court wrote.

The Myrtle Beach City Council is philosophical about the loss.

"It's not going to change much," Mayor John Rhodes said. "We've already made it clear we don't support rallies and won't support rallies. We're very pleased that we had very few accidents and no deaths within the city this year during the rallies, and our residents were able to sleep and teachers were able to teach.

"And the bikers who did stay in the city and patronize our businesses respected our laws, our residents and our business community," he said. "That's all we've ever asked."

Councilman Phil Render said the city's primary responsibility is to protect residents and visitors.

"I take comfort in the fact that we had no motorcycle fatalities in Myrtle Beach in the last two years while our ordinance was in place," he said. –Sun News

Undercover Census Fraud Investigation - New Jersey

Killer Of The Gulf

California’s Penal Code For Dealing With Illegals

Recently, the Los Angeles County Supervisors and the LA Mayor proposed to not do business with Arizona in protest of Arizona's immigration law.

The Los Angeles mayor, city council members, LA county supervisors as well as all other cities, counties, state officials and residents of California who oppose Arizona's immigration law OUGHT TO HAVE READ California Penal Code Sec. 834b and other California laws pertaining to immigration BEFORE opening their big mouths and making asses of themselves!

To view this penal code click here.

Similarly, citizens and officials of other States who oppose Arizona's immigration law OUGHT TO READ their respective State laws regarding immigration before opening their mouths so that they do not commit the same mistake and likewise make asses of themselves!

Come to the USA by Ray Stevens

Did You Know?

Did you know there was a second verse to the Star Spangled Banner? I bet not. Well this man brought it to light at one of the gatherings he attended for the Tea Party. No matter where you stand on politics this is something we should ALL know and it SHOULD be in the National Anthem because we ARE, like it or not, a God fearing Christian Nation. Have a listen below. Sung by an American hero ... a Marine.

Thank Robyn for sharing this.

Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd!

White House Linked To Flotilla Organizers

Israel official ties president's adviser to controversial 'Free Gaza Movement'

A top adviser to President Obama is the contact person within the White House for communications with the Free Gaza Movement over plans to challenge Israel's blockade of the terrorist Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, according to a reputable source close to the Netanyahu government.

The source, a career official whose reliability was established through his tips for the book, "Why Israel Can't Wait," identified John O. Brennan, deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, as the contact.

The allegation raises the bizarre possibility that the Free Gaza Movement's flotilla action in the Mediterranean was being coordinated with the White House, something that would align with a shift in U.S. policy toward Israel being debated within the Obama administration.

Mike Hammer, a National Security Council spokesman, told WND flatly the report "is not true."

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His response was followed quickly by another denial, when WND asked if Hammer also rejected the claim Brennan was a key force within the White House pushing for a change in U.S. policy toward Israel in demanding an end to the blockade, as the WND source reported.

"John Brennan is quite busy in his job as the president's counterterrorism and homeland security adviser, relentlessly working to keep the country safe," Hammer said in a e-mail to WND. "The administration has others who are responsible for our Middle East policy. So, again, not true."

However, Brennan's activities in his "counterterrorism" work have involved him in situations with domestic groups known to have ties to Middle East terrorism.

WND previously has reported that Brennan participated in a meeting with Muslim law students, facilitated by the Islamic Society of North America, a group that was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a case where the founders of the Holy Land Foundation of Texas were given life sentences "for funneling $12 million" to Hamas, the group currently in political control of Gaza.

WND further reported that at a meeting with Muslim law students at New York University, Brennan declared himself a "citizen of the world" who believed the United States government should never engage in "profiling" in pursuit of national security.

The New York Times reported this week that the Obama administration's policy toward Israel was changing in a re-evaluation that now considers Israel's blockade of Gaza to be untenable. But Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu insisted in a special press conference in his office Thursday that "Israel will not apologize for defending itself," which strongly suggested Israel fully intends to continue its blockade.

Brennan tilts toward Islam

In a speech delivered Aug. 9, 2009, to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and archived on the White House website, Brennan commented that using "a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal" to describe terrorists "risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself."

In reporting on Brennan’s speech to the CSIS, WND noted his specific advice regarding the Middle East, namely, that U.S. foreign policy should encourage greater assimilation of the Hezbollah terrorist organization into the Lebanese government.

WND noted that in a July 2008 article in The Annals, a publication of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Brennan argued it "would not be foolhardy, however, for the United States to tolerate, and even to encourage, greater assimilation of Hezbollah into Lebanon's political system, a process that is subject to Iranian influence."

Continued Brennan: "Hezbollah is already represented in the Lebanese parliament and its members have previously served in the Lebanese cabinet, reflections of Hezbollah's interest in shaping Lebanon's political future from within government institutions. This involvement is a far cry from Hezbollah's genesis as solely a terrorist organization dedicated to murder, kidnapping and violence."

At the August 2009 press conference for the CSIS, Brennan declared, "Hezbollah started out as purely a terrorist organization back in the early '80s and has evolved significantly over time. And now it has members of parliament, in the cabinet; there are lawyers, doctors, others who are part of the Hezbollah organization."

Middle Eastern terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah frequently maintain civilian units of doctors and lawyers so as to emphasize their outreach with local politicians and increase their political acceptance in the international arena.

Conceivably, the Istanbul-based Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, better known by the Turkish acronym IHH, would fit Brennan's definition of the charitable side of organizations such as Hezbollah, despite IHH's ties to al-Qaida that have been documented by experts such as former investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, who led the French judiciary's counter-terrorism unit for nearly two decades before retiring in 2007.

The IHH, in fact, is not included on the U.S. State Department's current list of 45 groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are listed.

In his speech to the New York University law school students posted on YouTube by the White House, Brennan included a lengthy statement in Arabic that he did not translate for his English-speaking audience.

Noting that he spent time spent as an undergraduate with the American University in Cairo during the 1970s, Brennan proceeded to use only the Arabic name "Al Quds" when referring to Jerusalem, commenting that during his 25 years in government he spent considerable time in the Middle East, as a political officer with the State Department and as a CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.

"In Saudi Arabia, I saw how our Saudi partners fulfilled their duty as custodians of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina," he said. "I marveled at the majesty of the hajj and the devotion of those who fulfilled their duty as Muslims of making that pilgrimage."

Obama's Chicago radical pals at center of Free Gaza Movement

WND previously reported that Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, as well as Jodie Evans, the leader of the radical activist organization Code Pink, were top supporters of the Free Gaza Movement, a coalition of leftist U.S. activists and pro-Palestinian groups that organized the six-ship flotilla that attempted to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

Obama began his political career in Chicago at a 1995 fundraiser held in the Chicago apartment of Ayers and Dohrn, held to introduce Obama as the candidate hand-picked to run for the Illinois Senate seat held by admitted communist Alice Palmer when she decided to step aside to run that year for the U.S. House of Representatives.

In January, WND reported that Ayers, Dohrn and Evans were involved in provoking chaos on the streets of Egypt in an attempt to enter Hamas-controlled Gaza with the Free Gaza Movement to join in solidarity with Gaza's population and leadership. –Net World Daily

The Oil Spill Song

Obama's Agenda: Overwhelm the System

Rahm Emanuel cynically said, "You never want a crisis to go to waste." It is now becoming clear that the crisis he was referring to is Barack Obama's presidency.

Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.

Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?

-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."

-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.

-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.

-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.

-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.

With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.

Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama. –Fox Nation

We The People

This Weeks Sound Off

No citizenship For Children Of Undocumented Immigrants

Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is once again making waves, this time for saying he opposes citizenship for U.S. born children of undocumented immigrants.

In an interview posted Wednesday on RT.com, a Russian television station that broadcasts in English, Paul said he favors modifying current law.

"We are the only country I know of that allows people to come in illegally, have a baby, and then that baby becomes a citizen," Paul said. "And I think that should stop also."

Paul, a Tea Party movement favorite, captured the Kentucky GOP primary last week, defeating establishment candidate Trey Grayson.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to individuals born in the United States, but Paul's position is not an unpopular one in Congress.

Legislation referred to as the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009, a bill that has 91 co-sponsors, would modify the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent U.S. citizenship for individuals born to undocumented immigrants.

Paul campaign chairman David Adams confirmed to CNN that Paul stands by his comments.

Paul also suggested that immigration policies favored by Democrats are politically motivated.

"I'm not opposed to letting people come in work and labor in our country, but I think what we should do is, we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. A lot of this is about demographics," Paul said. "If you look at new immigrants from Mexico, they register three to one Democrat. The Democrat Party is for easy citizenship for allowing them to vote."

On his campaign website, Paul explains his position on immigration in terms of incentives and subsidies. [See Paul’s website listed on the sidebar under Politics]

"I realize that subsidizing something creates more of it, and do not think the taxpayer should be forced to pay for welfare, medical care and other expenses for illegal immigrants. Once the subsidies for illegal immigration are removed, the problem will likely become far less common," Paul says. –CNN Politics

I have to agree with Paul’s stand on immigration. It’s time for real change!

Locally Speaking

Oil Could Hit Myrtle Beach Area By July

A scientific computer modeling study released Thursday shows that oil pulsing from the April 20 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico could slip into the Gulf Stream's loop current and begin to affect Grand Strand beaches by the end of the month, but area officials say they are ready to respond.

The S.C. House of Representatives this week passed a resolution calling on the state Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Health and Environmental Control and the governor's office to "immediately begin developing a contingency plan in the event the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico is swept by currents up the southeastern seaboard."

The models released Thursday show that once the slick joins the loop current, it could move northward at up to 100 miles a day.

It would flow up to Cape Hatteras, N.C., and then turn northeast out into the Atlantic, according to the models, which were produced by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and produces climate science for universities. –Sun News

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Atlantic Beach's Offerings Widen Rally Appeal

More families and more visitors than last year were wandering up and down 33rd Avenue in Atlantic Beach Saturday afternoon during the second full day of the annual Atlantic Beach Bikefest.

Overall attendance seemed up on Saturday, according to town officials, partly because of a more diverse offering in vendors, including national entertainment companies setting up a venue at the horseshoe off Ocean Boulevard at the end of 30th Avenue South.

A storm warning for the coastal Carolinas and a new set of ordinances inside Atlantic Beach didn't prevent the increase in attendance, and town officials said there had been a minimal number of incidents or violations.

The attendance for the Memorial Day weekend Bikefest took a hit because of the noise, mandatory helmet and other ordinances enacted in Myrtle Beach in 2008. Many of the riders at the Atlantic Beach Bikefest said they're avoiding Myrtle Beach, and concentrating their riding and festivities on the north end of U.S. 17. –Sun News